"Your humble servant greets the Emperor." Just as Yang Hanyi was about to salute, Zhu Youxiao waved his hand to stop him, and looked at the little kitten with a smile on his face.
Li Chengcheng also smiled from ear to ear, pointing at each of them and introducing them to the emperor, "Your Majesty, this youngest one was born first, I don't know if she is the eldest sister or the eldest brother."
Zhu Youxiao chuckled and said, "As you raise them, you won't be able to tell who's who. It doesn't matter if you're the eldest or the second in command."
"Long live those who can tell them apart." Tao Yan seemed a little dissatisfied with Zhu Youxiao's confusion and indifference, and suddenly said, "They all have their own little characteristics. The one with a tuft of black hair on the tip of the ear is the second one, and the one with a black tail is the third one..."
Yeah? The little girl has a really good memory!
Zhu Youxiao was very surprised and couldn't help but look at Tao Yan a few more times.
Li Chengcheng hurriedly went to find a pen and paper, muttering, "I'll write this down so I don't make mistakes next time. Let's name them in order: Xiaoda, Xiaoer, Xiaosan..."
Zhu Youxiao rolled his eyes. She could handle it better than him. Xiaosan, well, do you want her to suffer discrimination and ridicule in the cat world?
Tao Yan pouted slightly, lowered her eyelids, and was too lazy to complain, but one could see disgust on her face.
Zhu Youxiao resisted the urge to pinch the little girl's face and said with a smile, "When they grow up, it's not too late to name them after you can tell the difference and see their habits. Maybe the little female cat is very naughty and needs a name with the word 'Tao' in it!"
It seemed like she was talking about me. Tao Yan blinked her eyes without looking up, but pursed her lips.
Xiaobai was very tired and was lying there to rest; Ye Hei was standing beside him, looking at outsiders warily and watching over its babies.
This cat-like appearance made Zhu Youxiao like it more, and he thought it was a responsible guy.
Seeing that nothing was wrong, Yang Hanyi bowed and took her leave. In fact, she didn't help much, just watched the cat give birth, because she had never delivered a cat before.
Tao Yan was a little reluctant to leave, and she took a long look at the kittens before leaving with her master.
"Xiaobai is tired too. Give it two chicken livers to nourish it and then let it have a good rest." Zhu Youxiao did not reach out to touch it. Although he liked it very much, he seemed to have seen that if the kitten was stained with other smells, the mother cat would not feed it.
Oh, Li Chengcheng nodded repeatedly, his eyes never leaving the kitten.
Six, that’s pretty impressive, but I can have ten!
Zhu Youxiao turned and left, secretly resolving that he would never lose to the cat people.
If you can't have a litter of children, then you can find an equal number of wives. Don't believe me? I'm strong and vigorous, and I can handle eight or ten wives.
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Although Zhu Youxiao was impressed by the salt tax bill proposed during the summer and thought it was quite characteristic of a market economy, he still needed to study it carefully and improve it before it could be implemented.
More importantly, the salt factory must be properly controlled. If the salt factory officials are incompetent, pocketing all the money while collecting little tax on the salt, then it would be better for the factory to remain in chaos as it is now.
If the ticket salt system was implemented, the first obvious effect Zhu Youxiao could see would be "suppressing salt prices" and benefiting the people.
It is now available for purchase freely. Salt merchants of all sizes, and even ordinary people, can trade in salt.
What is this called? Competition! Under competition, the monopoly of the big salt merchants and their arbitrary pricing will no longer work.
Competition is certainly a good thing, and once the salt ticket system was introduced, the country's major salt factories would also be affected. From a cost perspective, boiling salt was expensive, so fewer people would buy it. Drying salt was cheaper, so it was definitely favored by merchants and citizens.
In other words, once competition was introduced, even the salt factories would be drawn in. This was especially true of the Lianghuai salt factories, which were already more expensive than Guangdong salt and relied entirely on the protection of the salt-trading areas to maintain their operations and collect salt taxes.
But from a national perspective, if salt factories are strictly controlled, an increase in salt taxes is certain.
The big salt merchants would cry, the private salt dealers would lose their jobs, and the common people would be happy. After comparing the three, Zhu Youxiao had already made a choice.
What made him even more delighted was that he had found another talented person. That's right, Tang Mo's letter was equivalent to recommending Xia Zhongshi, and it was revealed between the lines.
Zhu Youxiao pondered for a moment and prepared to summon Xia Zhongshi to serve as an inspector of salt first to familiarize himself with the salt administration business, which would be of great use in the future.
With the mindset of a time traveler, Zhu Youxiao values talent over wealth. After all, in this era, it's not easy to earn his praise.
Zhu Youxiao considered Xia Zhongshi not the only one who was considered a talent. Chen Zizhuang, Xu Fuyuan and others were also included. Of course, they were still being tested.
However, now they are in the house purchased by Zhu Youxiao, taking turns observing the new objects in their hands and expressing their amazement one after another.
If the new knowledge broadened their horizons, the objects made by Zhu Youxiao allowed them to see the wonder and incredibleness of the microscopic world.
Zhu Youxiao made a wooden instrument and called it a microscope, but he himself knew that it was just a magnifying instrument similar to a microscope.
Of course, although this was a simple microscope, it was made up of compound lenses, and thanks to the successful manufacture of lead glass, the magnification reached fifty times.
Zhu Youxiao continued his research, but he wasn't personally involved. He knew that the world's first practical microscope had only one lens, but through innovative methods, he polished it to produce a fine product with a magnification of 720 times.
Therefore, as a founder, he will sooner or later be able to complete the task of finding and training masters of lens grinding to present a whole new world to human vision.
"Is this an ant?" Xu Fuyuan stared at the strange thing under the camera with wide eyes and swallowed hard. "This thigh is really, really disgusting."
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