Gu Jiu felt that he had lost a hundred million.
When she returned to the palace, she was lying on the soft bed, unable to lift herself up.
Once the cement road from Beijing to Luozhou is completed, the benefits of cement are clearly displayed in front of the world.
Seeing that the capital cement market was about to experience a blowout, she had no choice but to give up the opportunity to make money to Shaofu.
ah ah!
One hundred million was lost.
"Tomorrow, I'm going to find the Shaofu's order and beat him up."
Liu Zhao laughed, "So unwilling, why did you give up the capital's cement market before? You don't have to do that."
Gu Jiu sighed, "I can't do this. Father asked the Shaofu to burn cement, and if the money is invested, there will be no profit for a while.
If I don't give up the cement market in the capital and ask the Shaofu to enjoy a wave of bonuses first, with the stinginess of the father, he will definitely focus on the cement road from the capital to Luozhou and intervene in the toll booth.
No way, I can only give up the small and take the big. Anyway, the south of the Yangtze River is rich, and it takes a little time to earn back the losses in the capital. "
Liu Zhao was silent.
Because what Gu Jiu said is correct, Emperor Wen De is so stingy.
If Gu Jiu didn't let some bonus come out first, Emperor Wende would not be happy.
The so-called companion is like a tiger, that is what it means.
Liu Zhao said: "Don't worry, I will avenge this revenge for you."
Gu Jiu stared, "Why are you avenging me?"
Liu Zhao smiled mysteriously, "Do you know why Emperor Father talked about cement in Weiyang Palace instead of Xingqing Palace?"
"Is it guarding against someone?"
"Naturally, it is to guard against the household department. This time Shaofu will build a cement workshop and build roads. I will help the household department, the military department and the engineering department. Let them also get involved in the cement business."
Gu Jiu became nervous, "Is it possible to do this? You won't be afraid of Father's wrath and punish you?"
Liu Zhao smiled, "It's okay, I won't involve myself in it."
He just needs to sell the news to someone, and this cement war cannot be avoided.
Shaofu and Emperor Wende wanted to eat alone, that was absolutely impossible.
Haw!
Gu Jiu poked Liu Zhao's face, "That's great! It's true that the Shaofu can't let the Shaofu eat alone, and we have to guard against corruption."
It is really too easy for toll stations to make fake accounts.
In order to prevent false accounts, Gu Jiu reused the veterans of the Sirius Army and asked them to be toll collectors. On the one hand, they recruit employees from all over the country and let them manage the accounts and money.
It is equivalent to a check and balance between the two sides.
In order to prevent a group of people from being greedy for ink, she also planned to replace people at the toll station every year.
You can't let a group of people stay in one place for a long time. This is easy to form a nest of corruption.
As long as the flow of personnel at toll stations can be guaranteed every year, corruption cases can be effectively eliminated.
But Liu Zhao said: "I just wronged you. Although I don't know how to make a living in economics, I also know that this cement can earn you a lot of money. If you give up the capital for nothing, you must suffer heavy losses."
More than a heavy loss, it is clearly a loss of 100 million.
ah ah!
Can't think about it.
When I think about it, my heart hurts.
Gu Jiu covered her heart with a distressed look on her face.
Liu Zhao became worried, "What's the matter? Where is the pain? Quickly check your own pulse."
Gu Jiu shook her head, "My heart feels uncomfortable."
"Could it be a heart disease?" Liu Zhao turned pale with shock, and wanted to send someone to invite the imperial physician.
Pooh!
Gu Jiu laughed, "Look at how nervous you are, I'm not that serious. It's just that I feel bad for money."
Liu Zhao frowned slightly, "Why don't we take back the capital market."
"Where can I get back what I gave away? I'm not that stingy."
But looking at your uncomfortable appearance, it's not as grand as you said.
Gu Jiu bared her teeth, a stinky man knows how to tear things apart.
"Forget it, forget it, the big deal is that I'll earn it from other places."
Making money is already an extremely simple matter for Gu Jiu.
She was just a little upset that the cement market that had been developed so hard was handed over in vain.
She is feeling distressed here. In the palace, the emperor and empress are discussing her.
Empress Pei waited on Emperor Wende to wash up, while chatting, "Gu Jiu is good, he took the initiative to give up the cement market."
Emperor Wende hummed, and said after a while: "She is guarding against me. It is really unreasonable to treat my belly with the heart of a villain."
Empress Pei laughed, "Today, the dividends were paid out. At the beginning, I paid 50,000 taels from the prince's mansion, and I got a lot of money. The courtiers and concubines also followed suit. Could it be that she deliberately gave up the cement market because she was afraid that His Majesty would pick peaches?" ?”
Emperor Wende snorted twice, "Do you think I'm the kind of person who will steal business from my daughter-in-law?"
Empress Pei smiled without saying a word.
Emperor Wende said: "Outside the Nancheng Gate, she is running very well. If it were anyone else, it would be impossible to do better than her. She is clearly the heart of a villain, and I will never interfere outside the Nancheng Gate. "
Empress Pei thought, if Gu Jiu hadn't taken the initiative to give up the cement market in the capital, Emperor Wende might not have intervened outside the south gate.
With such a hen laying golden eggs in front of him, who can remain indifferent? Can you restrain your hands
Moreover, Emperor Wende was still short of money.
Maybe one day his temper explodes, and something offends him, and he will make plans outside the Nancheng Gate.
Thinking about it this way, it was a wise move for Gu Jiu to take the initiative to give up the cement market in Beijing.
Empress Pei thought to herself, Gu Jiu has winks, he can speak and do things, very good.
It's a pity that the eldest son Liu Zhao is not a thing. With a cold face all day long, he was not close to her at all.
On the contrary, the youngest son, Liu Yi, is well-behaved, sensible and filial.
If it wasn't for the sake of the overall situation, Empress Pei really didn't want to give Liu Zhao face.
This child Liu Zhao is not likable at all.
"The concubine has to congratulate His Majesty in advance, Wende has made a lot of money in the second year."
Emperor Wende laughed, "Borrow the Queen's good words."
He is also looking forward to the real blowout of the capital cement market. It can bring a considerable amount of income to Shaofu.
…
Not many days until Chinese New Year.
People in the city are still busy, busy earning a fortune for the New Year.
People in the country have already started cat winter.
In the winter, there is nothing to do, so I hide in the house to warm up the fire. The women do needlework, and the men repair the roof and furniture at home.
This winter is very cold.
The countryside is also very quiet.
Hujiatun in the Gyeonggi region is located at the foot of the mountain and is a remote mountain village.
On this day, the quiet winter life was broken by outsiders.
"Auntie, this is a coal stove, this is honeycomb coal. Just wait and see, put the honeycomb coal in, the holes are aligned, once the fire is lit, the cooking water can be boiled very quickly. You don't have to worry about running out of hot water all day long. use."
Wang Xiaoxi, a farmer on the outskirts of the capital, has an elder brother and a younger brother. He is neither the eldest son nor the youngest son in the middle, so he is naturally ignored.
He grew up like a sheep herding. Because there was a lot of coolies outside the south gate, he followed the villagers to work outside the south gate, earning three meals and daily wages.
Winter is coming, and there are few jobs on the construction site, so the owner gives priority to taking care of those refugees.
As a native of Gyeonggi, Wang Xiaoxi said that she had no objection would be a lie.
But he didn't want to work hard for the rest of his life.
If there is another way out, it is impossible for him to come to the coolie.
It happened that the coal factory was recruiting people, with a monthly salary of 200 Wen and a commission.
At first, he didn't know what commission was.
After being explained by others, he realized that mentioning achievements is selling things, and he can extract part of the money as his own reward.
This is good!
Although he is not so eloquent, he can learn.
Even for a salary of two hundred Wen a month, he is willing to do this business.
The refugees in Xinmin County, the residents in the second phase of the project, have already been recruited by the old man of the coal factory, and it is not his turn.
After he attended the training class for half a month, he began to follow the masters, going from village to village, from village to village, from town to kiosk, to sell briquettes.
He is full of energy and refuses to rest near the end of the year.
On this day, I came to Hujiatun early in the morning.
He had already learned that Hujiatun was a medium-sized village with seventy or eighty families. In this village, by selling agricultural products to the Sihai meat and vegetable shop, every household has some money in their hands.
"... If Auntie is worried that the briquettes will burn too fast, the cover is made of ceramics, and the hole below is covered, leaving only a small hole for ventilation. See if the fire has cooled down."
"If you burn it like this, three pieces of briquettes can burn for a day, and you can also heat several pots of hot water. When you are cooking, take off the lid, and the fire will start again. It won't be long before you can burn the whole family. The meals are ready. How convenient is this coal stove, just right for winter."
"... If you sell a hundred honeycomb briquettes at a time, the coal stove can be delivered for free. Really, I dare not lie to you. This is my business card with my name on it and the address of our owner. The Four Seas Trading Company knows, our owner is For the managers of the Four Seas Commercial Bank, find one right."
Wang Xiaoxi took out a palm-sized business card and distributed some to the surrounding aunts and uncles.
At the beginning, the firm suffered from the fact that the buddies went out to sell and were not trusted by others.
Gu Jiu casually mentioned, "I can make a business card to introduce myself."
In the end, the business card that was made was not the small one in Gu Jiu's memory at all. It's the size of a grown man's palm.
There is also a strange fashion in the firm, the bigger the business card, the more impressive it is.
When Gu Jiu held the ten-centimeter-long business card elaborately made by the firm below, his expression looked hopeless.
"Ma'am, this is a business card made according to what you said. The business card has to be this big, it's magnificent!"
Gu Jiu: "..."
What can Mrs. Ben say
Can Mrs. Ben cut off the fellow below's pursuit of style
cannot!
Well, bigger is bigger. I don't have glasses these days, so I can see clearly when I'm older.
As a result, business cards as big as the palm of an adult man became popular in the Four Seas Trading Company, and began to become popular in the business circle of the capital.
As a coal factory employee, Wang Xiaoxi naturally followed the trend and made a stack of business cards for herself when she went out to sell. Anyway, the government paid for it.
"...Uncle, I dare not lie to you. This is a benefit of our business. As long as you buy a hundred briquettes at a time, you will get a coal stove for free."
"Honeycomb briquettes are not expensive. If you buy them individually, they cost 1 penny each. But if you buy 100 briquettes at a time, you only need 50 pennies, which is half the price. Yes, the price is the same in the whole capital."
"Of course it's convenient to burn firewood. It's just that the weather is so cold, and it's dangerous to go up the mountain to cut firewood. In case of knocking and falling, ask a doctor for medicine. The medicine is much more expensive than briquettes. And your family has a large population, and the needed There is also a lot of firewood. My family is too busy, so I have to spend money to buy firewood. It is also expensive, so it is better to buy briquettes. There is hot water at any time of the day. Washing vegetables, cooking, and even washing clothes, can use hot water. Water. And without someone watching the fire."
"It's going to be cold for at least two months. In these two months, you can spend one or two hundred cash and buy hundreds of honeycomb briquettes to put at home, and you can live comfortably."
"Auntie, looking at your body, there must be capable people in the family. Auntie has worked hard for a year, and she should work hard. Bring a coal stove back home. This year's Chinese New Year, the whole family will be happy. And, with this coal stove, You don’t need to burn extra charcoal for heating, which saves your family a lot of money.”
"Your family has a large population. If you don't turn off the fire all day long, you will need at least six briquettes a day. If you buy a hundred briquettes at a time, six of them will only cost three yuan. It won't cost you a hundred yuan a month."
"If the family has a small population, naturally less than six briquettes will be used."
"Auntie, do you want to take a coal stove back?"
The villagers watched for a long time, and almost everyone in the village gathered around Wang Xiaoxi to watch him sell briquettes.
Hard work paid off, and finally three companies bought briquettes.
Lizheng's family was the richest, and bought three hundred briquettes in one go.
The other two households only bought a hundred briquettes.
One village sold 500 briquettes, and Wang Xiaoxi was overjoyed.
"I will come back in 20 days. If the briquettes are used up, you can just come to me. From now on, I, Wang Xiaoxi, will be in charge of this area."
"The briquette is on the road outside the village. It's solid and heavy. I'll let someone pick it for you."