North and South groceries

Du Xi returned to Beijing this time, and successfully brought back Wu You's deed of sale to Luo Yong, which was also called a market bond at this time. On this market bond, Wu You's owner has now changed to Luo Yong.

And Du Xi also told Luo Yong that he obtained the city coupons by making friends and giving gifts to each other, not through fraud, so there would be no future troubles, so Luo Yong and the others could feel at ease.

Since they are making friends, there will be some kind of heart-to-heart relationship. After getting this market coupon, Du Xi and a young man in the family, who is also the one who has the best relationship with Du Xi, told him the truth about where Wu You is now. , and also told him about Luo Yong's current status in Chang'an City.

Since Wu You was a fugitive slave of his family, there must have been some relatives and friends in this family in the early years. Du Xi advised this family to manage this relationship well, and not to be provoked by those who are interested in it, and troubles will arise out of nowhere.

The small families in these places often sharpen their heads and want to make friends with the gentry. If they meet someone with ulterior motives, they may be used as gunmen and get involved in the disputes of the big families, and they will suffer heavy losses in the end. , and even never recovered.

Du Xi's handling was thoughtful, Luo Yong was also very satisfied, and immediately offered a generous gift, and promised that every quarter in the future, he would send [-]% of the bonus of Nanbei Grocery Changle branch to Du Xi on time.

Wu You is very talented, and the amount of this bonus will definitely not disappoint Du Xi.

In addition, Luo Yong also promised Du Xi that even if something happened in Hexi in the future, he would transfer Wu You to another place at that time, and he would never lose the share that should be given to Du Xi.

Du Xi was naturally very satisfied with such a result.

At this time, the people asked again and again, and he had done enough to tell the story to them.

When everyone heard this, it was a good deal, but it solved the identity problem of a fugitive slave, and they could get a [-]% bonus of groceries from the north and the south.

Just look at the north-south groceries in Chang'an City. You don't know how much money you will earn throughout the year, and the [-]% bonus must be quite a lot.

I heard that the branch in Changle County is not bad. It sells cotton gins and other things in Hexi. The price is not low, and it must make a lot of money.

It's a pity that such a good thing didn't happen to them.

It was because Du Xi had always been on good terms with Luo Yong, that's why he asked Du Xi for this matter, and this guy made a lot of money.

These young gentlemen didn't show it on their faces, but they actually had various thoughts in their hearts at this time.

Du Xi saw it and smiled without saying a word.

The reason why he broke the matter today is actually Luo Yong's intention. Luo Yong wants to let these Chang'an youths know through this incident that they will never suffer any losses when they cooperate with him, and the benefits are lifelong.

Under such circumstances, some young people who have nothing to do and want to find fault with Luo Yong may need to think again.

Most of the young people in Chang'an in this era are more out-of-the-box and have a very challenging spirit. They are not at all like the stereotyped and steady image of the ancients in the impression of later generations. It is probably related to the current selection method of officials.

If they want to be discovered and valued by the bigwigs in the court, they must first stand out and be famous.Not to mention that even in a family, if you want to get more attention and more resources, you often need to perform outstandingly.

Under such circumstances, Luo Yong is worried that some young people who are eager to get ahead will regard themselves as a challenge target.

If this is the case, the situation will be very unfavorable for Luo Yong.

In addition, after Luo Yong proposed to establish an engineering school, the attitudes of the various families in Chang'an City towards Luo Yong also began to change.

In the first month, the location of the engineering school was finally decided at Buzhengfang. Buzhengfang was just to the west of Miyagi and the northeast corner of the West City.

Not to mention public security, the Right Jinwu Guard was established in this place. The so-called Jinwu Guard is a department responsible for the security of Chang'an City. Curfew patrols and the like are under their control.I heard that Yuchi Jingde also lived in this workshop.

The establishment of engineering in this place also shows how much the imperial court attaches importance to this new school.

In addition, there are a total of five doctors of engineering announced at the end. On the basis of the original one, Luo Yong has been added, and he has the highest status among the five. Every job in engineering must be based on him as dominant.

In addition, the candidates for teaching assistants have been roughly determined, and the number of staff is quite large. Needless to say, there must be people from major families, and the emperor himself will not be short.

Luo Yongnian became the county magistrate of Chang'an just a few years ago, and he also held the post of doctor of engineering before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. For a young man from a farming family, he can be regarded as a prosperous official.

There is Du Gou at the county government office, so Luo Yong doesn't have to worry about it, he just needs to go through the motions when he is required to appear.

Luo Yong not only gave Du Gou power, but also gave him money. As long as the problem can be solved with their existing money and power, it is not a problem. If it cannot be solved, there must be some power behind it. With their current situation and status, it is inevitable that there will be times when they need to compromise.

Du Gou, the acting county magistrate, did a very good job, showing both kindness and strength, and suppressed most of the old fritters in the yamen in a very short period of time.

As long as the vast majority of people are held down, those who want to jump up and make trouble will have to weigh the situation.

Du Gou is much more capable than Luo Yong imagined. If Luo Yong were to change many things, he would definitely not be able to do as well as him.

There is also a Laizhou youth named Xia Yan. They escorted Du Gou all the way to exile. After Du Gou was pardoned, the others went back to his hometown in Laizhou. The project, now in Chang'an City, is still helping Du Gou.

A son of a businessman, he may not be considered a prominent person when he is mixed up to his level, but he does have some power at the moment. His family in Laizhou should benefit, at least not like in the past. They are generally allowed to be rounded and flattened by others. In the past, many existences who were like obstacles in the way for them will gradually start to give way to them. This is the benefit of power.

On Luo Yong's side, he mainly focused on engineering. The enrollment of engineering and other matters were mainly handed over to Hou Lin. Luo Yong, several other doctors, and teaching assistants have been discussing the compilation of books for the past few days. things.

Since it is necessary to teach, it is absolutely impossible without books. You can't rely on others for this matter, you can only write them yourself.

Luo Yong assigned this matter to the PhDs in engineering and teaching assistants. Although these teaching assistants in engineering are not of high status and do not even have a grade, they are actually talents arranged by various families.

After all, it's useless to put in those people with an empty stomach, not to mention whether they have the ability to get in touch with key technologies, even if they get in touch, they may not be able to learn them back.

Luo Yong arranged several of them in groups and asked each group to compile a book within a month. It may not be very comprehensive and profound, but it is practical.

Luo Yong does not do this work himself. He is responsible for supervising the progress of each group and helping them solve some problems they encountered in the process of compiling the book.

Among these groups, the most anticipated one is naturally Heng Zhi's group.

Hengzhi edited a book together with two teaching assistants. With the help of a dozen students recruited by Hou Lin, the work went smoothly. In less than a month, a book was compiled and handed over to Hou Lin. Lin, ask him to find someone to engrave the printing plate.

At a great court in mid-February, Luo Yong presented several booklets that had already been written to the emperor and the ministers for inspection.

Among them is "A Brief Analysis of Mechanics" compiled by Hengzhi and others. This is the first time that Luo Yong and his disciples, based on the knowledge he brought from later generations, have studied and experimented in this era for the first time. Presented in this world in the form of books.

This is just a thin booklet, and the content inside is not very large, let alone difficult to understand.

The book briefly describes the principles of mechanics, and proposes that the magnitude of the force can actually be calculated to obtain a relatively accurate data, and exemplifies some common things in life for analysis.

In the last few pages of this book, it describes the use and principle of lever pulleys and other things in actual production, with clear pictures.

In the end, he even proposed a brand-new concept of thermal energy, and roughly explained the principle why it can be used in production, which can be regarded as unraveling the mystery of thermal energy for these contemporary people.

Most of the people in the imperial court are people of insight. Once this booklet was circulated, it immediately caused a sensation.

Especially the last part about thermal energy, people basically just hearsay before, they don't really understand its application principle, and many people even think it's impossible, it's just Luo Yong and they are bragging That's all, when I read this booklet at this time, many people with smarter brains understood it all at once!

In this world, there really is such a miracle!

As long as the fire is turned on, production can be realized. In the eyes of these people at that time, this was comparable to fairy magic!