Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 61 make a lot of money

After going to court, I went to the Ministry of Criminal Affairs to be busy for a while, and then went home for lunch.

Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and officials are representatives of scholars. As a noble group of people, they certainly cannot be busy all day long. Except for special circumstances, normal officials only spend two to three hours in their posts to deal with matters. , Some jobs with few duties and special status are dealt with in one or two hours, and the rest of the time is rest.

Only those who work hard and want to climb up will get enough time every day.

Li Fei is obviously not the kind of person who works hard and only wants to climb up. He worked for an hour and a half in the morning and another half an hour in the afternoon, so Li Fei slipped away.

There are four types of crimes in the Tang Dynasty, clan cases, officials and noble families cases, ordinary people cases, and military cases.As one of the members of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Li Fei is mainly responsible for the review of major cases of ordinary people, such as ransacking, beheading, exile, etc. If any doubts are found, they will be handed over to the minister of the Ministry of Criminal Justice and the Secretary of the Ministry of Criminal Justice for further verification.

The ancient criminal law was harsh, and few ordinary people dared to commit major criminal cases.There are almost [-] counties in the Tang Dynasty, and it is impossible for each county to have major criminal cases every day, so not many cases are actually sent to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for review by Li Fei every day.

In fact, Li Fei finished dealing with it in less than an hour. The reason why he stayed for more than two hours was because he thought it would be too ugly if he slipped too fast.

After escaping from the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Li Fei planned to go to Zhaojia Kiln. The Zhao family father and son sent someone to report last night that they had successfully fired perfect blue and white porcelain.

"Jungong!" Zeng Aniu was already waiting beside the punishment department in his carriage.

"Go to Zhaojiayao." Li Fei said, and climbed into the carriage.

Zeng A Niu, as Xiao Si who has been following Li Fei, Li Fei had intentionally asked him to be the housekeeper of the county mansion when the county mansion was completed, and he could leave the driving to accompany him to 'work' to other coachmen.

But Zeng Aniu insisted on following Li Fei's side, always listening to Li Fei's orders, instead of being a housekeeper in the mansion.

Just as Li Fei always thought, Zeng Aniu is not as simple and honest as he looks on the surface. He is smart and knows that the reason why he is here today is because he follows Li Fei. He drives a carriage to accompany Li Fei every day. Fei went to court and came to the Ministry of Criminal Affairs to deal with things. After being in contact with him for a long time every day, Li Fei's affection for him will be deeper, and Li Fei will value and trust him more.

Zhaojia Kiln, Li Fei was very happy holding a blue and white porcelain plate just fired from the kiln.

"That's right, the workmanship is perfect, it's top-notch porcelain, and it's blue-and-white porcelain that doesn't exist in the market, so it's bound to fetch a high price!" Li Fei praised.

"I would also like to thank the Duke for your guidance. If there is no guidance from the Duke, I am afraid that my Zhaojia Kiln will not be able to make porcelain like blue and white porcelain in another 100 or 1000 years. The Duke is also a god!" Zhao Meng is of course a compliment , holding Li Fei as much as possible.Of course, without Li Fei's guidance, they really couldn't think of such a craft as blue and white porcelain.After all, it was only in the Song Dynasty that it appeared, and the skill was mature in the Yuan Dynasty.

Undoubtedly, Zhaojia Kiln fired blue and white porcelain, and its status in the porcelain world must be improved to a higher level.The annual output and profit will also have a leap-forward improvement.Li Fei holds [-]% of the dividends of Zhaojiayao, and he can get a lot of them every year.

"Push the blue and white porcelain to the market as soon as possible. The quantity must not be too large, and the price must not be low. Only sell it as the highest-end porcelain!" Li Fei ordered.

The blue-and-white porcelain produced by Zhaojia Kiln is not the rough craftsmanship of the Song Dynasty, but has directly reached the mature stage. It is dazzling and beautiful, and is fully qualified to be positioned as the highest-end product from the present world.

Everyone has the desire to be superior to others. The rarer it is, the higher the price, the more desirable it is.

In Chang'an City, the emperor's relatives, dignitaries and dignitaries gathered together, and what they pursued were novel and rare things.Zhaojia Kiln is already well-known in Chang'an City because of ceramic tiles, squatting pits and cement. If Zhaojia Kiln wants to launch blue and white porcelain, it will inevitably be noticed by the royal relatives, dignitaries and other high-level figures immediately. It is not difficult to introduce it.

"Yes, Duke!" Zhao Meng nodded and said yes, they also had this plan.

Li Fei became the Duke of the county at a young age, and he was still a fifth-rank official. Their Zhaojiayao relied on Li Fei, and they were more confident in dealing with the royal relatives and dignitaries.

It was first popular among the royal relatives and high-ranking officials, and then it was sold to ordinary merchants and let them take it to all parts of the country.

"Uncle Cao, Xiao Zhong, how is the matter with the cement going?" Li Fei asked Cao Xiaozhong and his son again about the cement matter.Two days ago, he confessed that the two sold the cement formula to make the last profit.

"Hey, brother, do you know how much I sold you for that cement formula?" Cao Xiaozhong said, proudly stretching out three fingers.

"3 taels?" Li Fei guessed.The cement formula began to leak out from the Ministry of Industry slowly, and in the end it could still sell for 2 taels, Li Fei was already very satisfied.

However, to Li Fei's surprise, Cao Xiaozhong shook his head and said with a smug smile, "Wrong, it's a full 30 taels!"

Fuck!Sold so much!

Li Fei was taken aback. They had produced this cement for more than two months, and they still sold it at a high price of ten cents a catty. However, with a profit of 3 taels, Cao Xiaozhong sold the cement formula for 20 taels directly.

Li Fei felt like a dream, no matter how he thought about it, he felt unreal.

After Cao Xiaozhong's narration, Li Fei had to admire Cao Xiaozhong's way of doing business. He usually doesn't look smart, but he is smarter than many people when it comes to making money.

In addition to a large number of royal relatives and dignitaries in Chang'an City, there are also a lot of wealthy businessmen from all over the country.

Cao Xiaozhong asked people to release news in Chang'an City, attracting a large number of wealthy merchants. After satisfying their appetite, he directly stated the approximate cost of the cement, and those wealthy merchants were immediately blown away.

Nearly ten times the profit!No matter how much the price of cement drops in the future, there will still be huge profits.

There may already be cement for sale in Chang'an City, and the price has begun to drop slowly, but Datang Wanli Jiangshan, hundreds of states, and other states and counties don't know cement yet. After they buy cement formula and produce it, they can use their own business chain, sold to the states.Although the price of 3 taels per family is very expensive, they can make it back in a few years.

Li Fei's face twitched, he felt that he had screwed those wealthy merchants.

Although only ten of them have obtained the cement formula now, the Ministry of Industry has slowly leaked it out, and he even thinks that the Ministry of Industry may soon publish the cement formula directly to all states, allowing states and counties to participate in production .

Because the role of cement is too great, all states and counties need to use cement to repair bridges, water conservancy, city walls, and even pave roads, and the workshops affiliated to the Ministry of Industry cannot produce such a huge amount and ship them to the whole country. It is inevitable to publish the formula to the states and counties so that the states and counties can produce and use it locally.

But it’s okay, anyway, the money is already in his hands, and he didn’t force those people to buy it, and the actions of the Ministry of Industry are beyond his control. In short, if those people really lose everything in the future, they can’t blame him.

According to the previous agreement, Li Fei gave 3 taels of it to Cao Xiaozhong, and Cao Xiaozhong's eyes glowed with excitement.Cao Chong's eyes also widened. Together with the previous earnings from selling tiles and cement, Li Fei had already distributed more than 5 taels to his father and son.

This has only been with Li Fei for less than half a year, and the family business accumulated by the Cao family in the past 5 years is not much more than [-] taels.

As for the Zhao family, the father and son of the Zhao family didn't dare to ask for a penny.After all, the formula is Li Fei's own, and Cao Xiaozhong is responsible for selling the formula, and has nothing to do with them.

I have to say that the Zhao family father and son are very smart, and they are not greedy. They know when enough is enough, what they can want and what they can't want.
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