The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

Chapter 35 The Official Voice and Making Money Are Both Right
Half a year later, with this wave of official voices making money and making no mistakes, Mr. Song came again, and this time the prescription that came to the capital was lo mei.

Because a large amount of spices are needed to make lo mei, which can cover up the fishy smell of animal offal, pig offal, which was not wanted by anyone before, can now be sold at a good price.

This is true for pigs, and so is sheep.

The demand for spices suddenly increased, and the spice trade in Guangdong was more prosperous than before. Mr. Song sat in the yamen with a smile and thought, the tax accounts of Guangdong Province in the coming year must be very beautiful.

And Li Zhao and his father have been rooted in Lingnan for so many years, and Su Wangfu has dozens of commercial sea-going ships with a displacement of more than [-] tons, so Mr. Song’s move has also made money for Su Wangfu. Prince, naturally he is also very happy.

King Su's plan is very large. He raises people and soldiers in private, and makes guns and cannons. The monthly turnover is more than 10 taels, and the annual expenditure is at least 120 million taels.

In the past, he made money by smuggling salt, robbing pirates, and collecting protection fees from fishermen and sea merchants, etc., with a series of gangster-like methods.

Fortunately, he met Song Jianming.

The entire Lingnan area has made great progress during Song Siye’s 14-year tenure. The navy’s military expenditure is sufficient, and there are paddle ships with ball-nose heads. Cannons and various types of firecrackers also have money to improve and assemble. The Japanese pirates along the coast of the Lingnan area have almost disappeared, and the pirates in the Fujian and Guangdong areas have also been hit hard, and the sea trade is much better than before.

In the beginning, King Su only collected protection fees from maritime merchants, and later he simply built his own ships to run maritime trade. After a few years, he hired thirty or forty accountants just to count money.

Every time at the end of the year, hundreds of abacus crackle in the accounting room, which is very spectacular.

If this were not the case, King Su’s mansion would be like the East Palace, the second King Ning and the old Wuxin King, making a lot of shit for money, or it would be like the old fourth King Jing who went to the northwest to guard the palace. The beams of the house were broken, and the whole family followed the fourth child to drink the northwest wind.

In the twinkling of an eye, it is another year of winter and spring.

Last year, Mr. Song's evaluation was undoubtedly an excellent one. Coupled with his excellent official voice, the emperor wanted to transfer Mr. Song back to the capital again.

In another year, Song Jianming will have stayed in Lingnan for 15 years, and he will return to Beijing for a review. This time, Song Jianming must stay in Beijing!
After the emperor made up his mind, he considered the issue of official position, and the most ideal one was naturally the Minister of the Household Department of the second rank.

But there are several problems in doing so. One is that Mr. Sun, the current Secretary of the Household Department, has done nothing wrong these years, so he must find a suitable reason for Mr. Sun to move his nest.

The father-in-law and his son-in-law live together in a high position, which is not in line with the rules of the court, so if Song Jianming wants to stay in Beijing and come back, Mr. Liang has to change his position. In addition, the Song family uncle who is currently the third-ranking left deputy capital censor is Song Jianshuo His father probably has to make way for Song Si's Liujing.

As the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Mr. Liang naturally found out the emperor's mind very quickly.

The emperor gave Mr. Liang two choices, either to go to Nanjing for the elderly, or to live in Lingnan where his son-in-law had been. The official position of the governor is the second grade. He manages the military and civil affairs of Guangdong and Guangxi.

Mr. Liang has no place to cry if he wants to cry. He is really a son-in-law who becomes a son-in-law and a son-in-law who loses. I have never seen any son-in-law get promoted so quickly!It was almost time to squeeze the Yue family and the uncle of the family hall out of the capital.

But there is nothing to complain about. Mr. Liang is an open-minded old man, his hair is all gray, especially for a high-ranking official of the Great Zhou, it would be nice to die well.

Isn't being a great official in the frontier more comfortable than nestling in the capital?

The emperor is over 60, and his hair is also gray. I don't know how many years he can last.

Now that the Eastern Palace is half-dead, I don't know if it will be able to recover. Although the emperor doesn't like the prince, he can't help but like the emperor's eldest grandson!

Several older and powerful princes are also ready to move.

The succession of the throne has always been bloody and bloody. At this time, it seems that there is nothing wrong with staying away from the capital, a place of right and wrong, and being a feudal official in comfort?

As for the son-in-law, let him seek his own blessings!
Since ancient times, we have been seeking wealth and danger, so who knows what great fortune Song Jianming will have in the future?
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In July of the 34th year of Jingning.

Song Qingyue had a peaceful 13th birthday.

Foreboding that she would follow Mr. Song to Beijing at the end of this year, she seized the time to sell all the cement villas in hand.

The remaining breeding farms, spinning mills, cement factories, and several plantations and forest farms all have the participation of the He family, the Cao family, and the An family.

The manpower for management is ready-made, which managers and wives are to be kept, and which ones want to follow him back to the capital, all of which must be arranged one by one.

In addition, because the output of cement could not keep up with the demand, Song Qingyue specially drew a sketch of the structure of the ball mill for the old man, and asked him to find a blacksmith to make it.

To put it bluntly, this ball mill is a large iron bucket, put many fist-sized iron balls, put the block raw materials into it, and roll the drum at a certain speed, and finally it can be turned into powder under the continuous impact and friction of the iron balls.

Making cement needs to grind a large amount of limestone into powder. In the past, it was time-consuming and labor-intensive to grind by animal power or manpower. With a ball mill, a large amount of powder can be ground at one time by hydraulic power. Even quartz sand can be ground by a ball mill. Ideal particle size.

However, the internal structure of this machine is still a secret for the time being, so even if the cement formula is leaked out, no other company can match the scale of its own cement factory.By the time other companies slowly discover the secrets of the ball mill, the cement plant they own has formed a certain scale and has a fixed source of customers, so even if other companies participate in the competition, there is no need to be afraid of them catching up.

In the twelfth lunar month of this year, Song Si brought a large family back to the capital where they had been separated for nine years, and this time he returned to Beijing, he might never leave again.

Mr. Song's whole family was very happy, only Song Qingyue was not so happy.

In fact, Master Song, who is about to take office, is also frowning.

(End of this chapter)