Li Shui said to Li Si with a look of emotion: "Sir Tingwei, what happened to you? You owe fifty million yuan in debt?"
Li Si said calmly: "I don't have to worry about banishing immortals now."
Li Shuiqian laughed: "If Lord Tingwei doesn't want to say anything, then I will never ask more questions. After all, it is your private matter. I still have this basic morality."
Li Si nodded slightly.
Li Shui took out an IOU and filled in fifty million yuan on it. Then he handed it to Li Si: "Please sign your name on it."
Li Si took a cursory glance, then frowned: "You still want interest?"
Li Shui: "...Isn't this a matter of course?"
Li Si thought for a while. Anyway, he has already spent all his wealth. He likes to ask for interest, so that's fine. When the time comes to collect the debt, I don't have a penny, so what can he do?
With so many people in Xianyang City, who has ever taken advantage of Huaiguzi? If I cheated him. So many people should admire me, right?
The only question is, doesn't this seem a bit shameless?
In the past, Li Si would never do such a shameless thing.
But this time, he suddenly felt that there was no psychological barrier to doing this kind of thing: I have already lost everything, what should I be afraid of? My disciples have already left me, so what should I be afraid of?
For a moment, Li Si felt that he had been sublimated. He felt that he was about to reach Li Shui's level.
So, Li Si happily wrote down the IOU.
As for how much interest he would have to pay on fifty million dollars, he didn't even calculate it. If he didn't plan to pay it back, what else would it count?
Li Si carefully collected the IOU and immediately asked someone to bring in a large amount of gold.
Li Si looked at the gold and felt happy: Huaiguzi had worked so hard to earn so much money. Is it useful? In the end, he got a bad name.
Now I just need to use a little trick to get all his money.
The more Li Si thought about it, the more proud he became. He smiled and said a few words to Li Shui, then sent him away.
Now Li Si was too lazy to pretend to be polite to Li Shui. Anyway, he was determined to be a shameless person, so he was being polite.
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After leaving Tingwei's Mansion, Li Xin asked Li Shui curiously: "Brother Huai, why did you lend money to Li Si?"
Li Shui sighed: "How pitiful Lord Tingwei is. As an important minister in the court, he is so poor. As the richest man in Xianyang City, how can I stand by and let the noble Tingwei be chased for debts?"
Li Xin coughed dryly: "Brother Huai, there's no one else here, so there's no need to pretend."
Li Shuigan laughed, looked around, and then whispered: "Li Si is not willing to be lonely. Although he was hit hard this time and dismissed his disciples, who knows if something will happen in the future? Now? I lent him money, he owed me money, and I had a way to control him.”
Li Xin looked at Li Shui suspiciously: "Can you control him?"
Li Shui smiled and said, "We'll see."
When passing by the Banished Immortal Tower, Li Xin said to Li Shui: "Brother Huai, you go home first, I'll go sit down."
Li Shui was a little helpless: "Brother Li, Shang Jun's Courtyard also offers wine and meat, so why do you always like to go to the Exalted Immortal Tower recently? After you finish eating and drinking in the Exalted Immortal Tower, it will be very troublesome for me to do the accounting."
Li Xin said: "I suddenly realized that drinking in Shangjun's Courtyard is not as enjoyable as in the Banished Immortal Tower."
"Although the wine is the same and the food is the same. But you can experience the feeling of spending a lot of money in the Immortal Exile Tower."
"Especially when I see other people buying a glass of wine and drinking it carefully. But I can drink it all. It's really refreshing."
"Now that the world is at peace and there is no war, I feel lonely. Only when I was drinking in the Immortal Exile Tower, I felt like I was back on the battlefield again, laughing loudly and looking down on all living beings..."
"Anyway, I have shares in Banished Immortal Tower. When you settle the accounts, just deduct my money."
Li Shui looked at this guy with a speechless expression: "Damn, showing off wealth is so refreshing and refined."
After Li Xin left, Li Shui looked at his back and couldn't help but sigh: "This guy stays here all day long, which seriously affects the passenger flow. One more glass of wine he drinks in the Banished Immortal Tower is equivalent to one less glass of wine for other guests. That’s equivalent to making a hundred thousand less money.”
Li Shui felt more and more shameful about showing off his wealth.
Suddenly, a carriage came from a distance, and Li Shui recognized it as the carriage belonging to Li Xin's family.
Sitting in the car was Li Xin's wife, Mrs. Li.
Li Shui stepped forward and bowed.
Mrs. Li hurriedly returned the gift, and then asked with a smile: "What has the banished immortal been busy with recently? I have met Princess Weiyang several times recently, and she has been asking you."
Li Shui sighed and said helplessly: "What can I do? It's just to help the common people."
Mrs. Li: "..."
She looked around, then frowned slightly and said, "Where is Li Xin? Isn't he with you?"
Li Shui said: "No."
Mrs. Li exclaimed: "In the past few days, he always claims to be with you."
Li Shui said: "At first, we were together, but every time we got halfway, Brother Li would find an excuse to go somewhere else."
When Mrs. Li heard this, her expression changed slightly.
However, she quickly controlled her emotions and said to Li Shui with a smile: "Yes, I understand. Please banish the immortal."
After bidding farewell to Mrs. Li, Li Shuile blossomed, and it seemed that the money for drinks at Banished Immortal House could be saved.
Li Shui returned to Shangjun Courtyard and found Zhang Liang here again.
Zhang Liang bowed to Li Shui from a distance, and then said: "I have gained new insights into the banishment of immortals."
Li Shui looked at him in confusion: "What do you think? What do you think?"
Zhang Liang was a little confused: Did he forget to banish the immortal? Impossible, the banished immortal is a heavenly being with unpredictable powers, how could he forget it? test! This must be a test! Banishing the immortal is pretending to forget.
Thinking of this, Zhang Liang answered honestly: "It's about the experience of rebellion."
Zhang Liang thought he had a finger on Li Shui's pulse and knew that Li Shui liked to listen to the truth and also liked honest people. So, he said it openly.
Li Shui said with emotion: "You are really courageous."
Zhang Liang was slightly startled: What does this mean? Could it be that the banished immortal is dissatisfied with me? No, no, the words banishing immortals must have a profound meaning.
Zhang Liang thought for a while and said honestly: "Yes, I am indeed very courageous. Otherwise, I would not dare to rebel."
If you can't figure out the banished immortal's thoughts, just tell the truth honestly, it's definitely right. It doesn't matter if you are stupid, as long as you don't pretend to be smart.
Li Shui asked Zhang Liang calmly: "Then why do you want to rebel? Have you thought of a reason?"
Zhang Liang cheered up and said, "Yes, I have already thought about it."
Li Shui had already asked this question last time. Zhang Liang's answer did not satisfy Li Shui, so he thought hard about it after returning. After thinking about it, he came to visit Li Shui again.
Now when Li Shui asked, Zhang Liang immediately spoke eloquently and said: "I rebelled in compliance with God's will. The ancestors of the King of Qin were just men raising horses. How can they be worthy of standing on behalf of Zhou?"
"The princes and countries have been noble for generations. But after Qin destroyed the six kingdoms, all the former princes and nobles became commoners. This is unimaginable."
"Since ancient times, the emperor has been the king and reigns supreme in the world. He enfeoffs the heroes and relatives in all directions. But the King of Qin calls himself the emperor and abolishes the enfeoffment and implements the county system. This is something unheard of."
"All these things that Qin people did cannot be judged by common sense. Most of them were against nature. How could they not be defeated? I followed the destiny of heaven and followed the trend and rebelled against Qin. How could I not be defeated?"
Li Shui was about to fall asleep after hearing this: "What is this mess, destiny and fortune? If destiny plays such a big role, the monarch will not have to govern the country. He can just eat, drink and have fun every day, waiting for the country to be peaceful and the people to be well."
Zhang Liang stood there at a loss, not knowing what to say.
Li Shui sighed and said to him: "Go back and think about it. If you rebel against Qin, if your name is not correct, your words will not go smoothly, and if your words are not right, it will not happen."
Zhang Liang bowed in confusion, and then left with a heavy heart.
After sending Zhang Liang away, Li Shui went to Tian Weng's new fertilizer center.
Since he stopped studying feces and instead analyzed soil samples from various places, Li Shui became more and more diligent.
Because of the production of chemical fertilizers, almost all the workshops in Shangjun Courtyard are operating at full capacity.
Glass factory, iron factory, polishing factory...
Now they have produced more than a hundred high-power microscopes, but as the fertilizer plant has more and more manpower, these microscopes are still not enough.
Li Shui crossed his arms and quietly observed those people analyzing the soil samples attentively.
He asked Xiang Lizhu: "Do you have any clues?"
Xianglizhu shook his head tiredly: "In order to avoid mistakes, we will give a soil sample to two people for testing at the same time, and then compare the results. Only if the results are consistent can we be sure."
"There are some doubtful soil samples. We will put them in flower pots to see how the seedlings are raised. But so far, we still haven't found that kind of mineral deposit."
"The main reason is that we don't know what this deposit looks like, and we're not even sure if it exists in the world."
Li Shui looked at Xiangli Zhu who looked tired, smiled slightly, and said, "Then have you ever thought about whether this kind of mineral deposit may be a mixture of several substances?"
Xiangli Zhu was slightly startled.
Li Shui continued: "It's like me refining an elixir. I need to add all kinds of things, let them continue to fuse in the elixir furnace, and finally become a new thing."
"Could it be that the mineral deposits you are looking for do not exist directly between heaven and earth. After plants absorb them from the soil, they will fuse inside the body. And after you find the soil sample, you cannot use it directly. You may have to go through Refining.”
One sentence made Xiangli Zhu's eyes light up.
She nodded vigorously: "It makes sense, it makes sense. In this way, some soil samples look suspicious, but they cannot make the banker's growth better. That is because they only contain a substance in fertilizer and do not Not really fat?"
Li Shui nodded: "Just like us, we have blood, skin, flesh, and bones. Fat should also be composed of different substances."
Xianglizhu clapped his hands vigorously: "It makes sense, it makes sense."
Then, she dove into the hut and began to study it seriously.
Li Shui said with emotion: "People who are curious about knowledge are really happy."
At this time, workers from the lens factory arrived.
He said to Li Shui with a frown on his face: "Exiled Immortal, we have worked extra hard, but the output of microscopes is still not enough. Many are even unqualified."
Li Shui asked casually: "How do you make a microscope?"
The man said: "After we get the glass, we polish it first, then install it into the lens barrel of the microscope, then install the base and adjust the angle."
"But sometimes the lenses are not polished well enough, and what comes out is blurry. Sometimes when the lens barrel is installed, the lenses are crooked. Sometimes when the angle is adjusted, it's not quite right."
Li Shui said: "It's simple. From today on, pick some people who are good at polishing lenses, just polish the lenses, don't worry about the rest. Those who are good at installing lenses, just install them... The requirement is to strive for excellence. Break down each step as much as possible. Come on, each person only concentrates on one subject."
"Ah?" The craftsman was stunned.
Li Shui said: "The reason is very simple. In the same group of soldiers, do those who train to kill the enemy all day long have combat effectiveness? Or do those who usually work as farmers and put down their hoes to join the army when there is a war have combat effectiveness?"
With this explanation, the craftsman understood it immediately.
Li Shui added: "In addition, whether it is polishing the lens or installing it, there must be a fixed procedure. No matter how thick the lens is ground and how high the clarity is, it must be exactly the same."
"The requirement is that if any lens is taken and installed on a microscope, the things they illuminate will be exactly the same."
The craftsman responded and said with great excitement: "The banished immortal is really a god."
Li Shui smiled slightly and said modestly: "It's nothing, it's just one ten thousandth of my talent."
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"Master Jing, how long do we have to go?" Several pawns complained with sighs.
Xiang Bo turned a deaf ear and continued trudging in the long yellow sand.
He was looking for fertilizer deposits.
A few days ago, Li Shui asked Xiang Bo to be responsible for prospecting, and he accepted the task very excitedly.
Now there are still nine medals hanging around Bo Xiang's neck. As long as he has one more, he can summon the banished immortal and plead for himself in the court to avoid death.
It is said that this new type of fertilizer can prevent people in the world from famine forever. This is a great thing for generations to come.
If he really found the Fertilizer Mine, Banxian would definitely get ten medals for him.
At that time, there will no longer be any need to worry and live in anonymity.
The more Xiang Bo thought about it, the happier he became, so he walked more energetically in the desert.
The two pawns who followed him didn't dare to complain too much, so they could only sigh and move on.
Soon, Xiang Bo arrived at his destination.
This is an abandoned coal mine.
In fact, there is coal in it, but according to current technology, mining is too difficult and dangerous, and the gain outweighs the loss, so it was abandoned.
And Xiang Bo is not looking for coal today, but for the fertilizer mine.
He is Daqin's mineral resource expert. He heard that the craftsmen of Shangjun Courtyard searched almost all the soil in the world, but found no fertilizer minerals.
Xiang Bo was keenly aware that there were two possibilities.
First, the fertilizer minerals are not on the surface, but underground.
Second, fertilizer ore, like iron, cannot be dug out directly. You can only dig out the raw ore first and then smelt it.
So, he came to this coal mine to take soil samples from here.
