thefictionvixens Chapter 242
Chapter 242
"Your Highness, Lord Su, we each selected ten literate people in our mansion. Lord Su will send someone to teach them."
Before Li Shanhuai and others returned to the living room, they explained some things to those people in person.
Including the other five families, there are a total of 130 people.
Su Chen waved his hand and smiled:
"Don't be polite for small matters.
The heads of the families can go to various places in advance to find suitable places to build papermaking and printing factories. When they have learned, they can go to various places to produce immediately to avoid delays."
As for which of these families is responsible for which place, Su Chen does not intend to ask.
If I guess correctly, it will still be divided according to the salt business Daozhou.
"Lord Su, please consider it. I will start to arrange it as soon as I go back." Li Shanhuai said with a bow.
"Papermaking and printing workshops, you can decide the number of openings based on population and region.
But the bookstores must be popularized in the county, and there must be at least one bookstore in each county."
Su Chen reminded with a serious expression.
Initially, the plan was to provide papermaking and printing technology to the noble families.
The main thing was to value their manpower and material resources, which ordinary merchants could not compare with.
Only in this way could books be quickly popularized.
"Don't worry, Lord Su, we promise to spread the Zhenguan Book House in every county of the Tang Dynasty."
Li Shanhuai immediately promised.
Even if Su Chen did not ask for this, they would still do so.
Li Shanhuai did not mention to Su Chen that each of them sent 600 strings of copper coins, but asked the servants to inform the housekeeper of the manor.
The money was not too little, not too much.
Now it happened that Su Chen promised them that the children of the family would come to the manor to enroll, and the 600 strings could be used as tuition.
"Your Highness, Lord Su, I believe you have important matters to discuss.
We are inconvenient to disturb you, and we will go back to the mansion first to prepare for the opening of the paper mill."
After whispering a few words with several other heads of the family, Li Shanhuai stood up and bowed.
"Okay, I'll see you off!" Su Chen stood up and said, it was too early to keep guests for dinner. Li Chengqian and Li Tai also stood up to see him off. "How dare you trouble His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to see you off? Please stay, we'll take our leave!" Li Shanhuai and others bowed and walked out of the living room one after another. Su Chen and others followed closely behind, walked into the living room and watched them leave the manor. Hmm? Su Chen saw a carriage parked on the square, with a box that looked like money on it. Jin'er and Wang Xi were next to the carriage, directing the servants to move the money box. "Jin'er!" Su Chen called Jin'er over. "Son-in-law, these copper coins were sent to the manor by those noble families, 600 strings per family, a total of 7,800 strings. They said it was tuition!" Before Su Chen could ask, Jin'er ran up to tell him the source of the money. When Jin'er ran to Su Chen, Su Chen clearly heard the sound of many copper coins rubbing against each other.
It turned out that Jin'er had a bulging money bag tied around her waist, with at least eighty or ninety copper coins in it.
Su Chen asked in confusion: "Tuition?"
This tuition fee is not easy to understand. It is not known whether it is for learning papermaking at the manor or for entering Hope Primary School.
Su Chen no longer dwelled on this. Li Shanhuai and the other family owners had already left the manor.
Only a carriage with three money boxes and a coachman were left.
Su Chen thought about it and decided to return some gifts!
"Jin'er, ask someone to move thirteen watermelons from the warehouse, and then ask the coachman to deliver them to the houses of those noble families.
Put them in baskets and don't break them."
"Okay, son-in-law!"
Jin'er went to find someone to move the watermelons, and Su Chen walked towards the coachman.
"My Lord!"
Wang Xi saw Su Chen coming and immediately saluted.
Su Chen smiled and nodded, walked towards the driver, and asked, "Which mansion are you from?"
"Sir, I am from the Fanyang Lu family mansion."
The driver bowed respectfully and replied.
"I'll trouble you to deliver those watermelons to the mansions of the various family heads later. If you don't know where to send them, you can ask the head of the Lu family.
Watermelon is a kind of fruit, cut into small pieces with a knife and eat the flesh.
The several family heads just left not long ago, maybe you can catch up with them."
The driver was a little confused, he didn't even know what a watermelon was.
But he remembered what Su Chen told him.
"Sir, I remembered it!"
The driver agreed respectfully.
Not long after, Jin'er came with six servants carrying three baskets of watermelons.
Put the watermelons on the carriage.
"Jin'er."
Su Chen called Jin'er and nodded at the driver.
Jin'er immediately took off the purse, grabbed a handful of copper coins, and counted them carefully.
"Here are thirteen watermelons. You can deliver them to those noble family masters. If you are lucky, you can catch up with them."
Jin'er grabbed ten copper coins in her hand and handed them to Ma.Husband.
"No, no, I will definitely deliver this watermelon."
The coachman retreated again and again, pushing his hands outward, not daring to accept the copper coins.
Although the coachman did not know Su Chen's identity.
But he clearly saw the attitude of those family heads towards Su Chen.
How could he dare to accept these ten copper coins?
"It's okay, take it, and hurry up to catch up with your family head."
Su Chen said with a slight smile.
After hesitating for a while, the coachman carefully accepted the ten copper coins.
A respectful bow.
"Thank you, my dear, I will go now."
The coachman of the Lu family stepped onto the carriage, waved the whip and drove away.
From time to time, he looked back at Su Chen and others.
Su Chen smiled and shook his head gently, and returned to the living room.
"Brother-in-law, I can't stay for long today. My father should wait for me to return to the palace to report."
Li Chengqian came to Su Chen to say goodbye.
"Okay, go back and take Ma Zhou to the palace to get familiar with the environment."
Su Chen suddenly decided to let Ma Zhou go to the palace with him, so that Ma Zhou would not go alone to the palace and be unfamiliar with the place.
"Ma Zhou, if there is nothing else, you can go to the palace with the prince to get familiar with it and meet Doctor Wei by the way."
Su Chen turned to Ma Zhou and said.
"Okay, my lord, thank you, your highness!" Ma Zhou bowed to Su Chen and the others.
"No need to be polite, it's just a side trip."
Li Chengqian waved his hand and smiled.
"Brother-in-law, do you still want beer and watermelon? I'll have someone prepare some for you."
Li Chengqian thought about it and shook his head.
"I don't seem to be very interested in the beer. You don't like strong liquor, so keep it for yourself.
You have a lot of people, and there are still watermelons in the palace."
"Okay, I won't send you off." Su Chen didn't be polite to him either.
"Well, let's go back to the palace now. Help me wash my hair when you have time, so that I can learn more!"
Without waiting for Su Chen to react, he turned to Ma Zhou and said:
"Ma Zhou, let's go!"
Ma Zhou bowed to Su Chen and Li Tai, turned around and followed Li Chengqian out of the manor.
After Li Chengqian got on the carriage, Su Chen said angrily:
"Help him wash his hair?"
"The prince is so great! Don't you think so?"
Su Chen looked at Li Tai and asked.
"Uh, Su Chen, when do you think you can help me wash my hair? I heard from Li Zhi that the shampoo is very magical."
Li Tai said slyly.
Su Chen: "..."