Whether to follow or not is a question and a choice, but in fact there is no choice, because Li Ke has already praised them in Datang Weekly, and then used the comment column to steal their reputation. The consequence of this is that they follow... The people may have a good impression of them, but they don't think it is their initiative and spontaneity, but they are more grateful to Li Ke.
But if they don’t follow! The fun would be even greater, and the people would feel that they were not sincere at all. If Li Ke continued to guide them, their reputation would probably get a bad reputation.
Fortunately, this is a lose-lose strategy. To put it bluntly, I use money to kill you, but originally I killed one thousand enemies and suffered eight hundred losses, but now I may kill one thousand enemies and lose one thousand myself.
acceptable!
Oh shit! Followed! Changsun Wuji gritted his teeth and became determined. If he followed this wave, it would be difficult to retreat.
But he admitted it, and Li Ke couldn't get rid of it anyway. The number of craftsmen Li Ke needed to recruit to protect Chang'an City far exceeded them, and it was not just double, but probably at least tens of thousands. So in the end they still win!
Changsun Wuji gave the order directly.
Li Ke had been keeping an eye on the situation at Chang'an City's Changsun Wuji. When the blacksmith shop belonging to Changsun's family also began to increase their salary five times, Li Ke directly ordered Tian Meng to start.
Several blacksmith shops in Chang'an City posted the latest news: They are recruiting experienced apprentice craftsmen with a monthly salary of 1000 yuan and 200 yuan! Recruiting a blacksmith with a monthly salary of 10 yuan! One day off every 7 days, work clothes are given, and food is included! They are even willing to sign a three-year employment contract!
As soon as the news came out, everyone was stunned! Everyone including Changsun Wuji and the Zheng family were stunned. This... ten times! Is Li Ke crazy? Where did he get so much money? You don’t need to think about it at this time to know that only Li Ke can do such crazy things!
Are you afraid if it's ten times as much? Li Ke sneered. If he wanted, he could open it twenty times, because next Li Ke would expand the number of blacksmiths on a large scale. Experienced apprentice craftsmen are better, because they have worked in the blacksmith shop for a long time, regardless of physical strength. You can still do some basic tasks well.
What's important is that the Changsun family's main source of income is the blacksmith shop and iron ore! Li Ke now wants to dig up the roots of the Changsun family! Ten times the salary is nothing to Li Ke. The main reason is that the price of the ironware he produces will be very low due to his pig iron production!
Even if he was hired at ten times the salary, and then made the same iron pot and sold it at a fraction of the price of Changsun's blacksmith shop, Li Ke's profit would be huge! At least, Li Ke's goal was to give everyone in the Tang Dynasty an iron pot!
Iron pots already existed in the Tang Dynasty, but only the homes of wealthy businessmen and powerful people could afford them. It was impossible for ordinary people to use iron pots.
This thing was manufactured... let alone within the Tang Dynasty, even if it was sold outside the Tang Dynasty, it would be a best-seller! Luxury!
During the Northern Song Dynasty, the efficiency of iron-making was greatly improved, and iron pots began to enter the homes of ordinary people. However, at that time, the iron pots sold to the West through the Silk Road in the Song Dynasty were all sold as luxury goods! ! Iron pots sold to the Kingdom of Jin, Mongolia and other countries can be sold for 100 taels of silver each! This thing could be used as a wedding dowry or even a betrothal gift in Mongolia, the Jin Kingdom, and the Liao Kingdom.
When it is exported to places like Dashi, it can be exchanged for gold.
In the Tang Dynasty, after the iron pot was made, you don’t need to think about how precious it is!
The annual steel production during the Song Huizong period was only about 9 million kilograms, or about 4,500 tons, but the blast furnace ironmaking Li Ke now has... Anyway, one furnace of iron can almost produce more than a ton of pig iron. Now Li Ke is restricted What matters is the output of coal and iron ore mining, not the smelting speed of steel.
With the efficiency of a blast furnace, Li Ke can smelt thousands of tons of hundreds of blast furnaces in a month.
So, what does ten times your monthly salary count? Li Ke wanted to play, and he could afford it even if it was a hundred times more expensive.
But ten times is still in line with the market rules, but a hundred times is not in line with the market rules. Moreover, ten times is enough.
I want to see if your eldest grandson's family will follow? If you don't follow, I wonder how you can feed these people?
Li Ke's biggest way to make profits is naturally ironware. So many blacksmiths have begun to make ironware. By then, all the people working here, well, can buy iron pots and plows at 20% off Li Ke's external market price. heads, kitchen knives and other iron tools.
So how much money will Li Ke pay when the time comes, and how much money will he have to get back in the end? Isn’t money just a matter of left hand and right hand?
For ordinary people, they may have to hesitate about things like iron pots, but for things like plowshares that are related to productivity, they will definitely buy them as soon as possible!
Therefore, Li Ke wanted to see what the Changsun family could do with him. He was following now because the ironware could still be highly profitable, but what would he do when he found out that the ironware could no longer be sold?
Originally, Li Ke was not going to cause trouble for them. Everyone just had a conflict. Now during the intermission, I will renovate my Chang'an city and make more money. How good is it?
You see you are causing trouble for me behind my back, right? Just dig a hole!
Changsun Wuji had to temporarily gather Zheng You and others together to discuss countermeasures.
"Do you have the latest news about the King of Shu?" Changsun Wuji looked at them and asked.
"No." Everyone shook their heads.
"Is... is he crazy?" Changsun Wuji frowned. He had a headache. Why did his unfavorable policies always fail in Li Ke's place? The point is, what on earth does Li Ke have? ! Could it be that he, Li Ke, is a god descended to earth? What do you want? Or is it that the craftsmen in his hands have really developed something good again?
Is this craftsman really that powerful? Is it enough to change the situation in Datang? Changsun Wuji really couldn't figure it out.
"We can't figure it out. The three-year contract means that he can support these people for at least three years. Although the other party is only targeting apprentice craftsmen who have worked in the blacksmith shop, the salary is too high, and the master's salary is too high. The salary is higher! If we can still hold on to the master craftsmen, after all, their household registrations are in our hands, but most of the apprentice craftsmen may not be retained." Zheng You said with a headache.
The Zheng family was actually fine. It didn't matter whether their blacksmith shop was open or not, but Li Ke's move directly blocked the fate of the Changsun family.
The main source of profit for the Changsun family is all iron ore and iron-related industries!
"Changsun Sikong? Are we still following?" Zheng You hesitated and asked. The blacksmiths here are his family and Changsun's family. Although other families also have blacksmith shops in this area, most of them are for them. It doesn't matter whether you use it yourself or not. Even if the outside world can't recruit blacksmith apprentices, they can still use domestic servants.
But the Changsun family and the Zheng family can't do it. Their gaps are too big.
