I have Futian in my heart

Chapter 707 Business
In short, after the emperor took a ride, Longyan was very happy, and praised the carriage once in front of many princes and princes.

Then after going back, Zheng Xiaoming's new carriage was immediately sold like crazy.

Almost every duke's house ordered one or two!

Then it became popular among wealthy businessmen and officials in the capital step by step.

Not only gradually began to replace the traditional carriage, but also began to replace the sedan chair...

Without him, Zheng Xiaoming left some well-known scholars, and after each gave a sponsorship fee, let them criticize the behavior of sitting in a sedan chair.

There are some Confucianists who are not used to sitting on a sedan chair, thinking that it is treating people as animals.

At this time, Zheng Xiaoming contributed money to create momentum behind the scenes, and for a while, sitting in a sedan chair seemed to have really become a wolf-hearted thing.

Soon, the sedan chairs in the capital were replaced by horse-drawn carriages.

Naturally, Zheng Xiaoming made a lot of money.

Although he didn't read much, he was very clear about modern mass production.A workshop was built outside the city early to produce carriages in a streamlined manner.

Of course, the assembly line at this time is only manual assembly, not automated assembly line.

The production efficiency is high enough, the cost is reduced, and it quickly seized a large number of markets, earning tens of thousands of taels of silver in a short period of time.

Originally, the emperor was skeptical about Zheng Xiaoming's business, but when he saw that the business was really profitable, he immediately became enthusiastic.Even autographed inscriptions!
After all, these days, the emperor's family has no surplus money!

It is said that the emperor is rich in the world, but the treasury and the emperor's inner possessions are separate.

The treasury distributes one million taels of silver to the emperor in a year. In addition, it is the emperor's own various income, and there are hundreds of thousands of taels of miscellaneous things.

Then the emperor not only has to support a huge court, but also queen mothers, princes, empresses, concubines, many maids, eunuchs and so on.

There are also the emperor's private army, as well as the intelligence organization Jinyiwei and so on.

In the event of natural disasters, man-made disasters, wars, etc., when the treasury is overdrawn, it is necessary to send money to finance the treasury.

In short, this day is very tight, although it can't be said to be in a mess, but it is by no means ample.

At this time, there is a large amount of income, of course he will not let it go.

The emperor wanted to build a royal garden a long time ago, but he was always short of money...

Ordinary people make money and want to buy a house.Or go back to their hometown to sell land and build a house.This emperor is almost the same!

Compared with other people's various expenses after earning money, Zheng Xiaoming's various expenses after earning money are used in cultivation, and the innate qi is continuously refined.

When the three hundred and sixty innate qi are cultivated, it will be the time when the golden elixir is complete!

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More than half a year later, the Emperor of Great Chu asked the eunuch Li Zhongxiao beside him with great interest, "I heard that the business of the Marquis of Xiayang is booming recently? Or those carriages?"

Li Zhongxiao hastily smiled and said: "It's a carriage, or a four-wheeled carriage! The slave has been in it before, let alone, it's really stable. And it's much more convenient to turn around..."

The emperor smiled and said: "This little monkey has some skills...I am impressed!"

Even the emperor would not call himself Zhen unless he was on a formal occasion.

Daming's business has always been difficult to do, and almost most of the profitable businesses have been monopolized.If you want to make money, you have to pull out your teeth and compete with other monopolies.

Of course, the prince himself is a member of the monopolist... Most of the business of the capital is divided up by the royal family, princes, eunuchs, and civil servants.But the share of each family has already been divided.

If Zheng Xiaoming wants to do business, he can only grab other people's shares, or he can only steal from ordinary businessmen...

What happened last time, the emperor felt that he owed Zheng Xiaoming.Agreeing to let him do business is tacitly acquiescing to Zheng Xiaoming to steal people's shares, or do something to ordinary businessmen.

However, no one thought that Zheng Xiaoming's two paths were useless.

Zheng Xiaoming actually created a new type of carriage, which is equivalent to opening up a new market!

"I heard that the Marquis of Xiayang is very domineering. The last time Prince Consort Jing'an came to me to complain. He said that Marquis of Xiayang beat his housekeeper..." the emperor said with a smile.

Li Zhongxiao laughed dryly, he also had a stake in Zheng Xiaoming's business, so he naturally wanted to speak for Zheng Xiaoming: "The butler of Jing'an's son-in-law's family is too dishonest, he sent someone to imitate the carriage of Xiayanghou's family. Actually dug out the craftsmen of Yanghou Mansion!
My lord, it's not like you don't know Xia Yanghou's temperament that doesn't suffer..."

The emperor burst out laughing when he heard the words, of course he knew what the housekeeper of the son-in-law was.It was obviously consort Jing'an who saw that Zheng Xiaoming's business was making money, so he imitated it.In the end, Zheng Xiaoming led someone to beat him!
It's only because Jing'an's son-in-law doesn't have eyesight, Zheng Xiaoming's business was originally owed by the emperor, and he acquiesced to do it.

Everyone else knows this and doesn't bother to make up their minds.The Prince Consort of Jing'an went to find her on her own, so what was it if she wasn't looking for a beating by herself?
What's more, Zheng Xiaoming is also a cunning guy, and he gave benefits to the emperor himself, the empress, the imperial concubine, the prince, etc. early on.

This business is regarded as a partnership between the royal family and the Marquis of Xiayang, and some people dare to make up their minds... The emperor couldn't bear to teach him a lesson.

Now that Jing'an's son-in-law's family has suffered, the emperor is of course unable to help.

He just asked with a smile: "Is the four-wheeled carriage really so good? That little monkey actually found the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion to sell his carriage. It is said that all the logistics vehicles and horses will be replaced with this kind of carriage!"

Li Zhongxiao cheered up, and said with a smile: "The other servants don't know, but that carriage can really hold it! A four-wheeled carriage can actually hold fifty stones, tsk tsk... really amazing!"

After all, the current road is not good, and no matter how powerful the shock absorption is, it will inevitably bump.What's more, there is no good shock absorption technology now.

So Zheng Xiaoming didn't intend to make a fortune from passenger carriages from the beginning, so he built some luxury carriages and sold them to princes and rich people.

Others mainly want to use the idea of ​​transporting food for the army!

It is conceivable that if all the grain carriages in Dachu were replaced by Zheng Xiaoming's four-wheeled carriage, how big a deal would it be?

The eunuch loves money. Hearing Zheng Xiaoming's talk about this prospect, his eyes were dazzled long ago. Now he praised the four-wheeled carriage like nothing else in the sky.

The emperor who said it was also very moved: "Find some time, I will also go to see how the four-wheeled carriage is doing?"

Li Zhongxiao said: "The Marquis of Xiayang has specially prepared a pair of jade bibs for the emperor..."

The emperor waved his hand and said with a smile: "I want to see that freight carriage and see if it is really so useful!"

Just kidding, isn't he interested in such a big business?

After all, the money in the treasury belongs to the treasury, and the emperor himself only spends his own small wallet.

(End of this chapter)