Chapter 17, Cost
Ning Yue's food processing has made such huge profits, and after discussing with Luo Yaoji, these food processing factories are roughly divided into four major groups to accelerate manufacturing and sales and create profits.
The first group is mainly responsible for the production of alcoholic beverages, and will continue to develop various beverages in the future.
The second group is responsible for producing convenient and fast food, such as all kinds of instant noodles are the main products of this group.
The third group is responsible for the production of a variety of packaged snacks, focusing on candies, biscuits and puffed foods.
The Fourth Group was eventually formed and is working on the manufacture of various cans, which will also become a staple food category in the future.
From now on, Luo Yaoji is mainly responsible for these food processing groups, and all the grain production and sales volume will be summarized in her hands, and finally the profit list will be submitted to Ning Yue for approval.
Ning Yue began to process food in this way, and then entered a period of enjoying the huge profits of food sales, and the money in his hands was abundant, he strengthened his investment in Qian Kunzong, and recruited many talented disciples from all over Qianzhou.
At the same time, with the help of Ning Yue, Li Xukong gradually made achievements, especially the smooth implementation of the two policies of reclaiming wasteland for farming and opening up trade routes, which made him Xia Guo's year-end evaluation of Qianzhou highly praised, and compared with the situation when Nian Qiang first came to Qianzhou, the tax was increased by at least 30%.
This made the Qilin City side can't help but send a messenger to praise it, but many people are full of doubts in their hearts.
After all, the courtiers all knew that most of the Qianzhou taxes in the previous year were still collected from the Qianguo royal family, so the original Qianguo could collect less taxes in a year than Li Xukong now, and this kind of achievement made many people wonder if there was some kind of false reporting and lying in it.
After the envoy arrived, he first made a secret visit along the way, and finally proved that the various places in Qianzhou did not increase taxes, but achieved such results by encouraging agriculture and opening up trade routes.
The envoy had solid evidence, and immediately reported back, and Qilin City praised a capable official like Li Xukong and gave a lot of rewards.
At the banquet to welcome the envoy, Li Xukong put the specialties of Qianzhou one by one, showing the prosperity and richness of Qianzhou after opening up several trade routes, which made the envoy praise again, and made Li Xukong full of satisfaction and drank happily.
In the banquet, the food produced by the Ningyue Food Processing Workshop was also presented in large quantities, and Li Xukong ate for a long time, only to find that most of the food and drinks in the entire dinner were all produced by Ningyue.
He knew that Ning Yue was doing some non-staple food products for grain processing before, all of which were sold through commercial routes, but he vaguely remembered that at the beginning, Ning Yue's products were not sold well, but were returned by many state and county merchants, so he didn't pay special attention to Ning Yue's production later, but when he finally calculated the taxes, he knew that Ning Yue had paid a lot of commercial taxes.
Li Xukong immediately summoned his attendants and asked him to send a list of the foods produced by the Liangningyue Group, and while waiting, he tasted these foods one by one, and only felt that they were really delicious, no wonder they could increase so many taxes.
Waiting for the list to be sent, Li Xukong saw that almost all of the non-staple food products were processed by Ning Yue's food group, and then he was a little sudden, Ning Yue's industry had grown rapidly when he was inadvertent, and compared with other businesses, Ning Yue's side had a strong advantage, making other competitors completely unable to resist.
In the next few days, Li Xukong received the envoy and his party seriously, as usual, and finally sent the envoy away satisfied.
After calming down, Li Xukong sent someone to find Ning Yue, saying that the envoy had a will for him and had something to discuss with Ning Yue.
Ning Yue cooperated with Li Xukong on this side, and when he was invited, he didn't have any worries, and he was going to go alone with a few guards, Luo Yaoji was in charge of arranging, and finally despite Ning Yue's opposition, he increased the number of guards to five hundred elite cavalry, and increased the protection of Ning Yue.
Ning Yue tried to streamline his outfits, but this time he was opposed by all the people around him, including Bai Luoluo, who knew that the military government of Qianzhou was now Ning Yue and Li Xukong side by side, and he was not at all at ease that Ning Yue went to Li Xukong's Qianyuan City alone.
Ning Yue was helpless, and finally reluctantly agreed to the arrangement of these people, and the garrison was guarded in the dark all the way, and rushed to the outside of Qianyuan City on the second day.
Li Xukong greeted him out of the city, and it was not strange to see Ning Yue riding heavily behind him, so he led Ning Yue to the office hall he had branched out outside the palace, and after briefly talking about the affairs of Qianzhou, he invited Ning Yue into the inner hall to entertain Ning Yue for the luncheon of the day.
Ning Yue happily entered the banquet, and saw that the dishes and food served by Li Xukong were very familiar, including large jars of crystal elbows, spicy chicken feet, Ning-style sausages, and even popcorn and French fries produced by his four groups.
Seeing this, Ning Yue immediately knew that this time Li Void invited him, and he definitely had some thoughts that he didn't know, and he secretly became vigilant in his heart.
Li Xukong looked at Ning Yue sitting upright, a faint smile appeared in his expression, and said with a smile: "Mr. Bai must have eaten these delicacies, now the sales of these foods and drinks have suddenly brought life to merchants all over Qianzhou, as long as they can transport these goods out of Qianzhou, it will definitely be in short supply." ”
Ning Yue sneered, knowing that Li Xukong said this, he already knew that these foods were from his food processing group, and this reality could not be shirked at all, so he simply admitted it.
"Thank you for your praise, in recent months, several food processing groups under my command have indeed produced a lot of non-staple food products, which are selling well in some states, counties and countries around Qianzhou. ”
Li Xukong saw Ning Yue open his mouth to admit it, his expression couldn't help but be more pleasant, raised his glass to invite wine, and said: "I didn't expect Mr. Bai to hang on the matter of doing business, he is such a genius, I carefully checked it before, almost half of the business taxes collected in Qianzhou this year are food groups under Mr. Bai's management......"
Ning Yue held the wine glass and listened to Li Xukong's half-cut words, just turned the wine glass a few times, and did not drink the wine, just looked at Li Xukong, wanting to hear what Li Xukong said.
Li Xukong didn't expect Ning Yue to be silent all of a sudden, but he still looked enthusiastic and said seriously: "Manager Bai also knows that Qianzhou is in ruins now, so I want to ask Manager Bai if he can share a part of the profits from here and give them to the Great Xia Imperial Court......
Li Xukong said as he circled the food on the table with his fingers.
Ning Yue gently tilted the wine glass in his hand to the table in front of him, looked directly at Li Xukong, who looked earnest, and suddenly chuckled lightly, and said, "This is impossible!"