Liu Zhang raised his head in satisfaction and asked the other patriarchs, "What do you mean?" ”

"We all support the decree of the state and will not disobey it."

"Yes." Liu Zhang nodded and said with a smile: "It seems that the wealthy families in the big place are knowledgeable, but I know that some of you are dissatisfied with the official in your heart, and the official doesn't mind, the four imperial examinations have squeezed out your opportunity to become a official, the land order has hindered your expansion of the industry, and the price limit order has made you lose your dream of getting rich overnight, this is like the money you are about to get in your pocket in your eyes and is robbed by others, I am not happy if I change me, isn't this the truth?" ”

"The grass people don't dare." "The grass people don't dare."

The clans were submissive, scolding Liu Zhang for being shameless in their hearts, knowing that they were robbing money, they still wanted to do this, and now they still have to say these high-sounding and other cool words.

"Still." Liu Zhang continued: "This official is not a person who likes to take advantage of small advantages, if he robs your money, I will return it to you twice, depending on whether you are worthy of cooperation." ”

"Give it back to us?" The patriarchs of the clan exchanged their heads and ears, not knowing which one Liu Zhang was singing, Old Man Yan said: "Please make it clear." ”

Liu Zhang said: "Don't worry, before I say it, the official will ask you a question, I think you already know that the thing under you is called a chair, and the thing on your head is called a sun umbrella, what do you think of these two things?" Do you want to add a set to your home when you go back? ”

Those patriarchs nodded, sitting on a chair is much more comfortable than sitting on a mat, and with a sun umbrella, you can set up a table in the courtyard to drink tea at any time in the future, no need to shrink in the house, these things don't cost a few dollars, of course they want to buy a set, they should be, but these clans are still confused, I don't know what Liu Zhang wants to say.

Liu Zhang smiled: "Since you all have this idea, then other rich people, as well as those ordinary people, won't they spend hundreds of dollars to buy a set?" You're smart people, you should know what this means, right? ”

Which of these clans is not in business, after Liu Zhang's little bit, he suddenly woke up to the fact that things like chairs are practical and cheap, and they can be managed for a long time, and every household can use them, and selling chairs has an infinite prospect, and many people have already thought about it, and they will find a carpenter to make chairs when they go back.

Liu Zhang smiled and said, "Everyone may have started to sell chairs, right?" But don't blame the official for pouring cold water on you, you will definitely not make any money by selling chairs. ”

"Why?" "Impossible, right?" The patriarchs were puzzled.

Liu Zhang raised his head and shouted to the children of the clan behind him, "Which of you usually takes care of the storefront, come out." ”

Sons of the clan, you look at me, I look at you, and in the end, the big man surnamed Yin was bold and walked out.

The big man surnamed Yin was burly, and Liu Zhang hammered the big chest muscle of the big man surnamed Yin and said, "The young man is very strong, what's his name?" ”

The big man surnamed Yin said loudly: "My lord, Yin Bai, the grass people, there are more than 20 stores in my house, most of which deal in cloth, and now I see it." ”

"Yes, that's good." Liu Zhang nodded: "Then let me ask you, according to your estimate, how much should a chair be sold for?" ”

Yin Bai thought for a while and said: "Although I haven't sold this thing, but looking at the labor and wood are similar to two coffee tables, it should be sold for two hundred yuan. ”

With a smile, Liu Zhang patted Yin Bai's shoulder and said, "Young man, this is sold and you still have to help you for money, the price of my chair is 70 Wen, and Wang Fu sold you 100 Wen to see that you have money and want to blackmail you." ”

"Eighty Wen?" Yin Bai was surprised: "This is impossible, the wood of this chair will cost forty yuan, and the labor cost should be more than one hundred yuan, plus the storefront, taxes, etc., it is impossible to sell only eighty yuan." ”

Others who knew how to do business also nodded.

Liu Zhang said with a smile: "You are good, but you are counting the traditional craft, now there is a method in Benzhou, which can greatly reduce labor costs, shorten production time, named assembly line production, that is to say, making a chair is no longer done by one person, but by many people working together, cutting down trees, moving wood, processing wood, assembling nails, all have special personnel to complete."

A ten-person workshop, with the help of cheap labor, can produce at least twenty chairs a day, and the labor cost of a chair is less than twenty yuan on average, and because of the unification of cutting and handling, the wood cost will also be reduced by a quarter, Yin Bai, do you think that the chairs of Benzhou Mu can't be sold for eighty yuan? ”

"This ......" Yin Bai was a little confused.

Liu Zhang laughed: "There is no basis for empty talk, you have seen the real assembly line workshop, you know the power of the workshop, the old patriarch is hard, if you don't want to move, please ask the young children of the clan to do it for you, let's go to Yushu Street to see the top ten workshops directly under the Mufu, how about it?" ”

The old patriarchs were eager to try when they saw those young people, and they didn't object in their hearts, and some of the patriarchs even wanted to see with their own eyes the miraculous assembly line workshop that Liu Zhang said, but unfortunately a large number of old bones were almost fainted by the sun, so they could only order the children of the clan to go back to the house in the sedan chair.

Liu Zhang distributed war horses to the young people sent by the clan, and the group rode to Yushu Street in Xicheng.

Chengdu is a prosperous city in the Han Dynasty, but unfortunately the development is uneven, Dongcheng because of Mianzhu, Guanghan, Fucheng and other places, is the first place for foreign businessmen to arrive in Chengdu, so it is more developed than the other three cities, and Xicheng is the poorest place in Chengdu, gathering a large number of urban poor, Yushu Street is such a slum street.

Under Liu Zhang's order, Wang Fu put the drawings drawn by Liu Zhang into real objects, plus porcelain, cloth, soaphorn, etc., and opened a total of ten government-run workshops, all of which were completed in Yushu Street, which were named Tianzi, Dizi, and Sanzi to Cross.

Seventeen shopkeepers, more than 200 craftsmen and embroiderers, and all the other laymen hired the poor people near Elm Street, and when these poor people were paid a lot of money on the first day, they all blossomed happily and rushed to come to the workshop to work.

In a place like Elm Street, these children of the clan don't even want to carry their feet in on weekdays, and this time they followed Liu Zhang, and some people kept frowning, but when they really entered Elm Street, these people's eyes widened.

The houses are still those houses, a pile of mud houses as if they are about to fall, but a few large simple wooden houses are erected in the middle, and the people are still those people, dressed in tattered clothes, but everyone seems to be busy.

What really amazes the people is that there are simple sheds everywhere here, which are piled up with all kinds of raw materials, strong men carry wood, women gather around the dustpan to select cotton, and then transport it to the wooden houses one by one, which is almost the same as when Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall, but the people on Yushu Street are all smiling lightly.