The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 385 Make Money
It's been a long time since we were newly married, and when we return home, the sweet wife and concubine are of course unspeakably gentle and pleasant.

You and I are all silent, even Zheng Xiu'e, a well-born woman, took the initiative a lot more enthusiastically.

A few days after Chu Chu came back from a two-month business trip, she completed the investment in more than 200 duck blood fan stores, and her face was full of excitement.

Duck blood vermicelli is cheap and good, and most of the residents living in the city can afford it. Because of its good taste, it can not only satisfy the gluttony, but also fill the stomach. It has been sought after. It is estimated that the storefront and decoration can be recovered in three months investment.

In fact, those investments are not as expensive as later generations, and the main reason is that Daming has no conscientious real estate speculators, and the housing prices are basically cost prices, not inflated.

Buy a small shop along the street of 50 to 60 square meters in the prefecture or county of Mingming, and then tidy up and buy some furniture. An average of [-] taels of silver is enough. Houses in the capital are more expensive, and [-] taels are enough. A small shop like this There are about four or five women working in the store.

One of them is the store manager’s monthly salary of five kuai, and the rest of the women are eight kuai a month. All of them are in charge of food and housing. Every month, they will be paid an additional [-] to [-] kuai depending on their income and work performance. bounty.

The store manager's rewards are distributed by the main store, and if the efficiency is good, they even get rewards higher than the monthly money. There is one main store among the eleven small stores, and the store manager of the main store is probably a flag guard.

Don’t worry about someone making a bad idea at the duck blood vermicelli shop. The baked sweet potato trolley, the potato chip shop, and Sifang Express’ bodyguards will help each other out, and the flag guards will also covertly protect all the “Red Banner Army” industries.

Huang Han is very happy to see that Chu Chu understands what he means, and when he sells a new food to Daming, he does not pursue huge profits in the face of the grassroots, so that the common people can afford it.

Only when the high-yielding crops planted are marketable can farmers be profitable. Traditional foods that have been around for hundreds of years or thousands of years are not so easy to change. Sweet potatoes, potatoes, vermicelli, and vermicelli must be vigorously promoted to make them familiar and acceptable to more people.

Seeing that Chu Chu invested in and managed the duck blood vermicelli shop and won praise from her husband, Zheng Xiu'e was also eager to try it. She used to help her mother housekeeper at home. She is proficient in mental arithmetic and abacus calculation, and also knows how to keep accounts and check accounts.

She reported to Huang Han the operating status of Huang's industry this year. The "Red Banner Army" system has achieved fruitful results this year. Not only did it plunder a lot of wealth through war, but the real industry also made a lot of money.

The key products are iron and steel products. Huang's plowshares, horseshoes, hoes, building materials, etc. sell well in the north and south of the Yellow River and have developed to the north and south of the Yangtze River. Iron materials have become a sought-after commodity, and the market is in short supply.

This is entirely because Huang Han considers the added value, so the steel produced is refined as much as possible into products for export, which increases profits, increases employment opportunities in the system, and trains industrial workers.

Only when there is a surplus in steel production can the raw materials be exported. As a result, many merchants in the south of the Yangtze River have relied on their relationships to find ways to get steel sales rations. Because Huang's steel has a reputation for stable quality and high cost performance, blacksmiths are willing to use it.

Zheng Xiu'e is in charge of finances, and Huang's Iron and Steel will submit monthly reports to her for review every month.

Huang Han knew long ago that the army and the factory should separate accounts, so the blunderbuss, flintlock guns, artillery, armor, etc. used by the army were settled with the steel factory, and [-]% of the profit was left to the steel factory.

However, Huang's Steel only provided the "Red Banner Army" with products with a gross profit margin of only [-]%. In the future, the export of weapons, armor, and firearms would only sell at least double or even several times the profit.

Selling agricultural tools and daily necessities, Huang's products do not seek huge profits, and the gross profit rate is between [-]% and [-]%. Such pricing is absolutely competitive in the market.

The cement, porcelain, pottery, and bricks and tiles produced by Huang’s have opened up sales. The profitability is good and the potential for sustainable development is huge. Honeycomb coal furnaces have become popular in Gyeonggi this year, driving the industry of honeycomb coal. Kaiping’s high-quality coal is constantly being sent to capital and nearby towns.

The business of liquor, vermicelli, vermicelli, flour, canned sea fish, and seafood is also booming. In addition, the system encourages the development of aquaculture. Now there are many professional farmers in aquaculture, and the supply of food is developing towards diversification.

In the four years of Chongzhen, the profits of Huang’s industry, excluding Sifang Express’s profits, were as much as 50 taels of silver, but there was no balance of one tael of silver, and a subsidy of 20 taels was needed. Just make ends meet.

This is because Huang Han wants to build an old lock ship-style advanced warship, and to equip a large number of artillery, because the master craftsmen have built many old lock ships of [-] to [-] tons and accumulated a lot of experience.

Due to the rapid advancement of forging keel technology, the tonnage of the old lock ships under construction has been increased. A warship with a displacement of 5 to [-] tons has been successfully launched and fully loaded with a cost of [-] taels of silver. Such a warship is under construction. There are as many as twenty ships.

Several shipyards in Tiger Cave City had big ships under construction. The severe cold couldn't stop hundreds of shipbuilders from working enthusiastically, and the Huang family would not treat everyone badly. A large number of briquette stoves were used in the cabin to provide heating.

It is impossible to work outdoors in the cold winter. The master craftsmen are very smart. Before the severe cold, the frame of the big ship under construction has been built. Now they basically work in the cabin and under the deck. The briquette stove can keep the temperature of the craftsmen at work. More than ten degrees.

There are also dozens of cargo ships and merchant ships with a displacement of about 5000 tons that are under construction or have just been put into use. The cost of each ship is between [-] and [-] taels of silver.

The profits of shipping and sea trade are now a drop in the bucket compared with such a large investment. If you want to make huge profits at sea, you have to save a certain amount of power to rob pirates.

Zheng Xiu'e, who is in charge of finance, knows that the Huang family's business has made a lot of profits, but they have to invest more money, and it is impossible to maintain a balance of payments with the current profits.

She had many long talks with Huang Han, revealing that she wanted to earn military pay for the "Red Banner Army" and got support. That night, Huang Han thought about how to make money, and his eyes turned to the dignitaries and wealthy businessmen in the capital.

Facing the common people, you can't make huge profits. Huang Han is now in a high position and has strong capital. It's time to make some changes. This time he plays high-end, to earn money from the richest group of people in Ming Dynasty.

Afterwards, Huang Han talked to his wife, concubine, and maid about his plan for three consecutive nights, asking them to go to the capital to prepare to buy land in the first month, and try to spend eight months building a group of three or four floors.

This place is going to be a high-end leisure club, covering the functions of a sauna, a small stage, a billiard room, a restaurant, and a teahouse. There are people playing, singing, acting, and storytelling all day long, and the temperature in winter must be kept above [-] degrees.

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