The Prodigal Son of Zhenguan

Old Zhao sat opposite Li Fu, watching her husband in deep thought.

Her husband had made a lot of arrangements today, and to make all these arrangements, time, money, and personnel were indispensable.

The family itself had no foundation, so time and money were easy to deal with. Now that the manor had income, the treasury of the mansion was also sufficient. Even if the money was spent, there was still some money.

All of them were hard goods sent from the palace.

"The carpenter's business has to be done. The tea business can only be started next year. If you want to see the return of money quickly, you have to rely on the furniture workshop." Li Fu said: "The autumn harvest is about to end. The farm still needs to build a house, which also needs money. The money in the warehouse can be spent, but it is not convenient to pay the workers.

As for the carpenters in Chang'an City, I know that carpenters with good skills are not short of work, but having work to do and making money are two different things.

Cooperate with us and work for us, and you can earn more!

This is our confidence!"

Li Fu continued: "I will give the drawings. When we receive the orders from the dignitaries in Chang'an City, the rest depends on their skills. The higher the price of an order, the higher the commission I give them. The basic salary is one guan of money per month!"

"Basic salary?" Lao Zhao was puzzled.

"No matter how much or how little work there is, even if there is no work to do, as long as they work in our workshop, a skilled carpenter can earn one guan of money a month, and an apprentice can earn two hundred wen a month. Within one year after graduation, the salary will increase to three hundred wen, within two years, five hundred wen, and after five years, the salary will be the same as their master's." Li Fu said, "This way, we can always attract carpenters with good skills, right?"

Old Zhao nodded. Such preferential treatment can indeed attract people.

Such conditions can be said to be unique.

But for the workshop, the expenses are much higher.

After all, there are so many people to support.

"When you make a fortune, you will feel that this little expense is nothing." Li Fu said with a serious smile: "Old Zhao, you have to look ahead when looking for someone. You have to be willing to spend money. If you don't spend money in the early stage, we can't even set up the stall. It costs money to have people, workshops, and wood."

Old Zhao also agreed with Li Fu's statement.

He knew that he had to spend money, but now he saw that the storehouse in the mansion was getting emptier and emptier. As a housekeeper, his heart was bleeding.

The original copper coins had been shipped out, which was fine. Now even the brocade in the storehouse had to be spent. It was really going to drain the family's wealth.

After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, before the fourth year of Wude, the 5-zhu coins of the Sui Dynasty and other ancient coins from the Northern and Southern Dynasties were still in circulation.

Later, after the unification of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan began to mint Kaiyuan Tongbao coins four years after Wude. As time passed, the Wuzhu coins of the Sui Dynasty and other ancient coins gradually withdrew from the transaction. However, the world is so big that it still takes a long time to completely replace these coins.

Therefore, in addition to copper coins, brocade and silk are also hard currencies in transactions and can be circulated in the market.

"My dear, after Shopkeeper Ma arrives in Chang'an, the shop is easy to deal with, but what about the workshop? Should we put it in Chang'an or on the farm?" Old Zhao asked: "If it is placed on the farm, we still have to build a new workshop. If it is placed in Chang'an, the cost will be even greater."

"The furniture workshop must be placed in Chang'an." Li Fu said: "The orders that make money are all in Chang'an. If we have to go back and forth from Jingyang County to here, it will be too troublesome. If the trouble can be solved by money, we will directly solve it by money."

"In this case, in addition to the shop, we also need to find a spacious workshop to accommodate the carpenters." Old Zhao said.

He also silently wrote down a sum in his little notebook.

This is another large expense.

Butler, butler, it is not easy to be a butler.

"Yes, these things need to be done in advance, so that the carpenters will be willing to settle down here." Li Fu said: "So, you can tell them about these things and see what happens. In addition, if there are shopkeepers like Ma Shisan who are good at doing business, pay attention to them. With a furniture workshop, we still need a leading shopkeeper. If there are such capable people among the carpenters, we can also make an exception and appoint them."

"Yes." Lao Zhao bowed his hands and responded.

Originally, doing a business is also a very troublesome thing, but Li Fu has people under him. Like today, he told Lao Zhao everything, and Lao Zhao would help with the rest.

And Li Fu himself only needs to wait for his people to report, and he will do it himself.Just know the result. If there is any deviation in the middle, it can be adjusted in time.

Don't think that Li Fu is just a talker. In fact, if there is no Li Fu, the people below can't do anything.

On the surface, it is talking, but in fact it is brains.

Make money with ideas.

The actual action is the craftsman's, the idea is Li Fu's, and the most valuable is the idea.

Investors invest in other people's ideas and listen to others bragging. The more they brag, the more investors like them.

Because of what?

Because if he doesn't even have the ability and courage to brag, how can you expect him to have the courage to make money?

If he can't even draw a cake, what else can he do?

"Can the things in the warehouse support this stall now?" Li Fu asked: "Just talking about the furniture workshop."

Lao Zhao thought carefully.

"If you add the shop and the workshop, it is enough." Lao Zhao responded.

Whether it was Li Yuan or Li Shimin, they had given Li Fu a lot of things. If such a large Jingyang Palace could not even afford a shop and a workshop, it would be a joke to tell others.

There were things in the warehouse, but some of them were not easy to sell. After all, they were rewards from the emperor. Things from the palace could be taken as heirlooms or exchanged for money privately with a merchant, but they could not be converted into money in public.

The royal family could not afford to lose that person.

In Chang'an City, Lao Zhao sent the letter to the farm and to Ma Shisan. At noon the next day, Ma Shisan came to Chang'an City with his people in a carriage. With him, there was another carriage behind him. There were two large boxes on the carriage, all of which were filled with copper coins that had been counted.

Li Fu had not looked at the account book of the workshop recently. He was quite surprised to see Ma Shisan coming with so much money.

He thought that even if there was extra money in the workshop, it would not be too much.