The profound foundation of aristocratic families is beyond imagination.

Not to mention the connections that are spread throughout the court, the various industries they control are actually very scary.

Although the various industries of the Tang Dynasty were under the influence of the Chu Palace, there was a very big deviation from history.

However, some traditional industries are actually under the control of various aristocratic families.

In other words, the family still has huge influence in various traditional industries.

"Langjun, the first ship of copper ingots we transported from Yongping Port, Australia, arrived at the Weishui Wharf yesterday.

The smelting cost of these copper ingots is much lower than our existing copper mine processing workshop.

The copper ores found in Australia have a high copper content that is beyond our imagination. Just a simple smelting can obtain copper ingots with very high purity.

Now it seems that the family has arranged a large number of craftsmen and helpers to go to Yongping Port, and this move is the right move."

In the large courtyard of the Lu family's workshop city, Lu Ansheng was reporting the news to Lu Xuan.

As the owner of the largest copper ingot production workshop in the Tang Dynasty, the every move of the Fanyang Lu family has had a significant impact on the price of copper ingots.

Although this influence is constantly weakening, the change is only relative.

"That's really great. The price of copper ingots is rising steadily now, but our mining costs are declining. As soon as we go up and down, our profits will become more considerable."

Lu Xuan was in a very good mood.

As the second son of the Lu family in Fanyang, he basically has no place for the head of the family.

But as long as he can take control of the Lu family's business, his right to speak will not be worse than his elder brother.

"Based on the cost of the copper ingots transported now, the copper ingots produced in Australia are at least 20% cheaper than those of Datang.

This still calculates high transportation fees, market taxes and other fees. And now the copper mines in Australia have just begun to be mined, the production capacity has not completely exploded, and the costs have not been reduced.

By this time next year, I think the cost of Australian copper ingots can be directly half of the copper ingots in Datang.

At that time, Australian copper mines will likely become the most profitable workshop in the Lu family in Fanyang."

Lu Ansheng was in a very good mood too.

As the person in charge of the Lu Family Copper Ingot Workshop, he personally explored, built and put into production of the Australian Copper Mine.

At that time, the Chu Palace discovered a gold mine near Yongping Port and built a related workshop there.

Lu Ansheng, who knows a lot about gold and copper mines, immediately realized that Australia may also contain copper mines.

In most cases, copper and gold mines are associated.

Moreover, the copper content of these minerals is often much higher than that of gold.

Sure enough, with his unremitting efforts, the Lu family of Fanyang discovered a huge copper-rich mine more than ten miles away from the gold mine of the King of Chu Palace.

Thanks to the development of Yongping Port, the route from Datang to Yongping Port has become very mature.

Yongping Port is already a bustling overseas port with a permanent population of tens of thousands.

So the Lu family in Fanyang was so grand that they directly set up a large fleet, recruited thousands of craftsmen and helped to Yongping Port to build an overseas copper mine workshop belonging to the Lu family in Fanyang.

For the Lu family, building such a workshop also takes a relatively large risk.

After all, Yongping Port is too far away.

And there is no way to predict risks at sea.

So Lu Xuan has actually been under a lot of pressure in recent years.

Fortunately, this copper mine is very competitive. Not only is it easy to mine, but it is also of good quality.

It was successfully put into production last year, and yesterday the first ship of copper ingots was transported back to Chang'an City.

At the current pace, basically several ships of copper ingots will be transported back to Chang'an City every month.

To a certain extent, copper is actually money.

Although the Lu family cannot directly cast copper into Kaiyuan Tongbao, the price of copper ingots is no lower than that of the equal-heavy Kaiyuan Tongbao.

Because Kaiyuan Tongbao is not pure copper casting.

"With this ship's copper ingots, we don't have to worry that the latest batch of copper pipes will not be delivered on time.

So far, we have more than tens of thousands of meters of copper pipes that have not been delivered yet."

The copper ingots from the Lu family in Fanyang were basically sold to the court to cast copper coins, or privately cast copper coins themselves.

However, with the emergence of Tang Yuan, the court's demand for casting Kaiyuan Tongbao decreased a lot.

Therefore, more than half of the copper ingots in the Lu family in Fanyang are used in other places.

Of course, some people may have questions. Since Tang Yuan has appeared, why are there half of the copper ingots used to cast copper coins?

The reason is actually very simple.

On the one hand, not everyone in the Tang Dynasty was willing to accept Tang Yuan.

Especially some people in relatively remote places are willing to use copper coins to trade.

On the other hand, whether it is Japan, Baekje, tribes on the grassland, some foreign countries in Southeast Asia, or even some merchants in Tianzhu and Dashi, they are willing to accept Kaiyuan Tongbao as the currency for trading.

Whether it is copper coins, gold coins and silver coins of the Tang Dynasty, the exquisiteness of the casting is the highest in the world.

Businessmen from all over the world are not stupid either, so they are naturally willing to use better quality currencies.

As for Tang Yuan's words, it would be very difficult to accept merchants from countries like Tianzhu and Dashi.

This kind of thing can not be accomplished simply by applying pressure, but a process of trust and acceptance.

So to now, although the output of gold, silver and copper in the Tang Dynasty has increased a lot, it still needs to take out almost half of it to mint coins every year.

"It's true. Yesterday, when the copper ingot arrived at the Weishui Wharf, it was immediately transported to the copper pipe workshop and will soon be processed into copper pipes.

Speaking of which, I think it is necessary for the family to further expand the scale of copper pipe workshops. According to the current development trend, various wealthy merchants will use copper pipes in large quantities when building houses.

The richer the family, the more copper pipes they use.

I heard that in the Chu Palace, not only are copper pipes used in the bathroom, but they even created something called tap water inside the Chu Palace, which can be used very conveniently in each room, which has suddenly increased the amount of copper pipes to a very exaggerated level.

As other wealthy businessmen followed suit, it is estimated that the production capacity of our copper pipe workshop will be insufficient immediately.

Even if there are enough copper ingots, it may not be possible to process so many copper tubes on time."

Lu Ansheng felt that this was a happy trouble.

However, it is still a trouble after all.

"Well, you're right. Don't delay this matter. Anyway, you're not short of money now. Now you'll start buying the land next to the copper pipe workshop, and then recruit craftsmen to start expanding production."

Lu Xuan was so proud that he directly agreed with Lu Ansheng's suggestion.

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