After Xu Ling got You Daozi's approval, he continued to study health preservation seriously, and planned to go back and teach his mother and father-in-law's family.
The days on the ship were very regular. After Xu Ling woke up every day, he would practice health-preserving boxing with You Daozi, and then eat. After eating, You Daozi would meditate, and he would go back to the house and enter the space to work.
Although the river section from Lingbao Town to Quanzhou is navigable, it takes a day and a half longer to reach Quanzhou than before due to headwinds and currents.
But so much time was given to Xu Ling to deal with the stolen goods obtained by Teng Hei.
Two of the wooden boxes contained official silver, about one thousand taels. Xu Ling took out one and observed it carefully. He found that the official silver ingot was in the shape of a ship-shaped ingot, with the seal of Bianjing stamped on it. The color was warm and bright, and the quality was much higher than that of private circulation. The money is better.
But you can only look at them but not spend them. They might as well be ordinary silver ingots.
Xu Ling threw the official silver back into the box. He planned to take advantage of this free time to sort out and practice the knowledge in his mind.
After nine years of compulsory education and three years of high school, he is not very proficient in mathematics, physics and chemistry, but the knowledge is still hidden in his mind. Now he has dug it out and combined it with the knowledge from the hard-core time-travel novels he read in his previous life.
Xu Ling felt that he could do it himself.
Let’s start with smelting official silver.
The reason why Xu Ling chose to practice in space is because he can change the terrain here and let the spring water fall from the high cliff to form the simplest water energy.
With clay from Qinghe Town and bricks from Lingbao Town, Xu Ling easily built a traditional stove by the river. He used water energy to turn the bellows and blow the fire. Watching the fire rise and the stove gradually solidify, Xu Ling The first attempt was declared successful.
However, this method is not qualified for smelting silver.
The melting point of silver is as high as 961 degrees Celsius. Although it is not as good as iron, it is not easy for ordinary household stoves to melt silver.
Xu Ling built the earth furnace to calcine cement and then make a more sophisticated blast furnace.
Even though he remembered the production process in his mind, Xu Ling was still uneasy when he started it. It was like learning chemistry in his previous life. He could memorize the knowledge of chemical reactions in books, but he couldn't imagine it until he saw it with his own eyes.
Only by doing it yourself and experiencing it, the knowledge in your mind will be more integrated, and people will suddenly realize: "Oh, so it is like this."
Xu Ling threw the limestone into the earthen furnace, kept the charcoal fire going, and calcined the quicklime at high temperature. He didn't have to work hard to make the gypsum. He could buy it from outside. After preparing these, Xu Ling used the broken porcelain collected from outside Dingping Village. The cement is ground and sieved with a stone mill, and then mixed with the above two things in a certain proportion to finally become mixed cement.
It took Xu Ling about three days to gradually master this ratio. The cement he made for the first time was not much, but after Xu Ling added sand and water and mixed it, he found that the performance of the cement was very good.
After that, he began to make a blast furnace using cement, masonry, and iron plates. During this period, he failed many times. However, what Xu Ling lacked most was time and patience, and he was naturally not afraid of failure.
In space, he can change the terrain and water flow, and if any danger occurs, he can be nipped in the cradle.
In this way, when the ship arrived in Quanzhou, Xu Ling finally got results from his busy work. He successfully built a blast furnace in the space, melted the official silver and recast it into silver bars.
At this time, the first month of the lunar month was almost over. Xu Ling led everyone to disembark in Quanzhou. Quanzhou was still bustling with businessmen traveling from north to south on the streets, bringing as many as 20,000 to 30,000 foreign residents to Quanzhou. Come to prosperity.
Xu Ling first arranged for Nie Peng and others to stay in the shop, and at the same time he also saw Bao Li who was helping in Yazhou.
He came as promised, but was left by Lu Chun in the shop to do some chores
"Boss! You're finally here!" Lu Chun was even more excited to see Xu Ling than to see his own father. He had never seen a boss who disappeared as soon as the shop was disgraced!
Seeing that the goods in the shop were almost sold out and the inventory in the warehouse was getting less and less, he looked forward to Xu Ling's return every day.
After finally getting Xu Lingpan back, Lu Chunren was numb as he counted one, two, three, four... a dozen strangers' faces behind him.
"Boss, who are these people?"
"You arrange a place for them first and don't worry about it. I will take them away in two days. How is the shop?"
Xu Ling asked Lu Chun to send the account book to the room and start checking the accounts.
He left Quanzhou for about a month, during which time the shop made a profit of more than 1,300 taels.
In addition to the goods he stores in the shop, he has also signed contracts with some other merchants to reach cooperation agreements, which can be regarded as a stable supply of goods.
Since Xu Ling wants to open a grocery store, the goods will naturally be miscellaneous, ranging from iron farming tools to needlework and cloth. When customers come in to buy things, they can only imagine that there is nothing in the shop.
When Xu Ling saw this, he was also very satisfied and praised Lu Chun: "You are always looking forward and backward to be afraid of this and that. Isn't this a good job? Don't worry, I will give you a monthly bonus!"
Lu Chun looked happy, who doesn't like to get more money! It was not in vain that he invited his own father to come and give advice, and finally the shop was not shut down.
Xu Ling told Lu Chun that the out-of-season vegetables would be delivered soon. There were a lot of vegetables this time. I was afraid that the Cuiyunge family would not be able to eat so much, so they should do more activities and provide some benefits to the people, which would also attract many people. Some new foot traffic.
After talking about what happened in the shop, Xu Ling asked Lu Chun what his opinion was about Bao Li.
"What do you think of this guy?"
Lu Chun thought for a while and said, "He is an honest man who can also take on things. He has been working hard these days in the shop and does everything. I asked him to be a steward in the shop. He said he didn't want any monthly money, so I didn't pay him. .I heard it was agreed with you?"
Xu Ling smiled and said, "I have other uses for him. You can find someone else to be your manager."
In just one sentence, the man Lu Chun had trained so hard was taken away.
Lu Chun's face instantly dropped.
"Okay, our shop has a new batch of spices. You can find some craftsmen who know how to make incense, make incense boxes with different porcelain and wood, and sell them in the shop."
The three large wooden boxes of spices that the scalded man snatched from the Wei family were quite large in quantity. If they were all sold into the market at once, it would probably arouse suspicion.
Xu Ling had just melted a batch of official silver, and now that he was not short of money, he thought about digesting the spices into pieces.
Lu Chun has lived in the local area for many years, so it is easier for him to find workers. He is an obedient person, and he just wants to do the work after receiving it without asking any questions.
Under Xu Ling's command, Lu Chun was busy running around. Xu Ling was not idle either. He first went to the two warehouses on the dock and secretly unloaded the ripe vegetables in Chencang. Then he went to Yaxing to find Lou Qiaosheng.
After breaking off the cooperation with the Scalded Man, Xu Ling couldn't find anyone to go north to drag the refugees to Yazhou. Instead of spending manpower and material resources going north, it would be better to buy someone back in Quanzhou directly.
