Yangkou suddenly became lively and it has been going on for several days.
After getting up in the morning, Shi Hong yawned, washed a little, and then started to have breakfast.
He is nineteen years old this year. He got married in Luoyang last year. His uncle took the lead and married the concubine daughter of the prefect of Yangping Shen Zhong.
After getting married, you can still start a business, and this manor in Yangkou is now.
Of course, the money and people for building the manor were given by my uncle, but the land was allocated by the emperor.
It was very hard for my mother to be a female official in the palace.
The emperor did not go to the harem every day. Sometimes he would review memorials overnight in Jiafu Hall and other places, and handle government affairs. The female officials took turns to accompany him to help.
After nightfall, if there are more important military information or memorials, you have to get up to check it out and judge whether to wake up the emperor, it will be difficult to have a good night's sleep.
The above is actually nothing, but the role of a female palace official, theoretically speaking, sleeping in the side hall outside the emperor's bedroom, is not necessarily the case. Except for people with special hobbies, who dares to marry him home? So it is inevitable that rumors and rumors are.
Shi Hong was at ease with this manor, and at the same time he was a little ashamed, and even more a little hidden humiliation.
My mother was forced, and it was difficult for her to do so.
After sighing, Shi Hong pushed the half-eat breakfast, then came to the courtyard, called the manor script and department head, and asked, "Where is the guest?"
"I went to the workshop early in the morning." Dian Ji replied.
"Let's go and see me." After saying this, Shi Hong paused and said, "I'll know my wife,
Don’t sell the garden acres, spring leeks, chickens, etc. in the residence. A new slave will come here in a few days.”
"Yes." Dianji called out to his nephew and asked him to go to Rin to report quickly.
Shi Hong strode ahead, as if the two generals of Hum and Ha were planning. The head of the team followed behind and arrived at the workshop next door in just a short while.
Shi Hong's manor is actually not big, with only more than 230 farmers in total. He lives next to Sima Li, Sima Pi and a new Qiao man named Xiahou Mu. Others don't know the details of Xiahou Mu. The three of them still know that their wife is the daughter of Yang Xianrong, the former Princess Qinghe of Jin.
These four families gathered together, which had to be said to be a bad thing. Moreover, the four families found that they seemed to be looking at a piece of land next to them, and even had wooden signs inserted, indicating that someone had occupied it, but they had not come to open the land yet.
Others don’t understand why, Shi Hong guessed that it was Tuoba Shiyijian’s, but he was too lazy to say it.
In fact, it is good for several families to rely on each other. There are more than a thousand families in total, and they can already build some ponds and dams.
Moreover, there is even an abandoned pond nearby, which shows that some people settled here and farmed here in the Eastern Wu or Pushi, but later it was abandoned due to war and other factors. Now it only needs to be restored.
Shihongjiazhuang tourists mainly grow wheat and rice crops, but they have not yet been able to fully balance the income and expenditure.
In the first month of the year, his mother asked someone to donate 100 stagnants of money, 20 pieces of silk, and 20 pieces of gold and silver utensils. While Shi Hong accepted it, he didn't even dare to think about how humiliating his mother had to praise the money. In short, she was ashamed and her mind became heavier and heavier in saving money.
After the group arrived at the workshop, Xiong Ming immediately came over to salute.
"Ruixiang, you don't mind the smell here." Shi Hong said with a smile.
"Why did Daya say this?" Xiong Ming smiled and said, "Last year, when I arrived in Huacheng, there was a lot of kudzu vines and produced a lot of paper. It was sold in Yangzhou, Jiangzhou and other places, and was called "Liu Teng Paper". The taste was strong there, and Daya's place was light."
Xiong Ming was from Nanchang. His father, Xiong Jin, was currently the prefect of Poyang, and his uncle was Xiong Yuan, the chief censor of Jin.
"My workshop is making a small fuss." Shi Hong shook his head and said, "It's just to see others making paper and follow the trend."
"Can you make a profit?" Xiong Ming asked.
"I won't hide this from you, you can make a profit." Shi Hong said: "The court has set rules that the government will use vine paper, and this thing is in short supply."
"Jianyou is the same." Xiong Ming smiled and said, "Do you know Wang Xizhi?"
"I don't know." Shi Hong said, "Is it the son of the Wang clan of Langya?"
"Yes." Xiong Ming said: "This man's calligraphy is quite hot and famous. He likes to use vine paper, which praises it as delicate, smooth, and as dense as a cocoon. Therefore, this paper is popular for a while, and I didn't expect that the same was true for the Northern Dynasties."
When Shi Hong heard the word "Northern Dynasty", his face was not strange. He only thought that the Jin people were so low-spirited that they didn't even regard themselves as Zheng Shu, but the Southern Dynasty and Northern Dynasty were ranked side by side.
But the Northern Dynasties was a bit too powerful. Just captured Shuzhong, how many years could the Southern Dynasties support it?
While the two were talking, the workshop craftsman had already taken a bunch of kudzu and prepared to put it into the pond to soak.
It is said to be kudzu, but it is actually the skin of kudzu. It is peeled off and dried, tied, and then sold to various papermaking workshops. Xiong Ming sells this thing, collected it from Jiangnan and sold it to Yangkou. Shi Hong's workshop is one of his customers.
Of course, the two have a close relationship in private, so that Xiong Mingque can stay in the manor for one night.
Next to the pond, a woman brought firewood and prepared to steam the kudzu peeled out yesterday.
A little later, the sound of "" sounded continuously, and there was a strong servant pounding the vine peel that had been steamed and removed, and spreading it into paper pulp.
Then there is the pulp making and drying process: in the bright spring sunshine, sheets of paper are pasted on smooth wooden boards to dry.
The Shijia Workshop has good technology, and the entire industrial chain is very complete, but the scale is a little smaller. In this golden age of vine paper, I can only make some leftovers and roasts to eat.
The two of them talked casually about paper matters, then left the workshop and came to the river outside the manor.
"After selling the kudzu vines, you will go back to Wuchang, right?" Shi Hong asked.
"That's right." Xiong Ming said, "It's been a while since we came out. The people below are buying northern goods in Yangkou. After loading the boat, we will leave."
"I'm afraid it's hard to buy these days, the price has increased a lot," Shi Hong said.
"Who said no?" Xiong Ming smiled bitterly, "When thousands of soldiers and generals arrive, the prices will rise, regardless of goods in the south or north."
"Southern goods have increased a lot, but they still make a profit in total." Shi Hong said enviously.
Xiong Ming shook his head, not wanting to talk about this topic.
Does he care about this little profit? That's all done casually, and it's just a serious matter to get information.
According to his men's spy, the army of Fighting Cheng had already been in full swing. The first group walked from Hanzhong, and the second group took a boat downstream and went ashore to Jiangling and Yangkou.
After these people were carrying a lot of rewards, they rushed into Yangkou in a swarm. Some people couldn't help but spend money and raised the prices.
Xiong Ming sent out a number of people to chat with the soldiers as merchants, and got a lot of rumors.
He eliminated some unreliable ones, but the rest were still sensational!
In fact, he no longer had much patience and wanted to go back to Wuchang immediately and report the news.
In the afternoon, Xiong Ming's follower came from Yangkou, presented a gift to Shi Hong, and then said goodbye and left.
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"This time I'm very happy to grab it, so don't go home. After winter comes, you can kill Jianye and grab it.
"You are too greedy. If you don't go home, your wife will give birth to a child. What should you do?"
"Haha! That's good, there are many people in the family.
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"Wuchang has not been sent, how can I get a postage? Zhuge Hui has not surrendered yet."
"Maybe I've lost my heart secretly."
The dock was extremely noisy, and the soldiers were all arrogant, as if they were afraid that others would not know that they would win the battle. They kept shouting without even keeping their doors on their mouths.
Xiong Ming sat in the cabin, listening silently to the conversation a few steps away.
On the shore is a shop selling candied fruits, surrounded by a bunch of soldiers, crossing their swords and holding bows, which looks scary.
However, although they looked vicious and their speech was extremely vulgar, they were quite regular in the market. Occasionally, officers came over and nodded, urging them to go back after buying things and ship them away.
The victorious army did not dare to make rash decisions in the market, which shows that the Liang Dynasty had very strong control over these warriors and the emperor's prestige was also very high.
Alas, Li Cheng's destruction of the country should be certain.
Xiong Ming sighed secretly, and at the same time he strengthened a certain kind of confidence.
Their group is growing stronger and stronger. In the court, they are headed by Chen Da, the Minister of the Secretariat and Xiong Yuan, the Censor. They are either in-laws with Shi Guipin or have received favors from Shi.
The local government was headed by Zhuge Hui, the governor of Jingzhou, and some commanders were also appointed.
Although everyone is in a high position, rich and powerful position, once the country is destroyed, these will be all over the world.
Those who have tasted the sweet taste of power are extremely reluctant to give up.
Even people like him who rely on power and rely on money to make money can't bear to leave this wealth.
No one wants to lose these things.
The Liang army pacified Shu for four months, and this power was amazing. To be honest, Xiong Ming was afraid that the Liang army would kill Wuchang, Poyang, and Jianyou, so that everything he and his family now had was wiped out.
After the news is transmitted back to Wuchang, people will inevitably be in turmoil.
Jin pacified the Eastern Wu, which was in Ba County and Badong. Then, taking advantage of the favorable opportunity of the chaos in Wu and the loss of people's hearts, he entered in one fell swoop. In fact, he did not encounter much substantial resistance, and even if there was no scale, he could easily destroy the Eastern Wu.
It can be seen from this that the impact of human turmoil is too great and too fatal.
Xiong Ming made a judgment by himself and felt that the situation was already very clear. He didn't think many people would fight to the death. At least among the scholars from the South, except for those old guys, no one else would want it. Perhaps only the Jiangdong tyrants would take serious action.
In fact, the Xiong family is also a wealthy family in Jiangdong.
At the end of March, Xiong Ming brought several ships back to Wuchang, and asked Zhuge Hui to see the first time that he had actually received the news from Wuchang. It was sent back by Shi Zhen from Badong. Now Xiong Ming brought back the news of Yangkou Shengjian again. The two confirmed each other, so there is basically no need to doubt it.
For a moment, Jingzhou was in an uproar and there were many discussions.
On the first day of April, the governor Lu Hua drove to Zhuge's manor outside the city to discuss defense plans.
Zhuge Hui personally held a banquet at home to entertain Lu Ye and his group.
Chapter completed!