There is a home in the depths of the white clouds

Chapter 390 The Arrival of Cheng Pengyun

Yang Yiqing's house building and development are in full swing, and Wu Youwei's side has also gained something. The glass factory is now producing a lot of... fruit plates!

That's right!

Due to technical problems, the glass factory initially produced fruit bowls. Fruit bowls are easy to handle. Once a whole piece of glass is stretched, it will naturally form itself.

Although a little shallower and a little irregular, glass products are still amazing to those who have never seen glass at first glance.

It's just the sales, Wu Youwei hasn't figured it out yet, he's thinking that his official business is already operating salt and sugar, this business is unique, and it's fine if it doesn't go out, but glass products can no longer be controlled by themselves.

At this time, an acquaintance came to the door.

When seeing him, Wu Youwei was overjoyed: "Brother Wanli!"

That's right!

This is Yang Yiqing's cousin, Cheng Pengyun, the cousin of the businessman whose name is Wanli.

"Magistrate Wu, I'm here this time, looking for business opportunities!" Before Cheng Pengyun met Wu Youwei, he thought about the scene where the two met, but his cousin said that Wu Youwei was still the original Wu Youwei. Because, he didn't believe it, after all these years.

Although there are annual gifts and correspondence every year, but after all how many years have passed, the other party is still Tanhualang, who has become the county magistrate.

And it is not an exaggeration to say that this is "the number one county magistrate in the world".

Look at the construction of Shanghai County!

"Welcome, welcome!" Wu Youwei was overjoyed: "This is really dozing off, here comes the pillow."

Cheng Pengyun didn't know what Wu Youwei meant by this, so he laughed happily and remained silent.

"Brother Wanli, sit down!" Wu Youwei greeted Cheng Pengyun attentively, "Did you see Ying Ning?"

"I just came from his side, and there are people everywhere, and he is still busy building houses, so the little ones don't settle there." There is really no place to stay, even the county government has been taken down and rebuilt.

"What's the little one? The little one?" Wu Youwei became unhappy: "What kind of friendship do we have? Don't you need to look outside like this?"

I didn't notice it just now, but now I found out that Cheng Pengyun probably hadn't seen him for a long time, so he was acting cautiously.

Don't you have official authority?

Thinking of playing with his little nephew yesterday and being wet all over, he didn't feel that he had any authority?It's easy for the little bastard to bully him, okay?

If you grab him some food, you will fight with yourself, and you will have to avenge the "revenge for grabbing snacks" if you go forward bravely.

Cheng Pengyun smiled: "After all, identities are different...

"Did you meet again?" Wu Youwei said, "What is my identity? I'm just a county magistrate, just like Brother Ying Ning. You can call me a good brother or you can do it. Don't call yourself a small one." , I feel so awkward."

Because "knowing" means "knowing" in Shanghai dialect, Wu Youwei felt even more confused when he called him this way.

Cheng Pengyun smiled sincerely and said: "Okay, then I will not be humble."

"What are you modest about? They are all acquaintances." Wu Youwei said with a smirk on purpose: "We went to Qunfang Pavilion to meet each other back then!"

Speaking of that year, Cheng Yunpeng is even more relaxed, isn't it?

"That's right!" Cheng Pengyun said with a smile: "Who would have thought that I would take the No. [-] and Tanhua to visit Qunfang Pavilion?"

Wu Youwei was even more delighted: "Actually, there is still some inside story!"

At that time, he was calculated and forced by the big house, and he had to fight. He even made a high-profile one, which caused him to be scolded by the two instructors later, saying that he should not go to Meng Lang, although He is famous in the capital, but after all, it is not a good thing in the officialdom.

"At the beginning, I knew the reason, so I took you there. Ying Ning said to help you, but he couldn't stretch his head, so the brat knew how to order me." Cheng Pengyun and Yang Yiqing have a good relationship, and at the same time, they envy Yang Yiqing's ability to study Take the imperial examination. "At that time, Ying Ning was already a famous talent in the capital, so of course I couldn't take me there, I borrowed your credit!" Wu Youwei said with a smile: "But thanks to your help, since then, no one has I don’t dare to invite me to the brothel Chuguan.” Knowing that he is so talented, almost all the brothels and Chuguan wanted to invite him to sit for a while, but he didn’t accept any of them. Later, he “cleaned himself up” and even spread rumors about his body. The rumors were ruined by Mrs. Wu, and since then, the brothel Chu Pavilion and Wu Youwei have disappeared.

The two chatted for a while, and then Wu Youwei entertained him for lunch. Wantong was not at home, and he was training soldiers in the camp. In addition, it was hot in July, so he and Zhang Shen had to guard against heatstroke in the camp. .

Wu Youwei invited him to eat the flavors of Shanghai County, drunk crab was the first to bear the brunt, followed by small wontons.

After eating, Wu Youwei walked with him under the shade of a tree to digest food, and asked him, "How long can you stay here this time?"

"It depends on the situation." Cheng Pengyun sighed: "The situation at home is not very good now. I came out to look for business opportunities. The most important thing is to see if I can find suitable business opportunities. My family has been in business for three generations. I In my son’s generation, he should be able to take the imperial examination, but if the family stops doing business, they will not be able to make ends meet.”

Wu Youwei understands that the Cheng family has been in business for three generations, and they must be rich. If they are asked to stop doing it all at once, they will definitely accept it for the sake of their children and the next generation. But if the quality of life declines, adults can bear it, but what about children?

And reading.... To invite a famous teacher, the apprenticeship ceremony and Shuxiu are very generous, and the ceremony must also be decent during the New Year and holidays.

When the child grows up, he wants to marry a wife and have children. The Yue family does not say that they are rich, but they will definitely marry a family that is helpful to the children. This dowry...

These messy things, think about it, it's a big headache!

No wonder Cheng Pengyun came out to look for business opportunities.

After thinking about it for a long time, Wu Youwei decided to confide in him and ask his family to move to Shanghai.

"If you can trust me, why don't you come to Shanghai." Wu Youwei said, "I have a business, the only one. The Cheng family can be the national general agent in Shanghai."

As for exporting overseas, he is still planning. After all, there is a sea ban in Daming now, and it is not easy to allow transactions with foreigners. To be honest, some of them are smuggled by the people, but no one does it openly.

Otherwise, how did so many foreign things enter Daming?

Among other things, the spices alone need to be checked carefully.

"What kind of business?" Cheng Pengyun guessed: "Could it be salt? Salt merchants have been rare in recent years.

In the beginning, of course, the salt merchants made the most money, but later Luo Lun went to Guangzhou and set up a salt field. The salt production was effortless, and the salt production doubled. Lun challenged and bought the salt produced by the salt fields. Luo Lun didn't know what to think at the time, so he sold them, and kept selling, and kept selling, and kept...In the end, all the money in the hands of the salt merchants was exchanged for salt. However, there is still a lot of salt stored in Yantian!

The salt merchants couldn't hoard any more, so naturally, they sold the salt to small salt dealers, and then... when the small salt dealers couldn't eat any more, naturally, the official stores set up by the imperial court should stock up on salt.

This is a way of dumping, and it is this way that Yantian quickly withdraws funds, and the losses are those salt merchants who want to hoard them, and the bigger the salt merchants, the more heavy the losses.

And when Luo Lun got the sugarcane field, these people were silent. After the sugar cane turned into white sugar, rock sugar, etc., the discerning people had already compromised with Luo Lun, and they were willing to help Lord Luo run the business well. sugar.

In this way, in just a few years, Luo Lun has become the top leader in Guangzhou.

Thanks to Wu Youwei and Yang Yiqing, the Cheng family helped Luo Lun several times in the early years, and now the Cheng family's children are all sent to government schools. With Luo Lun around, who would dare to bully the Cheng family's children?Moreover, the children of the Cheng family were well-educated, and finally they were able to seriously study for the imperial examination. The children of the Cheng family cherished this opportunity very much and studied very seriously.

At the same time, Luo Lun also promoted Putonghua, Hanyu Pinyin and Arabic numerals in the Guangzhou government school.

On this point, Wu Youwei and him are in sync. Nowadays, under the influence of children, many adults can still speak a few words of Mandarin.

But now that Wu Youwei was talking about the only deal, the old-fashioned Cheng Pengyun thought it was salt or cane sugar.

These two are unique

"Not at all." Who knew that Wu Youwei shook his head: "My item is a bit like porcelain, but it is more transparent than porcelain."

"Oh?" Cheng Pengyun became interested.

Wu Youwei said simply: "I'll let you take a look tomorrow.

Glass is more profitable than porcelain. As long as there are raw materials, it can be fired. Porcelain is very picky about raw materials, and the raw materials of porcelain are all non-renewable clay.

That night, Cheng Pengyun stayed in the guest house of the county government. After the people he brought were cleaned up, he was asked to rest, but he asked them to rest. He sat under the lamp and thought for a long time...

The next day, Wu Youwei kept his promise and took him to the glass factory after breakfast.

But the security of the glass factory only allowed Wu Youwei to bring Cheng Pengyun in. The servants and even the guards he brought could go to the reception room outside the factory to have tea and snacks, but they were not allowed to enter the gate.

"It's so mysterious?" Cheng Pengyun looked at Wu Youwei and said with a smile, "I want to go in and have a look."

Wu Youwei said: "You will know when you go in.

He ordered someone to wait for him in the reception room, and Cheng Pengyun had no choice but to order the people who came with him to do so.

The two entered the glass factory just like that, and met the receptionist. The receptionist was a middle-aged man, and Xiao Mi looked very friendly. Wu Youwei asked him when he saw him, "Where is your factory manager?"

The receptionist said politely: "The factory manager has gone to buy raw materials, and he will be back in two days. What is this?"

He doesn't know Cheng Yunpeng.

Moreover, Da Ling has never brought anyone into the glass factory except for the adults.

"This is my good friend Cheng Pengyun and Cheng Wanli. He is the general agent Wu introduced to your factory manager." Wu Youwei said with a smile, "He's not here. I'll take Brother Wanli to look at the glass. Is there a finished product?"

"Yes, yes!" The receptionist said happily, "It's in the product showroom!"

The product showroom is a single large room with good lighting. Five rooms are opened up and supported by pillars. There are antique shelves inside, and there are many glass products on it.

There are the most common glass tea sets, fruit plates, cups, bowls, saucers, etc., as well as uncommon glass ornaments, some drawn into flowers, and some made into small animals, anyway.

The largest piece is a glass vase, which is as high as a child's arm. There are too few glass vases, so this is the largest and best one.

It is deliberately placed in a conspicuous place in the middle.

As soon as Cheng Pengyun came in, he didn't dare to move, and looked at these things with straight eyes: "This is... you robbed Lord Dragon's Crystal Palace?

"This is the business I want to do with you." Wu Youwei was surprised when he picked up a glass ornament with a smile. This glass ornament is actually a very common grape ornament. Because grapes have many seeds and have a good meaning, they are placed here It is displayed on the Bogu shelf, but the grapes are made of glass beads that failed to fire!

There are a lot of lavender, dark purple and dark gray on it. At first glance, it looks more like grapes than ordinary transparent beads. This is really a "crystal grape".

And because of the light, it can change the color constantly.

Wu Youwei felt deeply in his heart: capable people are all among the people!

"Is this... Liuli?" Cheng Pengyun didn't dare to reach out to touch it: "But isn't this something only the royal family can use?"

In ancient times, the material for making colored glaze was obtained from the by-products of bronze casting, which was refined and processed into colored glaze.There are various colors of colored glaze, and the ancients also called it "five-color stone".In ancient times, because it was difficult to obtain among the people, people at that time even regarded colored glaze as more precious than jade.

In the Tang Dynasty, colored glaze was a tribute used by the royal family, and it was not allowed to be bought and sold privately by the people, and ministers were not rewarded by the emperor, nor could they get colored glaze.