Steel Dynasty - Chapter 70

[Chapter 70 Small Harvest]

Qingzhou.

A long spring rain ended the long cold winter, and spring came again. The spring breeze in February was like scissors.

The arrival of spring was good news for Xiao Ming, but there was more than one good news. Niu Li’s overturn was unanimously praised by the civil and military officials of the entire court. The news also spread to Qingzhou with the spring breeze.

Then eight hundred thousand taels of silver arrived in Qingzhou, but this was just an appetizer, accompanied by a huge order from the imperial court.

“Your Highness, this plan is really clever. Now the emperor has approved this ox-powered rollover. He requires all the imperial villages and official fields in Dayu to use ox-powered rollovers. The vassal kings were also alerted and also sent officials to order. Now The order for this Niuli rollover roller is 30,000 sets, which is nine million taels of silver. After deducting the cost, we can earn six million taels of silver.”

Li Kaiyuan was inexplicably excited. Now Qingzhou Commercial Bank is the only official in Qingzhou. Trading house, all the goods produced in this workshop area are shipped to all directions through the trading house.

At the same time, Qingzhou Commercial Bank is also responsible for external relations, such as taking orders. This time, in addition to orders from Chang’an, there are also many orders from vassal kings from various places.

However, it will take some time for these orders to be produced, and the money will not just be in Xiao Ming’s hands.

“Hey, damn productivity.” Xiao Ming sighed bitterly. If it were not for the limitation of productivity, he could earn more money.

But he is satisfied with the current situation. Perfume, soap, and Zui Qingzhou are very popular in the Great Chongqing Kingdom. These are a steady stream of money. Now, with just these three kinds of income, the palace can earn three million taels per month.

However, these silver coins seemed to be a lot, but in fact, when they were evenly allocated to various construction projects in Qingzhou, he did not have much money left every month.

The only good thing is that after spending the money, we finally saw some results.

Now Qian Dafu has successfully established limestone mines, coal mines, iron mines, and graphite mines. Each mine has a thousand slave miners, which basically meets the production needs of the workshop area.

The transportation of minerals also forced Qian Dafu to form a transportation team.

The horse-drawn flat-carts used by this transport team and the three hundred horse-drawn carriages in each transport team basically solved the domestic transportation problem.

As for the Salt Transportation Department that Xiao Ming mentioned at the beginning, it was officially established at the urging of Pang Yukun. Now, with the advantage of being close to the sea, the Salt Transportation Department has established a large number of salt fields in Dengzhou. Now the salt in the fiefdom no longer needs to be sourced from Outsourcing purchases make up the quantity.

Of course, the one that has made the most progress is the Equipment Division. When Changan was amazed by the power of cattle, the Equipment Division finally gave birth to a cutting-edge tool that will change the forging industry that has been trapped in power for a long time.

Within a month, Chen Qi and Xiao Ming repeatedly considered the hydraulic forging hammer, and with the addition of precision parts produced by lathes, the hydraulic forging hammer was finally born.

To this end, Xiao Ming decisively refined the equipment department and established the first professional steel workshop in the workshop area. The craftsmen in this workshop will only be responsible for the production and forging of steel.

Various types of water-powered lathes and manual lathes were established in lathe workshops, and cement workshops, brick workshops, wine shops, and perfume shops were also established.

All workshops are placed under the unified control of the Equipment Department.

After muttering to himself, thinking about his achievements in four or five months, he felt a little satisfied. Seeing Li Kaiyuan smiling so hard that he couldn’t even see his eyes, he said: “Don’t be too happy too early. These orders are just their trial purchases. You have a very heavy task next. “

In the past month, besides cooperating with Chen Qi to produce hydraulic forging hammers, Xiao Ming has also not stopped working on the Bowen Hall. All of his subordinates have been sent to the school to study.

As for Li Kaiyuan, what he imparted was naturally modern business knowledge.

“Your Highness, don’t worry. If you take something in advance, you must give it in advance. Tomorrow I will go to the fiefdoms of various feudal kings to lobby and ask them to encourage the wealthy families in the fiefdoms to purchase cattle power.” Li Kaiyuan said.

Xiao Ming nodded. This was a business activity he called Li Kaiyuan – public relations.

“Remember, a truly good businessman can buy a comb for a monk.” Xiao Ming said.

“The sales of goods lies in promotion.” Li Kaiyuan said smoothly.

Xiao Ming nodded. Li Kaiyuan learned all kinds of simple business knowledge very quickly, but Xiao Ming still had many things that he didn’t teach him because he couldn’t use them yet. When he used them, he would be the one to learn them. Time for everyone to fleece.

For him, the history of mankind is the history of war, and it is also the history of economics. War is for the sake of economy, and economy is also for the sake of war.

“It’s good to understand this. Spending money doesn’t matter. Now your task is to publicize it. Promote it so that those famous ladies don’t need soap or perfume and have no shame to go out. Promote it so that those powerful people don’t get drunk in Qingzhou and can’t handle other wines.” Ming said word by word.

If the merchants of Dayu think that they only have commodities, they would be looking down upon him. His layout has just begun, and his means of amassing the world’s wealth have just been launched.

He asked Li Kaiyuan to travel to various places in the Chongqing Kingdom to promote Qingzhou’s products. At the same time, he also approved public relations fees of millions of taels for Li Kaiyuan.

Of course, these fees are used to get through officials from various places. After all, Dayu State is still an official country. Only when officials are dealt with can his products flow unimpeded and these officials can cooperate in promotion.

After discussing some details with Li Kaiyuan, Li Kaiyuan left with enthusiasm. Xiao Ming sat down in front of the desk in the main hall, picked up a pen and wrote out a series of business strategies.

According to his plan, when soap travels among the powerful and the whole country of Chongqing is known, that is when he classifies perfume, soap, and Zui Qingzhou. At that time, soap with slightly lower quality will enter the common people. Life.

Since it is a business, of course, every consumer class must be taken into consideration. Xiao Ming’s principle has always been to do one thing to the extreme.

After formulating a sales strategy for Qingzhou products, Xiao Ming walked out of the main hall and looked at the bright sunshine outside.

The light spread, and Xiao Ming’s body seemed to be covered with a faint golden layer.

The sowing season is coming, and farming is the foundation of the fiefdom, because the amount of food will mean how many people he can feed and how many armies he can build.

Just as he was thinking about it, Pang Yukun came towards him with a young scholar.

This is the candidate recommended by Pang Yukun to Xiao Ming for the governor of Cangzhou. Once this person arrives, he can attack Chai Lingwu, the governor of Cangzhou.

“Chang Yuchun, common man, see your highness!” The young scholar bowed to Xiao Ming and saluted.

“No courtesy!” Xiao Ming stretched out his hand to make a support gesture.

Pang Yukun said at this time: “Your Highness, no matter who bribed Chai Lingwu, the governor of Cangzhou, the evidence of smuggling war horses is conclusive and he should be punished according to the law!”

Xiao Ming has a long-term vision, and now it is time to take control of his fiefdom step by step.

PS: There is only one update today, sorry, there will be three updates tomorrow.

(End of chapter)