Chapter 250: Starting a Paper Mill
"Oh, what's the matter?"
The empress responded with a sneer, you have the ability to come again!
"Your Majesty, the minister wants to cooperate with Your Majesty. ”
Lin Zifan was still cowardly after all, after all, his current strength could not withstand the beating of the empress, so he could only start talking about business.
"Cooperation?" Seeing that Lin Zifan was 'cowardly', the empress did not pursue it again, but cooperating with her son made her very puzzled.
"Although you and I are not husband and wife, but we also have the name of quasi-husband and wife, what to do, as long as I can support it, you can say it directly, why bother so much?"
In fact, the empress was more afraid of trouble......
For business, mathematics and the like, she has a headache when she sees a lot of numbers, of course, if it is to write how much money she makes, then no matter how many numbers are not a problem......
So for the cooperation that Lin Zifan said, the empress wanted to refuse without listening to it, and also said that as long as what Lin Zifan did was not bad, she would support it.
"Your Majesty, this matter ...... But His Majesty must cooperate with his ministers. Lin Zifan shook his head and smiled: "The minister is alone, I'm afraid I can't eat such a big piece of cake!"
"Cake?" The empress's eyes lit up instantly, and she even looked like she was about to drool, and she wiped her red lips and said, "Where?"
Lin Zifan: "......"
In the end, he could only promise with a wry smile that he would get two cakes for the empress as soon as possible, so that the empress gradually calmed down......
"Your Majesty, the minister wants to start a paper mill......"
"Paper mill?" the empress raised her eyebrows, and her red lips opened lightly: "Although the price of this thing is not low, it is not expensive, and it is troublesome to make, so it can't make any money, right?"
"Our Datang also tried to open a paper mill, but found that it was not as convenient as buying it directly, so it was idle......"
"Your Majesty......" Lin Zifan shook his head and said: "The paper that the minister wants to make is a fine product!"
"How fine?" Seeing Lin Zifan's straight face, the empress couldn't help but become serious.
Although she has known Li Zifan for a short time, the empress thinks that she still knows Lin Zifan quite well, this product is not a good person on weekdays, but once she gets down to business, she is more reliable than anyone else!
And at this moment, his expression was obviously about to get down to business.
"The difference with straw paper is like the asphalt road and the official road of our Datang before......"
Lin Zifan thought about it and used the most direct metaphor to make the empress understand the gap in an instant!
"The gap is so big?" The empress was slightly surprised: "Good thing, after you make it, send me some ......"
"It's nature. The corners of Lin Zifan's mouth twitched, obviously breaking the gong again.
My empress, why are you so easily satisfied? Make such a good paper, you don't want to make money or anything, you just think you want some?
Can I still not give it to you or what?
"But after graduation, once the paper named toilet paper is made, the economic benefits will not be small, I'm afraid, the minister alone will not be able to eat. ”
"Therefore, you need to cooperate with Your Majesty, and it is best to add Your Majesty's name as well, so that there will naturally be no problems. ”
"Rather, the minister and His Majesty split the account fifty-fifty......"
"Oh?" Hearing that the money could be divided, the empress became interested again: "Then what do you think I can share every year?"
"Estimated ......" Lin Zifan raised a finger: "This number." ”
"10,000 taels?" The empress was instantly excited, 10,000 taels is not a small amount of money!
Seeing this, Lin Zifan instantly felt distressed. Mommy...... Other countries, which emperor would look at 10,000 taels? Don't care about it at all, right?
But our daughter-in-law is so happy for 10,000 taels...... It's just distressing!
He shook his head firmly: "More than that!"
"That'...... Could it be...... 100,000 taels?" The empress's red lips opened, and her beautiful face was full of surprise: "What kind of toilet paper, so profitable?"
Is it 100,000 taels after removing costs, labor costs, and sales expenses, and after deducting taxes, can you get 100,000 taels?
"Your Majesty...... What the minister wants to say is...... One million taels ......"
Empress: "......"
Tsing Yi Ziyi was drinking tea in the corner, and when he heard this, he almost didn't squirt out a mouthful of water, and then looked at Lin Zifan with the eyes of the braggart king...... Come on, come on, you keep blowing, we listen.
"Your Majesty, don't believe it, the market here is much larger than we imagined, one million taels, just a conservative estimate......"
Seeing Lin Zifan say this, the empress frowned slightly, and then relaxed.
"I understand, do you think that if you rely on the paper mill, you can earn at least more than two million taels of silver every year, and others will be jealous, so let me cooperate with you to put my name on it and suppress Xiaoxiao?"
"Your Majesty Shengming ......"
"They dare!"
The empress slapped the dragon chair, her face was full of anger, but then, her expression darkened again.
She knew they would dare ...... How dare you!
The Tang Dynasty is too poor, up to her, the emperor, down to the civil and military officials and even the common people, the whole country is poor!
It's not unacceptable for women to be friends, people sell some clothes, and the average is a few hundred taels of silver a day, hundreds of thousands of taels a year.
At least two million taels...... You must know that the tax revenue of the entire Datang Dynasty is only how much in a year? less than 10 million taels!
And Datang's main income is taxes, at least two million taels, which is enough to make too many people tempted!
Not to mention anything else, I'm afraid that the household department will first fry the pot, followed by the Manchu Dynasty civil and military!
They wouldn't make a move or rob Lin Zifan, but they must have done it by using all kinds of morality to oppress people!
At least that's what the Empress knew about them......
Thinking of this, the empress's expression was a little gloomy. Are civil and military officials bad? Not necessarily, they are also for the good of Datang, and they want Datang to make more money.
Because of this, even the empress is very difficult to deal with when facing this kind of thing!
Help Lin Zifan, let the Manchu Dynasty and the civil and military chill, help the Manchu Dynasty and the civil and military, let Lin Zifan think?
People have worked hard to start a paper mill, and when they make money, they have to donate it to the state or hand it over for some other reason?
This is forcing people to rebel!
"Your Majesty, in fact, it doesn't matter whether this Qian Chen earns it or not, even if it is all transferred to His Majesty's name, there is no problem. ”
"But...... The minister knew that if this was the case, His Majesty would inevitably use it to subsidize the treasury without a penny. And this ...... It's also the last thing the minister wants to see!"
"Therefore, the minister will also divide fifty percent, and these silver taels will be His Majesty's property in the future......!
The implication is, make money with my daughter-in-law? There is nothing wrong with it! Earn money is for my daughter-in-law to spend, isn't it?
But there's nothing wrong with you donating all of it to the country, after all, it's Mingjun, but I have to think about our future, I have to save some of this money! I can't get married and leave my daughter-in-law penniless!