Jiang Zhou made another trip to the Inspector’s Office for Wen Yuanxing to meet Zhuo Bang.
At this moment, Zhuo Bang was dealing with official business, but when he heard Jiang Zhou coming, he immediately went out to greet him: “What’s the emergency, little brother?”
Jiang Zhou shook his head: “It’s nothing; I just wanted to say the emperor’s reservation for the batch of cement is ready. When are you going to transport it? How do you plan to transport it?”
Zhuo Bang pondered for a moment: “Your Majesty didn’t say; I guess someone from my inspectoral office will take the road in Lucheng. There are fewer bumpy mountain roads.”
“Sir, have you considered what to do if it rains heavily on the way?” Last time Zhuo Bang’s bag of cement was almost gone with the rain; it was easier to save because there was only one bag. This time, with such a large quantity, if it suddenly rained heavily, it might be difficult to salvage.
Speaking of this, Zhuo Bang also had a headache. It was not like he had not considered it, but he had no other way, so he asked Jiang Zhou: “Little brother, do you have any ideas?”
Jiang Zhou touched his nose: “I have two ways; it’s just a different way to reach the same destination.”
“What ways?”
“One way is to take the waterway, which is faster. The small river is just a tributary. If you can extend it up to the Bohai Sea, you can go all the way to the capital. However, there is a drawback: the sea is very rough, and the ship will capsize if you are not careful. If there are no familiar sailors, you will probably never come back.”
Zhuo Bang worried: “But we don’t have any familiar sailors here either. Most of them are boatmen on the river, and there are no big waves. It is impossible to get the navy to come over now.”
Jiang Zhou reassured: “There is a second way, which is to still take the land route but use the boats commonly used in the river. The carraige’s canopy is disassembled to look like the roof of a boat.”
Most boat canopies were oil canopies. Because of the characteristics of the bamboo film, it was difficult for water to leak. Even if it was exposed just a little bit, they could cover it with oil paper.
Although this method was simple, ordinary people would never think of it.
Zhuo Bang sighed after hearing this. How could people have such good brains? That little brat in his family didn’t know what he was thinking about every day. There was no progress.
Speaking of Zhuo Yan, Zhuo Bang couldn’t help but want him to meet other people, so he said to Jiang Zhou, “By the way, do you remember that I have a son?”
Jiang Zhou nodded: “Of course, Your Excellency has mentioned it before.”
“My son is in the house. I want to ask him to come and learn from you. Is that possible?”
Jiang Zhou was surprised: “Learn from me? I’m just a reckless man. Your son must have been carefully trained since he was a child. I’m afraid I can’t teach him anything.”
Zhuo Bang shook his head: “He had three teacher before but my son loves to have fun and has never studied seriously at all. Furthermore, little brother Jiang, you can come up with things like cement. Being able to open a prosperous place like Lu Jiang Restaurant definitely has merit, so why belittle oneself?”
He had already said so. Jiang Zhou naturally couldn’t say anything, but he was muttering in his heart about what he could teach. Should he teach about how to do business?
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He sat and waited for a while, then saw a servant leading Zhuo Yan in.
At that moment, Jiang Zhou happened to take a sip of tea and covered his face with his raised sleeves.
Zhuo Yan’s face was gloomy, but due to his father’s majesty, he couldn’t say anything: “Dad, do you want to see me for something?”
Zhuo Bang was not angry: “Haven’t you gone to see other people yet? This is a friend whom I met not long ago.”
Although Zhuo Yan was not in the best mood, he still knew etiquette and turned his body to salute: “Hello, Uncle.”
Unable to see Jiang Zhou’s face, he thought he was a man about the same age as his father, so he called him uncle as a matter of course.
Jiang Zhou didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, and put down the tea cup: “I can’t be an uncle with my age.”
Hearing such a young voice, Zhuo Yan was a little surprised. What surprised him even more was that the voice was particularly familiar, so he raised his head, turned his head, and saw Jiang Zhou’s smiling face.
“…” Zhuo Yan suddenly lost his voice and couldn’t help but take two steps back.
Seeing his reaction, Jiang Zhou was a little strange and asked, “What’s wrong?” He looked at Zhuo Yan carefully and felt that he looked familiar: “I seem to have seen you somewhere?”
After hearing this, Zhuo Yan was even more frightened and said hurriedly: “Yes, we have met once before.”
Before Jiang Zhou could say anything, he continued: “I followed my father here last time. I heard about the reputation of your restaurant and was curious for a moment, I went to eat a bowl of noodles.”
When he said this, Jiang Zhou remembered it, as if it was because of this meeting: “This is also the fate of you and me.”
Zhuo Yan smiled stiffly: “Isn’t it just fate?”
To be honest, Jiang Zhou and he actually had nothing to talk about.
In his eyes, Zhuo Yan was probably the type who had received an elite education since childhood. He was well-read and sensible, and his ultimate dream in the future was probably to take the imperial examination and become a high official.
And what about him? He was born in a modest family. Although he had studied for a few years, he also stayed away from those who knew about literature. Nowadays, most of his energy was devoted to business. If Zhuo Yan wanted to talk about poetry and books with him, Jiang Zhou would probably turn around and leave.