Chapter 13 Governing the Family
"Hmmm! It is not necessary to ask for a new article, it can also be written before, you can arrange for people to go to various bookstores to find articles and books from the ministers of the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China, and the great Confucians! Zhang Junping groaned and explained.
"Whoa! I'll arrange for someone to buy it! ”
"Uncle Lu, how about we say we also open a bookstore?"
"Lang Jun, the bookstore is not easy to open! Although there are hundreds of bookstores in this Bianliang City, most of them are operating miserably and barely making a profit! Zhang Lu hurriedly advised.
I have to say that the Zhang family is very conservative, or very low-key, and has never run its own business in the past dynasties, and the tens of thousands of family fortunes accumulated have been slowly accumulated by relying on income and rent collection, as well as diligence and thrift.
If you don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil, and salt are not at home.
The Zhang family was tossed empty by Zhang Junping's second uncle, and this big mansion remained.
Later, I got the copper money of the car back from the underground gambling house, which looked like a lot, but it was really not much. It's just two thousand.
The seven things that open the door, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, all cost money.
Two thousand, for an ordinary family, that is a wealth that cannot be earned in a lifetime.
But for a family like the Zhang family, it's just an expense of one or two months.
Some people might say, how much does it cost?
Just calculate the accounts, there are more than 100 people in this house.
The consumption of firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea in a day is not a small amount, once the rice is between 300 yuan and 500 yuan.
Once you have to consume rice a day, plus the consumption of oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, you have to spend two times a day, which is still undercounted.
The Song Dynasty did not practice slavery, and the family members and servants all had to pay salaries, and these wages added up to 20 yuan, which was also undercounted.
In the Song Dynasty, the average domestic helper was about 100 yuan a day, and the housekeeper was even higher, and there were 500 yuan a day.
There is also Zhang Junping's second uncle who went out to eat flowers and wine, those aunts' brocade clothes and jade food, and the expenses of his younger brothers and sisters.
At the end of the day, you can't get by without 30 yuan, so if you calculate it, it's almost 1,000 yuan a month.
In fact, this calculation also proves a problem, that is, the Song Dynasty is the happiest dynasty in ancient times, all dynasties, and the common people.
The common people of the Song Dynasty, unless they suffered from natural disasters, could still solve the problem of food and clothing.
In ancient times, ordinary people could eat bran and eat enough vegetables, even if they were happy.
In the past, there was Zhang Junping's father Zhang Jianye's Yulu, but now there is no Yulu, and he can only live by collecting rent.
The Great Song Dynasty's Yulu was very generous, Zhang Junping's father had 500 yuan of money and grain, silk, firewood and other miscellaneous items every month, and some servants in the family, such as Fu Bo, their salaries were also paid by the imperial court.
This is just a five-grade palace in the Chenglu, the prime minister is even more, miscellaneous and miscellaneous add up, there can be 2,000 yuan a month, and the salary of the family is paid by the imperial court.
Not only that, the Song Dynasty did not give Yu Lu according to the head, but according to the official position, a person can have many official positions and take several shares.
And there is also a good succession system.
Rich families don't need to buy fertile land, there are thousands of bells in the book. There is no need to raise a hall to live in peace, and there is a golden house in the book. Don't hate to go out with no one, there are many cars and horses in the book. Don't hate unscrupulous matchmakers when marrying a wife, there is Yan Ruyu in the book. The boy wants to fulfill his life's aspirations, and reads the Pentateuch to the window.
What Emperor Zhenzong described in this exhortation poem, the Great Song Dynasty did it all.
It's just that these have nothing to do with the Zhang family now, and Zhang Junping resigned from the shadow supplement.
Now, nature has no choice but to find another way.
"Uncle Lu, now that I don't have a lot of money, my family is inside and out, and I don't have a good time by collecting rent alone!
As for opening a bookstore, it's not a whim, I have a way to print movable type here! It can greatly reduce the printing cost! Others will lose money if they don't sell a book for a few hundred dollars, but our book, as long as a hundred dollars, will have a profit! Zhang Junping said with a smile.
The engraving printing of the Song Dynasty has developed to the extreme, and movable type printing has not yet been invented at this time.
"If there is such a method, then opening a bookstore is a good business!" Zhang Lu said overjoyed.
"So, Lu Bo will find some craftsmen who know how to carve and make pottery!"
"Lang Jun, this method must be kept strictly secret, it is better to be slow than to be learned by others, so let's find it from my hometown!
I'm going to let people hurry up and chase after Brother Fu, so that he can find people from his hometown together! Zhang Lu bowed down and suggested.
"Uncle Lu is an old man who is serious, just do what Uncle Lu said!" Zhang Junping nodded.
Whether it will be stolen to learn technology, Zhang Junping doesn't care much, Zhang Junping has advanced technology in his head.
However, Zhang Lu's kindness, he will not refuse, this is also a way to win people's hearts.
"Lang Jun, the other shop is also run by ourselves?"
"Another shop?" Zhang Junping touched it, his chin groaning.
Zhang Junping has countless technologies in his head, but if he wants to find a business that is suitable for modern society and can make money easily, he really needs to think about it.
Winemaking may be one of the most lucrative businesses of this era, but in the Song Dynasty, winemaking was a government-run and official monopoly.
The Northern Song Dynasty had strict laws and regulations on winemaking, which can be roughly divided into the government-run and buy-and-shop systems.
The government directly organizes the production or liquor production of the liquor produced by the liquor households to sell to the government, and then the government sells it to the outside world.
The buying and selling system is roughly equivalent to the monopoly right of later generations, and the merchant pays a high monopoly tax to the government to buy a certain liquor and sell liquor.
Zhang Junping has a lot of techniques in his mind for local brewing and soil purification, and if he can make wine freely, he will definitely be profitable.
How to get a monopoly license for brewing and selling liquor is not so easy.
This kind of monopoly license is basically monopolized by the powerful and wealthy.
Although the Zhang family is a powerful family, it is not so easy to compete with other powerful people for special licenses.
Snakes have snake paths, rats have rat paths, and all walks of life have their own doorways, and rash entry will inevitably attract resistance within the industry.
But......
Thinking about it, Zhang Junping had an idea in his heart.
"Uncle Lu, go find a reliable blacksmith!" After thinking about it, Zhang Junping instructed Zhang Lu.
"Whoa!" Although he didn't know what Zhang Junping was going to do, Zhang Lu still agreed to turn around and go to the blacksmith.
There were many blacksmiths in Bianliang City, and after a short time, Zhang Lu took the blacksmith to Zhang Junping's study.
At this time, Zhang Junping had already drawn the drawings.
"Lang Jun, the craftsman has been found!"
"Good! Come and see! Zhang Junping nodded at the blacksmith and motioned for him to come forward and look at the drawings.
"These things, you might build?"