Chang Jinquan is not a person who doesn't know how powerful, he usually doesn't ask these things in public, but at this time, Zhang Han has gone to the next level, some things are better than confidentiality, and the people present are all close relatives of the Chang family, and outsiders have not come in, if you really want to keep it secret, just tell me about it.

Zhang Han also knew his uncle's intentions, and said with a smile: "Li Zhuang's various instrument bureaus are effective, and a lot of fine iron tools have been made in less than three months, because the production of the assembly line is particularly saving materials and time, and also saves a lot of wages, so the cost is getting lower and lower, and Yusheng's iron ware is more and more produced, and the price is lower than those whose quality is not as good as ours, so of course the sales are excellent." ”

Chang Jinquan pondered: "People say that small profits are quick turnover, and Yusheng's ironware is not expensive, but think about it, according to what you said, is the profit higher?" ”

"Exactly." Zhang Han said: "The principle of standardization is here, the quality is stable, the loss is small, and the construction period is short. So the price is still cheaper. ”

A pot is generally a few dollars of silver, a hoe also costs a few cents, and Yusheng's recent production of these utensils is afraid of hundreds of thousands, of course, there are quite a lot of iron stoves, all kinds of soup iron pots, all kinds of small utensils, such as wine glasses, the added profit is of course considerable.

Zhang Han said with a smile: "It's hard to say the specifics, but the payment in the past two months is about 150,000 yuan, which can be regarded as solving the urgent need of insufficient money in my store." ”

After all, iron is much more expensive than raw materials, and the iron in Lingqiu Iron Yard has hundreds of thousands of catties in the past two months, Zhang Han also asked people to prepare to open Zunhua Iron Yard, but no matter how much iron is sold, it can't compare to these cast ironware, after all, with the most primitive industrial added value, the price is still much higher than that of raw materials.

There is almost no large-scale production of iron in the Ming Dynasty, all of them are produced by large and small blacksmith shops, and there are several large workshops in the Ministry of Industry, in addition, the huge country of more than 100 million people does not have a decent ironwork workshop, all of which are mainly blacksmith shops of a few people and a dozen people, some of these shops have excellent skills and excellent items, and some are shoddy, and the technology is not up to par.

When people buy, of course, the price is high for those with high quality, and the price is low for those with low quality.

The quality of the iron produced by Lingqiu is of course worse than the highest level produced in the shop, but it is also a good product of very good quality, and more importantly, the quality is almost completely equivalent, and there is no inferior goods flooding it, and it is enough to rest assured that it is purchased in large quantities.

"In this way," Chang Jinquan said, "it will only come out more and more in the future." ”

"Yes," Zhang Han said with a smile: "A large number of new apprentices and novices are being trained, and the Carriage Miscellaneous Bureau may be expanded to several thousand people, and there are more than 1,000 hydraulic machines of all kinds, which can produce more than 100,000 iron tools of various colors in one day, and millions a year. ”

"Amazing, remarkable." Chang Jin Quanjie praised: "The account bureau was sealed, the mule and horse shop was suspended, you and the Fan family's business war was broken, and the loss was not small, everyone said that it would take you a few years to slow down, this time it was good, the iron came out like this, Lingqiu's investment was turned back, and there was a lot of help in the future, and it could even surpass the business of the account bureau and the mule and horse shop, you do things, not only have ideas, but also must be better than others." How many people want to explore your workshop, I don't know how your carriage and these fine iron tools can be made quickly and well, but I say, how many years of painstaking work have been spent on arranging this kind of thing, how many people are doing such things, even your eldest uncle, you have already calculated it, right? Surely he helped a lot, too? ”

Chang Jinyou snorted on the side: "I just helped him farm, this year's annual harvest is poor, that is, because of the relationship between the waterwheel, the harvest does not decrease but increases, oh, by the way, and the person named Kong Minxing, he also helped a lot, the farmland, he is very good, all kinds of novel methods have greatly increased the yield of the acres, I am also helping to make a waterwheel...... Now do the clock, the clock is qualified, after a period of energy production, but the output will not be high, after all, it is precision work, there are not enough people, you can only wait for your siblings, watch, so far has not been successful......"

When it comes to these things, Chang Jin complains a lot, obviously because of the pressure.

Zhang Han was a little moved, in fact, with Chang Jin's previous identity and current relationship, even if he wasted all Zhang Han's silver, it would be fine, and he couldn't blame his respect for his elders, it was a very taboo thing in Daming, who was very particular about human ethics, but Chang Jin was still very attentive and responsible for his own affairs, and when it came to character, he was already above many people in Zhang Han's memory.

"Don't talk about it," Chang Jinquan took out the majesty of his uncle and said: "Bring us the gift list, Brother Han, don't blame your uncle, today I am here as Chang Ning's second uncle, the gift list is not thick, I will ask someone to beat you out with a big stick!" ”

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Li Yuchun left Xinpingbao before Zhang Han's salute, his second cabinet is still his own matter, Zhang's family Zhou Fengji did not participate, recently the silver has been paid back, and the main store has also entered a lot of various groceries, which need to be coordinated by the experienced old shopkeeper, or internal, or reserved, ready to be taken to the outside of the team.

Including the main store, plus the branches, the money made now is not only not as good as the account bureau, but also not as good as the Lingqiu Iron Field, which makes many people in the main store sad, or dissatisfied, or angry, or panicked.

After all, although the three shopkeepers have their own emphasis, they are also the chief shopkeepers of He Yusheng, and their names are above the shopkeepers of the branches in various places, but the iron yard is operated by Zhang Han and Cai Jiu and others, Li Zhuang's workshop is constantly producing goods, and the account bureaus around the country are taken care of by Zhang Han himself, and even Li Yujing, the general account room of the main store, only asks Li Zhuang's account, which is the work of Tian Jitang, the main store here, the most important thing is Liang Hong's management of the mule and horse shop, and Zhou Fengji's management of the daily business of the main store. Li Yuchun's focus is on the area around Tianchengwei and Zhenyuwei and Shuozhou, and his main work is, of course, to collect grain.

Now it has reached the most critical time of the spring famine, and the wild beasts on the grassland are also at the most thin moment, the hope of the Han people for farming lies in this year's summer harvest, and the hope of the nomads is that the wild grasses in the summer will gradually become fatter and stronger, and the wild beasts will become fat, and they can provide a steady stream of furs, dairy products and meat.

For Li Yuchun, all he has to offer now is an order for the purchase of grain, and the more he buys, the greater his results.

Coming out of Xinpingbao, Li Yuchun took a few servants all the way to Yanghe.

Yanghe is in the west of Xinpingbao, is the core of Datong East Road, originally also an acropolis, and later added the garrison of the military road, and a large number of soldiers and horses garrisoned, at this time it was already a large city with a large population and relatively developed commerce.

Li Yuchun doesn't have much interest in these, and his focus is not here.

He didn't even enter the Acropolis, although the Acropolis had a branch with Yusheng, and it was very convenient to eat and stay.

Li Yuchun casually found some farmhouses to spend the night on the way, there were five of them, and they were given one or two silver at a time with food and lodging, and the peasants were very happy, cooking wheat rice, killing chickens and slaughtering fish for hospitality.

Several of the attachés are brought out from the main store, the people are very young, all of them are young men in their twenties, they have been studying in the main shop of the mule and horse shop a few years ago, and even listened to Zhang Han's personal lectures, three years ago, most of these boys were gathered, there are craftsmen's homes, there are also shopkeepers and guys' families, they are all about ten years old, these belong to the older ones, they were very good when they first studied, and after more than three years, they finally grew up, can already follow Li Yuchun out all the way out and work together.

Li Yuchun turned south on the west side of Yanghe City during the day, this side is already very close to Datong Mansion, there is a small river is a tributary of the Sanggan River, winding down from the north, and it joins the Yanghe River not far to the east, the distance is very short.

During the day, Li Yuchun saw several wealthy families in this village, and there was a big guy sent by Yusheng, and everyone began to discuss the matter of collecting grain.

In the evening, Li Yuchun walked by the river, looking at the fields and the surrounding surroundings as he walked, and his face became more and more ugly.

The mood of the guys who followed was not as heavy as Li Yuchun, they were only less than twenty, there were many people who were married in the Ming Dynasty at this age, and there were many who were not married, and the parents of these young people at home also expected them to achieve greater success and more recognition, and they did not plan to marry for a while, so they were the same as the ordinary young people of about twenty in later generations, lively and active, everything was interesting to watch, and at the same time, they were also energetic and full of the vitality of young people.

These are all after several years of training, arithmetic and statistics, geometry, these things that ordinary young people in the Ming Dynasty have no concept of, they have also studied, and the results are very good, Zhang Han also plans to further develop in these people, simplify some things of modern statistics and accounting and teach them...... In fact, Zhang Han himself only knows the fur, after all, he is a businessman, not a professional.

It's just a little bit of skin, and it also makes these young people very confident in what they have learned.

They counted the acres of land near this Zhuangzi, divided the paddy fields into dry fields, calculated the harvest according to the growth of the wheat seedlings, and then calculated the approximate income of the Zhuangzi, and then set aside rations and tax grain money, and then calculated how much grain they could receive.

"I don't know, why is the second cabinet wasting time here?"

A tall and thin young man wondered: "A total of 2,000 acres of land, seventy percent of which are dry fields, and three percent of the paddy fields near the water, the average yield of paddy fields is 3.2 stones, and the average yield of dry fields is 1.7 stones, and the total harvest is only 4,200 stones. If it is another family, two stone grains may not be enough to complete the yellow and white list. After the summer tax is over, it is the autumn tax, each family has to reserve one stone of grain to pay, and the remaining two stones of more grain to eat until autumn, which is tight enough, fortunately in the summer and autumn can grow miscellaneous grains, dig wild vegetables, catch birds and catch fish, I think we can not receive a thousand stone of grain here, about four hundred taels of business. ”