Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 85
The bustling Zhiyongzhai opened its doors for more than an hour to welcome customers, and then closed down because it sold out. This funny and not funny talk quickly spread throughout Jinling City in a short time.

It's funny, naturally it was closed as soon as it opened.

What's not funny is that they only opened for more than an hour, and they earned more than 6000 guan!
Not to mention that Xuefu Street, or the entire Jinling City, let alone more than an hour, even a whole year, there will not be too many businesses and shops that can generate this amount of revenue.

So, even if it was Lao Zhu, he heard the news at noon.

Inside the East Pavilion on the left of Fengtian Gate.

It was after lunch, and Lao Zhu was looking through Zhiyongzhai's account books this morning, and there were still several thick stacks of receipts in the box at hand.

Before writing the desk, I never thought that I would see the shopkeeper of Zhiyong Zhai, the Emperor's Majesty, lying motionless on the ground in this life.

Trembling.

Lao Zhu was more interested in a certain income figure at first, flipping through the account book in front of him, but soon had other thoughts, took a stack of receipts in the box at hand, and quickly asked Lu Yu on the ground: "This...the invoice, the number in it , just this one, 03030037, why not?"

Lu Yu didn't dare to raise his head, so he opened his mouth, worried that His Majesty would be displeased if he spoke too loudly, and he would be displeased if he heard it too softly, so he finally spoke after careful consideration: "Your Majesty, this '0303' is the third day of March. The meaning, 0037, is the transaction number, and it is also the 37th transaction in the store today."

Lao Zhu thought that today is the third day of March, and suddenly realized.

Review the invoice carefully.

About the size of a booklet cut into three strips, the top is printed with the five characters of "Zhiyongzhai Invoice", and the bottom is the form. The first column is the number, which is different from the top five characters. The number of the number seems to be a living seal.Further down, there are several vertical columns, marking the name of the product, unit price, quantity and so on.

The next column is the total price.

Finally, in the lower left corner is the drawer, with the word "Qiao Wang" written on it, and the four characters "Hongwu First Year" printed in the lower right corner, with the red round stamp of "Zhiyongzhai" stamped on the four characters.

After browsing in this way, Lao Zhu's attention turned to the column of 'total price' again.

For example, in the invoice in hand, the 'total price' column is divided into several sections. The first column is the payment method, which is filled in as 'silver', followed by the specific number, and there is a column marked 'lowercase', 198 taels. This is the previous two. The total price of the pens, one black lacquer pen, one red lacquer pen, the unit price is 99 taels.

Lao Zhu also noticed the relevant price figures, 1888 taels, 666 taels, and 99 taels. He didn't understand, and there were not many similar sayings in this era.However, after thinking about it, I feel that the child should have done it on purpose.

This is the end.

Finally, is the focus of Lao Zhu's attention.

In the column of the total price, there is another column labeled 'capital': one hundred ninety-eight taels.

After comparing the left and right 'uppercase' and 'lowercase', Lao Zhu subconsciously drew inferences in his mind, but he still asked Lu Yu first: "Why do you have to fill in the total price number repeatedly on this invoice, and distinguish between 'uppercase' and 'lowercase'?" '?"

Lu Yu carefully adjusted his voice again and said, "Return to Your Majesty, as the Patriarch said, lowercase numbers are easy to be tampered with, so you need to use capital letters to emphasize it again."

This thought...

Lao Zhu thought of the word 'decent' again, with a little 'slick'.However, of course he would not comment on his own child in front of a servant.

Seeing that His Majesty the Emperor did not speak, Lu Yu paused, worried that his superiors would not like his young master's precautions, so he plucked up the courage to help explain: "Your Majesty, the Patriarch said, set up the rules and don't give people the chance to make mistakes. It's good for everyone."

Old Zhu nodded slightly.

On the contrary, he has a little more affection for the shopkeeper who dares to speak for his master.

Moreover, Lao Zhu certainly saw the use of it.

Let's just say I just discovered these two.The invoice number, as well as the uppercase numbers, can be used in the court's tax collection and money and food expenditures. Not only are the various items clear at a glance, but it can also reduce the favoritism and fraud of the people below.

Old Zhu just sighed.

Speaking of this form, when he saw it for the first time, he found it very practical. A few days ago, he sent people to Zhedong to measure the acres of fields, and he asked the Ministry of Households to design a special form in advance.It is also planned to wait for the world to be more stable. In the future, the people's household registration will also be issued with a similar form.

Right now, this form is still used, and it has a new usage in a blink of an eye.

Of course, it is impossible for Lao Zhu to know that the capitalized numbers in it happened to be promoted by Hong Wuchao in the original time and space.Because lowercase Chinese characters such as 'one two three' are also easy to be tampered with.However, what Lao Zhu can understand is that these... must be good methods that have been tested hundreds of years later.

A good way is of course to learn.

Just ...

Since the 23rd generation grandson of his own baby appeared, he has worked hard to adopt and implement all kinds of new knowledge, new ideas and new ideas, but there are too many of these coming one after another.

The ancestors can't keep up!

Thinking of this, Lao Zhu quickly let out another long breath.

Now that you have made up your mind to create a prosperous world that has not been seen in a thousand years, if you can't keep up, you have to follow.Confucius said, choose what is good and follow it, and change what is not good.Since they are all good things, why not follow them?
After making up his mind, Lao Zhu took out a stack of invoices from the box, intending to keep them for reference, and then turned to the account book in front of him.

In the account book, each invoice corresponds to a column, which simplifies the information, but it is still comprehensive.One of the columns also aroused Lao Zhu's thoughts again.

This is the payment method, there are gold, silver, and copper coins.

Regarding currency, gold has rarely been used as official currency in all dynasties, and silver has been in a semi-black household most of the time, and only copper coins are justified.

As for the conversion ratio.

Gold and silver still follow the pre-yuan inertia at the moment, and gold is exchanged for silver for ten, plus the chaos is initially determined, so-called 'gold in troubled times', and gold in the northern region is even more expensive.

Silver is exchanged for copper coins, and it is about one exchange for one thousand.

Speaking of which, in the first few years when he first crossed the river, Yingtian cast "Dazhong Tongbao". Because of the lack of copper, Lao Zhu stipulated that 400 coins were consistent, and he always exchanged one tael of silver, but it was not popularized at all.

Because the people don't recognize it.

Lao Zhu also discovered that the government forcibly collects or collects taxes at this exchange rate, which is tantamount to searching the people in disguise, just like the folks charge 1000 renminbi for a stone of rice, or even 400 or 1000 renminbi when it is not received, but the government pays 1000 renminbi for purchase. , It’s really not kind, so it was abolished within a few years, and continued to follow the usual practice of [-] Wen, and one tael of silver was exchanged for [-] Wen copper coins.

Since the government cannot mint enough copper coins, it is not prohibited for the private sector to trade gold and silver, or even continue to use Yuan Ting's banknotes, so that the government even tends to charge silver for taxes such as salt and tea.

Regarding currency, my 23rd grandson seems to have mentioned a few words, and Lao Zhu thinks it is very important, but... I still have to take it step by step.

Just like Lao Zhu issued an edict according to Zhongshu's proposal the day before yesterday, asking the Ministry of Households to cast "Hongwu Tongbao", but he still didn't plan to cast too many.With those brass, he thought it would be better to ask General Zuosi to make more bearings.

Last night, he saw some drawings sent by his precious 23rd grandson, the large gantry crane with a height of seven feet by the Yongjiang River. The company stepped up to manufacture bearings and sent them to Mingzhou as soon as possible.

While thinking this way, he has turned to the end of the account book.

A certain number came into view, in silver, 16736 taels.There is also no shortage of capital letters: one thousand six thousand seven hundred three four six six.

When Lao Zhu saw this number, the corners of his mouth twitched. He subconsciously picked up the pen next to him, and made a blank space on the back of an invoice according to the multiplication calculation method in the book "Basics of Mathematics" that he had thoroughly understood in private. simple calculation.

1.67 taels of silver, multiplied by 360 year, [-] days.

Result: 601.2 million taels.

Not to mention this year, the first year of Wu has already passed. At that time, the annual grain tax input in the territory was about 1100 million shi. Based on the calculation of one shi of grain and one tael of silver, opening two pen shops like this would make the country rich!
Of course, Lao Zhu knew that he shouldn't count this way.

Thinking about seeing his baby's 23rd grandson yesterday who easily raised 200 million taels just by selling the license of the sea trade company, Lao Zhu realized more deeply in an instant that the child said that he was a pretty good businessman in his previous life. What a 'nice'.

For a while, I was worried that the child would not be able to eat well or wear warm clothes if he didn't want the land salary.

Worry about it!
As far as this Zhiyongzhai is concerned, Lao Zhu can imagine that it is so prosperous today, there must be a lot of human favors in it, maybe there are good and bad, maybe there are some people who have different thoughts.So not sustainable.But, even without talking about other things, this day's income is enough for the child to spend for a year.

Besides, after removing the human factor, even if there is so much income in a year, excluding the cost, as the child said at the beginning, the income will be more abundant than the 1 mu of fertile land he gave.What's more, even if it cools down in the future, it is impossible for this unique business to only have so many in a year!

It is not impossible to earn tens of thousands of taels a year, even...to the level of 10 taels.

It's really not necessary to pay the salary by yourself.

At the same time, Lao Zhu also confirmed another thing.

Folks are really rich!
But there is no rush, the world is determined.

It's better to wait for the child to return to Jinling in the future, and then let his staff plan slowly.

Just like the corvee system revised and promulgated by Zhongshu last month, Lao Zhu was sure that in the end it should be distributed to the mu, but at the moment, it is not suitable to do it in one go.

Still have to take your time.

After closing the account book, Lao Zhu remembered that Zhiyongzhai was closed because there was no stock. Let’s sell it. It’s a running water. Don’t close the shop just after opening to make people laugh. In the future, the charcoal pencil workshop will expand, and after public use, the excess will be distributed to Zhiyongzhai. After all, this is your master’s idea. Tian. The only thing is, this charcoal pen is not going to make any money, one penny, one will be paid accordingly, half of Zuosi and half of Zhiyongzhai."

Old Zhu remembered that Zhu Yuan said that charcoal pens are for ordinary people, and in the future they will cost a few pennies.Lao Zhu also thought about it, the current labor is really impossible, and a penny is already cheap.

Lu Yu, who was still unable to get up, quickly agreed.

Lao Zhu thought about it again, and said: "In addition, the pen workshop will let the general make two hundred craftsmen. Still the same, these individuals will only make the cheapest one. After all, the pen is for the study. Don’t make it too unattainable. Hmm...a regular one is too expensive, 500 Wen, can you make some money?”

Just looking through the account book, Lao Zhu noticed that there are very few basic models, and most of them are gold, silver, lacquer and precious.

Although, according to the child, it is not possible to make money from the poor, but it is too expensive.

Still not good.

Lu Yu agreed again: "Go back to Your Majesty, and earn some money."

You can earn half the price.

After all, this basic fountain pen does not consume much material, and the biggest head is artificial, but if you do more, become proficient, and divide the labor more clearly, it will actually be very fast.The time-consuming and labor-intensive ones are still those high-end styles. In addition to the superb skills of the craftsman, it is also very time-consuming.

Since there was some money to be made, Lao Zhu made a decision immediately, and gave Lu Zhen a few words before sending him away.

(End of this chapter)