Uncle Hong Lou Rong

Chapter 290 Brother Rong wants to make trouble
"Miss knew that Uncle Xiaorong was coming, so she specially lit incense in the room to inhale the moisture in the rain." Ying'er said while looking at Daiyu.

Daiyu smiled and said, "She is a caring person."

Who in the garden didn't know Lin Daiyu's mouth, and Ying'er didn't respond to the sneering voice.Just leading everyone into the building, Jia Rong just pretended not to listen, but her brows were slightly tight and her lips were pursed.

Entering Baochai's residence, there is no plaything in it, which suits her temperament.Although Xue's family was rich, Baochai paid a little attention to these things. Not only did she have no furnishings in her house, she didn't even use rouge or powder on her face.

It was because Brother Rong was coming that she asked the maid to light borneol in the room's smoker to aromatize dampness, rejuvenate dysmenorrhea, and clear away heat and disease.

The faint green smoke lingers up from the smoker and wraps around the nose. It is not like roses, nor is it elegant like daisies. It can only feel refreshing, comfortable and comfortable.

Brother Rong saw Baochai coming out, and said with a smile: "Suddenly smelling this smell, I thought it was the Dragon Boat Festival a month ago. Wherever I went in the past few days, my nose smelled of ice flakes, but it made my brain feel sick. I was dizzy for a while."

Xue Baochai said angrily: "I don't have any other incense here, and it's good to have ice flakes for you to light. It's raining outside again, and you don't like using ice flakes to eliminate the miasma. Next time you come again, you won't even have ice flakes. Here you go."

Brother Rong said: "It's not disgusting, ice flakes are also a rare thing. It's a good time to light it at this time. Next time I come again, I should ask Ling'er to make more incense from the East Mansion, so that you can light it from time to time."

"The smell of flowers and plants outside the house is enough for me, I don't need them." Baochai said with a smile, but she didn't refuse.He smiled and asked: "This morning, I sent the woman who guarded the gate of the garden to pass on the message. Why is that? You don't come into the garden."

Where is it that you rarely come to the garden, except for important events in the two mansions or when there are distinguished guests coming, Brother Rong will never come to the Grand View Garden.There are girls living in it, and it is not good for a man like him in his prime to break in.

Brother Rong watched Daiyu come in and didn't stop, and led Xiangling to the next door to find Aunt Yun's old friend.He also ordered a few maidservants to come with umbrellas to play in Hengwu Garden by themselves.

Then he said to Baochai, "It's not about the business of the two families."

Xue Baochai seemed to have guessed it a long time ago, and she had such an expression on her face.Invited Brother Rong to sit inside, and said with a smile: "I don't want to stay in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion for half a day, because sister Lin looks at me with resentment in her eyes."

Jia Rong never thought about that, and asked in amazement: "How do you know that I entered the Xiaoxiang Pavilion?"

"She came with you, so she ran into her on the road?" Xue Baochai concealed the fact that she asked Yinger to go to the Xiaoxiang Hall to pass the message, and said lightly: "It's not like she is avoiding such a good girl when she comes to her door. Your old temper."

Brother Rong giggled, seeing the other little maids in the room dispersed, only Ying'er couldn't help holding Baochai's round and soft hand.Said: "The beauty of a girl in the world is like a stone, and our Bao'er has all of them."

Xue Baochai looked sideways at him, and her smile deepened. "This can also coax others."

"An upright person like me can't pretend to be a fool."

"I don't know how to coax with my mouth, but I have never been honest with my hands." Xue Baochai snorted and laughed, suddenly thinking of the night at Qingxuguan, how dare this bold brother treat her like that.Baochai couldn't help feeling ashamed on her cheeks, and said strangely: "Sister Lin is such a good girl, Baoyu doesn't care enough, you still have more people. I don't know what to think, just use one of the tricks I used to treat me, Did she still follow up in Dongfu submissively?"

Brother Rong froze for a moment.How can I use any means to deal with Baochai, it is obvious that this girl used means to deal with me.Without arguing, he said, "Let's talk about the cement thing."

When Baochai heard about it, she also revealed her true colors.Asked: "How do you calculate?"

"The news of the heavy rain in the southern province will surely spread to all provinces, and the reputation of cement tribute ash will also spread to all parts of the country." Brother Rong laughed and said, "The opportunity for the Xue family to make money has come."

Xue Baochai looked at Brother Rong quietly.Although it is an opportunity for the Xue family to make money, it is actually beneficial to him.Xue's family buys goods from the cement kiln in Ningguo Mansion, and it's not that they don't want money.Not only sell them, but also promote them.This time Ningguo Mansion wants to earn more.

However, Baochai is also happy that the Xue family can make money from it.With the departure of Xue Biao's father, the current Xue family has lost the last piece of the Imperial Merchant brand of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and many business operations cannot continue.Other conventional ones also cost a lot more than before.

As long as the business of Ningguo Mansion can be maintained, the Xue family will not be poor.

As for wanting to continue to make a fortune in the future, unless the eldest brother Meng En gets another Huangshang brand, or there is another way out.

Baochai replied calmly, "What should I do?"

"I will write to Jia Yun in Ping'an Prefecture, Jia Qiang in Jinling, and others to make a batch of prefabricated cement boards." Seeing her puzzled look, Brother Rong explained: "In these prefabricated cement boards, each Different amounts of iron bones, bamboo, steel bars, etc. will be arranged. As long as the Xue family caravan transports these things to various provinces and invites passers-by to test the hardness, and then cooperates with the promotion of the efficacy of cement under heavy rain in the southern province, I am afraid that no one will be tempted. purchase?"

Xue Baochai said: "Iron bones, bamboo, etc. are common things, but steel is rare. Even if others know that it is as hard as stone, so what? Can you put steel in cement as a luxury?"

"I just want them to release the steel." Brother Rong laughed. "In fact, it doesn't matter if you don't put steel. As long as you know the effect of cement, we will sell this thing."

In fact, besides selling cement, Brother Rong has another idea.

He could never forget the look in Emperor Xiande's eyes when he looked at the cement slabs outside Shenjing's castle.Especially when I heard that there are iron bones in the cement board, I always have a special look in my eyes.

In the past, he simply thought that Dayan had little iron material, which was why the emperor was dissatisfied.But as he got to know Dayan better, he found that his mother's Dayan couldn't control her, and didn't control her at all.It can even be said that Dayan has abundant iron materials, and the iron mines in the Gyeonggi area have stopped due to thin profits.

He would not believe that a country with tens of millions of people would be satisfied with an annual output of tens of thousands of tons of iron.

However, not wanting to believe it doesn't work either.The iron that Dayan uses for the folk is nothing more than knives, iron pots, etc., and the iron that is used for the military is those guns and cannons.

Annual production of iron without increased consumption.How much can I use again?

At the beginning, the emperor was afraid that too much iron was used in cement, so that iron could not be used in other places.

From Jia Rong's point of view, this kind of logic is wrong.If you are worried that you won't be able to use iron, you should make great efforts to smelt iron.Now there are few iron-making mines, and those officials have all gone to burn kilns and grow rouge rice.

It seems that those porcelain and those rouge rice are more important than iron.

This time, Brother Rong always wanted to do something.

Xue Baochai looked at him quietly, with an indescribable smile on his face.Indifferently said: "Isn't it where your Ningguo Mansion took over the iron-making business?"

"Cough...cough cough."

Brother Rong waved his hands again and again.Sophistry said: "It's nothing, it's just that the cement is mixed with iron bones, steel bars and other structures, and they will be harder after solidification. Even if someone hits it with a sledgehammer, it may not be able to destroy it."

Xue Baochai looked at him suspiciously, and said, "Even so, I'm afraid it's not enough to publicize like this."

Brother Rong secretly praised Beiliao as a good place.Hehe laughed and said: "Show them the live demonstration, and at the same time explain to let everyone witness the process of cement tribute ash turning into stone slabs, and let people smash it with their own hands."

(End of this chapter)