"Master Cui really keeps his word." Lin Xuan looked at the dozens of carriages parked at the door and said with a smile.
The Chinese New Year is coming in less than a month, and he thought the Cui family couldn't send money over before the new year.
Unexpectedly, the Cui family sent money early this morning.
Cui Hao twitched the corner of his mouth, but without giving Lin Xuan a good look, he said: "This is five hundred thousand guan, and the rest will be delivered one after another in the next few days."
Lin Xuan didn't care about Cui Hao's attitude and said with a smile: "As long as we can deliver them all before the year, it doesn't matter."
"Don't worry, it will be delivered before the end of the year. I still have something to do, so I'll leave first." Cui Hao left the housekeeper to talk to Lin Xuan and left directly.
Of the five million guans, two million guans came from the Cui family. Thinking of this, he still felt a little distressed.
Lin Xuan asked the housekeeper to command the soldiers, count the money, and put it into the warehouse first.
Normal money is one thousand guan, and 500,000 guan is 500 million wen. If one penny is counted, I don’t know when it will be counted.
It can only be weighed. Although there will be some discrepancies, the difference will not be too big.
"Sir, after these are stored in the warehouse, the warehouse of the house will not be able to store them." Butler Lin said with a troubled face.
Although the warehouse where the Lin family keeps their money is not small, the Lin family's own money accounts for most of it.
Lin Xuan waved his hand and said: "Put it in the warehouse first. I will find someone to take it away later."
All this money must be given to Li Shimin, just ask Li Shimin to take it away later.
If it weren't for the sake of showing off, Lin Xuan would have wanted to send the Cui family directly to the palace.
Seeing what Lin Xuan said, Butler Lin quickly went to make arrangements.
Someone was busy collecting money, so Lin Xuan thought for a while and came to the palace.
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When Li Shimin heard Lin Xuan's request to see him, he was slightly startled and let him in.
He has been hesitant these days, thinking about whether to ask Lin Xuan what kind of business he was talking about before.
But at first he rejected Lin Xuan before he could finish his words. Now that he was asked to find Lin Xuan, he still felt that he couldn't lose face.
"I see your Majesty." Lin Xuan bowed and saluted.
Li Shimin waved his hand and asked, "Why did you come to see me?"
"Your Majesty, the Cui family has sent 500,000 guan, and the remaining 4.5 million guan will be sent to you in the near future. Your Majesty's family can't keep it, so your majesty should have the money taken away as soon as possible.
Lin Xuan said.
"I thought they would keep delaying, but I didn't expect to hand over the money so quickly." Li Shimin said with some surprise.
Five million guan is not a small amount, accounting for one-sixth of Datang's previous annual income.
Even with the family's background, it was very painful. Based on his understanding of the family, the Cui family might have found reasons to delay, but he didn't expect to hand over the money so quickly.
"I will let Li Junxian handle this matter." Li Shimin said.
"I excuse myself." Lin Xuan bowed and said.
"Wait a minute." Li Shimin stopped Lin Xuan and said, "What business did you talk about last time?"
Lin Xuan was stunned, wondering why Li Shimin suddenly asked this.
"Your Majesty, the business I'm talking about is the production of pancreatic juice." Lin Xuan said.
"Peptic?" Li Shimin frowned and asked: "How many people are needed to produce pancreatic? And there are not many workshops producing pancreatic in the Tang Dynasty. Are you sure this thing can make money?"
"The pancreas your Majesty produces now can only be used by rich and powerful families. I want to produce a pancreas that can be used by people all over the world." Lin Xuan said.
People all over the world can afford it, so that means it’s very cheap, right?
"Even if the soap you produce can be used by people all over the world, they won't buy it, right?" Li Shimin asked doubtfully.
Yazi can only be used for washing clothes, bathing or washing hands. For ordinary people, they are not willing to buy it.
"The way people wash clothes is very damaging to the clothes. Washing with soap does very little damage to the clothes. Compared with the price of cloth, spending two cents on soap is nothing. It only needs to be calculated for the people.
Account, the people naturally know how to choose." Lin Xuan said.
"Two cents? Are you sure the soap produced with two cents can be used?" Li Shimin looked at Lin Xuan in surprise.
Although he didn't know how much the pancake would cost, it would probably cost at least a hundred yuan.
Previously, Lin Xuan said that he would produce a kind of soap that could be used by people all over the world. He thought it would cost at least twenty or thirty cents.
Unexpectedly, it only requires two texts.
"Two cents is the selling price, and the cost is only one cent." Lin Xuan said calmly.
The cost he mentioned already includes all costs, which means that if you sell a piece of soap, you can make a penny.
Many people may find it incredible, but this was the case in ancient times.
Although the production technology in ancient times was backward, the materials were cheap. As long as they were not scarce, the materials did not cost money at all. It was nothing more than some labor costs.
Take the paper mill as an example. You can just send people to collect the bark of those shrubs without spending money at all.
Therefore, in addition to the initial cost of building a workshop, you only need to pay for labor costs later.
"This doesn't seem to be very profitable, right?" Li Shimin looked down on it.
If you only earn a penny per dollar, how much can you earn in a year?
It has to be said that Li Shimin's appetite has been fed by Liuli's income.
"A hundred thousand dollars a year is no problem." Lin Xuan said.
"A hundred thousand dollars?" Li Shimin looked at Lin Xuan in shock.
Although he doesn't care about hundreds of thousands of dollars now, it is sold cheaply. What if it sells for ten cents a piece? Or twenty cents a piece?
Just because the selling price has increased by five or ten times does not mean that the profit has only increased by five or ten times.
You must know that the cost is fixed. If you sell it for twenty cents a piece, the profit will be eighteen times greater.
Wouldn’t it be possible to earn millions of dollars a year?
Thinking of this, Li Shimin's eyes flashed with passion.
To build a city in Chaoyuan, a lot of money is needed, and he is very short of money now.
Lin Xuan saw what Li Shimin was thinking and said: "If the price is too high, people will not buy it at all."
If you use one yuan a month for two cents a year, your family will spend more than twenty cents a year.
If you have a larger family, just over 30 yuan a year is enough.
It is indeed very cost-effective compared to allowing clothes to be worn for several more years.
If the price is high, it is no longer cost-effective. After all, people will not buy good fabrics. With this money, it is better to buy new fabrics.
Li Shimin came back to his senses and understood the reason, and couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.
Li Shimin said solemnly: "If you want to occupy the grassland, you need to build a large number of cities on the grassland. Only in this way can you occupy the grassland forever. But if you want to build cities on the grassland, you need a lot of money. The profit from producing soap is too little.
It doesn’t make much sense.”
"Your Majesty, I have an idea." Lin Xuan said.
Li Shimin said in surprise: "What can we do?"
"Encourage business." Lin Xuan said every word.
"Why?" Li Shimin asked in a deep voice.
"May I ask Your Majesty, how much business tax have you collected so far this year?" Lin Xuan asked.
"More than 10 million yuan." Li Shimin said.
Lin Xuan made an astonishing statement: "If Your Majesty encourages business, within a few years, commercial taxes will exceed Datang's annual income."
Li Shimin looked at Lin Xuan in disbelief.
Although commercial tax has not been spread to all cities, the remaining ones are in some small counties. Even if it is spread to all cities, it will not increase much.
According to Ma Zhou's estimate, if the entire city was covered, the number would be between 16 million and 18 million per year.
Even so, Li Shimin was very satisfied. This was already equivalent to half of Datang's previous income.