For Li Tai, Zheng Fengchi is really just a small episode. If he hadn't had his cash lacked, he wouldn't have been with him.
At this moment, after Li Tai bought the land in various markets in Chang'an, the construction team, who was already familiar with the skills of kang construction, began to build integrated boiling water and bathing, and even sauna service facilities, and charges.
If you only come here to get a pound of boiling water, it will cost one cent. If you come here to take a bath, it will cost five cents, plus ten cents for sauna service.
In other words, as long as anyone pays money, he can take a hot bath in the middle of winter.
Of course, Li Tai also understood that after he created this, when the business prospered, there would inevitably be imitators.
But the other content is not counted for now. The most important thing is that there are two levels, one is coal.
But I have gathered away the refugees and had enough labor to mine coal to ensure the price, and why do others?
The second step is the kang. The kang technology has been practiced in Li Tai's hands, so it has become more perfect.
This time, after Li Tai bought the house, he carried out a comprehensive renovation and carried out a comprehensive waterproofing upgrade based on the kang technology. Although the investment was slightly large, it was quite worth it.
This will make people not feel cold in the house, especially when taking a shower, the soles of their feet are warm.
This makes it difficult for other bathhouses to imitate.
With these two moats, Li Tai does not mean that this water bathhouse can unify Chang'an, but it definitely has quite strong competitiveness.
Only when this hot bathhouse has the possibility of making a profit can this basic good deed truly last for a long time.
Otherwise, any act of helping others is only temporary after all, because human beings themselves are creatures that drive away benefits.
When there is no profit to make money, then this kind of kindness will eventually be consumed by reality.
As the first snow fell in winter, people in Chang'an discovered that a shop selling boiled water began to appear in the market.
"Aye, the King of Yue's boiled water bathhouse is open. Because it costs a pound of boiled water, many people around are willing to fetch water!"
Zheng Mingshang looked at Zheng Fengchi and hesitated for a moment,
"Aye, King Yue is a royal nobleman after all. If he is lucky, he might still be the emperor, and we can't afford to offend him.
Moreover, down jackets are so popular, King Yue is really not a loss to us, so don’t cause trouble!”
"Which eyes look like I want to mess with King Yue!" Zheng Fengchi gently tapped Zheng Mingshang in the head and said:
"We didn't have a relationship with King Yue, so this matter must be broken in our stomachs.
But in front of outsiders, we must act like a relationship with King Yue!
We don’t care about the place, but we must help as long as we go to business!"
"I said dad, what are you trying to do?" Zheng Mingshang said, "I heard that King Yue is only eight years old and is younger than me!"
"I can control locust plague at the age of eight. You are twenty-eight now. Can you support my Zheng family business?"
Zheng Fengchi couldn't help but breathe heavily when he said this. He was a little older, and continued,
"I shouldn't have been proud of myself at the beginning and showed off my ability in front of the Supreme Emperor. Now how many people in the court are staring at our family!"
"Even so, the court must follow the rules!" Zheng Mingshang said weakly, "I will never come to steal our family's money!"
"It's good to grab it. I just paid the money to ensure safety! I'm afraid that others will not be satisfied!" Zheng Fengchi said with a serious expression:
"A saint killed his brother and imprisoned his father after pacifying the world, but he was a cruel character!
When the Turks as soon as they ascended the throne, they did not come to attack with shame, for fear that they would definitely fight with the Turks in the future.
When the fight really starts, we will definitely spend money on the flow of money. We businessmen will definitely be sucked in different ways by bones and marrow.
Then, let alone wealth, I will be grateful if my family is destroyed."
"No, will we fight against the Turks?" Zheng Mingshang couldn't believe it.
"After the saints conquered the world with their own hands, the losses of the Weishui Alliance must be paid back!" Zheng Fengchi said affirmatively.
“But I don’t know how long this war will last.
Think about how long it took for the Han Dynasty to fight against the Huns and the previous dynasty to fight against Goguryeo, so the worst thing is that we merchants!
If you can get on the King of Yue this time, you can still seek peace when something happens!"
"Since you're all on the line, why don't you find a way to find the prince?" Zheng Mingshang said weakly, "This is the steadfast!"
"I think about it! The problem is that the prince has not even gotten married, and he is in the palace. Tell me how to get online with the prince!"
Zheng Fengchi looked at his stupid son and said,
"Don't think too much. We businessmen have achieved our family's wealth and have long been not about making a lot of money, but about peace.
Since there is the line of King Yue, try to grasp this line. Only aristocratic families are qualified to ride a donkey and find a horse.
What we can do is to play the cards we have in our hands better!”
"Then what do we do?" Zheng Mingshang couldn't help but say, "Why go buy boiled water every day?"
"What should you do if you buy so much boiling water!" Zheng Fengchi couldn't help but touch his chin and asked when he heard Zheng Mingshang's words.
"It's over..." Zheng Mingshang said proudly, "Anyway, it's just a penny, our Zheng family has something to do!"
"Touch!" Zheng Fengchi heard Zheng Mingshang's words and gave his son a headache and said,
"Do you want to disgust King Yue or disgust me? If you don't want the whole family to be implicated in the Nine Clans, you'd better not come up with bad ideas!"
"What should Aye do?" Zheng Fengchi couldn't help but cover his head when he heard Zheng Mingshang's words. It was really painful!
"Open a hot food shop next to you that needs boiling water, buy boiling water directly from the next door..." Zheng Fengchi thought.
"Aye, our family mainly focuses on cloth, and it has never been involved in industries such as food and accommodation before!" Zheng Ming Shang said.
"From today on, that's going to be involved!" Zheng Fengchi said firmly, "I'll leave this matter to you."
"Okay, Aye!" Zheng Mingshang said weakly to Zheng Fengchi.
Soon, next to Li Tai, hotels opened by Zheng's family were soon formed.
In an instant, the catering industry in Chang'an was somewhat in panic. Business people with keen sense of smell knew that the Zheng family, the richest man in Chang'an, had begun to enter the catering industry.
But the Zheng family has always been engaged in the silk and silk trade, so why did they suddenly change their careers?
But in Chang'an, who has not had many backstages behind him. Soon, it was found that the Zheng family spent 5,000 yuan to buy down jackets from King Yue, and now both sides still have economic exchanges.
Suddenly, the businessmen understood that it was Li Tai who built a bathhouse and the Zheng family set up the venue for Li Tai.
The Zheng family is the richest man in Chang'an, so Li Tai opened a bathhouse on his front heel, and Zheng Fengming bought the land next door on his heel, and then converted it into a food and accommodation hotel to provide food and accommodation for passers-by.
"King of Yue, that Zheng Fengchi is here to give gifts again..." Ma Zhou replied to Li Tai with a little teasing.
"What?" Li Tai couldn't help but say with some confusion when he heard Ma Zhou's words: "I don't seem to buy anything!"
"They opened a hotel for food and accommodation next to our water bathhouse, so they gave me a gift and asked me if I could supply the water directly to their hotel in the future. In addition, the price was a little cheaper, a boiler cost 7 cents!"
Ma Zhoudao.
"What did you give me?" Li Tai couldn't help asking when he heard Ma Zhou's words.
Ma Zhou said: "What I gave me was a fine wine that was 20 years old, but I asked me to give you a pair of Hetian jade pendants."
"If you want it, just accept it!" Li Tai waved his hand, "It makes sense that this guy can become the richest man in Chang'an!"
"Then go back!" Ma Zhou replied calmly when he heard Li Tai's words, "At least these stores have been established in various workshops. For us, at least it has started to be stable!"
"Uh..." Li Tai thought for a moment and said, "How much boiled water does each store buy, how much coal does it use, and how many people are there to visit me every month, especially the first one.
Monthly.”
"Oh?" Hearing Li Tai's words, Ma Zhou was stunned for a moment, and then Ma Zhou thought of something and said, "Is the king planning to seek credit from the saints? I'm afraid he will be a little eager for quick success and instant benefits!"
"No? I plan to use data to attract investment." Li Tai shook his head, "I remember that in a while, I will have to take the scientific exam!"
"The January scientific examination and February results will be released. Most candidates will rush to Chang'an to conduct the papers and the list of the exams in the end of autumn!" Ma Zhou thought of this, his expression was a little dim. He was
The ones who were beaten on the Xingqu and Tonglist.
"Start the Book? The List?" Li Tai couldn't help but feel a little confused when he heard this term. He had never heard of it.
"This is just some rules before taking the exam!" Ma Zhou said to Li Tai:
"The so-called "progressive paper" means that before the exam, the candidate will select the best poems and essays he usually wrote, and will contribute them to famous officials and great officials, social wise men, seek their appreciation, create reputation, and give them to the examiner.
recommend.
The so-called "Tongbian" means that the examiner can interview the candidate's talent, virtue and reputation in society, and make a "list" sticker. Sometimes the examiner appointed a special person to conduct such interviews, which is called "Tongbian" sticker, for the examiner to be admitted when the examiner is admitted.
refer to."
Hearing this, Li Tai was a little stunned and said, "How can the examiner determine the candidate during the exam?"
"How can you not be sure if you have the name of the candidate on the test paper?" Ma Zhou asked Li Tai.
When Li Tai heard this, he opened his mouth and wanted to speak, but he didn't know what to say. Is it okay to not be a name for the exam?!
Li Tai understood a little, why when Li Shimin was in power, most of the talents selected were mainly gentry, and there were still very few talents from the real poor family. Even Ma Zhou did not follow the imperial examination path.
Until Wu Zetian used the system of fame in power, talents from poor families gradually entered the court and even developed into the Niu Li party struggle.
It can be said that although the imperial examination system appeared in this era, the imperial examination system is still very imperfect, and the power of the gentry is still quite huge. At least if the emperor does not implement this policy, basically whoever touches will die!
Li Tai said that this is a pit. If anyone is willing to jump in, he will basically be regarded as an enemy by the gentry.
"It's good that way, at least I know where the teachers in our school should go!" Li Tai couldn't help but smile.
Li Tai told Ma Zhou, "Since the engineering team has built the bathroom and bathhouse in a row, it is time to build the teaching building and teacher dormitory of our Agricultural University. When the scientific expedition is over, our teachers should be able to
Recruitment is over."
"Are you eyeing the candidate who failed the exam?" Ma Zhou immediately reacted when he heard Li Tai's words, but Ma Zhou shook his head and said, "It's winter now, the climate is getting colder and colder. In this kind of weather, people are in this way.
You can't do a job!"
"Can't do work?" Li Tai couldn't help but wonder when he heard Ma Zhou's words, "Is it okay to give food and clothing?"
"Sir, you don't know that the wind blows like this cold weather, it's like a knife. When you work, your hands or feet are exposed to the outside, and you will get frozen if you are not careful." Ma Zhou said, "
It may even snow in a few days!"
When Li Tai heard Ma Zhou's words, he couldn't help but blink. This was obviously something Li Tai didn't expect.
Li Tai suddenly realized that the times are different and the productivity is different. This is why Yang Guang was scolded as a fool. However, after the great development of productivity in the future, countless people were thinking about overturning the case for Yang Guang.
Most people think that Yang Guang is just anxious, but in fact he is still a strong leader with great strategic vision.
The most important point is that the productivity of the two eras is completely different. In the future, almost all operations will be completed by controlling various machines. Even if it really requires manual labor, they will wear gloves and a helmet on their heads. It is done.
Security measures.
Therefore, by judging others by oneself and opening up the canal, it is definitely a large infrastructure that communicates between the north and the south, and no one will say it is better.
But the reality is this era. If you are an ordinary person, you can only hold the hemp rope with the thick calluses on your hands, and then put them on your shoulder that has been ground and bleeding, and drag a stone that is almost as heavy as a person.
Go to the corvee service in the cold wind.
When you complete this labor service, you will be lucky to survive, but if you are unlucky, you may die directly in the labor service. Even such labor service will be like this every year and will never end in a long time. Then you will still think that Yang Guang is
A wise king?
Li Tai suddenly realized and thought of recruiting refugees who went to mine coal mines.
Li Tai knew that their life was definitely uncomfortable when they went to dig coal, but Li Tai didn't know that their life was more difficult than he thought.
Li Tai was silent for a while, looked at Ma Zhou and said, "Zheng Fengchi seems to be a big silk household in Chang'an!"
"Yes." Ma Zhou nodded, but unexpectedly Li Tai's thinking jumped on Zheng Fengchi again.
"Let him come to see me!" Li Tai said, "Don't he want to surrender, then I'll give him a chance!"