Chapter 10 The Territory of Dare

Chen Ying walked gently to the window of the study room with his hands behind his back, looking at the leaves outside the window that had begun to turn yellow. A leaf knew about autumn, Chen Ying sighed and said calmly: "If I am the Guanglu Supervisor and you are the Guanglu Supervisor, then it means that even if Your Majesty doesn't want to use me, it's not difficult to make a fortune. If I am the Secretary General and you are the Secretary General, then it means that Your Majesty really wants to use me. Now let you become the Guanglu Supervisor from the fifth rank, and I am the Secretary General. This just shows that Your Majesty not only does not trust me, but is alert and guarded. I am alone, and Pei Jishui can't pour into the Secretary General, except for pretending to be deaf and dumb, I am afraid that nothing can be done."

Xu Jingzong's expression suddenly became serious, and he looked at Chen Ying and said, "It's good that your husband can understand."

Chen Ying looked at Xu Jingzong a little speechless. This guy clearly saw that there was something wrong, but he didn't say it. Perhaps it was because Xu Jingzong had not really regarded himself as a friend. Thinking of this, Chen Ying felt sad. But then he thought about it, but he felt relieved. In this era, Xu Jingzong naturally believed that if he wanted to have any help in his career, or to support noble people, or help from aristocratic families.

When an official reaches Chen Ying's level, it mainly depends on the size of his personal ability, but on whether the emperor trusts him or not. If the emperor does not trust him, he will do anything wrong. If the emperor trusts him, even if he does nothing, he can still make contributions. Perhaps it is precisely because Li Yuan does not trust him enough that in Xu Jingzong's eyes, a general who is not trusted by the emperor will have a life worry, not to mention the smooth future.

Thinking of this, Chen Ying felt a little relieved.

Chen Ying himself is not a family, but he can be the ancestor of a family. Since Chen Qun passed away, there has been no more famous people, and the Chen family has been in a slump. Since he started to work hard, he has become a noble family of generations like the seven sects and five hopes.

Chen Ying murmured: "Why is Your Majesty afraid of me?"

Xu Jingzong bowed and said, "Actually, the disciples are puzzled by this!"

Chen Ying thought for a while and said, "Don't worry, please help me do something. Find a farm near Chang'an City. It doesn't need to be too big. It's a size of a thousand acres, and it doesn't need fat or thin fields, even barren mountains!"

Xu Jingzong looked at Chen Ying in surprise and said, "Mr. Lang has not bought a property in Chang'an?"

Chen Ying shook his head and said, "No, how could I have this skill before?"

"This is probably the reason why Your Majesty is suspicious of the husband!"

"Ah!" Chen Ying said in surprise: "No way?"

"There are no perseverance who has no perseverance. The husband has not purchased a family business in Chang'an. Besides, the husband is still alone now. How can you make Your Majesty feel at ease?" Xu Jingzong smiled faintly and looked at Chen Ying's eyes and said, "If the husband wants to buy a property, it is a good opportunity. Liu Wenjing fell down and his family property has been lost. He has more than 270 yuan of fertile land and forty yuan of mulberry fields. The fertile land has probably been divided up by the major families. Since the husband doesn't have fertile land, it should not be difficult to buy some thin land. But thin land is probably not enough to make ends meet!"

“I don’t buy land to farm.”

"Don't farm? Is it wasteful?"

Chen Ying said: "I plan to open an iron shop outside the city. If you don't farm, you can just have thin fields. The wasteland is the best, even if it's a barren mountain."

At the same time, Chen Ying refused Li Yuan's position as a secretary and a junior supervisor on the grounds that he was seriously injured and unable to inspect. At the same time, he also resigned from Li Yuan's position as a standing position, leaving only one title of Duke of Pengcheng County and the honorary officer of General of the Cavalry.

Xu Jingzong took Chen Ying's money to buy the land that Chen Ying needed. Chen Ying's land was actually not easy to buy. What Chen Ying needed was not a farm. More than a thousand acres of land were basically not connected together. The land that was connected together was basically in the hands of major clans and aristocratic clans. They could not sell land at all. This was actually not something that money could solve.

...

Wannian County Magistrate Su Hu was at home a month and a half ago, and was interrupted by a group of black-clothed warriors and sent ten thousand gold coins. It was not until these black-clothed men revealed their identities that Su Hu realized that Chen Ying was actually the fifth son of Houmo Chen's house.

Su Hu did not dare to tell the truth to anyone, and claimed to the public that it was the tomb robber King Huiye who was cracked three years ago. The Ministry of Justice also issued a sea arrest document to arrest Wang Huiye.

Although Su Hu has been lying in bed to recuperate these days, all the affairs of Wannian County have always been in the hands of Su Hu.

It is said that the county magistrate of Wannian County Zhao Zhiyong was Su Hu's confidant. Zhao Zhiyong was the son of Su Wei's close relative Zhao Qingshan in his early years. When Su Wei was the former prime minister of Su Wei, he promoted Zhao Zhiyong to be the county magistrate of Wannian County. Later, Zhao Zhiyong became the chief minister of Pingliang County and retired. Zhao Zhiyong went from being a minor official in the Wannian County House Librarian's Office to gradually become the seventh-rank county magistrate of Wannian County.

However, Su Hu did not recommend Zhao Zhiyong as the acting county magistrate of Wannian County, but recommended the seventh rank master of Quan Wanji. Now Quan Wanji is the acting county magistrate of Wannian County, but Zhao Zhiyong raised his eyebrows and raised his eyes to Quan Wanji and did not deal with it. It can be said that it is precisely because of the disagreement between Quan Wanji and Zhao Zhiyong that Su Hu can firmly control the affairs of Wannian County.

Just as the sky was getting dark, Zhao Zhiyong came to Su Hu's mansion in a carriage and complained to Su Hu for nearly half an hour.

Su Hu listened quietly, his face still calmly.

This made Zhao Zhiyong very strange. Su Hu should give Quan Wanji a little color to let Quan Wanji know who is the Zhangyinzheng County of Wannian County.

However, Zhao Zhiyong didn't know that Su Hu was already a useless person at this time. His injuries may be cured in later generations, but in this era, there is no possibility. He just delayed the time as much as possible, and when he could not delay in the future, he would give him a chance to be kind.

Although he couldn't figure out what medicine was sold in Suhu's gourd, Zhao Zhiyong muttered: "Su County Zun, you don't know. Pengcheng County Duke found a waste disciple and actually wanted to buy thin land and wasteland."

As the saying goes, it’s unintentional, and listening to it’s intentional. When Zhao Zhiyong talks about Chen Ying, Su Hu subconsciously shivered.

"What did you say?"

"Oh, the public servants of Pengcheng County want to buy land. They are so hungry that they don't even let go of wasteland!"

"Do you know what the Pengcheng County Gong buys wasteland for?"

"I heard that I was going to build an iron yard, which is ridiculous. There is no iron ore near Chang'an. If I bought iron ore from other places, it would not be enough to ensure the capital!" Zhao Zhiyong chuckled and said, "What a fool!"

There is no woodcutter for a hundred miles, and no woodcutter for a thousand miles. In ancient times, it was a golden rule for doing business, but it was actually limited by transportation capacity. The closest iron ore to Chang'an should be Taolin County in Hongnong County, but this distance is more than 400 miles, nearly 500 miles. If you transport iron ore even worthless iron ore, it will be between 40 and 500 cents per stone when you arrive in Chang'an City.

This transportation cost, coupled with the material cost created by this era, if Chen Ying had smelted iron in Chang'an, he would not make any money at all, but would lose all his money.

But they didn't know that Chen Ying was using blast furnace steelmaking, and with the successful invention of spring steel, Chen Ying could immediately create a carriage with a load capacity of more than 2,000 kilograms. In this way, transportation costs could be reduced and ironmaking costs could be controlled within a welcome range.

In Chen Ying's opinion, steel will be sold for 600 stags per ton, which is equivalent to 30 tons of grain for one ton of steel. The huge profits are like not making this money by himself, it is simply a crime.

When Su Hu heard that Chen Ying was going to buy wasteland to build a workshop, he asked Zhao Zhiyong: "I remember that there is still a wasteland in Qinglin?"

"The county lord is the mass grave in the clear forest? But there is a very bad place!"

Su Hu was nodding with the only head in his body that could move, saying, "It's so evil? The Duke of Pengcheng County killed tens of thousands of Turkic people in one go, and killed people in Hedong. Can he be more vicious than him?"
Chapter completed!