The days when I pretended to be a cat in the Forbidden City[Comprehensive]

Ink enters the cement with smoke, and the most cumbersome thing is to collect the smoke.

Smoke is a product of incomplete combustion, and it is difficult to collect it by conventional methods. Today, the production method of the workshop is to cover the two bowls with only a small gap, and put the kerosene core in the lower bowl, and control it until the flame is about to go out. between death.

Of course, no matter how skilled a craftsman is, it is impossible to control it just right every time, and more often it is repeated ignition.

Smoke accumulates on the upper bowl to form black lumps. This is the purest carbon element. Collect it, grind it and mix it into the glue, beat it repeatedly to make it evenly distributed, and then put it into the mold to form it and let it dry.

Originally, there was no step of entering the mold. Ink is a practical tool, so why bother with those bells and whistles?However, it turns out that after this extra step, sales suddenly skyrocketed.

After all, human beings are visual animals. After drawing patterns and gold on the ink ingot, it looks like a BUFF is added, and the writing and painting can be improved to a higher level.

With his hands behind his back, Lu An did not hesitate to increase the price of the newly launched ink sticks by [-]%, and then doubled the price of the complete set of ink sticks on this basis.

The price increase belongs to the price increase, and there must be some publicity. Lu An sent several sets of formed ink sticks to the provider of Fu.It’s amazing how wonderful it feels to use the ink block with the Fu written by myself printed on it. It’s just so full of writing and thinking. It makes people like it.

The authors all expressed that they were very happy and satisfied with Lu An's behavior of being a man outside of business. The ink sticks they got were not only collected by themselves, but also exchanged and kept with each other, and presented to relatives and friends. The act of printing one's own Fu has become a fashion.

And it has become an extremely honorable thing to have a piece of ink engraved with one's own work that can be given away.

But not long after, with a whimsical literati's coquettish operation, another function of this ink was developed, and it was presented as a gift during a door-to-door visit.

What other people send to the door is greeting cards, but what we send to the door is ink blocks printed with our own works, so unique.

On the other hand, greeting cards are not very practical, unless it is a very famous guest, the greeting cards are also valuable for collection, most of them are a sweet burden.

But ink is different. After the guests leave, the host can continue to use it.

Moreover, as long as it is not a few epigrams, a normal essay needs at least three to four ink sticks. How long this set can be written varies from person to person, but what is certain is that at least for a long time, the host will See your own work.The effect of this publicity is much stronger than a door-to-door visit, relying on the impression of seeing each other.

I don't know who was the first to realize this. Where there is a market, there is a demand. Soon, besides the literati who were invited to write manuscripts before, some literati began to come to deliver manuscripts on their own initiative.

However, there are pros and cons to the writing, and some of them are sensitive words, or the character of the author himself is problematic, so it is not easy for shops to accept them all.After all, the purpose of adding these decorations on the ink sticks is to sell goods. Doesn’t the work itself not attracting people violate their original intention?

After several declines, the workshop came to the door, thinking that doing so would offend people too much, that literati would look down on each other, and that pens can kill people.

Lu An thought for a while, and assigned some people to make private orders.

What is private order?

In the past, Mofang asked for manuscripts to give money to the lyricist, but now private ordering means that you have to pay Mofang according to the cost of mold making and ink, the labor of the craftsman, and the amount of ink needed.The price is not cheap, but there are many rich people who like uniqueness in this world.

Although there were some scholars who expressed extreme dissatisfaction with this and felt that Mofang had a double standard and it was too unfair, most of the guests still accepted it well.

As a result, some scholars began to criticize Lu An for using public affairs for personal gain and supporting his own property.Regarding this, Lu Xiaoan expressed doubts: Oh, you all misunderstood, Mofang is not his own property.

Didn't I say it?This is a state-owned enterprise of the state of Qin. Except for a part of the turnover that goes into Dongjun's tax revenue as a normal tax, all of the state-owned enterprise goes into the private treasury of the Qin royal family!

The Lu family has let go of the business line since Lu Buwei entered the political arena. The old man of the Lu family did not even let anyone in the family do business. Before that, Lu An's uncle was also cut off from the house business. The people all belonged to the ordinary scholarly family, and they couldn't be more honest.

Some people wondered why the Lu family did this, and even the uncles of the Lu family had doubts, but the old man insisted that he could only do so.

The reason for Mr. Lu's insistence is very simple. Money and power are like dry wood and raging fire. When they are put together, accidents are bound to happen.

The Lu family is not short of money. Qin State does not talk about high salaries to support honesty. The salaries of Qin State's management and civil servants are quite high, enough to support themselves and the whole family.

Lu Buwei had to be granted the title of Marquis to receive a salary of the state and a salary of a title, and Luoyang, the old land of the Western Zhou Dynasty, as a fief. All the tax burden of the local city went into Lu Buwei's pocket. Because of his outstanding work, he was repeatedly rewarded by the King of Qin.

Although Lu An's uncles were separated according to the laws of the Qin State, after the Lu family eased up, Lu Buwei, as the eldest son, was also the patriarch, and bought land for them. With a unique vision, I bought a few pieces of land and all of them have developed well.

Therefore, the Lu family lived happily ever after.

Lu An himself is actually quite interested in doing business, but his identity is also sensitive. If he is not careful, he will be criticized by others. After deliberation, Lu An finally came up with the concept of a state-owned enterprise.

The King Qin's family contributed funds from their own small treasury, assigned special personnel to supervise, and paid taxes to the local government like ordinary shops, but the proceeds belonged to the King Qin family for their own use.

The former goes to the treasury, and the latter goes to the Shaofu.

Public and private use are clearly distinguished.

If we want to talk about the opportunity of this matter, we have to talk about when Lu An was still the governor of Shu County.Back then, Shu County was not the prosperous place it is now, and the government had limited reserves. Lu An was unwilling to let go of Shu County, a place with beautiful mountains and rivers suitable for raising pigs, but it was related to the local industry. It's easy to invest, so the cunning Lu An turned his attention to his younger brother and good friends.

In the beginning, Lu An just encouraged Zhao Xiaozheng to invest in a pig raising enterprise in Chengdu.Out of trust in his elder brother, Zhao Xiaozheng gave him all his wife.I thought it would take two or three years, but Shu County is blessed with abundant feed all year round. With Lu An's various operations, the piglets can be out of the cage in a year and a half.

The local people have a strong purchasing power for this kind of pork that has been raised in captivity and has a light smell. In addition to the salt produced in Shu County, the marinated pork can be sold far away, and the sales volume is very good. Return to cage.

Zhao Zheng immediately invested the principal and interest in the pig farm, and it was like a snowball. With the rapid development of Shu County, this chain of interests became bigger and bigger.

Originally, his colleagues and partners were only earning pocket money, but because the profits were too huge, their respective families were alarmed, and gradually there were signs that capital wanted to speak out.

Seeing that these hands were about to reach out, Lu An made a decisive decision and persuaded Qin Wang and his wife to invest in the pig farm, and purchased all the funds belonging to other small partners in proportion.In this way, the pig farm became a sole proprietorship of Qin Wang and his wife, and Lu An's friends also made a lot of money. Except that some people behind it were a little unhappy, it was the best of both worlds.

Of course, Yiren and Zhao Ji didn't have time to manage the livestock raising in Shu County from a long distance away, so Lu An put the pig farm under the government of Shu County in the end. Apart from its independent operation, the government of Shu County mainly supervised it. .

Because it is a government enterprise, the local people have a higher degree of trust in them, and it is very convenient to sell pork or buy pigweed.Before Lu An left Shu County, Shu County Black Pig had become a very well-known brand in Bashu.

He originally planned to bring this brand to Xianyang to the world by the way when he came to Beijing to report on his work, but he didn't know that the pig was brought, and he was also taken away.

But now I heard that the bacon and bacon from Shu County sell very well in Xianyang because of their excellent taste, and even set up a specialty store in Xianyang.

After tasting the sweetness, the Yiren couple immediately gave Lu An a sum of money to buy some properties.Lu An promoted several emerging industries, including a series of industrial chains such as ink making, paper making, printing and dyeing.

Among them, some are for the purpose of making money, and some are small enterprises that need support. Qin Wang's family said it doesn't matter.As the only family-owned enterprise in the country without wages, Shaofu's income has been relatively fixed before.Although the state treasury of the Qin State also includes the living expenses of King Qin's family, if it exceeds the budget, it will be brought out for discussion. At the end of the year, it will be classified as an extra category, and it is very uncomfortable to use the money.

But now that I have income, it is different. If I have money, I have confidence, and even when I reward others, I am a lot more generous!

And when Zhao Ji is free, she will look at the account book, listen to the development situation, try out new products, and plan where to open a branch.As a daughter-in-law with two mother-in-laws, this is also a good way to decompress.

As for the enterprises themselves, they can enjoy the shade with their backs against big trees, and the local government also welcomes such enterprises that are never afraid of bankruptcy to start production locally.Who would not welcome it, which can both drive tax revenue and provide employment?

And the key is that the managers of these companies are just managers, they will not be arrogant at all, let alone use dirty means to snatch the market.

But after Lu An ordered a grain store for Yiren and Zhao Ji, the situation started to develop in another direction.

Yiren was keenly aware of the role of the existence of the grain store in the regulation of the national grain. He made a decisive decision and moved the industry of the grain store out of the Shaofu. The loser is responsible for mobilizing the two.

The Taicang order was responsible for collecting grain and putting it into storage, the grain store was responsible for submitting local grain prices every month, and the Junshu officer was responsible for regulating grain prices through the grain stores located in various places to stabilize prices.After half a year of trials, this policy is extremely effective, and grain prices in various parts of the Qin State have basically stabilized.

But at the same time, this also exposed a problem-there are certain problems in the storage and storage of Qin's grain.

In the process of frequent grain transfers, Junshu officials found that there are common situations such as rats and rice worms in the granary, especially because the grain is packed in bags and stacked on top of each other, it is easy to happen when the grain is taken out. Under the circumstances, it is difficult to find out when the grain piled at the bottom is eaten into empty shells, and there are many stale grains.

On the one hand, it is indeed poor management, but on the other hand, there are not many granary mobilization reasons. Qin’s granary is abundant, but generally there are only four kinds of expenditures:

Official salaries, supply of military rations, rations for prisoners and husbands, are used as grain types.If you have to say it, forcefully add a grain export.

But no matter which one of them, most of them are mobilized from the granaries of the local counties and counties, and rarely use the granaries in the strategic reserves of the Qin State. These granaries basically cost tens of thousands of stone grains, and the granaries in Xianyang are even more There are hundreds of thousands, more income and less output, and it does make the burden on the granary heavier.

The Junshu officer kept silent, secretly mobilized in various places, and finally set the explosives warehouse on fire during the work report at the end of the year, and the entire Xianyang was covered by King Qin's anger.

As the prime minister of the country, Lu Buwei naturally bears the brunt of being held accountable.The always good-tempered King Qin behaved extremely harshly this time. He ordered Lu Buwei to come up with a solution within a month, otherwise he would have to cut his fiefdom to make up for the crime.

This rare and harsh attitude made all the officials silent, Lu Buwei had no choice but to accept the order, and after thinking hard, he gave a memorial.

At the end of the autumn of this year, Lu An was ordered by the King of Qin to return to Xianyang from Dongjun County to take charge of Su Nei Shi.

And the first thing he faced was this thorny problem.

The author has something to say:

King Qin: I want to be strict with Lu Qing, otherwise my innocence will be lost.

Lu Buwei:?

Xia Miao: Earning a little money for the leader ended up making a big hole, but we don't know anything.

Lu Buwei:??

Lu Buwei: If something happens, my son will do his best.

Xia Miao:? ? ?

Zhao Zheng: Can you think about my feelings, how did my wife become a family property? ?

Author: We don’t know and it’s hard to say.