All the servants and hired workers from the Ge family in the town disappeared.

Ge Dafu also seemed to have forgotten that his son was missing. Since Sun Cheng noticed that he was cheeky again, he ran to pursue Xiuxiu's mother Hu Xiaomi.

Polo is now living in an inn in the town with his daughter.

The inn these days is naturally not much better.

Although Polo still has some money, it is only enough to rent a room. At night, his daughter rests in the inner room, and he sits cross-legged in the outer room.

When Polo heard this, his heart was indeed a little moved.

When he came to the Central Plains this time, he wanted to avoid the disputes between his brothers and sisters competing for the position of leader, and he also wanted to find a good husband for his daughter, so as to spread Tantric Buddhism in the Central Plains along the way.

Polo looked at his daughter, and saw that her daughter was still hanging on Sun Cheng.

He felt a little sour in his heart, secretly thinking that this girl has grown up.

After thinking about it, I didn't directly agree: "Little friend, my daughter and I have also stayed in this Dafangbo Town for several days, and we are going to continue our trip. Since you invited us, we will choose to go to that township next time." Let's go up and see!"

Sun Cheng smiled and nodded, and did not continue to persuade.

As long as he can bring people to Shangxiang, he has the confidence to keep them.

This Polo master of Tantric Buddhism is far less pedantic and old-fashioned than Central Plains Buddhism, and he has a profound Buddhist teachings.

For Sun Cheng, who already had some ideas in his heart but hadn't perfected them, it was definitely a good thing to win over and keep this esoteric master.

As soon as Bobo heard that his father agreed, a smile bloomed on his face.

"Really, Dad. That's great, Brother Sun."

Although she is half of the Han family blood, but because she grew up in Tibet, she has learned the frankness and daring to love and hate of a Tibetan girl.

It's only been a few days since she met Sun Cheng, and she seems to recognize Sun Cheng at this moment.

This kind of character is refreshing in this era.

Sun Cheng responded with a smile: "Okay, then I can be regarded as a half-landlord. After you arrive in Shangxiang Town, I will arrange everything for you to eat, drink and stay."

While talking, a boy entered the inn, wandered around for a while, saw Sun Cheng and the others, and hurried over.

"Grandpa, our master is here to invite you!"

Sun Cheng took a quick look and recognized this young man as a servant of Jiang's house, and he had been running to his house for the past two days.

He nodded, "Understood, you go back first and tell your masters that I will be there soon!"

Sun Cheng already knew why Jiang Butou was looking for him in his heart, so he waved him to go back first.

After the boy walked away, he smiled and said to Poluo and Bobo: "Master, Miss Bobo, why don't you move to my courtyard for two days, I still have some trivial matters in the town , I guess it will take a day or two to deal with it. Instead of you living outside these two days, you might as well go to my place to feel more comfortable!"

(bbcj) Before Master Polo could refuse, Bobo hastily agreed.

"Okay, okay, Brother Sun. Then we will move there in a while..."

Polo could only shake his head in his heart, then looked at Sun Cheng with a complicated expression, and then nodded: "Thank you, little friend!"

After handing over the key to Bobo, Sun Cheng bid farewell to the two of them, and first made a detour to his grain shop in the town.

At the grain store, Ah Zheng, the former staff of the Bliss, are making the final adjustments to the store.

Seeing Sun Cheng approaching, they put down their work and reported the situation to him.

Not surprisingly, the grain store will open in another day.

After Sun Cheng ordered a few words, he left the grain shop and rushed to Jiang's mansion.

He soon came to Jiang's Mansion, just after being invited into the main courtyard, he saw Jiang Butou, who was usually unsmiling, now smiling, playing around with a boy in his arms.

After Sun Cheng cleaned up the thousands of wax corpses accumulated by the Jiang family for hundreds of years, he completely solved the Jiang family's long-term crisis for him.

After his son recovered in the past few days, he was usually weak and sick, but now he can get out of bed to run and play.

It was this change that made Jiang Butou finally make up his mind.

"Master, I have followed your recommendation. I invited Brother Wang to help me choose a treasured geomantic place for my family. My parents, wives and concubines have already been buried!"

In the mansion, the last dozen or so wax corpses that he was reluctant to bury were all Jiang Tutou's grandparents, parents, uncles, wives and concubines and other close relatives.

Therefore, Sun Cheng didn't insist that he had to help him eliminate it before, but only gave some persuasion.

Now that Jiang Butou has listened to his persuasion, it can be regarded as a trouble in the future.

Sun Cheng nodded with a smile, he is not good at feng shui divination.

Although he had a short fight with that Wang Bage before, Sun Cheng also thought of the other party's knowledge, so he made a good relationship for him.

With the Jiang family to take care of them in the future, the life of Wang Bage's family will not be much worse than that of the Ge family.

"It's good that you've made a decision, and you've got rid of a future trouble. Look at your kid, and you'll know that I haven't lied to you before!"

Jiang Butou looked kindly at the somewhat silly son in his arms.

People in this era pay attention to heirs and inheritance. If the Jiang family really cut off the inheritance in his generation, then Jiang Butou doesn't think he will have the face to meet his ancestors after a hundred years.

"Thank you Master for your generous help!"

Jiang Butou said gratefully: "By the way, master, today I asked the servants in the house to look for you, just to tell you that I have found all the things you want with you!"

After speaking, he made a gesture of please.

Sun Cheng nodded, followed behind him, and walked to the main hall beside him.

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ps: I had something to do last night, and the owed updates will be completed in two days.

Chapter 099

After helping the Jiang family solve the problems that have plagued the family for hundreds of years, Jiang Butou naturally understands the truth that favors are the most difficult to repay.

Therefore, in the past few days, he has visited Sun Cheng almost every day.

Either bring tens of thousands of taels of silver bills, or all kinds of precious calligraphy and paintings, gold, silver and jade wares, and antique ceramics accumulated by the Jiang family for hundreds of years.

Although Sun Cheng was indeed moved by some of the fine works, he finally rejected them all~.

What he wanted was to subdue the Jiang family, not to be moved by temporary interests.

But seeing Jiang Butou, the patriarch of the Jiang family, insisted on paying him.

Sun Cheng finally let go and asked him for five things.

And these five things are very important to his future development.

"Master, please see..."

Holding his son in one hand, Jiang Butou, who was not in a good mood, made a gesture of invitation to Sun Cheng with the other hand.

In fact, without his guidance, Sun Cheng had just entered the main hall when he saw a few things placed on a round wooden table temporarily moved in the main hall.

There were five things in total, four of which were placed on the mahogany table, namely a shriveled linen bag no bigger than a palm, a western clock, a copper-cased mechanical pocket watch, and a revolver.

The fifth item fell on the ground against the mahogany table. It was a two-wheeled bicycle that is still very rare in Xia Kingdom.

"Not bad……"

Sun Cheng's eyes swept over several things one by one, with an uncontrollable joy on his face.

That palm-sized burlap bag contained rubber tree seeds.

Rubber was originally produced in Brazil, and later European colonists brought it from South America to Southeast Asia before it began to be planted in Asia.

Xia people have always been the smartest group, and many businessmen who went to Nanyang also saw the benefits of rubber.

Some rubber trees have been introduced from Southeast Asia one after another. Unfortunately, these things are very expensive. In a country where agriculture is not developed and the relevant planting techniques are not well-developed, a lot of rubber trees have been planted and many have died. There are not many rubber trees that have survived so far.

It is also very simple for Sun Cheng to want it. Natural rubber is an important industrial necessity.

As the area in his inner world grows larger, more things can naturally be planted.

The most suitable growth environment for rubber is [-] to [-] degrees, which is a perfect fit for the inner world.

Therefore, Sun Cheng wanted to get a batch of rubber and plant it in the inner world in the future.

He walked forward quickly and picked up the palm-sized shriveled sackcloth.

When I opened it, there were only a dozen or so seeds inside.

Jiang Butou was afraid that he would not understand, so he quickly explained: "Master, I found this stuff through a lot of contacts. I was told that this stuff can only grow in Nanyang, and it is difficult to support it without Nanyang!"

Jiang Butou obviously used a lot of connections, Sun Cheng nodded with a smile: "I know, you are bothering!"

He looked at the western clock and the copper-cased mechanical pocket watch, both of which were rare items in this era.

In China, only a few top craftsmen in the Imperial City who serve the Ministry of Internal Affairs can produce small quantities with superb craftsmanship.

Therefore, although it may not look very eye-catching, each of these two items can be sold for hundreds or even thousands of silver dollars, even in coastal port cities.

But in the mainland, there is no two or three thousand silver dollars that can't be taken down.

Two or three thousand silver dollars is worth a month's net profit of Sun Cheng's grain store in Shangxiang.

It can be seen how profitable industrial products from Europe and the United States are in this era when industrialization has just begun.

That revolver is the Colt M1873 revolver, a famous gun that is destined to leave a heavy mark in history.

This thing is small, reliable, powerful, and relatively simple in structure.

As for the two-wheeled bicycle, let alone.

Even if this thing is placed for more than half a century, it will still be regarded as a symbol of identity and status in the decades after the establishment of the New Xia Kingdom that shines forever.

Before the industry was built and the railways and roads were not perfected, a bicycle that could freely shuttle on various relatively poor and complex road conditions was really a very good means of transportation.

Sun Cheng asked Jiang Butou for these things, naturally not for his own enjoyment.

Among the three volumes of Lingbao Sutra obtained from Li Helin, there is a "True Explanation of the Creation of All Things", which is a secret manual of refining weapons.

Since Sun Cheng got it, he has been taking the time to study that book [The True Explanation of the Creation of All Things].

With more and more research on it, he himself began to have a strong interest in refining equipment.

By the way, Sun Cheng had some ideas because of this.

He is going to try to select some real industrial products first, and he is going to use the refining method above in the [True Explanation of the Creation of All Things] to transform them and then carry out large-scale refining.

Sun Cheng now has an immature idea in his mind, and he is not yet sure how feasible it is.

But he wants to try it out, and that is in the future.

Based on the ancient civilization with a glorious history of more than 5000 years under our feet, we have created a special civilization with Taoist refining, talismans, and formations as the core, and Western industrialization as the skin.

This civilization, in Sun Cheng's head, already has the name Rune Technology Civilization.

Of course, whether this civilization can be realized is still unknown.

Even, until now, in Sun Cheng's head, he just had an idea.

But he is used to thinking and then putting it into action. These five things that Sun Cheng asked Jiang Butou to search for were his first tentative steps.

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Rubber will become one of the essential raw materials for industrialization, and it can be grown in large quantities in the inner world.

The modification and production of clocks and watches is relatively easy, and it is a profitable product.

This revolver can be used to defend the people around you, and it can also be used to support some revolutionaries who hope to rectify the country when the Xia Kingdom is in turmoil in the future.

As for the bike, there's not much to say.

This thing is now sold in Shiliyangchang, and the price is more than [-] silver dollars. Even after the West starts industrialized production, the price will not drop too much.

Bicycle is not only a practical means of transportation, but also an industrial product with high added value.

This is also the reason why Sun Cheng chose them in the first place. He must ensure that there are enough benefits, and at the same time, the production and transformation should not be too difficult.

Otherwise, the first tentative step would be difficult to succeed, not to mention that he wanted to create a new technological system that was very different from European and American civilizations.

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Picking up several things one by one, Sun Cheng was very satisfied after playing with them seriously for a while.

He looked at Jiang Butou, smiled and said the sentence he wanted to hear the most: "Jiang Butou, I am very satisfied with these five things. We have settled the previous things, what do you think?"

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