Li Tai came out of the palace and immediately found Ma Zhou, who was in a mess and red-eyed state.
"I said, what's wrong with you?" Li Tai couldn't help but feel a little stunned when he looked at Ma Zhou's messyness.
"Ahha~" Ma Zhou yawned and said slowly: "Do you think it's so easy to arrange these refugees to build houses and reclaim fields? I haven't slept for three hours in a long time these days
Now.”
"Are you so desperate..." Li Tai's face was a little embarrassed and changed the subject, "But why don't you arrange the people below to do it? If you leave them all to you, it will naturally be quite troublesome, don't be like Zhuge Liang
Overwork leads to illness!”
"Bao, babe, babe?" Ma Zhou looked at Li Tai and said, "Although I understand what you mean, I am also very moved by your concern.
However, it is not easy to build this institution as a city. After all, we are not a city but a institution.
This is destined that we cannot recruit scholars like the court and ask them to help manage them, and there are no scholars among the refugees!"
"Why do you need scholars?" Li Tai said inconsistency, "Just appointing them directly, such as those who have reclaimed a lot of land or those who have good house construction, in short, those who have performed well as management."
"Can they manage it?" Ma Zhou said with a little confusion on his face, "They are even illiterate!"
Li Tai said: "Most of them are transformed by refugees, and what they need is nothing more than food, clothing, housing and transportation.
If you solve these four things, you will not be in trouble even if there is any trouble.
So just recruit the best of them as minor officials, and then you set a standard and throw it to them as follows.
Then next year, I will thoroughly investigate whoever does evil will be thrown to Dali Temple directly!”
"It's really a simple and crude way!" Ma Zhou's mouth twitched, and he had to admit that Li Tai's method was good.
It is naturally unrealistic to say how detailed the plan is.
But if there is any problem, just wait for the refugees to continue to provide feedback and make changes yourself.
As Li Tai said, as long as the world solves food, clothing, housing and transportation, most people are very happy to be ruled.
"How long can this matter be implemented?" Li Tai asked Ma Zhou.
"A week, whether it is the selection of minor officials or the implementation of this system, it will take time." Ma Zhou said.
"There's too much time! Only three days." Li Tai shook his head and said,
"You must have a record in your hands for those who perform well, just let them go.
As for the system, just spend a night listing a few basic items, and add them slowly if there is any problem in the future.
Let them implement it first, and then go for random checks every month when they have time. I think there will be no problems in a short period of time."
"What happened! Time is so anxious!" Hearing Li Tai's words, Ma Zhou couldn't help but take out a good wine and take a sip of it to suppress his shock.
Li Tai didn't pay much attention to Ma Zhou's habits, after all, Li Tai was not a person who paid great attention to etiquette.
Li Tai said, "I asked for an errand from Aye, which was to find a way to make the people of Chang'an live a safe winter!"
"Puff! Cough cough cough!" Ma Zhou almost choked by the drink, but did not vomit on Li Tai's face, but vomited to the ground. Ma Zhou raised his head and looked at Li Tai and said, "King of Yue"
, Do you know what you are talking about?!"
"I know!" Li Tai took a deep breath and nodded quite seriously to Ma Zhou.
"Do you really know?" Ma Zhou didn't believe it, but in the end he couldn't help but sigh and said, "What do you want to do!"
"Let them go to mining!" Li Tai said, "The small mines in our hands need to be started.
Aye has used the 1,000 acres of land as collateral to give me priority to supplying food."
"It's winter, are you going to mining?" Ma Zhou felt a little embarrassed.
"It is impossible to raise them for nothing. We must find something for them to do!"
Li Tai said, "If they are willing to dig coal, I will at least give them a chance to have enough food, and even occasionally let them eat eggs and drink chicken soup."
"There are very few physically strong people left. If they were asked to dig coal, they would almost die!"
Ma Zhou shook his head and said, "They may be able to survive the winter when they drink porridge, but they can't hold on if they go to mining!"
"Then there is another road, that is, boil water!" Li Tai said in silence for a while.
"Boil water?" Ma Zhou didn't react, his expression a little confused.
"Yeah!" Li Tai nodded, "The biggest problem with boiling water is coal. We now have two small coal mines, which recruit labor-capable refugees to mine and make coal, and then send these coal mines to Chang'an City as a burning company.
Fuel of boiling water.
Because it is directly cooked in a large pot, the iron pot can be made larger and it will be cooked in one pot.
Then sell the boiling water to the people around you or make bathrooms to recover funds.
I believe that ordinary refugees can also be competent for the task of boiling water."
Although there was a curfew in the Tang Dynasty, people were not allowed to move freely between the fangs.
However, every market is full of lights and wine, and the shouting and trading are still going on normally, and supervision basically turns a blind eye.
In other words, there is no communication between Fangfang, but Fang has its own economic system, which is also a feature of this era.
"It is not a small amount of money to build land and rebuild houses in every market." Ma Zhou looked at Li Tai and said seriously, "Strictly speaking, we don't have any inputs now, and we even owe food in our hands.
From the court!”
"I can only sell down jackets first!" Li Tai pressed his head and said:
"What kind of wealthy merchants in the city? Let them prepare the money and let them go to the hotel in Kanglefang tomorrow. I will sell Yuhan's down jacket agency!"
Ma Zhou did not think that these businessmen would not accept the invitation given by Li Tai, but he still spoke,
"If you are directly involved in commercial affairs and let the Censor know about it, you are afraid that you will go to His Majesty to report another book. Just let the people from the duck farm come forward!"
"Okay!" Li Tai heard Ma Zhou's words and thought that it was indeed not suitable for him to come forward directly. After all, he had just done the anti-locust against locusts during this period, and I think the censors were probably watching him make mistakes.
Li Tai nodded and said, "Then sell all the agency rights for down jackets in a year in secret shooting situation!
If everyone who goes to the businessmen is a luxury businessman, they should be able to see the value of this thing in winter, especially for shops such as silk and silk cloth, if you pay attention to each new type of fabric entering the mall.
This money should allow us to complete the plan!"
To be honest, if Li Tai made good arrangements and almost monopolized the raw materials of down jackets, the profits obtained by down jackets would definitely be more than that.
You should know that this is Chang'an, and there is absolutely no shortage of people who are stupid and have a lot of money, and who give face to the King of Yue.
But Li Tai knew that it was actually meaningless to him how much money he made. His real goal was to complete every task guaranteed by Li Shimin.
In the end, Li Chengqian was not as good as Li Chengqian's reincarnation, so if you want to win the position of prince, in addition to not making mistakes, you must also strive for merit as much as possible.
In comparison, all Li Chengqian needed was nothing but not making mistakes.
As the discussion was completed, Ma Zhou neatly promoted some minor officials to start managing the affairs of the university.
After the matter was handled, the down jacket agency rights were also acquired by Zheng Fengchi, the richest man in Chang'an, for a price of 5,000 gold.
At the same time, each down jacket was sold to Zheng Fengchi at the same ex-factory price. As for how Zheng Fengchi was sold, Li Tai didn't care.
The money was recorded, which made Li Tai's land that he wanted to acquire Chang'an smoothly.
In fact, it is not difficult to buy and sell land in the name of the Yue Palace, but no matter what, you have to buy and sell it yourself at the market price.
Otherwise, a group of idle censors were staring at him. Once he did something that was angry and resentful, he would be afraid that the impeachment memorial would come in crazily.
However, when buying the land, there was a little episode. Ma Zhou came over and smiled bitterly at Li Tai and said, "In Pingkangfang, the land we liked was taken first, but the other party not only did not charge money, but also wanted to
Give it to us?"
"Zheng Fengchi?" Li Tai immediately reacted when he heard Ma Zhou's words.
Ma Zhou nodded.
To be honest, although Ma Zhou only has enough money to drink a few pots of fine wine, he really looks down on a rich man in Chang'an like Zheng Fengchi.
Because for any official, the so-called businessman is just a pig to be slaughtered.
"Change a place!" Li Tai said, "If he has the ability, he bought all the vacant land in Pingkangfang!"
"This is not very good. Why do we say that the five thousand gold we have are all the money sent by others!" Ma Zhou hesitated.
To be honest, Ma Zhou really doesn’t think Li Tai’s down jacket is worth much.
But it was just a down jacket to let the Chang'an rich man cut off this reason, causing them to bleed.
To a certain extent, Zheng Fengchi’s five thousand gold is a transaction of money.
Regarding such money, Ma Zhou knew that the money was used to alleviate refugees outside the city, and to alleviate the cold winter in Chang'an City, so Ma Zhou used it with peace of mind, but even so Ma Zhou did not deny that it was the right to money.
trade.
Zheng Fengchi had to become the white gloves of King Yue, so he used a huge sum of 5,000 gold without hesitation.
Li Tai is not seeing Zheng Fengchi now, which is a bit contrary to some unspoken rules.
"Zheng Fengchi is doing a silk business and has commercial channels throughout Chang'an.
The agency of down jackets was in his hands for the first time, and they monopolized the entire Chang'an market, which was a treasure pot.
It’s not enough to earn tens of thousands of dollars this winter. I’m just a purely economic exchange with him, so you don’t have to make things complicated!”
Li Tai really felt that if he hadn't been in a hurry to use money, this down jacket might not have been cashed out directly.
Ma Zhou is not as good as Li Tai in making money, and he doubts that the down jacket that Li Tai said is really profitable.
But Li Tai said that, and Ma Zhou also knew that Li Tai didn't want to see Zheng Fengchi, so he said to Zheng Fengchi after he went back:
"The King of Yue said that his down jacket has a long history of agency, which is enough for you to earn more than ten thousand yuan. Don't be greedy anymore!"
Zheng Fengchi was a middle-aged man with a white hair that was nearly fifty years old. At this moment, he saluted Ma Zhou respectfully and then retreated.
At the door, Zheng Fengchi's son Zheng Mingshang immediately came up to him. Looking at Zheng Fengchi's ugly face, he couldn't help but say,
"Father, we have paid five thousand gold. Is King Yue still unwilling to meet us?"
"Go back!" Zheng Fengchi said, "Put down jackets in all stores at a price of five stanz!"
"We have always sold cloth directly, so where can we sell clothes directly!" Zheng Mingshang couldn't help but say to Zheng Fengchi.
Zheng Fengchi nodded when he heard Zheng Mingshang's words, but said: "Since he thinks this down jacket can earn tens of thousands of dollars, I want to see if this down jacket can be sold tens of thousands of dollars!"
"If you can't sell it, see if the King of Yue will still pretend to be noble and wise!" Zheng Mingshang said temporarily when he heard Zheng Fengchi's words.
"Yes, just be afraid. This down jacket can really make me sell it for ten thousand gold!"
Zheng Fengchi couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. As the richest man in Chang'an, he was still afraid that things would be sold too much.
Zheng Fengchi couldn't help but shake his head, it was impossible, absolutely impossible, Li Tai heard that he was only eight years old, so how could he be so proficient in business?
In fact, with the arrival of late autumn, a sensation of autumn rain and a cooler, and when the temperature is lower than ten degrees, it is directly made into a down jacket for ready-made clothes. Not to mention five sig of sig, even twenty sig is hard to find.
As for wanting to make it by yourself, Zheng Fengzhi found that he had no imitation at all.
The surface fabric can be from silk to silk cloth, but the down that is constantly filled in the lattice is not enough to make it out by yourself.
Zheng Fengchi could guess that this thing was used as duck down, but even if he knew, could he get it?
The free duck and poultry shop established by Li Tai has been purchasing unlimited feathers and internal organs, not to mention the places where more than 10,000 ducks can be raised in Chang'an. One is the imperial court's pastoral office and the other is the Yue Palace.
It would be easy to say if it was just bribing the Dianjiao Office to buy some ducks, but even the Dianjiao Office would not dare to compete with Li Tai for the market.
Even if you get a duck to breed, you will take time to explore how to remove the fat and how to remove the smell when plucking your hair.
By that time, the entire Chang'an market would have been eaten by Li Tai long ago.
Zheng Fengchi recalled what Li Tai said at the beginning, it seemed that it was not a money-power transaction, but a big advantage he had obtained.
But you don't need to make money!
I am already the richest man in Chang'an, and it doesn't make much money.
Now I just want to pass on the Zheng family steadily, because I can make money like this, and I am afraid that the court will think that I am fat enough and can be slaughtered!
"Are you so difficult to find a reliable backer these days?"
Zheng Fengchi didn't understand, but after this, Zheng Fengchi understood that it seemed that King Yue was really a thigh, and he had to find a way to catch it!