Chapter 31: Not going to court
In Li Yuanjia's words, the improvement of the overturned car is a huge and arduous project.
Several carpenters are thinking about how to make the dump more lightweight, more convenient to use, and easier to make every day. In the past few years, the wood used alone is enough to fill the warehouse of the palace, and Li Yuanjia has spent hundreds of dollars for this!
The difficulty is quite indescribable.
However, neither Li Shimin nor Fang Xuanling were indifferent to this, and the emperor just continued to ask: "I heard Fang Aiqing say, you have a fast manufacturing method for this overturned car?" Five carpenters can build ten in a month, and only 30% of the price of an ordinary overturn? ”
"Sure enough!"
His eyes narrowed slightly, and Li Yuanjia was secretly happy in his heart.
He knew that if it was just to improve the rollover and make it lighter, the emperor would definitely not care too much. After all, even if it is improved and lightweight, it is too labor-intensive to make a rollover, and the price of making it is too expensive, and it is not something that ordinary people can afford to use at all - even if it is to let many households buy one, it is a bit too expensive for ordinary farmers.
So if there is no accident, the emperor will at most ask for a drawing from Li Yuanjia.
But......
If Han Wangfu's new overturned car is not only light and easy to use, but also can reduce the price to 30% of other overturned cars now, this is a completely different concept!
completely understood the emperor's thoughts, so Li Yuanjia immediately nodded and smiled: "Fang Xianggong is right, it can indeed be reduced to thirty percent...... Ahem, in fact, if Your Majesty can give me fifty carpenters and fifty handymen, I can guarantee that I will build three hundred planes a month, and the price of each one is only 20% of that of an ordinary overturned car! ”
"What?"
"Really?"
After listening to Li Yuanjia's words, not only Li Shimin's eyes widened, but Fang Xuanling, who had just sat down, also stood up.
Three hundred? Twenty percent?
Although they are not particularly good at mathematics, what kind of characters are Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling? The difference can be calculated in an instant: five carpenters have ten in a month, fifty carpenters should have a hundred in a month, and even if fifty handymen are added to help, it is at most a few dozen. But what Li Yuanjia just said is a full 300 - at least twice as much!
What's more, the price is only 20% of that of an ordinary overturned? It's half lower than what Li Shimin said just now?
After the shock, Fang Xuanling was a little panicked, and hurriedly reminded: "King, in front of Your Majesty, you can't talk nonsense...... If there are ten times more manpower, the number of overturned cars will naturally be ten times more, how can it suddenly increase by thirty times? ”
"Haha, don't worry!"
Laughing at Fang Xuanling, Li Yuanjia's words were categorical, and he did not hesitate: "This king naturally has a wonderful method to do it!" And as you said, I don't dare to say anything in front of Your Majesty! ”
Isn't it just a doubling of production efficiency and halving the price?
What a big deal!
In fact, Li Yuanjia calculated the result by himself, but 350 units a month, and then the price dropped to 10% of ordinary overturned cars! It's just that he didn't really do it after all, and he didn't know the bottom of his heart, so when he made an offer to Fang Xuanling and Li Shimin, he still carefully injected some water into it, lest he would not be able to be cleaned up by the emperor in the future......
"Sizzle......"
After listening to Li Yuanjia's words, Fang Xuanling suddenly gasped.
He carefully inquired about his son Fang Zhizhi, so he knew that the overturning structure of Han Wangfu was more concise, and it was light and compact, which could indeed save a lot of labor. If you add some handymen to help the carpenters, fifty carpenters do one hundred a month, and the cost is reduced to three or four percent, maybe it can really be done.
But make 300 a month, and the price drops to 20%?
This is also an exaggeration!
Li Shimin frowned even more, and said in a deep voice: "Eleven Lang, this matter can't be a joke!" I'll give you one more chance to say it again! ”
"Your Majesty, it's still the same if you say it again."
Li Yuanjia, who was already mentally prepared, was naturally not frightened, and replied directly: "As long as you can give me fifty carpenters and fifty handymen, and prepare a piece of land outside the city for me, enough wood, after a year, I will guarantee to hand over three hundred overturned cars a month!" ”
After a pause when he said this, Li Yuanjia continued: "And the price is 20% of the ordinary overturned, if it exceeds, I will make up for it all!" ”
Under the gaze of the emperor and Fang Xuanling, Li Yuanjia almost patted his chest directly to ensure it.
"Good!"
After getting Li Yuanjia's confirmation again, the emperor took the case: "In that case, I will give you fifty carpenters, plus ...... A hundred handymen! A year later, you will give me 300 rollovers every month! ”
This kind of good thing, Li Shimin will not hesitate.
300 a month, more than 3,000 a year, enough to irrigate hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land! And all he had to pay was a piece of land, a hundred and fifty men, and some wood, which was a great deal!
"Your Majesty, there is still a rollover car for money!"
Seeing that Li Shimin seemed to only mention people and land, but not money and other things, Li Yuanjia suddenly became a little anxious: "In addition, my brother has another condition, that is, let me concentrate on this matter during this year, I don't have to go to court, okay?" ”
Li Yuanjia has long understood that the salary of a rollover car is at least three or four times, and if you add wood, it will look like seven or eight times. However, Li Shimin is out of the woods, and he thinks that the money for a rollover should be about the same.
Of course, what is more important is that there is no need to go to court in the future.
So after saying this, Li Yuanjia immediately looked at the emperor with blank eyes, for fear that he would refuse his request - for the fact that he had to get up before dawn every morning, and then run to the palace to kneel and sit in a daze, Li Yuanjia's patience has really reached the limit.
It's obviously a mascot, but it's too painful to do it every day.
"What? No longer going to court? ”
After listening to Li Yuanjia's words, Fang Xuanling's brows suddenly furrowed. Although he also thinks that King Han should not have any achievements in the court in his life, and it is best to maintain his noble status, but such a direct statement is surprising, and secondly, he can't help but make him a little worried.
In comparison, the emperor's attitude was a little subtle, and he squinted his eyes and asked, "Eleven Lang, you won't make these requests specifically for the sake of not going to court, right?" ”
Li Yuanjia proposed several times before that he didn't want to go to court, but the emperor rejected him, which made him have to doubt his brother's purpose this time.
"Of course not, Your Majesty!"
With a look of grievance on his face, Li Yuanjia said with a bitter face: "If the younger brother was not going to court, he wouldn't have let the carpenter do this since he was in Luzhou......