Datang: Huchi served as a bodyguard, but refused to enter the court as an official

Now he has great enthusiasm for doing business.

There is no shortage of money, the main thing is to have something to do, so that you don't have to wander around all day.

"You can tell the old uncle about this matter? His eldest grandson is the shopkeeper of Jiangnan Road. It's just a matter of words."

Li Yuan played with the white porcelain teacup and said, "Old man knows, you left Chang'an City to change to a clean place and think about cooperating with Feng An. You said that if you sell Jingchun Noodles to Annan, the price will increase a lot." Ten times, shouldn't be too much, right?"

Chapter 657 Is this old man the one who exploits the common people?

Hearing this, Liu Bai regained his spirits.

Regardless of being tired, he sat up straight, "Old man, are you really planning to sell Jingchun Noodles to the south?"

He has coveted Li Yuan's brewery for a long time!

Since the Liu family pioneered the technology of distilling high-grade wine, the wine industry in Datang has undergone earth-shaking changes.

It's time to treat guests to dinner, and almost no one will drink yellow rice wine and sanle pulp that are only about ten degrees.

The appearance of high-alcohol wine has destroyed the low-alcohol wine market in one fell swoop. In Chang'an City alone, thousands of catties of high-alcohol wine are consumed every day.

In the past, ordinary people had no choice, now, they want to drink some good wine

The brewery is also one of the few properties of the Liu family that has not been sold.

Never underestimate the profits of the wine industry.

The abundant production of potatoes and corn has made the price of food extremely low.

In the first year of Zhenguan, a bucket of sorghum rice cost about [-] Wen.

In the third year of Zhenguan, even a stone of sorghum rice would cost less than twenty Wen!

A stone of sorghum rice can produce nearly [-] catties of high-grade wine. Even with labor costs, production losses, and profits are unimaginable!

It's a bit of an exaggeration to say that it's a lot of money, but it's definitely not too much!

However, the momentum of the Liu family wine industry came to an abrupt end a month ago.

Li Yuan recruited talents from nowhere, and developed a more advanced brewing technology by mistake.

Liu Bai drank Jingchun Niang, and when he drank it, it tasted a bit like sauce!

All of a sudden, Jingchun Niang became popular in Guanzhong, which seriously affected the sales of Liujia Liquor.

If Li Yuan is willing to hand over the wine shop, it will definitely be a big piece of fat!

As he said, it is not too much to sell Jingchun Noodles to a foreign race and increase the price by ten or twenty times.

Because that's what the Liu family did.

A catty of high-grade wine produced by the Liu family can sell for four to five hundred Wen in Chang'an City, but when sold in the Western Regions, it directly becomes forty or fifty guan!

Such a terrifying profit, it would be a fool not to do it!

In Liu Bai's mind, a huge sales blueprint was instantly constructed.

"The old man has a good eye, let's have a good discussion!"

In an instant, all fatigue was swept away!

Liu Bai took out the white paper from the drawer, and felt that the writing brush was too slow, so he took out a charcoal pen.

While writing and drawing, he told Li Yuan what he thought in his heart.

Li Yuan's business is far more about playing than earning money.

But after hearing Liu Bai finished speaking, his eyes could not help but shine.

Who can think too much money?

"Think of Sanlejiang and other wines as low-end products, and the wine produced by your Liu family as mid-end products. Does this mean that Jingchun Niang is a high-end product?"

Li Yuan leaned forward and asked.

Liu Bai took a small knife, sharpened the charcoal pencil, and wrote a few words on the paper.

"Pricing power?"

Li Yuan didn't understand what Liu Bai meant.

Liu Bai said excitedly: "Selling wine to the surrounding countries is only the first step. The ultimate goal is to achieve a monopoly! In other words, the price of all drinks must be customized by us!"

Li Yuan blinked and suddenly realized.

"Same as official salt?"

Liu Bai patted his thigh, and said: "That's what it means! The court doesn't care about the profit of the wine industry. After all, drinks are not related to people's livelihood. Since the court doesn't do it, it just gives us a chance!"

This idea has been brewing in Liu Bai's mind for a long time.

However, if you want to monopolize an industry, you must diversify your products.

And the Liu family really couldn't spare manpower to develop higher-end wine products.

Li Yuan's Jingchun Noodles just filled this gap.

So, Li Yuan's coming here today is like giving Liu Bai an unexpected joy.

Liu Bai thought that Li Yuan already understood what the so-called 'pricing power' meant.

But on Li Yuan's face, there was a bit of disdain.

"Is this old man the one who exploits the common people?"

He regards the pricing power of drinks as official salt

The cost of salt is very low, especially after the Grand Canal is connected to the Yongji Canal, the salt produced from the Bingzhou Salt Pond and the coast of Jiaodong can be easily transported to all parts of Datang.

The reason why it is expensive is entirely because salt is a necessity of life.

To control the salt is to control the lives of ordinary people.

The annual salt tax ranks among the top five in the imperial court's income!

Only then did the saying of official salt come into being.

After Li Yuan left the palace, he became more grounded.

He often said aggrievedly that if he was allowed to continue to be emperor, the official salt system must be abolished

Liu Bai patiently explained to him: "You can't look at it this way, if we have the right to set the price of drinks, it will be a good thing for the country and the people."

Li Yuan took out the white paper that Liu Bai was pressing under his elbow, and looked at it carefully again.

After reading it, he twirled his beard and thought for a moment, his brows sometimes furrowed and sometimes relaxed.

"From your point of view, it is indeed beneficial to the people. After the harvest of grain this year, the price of grain will at least double. It is also a troublesome thing to eat too much food. Large-scale wine making can be consumed instead. Drop the inexhaustible food."

Liu Bai clapped his hands, and said: "That's right, the pricing power is in our hands, so that we can integrate the brewing industry and purchase grain in a centralized way, which can save costs for us, and reduce the grain payment by [-]% for the common people." Taxation, everyone gets what they need, it is definitely a good thing that benefits the country and the people!"

As he said that, Liu Bai winked at Li Yuan, "When the old man earns money, maybe His Majesty will run out of money, so he needs to ask you for it!"

This sentence can be regarded as reaching Li Yuan's heart.

From the beginning to the end, he spent all his internal money, and his private money was exhausted as early as the beginning of the establishment of the winery.

Think about it, when Li Er ran out of money in the future, he took out a large stack of bills and threw them in his face, what kind of style was that?

The more he thought about it, the more beautiful he became, and he couldn't hold back, he burst out laughing.

"Okay! Let's do it this way, the old man will arrange manpower! It seems that dozens of wine shops are not enough, so why not open hundreds of them at once!"

With that said, Li Yuan stood up and was about to leave.

Liu Bai hastily called him to stop.

"What else is there? If we don't build a new workshop quickly, I'm afraid there will be no time to brew the food after the harvest comes in!"

Liu Bai had long been used to Li Yuan's quick temper, so he said helplessly, "If you opened hundreds of wine shops, wouldn't you still ask His Majesty for money?"

Li Yuan was taken aback.

He sat down embarrassingly, and said: "Why don't you lend the old man a sum of money first, at worst I will charge you some interest."

Chapter 658 Changle came to ask for an errand, and wanted to raise the price of food?

Liu Bai found Shen Wansan and asked him to withdraw 20 guan in cash from the account of the Jingyang head office.

After all, Li Yuan agreed, and the money was regarded as the Liu family's shareholding.

Only in terms of income, the two had a little conflict.

Liu Bai intends to give Li Yuan some face, and Jingyang Chun gets half of the proceeds.

Li Yuan refused to agree with life and death, and insisted on June [-]th.

In the end, Liu Bai had no choice but to let go.

That [-]% of the profit should be regarded as Li Yuan's hard work.

Hiring a Taishang Huang to work for me, the hard work is worth it

Liu Bai asked Shen Wansan to find some people.

The old man is not young anymore. Before and after running, he arranges everything by himself, and sooner or later he will be exhausted.

After seeing off Li Yuan, he reorganized his thoughts, and it was already dark.

Liu Bai's stomach growled from hunger.

The rules of the Liu family are like this, as long as the study room is closed and there is no important matter, whoever knocks on the door will be punished.

As a result, dinner was ready for an hour, and no one dared to come over and ask Liu Bai to eat.

Liu Wan'er and Liu Rong'er went out before dinner, saying they were going to buy some things, but they haven't come back yet.

As for the others, it would be nice to be able to live well, so why would they care about whether Liu Bai ate or not?

After eating a few pieces of snacks, Liu Bai became more and more hungry.

This snack was prepared in the morning, and it was as hard as a rock.

Seeing that no one came to deliver the meal, Liu Bai sighed and planned to go to the kitchen.

"We must rectify the family tradition, this group of people really can't live anymore."

As soon as he opened the door, he saw a thin and small figure walking towards this side, carrying the food box with great difficulty.

"Brother Liu, haven't you eaten yet?"

With a big smile on his face, Chang Le came to the door.

Liu Bai took the food box over, feeling very comforted in his heart.

A sensible child is rare wherever he is placed.

Compared with Changle, other people have lived on dogs!

Go back to the house and open the food box.

A few exquisite side dishes were brought out, and at the bottom were some steaming steamed buns with alkaline noodles.

On the handle of the food box, there is still a small bottle of grape wine.

It looked chilled.

Liu Bai filled his stomach, burped, and put away all the dishes and chopsticks in Changle.

Seeing her hesitantly refusing to leave, Liu Bai knew that she must have something to ask of him.

Just in time for the family to have another big income, Liu Bai was in a good mood.

"Tell me, what can I ask you, brother Liu?"

Chang Le's face was flushed, and said: "I came here because I saw Brother Liu didn't eat, and it's not just because I have something to ask for."

The little girl has a thin skin, Liu Bai nodded in approval of her words.

Chang Le hesitated for a while, and said: "Brother Prince, they all have things to do, even Sister Shun'er stayed in Chang'an to help Brother Prince, I was the only one at home, apart from embroidering with Sister Wan'er, I was free all day "

Liu Bai understood.

The co-author of the little girl is not reconciled to doing nothing, and is determined to do something great!