Chapter 35 Buying Silk
Although he still didn't believe Qin Mo's words, Yang Liugen realized that this iron furnace seemed to have another magical function.
"Master, this iron furnace."
"Uncle Liugen, install this iron stove in every household. It will be so comfortable to light a fire in the room!"
"Master, don't light a fire in the room, people will die."
Yang Liugen's face turned green.
"Don't worry, no one will die."
Qin Mo patted his chest, and then tried to install the iron stove. It was difficult to make a fire kang, which required blue bricks or burnt-resistant cement.
He can't do it yet.
But the iron stove can make up for this to the greatest extent.
Everyone gathered around, very curious.
After wasting all his hard work, Qin Mo installed the iron stove. Above it was an iron pipe made of iron sheets. It was a bit ugly, but there should be no problem with the sealing.
He came to a farmer's house, installed the stove in his house, lit the match, and soon the iron stove was hot.
The temperature in the room suddenly rose.
Outside, everyone was shivering with cold, but the room was as warm as spring.
The most important thing is that the fire burned so vigorously that there was no charcoal poisoning.
People in Daqian are not fools. Every winter, people die because they burn charcoal in their rooms for heating.
So they deeply understand that if they light a fire to keep warm in a closed room, people will die.
Qin Mo put the Sanle pulp on the iron stove. After a while, the Sanle pulp became scalding hot, "Come on, Uncle Liugen, have a taste!"
Yang Liugen walked into the room curiously, took a sip of Sanle juice, and his body immediately warmed up.
In addition, the temperature in the room was also high, so he took off his outer coat directly, "Master, this stove can not only keep warm, but can also boil water for cooking, right?"
"That's right!"
Qin Mo nodded, "Put it on the wall, make a hole on the top or in the wall. If you shoot out the smoke, no one will die. But be careful of catching fire. It's best to wrap it with mud. Everything will be fine." Worried!"
"Master, this stove."
"First install one in every household in Zhuangzi to ensure that everyone has a warm winter. You can also use charcoal!
In addition, Uncle Liugen, this stove is too ugly. I need to polish it carefully. When my Haidilao is used, it will be so ugly that I can’t see anyone. "
"Yes, Master!"
Yang Liugen nodded. He had now ensured that this stove would really not make people sick or dizzy. Once it was lit, it would protect against the cold, keep warm, and make fire for cooking. It was absolutely practical.
After finishing all this, Qin Mo asked again: "How many fields do we have in Qinzhuang?"
"About [-] acres."
"Isn't this too poor?"
Qin Mo sighed. The merits of nobles in ancient times were all super landowners.
In some villages, rich people have thousands of acres.
The majestic Duke of Qin has a talent of ten thousand acres, which is a disgrace.
"Take this young master to have a look."
I followed Yang Liugen to the ground. It was good black soil, but now it was freezing cold and it was almost turning into frozen soil.
"Uncle Liugen, dig up the middle of these fields, dig a big hole at the head of each field, put a stove in it, and bury the pipes in the soil!"
Yang Liugen and others were all stunned.
"Master, you don't want to use the stove to bake the earth, do you?"
Yang Liugen advised: "It's useless, even if the vegetables sprout, they will still be frozen to death on frosty days!"
"Yes, Master, it's impossible to grow vegetables in winter!"
"You know how to handle baskets, so listen to my young master. There will be no problem in doing this!"
Qin Mo waved his hand and asked the villagers to go to the mountain to chop bamboo into long strips.
Everyone looked at Qin Mo's fancy operations and sighed and booed for a their eyes, Qin Mo must be acting stupid again.
Some radical people even said: "If word of this gets out, our Qin family will be laughed to death!"
Yang Liugen's expression changed after hearing this, "Shut up, if I hear you talking bad about the young master behind his back again in the future, don't blame me, Yang Liugen, for being rude!"
The man also knew that he had said the wrong thing and admitted his mistake again and again.
"I know that the young master sometimes does ridiculous things, but he is still young, so it is always good to try. When he hits a wall, he will naturally give up!"
Here, Yang Liugen was preaching to everyone. On the other side, someone came quickly to inform, "Uncle Liugen, go and persuade the young master. The young master plans to let people buy silk!"
"Buying silk?"
Yang Liugen was stunned, "What does the young master want silk for?"
"The young master said that the vegetable plot should be wrapped with a layer of silk so that the frost will not freeze the vegetable seedlings to death!"
When everyone heard this, they almost fainted.
How much are vegetables worth?
Silk is so expensive.
One horse costs five taels, which is only nine meters long. How many horses are needed to clothe the vegetable field?
This prodigal son.
Yang Liugen ran over and saw Xiao Liuzi holding Qin Mo's thigh, "Master, you can't sell it. Silk is for people to wear, how can it be worn by the ground?"
Qin Mo was furious, "You know how to make a basket, this young master wants to make a lot of money!"
How expensive are vegetables in Beijing now? Counted per piece.
One or two pieces, or even two or three pieces are in short supply.
There are vegetables in the palace because there are hot springs in the palace.
Can only be planted if the temperature is high.
Nowadays, there is an extreme shortage of vegetables throughout Daqian.
Sometimes even the emperor could only eat radishes that had been stored in advance, and they could not be stored for long. Most of the time, they ate pickles.
"Let go, don't delay this young master from making a lot of money!"
"Master, wake up!" Xiao Liuzi cried with snot and tears. When he saw Yang Liugen coming, he quickly said: "Uncle Liugen, stop the master quickly. The master plans to buy hundreds of pieces of silk to cloth the vegetable fields. Clothes!"
Several hundred horses? Everyone was stunned.
Yang Liugen hurriedly stepped forward, "Master, stop fooling around!"
Qin Mo angrily slapped Xiao Liuzi on the head, and then said to Yang Liugen: "Uncle Liugen, do you even think I'm fooling around?"
Yang Liugen didn't speak, but his expression said everything.
"I disembowelled Tiezhu to get the arrowheads. They all said that Tiezhu was dead. Is Tiezhu dead now?"
"I asked you to build a stove. They all said that if the stove is placed in the room, people will die. Did people die?"
"I said that if I clothe the ground, I can protect the vegetable seedlings. Do you believe it?"
Yang Liugen was really stunned by Qin Mo.
Looking at Qin Mo's naive eyes, he gritted his teeth and said, "Xiao Liuzi, let go of the young master!"
"Uncle Liugen!"
"Come here, escort the young master to the capital to buy silk!"
"Thank you, Uncle Liugen!"
Qin Mo breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid that these people wouldn't let him go.
There is no green vegetables in Haidilao, so there is no money to be made at all.
Soon, Qin Mo took the people from Qinzhuang back to the capital and spent a lot of money to buy three hundred pieces of silk and three hundred pieces of ordinary coarse cloth.
Someone asked someone from Qinzhuang why he bought so much silk and coarse cloth, and the person accidentally let it slip. Soon, the news that Qin Mo wanted to plant vegetables in winter spread in the capital.
(End of this chapter)