Chapter 168: I, Li Ke, pay ten times my salary, or not?
It is a question and a choice whether to follow or not, but in fact, there is no choice, because Li Ke has already touted them in the Datang Weekly, and then used the comment column to steal their prestige, and the consequence of this is that they follow ...... The people may have a good impression of them, but they don't think that this is their initiative and spontaneity, but they are more grateful to Li Ke.
But if they don't follow! The fun is even more big, the people will think that they are not sincere at all, if Li Ke guides them again, it is estimated that their reputation will stink for a while.
Fortunately, this is a lose-lose strategy, to put it bluntly, I will use money to smash you to death, but it was originally a self-loss of 800 to kill a thousand enemies, and now it is possible to kill a thousand enemies and lose 1,000 to oneself.
Acceptable!
Damn it! Follow! The eldest grandson Wuji gritted his teeth and was ruthless, this wave of followers, it would be difficult to retreat.
But he admitted it, anyway, Li Ke didn't want to get rid of it, the number of craftsmen that Li Ke had to recruit to maintain Chang'an City far exceeded them, and it was not just doubled, I am afraid it would be at least tens of thousands. So the result is that they win!
The eldest grandson Wuji directly ordered to go down.
Li Ke's side has been staring at the situation on the side of Chang'an City Changsun Wuji, and when the blacksmith shop belonging to the eldest grandson's family also began to increase the salary by five times, Li Ke directly ordered Tian Meng to start working.
Several blacksmith shops in Chang'an City posted the latest news: a monthly salary of 1 and 200 yuan to recruit experienced apprentices and craftsmen! The monthly salary is 10 times to recruit blacksmiths! Take one day off every 7 days, distribute work clothes, and pack food! He is even willing to sign a three-year employment contract!
As soon as this news came out, everyone was stupid! Including the eldest grandson Wuji and the Zheng family, they were all confused, this ...... Ten times as much! Li Ke is crazy, right? Where did he get all this money? At this time, you don't have to think about it to know that only Li Ke can do such a crazy thing!
Are you scared ten times over? Li Ke sneered, if he wanted, he could open twenty times, because next Li Ke was going to expand the number of blacksmiths on a large scale, and experienced apprentices and craftsmen were better, because they had been working in the blacksmith shop for a long time, and they could do a good job in terms of physical strength and some basic work.
Importantly, the main source of income for the eldest grandson's family is the blacksmith shop and iron ore! Li Ke is now going to dig up the roots of the eldest grandson's family! Ten times the salary is nothing to Li Ke, mainly due to his pig iron production, and the price of the iron he produces will be very low!
Even if he was hired at ten times the salary, and then he also built an iron pot and sold it at a fraction of the price of the blacksmith shop of the eldest grandson's family, Li Ke's profit was very large! At least, Li Ke's goal is to get an iron pot for everyone in the family of Datang!
Datang already has an iron pot, but only the homes of wealthy merchants and powerful people can use it, and it is impossible for ordinary people to use iron pots in their homes.
This thing was made...... Not to mention that it is in Datang, even if it is sold outside Datang, it is a bestseller! Luxury!
During the Northern Song Dynasty, the efficiency of iron-making was greatly improved, and iron pots began to enter the homes of ordinary people, but at that time, the iron pots sold to the West through silk in the Song Dynasty were sold according to luxury goods!! Sold to the iron pot of Jinguo, Mongolia and other countries, it can be sold for 100 taels of silver! This thing could be used as a wedding dowry or even a dowry in Mongolia, Jin, and Liao at that time.
When it is exported to places such as Dashi, it can be exchanged for gold.
And in the Tang Dynasty, after the iron pot was made, you don't have to think about it to know how precious it is!
During the Song Dynasty and Huizong, the annual output of steel was only about 9 million catties, about 4,500 tons, but Li Ke is now making iron in the blast furnace...... Anyway, a furnace of iron can almost approach more than a ton of pig iron, and it is the output of coal and iron ore mining that limits Li Ke now, not the smelting speed of steel.
With the efficiency of blast furnaces, hundreds of blast furnaces can be manufactured, and Li Ke can smelt thousands of tons in a month.
So, what is ten times a monthly salary? Li Ke wants to play, and he can afford to open it a hundred times.
But ten times is still in line with the laws of the market, a hundred times is not in line with the laws of the market, and ten times is enough.
I want to see if your eldest grandson's family follows? If you don't follow, I see how you can feed these people?
Li Ke's biggest way to make profits is naturally ironware, so many blacksmiths began to make ironware, when the time comes, all the people who work here in him, well, can Li Ke buy iron pots, plowshares, kitchen knives and other ironware at a price of 20% off the foreign market.
So how much money does Li Ke send to go out, and how much money does he have to pay back in the end? Isn't money a matter of the left hand turning into the right hand?
For the people, they may hesitate to iron pots or something, but plowshares related to productivity will definitely be purchased as soon as possible!
Therefore, Li Ke wants to see what the eldest grandson's family can take, and he is now following because the iron can still have a high profit, but when he finds that the iron can no longer be sold, what should he do?
Originally, Li Ke was not going to trouble them, everyone just had a wave of conflicts, now at halftime, I will renovate my Chang'an City and make more money, how good?
You see you're making trouble behind my back, aren't you? Let's dig a hole!
The eldest grandson Wuji had to temporarily gather Zheng You and others together to discuss countermeasures.
"Do you have the latest news about the King of Shu?" Eldest Sun Wuji looked at the few of them and asked.
"Nope." Everyone shook their heads.
"This ...... Is he crazy? Eldest Sun Wuji frowned, he had a headache, why did his invincible policies often fail here in Li Ke? The point is, what is Li Ke on his ground?! Could it be that Li Ke is a god descending from earth? What you want? Or did the craftsmen in his hands really research something good?
Could it be that the power of this craftsman is really so strong? Is it enough to change the situation in Datang? The eldest grandson Wuji really can't figure it out.
"We can't figure it out, a three-year long contract means that he can support these people for at least three years, although the other party is only for apprentices who have worked in the blacksmith shop, but this salary is too high, and the salary given by the master master is higher! If we can still stabilize the masters, after all, their household registrations are in our hands, but most of the apprentices and craftsmen may not be able to keep them. Zheng You said with a headache.
The Zheng family is actually okay, it doesn't matter if their blacksmith shop is open or not, but Li Ke's move directly stuck the life of the eldest grandson's family.
The main source of profit for the eldest grandson's family is all iron ore and iron-related industries!
"Eldest grandson Sikong? Are we still following? Zheng You hesitated and asked, what about blacksmiths here is their family and the eldest grandson's family, although several other companies also have blacksmith shops in this regard, but they are more for their own use, it doesn't matter if it is closed or not, even if the outside world can't recruit blacksmith apprentices, they can use domestic servants.
But the eldest grandson family and the Zheng family are not good, their gap is too big.