Jinyi champion

Chapter 289 Must Cherish
Zhu Hao came out of the inn with the shopkeeper Ma.

Shopkeeper Ma looked puzzled: "The boss really wants to share [-]% of her profits? Are you going to let her redeem the property?"

Zhu Hao smiled and said, "Lao Ma, when have you been so sincere? You don't even know how to make cakes?"

"Painting cake?"

The horse shopkeeper didn't react for a while.

"I drew a cake for her to make her think that the cake is edible, but is it really edible?" Zhu Hao tempted.

Shopkeeper Ma smiled wryly: "How can the painted cakes be used to satisfy hunger? I understand that you are trying to give her hope and let her sell herself willingly without spending too much money... Then my little boss, do you want to continue to find someone to guard against you?" , to prevent her from escaping?"

"What do you say?"

Zhu Hao looked at the shopkeeper Ma with a smile.

"Well, it's useless for me to ask, where she likes to go, even if the little boss gave her only painted cakes, but they are still cakes, better than her being caught by creditors and sold into a kiln..."

Shopkeeper Ma understood completely.

There is no better choice for the current Ouyang girl.

Perhaps Zhu Hao didn't expect Ouyang Nu to agree, and it would be a good thing to leave, especially for his horse shopkeeper or Su Dongzhu.

……

……

Zhu Hao went home to have a celebration dinner with his family.

Regarding the matter of recruiting Ouyang girl, Zhu Hao never planned to mention it to his old lady.

Zhu Hao thought it over, if Ouyang Nu was willing to stay, it would not be for her mother, but for him.

That girl wants to get involved in the glass mirror business directly?
Think beautiful!
Starting with the basic accounting and helping to manage the girls' school, Zhu Hao plans to set up some industries such as weaving workshops that exclusively use female workers, and let Ouyang girl take the lead.

There are many things Zhu Hao wants to do right now, but since he has successfully opened a girls' school, the best way to rationally use idle women in the city as female workers is to open a weaving workshop.

Ordinary looms are inefficient, even the improved spinning jenny is not enough to support industrial production, and hydraulic looms are greatly affected by the seasonal differences in river water volume, it is best to use steam that has been researched for a while sewing machine.

The steam engine is actually not difficult for the metallurgical technology of the Ming Dynasty. The important thing is to create a theory from scratch and apply it to practice.

Zhu Hao has an advantage over Hero, Papan, Newcomen and other scientists in that he does not need to observe the steam pushing the lid of the pot in boiling water and associate it with the huge power contained in it.

The steam engine, until the appearance of the internal combustion engine, flourished in the industrial revolution for nearly two hundred years. It can be used for trains, ships, and ordinary looms. The principle is not complicated, that is, The difficulty in converting the energy of steam into reciprocating power of mechanical work lies in how to seal the cylinder so that the steam expands and pushes the piston to do work.

These are the things that Zhu Hao has been tinkering with in the laboratory.

Even when he was the busiest time preparing for the county exam, Zhu Hao did not slack off. He did experiments again and again, and successively conquered the separation condenser, the insulation layer outside the cylinder, the oil-lubricated piston, the planetary gear, and the parallel-moving linkage mechanism. , centrifugal governor, throttle valve, pressure gauge and other technical difficulties are only one step away from practicality.

If steam looms can be used to mass-produce cloth and keep the ex-factory price very low, luxury dealers like Su Xigui will have little use value. It is estimated that if these industrially produced cloth is sold to Su Xigui, the other party will think the profit is low Well, this can reasonably avoid Su Xigui's resistance to him laying out sales channels by himself.

Of course, it's not certain what the other party will think at that time. After all, no one will think that he earns a lot of money. Isn't Su Xigui still in the official salt and grain business?But Zhu Hao couldn't bind his own interests with Su Xigui forever, so he had to try to take the first step no matter what.

After dinner, Zhu Niang was very happy, and took out Wenquxing's tablet, celery, garlic, green onions and other things from the box.

Aunt Li asked curiously: "Ma'am, what is this?"

Zhu Niang said: "Xiaohao is favored by heaven, the first case in the county examination, it is said that he passed the government examination and the hospital examination without any problems, and the student is already in his pocket...We have to confess Wenquxing, so that's the way to go." Fair enough."

From Zhu Niang's point of view, since her son has been favored by the heavens, and his son has been admitted to the county's case at a young age, and he is about to become a student student, he should reciprocate.

Zhu Hao thought to himself, my old lady is too feudal and superstitious.

This kind of thing is not necessary.

But the question is... how to convince a woman from the old feudal era to believe in science?
The feudal superstition, for peace of mind, has no big influence on Zhu Hao, so he will not interfere too much, let nature take its course.

……

……

On the second day, Zhu Hao was supposed to return to the palace early in the morning. After passing the county case test, he went back to the palace for class on the first day. There must be a group of children around him asking questions.

But Zhu Hao has another important thing to do, which is to subdue Ouyang girl.

On the way to the inn in a carriage with the yawning horse shopkeeper, Zhu Hao asked curiously, "Old Ma, were you tired last night?"

Shopkeeper Ma said with a wry smile: "All the family members have moved to Anlu."

"Oh, no wonder, didn't you say that you have a son, you seem to have a daughter, right? How are the rest of the family doing?" Zhu Hao asked with a smile.

Shopkeeper Ma sighed: "My parents both died when I was young, and I traveled all over the world with the head of the family. I started a family and started a business. The main house was a maidservant in the Su Mansion. Later, she was promoted to be the shopkeeper, and she took in concubines and servants. She has a son and a daughter... Not too old."

Zhu Hao smiled.

Anyway, shopkeeper Ma seldom worked with Su Xigui, he really didn't treat him badly.

When he was an apprentice, he signed a deed of selling himself, and they arranged a marriage for him. Later, when he was promoted to the shopkeeper, he was able to take a concubine... Tsk tsk, this kind of treatment can't be given by an ordinary master.

"No, last night, my boss... Master Su sent shopkeeper Jin over to take over some business, and had two extra drinks with him..."

At first, Zhu Hao thought it was shopkeeper Ma's wife and concubine who came to Anlu to settle down. He needed to find a house to settle down, so he was busy until late. It turned out that he was drinking with shopkeeper Jin.

Shopkeeper Jin was Su Xigui's first contact person stationed in Anlu, and was later replaced by Shopkeeper Ma. Although the newcomer and the old don't work under the same boss now, they are still good friends.

"Did shopkeeper Jin come with your family?" Zhu Hao asked.

"Yes." Shopkeeper Ma replied, "I and Lao Jin have been friends for many years. When I first came out to be alone, it was thanks to his advice."

Zhu Hao asked, "Why is he here?"

Shopkeeper Ma hurriedly said: "Don't misunderstand me, my little boss. Master Su didn't intend to send anyone to supervise or interfere with your business. It's just that some prefectures and counties in Huguang and Jiangbei have gone awry. It's all caused by bandits who have been roaming around recently. Lao Jin actually passed by here, and asked how the business with Prince Xing's Mansion is going, and then took a boat to Xiangyang."

"Oh."

Zhu Hao didn't ask any more questions.

After all, the collapsed house business in Zhu Hao's hands is all taken over from Su Xigui, so it is impossible for them to ignore it completely, and it is reasonable to send someone to visit occasionally.

……

……

Arrived at the inn.

Zhu Hao took the shopkeeper Ma directly into Ouyang Nu's room.

Ouyang Nu has serious dark circles under her eyes. It seems that she didn't sleep as soundly as Shopkeeper Ma last night. As for the beeping mother-in-law, she was not present.

"Old Ma, you wait at the door first, I want to have a private talk with Master Ouyang."

Zhu Hao screened the shopkeeper Ma back.

Soon there were only him and Ouyang girl left in the room.

Ouyang said: "The young girl thought about the conditions that Master Zhu offered last night, and felt something was inappropriate... If the young girl wants to restore the family business, how can she sell herself as a slave? Wouldn't this completely lose her independence?"

Zhu Hao sneered, and instead of answering the other party's question, he asked, "Your Excellency, I want to ask you something. When you first came to Anlu, you wanted to take over Su Dongzhu's glazed mirror business, but you didn't want to spend more money. What is it?" Whose idea?"

"This……"

Ouyang Nu would not communicate with Zhu Hao in an open mind before, but now she is facing this problem directly.

"The mirrors I produced were handed over to Su Dongzhu for sale. That's because my family has been in business with him for many years. He helped our family when we were in trouble. He has a strong background but has never been mean to us. He does not rely on his official business background to bully us... ...Why do you think I would give up cooperating with him and instead cooperate with your Ouyang family?"

Zhu Hao continued to torture Ouyang Nu from the depths of his soul.

You Ouyang family really think that making money in this world is within your reach?

If you want to cooperate with others, you must first ask yourself what you have and what you can give to others, otherwise why should others choose you?
"Of course, I admit that your Ouyang family has stood in the Jiangnan business community for decades, and you have a wide range of contacts, which can sometimes play a miraculous effect. But the thing of connections is illusory, far less real than the background of the government. I sent people to Nanjing to build sales from scratch. Channels, the effect obtained may not be worse than working with you, it is more practical to earn money directly into your pocket...

"So here I also made it clear that unless you are willing to sign a contract of sale and work for me, I will not have any further contact with you."

Zhu Hao said this to explain, don't negotiate terms with me, I don't bother to negotiate terms with you, it has come to such a situation, you still want to grab benefits in the negotiation with me, it is really beyond your control.

"I promise you, but I want you to give me fifteen taels of silver so that I can send the old servant who has been with me for many years back to my hometown." Ouyang Nu's face was bleak, and she said pitifully, "Take it as my money for selling myself." Bar."

Ten taels became fifteen taels...

"Reasonable."

Zhu Hao called out loudly, "Old Ma, come in!"

After repeating it again, shopkeeper Ma's footsteps came from a long distance outside the door, indicating that shopkeeper Ma knew the rules and didn't hide outside the door to eavesdrop.

……

……

When Shopkeeper Ma came in again, he thought that the conversation here had collapsed. He had never seen anyone forced to sell themselves, and if they didn't give money, they would agree.

But when Zhu Hao said that the other party was willing to sell himself for fifteen taels of silver...

Shopkeeper Ma looked at Ouyang Nu with strange eyes.

When we met for the first time years ago, the head of the family and the heroine of the female middle school brought five boats to Anlu, and they hugged each other, but after only two months, they fell to the point of selling themselves for free?

He still sells himself to his own little boss?

This contrast...

"Let's say it first, after five years, you can't interfere with my freedom..."

Ouyang Nu still wants to make a final struggle.

Zhu Hao smiled and shook his head: "It's not for you to choose, but I promise that I will give you a chance to redeem your freedom in five years' time. At that time, I would almost be an adult, uh... you can figure it out for yourself."

Now that I have to sign the deed of sale, and there are so many things to do, do you really think I am a philanthropist?
Signing the deed of selling your life looks like you are at a disadvantage, but in fact you have taken advantage of it, okay?
You sell yourself to me, so that others can no longer buy you away, and you will not be reduced to Huajie Liuxiang, and your safety is guaranteed.

Shopkeeper Ma said with a little disdain: "Master Ouyang, don't underestimate this little master in front of you. He will also be the master of both of us in the future. He has just passed the county examination in the local county examination. Jinxue, this is already a scholar.

"The father of Xiaodong's family is from a family of Jinyiwei, who is loyal to the country, and now he is studying in the palace, and his teacher is from a famous family... Although it is not as good as Cheng Guogong's mansion for a while, but did you enter the Guogong's mansion as a wife? Hehe, stay in Anlu , you have the hope of revitalizing Ouyang's family, you must cherish it!"

(End of this chapter)