"Sanlang, go and bring the newspaper for your father." In a two-in-one yard in Dengzhou City in Qilu, a middle-aged man with gray hair stretched out his waist and pounded his over-strung lumbar muscles with his right hand, and said a little lazily.

There was a recliner beside his feet, and a small tea table with a pot of tea on it, and a pair of glasses that only high-ranking officials and nobles in the Central Plains were now popular among the people.

With Lu Qi's conquest of the northern grassland, a large amount of natural alkali in the northern land flowed into the Central Plains. Lu Qi's glass manufacturing industry has naturally risen and gone up to a higher level. Objects such as glassware and glass mirrors in their early years have fallen prices and flew into the homes of ordinary people.

A large amount of cheap and high-quality natural alkali also affects the chemical industries such as papermaking, textiles, and leather making, which have a great promoting effect.

The so-called natural soda is natural soda, which is not only used in glass manufacturing, but also in the manufacture of soap and detergent manufacturing, papermaking and other papermaking industries, as well as leather treatment. Lu Qian remembers that Tongbai, Nanyang, later Central Plains, contained a large amount of natural alkali. He sent people to explore early, but after more than three years of busyness, he never found natural alkali minerals. The famous Wucheng alkali ore and Anpeng alkali minerals in later generations are still unknown. It is the second of the only four ancient natural alkali minerals in the world. But what is surprising is that the exploration team was exploring in Tongbai, but the natural alkali was not found, but found a large open-pit gold mine and a super-large silver mine.

This made Lu Qian's memory that had been silent for a long time in his mind. Tongbai seemed to be a place with very rich mineral resources. No, it was like this in the entire Nanyang Basin.

Because I only heard of Tongbai's natural ketone ore, and there was also natural ketone from the northern part of the Sebei region to replace it, and the discovery of the gold and silver ore made the sense of loss was almost slim.

After a moment, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old man jumped out of the house. He took a steamed bun in his left hand and chewed it with a pile of newspapers with his right hand. He came to his father and threw the newspaper onto the coffee table very recklessly, but it dispersed all over the floor.

The middle-aged man immediately glared at him with a stern look and said, "Bastard, this is newspapers, not toilet paper. If you don't know how good or bad you are, you will read books into your dog's belly?" In today's era, older people still have a high respect for newspapers. The image of newspapers in their minds is very similar to books. But what about the younger generation? Just like this kid now. From the day he remembers, newspapers have become part of his life and are within reach. Moreover, after twenty or thirty years of development, today, China, there are newspapers everywhere, and newspapers in all provinces, prefectures and counties, which will be considered to be "precious".

The middle-aged man picked up the scattered newspapers one by one, patted the dust on his head, placed it on the coffee table, and then returned to his chair, picked up a portion and looked through it carefully.

The young man curled his lips and turned back to the room.

As a veteran of the whaling fleet, the middle-aged man after retirement did not sit idly by the sacrificial land, but instead acquired the funds to acquire land [use rights], planting cotton, soybeans, tobacco and other cash crops, and investing the funds into the stock market. Although he had little capital, in recent years, stocks in Luqi rarely fell again. After catching up with the bull market, pigs could fly. There were dividends every year, and multiple stocks were added together. The rich capital and income made him not inferior to those comrades who went to the business world to fight after he was discharged from the army.

As a wealthy class in Dengzhou City, reading newspapers was a long-standing habit for middle-aged people. This was a habit he developed in his early whaling fleet, because the military teachers would take them to read newspapers every day. Later, the habit became natural.

What's more, these newspapers not only mean experience, experience, and talk, but also wealth.

Just like the Haizhou Phosphate Mine he once invested in, he understood the meaning of the Phosphate Mine through newspapers, and invested a sum of funds early. Although the investment fund of the entire Phosphate Mine was only a drop in the bucket, 300 silver dollars also allowed him to get 30 stock notes. Now in just three years, the 300 silver dollars in the past has become thousands of capital, and there are dividends every year, and there are also 500 yuan in accumulation.

It's more than doubled in a year, and such a good business comes from newspapers.

Therefore, his value is no worse than his former comrades who have raised money to work hard in the business world. In this Dengzhou City, he belongs to an absolutely wealthy class.

It was half noon in a flash. The middle-aged man got up and went back to the house, changed his body-faced clothes, and the servants at home had prepared horses for him, yes, horses, not carriages.

Qilu is the birthplace of Lu Qi, and it is also the province with the highest enthusiasm for joining the army among the provinces in Central China and Turkey. Here, as the identity of a middle-aged veteran and his current age, if you ride a carriage, you will be laughed at by his friends and relatives.

By noon, the middle-aged man returned and the hostess had already prepared the meal.

The content of the lunch well reflects the living standards of the small bourgeoisie in Qilu. It is very good to have a plate of white flour steamed buns, two meats and two vegetables, a pot of stewed white fish soup, and a pot of soju wine.

The water vapor and humidity are heavy in the sea in Dengzhou. Especially for middle-aged soldiers who have been living in the navy, drinking soju can activate blood and unblock blood, drive away cold and dampness, and they have long been inseparable from it. Just like their dependence on whale meat and seafood.

As for grain, domestic grain prices have been stable for many years, and whether it is a disaster or a bumper harvest, they have always maintained a roughly normal price.

Lu Qian envied the description of the British Jevins: the plains of North America and Russia are our cornfields, Canada and the Baltic Sea are our forest areas, Australia is our ranch, Peru is our silver mine, South Africa and Australia are our gold mines, India and China are our tea plantations, the East Indies are our sugar cane, coffee, spice plantations, and the southern United States is our cotton plantations.

Lu Qi is really comparable to the British Empire at that time, and in terms of the stability of the ruling foundation, he is even more than three streets ahead of John Bull.

When John was awesome, he was indeed the overlord of the world, and their hegemony was based on the fact that no one dared to provoke the British Empire. But what about Lu Qian's Great Qi Empire? That was the real rule of the world.

The huge America is the private land of the Lu family royal family. The vast but arid Australia will become China's best pasture, South Ocean, Japan, India, the empire's granaries, forest farms, gold and silver mines and spice bases. China's dominance will naturally be stabilized in the future, and the history of this earth will become completely different from the original time and space.

After lunch, the young man couldn't stand his father's gaze and ran to the nearby library to have a borrowed reading card. The middle-aged man took out a bag of tobacco after the meal and took a few mouthfuls to relieve his fatigue.

Tobacco is a "model of cultivation" that is becoming more and more popular in Middle-earth. A cigarette after a meal can make you live a god. The high profit is the most fundamental starting point for the people to grow.

Until the evening approached, a group of children about ten years old had finished school in groups. Dengzhou was the city of the city, not only a boys' school, but also a girl's school. The best daughter of middle-aged people was one of the students.

The school has an exclusive public carriage, which sends the girls who are going to school home one by one. It is very convenient and safe.

"Dad, dad, I heard that the standard for the poor population has been raised a lot this year..."

When the young man returned home, nodded to his smiling sister, and hurriedly shouted to his father.

Just as the middle-aged man's face changed, he couldn't help but stand up, "Who did you hear this?"

"It's Bai Li!" The young man opened his mouth and said a man's name, but the middle-aged man's face turned even heavier. Because he knew who Bai Li was. The Bai family's children were not a big shot in the whole world, and even Lu Qi was not a big shot, but the Bai family had a place in Dengzhou.

"We need to raise our heads. Could it be that the court wants to move everyone out?" The hostess said annoyed.

"The woman's opinion. Your Majesty's expedition to heaven and sweep away Ross, the world returns to the hearts of all the seas, and the unification of the eight desolates is a great achievement that has not been seen in ancient and modern times."

"Moving the people and enfeoffing the sons as barriers of the empire is a matter of great success." The middle-aged man glared at his wife fiercely. Aren't the emperor's son immigrated? Besides, he is the grass-roots people below? "Even if the immigration bureau is fierce, it is also a long-term plan. I have some assets in my family, and even though Dalang is already an adult, there is no need to worry."
Chapter completed!