Chapter Ten: Zhao Xing Enters the City to Sell Furniture

  As it was winter, the tenants had little farm work to do and were all mobilized by Zhao Xing to make furniture. Because of Zhao Xing's extraordinary behavior in the past, which could even be called "dazzling", the villagers had unconsciously regarded him as a living "Wenqu Star". As for the tasks assigned by him, they encountered no resistance, and everyone worked enthusiastically.

  Some tenant farmers were assigned to the back mountain to work as loggers, some were assigned to be porters, and others were grinding and painting. The entire Li family's courtyard nearby was busy with 30 or 40 households, even Li Jin Si, Li Jin Wu and Xu Wanting couldn't bear the loneliness and came over to help.

  Looking at the neatly arranged piles of furniture on the drying field, in Zhao Xing's eyes they all turned into glittering gold ingots. Fortunately, over 1,800 years ago, within the borders of Shanxi Province, there were still lush green trees and dense forests everywhere, as long as one had the strength, entering the Taihang Mountains could yield a large amount of timber.

  With the cost of raw materials eliminated, Zhao Xing's wish to dig up the first bucket of gold in the late Eastern Han dynasty would soon be realized.

  After a winter, "Li Jia Zhuang Wood Research and Development Team" produced 300 folding round dining tables with matching high stools, 300 "Rocking Comfort Chairs", 300 "Youthful Beauty High-Low Cabinets" with matching stools, and 300 "Inspiration Springs Desks" with matching armchairs.

  Looking at the various furniture laid out in the sun-dried rice field, the villagers who participated in the labor were proud of their crazy and magnificent feat, but also secretly worried that these things might not be as magical as Zhao Jia's Wen Qu Xing said, exchanging them for a large sum of money, big ingots and bushels of white rice flour.

  At the time of the establishment of the R&D team, everyone was allocated shares based on their labor force, accounting for 60%, and Chairman Zhao (said to be a self-proclaimed position by some unscrupulous person) held 40% of technical shares.

  Although everyone still has some hope of making money, because Zhao Quxing said that he can make money, then he must be able to make money! However, not many fellow villagers really expected to get rich by relying on this. They just thought it was a good opportunity to have fun with the young master of the Zhao family, exercising their bodies and not losing anything.

  On a certain afternoon that everyone had overlooked, Zhao Xing brought Li Jinsi, Li Jinwu, Xu Wanting and Zhang Wangcai, Li Erdou and several other men, carrying two sets of furniture on an oxcart, slowly entering the city of Changzi County, while Zhou Cang and Pei Yuanshao were left behind to watch the house and guard the courtyard.

  Before entering the city, Zhao Xing had already investigated clearly: Zhu County Magistrate of Changzi County (a character created by the author, not found in history books, and some minor characters that appear later in the text are roughly the same) was a timid but greedy guy who only knew how to curry favor with his superiors and do some evil deeds to bully the common people.

  Zhao Xing this time brought furniture into the city, just to prepare for calculating Zhu County's departure. He wanted to borrow Zhu County's hand to transfer a set of furniture to Shangdang Governor Zhang Yang (zi Zhisun), and the remaining set would naturally be used to show filial piety to Zhu County.

  With these two big shots from Shangdang County as free advertising spokespersons, all Zhao Xing had to worry about was that the quantity of furniture would not be enough to meet the needs of the wealthy families in Shangdang. "Hmm, must sell at a good price, after all, what we're operating is also considered luxury goods." Zhao Xing thought to himself as he knocked on the door ring of Zhu County's residence.

  After hearing the intention, the servant of Zhu County Magistrate's house opened the door and ran inside with his feet. He was quite surprised, as most things in the county magistrate's house were brought by him and his men from ordinary people, but he had never seen such a polite commoner who personally delivered goods to the county magistrate.

  I ran all the way while looking up at the sky and muttered to myself: Today, the sun didn't even rise from the west.

  Not long after, Zhao Xing saw a ball of meat rolling out from behind the screen wall. Seeing the true "Pig County Magistrate", Zhao Xing couldn't help but sigh in his heart, wondering how much fat and oil had been used to build up this physique.

  Although he despised it in his heart, Zhao Xing still walked up with a smile on his face and bowed to pay respects: "County Lord, the humble commoner Zhao Xing has learned that you worry about the country and its people day and night, working hard for the sake of the people of Changzi County. Today, I have especially brought a set of new-style furniture made by this humble commoner to express my admiration for your patriotic heart. I hope you won't mind accepting it." After finishing this long speech, Zhao Xing couldn't help but look down on himself: What the hell is all this? Even when giving someone something, he has to put on airs.

  After being flattered by Zhao Xing, the "Pig County Magistrate" who was in a daze pretended to decline for a while before letting people hurry to move the furniture into the mansion.

  "County Master, I have a small request to make of you, and I hope you will grant it." Zhao Xing said hastily as he saw Pig County Magistrate staring at the remaining furniture with shining eyes.

  "Oh? I wonder what request does the young master of the Zhao family have?" asked Pig County Magistrate with a smile, holding someone's hand.

  "I also request that the remaining set of furniture be sent to County Governor with someone, please!" Zhao Xing said excitedly, "County Governor and County Magistrate are both my parents' officials in Shangdang County. I'm afraid if County Magistrate receives the furniture while County Governor doesn't, it will cause rumors among others, so I have prepared another identical set of furniture."

  "Good! Good! Good! It should be so, it should be so!" Although County Magistrate Zhu looks like a pig, his brain is not a pig's brain. As soon as Zhao Xing spoke, he felt that the young man in front of him was no ordinary person and guessed that the purpose of sending furniture was to let himself help introduce him to the county governor. However, this young man is quite knowledgeable, knowing "harmony with dust" at such a young age, so it's good to help him out.

  Then, County Magistrate Zhu arranged for a group of attendants to deliver a set of new furniture to the mansion in a big way, and many people in Zichang County saw this scene.

  "Brother Xing, the furniture has been sent out. What's next?" Li Jin Si asked excitedly, poking his head out from behind Zhao Xing.

  "Of course we'll go to 'Fen Yun Lou' for a big meat feast and drink wine from large bowls!" Li Jinwu responded with a loud and clear voice.

  "Let's go find a shop and set up an investment promotion office!" Zhao Xing didn't bother to explain, and without waiting for the two brothers to react to the new term, he took off in the direction of the street lined with shops.