NovelPantry Chapter 215 Doubled profits!
Chapter 215 Doubled profits!
Chapter 215 Ten times the profit!
"This gray solidified substance is called cement. It is made of very cheap lime. This thing has strong bonding ability. Once solidified, it is very hard. It is the most convenient and quick way to build a house."
Li Shimin couldn't help being slightly taken aback.
How could this Li Hao give people such a shock every time.
Li Shimin knows about lime, it can be said to be quite common, and it is one of the least valuable things.
And this thing can actually produce cement that can condense building materials together?
You know, to build a house now, you need to glue the stones together. Glutinous rice glue is used. Although this glutinous rice glue is very hard, the current city walls are all made of glutinous rice glue, but the cost of this glutinous rice glue is extremely high.
The yield of glutinous rice is not high, it is an extremely precious food, and the glutinous rice glue needed to build houses and walls is too huge!
The cost of glutinous rice glue alone will make the common people feel difficult in the construction of large-scale construction projects.
But if it is lime, this can reduce the expenditure of the common people, let them eat more food, and don't have to hand over so much food to the country.
More importantly, Li Shimin is also keenly aware that if the building of houses can be relaxed, then Datang can build more city walls, and the defense of the country will be more impregnable.
The importance of this cement can be seen!
Li Shimin looked at Li Hao with eyes full of enthusiasm.
It's just that Li Shimin estimated that Li Hao is unlikely to come up with the formula of this cement.
It is estimated that it is the kind that sells finished products directly.
Li Shimin asked: "Mr. Li Hao, are you going to sell this cement?"
Li Hao thought for a while, nodded and said: "Of course it can be sold, anyway, it would be too wasteful to use it alone in my hands. I can let Zheng Liwan produce cement at that time, and then the whole Tang Dynasty can take care of my business .”
There is no need for Li Hao to keep secrets about cement.
This thing can be said to be a very profitable business, if Zheng Liwan is allowed to do it, it should be able to make a lot of money.
Just ask who doesn't build a house at home, as long as they are building a house, they can use cement, which shows how good the market for this cement is.
When Li Shimin heard Li Hao's talk about selling the cement, he was very much looking forward to it.
Just wait for Li Hao Trading Company to sell the cement.
Li Shimin has always wanted to build a palace for himself.
But it has only been two years since he ascended the throne, and too many things have happened in these two years. Although Li Hao's various technologies have made the country more prosperous and powerful, Datang has suffered a lot in various aspects.
Moreover, most of the income from Li Hao's technology was taken away by Li Hao himself, and the rest of the wealth was in the hands of ordinary people.
Therefore, Li Shimin has always been very frugal, not to mention the practice palace, even Empress Changsun's clothes are very simple, and she is not as good as some rich women in the aristocratic family.
From the looks of it now, if the cement is cheap, it might be considered to build a palace.
Li Shimin said goodbye to Li Hao, and hurried back.
Regarding the coal issue, Li Hao had already discussed with Li Shimin, so he followed Li Hao's method.
Li Hao is responsible for recruiting and training workers to dig coal mines.
Li Hao assigns different tasks to each worker. The division of labor is very strict and detailed. No one knows what the other's work is useful for. Everyone is like a screw, but they don't know what the whole machine is like.
Therefore, Li Hao's coal mining technology has not been guessed.
Coal mines sprang up all over the Tang Dynasty.
Coal is a very new thing, and many people know that it can actually burn.
And the effect is very good, the firepower is very good.
All of a sudden, there were a lot of people buying coal.
Even those dignitaries use coal.
This is not to say that these dignitaries want to save money, but that His Majesty's royal family is using coal. These dignitaries follow Li Shimin's lead and naturally use coal.
What's more, this coal is really easy to use.
Even in those aristocratic families, although they were not convinced by Li Hao, the kitchens and kangs in the family also used coal instead.
This coal is much easier to use than firewood. It takes a lot of effort to cut firewood, so how can coal be easy to dig, and it is small in size and easy to transport.
Now the entire Tang Dynasty has set off a coal fever.
This thing is easy to use, whoever doesn't use it is a fool.
Zheng Liwan is in charge of the coal business.
She is so busy now that her feet don't touch the ground. Since this coal business is an exclusive business, Zheng Liwan has countless people looking for her every day.
The governors of the major prefectures, the ministers of the Ministry of Industry in the court, and even the Zheng family in Xingyang.
These people wanted to get more coal from Zheng Liwan.
There is still a shortage of this thing. After all, the coal miners are just trained, the coal mining technology is not strong enough, and the output of the coal mine is not enough.
This also allowed Zheng Liwan to earn too much money!
Most importantly, as the business grew bigger and bigger, Zheng Liwan finally got rid of the status of the Zheng family's abandoned son.
Now it is the Zheng family who begged her in turn.
Zheng Liwan can only sigh with emotion that she bet on the right treasure.
Li Hao really lived up to everyone's expectations and suppressed the aristocratic family. Even if the aristocratic family hated Li Hao even more, they would not dare to touch Li Hao's finger.
Not for others, just Li Hao's exclusive inventions. If Li Hao is touched, no one will be able to make these inventions in the future, and the quality of life of the family will drop a big level.
At that time, the people in the family don't want it anymore.
Even His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty would send someone over to politely discuss with Zheng Liwan about the share of the coal allocated to the state capitals.
Moreover, recently, His Majesty specifically asked Zheng Liwan whether cement had been produced.
Cement is a new invention that Li Hao ordered Zheng Liwan to produce recently.
Zheng Liwan also realized immediately that this cement will be very profitable in the future.
In fact, in Li Hao's previous generation, there was no one who was in the sand business without making money, among which cement was an important profit.
Zheng Liwan is also stepping up production.
It took a week for the workers under his command to initially master the know-how of how to produce, and produced the first batch of about two thousand catties of cement.
After checking the quality, it was sold to Li Shimin.
Probably sold for a consistent amount of money.
The corresponding raw material, lime, only needs a maximum of one hundred coins!
Directly doubled the profit ten times!
After Li Shimin got the cement, he only felt that the cement was very cheap.
Because the corresponding amount of glutinous rice glue costs at least three or four pennies!
With this cement, he, Li Shimin, can do something!
……
One day, in the Tai Chi Hall, Li Shimin announced something to the court.
He wants to do a lot of construction and build his own summer palace!
As soon as this remark came out, it was like a single stone stirring up a thousand waves, which aroused great reactions from the court!
Wei Zheng was the first to come out.
He has always been outspoken and admonishing, never concealed, Wei Zheng said:
"Your Majesty, this is absolutely impossible!"
"Our treasury of the Tang Dynasty is not yet full. Building a palace will use a lot of manpower and material resources, and what you get is just some enjoyment for your majesty. Please be considerate of the people and lighten the burden for the people."
Many ministers also have the same meaning.
(End of this chapter)