Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 1024 It depends on whether you borrow or not?
"Sanlang, go and get the newspaper for Dad." In a courtyard with two entrances in Qiludengzhou City, a middle-aged man with gray hair stretched his waist, and beat his overworked psoas muscles with his right hand After that, he said in a slightly lax manner.

There is a reclining chair by his feet, and there is a small coffee table within reach, with a pot of tea on it, and a pair of glasses—a pair of glasses that only high-ranking officials and dignitaries in the Central Plains could have, but now they are popular among the people. Open also.

With Lu Qi's conquest of the Saibei grassland, a large amount of trona from the north flowed into the Central Plains, Lu Qi's glass manufacturing industry has risen to a higher level, and glasses and other objects are similar to the glassware and glass in the early years. Like a mirror, the price fell again and again, flying into the homes of ordinary people.

A large amount of cheap and high-quality trona has also affected chemical industries such as papermaking, textiles, and tanning, which all have a great promoting effect.

——The so-called trona is natural soda, not only in the manufacture of glass, but also in the manufacture of soap and stain removal, pulp and paper and other paper industries, and leather treatment.Lu Qian remembered that the tong cypress in Nanyang, Central Plains in later generations contained a large amount of trona.I sent people to explore early, but after more than three years of busy work, no trona mine was found.The Wucheng Alkali Mine and Anpeng Alkali Mine, which are famous in later generations, are still indistinguishable.That is the second of the only four ancient trona mines in the world.But what is surprising is that the exploration team searched in Tongbai, but did not find trona, but found a large open-pit gold mine and a super-large rich silver mine.

This brought back memories that had been silent for a long time in Lu Qian's mind. Tongbai seemed to be a place rich in mineral resources, no, it was the same in the entire Nanyang Basin.

Because the trona mine in Tongbai was only known but not known, and the trona from Saibei was replaced, and the gold and silver mines were discovered, so the sense of loss was almost minimal.

Skip this remark.Soon, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy jumped out of the house. He was eating a steamed bun with his left hand and a stack of newspapers with his right hand. When he came to his father, he threw the newspaper on the coffee table rashly. As a result, it scattered all over the place.

The middle-aged man immediately glared at him with stern eyes, and said, "You bastard, this is a newspaper, not toilet paper. You don't know if it's good or bad, and you've read it into a dog's stomach?" The respect of newspapers is still very high.The image of newspapers in their minds is very similar to that of books.But what about the younger generation?Just like this kid right now.As long as he can remember, newspapers have been a part of his life, something within his reach.Moreover, after 30 to [-] years of development, newspapers are everywhere in China today, and newspapers are found in every province, state and county. People will think that they are "precious".

The middle-aged man picked up the scattered newspapers one by one, slapped the dust off them, and put them on the coffee table. Then he lay back on the chair and picked up a copy to read carefully.

The young man curled his lips and turned back to the side room.

As a veteran of the whaling fleet, the retired middle-aged man did not sit and eat, but bought the land [use rights] with the funds, planted cotton, soybeans, tobacco leaves and other cash crops, and invested the funds in the stock market on the other hand. middle.Although his capital is very small, the stocks in Lu Qi's various places have rarely fallen in recent years. When it catches up with the bull market, pigs can fly.There are dividends every year, and multiple stocks are added together. The rich capital and income make him not inferior to those comrades who went to the business world after retiring from the army.

As a wealthy class in Dengzhou City, reading newspapers is also a habit of middle-aged people for a long time.This was a habit he developed in his early years in the whaling fleet, because the instructor in the army would take them to read newspapers every day.Then get used to it.

What's more, these newspapers not only mean anecdotes, but also wealth.

Just like the Haizhou Phosphate Mine he once invested in, it was only through newspapers that he found out what the significance of the Phosphate Mine was, so he invested a sum of money early.Although compared with the investment fund of the entire phosphate rock, it was only a drop in the bucket, but the 300 silver dollars also allowed him to get 300 shares of certificates.It has only been three years now, and the former 500 silver dollars has turned into thousands of capital, and dividends are distributed every year, and there are as little as [-] yuan accumulated.

More than doubling a year, such a good business comes from newspapers.

Therefore, his worth is no worse than those former comrades-in-arms who pooled their money to devote themselves to the business world.In this Dengzhou city, they belonged to the absolutely wealthy class.

It was half noon in a flash.The middle-aged man got up and went back to the house, changed into decent clothes, and the servants at home had prepared a horse for him, yes, a horse, not a carriage.

Qilu is the birthplace of Lu Qi, and it is also the province with the highest enthusiasm for joining the army among the provinces of China.Here, as a middle-aged veteran and at his current age, if he came in and out by a carriage, he would be laughed at by his friends and relatives.

When the middle-aged man returned at noon, the hostess had already prepared the meal.

The content of the lunch well reflects the living standards of the small bourgeoisie in Qilu. A plate of white flour steamed buns, two meat and two vegetarian dishes, a pot of white stewed fish soup, and a pot of shochu are all very good.

Dengzhou is close to the sea, and the water vapor is heavy, especially middle-aged veterans who have been in the navy. Drinking shochu can promote blood circulation, unblock the veins, drive away cold and dampness, and they have long been inseparable.Like their dependence on whale meat and seafood.

As for food, domestic food prices have been stable for many years. Regardless of disasters or bumper harvests, prices have always remained roughly the same.

Lu Qian envied the description of the British Jevons: The plains of North America and Russia are our cornfields, Canada and the Baltic Sea are our forest areas, Australia is our pastures, Peru is our silver mines, South Africa and Australia are our The gold mines, India and China our tea plantations, the East Indies our sugar cane, coffee, spice plantations, the American South our cotton plantations.

The current Lu Qi can really stand shoulder to shoulder with the British Empire back then, and in terms of the stability of the ruling foundation, it is even worse than John Bull.

John was indeed the hegemon of the world when he was awesome, and their hegemony was based on the fact that no one dared to challenge the British Empire.But what about Lu Qian's Great Qi Empire?That's real world domination.

The huge America is the private land of the Lu family's royal family. The vast but arid Australia will become China's best pasture. Nanyang, Japan, India, the empire's granaries, forest farms, gold and silver mines and spice bases, China's dominance will naturally be in the future. Once stabilized in time, the history of this earth will be completely different from the original time and space.

After lunch, the young man couldn't stand his father's "disappointing" gaze, so he ran to the nearest library for entertainment with his borrowing card.The middle-aged man took out a bag of shredded tobacco after the meal and took a few puffs to relieve fatigue.

Tobacco, this is already a "mode of cultivating immortality" that is becoming more and more popular in Middle-earth.A cigarette after a meal is better than a living god.High profits are the most fundamental starting point for people's enthusiasm for planting.

Until the evening, a group of children about ten years old left school in groups.Dengzhou is a prefectural city. There is not only a boys' school, but also a girls' school. The best daughter of the middle-aged man is one of the students.

The school has its own public carriage to send the little girls back home one by one.Very convenient and safe.

"Father, dad, I heard news that the poverty standard has been raised a lot this year..."

The young man returned home, nodded to his younger sister who greeted him with a smile, and hurriedly shouted at his father.

Just seeing the change in the middle-aged man's face, everyone couldn't help but stand up, "Who did you hear this from?"

"It's a white oak!" The young man opened his mouth and said a person's name, but the face of the middle-aged man became even more serious.Because he knows who this white oak is.The children of the Bai family, in the whole world, even Lu Qi are not very important figures, but the Bai family does have a place in Dengzhou.

"It needs to be raised, isn't the imperial court going to move everyone out?" the hostess said angrily.

"A woman's opinion. Your Majesty's expedition to heaven and earth, sweeping away Ross, bringing the whole world back to one's heart, and unifying the eight wildernesses is a great achievement that has never been seen in 3000 years."

"Relocate the common people, enfeoff the princes as the barriers of the empire, this is a matter of thousands of years." The middle-aged man gave his wife a hard look. Didn't the emperor's son immigrate too, let alone the low-ranking people? "Even though the Immigration Bureau is ruthless, it is for the long-term. Anyway, my family has some assets. Although Da Lang is an adult, there is no need to worry."

"We don't have to worry about our family, our relatives need to worry about it. When something happens, one by one lends their hands to borrow money. I want to see if you borrow money or not..."

(End of this chapter)