Dressed as the cannon fodder who died prematurely, I will marry the villain in anger

Nanchi

Xie Zhan and his party finally returned home two days before the New Year.

It was already evening when we entered the city.

The Xie family was in Xicheng. When they were about to return, Xie Zhan couldn't help but lift the curtain of the carriage and take a look. At this time, their carriage was just passing by a bookstore of the Lu family, and saw a scholar carrying a basket walking out of it. , muttering words.

As the two sides passed each other, Xie Zhan clearly heard the scholar complaining.

As he was passing by the book store, Xie Zhan took a look inside and saw that the business of the book store was good or bad.

When he got home, he first went to see his mother and then his wife.

Zhao Yutan's postpartum recovery was okay, but her son's frail body made her eyebrows tinge with sadness.

His son is now more than three months old. Because he was born under a month old, he currently only weighs eight or nine kilograms.

Xie Zhan knew very well that this was the result of careful care.

Later, after Xie Zhan had dinner with his mother and wife, he went into the study. There were too many things waiting for him to deal with.

He first put the information to be processed into categories, thought about it, and took the pile about Liaodong County to look at.

These materials mainly record recent events and changes in Liaodong County and even Pingzhou as a whole.

From these written descriptions, Xie Zhan can get a glimpse of the prosperity of Liaodong County.

Xie Zhan thought about the money and food that Qin Sheng, Xue Xu and his party had looted from the Southland, and thought that they, the Southland, had also contributed to this prosperity.

Xie Zhan sorted out what he had collected about the policy direction and program of Liaodong County this year.

Suppressing bandits, building roads, setting up fire pits, building academies, setting up planting and breeding workshops, he found that everything they did was related to people's livelihood.

In the past six months or so, Nandi has mainly focused on solving the problems of post-disaster reconstruction for the victims.

They organized the victims to return to their place of origin or settle nearby, and then helped them build or repair houses and gave them a place to stay.In addition, official roads and small roads that were washed away by floods were repaired, and bridges that were washed away by floods were rebuilt to ensure smooth roads.

He originally thought that the Southland was well governed.But now that he saw the information, he found that compared to the vigorous development of Liaodong County, their development in the south was really slow.

Xie Zhan flipped through the information in his hand again, and his eyes fell on a piece of information. In order to let the local people have a good New Year, the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce Grain and Oil Store supplies a large amount of salted fish. Each household is limited to ten kilograms?

Looking at this news, he unconsciously fell into deep thought.

At this time, Xie Zhan was keenly aware that there was a problem with the salt in Liaodong County.Then he remembered the hundred acres of land in Zhonglong City that the Lu family had requested as compensation when they broke off the engagement.

When he went out during this period, besides getting to know various talented people, he gained nothing else.

This time he went out and communicated with different capable people, which gave him a feeling of enlightenment and understanding.Only then did he realize that what he had learned in the past was that he only knew what was happening, but not why.

Now, he had a vague guess about the reason why the Lu family insisted on the one hundred acres of land in Longcheng. However, whether the reason was as he speculated, he still needed to send someone to verify it.

If it was as he thought, Xie Zhan's eyes darkened.Salt and iron were under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and trading them privately was tantamount to a crime.

At this time, there was a knock on the study door.

Xie Zhan frowned slightly, "Come in -"

After the door opened, Zhao Yutan brought him a bowl of ginseng tea, "Husband, it's very late at night, isn't it time to rest?"

It was okay that Zhao Yutan didn't mention it. When she mentioned it, Xie Zhan felt tired immediately. He pinched his brows and hummed.

Thinking about having to meet with Gu Huaisheng and other aristocratic family heads tomorrow, Xie Zhan felt that it was really time to rest.

So he stood up calmly, took the ginseng tea from her hand and drank it in one gulp, "It's really time to rest, thank you madam for reminding me."

Seeing that he trusted him so much, Zhao Yutan smiled.

Xie Zhan hugged her and left the study together. He took a look at his son first, and then they returned to the bedroom.

The next day, the current heads of the Nandi family gathered at the Xie family, including Gu Yisheng, Lu Fei and the heads of the Zhang and Liu families.

During this meeting, Xie Zhan mainly wanted to unify the thoughts of the people on the ship, summarize this year, look forward to next year, and help them solve some problems.

After everyone gathered, Xie Zhan couldn't help but ask about their recent business.

The four people present shook their heads. Since the flood, the economy of the Southland has been very sluggish, and their business has become difficult.

Xie Zhan nodded, "Okay, I understand, let's come one by one and discuss together to see if there is a solution. Head of the Lu family, how is the business of your Lu's bookstore?"

Lu Fei said bluntly, "Ever since the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce Bookstore happened half a year ago, the business of Lu's bookstore has not been very good." Moreover, they are easily blamed. As long as they make the four treasures of the study a little more expensive, the scholars will take advantage of them. Mouth.They would say, 'It's really expensive. If the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce Book Shop was still there, it would definitely not be so expensive.'It's infuriating to hear.

Although they had given the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce Book Store a sum of money before, they asked them to withdraw from the Southland.But the other party used a knife worth twenty cents of snow-gloss paper to knock down the price of their silver-gloss paper.It can be said that in the past six months, Lu's Bookstore has been losing money and making money, but it really has not made any money.

"Hasn't Lu been studying how to improve the papermaking process for the past six months? Is there any progress?" Xie Zhan asked again.

At this time, Lu Fei nodded, with a smile on his face. These days, their Lu family's papermaking masters have been improving papermaking recipes in an attempt to reduce costs.

Later, their papermaking process did improve, but at a selling price of one dollar and twenty cents, it can only be said that they did not lose money, and the profit was really not much.

Xie Zhan thought for a while and said, "In this way, you Lu family will improve the quality of silver gloss paper, at least it must be seen to be of higher quality than snow gloss paper."

Lu Fei frowned, "But if this happens, the cost will go up again."

Xie Zhan said, "It doesn't matter, we will also sell books in the future!"

The bookstore of the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce sells a kind of notebook. They glue a knife or half a knife of paper into a book and sell it.The notebooks they sell come in various sizes and thicknesses.

"We only make 240 pieces of paper and sell them for three dollars."

The others were stunned when they heard Fang, so thick?And it’s so expensive, will anyone buy it?You must know that the quality of Xueguang paper is also good, and it only costs [-] yuan per knife.

Xie Zhan continued, "On the title page of each book, excerpt one or two famous quotes from an ancient book. You can tell the scholars that if you collect an orphan copy, you can exchange it for a book."

Books have always been the exclusive wealth of noble families.Not only does the Lu family have a large collection of books, but the Xie family also has a large collection of books and classics.

Their rich collection of books is their advantage.

He was wrong before, always thinking about getting out of touch with Liaodong County.But reading books are elegant and precious.Only families with good foundation can produce outstanding scholars, and they only need to capture this group of people.

After others figured out the key, they couldn't help but praise, "Wonderful! Master Xie, this way, Lu's paper will not have to worry about selling." You must know that scholars are very eager for books and knowledge.