"One-tenth of the profit? Are you very optimistic about this cement and think it can make money?"
“Making money is inevitable!!”
"But, we want to use this cement to build dams and city walls. These are the infrastructure of our Ming Dynasty. Apart from labor and material money, we will not give any other money. After all, these are our family's things. !!”
Naturally, you can’t give money to repair things in your own home.
This is Lao Zhu's real idea. He wants to use the cement for free.
Therefore, he believes that although Zhu Zhen's cement plays a very important role, it cannot make money at all.
Zhu Yuanzhang was full of confusion about Zhu Zhen asking for one-tenth of the profits.
Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, Zhu Zhen couldn't help laughing.
"Father, you can rest assured that our cement will definitely make money!!"
"Our people will definitely fall in love with our cement after using it!!"
“You mean, there will be a large number of people buying our cement??”
"This is inevitable. After all, a house made of cement can be guaranteed to last for a hundred years!!"
One disadvantage of wooden houses is that they age easily.
Even if someone has been living in it, it still needs to be repaired from time to time to ensure that there are no problems with the house.
However, cement houses obviously do not have such troubles.
There are enough steel and concrete to ensure that the house will not collapse for a hundred years.
Especially in later generations, basically all houses are made of reinforced concrete.
Therefore, Zhu Zhen understands very well the profits that cement can bring.
Such profits would definitely make everyone in the world jealous.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang did not realize this.
He even felt that he should use more steel and cement, while others would not use steel and cement at all.
Therefore, after hearing Zhu Zhen's words, he was still very surprised.
"Are you so good at that cement??"
"Yes! I just don't know if my father is willing to part with that tenth of the profit!!"
Hearing Zhu Zhen's words, Zhu Yuanzhang hesitated.
He didn't know whether steel and concrete were really valuable.
If it is really valuable, then he will definitely regret it if he gives a tenth of it.
However, if he does not give out this profit, he may not even have the remaining 90%.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang hesitated again and again and made a decision.
"Okay, then I'll give you 10% of the profit, but this is only the profit that people can get by buying cement!!"
"Okay, father, don't worry, leave this matter to me!!"
Hearing that Zhu Yuanzhang agreed, Zhu Zhen was obviously very happy.
Without any hesitation, he directly expanded cement production.
Not only that, he also spread the news that a ten-story high-rise building would be built in Jinling City.
As soon as the news about the ten-story building came out, countless people were shocked.
This height is even higher than the palace.
If it were other people, even if they had such ability, they would not dare to do such a thing.
In Jinling City, whoever dares to be higher than the imperial palace will surely be impeached by as many people as grass.
At that time, the owner of the house will not know how he died.
However, Zhu Zhen obviously had no such concerns.
After Zhu Yuanzhang learned that Zhu Zhen was going to build a ten-story building, he didn't say much.
Because Zhu Zhen had told him before.
He built a ten-story building just to promote cement.
Only after everyone realizes the power of cement will people buy cement.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang did not refute this matter at all, and even supported Zhu Zhen in doing this matter.
Zhu Zhen's plan to build a ten-story building naturally attracted the attention of countless people.
Especially since Zhu Zhen has already begun to choose a place, people can't help but talk about it.
"A ten-story building! Does His Highness King Chu really want to build a ten-story building??"
"It's impossible. How can someone build a ten-story building in this world? How can such a tall building be built!!"
"I don't think it's possible. A person of such a height might collapse at the first touch! Unless His Highness the King of Chu is building a tower!!"
There are still many high towers in the Ming Dynasty.
However, high towers and high-rise buildings are obviously different.
Most of the towers are hollow, and there may be aisles on them, but they cannot be inhabited.
Because of this, towers can be built higher than other buildings.
As for ten-story buildings, there were none in the entire Ming Dynasty.
There are not even five-story buildings.
Therefore, everyone is not optimistic about Zhu Zhen's plan to build a ten-story building.
They all felt that this was impossible.
Even though Zhu Zhen had already said that he would use reinforced concrete this time, everyone was still not optimistic about this matter.
"I admit that reinforced concrete is indeed very strong. I have seen how strong reinforced concrete is before, but I don't believe that he can build a ten-story building!!"
"To be honest, I don't believe it either. That is a ten-story building and it is extremely heavy. Who can build such a heavy building!!"
"His Royal Highness the King of Chu will not really want to build a ten-story building. If it is not completed, wouldn't His Highness the King of Chu be embarrassed?"
"Well, I don't think we will build a ten-story building. Maybe His Highness King Chu is just talking about it!!"
Many of them even thought that Zhu Zhen was joking about building a ten-story building.
Even Prince Zhu Biao came to Zhu Zhen to inquire about the news.
"Sixth Brother, do you really want to build a ten-story building??"
"Yes! Are you interested, Prince? If you are, this ten-story building will be for you!!"
"No, no! That's not what I mean, I mean... there is no need to build it that high, and it is also very dangerous. Why not build a five-story building!!"
Prince Zhu Biao was afraid that Zhu Zhen would fail, so he persuaded Zhu Zhen in such a tactful way.
However, after Zhu Zhen heard this, he felt like he couldn't laugh or cry.
In later generations, even ordinary people can build five or six-story buildings.
Building a ten-story building is not difficult for Zhu Zhen.
The reason why Zhu Biao is so worried is because of cognitive issues.
He didn't know how strong the reinforced concrete was.
Therefore, Zhu Zhen smiled and said to Prince Zhu Biao:
"Brother Prince, don't worry, building a ten-story building is very simple!!"
"Even if you want to build a ten-story Great Wall, I can build it for you!!"
"Of course, I don't recommend building such a high Great Wall. After all, you'll be almost exhausted if you climb it. There's really no need!!"
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