Although Mingjian Villa is a small sect and its status in the world is not high, its role in the world is unique in the world.
No one in the martial arts world can live without a weapon that can endure, and Mingjian Villa is a gold-lettered signboard.
No matter what kind of weapon it is, as long as the weapon is engraved with the symbol of Famous Sword Villa, it will be recognized as a good product by the world.
Considering the commercial value from a businessman's perspective, Mingjian Villa is definitely the number one in the entire world.
The simplest way to think about it is that one day the imperial court controls the entire world.
It also requires a lot of manpower and material resources to maintain the stability and development of Jianghu. Controlling Jianghu is like raising an extraordinary army. It is not a profitable business, but a bottomless pit that swallows money.
With the little treasury the imperial court currently has, it is too limited to support the army, and it still has to pay for the expenses of supporting Jianghu forces? That is obviously impossible.
Even the national treasury cannot support the huge expenditure, and Xia Shang's current financial situation is even more inadequate.
If Mingjian Villa can be won over, and with a little bit of business planning from Xia Shang, this sect will definitely become a big money tree under Xia Shang's management.
Before arriving at Mingjian Villa, Xia Shang already had a rough idea in his mind.
When we arrived at Mingjian Villa, the sky had already turned bright.
The sound of blacksmithing could be heard early in the outer village, and the blacksmiths of Mingjian Villa started another day of life.
Before reaching the gate of Neizhuang, I heard a blacksmith extinguishing the fire in the furnace along the way. A strange smell of smoke rose into the sky. A strong man left his yard with his family members looking lonely.
Xia Shang didn't know much about casting, but he heard Li Zhuang say that every blacksmith has his own piece of molten fire.
Every blacksmith will take good care of his furnace and will not let the fire of his furnace go out even if it lasts for ten or eight years. On the one hand, a fire that burns for a long time has strong vitality and high temperature. It can be refined to a higher temperature and is easier to burn.
Iron slurry, on the other hand, also represents the immortal spirit of the blacksmith and is the spiritual source of the blacksmith.
The fire in the blacksmith's furnace went out, and then the family left the yard lonely. This is definitely not a normal thing.
By chance, the blacksmith passed by Xia Shang, so Xia Shang asked: "Master, where are you going?"
The blacksmith glanced at Xia Shang, as if
He was almost in no mood to talk and ignored me.
Xia Shang added: "A blacksmith will not extinguish his furnace as a last resort...Did the master encounter any difficulties?"
Seeing that Xia Shang seemed to know the importance of the furnace to a blacksmith, the old master stopped and shook his head at Xia Shang: "I can't stay here anymore, I have to find another way out."
"Can't wait any longer? Why is that? So many blacksmiths at Mingjian Villa are staying well, and there are enough people buying weapons at Mingjian Villa. As a blacksmith, it shouldn't be difficult to find a way out."
The blacksmith smiled bitterly: "Young man, at first glance you are a wanderer from the Jiangnan area, right?"
"Um...exactly."
"That's it, you don't understand the situation here at all."
"what's the situation?"
"Mingjian Villa is indeed a holy place for blacksmiths. Weapons forged here can be sold for more money than outside, and there are more customers. Even though there are many blacksmiths here and there are many shops selling weapons, in general, weapons
It is also easier to sell than other weapons. From the outside, the blacksmiths of Mingjian Villa should live a good life. There are many blacksmiths outside who want to join Mingjian Villa but there is no way. Who would think of leaving? "
"That's right, so I find it strange."
"No one outside here knows that if you want to open a shop in Mingjian Villa with peace of mind, you have to pay a lot of money to the inner village every month. In the beginning, each of our households gave fifty taels to the inner village every month.
Silver, or rare ores of equivalent value. Although the business of opening a shop here is good, it also costs more. I am not an outstanding master here, and a sword can only sell for about ten taels of silver at most.
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And such high-quality weapons will take at least half a month. In the past, I could barely support the monthly quota. But now, the quota is getting higher month by month, and it has already risen to eighty taels of silver.
With such a high share, I can only make ends meet by working day and night. I also have a family, a wife and children to support, and I hope to give them a better life."
"Mingjian Villa actually has such excessive demands?"
"There is no way, who made us rely on the reputation of Mingjian Villa? If you don't pay me, I will let you go. There are a lot of blacksmiths who want to live on the back of Mingjian Villa. In fact, we craftsmen also understand Mingjian Villa
Difficulties. There are so many large and small sects in the world. Mingjian Villa must maintain its position in the world.
With the status in the lake, but without a real master in charge, it is inevitable that a lot of gold and silver will be spent to deal with various sects and try our best to maintain dignity."
"Little blacksmiths like us can't stand it anymore. There are several masters who have been here for more than ten years before me. I heard that their lives are better after leaving Mingjian Villa, so I want to leave here and give it a try. It's bitter.
It doesn’t matter if you hurt yourself, you can’t hurt your wife and children.”
"Judging from the master's tone, he must have been a blacksmith for more than ten years, right?"
"Not just ten years, but twenty-six years."
"Are there any masters like you in the outer villa of Mingjian Villa?"
The teacher's father looked puzzled: "Huh?"
"Just like my old master, he has many years of experience as a blacksmith but his life is not very good."
"That's a lot. Because Mingjian Villa has left some blacksmiths, there are fewer merchants in the outer village to hand over their quotas. And the inner village is in urgent need of more property, so our quota is rising every month.
If this continues, it won’t be long before all of us who are the tinkerers will leave.”
Xia Shang was very interested: "According to the teacher's statement, how much money do you think you need to earn every month to give your wife and children a good life, and you can be satisfied?"
The old teacher was stunned. It seemed that no one had asked him similar questions. He hesitated: "If... I can earn twenty taels a month, no! It would be great if I can have more than twenty taels left."
"Bah!" the daughter-in-law next to me spat, "With your ability, you only get 20 taels per month! Daydreaming! You can barely make up the monthly quota..."
The old master's face turned red: "Just think about it."
There is a net surplus of twenty taels of silver every month.
For ordinary people, this is definitely a pretty good life.
As an experienced blacksmith, it is not difficult to earn twenty or thirty taels of silver.
But the business of buying and selling is not so good every month. Sometimes you can make thirty or fifty taels of silver in a month, but sometimes you can't even recover the cost in a month.
So it is easy to make twenty taels a month, but the difficulty is to make twenty taels of profit every month.
Xia Shang said with a smile: "Then I can give my master forty taels of silver per month, and my master will just forge weapons for me. I don't have to worry about the cost or sales. Not only will my master have a monthly salary of forty taels, but he can also
How about getting a 2% commission from the weapons sold?"