Chapter 113 Resentment from pocket money
Seeing that everyone was not upset, Li Chengqian continued, "You are all our brothers and sisters today. As everyone is here, I have a good project to make money. I wonder if you are interested?"
Everyone, including Li Ke, was stunned. Fang Jun even asked directly: "Your Highness, it has nothing to do with us in making money. It's all my mother who is in charge of it, and my father can't even control it."
"puff……"
In an instant, several people squirted directly, and then burst into laughter.
Everyone in the Tang Dynasty knew that Fang Xuanling had a "jealous" wife who had been in charge of Fang Xuanling tightly. How could these people not know?
However, in the past, they were heard from others. Now that they were told by their own son Fang Jun, everyone thought of this instantly, and it would be strange if they didn’t laugh.
What's more important is that Fang Jun was still looking at everyone with a look of at a loss, which made people laugh even more.
"Ahem... Okay, stop laughing, talk about serious matters!" Li Chengqian also held back his laughter and said, and everyone stopped laughing.
"The money-making plan I plan to make this time has nothing to do with them. I just want to make some pocket money for all my brothers..."
Hearing Li Chengqian's explanation, Fang Juncai nodded his head and said with a honest expression: "That's it, that's fine. My mother only gives me five stagnant of money a month and can't do anything."
"Then your mother is really stingy enough. My mother gives me ten taels every month."
"I really envy you. I have so many ten-spin numbers. I only have six-spin numbers a month. It depends on my performance. If I don't perform well, I don't even have a copper coin."
"Oh... I have never received monthly money in a fixed manner, and my father doesn't allow me to pay at all."
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Speaking of pocket money, everyone began to complain, as if they all took the pocket money as if they had suffered a great grievance.
Li Chengqian was so angry when he heard everyone talking about his monthly pocket money at least half a cent!
Who knows that he is a prince and a time traveler, and he is the boss behind many money-making shops in Chang'an. He is a rich man of at least tens of millions of guan. His monthly pocket money is only a pitiful tens of guan!
Li Chengqian wants to cry so much, but he really wants to cry so much. The money he had agreed to have all his money with his mother, Empress Changsun, and then he would ask Empress Changsun for it.
But... I would like to ask everyone, how many New Year’s money you have been given by your parents in the name of keeping it for you since you were young?
Li Chengqian was helpless. Why did parents in ancient and modern times look the same and have no integrity at all? What's more, his money is not something that New Year's money is earned by himself, so why don't he let himself spend it?
Li Chengqian protested against His Majesty Li Er on this issue and begged to Empress Changsun. The couple's answer was very consistent - "I am your father (mother), why do you think?"
As for this, what else can Li Chengqian say? So later he started hiding his private money by himself. So far, he has hidden almost ten thousand coins!
Some people may think that this is a lot, but if you know the amount of money he earns every month, you won’t think so - take the last month as an example, including restaurants, furniture workshops and other industries. If you count the share distributed to His Majesty Li Er and his younger brother and sister, his actual income is 50,000 jin!
He had been hiding his private money for three months, which means he only got one fifteenth of the 150,000 pounds! And he secretly asked his sisters who were already in charge of some of the affairs in various stores to help him hide it privately!
Is it pitiful?
Today, the reason why I proposed a new way to make money to these "second-generation officials" is to build another industry privately and earn more "pocket money" for myself!
Seeing that everyone was "poor", Li Chengqian waved his hand, gathered everyone together, and whispered: "Since everyone agrees, then sign this confidentiality agreement first... I promised it in advance. After signing the confidentiality agreement, we cannot tell our parents about investing and earning money! Otherwise, no one would want to earn a penny of pocket money!"
Li Chengqian took out a confidentiality agreement and a "contract" for cooperative investment, and asked everyone to sign and seal it one by one!
Until the last person signed the sign, Li Chengqian nodded with satisfaction after seeing it and said, "Okay, let's go to the farm outside my city the day after tomorrow. Remember to bring your own money. At that time, everyone will determine their shares based on how much they pay... that is, how much dividends can be distributed in the future!"
It was also a loss that His Majesty Li Er and the civil servants and generals were busy drinking. No one noticed their group of people, otherwise he would have thought they were plotting something.
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It was not until midnight that the "unrestrained" people completely stopped and were sent home one by one by one by their own children or palace guards.
Of course, His Majesty Li Er was not spared. He was carried by several eunuchs to a concubine's womb to rest... Li Chengqian would not let a drunk man go to his mother. As for why he asked someone to send his father to another woman's palace... Nonsense, if he didn't send him to those concubines, who would take care of this drunk man? Just find a palace maid to take care of him, then he would have to have another younger brother or sister in ten months?
Early on the third morning, Li Chengqian took Li Ke to the farm outside the city. He had to make sure about making money today.
As for the specific money-making project... of course it's glass!
Although it was only a few days, the first batch of glass had been tried. Of course, due to technical reasons, it was not as big as he gave to Queen Changsun, and the color was a bit green, but it was more than a hundred times stronger than those glasses now!
As for such a good money-making business, why don’t he do it by himself... Human! He has no one! Everyone around him is a "spy" of his father and mother. Who does he ask to be responsible for this matter? Especially if he wants to sell things to the west, he can only rely on these "second-generation officials" who are careless and do nothing!
Although everyone looks down on businessmen these days and always belittles merchants, which prince and noble family does not have their own industry?
What Li Chengqian wanted was to let these guys use their caravans or shops to sell the glass... Of course, he didn't expect this to be really hidden from His Majesty Li Er and others, but no matter what, these old guys were embarrassed to grab money from a group of children, right? He could still earn some income!
When Li Ke saw the mirrors and various glassware neatly placed in the warehouse, he was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth.
"Big, brother, how come this... how come there are so many? It's not that the glass production process is complicated and the materials are expensive..."
Li Chengqian said disdainfully: "You just hear such nonsense. The process is complicated because they don't master the correct process at all! As for the raw materials being expensive... Is this thing sand expensive?"
"What? Sand?"
"What do you think? This glass is basically made of sand, limestone and other valuable things. It looks good, but it is actually not worth much money at all! But if you, those of you who are unsavvy, are foolish, who will spend a lot of money to buy it!"
Li Chengqian's explanation made Li Ke feel a little hot on his cheeks. He was one of the unknown people Li Chengqian said!
He doesn't like gold, silver and jade, but he is very interested in these colorful or crystal clear glass products. There is a special warehouse in the mansion to store the glass products bought from Hu Shang!
This is also why he knows Liuli so well!
"Brother, how do you plan to sell these things?"
"Of course, we should sell it slowly little by little... we mainly have to sell it to the west. Those Hu merchants have cheated the people of the Tang Dynasty for so many years, and it is time to return it!"
"What I mean is...How much does this Buddha statue cost?"
Li Chengqian did not answer directly, but asked back: "If it were you, there was only such a piece of glass product, how much would you spend?"
Li Ke was stunned for a moment and immediately understood, "Brother means... like the 'Shenxian Brew', it is limited to supply, auctioned, and then the higher price will be obtained?"
"Yes, I explained it to you before. This is called 'hunger marketing'. The more rare things are, the more people will flock to them. So, don't tell anyone what glass is doing with sand, and no old man can say it. This is a good opportunity for us brothers to make a lot of money!"
"My brother understand, understand, hehe..."
Well, Li Chengqian may not have done a great job in other aspects, but he is unattainable in being a brother and leading a bad younger brother and sister! In the past, a good girl Li Lizhi was brought into a "female tomboy", and now, a righteous gentleman Li Ke has gradually been taken on the "road of no return"!
Chapter completed!