Zhu Rong was very interested in Shen Wansan's invitation.
Anyway, he was already used to interacting with people of all walks of life. It was not a big deal to have a meal.
Zhu Rong turned around and said to Xu Miaoyun,"
"Xu Tong, you stay here and wait for the workers to come back to teach them how to use cement!”
"Let me talk to these two!"
Xu Miaoyun chuckled and nodded.
"Boss…Dian, take care!”
"Leave the construction site to me!”
"So the foreman's surname is Dian? Greetings, Zhang Xiu!"
"There's my carriage outside. Why don't we go to the Brothel of Embroidered Spring together?”
"Embroidered Spring Brothel, you are so generous!"
"Then go!"
The Embroidered Spring Restaurant was a high-class restaurant in the Ying Tian Prefecture. A meal cost ten taels of silver. Those who usually went there were either rich or noble.
This merchant in front of him actually invited him, a "foreman", to the Spring Embroidery Brothel. Zhu Xiong felt that this guy could get along.
He walked to the entrance of the Wu Mansion and apologized to Shen Wansan and his son before going to wash his hands and feet.
As soon as Zhu Rong left, Shen Rong became anxious.
"Father, why did you invite a worker to such an expensive place?”
"Is he worth your condescension?”
"Trash!"
Shen Wansan gave Shen Rong a tight slap and showed him the cement that Zhu Rong had mixed."
"Look at this thing. How does it compare to glutinous rice?”
Shen Rong carefully stroked these things and finally said in a deep voice,
"Even better!"
"That's why I say you're trash. I've never seen cement before, but isn't this material the key to solving the crisis of building the city wall?”
"Not to mention building the city wall, when the city wall is completed, it will also be a good opportunity for our Shen family to make a fortune!”
"Father, you're right. I was negligent!”
After Shen Wansan reminded him, Shen Rong also understood the importance of the cement in his hands.
At this moment, Zhu Rong had already washed his hands and feet and returned.
The father and son stopped talking.
Shen Wansan booked the best private room on the way to the Embroidered Spring Brothel.
After the small talk, he went straight to the point.
"Chief, where did you get this cement from?”
"Can you point me in the right direction?"
Zhu Rong smiled faintly and asked,"
"That's easy to say, but I also want to ask Mr. Zhang, what do you want cement for?”
Shen Wansan said,"
"To be honest, I, Zhang Xiu, am one of the merchants recruited by the emperor to repair the city walls of Nanjing. I am working for the richest man in Jiangnan, Shen Wansan!“
"Originally, I was honored to work for His Majesty, but only after taking this job did I realize that I was tricked?”
"Because of last year's disaster, the production of glutinous rice in the Ming Dynasty has been severely reduced. Now, there's no way to gather the glutinous rice juice to make the city wall. It's twenty times more expensive.”
"Today, I saw that the cement you used was better than glutinous rice juice, so I dared to ask you about the price of this thing.”
"Shen Wansan, huh?"
Zhu Rong had never thought that he would be related to the legendary richest man in the world while working in the Wu Estate.
Speaking of which, that unlucky fellow should also be in the Ying Tian Prefecture now.
In the fifth year of Hongwu, the emperor asked the richest man in Jiangsu, Shen Wansan, to repair the city wall of Nanjing. In the sixth year of Hongwu, Shen Wansan finally repaired the city wall after losing half his life.
However, this idiot wanted to suck up to the emperor and asked him to reward the three armies. Unfortunately, Shen Wansan's flattery was useless.
The emperor said: "The army of the world is a rebel and should be killed."”The reason almost took his life.
If it wasn't for Empress Ma's persuasion, he would probably have died in the Ying Tian Prefecture.
However, after he was sent to Yunnan by the Emperor, he soon died of depression.
Although Zhu Rong had never met Shen Wansan before, he had interacted with Shen Wansan's network.
He actually sympathized with the merchant.
As his son, Zhu Rong understood his father, Zhu Yuanzhang, the best.
As a father, the current emperor of Ming Dynasty was really good. He was much more humane than those wise emperors in history.
As an emperor, he could empathize with the people and love them like his own children.
However, Old Zhu was extremely harsh on these two kinds of people in his life.
The first type of people were officials.
The second person was a wealthy businessman.
Needless to say, the officials of the Ming Dynasty had the lowest salary in all the dynasties. Moreover, the emperor had always been vigilant towards them.
This was probably because Zhu Rong's grandparents had starved to death indirectly, largely because the officials of the former Yuan Dynasty had embezzled the relief food.
As for the landowners and wealthy merchants?
The Emperor's family had been working for the landlord since they were young. They worked hard all year round, and most of the grain produced in the fields had to be used to pay rent. Could the family not even eat enough? Instead, they had to borrow grain from the landlord.
In the end, the harder it was, the more he owed the landlord.
When there was a real natural or man-made disaster, they would turn a blind eye to it.
With such an experience, how could Old Zhu not hate those rich people?
Moreover, as the richest man in Ming Dynasty, Shen Wansan had a glorious history of helping Zhang Shicheng defend the city!”
If it wasn't for the fact that he wanted to appease the people, Old Zhu would have killed Shen Wansan long ago.
Now that the Ying Tian Prefecture was repairing the city walls, Old Zhu probably wanted to make Shen Wansan bleed.
After all, the emperor of Ming Dynasty was never someone who did not hold grudges.
Glutinous rice at twenty times the price.
Zhu Rong secretly clicked his tongue when he heard this.
The main process of building the city wall in the Ming Dynasty was to use glutinous rice to make glutinous rice juice as the glue for the bricks.
The effect was really good.
In his previous life, Zhu Xiong had seen the city walls of Nanjing as sturdy as ever.
However, glutinous rice was food.
In this era, the commoners could not support themselves. The productivity of the Ming Dynasty could not produce enough glutinous rice.
That was why the emperor had decreed that except for the royal family and the construction of the city walls, glutinous rice was prohibited from being used as a glue.
When Shen Wansan was repairing the city walls, the glutinous rice actually increased by twenty times?
Zhu Rong also understood that it was no wonder Old Zhu had specially recruited him to Nanjing to bleed.
Under normal circumstances, if the Ministry of Works were to repair it,
The Minister of Works would probably faint from crying in the morning court.
However, this had nothing to do with Zhu Rong.
He had never heard of this Zhang Xiu before, so he probably wasn't some extraordinary businessman.
Since he was interested in cement, she might as well give him the rest.
Anyway, he had placed it in the warehouse and it would expire sooner or later.
Zhu Rong didn't mind transferring the cement technology.
It would be best if he could recover a batch of funds.
Although Zhu Rong knew that if he contributed cement technology to the emperor, he would make a greater contribution to the Ming Dynasty.
But Zhu Rong didn't dare.
Under the Emperor's astuteness and his wife's enthusiastic propaganda,
He was about to become a Saint.
He even contributed cement technology. Was he not high-profile enough?
Don't forget your heart, don't forget your heart,
Zhu Xiong was already used to being a good-for-nothing. Even if it was difficult, he would still work hard.
Once the word about cement spread,
Regardless of whether it was spread out from his hands or not, it would change the Great Ming Dynasty greatly.
What he needed to do now was…
It was to sell the cement for a good price.
Shen Wansan was waiting for Zhu Rong to speak. Zhu Rong thought for a while and said,"
"This is a recipe left behind by an elder in my family. I made some according to the ancient method!”
"I originally thought that these things wouldn't sell, so I brought them to the Wu Estate today to use!”
"If you like it, I can give it to you!”
"But I said that since it's a business deal, the cost of this thing is not low!”
Zhu Xi gave Shen Wansan a price. It was lower than 20 times the glutinous rice juice, but it was definitely not cheap.
"Didn't you say that these things can't be sold?”
Before Shen Wansan could say anything, Shen Rong could not help but complain,
He clearly said that no one else would buy the cement, but in the blink of an eye, he offered a high price. This person was too greedy.
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a bang.
Shen Wansan gave his son a tight slap."
"Do you have the right to speak?"
He was almost angered to death by his stupid son.
Now that he couldn't buy glutinous rice, there were better choices. Why did he care about the exorbitant price?
He could accept the price that Zhu Rong offered, even if it was a little more expensive, he would still buy it.
"Chief, I'll take care of all your cement!”
"Interesting, he's an interesting person!”
The price that Zhu Rong offered was indeed higher, but he did not mean to take advantage of Shen Wansan.
He made cement himself. After all, it was not an industrial assembly line. The cost was there.
If he wanted to make cement cheap, he had to build a large workshop.
This was the reason why Zhu Xiong had always felt that cement was of little value.
If he wanted to build a big workshop, would he think that he was too low-key?
"Sir, this is the price you mentioned!“
Shen Wansan directly gave Zhu Rong an official note from the Ministry of Revenue and paid the money.
Seeing that he was so straightforward, Zhu Rong stood up.
"Follow me!"
Zhu Rong stood up and left.
Shen Wansan and his son looked at each other and came to the cement warehouse in the suburbs under Zhu Rong's guidance.
"These are the things you need!”：
"Although it's not enough for you to repair the Nanjing city wall, it should be able to delay until you find Glutinous Rice!”
When Zhu Rong pushed open the door, Shen Wansan and his son were very satisfied,
They had checked the goods and found that the effect of the cement was better than they had imagined.
This was definitely a weapon that could change the construction industry.
"The price I offered just now, including this house, is all yours!”
Zhu Xiong threw down a key and left.
"Wait…"
Shen Wansan wanted to ask more questions, but Zhu Rong didn't give him the chance.
"Dad, how good would it be if we could get the craftsmanship of this thing!”
This time, Shen Rong really experienced the benefits of cement and muttered to himself.
"Hmph, now you know how to ask for help?”
"There's no rush. He's a foreman recruited by the Ministry of Works.”
"Let's get this cement to work first!”
"If we delay the construction, the emperor will chop off our heads!”
Shen Wansan and Shen Rong rushed to the construction site with the cement.
However, they never expected that…
When people were unlucky, no one could escape.
On the second day.
On Zhu Yuanzhang's table, a report about the construction of the city wall had already appeared.
"Shen Wansan, how dare you publicly lie to me!”
"Do you really think I won't kill you?"
Old Zhu was so angry that he threw the memorial on the ground.
"Someone, I want to leave the palace!"
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