Since there is space, it is naturally the best to buy it for 0 yuan

Chapter 405 Getting rich

As soon as Shen Ruyi arrived home, she entered the space and planned to see what supplies she had collected.

After opening the boxes and bags, he found that most of them were salt. Why did he get so much salt? How long would it take to eat it all? If he said he was selling salt, that didn't make sense.

She had heard of second-rank officials buying and selling salt permits privately, but she had never heard of him personally being involved in the salt trade. Or did he have other plans and preparations?

Shen Ruyi roughly counted and estimated that there were nearly two hundred bags of coarse salt and more than eighty boxes of fine salt. Why was she hoarding so much salt?

It was a little confusing, but salt was a controlled substance, and such a large amount seemed a little wrong. Shen Ruyi couldn't figure it out, so she didn't bother to think about it. No matter what he planned to do with it, it was in her hands now, and his plan would fail.

Then he opened the boxes that he had brought in from the iron house under the rockery, and saw that they were full of gold, weighing 10 taels each. He was rich.

Then Shen Ruyi moved all the boxes one by one and opened them one by one. He was busy for two hours. In these boxes, there were gold ingots and gold bricks. Damn, she really made a fortune.

Shen Ruyi counted them, a total of 360 boxes. She picked a box of gold nails at random and counted them. There were 5 layers in total, 30 nails per layer, which means one box contained 1500 taels of gold.

There is no need to count the gold bars specifically, as they are definitely heavier than gold ingots. Gold bars have almost no gaps, and the boxes they are packed in are of the same specifications, so the actual amount of money in them is only larger than the box of gold ingots, not smaller.

If all were calculated in gold ingots, it would be a total of 54 taels of gold. What does this mean? Shen Ruyi discovered that she had underestimated this era. The people here were much richer than she thought.

She had previously boasted that she was the richest person, but now, looking at what was happening, she apologized for her ignorance.

However, now all of these belong to me. Hahaha, so happy. Shen Ruyi suddenly likes gold ingots very much, the shock it brings to people is far greater than that of silver bills.

It doesn’t feel like spending a few pieces of paper on a daily basis, but seeing so many boxes, it feels so good. This is real money.

I have to rack my brains to find a way to spend it, which is so difficult.

Shen Ruyi put the boxes back in order.

I went to look at the various things that I had collected from the previous farm.

Food can be made and used for daily consumption.

Shen Ruyi looked through all the jade articles and jewelry and found that the styles were quite different from those here. The styles here were more delicate and exquisite.

Things in the capital are more open and bold, more rugged and more grand, giving a completely different feeling.

The differences in fabrics are even greater. There are many yarns and silk fabrics. Some are as thin as a cicada's wing, and light-transmitting but not transparent. Some feel cool and smooth to the touch, and feel very comfortable. There are also those that keep changing color under the light, and they don't look like silk or cloth.

Keep it, and once you're sure what these things are, consider whether to use them or not.

These kinds of cloth would be good for making window screens, or pajamas or home clothes for summer.

As for those rare books, calligraphy and paintings, she would check them when she had free time, and only use them after making sure that there were no annotations or notes in them.

I have to say, they are all good things, and obviously of better quality than what Shen Ruyi uses daily.

Shen Ruyi strolled around one last time and looked at the horses, geese, and dogs she had brought in.

They found that they had already adapted to life there, and were happily looking for food. As soon as the dogs saw Shen Ruyi, they started wagging their tails even though they were still far away.

Hey, where's your loyalty?

Seeing that everything was fine, I left the space.

The two cats also came back, and brought back the news that the man of the house was almost angry to death, and it was said that he smashed a lot of teacups.

Some people were beaten with sticks. It was normal to be beaten with sticks, as long as no one died.

Those birds are still there, continuing to monitor.

Shen Ruyi rewarded the two cats, who had completed their mission and remembered to come back, with two fish raised in the space and some cherries.

The Monkey King was rewarded with some fruits and the matter was settled. Shen Ruyi also specifically told the Monkey King that this was a secret and he must not mention it to anyone else.

The Monkey King nodded, took his reward and ran away impatiently: This shit scooper is getting more and more nagging, it's so annoying, I've told you so many times and you still say, "This Monkey King is not deaf."

Shen Ruyi had no idea that the Great Sage would complain about her like this in his heart. She only knew that the little brat was a little bit arrogant today and rolled his eyes at her.

The book about herbs and simple preparation methods that I had been asked to read before has been proofread and checked by two imperial doctors, and some of it has been copied out.

A few days ago, Shen Ruyi gave several books to the servants and tenants, asking them to collect and prepare herbs according to the pictures and text in the books.

I just wanted to see if they could understand and recognize the collected materials by looking at pictures or other people’s explanations without knowing how to read.

Today, there happened to be a result. A manager came to report: "Master, this book is feasible. There is no problem at all. Even if many people don't know the words, they can still understand it by looking at the pictures or listening to others talk about it. It can be prepared according to the requirements."

"Okay, I understand, go down."

Shen Ruyi sent someone to call Lord Wei and said, "Please help me give these two books to the emperor. One is about wild vegetables and fruits, and the other is about herbs. Tell the emperor that I plan to donate a batch of these books and give them to ordinary people for free, so that they can learn how to collect wild vegetables and fruits, how to cook them, and use them to fill their stomachs. At the same time, let them learn how to collect and prepare some herbs, so that they can earn more money and improve their quality of life.

I can provide all the books you need for free. What the government needs to do is to get these books to the people smoothly, rather than letting them fall into the hands of a few people. It also needs to be determined how many books are suitable for a village and how many books are needed. It would be best if we could have a rough estimate.

Of course, the things here, whether they are wild vegetables, fruits, or herbs, are all regional in nature. Not all places have the things mentioned above. There is no need to distribute them in places that do not produce these things. It would be useless and wasteful to distribute them. Currently, there are more than 1000 books on wild vegetables and fruits, but there are not many books on herbs for the time being. It will take some time. I am currently copying a large number of books here.”