Don't make trouble, let's build infrastructure!

Flaxseeds are not easy to buy, and Sang Le took a lot of effort to bring someone back to a sack the next day.

As soon as I arrived in front of the Yamen, I saw a luxurious carriage pulled by two horses stopped in front of the door, and a man about 35 years old stepped out of it, with a cane in his hand and a slight lameness in his left leg.

"Mr. Fan." Sang Le shouted before running.

The man just got out of the car and turned around when he heard the words. It turned out to be Fan Heng.

Sang Le bowed his hands and saluted, and said: "Mr. Fan, please come with me, my lord has been nagging you for the past two days."

He turned back and ordered his subordinates to put the flaxseed in the warehouse, and then raised his hand as a gesture of invitation.

Fan Heng smiled wryly in his heart, Tong Ran didn't talk about him, but hoped that he would come to work soon.I don't know what Master Tong has done this time, but I heard from Su Jin that he and His Majesty are on good terms.Well, why don't you stay obediently in the capital?

For a moment, several thoughts flashed through Fan Heng's mind, but only a warm smile appeared on his face, and he politely cupped his hands and said, "Master Sang, please lead the way."

This is not the first time he has come to Chuzhou Mansion, but it is the first time to enter the Governor's Yamen.

The layout inside is square, passing through a screen wall is Tong Ran's daily office.Fan Heng followed Sang Le and approached the yard, before he had time to look around, he heard a voice that sounded like Tong Ran's: "Zai Zai, you can't eat!"

According to Fan Hengxun's reputation, it was really Tong Ran.

The corridor where Tong Ran is located is wider, and there is a set of desks and chairs. Tong Ran sits sideways on the seat, and the bowl in his hand does not know what is in it.And his tiger stepped on his thigh, and stood up, as if trying to grab something from his bowl, the tiger's head kept moving upwards.

This tiger hasn't grown up yet?Fan Heng thought to himself.

Then thinking of the person behind the tiger, Fan Heng felt goosebumps in his heart.Your Majesty is really... the younger you live, the more fun you live.

"Wow!" The little tiger bared his teeth and threatened.

Unmoved, Tong Ran raised the bowl of ice cream and said, "Tigers can't eat candy."

"Wow!" I'm not a tiger!

Tong Ran didn't know what it was calling, but when she saw Sang Le, she immediately yelled, "Take my bowl away quickly! The brat wants to grab it!"

Sang Le rushed over like fighting a fire, took Tong Ran's bowl, and turned around again, narrowly avoiding the sharp claws of the little tiger.

Tong Ran's hands were finally free, he picked up the little cub by the back of the neck, patted its little butt with the other hand, and taught him a lesson: "Don't grab what you can't eat."

"Wow wow!" the little tiger yelled as he kicked his hind legs and couldn't move because he was grabbed by the back of the neck.

Is it a tiger that grabs food and eats it? ?If Tong Ran hadn't deliberately teased it, it wouldn't have looked at the ice cream!

The nasty Tong Ran not only refused to eat it, but also brought ice cream to it to eat, and then sighed intoxicatedly: "The ice cream is so delicious."

Bully the tiger too!

The little tiger showed its sharp claws.

Fan Heng watched from the side, Tong Ran smiled triumphantly, while the little tiger fiercely waved its paws and bared its teeth, yelled loudly, and kicked its hind legs wildly.

Your Majesty is really open-minded, playing the role of a tiger is very entertaining.

Fan Heng silently praised, but before he finished, the rambunctious tiger suddenly turned its gaze to him, and gave him a gloomy glare with its big, round green eyes.Fan Heng's back tightened, and he almost lost his crutches.

"Master Tong, since your little tiger is so curious, you can give it a taste." Fan Heng persuaded.After finishing speaking, he took another peek at the tiger's expression, which seemed less gloomy and terrifying.

"I tasted it." Tong Ran looked innocent.

"Wow!" the little tiger called again.

He just put the bowl to its mouth and let it smell it!

"Look, it said the same thing." Tong Ran pointed at the little tiger.

The corner of Fan Heng's mouth twitched. Did Master Tong mean to bully his tiger?

"My lord, here's the jelly." Dongqing came back here at some point, holding a large porcelain bowl with a lid in her hand, and handed it to Tong Ran respectfully.

Tong Ran lifted the lid, and a burst of white air curled up.The big porcelain bowl was actually filled with ice cubes, and there were pieces of brown, jelly-like things in the middle of the ice cubes.

Tong Ran picked up a small piece with chopsticks, handed it to the little tiger's mouth and said, "Here, I asked Dongqing to make you a jelly."

The little tiger sniffed and looked at him warily, as if doubting his sincerity.

Tong Ran looked innocent, and let it look at him calmly.

After a while, the little tiger seemed to have finally dispelled his suspicions. He ate the jelly on the chopsticks in one bite, and began to chew with his cheeks.

Your Majesty has worked really hard.

Fan Heng looked away. Ever since he knew who was under the tiger's skin, he no longer felt that the tiger was cute and scary, right? As the self who knew the secret, would he be slaughtered by His Majesty who became angry from embarrassment?

Fan Heng shivered in the scorching heat.

Tong Ran also invited Fan Heng to taste ice cream, but under the chilling gaze of the tiger, Fan Heng resolutely refused.

"Master Tong, why did you come to me?" Fan Heng asked who couldn't eat ice cream because of a narrow-minded tiger.

When Tong Ran asked him to come, he only handed over a letter, which didn't say what was going on.

Tong Ran ate the last bite of ice cream, then fed the tiger another mouthful of ice-cold meat jelly, and said, "Today I made some things that can be improved..."

Just as Tong Ran was speaking, there was a commotion at the gate of the courtyard, and then Yuan San walked in with a person.

"Fu Xuan, it's just in time, you can ask him." Tong Ran said to Fan Heng.

Fu Xuan grew taller again, his face was covered with a layer of black and gray for some reason, when he approached, he showed his white teeth, cupped his hands and said, "Master Tong, Mr. Fan...?"

Fu Xuan had some impressions of Fan Heng.

Fan Heng nodded: "Master Fu."

"What did you do?" Tong Ran asked, asking about the black ash on his face.

"Tan Xian said that there is something wrong with the steam gin in their cotton factory. I'll go and have a look and kick it a little bit." Fu Xuan said with a smile on his face.

Tong Ran raised her eyebrows, Fu Xuan knew Tan Xian very well?

"I've finished my things." Fu Xuan said again, and put a bundle he had with him on Tong Ran's table.

The burden was placed on the table, making the sound of fine and hard objects colliding.Fan Heng thought it was clothes.

Tong Ran, who knew Fu Xuan's intention, was not surprised, and started to open his package.

Inside the package, many small silver-white seals were exposed. These seals were all in the shape of a cuboid, and each one was no bigger than the thickness of a little finger, but the size was very uniform.

Fan Heng picked up a few of them and took a look. There were characters engraved on the surface of the seal, each with only one character, which were commonly used, very similar to the movable type in Ran Heng's movable type printing workshop, but much smaller than that.

"This is a lead alloy movable type." Tong Ran said, "I told Fu Huan a few days ago, but I didn't expect him to make it so quickly, so I wrote to ask you to come here. Now the only thing left is to make a suitable one. Oil-based ink will do, because lead cannot use water-based ink.”

Fan Heng can still understand the former, but not the latter. What is oil-based ink and what is water-based ink?

Fu Xuan was indeed a craftsman, so he immediately had an association: "Water-based ink is called water-based ink, and oil-based ink is called oil-based ink?"

"Almost." Tong Ran said, "You will know when I arrange it tomorrow."

The little tiger took a look at him and bit into the aspic that Dongqing handed over. When he was trying to make ink, he even used some of its tea leaves to extract oil. It was extravagant and wasteful!It's not enough to drink, so I have to think of an excuse to reward myself some other day.

Tong Ran stayed with Fu Xuan and Fan Heng for some refreshments. Afterwards, they each had something to do, and they made an appointment to see Tong Ran mix the ink tomorrow afternoon, and then they left.

Tong Ran stretched, picked up the little tiger and planned to go to the cotton factory.

Since the opening of Chushuang's cotton factory, Tong Ranming has helped a lot in secret. Because of Chu Jun's decree, Tong Ran's help did not make people feel that it was a favor to Fengle's family, but it was regarded as The performance of conforming to the holy will, but he didn't know that the imperial edict was in line with his will.

In order to increase support for cotton factories, Tong Ran canceled the three-year commercial tax for all cotton factories in Xiadu South Road under his control.Currently, the only cotton factories in Dao Nei are Jin Hejian and Chu Shuang, but with such strong support, he believes that more new cotton factories will emerge soon.

When Jinhejian's cotton factory was first opened, they had to import it from the Peacock Country because of insufficient raw materials.

Later, some active farmers smelled business opportunities. Now Linhai Road and Shanlin South Road, which are suitable for cotton cultivation, have large-scale cotton fields, and cotton raw materials are no longer a problem.

Tong Ran took some ice cream with her, but when she arrived at the cotton factory, she saw Gu Lan just came out of it in casual clothes.

"Master Gu is here?" Tong Ran raised his eyebrows. He was wearing an official uniform and was holding a tiger in his arms.

The corner of Gu Lan's mouth twitched, and she said with a sarcastic smile, "Master Tong is here too."

"To see Miss Chu?" Tong Ran smiled.

"Yes... no, no, heck, I'm here to inspect the cotton factory." Gu Lan said seriously.

Tong Ran nodded and added: "Master Gu will naturally not take advantage of the time when he is on duty, otherwise, I can ask the emperor for a copy at any time and transfer you to this cotton factory as a guard."

"I promise there will never be a next time!" Gu Lan's back was straightened, as if she had been electrocuted.

Gu Lan has been in close contact with Chu Shuang recently and Tong Ran knows it, but because there are no mistakes in his errands, he just turned a blind eye.Today, he openly saw him come to the cotton factory for a secret meeting while on duty, and he couldn't do without beating and beating.

"You will be fined ten days' salary." Tong Ran said, "Go back to work in the yamen."

"Yes, yes." Gu Lan breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile on his face.Then he cupped his hands and ran away.

"Not promising." Tong Ran muttered in a low voice.

"Wow wow." The little tiger agreed.Gu Lan is really the most unpromising second-rank official it has ever seen. Oh, no, when the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households robbed Tong Ran, Ren Jin was not very promising.

Chu Shuang naturally heard the commotion outside, and at this moment she came out just in time to greet her: "Hello, Mr. Tong."

"Miss Chu is polite." Tong Ran bent over holding the tiger.

As soon as he raised his hand, Sang Le offered the frozen sorbet.Tong Ran lifted the lid of the large porcelain bowl, and the ice cream inside was still intact surrounded by ice cubes.

"I made it casually. It contains milk, sugar and egg yolk. Ms. Chu will try it when she has time," Tong Ran said.

"Thank you, Master Tong." Chu Shuang blessed the blessing and asked the following maid to put it away.

After exchanging pleasantries, Tong Ran asked about the business, and Chu Shuang also led him to the reception area, while whispering about the situation of the cotton factory.

The little tiger stayed in Tong Ran's arms, staring eagerly at the back of the maid who took the ice cream to freeze.

It really wants to eat.

I really want to tie Tong Ran to the capital to do it for him.

The author has something to say: Chu Zai Zai: It’s so hard to be a tiger.

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