After asking to see him several times and finally succeeded, the Yang family sat nervously in the guest seat in the hall of the Chu Palace, anxiously waiting for Luo Qingluan.

Since he was busy with this matter, the Yang family has not slept well for two months, where is there still the leisure of the former noble lady? In order to earn an extra 100,000 taels of silver, she dealt with those lowly tenants every day regardless of her status, and she had never learned to manage these, and now she could discuss things with some shopkeepers in a similar manner.

But no matter how much he did, the Yang family only wanted the 100,000 taels of silver, and finally made 30,000 sets of winter clothes in his hand, waiting to be sold to collect money.

Thinking that in the past two months, he has been busy like a spinning top, almost never stopping, and Yang also doesn't believe that he can do so much. In the past, she didn't expect that her subordinates would be able to produce 30,000 sets of winter clothes in two months by gathering more than 100 tenant women, and this would be a success, and the Yang family herself was a little unconvinced.

I remember what Princess Chu said, this seems to be called an 'assembly line' operation, although she has not heard it before, but I have to say that it is really effective.

Those clumsy peasant women, who could only have one piece of cloth a month, or a few winter coats, were exerted ten or even twenty times more power under the operation of this 'assembly line' and the stimulation of silver.

Yang also found one of the most diligent women to ask, she used to be able to weave three pieces of cloth a month, or make seven or eight new clothes, but in the current rules, she is only responsible for the best tailoring, and she can cut out eighty sets a day.

Of course, this is her highest record, which is usually 60 to 70 sets. Once she had become proficient, the woman would wield scissors every day to cut out the finished cloth and give it to another woman to sew into a garment.

According to the rule set by Zhuangzi, after each person completes the task of fifty sets every day, he can get the salary of twenty copper plates, and there is still time for the rest, and each additional set is calculated as two dollars, and this woman can basically get double the salary every day, and can earn more than one or two silver a month, which is much more cost-effective than sitting on the mountain and eating empty during the previous farming slack.

Although this money is nothing compared to the expenses of the nobles in the capital, it is a large amount of income for these peasant tenants, so they are also very energetic.

After two months, the Yang family finally rushed to make the first batch of winter clothes, and today they came to discuss the follow-up with Luo Qingluan. For the Yang family, this is the most important thing, otherwise without Luo Qingluan's follow-up support, where would she collect money? Even if she has a daughter as a backer, but Su Yi is pregnant now, it is a critical time, and the Yang family does not dare to go to Su Yi for everything, in case it affects her little nephew, it will be troublesome.

After waiting for a while, Luo Qingluan finally came out.

"There's Madame Lausu who has been waiting for a long time." Luo Qingluan came out, smiled faintly, and sat down.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, the weather is getting colder and colder, there was a snow a few days ago, and then yesterday it was raining again, the snow was poured by the rain and froze together, the road became slippery and difficult to walk, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will slip. Luo Qingluan hasn't even gone out of the gate these days, wearing thick cotton clothes, loose and warm, holding a stove in his hand wherever he goes.

It's been three months pregnant, but fortunately, the weather will be cold and wear a lot, and she's just a little pregnant, and she can barely see it. It's just that I pay more attention to my actions, not only walking slowly, eating slowly, but also talking slowly, although I am a little unaccustomed to it at first, but it is nothing after a long time.

didn't think there was anything wrong with Luo Qingluan and usual, Yang was thinking about the silver, and after the girl had tea and a polite greeting, she immediately asked about it: "Princess Chu, that's the case, didn't you say that the batch of winter clothes we cooperated to make before has now been made 30,000 sets, can it be sold to the military department?" ”

Afraid that Luo Qingluan would misunderstand, Yang hurriedly said: "I'm not urging you, princess, just ......"

She showed a very embarrassed face: "We have invested more than 3,000 taels of silver in the past two months, and if we don't take back some of them, I'm afraid that we won't have any money to pay those tenants next month." And I also thought that the weather was getting colder and colder, and the soldiers ahead needed this batch of winter clothes, so we rushed to send them over at this time, but we sent charcoal in the snow. ”

The calculation time is almost over, Luo Qingluan did not think about delaying, let alone breaking the contract. Nangong Yu had already said a few days ago that the military department was ready, and the approval and silver of the household department were ready, and they could be sent to the front line just after the winter clothes were shipped, and the silver would be sent down immediately.

Luo Qingluan snorted and said, "Don't worry, Mrs. Su, I'm ready here, just waiting for you." ”

Suddenly, his heart fell back into his abdomen, and Yang said busily: "Thank you Princess Chu, I just don't know...... The military department buys these winter coats, and how much silver does it cost to buy each set? ”

Regarding the price, Luo Qingluan has already roughly asked Nangong Yu, these things are all to support the front-line soldiers, and they belong to the military expenditure. Although Nalan Ye has been operating the Dark Night Hall for many years, there is a lot of silver, but this money will not be counted in the military expenses.

All the expenditures of the war need to be counted and reported in advance by the Ministry of War, and then the Ministry of Household Affairs will issue money and grain, and then transport it to the front line. Winter clothes are indispensable for winter combat, and the price will be slightly higher than the normal price outside. Among them, Nangong Yu didn't say that Luo Qingluan knew it, but this higher part naturally would not fall into the hands of the Yang family, and it belonged to the unspoken rules that had long been known among officials.

Luo Qingluan didn't intend to break these rules, as long as it wasn't too excessive and didn't affect the frontline Nalan Ye and the soldiers. As for a small amount of money, it doesn't matter, she still has a little belly.

After roughly calculating, a set of reasonably priced winter clothes on the market costs about two and a half taels of silver, while the military department is more expensive to buy winter clothes. What can be distributed to the Yang family is probably three, two, two, and one, and this is still Luo Qingluan's profit.

"Three, two, two, one?" When Yang heard this, he immediately made a small calculation.

Three two two winter clothes, the one hundred pieces are three hundred and twenty taels, ten thousand pieces are thirty-two thousand taels, and she has a total of 30,000 pieces in her hands, which can be sold for 96,000 taels. Although she didn't make up enough hundreds of thousands, after all, she had only been busy for two months, and she was quite satisfied to earn more than 90,000 yuan. After deducting the capital of 3,000 taels spent by the Marquis of Weiyang, she made 93,000 taels!

Sure enough, it's a book of great profits!

The smile on his face couldn't be stopped, Yang's heart was full of joy, and all kinds of pleasing words were gushing. After confirming the time and place of the handover of the goods, Yang hurriedly returned to the house, summoned his stewards to confirm the number of winter clothes, various packings, and the manpower handed over to the military department.

When it was time to eat in the evening, the Yang family naturally showed off to his mother-in-law Sun, and the Sun family was happy to eat an extra bowl of rice, but he also muttered one more sentence: "This princess of Chu has all controlled the price, who knows if the price given by the military department is three, two, two, one?" Maybe the excess is all for herself. ”

Yang's heart fluttered, and his originally happy mood suddenly became suspicious. Originally, she didn't doubt it before, but now she couldn't help but think so, everyone knows that military expenditure is a lot of silver, this time the king of Chu personally led the troops, and the princess of Chu is a family at all, she wants to set more prices, or is it not the king of Chu who has the final say?

"Is that really the case?" The more Yang thought about it, the more wrong it became: "Princess Chu gave us three or two winter clothes, but she was the one who contacted the military department, who knows what the real price is." And she said that I would hand over all my winter clothes to the military department in two days, and then take the military department's note. Zi went to her second prince to get money, I only feel such twists and turns now, why don't you just ask the military department to give me money? ”

"What do you know, the military department will give you money, and if you want to give it, the household department will give it."

Sun scolded Yang, and said with a look of 'you have been fooled': "Since Princess Chu said that she went to the second prince to get money, then they must have negotiated with the household department, and even if we go, we won't be able to get the money." Hmph, it's obvious now, they just deducted the big head, leaving only a little profit for us! You've been working for two months in vain, and you've ended up earning money for someone else! ”

Speaking of money, the two of them felt more and more that something was wrong, and all kinds of speculations and calculations made them feel that Luo Qingluan was at least greedy for tens of thousands of taels of them. The Yang family was even more angry, she was busy with this matter from beginning to end, whether it was contacting the tenant farmers or paying them wages, it was all paid by the Marquis of Weiyang's mansion first. Now that I think about it, I feel even more wrong, Luo Qingluan said at the beginning, she was not allowed to give one or two pieces of silver, only one hand, this will make her three thousand taels, and as a result, Luo Qingluan will take away tens of thousands of taels, how can she not feel distressed?

"This Princess Chu is simply cunning! Let us do it with all the money and efforts, she only needs to move her mouth, and let the king of Chu raise the price, take up all the excess money, and leave some residue for us! ”

Sun's face sank: "No, we must not let that woman take advantage, this is our hard-earned matter, why should she get it for nothing?" Even if she is matched, when the time comes, we will give her a thank you gift, it will only be one or two thousand taels, but now she is silent and greedy for us tens of thousands of taels, her idea is a good one! ”

The Yang family said even more hatefully: "No wonder this princess of Chu took the initiative to find us, and she actually took us for fools!" ”

Looking at the Yang family, the Sun family came up with an idea and said: "It's better like this, when you go to deliver the goods to the military department, you ask that person privately what the price of each winter coat is, and then you will know how much silver Princess Chu has greedy for us." ”

"What if people don't say it?" Yang was embarrassed: "I'm afraid that those people don't dare to say it, after all, the name of King Chu and Princess Chu, who dares to offend easily?" Wouldn't it be asking for trouble to say it? ”

So what to do? Could it be that he watched Luo Qingluan snatch their due? And leave them with nothing to say?

Suddenly, Sun whispered: "It's better to be like this, you go and secretly ask what the price of the cheapest winter clothes on the market is, let's buy a batch as a quantity, cut off half of the original one, and wait for the end of next month You will go to Princess Chu and say, and the second batch is ready, wouldn't it be ......"

Yang understood as soon as he heard it, isn't this just buying low and selling high?

A cheap winter coat on the market costs at most one tael of silver, and it only costs ten thousand taels of silver to purchase 10,000 pieces, and maybe it can be cheaper. She can save 10,000 sets of her own, and sell them to the military department at a high price for the second time, and make a difference from it!

Immediately laughed, Yang nodded: "Okay, mother-in-law, daughter-in-law knows, this time it will definitely not be wrong." In the past two days, I will secretly ask someone, rest assured, I have already met several people who are engaged in this business, just to inquire. ”