Fierce prodigal son: pick up a cheap and beautiful wife at the beginning

The twelfth lunar month in Danyang was a bit colder than previous years. Although it was in the south, it also received the last snow of the year. Yunze was walking on the streets of Fengdi. At this time, Fengdi was much more prosperous than ordinary small counties. point.

The neat streets are lined with rows of brick houses, and there are even many small two- to three-story buildings.

Since the fiefdom started trading with merchants from the entire Jing Dynasty, many scarce ores were used in exchange for the fiefdom's goods. To Yunze, the value of these goods itself was not high.

Because of technical reasons, even if the manufacturing and production cannot keep up with modern society, in this ancient time, it is still very good.

Most of the products from modern times have become scarce in ancient times and their value is astonishingly high. Yunze even developed a mercury mirror. And sell it as a luxury product.

A mercury mirror the size of a palm can be worth up to a hundred taels of gold. Yunze's fiefdom can be described as a daily increase in gold, and Yunze's foreign trade is mainly based on ores.

After several months of accumulation, a lot of iron ore, carbon, silicon, manganese, phosphorus, sulfur, etc. needed for steelmaking were obtained. Even in Ningzhou Mansion, Yunze discovered a lot of raw stone veins.

Han Long led a group of people, in the name of mining salt mines, and found the corresponding mineral veins according to the drawings drawn by Yunze.

Because of the benefits of the refined salt business, Wen Ming responded to Yunze's request to open a mine. With the relevant procedures in place, he didn't have to worry about the government causing trouble. The veins are opened with confidence.

Even the miners were recruited from several nearby cities with Wen Ming's help, and Yunze did not treat those miners badly.

Therefore, those miners worked very hard, and the first generation of steel was officially made.

When Tieniu saw the first batch of refined steel and made a long knife, he was so shocked that he was speechless at the toughness of the steel. He is an old blacksmith, so of course he knows the power of steel.

However, for Yunze, the quality of this first batch of steel is still not satisfactory, but under the current conditions, it is quite good to be able to produce steel.

With the availability of steel, the idea of a Suifa gun will slowly become a reality. Currently, what Yunze wants most is to be able to create a steam engine. It would be best to be able to build a steam lathe.

Of course, if a steam engine can be manufactured, it will have great potential whether it is used for making lathes or for other purposes. The productivity of the fiefdom can even be increased several times.

However, if you want to make a steam lathe, you need rubber, and only South Vietnam has more rubber trees for rubber production. For now, no businessmen from South Vietnam have come.

Yunze believed that it wouldn't be long before businessmen from South Vietnam would come here after hearing the news. At that time, getting the rubber sap would not be a dream.

On Huayue's side, under Yunze's guidance, Huayue also created several medicines. Some medicines have even been put into mass production, such as the most common cold medicine.

After all, in this era, sometimes a cold can kill someone. With this cold medicine, I don’t know how many people can be cured.

In addition to cold medicines, several antibiotics have also been developed. As for other medicines, with the study of Hua Yue, a drug addict, coupled with the pharmacological knowledge given by Yunze, and some drug formulas, it won't take long. can be developed.

Yunze now wants to develop smokeless gunpowder, but he can't find a suitable candidate.

After all, smokeless gunpowder belongs to the category of chemistry, and such talents need to be cultivated. Of course, it is best to find warlocks who like alchemy. These people have basic knowledge and experience.

If it can be cultivated a little, it will definitely be much stronger than those ordinary people. What Yunze is lacking now is its talent reserve.

As for the army, Yunze has trained an army of only 5,000 people at Longtoushan, most of whom were selected from the fiefdom.

After several months of training, they have begun to take shape as an iron army. This group of people will be Yunze's team. In addition to military technical training, Yunze also asked Guo Ming and others to provide them with ideological education.

In addition to teaching reading and literacy in the army itself, even the people in the fiefdoms also started cultural education. Yunze wants to ensure that the people in every fiefdom are no longer illiterate.

In addition to the development of the fiefdom, the Zebei Tianxia newspaper has also been opened in most of the Jing Dynasty, especially in the big cities, with the efforts of Lu Cheng and Lu Lan. Zebei Tianxia has almost a shadow.

Lu Cheng drove Ze Bei Tianxia to the capital. Luo Xuan asked people from Jing'an Houfu to help take care of him, and Ze Bei Tianxia soon took root in the capital. The story-telling novels and poems written by Yun Ze spread throughout the capital.

However, Yunze used a pseudonym in the storybook novel, and no one knew that it was Yunze who wrote it. But there are rumors that the person who wrote this novel is Yun Ze.

The most popular ones are Journey to the West and Story of the Stone. In particular, Story of the Stone is most popular among young men and young ladies from wealthy families. Of course, there are also Yunze’s poems.

A young man who once had good deeds regarded Yunze as a poet and ci sage. Because Yunze's poems and novels were spread all over the world, he was deeply loved by them.

Many people have tried to imitate Ze Bei Tianxia in setting up newspapers, but they all ended in failure, except for being unable to write wonderful story-telling novels.

The main reason is that paper is expensive. They don't have Yunze's papermaking skills. Therefore, there is no way to compete with Yunze.

And Lu Cheng also followed Yunze's consciousness and made money not by selling newspapers, but by those advertising spaces. After reaping the benefits of advertising and boosting business, newspapers around the world became even more popular among businessmen.

In addition to the rapid development of newspapers, Cen Ting Restaurant, Luo Qingcen has been traveling to various cities in the past few months, because of Yunze's strong financial support.

Restaurants have taken root in every city, coupled with the novelty of their business models, and their menu offerings are far superior to those of their peers. There simply aren't any competitors.

Originally, no matter which city you are in, there will always be local snakes in the industry. If you don’t have a background in the restaurant business, it will be difficult to achieve success.

But because of Luo Qingcen's status as the young lady of the Marquis of Jing'an, it was too late for every local official to curry favor with her. Therefore, her background was extremely tough.

The rapid development of the restaurant also led Luo Qingcen to start training as an intelligence officer. She took in some homeless children and trained them.

In the future, these people will become the pillars of intelligence organizations. Yunze is very satisfied with the development in all aspects. If he continues at this rate, he will already have enough to protect himself when trouble comes.

At the same time, in the court hall of the Jing Dynasty, the matter about the Jing Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom to destroy the Khitan fell into a film state. Song Rui, headed by Zuo Xiang, did not agree with the alliance.

Song Rui followed Yunze's suggestion and hoped that the Kingdom of Jin and the Khitan would fight each other. However, Qin Hui, the right prime minister, strongly advocated cooperation between Zui and Jin. Take the opportunity to recapture Yanyun Sixteen Continents.

The right prime minister's suggestion won the heart of Emperor Jing Song Ji, but Emperor Jing also felt that the left prime minister Song Rui's suggestion was very reasonable. For a while, the matter fell into a stalemate.

On the Jin side, they were waiting for Jingchao's reply. They did not have much conflict with the Khitan, but they were obviously a little helpless.

Emperor Jin threatened that if the Jing Dynasty did not help when the Khitan was destroyed, he would send troops to the Jing Dynasty after the Khitan was destroyed. Emperor Jing Song Ji was panicked by this. For a while, he was more inclined to the opinion of Right Prime Minister Qin Hui.

If left prime minister Song Rui hadn't persisted, the Jing Dynasty would have sent troops to help Jin destroy the Khitans.

After Yunze learned about this, he also felt a sense of urgency in his heart. Although the history of his previous life was very different from the parallel world he lived in, the general direction was still somewhat the same.

If the Jing Dynasty really sends troops to help, I am afraid that it will not even take a year for Jin to destroy the Khitan, and then it will take less than three months to destroy the Jing Dynasty.

Yunze is now worried about how to find suitable chemistry talents.

At this time, he was walking on the streets of the fiefdom, followed by Luo Yunniang, who was already three months pregnant. And Luo Yunxi, who has grown more plump.

Although she is not yet fifteen years old, she is now beautiful and charming because of her healthy and happy life.

In addition to the Luo Yanniang sisters, there were also two daughters, Su Qianmo and Ye Ziyan, as well as the fiefdom's general manager, Tang Jian. The New Year is approaching soon, and Yunze wants to see how each household is preparing for the New Year.