Three Kingdoms: At the beginning, Lu Bu was mistaken for his father-in-law

Chapter 93 Journey, Start Here

Finally returned to Pengcheng, standing at the gate of Lin Mansion, Lin Mo felt a long-lost intimacy.

It has to be your own kennel that makes you feel at ease.

"Do you want to go home or live in my house?"

The time spent together for more than half a year made Lin Mo more courageous, and whispered with a bit of ambiguity: "There are still vacancies in the courtyard."

After sending Lin Mo to the door, Lu Lingqi rode a bay red horse and left without hesitation, not forgetting to say in a strange way: "No need, my lord."

Ah this
Lin Mo quietly looked at Lu Lingqi's leaving back, resentment was deep enough, and he still remembered it after so long.

Pushing the door open, it was still a familiar decoration. The sweet osmanthus in the courtyard was in full bloom, and the rich fragrance made Lin Mo feel very relaxed.

"Young master is finally back."

It has been more than half a year since I saw her. Queen Guo was wearing a light-colored flowing gauze skirt, stepped on embroidered shoes, and walked in front of Lin Mo, bowing her head in blessing.

Hey, compared to the cute and pitiful refugee appearance when he first entered the mansion, his complexion is full of spring now, with a bit of charm, and the gleam in his beautiful eyes.

Lin Mo stepped forward to make a comparison, nodded and smiled, "It's taller."

Then his eyes moved down, "I have grown up too."

Compared with the original Wangzai steamed buns, the mountain buns are now raised. In a few years, it is estimated that it will really look like a queen.

It is the age of growing body, eating well and sleeping well, so it is not surprising to develop.

Guo Zhao, who didn't know why, smiled shyly, "Young Master hasn't come back for a long time. You should eat quickly. The slaves prepared it according to the time, and it's still hot."

Guided by Queen Guo to the hall, there were six or seven steaming dishes on the table. The dishes were of different styles.

"sit down."

Lin Mo sat down and looked at Queen Guo who stood aside pouted her mouth, and then she sat down with a smile, "You have learned a lot of new dishes in the past six months, and the taste is not bad."

"After the young master left, the servants were bored staying at home, so they went to Qiaocui Pavilion to learn some skills."

Qiaocui Pavilion is similar to the training academy for later generations. Girls who have been sold by their families or refugees learn various skills there. Ji is even an oiran.

Of course, there are also those like Zhaoer who take the initiative to spend money to sign up.

In addition to this good food, she also claimed to be a slave, but Lin Mo didn't want to correct it, so let her go.

Then they ate and talked about some things that happened in the past half a year, mostly Lin Mo was talking, and Zhao'er just listened carefully.

Ancient etiquette is very particular about not talking when eating or sleeping, so Lin Mo doesn't ask, and she usually doesn't take the initiative to speak.

Until the end of the meal, after digesting, Lin Mo lay down on the lazy chair he made himself, smelling the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus, not to mention how comfortable he was.

After clearing the dining table, Zhao'er stood beside Lin Mo, and the conversation became more frequent, talking about some interesting things that happened to her in the past six months.

Well, it's interesting, but it's actually quite boring.

At least, for a young girl of fourteen or fifteen years old, Lin Mo felt that these things should not be her favorite.

The two chatted one after another, until seeing Lin Mo yawned, Zhao'er immediately said understandingly: "I'll boil water for you to take a bath."

Lin Mo nodded. This is much more comfortable than in the military camp. Someone will take good care of you, even the bath water will be put away for you, so you won't be like in the military camp where you have to take a bath with men on both sides.

After a while, guessing that the time was almost up, Lin Mo got up and walked to the shower room. Zhao'er had already filled the water and filled the bucket with sweet-scented osmanthus.

I don't know if it's because the water is too hot, or it's been too long since I haven't seen him, Zhao'er's cheeks are flushed under the candlelight, and he walks towards Lin Mo.

In the next breath, he began to take the initiative to undress him.

Ah, didn't they always leave after draining the water?

Lin Mo, who was at a loss, wanted to say that it was unnecessary, and instinctively did not want to refuse, so he could only awkwardly say: "Is this also learned by Qiaocuige?"

Zhao'er hummed in a low voice and stopped talking. As she took off her clothes, she showed Lin Mo's powerful muscles, exuding a manly masculinity, and her eyes were blurred.

This is the fruit of half a year of intensive training.

When Lin Mo only had the last pair of underpants left, Zhao'er didn't seem to be planning to stop, "Ah, there's no need for that."

Lin Mo jumped directly into the bucket, put his hands on the edge of the bucket, raised his head and closed his eyes to enjoy.

Ok?
I thought that Zhao'er should leave after finishing all this, but a pair of cold little hands behind her had already started to knead Lin Mo's sore shoulders.

Did you go to Qiaocui Pavilion, or Jiaofangsi?

Yulan Rouyi walked around Lin Mo's hot body, making his mouth dry.

Lin Mo tried his best to relax himself, just like in his previous life, he insisted on pretending to be an old driver when he went to the club for the first time, in order to maintain the last dignity of a man.

In the end, it didn't develop as he expected. It seems that Zhao'er was indeed going to Qiaocui Pavilion instead of Jiaofang Division. Lin Mo expressed some disappointment about this.

Silent all night.

Early the next morning, Ruo Rong arrived as scheduled, and Lu Lingqi also arrived on time.

The preparatory work for the academy has always been done by Ruo Rong. Under his leadership, Lin Mo and Lu Lingqi came to a mansion with three entrances, a standard courtyard with open windows, and a pond in the middle planted with flowers symbolizing the appearance of a gentleman. The lotus that is not stained by mud.

Ze Rong began to take Lin Mo around from room to room, and each room was well-arranged with bookshelves.

"My dear brother, put them in different rooms according to astronomy, geography, agriculture, water conservancy, art of war, etc."

It is a huge layout, but there are not many books placed on the bookshelves in each room. Even if all the books from the treasury of Jiujiang, Lujiang and Guangling have been moved over, plus the books in the treasury of Pengcheng Books are far from filling these bookshelves.

After all, not all books can be placed on the top. Those of the Four Books and Five Classics can be regarded as enlightenment at most, and those who can be recruited are all students. They come from poor families but they must have some talents, so they should be placed according to the principle of further study.

"It looks a little flimsy."

Lin Mo walked to a bookshelf, took out a book and flipped through it casually, muttering: "But it doesn't matter, there will be more and more books in the future."

This place is not only a place to cultivate one's own power, but in the future, if the old father-in-law really reaches its peak, this place will also be a place to divide the family.

"Yes, too."

Ruo Rong echoed from the side: "With the help of my virtuous brother, it won't take long for Marquis Wen to win the Central Plains. At that time, the academy will have to be expanded."

Ruo Rong's words are always so sweet.

"By the way, brother, the academy hasn't been named yet. To promote it, it needs a famous name. What name do you think is good?"

Lin Mo bowed his head and pondered for a while, "It's called Ziyang Academy."

Purple has been given the power to represent the royal family since the Tang Dynasty, so there is no need to worry about taboos.

After repeating it several times, Ruo Rong smiled with yellow teeth on his face, "Ziyang Academy is a good name, it's catchy."

Lin Mo walked out of the room, came to the courtyard, and looked around, "I have to rely on your help for the follow-up matters."

"My dear brother, you can rest assured that we have already made arrangements." Ruo Rong smiled knowingly.

Ziyang Academy was founded to absorb poor students from all over the world, so as to build up its own scholar power to fill the counties and counties, so publicity is very important.

Fortunately, these poor students or idle rangers with bachelors have their own ways to gather.

For example, when an aristocratic family wins over students from poor families, the most common method is to hold a political discussion banquet in a designated place every quarter or even every month, so as to attract scholars to visit, and then find a way to collect it for their own use.

There are also groups like Liangzi and the others who hide in the mountains and forests, and get together every now and then to show off their talents and advertise themselves.

Behind Ziyang Academy is Lu Bu, but it still needs to do publicity to attract these people.

After finalizing all these, Ruo Rong took out a piece of silk cloth from under his coat and handed it to Lin Mo, "My dear brother, the white sugar has been sold for a season. This is the income and expenditure. Please take a look at it."

There are so many things that I forgot about it, Lin Mo glanced at it, good guy, the sales volume in a quarter is as high as 5000 gold, excluding costs and transportation costs, the net profit is more than [-] gold, which is an astronomical figure You must know that after conquering Shouchun, only [-] gold was moved from the palace.

Before Lin Mo could be happy, Ruo Rong handed over another piece of silk cloth, "Here is the purchase list and cost of iron."

hiss~
Lin Mo took a breath, "Why are there so many? Didn't you say that you only purchased two ships, and it cost 1 gold?"

Ze Rong had an expression of being more wronged than Dou E, "My virtuous brother, we all purchase these irons from private workshops, so they must be more expensive than those sold by the imperial court."

Not really.
No wonder people say that the army is difficult to support.

The cost of one piece of iron alone is so high. The two ships of iron are all invested in weapons and armor, and they can't make 2000 people. This is not counting their monthly salary, pensions and the like.

Raising an army is really a bottomless pit.

At the end of the silk cloth is the sea sand and the workshop cost three thousand gold. Lu Lingqi glanced at it and muttered, "Isn't the sea sand free? It doesn't need to be so expensive to transport it from Haixi."

Ruo Rong was about to cry but had no tears, and said with a mournful face: "Miss, I don't know, after Quyuanli and the keel waterwheel came out, there were more people cultivating and fewer people doing transportation, so the cost also increased accordingly.

Also, the high-temperature workshop required by my virtuous brother requires all kinds of blast equipment and furnaces, the specifications of which have caught up with the military examination office in Pengcheng, plus those craftsmen, three thousand gold is really not enough for me. "

"Look and go." Lin Mo smiled, motioning for him to lead the way.

The academy is next to the council hall, close to the administrative center of a county, so it can be regarded as marking its identity.

The newly built workshop is located in the west of the city where the land price is the cheapest because it occupies a large area.

Ruo Rong didn't lie, the workshop here can indeed be compared with the military examination office in Pengcheng, high-temperature refining equipment, furnaces are all available, and even the iron pipes for blowing models are made according to Lin Mo's requirements alright.

The workshop covers an area of ​​about half an acre, surrounded by high walls. In addition to the furnace for making glass, there are warehouses and spare rooms for storing raw materials beside it.

"Let's burn the pot."

After Lin Mo walked around, he ordered casually, and the more than 30 craftsmen who were waiting at the same place moved after hearing the order.

After waiting for half an hour, a craftsman came out sweating profusely, "My lord, it's already hot!"

The temperature in the furnace is very high, Lin Mo briefly talked about the manufacturing process.

It is really not difficult to make glass. It is nothing more than refining the sea sand into a liquid state at high temperature, then pouring it into a mold, and blowing it into a shape with an iron pipe when the temperature is almost the same.

If it is necessary to use metal elements for coloring, such as iron oxide, copper, etc., Lin Mo knows that he can't eat a fat man in one go, so let them make glass first.

Although these craftsmen were stunned for a moment, they still had their skills after all, and they completely followed Lin Mo's request. After an hour, the first batch of glass of this era came out.

"Treasure! Peerless treasure!" Ruo Rong hugged a cup-shaped glass, with golden light in his eyes, as if he wanted to swallow it.

"This thing is so smooth, crystal clear, and glistening in the sun, it's actually made of a pile of sea sand." Lu Lingqi was also surprised and amazed.

Lin Mo picked up one of them and looked at it carefully.

In all fairness, if this thing is in the later generations, the quality will be worse than the glass ring on the high-voltage electricity, not to mention the muddy color, and the uniformity is not well controlled, spicy chicken.
But in this era, it can be seen from Ruo Rong's eyes that if thrown in front of those powerful families, he should be snapped up.

After thinking about it, he decided to make the finished products more delicate. Lin Mo picked up an iron pipe and smashed all the finished products.

Seeing this scene, Ruo Rong's heart was broken, and she hurriedly hugged Lin Mo, "My virtuous brother, you can't make it like this, Brother Yu's heart will be broken by you."

"Look at your progress."

Lin Mo laughed dumbfounded, and then told the craftsmen about some details and the effect he wanted, and let them play freely.

In fact, Lin Mo only knows the general idea of ​​this thing, he is not a professional, and probably lacks some added raw materials, but the speed at which he wants to make money will definitely crush white sugar.

Finally, there is the matter of marketing.

Lin Mo thought of the diamonds of the later generations. The sky-high prices were fired because they were bound to love. He had to find a way to hype these glasses too.

After pondering for a moment, Lin Mo planned to use Ruo Rong's dock.

"Zuo Da Juncheng, remember, this matter must be kept secret, and after the finished product that can be sold comes out, you can't sell it in large quantities to powerful families."

"Is it possible to live in strange goods?" Ruo Rong asked.

Lin Mo shook his head, "You can bring a few pieces with you every time, just say that you used the boat from Haixi Dockyard to go out to sea to search for fairy mountains and met immortals. It was a gift from immortals, and you can prolong your life if you get them."

It's a ridiculous statement, but Lin Mo is not worried about their doubts. Some people believe the nonsense that diamonds are equal to love. What's so strange about glass being linked to immortals, let alone the limitations of people's cognition in this era.

"My virtuous brother is really... Really amazing, no wonder brother Yu is required to control these craftsmen well."

Ze Rong looked at Lin Mo with gloomy eyes, as if talking about you, a profiteer.

Liulichang, together with Ziyang Academy, Pengcheng, Pengcheng, the journey begins here. Lin Mo can foresee that life will get better and better.

(End of this chapter)