Before dawn, the entrance of the household department was already crowded with people, and the white crane still entered the household through the back door. There is no place to move your feet in front of you, and if you say a word that looks a little bit like it, you won't fall asleep while standing there.

The door opened on time, but there was no rush in from outside the very crowded door.

It is also according to the unwritten rules such as identity, age, size of the merchant gang, first come, first served, etc., to enter in turn.

"This is my white crane's mistake, it's just a small business. But I feel uneasy about the work of all the teachers and the people. Come on, get some refreshments first. The white crane commanded.

Small business, how small is a small business?

When the refreshments were served, Bai Minghe asked someone to bring a few pieces of linen cloth and cotton cloth, which had various stains on them. And then there were a couple of ordinary fine white linen.

"There are little things that are very practical for cleaning clothes."

Bai Minghe didn't talk nonsense, and at that moment two servants took the cloth to everyone and let them take a look, and then wash it on the spot. It is the soap bar of the white crane. This is not a soap horn, but an alkali product, and the reason why Bai Minghe has not invested in this business is that his alkali is not enough to make glass.

Two hundred kilograms of alkali are required per ton of glass. This consumption is frighteningly large, and the white crane naturally has no extra soap.

What's more, at the moment, the Ming people almost use clean water for laundry, plus wooden sticks.

The cleaning of silk is really dirty, and there is absolutely no way to completely clean it, especially when eating the soup sticks to it, it is basically wasted.

It took some time to perform, but it was cleaned.

"This kind of sackcloth is washed. Washing silk is another. Washing silk with sackcloth will hurt the silk. The sackcloth used to wash silk will not be clean. The cost of this thing is very low, but if everyone in the Ming Dynasty uses it, it has a lot of benefits. ”

There is no need to explain it to the white crane, this benefit will not be small.

Think about that yarn spindle rod, who would have thought that that thing would also have the benefit of tens of thousands of taels of silver a year.

"And then here's this!" The white crane asked people to put a kind of powder on the ground, and then a few pieces of cloth: "Some colors of the cloth are whiter, and the color is correct after dyeing." Whether it is linen or cotton, it can be used. The cost is not much either! ”

Shirana Crane has been emphasizing that the cost is not much.

The people of the Shang Gang would not think that Bai Minghe was promoting this kind of thing. There must be other reasons.

Really. Bai Minghe's tone changed: "It's a pity that yes, there are very few raw materials." At least there are not so many in Daming, and if it is artificially synthesized, the cost will be too great. So this investment is divided into five. They are used to cleanse the body. Essential oils are mixed to make a soap. And. Soap for silk and linen. There is also a whiter cleaning powder before the new cloth is dyed, and two important raw material businesses. ”

"Your Excellency. I'll hear it. This raw material is definitely there, but there is no mass production of raw materials. The business of this raw material is estimated to be a few million stones per year, I don't know if it is one, or several? ”

"Discuss it for yourselves. The reason is in the salt lake north of Hamiwei, one is soda ash and the other is borax. It's like sand there, you just need to be able to tell what you're digging up, and then the simple way to do it will be taught. Hami also has very large coal mines, as well as other mining areas that are needed. As for the issue of safety, I have already applied to Lord Yu for 30,000 elites, and a brave general who dares to fight to be in charge of guarding the town. How much silver can be earned, you can calculate it yourself, this thing is currently short of raw materials, and the cost price of processing it is a piece of sanyuan. ”

Bai Minghe handed a piece of soap to the representative of the merchant gang who was questioning.

When the people of the merchant gang were about to start the discussion, a team of maids came in, and then lined up on the table, placing a dozen bottles. Bai Minghe knocked one by one: "This can be used as a steamed bun, this can be used as an additive for papermaking, which is to increase mercerization, this is added for high-quality war knives, and this is a special desulfurizer, which is ......"

The white crane was knocking on the bottle one by one and talking.

These things, at present, are still experimental products, and it is impossible to mass-produce them for at least two or three years, unless Daming already has a basic chemical industry, otherwise with the current workshop and manual ability, you don't even have to think about it, it is impossible.

Just because it's impossible doesn't mean you can't draw a pie.

Bai Minghe clearly knows that the role of alkali in chemical industry can be used in many places.

After finishing what he should have said, Shirakawaru turned around and left.

I didn't say what kind of trick this investment promotion is, nor did I mention any special rules that need to be considered, but I just left the merchants to discuss there.

The back hall of the household.

"Lord Bai, what if the merchants are not interested?" As soon as Xiao Rong saw Bai Minghe come in, he asked anxiously. Bai Minghe smiled: "The first to get rich is always those who dare to take risks. And what we will never be indispensable to the Ming Dynasty is the one who dares to take risks. ”

After drinking a glass of water, Bai Minghe said again: "Wait for others to make the business mature before starting, and then they will only have to drink soup." How dangerous the sea is, once there is a storm, it is not the risk of the goods being destroyed, the huge scenery can even throw your life in the sea, and even the bones cannot be recovered. ”

"But there is a long queue of people who are willing to go to sea for business." Xu Chengzong answered next to him.

Bai Minghe said: "That's the truth, they love to do it or not." It's just that the business is too small at the moment, and I have no interest in using national power to do it, otherwise it will be their turn there. For a profit of several thousand stones a year, there are too many manpower and material resources to be invested. Just talking about manpower, if you don't throw tens of thousands of people there, you won't be able to make great achievements at all. ”

"That is, if the merchants don't do it, you will do it yourself?" Only then did Yu Qian ask.

"Yes!" Bai Minghe gave a very positive promise, and then added: "When you have a business that is three times more profitable than this, you are not interested in doing this again, this is just a small business!" ”

Small business, Yu Qian and others were silently repeating Bai Minghe's words.

What kind of business is big business?

Bai Minghe will never sue Yu Qian, and his biggest business is the arms business. There is also a huge output in the northwest, called miscanthus salt, which can also be used by the white crane, and it is very useful.

No one in the Ming Dynasty knows what Bai Minghe spent a lot of money to import high-quality iron ore from Goryeo in a year?

Modern weapons speak of high technology. In fact, Daming is the same, superhuman steelmaking technology, the best knife-making technology. The difference in the level of science and technology like cold weapons, Bai Minghe has planned it a long time ago, and some people in later generations have made a model to ensure that there will be enough market for this thing.

Small business!

Above the main hall, the merchants were also calculating the size of the business.

At present, mining is not so easy to do, the first major problem is that all mines are royal, all kinds of paperwork is very troublesome, and the management is strict, and there are many taxes. Another big problem is the cost of excavation, which is too high to be profitable.

However, there are two kinds of mines that are different, one is an open-pit mine and the other is an extremely rich mine.

There is a salt lake in Hami, which is not far from Hami. This is an open-pit mine, and no one knew what treasures were worth digging up besides salt.

Xie Yiyuan picked up a piece of soap: "This thing only costs three pennies to make." In the old man's opinion, it is not expensive to sell it for ten yuan. Plus 30% tax, 20% freight, 10% labor, and half of the warehouse. The selling price is 13 to 15 Wen, I don't know what you think? Such a piece, according to the laundry of each family, it is enough for a household to have two pieces a month. ”

"Xie Lao is talking about ordinary people, and the amount of use by large households will naturally not be less, and I am afraid that the most used is the workshops. After a long day of work, you sweat a lot, whether it is to clean your body or clothes, you should use it less. But what the younger generations see the most is that it is shipped overseas, and this thing can be sold for fifty yuan! ”

"Fifty wen is expensive, thirty wen is about the same."

The benefits are not small, and the amount is huge. However, considering the problem of transportation, it is likely that there is no investment in large workshops, but small workshops are opened in various prefectures, and large workshops are opened in places where transportation is convenient for overseas stocking.

"Well, the raw material is the big one. This is a stuck neck thing, not to mention the random price increase, it is troublesome to break the raw materials of that house. I believe that this raw material is not only Hami. I'm sure there are other places too, so why Hami? The old man has some ideas, you might as well listen to them! ”

All the merchants said in unison: "Please thank Lao for advice!" ”

Seniors are seniors, and in Daming, we will definitely respect this difference between generations.

"Maybe other places are farther and harder. But the old man believes that there must be other considerations for choosing Hami. The 30,000 elite divisions of the Ming Dynasty, together with auxiliaries and miscellaneous soldiers, add up to 60,000 or 70,000 people. It's not interesting that so many people are guarding a salt lake that the Gentiles don't even know what it is. ”

The Ming Dynasty is still open, at least there is no ban on discussing the government.

Someone immediately asked: "So, is this the imperial court that needs me to wait?" ”

"Nope! In the old man's opinion, it was Lord Bai who looked down on this small business. The cost of the garrison of sixty or seventy thousand people was on Lord Bai's account book, which was not a big expense. So what he needs is an excuse, an excuse for the garrison. Of course, this is also a business, and for us, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year is no longer a small profit. ”

The merchants of the Ming Dynasty have not yet reached the kind of Cheng dù with a family property of tens of millions of taels of silver.

Many merchants received 50,000 taels of silver a year, which was the level of the gentry in the local area. If the net profit is more than 100,000 taels, that is, it is an absolute big account, and it can have a million taels of silver. Before the appearance of the white-named crane, there would be no more than three in the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, these three companies are inseparable from the three businesses of salt, iron, and grain.

Who would have thought that the silk mill and the linen mill would have a profit of nearly one million taels of silver?

Xie Yiyuan leveled his hands: "Everyone, the request of my Hui businessmen is that we have a 20% share of the miners in the salt lake. ”

"Xie Lao, it's better to dig up each family." The Ningbo Gang put forward its opinions.

But some people disagree, your top ten merchant gangs each protect their own families, so the rest of the small merchant gangs can only follow you to drink soup? (To be continued......)