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Chapter 139 Fishing

The family took the money, cleaned up the house immediately, and left Dingzhou.Think about it too, when I bought these places, I didn't spend much money, but now I sold them for nearly a hundred times the price, and I made a lot of money.With this money, hurry up and enjoy it.

But Wang Shen and Zhang Zhi thought it over and they couldn't continue playing like this.These places are sparsely populated, and each piece of land is quite large, with hundreds of acres.If they are all bought at this price, it will not be enough to sell their two family properties.

The two summed up again.

The next day, I sent people to discuss with other families again. Like that family, they all wanted to ask for prices.But the two of them only raised a little bit more than the original price, and they bought it if they agreed, and they didn't buy it if they didn't agree.After finishing speaking, he left.

This is the idea of ​​two people, Wang Shen's idea may not be correct, and Zhao Da's source may not be reliable.If it is true, cutting off a source of soil will definitely have a great impact on Wang Yi's new porcelain, and it may cause them to have to stop the new furnace.No one has come to them to buy mud for several months, so there is no hope, and negotiations will become easier by then.This is leverage.

Sure enough, a few days later, Niu Defu brought people over to transport the mud, and he was dumbfounded.How to resell it properly, then re-negotiate, but now the steward who manages this land has already known the master's instructions. If you pay a sky-high price, you don't even want to get a piece of mud from me.Niu Defu drooled for a long time, but it was useless, so he had to leave in frustration.

Hearing this news, Wang Shen and Zhang Zhi smiled at each other and left Dingzhou.

After I came back, I began to pay attention to the new kiln in Wang Yi's house.

The specific circumstances may not be known.But he saw that the second child in the Wang family started to put down his books and ran to the kiln to toss again.But the porcelain baked this time is obviously not as good as the previous ones.After hearing the news, the two laughed at each other.

A second furnace of porcelain was fired, but it still didn't work.All of a sudden, even the workers on the kiln panicked.Wang's Xiaoer emphasizes benevolence and righteousness, high salary and high treatment, all of which are based on the ability to produce good porcelain and make good profits in the kiln.Otherwise, if it continues like this, the salary will have to be reduced, otherwise there is no way to maintain it.

Hearing the news, the two laughed even more happily.

They were not happy for long, and another batch of porcelain came out of the kiln.This furnace is different from the previous white porcelain, it is all black porcelain.The current mainstream is southern green and northern white, and there are black porcelains, but very few. For example, Huiyuan kiln and Yaozhou kiln produce a large amount of black porcelain, but they are still not the mainstream.

However, the black porcelain produced by the Wang family this time is different from others. It is as black as lacquer and has a glossy glaze.The only shortcoming is that the number of defective products has increased slightly, and not every piece of black porcelain glaze has the best color.

This created a shock again.After all, people often see white porcelain and celadon. When they see this exquisite black porcelain, they are even more amazed.The most important point is that Wang Hua came prepared this time. The porcelains fired are mainly tea sets, and the black ones are more convenient for setting off and observing the tea color.

After hearing the news, even some big merchants in Luoyang couldn't sit still, and went to Gong County to do business with Wang Yi.

Zhang Zhi and Wang Shen met immediately, and the two looked at each other in blank dismay, and their own forcing made him even better.So Zhao Da was asked out again and paid a lot of money.Zhao Dacai said with some reluctance: "I can only help you this time. Mr. Erlang of the Wang family has already noticed that someone has leaked the news, and he just got angry at the kiln."

As he spoke, he took out a piece of paper from his pocket and said, "This is the clay formula for white porcelain and black porcelain he prepared."

But it was not handed over to Wang Shen.

Wang Shen understood, and took out a large ingot of silver from his bosom again.

Zhao Dacai handed over the formula, which was clearly written. The places of origin of all the soil were marked with symbols, and even the possible positions of these symbols were written on the paper, as well as their mutual proportions.And it can also be seen from this formula that black porcelain has exactly one less source of soil than white porcelain.

Wang Shen thanked you.

Zhao Da said: "You don't hesitate to thank me. I heard him also said that there are two better types of porcelain. He is debugging. If he succeeds, he only needs three of them. I don’t know about Tuyuan. Don’t blame me for not saying hello to you.”

Wang Shen was troubled when he heard it.

As long as Wang Hua continues to transfer mud from Hebei to Gong County, the land price will not drop.I don't have a source of porcelain clay, even if I get this formula, I can't make good porcelain.It will not bring down Wang Yi's family.

When he couldn't figure it out, Wang Hua came to ask for debts again, and said in a gentle tone: "Second Uncle, are you really going to return the money to me, I need a lot of money to buy the land now."

Because spring is coming, Wang Hua fulfilled his promise and began to buy land for the tribe.After Zhang Zhi heard about it, he asked the people of Dingzhou to cheat him in Dingzhou, Hebei, and he forced himself to buy it at the price of good land in the barren mountains and wild mountains.So he went to the Yu and Du families and said, now that the boy from the Wang family is buying land, let's work together to raise the land price.

Yu Jie and Du Peng listened to the music, and now he is very popular. Although we had some festivals with him before, he didn't mention it, so why make a fuss?

Zhang Zhi said: "You two patriarchs, you can't say that. If the second son of the Wang family is really big, why bother to attack Wang Shen Erlang. It's just that he doesn't have power now, so he doesn't dare to touch your two families. If he does, it may not be I will not fail to take revenge on both of you. Besides, one is willing to buy and the other is willing to sell, and they have not committed any crime. Even if the emperor is here, we cannot be blamed."

After persuasion for a long time, the Yu and Du families were finally tempted, so under the impetus of the three families, the land price in Gong County skyrocketed.

Of course, there is another way, to buy land in neighboring counties.But Zhang Zhi saw through Wang Hua's heart. He fixed the clansmen around his house, so that after buying the hearts of the clansmen, he would have something to do for his family.If it is placed in a neighboring county tens of miles or hundreds of miles away, it is really doing a good deed, and the money will be wasted.

But all in all it's a good thing.It would have been unreasonable to ask for gambling debts in this name, but now it has become reasonable.

Wang Shen could only laugh along with him, and said, "Forgive me for a few days, forgive me for a few days."

Send Wang Hua away.

Then they called Wang Sheng and Wang Jian over and beat them again.

After the fight, I went to Zhang Dayuan's family to discuss.Let's take a gamble, he has no way to live, but Zhang Zhi still wants to live, hesitating extremely.But Wang Shen couldn't stand the persuasion. Wang Hua's family was not good at first, but now he has to buy land, so he can't expand production, but the two of them are different.As long as they have the technology and the support of the Zheng family, once they start working, a lot of money will roll into their pockets.

So they sent people to Hebei to discuss with these landlords. At this time, Wang Hua felt that someone was playing tricks, and he also discussed about buying land, but Zhang Zhi and Wang Shen couldn't negotiate together, let alone him.In the end, the price of mud had to be doubled again, and the treaty was signed a little more harshly.

This virtually increased the difficulty of negotiations between Wang and Zhang.

Now these landlords are all talking loudly, not to mention that the two families don't have so much cash, even if they sell their fields and family properties, it is not enough.So while negotiating and borrowing money.I bought them piece by piece, but the gap got worse and worse, and finally Zhang Zhi found Yu and Du's family.

Both of them are in the plains, they live on land and commerce, and they don't have porcelain kilns in their hands.In fact, at a certain level, the profits of producers will never catch up with the profits of traders.Unless the porcelain painted by Wang is fired.The two also disdain to burn porcelain.

After listening, the two Patriarchs thought for a long time.The porcelain made by Wang's Xiaoer is now very famous. Although the two of them were dissatisfied with this little guy, they even bought a few pieces and put them in the room as decorations.

After a long time, they opened their mouths, and the two families can come up with five hundred gold, which is their maximum limit. After all, property is property, and working capital is working capital, that is, there are a lot of working capital in hand and other uses .But it was also agreed that when the new kiln succeeds, they will take [-]% of the shares in the middle.This is also an investment.

According to common sense, [-]% of the shares of the porcelain kiln are [-] gold, which is already an unbelievable price.But now because of the problem of land prices, the price is still a little lower.There was no other way, the gap was too big, so Zhang Zhi had no choice but to agree.

However, as soon as the money was stuffed inside, I don't know where it went.

There is only one advantage. After buying piece by piece, Wang Yi's family had no choice but to stop the new kiln.But it was not the result that Zhang Zhi and Wang Shen wanted. Wang Yi's new kiln stopped, and at worst, it could only carry people and survive.But my two families have invested countless amounts of money. They have to burn new porcelain and convert it into profits in order to get the support of their masters. Otherwise, the usury they borrowed will become a sharp sword hanging over their heads.

But the two borrowed too much money, which may exceed their property. After hearing the news, no one dared to borrow money from them.

At this moment, a businessman who had business dealings with Wang Yi's family came to Zhang Zhi's house.He asked straight to the point: "What is the use of your two families going to Hebei to buy those lands at a high price?"

Now that this matter has spread, it is impossible to hide it.Wang Hua almost sent Zhao Da to the government, but he couldn't find evidence, so he finally gave up, but he was dismissed from the kiln.

Now that he asked, Zhang Zhi replied honestly: "Burning new porcelain from Wang Xiaoer's house."

"How sure are you?"

"Ten percent." Zhang Zhi replied.Feeling something was wrong, Zhao Da secretly learned other kiln crafts and sold them all.That's why Zhang Zhi agreed to Wang Shen's crazy actions.

"Okay, I will lend you money, but I will be responsible for half of the sales of the new porcelain you burn. Also, I don't know if you can succeed. It's business, so I need your property as collateral."

Zhang Zhi hesitated again. If he failed, he would mortgage all his property, and he would have nothing.So he called Wang Shen over.He still has some ideas not to call Wang Shen, and calling Wang Shen is even worse, and Wang Hua went to Wang Shen's house again to ask for money.He also took the county government servants with him. Several officials in the county were very dissatisfied with raising the land price in Gong County.The fulfillment of Wang Hua's reputation is also equivalent to the fulfillment of his own reputation.There is hope for promotion in official career.Now let them make this, what do you think in Wu Zetian's ears, oh, it turns out that Gong County is full of poor mountains and bad waters, shrews and troublesome people except for the kid from the Wang family.I will also recognize myself that these officials will not educate.But as Zhang Zhi said, if one is willing to buy and the other is willing to sell, people like themselves have gained some benefits from others, and there is nothing wrong with it.Hearing Wang Huayi's report, he immediately sent government servants to cooperate.

Even Wang Shen drove Wang Hua crazy, and he was very happy to hear Zhang Zhiyi say that things turned around again.The two muttered for a while.Finally decided to take a gamble.Don't say that the porcelain fired is exactly the same as the porcelain fired by Wang Hua, even if it is slightly inferior, it doesn't matter much, it is still exquisite porcelain.The porcelain also yields huge profits.

As long as there are profits, and I have owed a huge debt, the Zheng family may repay it for me at that time.

So an agreement was signed, and the businessman provided them with the funds they needed. If they couldn't make good porcelain by then, they had to use all their land and real estate, and even Wang Shen's three porcelain kilns with shares in Zheng's family also served as collateral.

This businessman had seen the world, and after signing the contract, he called Baochang Lizheng to be a notary.This provides the money they need.

After getting the source of funds, the two immediately went to Dingzhou, Hebei to buy all these pieces of land, and the time was urgent.Even without that harsh treaty, they also owed a large amount of usury.The usury "business" of the Tang Dynasty was very prosperous.Not only private individuals, but also the government, called Guanxi, the annual interest rate is as high as 90.00% of the principal and interest.This is still low, and some private individuals are as high as [-]% of the principal and interest.

This is also the reason why Zhang Zhi made a desperate bet in the end.If new porcelain cannot be fired, the two families will not be able to talk about their family property, as they will have no family property at that time.These loan sharks are all stronger than them, not weaker.Then the result will be like Kong Heizi, a fugitive.

The mud was brought back, the glaze was also brought back, and the new furnace was almost remodeled according to the new furnace of Painter Wang.Moreover, the two were very capable. Wang Hua was mining coal in Wen County. Using their relationships and with the help of the Du family and the Yu family, they discovered a coal mine in Gong County.

So fire up the test.

In order to be eager for success, several large kilns are firing porcelain pieces of various formulas in order to obtain the real formula.

However, as soon as it came out of the oven, they were all dumbfounded. There were also a few porcelain pieces with good glaze, but all the porcelain bodies were so rough that they were not as good as ordinary pottery.

Just when the two were at a loss, a servant at home ran over and pulled them aside to report, saying, "It's not good."

"What happened?"

"Wang Yi's family has held a clan meeting again."

"He called his meeting, what business do we have?"

"No, his new kiln has opened again."

Hearing this news, the expressions of the two changed. He bought all the places in Hebei that produced porcelain clay. What did his family use to make new porcelain?

Two days later, Wang Hua was standing among the people surnamed Wang. This time, almost everyone surnamed Wang came to the clan meeting. Some people were ashamed because they didn't participate last time.

Wang Hua said loudly: "Last year, I made an oath here to make all the poor families in the clan have fields to cultivate."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. Up to now, the Wang family has not bought many fields.The tribe didn't blame him, those landlords raised prices crazily, and the Wang family only fired a few furnaces of good porcelain, and because Wang Shen and Zhang Zhi lost their way out, the new kiln was forced to stop working.This is a helpless thing, and the Wang family has done a very benevolent and righteous thing in this matter.

One by one said, "Erlang, I don't blame you."

Wang Hua shook his hand and said, "I made the vow last year in front of the ancestral tablet, and no matter what the reason is, I must fulfill it."

One sentence confuses everyone. How can you achieve it if you don’t have a field in your hand?It's not enough to divide up your family's dozens of acres of land.

But Wang Hua's next sentence stunned everyone even more.

Wang Hua said: "It's mid-April now, so it can be regarded as the end of spring. Finally, let me grab this time. Come with me, everyone, and ask Tian to go."

(End of this chapter)