Chapter 473: From luxury to frugality
Even if the entire Chang'an City is in a good year, it has not escaped the situation of buying grain.
What's more, this time is a disaster year, and the food sent from all around is far less than they can use.
Those who need to buy food are generally ordinary people, or businessmen from other places, because as long as the people in the city are not engaged in farming, they must more or less get some grain from other places, and there are relatively few people who can bring food over after all, because when they enter the city, they bring more goods, not only to be taxed, but also to be targeted by robbers and bandits, so many people are light cars Jane joined a certain caravan and followed to Chang'an.
After coming to Chang'an, it does not mean absolute safety, but when you settle in Chang'an, you must accept the price of Chang'an.
At this time, it is too late to regret not bringing enough food, at this time, if you have become a high-ranking official, there is still a way to bring enough food from your hometown, but if you have no way to become a high-ranking official, there is no need.
Entrainment is not allowed, the shipping cost is too high.
What's more, as a high-ranking official, the imperial court will send a lot of grain, and most of the grain must be sold, and there is no need to bring grain from the hometown, because it also requires freight, private freight, which is much more expensive than the official Grand Canal.
Fan Jingjing is equivalent to wanting to get through the second pulse of Datang's appointment and governor, which is a very difficult and very difficult "ideal".
But she believes that if there is no need for roads, the imperial court will not have the need to build roads, not to mention that when commercial activities continue to expand to the south, the south will slowly be included in the rule, and there is no way to really rule where there are no Han people.
Many great men have great ambitions, and when they decide on a goal, they will overcome all difficulties and strive to move forward.
Even if you have done a lot of immoral things, there are many sayings that tell you that no one who can do the best is completely good.
He'll be in that position, it's just that he has needs.
But there is no way for Fan Jingjing, she attaches the most importance to her reputation, and she hopes that she can maintain her reputation the most, without being scolded by others, and then assassinated by many people, but he later found out that whether people kill him or not has nothing to do with whether many people hate him, just see whether he is in the way of other people's interests, as for the likes and dislikes of ordinary people, it basically has nothing to do with life.
Fan Jingjing has very high moral requirements for herself, and she can be called the Holy Mother by others, if she hadn't been broken by someone at the beginning of her time in the Tang Dynasty, she could have maintained the concept of the Holy Mother.
It's in her nature, and there's no need to pretend.
Opening a business road, the method of the Virgin Mary is not maintained, maybe on the surface, or in the business field, so that people can see the side of the Virgin Mary, think that the quality of your products can be trusted.
In fact, Fan Jingjing has very strict requirements that the quality of the products produced by herself must meet the standards and become the best commodity in Datang.
She asked other people about the basic requirements for product quality, and for the requirements she put forward, Fan Jingjing also thought that there was no way to do better in Datang.
In fact, all the people and all the products before Datang were manufactured, and they were ready to be used for several lifetimes, and what service life was ten years for them, that is, the production was flawed.
But if one product is going to be used by another person for a lifetime, how is it possible to make his money again?
It's not too much of a problem for Fan Jingjing, because she can continue to produce layer by level, and increasing the level is not too much of a problem.
The people of Fan's Manor have their heads moving from time to time, so there are new products that can be launched from time to time, and there may be no way to launch a new one a month, but it is not a big problem to launch a new one a year.
Because the people who produce this product are thinking about whether there is a way to improve at any time, they may not improve it at the beginning, but do research with the production unit, and only after the research has made a big progress, they will start to produce the product, so that there will be a relatively big change in the product, and there will be a big change, and those rich people will not be able to help but use the best updated products, at this time, many rich people are not too much, luxury and waste, and they will sell or give to relatives and friends what they can't use.
The old products are eliminated, and they naturally cannot be sold at the original price after they are eliminated.
If this person is a famous person, he may have to sell it for two or three times the price, but most of them are not too famous people, he can only depreciate things and sell them, so that they can be used by ordinary rich people, and ordinary rich people will also sell the second-hand goods he bought before when he gets newer products.
When it is sold, because of the special care when using it, the sold after use may basically remain intact, and the selling price may only be half, and ordinary people may be able to get their rewards or prizes.
In this way, Fan Jingjing's production efficiency is not as high as that of a modern machinery factory, which can produce thousands of pieces at a time.
A workshop that can produce three or four products a day is already quite remarkable.
These three or four pieces of products must be affordable, the cost of manufacturing and production by the employees of the workshop, and the profits required by the Fan family estate.
Naturally, the price will not be low, unless the product they produce is very easy to make, and can make hundreds of pieces a day, the price of that product may be relatively low.
In fact, this product is the favorite product of many merchants, because in their opinion, they can't produce the same product, and they can sell it at a very high price.
Selling at a very expensive price, they have a so-called profit.
Although Fan Jingjing wants to be a good person, he has no interest in understanding that he is a good person for no reason, because without money, he can't live a better life, Fan Jingjing knows very clearly that she has no way to live a poor life in Datang.
Her usual life in the lobby is a luxurious life. It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift.
What he needs is a good life, a lot of good lives that the government would have given him before.
There is no way to get it now, because the facilities he wants in Datang are not the basic facilities of Datang, so he has to build these facilities himself.
Without money, she couldn't afford to build even the most basic water conservancy projects.
There is a cost to build these facilities, and where does her cost come from?
Earned, of course.
It seems that Fan Jingjing did not support what the people of the Fan family manor would do to develop a better life for her.