In the fifth year of Zhenguan, on the 19th day of the twelfth lunar month, Lantian County, the study room of the Qin Mansion.
Xiao Changxi has been very busy these days, to the point where her feet have never touched the ground.
Since Qin Ming issued the statistical task three days ago. She arranged for all the big and small managers in the Qin Mansion to go out and count the manpower and property of various industries in the Mansion.
It took until noon today for the stewards to finally complete the statistics. After sorting out all the accounts, she brought the compiled booklet to Qin Ming's study.
After knocking on the study door a few times, he opened the door and walked in.
When Xiao Changxi saw Qin Ming writing something on the desk, she didn't say anything to disturb him. She quietly walked to the sofa, sat down, and quietly looked at the young man who had taken away her heart.
Although she had known for a long time that Qin Ming was good at making money, she was shocked when she read all the statistics submitted by the stewards.
She never expected that Qin Ming would earn such a huge fortune in just a few months.
Now there are 30,000 guan in cash and 3,000 pieces of fine cloth in the mansion's warehouse alone. There are 10,000 guan in Ximeng Tower in Chang'an City, 10,000 guan in the Huaxia Vegetable Store, and 10,000 guan in the wine shop.
All the cash added up to a total of 60,000 yuan.
In addition, a large number of finished products are stored in the warehouses of brewing workshops and tea workshops, waiting to be sent to Chang'an for sale.
There are countless bricks and tiles in the fifteen brick kilns.
In addition, the soap workshop built on Zhuangzi now stocks a large amount of bark, limestone and other raw materials.
Just thinking about Xiao Changxi felt unbelievable. Even now, she couldn't believe that this was the wealth Qin Ming had created in just a few months.
This is wealth that many people cannot obtain in several lifetimes.
Sometimes she felt like she was dreaming. She still remembered that when she just decided to follow Qin Ming, the house was full of more than 2,000 yuan in cash. In the blink of an eye, her wealth had doubled so much in just a few months.
The speed at which she was making money was so fast that it frightened her.
She is now worried that one day, the powerful people in Chang'an City will take action against Qin Ming, so she came here today to firstly report to Qin Ming on the various properties in the house, and secondly, to persuade Qin Ming to let him be safe tomorrow. Be sure, don't add any more property, otherwise she is really afraid that one day Qin Ming will be targeted by the powerful people in Chang'an City.
Qin Ming didn't know that Xiao Changxi had arrived at this time. He was still concentrating on drawing the drawings of the paper making workshop and the cement workshop.
Although he has planned to give workers a holiday, paper and cement workshops will be the focus of the government next year. The books that the children in the academy will use to study next year and the toilet paper that the government will use next year are all inseparable from the papermaking workshop.
In addition, the foundations of Qingbei University and the new mansion have been laid, and the red bricks and red tiles are almost finished. All that is missing is cement.
So he plans to build these two workshops at the beginning of next year.
After about half an hour, Qin Ming finally finished the drawing. He smiled and put down the charcoal, straightened up and stretched.
He picked up the drawings on the table and looked at them again and again in the sunshine. The smile on his face looked particularly bright in the winter sunshine.
"Hey, I finally finished the painting."
Xiao Changxi looked at this handsome young man with a smile on his face on the sofa. She was fascinated for a moment. It was rare to see such a clean smile on his face.
Although I often smile when I see myself, the smile is always evil and completely different from the smile now.
The scene froze for a while, and finally Qin Ming spotted Xiao Changxi when he put down the drawing in his hand.
At this moment, the clean smile immediately changed and turned into the evil smile that Xiao Changxi was most familiar with.
Qin Ming quickly walked to Xiao Changxi and sat down. He immediately held Xiao Changxi in his arms, kissed Xiao Changxi on the forehead with a wicked smile, and then said:
"Xi'er, you peeked at me again. Were you fascinated by my elegance just now?"
Xiao Changxi's face turned red when she heard this, she twisted her body and found a comfortable position, then changed the subject and asked:
"Sir, what were you drawing just now?"
"Draw a new workshop. Didn't the institute develop papermaking technology and cement? I plan to build two more workshops next year."
Xiao Changxi was startled when she heard this, hesitated for a moment, looked at Qin Ming worriedly and said:
"Sir, the accounts of the mansion have been calculated. The income of the mansion has been very high in the past few months. If two more properties are created, the slave family is a little worried. One day, the properties of the mansion will be targeted by the powerful people in Chang'an. .”
Qin Ming was startled when he heard this. He didn't expect Xiao Changxi to think of this.
But after he thought about it carefully, what Xiao Changxi said made sense. After all, his original plan had not been to build so many industries. He also knew that making too much money in this era may not be a good thing. As the old saying goes, guns Hit the lead.
During this time, because he got to know Li Er, Empress Changsun opened the Tea Tea Workshop and Ximeng Tower. In order to prevent the epidemic among refugees, he partnered with Cheng Yaojin and others to set up a brewing workshop.
In addition, he had inexplicably got engaged to the princess a few days ago, which made him somewhat inflated.
After Xiao Changxi's reminder, Qin Ming suddenly realized that he could no longer make money by running a workshop so unscrupulously.
Otherwise, he might be targeted one day. Even with the status of Li Er's son-in-law, it is still not safe for him.
After all, are there not many emperors in history who killed their sons-in-law? If the interests are too involved, Li Er might even kill himself for the sake of interests, not to mention other powerful people who have nothing to do with him.
Just like the families with the five surnames and Qiwang who came to Zhuangzi to secretly learn greenhouse technology a few days ago.
I believe that in the past few days, many distinguished families in Chang'an City have learned about the production of fried tea and Erguotou in their village.
If it weren't for the retinue sent by the Duke's Palace and the County Prince's Palace at the workshop, those people might have sent people to the workshop to steal the crafts.
Xiao Changxi saw Qin Ming's serious look and said nothing for a long time. She thought her words had offended Qin Ming, so she said aggrievedly:
"Sir, do you think I'm too talkative?"
Hearing this, Qin Ming looked at Xiao Changxi's aggrieved look, smiled, kissed Xiao Changxi's resentful peach blossom eyes and said:
"Why should I blame you, Xi'er? I think you are right. I was just thinking that since I cooperated with Lu Guogong and others to make wine, I have indeed become a little dissolute."
Xiao Changxi was a little shy when she was kissed by Qin Ming, but now she felt a little distressed when she heard Qin Ming talk about her like this. I couldn't help but want to comfort him with a few words.
"Sir..."
"I'm fine. I just thought about it. The papermaking workshop and the cement workshop still need to be built, but the things produced by then will only be used in our own homes and will not be sold outside for the time being, just like soap. That's it. It can save some expenses in the house and avoid being targeted by others. What do you think?"
Xiao Changxi felt sweet in her heart that Qin Ming could listen to her advice. So she leaned into Qin Ming's arms and said:
"Let's make arrangements according to the master's instructions."
After saying that, she took out the statistics booklet from her arms and handed it to Qin Ming:
"By the way, sir, this is the statistics book compiled by the government. Please take a look."
Qin Ming hugged Xiao Changxi into his arms, took the booklet with his other hand, and read it page by page. Qin Ming seemed to have thought of something, and then he said:
"Xi'er, come to the yard to see me at Xu this evening, and I'll take you to see something."
Xiao Changxi was startled when she heard this and said:
"Master, Qingwan and Sishe..."
Qin Ming smiled and said:
"I'm going to take you out of the house to see something, don't think too much about it."
Xiao Changxi was a little confused when she heard this and said:
"It's so late, what are you going to see outside the house?"
Qin Ming showed a mysterious smile and said:
"It will be kept secret for now. You will know when the time comes. It is my New Year's gift to you in advance, Master."
After Xiao Changxi heard Qin Ming's words, she felt a little more looking forward to her evening trip.
