"Just like the telescope you gave me last time, Brother Wuji, you also used glass as lenses, right?" Yaoguang nodded. "Hey, second brother, why did you come up now? I just saw that you had already left the shop."

Li Shimin, who was dressed in a messy and looked quite embarrassed, sat in front of us with a wry smile, picked up a cup of wine filled with Yao Guang's wine, wiped his mouth, and sighed bitterly, "Oh, there are so many people, it's okay to squeeze from outside, but if you want to come out from inside, the merchants outside want to squeeze in, how easy is it? Brother, you are really right. That glass product sold for 3,000 guan is indeed as you gave to Shangshu Fang that day, and it's not too different, and even the shape is slightly inferior."

"When I gave it to you, I also thought this thing was quite novel and suitable for playing with it. But today, I know the price of this thing. It seems that you are looking for a profitable business again." When I said this, Li Shimin's expression was very envious, with a hint of jealousy.

"Your brother has no choice. There are so many places to spend money." I replied with a smile: "Think about it, Hancheng County can have the scale of today, can you tell how much money has you invested in?"

"I really don't know this?" Li Shimin frowned and thought for a while, shook his head and said, looking forward to hope that I could give the answer.

This young master slowly swayed his fingers and wandered around the three brothers and sisters.

"One million coins? No, it's impossible... Brother, is it talking about ten million coins?" Li Shimin denied his guess first, and suddenly, his eyes wide open, looking very stunned.

"What do you think?" This young master glanced at the goods in disappointment. "It took more than 700,000 guan for the shipyard alone from building a dock to expanding, to purchasing materials alone. As for the cement factory, construction and expansion, and now after several expansions, it cost nearly 1.7 million guan for these costs, as well as textile factories, paper mills, steel smelting plants, coking coal plants, breeding plants, not to mention the cement straight roads built, wharfs, low-rent housing... 10 million guan? This is still a matter of the smallest."

I sighed with emotion. This is the truth. Since I went to Hancheng County, I invested in Hancheng County every day, every month, and every year, so that I can have the situation of Hancheng County today.

Li Shimin grinned and shook his head. "No wonder Hancheng County has the current scale. The tax revenue alone accounts for almost one-third of the land where his brother is based. It seems that only by hard work can you gain. This is not wrong."

"That's the reason." I nodded and smiled, "Although I invested a lot, the income was not too bad. Now it is at most balanced, and I still have three or five years of hard work. I should be able to make money by relying on these."

Hearing this, Li Shimin rolled his eyes secretly, with an expression of believing that I am a bastard. Well, we are so poor, we are naturally because of the sake of our child, Li Shimin, came to borrow money from me with shamelessness.

It’s okay to sell grain to Uncle Queping. At least half of the factors there are for the suffering of the people under the rule of the heroes in the world. But borrowing money is absolutely not possible. It means that this young master is sponsoring independent forces, which is of no benefit to the unification of the Chinese nation.

Nowadays, I dare not say that I am the richest man in the world, but I believe it is not too much. The income obtained by enterprises in Hancheng County alone has reached more than 5 million guan every year. Think about it, the tax I paid is almost one million guan, and it is not uncommon to be able to make more than 5 million guan.

However, most of the money has been invested in the development of various enterprises, just like the three newly built cement factories, five lime factories and two brick and tile factories in Guanzhong, all of which are 70% invested by this son, and the remaining 30% are invested by those who have become rich with this son, as well as the aristocratic families who have a good relationship with this son.

In later generations, the two most profitable businesses were drugs, and the other was naturally weapons trade. But the problem is that nowadays, weapons factories can only output cold weapons in small quantities, such as horizontal swords and other things. These cold weapons are allowed to be purchased and sold privately, but in the end, the amount is not large.

Because Guanzhong is quiet, the demand is not large, and I don’t want to sell it to other forces to encourage those guys’ arrogance to war. I’d better wait a little longer and then dump it out after China is pacified. At that time, those guys will get used to the cold weapons we have developed, while we work hard to develop gunpowder weapons. In the long run, the Chinese nation will be able to completely occupy the world’s bottom in military power.

Nowadays, many industries are currently booming, but as a time traveler, I have seen a crisis. When the domestic market demand reaches saturation, then we must develop overseas markets. How to develop it? Naturally, we must create what foreigners need.

Fortunately, the many supplies on the land of China are extremely popular for those Western barbarians and surrounding countries. Whether it is silk, porcelain, tea, or glass products developed and innovated by this young master, they can definitely be dumped overseas. Overseas barbarians would rather take off their pants than buy good things.

This is why I brought glass products to the Western Market to show off, and I hope that through these Western barbarian vendors and Western Regions merchants, they could promote them for us. At that time, I believe that countless Western barbarian vendors and Western Regions merchants, as well as merchants from many countries around China, would rush in like blood-sucking mosquitoes smelling blood.

At that time, I will develop the shipping routes again. Although I want to travel thousands of miles, compared with the rough land route, the ocean not only has a higher transportation volume, but more importantly, it is fast. Think about it, if a flying scissor ship that can cross the Atlantic Ocean in fourteen days is something that people walk step by step according to distance, even if there is no disaster or disease along the way, there will be at least nearly a year of situation.

A person can carry forty or fifty kilograms of goods at most. Moreover, on land, there are rugged mountains, dangerous swamps everywhere, with huge temperature differences, and the desert Gobi, which lacks water sources, will accidentally get lost. Not to mention going out, even people will sleep in those dangerous places.

Moreover, there are many countries on land and wars are frequent. Maybe the goods will be taken away halfway through the road. If it is more ruthless, even life will be taken.

If it is sea freight, although it will encounter various crises, the calculation of cargo capacity alone will far exceed the land. For example, a medium-sized fly-scissor can carry 500 tons of cargo, which only requires dozens of people to operate. It is equivalent to an average of nearly tens of thousands of kilograms of cargo. According to the speed of sailing ships at the end of the 18th century, it only takes less than two months to reach the southern end of the Suez Canal in North Africa and Egypt.

Even if you bypass Africa and go directly to the Mediterranean, it will be more than half a year at most. From this point of view, not only has the time been reduced by nearly half, but the amount of goods carried is absolutely not comparable to that of human or animal power.

The heyday of navigation trade in the 18th century will arrive more than 1,200 years ahead of schedule, and the era of navigation will also be nearly 1,000 years ahead of schedule. I have this confidence, because I am here, everything will become different.

Sitting in the private room of this restaurant, eating side dishes, siping wine, blowing small tugs, and hooking up with the girl. Of course, this girl is my future wife, so it is natural to hook up. While admiring the bustling and noisy glass product store.

More than an hour has passed, but now, inside and outside the store is still crowded. Although it is not as exaggerated as before, it will definitely take a lot of effort to get in and out.

Many vendors who bought glass products, one or two, hugged them tightly in their arms as if they had priceless treasures, and rely on their subordinates to stop those who wanted to come over to find out.

Shi Feng's loud and loud voice, which was as loud as Zhang Yusheng, still passed through the window from time to time and penetrated into our ears. Although the auction price that was shouted could not make those of us who had experienced the strong winds and waves terrified, they were also secretly shocked.

In just one hour we arrived here, we had already bid for thirty-seven items, with the lowest price being 800 guan and the highest price being 3500 guan. On average, the price of each item was around 1,300 guan. In other words, in one hour, the shop sold goods with a total value of more than 48,000 guan.

Including the cost, the cost of each item, labor, shipping and other messy costs will definitely not exceed two cents. This shop was bought directly by me, and the money spent was only more than fifty thousand cents. In this way, it seems that on the first day, it is more than enough to make money back.

When the sun sets and the moonlight begins to rise, the shop finally closed the door. After a while, Shi Feng, who was as tender as a young man, appeared in the private room on the second floor of the restaurant.

"I have seen the young master, the third lady, and the two young masters Li." As soon as Shi Feng entered the door, he saw us drinking and whispering here, and quickly stepped forward to bow down and bow down. Well, they are indeed people who are very good at judging the situation. I am his master, and the future mistress of the third lady. As for Li Er and Li San, the future will be the identity of Shi, brother-in-law, at most, so I call it in this position. Not to mention that I am very satisfied with this young master, even a girl Yaoguang couldn't help but look at me quietly, and then looked away.
Chapter completed!