Yang Yuanwai's voice was loud and clear, and anyone who came could hear his voice from the bottom of his heart: "General Wang has not disturbed the people this month, but he has also done things for the government and the people. As a bamboo businessman, I can really feel it.
In the past, it cost 5 taels of silver to transport one thousand kilograms of bamboo to Xiangyang. There were not enough ships, so we had to wait two days. Now it only takes 3 taels, and there are ships every day. The quality of the ships used to build Juntun is good and the speed is good.
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A young man behind him said: "Indeed, I have felt it in the timber business."
"It's also convenient for me to make turquoise."
"After buying the grain from Gucheng, there is no shortage of ships."
"The water bandits are completely gone. I heard that they were either wiped out or recruited and reformed..."
Everyone thinks Wang Hongyu has done a good job.
"Thank you to Mr. Yang and everyone. Actually, it was about bamboo, timber and water transportation that I came up with this business."
"oh?"
Yang Yuanwai and others were all piqued, and five of the eighteen wealthy households were immediately interested.
Wang Hongyu's eyes lit up: "The furniture workshop, which combines bamboo and wood furniture with local turquoise specialties, is specially sold along the Han River to Xiangyang, Wuchang and further places."
"Okay, furniture is worth more than bamboo."
"This is good. The price of my wood is always lowered by the merchants over there."
"Turquoise is used as decoration on furniture...it's interesting~"
If you can expand your business opportunities, especially if you process bamboo and wood directly into furniture, you can make a lot of money.
Especially in Xiangyang, Wuchang and Jiangnan, there were many wealthy people in this period. Ordinary furniture had no worries about selling, and luxury furniture was also in high demand.
Wang Hongyu wants to invest in this, and several wealthy households related to furniture materials support it.
"Tell me, how to do it?"
"We listen to you General Wang."
Yang Yuanwai and others expressed their stance, but the other seven or eight families who were engaged in land real estate and had a reputation did not say anything.
Obviously, this thing has limited appeal to them.
In my heart I was thinking:
"What does the bamboo furniture business have to do with us?"
"If they get rich, we will be looked down upon..."
"Does this Wang Hongyu want to win over them and then isolate us?"
While they were doubting, Wang Hongyu's eyes swept over them quickly like lightning. Although when they looked up, they saw the young and handsome Wang Hongyu with a warm and friendly expression, which made their hearts cheer.
It seems that the look in their eyes just now is telling them: It depends on your statement next.
Wang Hongyu said with a smile: "If you don't make a big deal, you will already be a blockbuster. This time the furniture industry cannot be a small business. We must build a large furniture handicraft factory with more than 500 people."
It requires land, building materials, houses, craftsmen, and a considerable number of raw material production areas, as well as accounting, purchasing, sales, and research and development. This requires your assistance."
Everyone was fascinated by what they heard. They had never been exposed to this kind of large-scale production. They had only heard that there was such an industry in Jiangnan and the capital.
For example, during the Wanli period, the textile industry in the south of the Yangtze River was developed, and more than 10,000 textile workers were employed in Chengguan, Suzhou.
A single workshop employs dozens of people, while textile, porcelain and other industries also have large workshops with hundreds of people, and official silk weaving workshops employ thousands of people.
Nowadays, it is proposed that workshops with more than 500 people, including textiles and ceramics, are not too small.
If a furniture workshop really reaches this scale, it will be the best in the world.
But when I think about it, I feel a little scared. Is the cost too high? Is it impossible to sell it? Is it too much of a step?
"Bring it in?"
When everyone was confused, Wang Hongyu asked Li Tiezhu to bring him a wooden object.
I saw that this object was a folded object, much smaller than a table. After Li Tiezhu took it over, he fiddled with it a few times and opened it. Everyone was stunned.
bed!
A folding bed that can be folded so that it can be held with one hand and easily carried around!
Wang Hongyu pointed to the bed and introduced: "This is invented by His Majesty today. It is engraved with His Majesty's imperial mark. You can see it at a glance~"
Eighteen wealthy households saw it with their own eyes. Although they were shocked and unbelievable, there was absolutely no way this was false.
After everyone read it, Wang Hongyu gave a brief introduction. This kind of folding bed was very practical. The Hunhe Army planned to order it. There will be a market in various places in the future.
His Majesty has designated him to build a workshop capable of producing this bed. Li Tiezhu and dozens of craftsmen have also mastered the secrets. In the future, in addition to the Hunhe Army, he has designated the four guards of Teng Xiang.
The military purchases are all made to order with advance payment. With this level of order and the fact that they are so easy to carry, you can definitely make a lot of money.
This time everyone believed it. This kind of folding bed is very convenient for going out. When it is dark when you go out, if you are not near a village or town, you can only walk at night or sleep in the wild.
Sickness, cold, poisonous insects and ferocious beasts plague all those who sleep in the wild.
Having a portable bed would be so much better.
During this period, cities and towns prospered, more and more people traveled to and from various places, and tourism gradually became popular.
Folding beds can make money.
"It is difficult to copy this thing, but excellent craftsmen can understand the truth after repeatedly disassembling and assembling it. Therefore, this time the furniture workshop must be set up directly, and the folding bed must be made of good quality. If others imitate it, the quality will be far inferior.
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"It should be so!" Everyone agreed.
Wang Hongyu had no choice but to say sorry to Tianqi.
There were no patents at this time, and supposedly European patents had just appeared. If an invention was patented, it would make more money.
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It's just that Wang Hongyu has not yet reached the level of formulating policies, implementing policies, encouraging inventions, and protecting inventions. Tianqi is now helpless, and his hard push is a phantom.
Unable to collect patent fees, Wang Hongyu followed the method of paying dividends to Tianqi.
At least 10% of the folding bed's profit, in addition to the shareholding part, is also counted as internal treasury.
You may not actually save it, but you can use it directly the next time you invest in Tianqi.
In addition, it seems that the money was distributed to someone else again, but this someone else was not someone else, but Emperor Tianqi Zhu Youxiao, who was also Wang Hongyu's biggest supporter at this stage.
The rise of Apocalypse has helped him a lot, so it is definitely a good thing for him to invest and share the accounts with him.
Of course, when it comes to businesses other than inventions, Wei Zhongxian has more investment vision than Tianqi, and more often he has to draw money from Lao Wei.
Lao Wei collected hundreds of thousands of taels in bribes. It would be great if all the money was invested in him.
Wang Hongyu looked at the eighteen wealthy households in Yun County in front of him and thought to himself: The power of these local people cannot be lost. They must unite more to rise faster.
"We invest according to the three-three-three system." Wang Hongyu suddenly said the most critical point, which is the investment and dividends that these wealthy households are worried about and most looking forward to.
"What is the three-three-three system?"
"I will take one-third, you eighteen households will take one-third, and the remaining one-third will be given to His Majesty and Eunuch Wei who are shareholders."
If there is such a good thing, why not quickly invest in it!