Selling water is also a business?

Can a well be sold for 10,000 taels of silver?

Zhu Yijun, who rarely leaves the palace, naturally doesn't know this, but the stubbornness of the young man makes him unwilling to admit that he doesn't know.

"Hehe, Shi Tongzhi, what you said is light, there are only a few sweet wells in the capital, who doesn't sell water as if they were treasures? There is no sweet water well, and the water is sold. ”

Knowing that His Majesty didn't understand this matter, he took the initiative to relieve His Majesty.

"There is no sweet water well in such a big palace, and the palace eats spring water from Yuquan Mountain."

Although the guest was to relieve His Majesty, it also happened to lead to Shi Yiwen's next words, so he smiled.

"That's why the minister said that we can do this business, the water in the city can't be drunk, we can use pipes from outside the city to bring water into the city, isn't it done?"

Thinking about the most common model of the waterworks in later generations, Shi Yiwen said with a big grin.

"Then along the main roads in Beijing, lay water pipelines underground, and then the people in the city can drink clean sweet water, isn't this business? And it's a good business that can be done for decades or centuries! ”

Referring to this, Shi Yiwen naturally thought of the Li Jiacheng, after he cashed out in the mainland and Hong Kong, and what he acquired in the UK was not the water network, power grid, natural gas and other enterprises closely related to people's lives, no matter what the economy is, you have to use water, electricity, and natural gas every month, as long as you live a life, he will make money.

"After all, no matter what, as long as people live, they will always be inseparable from water. There are more than 100,000 households in the capital, and it is more than enough to sell water and sell hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year! ”

This time it was Zhu Yijun's turn to be shocked, could he sell a water for hundreds of thousands of taels of silver?

But this surprise was just a moment of effort, and Zhu Yijun, who was already extremely smart, suddenly realized that this business was not as simple as he said.

His face changed suddenly, Zhu Yijun straightened his face and said sharply.

"Shi Yiwen, you are guilty."

Accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, now Shi Yiwen can be regarded as realizing the meaning of this sentence. Where does this begin?

"I don't know."

"Hmph, you are guilty of deceit! You said lightweight, what uses a pipe to send water, and how does this water get to the pipe? How to get it out of the river? ”

"Actually, it's not difficult, it's just that there are some technical problems that need to be solved, and it's not impossible to implement."

"Hmph, you just said that the business is easy to do, just say that this business is a water diversion and this thing and that, and the trouble is extreme. Good to do! ”

Although he quietly kept this method of making money in mind, Zhu Yijun still said coldly.

"As far as the business you are talking about, I'm afraid I can't do it without tens of thousands of taels of silver!"

Hearing this, Shi Yiwen didn't understand anything, and secretly glanced at the emperor with the corner of his eye, just as he saw him looking at him coldly.

The emperor felt that this business was too costly. Presumably he wants to do a business without capital.

No business......

It seems to be similar to the soap I made at the beginning, but the problem is that the Song family paid for their own silver at the beginning, and now, who helped Emperor Wanli to pay for the silver?

Get...... I see.

Who else but yourself?

However, even if this tap water business is over, it is a fool now, not to mention time-consuming and laborious, and there are still many technical problems that need to be solved.

I have to get a business where you can see cash to please Wanli.

"Indeed, it's the ministers who owe it to consider, in fact, if you want to do business, no one is convenient for Your Majesty, and you can earn a lot of silver without even spending a penny......"

Because he had seen the Huangdian in Zhangjiawan, Shi Yiwen was not worried about this, and when he said this, it immediately aroused Zhu Yijun's interest, after all, he is poor now! Of course, as the emperor, he couldn't show it directly, he just snorted.

"Clever words!"

It seemed to be dissatisfied, but the person listened carefully.

"Your Majesty, when the minister was in Nanjing, he bought a lot of books, many of which were published separately in the manuscripts of the Inner Palace. The reason why booksellers ask people to copy books at a high price at any cost is precisely because there are a large number of Song and Yuan Dynasty secret books in the palace, which are rare in the world, and these books have always been the objects of search by the world's corporans, so they will sell well after being printed, and all booksellers do not hesitate to ask people to copy on their behalf, but what books to copy often depend on the interest of the copyist, and how long it takes to copy depends on the time of the copyist, so there are always many inconveniences. If the bookstore is allowed to copy books from the inner government, for example, according to the copy of a volume, the royal silver number of taels or ten taels is used for copying books, and the huge collection of books in the inner government will not exceed 100,000 taels? ”

Emperor Wanli, who was standing there, listened, and was directly dumbfounded.

As for the guest, he was so shocked that his jaw was about to fall.

This...... It's a good deal......

It's really a penny to earn so much silver!

And it's more than a hundred thousand taels!

Looking at Emperor Wanli's stunned appearance, Shi Yiwen's heart was secretly proud, and he was originally thinking about how to save the books and periodicals of the Inner Palace, so that the civilization of this nation could be passed down for a long time, but he was quite glad to get this opportunity, if he could copy the book openly, wouldn't it save a lot of effort? As for whether you can make money from it, I don't care much.

"Hmph, it's really a clever word, do you know how many books there are in Ouchi? It is also a count of two or ten taels. There are booksellers in the world who are willing to pay so much money to copy books,"

Facing Emperor Wanli's questioning, Shi Yiwen looked directly at him and said.

"I do!"

Facing the sight of Emperor Wanli, Shi Yiwen said again.

"As long as Your Majesty allows the minister to enter the Wenyuan Pavilion to copy the book, the minister is willing to give this silver."

His face changed slightly, and Zhu Yijun said in surprise.

"Would you like to? Do you know how many books there are in Ouchi? ”

"No matter how much, the minister is willing!"

Shi Yiwen said directly, civilization is priceless! The Manchu Qing Dynasty borrowed and repaired the "Four Libraries Quanshu" through total destruction, demolition, and gouging, etc., and completely destroyed the ancient books, which are clearly the 5,000-year-old civilization of China!

Now faced with the opportunity to preserve the classics of Chinese civilization, how could Shi Yiwen be unwilling, and how could he miss such an opportunity.

Ha ha......

Suddenly, a burst of laughter came into Shi Yiwen's ears, and he saw the young man in front of him laughing there, and when he looked at him, it seemed like he was looking at ...... A joke, yes, a joke.

"It's the biggest joke I've seen in years, guest, do you hear a funnier joke than this?"

Laughing, Zhu Yijun said again.

"Do you think there is only one Wenyuan Pavilion in Daming? There is also a Wenyuan Pavilion in Nanjing, do you think that there is only one place in the Wenyuan Pavilion to collect books? Do you know that there is also a large inner vault! When the "Yongle Canon" was revised, there were thousands of cultivators and students, and millions of volumes of secret books were published, and there were no clues! ”

As if he wanted to deliberately hit Shi Yiwen, Zhu Yijun deliberately emphasized.

"Millions of volumes! Also count two taels of silver in a roll! Can you afford it? ”