Chapter 226: Inviting the Emperor to join the gang
The night before, Gu Nanxi recited to herself three times before going to bed that she should save money.
The next day, when someone knocked on the door to give a gift, Gu Nanxi was slapped in the face!
Facing Lu Mei’s [I knew you would be like this] look, Gu Nanxi couldn’t argue and felt a little guilty.
I just casually picked up the money box today and spent a quarter of my budget!
However, you can’t blame yourself for this!
After all, the other party gave me a compass!
During the Warring States Period, someone actually discovered the secret of magnets attracting stones, and based on this feature, they made the Sinan Spoon.
However, the pointing of this kind of Sinan is not very accurate and sometimes appears messy, so it has not been widely used.
Until the Zhou Dynasty, ordinary people still relied on celestial phenomena to guide and distinguish directions.
But this time the person who gave the gift was said to have been inspired by "Mengxi Bi Tan" and used the floating needle method to make a dial that could accurately indicate the direction even on the vast sea!
When Gu Nanxi heard this, she was extremely excited!
Isn’t this kind of dial a must-have for sailing? !
With it, my mother no longer has to worry about me getting lost!
Gu Nanxi defended herself with a smile: "I promise it will only be this once, and I will never do it again! This dial is really useful!"
"It's whatever you say, it's your money after all, I can't care about it." Lu Mei said this with a bit of yin and yang.
Gu Nanxi touched her nose and made up her mind that she would never be so lavish again tomorrow!
Unfortunately, as the moon sets and the sun rises, the bright moonlight seems to have taken away Gu Nanxi's vows.
Seeing the extremely exquisite ship model before her eyes, Gu Nanxi had already forgotten yesterday’s promise.
"Lu Mei, bring me the money box!"
Lu Mei gasped and spoke with difficulty: "Master, this is just a model!"
Before Gu Nanxi could speak, the old man who presented the sailing model blew his beard and glared: "Who said this is an ordinary model? Model? ! Just talk about it in layman’s terms!”
Gu Nanxi has always been flexible about talents: “Dad, don’t be angry, we have never been on a sea ship, we really don’t care about these things. Understand. Can you tell us more about it?"
The old man's anger subsided a little, but his tone was still bad: "We mainly make ships in Mingzhou and Wenzhou in Dazhou. After making a good model and making sure it is correct, the more sophisticated shipyards will also draw pictures of the ship in advance.” His chest seemed to be very proud.
"If it weren't for me..." The old man stopped talking, as if he was aware of his current situation. His whole body was like an eggplant beaten by frost, no longer as unruly as before.
"Cheating money? What kind of money did you cheat! I, Xing Laosan, never do those immoral things!" The father-in-law muttered to himself, whispering.
Seemingly thinking about business, the old man tilted his head and promoted his ship plan in a rough voice: "What I am best at is passenger ships. Passenger ships are more stable and tend to be thicker and shorter. "
The old man pointed at the model and introduced: "This is the balance rudder, elevator, and steering wheel. The hole rudder... is a third rudder independently developed by me, which can reduce side drift during navigation."
"These cabins also use watertight fusion tanks, and each cabin is tightly separated, even if one or two cabins are damaged. , and the water will only be limited to the damaged cabin, and will not cause the whole ship to sink..."
"I call this ship a lucky ship. Its bottom is a pointed bottom. It has a solid structure, large capacity, good loading, good stability, strong wind resistance, and deep draft. It is especially suitable for ocean voyages."
Gu Nan Xi was introduced to it by Lao Zhang and was very excited. With this ship and a compass, the fleet could embark on a Maritime Silk Road!
"Lu Mei, bring all the money clips!" Gu Nanxi vowed to keep this father-in-law!
Lu Mei reluctantly took all the remaining three money boxes. The father-in-law took them and took a look, but found that there were only one thousand five hundred taels. He immediately returned the money boxes to Lu Mei and made I want to get the model back.
You want to exchange your shipbuilding skills for one thousand five hundred taels. Isn’t this an open robbery? !
Gu Nanxi also knew this truth and hurriedly stopped her father-in-law: "My father-in-law, please stop and listen to me." The father-in-law snorted coldly. If not for the excellent reputation of Mrs. Yongchang Hou among the people, he would not I will listen to this man's chatter.
Gu Nanxi: "These fifteen hundred taels are for you to settle down in Kyoto. I was thinking, why don't we jointly open a shipyard?"
The old man seemed to be smiling, but he only felt that Mrs. Yongchang Hou was real. He thinks about things too simply: "Do you know how much money is needed to build a shipyard? How many workers are needed? Even if you take out all the money in your Yongchang Marquis Mansion, it will not be enough!"
< br>Who doesn’t know that shipyards have high profits?
As long as a sea-going ship leaves the factory and enters the sea, it is a hen that can continuously lay golden eggs!
The skills of the masters in the shipyard are passed down from father to son, from generation to generation.
If I hadn’t experienced what happened, I wouldn’t have left Mingzhou and come to Kyoto.
Mrs. Yongchang Hou started to talk about building a shipyard. I’m afraid this is not just an idiot’s dream!
Where do the money come from and where do the people come from? How should you deal with obstacles encountered on the road?
In front of the overwhelming wealth and wealth, a mere Mrs. Yongchang Hou is not enough!
Gu Nanxi naturally knew that she would never be able to eat this big pie by herself.
So Gu Nanxi pointed in the direction of the palace: "I can't do it, isn't there the one above?"
......
The private room on the second floor of Fuquan Tea House, Two men in silk robes were drinking together.
"I heard that Wang Tuanzi was invited over by Su Yunyan, saying that he wanted to celebrate Gu Nanxi's birthday."
"Since Wang Tuanzi became famous, the posts handed to him were like flying flowers and snowflakes. It's quite impressive that Su Yunyan can invite him."
"I just wonder if Gu Nanxi still has the money to hold the banquet." The man in Tsing Yi said, watching the show.
The man in white sitting opposite him raised his eyebrows: "It seems that your plan succeeded?"
The man in green laughed: "Why do you sound sour? But I It was indeed successful! I defrauded Gu Nanxi of 1,500 taels! "
He was also one of the officials who was so busy that he wanted to sell his house and flee to the south!
The man in white couldn't believe it: "You can defraud one thousand five hundred taels for a ship model?!"
"Of course it's not just these, but also Xing Laosan's shipbuilding skills."
The man in white stood up with a bang: "Are you crazy?! How dare you give Gu Nan your shipbuilding skills?" Xi!”
“Don’t panic, don’t panic! Give it to her, she has to be able to take it! Not to mention 1,500 taels, even if it’s 10,000 taels, he won’t give it to her. I sold Gu Nanxi’s shipbuilding skills for one thousand and five hundred taels, but she couldn’t eat them.”
The man in white breathed a sigh of relief and praised repeatedly: "You are really bad!"
(End of this chapter)