Winter is a boring season for everyone, and even the government has a lot of leisure time.

Because the weather is too cold and few people go out, what the government needs to be most concerned about is whether anyone will freeze to death and whether anyone's house will collapse when it snows.

For the common people, winter is actually a season of creation.

It was too cold because I couldn't go out.

As the richest person in Han Dynasty, Tian Dan is no exception.

I have been busy this year, spent a lot of money, and made no profit.

However, Tian Dan was not worried at all, because his basic market was too big and it was impossible to see profits in the early stage.

These are all things that have been anticipated. For Tian Dan, in this three-year construction period, the first two years are the return of capital, and the third year is the net profit.

After a year of hard work, Tian Dan gradually found the way.

Although Tian Dan switched to business, his identity was still there, so he was still more concerned about some of the trends in the court.

Tian Dan noticed that Luoyang had recently listed the office of the headquarters of a Dahan bank, and it also had the name of the Ministry of Accounts.

So I found Zhang Cang and asked about the reason.

After Zhang Cang's explanation, Tian Dan understood some of the truth.

No one who could ever become a king was a fool. After Tian Dan focused his main energy on business, he showed great talent in this area.

"Master, Wang Shangshu said that he is only free during lunch. If you want to see him, you can only go to the Ministry of Industry at that time."

"Prepare the car, go to the Ministry of Industry now!" Tian Dan nodded and directly ordered people to prepare.

What spring, summer, autumn and winter, what high-ranking official marquis, how can you make money?

Tian Dan has already tasted the sweetness of it. Although the power in his hands is gone, he now gets along very well with the emperor.

Tian Dan already felt that he had found a way for his family to continue to be glorious.

When doing business, you rely on your own connections to pave the way for future generations. The people in the world who want to compete with you may not have been born yet.

Unless a very talented prince comes to do business in the future, only then will I be unable to defeat him. Otherwise, others?

hehe!

Make way!

It was cold and freezing, with wind and snow blowing.

Tian Dan sat in the carriage and ran all the way to the Ministry of Industry.

Not everyone is qualified to enter the palace. Even Tian Dan is not qualified to enter and exit the palace at will.

But because of his special status, the emperor granted him a special privilege.

He can enter the palace at any time, but there is a restriction that he must be accompanied by a guard.

When you enter the palace, you should record where you went and who you met. The Yamen will give you a receipt, and then you will be escorted out of the palace by the guards and hand in the receipt.

Soon, Tian Dan, accompanied by the guards, arrived at the Ministry of Works, and it was lunch time.

Wang Ling sat at his desk and ate. The embarrassed Tian Dan could only endure the growling of his stomach.

There is no such thing as a reception these days. Official lunches are all rationed, so the number of people is the meal. If you, the official, want to entertain, no problem, just pay for it yourself.

Wang Ling pretended not to hear Tian Dan's rebellious stomach, and while eating quickly, he asked: "I wonder why the Marquis of Qi is visiting me?"

"It's about the farm tools!" Tian Dan looked at Wang Ling awkwardly, cursing in his heart that he was so picky that he didn't even want to give up a meal.

Then Tian Dan convinced himself, that's all, what can't he eat now?

We eat and drink a lot every day, but the food from the Ministry of Industry is so small that we can’t even look down upon it.

It’s better to get down to business quickly and then go home and enjoy it!

"I heard that the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has set up banks, and transportation teams have been set up in various places, so I am thinking about buying some farm tools from the Ministry of Industry and transporting them to various places for sale!" Tian Dan said directly.

"Oh? How much does the Marquis of Qi want?" Upon hearing Tian Dan's intention, Wang Ling immediately put down the chopsticks in his hand, and his face showed interest.

Life in the Ministry of Industry is actually not easy, even though it has many workshops.

But sorry, those are pure expenditure units.

The forging machine shop is for making weapons and agricultural tools. If the Ministry of Household Affairs had not been allocating funds to support wages, the Ministry of Industry would have gone bankrupt.

As for the farm tool shop, there is no profit. Most of the farm tools produced are sent to government fields in various places. Occasionally, there are too many, and they are loaned to the people for farming by local governments.

Now that he heard that Tian Dan wanted to sell farm tools, how could Wang Ling not be interested? This was a decent income.

"Let's test the water first with a thousand planes!" Tian Dan said, having thought about it on the way here.

Although farm tools are still in short supply, it is not impossible for ordinary people to borrow them, it is just slower.

He couldn't guarantee whether anyone would be willing to buy it after it was shipped. After all, it was not a small sum.

"Hey, a thousand planes are enough for what? How about some more?" Wang Ling was a little disappointed. Although a thousand planes is a lot, it is only half a month's output of the workshop.

Although it is winter now, the workshop is not idle. Thousands of them have been built and are lying in the warehouse.

Wang Ling wanted to order the work to stop, but even if it stopped, he would still pay the workers, so if you are idle, you should be idle, so let's continue building.

If the Ministry of Industry has money, it can naturally launch other projects.

Relying on funding from the Ministry of Household Affairs?

How about Zhang Xiong’s peeing sex? Even if you demolish his house, he won’t give you an extra cent.

"It's a bit late this year. Besides, I don't know how the sales will be. I have to test it out first. But Wang Shangshu doesn't have to worry. If the sales are okay, I will still purchase a large number of them in the summer. By then, at least

How about starting with five thousand?" Tian Dan said with a smile.

"Okay, no problem. We are all old acquaintances, so I won't ask you for more. Just give me a hundred bucks!" Wang Ling pretended to have a difficult expression, and then said.

"Go ahead and lie to me. You really think I don't know how much your thing costs? It's only a hundred bucks for one piece. You might as well go for a thousand bucks for one piece!" Tian angrily pointed at Wang Ling and shouted angrily.

The most valuable part of the farm tools is the piece of iron, because it is a controlled material and cannot be obtained outside.

But if we really talk about cost, excluding the cost of the piece of iron, a plow only costs two or three dollars. After all, a few craftsmen can build many of them in one day, and they are all based on the assembly line model.

There are some things that others don't know, doesn't Tian Dan still know?

I don't know how much Wang Ling, an old bitch, made for a hundred dollars, but he definitely made a profit of eighty dollars.

Excluding the loan, excluding the freight, excluding the labor, excluding the taxes and fees, how much does one cost to sell?

Even if the price is one hundred and fifty yuan, I'm afraid it's only twenty yuan, right?

An ordinary person can only earn about four to five yuan a month. A plow costs one hundred and fifty yuan, and three people work for one plow. Three people can work stably. If they don’t eat or drink for a year, they will just earn

Buy a plow.

"The Marquis of Qi doesn't know. The Ministry of Industry has a lot of expenses. Besides, you want a thousand aircraft. The price really can't be lowered..." Wang Ling looked at Tian Dan with a sad face.

"Don't cry poor in front of me, what kind of scene have I never seen before? Thirty yuan a piece is enough, and you can make a lot of money without fear of His Majesty killing you, right?" Tian Dan looked at Wang Ling angrily.

"Go away, I'm not bargaining like you. Cutting in half isn't enough. Why don't you just stab me in the knee?" Wang Ling looked a little angry, and then said: "Eighty yuan, not even a penny less."

"Really a lot?" Tian Dan asked.

"A lot of money!" Wang Ling replied forcefully.

"Okay, I'll go find Zhang Cang and calculate how much your costs are, and then go discuss this business with His Majesty..." Tian Dan stood up with a smile and pretended to leave.

"Hey... don't... don't leave. Don't you businessmen just like to ask for high prices and sit back and pay back? Why don't you have any patience?" Seeing this, Wang Ling quickly stood up and called Tian Dan to stop.

"Thirty yuan a piece, you've already earned a lot!" Tian Dan quoted again.

Wang Ling said with a bitter look on his face: "You don't settle accounts like this. Iron ores have to be mined and smelted, coal mines have to be mined to provide materials, plus other miscellaneous mines. These are all costs. Don't look at them.

The plow actually doesn't cost much, but what really costs money is the piece of iron. To be honest, the cost of that piece of iron alone adds up to thirty yuan. Moreover, the Ministry of Industry organized its own mining and smelting.

, if these materials were bought out, the price would only be more expensive.”

Tian Dan was silently calculating in his heart.

He feels that the cost is still reasonable, but it feels about the same.

Because that piece of iron can't be turned into iron directly. It needs to go through many links in the middle, such as smelting, transportation and building. After so many links, its cost will naturally be high.

If it weren't for the fact that farm tools were an item that the imperial court had always requested not to stop, Wang Li would have used the iron to make weapons.

"Let's see, if you pay 40 yuan a piece, you can make almost a dozen yuan!" Tian Dan said with a wicked smile.

Listening to the price quoted by Tian Dan, Wang Ling's heart suddenly trembled: "I'm sorry, your mother, when did you know the details of my Ministry of Works so thoroughly?"

"No, sixty yuan is the lowest price..."

"It costs me sixty yuan to get the goods. How much does it cost to sell it to the people for the transportation labor? The price is too high and the people can't afford it, right?"

"Is it high???"

“Isn’t it high???”

Next, Tian Dan fully demonstrated how to bargain as a qualified profiteer.

Unfortunately, Wang Ling was the minister of the Ministry of Industry, and Tian Dan did not want to go too far. In the end, he could only settle the deal for 50 yuan per unit. At the same time, it was agreed that before autumn, Tian Dan would ask the Ministry of Industry to purchase no less than 5,000 units.

, and forty-five cents per aircraft. If the purchase has not been made after autumn, an additional ten cents will be paid to the Ministry of Industry for each of these thousand aircraft.

In the past, Tian Dan certainly would not have dared to play this gambling agreement with Wang Ling.

But now, he really dares because he learned from Zhang Cang that people can borrow money from banks to buy farm tools.

If anyone could have a new plow these days, how many more acres would they be able to plow this year, and what would be their output?

Even if calculated based on five acres, the output of one mu is two dan, and the output of one hectare of rough farming is one dan, which is four qian for one shi. This is an extra five shi and an extra 20 qian in income this year.

Seeing Tian Dan's triumphant expression, Wang Ling suddenly had a bad feeling.
Chapter completed!