Chapter 244 A perfect strategy?

It's hard to be a human being. It's even harder to be a good person. It's even harder to appear like a good person in front of the world when you're clearly not a good person.

"Who said I'm not a good person?" I have a different view on this point. If someone goes to the West Market and shouts, "Wang Xiu is a hypocrite who is both external and internal," it will definitely attract a lot of abuse. Now in the eyes of outsiders, I am nothing but a good person.

In addition to being an out-and-out prodigal, his character is first-class, there is no doubt. "Try speaking ill of me when you go out. You have a high status and no one dares to contradict you in person, but I definitely don't agree with you in my heart, and maybe I will in private."

Questioning your character."

"Haha," Lan Ling was wearing a newly dyed pale cotton pleated skirt and a moon-white twisted silk gold belt tied neatly, making her figure appear tall and abrupt. "That's why he is not a good person. He has some bad habits, and he is picky.

The conversation he had after dinner was very lively. I just gave the recipe for steaming and brewing wine to the Ministry of Industry, and now I am using the guise of selflessly serving the people to reveal the thoughts of the Ministry of Industry. Even if you control cotton weaving, no one will say that you are rich and unkind.

What are you afraid of?"

"It doesn't matter if you say it, I'm just afraid that people will think so." Mr. Cao was urged by some big bosses on the front line, and he focused on the research and development of firearms. I visited three times and failed to find out. It seems that the Ministry of Industry did not find out what happened this time.

Shen Si and the Wang family jointly engaged in the cotton spinning industry. "As soon as I saw the cotton, it was falling. Hundreds of kilograms of stuff were piled up towards the Wang family. I really couldn't afford to eat it all in one go. You have also seen the workshop,

It may not be possible to have 1,800 people go into battle together. Where can I find so many idle female workers? It’s not odd jobs, they only work for a year..." There were very few working women in this era, and running the family was a big labor force, and there was no long-term job at all.

The concept of going out and making money.

Lan Ling pointed to himself with a smile, "You are very weak in the beginning. If we spread the word later, it is impossible to attract everyone to your home. It is imperative to establish cotton weaving workshops in cotton-producing areas. The Ministry of Industry ignores it.

You. But you ignore me. If it piles up later, it won’t be enough to just make a quilt, right?"

"You still have to look for me? As long as the Ministry of Industry approves it, it's up to you to build as many workshops as you want and where you want to build them. Why do you have to drag me along?"

Lan Lingmin smiled and said, "Your ability cannot be seen from you, but from you and the people in front of you, it is clear. There are several members of the Wang family who are not easy to deal with. Needless to say, Madam, then

The second daughter, you can maintain your family's property quietly to the point that even your sister-in-law has a hard time dealing with it... And your sister-in-law is a bit smarter. Without your conscious and unintentional knocking, she can only be a shrewd businessman.

Not that weird."

"Oh? Am I that great?"

"But you underestimate yourself, hum." Lan Ling pulled the silver bracelet on his wrist and showed off his exquisite craftsmanship to me. "I won't say it anymore. You made such a mess that even Zhuangzi next to you can't escape.

Tribulation.”

"Go away, I'm not a miasma. I want you to call me a pit."

"No, that girl surnamed Yun is an example. She learned from your family, but was forced by your family. Let me see, let alone Chang'an, there is only one weird female head in the entire Tang Dynasty. You bring it to everyone around you.

Bad, you are infected with the plague and then spread to others, haha... you don't deal with the outside world. Many things in the court are different from before. Everyone can feel it, but they can't figure out the reason."

"Oh, I understand." He took the cricket jar he had robbed from Cheng Chu and lay down on the soft chair to admire it.

"Just understand. There's no other meaning. I want you to have regular contact with me. I brought you in just to promote your shameless abilities. It stands to reason that the advantages of Neifu Shang are unmatched by others.

But I always feel that the business is not as smooth as yours. Although I make a lot of money, it lacks aura. I am afraid that I will make the same mistake as the papermaking workshop in the future." Lan Ling pointed to a pile of brochures on the table, "To tell you the truth.

.In the first half of this year, the inner government has made a profit of 400,000 yuan. From now on, this stall will become bigger and bigger, with more and more manpower. You can play the role of a professor."

"No, hehe." After smelling the jar, he found that the tea was not fully soaked, and it would have to be buried for half a year before it could be used. "You have to make your own way, and you will gain wisdom every time you go. It will not be smooth sailing, and you can't avoid it even if you ask me to come over."

Am I a god? I can do everything. As far as doing business is concerned, this is the first time for any of us. You can come to me for discussion in the future. I will do my best to plan for you. I am good at talking on paper, but you have to beg for it.

Only the famous generals will go into battle." After a few bowls of dry rice, I know in my heart that, let alone a deformed trust like the inner government, according to my ability, without the help of these people around me, I can lose money selling maltose at the door. I am not born to do business.

I have become very serious recently. Taking advantage of the trend of serial publishing, I have a trend of treating money as dirt and orthodox intellectuals. There is no way. Who calls me the second-in-command in agriculture, especially during the cotton harvest season?

I have to take control of my own image.

"I work hard for the country, and I never care about personal gains and losses. For example, this cotton, the Wang family hopes to let the imperial court come down to take charge of it, so they have repeatedly urged the Ministry of Industry. Alas! So far, there is no news. I will visit Cao Shangshu again tomorrow." Faced with the beating.

Friends from all walks of life who are interested in cotton, please state your selfless stance before the other party speaks. Don’t you want to cooperate with the Wang family? The Wang family has already informed the Ministry of Industry. If you feel that you can be above the imperial court, then feel free to speak up.

It doesn't matter, if you don't have this confidence... Of course, unlike the Cui family, Cui Zhang is a partner. Although he is temporarily disfigured, we cannot discriminate against people with disabilities.

"Have a good time and cover your face. Brother Shiren, are you going to go out to do something tonight?" Cui Zhang knew that he couldn't delay any longer, so he sent someone to invite me and met me with my face covered.

"Don't make fun of me." Cui Zhang pulled the face towel unhappily and reached in to touch a few handfuls.

"Hehe, haha..." I stepped forward and bent down to look inside, "Our brothers still covered the ground and passed."

"It's going to be fine in the next two days. The ends of my eyes are still a little clear. Brother Zihao, please stop teasing me. I invite you here today to discuss business. It's almost the season..." Cui Zhang quickly moved away from the topic of his injury and went straight to the topic.

"Last year's cotton goods were sold out in just a few days. This year, I'm afraid you can order them without even leaving the house. At this price..."

"It's still early. There is a processing process in the middle. You can't just pull it back and sell it." He took out a roll of cotton cloth and said, "Half of it will be woven into cloth this year. The investment in manpower is huge. What about the price? Hehe..."

"My brother, what are you talking about?" Cui Zhang stuffed the cotton cloth back and waved his hand grandly, "I have seen this little brother before. When the front of her head was not injured, Princess Lanling wore this material for banquets. She even asked specifically

After finding out, I heard that he even specially presented a cotton cassock to the abbot of Ci'en Temple. He has already become famous in the capital."

"You're welcome then," he extended his hand and gave the five-leader drinking order.

"Satin?" Cui Zhang nodded and said with a smile, "Easy to say!"

"No!" He shook his head enigmatically, "Quilt, of course, it's not easy to convert, haha... we can weigh it."

"This..." Cui Zhang pondered for a moment, why? "If a quilt has four kilograms and five threads, four kilograms of cotton is twenty-five threads? Brother Zihao, this..."

"Brother Shiren, I'm worried. Princess Lanling's cotton pleated skirt doesn't even weigh a pound. If the same style were sold for thirty guan, would you and I be willing to give it to my own mother-in-law?

How many sets should I buy?" I deliberately confused the concepts between raw materials and finished products. In this era, everyone is more straightforward in calculating accounts. With huge profits, the cost of reprocessing can be ignored.

"That's a good idea!" Cui Zhang suddenly slapped his forehead and burst into laughter. Because he was wearing a headscarf, it made people feel ghostly. "It's more than thirty pieces. Just send the fabric to the tailor shop and put the sign on it."

Come out and have it made to measure, and ladies all over the city won’t flock to you?”

Damn! You are so shameless. You even opened a fashion store and directly plagiarized my ideas. I just brought up a random topic, and this guy could make a lot of money, "Oh, yesterday I met a steward in the papermaking workshop and he said he had this."

The plan is really that heroes have the same idea." This settled the matter, and he could do whatever he wanted. He would give Lan Ling a break tomorrow. The Cui family and the inner government were fighting, and I just benefited from it.

"It doesn't matter. We are old friends in the Inner Palace. It's a good thing to have a companion." Cui Zhang said nonchalantly: "It's not always true that colleagues are enemies, especially in the Inner Palace. What kind of business does it have? The Cui family will follow suit.

After all, no matter how high the profits are, people will not criticize them. Isn’t blaming the Cui family the same as blaming the internal government for competing for profits with the people?”

What Cui Zhang said is so right, teacher! Normally, it’s all about eating, drinking, whoring and gambling among friends, but when it comes to business, Cui Zhang is a master. These words gave me a big wake-up call. No wonder the Cui family

It has stood firm for hundreds of years, and the truth is clearly explained in an understatement, leaving only admiration.

Although the imperial family has the power of the royal family, they are afraid of losing a bad reputation, so they dare not expand their business no matter how big it is at home. Lanling likes this idea and plans to open some fashion stores abroad. As for Chang'an, a big tree attracts trouble, let alone take this risk.

"Cotton is in short supply, which makes it cheaper for this handsome boy. However, it is more profitable to use silk abroad. My clothes are very popular in the surrounding aristocratic circles."

"I have a plan." He stood up, pulled out a large book from the bookshelf, and said seriously: "I'm going to formally discuss it with you...don't laugh, it's business!"

"Tell me, you don't even want to laugh. No one likes Liu Rengui because of your stern face." Lan Ling stretched out his hand to grab the booklet, but I withdrew my hand and dodged it. He said with a smile: "Take down all the good things and don't let others see them."

look!"

"Talk, once we have negotiated, it will be yours," I shook the picture album, "Logically speaking, we are emotionally indifferent to each other, as long as you want it now, I will give it to you. But this time, you represent the imperial family, and I represent the Wang family.

Both camps, please let me go first."

"Hongmen Banquet?" Lan Ling moved his chair and distanced himself from me, "What do you want me to say, Young Master Hou?"

"Princess is too polite. I don't dare to ask for advice. I have a small suggestion." She cupped her hands and took out the terms negotiated with the two assistants at home and looked at them. Following the train of thought, she said, "We will increase the area of ​​cotton trial planting area this year. If nothing else happens, every day

The output of thirty kilograms per mu is calculated...according to the market price. Of course, there are few things now and the price is still unstable. Based on the price last year, excluding a series of costs such as acquisition, transportation, processing, etc., there will be a profit of about 150,000 yuan, maybe

More is needed.”

"That means your family earned seven or eight thousand guan last year?" Lanling was extremely accomplished in mathematics, and he reported the Wang family's profits in one go. "Damn it, the imperial court is supported by both food and money.

, all installed in your cash box."

"Stop! Who told you this? What I mean is that since the Ministry of Industry is not interested in cooperating with me, then I will transfer all the technology to the inner government for a fee, no..."

"Paid? The reward for removing cottonseed from your family is that I am working in the name of the Ministry of Industry. Are you going to sell me the technology I paid for?" Lan Ling looked disdainful and stood up, "Can you settle accounts and start from scratch?"

I never had a good idea."

"Listen to what I'm saying. Interrupting without any courtesy. This year, the cotton crop has increased from 21 to 5, and the inner government has built workshops, and the Wang family has also built workshops. Each sells its own thing, and they compete with each other. Even if the inner government uses its power to bully others, I will accept it.

You need technology to give you technology. Even if the workshops are built exactly the same, even the management model can be copied." He gave Lanling a kind smile and said, "The faster cotton is promoted in the future, the more workshops we will have in various places. We are enemies in the industry.

, outsiders are friends, if any third party wants to get a share of the pie, we will deal with it."

"Oh." Lan Ling suddenly realized, "Then you are in trouble. What if the inner government wants to make one family rich? Aren't you afraid that your Wang family's cotton industry will be eaten up?"

"You eat when it's time to eat, you're welcome." Scared me, hehe. Once it is popularized, it will take ten years. By then, the cotton craftsmanship will be popular among the people, and the price will definitely drop sharply, and it will be a matter of time before it becomes lower than that of silk fabrics.

What's the point of talking about profit? It's good if you don't have to pay for it. Eat it, but be careful of eating it and hurting your stomach. "Competition will inevitably annex each other. If the Wang family is weak, it is only natural that you will eat it. It will not affect our relationship."

"Empty city plan!" Lan Ling couldn't figure out my thoughts and looked me back and forth several times. "What tricks are you playing? Think clearly, once the inner government reaches out for cotton, it will be able to control the whole country in ten years. Then it will be up to you

With my short-tempered temper, will I still face your door?"

"No one else can do it, only you can. You are my mother-in-law, others don't know it, but I am willing to let you annex my property from the bottom of my heart. Hehe. You may not have this ability, right?"

"Have you discussed this with your family?" Lan Ling came over and touched my forehead, "There is a strong affection between us. But once the business gets going, it will not be controlled by affection. Your Wang family cannot stop the inner palace.

, let alone the Wang family, based on the current situation, in another ten years, I am afraid it will not be thinner than the national treasury."

"That's great, how are you going to spend it? I can help with the money." The treasury, the treasury still has a balance of income and expenditure. According to the current trend of the inner government, it is simply only going in but not getting out, which makes people feel itchy.

"It's not your turn," Lan Ling smiled happily, "Agriculture and the like are in the name of the royal family. They will be built in the future and more talents will be cultivated. It is better to be prepared for natural disasters and man-made disasters. When using money

too much."
To be continued...