Ball Ball Cultivation

Chapter 613: Restoring Order 22

With his own efforts, Han Yuan was admitted to the Imperial College, which was equivalent to the title of scholar, and embarked on the path of a scholar.

However, there was no room for development for a scholar from a military family. Nowadays, people were very reluctant to let the Han family break into the scholar circle. After Han Yuan failed the provincial examination with his talent, he gave up the imperial examination and became an official.

Now Han Yuan has devoted himself to writing, and he is best at writing storybooks. The number of storybooks he secretly sells is definitely at the top of the list of storybooks in Beijing.

Han Yuan was in poor health. After Han Xue was demoted to Princess An, he spent even less time at the Imperial College. He would fish for two days and rest for three days, often claiming to be sick and recuperating at home.

Han Yuan managed the Han family's assets in the capital and was in charge of the family's foreign affairs. Since there was no mistress of the house to manage the household expenses, the foreign affairs also fell on him. For the weddings and funerals of his colleagues, the servants like the housekeeper only performed the formalities. If there was something impolite, the host had to visit in person.

Han Shu, Han Lin, and Han Hen have been stationed at the border for a long time. Han Chou spends most of his time doing business outside, and he also has to send some daily necessities to the Han family's affiliated officers during festivals.

In the past, Han Xue was doing madam diplomacy. She had the status of the future Crown Princess, so the Han family was not a noble family, but they had a huge network of relationships. Now that Gu Zhao was punished, the power attached to the Han family dissipated like bubbles, and Han Yuan had been streamlining his own forces.

Han Yuan followed the instructions of his father and brother and made quick arrangements. He first sent out most of his men in the name of finding herbs to detoxify Han Xue. In fact, he took most of the Han family's assets to secretly go to Hancheng to support the construction of Hancheng.

When Yangcheng was burned, the Han family spent all their property to distribute pensions to the families of the officers who died and arranged for them to return to their ancestral hometowns. In fact, they were secretly escorting them to Hancheng for family reunion.

Those sent to Hancheng were the families of the fake-dead generals, while the families of the truly dead generals were escorted back to their ancestral homeland. They were not afraid of being inspected by those with ulterior motives.

The huge Zhenbei General's Mansion soon became desolate and bleak. After the court's attention shifted away from the Han family, Han Yuan took out a palm-sized puppet, dripped a drop of blood on it, and the puppet transformed into a seriously ill Han Yuan, with three or five old servants left behind to guard the general's mansion.

Han Yuan left the imperial city with the last of the Han family's men, recruited various technical talents at high prices along the way, and went to Hancheng to build a processing plant.

Han Yuan was so happy to be able to leave the capital and travel to other places. When he saw Han Xue and his nephew, his last worries disappeared. He even enjoyed changing Kuku's diapers along the way.

Han Chou completed the mission of rescuing Han Xue and exchanged a Peiyuan Pill from Qiuqiu, which helped Han Yuan, who was born with deficiencies, to strengthen his body and improve his health. His body was visibly improved and reached the health level of an ordinary person.

When he arrived at the suburbs of Hancheng, he saw his sister Han Xue and his second brother discussing the issue of factory construction. He silently took over the full responsibility of taking care of his little nephew.

Han Xue: "This is the only way to produce high-quality silicates."

Han Chou retorted: "The construction cost of this kind of equipment is too high. Ordinary clay buildings cannot meet this requirement."

Han Xue pulled out a manuscript and said, "The cement formula is simpler. Let's build a cement plant."

"Cement is simple. Its main component is limestone. However, no matter how it is mined, the production level is not up to par."

"It's just the recipe for a homemade bomb. This is also very simple."

Han Chou looked at his sister helplessly: "This is the era of cold weapons. You are going to use hot weapons ahead of time. Ruthless militarism and wanton killing are not the purpose of our coming here."

Han Xue is a very stubborn girl. "If you don't use cement, use slaked lime and add a little fine sand. It's not as strong as cement, but its sealing performance is still acceptable."

Han Chou: "That's possible. The current ceramic industry is pretty good. The kilns are built relatively closed. If we use the craftsmen who built the kilns and modify them according to your drawings, the temperature inside the furnace should be able to reach the required level."

"Then the smelting of steel can also be completed. Don't forget, there are iron mines in Yancheng, north of Tangcheng."

Then Han Xue muttered, "Let's go to my grandparents' house. There are the most coal mines there, and surface coal mines can be seen everywhere. Now that I have a source of power, I want to make a steam engine."

Han Chou: "Sister, don't let yourself go. You should get penicillin as soon as possible. It is really necessary. You don't know how many soldiers of our Han family army died from wound infection in a single battle."

Han Xue didn't even raise her head: "Then don't fire the glassware first to make the petri dishes, just use porcelain directly."

Han Chou wiped the sweat from his head and quickly put aside the idea of ​​making a glass mirror.

"What is the shortest cycle time for producing penicillin and a glass mirror?"

"About a month or so. As long as I have enough manpower, it will be quick."

Han Chou acted quickly and sold 60% to 70% of the shops he owned.

Of course, the buyer of the "sold" store was still the Han family, but it just moved underground.

Among them, more than 20 shops were sold to Mr. Zhuo Jiu, who had been doing business with the Hu tribe for a long time. This identity was a temporary identity used by Han Chou when he went deep into the Hu tribe. Now he used it again and it could withstand inspection.

Under the cover of Hu merchants, this is a store specially prepared for selling glass products.

The shop that was transformed from a bright business to a dark one had supplies from the Hu merchants, which was beneficial for the shop to launch new products. It was just the right time to sell the new products developed by Han Xue. Among them, the best-selling ones were soap, shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste, facial cream, rouge, flour, mosquito coils and other daily necessities.

Han Yuan was now in charge of the paper mill and movable type printing. Besides the Thousand Character Classic and Hundred Family Surnames, they also printed some of the most popular imperial examination series of the era.

However, the expansion of these industries required a large number of manpower. At first, they were selected from the 150,000-strong army. Later, it was discovered that most of them had stereotyped personalities and were not suitable. Han Chou understood human nature and directly selected from their military families. He arranged for teachers to teach boys and girls aged eight to fifteen, and after a short period of training, arranged jobs for them.

During the Yong Dynasty, there was no particular preference for boys over girls, and Confucianism was not implemented. Therefore, although girls were relatively weaker than boys, there was no such thing as them being confined to the harem and staying at home.

Women can go shopping, work, and do business normally. Textile factories and rouge shops are recruiting women, and the competition is very fierce.

This kind of business circle change can easily attract the attention of competitors, but with the help of the richest family, the Qiao family, the transition can be smooth.

The Han family's shops were all the dowry of their mother, Qiao. To put it bluntly, they were once the property of their maternal grandfather, the Qiao family.

The Qiao family is the most prominent merchant family in the Dayong Dynasty. Otherwise, Qiao Wen, a merchant girl, would not be able to marry into the Han family.

Han Shu was a great general who was feared by the Northern Frontier when he was thirty years old. He had only one son, Han Lin. All the noble families were eyeing the military power of the Northern Frontier, so the proper course of action was to marry Han Lin off to a daughter of a noble family.

Unexpectedly, Han Lin married a merchant girl, which completely separated the Han family from the aristocratic family.