"The following is the third place to spend money, and it is also our duty, which is to raise and train soldiers.

Xiao Qi knew how much money it cost when he rehearsed the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army. In the past, the Longwu Forbidden Army did not practice once a month, but I had to practice three times a day.

The more you practice, the more you eat, and my requirement is to have meat at every meal, and the food tube is full. In this way, these soldiers could not do anything, and we would be poored by eating alone, plus each soldier's salary at least twice a month, and the cavalry and officers would be doubled. His Majesty allowed me to recruit 30,000 soldiers, and the monthly salary and food alone were a frightening figure.

In addition, the Tang Dynasty martial arts school was established in Luoyang, and all kinds of training, the honorables sent by His Majesty, the students sent by the envoys from various places, and the teachings sent by the envoys of each section, these expenses should also be borne by the Four Seas Trading Company. ”

Li Xian, Gao Shi, Wang Changling and others couldn't help but be speechless, this was really a lot of money, but Xiao Qu's illness was not over, and the words that everyone couldn't understand came out of his mouth again.

"The fourth is all kinds of infrastructure. Time is running out, and I am going to build a large number of workshops near Luoyang and Lantian County, and send people to prospect and mine in the meandering land. Cement kilns, brick kilns, paper workshops, iron-making and steel-making workshops, pig farms, sheep farms, these must be done quickly, and I will build a large number of new houses with cement and masonry in Luoyang and Lantian.

Although it is said that these will be very profitable after doing a good job, after all, they must be invested in advance, and these require a lot of money. Therefore, I was a little worried that the capital chain would be broken, so I decided to go to the South China Sea.

On top of that, we need countless food ......"

Li Xian and the others understood it. Xiao Qu's illness is to cultivate the market first. Build a habit. Then, on the one hand, they can control the other party's economy, and on the other hand, they can consume the grain of the Tibetan, Silla, Balhae, and Hui Khanates.

Xiao Quzhi finished his plan, and then handed the plan to Li Xian. Saying that he had full authority, he got up and prepared to go back to the inner house. Dealing with general affairs Li Xian is indeed dozens of times more than himself, so on the one hand, it is not only to show his absolute trust in him, but also to show Li Qi on the other hand.

Boy, look at what it means to shake off the shopkeeper, look at what it means to rule vertically, and look at what professional things are left to professional people to do.

Li Qi followed from behind, looking like he wanted to say something, Xiao Quzhi said with a smile: "If you have something, just say it." Or if you have a question, just ask. ”

Only then did Li Qi say, "Master, my eldest sister-in-law." It was the eldest lady of Mrs. Korea's family, who asked me to come to Master, saying that Mrs. Korea wanted to invite you to her house for a banquet. ”

"Heh, I still have to put up a shelf, but I can't resist the temptation of money, this Yang family, why is the gap so big." Xiao Quzhi sneered: "It's fake that they call me a banquet, and it's true that they want to make money by agency."

If you go to tell Cui's family, I will say that I have promised them the agency rights of the six states of Jiannan Daoyi, Shu, Qiong, Peng, Han, and Mei, and they don't need to pay for the agency fee, but the deposit cannot be less, 10,000 yuan per state, and not a penny.

asked them to send someone to find Xiao Tianming, and as for the banquet, they won't go. ”

Li Qi said: "Master, since you know, why did you allow them so easily? Also, Master is so short of money, why don't you charge their agency fees. If you don't accept it, Mrs. Qiuguo still thinks that you are afraid of them and wants to please them. ”

"This is called a toad jumping on the instep of the foot, not biting and burping. Master is naturally not afraid of them, but after all, they are all the sisters of the concubine's sister. Anyway, whatever they think, I'm too lazy to waste time with them. Wouldn't it be nice to give some benefits to get rid of it? ”

Li Qi thought for a while, and then asked, "Master, Xiao Qi has one more question, no, it's two questions." ”

"Oh, let's hear it."

"The first is, we give white sugar, rock candy, glassware and soap to these agents to sell, why do we set the price so strictly? In fact, as long as a minimum selling price is stipulated, isn't it possible to sell for more money? ”

"You think, in this way, although we can make more money, but we don't have to send someone to every state to keep an eye on it, otherwise how will we know what the price is? This only increases the profit margins a little, but the cost of execution increases a lot. ”

Xiao Quzhi said with a smile: "There is a problem of the cost of doing things here, for example, for a certain thing, we only need to spend two points of effort to get seventy percent of the profit, but if we want to get eighty percent of the profit, we must spend forty percent of the effort."

We should give up this percentage of profits and leave them to others to do, and we only do the easiest part of the profits, and free up energy to do other things.

However, this is only a small thing, and the big thing is that we can better control them by setting prices. ”

"How do you control them?"

"Xiao Qi, do you still remember the story I told about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, Yuan Shao felt that it was nothing, so he said in frustration, why is it nothing, now he Cao A will hide an edict that is favorable to the lord, and the lord will be edicted, and when the time comes, Cao A will hide an edict that is unfavorable to the lord, and the lord will not serve the edict?"

Xiao Quzhi said: "Cao Cao has the name of the Son of Heaven, he can control all the princes, and our Four Seas Trading Company has the power of pricing, and we also have the name to control the magnates of various families, rich businessmen. When they get more and more benefits from us, coupled with the habit of subtly controlling us, they will naturally look at us in the end. ”

Li Qi nodded thoughtfully, and asked the second question: "Crystal, why did Master only sell us the powerful and rich in the Tang Dynasty, isn't this a trick for them?" ”

"Come here with your ears."

After a while, Li Qi smiled and said, "Master, you are so insidious." ”

A few days later, those who actively participated in the shipbuilding industry and the preparation for going to sea, the powerful people of the Tang Dynasty, the wealthy businessmen, heard an amazing news from Li Qi, saying that the king of Lanling had something to hide from everyone, in fact, he went to sea this time, in addition to Treasure Island, Copper Island, and Spice Island, he also knew that there were many natural water spirit masterbatches on an island.

When the time comes, after pulling these water spirit masterbatches back to Chang'an from the island, you can ship thousands, or even tens of thousands of crystals, and within a year, these crystals will not only not appreciate, but will fall sharply.

Then, they strictly blocked this top-secret news to the outside world, and declared to the outside world that this time they needed to prepare too many things and buy too many goods to go to sea with King Lanling.

This time, I was happy with those Hu merchants and envoys from various countries in the Western Regions who had money but couldn't shoot crystals, and couldn't follow King Lanling to the sea to make a fortune. For the crystals thrown by these powerful and wealthy people of the Tang Dynasty, they almost all received them as ordered, and all of them were at a high price of more than 7,000 yuan.

In particular, Kim Hyo-fang, the envoy of the Silla Kingdom, went to Sihae Qianzhuang to borrow 150,000 pieces of crystal, and purchased 45 pieces of crystal ware at an average price of 7,800 pieces per piece.

Crystal ware was very popular in Silla, and the king of Silla had a high-legged crystal cup, which was treasured as a national treasure, and his own important minister was only fortunate enough to see it, which was far from these crystal cups fired by the Sihai trading company.

Imagine how happy King Jingdeok would be when he saw that he had brought back so many exquisite crystals!

Jin Xiaofang is not worried that these crystals will depreciate at all, there are only 500 pieces in existence, and there are more than 500 rich people who are willing to bid 10,000 yuan to buy a crystal as an heirloom. (To be continued.) )