Chapter 274: If you want to be good at your work, you must first sharpen your tools
ps: When I checked the information today, I found that I actually reversed the meaning of my surname. I don’t know if it’s too late to change it now. In short, the surname is the mother clan and the surname is the branch, so Zhao Hongrun should come from the "Ji surname" The branch "Zhao" in the surname is still called Zhao Hongrun, which is a mistake. In addition, Xiong Tuo, the king of Chuyang City, is the Mi family of the Xiong surname. The others are almost the same, sorry. But having said that, Mi Jiang can be replaced now. Mi Jiang is written as the Mi sisters.
PS: Again, I would like to apologize to the friends who reminded me of this bug but asked me to ignore it. It was my fault.
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Regarding the first profitable business of the Smelting and Manufacturing Bureau, Wang Fu, the bureau chief, had almost discussed it with two officials, Zhou Pei, the director of the Yu Department under the Ministry of Industry, and Lang Kuangke, the director of the Cang Department under the Ministry of Household Affairs.
The three departments have joined forces, the Yu Department is responsible for manufacturing, the Warehouse Department is responsible for sales, and the Smelting Bureau is considered a technical shareholder, and except for the maintenance and addition of iron molds, it has nothing to do with the rest.
But no matter what, the Smelting Bureau still received the most land, which accounted for 40% of the net profit. As for the Yubu and Cangbu, they shared the remaining 60% equally.
This division of interests seems fair, but in fact, after excluding costs, the profits earned by Yubu and Cangbu are not even half of the profits earned by the Smelting Bureau. After all, the former has to bear the cost of raw materials, while the latter You have to pay a large amount of transportation costs. How can you easily collect a large amount of money like the Smelting Bureau?
But there is no way, who told the new candle technology to be improved by the Smelting Bureau? What's more, the person behind the Smelting Bureau is Su Wang Zhao Hongrun.
Earning less is better than nothing.
Zhou Pei, the chief minister of Yubu, and Kuangke, the chief minister of Cangbei, were very open-minded.
Of course, this lower profit is only based on the profit share of the Smelting Bureau. In fact, even the profit share of the Yu Department and the Warehouse Department is enough to make other departments jealous.
According to reports, on the same day that Kuang Ke, the Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, and Wang Fu, the Chief Minister of the Metallurgical Bureau, negotiated the distribution of interests, he was invited over by Cui Can, the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue.
Because of the incident that offended King Su Zhao Hongrun a few days ago, Fan Xiang, the left minister of household affairs, was hit hard. Not only did he not take any advantage from Zhao Hongrun, but it was also exposed that he had joined the political side of Prince Hongli of the East Palace.
As a result, whether they were complaining about Fan Xiang because Zhao Hongrun retaliated against the Hu Bu and caused the Hu Bu's defeat, or the princes who did not want to choose their allegiance so early, they all avoided Fan Xi. This made Fan Xiang, the left minister of the Hu Bu, local It's really miserable. It's almost as if he has no air. Not many people are willing to be with him.
According to rumors, Fan Xiang may not be able to hold the position of left minister of household affairs for long.
Why?
Don't forget. The person standing behind Hu Bu now is Xiang Wang Hongjing.
Even though King Xiang Hongjing only took over the Cangbu department under the Ministry of Husbandry, everyone knew that it would be a matter of time for His Highness to extend his hand from the Cangbu department to the Hubu department, just as Yongwang Hongyu took over in the future. For the same reason as Prince Qing Hongxin took charge of the Ministry of War and Prince Su Hongrun took charge of the Ministry of Works, once these princes and their highnesses make some achievements, it will be a matter of course for them to move from the Department to the Ministry of Government.
The key point is that everyone knows that Xiang Wang Hongjing and Yong Wang Hongyu secretly joined forces to try to bring down Hongli, the crown prince of the East Palace. In this case, how could he let Fan Xiang, who belonged to Hongli, the crown prince of the East Palace, sit in the position of Zuo Shilang?
Although King Xiang Hongjing currently does not have the right to directly remove the left minister of the superior ministry, I believe that Li Liang, the minister of household affairs, and Cui Can, the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue, will never offend his highness, Prince Xiang, who will surely take charge of the Ministry of household affairs in the future because of Fan Xiang.
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If nothing goes wrong, these two adults would be extremely angry and disappointed that Fan Xie took the initiative to offend Su Wang Hongrun, causing Su Wang Hongrun to take heavy revenge on their household department. What's more, Fan Xie also defected to the Prince of the East Palace.
, if you plead for Fan Xie at this time, wouldn’t you be regarded as a thorn in Xiang Wang Hongjing’s side?
Because of this, almost no one in the Department of Household Affairs will take Fan Xie seriously, because they know very well that in a few days, Fan Xie will be replaced by Xiang Wang Hongjing for some reason. This is just a matter of time.
The consequences of standing in line early.
Compared with Fan Fei, Cui Can's status in the Ministry of Household Affairs is much higher. After all, most people think that he will be promoted to Zuo Shilang and become the real second-in-command of the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Therefore, when I heard that Cui Can had summoned him, even though Kuang Ke, the Minister of Cangbe, had no friendship with the right minister, he could only go ahead obediently.
After all, Kuang Ke, Na Cui Can, and Fan Zhi were different from each other. In the past, their political alignments were quite innocent. Therefore, if they wanted to secure their respective positions, they had to move closer to King Xiang Hongjing. This also meant that he, Kuang Ke, had no
What can show off the backstage capital to Cui Can?
How the two of them talked was unknown to outsiders, but according to the observation of officials from the Department of Household Affairs, Kuang Ke looked a little unhappy when he came out of the Department. Obviously, Cui Can went to his subordinates for the sake of the Department.
The Department of Warehouse Department asked for some profits. After all, the senior officials in the Household Department who were in charge of the treasury had an inexplicable desire to control money and always wanted the treasury to be full at all times. This is not difficult to understand.
In this regard, Zhao Hongrun's imperial brother Xiang Wang Hongjing did not interfere with anything. Maybe in his opinion, the money controlled by the Ministry of Household Affairs Department and the money controlled by the Department of Administration and Warehouse Department are nothing more than the money in the left pocket and the right pocket.
It's just a difference, nothing to argue about.
However, Zhao Hongrun heard from Wang Fu, the bureau chief, that when Kuang Ke was drinking with him, he said a few words of dissatisfaction with Cui Can while drunk.
Even if Zhao Hongrun has heard of such words, after all, he has no ambition to install anyone in the household department, which makes Prince Xiang Hongjing dissatisfied with him. After all, the brothers are currently in charge of their own three-acre land, and it is illegal to cross the boundary.
Will be looked down upon.
But in any case, this money-making project has been established. Yubu has started to make candles crazily, and Cangbu is also actively transporting raw materials and shipping away boxes after boxes of finished candles. Look,
This situation seems to be aimed at dominating the entire domestic candle market.
Regarding this, Zhao Hongrun felt that it didn't matter at first. Anyway, civilians did not have the financial resources and skills to run the small candle-making workshops in the country, so the losses were only the interests of some small nobles or small aristocratic families.
However, after thinking about it carefully, Zhao Hongrun still asked Wang Fu to hint to Zhou Pei and Kuang Ke, suggesting that they could take care of those small workshops as appropriate and wholesale some candles that were lower than the market price to them and let them help sell them.
This is not Zhao Hongrun's benevolence or anything. He just feels that under the current situation of domestic business and money-making industries in the Wei Dynasty, which are generally controlled by many big nobles and big families, he can first train some businessmen of lower social levels.
Strength, gradually expand the free commercial market, and make the market of Wei Dynasty diversified, instead of being dominated by the power of aristocratic families at the top of the status pyramid.
When the emerging merchant forces gradually rise, Zhao Hongrun can wait for the opportunity to deal with the big nobles who have controlled the country's important trade and resources for a long time, take the opportunity to take some important resources back to the country, and distribute the rest to the emerging merchant forces.
Stimulate the market economy of the Wei Dynasty and attract merchants from other countries from all over the world to come to the Wei Dynasty for war and trade.
Of course, it's too early to mention this at the moment. Today's so-called emerging business forces don't even have a drop in the bucket of those big nobles and big families. They are just making ends meet.
In addition, the two candle molds built by the Smelting Bureau for the Internal Manufacturing Bureau have also been delivered.
The Internal Manufacturing Bureau happily gave 100,000 silver, and specially sent eunuchs from the Internal Affairs Bureau and imperial guards to escort the silver carts to transport the money to the newly built treasury inside the Metallurgical Bureau, where it was piled neatly
together.
It is undeniable that before the income from the candles was allocated from the Ministry of Accounts, this was the first pot of gold earned by the Smelting Bureau, not to mention the dozens of boxes of silver that the craftsmen in the Smelting Bureau had made.
They were stunned because they never thought that their company would become so rich one day.
During this period, Wang Fu, the Prime Minister of the Bureau, actually planned to return the 100,000 taels to Zhao Hongrun. After all, His Royal Highness, Prince Su, spent more than 100,000 taels on renovating the Smelting Bureau and building a furnace outside the city?
But Zhao Hongrun refused. After all, in his opinion, the tens of thousands of taels of silver he had left on hand now were enough to spend, and the Smelting Bureau was in the middle of using money.
After all, after the finance of the Metallurgical Bureau was decoupled from the Ministry of Household Affairs, its nature has become self-produced and sold. The Ministry of Household will no longer allocate any money to the Metallurgical Bureau, which leaves the Metallurgical Bureau to use large sums of money.
The money is used to purchase various ores and raw materials from the warehouse for future research and development within the bureau. If one of them is not good, it will really fend for itself.
However, what worries Zhao Hongrun is that the current transportation is too slow.
Not to mention road transportation, the transportation method based on horse-drawn carts is far behind water transportation.
But the problem is that even if he travels by water, the speed cannot satisfy Zhao Hongrun.
The reasons for this are that the shipbuilding technology of the Wei Dynasty was not as good as that of the Chu State, and the transport ships built were not large enough. In addition, the draft of the Yingshui River system was generally not deep, especially in autumn and winter, and only small boats could pass through.
Although this once enabled the Wei Dynasty to avoid the embarrassment of being invaded by Chu warships into domestic waters, at present, the existing domestic water system, the Yingshui River system, obviously does not have the ability to carry large quantities of water.
To be honest, if he hadn't been short of money, Zhao Hongrun would have really wanted to give the Ministry of Industry a huge sum of money to ask the Ministry of Industry to widen and dig the rivers in the Yingshui system so that Zhao Hongrun could build Daliang into the center of commerce and trade.
It is the same as those rich cities in the country headed by Linzi.
But now, Zhao Hongrun can only honestly use the existing water transportation power in the country. Of course, this does not prevent Zhao Hongrun from learning from Chu's shipbuilding technology to build several large transport ships. After all, the current carrier ships in Cangbu cannot
Thoroughly understand the Yingshui water area, let alone the river water. ps: The Yellow River was called "River Water", "Big River", "Shanghe River", and "Nine (Meandering) River" in ancient times. After all, this mother river was not yellow at that time.
Before that, Zhao Hongrun planned to build a large dock port in the north and south of Daliang respectively.
Among them, Zhao Hongrun had already thought of a location for the port on the south side of Daliang, which was located in Xiangfu County. After all, Xiangfu County originally had a port used by the imperial court to berth ships, which was called Xiangfu Port, but the scale was said to be small.
The difficulty lies in the area in the north of Daliang that is suitable as a port.
It is within the territory of a princely state called Yuanyang. (To be continued.)