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After going to Chang'an, there was no surprise or difficulty. Zhang Chao successfully got the honorary official he received and claimed his 100 taels of gold.

There was no bad habit of slapping it out. One or two taels of gold were handed over to Zhang Chao. When he was taking it, the official even weighed it in person, and the golden cake was also marked with the seal of the royal treasury, which was guaranteed quality.

Zhang Chao is also a tactful person. When he came, he had prepared a lot of pork loin silver. One or two yuan, the money was not too much, and it was worth more than half a day. But the advantage was that it was lightweight, so it was naturally the best to use it to make some thanks. He stuffed a piece for each of the officials in charge. As for those officials, Zhang Chao didn't give it.

It is easier for the King of Hell, but it is difficult for the little ghosts to deal with. The officials below are difficult. However, it is better not to give them less than the officials, but if they give them too much, they may not accept them. After all, it was the beginning of the dynasty.

I got the gold, a small box, only a little over six kilograms, which is not as heavy as the usual copper coins.

The 100 acres of land that were awarded were also obtained. The land was not in Bashang, but at the foot of Mount Li in the northeast of Bashang, which belongs to Xinfeng County. Mount Li is also a famous mountain in the suburbs of Beijing. There are many hot springs there, and the royal Huaqing Palace is built there, and there are also many manors of high-ranking officials and nobles.

It is very difficult to obtain a hundred acres of land by the Weishui River.

Zhang Chao and his father's Lord Yongye Field had 600 acres, but the 60 acres of Yongye Field, which had been awarded by his father, had to be deducted. The 60 acres of Yongye Field were only given to him, and the 60 acres of Yongye Field were given to him, and the 60 acres of Yongye Field were given to him. In addition, the land in the capital was not given to him, so he finally gave to his father and two lords.

The 400 acres of Lord Yongye Field were divided into Liyang County, north of the Wei River, and there were still a few scattered land.

Zhang Chao was very happy that another 500 acres of land was recorded.

After leaving the yamen, he immediately went to the west market, and went to his own store to get a few duck-smoked chickens with sauce and rushed to Changsun Wuji's mansion to thank him. Changsun Wuji did not underestimate what Zhang Chao mentioned, "These sauce-flavored braised pork in your house are not very popular now."

Zhang Chao just smiled. The cooked food in the store is not ordinary buns, but it is meat. It is made of such spices, soy sauce and sugar. How could it not be delicious?

Even those wealthy families may not have eaten such things before. Moreover, cooked food has another advantage, which is easy to eat and not easy to break.

Although Zhang Chao set a high price, many people still buy it. Of course, they buy rich nobles and wealthy merchants. They are not short of money, just those Xinfeng wine, Sanlejiu, Gaochang wine and other fine wines that cost thousands of dollars. They buy as much as they buy.

Even if a little braised food is sold at a little more expensive, they can't think it's expensive and unaffordable.

"It's a pity that I can't get the beef, otherwise I would have another secret recipe, five-spice beef, which tastes better." Zhang Chao said with a smile.

Changsun Wuji smiled distractedly, "If you really want beef, I can ask someone to say hello to you, but I dare not say more. A hundred kilograms of beef a day can still even you."

Ordinary people cannot slaughter plowing oxes privately. To kill oxes, they must first be old, sick, or injured, and secondly, they must first be approved by the government.

Generally speaking, those cattle are handed over to specialists in the government to collect and slaughter.

In Chang'an, the capital, there are places to slaughter cattle. Most of the cattle are old cattle that cannot plow the land. They are slaughtered after being received by the capital and are provided to the nobles of the palace and the capital.

Cowhide, cow tendon, cow horns, etc. are military supplies and are directly taken away by the government.

For people like Changsun Wuji, it is not a problem to eat beef, even eating camels and horses.

"Then I would like to thank the county minister."

"Are you interested in becoming an official?" Changsun Wuji suddenly asked. "You can make soap and bend plows, and you are very smart. If you want to be an official, a ministry of work, you will be the supervisor or even a sect temple, and you will choose one place. It is still okay to arrange a small official with a rank first. If you can do it well, it is easy to get promoted. If you work in Beijing for a few years, you can still be transferred to the local government to be a secondary official, or even if you have a good assessment in the future, you may be a chief official."

Zhang Chao shook his head. Changsun Wuji's words were very sincere, not just saying things. He believed that as long as he nodded, Changsun Wuji would really help him get him to the yamen in the capital to be an official.

But he also understood that the only thing he went to now was to be a craftsman like a jail. To put it bluntly, when he went there, he was actually going to be a craftsman.

Nowadays, craftsmen are not as comfortable as engineers. That is, once they become craftsmen, they will probably only be able to travel around in this circle in their lifetime.

Zhang Chao didn't want to position himself as a craftsman, he would rather be a landlord.

The landlord is so free. Now he has made some money, bought some family business, and saved more than a thousand acres of land. He is considered a big landlord. He has a long leisurely life in the future, so there is no need to set up a chain for himself to be a small official and suffer from it.

Anyway, I now have a great official, and I am also an official.

"You can go back and think about it. If you have this idea in the future, tell me directly."

This time, Zhang Chao handed over the plow to him, which also made Changsun Wuji gain a lot of benefits. The above comments on merits and rewards, Changsun Wuji also received a compliment from Li Yuan and added a real fief of 100 households to him. Even his sister, Princess Qin, received a lot of praise, and Li Shimin also received a good review.

After returning, Li Shimin praised him very much. And last time he took 20% of Zhang Chao's soap shop shares for 1,000 yuan, which was a big advantage.

Today, Changsun Wuji actually left Zhang Chao at home for lunch.

Changsun Wuji asked someone to cut the baked duck chicken and braised elbow brought by Zhang Chao, and served a few more lamb dishes, and even ordered wine.

Changsun Wuji didn't call anyone else, but just sat down and drank.

"You have a thousand acres of land now, right?"

Zhang Chao nodded.

"Yes, I've become a landlord in just a few months. You are now considered an official. In the future, just find someone who can trust you to help you with this cake shop, soap shop, etc., so you don't have to do anything to your parents. At least you have to worry about your identity, and now it's not as good as before."

This has a bit of the meaning of elders teaching their younger generations. If Changsun Wuji hadn't thought Zhang Chaoren was OK, he wouldn't have said such words.

"Thank you for your education in the county."

Of course, Zhang Chao also understood that businessmen are a cheap business, and even if they are landlords doing business, they are not good-looking. But before, he had nothing to do before, and if he didn't work hard, he would sit at home and worry about his identity, so he could only drink the northwest wind.

Now after hard work, I have indeed achieved some success.

There are more than 1,000 acres of land at home, and nearly 2,000 acres of land. Even the catering business is doing well. It has been on the right track, pastry, soy products, and braised pork, and other stable profits. Zhang Chao will not have much impact on hiring a special manager to manage it in the future. He only needs to operate behind the scenes and no longer needs to show up at the front desk.

"Read more when you have time." Changsun Wuji grabbed an elbow and ate it very delicious.

"I also have that idea, and I plan to build some private schools in the village, and wait until next year to invite two gentlemen to enlighten the children in the village."

"This is good, it is good for educating people's wisdom."

Zhang Chao actually had a plan to do woodblock printing. Books are too expensive nowadays, and most of them are in the hands of those gentry. To write and read a book, you have to borrow books to copy it by borrowing it.

If Zhang Chao solves the problem of ink by then, it is not difficult to find a craftsman to carve the engraving board. The most difficult thing in woodblock printing is this ink problem. Ordinary ink cannot be engraved and printed. Another problem is that if the printing is put on the engraving, the printing volume must be large, or the cost is too high, it is not as cost-effective as hand-copying. If you print a lot, the engraving is damaged and large. In short, when you do the engraving, you must first think of a good project for printing books and prepare sales channels, otherwise the initial investment will be no small matter.

As for movable type printing, Zhang Chao hasn't thought so far.

First, print out the woodblocks, and then make a few versions of classics such as the Analects of Confucius and the Book of Songs, find a good channel, and then print them with all your strength. When you open a bookstore in Chang'an City, wouldn't it cause a shock in Chang'an?

No matter how expensive the carved version is, it will save time and labor more than hand-written. Efficiency is money. How can you compare to hand-written a book and printing a book?

By then, the price of the book in the carved version will drop significantly, which will allow knowledge to spread more quickly.

This is a major event in promoting culture through science and education.

At that time, Zhang Chao can even study papermaking, improve the process, and produce cheaper paper.

But there is no hurry to do these things now, take your time.

A meal gave Zhang Chao a lot of real understanding of Changsun Wuji. He thought Changsun Wuji was pretty good. A very smart person was also very free and easy.

Even if you are a little person like Zhang Chao, you can chat, eat and drink while talking and laughing.

After dinner, Changsun Wuji personally delivered Zhang Chao to the door. When he saw Zhang Chao riding an old crossbow horse, he smiled.

"Don't you have a good black horse?"

"I asked my father to ride as a horse prep. When he went out to fight, there were many good horses and sometimes many lives."

"This is a good thing, let me give you a horse, don't be polite."

"The elders give it, I dare not refuse." Zhang Chao smiled, not polite at all.

Changsun Wuji gave Zhang Chao a red horse, who was very beautiful and only four years old.

"Thank you to the county magistrate."

Many people in Changsun Mansion were shocked when they saw this scene. They did not expect that the husband would attach so much importance to a country boy.

"When my sister and I were kicked out of the mansion, how could they have thought that we would be today? Don't underestimate Zhang Sanlang, I think this kid is extraordinary."

Zhang Chao couldn't hear Changsun Wuji's comments. He rode the red horse back to Bashang, and Shuanzi rode his old white horse. The red saddle was complete and he was quite majestic, leaving the old white horse far behind.

It took nearly half a time to return to Bashang from Chang'an than when I went there.

The butler Zhang Gui came up to welcome him.

"The fourth wife of the Zhao family came to visit, and I asked my wife to entertain her in the yard."

"What are she doing?" Zhang Chao was a little surprised. He handed the reins of the horse to the butler and asked him to tie the horse.

After sorting out his clothes, Zhang Chao walked towards the yard with big strides.

Zhao Siniang sat there with a generous and very professional aura. Zhang Chao came in and she stood up to salute.

She explained her purpose and heard that Zhang Jiasanlang had invented a very useful new plow. He heard that the new plow could save a cow than in the past, so she hoped to order a batch of new plows from the Zhang family.

"Actually, although this new plow is much easier to use, it is very simple to make. I will send you a new plow, and you can just take it back and find someone to make it accordingly."

Unexpectedly, Zhao Siniang said, "This new plow is made by Saburo. How can we learn your skills at will? Or ask Saburo to make it for us. One plow will cost as much as you should. I want to book a hundred new plows, I don't know if it is possible."

"Of course." Zhang Chao replied with a smile. This girl was really interesting. He couldn't help but think. It will be continued.
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