I opened a mall in ancient times

Qiaolan carried the basket, tightened her not-so-thick waistcoat, and walked into the gate of the largest cloth shop in the town, Jiushui cloth shop.

In fact, this cloth store was not called Jiushui before, it was called Lu's Cloth Shop. Everyone is used to buying cloth here, but it suddenly closed a few months ago for some reason, and it has been replaced by the current store when it reopened.

Ordinary people don't care what the name of the store is. They only care about whether the cloth in this store is good or not, and how much it costs. As for the color, it is not within the scope of their consideration.

As long as the price is cheap, it doesn't matter if the fabric is ugly.

But Qiaolan is okay, her family is not poor, her man works as a waiter in a shop in the town, and has [-] Wen a month, and she herself is a rich family in the town. Laundry also earns about [-] Wen a month.

Their monthly income of one tael is already considered a wealthy family in the village. They don't have to worry about food and clothing, they can eat a few meals of meat every month, and they can add cotton coats to everyone in the family in winter.

She came to the cloth shop to buy cloth this time, just to tear some cloth for her family and make winter clothes. For this reason, she brought a full two taels of silver when she went out.

The linen in Jiushui Buzhuang is very cheap. She thought she could buy more linen and stuff the inside of the clothes thickly so that it would be warmer. Her man would often walk outside in winter. Yes, it is easy to be damaged by freezing, and it will be broken if you get a cold.

Even some poor people will grit their teeth and spend money to buy more cloth, and stuff some catkins and reed flowers into it to keep warm.The price of cloth in Jiushui cloth village is relatively low now, at least the poor families in their village can save some money on cloth and buy some food, so this winter will not be too sad.

Qiaolan was thinking in her heart, thinking that she would buy half a bolt of linen today, and then buy some meat back home, and then go to the grain store to see what the price of grain is today, and if it is still possible, buy some more grain.

Her daughter is also 13 years old this year, and when she is about to look beautiful, she will buy a bright red ribbon for her daughter, and a few pieces of softer silk cloth for her to use as handkerchiefs.

In addition, the salt at home is almost running out, and there are some other daily necessities that need to be bought.

Two taels of silver should be enough.

"What does the guest officer need?" Seeing Qiaolan come in, Xiao Er who was waiting in the shop hurried up to meet her.

The store wasn't very busy, so Xiaoer was free.

"Is the linen in our house still eighteen cents a foot?" Qiaolan asked.

"Are you making winter clothes? If you are making winter clothes, you can take a look at the new products in our store." Seeing her curious expression, Xiaoer took Qiaolan to another shelf.

There are several rows of clothes of different colors hanging on this shelf, some of which look like double-breasted clothes, but the cloth of this clothes is obviously not ordinary linen, the top is fluffy.

"This is a new style that our textile factory just made some time ago. It's called a sweater. It's made of wool. It's very warm and won't bulge when you wear it under it. You can touch it." Xiaoer took a black sweater. Xiaolan motioned for Qiaolan to come over and take a look at the sweater. Xiaolan looked at the strange clothes and reached out to touch the clothes curiously.

As soon as her hand touched the clothes, she was taken aback by the magical touch, and couldn't help touching it a few more times.

This is too warm!And it was so soft, she was afraid that the barbs on her hands from doing rough work would hook the thread on it.Such soft clothes may only be affordable by wealthy families in the town.

They don't have the idea that wool is something that only slaves can wear, they just think it's soft, nice, and definitely warm.

But she couldn't afford it at all.

"If you like, there are other styles. This kind of cardigan can be put on directly like ordinary clothes, and there is another kind of pullover, which can be worn inside." Xiaoer took out two kinds Handed them all to Qiaolan to let her have a look at it, "The price is not expensive."

The sweater Xiao Er took was a better one, and the price was twice as expensive as the cheapest sweater.

After all, he didn't think Qiaolan's clothes looked like that of a very poor woman, at least they were clean and without patches, and she could even wear a vest to keep warm.

It should be possible to take out money to buy a piece of clothing.

"How much does this one cost?" Qiaolan didn't dare to try on the clothes, and when she got the whole dress in her hand, she felt that the clothes felt really good, and she couldn't put it down, so she just held it for a while. After a while, you can feel the warmth in your hands, and the hands that have been blown cold by the cold wind have also warmed up.

If it is not very expensive, you can buy one for her man.

But Qiaolan also understands that such a good thing is unlikely to be cheap.

"This sweater costs 250 renminbi." Xiao Er said.

Qiaolan was startled.

This price is much cheaper than she imagined, and she can afford it, but the price is neither high nor low, and it is a possible but unnecessary price.

250 wen can buy more than half a piece of linen.

"This... I'd better take a look at the linen." Qiaolan struggled for a while, but put it back.

Seeing that his sales promotion was not effective, Xiao Er was not angry, but took the sweater and hung it up again, and continued to bring Qiaolan to the fabric shelf where the linen was placed, "Then if you need linen to fill winter clothes, the linen inside You can buy the cheapest ones, this kind of hemp material is not bleached, and it is easy to tear, and the price is only sixteen cents a foot."

Unexpectedly, the psychological price of the fabric is cheaper than what Qiaolan thought at the beginning, but this kind of linen does not look very good, it is the most common yellowish brown, and it is rougher than ordinary numbness. This linen is worn.So Qiaolan only bought half a piece of cloth enough to make winter clothes for her family, and then bought a few pieces of beautiful silk cloth. I also bought a beautiful red silk flower for my daughter, thinking that the Chinese New Year will be in a while, so I bought a festive New Year's wear.

"By the way, do you want to try this?" Xiao Er suddenly remembered something, took out a large cloth bag from under the counter, placed it lightly on the counter, opened the opening, revealing the whiteness inside of flocs.

"This is cotton. The cotton cloth in our store is made of this. Have you ever used it? Our farmers in Kangzhou City grow a lot."

"Isn't this Baidiezi?" Qiaolan immediately thought of the things grown in their field.

Of course Qiaolan knew Baidiezi. In the summer, those old men specially set aside a large piece of wasteland and asked them to reclaim it to grow Baidiezi. Everyone didn't know what it was used for, but they thought that the reclaimed wasteland was Everyone has planted their own, and the flowers after planting have been harvested.

Of course, some bad-looking ones will be confiscated.

They have been rushing to harvest and send them to the textile factory during this period of time, and they never expected to see the processed white stacks in the cloth shop in a short time.

It is so beautiful, it is as white and fluffy as the clouds in the sky, and it is cleaner than the heavy snow in winter.

"Yes, this is a white stack, but now it is called cotton after processing. This kind of stuff can be spun into cotton cloth, or it can be used as stuffing to stuff cotton clothes. You can take it back and try it. You can try it with the white dippers grown in your own field."

It's just that the cotton that I picked from my own field is in lumps, which is very troublesome to deal with. I have to pick out the seeds, dust and leaves in the cotton, wash it, dry it, and pump it into fluff.

Cotton is something that cannot be hidden. Instead of hiding it so that ordinary people can only buy it from outside, it is better to tell everyone in advance what the purpose of the planted cotton is, and if someone needs it, they can pick it directly from the ground.

Luo Chaochao made this thing for the benefit of the public. If it is just for making money, it is really unnecessary to hide it, and it is completely different from Luo Chaochao's original meaning.

Qiaolan thought for a while about the white dizizi that had been purchased by the textile factory in her home, and asked again: "How much is this white... cotton?"

"These white stacks are all processed by the textile factory. All the impurities in the cotton bolls are removed, and the fine cotton that is absolutely free of impurities is re-washed, dried and pumped. This kind of price is relatively expensive. It costs two hundred yuan per catty. , if you make clothes for adults, you can make a padded jacket for a catty, and if it is thinner, you can make another pair of cotton trousers for a catty and a half."

If it was purely manual in ancient times, a skilled worker could only process half a catty a day, and the cost was very high.However, Luo Chaochao provided a simple wooden and iron cotton gin with a cylinder with steel teeth on it. When the cylinder is rotated, the steel teeth can tear off the short fibers peeled off the cottonseed skin. And use centrifugal force to filter out the cottonseed①, the efficiency is much faster than that of pure manual labor, otherwise the price will never be as cheap as [-] yuan, and the remaining cottonseed can be pressed into oil, which is another profit.

The cost of purely artificially processed cotton is more than ten times higher.

The truth is this, but it is impossible for Qiaolan to spend money to buy things that are already in her own field.

She didn't know how troublesome it was to deal with.

And Xiaoer also saw what Qiaolan meant, and took a more weird-looking dress from the other side of the shelf.

It was completely different from the clothes they were wearing now, about the length of their thighs, fat and big, and the outer cloth was not quite like linen, but a strange and slightly slippery material.

"The stuffing in the store is cotton. You can try the warming effect, and it doesn't matter if you don't buy it. You can make it with the white jelly you grow at home."

As he spoke, he opened the strange mechanism in the middle, separated the clothes, and handed them to Qiaolan.

Qiaolan didn't expect to be able to try on clothes.He took it carefully, and put it on himself according to the method Xiao Er said.

Before putting it on, she took off the vest she was wearing inside, and put on the cotton jacket outside with the single clothes inside, and then zipped it up.

He felt it carefully for a short while, and his eyes opened wider and wider. He couldn't believe that these were the white seeds planted in the ground.

"Of course, this ready-made garment has a slight waterproof and oil-proof function, but this padded jacket is more expensive, and it costs 500 renminbi each. If you think this padded jacket is expensive, you can buy cotton and make it yourself."

Knowing that the cloud-like white folds growing in her field had such a great effect, Qiaolan was immediately moved, but when she heard about five hundred cash, she immediately gave up buying a cotton padded coat.

It is also a good choice to buy cotton and go back.

"Then can you tell us how to process the white dippers into cotton?"

"It's okay, but you can't tell people who are not related to you." Unexpectedly, Xiao Er agreed.

Now the white dippers in the field are basically taken away by the textile mills, leaving only some unqualified ones.

Before, Qiaolan was still worrying about what to do with these white dippers, she couldn't eat them, and the textile factory didn't want these poor quality ones, but now it seems that they can completely deal with the poor quality leftover white dippers, Make it into cotton, and then use cloth to make a similar padded jacket, which should also have a warming effect.

"How much cloth does it take to make a cotton suit?"

Cotton should be added inside, so it should be counted according to the fabric of the two clothes.

"The coat is about six feet."

Qiaolan thought for a while, bought a catty of cotton, then bought another twenty feet of linen, put back the half piece of linen that hadn't been paid for, gritted her teeth and bought the red sweater again. Paid and left the store.

When she got home, her daughter and son just came back from the field, and Qiaolan called them both.

"Cui Cui, go to the warehouse and take a look, and then bring over those white folds that have not been taken away by the textile factory... Forget it, bring a bag first." Qiaolan told her daughter and said the son.

Although the daughter didn't know what her mother wanted those inedible white dippers for, she obediently went to the warehouse and brought a large bag of white dippers that had piled up half a warehouse.

These white stacks are still covered with broken leaves and dust. This bag weighs at least seven or eight catties, and only about half of it will be left after processing.

When Cui Cui came back, she saw that her brother was chopping firewood, as if to boil hot water.

"Mother said to boil a pot of boiling water." The son didn't lift his head.

When Cui Cui returned to the main room with the bag of white folds, she saw her mother unpacking her father's old clothes, and then unpacking the big bag of fluffy white fluffy things that she didn't know what they were. Pinch by pinch spread evenly on the clothes.

"Mother, what are you doing?" Cui Cui asked curiously.

"Mother, didn't you go to the county to buy cloth? Guess what it is? It's the white jelly we planted in our field! I tried wearing the clothes made of white jelly, not to mention, it's really warm. I just bought a catty and came back to make a suit of clothes for your father to wear, so as not to get cold from running around outside."

"This is Bai Dizizi?!"

The leftover seed cotton picked by the textile factory is dry and yellow, and there is not much that can be used. Cui Cui followed her mother's instructions and struggled to pick the things inside.

It took almost an hour to pick out a handful of clean ones, not even two or two.

"It's too difficult."

"No wonder it sells for two hundred Wen a catty." Qiaolan sighed, "Pillar! You and your sister will make it too!"

"Here we come!" Zhu Zhu, who was cooking outside, replied, and then came back from the outhouse to pick out the dirt and cotton seeds in the cotton with his sister.

Cui Cui became more and more annoyed: "This is too troublesome, no wonder it can sell for two hundred Wen a catty, I think if I keep picking this one, I can sell it for five hundred Wen a catty!"

The two started at the same time, and here Qiaolan has already finished a piece of clothing.

After all, Qiaolan worked for some wealthy families.And she is also making all the clothes at home, so the craftsmanship is naturally not bad.

A pound of cotton bought was evenly spread in the clothes. The outermost part was new cloth, and the inner lining was old clothes. Although it looked a little bulging, it looked very warm.

"Pillar! Come and try it on." The size of the clothes Qiaolan made was made according to his man's size, so she asked her son to come in and try it on.

Zhu Zi wiped his hands. Seeing the bulging clothes, he was a little curious and put them on after all.

Not long after he put it on, his face turned red a lot, and his hands, which had been stiffened by the autumn wind, also regained their warmth.

"Mother, these clothes are so warm!" Zhuzi said in surprise.

"Really? I'll try it too, I'll try it too!" Cui Cui urged her brother to take off his clothes and try them on himself. Zhu Zi took off his clothes and gave them to his younger sister. After Cui Cui put them on, her thighs The clothes reached her knees, and she tied the place where the air leaked with a rope. She felt warm as if she had fallen into a stove, and she said excitedly. "It's really warm!"

"Go and get all the white folds left in the warehouse and make them into cotton. After I'm done, I'll make a suit for everyone in our family. I'll leave this clothes to your father first. He's running outside every day, freezing cold." They all froze to death, and I washed the cotton in a while and dried it in the kitchen."

Of course, it's not impossible to buy, but the price is still much more expensive than using the discarded white dippers at home. The family of three has nothing to do now, so they took out the remaining large bags of white dippers in the warehouse.

When Qiaolan's husband came home, he saw that the three members of his family were all handling the white stacks that hadn't been confiscated, and the food was stuffy in the pot, but he couldn't understand it.

"What are you doing here?"

"Father, you are back, look at the new clothes that mother made for you! We are all dressed up, but it is warm, and you will not be cold when you are working outside." Cui Cui saw her father coming back , hurriedly took his father's hand and walked into the house, and handed him the clothes on the bed. "This clothes is stuffed with white folds. Mom wants to pick out the rest of these white folds and make cotton, and then make a cotton coat for everyone in the family!"

"I heard other people say that the textile factory is making something called cotton clothes recently, so this is it."

"I also bought a sweater." Qiaolan then took out the sweater she kept, and the silk flowers she bought for her daughter, "This one is also very warm, you can wear it when you go to work tomorrow."

"This is a good feeling!" Cui Cui's father took it, but did not pick up the sweater, "Give this to Cui Cui, she is not in good health, so dress warmer."

Cuicui was overjoyed, but Qiaolan asked, "It's such a hassle to deal with this white dipper, why it only sells for two hundred Wen a catty."

"It seems that new machines have been introduced from the textile factory." Cui Cui's father knew something about it. "The daughter next door should be back soon, so I'll just ask about it."

The textile factory is indeed recruiting workers, and there are many recruits, but not everyone can go there, only a few lucky ones can go.

In their village, only the daughter of the next door family was selected to work in the textile factory.

Their village is some distance away from the textile factory, so the daughter who was selected to go there can only come back with monthly money once a month when she takes a bath.

The textile factory is very mysterious to the people in the village.

Everyone knows that the salary here is good and the treatment is good. If someone in the family is selected to work in the textile factory, it will be a great event for the ancestors.

Especially the daughter of the family, Nvhong, who did a good job, went to the textile factory, and the monthly money was extremely considerable, a full three taels of silver!Even enough for a family's home!

After the girls who work in the textile factory, they can choose a man with higher qualifications when they talk about marriage.

The man put on this simple padded jacket, and immediately understood the magic of the padded jacket. After putting it on, he didn't feel cold at all, and he even went out to try it.

It was already eight or nine o'clock in the evening when he came back, it was already dark, and his hands and feet were aching from the cold.But when he put on the clothes and went outside, he felt the wind hurt his face, but it wasn't cold anymore.

"Boss Luo is a good man." Cuicui's father came back again, sighed and took off his clothes. After the family had dinner, they got together to make the leftovers.

The more you do it, the more you feel that Boss Luo is a nice person.

This thing is extremely troublesome. The four of them worked together to get it until the time of Haishi. It was still not very clean. The more I made it, the more I felt that Boss Luo was really nice. At this price It's really not making money at all!

Difficult as hell.

Cuicui's father went to the shop wearing this thick cotton coat the next morning.

His clothes were bulging and didn't look very beautiful, but the usually very torturous journey was very easy at this time, and he didn't look like he had to slow down a little to recover after arriving in the store.

"Chen Laoliu, what kind of clothes are you wearing? Why do you look so unsightly? It's still bulging." The strange clothes that Cuicui's father was wearing quickly attracted the attention of other girls in the store.

"This is the padded jacket my mother-in-law made for me. It's warm." Chen Laoliu patted his chest, "I wasn't cold when I came here today."

"Yo, how good is it?" The other mistresses walked over, touched his hand, and found that his hand was actually warm, and then put it into his clothes without giving up, and found that it was really warm, not like it at all. People who have been blowing in the cold wind for nearly an hour.

"What's stuffed inside? Isn't it hemp?"

"There is a thing called cotton in Jiushui cloth village. The clothes stuffed in it are bought from here. It only costs [-] Wen a catty. You can make a dress for a catty. If you save a little, you can make it thinner. , you can make a whole body, with this clothes to keep warm in winter, absolutely warm!"

The mistress who works in their store has [-] Wen a month, so it's not impossible to buy some cotton to make clothes.

In addition to the employees in the store, people who bought things in the store also came to touch it curiously, and their hearts were immediately moved.

How about buying them back and ordering new clothes?

It's uncomfortably cold now. Although this dress doesn't look very nice, wouldn't it be enough to find a tailor to make it look good?

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Altaïr deliberately went to Jiushui Cloth Village in a nearby county early in the morning to see if there was any stock.

It may be that he went earlier, and he still had some long johns and sweaters and padded clothes that he wanted. They searched the Jiushui Cloth Shop in a town all morning, bought hundreds of pieces, and then went to other towns.

But from the third day on, he found that the Jiushui cloth shop in the towns he went to was out of stock!

After a day of transfer, I can only buy a dozen pieces sporadically.

He was very puzzled.

Altaïr didn't know that when he was walking on the street, the sweaters and cotton clothes worn by ordinary people were bought in the past few days, he only thought that these things were popular in Connecticut City.

Reluctantly, he wandered around the outer town several times, making sure that he really couldn't buy it, and then returned to Kangzhou City.

He wondered if it was the guy from the Baitu tribe who bought something ahead of him, but he saw the merchant from the Baitu tribe who also returned empty-handed.

Both of them had the same meaning in their eyes.

Did your kid do it?

Unfortunately, neither of them bought it, so they could only honestly wait for the wholesale goods to come out.

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Luo Chaochao looked at the sales in the background with satisfaction.

There are many people who try their luck like Qiaolan.

And as long as someone eats the first bite of crab, it will spread the word.The sales of sweaters were a bit lower than what Luo Chaochao had expected, but the sales of this one were relatively average, compared to other ready-made garments.It may be because there are cotton clothes in front, and everyone in Kangzhou City has planted white seeds, and there are more or less leftovers, so cotton and cotton clothes sell better.

The goods in the Luochao Textile Factory have been sold out at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the accumulated inventory will be emptied soon.

Textile mills are working overtime.The textile factory with thousands of machines is speeding up, and the goods produced are divided into two batches, one wave is the scheduled goods, and the other wave needs to be distributed to other branches and distributors.

After ensuring that the goods can be evenly distributed to each store, the remaining quantity will be regarded as the inventory of the order.

These goods were delivered to the warehouses of various stores in only one day under the distribution of monsters, and quickly spread in every city with the momentum of wildfire.

Zhou Jiedushi soon discovered this situation.

Originally, when Luo Chaochao went out, he was watching the progress of the textile factory. Now that Luo Chaochao came back and took over the affairs of the textile factory again, Zhou Jiedu envoy returned the textile factory.

Because he knew that Luo Chaochao was good at this, but when he saw the textile factory galloping forward at a speed as if it had grown wings in Luo Chaochao's hands, he still felt that he had underestimated Luo Chaochao.

Luo Chao can do more.

However, Zhou Jiedushi also found Beidi people who bought cotton clothes and various thermal equipment in large quantities in the city.

Now Sheng Kingdom has signed a peace treaty with Beidi and the Western Regions, but this does not mean that there is no more friction between the two of them.

The current peace is a hidden danger in the future. If there is a real war in the future and the enemy masters the ability to fight in the cold winter, the injured will definitely be their Beidi soldiers.

For this, Zhou Jiedu specially called Luo Chaochao.

The two met at the textile factory.

The current textile factory is no longer as large as it was at the beginning, covering an area of ​​45 mu.

It may not sound like much, but it is [-] square meters converted into square meters, and there are nearly [-] employees in the factory alone.

This is because the degree of industrialization in ancient times was insufficient, and most of them needed human help. The daily output was amazing in ancient times.

Even inside the factory, you need to take a carriage. Luo Chaochao didn't need to bring any gifts, and found Zhou Jiedushi directly outside the assembly line factory.

Zhou Jiedushi is also a very busy person recently, leaving early and returning late every day, and often can't find anyone. Contrary to his busyness, Kangzhou City is getting better and better.

The specific manifestation is that there are many fewer poor people on the street.

Because the textile factory recruited a new batch of employees two months ago, there are now nearly 6000 people in the textile factory, and many people have been recruited for the supporting facilities. The price of goods has dropped. This year, the number of poor people wandering on the streets has decreased by more than half compared with previous years. There are even fewer beggars on the road. All the people in the city can at least have a good set of clothes.

The textile factory has already received an order from Luo Chaochao to speed up the production of cotton burdens, and at the moment it is temporarily placed in the business of ordinary silk, and is rushing to order warm clothes these days.

There are a lot of people in the factory now, and the efficiency is very high. When Luo Chaochao arrives at the factory gate, he can see one after another bullock carts full of goods leaving the textile factory and sending them to the warehouse in Kangzhou City. The warehouse in Connecticut City sends to all parts of the country.

"What have you been doing outside for the past two months?" Zhou Jiedu envoy joked when Luo Chaoxi came over, "What new things are you planning to use?"

"There's nothing to do." Luo Chaoxi walked into the workshop and saw employees in neat uniforms working hard, "After all, they are all things from my daughter's house."

"If you bring out some more rare things, I will really doubt whether you are human." Zhou Jiedu envoy sighed, "I heard recently that your business in the textile factory is booming recently. Not to mention the city of Kangzhou, even cities hundreds of kilometers away have people wearing the sweaters you sell."

"Isn't this a good thing? With something that can keep out the cold, everyone can survive this winter."

"But, other people also bought it." Zhou Jiedu pointed out.

Of course Luo Chao Chao knew what he meant.

"Are you saying that people from Beidi are buying in large quantities?"

"Yes, now we and Beidi can still guarantee the superficial peace, but after they recuperate and attack us again, they can rely on these things to attack Sheng Kingdom."

"Don't worry about it." Luo Chaoxi dared to sell it to them, so he naturally thought of this question in advance, "Didn't I promise you and Taiwei Wei before? I don't plan to hide these pedal looms. I will push them to the end." Throughout Sheng Kingdom, cotton will also be planted in all suitable corners of Sheng Kingdom, and it will not take long, at most three years, before Sheng Kingdom will become a big country that others can only look up to."

Food and clothing are the two things that can stabilize the hearts of the people. Luo Chaochao took out sweet potatoes, corn and potatoes, so that everyone in Sheng Kingdom can eat enough and have the strength to work.

He planted cotton again, so that the people of Sheng Kingdom could dress warmly, so they wouldn't have to worry about dying in the cold night.

As for fighting?

If he guessed correctly, the emperor should already be producing telescopes in batches.

Bingge is a gift he wants to give at the emperor's birthday banquet.

Three years is the most ideal state, but in fact, it only takes one year for Sheng Kingdom to be able to disdain the Western Regions and Beidi.

Luo Chaochao is full of confidence in the wisdom of these great men.

"We don't have to worry about Beidi." Luo Chaochao said, "Beidi can't buy much with money. How much can there be at most? No more than [-] pieces at most. Once I don't sell them, they won't be able to buy them. They don't know how to make sweaters, so they can only buy from them." We buy it here, and if we calculate it like this, even if we really want to go to war, we have to wait until next winter, which is still the worst plan.”

"But we don't necessarily have to wait three years for the relationship between the Lu family and Beidi—" Zhou Jiedu frowned.

Luo Chaoxi looked at the factory behind him, "My lord, you should believe in yourself and science."

Zhou Jiedu was at a loss for a moment: "Science? Who is Science?"

He had never heard the word.

"It is the knowledge that can change the world. This loom, this cotton gin, and everything we eat, use, and wear are all science."

"Can you promise?"

"I'm not from Beidi, so of course I can't guarantee it. Anyway, they won't do anything before next autumn."

Luo Chaochao didn't think they would do anything within three years.

At that time, Sheng country will control the economic lifeline of several other countries, food, weapons, population, Sheng country has it all, and at that time, there is really nothing that can stop Sheng country.

"Sometimes you make me think you're a bit scary." Jiedushi Zhou looked at Luo Chaoxi and couldn't help but said, "You're a businessman who's really unworthy."

"I don't want to get involved in politics. In fact, being a businessman is pretty good." Luo Chaoxi gestured, "By the way, it's November now, when are you going to the capital?"

Luo Chaochao has been back for more than half a month now, and it seems that it will be the first month of the new year. He said before that he would go to the capital to celebrate the emperor's birthday. It is almost the end of the year, and he didn't say when to go.

The emperor's birthday is in mid-December.

"Aren't you unwilling to go to the capital?" Zhou Jiedu asked helplessly.

"I don't want to see the emperor, and I don't want to be an official in the capital. But that doesn't mean I don't want to go to the capital to do business."

This place is already on the right track, even if Luo Chaoxi leaves for a period of time, there will be no problem, besides, it is not a problem to stay here all the time.

"Hurry up, we'll leave at the beginning of the month." Zhou Jiedu shook his head, "Do you want to go with us, or by yourself?"

"I should wait for Chabuchara's people to go together." Speaking of this, Luo Chaochao subconsciously began to look forward to it.

It has been half a year since Musa left. At the beginning, Luo Chaochao thought that with the ancient transportation, he might not be able to see him again in this life, but he never thought that he would have the chance to meet again.

Originally, Musa, as the king of Chabuchara, could not come here and needed to sit in the capital. Unfortunately, Musa was not an ordinary person, so he wanted to come by himself. He didn't think there was any problem with coming to Sheng Kingdom in person.

"I almost forgot that you have a good relationship with King Musa of Chabuchara."

"It's a friend after all." Luo Chaoxi said, "It should be about the same time."

"You decide for yourself. We can go together. After all, Chabuchara is from the Western Regions. If you go with us, you can explain it if something happens."

Luo Chaochao understood Zhou Jiedushi's concerns, so naturally he would not refute.

He didn't want to admit it, but Luo Chaochao also knew that his current identity was more sensitive, and it was best not to contact those powerful people in foreign countries alone, which would easily make the emperor think too much.

That said, the Emperor is really annoying.

In fact, Zhou Jiedushi did not get a very definite answer from Luo Chaochao, but Luo Chaochao felt very relieved by him.

If he was an ordinary person, Jiedushi Zhou would definitely trust his intuition, but now that he is an official, he can't just do things based on his intuition, and he still needs to take precautions.

But he is unwilling to monitor Luo Chao Chao, because it will definitely destroy the relationship between the two of them.

The two bid farewell and left as if nothing had happened, one went back to the store and the other to the yamen.

"Tell me, are they starting to be wary of me?" On the way back, Luo Chaoxi seemed to be talking to himself, and said to the empty side.

The carriage driving in front is one of our own.But Luo Chao Chao still set up an enchantment.

Luo Jinbao was released by Luo Chaochao, and the already grown Siberian cat yawned in Luo Chaochao's arms: "Is this normal?"

"Sometimes don't be so straightforward."

"So what's the matter? It's a fact. You know it even if I don't tell you." Luo Jinbao yawned again, "Don't worry, they won't do anything to you."

He couldn't understand the brain circuits of these so-called people in power, and he just felt that it was impossible for the world to have a pie in the sky.

"I don't know how many years the emperor can tolerate me."

"How can it be enduring? He wants to make offerings to you." Luo Jinbao comforted him, "He is a leader after all, he knows what he can do and what he can't do, as long as he doesn't touch power, the old emperor will always make offerings to you, Treat you like a treasure."

Just to ensure this degree, never