Guo Dan didn't bother to speculate about Wanli's thoughts, for him, he was just responsible for taking care of Wanli's money and helping Wanli make money, as long as Wanli supported him to do this, it would be fine, as for other aspects, he didn't use his brains at all.

He is a businessman, and he went to talk to a group of professional bureaucrats about power, politics, and people's livelihood, which cannot be said to be an axe, this is purely because his head was broken by the door panel.

He can only talk about politics from an economic point of view, in other words, let politics serve the economy, which is what he is good at, but he is not able to talk about economy from a political point of view, because he has not reached that level.

Therefore, Guo Dan still focused on negotiating with the imperial court.

If Li Chengliang hadn't come, it was estimated that it would have ended earlier, but Li Chengliang came again, and Li Chengliang's experience also brought many new terms.

It made the negotiators depressed.

After a month of negotiations, it is finally coming to an end.

And those officials who negotiated with Guo Dan were already tired and exhausted, and in the past month, they have been talking every day, and many details are discussed back and forth, not that they have been fishing for three days and drying nets for two days, and they have dragged on for a month.

Now the operation of the Ming court, it is really worrying!

East Pavilion.

"Lord Qiyu, this is the result of negotiations with Guo Dan, please take a look."

An official handed Wang Jiaping a thick pile of materials with both hands.

Wang Jiaping put down his pen, looked at it, and said with a smile: "It's really a lot, let's share it with you quickly." ”

The official looked at Wang Jiaping and said, "My lord, there is only one copy here." ”

"A copy?"

Wang Jiaping's eyes widened.

He originally thought that these officials had already copied a few copies, but even so, he was already too much, how did he know that there was only one copy.

Shen Shixing, Wang Xijue and other ministers also stopped what they were doing, and looked at the thick pile of paper in surprise, there must be at least more than a hundred pieces of paper!

The official said: "Yes, there is only one copy here, there are a total of fifty-one major clauses, including two hundred and seventy-two small clauses, and the Ministry of Industry has just finished reviewing it, so it has been sent to all the adults." ”

Shen Shixing and they couldn't help but look at each other.

It was definitely the longest contract they had ever seen in their lives.

Even if it is a contract between countries, there are not so many!

Isn't it just 10,000 sets of cotton armor, as for torturing people like this?

Shen Shixing suddenly laughed: "It seems that the ink in our stomachs is not as much as a businessman!" ”

He'd never written anything like that.

Wang Jiaping nodded with a wry smile, and asked the official to give everyone a little bit, anyway, he couldn't finish it for a while.

Shen Shixing and they couldn't wait to see it, not because of how urgent this matter was, but purely because of curiosity, in fact, this little thing didn't require their cabinet to go all out.

Looking at it, everyone is a little drowsy, too cumbersome, too boring, the sentences are also quite straightforward, at a glance, you can understand, there is no sentence is ambiguous, and between the lines, all are full of copper smell, how much money is lost at every turn, anyway, three sentences are not separated from money.

This makes them feel a little too naked, after all, Chinese culture, when it comes to money, is still relatively subtle, if you talk about money at every turn, it will make people think that you are more snobbish.

But if you want to find faults, you can't find anything, it looks very cumbersome, but every article written on it, it seems to have the value of existence, if you don't write, they won't feel that something is missing, but if you remove it, it seems that something is wrong.

All in all, the contract felt very strange to them.

At the same time, Guo Dan also took the prepared contract home and gave Kou Shouxin and Kou Zhuan a look.

"It's... Is this a contract? ”

Kou Shouxin also looked at Guo Dan in shock, are you sure this is not?

Guo smiled lightly: "Father-in-law, this paper is too small and the words are too big, so it looks like a lot." ”

The paper is too small? The word is too big? Didn't you sign a contract when you were old? Kou Shouxin glared at Guo Dan slightly: "Nonsense." ”

Guo Dan smiled.

But in fact, he is really not nonsense, if it is replaced with the font and paper of later generations, it will probably be twenty or thirty pages, and it is impossible to have more than a hundred pages.

Kou Zhuansha first glanced at Guo Dan, and then said to Kou Shouxin: "Daddy, let's sign a contract with the imperial court, it's better to be cautious, if there is a problem, it is better to divide the responsibility, if you don't write it so carefully, if there is a problem, we must bear it." ”

"It makes sense." Kou Shouxin nodded slightly.

Guo Dan said: "Madame's words are wrong, whether it is with the court or with other people in the future, you must write a contract with this specification." ”

Kou Liansha looked at Guo Dan in surprise, "This is inevitably a little too much, even if we can be patient, but the other party may not have this patience." ”

"It's not called much, it's called norms, just get used to it."

Guo Dan shook his head and continued: "Only by doing this can we ensure our rights and interests, and our cooperation with Your Majesty cannot be made public, in other words, Your Majesty cannot protect us openly, but as long as we take advantage of it, Your Majesty can come forward to protect our rights and interests."

This contract is our talisman, so in the new dental shop, there will be a department dedicated to writing contracts and reviewing contracts. ”

In fact, he not only wants to ensure his own rights, but also wants to redefine the industry standard.

In fact, the person who can set the standard is the real boss, who has no selfishness, who sets the standard, it is all biased towards himself, so writing the contract, of course, is beneficial to Guo Dan, on the contrary, it is very unfavorable to Guo Dan.

Today's contract is too simple, if something goes wrong, it is difficult to make it clear, and then it becomes a big bully, even if it is sued to the government, the terms are vague and ambiguous, then it becomes the official who has the final say, and it makes sense no matter what he says, which is very unfavorable for businessmen.

If the contract can be standardized, everything is based on the contract, but it will protect everyone's interests.

In Guo Dan's view, the game in business should be before the contract, whether it is open or secret, it is not an exaggeration, everyone depends on their ability, and the contract is the result of the game, once the contract is signed, it will be executed, otherwise, it will become very chaotic, and everyone has no sense of security.

......

Although the tooth shop is a joint-stock system, according to the contract, Guo Dan has the right to make full decisions, but because this matter involves the imperial court, Guo Dan still held a general meeting of shareholders before the contract was formally signed.

"Virtuous nephew... This contract is a little too much, how do you think of this? ”

"What is written on this, how much can be written?"

"Is it the imperial court?"

......

Zhou Feng and the others held the contract, and they were all faint, and they might not have read so many words in their lives.

"I asked for this to ensure our interests."

Guo Dan explained to them again.

After listening to it, everyone thinks it makes sense, after all, the other party is the imperial court, and the other party can't be pulled by the skin, the other party is holding a machete, you are treacherous and cunning.

Cao Da said: "Virtuous nephew, of course we believe in you, let's take this contract back, take it slowly, you can tell us, how much money can we make?" ”

"Yes, yes, how much does this make us?"

There was a greedy look in everyone's eyes.

Guo Dan said: "I can earn a future for us!" ”

"A future?"

Cao Da was stunned.

"Not bad."

Guo Dan said: "This transaction can make our tooth shop to a higher level, and the penultimate clause in the contract says very clearly that as long as our transaction is completed well, the imperial court will contract more armaments and materials to us to do." ”

Zhou Feng said: "Having said that, it also depends on how much money can be made, if you lose money, the more you contract, the more you lose." ”

Guo Dan said: "If you just talk about this transaction, you can't make any money, because we don't have anything now, and we have to invest money to build workshops, recruit people, and cancel each other, if you can guarantee that you don't lose money, it's actually making money."

However, once our workshop was operational, the profits would increase, and the key was that the imperial court bought and sold, which gave us a very solid foundation on which we could produce not only armaments, but also civilian ones. ”

Everyone looked at each other, still confused.

Guo smiled lightly: "To give a very simple example, let's say that Qin Yuanwai's silk village, Qin Yuanwai not only sells silk, but also sells some clothes or something, but the cost of making clothes is very high, and very slow, this is mainly because he sells silk, and clothes are only secondary, he will not recruit people to produce clothes on a large scale." ”

Qin Zhuang nodded slightly, and said: "Generally, large families buy silk by themselves, and then find tailors to tailor it. ”

Guo smiled lightly: "But last Qixi Festival, the staff was a little powerless, because the demand for couples' clothes suddenly rose at that time, and you couldn't recruit so many people to produce at once, resulting in many customers wanting to buy it, but they couldn't buy it." ”

Qin Zhuang sighed: "There is no way to do this. ”

"Once our workshop is set up, there will be no problem, what kind of clothes you need to make, just tell our workshop what you need, and our workshop will be able to produce it for you very quickly."

Guo Dan swept his eyes and said: "Everyone, such as Qin Yuanwai's situation, it often occurs, because demand and supply are not constant, but changing, if each merchant has all the production process, it is actually not cost-effective, because even if the demand is decreasing, they still need to pay the same salary to support those craftsmen, and our workshop will solve this problem very well."

Because of the buying and selling of the imperial court, we have been given a huge scale foundation, and with this foundation, I will not encounter such a problem as Qin Yuanwai. ”

Qin Zhuang said: "But after all, there are few situations like this, and it is rare to meet two or three times a year." ”

Guo smiled lightly: "A Qin member, meet two or three times a year, ten Qin members, that is, twenty or thirty times, a hundred Qin members outside is two or three hundred times, if you can receive two or three hundred such transactions a year, the profit is a lot, the key is that we don't do it, we won't lose, because there is a single from the court to support us behind, then on the other hand, if you do it, it will be pure profit." ”

Zhou Feng smiled and asked, "Virtuous nephew, are there a hundred Qin members?" ”

Guo Dan said: "Our workshops are all built in Tianjin Wei, do you think we will only do business in the capital?" At the same time, who would dare to build a workshop of this scale like us. In addition, whether it is silk or cotton, it will be turned into clothing and bedding, and if it is produced in our workshop, how much profit do you think it will be? ”

Zhou Feng was stunned.

I can't calculate this!

Qin Zhuang nodded and said: "I think what the virtuous nephew said is very reasonable, if there is such a workshop, I can indeed save a lot of things, most of this silk is from the south of the Yangtze River, when I get to the capital, I also have to find someone to do some cuts, if I can complete it in Tianjin, it is much more convenient." ”

The rest nodded slightly.

Even if they can monopolize the processing in the capital, they will make a lot of money, but the key is that if they don't do these transactions, they will have to raise so many craftsmen, and this expenditure will not become.

Everyone said they could give it a try.

After discussing this matter, Chen Ping suddenly said: "Virtuous nephew, the project of your new dental shop is almost over, and it can definitely be completed on the first day of the Lunar New Year." ”

"Is it open on the first day of the new year?"

Everyone looked at Guo Dan in surprise.

Guo Dan nodded and said with a smile: "I have so much money from everyone, I can't slack off for a moment, this year we don't take annual leave and do things normally." ”

Zhou Feng smiled: "Virtuous nephew, we are really embarrassed if you do this." ”

Having said that, they are all happy to see Guo Dan do this, preferably without a holiday every year.

Guo Dan hurriedly said: "Don't be embarrassed, I don't mean me, I have to bother everyone to rush here on the first day of the Lunar New Year to seal the happy money." ”

“......！”

The shareholders were dumbfounded.