"Just like the kind of telescope you gave me last time, Brother Wuji, it also uses glass as the lens, right?" Sister Yaoguang nodded. "Hey, second brother, why did you come up like this? I saw that you were out of the shop. ”

Li Shimin, who was disheveled and embarrassed, sat down in front of us with a wry smile, picked up a glass of wine that Yaoguang girl poured for him, wiped his mouth, sighed and said with a wry smile: "Alas, there is no way, there are too many people, it's okay to squeeze from the outside in, but if you want to come out from the inside, but the businessmen outside want to squeeze in, how can it be so easy?" Speaking of which, brother, you are really right, the glass product that sold for 3,000 yuan is really like the one you gave to Fang Shangshu that day, there is not much difference, and even the shape is slightly inferior. ”

"When the brother and Taiwan gave it away, the younger brother also felt that this thing was quite novel and suitable for playing, and today, I know the price of this thing, it seems that you are looking for a profitable business again, brother." When he said this, Li Shimin's expression was very envious, with a hint of jealousy.

"There's no way to be a brother, there's too much money to spend." I replied with a smile: "Think about it, Hancheng County can have the scale it has today, do you know how much money has been invested for my brother?" ”

"I really don't know what to do?" Li Shimin frowned, and after thinking for a while, he shook his head and said. His eyes were full of anticipation, hoping that I would be able to tell the answer.

Ben Gongzi slowly raised a finger and shook his finger in front of the three brothers and sisters.

"A million? No, it's impossible to hiss...... Brother Tai is talking about 10 million yuan? Li Shimin first denied his guess, turned around, his eyes widened, and he looked very dumbfounded.

"What do you think?" Ben Gongzi glanced at this thing stupidly. "The shipyard alone, from the repair of the dock, to the expansion, to the purchase of materials, this alone, it cost more than 700,000 yuan, as for the cement plant, the construction started, and now after several expansions, these expenses alone have cost nearly 1.7 million yuan, as well as textile mills, paper mills, steel smelters, coking coal plants, breeding plants, not to mention those built cement straights, as well as wharves, low-rent housing...... Ten million? That's still a little bit of a lot. ”

I sighed with emotion, this is the truth, since I went to Hancheng County, every day, every month, every year, is invested in Hancheng County regardless of the cost, so that there is the situation of Hancheng County today.

Li Shimin grinned and shook his head again and again. "It's no wonder that Hancheng County can have the scale it has today, and the tax revenue alone accounts for almost one-third of the land where Brother Tai is based. It seems that there is a pay, there is a gain, this is not wrong at all. ”

"That's exactly what happened." I nodded and smiled: "Although the investment is large, the income is not too bad, and now it is at most to break even, and there are three or five years of work at most, so my brother should be able to make money with these." ”

Hearing this, Li Shimin secretly rolled his eyes, with an expression of believing that you and I am a mallet, well, let's cry so poor, naturally for the sake of the child Li Shimin, this guy has the cheekiness to come and borrow money from this son.

It's okay to sell grain to Uncle Queping, at least half of the factors there are for the suffering of the people under the rule of the world. However, borrowing money is absolutely impossible, it is tantamount to this son's funding of the independence of the force, and it is not beneficial to the unification of the Chinese nation at all.

Nowadays, this son does not dare to say that he is the richest man in the world, but I believe that it is not too much, every year the income obtained by enterprises in Hancheng County alone has reached more than five million, think about the taxes I pay are almost more than one million, and it is not unusual to be able to earn more than five million.

However, most of the money has been invested in the development of various enterprises, just like the three new cement factories, five lime factories, and two brick and tile factories in Guanzhong, all of which are invested by Ben Gongzi 70 percent, and the remaining 30 percent are invested by the lords of Hancheng County who have become rich with Ben Gongzi, as well as the funds invested by the family gate valve who has a good relationship with Ben Gongzi.

In later generations, the two most profitable businesses, one is drugs, and the other is naturally the arms trade, but the problem is that nowadays weapons factories can only export a small amount of cold weapons, such as horizontal knives and other things, these cold weapons are allowed to be purchased and sold privately, but after all, the amount is not large.

Because Guanzhong is quiet, there is not much demand, and I don't want to sell it to other forces to fuel the arrogance of those guys. At that time, let those guys get used to the cold weapons we have developed, and we ourselves will work hard to develop gunpowder weapons, and in the long run, the Chinese nation will be able to completely occupy the top of the world in terms of military strength.

Nowadays, many industries are currently booming, but as a traverser, I have seen the crisis, when the domestic market demand reaches saturation, then, we must open up overseas markets, how to develop? Naturally, it is necessary to make what foreigners need.

Fortunately, there are many materials on the land of China, which are extremely popular for those Western Barbarian Countries and the surrounding countries of China. Whether it is silk, porcelain, tea, or glass products that have been developed and innovated by Ben Gongzi, they can definitely become good things that are dumped overseas, and overseas barbarians would rather take their pants away than buy them.

That's why I'm going to bring glass products to the West Market to show off, and that's why I hope to be able to use these Western barbarian traders and Western Regions merchants to get them to promote it for us. At that time, I believe that countless Western Barbarian traders and Western Regions traders, as well as merchants from many countries around the land of China, will swarm like bloodsucking mosquitoes smelling blood.

At that time, Ben Gongzi will develop the sea again, although he wants to travel thousands of miles, but, compared with the rugged and bumpy land route, the ocean, not only the transportation volume is higher, but more importantly, it is fast, think about it, fourteen days can cross the Atlantic clipper ship, if people walk step by step according to the distance, even if there is no disaster and no disease all the way, there is no danger barrier, at least it will be nearly a year.

And a person can carry forty or fifty pounds of goods at most to travel far away, and on the land route, rugged mountains, swamps full of dangers, huge temperature differences, lack of water in the desert Gobi, accidentally lost, let alone out of the road, I am afraid that even people with goods will sleep in those treacherous places.

Moreover, on the land route, there are many countries, and wars are frequent, maybe halfway through, the goods will be snatched away, and if you are ruthless, you will even have to take your life.

In the case of sea transportation, there will be various crises, but in terms of cargo capacity alone, it is far more than the land route. For example, a medium-sized clipper ship can carry 500 tons of cargo and only needs dozens of people to operate. It is equivalent to an average person responsible for nearly tens of thousands of catties of goods, according to the speed of sailing ships at the end of the eighteenth century, it only takes less than two months to start from Quanzhou and reach the southern end of the Suez Canal in Egypt in North Africa.

Even if it is to bypass Africa and go directly to the Mediterranean, it will be more than half a year at most, from this point of view, not only the time has been shortened by nearly half, but the huge amount of goods carried is definitely not comparable to human or animal power.

The heyday of the seafaring trade in the eighteenth century will come more than 1,200 years earlier, and the era of the Great Voyage will also be nearly 1,000 years earlier. I have this confidence because I'm here, so everything will be different.

Sitting in the private room of this restaurant, eating side dishes, sipping wine, blowing and hooking up with the chick, of course, this chick is my future daughter-in-law, so she is naturally the hookup she deserves. While admiring the hustle and bustle of the glass shop.

It's been more than an hour, but now, inside and outside the store, it's still overcrowded, and although it's not as exaggerated as Fang Cai, it definitely takes a lot of effort to get in and out.

And many of the vendors who had bought the glassware, one by two, held them tightly in their arms as if they had obtained priceless treasures, and relied on their men to stop those who wanted to come and find out.

Shi Feng's high-pitched and loud voice like Zhang Yusheng still passed through the window from time to time and penetrated into our ears. Although the auction price shouted out could not make those of us who had experienced strong winds and waves tremble, it was also secretly staggering.

In just one hour after we arrived here, we had already auctioned 37 items, the lowest price was 800 guan, the highest was 3,500 kan, and on average, the price of each item was around 1,300 kan, that is, in one hour's effort, this shop sold more than 48,000 kan worth of goods.

Counting the cost, the cost of each item plus labor plus freight and other messy costs will definitely not exceed two times, and this shop was bought directly by my son, and the money spent is only more than 50,000 yuan, so it seems that on the first day, it is more than enough to be able to earn money back from the shop.

When the sun set and the moon was rising, the shop finally closed the door, and after a short time, Shi Feng, whose face was as tender as a teenager, appeared in the private room on the second floor of the restaurant.

"The younger one has seen the son, the third lady, and the two Li sons." As soon as Shi Feng entered the door, he saw that a few of us were drinking and blowing, so he hurriedly stepped forward to salute, well, he was really a very good person. I am his master, and the future mother of the third lady, as for Li Er and Li San, the future is at most the identity of the younger brother and the brother-in-law, so according to this posture, not to mention that the son is very satisfied, even if it is a Yaoguang girl, she can't help but have a pretty face, and quietly glanced at me, and looked away.

"Let's get up, it won't take long, by the way, Shi Feng, this son has also been here for almost two hours, how is it, how is the business?" I asked, smiling, taking a sip of my wine.