Chapter 1534 This is Te Niang's business secret, you actually
Chapter 1534 This is Te Niang’s business secret, and you exposed it like this (please subscribe and vote)
Cheng Chubi was so angry that he almost wanted to slap this guy on the back of the head to wake him up.
"I'm talking about the front and the back, not the money."
"Oh, you know, you know, you have to invest first and then you can make big money. Brother Chu Bi, you always say this."
"Nonsense, if I didn't say it often, where did we get such a big industry? How could our Han and Tang dynasties develop and grow in such a short period of time?"
Cheng Chubi glared at Li Ke unhappily, who could only stare at his own crotch and the poor prince with three melons and two dates in front of him.
"Don't even think about it. We have only allocated dividends for one or two years. The annual dividends in the future may be ten times or a hundred times what we are now."
"Then we will use this money to continue investing."
Li Ke's expression, whose eyes had just shone brightly, instantly turned gloomy. Alas...who allowed himself to be a minority shareholder?
Back then, I went to those brothers' houses to rummage through boxes and cabinets for hundreds of kilograms of pepper, and I didn't even have the nerve to do so.
I thought I could just sit there and have endless flowers falling from the sky, and endless wealth and silk.
The result? Every now and then, Brother Chu Bi would trick him into using various methods, forcing him to take out the money he had already put in his pocket, but he could only reluctantly take it out.
Although you can always see investment returns, the problem is that Brother Chu Bi will tell everyone seriously every time.
There is no point in paying too many dividends. Instead of leaving it at home to grow mold, use it to buy some flashy and messy things.
It is better to continue to invest, use money to make money, and watch the numbers grow, which will be more satisfying.
As serious shareholders of Han and Tang dynasties, they often complained to Brother Chubi.
Can you stop thinking about investing all the time and let everyone enjoy the feeling of spending money freely?
But Brother Chu Bi can always change his ways and find reasons to fool everyone.
Although young people are not happy about it, the problem is that the elders are happy to listen to Cheng Sanlang's lies. This is the most annoying thing.
Especially for the two children of Li Ji's family, their pocket money was strictly controlled by their father Li Ji, leaving Li Zhen and Li Siwen to just stare.
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In the palace, Cheng Chubi and Li Ke came to the Ganlu Hall with money for freshly baked samples.
When Li Shimin saw these two young men, he had no choice but to put down the book in his hand.
"Xian Bi's nephew, Ke'er, what are you doing here today?"
Cheng Chubi didn't care whether Li Shimin was happy or not, he walked up to him and bowed, then reached out and took off the money bag from his waist, and handed it over to him.
"Uncle, I didn't say hello to you a few days ago, but today my nephew came here specially to give you sample money."
"Have you started to mint the sample money?" Li Shimin reached out to take it and looked at Cheng Chubi with some surprise and asked.
Cheng Chubi did not dare to say that he had been planning the coinage for a long time, so he smiled and nodded.
"It's natural. After all, it's not that difficult. Just do it casually and you'll get it done."
"If uncle doesn't believe it, you can ask him."
Seeing that Brother Chu Bi was causing trouble, Li Ke felt very evil in his heart, but at this time he did not dare to make trouble in person, so he could only bite the bullet and answer.
"Yes, yes, I didn't expect that Brother Chu Bi's methods are really, well, unpredictable. It only takes a few fiddles."
"???" Cheng Chubi glared at Li Ke with a dark look on his face. What a mess...
Li Shimin was not willing to pay attention to these two young men who liked to undermine each other and insert knives into each other. He opened the money bag and poured out a dozen copper coins.
When he saw that it was newly minted money, Li Shimin took it in his hand, weighed it, raised his head and looked at Zhao Kun beside him.
"Do you have any copper coins?"
"Yes, yes..." Zhao Kun quickly reached out and took off the money bag from his waist, poured it on his palm, and a few copper coins and a silver dime fell out.
Seeing this scene, Cheng Chubi, who had two gold leaves in his money bag, suddenly felt a sense of superiority.
Li Shimin picked up the officially minted Kaiyuan Tongbao, and in one hand he held the new Kaiyuan Tongbao obtained by Cheng Sanlang.
He felt that there seemed to be no difference in the weight of the two coins. After looking carefully, Li Shimin discovered it.
The surfaces of the more than ten copper plates presented by Cheng Sanlang did not have the kind of small flaws that would appear on the surface of Kaiyuan Tongbao.
That's because small depressions or protrusions can easily appear when demoulding.
This made Li Shimin look surprised, and he raised his finger at Zhao Kun.
"Zhao Kun, go and ask if anyone still has copper coins on them and ask them to bring some more."
Zhao Kun made a loud promise and walked away quickly. After a while, he returned to the table with a handful of about seventeen or eight copper coins.
Li Shimin looked at them carefully and compared them one by one.
Cheng Chubi and Li Ke were sitting next to each other, quietly waiting for His Majesty the Emperor to mess around.
After a long while, Li Shimin looked at Cheng Sanlang with some uncertainty.
"How is this done? Why do these coins you mint make me feel like money or mother money, rather than sub-money for circulation?"
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"Uncle, because my nephew does not use the casting method, but the stamping method to make coins. As long as the mold is not damaged, the money that comes out will be exactly the same."
"Punching method?" Li Shimin looked at Cheng Sanlang blankly, and a picture flashed in his mind.
A bunch of fat and strong Cheng family members, naked to the waist, holding a big hammer, humming and banging with their hair and hair spread out, then smashed out standardized Kaiyuan Tongbao one after another.
"Uncle, uncle?" Cheng Chubi looked at the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty in front of him, whose pupils were somewhat dilated. He always felt that this person was thinking wrongly.
Li Shimin took a deep breath, shook off the unrealistic thoughts in his mind, and asked solemnly.
"What kind of stamping method? Please explain it to me."
Li Ke quickly interrupted. He, Li Ke, was the best at this kind of taking credit.
"Father, Brother Chu Bi uses a machine driven by a waterwheel. He relies on the weight of the machine to repeatedly punch thin copper plates to produce this kind of flawless copper coins."
"In this way, the overly complicated process of the past melting and casting method is reduced, as well as a large amount of manpower and material resources..."
Watching his own son's mouth opening and closing in front of him, he looked at Cheng Sanlang's reserved and reserved smile on the side.
When I heard Li Ke explain in detail that the copper coins made by this stamping method, the cost of casting Guanguan coins was only five or six hundred coins.
Hearing that Li Ke actually exposed all the costs, Cheng Chubi wanted to kick this guy in the butt.
This is Te Niang’s business secret, and you exposed it like this.
Li Shimin suddenly understood why Cheng Sanlang said that coining money was a profitable business.