Chapter 10 Can't beat the old and bully the young
"You kid thinks beautifully, but do you have that ability?"
With a loud laugh, Li Xiaogong staggered into the backyard.
Li Kuan turned his head and saw Li Xiaogong raising his eyebrows, interesting, why did this old rascal come.
"Why does Uncle Wang have time to come here?"
Li Xiaogong smiled: "I went to the palace to drink yesterday, Your Majesty said that you have a lot of dreams and are a good son of the royal family, I hope I can train you,"
Li Kuan, who said this, laughed directly: "Uncle Wang, please speak human." ”
Li Xiaogong didn't care about the ridicule in Li Kuan's words, and continued: "Okay, I think you might have to get some good things to make a fortune, and I'm ready to get a piece of the pie." ”
With a sigh, Li Kuan was speechless.
"Recently, I am not short of money, I don't want to make money, and the people are very poor, so I can't find a few dollars at all, as for those families, there are only a few in the entire Datang, and their spending power is also limited, and it is not enough to pay for transportation."
This is where Li Kuan feels speechless the most.
Datang is too poor, many things can't be sold, tea is purely cheap, and now the bulk of tea is sold to the outside world, selling grasslands, Tuguhun and other regions.
In order to compete for the right to sell to foreign countries, Li Shimin personally went down and tore up with those families.
Li Xiaogong also knew this, but he just wanted to ask Li Kuan, and if he had it, he earned it.
Li Kuan also saw Li Xiaogong's thoughts, and said with a smile: "It's not that there is no business without money, there are many, such as sugar, salt and the like, we can do it, but the problem is that the difficulty of transportation is there, how do you get it, how do you make money?" ”
"A pound costs a penny, plus the cost of transportation, it sells for hundreds of wen, and it can't sell much in total."
"How many people are in the family, and how much can they eat?"
The difficulty lies in road transport, which is the most nonsense.
And in the case of the ghost of Datang, at most, the shops are delegated to the state, and the counties below can't enter.
Li Kuan said that Lao Tzu's grass and wood teahouse only entered the county seat by joining the way, is it necessary to get in this way to get a white sugar and salt?
After the price increase at all levels, the welfare can become a bad government.
Li Xiaogong didn't hear anything else, he heard one, Li Kuan can solve the problem of eating salt, so he asked decisively:
"Can you fix the salt?"
Looking at Li Xiaogong's fiery eyes, Li Kuan was a little confused, why are you so excited.
"Can it be solved, I've gone through a lot of ancient books, I used to collect ancient books when I was fine, and I made up a bunch of miscellaneous techniques, is there any problem?"
As for the source of his technology, Li Kuan said that there is only one explanation, I have gone through a lot of ancient books, as for how the ancient books came from, they were collected.
In the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, a lot of miscellaneous cold families or family branches died, and many ancient books were thrown into the troubled times.
Li Xiaogong took a few deep breaths to calm himself down, and then said in a deep voice: "You said that salt has transportation problems, and it is sold to the people, but I want to sell it to the army now, and the soldiers in the army need to eat salt." ”
Li Kuanlen paused for a moment, then frowned and said, "Sold to the army, how do you guarantee that you will not be resold?" ”
"The relationship between the government soldiers in all parts of the Tang Dynasty is complicated, and the generals of the Sixteen Guards Army are inextricably linked to the family, so if they are not allowed to eat at the beginning, how can they let the people below eat."
If you have something, you either don't do it, or you have to do it your best.
Li Xiaogong was also choked by these words.
The worst part of Datang is here, and many places have been infiltrated by the family.
As far as Li Kuan knows, part of the basic sources of Li Shimin's intelligence system rely on the original intelligence line of the Li family in Longxi, and the rest are the original intelligence system of Taiyuan's hometown.
Datang officialdom is the same as a sieve, this is the biggest problem.
Li Xiaogong was also silent for a while, this problem is indeed difficult to solve.
Li Kuan persuaded: "Uncle Wang, I know that you want to contribute to the Li family's country, but you must know that when we get salt and sugar, bear the transportation costs, and send them to the army, it is difficult for you not to guarantee that those superfluous ones will be taken away from the army by the family." ”
"When the time comes, they will sell a wave of low-priced salt on the spot, and the money will be earned and their reputation will be gained, but the huge transportation costs will be borne by us, and how we can bear it, we will not have to hand it over to the people who are serving in labor."
"In case those laborers go home and find that they can't afford to eat salt there, what will they think, I can't think, I'll go, we transported a lot of salt, why can't we afford to eat salt, is it that there are too many corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and this court still doesn't let people live."
Li Xiaogong was choked enough, but he had to admit that what Li Kuan said made some sense.
But he felt that he couldn't give up eating because of choking, and he still had to do it.
Li Kuan scratched his head, since Li Xiaogong said so, what can he do, write out the purification and manufacturing method of sea salt, and let Li Xiaogong go to the experiment, it was successful, and Li Kuan said that he would not earn this money.
As soon as this idea came out, Li Xiaogong was shocked, why didn't he make money?
Li Kuan said with a smile: "Salt is a profiteering industry, iron is also a profiteering industry, our majesty is not rightly ascended the throne, in order to have a good reputation in the future, he must find a way to build the Tang Dynasty, and the profiteering of salt is what he needs to hold in his hands." ”
As soon as the sea salt is purified, the original salt-making method has to be exploded, and Li Shimin will let go of the huge profits?
He is very short of money and will not let it go, and he will even tear up with those families.
He asked for money, and he had to use it to do a lot of things, such as fighting the Turks.
Li Kuancai doesn't want this money, and he doesn't lack it.
He's going to make the money later.
Sending Li Xiaogong away, Li Kuan secretly said in his heart: "Uncle Wang, let you be treacherous like a ghost, I can't imagine that I really don't want to make this money." ”
Li Kuan turned his head and didn't pay attention to this matter, and began to study the matter of manure.
The first thing he came up with was manure.
The use of chemical fertilizer has been around for a long time, but what he wants to do is the more advanced fertilizer later.
Not counting this, Li Kuan asked the old farmers who bought them one by one how much stone grain they had produced from an acre of land.
Li Kuan never doubted the wisdom of the peasants, and among the people, there were always some old peasants who would rely on experience to put more grain in their own homes than others.
These are all things that Li Kuan wants to collect and compile into a book.
Li Kuan summoned the old peasants to everything and began to draw cakes: "As long as you increase the grain production according to the method of manure I have given you, as well as your previous experience, then I promise you that I will return your freedom and give you a large sum of money." ”
More than 100 old farmers from all over the country looked at each other, and then kowtowed to say that they would do their best.
The method of manure, Li Kuan said that he is definitely not as good as this group of people who can study, farm, and he is definitely not as good as them, but he will summarize, they can't, this is his advantage.
Li Xiaogong handed over the sea salt purification method to Li Shimin, and then left to carry out this matter.
Li Shimin guaranteed that the money from the sale of salt belongs to the Li family.
As for whether this is true or not, Li Xiaogong doesn't want to know.
It's just that when Li Xiaogong left, and Li Kuan thought that he could do his own thing, Li Daozong led his daughter here.
Looking at Li Daozong and the beautiful little girl beside him, Li Kuan looked depressed.
"Uncle Wang, why are you here?"
Li Daozong said with a smile: "Of course, it depends on whether you have any good things and get a piece of the pie." ”
For the same reason, Li Kuan sneered and snatched the pastry from the beautiful little girl's hand, and then ran.
"I won't give you anything to eat."
Laughing to death, I can't beat the old ones and I can't bully the young ones.
Li Daozong looked at his crying daughter, and scolded angrily that Li Kuan was not a human.