The Golden County Magistrate

"I'm really sorry, Prime Minister Huang, I can't do anything about this." He Jinyao sighed.

"Okay! I'm going back!" Huang Liangge turned around with a tense face and left the He Mansion quickly.

After getting outside and getting on the carriage, Huang Liangge breathed a sigh of relief and his expression eased.

What a close call!

I was almost exposed just now.

Fortunately, I was prepared and pretended to go for the Yaochi fairy wine, otherwise He Jinyao would have really found out that I had other intentions.

The carriage left the Diguan Shangshu Mansion and went all the way. It went around the main road for a long time and arrived in front of a house in the south of the city.

The gate of the courtyard opened and the carriage slowly entered.

"Prime Minister!"

In the house, a person had obviously been waiting there for a long time and hurried forward.

After the carriage stopped, Huang Liangge got off and said to the man, "This matter has nothing to do with the Ministry of Revenue."

The man breathed a sigh of relief: "That's great! I'm afraid that Zhou's Chamber of Commerce is related to the court. Fortunately, the Prime Minister has confirmed this for me."

Huang Liangge frowned and said, "How sure are you that you can get the Zhou's Chamber of Commerce?"

A cold light flashed in the man's eyes: "As long as it has nothing to do with the court, then this Zhou's Chamber of Commerce, I will definitely get it, 100% sure!"

This person is Shang Qiu!

After suffering a big loss at the franchise banquet, he admitted the punishment on the surface and paid the silver, but how could he accept such a humiliating result?

However, he has always been cautious and had secretly sent people to investigate Zhou's Chamber of Commerce.

It turned out that this chamber of commerce actually has four stores in the capital

Being able to do business in the capital, and the scale is not small, usually fears that there is a court background behind it.

Just like his merchant, although he was just a private merchant without government background, he had been operating for many years and had already flattered Huang Liangge, the head of the civil officials of the court.

Therefore, Shang Qiu was afraid that if there was really a high-ranking official behind the Zhou Chamber of Commerce, he would offend him if he took action.

So he begged Huang Liangge to help confirm whether the Zhou Chamber of Commerce had a court background.

Huang Liangge had a deep relationship in the court, and he knew which family had which relationship.

Only the Zhou Chamber of Commerce had never been heard of. He thought about it and thought that if it was really possible that the Zhou Chamber of Commerce had someone in the court, the most likely person would be He Jinyao.

The main reason was that the Zhou Chamber of Commerce had just received a large amount of franchise money, and the Ministry of Revenue then raised more than 500,000 taels of silver and sent it to Jizhou for disaster relief.

This was too much of a coincidence.

For this reason, he went to He Jinyao's house to test him, but the latter refused to admit it. He was unable to find out the truth and could only conclude that the Ministry of Revenue had nothing to do with Zhou's Chamber of Commerce.

"Okay, I don't bother to deal with these trivial matters. Where is Yaochi Xianniang?"

Huang Liangge waved his hand and asked the most concerned question.

"It has been prepared for the Prime Minister. Please come in!"

Shang Qiu certainly knew what he liked and said hurriedly.

Although his shop was still being renovated and had not yet opened, Zhou's Chamber of Commerce still did not supply him with Yaochi Xianniang. But in order to please Huang Liangge, he sent someone to buy some privately.

Huang Liangge was refreshed and strode away.

He was willing to help Shang Qiu because he had a good relationship with Shang Jia and for Yaochi Xianniang.

If Shang Jia could get Yaochi Xianniang, wouldn't he be able to drink as much as he wanted in the future?

As for how Shang Qiu got it, Huang Liangge didn't want to know.

How could he not have thought that most of the means Shang Qiu used to take down those shops over the years were shady?

But the fights between these wealthy merchants did not harm the overall situation, so why should he care?

…

The next day, Wang Yue followed Zhang Dabiao to the printing factory again.

The screen plate and ink were ready, and Lao Lu was arranging the printing.

Zhang Dabiao slipped away to find his new goods and asked Wang Yue to stay.

The printing was in another factory. Wang Yue looked at the tools he had never seen or heard of with curiosity, and could not help asking Lao Lu for advice. The latter answered all the questions and told him one by one.

When all the preparations were ready, the printing finally began.

A simple portrait was divided into twelve parts, each of which was in charge of different people.

After the first person used a scraper to scrape the ink through the first screen plate onto the printing paper, the printing paper immediately moved to the next person.

Then this person will continue to use a scraper to scrape another ink through the screen in front of him onto the printing paper, superimposing it with the pattern printed by the first person, and then send the printing paper to the third person.

At this time, the first person has already started to scrape and press the second printing paper.

In this way, each person is only responsible for printing a part, and after a piece of printing paper is scraped and pressed twelve times, the portrait is basically formed.

Wang Yue watched the printing paper go from blank to printed with hair, eyes, nose... etc.Step by step, until the complete portrait is finally formed, it is both surprising and exciting.

The final image is actually a little different from the original, but the difference is not big and can be basically ignored.

This imaging effect is really amazing.

It only took half a quarter of an hour to print a piece of printing paper from start to finish.

But because twelve people worked at the same time, on average, twelve sheets could be printed in half a quarter of an hour.

According to this calculation, nearly two hundred sheets can be printed in one hour!

And these jobs are rotated. When one person is tired, there will be a waiting worker next to him to replace him and let the previous person rest. Wait until the previous person has rested enough, and then replace him.

In this way, more than two thousand sheets can be printed in twelve hours a day!

Even if some waste products caused by errors in the printing process are put aside, it is more than enough to print three thousand sheets in two days.

"Old man, how many printers are there here?"

Wang Yue was a little curious.

"About a thousand people."

Old Lu answered casually while checking the results of the printing.

Wang Yue was dumbfounded!

He had noticed earlier that there were too many workers here, but he still didn't expect there were so many people!

No wonder Qingshan County could accommodate more than 50,000 refugees at once. A printing factory could feed so many people, not to mention that there were so many other workshops here!

Having experienced years of famine, he could especially understand how difficult it was for the people to live a stable and happy life.

For example, the prefect of Jizhou, a third-rank official, could not solve the problem of disasters and refugees.

But Lord Chen was only a seventh-rank county magistrate, but he did it!

"Old Lu, how is the printing going?"

At this time, a voice came.

Wang Yue turned around and saw Chen Yan in official uniform, striding in.