And what Li Rusong didn't know was, in fact, this was all in Guo Dan's expectations.

The reason why he produced this batch of birds, regardless of the cost, was to see what the difference was.

Although there was a lot more, he was still prepared in his heart.

He had never considered how to make money from the imperial court, and even the impoverished appearance of the Ming imperial court really couldn't arouse his interest.

In fact, even Wanli, who has always been keen on blackmailing the household department, is now a little uninterested.

It's so hard!

Guo Dan is basically helping the imperial court make money, and the only thing that makes a little money from the imperial court is the order of Liaodong armaments, but don't talk about him, even Qin Zhuang doesn't really want to do this transaction, the profit is low, and there are many troubles.

Of course, the basis of the armament order still gave the textile workshop great stability.

If you can't get a deal anymore, there is still this bottom.

Of course, Guo Dan didn't want to produce firearms for the imperial court at all, his boss was Wanli, and he only produced firearms for Wanli.

This firearms production workshop was prepared for overseas plans, and for Wanli, he didn't dare to easily put such a large firearms production workshop on the seaside, which was really too dangerous, and in doing so, it was also to separate weapons from pirates, and control them.

By the way, help Weihui Mansion produce some, and this is also in response to a sudden crisis, if there is really an enemy invasion, it can be immediately turned around for domestic production.

In terms of the whole grand strategy, it is still very worthwhile.

"Alas... Money! Money! It's really a tael of silver on top of a general. ”

On the way to send Guo Dan out of the barracks, Li Rusong couldn't help laughing at himself.

Although Guo Dan promised to equip Weihui Mansion with a large number of firearms, Li Rusong was so depressed that he could produce better weapons, but the soldiers just couldn't have them, which made him feel very sad.

Guo smiled lightly: "General Li doesn't need to be arrogant, since ancient times, weapons are only a secondary reason, and talent is the key to determining victory or defeat." ”

Li Rusong snorted: "You haven't fought before, what do you know." As he spoke, he asked Guo Dan again: "Guo Dan, you will make money, do you have a way to make this weapon cheap." ”

Guo Dan said: "If you can make money by fighting, then weapons will naturally become cheap." ”

"Fighting wars to make money?"

Li Rusong thought for a while, and suddenly said: "The Mongols beat us to make money, they can rob a lot of things, but if we go to fight them, there is nothing to grab, it must be a loss of money, and now I think about it, it's really unfair!" ”

"I'm just talking about it." Guo smiled lightly and said, "It's better not to fight." Okay, Mr. Li doesn't need to send it, so he will say goodbye. ”

Li Rusong was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "Okay." Do you remember to tell Your Majesty? ”

Guo Dan nodded, because how to produce it has to be decided by Wanli himself, after all, it costs money. Bow your hand, "Farewell." ”

Then he turned and departed.

In fact, he came back to ask Li Rusong whether he was satisfied with the bird, as for the production process and production technology, he didn't ask much, and he was not a professional in this area, what he had to manage was the production cost, production quantity, and the role of the bird.

He didn't need to talk too much with Li Rusong and Zhao Shizhen.

As long as Li Rusong told him that he was satisfied, and Zhao Shizhen told them that there was no problem, then it would be fine.

There is no need for him to talk to Li Rusong and Zhao Shizhen about the cost, after all, they are not procurement, and they are not producers.

He's mostly going to talk to the shareholders of the Grand Canyon.

Li Rusong raised his eyes and suddenly found that there was a fifty-year-old man standing next to Guo Dan's carriage, who was Zhao Shizhen's staff, Shen Weijing.

"In Xia Shen Weijing, I have seen Captain Guo."

When Shen Weijing saw Guo Dan coming, he immediately bowed, his eyes flashing with excitement.

"Hello Mr. Shen!"

Guo Dan bowed his hand back, although Xu Wei said that this person was idle, did not do his job, and was abducted, but in fact, he was not disgusted with this kind of person, pointed to the carriage, and said, "Let's talk while walking." ”

"Please."

The two got into the carriage and drove slowly towards the city.

"Why did Mr. come to this Weihui Mansion?" Guo asked with a smile.

Shen Weijing hurriedly said: "I came with Director Zhao. ”

Guo Dan said: "Come to help Zhao make weapons?" I heard that my husband didn't seem to be interested in that. ”

Shen Weijing immediately heard the sound outside the strings, why did Guo Dan know that he was not interested in making weapons, obviously he had investigated him, and immediately said: "Don't hide it from Captain Guo, in fact, I came to Weihui Mansion this time, mainly hoping to defect to Captain Guo." ”

It's always so boring to talk to smart people. Guo smiled lightly: "I'm just a businessman, and following Zhao will obviously be more promising!" ”

Shen Weijing said: "As Captain Guo said, I have no interest in manufacturing weapons at all, but I am also a businessman, and I have traveled all over the country over the years, and I have also gone to North Korea, Japan and other places with my father to do business. Over there, I know a lot of people in Xia, and I can help Captain Guo sell the goods over there. ”

"Really?"

Guo said lightly: "But I only have Moon Port to go to sea." ”

Shen Weijing immediately said: "It is precisely because of this that there is a lot of profit in this, and we can sell goods to Japan through North Korea." ”

Guo Dan said: "But as far as I know, Japan is only an island country and has no money. ”

Shen Weijing hurriedly said: "If Captain Guo thinks like this, it is really wrong, although Japan is an island country, there are still many rich people on it, and Japanese merchants often sell my Ming silk to Franco merchants." One of the reasons why a large number of Japanese invaders immediately appeared in the forbidden sea was because Japan could not buy silk from our court. ”

Based on these words alone, even if there is no recommendation from Xu Wei, Guo Dan will recruit him.

"What do you think of Mr. Buncho?" Guo Dan asked suddenly.

Shen Weijing was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Are you talking about Xu Wenchang?" ”

Guo Dan nodded.

"I have worked with him under the tent of Governor Hu." Shen Weijing replied.

Guo Dan said: "It was he who recommended you to me." ”

"Is that him?"

Shen Weijing looked a little surprised.

Guo Dan asked, "Didn't you think of it?" ”

Shen Weijing shook his head and said, "This... I didn't expect this. ”

Xu Wei has a quirky personality, how could he be very close to Shen Weijing, of course Shen Weijing didn't expect Xu Wei to recommend him.

Guo Dan said: "It doesn't matter, now I have a big deal here, and I have asked Mr. Wenchang for help, but he hopes that you can go over to help him, I don't know if you are willing?" ”

As soon as the words fell, Shen Weijing said excitedly: "I am willing." ”

If Xu Wenchang needs to make a sale, it must be a big deal!

Is there still any need to hesitate?

"Okay."

Guo Dan took out a money ticket and handed it to Shen Weijing, "You take this money ticket and go to Qianzhuang to pay a thousand taels, just as you are, and then go to Kaifeng Mansion to find Mr. Wenchang." ”

A thousand taels of entanglement?

Am I misconceptually entangled?

Shen Weijing trembled and took the money ticket.

Guo smiled lightly: "Compared to this transaction, this is nothing, and you will have endless glory and wealth in the future." ”

Shen Weijing slowly raised his head and looked at Guo Dan.

He cried!

He finally found the harbor he had always dreamed of.

Guo Dan didn't conduct various tests on Shen Weijing as he did in the TV series, and he didn't even explain much, so he directly asked him to find Xu Wei.

This is because he trusts Xu Wei, and since Xu Wei wants this person, then he has his own way to control this person.

Back in the city, Shen Weijing got out of the carriage, and Guo Dan rushed to the Grand Canyon headquarters non-stop.

"Sorry, I'm late."

When I entered the conference room, I saw more than 20 people sitting inside, these people were the iron merchants of Weihui Mansion at the beginning, and now they are also shareholders of the Grand Canyon.

When they saw Guo Dan walk in, they immediately stood up.

"I've just arrived, too."

"Captain Guo is busy, it doesn't matter if we wait."

......

"It's always wrong to be late, and I try to make sure there won't be a next time."

Guo Dan went straight to the middle seat and sat down, stretched out his hand and said, "Everyone, please sit down." ”

The shareholders led by Qin Dalong and Zhou Jian sat down one after another.

In fact, Qin Dalong is the president of the Grand Canyon, but when Guo Dan came, he didn't dare to sit there. Now there is really no businessman in Weihui Mansion who dares to argue with Guo Dan, even those Jin merchants are obedient, and they will throw a million taels out at every turn, which is completely beyond their imagination.

"When I came, I had already looked at our recent accounts, although I don't know how much money you made before, but judging from the deed tax, the iron contract is now three times as much as before, and I think the profit is at least twice as much."

Guo Dan swept his eyes and said with a smile.

"Guo Xiaowei is really worthy of being a business wizard, and he can calculate it from the deed tax alone."

Qin Dalong slapped his ass fiercely.

In fact, judging from their attitude, it can be seen that if they don't make money, can they give Guo Dan a good look?

"Do you know why?"

Guo Dan asked.

Zhou Jiandao: "In fact, the iron tools we produce are mainly sold to Weihui, Kaifeng, Zhangde, and Huaiqing, and this is because there are almost no tenant farmers in our four state capitals, and they are all landlords who hired people to farm the land, which leads to the landlords needing to produce farm tools, and they buy our farm tools farther away." ”

"And the big workshops, they buy all the iron tools they need from us."

......

This Grand Canyon is really a good time, this wave of tariff incidents, led to the further expansion of the production scale of Weihui Mansion, and at the same time stimulated the economic development of Kaifeng, Zhangde, Huaiqing three prefectures, previously their iron workshops only for Weihui Mansion, and now they supply the needs of the four prefectures.

The profits began to go up.

Guo Dan asked: "This business is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat, we can't be satisfied with the status quo, this year they have just prepared new farm tools and tools, at least next year they will not be in need, we can't wait for them to use up farm tools, we must work harder, to win more markets, I don't know what your plans are for the next step?" ”

Everyone couldn't help but look at each other.

Qin Dalong said: "As far as our Central Plains region is concerned, but there is no second Weihui Mansion, those places may not spend more money to buy farm tools, let alone those small workshops. ”

In other state capitals, they are small-scale and self-sufficient, and there are many tenant farmers who cannot afford to buy the tools produced in the Grand Canyon, and if they do, they have very little.

I don't want Weihui Mansion, agriculture is so popular, those big landlords buy the best farm tools, and they buy them in batches.

Not to mention workshops.

Guo Dan asked again: "Don't they need it?" ”

Zhou Jian replied: "That's not true, it's just that they will definitely choose to do it themselves, although it is not as good as what we do, but they can also be used for living." ”

"That's the problem."

Guo Dan said: "What we produce, people can also produce, plus the cost of transportation, why should people buy ours." If we want to get out of Henan Province, we have to make tools that they can't make. It's like the bird gun we produce, as far as I know, that's the best bird gun in my Ming Dynasty. ”

Zhou Jian immediately said: "Speaking of this bird, our cost is ....... ”

Guo Dan interrupted him, "I promised that no matter how high the cost is, I will give a pure profit." ”

Zhou Jian hurriedly said: "I don't mean that, any more is five hundred, this money is nothing, but with such a high cost price, the imperial court may not find us to produce." ”

"Not necessarily, there is no deal in this world that cannot be done, it depends on whether you can use your brain."

Guo smiled lightly and said to Gu Chang beside him: "Hang it up." ”

"Yes."

Gu Chang took out a picture from his leather bag and hung it on the wall.

Qin Dalong and the others got up one after another, glanced at the cloth, and said in unison: "This is not ......!" ”

"Yes, that's all the parts of the bird."

Guo Dan stood up, came to the side of the canvas, and said: "The cost of a bird gun is four taels or five yuan, you don't have to doubt it, the imperial court will definitely not spend so much money, but if it only costs two taels to build an iron pipe, is it more than half cheaper?"

And the highest demand for technology is iron pipes, compared with the bird guns produced by the imperial court, it is mainly worse than this, if we only produce iron pipes, is it possible for the imperial court to be tempted? ”

Everyone's eyes couldn't help but light up, and they seemed to understand something.

Guo Dan said: "Of course, the production of firearms, the imperial court will have a lot of considerations, if the price is not suitable, we will not do it, I am just an analogy, I hope you know, we do not necessarily have to produce a complete tool, we can only produce parts, especially those very fine parts, so that our production costs will be reduced a lot, because we can concentrate on manpower to produce a kind of parts, without the need to open a few more production lines, although the total price may not change, But the price of our goods will look cheap, then we can win more markets.

Not only that, but we can also set very standard sizes, which is also convenient for buyers. If it's just that the parts are broken, just buy one and replace it, so that the buyer can also reduce the cost of use, and for us, once the size is controlled by us, then they have to buy us to produce it. ”