Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 301
After dressing and washing, he came to the restaurant. While eating, Zhu Yuan asked Xieyi to fetch the two account books that had been delivered yesterday.

Open the first book first.

Zhiyong Zhai related.

Zhiyongzhai opened on the third day of March at the beginning of the year. Zhu Yuan was not in Jinling at the time, but he still remembered clearly that it was only the first day, and due to various reasons, the income was as high as 1.6 taels of silver.

Lao Zhu was shocked at the time.

Moreover, because the supply was in short supply, Lao Zhu also helped out by giving Zhiyongzhai the right to sell charcoal pens, but he was not allowed to sell them at too high a price.

Then, in the past six months, Zhiyongzhai has not only added a lot of other categories, related to the Four Treasures of the Study, but also "Daming Monthly" while its main business is fountain pens and charcoal pens, and it has also expanded its business to Daming. other places.

On the other hand, although there is no such thing as patent protection in this era, replicas of various fountain pens have appeared in various places, but because everyone knows the background of 'Zhiyongzhai', their business is still booming overall.

Then there is the ledger.

According to the statistics of the account books at hand, from March to the twelfth lunar month, in about ten months, the total revenue of various related businesses of Zhiyongzhai reached 37.6 taels of silver. In this era, for a stationery business, it is absolutely Miracle.

What is even more miraculous is the profit.

Excluding artisan expenses, tax expenses, material expenses, and other related expenses, this part only consumed 6.5 taels in total.Therefore, Zhiyongzhai's overall net profit was as high as 31.1 taels in less than a year, or even less than ten months.

The net profit margin is 82.7%.

Hundreds of years later, not to mention net profit, there are very few businesses with a gross profit of more than 80%.Because, just for taxes and fees, it is impossible to leave a gap of more than 80% of the net profit.

The problem is that in this era, the ratio of commercial tax is only one in thirty.

Of course, Zhu Yuan also knew that the thirty-one tax was only on the surface. When doing business in real life, the apportionment of various names is enough to make people want to die. This point is actually the same in ancient and modern China and abroad.

Because of human nature.

However, because of Zhu Yuan, and most of the sales of Zhiyongzhai are in the capital, even if they are wholesaled to foreign merchants, after the money and goods are settled here, how do you transport them to the place and how many hurdles you have to go through during the period? It is not something that Shangshanju needs to consider.

As a result, Shangshanju really enjoyed the imperial court's policy of light corvee and low tax.Even, if Zhu Yuan is more black-hearted, he doesn't have to pay the thirty-one tax.

We are clan!

Just like Ouyang Lun, the son-in-law in the last years of Hongwu, the slaves had to pass the customs to smuggle tea, and the tax collectors wanted to collect taxes, so they beat them up!
Dare to collect the princess's tax, you want to go to heaven?
This is just revealed.

Didn't reveal it, is it the first time for the Princess family to do this?
Could it be that other royal family members didn't do this?

There are even many founding nobles, Tang He has to raise more than 200 concubines, what is the annual salary of 1500 shi enough for, don't they also have some extra income?
Therefore, if Zhu Yuan wants to, the net profit margin of his own business can be increased by several points.

Unfortunately, Zhu Yuan understands that this is not a long-term solution.

Let me just say one thing, Lao Zhu was too kind to the clan and enjoyed the blessings for more than 200 years. As a result, in the end of the Ming Dynasty, the clan was repeatedly slaughtered by various rebels and Qing troops entering the customs. Isn't this some kind of causal cycle?
The clan didn't escape, but did those honorable gentry who also didn't pay much tax escape?

In the Jiangnan tax case in the early Ming Dynasty, there were more than 1 people at a time.

Cause and effect reincarnation.

No one can escape.

Therefore, Zhu Yuan was the first to feel inappropriate when he saw that his family's tax expenses on the account books were only a little over 1 taels, even if he was the biggest beneficiary.

not like this.

Moreover, Zhu Yuan is not one of those Western capitalists who published newspapers and shouted "tax me" in the newspapers, but actually tried various methods to avoid taxes. He knew very well that this really couldn't be done.

involves 'allocation'.

If the distribution is seriously unbalanced, even if the productivity can continue to increase, there will be a limit after all. When the limit is reached, what will happen in the future has been demonstrated time and time again in history.

More importantly, there is still a chance now.

Best chance to make early decisions.

Some things, even after only 30 years, are even more difficult to advance.

Therefore, Zhu Yuan still admired Yongzheng who was able to complete the reform of "spreading the household into the mu". In that era, it was a miracle to achieve this.

A voice came from his ear, interrupting Zhu Yuan's thinking.

Writing opinions, my lord came back to his senses, and whispered again: "My lord, let's eat first, it's getting cold."

"Hmm..." Zhu Yuan nodded, and joked again: "I'm also obsessed with money."

Xieyi smiled in cooperation, but knew that her lord was not a money fan, and when she saw the numbers on the account book just now, there was not much joy in her expression, but worry, which made Xieyi a little worried.

Zhu Yuan didn't rush to look through the second account book of 'Shangshanju', the number would only get bigger, but concentrated on eating the bowl of porridge in front of him.

My lord did not continue to read it, and while serving a cup of fried fish balls, he talked about a few things this morning, about the visit of the Tu family and his son, about Fang Guozhen's post, and of course, the biography of His Majesty the Emperor. Letter, and... another 20 Miki rewards.

Zhu Yuan had ordered the first two, if there were no accidents, it would be done this afternoon, and at the same time, he reacted faster than Xie Yi, and asked with a smile: "The two account books have also been sent to the palace?"

It wrote: "Only sent to Shangshanju, the servant... gave it to the empress. In addition, there are some books written by the sisters today."

The empress does not approve of Zhu Yuan's attitude of not wanting to marry a wife, but she is quite satisfied with the freehand brushwork. She has ordered that women have good books, good stories, or other things that can be passed on to the palace. inside.

"Ah."

Zhu Yuan nodded, and didn't mind the small thoughts of the people around him. The business of Shangshanju was already eye-catching enough, and Zhiyongzhai was completely his own. If he could hide it, he wanted to hide it.

However, Zhu Yuan didn't want to hide.

It just so happened that Lao Zhu asked him to enter the palace later, so he hurriedly talked, not forgetting what Xie Yi said, and ordered: "My ancestors let you choose randomly, just go and choose 20 at random."

Obsessed with women.

This character is actually not bad.

Xinyi agreed, and said again: "Also, Zhao Xu also found a few of the female martial artists that my lord ordered before, do you want to take a look?"

"See if you're free this afternoon," Zhu Yuan said, "If not, it's tomorrow. Don't be in a hurry."

Afterwards, Xieyi talked about some other things at home, Zhu Yuan had eaten dinner, and the time was almost upright, so he stopped dawdling, took two account books, and directly got into the sedan chair in the inner house, and rushed to the imperial city.

When the sedan chair stabilized, Zhu Yuan opened the second book.

Compared with Zhiyongzhai, the glass business is indeed too big, so big that Lao Zhu sent someone to reward him early in the morning. After all, one tael of glass and one tael of silver [Note 1], can it not be big?

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Note 1: After analyzing the data today, I found a big bug: one or two glasses and one or two gold. This is what I saw when I checked the information. The factor of productivity explosion, even if 10 catties of glass a year, according to the previous, is actually equivalent to more than 1000 million taels of silver.Speaking of which, when I wrote that episode, it happened to be around the time of Chinese New Year, and everyone knew what happened, so I was in a daze.Some readers may have noticed, but when I first opened the book, I was rushed to my mental breakdown, so I didn't dare to read book reviews. I found out later that you can set up fan value guardrails. However, I didn't open the book for too long. I understand, they are out of touch with the industry, and it is too late to know.A few days ago after the update, I looked through the previous chapters and wanted to sort them out, but I saw a message saying "Finally found a book without fan restrictions", followed by a series of trash talk, I didn't want to sort it out at that time Alright, so be it.Besides the BUG in front of me, this chapter deliberately stops here, and it is normal to change it to "one tael of glass and one tael of silver".Anyway, sorry.In addition, for the previous chapters, I also took time to revise them in the morning, so as not to be inconsistent.This book... so much regret.Too much too much.

(End of this chapter)