"Sir, do you want to take over his family's property?"
"If you get the Universe Mirror, these properties are of no use. We just want to explore the bottom first. Send a message to Liu Wei and tell him that the swordsman is coming and try to find the treasure."
Now that the plan had been decided, it was time to get started. After Wang Yehao returned home, he immediately came to Jin Wenchi to arrange two tasks. One was an invitation to Tian Hongyu, inviting him to attend the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival. The gift list included a pair of Australian glass lamps. The other is a reply to Wang Zunde, saying that Xiong Futai ordered the Anzheng family to be settled, and the seas of Mining and Zhejiang were pacified, which was highly praised by the Holy Emperor. In contrast, the seas of Guangdong and Guangxi were full of bandits, and some thieves even occupied the county for two years without doing anything. Go, if Mr. Wang makes no further achievements, I am afraid that the political discussion in the court will be unfavorable to you.
After sending Wang Yehao away, Mr. Zhou did not return to the courtyard to play in the snow, but sat alone in the house. Zhou Lezhi saw that his husband was in a trance and stepped forward and whispered: "Sir! Do you want to put these treasures away and give them to Yui?"
This sound made him wake up from a dream. The husband hummed and said, "Don't leave it to Yui for safekeeping. These things are stored in the study."
"Wait!" Zhou Lezhi was about to pack it away when his husband stopped him again. He walked to the table alone and carefully looked at these "treasures."
He picked up a fruit plate-shaped glassware and whispered: "Ten yuan", then picked up a powder box, looked at it carefully, and muttered: "ivory"; finally he picked up the wine bottle as clear as water, After looking at it for a long time, he looked at the cover again, shook his head and put it down.
"Look, what's wrong with these things?" Mr. Lezhi suddenly asked.
Zhou Lezhi picked it up carefully and looked at it: "It's really well done. It's not the work of ordinary hands."
"Shit!" Mr. sneered, "How do I teach you how to view matter?!"
"Yes, yes," Zhou Lezhi quickly looked at it again and said, "This glassware is completely transparent, but there are a few bubbles in the vessel, indicating that the deaeration technology is limited..."
"good."
"The glass is pure and the decolorization technology is good, but it still has a relatively obvious green color, which means that the raw materials contain iron and the decolorization was not complete during the refining process."
"To be precise, it's ferrous iron." Mr. Zhou corrected.
"Yes," Zhou Lezhi was still confused about the concepts of one price and two prices, so he could only respond casually.
"The material is good. What about the shape?"
"There are traces left on the surface when the mold was demoulded, indicating that the plate was cast from a mold. It may be an iron mold."
"Well," Mr. Zhou seemed satisfied with his answer, "If you do it, assuming all the conditions are met, can you make glassware of a similar level?"
Zhou Lezhi thought for a while: "No. There are too many processes in it that I don't know."
Mr. Zhou nodded: "Very good. I only know a little bit about the process of making glass. I understand the principles. If you really have to do it, there are too many details that need to be paid attention to. Here the craftsmen have put all these craftsmanship techniques into practice." Consider it an undisclosed secret..."
"But technology needs communication to progress." Zhou Lezhi quickly repeated what his husband had said countless times.
"That's right." Mr. Zhou seemed to be very excited about talking today, "Why is everyone unwilling to make it public?"
"Master, teach your disciples to starve to death, master..." Zhou Lezhi blurted out and realized that these words were extremely inappropriate. After all, they had a proper master-disciple relationship.
"Hahaha, you are right. In 17... now, the disciples of the church will starve to death of the master, so whether they are apprentices or workshops, they all regard their craftsmanship as a secret and will never take it lightly. Teaching it, let alone making it public." Mr. Zhou said, "Then why do you think this happens?"
"Because... only a few companies can do it, but if everyone can do it, it's no longer valuable."
"Do you think this glassware is good?"
"Of course it's good. It's beautiful and clean. It can be used for anything. If it's dirty, just wash it with water and it'll be clean."
“It also has a lot of benefits.”
"Corrosion-resistant, aging-resistant..." Zhou Lezhi has been accompanying his husband in the laboratory recently, and his ears are already full of the advantages of glass.
"With so many benefits, it stands to reason that everyone would like to use it. Why doesn't everyone use it?"
"Little, expensive."
In the next half hour, Zhou Lezhi listened to a course on market supply and demand, and gained a preliminary but comprehensive understanding of concepts such as "productivity", "market", "technological progress", "cost", "profit"... etc. .
When the teacher imparts knowledge, he will start from specific examples and combine them with reality. Often things that are easy to understand can also be explained clearly. This kind of teaching is not limited to class time, but can be done anytime and anywhere. So many courses are not boring at all - they are even fun.
Sometimes he would also talk about things about "Australia" where he practiced Buddhism, including how productive "Australia" is. Everyone can eat white rice and meat, and live in big houses... It's quite interesting. While Zhou Lezhi was filled with envy, he also suspected that his husband was bragging.
But one thing he was sure of was that it was hard to say whether everyone in Australia could eat rice, but he definitely ate it for every meal. Just look at Mr.'s skin and tender flesh and you will know - it is impossible for a hard worker to have such a thing.
"Sir, is this object from Australia?" Zhou Lezhi asked.
"No." The gentleman answered very simply, "This thing was made in Ming Dynasty. If it were made in Australia, it would never be so rough."
"So it means Australians made it locally. Maybe in Guangzhou."
"Your analysis makes sense." A smile appeared on Mr. Zhou's lips. "Tell me, if you are Australian, why do you want to manufacture it in Guangzhou? Australian glassware is obviously not valuable and the cost is lower."
"Didn't you just say that sir? The market price of items is affected by many factors. Although glass products are cheap in Australia, the shipping costs are very high due to the long distance transportation. In addition, the transaction takes a year. The so-called tofu is the price of meat. .Of course it is more cost-effective to produce and sell locally..."
"That's right." Mr. Zhou nodded, as if he was asking a question, but also seemed to be mumbling to himself: "I wonder where they are?"
"Find Mr. Guo and you will know after asking." Zhou Lezhi suggested, "Even if he refuses to tell, these goods cannot appear out of thin air. There will always be transportation, loading and unloading. As long as Brother Liu pays a lot of spies to keep an eye on the outside. , it’s easy to find out where it is.”
"Haha, I didn't expect you to have a good understanding in this area!" Zhou Lezhi patted the table lightly, "That's it! We will go back to Guangzhou as soon as spring begins!"
"He is going to Guangzhou?" Wang Yehao frowned slightly after hearing Wang Liang's report.
"Yes, Zhou Lezhi said that he is going to leave when spring comes and the flowers bloom. He also plans to ask the master to recruit a few more martial arts experts like the two Liu brothers to go with him."
"I know, go ahead."
Obviously, the Hearthstone Immortal found some clues from Zizhenzhai's utensils, so he was anxious to find Guo Yi to find the source of the utensils.
Of course he knew the origin of the equipment, it was in Lingao County. But he can't know about this yet.
If he finds clues in Guangzhou and goes to Lingao, obtains the Universe Mirror, or finds an Australian to join the team and returns to China, this useful chess piece will be useless.
Only by holding the channels of news in your own hands can you effectively control the Hearthstone Immortal and make him generate greater value for you.
Moreover, Wang Zunde has already written to the court to prepare for the suppression of the Kun bandits in Lingao. Zhou Xianren went to Guangzhou at this time. With his careless and straightforward way of speaking, he might be arrested as a spy. If he really found Lingao and didn't leave in time, he might die in the chaos - the loss would be huge!
There must be something to trip him up!
What method should be used? Wang Yehao thought hard and decided that face-to-face advice would definitely not work. If he forcibly banned it, it would hurt the harmony. It was best to have some "last resort" method.
He quietly called Liu Zhao over and asked him if there was anything he could do - after all, they, the Jin Yiwei detectives, were the best at manipulating people's hearts.
"It's not difficult," Liu Zhao said without even thinking about it, "I have a way."
"What method?"
"It couldn't be simpler. It can only be done by people who are close to Hearthstone Immortal. I don't know if it is reliable or not."
"But it doesn't matter."
So Mr. Zhou's "spring trip to Guangzhou to find Australians" happened when he was excitedly preparing to set off - Zhou Juli suddenly fell ill.
The disease came very quickly. The day before, Zhou Juli was walking around, babbling with a rattle, and the flesh on his face was bulging. The next day, he was bedridden, feeling groggy and sleeping. Not sleeping.
Seeing his precious daughter falling into a coma, Zhou Xianren was so anxious that he personally stayed at the bedside to attend the consultation.
As for the symptoms, they are really rare. First, there is no fever, and second, there is no cough... except for being lethargic and sleeping, there are no other symptoms.
Even though Hearthstone Immortal started his career as a "miracle doctor", he now treats people from time to time. The results are said to be pretty good, but he is helpless when it comes to his daughter's condition and can only stay indoors anxiously. Swirl around. My husband's temper also became violent. He scolded Zhou Lezhi, Yui Yi, the maid, Liu Zhao... In short, everyone in the Zhou family was scolded by him.
Under Mr. Wang's care, several well-known local doctors were invited, but they all had their own explanations for the condition and the prescriptions they prescribed. The gentleman was originally not allowed to use it at all, but he couldn't stand it and Zhou Juli's face was getting darker and darker, so he had to give it a try.
After drinking a lot of decoction, Zhou Juli's condition finally improved gradually. Because he was weak, he asked a doctor to nurse him back to health, and after a lot of trouble, he reached June. Summer is not suitable for long journeys, so my husband postponed his plan to go to Guangzhou until autumn.
(End of chapter)
