Yu Qiyou is the director of the capital water of the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty, and assists Lang Zhong in handling some documents on weekdays. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but at the age of 50, he found that he was in big trouble - his glasses were old.

If you can't see the documents clearly, you can't handle government affairs, and you can't always let others read the documents to you, right? Yu Qiyou felt a very serious crisis, he had survived all his life to get to this civil official from the sixth grade, could he go away before the age of fifty?

In the past six months, presbyopia has become more and more serious, and Yu Qiyou squints at the documents every day, for fear that others will say that he has presbyopia, which is extremely difficult.

Several clerks privately called him blind, and when he heard it, he was angry and worried.

Until he heard that a Li family store was opened in the east of the capital to sell "glasses", specializing in the treatment of presbyopia.

Yu Qiyou inquired and said that the Li family's glasses were indeed useful, and several elderly people with severe presbyopia could see the documents clearly after wearing glasses. In particular, an old friend over there in Tian0jin wrote a letter to strongly recommend the benefits of these glasses, saying that it was an immediate effect on dealing with presbyopia.

Yu Qiyou didn't delay any longer, and took a family member to the optical store that day.

When he arrived at Ginkgo Street in the east of the capital, Yu Qiyou saw the signboard of the Li family's store - "Bao Zhi Presbyopia". Yu Qiyou walked into the store and saw that there were already a few customers inside, obviously the store was doing well. I heard that this pair of glasses costs ten taels of silver, how much silver does this store have to earn a day?

As soon as Yu Qiyou entered the store, a small servant greeted him and saluted and said, "This adult, with glasses?" ”

The servant next to Yu Qiyou said loudly: "Yes, my master wears glasses, how to match it?" ”

The little guy asked, "How long has it been since the adult had presbyopia?" ”

Yu Qiyou thought for a while and said, "It's been three years. It wasn't serious at first, but it got worse and worse this year. ”

The little guy said, "I'll try 200 degrees for you!" ”

The little guy brought a box, and when it was opened, it was full of transparent glass, which were probably "glasses". The little guy gave Yu Qiyou a pair of "200 degrees" glasses to try, and asked Yu Qiyou about the effect.

Yu Qiyou watched the little guy put the two pieces of glass on the wooden shelf to his nose, and according to the little guy's request, he looked at the book next to him through the glass piece.

However, through his eyes, Yu Qiyou still couldn't see the words in the book clearly. Seeing this, the little guy gave Yu Qiyou 250-degree glasses to try.

Wearing 250-degree glasses, Yu Qiyou was stunned, and he found that the world was clear all of a sudden.

He could read the small print on the Analects next to him.

"A gentleman has nothing to eat, no place to live, is sensitive to things and cautious in what he says, he has the right way and righteousness, and he can be said to be studious."

Yu Qiyou's heart was ecstatic, these glasses are really useful, he can see the documents clearly, and he won't be embarrassed by presbyopia! He kept his official position! This Li family's glasses are really magical!

The little guy tried 275 degrees, 300 degrees, and 325 degrees of glasses for Yu Qiyou, and finally determined that Yu Qiyou's current degree was 275 degrees. Yu Qiyou wore 275-degree glasses and looked through a few books in the store, and he could see clearly, and the clouds were light and light.

No one will ever call themselves blind again.

Yu Qiyou sighed in his heart, there are so many good things in the Li family this day.

"How much silver?"

"Ten taels of silver!"

Ten taels of silver, not much. Get yourself rid of the troubles of presbyopia, a great merit! Yu Qiyou asked the servant to take out the silver bag and touched ten taels of silver to the shopkeeper.

Putting on his glasses, Yu Qiyou happily left the Li family optical store. He decided to recommend this good thing to a few of his friends of the same age, so that they could also get rid of the problem of presbyopia.

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On November 19, Li Zhi's reading glasses business gradually improved, and he was able to create a lot of profits. Li Zhi sat down and took stock of his income and expenses.

Today, the glass wine set in the glass workshop is Li Zhi's most profitable industry, and after removing labor and material costs, he can make a profit of 17,000 taels a month. The second to make money is the textile factory, which makes a profit of 8,400 taels a month after removing labor, mechanical maintenance and material costs. Then there was the soap workshop, which made a profit of 8,200 taels a month.

Finally, there is the reading glasses industry, the reading glasses industry has now set up a store in the capital, and the business is gradually getting better, and the capital and Tian0jin together can sell more than 300 pairs of glasses every month, which can bring Li Zhi a profit of 3,000 taels.

Coupled with Fanjiazhuang's income of more than 700 taels per month from rent and mortgage repayment, Li Zhi's property can bring him a profit of 37,000 taels per month.

There is also the newly cultivated dry land in Fanjiazhuang, Li Zhi invested more than 50,000 taels of silver for the initial investment, and it is expected that he can earn more than 30,000 taels of silver every year, and there is a profit of nearly 3,000 taels of silver every month. Of course, the income from dry land has not yet landed, and it cannot be included in the income and expenditure for the time being.

Li Zhi's expenses are equally huge.

First of all, there are 4,000 soldiers of the Xuanfeng Regiment, these soldiers have three taels a month, three meals with meat, and the average cost of Li Zhi four taels and five dollars of silver per month. After Gyeonggi was invaded, the price of rice and meat in Cheon0jin soared, and Li Zhi changed three meals with meat to one meal with meat in the past two months, and the soldiers also expressed their understanding. But after a few months, the live pigs from other places were gradually transported to Tian0jin, and the price of meat fell, and Li Zhi was sure to restore the food. These 4,000 soldiers will consume Li Zhi 18,000 taels of silver in a month.

In addition, the saltpeter gunpowder spent on target training every month is about 1,000 taels of silver.

The second is the rifle workshop: the two hundred gunsmiths in the workshop are rifled gunsmiths with a monthly salary of four taels, with a total of eight hundred taels of silver per month, and the remaining three hundred people are ordinary gunsmiths who make rifled flintlock pistols, with a monthly sum of three taels, and a total of nine hundred taels of Li Zhi per month. 500 mini rifles were produced every month, and the material cost was 4,500 taels.

The rifle workshop produced 500 Mini rifles per month, and the total cost of Li Zhi was 6,200 taels of silver per month.

There were 130 city defense artillerymen, and the monthly money and food cost nearly 600 taels.

There were a total of 220 officials in the official hall, family members, and teachers of the newly built school, with a monthly fee of 2 taels, and a food fee of 125 yuan per person, and Li Zhi was spent 770 taels of silver every month.

There are thirty-five people in the artillery workshop and the dragon tail car workshop, and it costs one hundred and twenty taels per month.

There are 200 employees in the catering department, and they also have meat for two or three meals a month, which costs 700 taels a month.

After calculation, Li Zhi spends 27,000 taels per month.

In this way, Li Zhi's net profit is 10,000 taels of silver per month.

There is a balance of 10,000 taels every month, and Li Zhi has saved a lot of silver for more than a year, plus the 130,000 taels of silver seized in the Tartar camp when Yanguli was defeated, Li Zhi currently has more than 200,000 taels of silver in savings.

That's a lot of money.

In troubled times, strength is the supreme thing, and holding this silver is not spent, and putting it in your hands will only cause others to covet it.

Now Li Zhi is already a guerrilla general, in charge of a battalion of guerrillas, with a number of 1,000 soldiers. In November, the military salary of the soldiers was paid, and the military salary was 1,000 taels a month, with an average of one tael of silver per soldier. Compared with the time of conduct, this military salary has been exploited by several layers, and the proportion of receiving it is much higher.

Li Zhi used the 1,000 taels of silver to hire 300 soldiers as auxiliaries as a city defense force and to maintain law and order in the city. Of course, there are meat treatments for three meals, and other subordinates have them, and these auxiliaries also have them, and the soldiers' salaries plus food expenses just spent a thousand taels of military salaries.

But it is not enough to just add some auxiliary troops, in this chaotic era at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there is no sense of security without strength. The profits of his various industries are still expanding, and Li Zhi is not worried about the lack of silver. Li Zhi decided to use the surplus silver to recruit another 4,000 soldiers and add two more regiments.

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