Not long after Liu Xiu left the city, he saw Bi Lan and Liu Yunshuang, who loved to pinch orchid fingers, the two had just gotten out of the car and seemed to be about to go to the noodle restaurant, as soon as they saw him, Liu Yunshuang shouted in a coquettish voice with his surname:

"Alas, where are you going here, Liu Jun, you're too busy, it's good that we came quickly, otherwise we'd have to go wrong again."

"Looking for me?" Liu Xiu was stunned for a moment, looked at him, and then turned his gaze to Bi Lan's face. Although Bi Lan's dead face is ugly, compared to Liu Yunshuang's face, it is still more attractive, at least the effect of vomiting is not so strong.

"I'm not here to find you, or what else will I do when I leave the palace." Liu Yunshuang raised her arm to wipe her sweat, raised her head and scolded: "This damn God, if you don't have a drop of rain, you will almost kill people." ”

Bi Lan snorted unhappily, and Liu Yunshuang immediately shut up and stood aside obediently. Liu Xiu hurriedly stepped forward and gave a salute without humility or arrogance: "Master Bi drove here, do you have any advice?" ”

"Where are you going?" Bi Lan's sharp voice has a special cold taste, which makes people's whole body cold.

"I want to find a place and open another branch." Liu Xiu didn't hide it from him, and said that he wanted to expand and re-operate. Bi Lan's sparse eyebrows raised, and his eyes lit up: "Deran is really good at making money, and the business is doing well, and it has only been more than a month before the second store is opened." ”

"I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, I'm so small that I have to expand the scale."

"Okay, let me come and see." Bi Lan returned to the car and motioned for Liu Xiu to get into the car: "I'll take you there, and I'll talk to you about something on the way." ”

Liu Xiu only hesitated slightly, then climbed into the car and sat side by side with Bi Lan. Bi Lan has a peculiar smell on his body, which is the smell of urine scratching and the smell of fragrant powder mixed together, and the weather is hot, and the taste is even heavier. However, Liu Xiu knew that Bi Lan was very sensitive to this, and there was nothing to be done about it, so he didn't smell it.

Bi Lan nodded quietly, stretched out his hand and patted the chariot, Liu Xiu said the name of the place, shook the reins with his hand, and the carriage slowly drove forward. The sound of hooves and the sound of cars were rustling, and the carriage left Taixue and headed for the Lingtai.

"What, you want to open a noodle shop in Lingtai?" Bi Lan asked with some curiosity.

Liu Xiu shook his head and said his plan. Nowadays, there is a very big flaw that the noodle restaurant is open in the market, that is, the market opens very late in the morning and closes very early in the evening, and once the market is closed, there can be no one in the market. However, the most concentrated time for Tai students to eat was just before the market opened and after the market closed, which invisibly caused Liu Xiu to lose a lot of business. He wanted to open the noodle shop outside the market so he could catch the best time to eat.

Bi Lan shook his head again and again when he heard this, the market system of the Han Dynasty has been inherited from ancient times, if you want to open a noodle restaurant outside, how is it possible?

Liu Xiu said with a smile, it is precisely because the system is difficult to change, so he wants to cooperate with Lingtai. There are many astronomical scholars in the Lingtai, and it is normal for them to stay up all night stargazing, and it is also normal for them to eat when they are hungry at night. Recently, in order to prepare for the big pheasant, they have been even more busy. When the Son of Heaven is coming, people with heads and faces in Luoyang City will come to watch the ceremony, although there is an institution responsible for food and drink on the Lingtai side, but it is impossible to meet so many needs, if you can seize this opportunity to open a new store, then there will definitely be a surplus of customers, and even the cost of advertising will be saved. As for the future, he wanted to discuss with the Lingtai organization whether he could contract the supper of those scholars.

"I still have to ask adults for guidance on this matter, I really don't know how to start."

Bi Lan smiled, his fingers tapped lightly on the car, and he glanced at Liu Xiu: "Do you want me to help?" What are the benefits? ”

Liu Xiu laughed, and he had no consciousness in facing the legendary villain: "Whatever benefits the adults want, as long as I can get it, I will offer it with both hands." ”

"Really?" A smile hung on the corner of Bi Lan's eyes: "I want your noodle restaurant, you will give it too?" ”

"A noodle shop is a small business." Liu Xiu waved his hand disapprenously: "Now it's just a matter of grabbing a fresh, at most a year and a half, the method of making it will be spread out, and when the time comes, it will bloom everywhere, and it won't make a lot of money." ”

Bi Lan rolled her eyes and nodded inadvertently, the reason Liu Xiu said is not complicated, no matter how strictly this noodle restaurant is controlled, the secret will be leaked out sooner or later, and it will be no different from ordinary business at that time. However, he enjoyed the ease of joking with Liu Xiu, "One gold, more than three hundred gold a year, or a small business?" What do you think is big business? ”

Liu Xiu smiled and didn't answer, and asked Bi Lan instead: "My lord just said that you have something to do with me?" ”

The smile on Bi Lan's face disappeared, and he sighed: "Actually, it has something to do with money." ”

Liu Xiu was puzzled.

Bi Lan said that these days for the sake of the big pheasant, the Son of Heaven has some liver fire. The reason is simple, there is no money. Da Yan asked for money, and Cao Song, the big farmer, had no money, and the officials owed it for several months. Although the Son of Heaven was angry, he had no choice but to find Shaofu, which was the private treasury of the royal family, and he couldn't help but give it, but it was far from enough. In order to be able to carry out the big goose and beg for some rain to relieve the drought, the Son of Heaven had to ask the eunuchs in the palace to donate money - now the eunuchs in the palace can listen to him.

The eunuchs in the palace all have some money, which is also true, and they also know that their benefits are given by the Son of Heaven, if the Son of Heaven is forced to be anxious, not only will their money not be saved, but even their lives will not be saved. Why was Hou Lan, one of the five marquis, cleaned up by the Son of Heaven? It was because he was too rich and too stingy, so the Son of Heaven took the opportunity of his exposure to kill him and confiscate all his property.

Everyone donated money, and Bi Lan was no exception, he donated five million, which was almost all his savings. Not only can he not be compared with Cao Jie and Wang Fu, but he can't even compare with Song Dian. Song Dian was in charge of the gardens of the Luoyang royal family, and he could harvest a lot of fish raised in the garden pond every year.

Liu Xiu understood as soon as he heard it. The so-called happiness is comparative, Bi Lan does not dare to compare with Cao Jie and Zhang Rang, but if he is compared to Song Dian, he will definitely not be reconciled. Because Song Dian is the closest to him, he is also a professional with expertise in technology. He is good at machinery, and Song Dian is good at gardens and architecture, the two are not fighting openly and secretly, the last time the thirsty Wu was smashed, it is said that there is Song Dian's shadow behind it.

"What do you mean?"

Bi Lan said with a smile: "I originally wanted to ask you for a noodle restaurant, but I am embarrassed that you promised so easily." Otherwise, your second noodle restaurant, count me in? ”

Liu Xiu raised his eyebrows, knowing that he was going to benefit. Count you in, can I ask you for the principal? If you move your mouth, I will have to give you my hard-earned money in the future.

"If today's son has exhausted all methods in order to raise money, those of us who are courtiers can't help but be a little bit of a heart." Bi Lan was a little unhappy when he saw that Liu Xiu didn't answer him. Last time, he did Liu Xiu a big favor, and Liu Xiu hadn't thanked him clearly, so there was a bit of threat in his words at this moment.

Liu Xiu is not a fool, he can hear Bi Lan's unhappiness clearly. He smiled, and looked at Bi Lan with a smile, "Don't you think my adult is reluctant?" ”

Bi Lan smiled and didn't speak.

"As I said earlier, if you want it, I'll give it with both hands at any time." Liu Xiu paused, looked at the Lingtai that was getting closer and closer, and said with some regret: "It's a pity that the total income of the noodle restaurant is only more than three hundred gold every year, I think for adults, this seems to be far from quenching the thirst of the near." ”

Bi Lan listened and sighed a little depressedly, Liu Xiu was right. Even if he gave him the noodle restaurant, he wouldn't be able to scrape together so much money for a while.

"What's more, I also know that there is a mountain of gold in the hands of adults, but just kidding me, what do I have to be afraid of."

Bi Lan was stunned and looked at Liu Xiu puzzled: "I have a mountain of gold in my hand?" ”

"It seems that the adults are in this mountain, but they don't know where to go." Liu Xiu smiled, shook his head, patted Che Shi and signaled Yushou to stop. As soon as the car stopped, he jumped down and walked towards the altar in a hurry.

Bi Lan was both happy and confused, for fear that Liu Xiu would use this as an excuse, and he couldn't care about his rudeness, so he hurriedly followed, and asked a little anxiously: "De Ran, what is this golden mountain you are talking about?" ”

"My lord, what's that?" Liu Xiu pointed to a rotating thirsty crow in front of him. Bi Lan glanced at it, muttered for a while, and suddenly realized. Last time, after Liu Xiu's reminder, he arranged the whereabouts of the servant who sprinkled water on the roads in Luoyang, and then promoted the use of thirsty Wu on a large scale, which saved a lot of money for the Son of Heaven at once, and the Son of Heaven specially rewarded him for this matter. However, last time he was just saving money, and he himself didn't get any benefits, but now he wants to make money.

He understood most of it, but he was still a little unclear, and hurriedly discussed it with Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu said, you are a master of machinery in the palace, there must be a lot of good things with sales prospects in the machinery researched, make these things in batches and push them to the market to sell, you can not only make money and share worries for the Son of Heaven, but also your name will spread to all directions with these things, and whoever uses these machines in the future will read that this is the masterpiece of Lord Bi Lanbi, just like most people who use paper now will think of Cai Lun.

As soon as he heard that he could be the same as Cai Lun, Bi Lan suddenly felt a little overfired, and his breathing became a little short. Although Cai Lun is also a eunuch, but he improved the technology of papermaking, now the paper used in Luoyang is called "Cai Hou paper", other papers such as Donglai Zuobo paper, etc., are more or less influenced by Cai Hou paper, that is, those who have always looked down on eunuchs, but also Cai Lun's exploits are quite praised.

Cai Lun is the saint in the heart of the eunuch, and he is a saint who can leave his name.

Liu Xiu saw that Bi Lan had taken the bait, and then said that solving economic problems is nothing more than two directions: open source and throttling. Shang Fangjian spends so much money every year and makes so many good things, but except for letting the Son of Heaven play with it, there is no entry and exit, and it does not produce any benefits, it is pure waste of money. Now that you have brought the research results to the market, you have not only made money, but you also do not need to reach out to the palace for research, saving a lot of money for the Son of Heaven, which can be described as a two-pronged approach of open source and resource saving.

There was no need for Liu Xiu to say more, Bi Lan had already understood everything, and he couldn't wait to go back and sort out his achievements now and see which ones could be sold for money. He invited Liu Xiu to go with him, but Liu Xiu was not in a hurry, and pointed to the Lingtai in front of him and said, "I still have to discuss the opening of a noodle restaurant with the person in charge of the Lingtai, and you are not in a hurry to do so." ”

"What are you talking about?" With a wave of his hand, Bi Lan called Liu Yunshuang over. Go, talk to the manager of the Lingtai, let him go to Luofu Noodle Restaurant tomorrow, taste the delicious food in the noodle restaurant, and then talk about the matter happily, don't bother Liu Jun.

Liu Yunshuang glanced at Liu Xiu with a complaining look, and trotted towards the spiritual platform. Bi Lan pulled Liu Xiu into the car, went straight back to the city, and went all the way to the office of the court, and couldn't wait to take out the treasures he had treasured for many years, spread them all in front of Liu Xiu, and said with bright eyes: "Look at which ones can make money." ”

Liu Xiu looked at them one by one, and was so happy that he almost laughed out loud, this dead eunuch is really talented, and he has done so many good things, but it is a pity that he has been hidden in a drawer for so many years, maybe no one will know when he dies. Alas, how many skills in China have been lost like this. He thought about it while flipping, and finally slapped it with his palm: "It's all good things, but unfortunately, if you want to turn it into money, it will take a lot of effort, and I'm afraid it's unlikely in a short time." ”

When Bi Lan heard this, her face suddenly changed.

Liu Xiu was not in a hurry, he stood up and walked around twice, until Bi Lan's face was almost dripping, then he turned to look at him: "Master Bi, I dare to say that when you designed these things, you never thought that one day they could be used in the whole of Luoyang like you did when you designed Thirsty Wu." ”

Bi Lan smiled, didn't say anything, and didn't expect it to be thirsty for Wu, but he had an idea, and he wanted to make a machine to come out and see, who would have thought that one day Luoyang City would use thirsty Wu outside the city, and more than 300 units were made.

"These things of yours are very cleverly conceived, but they are not good for people's livelihood. It's like...... Just like the armillary sphere in the spiritual platform, it is ingenious, but only the spiritual platform can be used, and it is useless for others to sell it to others. ”

Bi Lan blushed rarely, and shook her head again and again: "I have won awards, how dare I compare with a talent like Zhang Pingzi." ”

"Not really." Liu Xiu smiled mysteriously: "You have helped Your Majesty earn money, and you may not be able to be like Zhang Pingzi in the future." ”

"Please also teach me Deran." Bi Lan was really moved, and for the first time said something to Liu Xiu asking for advice.

"It's very simple, if you want to make money, you first need to know what can be sold for the most money." Liu Xiu enlightened Bi Lan and said. He rebranded the knowledge of the commodity economy that he knew, such as whether you should take the route of high-end luxury goods or the mass production scale, what kind of people your target customers are, what kind of strategy should be formulated, how to price appropriately, and how to promote it when the time comes.

In order to make a fake painting and sell it, he had to know in advance who might be interested in it, what kind of potential demand he had, and how much money he might pay. This is not exactly the same thing as the commodity economy, but it is somewhat similar. Bi Lan is an expert in technology, but not in business, he was dizzy by Liu Xiu's words, his face was red with excitement, and he was a little at a loss.

Liu Xiu finally put forward two big problems, first, if you want to sell products in batches, you can't do it alone, you need more people, you need more materials, and finally it comes down to a question, where do you get the capital. Second, if you make money, it is hard to guarantee that someone will be jealous, and they will use various methods to take advantage of it, do you have the strength to hold it? If you can't keep it, it will be hard work for others, and in the end, you will be empty, and you may even lose all your money.

Bi Lan was completely crazy, he felt that he was led by Liu Xiu into a cave full of treasures, and then he was pushed into it by Liu Xiu, looking at the treasures in the hole, he realized that he had forgotten to bring tools.

"Deran, don't say any more." Bi Lan roared and pressed Liu Xiu on the seat, his eyes were red: "Since you can think of these things, there must be a solution." If you don't talk about it today, I won't let you out of the palace. ”

"Hey-" Liu Xiu was also anxious: "Master Bi, this is not right, I can help you come up with ideas, let me take care of everything, I don't have to do it." ”

Bi Lan rolled her eyes, let go of Liu Xiu's shoulder, returned to her seat, drank a glass of water to moisten her throat, and smiled sadly: "I know, it's not profitable, it's too early, let's say, what benefits do you want." ”

"You see what you say." Liu Xiu stood up and walked out with a righteous face: "It's as if I want you something." ”

Bi Lan was stunned for a moment, jumped up, grabbed Liu Xiu's clothes tightly, and said with a smile: "Deran, jokes, jokes, don't take it seriously." As he spoke, he pulled Liu Xiu back to his seat and begged softly: "You say, how to solve these problems." ”

Liu Xiu looked at him for a long time, and couldn't help but smile: "This is what you begged me, you owe me this favor, and you will have to pay it back in the future." ”

"Yes, definitely." Bi Lan nodded repeatedly.

"It's simple, who is there a lot of people in Luoyang?" Liu Xiu raised his fingers, "First, there are many dignitaries and nobles, they have money, as long as they have good things, they are never afraid of spending money." Second, there are many readers, how many students are too learning? Tens of thousands of people, if you make something that can be sold to readers, even if only 1 in 10 people will buy it, how much is that? It's a few thousand copies, so how much money do you have to make? ”

"Reader?" Bi Lan's eyes rolled: "They like books the most, should I find someone to copy books, or build a machine that can copy books?" ”

"Even if it doesn't hit, it's not far away." Liu Xiu stroked his palms and laughed: "However, before that, it is better for you to open a paper mill first, otherwise, when the paper is tight, the price will rise so much that you can't bear it, just like the current price of grain." ”

The corners of Bi Lan's mouth were crooked, she smiled, pondered for a moment, remembered an important question again, and frowned: "Where does the capital come from?" ”

(To be continued)