I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 193 Once you get married, you will no longer be short of money
Chapter 192

Cheng Shijie had a very headache. He had no cash in his hand. It didn't mean that he had no money, but the current money was all in southern Liaoning, so it was difficult to transfer it.

When going to the capital, it wasn't that Cheng Shijie didn't want to bring more money, but the key issue was that the Ning Navy was still in its infancy, especially the newly expanded Guangning, Liaozhong, and Liaoyang, which required a lot of investment.

Engaging in business is different from engaging in the financial industry. The financial industry brings in money quickly, while engaging in industry, whether it is agriculture or industry, is like this. High investment, slow return, and no rush.However, the potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn in southern Liaoning have had a bumper harvest this year, because the prospects are good, and factories in southern Liaoning are blooming everywhere.

Cheng Shijie is a little dissatisfied that the industrialization of nitric acid has not yielded much so far. He has already poured 70 million taels of silver into it, but the results can only be described as disastrous. He can only produce less than [-] catties of nitric acid per month. !
Cheng Shijie was completely dumbfounded. You must know that he spent more than 70 million taels of silver in the nitric acid factory, and what he got in return was just such a small amount of nitric acid?

Nitric acid is an important chemical raw material, and it is not an exaggeration to call it industrial blood. It can be used to make chemical fertilizers, pesticides, explosives, dyes, etc. in industry.

Although Cheng Shijie knew that in 1905, a factory for the production of nitric acid by the electric arc method appeared in Norway, which was the earliest attempt to industrialize nitric acid in history.Cheng Shijie can't learn this way. First of all, there must be electricity. In the field of electricity, Liaonan has not tried to conduct research.

"Nitric acid..."

Thinking of this thing, I scratched my head with a headache. If we want to produce high grain, we must be inseparable from chemical fertilizers. Without nitric acid, we cannot make chemical fertilizers. Just like phosphate fertilizers, agricultural production cannot be separated at all.

But the problem is that there are only two production processes for phosphate fertilizer, thermal method and acid method. Under the current conditions, it is impossible for Cheng Shijie to meet the conditions of thermal method production, and he can only use nitric acid processing.

The output of nitric acid cannot increase, and Cheng Shijie doesn't know what to do. If he wants to produce powerful nitrocellulose, he must be inseparable from nitric acid. Training, if it is a big battle, it takes a certain amount of time to accumulate
Where is enough?Especially in the production of chemical fertilizers, let alone [-] jin a month, even [-] jin a day is not enough.

In Zheng Qi's view, Cheng Shijie's input and output are simply out of proportion!

Zheng Qi was very puzzled and asked: "Grandfather, why do you insist on spending so much money on nitric acid? That thing can't be sold for money, and it can also destroy gold and stone. It's too dangerous. You make such a dangerous thing what?"

"You'll find out later!"

Zheng Qi shook his head and said: "Grandpa, you...really...you don't spend money like you! Look, there are more than 160 items everywhere, and there are places where money is spent everywhere. If you don't earn money quickly, you It's already bankrupt, but according to your way of spending, it's really..."

"Really what?"

"What a prodigal, even a prodigal is not as prodigal as you!"

Zheng Qi has now entered the role of accountant, and pointed out Cheng Shijie's problem in spending money: "Nitric acid is not very useful, just a little bit, without such a large investment, and there are ready-made firecrackers and artillery, Ning Haijun's firecrackers And artillery, already unrivaled in the world, you just leave the ready-made ones and don’t use them, you have to..."

Zheng Qi was still very afraid of Cheng Shijie, as long as Cheng Shijie looked over with sharp eyes, she was too scared to speak.

"It's been more than a year since last year. What kind of breech-loading guns and breech-loading cannons have been going on? After so much tossing, more than 400 million taels of silver have been put in, and there is not even a bubble!"

Zheng Qi looked at Cheng Shijie and said seriously: "Don't you think you have too much money!?"

Cheng Shijie looked at the column of scientific research expenses and sighed in frustration...

In fact, what Zheng Qi said is not comprehensive. More than 400 million taels of silver have been invested, and some have achieved results, and they are very remarkable, just like the rear-mounted smoothbore gun. This is the progress across the ages.

There is also the flowering bomb, which is different from the flowering bomb of the tiger squatting gun. The flowering bomb of the tiger squatting gun can actually be regarded as a second kicker, which is similar to the reason why the Feilei gun is fired. Part, part is used as propellant, and part is used as explosive part.

But the problem is that there are too many problems with the tiger squat gun. First of all, the range is uncontrollable. How far you can shoot depends on your mood. When it explodes, it also depends on luck.

However, the three-inch gun is different. The principle and operation method of the three-inch gun rear-mounted smoothbore gun already belongs to the category of artillery of later generations. Europe did not invent such a similar artillery until the 200th century, and it is now at least [-] years ahead of Europa. .

But the problem is that the research and development project of the breech-loading rifle has been tossing for a whole year, and it has cost 80 million taels of silver, and he has not even made a bubble.

Doing scientific research has never been an easy task. Every little bit of progress is piled up with real money, and often astronomical amounts of money, manpower and material resources are invested, but in the end they get nothing.

This is the reason why modern Chinese companies are not very willing to engage in scientific research and innovation for a long time. The investment is too large. It took hundreds of millions to develop new technologies. As a result, competitors only spent a few million to hire a few core engineers. Poached away, and the exact same product was produced without any effort, which made them want to cry without tears. Who would be willing to engage in scientific research?
They all keep their eyes open to see who comes up with a new technology, and then go to poach people.Now he wants to transition from front-loading smoothbore guns to breech-loading rifled guns and rifled guns in one step. Materials, technologies, and design concepts must all be overthrown and restarted. Let alone a year, it may not be possible to see it in a few years. results.

Gao Qiqian returned to the palace, saw Cao Huachun, and inadvertently mentioned that Cheng Shijie was short of money, and he was willing to pay high interest. If he had money, he could make a fortune.

Although Cao Huachun is rich, how dare he show it? Who doesn't understand the reason why wealth is not revealed?Wang Zhixin almost emptied his family, Gao Qiqian worked so hard for so many years, desperately making money, and as a result, he returned to before liberation overnight.

Cao Huachun reported the matter to Emperor Chongzhen.

Emperor Chongzhen was slightly taken aback: "Cheng Qing has no money?"

"Oh, Your Majesty, you don't know. Every time a soldier of Ning Haijun dies in battle, Hai Guogong will give them 20 taels of silver and a hundred acres of land. Otherwise, how can those big soldiers of Ning Haijun It may be so hard! Not to mention..."

"What's more?"

"What's more, Hai Guogong is about to get married, there are too many places to spend money!"

Emperor Chongzhen sighed and said, "How much money does my wife still have?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, there are only 20 taels of silver left!"

"Is that so?"

Emperor Chongzhen was surprised.

Cao Huachun said: "Your Majesty said that money for rewarding troops and meritorious soldiers will come out..."

"Ugh!"

Emperor Chongzhen smiled wryly and said: "I can't just watch Cheng Qing have no money and borrow money everywhere. In this way, you transfer 4 from your nephew...no, [-] taels of silver will be sent to Cheng Qing!"

"This can..."

Before Cao Huachun could utter the words "I can't do it", Emperor Chongzhen continued: "In addition, you bring another five hundred craftsmen to repair Cheng Qing's house!"

Although Chongzhen did not give Cheng Shijie a house in the capital, Emperor Chongzhen gave Cheng Shijie two imperial villas in Daxing County, about forty miles away from the capital.

The total area of ​​the two Huangzhuang is about 150 mu, which is not too large. Cheng Shijie’s Haiguo Mansion was built on the Huangzhuang, with a total of more than 400 rooms. There are gardens, horse farms, swimming pools, warehouses, Leisure facilities such as martial arts arena, including the area of ​​the mansion, is almost [-] mu of land, which is close to [-] mu.

It's just that Cheng Shijie hasn't had time to see this house yet, he just looked it up on the map, and it belongs to the countryside now, but in later generations, it belongs to Fengtai District, which is one of the six main urban areas of the capital.

Although it is in Daxing County, it is under the feet of the emperor. The value of each mu of land is more than three times that of the best paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River. It is a full 37 taels of silver per mu of land. If you buy land, you want to rely on farming Even if it is planted for 100 years, it will not be able to recover the cost.

This is not good land, it is just dry land, and now Beizhili suffers from drought every year, nine years of famine, 100 years of bad land that may not be able to return to the cost, there is still a price but no market, and no one is willing to sell it.

Different from the habits of later generations, if you sold a house or land in the Ming Dynasty, it was a sign of family ruin.

"Meet the Duke!"

"Oh, what wind brought Eunuch Cao here!"

"Duke Hai is out of sight. Our family is just running errands. His Majesty heard that Duke Hai has some money, so he asked our family to send money to Duke Hai!"

While Cao Huachun was talking, Sun Zhichen came to Cheng Mansion with a huge motorcade.

"Yongyan, you are..."

"Grandfather learned that the commander-in-chief was short of money, so he asked Yongyan to send some to the commander-in-chief. Although the Sun family has a big business, there are also many people who eat, so..."

Sun Zhichen put a gift list in front of Cheng Shijie, and Cheng Shijie took a look. There were 6000 bolts of cloth, 2 bolts of silk, and [-] taels of silver ingots. Including other property, there were almost [-] taels of silver.

"How is this good?"

"Don't be polite, Commander, we are also a family!"

Cheng Shijie knew that the Ming Dynasty was not like the later generations. Since he worshiped Sun Chengzong as his teacher, and the teacher was like a father, Cheng Shijie accepted it without being polite.

Then, when Cheng Shijie sent Cao Huachun away, he saw a middle-aged man in a long gown, riding a horse, followed by a dozen or so carts.

He laughed from afar and said, "My servant pays homage to Duke Hai!"

He said paying homage to Hai Guogong, but he didn't mean to pay homage at all.Cheng Shijie knew that this person was Xu Guangqi's long-term follower, Gu Sicheng.

It is said that the prime minister is a seventh-rank official. Although Xu Guangqi is not the prime minister, he is the second assistant of the cabinet, and his disciples and cronies, although Gu Sicheng is a servant, has seen many high-ranking officials and dignitaries, so he naturally has his own airs.

"Why bother Mr. Gu, sir, please come inside!"

"I won't go in, the master is still waiting for a reply!"

Gu Sicheng got off his horse and bowed towards Cheng Shijie: "Congratulations to Duke Hai on his new wedding in advance, the master is not in good health, I have to go back and take care of him!"

Gao Qiqian told Cao Huachun that Cheng Shijie was short of money, and Emperor Chongzhen, the big boss, dragged his nephew's money to Cheng's mansion. In fact, all the civil and military officials in the capital knew about it. In fact, Emperor Chongzhen's Forbidden City was a sieve.

No matter how you say it, Cheng Shijie is an upstart in the dynasty, and the official residence is less secure. Those who should give gifts must give gifts. After Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi sent people to Cheng's mansion, countless officials came one after another.

Some brought carts, pulled silks and satins, and some pulled silver. Of course, there were also upright officials of the imperial court, who were actually born poor and had no lucrative Qingshui yamen. They wanted to embezzle, but they just had no chance. In desperation, I had no choice but to write adverbs or draw by myself, and come to the door in person.

Wen Tiren, the chief assistant of the court, wanted to eat Cheng Shijie, but at this moment, he still bit the bullet and asked someone to send Cheng Shijie a congratulatory gift of 8000 taels of silver.

No more, no less, just echoing his status as chief assistant.

Just as the saying goes, no one asks you if you are poor in the busy city, but you have distant relatives in the mountains if you are rich.

The current Cheng Shijie is no longer the little thousand household who returned to Dengzhou with a group of beggar-like soldiers. Now he has tens of thousands of elite soldiers, a lot of money, and is even more appreciated by Emperor Chongzhen. Governor of Liaodong, Crown Prince Shaobao, such a character, how can he just go and curry favor!The most important thing is to see if we can win over this powerful faction who is rising extremely rapidly.

Besides, there are countless businessmen planning to negotiate a business with Cheng Shijie to see if they can import potatoes and sweet potato seeds from southern Liaoning...

The happiest person at this time was not Cheng Shijie, but Zheng Qi, Cheng Shijie's accountant.

She was dressed in men's attire and received at the concierge. The property she received was recorded. In just half a day, she collected tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Originally Cheng Shijie wanted to borrow money, but now he doesn't need to borrow any more.

In fact, the officers and soldiers of Ning Haijun are also very happy, and the backbones of Ninghai Group are also very happy. Thank God, their commander is finally getting married!

The Chinese people place the most importance on inheritance, and what they pay attention to is that the father dies and the son succeeds. No matter how great a childless person is, it is difficult to reassure his subordinates. Cheng Shijie made everyone live a good life, and everyone is grateful Yu was also a little worried, afraid that he would leave.

Well now, he is going to start a family in the capital and take root!Ning Haijun's generals chirped and discussed, while the accountant was clattering his abacus to see how much money he could spend to make a decent gift...

Cheng Shijie is not getting married for the first time, but he is not as busy as his marriage with Xiang Hui. Now he basically doesn't need to worry about anything. If you have an idea, go to Concubine Li Kang or Queen Zhou.

Cheng Shijie was very reluctant: "This... what is this, how can the woman be in charge of the marriage! Isn't this considered a marriage!"

Sun Zhichen laughed so hard that he was about to lose his temper: "Marshal, son-in-law, son-in-law, you are a married man!"

PS: I wrote it out.

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