In the early morning, Li Mengxi was awakened by a squeaking noise. He opened his eyes and rubbed his eyes, "Xiao Bian, what is that screaming?" When his consciousness was blurred, Li Mengxi subconsciously called his brother. After calling, Li Mengxi

Stunned, he realized that he was not in Julu and his brother had not followed him.

After getting dressed, I got up and walked outside. I saw a monkey in a cage in the yard. The guard took a chicken leg and wanted to feed it to the monkey. He was such a good person and so willing, but shouldn't the monkey eat fruit?

What surprised Li Mengxi was that the monkey took the chicken leg and started eating it seriously.

Li Mengxi scratched his head. He suspected that his cognition was wrong. It seemed correct. Monkeys in the mountains generally eat fruits, but in winter, when there are no fruits, it is estimated that monkeys will collect dried fruits, such as pine nuts.

Or something like that, maybe you can also catch mice and frogs to eat.

In other words, monkeys are omnivores.

The only purpose of raising monkeys is for the medical industry, to test medicines on behalf of people. Medicines are a matter of life and death. It takes tens of thousands of trials to get enough data for a medicine. In other words, if you try a medicine, you will get

There are tens of thousands of monkeys. In order to support the pharmaceutical industry, monkeys must be cultivated on a large scale. To raise a large number of monkeys, there needs to be a large enough monkey population. In winter, there needs to be enough dried fruits.

It is not difficult for monkeys to eat fruits. Julu is planting trees on a large scale. In three to five years, there will be fruit trees everywhere. But dried fruits are not easy to solve. There is nothing to feed monkeys in winter. Li Mengxi couldn't help but wonder, do monkeys eat food?

It stands to reason that monkeys are physiologically close to humans. It stands to reason that monkeys can eat whatever humans can eat.

Thinking of this, Li Mengxi asked the guard to bring a pancake. He stuffed the pancake into the cage, and the monkey grabbed the pancake and ate it.

Li Mengxi smiled. Monkeys are not difficult to raise. They can also be fed with food.

——

At the beginning of the new morning, Li Mengxi went to see other birds and beasts. The beasts he bought yesterday included foxes, badgers, deer, weasels, deer, small bears, turtles, turtles, and a lot of things.

The guys were keeping an eye on them. They were afraid that the animals would be hungry, so they started feeding them early in the morning.

Li Mengxi saw that the guys were feeding live chickens. At the end of the day, more than a dozen chickens had to be consumed. Li Mengxi suddenly felt luxurious. He hesitated whether to raise so many wild animals. Although things like foxes, badgers, deer and deer were a little bit

It has medicinal value, but it is too expensive to raise.

After early morning, Li Mengxi left Julu Commercial Store and continued to wander around.

The business of Julu Commercial Store was very good. Many people came to buy paper early in the morning. The shopkeeper said apologetically with a smile on his face, "I'm sorry. I'm really sorry for you. Our store is closed today.

Please forgive me, please forgive me!"

The guests went back disappointed.

After last night's discussion, the paper sales strategy of Julu Commercial Store changed. Early in the morning, the shopkeeper led a convoy of papers to visit high-ranking officials in the DPRK and Central Government one by one.

Everywhere he went, the shopkeeper explained the purpose of his visit, saying that he wanted to hand over the paper business. This was a huge fortune. No one would be troubled by money, and the shopkeeper immediately became a guest of every house.

Li Mengxi brought more than a hundred carts of paper and quickly distributed it to the officials. As the paper was distributed, it was sold to the officials at an extremely low but extremely profitable price. The price of the lowest-grade paper was one penny per piece, and the price of high-grade paper was one penny per piece.

The price is seven cents a piece, and the average price is about three cents. A piece of paper sells for three cents, and more than a hundred cars of paper can be exchanged for a huge amount of money.

For only two hours, Li Mengxi was still wandering around the streets. After the paper got into the hands of officials and nobles, shops under these people's names soon appeared. The scholars and common people in Luoyang City soon discovered that there began to be people besides Julu merchants.

Other places outside the museum began to sell paper, and the paper was sold very cheaply, with a piece of paper selling for more than ten yuan.

Li Mengxi ignored one thing. He thought that as long as the wholesale price of paper was set low enough, he could dump it in large quantities. Dumping in large quantities would maximize the sales volume and the total profit, but he forgot that there was such a thing as pricing power.

Son.

The paper wholesaled by Julu Merchant House is indeed cheap, but the high-ranking officials and relatives are all cannibals. They can resell the paper wholesaled for one or two cents at several times the price.

In the end, Julu Commercial House made less than a penny, but the officials made several penny.

Although Li Mengxi ignored this section, it actually doesn't matter at all.

The relationship between supply and demand will change with the supply. When a huge amount of paper flows to Luoyang, paper will no longer be scarce. When there is too much paper, the supply will begin to exceed demand. At that time, if the officials sell it at a high price,

, no one will sell, so officials have to lower the price, and eventually it will fall to the price it should be.

The market is an invisible hand that adjusts automatically.

When the price of paper finally returns to its normal price, Julu Commercial House will make a net profit of one penny for every piece of paper sold, and the officials will also earn one penny, but the penny earned by the officials will still have to be

To set up a shop, you have to set up a clerk, and even a warehouse, and you have to manage your connections. If you want to make more money, you have to form a caravan to sell paper to farther places. The caravan's rickshaws and horses

Waiting for the expenses, there are countless details. After calculation, the bulk is finally made by Julu Commercial House. Julu Commercial House does not have to do anything and makes most of the money.

When Li Mengxi arrived, he wandered around to a very grand silk and satin shop. When Li Mengxi arrived, the waiter who greeted him at the door looked at Li Mengxi for a long time. At first glance, the waiter saw that Li Mengxi was plainly dressed and thought he was not an honored guest, but he saw Li Mengxi following behind him.

He had a bunch of followers, and he seemed to be of extraordinary status, so the waiter hurried over to greet him.

Walking into the store, Li Mengxi felt as if he had walked into a sea of ​​colors. The colorful silks placed on the counter and stacked on the shelves were extremely colorful.

After coming to the late Han Dynasty for so long, it was the first time that Li Mengxi saw such rich colors, and his eyes lit up.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! A shopkeeper wearing silk and satin walked over. The shopkeeper did not despise Li Mengxi because he was young. He politely asked Li Mengxi to look around. Li Mengxi said directly

If you want to buy silk, just buy twenty pieces.

When the distinguished guest arrived, the shopkeeper smiled brightly and quickly asked the waiter to bring the best silk for inspection.

There is also a difference between silk and silk. When he was in Julu, Li Mengxi also saw a lot of silk, but when comparing the silk of Julu with the silk of Luoyang, the difference can be clearly seen.

Not to mention the silk from Luoyang, the color is brighter and the texture is more delicate. If you stretch it out at will, you will see that a piece of silk has patterns on the front and also on the back. The patterns on the two sides of the square are different.

With Li Mengxi's understanding of textile technology, he couldn't understand how such complicated silk material was made.

Passing the silk to Zhou Cang aside, "Zhou Cang, what do you think of this silk? Is it much better than our Julu silk?"

Zhou Cang stretched out his big hand and carefully touched the silk fabric, and smiled honestly, "It's better than ours."

Li Mengxi had no concept of dignity in his eyes. He thought the silk was beautiful and showed it to Zhou Cang casually. It was just a natural behavior, but it moved Zhou Cang and the other guards as well.

The original intention of buying silk is not silk, but just a stepping stone.

Li Mengxi asked Zhou Cang and others to come over and pick the silk. Zhou Cang and a group of guards carefully selected twenty pieces of silk according to their own preferences. Li Mengxi asked people to pay.

The people accompanying him brought in bags after bags of money from the car, and in the blink of an eye they piled high into a pile.

The inconvenience of copper coins came to the fore. To buy twenty pieces of silk, one would have to spend more than one cartload of copper coins.

After buying the silk, Li Mengxi took the opportunity to ask that he want to see the craftsmanship of making silk.

The reason why Li Mengxi found this silk shop was because he had inquired in advance that this silk and satin shop had its own looms and its own workshop. Li Mengxi came here with the aim of technology.

Because Li Mengxi bought a large amount of silk, the shopkeeper couldn't refuse, so he invited Li Mengxi to the workshop.

In the workshop, Li Mengxi saw the whole process of silk production for the first time. He saw the techniques of twisting silk, soaking silk, dyeing silk and so on. Li Mengxi could understand the first few steps of the process. As he walked,

Hearing the squeaking sound of looms, he looked carefully and saw that under the work shed in front there were many giant looms that were larger than beds.

Li Mengxi walked over without waiting for the shopkeeper's introduction.

The silk weavers were very busy. Several people were busy around the big loom. When Li Mengxi came over, the workers didn't even raise their heads.

Under this work shed, Li Mengxi saw the most complex equipment he had ever seen.

The workers were weaving silk very slowly, extremely slowly. Li Mengxi watched for a long time without understanding it. The workers seemed to be arranging threads. After arranging the threads one by one, it took a long time before the shuttle moved. Li Mengxi was curious.

Asked the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, what is this machine called?"

"This? Jacquard machine, for weaving brocades."

Li Mengxi knew that this was a jacquard machine.

While wandering around the workshop, Li Mengxi had already set his sights on a bunch of technologies. If possible, he would like to pack up this village and take it away. But the problem is that those who can run a silk store are either rich or expensive, let alone

It’s not easy to use money either if you are short of money or if you have money.

After quietly thinking about it in his mind, Li Mengxi pulled the shopkeeper aside. Li Mengxi made up a reason. He said that he also wanted to open a silk shop, but he had no manpower and had hundreds of thousands of acres of mulberry fields, but could not weave good silk.

"Shopkeeper, I want all the machine craftsmen. You can give me a price. If you are worried, you can send someone to take care of it. The machine is still your machine and the people are still your people. I will pay you the wages and we will weave the silk.

It’s a 50-50 split between the two families.”

Li Mengxi offered astonishing conditions. It was like a joint venture to set up a factory. The silk shop would provide people, technology, and machines. All the machines would be bought by Julu, and all the craftsmen who built the machines and the weavers' wages would be paid.

, are all distributed by Julu. This is not the end of the story. All the machines and craftsmen still belong to the silk store. This is equivalent to someone spending money to build a branch for the silk store. In the end, the profit will be paid back 50-50.

.

The conditions were so generous that the shopkeeper wanted to agree, but because he couldn't make the decision, he resigned for a while and went to ask for instructions from his employer.

After a long time, the shopkeeper came back and his attitude became more polite, with a touch of businesslike politeness.

After some negotiations, Li Mengxi directly bought a set of craftsmen at a high price of 100,000 yuan per person. The craftsmen included carpenters who made looms, craftsmen who made jacquards, dyers, twisters, foamers, and weavers.

Silk and other craftsmen.

Buying eighty-seven craftsmen, plus a full set of equipment and tools, cost Li Mengxi 8.7 million. Li Mengxi didn't bring much money on this trip, but Julu Merchant had money, so a few million dollars would just be enough.

It’s just a few days’ profit from selling paper at Julu Commercial House.

Li Mengxi immediately sent someone to notify the Julu Merchant Store. After receiving the order, the Merchant Store opened its warehouse, loaded the money into the carts, and pulled the carts over one by one, paying all the money on the spot.

Li Mengxi's boldness shocked even the experienced silk store manager.

When taking the machines and people away, Li Mengxi noticed that many of the silk weavers were women. Thinking that if he went to Julu, he would be separated from his family for a long time. A gentleman has the beauty of adulthood, so Li Mengxi took another large sum of money.

He gave each of the craftsmen, male and female, 30,000 yuan, and asked them to go back and take their families with them.

Senior craftsmen who weave silk earn a lot of money, but no matter how much they earn, the craftsmen are still at the bottom, so how much higher can their wages be?

Li Mengxi directly gave him 30,000 yuan to settle down, which was a huge sum of money.
To be continued...