Two days later, many merchants throughout Chang'an City also received an invitation letter in the name of the Ministry of War. And this invitation letter is specially to invite those businessmen to visit the government's iron smelting workshop in Chang'an, and if they are interested, they can contract to operate. And Chen Fei also specifically stated on the invitation what is contracting, that is, the government retains ownership, and then the businessmen themselves are responsible for production, and then agree on a price acceptable to both parties, and the government will be responsible for purchasing the steel. And this invitation immediately aroused the interest of many businessmen.

"This looks good, but will we be oppressed by the government?" Someone said.

"Probably not, they all said that it was written in black and white. The more steel is produced, the better the price. The government now realizes that they can't manage these workshop industries well, so they come up with this solution. Isn't it enough that anyone is so smart to come up with this method of retaining ownership and then authorizing the right to operate to the businessman? In fact, if we can use it in our own industry, if our descendants are a gentleman, then we can also use this method! Someone thought.

It is not only Li Shimin who can be inspired, many businessmen have seen this method and have begun to wonder if their own industry can do this. The most feared thing by ancient merchants is that their descendants will be ruined, so that the industry will also be corrupted. And if you can use this kind of retention of title, and then give the management rights to someone else, and then send someone to check the accounts regularly, then this can also get a lot of security. However, Chen Fei did not know that he put forward the idea of separating ownership and management rights, which was already a big step forward in business progress, and could directly promote the emergence of professional managers.

However, many businessmen are also tempted, because this smelting workshop contracted by the government, this profit is secondary, and the main thing is to be able to have a good relationship with the government. If the energy source is constantly contracted to these workshops. Let's not talk about the profit here, even if it is a small loss, I am willing. After all, this can be linked to the government, and if the quality of the steel provided in the future is good, then maybe it can even be linked to the military and let the military take care of itself. This is also the idea of ordinary businessmen, because in ancient China, if you want to make a lot of money, it is inseparable from the cooperation of the government.

If you can contract the government's industry and form a community of interests with the government, then it will definitely be beneficial for your own business in the future. Although it seems that this contract does not belong to me, it is also said that if it is done well, it can be contracted for a long time. It is not impossible to even contract for more than ten years at a time. And in this way, you can make money, although there is no ownership, but you can also have a good profit. Moreover, the state-owned steel method has actually been going on for many years, so it is understandable that the people are not able to control the ownership.

The day after receiving the invitation, they all rushed to different iron-smelting workshops, and then Chen Fei took the initiative to take them to visit these workshops.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am the Treasury Langzhong of the Tang Dynasty Military Department, and I am authorized by the emperor to be fully responsible for these ordnance matters. And these steel workshops are also managed by me. In the future, these workshops will also be outsourced, and everyone is invited to observe carefully, and then consider how much output they can achieve by organizing craftsmen. The higher the yield, the happier we are. Chen Fei said.

Chen Fei then took everyone to visit these steel workshops in Chang'an. Then let them see how much they can produce with quality and quantity. If enough production can be obtained, then it is not impossible for Chen Fei to provide them with contracting.

"There are more than 300 craftsmen in this workshop, can you roughly estimate how much steel this workshop can produce every month?" Chen Fei asked.

And then everyone began to estimate how much strength they could have. How much production can be achieved for this steel mill. After all, Chen Fei had promised that the merchants with higher output would be given priority to obtain the contracting rights, so that they would all be able to make enough profits at that time. They also certainly want to increase production. Because in this era of insufficient productivity, as long as it is produced, it is absolutely not afraid that there will be no market. Whether it is military or civilian, steel is a very worrying thing in the market. There are even many people who have a kitchen knife in several households, and this is not nothing. Therefore, as long as steel can be produced, it is almost not a worry about the market. If it weren't for the steel issue about national security, there would definitely be a lot of people entering the steel industry.

Now the imperial court can let go of part of the steel management rights, although it can only contract steel workshops, but it has already made many people tempted. This kind of thing is almost equivalent to no risk, and everyone wants to do it. It can also increase the relationship with the government, so that everyone thinks it is a good thing and is willing to do it.

"Chen Langzhong, I think this can be made with 100,000 catties of iron every month!" Someone said.

Chen Fei immediately asked, "Are you sure?" Are you sure you can really reach 100,000 catties per month? ”

Chen Fei wanted to make sure if what this guy said was true, because if there were 100,000 catties of steel per month, it would be more than 50 tons. And Chen Fei has also investigated several steel workshops in Chang'an before, that is, he found that these workshops have a lot of output and high costs. It is mainly reflected in the management of those iron and steel workshops, because those managers are high-ranking officials of the imperial court. The leader of a steel workshop, but a seven-rank official! The cost borne by the Tang Dynasty government is very high, but it is followed by a decrease in production, which is definitely not satisfactory.

Chen Fei knew that the steel workshop under their feet produced less than ten tons per month, but this businessman promised to produce more than fifty tons, which was simply surprising to Chen Fei. However, Chen Fei is not incomprehensible, because if it is the original officials, they will rarely strive to increase productivity, and they will not think about how to increase output as much as possible, because the increase in output has nothing to do with the income of those officials. But now that they are contracted to the merchants, this output can be regarded as related to their profits, and of course they have to squeeze this production capacity hard. Therefore, it is not impossible for the production capacity to burst out all at once, but it is very possible. This situation was also the case in many small state-owned enterprises in the early days of reform in later generations. Once contracted to a private individual, the capacity and dynamism suddenly skyrocketed. (To be continued......)