Emperor Liu Hong

() "Young Lord, we have sent it! During this period of time, our family has earned more money than the sum of the past ten years. Our family no longer has to worry about money." Liu Zhong, waving Liu Hong just invented the abacus, and said excitedly.

"Okay, Uncle Zhong, you don't need to be so excited, it's only a small amount of money, the big head is still behind, there will be times when you will be excited in the future!" Don't look at Liu Hong's light words, in fact, he is quite excited now. Excited.

"Young Master is right, the big head is really still behind!" Liu Zhong echoed Liu Hong, and then said: "I never thought that toilet water and soap would be enough to make money. I didn't expect that even white sugar could This is how to make money! If I had known earlier, I would have bought more brown sugar to take off my color, and during the Chinese New Year, I would have doubled the amount and sold it clean!"

When it comes to sugar, Liu Hong is quite satisfied. From this point, it can be seen that Liu Zhong, the housekeeper, is flexible and capable, and he is definitely a talent.

Sugar is not produced in the north, and Liu Hong, a lazy man, has never considered producing sugar.He just wrote down everything he knew when sorting out the techniques, and the sugar production process was one of them.

After the housekeeper obtained these technologies, he arranged for people to experiment.Although sugar is not produced in the north, the decolorization method in sugar production has attracted his attention.Then he bought a batch of brown sugar for decolorization, and then sold it in the capital.

The color of the white sugar is like snow, and it looks pretty good. As soon as it arrived in the capital, it caused a sensation and became popular, attracting all the nobles to rush to buy it, which also made the white sugar a status symbol.It would be quite embarrassing for someone to hold a banquet without a plate of sugar.And this incident directly caused the Hou Mansion to make a fortune.

"Uncle Zhong, that's not bad, money is endless. Besides, there are still opportunities in the future. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and we can't keep thinking about making money, and we have to prepare some new year goods for the family."

"Young Lord, don't worry, the New Year's goods are all ready, and most of them are high-quality goods brought from the capital. It's been a long time since we have seen such high-quality goods in our house. This is all thanks to you, Young Lord." Blessing!"

"Oh, they are all high-end goods, so I have to go and see them!" Liu Hong was quite curious about the high-end goods of the Han Dynasty.

Liu Hong and Liu Zhong came to the warehouse together. Seeing the mountains of New Year's goods, they couldn't help but sigh, "This is not preparing for the New Year's goods, this is simply going to open a shopping mall! But with these New Year's goods, it can be seen that the Hou Mansion is The economic crisis has really been solved, otherwise, we would never have purchased so many things.”

"Eating, delicacies from mountains and seas. The silk and satin used, high-end fur, even if Liu Hong doesn't know how to do it, he can tell that they are all high-quality things. Hey, this is cabbage and this is peanut. Why are these two kinds considered high-end? Goods, put it here?" Liu Hong was very surprised that these two things that are common in later generations were put here.

"Young Lord, this is a high-end product! This cabbage, which is what you call cabbage, grows in the south of the Yangtze River. If you didn't make out-of-season vegetables, it would be almost the only vegetable you can eat in winter. It is quite expensive. What’s more, the peanuts are even more amazing. Emperor Guangwu loved to eat peanuts, and even included them in the funeral objects.”

"Oh, since they are all good things, let's plant some of them too. The land we bought just happens to have nothing to grow, so let's grow some of them, especially the peanuts, which are good things for oil extraction. They must be planted. Variety." <The festival is coming soon, this year the Hou's mansion is rich and powerful, and on the night of the festival, there will be a big feast in the mansion.

The diners came over to see that the banquet was too sumptuous, there were not only all kinds of stir-fried dishes, but also the hot pot cooked by the young master.This hot pot is a good thing. On a cold day, sitting around the stove, soaking the fresh and tender mutton in it, the taste is not to mention delicious.

It's just a banquet, and it's nothing to do. During this period of time, the days of the Hou Mansion are getting better, and they will be held from time to time.The main reason was that Lord Hou Liu Chang, dragging his sick body, attended the banquet in person and gave everyone a big red envelope. This move made everyone beaming. The festive spirit of the festival hasn't subsided yet, but people have already started to get busy, because spring plowing will start soon.

Others are busy, and Liu Hong is not idle either. He is planning his new ecological farm.Although Liu Hong had never done this in his previous life, he still knew the basics.

The land that Liu Hong newly bought, although the soil quality is not very good, most of it is saline-alkali land, and there are two small hills in the middle, but the area is quite large, covering tens of thousands of mu.

With such a large area, this planning is not an easy task, and it is even more difficult to make it scientific and reasonable.Liu Hong didn't specialize in this, so mistakes and omissions are inevitable in the design, but in order to make the layout of the farm more scientific and reasonable, he can only design bit by bit.

After all, Liu Hong is not the leader of the later generations. No matter what project is repeatedly demolished and rebuilt, there is no pressure at all.He felt that the project should be perfected as much as possible during the design process, and it would be better to have less rework after the start of construction.After all, it was all spent on his own money. If he had made a lot of trouble, even if others didn't scold him for being a prodigal, he would feel distressed.

In order to design this wasteland well, Liu Hong went to that wasteland for field investigation when he had nothing to do.The saline-alkali land cannot be cultivated, so Liu Hong asked people to dig soil there to make bricks, and the big pit formed after the soil was taken, Liu Hong used it to grow lotus root and raise fish.

With adobe bricks, bricks can be fired by setting up a kiln. Since he wanted to set up a kiln, Liu Hong simply set up a few more, and fired all kinds of glass, porcelain, cement, lime and so on.However, although Liu Hong had read about how to make these things in books, he had never actually made them after all, so he could only talk about them and let the craftsmen slowly make them.

Kiln firing is a heavily polluting industry, and Liu Hong does not want to see blue sky and white clouds in the place where he lives.So from the very beginning, Liu Hong stepped up environmental protection and tried every means to reduce pollution. Even if it increased a lot of investment, Liu Hong would not hesitate.

It is not uncommon for Liu Hong to see victims of environmental pollution in later generations, and he does not want to follow in the footsteps.These kiln sites and paper workshops are so close to where he lives, if he doesn't pay attention to environmental protection, he will still be behind when he is unlucky.

Regarding environmental protection, not only the housekeeper, but even the craftsmen did not raise any objections.Although Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty dismissed Confucianism from all schools of thought, the idea of ​​the unity of man and nature is still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in the Han Dynasty after years of Taoist Huang-Lao thought of ruling the country.Everyone knows that when the world is polluted, people will definitely not get any better.Therefore, people attach great importance to environmental protection and try their best to protect the environment.

The problem of environmental protection has been solved, and Liu Hong is also very concerned about the construction of the wasteland.He has already made a plan, he wants to build a permanent base here, even if he becomes the emperor in the future, this base does not intend to be abandoned, but to turn it into a pure scientific research base, hold it in his hand as a trump card .

Liu Hong was busy planning the wasteland, when he saw the housekeeper rushing over, Liu Hong knew that something big must have happened, otherwise, the housekeeper would not behave like this.

"Uncle Zhong, what happened, why are you so flustered?"

Liu Zhong took Liu Hong to a place where no one was around, and said in a low voice, "Young Lord, there are two spies in our house, and there are only two of them. Since the incident happened suddenly, I was not prepared, so I only caught one of them." One, and the other ran away without being caught, and our sugar decolorization method has been leaked."

"Damn it! How dare you eat inside and outside and take advantage of me, you're so fucking impatient!" Liu Hong hated traitors the most, and wanted to go back to clean up the insiders, but Liu Hong was very curious, what is it? Who is thinking about him, so he asked: "Uncle Zhong, who arranged these two insiders? Why is someone thinking about a mansion like ours?"

"Back to the young master, according to the insider's confession, it was the butler of Queen Deng's house who came to them a few days ago and asked them to find a way to get those secrets from our house. As long as things are successful, Queen Deng will Come forward and recommend them to be officials in front of His Majesty."

"Queen Deng?! Is that Deng Mengnv, who was just made a queen a few years ago? Did she pay attention to us so soon?" Liu Hong didn't care much about the sugar decolorization method. After all, there are many projects like this. It doesn't matter if one leaks.What Liu Hong cared about was whether he was noticed by those powerful forces. If he really caught their attention, it would not be a good thing, and it would lead to infinite variables for his future accession to the throne.