Section 93: Aristocratic Family Valves Are Also Beneficial
What are the benefits?
The foundation to support a family. Without food, people will starve to death.
It is impossible to develop a family without money, so food is the foundation, money is the backbone of the family, and talents are the branches and leaves.
Cui Yingying came home first. What surprised her was that Cui Junsu didn't take a rest and was waiting for her to come back in the study.
Entering Cui Junsu's study, Cui Yingying's first words were: "Uncle, something big has happened!"
"You should face big and big things calmly and forget how your father taught you on weekdays." Cui Junsu was holding a newly printed Analects of Confucius and reading it. He would never tire of books like the Analects of Confucius!
Cui Yingying sat down, and instead of picking out the key points first when speaking, she reported all the details of the night banquet in great detail. She was afraid that she might not be able to see the depth in some places, so she did not dare to omit anything.
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The same thing happened to the Wang family and the Lu family!
When Cui Junsu started listening, he had a faint smile on his face. The wool thing was no longer a secret. At least for the important officials and wealthy families in the court, the wool had been included in each family's plan. Just waiting.
The Prince of Qin's Mansion came to allocate this share.
No one would think that the King of Qin would leave this share to a certain family, and naturally he would not leave it to the King of Qin's palace.
The brilliance of Prince Qin's palace has far exceeded the imagination of the family. In a word, Prince Qin is the star king in the sky, so it is naturally not something that mortals can speculate on. It is precisely because of this that the Cui family plans to separate out a part of the method of printing books.
When people print a certain number of books, they need to hand over some money. This is equivalent to doing nothing and just waiting to receive money.
But when Cui Yingying took out the clothes, the expression on Cui Junsu's face became serious.
This dress is extraordinary!
It was actually made of wool. When Cui Junsu carefully held the cashmere sweater in his hand, a voice in his heart told him, let alone the best wool from twenty sheep, it was from one hundred, five.
So what if there are a hundred.
This piece of clothing is worth at least ten pieces, and it is still in the Tang Dynasty.
If sold to Fan merchants, Hu merchants, and Japanese merchants, one hundred guan is just the starting price.
Purchasing wool from the grassland is a national plan. Even the nobles of the aristocratic families dare not get involved. Anyone who interferes will dare to destroy the whole family. But the share will definitely be distributed, 10 million sheep, this is what the King of Qin proposed.
Numbers. So, even if the craftsmanship is not up to standard, there are still 200,000 pieces of such a piece of clothing on fifty sheep, which is worth two million yuan.
This is not just ordinary wool, it is also useful.
Million dollar business!
Cui Junsu finally couldn't keep calm anymore and carefully put the cashmere sweater back into the box: "Put it away carefully. When His Highness King Qin returns from the expedition, the weather will be cold!"
At this point, it is very clear that Cui Yingying must wear this dress for King Qin to see.
The things to eat, such as pearls, can only be said to be treasures and rarities.
Until Cui Yingying mentioned the copper stove, then the pottery stove, and then the coal.
Cui Yingying didn't know the price of firewood, nor how much firewood the city of Chang'an needed, nor how much firewood the palace needed.
I don't even know how much firewood or charcoal is needed to boil water in such a large copper pot.
How much money are these firewood and charcoal worth!
Cui Junsu, the minister of household affairs, knew it very well, and he believed that there were no more than ten people in Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty who knew this number better than him, and the sum of all the powerful families would not exceed one hundred.
Coal, according to Cui Yingying's description, is three to five pieces of coal a day, which can be used by an ordinary family to boil water and make meals. In a month, it only costs seven pence, or at most ten pence.
More importantly, it is smoke-free, ash-free and dust-free.
The wealthy households in Chang'an alone can do business of one thousand guan a month, and if you include the officials and the imperial palace, the business can be 2,000 guan a month.
This thing is not only used to boil water for cooking. Since it is fire, it has many more uses.
Warming in winter, blacksmith shop!
Cui Junsu no longer wanted to calculate anymore. The Tang Dynasty would use this coal every year, more than tens of millions of coal.
Historically, there have been records of the use of coal in the late Han Dynasty, which was called coal at that time. However, due to the Five Husties and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Han people were greatly harmed, so many things were lost, so that the use of coal during the Tang Dynasty continued until
The mid-Tang Dynasty was the real beginning.
It was around 1,200 AD that the utilization of coal reached a small peak.
"Uncle, remember when I came back last time, I mentioned that the King of Qin wanted to give the Wang family a business, but he said that the business was too big for the Wang family to handle. Naturally, it had to be divided up again, and this is it." Cui Yingying added.
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"It's more than just big!" Cui Junsu covered his chest and took two deep breaths. He already felt some pain in his chest. This stimulation was so great that Cui Junsu didn't dare to think about it in detail. At this time, he thought
This is what Wei Zheng said in the hall that day.
The King of Qin once said that it is not necessary to use a knife to kill people, but sheep can also be eaten.
King Qin's sheep have begun to eat the Turks, so who will the bloodless sword in King Qin's hand strike at?
The plan of the sheep to eat people is a conspiracy. Even if the Turks figured it out, they still have no way to deal with it. The murderous knife in the hands of King Qin is also a conspiracy. With huge profits ahead, there must be a fight between the aristocratic families.
No matter who is the first aristocratic family, this time we have to decide which one is superior.
Cui Junsu felt the pain in his chest getting worse, and signaled Cui Yingying to ask the servant to immediately call for the doctor at home.
"Wang family! Huh!" Cui Junsu snorted coldly and slowly sat on the soft cushion.
Cui Junsu's heart couldn't bear it, which in modern times would be a heart disease. However, his condition was better and he only had some pain.
Cui Junsu just called the doctor. The elder of the Lu family in Chang'an had fainted and was being rescued.
As for the Wang family, Wang Jishan's face was livid, standing in the garden and staring at the moon in a daze. He believed that Li Yuanxing must be a star king from the sky who came down to earth. In a flash, the alliance of five surnames and seven families was in crisis, and split was inevitable.
Yes, just one wool is enough for these aristocratic families to fight over.
This coal is putting the Wang family on the fire.
When it came to printing a book last time, Wang Jishan already felt that he might have made the wrong choice.
But he couldn't hide this coal, because Qin King Li Yuanxing said that there was coal around Taiyuan that could be used by the people of the Tang Dynasty for thousands, even tens of thousands of years.
If the Wang family chooses to give up, other aristocratic families, nobles, and even royal families will appear in Taiyuan.
It is impossible for the Wang family to give up this territory of Taiyuan, and they will never allow anyone to get involved!
At the moment, the safest amount is how much the Wang family takes, and the appropriate amount is given to the Prince of Qin's Mansion, or to the royal family. Under the huge interests, any mistake is extremely dangerous.
"Come here!" Wang Jishan, who had been silent in the yard for a full hour, finally spoke.
The person who came was not a servant at home, but Wang Gui.
As a junior, Wang Gui has been staying here and came over immediately when he heard the call.
Seeing that it was Wang Gui, Wang Jishan nodded with satisfaction and said: "Go and arrange it yourself. The Northern Expedition army is in Taiyuan. Our Wang family must do our best. No matter what the King of Qin asks, as long as the Wang family can meet it, we cannot refuse. Even if the Wang family can do it, we must do our best."
Even if you can’t do it, you should try your best!”
"Yes!" Wang Gui bowed.
"Also, arrange some teachers for Yuyan. Our Wang family must fight for this Princess Qin!"
"yes!"
"I want to meet the King of Qin, and I hope it's in front of the Cui and Lu families!"
"yes!"
Wang Jishan made three requests in succession, but Wang Gui agreed directly without asking any questions.
After answering, Wang Guicai said: "My nephew has a suggestion. We, the Wang family, have no one in the Tianzhi Department and the Foreign Commerce Department. We should send capable people to join the job and get things done first before trying to do other things!"
"Very good, do as you wish!" Wang Jishan nodded with satisfaction.
As a candidate for the next generation of family head, Wang Gui is very good, very calm, and very low-key. This is what Wang Jishan is satisfied with. The interests of the family are the biggest interests in their hearts, then the Tang Dynasty, and finally the royal family. As for
The common people are not considered at all.
The news cannot be hidden.
Not to mention that the Wang, Lu, and Cui families couldn't defend it. Empress Changsun would also send people to spread the news.
The Li family of Longxi, the Zheng family of Rongyang, the Li family of Zhaojun, and the Cui family of Boling received the news not much later than the three families of Lu, Wang, and Cui, not even half an hour.
Originally, the four families were planning to randomly select a girl from one of their branches and send them to Prince Qin's palace as a child.
At the moment, she is already thinking about choosing an excellent legitimate daughter. The King of Qin is not an ordinary king, and he should have more than two concubines. The former King of Qin and now the great Emperor of the Tang Dynasty had four concubines.
If you can't compete with the main concubine, you can also compete with the side concubine.
What's more, the Prince of Qin's Mansion is an important battlefield for the battle between the seven families. The ordinary collateral status is not noble enough, and in terms of wisdom, it is far from qualified to compete with Cui Yingying, Wang Yuyan, and Lu Qiuyu.
The coal matter was discussed between Li Yuanxing and Li Er. He did not dare to make the decision on such a major matter privately anymore.
But Li Yuanxing never expected that Empress Changsun would take action, and she would be really clever. The Qin Palace was no longer a fight between three women, but seven women. Lord Fang Xuanling's sympathy would definitely increase infinitely, but Li Er would