Yu Qiyou was the director of Dushui in the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty. He usually assisted the doctor in handling some documents. However, when he was nearly fifty, he found that he had a big trouble - his glasses were presbyopic.
If you have presbyopic eyes and can't see the documents clearly, you can't handle government affairs. You can't always let others read the documents to you, right? Yu Qiyou felt a serious crisis. He had endured his whole life to become a civil servant from the sixth grade. Could it be that
Resigning to work before the age of fifty?
In the past six months, presbyopia has become more and more serious. Yu Qiyou squints his eyes to read documents every day, for fear that others will say he is presbyopic, which is extremely difficult.
Several clerks privately called him blind man, but when he heard it, he was angry and worried.
Until he heard someone say that a Li's store opened in the east of the capital to sell "glasses" that specialize in treating presbyopia.
Yu Qiyou inquired about it, and they all said that the Li family's glasses are indeed useful. Several elderly people with severe presbyopia can read documents clearly after wearing glasses. Especially an old friend from Tianjin wrote to me.
I highly recommend the benefits of these glasses, saying they have an immediate effect on presbyopia.
Yu Qiyou didn't waste any more time and took a family member to the optical shop that day.
Arriving at Ginkgo Street in the east of the capital, Yu Qiyou saw the signboard of Li's store fluttering in the wind - "Cure Presbyopia Guaranteed". Yu Qiyou walked into the store and saw that there were already a few customers in twos and threes. It was obvious that the store was doing good business.
I heard that a pair of glasses costs ten taels of silver. How much money does this shop make in a day?
As soon as Yu Qiyou entered the store, a boy came up to him and saluted and said, "Sir, would you like to wear glasses?"
The servant next to Yu Qiyou said loudly: "Yes, my master wears glasses, how should I wear them?"
The boy asked: "How long have you been presbyopic, sir?"
Yu Qiyou thought for a moment and said, "It's been three years. It wasn't serious at first, but it's gotten worse this year."
The boy said: "I'll give you a try on 200 degrees!"
The boy brought a box, and when he opened it, it was filled with transparent glass pieces. These were probably "glasses." The boy gave Yu Qiyou a pair of "two hundred degree" glasses to try on, and asked Yu
Friendship effect.
Yu Qiyou watched the boy put the two pieces of glass on the wooden shelf to his nose, and according to the boy's request, he read a book next to him through the glass pieces.
However, through his eyes, Yu Qiyou still couldn't see clearly the words on the book. Seeing this, the boy gave Yu Qiyou glasses with 250 degrees to try.
Putting on the 250-degree glasses, Yu Qiyou was stunned. He found that the world suddenly became clear.
He could clearly see the small print on the Analects of Confucius next to him.
"A gentleman has nothing to eat and nothing to ask for, and nothing to live in peace. If he is sensitive to things and careful in his words, he will be righteous and righteous. He can be said to be eager to learn."
Yu Qiyou felt ecstatic in his heart. These glasses are really useful. He can see the documents clearly and he will not lose his job because of presbyopia! He has saved his official position! These glasses from the Li family are really magical!
The boy tried Yu Qiyou's 275-degree, 300-degree, and 325-degree glasses, and finally determined that Yu Qiyou's current prescription was 275 degrees. Yu Qiyou was wearing
With 275-degree glasses, I looked through some books in the store and saw clearly and calmly.
No one will ever call themselves blind again.
Yu Qiyou sighed in his heart, there are so many good things from the Li family in Tianjin today.
"How much silver does it cost?"
"Ten taels of silver!"
Ten taels of silver is not much. It saved me from the trouble of presbyopia, and it was a great achievement! Yu Qiyou asked the servant to take out the silver bag, and took out ten taels of silver and gave it to the shopkeeper.
Putting on his glasses, Yu Qiyou happily left the Li's Optical Shop. He decided to recommend this good thing to several of his friends of the same age, so that they, who were also officials, could get rid of the trouble of presbyopia.
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On November 19, Li Zhi's reading glasses business gradually improved and was able to generate a lot of profits. Li Zhi sat down and took stock of his income and expenses.
Nowadays, the glass wine set in the glass workshop is Li Zhi's most profitable industry. Excluding labor and material costs, he can make a profit of 17,000 taels a month. The next most profitable one is the textile factory, excluding labor, machinery maintenance and material costs, he can make a profit of one
The monthly profit is 8,400 taels. Then there is the soap workshop, which has a monthly profit of 8,200 taels.
Finally, there is the presbyopic glasses industry. The presbyopic glasses industry has now set up stores in Beijing, and the business is gradually improving. Beijing and Tianjin combined can sell more than 300 pairs of glasses every month, which can bring Li Zhi 3,000 taels.
profit.
In addition to the monthly income of more than 700 taels from Fanjiazhuang's rent and mortgage repayment, Li Zhi's property can bring him a monthly profit of 37,000 taels.
There is also the newly reclaimed dry land in Fanjiazhuang. Li Zhi invested more than 50,000 taels of silver in the initial investment. It is expected that he can earn more than 30,000 taels of silver every year, which will also make a profit of nearly 3,000 taels of silver every month. Of course, the income from the dry fields
It has not yet been implemented and cannot be included in the income and expenses for the time being.
Li Zhi's expenses were equally huge.
The first is the four thousand soldiers of the Selection Regiment. These soldiers earn three taels a month and have meat for three meals. On average, each person spends four taels and five taels of silver per month. After the Gyeonggi Province was invaded, the price of rice and meat in Tianjin
Prices were rising. In the past two months, Li Zhi changed his diet from three meals of meat to one meal of meat. The soldiers also expressed understanding. However, after a few months, pigs from other places were gradually shipped to Tianjin, and the price of meat fell. Li Zhi
Li Zhi must restore food. These four thousand soldiers will cost Li Zhi eighteen thousand taels of silver a month.
In addition, the cost of saltpeter and gunpowder for target shooting training every month is about one thousand taels of silver.
Next is the rifle workshop: the two hundred gunsmiths in the workshop are rifled gunsmiths who earn 4 taels per month, with a total monthly salary of 800 taels of silver. The remaining 300 people are ordinary gunsmiths who make unrifled flintlock guns.
The monthly payment is three taels, which means Li Zhi spends a total of 900 taels per month. He produces 500 Mini rifles every month, and the material cost is 4,500 taels.
The rifle workshop produced 500 Mini rifles every month, costing Li Zhi a total of 6,200 taels of silver every month.
There are 130 city defense artillerymen, and their monthly money and food expenses are nearly 600 taels.
There were a total of 220 officials, servants, and teachers in the newly built school, with a monthly salary of 20 taels, and food expenses of 1, 25 taels per person, which cost Li Zhi 770 taels of silver each month.
There are thirty-five people in the artillery workshop and the dragon tail carriage workshop, and the monthly expenditure is one hundred and twenty taels.
There are 200 employees in the catering department, and they also have meat for two or three meals per month, which costs 700 taels per month.
After all, Li Zhi's monthly expenses were 27,000 taels.
With this calculation, Li Zhi's monthly net profit is 10,000 taels of silver.
There is a balance of 10,000 taels every month. Li Zhi has saved a lot of money over the past year. In addition to the 130,000 taels of silver seized in the Tatar camp when Yangguli was defeated, Li Zhi currently has more than 20 taels of silver.
Savings of ten thousand taels of silver.
This is a small fortune.
In troubled times, strength is paramount. Holding this money without spending it will only arouse the covetousness of others.
Now Li Zhi is already a guerrilla general. He is in charge of a battalion of guerrillas with a strength of 1,000 soldiers. In November, the military pay for the soldiers was distributed. The monthly salary was 1,000 taels, with an average of 1,000 taels per soldier.
Two taels of silver. Compared with when I was doing ethics, this military pay was exploited a few less layers, and the percentage of what I got was much higher.
Li Zhi used the one thousand taels of silver to hire 300 auxiliary soldiers to serve as city defense forces and to maintain public security in the city. Of course, other subordinates were provided with non-vegetarian meals, and so were these auxiliary soldiers. The military salary plus food expenses were just enough.
One thousand taels of military pay were spent.
But just adding some auxiliary soldiers is not enough. In the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty, there is no sense of security without strength. The profits of his various industries are still expanding, and Li Zhi is not worried about insufficient money. Li Zhi decided to use the surplus
The money was used to recruit 4,000 more soldiers and two more regiments.
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