Due to the need for the Yellow Sea Fleet to fight against Silla, Li Yu unusually promoted Wang Aoke, who had participated in the Battle of Baekgang Estuary and later defected to serve under his command, as his commander. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The East China Sea Fleet selected Xiao Zhizhong, who had been the commander of the immigration fleet, from Jiaolong Naval Airlines, as the commander, and the South China Sea Fleet had Xue Yao, one of the military staff members of the Yanwang Mansion, as the commander.

After the fleet training was completed, Li Yu convened a military meeting.

In view of the fact that Silla is a great calamity for Andong and his country is recuperating, sooner or later there will be another war between the two countries. At the meeting, it was agreed that in order to bleed Silla, the Yellow Sea Fleet would be dispatched to raid the Silla coast under the guise of pirates, plunder the population, grain and other property, destroy Silla's agricultural production, weaken its national strength, and at the same time serve the purpose of training the navy in actual combat.

As the commander of the Yellow Sea Fleet, Wang Aoke happily assured Li Yu: "We will never disappoint Your Highness's expectations." ”

The conquest of the South Seas was imminent, and there was a Bori country on the northwest coast of Borneo that needed to be disposed of, so Li Yu sent Xue Yao to lead the South China Sea Fleet to attack Borneo together with the Zhendong Army led by Wei Chi Xunyu, who went south to Borneo. As for the East China Sea Fleet, it temporarily stayed in the town of Duli to strengthen training.

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In the crisp autumn weather, a large fleet left Duli Town under Li Yu's expectant gaze and sailed south towards the vast sea.

In the fleet, there are the Zhendong Army, the Barbarian Army, the Di Army, plus the South China Sea Fleet and the Jiaolong Naval Navigation Transport Fleet.

The expedition to Nanyang was a long time after Li Yu's decision, and he finally organized such a huge cross-sea expeditionary force, with more than 10,000 combat troops alone, and the prepared materials filled 450 transport ships with a displacement of more than 500 tons, which consumed one-third of Anton's grain stocks.

As the fleet farther and farther away, eventually disappearing above sea level, Li Yu returned to his palace in the town of Duli.

Xin'er shook it in front of Li Yu with an account book, and congratulated with a smile: "Congratulations to Xun Jun He Xi Jun, after nearly two years of hard work, the snow salt produced by Changlu Salt Drying Mill has won a good reputation among the people for its high quality and low price." This year alone, 600,000 catties of snow salt were sold, and the profit was 300,000 yuan. At present, the supply is still in short supply, and salt merchants from all over the country are waiting in line for the snow salt in Changlu Salt Mill, and even Hu merchants in the Western Regions have traveled thousands of miles to Changlu to buy it. ”

"I'll see!"

Li Yu took the account book from Xin'er's hand, opened it and took a look, and sure enough, since the beginning of the salt production of Changlu Salt Mill, the cumulative profit has exceeded 500,000 yuan, which is only because snow salt has just appeared on the Datang market for less than two years. Presumably, as time goes by, more people will buy snow salt. Based on the current population of more than 40 million people in Datang, each person needs two yuan of salt per day, and the salt market in Datang needs 800,000 catties of salt a day. In this way, the current market share of Changlu Salt Mill is still extremely small, and the market space that can be developed is still very broad, and the future profit may be the top of all squares and commercial banks.

Judging from the account books, the orders placed by salt merchants in various places to the Changlu Salt Mill will be scheduled for production in the middle of next year.

The owner of Changlu Salt Mill is recruiting manpower to expand the salt farm, and strive to increase the monthly salt output to 200,000 catties.

"Jun Xun, there is also ah, the glass mirror has shaken the capital since the day it was sold in the two capitals, and the thousand mirrors of different sizes prepared by the glass workshop were sold out on the same day. Merchants from all over the world heard the news, and rushed to the Xinxiang Hall to order glass mirrors, and now the mirror masters of the glass workshop are working overtime almost every day because of the increasing orders. ”

"This is not good, the rush of the masters may lead to an increase in defective products and increase the cost of glass mirrors."

Although the cost of glass mirrors is not very high, Li Yu cares.

Li Yu frowned and said: "The glass mirror is not a consumable, if you buy a mirror and it is not damaged, it can be used for decades." The mass production of glass mirrors in glass mills will quickly saturate the market, so that the sales of glass mirrors will be lower in the future, and the price will also fall. Glass mirror technology is monopolized by the glass mill, how can it do anything to cut off its own money? It was necessary to let Xinxiangdian push away those redundant orders, so that the glass workshop only refined 100 glass mirrors of different sizes every month, as a monopoly method to firmly grasp the pricing power of glass mirrors, so that their prices would not fall with the passage of time. ”

"But Jun, if you reduce production and maintain high prices, the monthly profit of glass mirrors will inevitably decline. At present, the smallest palm glass mirror is priced at ten yuan, and the middle-class family of Datang has to feel distressed to spend this money. ”

Li Yu scratched Xin'er's cute little Qiong nose and smiled: "It's nothing to decline for a while, as long as the market is still there, the part of the profit that declines every month will be doubled over time." Who said that I am the only one in the world who has the technology to make glass mirrors? ”

"After making 100 mirrors per month, the glass workshop can undertake special glass mirrors from large households at a high price, with a small amount and high profit margin, which does not affect the market of ordinary glass mirrors."

Looking at the treacherous smile on Jun Xun's face, Xin'er's little finger poked Li Yu's chest and said with a smile: "Jun Xun, you are really a profiteer." ”

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With the passage of time, Li Yu's successive establishment of the top ten commercial houses in the main prosperous states and counties of the Tang Dynasty to carry out operations, and with the help of merchants from all over the world, the exclusive goods produced by Li Yu's workshops have entered more and more families of the Tang Dynasty, gradually affecting their daily life.

Today's wealthy families, who take a bath and wash their faces, will not use soap to clean their skin and become smooth and white. If you suddenly leave the soap one day, the little ladies of each family will probably have to cry for a long time.

Perfume is a must-have item for rich girls, if you don't bring one, where can you show your compulsion?

You know, perfume is a luxury item sold in the Fragrance Palace, but a two-inch tall glass bottle of rose incense costs fifty times, which is only a medium-priced perfume. The precious perfume made by Long Yanxiang is even more priceless and marketable, and non-dignitaries cannot have it.

Cement has brought convenience to the people who are fed up with the muddy streets in the city, and Chang'an and Luoyang are the first cities in Datang to carry out street cement transformation. Although only the main roads in the city have been renovated, the changes in the travel of the people in the city are enough to be described as shocking. On rainy and snowy days, you don't have to go out and get half muddy on the streets.

The carriage ran on the concrete road without the bumps of the dirt road in the past, and the road from the city gate to the palace gate was smooth and steady, making the people in the carriage drowsy.

It is a four-wheeled carriage produced by Li Yu Workshop, with a spring shock absorption effect, running on the cement road is not only stable, but also not fast.

The Ministry of Industry of the DPRK proposed that all official roads in Datang be converted into cement roads, so that the communication between the two places would be faster and more conducive to the mobilization of troops.

It is only because of natural disasters in Guanzhong every year in recent years, and Koubian in Tubo in the northwest every year, the war is complicated, and the treasury is tight, so it is temporarily shelved by the obstruction of Prime Minister Zhang Wenguan.

Li Zhi personally felt the benefits brought by the cement road, and he had to return to the two capitals in a year or even a few years, and did not want to suffer from the bumps in the road again, so he decided to build the official road between the two capitals into a cement road first when the treasury and taxation were insufficient, and then repair the rest of the places after the finances and taxes were sufficient.