The industry of the Louis family in the city is mainly handicraft workshops. Their most important industry is farmland outside the city. They can have a stable rent of 30 gold coins every year. As for the workshops, I heard that some of them can be sold. It was very popular among other city-states, and it also brought them huge profits.
Feng Lide's family is even more unusual. As the largest family in the city after the lord, they... are just a'big fishing family'. It seems a bit small, but in fact, their family owns 30 large fishing boats. There are more than forty small fishing boats, not to mention this city-state, the basic fish supply of several nearby city-states is provided by their family!
The two words "big household" are no longer enough to describe their home.
Just counting, in this city, there are less than a thousand people who eat at their home.
After talking with Uncle Monet, Lu Yu smiled and said, "Tonight, it is destined to be a night... where many things will change."
Uncle Monet was a little unclear in one sentence. He watched Lu Yu return to his room with a puzzled face. He also walked back to his room. Regardless of others, he really couldn't sleep well this night. Feel it.
…
"Well, that should be done."
Lu Yu took out his pen and paper and kept sketching.
"These workshops of the Louis family actually sell a lot of things, but the most important thing is some ironware, kitchen knives, hatchets, axes, etc., among them there are some weapons and blades. It seems that the craftsmanship is also real. It’s good. It can be sold in many places. It’s not easy for someone to buy it and sell it."
Xiao Ruan said, "So, Master is ready to do something?"
"Hahaha, the top cover is lifted, and the bottom of the cauldron is drawn, so that the pot of water can cool down the fastest."
Lu Yu returned to the hotel, spent an hour in the room, and then ran into Liya's room and abruptly woke her up.
Liya, with tangled hair, was full of doubts. She didn't know what happened in the middle of the night, but she was rather nervous.
Lu Yu smiled and said, "Sister Liya, I have an idea, that is... to work with you and open a small shop."
Liya was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Well... This is really a good way. After all, you have so much money, little boy. If you open a shop, you won't be able to sit and eat. It's just... what do you want to open? Your shop? Or do you want to get my small shop front?"
Lu Yu shook his head and said, "This kind of hotel...I am not very proficient. If it is opened, it will cause jokes. However, I am quite proficient in some things, although I am not too proficient in the cultivation of a teacher. Many talents, but in some other aspects, this talent is still good."
Liya's eyes lit up and she smiled: "Then tell my sister what special skills you have."
She was like teasing a child, after all, in her eyes, Lu Yu was a child.
Lu Yu asked: "Then ask Sister Liya, what is the most precious and valuable in this city?"
Liya thought for a while and said, "Well, the first thing that is valuable is land. If you own land, whether you plant food or trees, you will have a lot of income, and the income is very stable, which is really enviable. Now. Secondly... It’s the ship! There is a saying in the city, that is, how big a ship is, how much sea you have! The sea is like farmland, and it will reward the occupants. The bigger the ship, the easier it will go. Far away, the greater the sea surface, the better the output, so... the big ship is more important than the land."
"Oh, it turned out to be like this, it really is like this... But, the ship is not a shop or something, right?"
"Hehe," Liya laughed softly, "I also answered your question directly... But the most profitable business is the blacksmith shop and the jewelry shop."
Lu Yu was taken aback for a moment, and said, "Blacksmith's shop and jewelry shop? Are they the most profitable?"
Liya said: "First of all, in this jewelry store, jewelry is very expensive. Think about it. Some jewelry requires more than two or two gold for the cost. If you sell it, of course you need several gold coins! Just want to buy some. What, it must be a big price, the things are not big, but the value is high, so it makes money. As for the blacksmith's shop, it has a big profit, for example, a kitchen knife can only use half a catty of iron, and the raw material does not need a copper coin. It can be bought, but the price of the kitchen knife itself is full of ten copper coins. The quality is relatively good, and there are even 20 copper coins. What is this? It is ten or twenty times the profit! If it is a weapon, then The price is even more outrageous. It is also made of iron, at most twenty or thirty kilograms of iron. If you make a weapon, you have to buy one or two gold coins directly! This is more than the cost. Ten thousand times! So, this is the most profitable business, because they sell crafts, not things, and it’s almost costless."
"So it's like this... That's really a... a good thing."
Lu Yu smiled.
Liya was taken aback, and wondered: "What's a good thing?"
Lu Yu grinned, and then asked Li Ya to lead him to the kitchen, reaching out and holding a kitchen knife from the knife stand beside him.
Lu Yu stretched out his hand and rubbed it, then... With a light break, the kitchen knife broke in half.
"what!"
Liya's eyes went round all of a sudden, her face was incredible and distressed, and then she asked, "Why... why?"
But I thought in my heart, this kid is really dangerous, he just went up to bite the gold coins before, and then the kitchen knife went straight to break... Does this guy just like to break everything around him? It's just a... naughty kid!
Lu Yu smiled and said, "It's nothing, I just look at its internal structure, um... I see it."
Liya's eyes twitched, and she smiled bitterly, "What else can there be internal structure? This knife... is just a knife. To put it bluntly, it's just a piece of sharpened iron."
Lu Yu nodded without saying anything.
He really doesn’t know what he should say, yes, a place that is even more backward than another continent, there is no civilized place, and there is still a place of worship for the metal itself, how can it be superb? Technology
But Lu Yu was also unwilling to give up, and asked, "Um... Sister Liya knows how this kitchen knife was forged?"
"This..." Liya recalled for a while, and then smiled: "Yeah, I really know! I remembered that I went to see it once because of curiosity. It was really amazing and complicated! They are, first of all. The metal was broken, and then placed in a spoon that looked like a big one. Then it was burned in the fire, and burned. As a result, the metal became molten iron. After that, they poured the molten iron into a spoon. Inside the mold, those molds are like things I use to make cakes. Inside are grooves and have a certain shape. As long as the molten iron enters, the shape will be fixed. Then what is it? By the way, it is waiting for it. Let it cool a little bit, then pour water on it to let it cool down completely, and then use a stone to grind it into a knife!"
"Uh… "
The corner of Lu Yu's eyes twitched violently.
Liya smiled and said, "How? Isn't it difficult and complicated?"
Lu Yu took a deep breath, and then asked: "Um... Sister Liya's kitchen knife is like this, so is there a better kitchen knife than this?"
"Of course there is! There are many more!" Liya nodded and said, "I am made of ordinary iron. Of course, it is actually high-quality iron. At that time, it cost 40 copper coins. You know me well before selling it to me at such a cheap price, but you... ahem, there are some kitchen knives made of more precious metals, but those are for the wealthy people."