Daming: My boss Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 37 It’s better to make more money by doing it yourself
In the Qianqing Palace, a pro-military guard respectfully presented the note recording Li Wei's behavior that day to Zhu Yuanzhang, who opened it and read it.

It clearly records when Li Wei left home, what he did, and even the general process of making soap at home.

"Hmph, this bitch is not doing his job properly! If he doesn't build that flintlock gun for us in two days, let's see how we deal with him!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said with an unhappy expression.

He had known about Li Wei making soap at home two days ago. Li Wei had also mentioned such a thing to him before, but he didn't take it to heart. He didn't expect that this kid would go and make it himself.

But he really doesn't like this thing, it's just a better soap. Soap has been around since the Song Dynasty, it's nothing new.

Relatively speaking, he was more concerned about weapons and vehicles that could replace animal power.

He casually ordered the guards to continue monitoring secretly, and Zhu Yuanzhang put the matter aside.

The next day, Li Wei went to the war station as usual. After constant attempts, Fang Jianbao and the craftsmen finally accidentally made a batch of qualified spring steel. After installing it on the flintlock musket, although there was no guarantee 100% firing success, but it rarely fails.

Li Wei finally breathed a sigh of relief. This thing was barely acceptable, so he asked Fang Jianbao to make a batch of samples to demonstrate to His Majesty the Emperor.

After making these arrangements and telling Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Weicai brought the newly made soap to the market.

After several productions, he is now much more proficient and the speed is much faster. More importantly, Xiaoqing can prepare some steps in advance, which saves a lot of time.

When he came to the market again, Li Wei set up his stall as before. It was difficult to start a business. If he had money, he could rent a shop.

Today's business has improved a lot. As expected, many of the people I asked before tried to buy some today. Since Li Weiding's [-] yuan was more cost-effective to buy for two yuan, most of these people bought it for two yuan or two. of.

Nowadays, private transactions are mainly based on treasure banknotes. The main reason is that treasure banknotes are difficult to preserve. If you don't spend them quickly, you will suffer a big loss if they rot in your hands.

Nowadays, treasure banknotes have not depreciated significantly. In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang did not issue and print as much as later generations thought. The main reason is that Bei Yuan took away a large amount of gold and silver wealth when he escaped. Now the Ming Dynasty is short of gold and silver. Not much copper either.

Moreover, the reason why treasure banknotes initially depreciated was not because too many were printed, but because the quality was too poor to be preserved. People spontaneously preferred to spend the old treasure banknotes at a discount, which eventually led to the court to impose taxes on the treasure banknotes. Picking and choosing has completely triggered the phenomenon of devaluation.

As for the issue of indiscriminate printing as later generations said, honestly speaking, how could future generations have the face to criticize the ancients? When it comes to indiscriminate printing and indiscriminate publishing, the ancients were much more reserved than later generations!At least Zhu Yuanzhang knew how to rest and recuperate for seven or eight years after Xu Da's defeat in the fifth year of Hongwu, and he did not go on a large-scale printing of money.

It is nonsense to think that there is credit behind currency. The essence of currency is power. For example, when old rice was first decoupled from gold and then introduced unlimited quantitative easing, what credibility can it have?Behind Mi Yuan is complete hegemony!
Instructing Xiaoqing to entertain the guests, Li Wei was counting the treasures on the side, feeling very happy. No matter whether these things would depreciate in value in the future, at least they were real money now!
"Wrap all these up for me, I want them all!"

Suddenly a crisp voice sounded. Li Wei looked up and saw that it was the little maid from yesterday!
This is big business!

Just when Li Weigang wanted to agree, several people around him suddenly stopped.

"Why do you want them all? I came first, goods man, give me two pieces first!"

"I was here first too!"

Seeing these people arguing non-stop, the little maid suddenly frowned unhappy and said: "Go away, go away, I am the maid of Prince Yan's Mansion, you dare to rob me?"

As soon as these words came out, the people next to him suddenly became quiet and did not dare to speak. In this Yingtian Mansion, apart from the emperor and the prince, the prince was the eldest. Although they were all from wealthy families, and some were even servants of powerful people, they were not the same as the prince. I dare not compare.

Seeing that these people didn't dare to say anything, the little maid glanced at them proudly, and then said to Li Wei: "Wrap it up for me quickly, how much does it cost?" Li Wei paused, to be honest, he didn't like this. Bullying behavior.

"Let's do this. I'll sell it to the first few, and I'll give you the rest. What do you think?"

The little girl frowned slightly, a little displeased, but Xu Miaoyun was quite strict with her servants. She just relied on King Yan's power to suppress her when she was annoyed. If she continued to mess around and let the princess know, she would not alright.

"Okay, let's give them a few dollars first."

In fact, there is quite a lot left, about thirty yuan, and it is enough to give a few yuan to others.

The few people who came first saw that Li Wei was so fair, and their favorable impressions of him immediately increased, and they happily paid for a few bars of soap.

Li Wei asked Xiao Qing to wrap up the rest and give it to the little maid as promised. After erasing the odd changes, there were seven pieces of money. The little maid paid it all without blinking. Li Wei gave her a basket. Convenient to take away.

After the little maid left, people who came back later were a little surprised when they saw that the stall was empty so early.

They had all told their master that they came to buy something today after being ordered to do so, but they didn’t buy anything. Wouldn’t they be scolded when they go back?
"Seller, have you sold out all your soap?"

asked a maid from a wealthy family.

"Yes, a big buyer came today and bought the rest. If you want to buy, come back tomorrow."

Li Wei explained and promised that he would still be here tomorrow.

The maid frowned, but had no choice but to agree, and asked Li Wei when he would leave the stall tomorrow. Li Wei told her the approximate time, and then the maid left.

Next, Li Wei and Xiao Qing closed the stall and explained to the people who came behind them. After cleaning up, Li Wei thought for a moment and did not leave immediately. Instead, he waited for a while until no one came anymore. Returned home with Xiaoqing.

At the end of the day, more than 50 bars of soap were sold out. The total sold was more than ten dollars, and the cost was only a fraction. Even if the cost was reduced, the net profit was ten dollars!

Ten guan a day, ten days equals a hundred guan. He is now in the fifth rank, and his salary plus banknotes totals less than [-] guan a year. This was slightly increased after Zhu Yuanzhang killed Hu Weiyong.

At this rate, in less than a month, you can earn more than working for Lao Zhu in a year!
Of course, the salary has nothing to do with Li Wei for the time being, because the hundred yuan given to him by Zhu Yuanzhang was already considered an advance. He had already gone to the Ministry of Household Affairs to ask about this matter a few days ago with a sense of luck, but of course there was no luck.

"Hey, you can make more money by doing it yourself!"

After returning home, Li Wei counted today's income again and said with emotion.

It's a pity that he can't quit this job in Lao Zhu's family, and he has to do it even if he doesn't.

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