After Zhang Yang expressed his expected income from soybean oil this year, Zhang Yue was stunned for a year and looked at Zhang Yang in a daze, obviously scared by the news.

Zhang Yue has worked hard for so many years, and with the care of Li Shimin, he has become a super rich businessman in the Tang Dynasty. It can be said that there are less than thirty merchants in Chang'an City, and even the entire Tang Dynasty who are richer than him, except for those large families that have been circulated for thousands of years.

But even such a wealthy and wealthy businessman, his total net worth is only less than one million yuan, which includes a lot of real estate, the restaurants acquired this year, and all the goods in his hands.

The working capital in hand is only more than 100,000 to 200,000 yuan. Zhang Yang only made the second move for the family's business, and brought 150,000 yuan of profit to the family, which is a net profit.

This is not like the turnover mentioned in later generations, but pure profit, and the money you can get in real terms. This is already a part of the pink that was distributed to the Wang Shu family, otherwise it would have nearly 200,000 guan!

If he uses all the soybeans in Datang according to Zhang Yang's plan to refine the soybean oil, then there will be at least 1.15 billion kilograms of soybeans. Based on the profit of each kilogram of soybeans to the end, this is as much as 3.45 billion kilograms. In the end, the profit per year can be 3.45 million kilograms. This is almost the entire tax of the Tang Dynasty in a year!

This is really rich enough to rival a country, but it is obviously impossible. If there is so much income a year, the Zhang family will not need to exist. At that time, it will definitely be destroyed by Li Shimin.

No matter whether Li Shimin is broad-minded, he will not have such a merchant whose annual income can be compared with the imperial court. This is impossible and not allowed in the past or the future.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yue had already made a decision and went to the palace to discuss this matter with Li Shimin after the morning court tomorrow.

However, Zhang Yang still has nothing to say about it. This value can only be maintained at this price in the past two years, especially next year, this price will hit a new high, because according to historical records, next year, that is, the first year of Zhenguan in history.

In the first year of Zhenguan in the early Tang Dynasty, there were a series of famines and famines, so the rice price was astonishingly high, which was an extreme period.

, "Old Book of Tang = Biography of Ma Zhou" records that Ma Zhou mentioned in his memorial in the eleventh year of Zhenguan: "In the beginning of Zhenguan, the land was frugal. Only a piece of silk could get a dou of rice, and the whole world was full of clues.........

"Zizhi Tongjian" "In the first year, when Guanzhong was hungry, a piece of rice and silk was scattered; in the second year, the world was locust; in the third year, the flood was flooded.

Therefore, the food price will reach an extremely high next year, which will definitely exceed the level of 360 ounces this year.

Why is it so high? Historical data shows that a dou of rice is worth a piece of silk in the first year of Zhenguan, and the price of silk did not change much during the Zhenguan period. A piece of silk could be exchanged for more than ten stones of chestnuts during the prosperous Zhenguan era (calculated by fifteen stones). The rice price at this time was three to five cents per dou of rice, which was calculated by taking the middle number of four cents. According to the research of the famous historian Mr. Hu Rulei, the price of millet was 60% of the price of rice. According to this price ratio, ten stones of millet were converted into nine stones of rice, that is, ninety dou. Four cents per dou of four cents in total. Therefore, if a dou of rice was exchanged for one piece of silk in the first year of Zhenguan, the price of a piece of silk was 360 cents, which means that a dou of rice was sold for 360 cents in the first year of Zhenguan.

After four years of Zhenguan, the price of goods fell sharply. At that time, the price of grain would slowly enter the prosperous Tang Dynasty and finally fall to about four cents (that is, four cents for ten kilograms of rice). It was stable for many years.

After the later period of grain price reduction, Zhang's book friend soybean oil will definitely be reduced. The final price will also drop to about five cents per ten kilograms.

However, by that time, the yield per mu of grain will reach its peak, that is, the yield per mu is about 300 kilograms, and the more soybeans should grow, it will reach about 260 kilograms.

However, these are not the issues that need to be worried now. Because of this year's bumper harvest, even if the output is reduced next year, prices will definitely not have much increase.

As for the locusts in the next year, Zhang Yang will definitely not cause much damage, and the flood will not be a big problem in the next big flood. If Zhang Yang doesn’t know, there will definitely be a big problem, but Zhang Yang knows that this will definitely be much easier to solve. Therefore, it is expected that the prices of the Tang Dynasty will stabilize at the current level in the next four years, and even if there is some fluctuation, it should not be much.

As for the prosperous era of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty four years later, this is not what Zhang Yang cares about now. It has been the sixth year of Zhenguan now. At that time, even if the grain price begins to drop, it will take time for the family to start to drop. In the end, it will be at least eight years of Zhenguan when it is about to reach 4 cents per dou. At that time, the Zhang family will have made a lot of money. At that time, even if the secrets of these refining workshops are completely disclosed, it is not impossible for everyone in the world to come to the refining industry.

With Zhang Yang's existence, the Zhang family created a new project to operate new projects and even more money.

However, after Zhang Yue thought about reporting this to Li Shimin tomorrow, he thought about revealing some unknown secrets to Zhang Yang.

"Baby, I thought about it for my father. Some things should be told to you that our Zhang family can have such a big business, so much money and status now, which is the love and care of His Majesty today.

Otherwise, even if my father has great skills and many business talents, he would not have been able to run our Zhang family's business to this point in just over ten years with a little capital at that time.

So when my father accepted His Majesty’s resources, he made an agreement with His Majesty that all the merchants of the Zhang family would be used as the eyes and ears of His Majesty to inquire about the news and raise materials for His Majesty. Therefore, from then on, half of the annual profits of the Zhang family will be handed over to His Majesty as his Majesty’s secret source of income.

Your plan is too shocking. I plan to report to Your Majesty tomorrow morning and ask Your Majesty to decide."

When Zhang Yang heard Zhang Yue say this, many of his questions in his heart were solved.

As a later generation, Zhang Yang knew that he wanted to use such a meager capital during this period and spent more than ten years to become a rich man named Forbes in later generations. There was not much possibility.

There have been wars over the past ten years, and there is no stable business environment at all. Moreover, the projects that are operated during this period can only be careers, and they cannot develop without a strong enough force to protect and support them.

This is not the possibility of those who engage in virtual industry investments and stocks and futures trading in later generations, and there is no possibility of getting rich overnight, unless you dug up gold. Unfortunately, gold at this time is not circulating currency and it is difficult to exchange for money.

Moreover, when Zhang Yang taught Zhang Yue to conduct new accounting last year, Zhang Yang discovered that there was something wrong with their Zhang family’s accounts.

With all the businesses that the Zhang family now runs, the final remaining amount of each year will not be so small, which is half less than his calculations. When Zhang Yang asked Zhang Yue, Zhang Yue said that he knew and did not let Zhang Yang take care of this matter.

However, when Zhang Yang participated in the Li Shimin's Xuanwu Gate Incident, Zhang Yang vaguely guessed that this large amount of money was given to Li Shimin by Zhang Yue for him to use.

Otherwise, when he was the King of Qin, he had been fighting abroad all year round and had very little time in the rear. With Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji's guardianship, Li Shimin's development in the rear was even more difficult.

With Li Yuan paying his rewards and some semi-public income, Li Shimin couldn't have so much money to build his "Xuan Tie Elite Army," known as the first army of the Tang Dynasty, and to buy people and recruit soldiers.

Also, every time Li Shimin returns to victory, he always has a small amount of his spoils. Because there are not many, and most of the people participating in the war are not noticed by his talents.

Everyone knows what kind of wealth is best to make, that is, war money, especially when you have enough strength and not afraid of being bad at the wrongdoer, it will definitely be a huge profit.

However, Li Shimin was Li Yuan's second son at that time, because of his identity, he would definitely not be able to do this business. It happened that Li Shimin met Zhang Yue, who was in a down-and-out but very talented in business.

After a conversation, the two hit it off, each got what they wanted, and started a business together, which led to Zhang Yue's current success, wealthy and famous in the Tang Dynasty. Otherwise, even Li Jiancheng knew that Zhang Yue was helping Li Shimin.

After Zhang Yang had communicated these things, Zhai thought about it carefully for a while and said to Zhang Yue:

"Father, you go to tell Your Majesty about soybean oil tomorrow. As a son, I will definitely not object to it, nor can I object to it.

But father, we can do this business in a different way, that is, when you go to the palace to discuss with Your Majesty tomorrow, you can make this suggestion to Your Majesty that the price of soybean oil will not change for the time being, but the refining plan for next year will change.

Next year, we will refine oil together with the court, and then sell the profits to find our own. Our Zhang family will refine the soybean oil we produce and grow next year, while other soybean oil produced by the court will be sold by the court.

However, we must negotiate the price of soybean oil with the court and unify it at 50 cents per catty. Next year, we can only refine oil with the court. As for selling oil, we don’t care. Whether it is a monopoly or other chambers of commerce or we sell it on their behalf, the price cannot be lower than 50 cents per catty.

And tomorrow you will explain to Your Majesty that our Zhang family's oil refining industry has only been refined for seven years in Zhenguan. After the seven years in Zhenguan, our Zhang family has gradually withdrawn from this market from eight years. At that time, whether it is refined by the court alone or by us is open to your Majesty. However, before the eight years in Zhenguan, you have to make a decision with Your Majesty that the world can only be refined by our two families.

Your Majesty cannot be authorized to others in private, and you must also do a good job of confidentiality. At least this secret must be kept until the eighth year of Zhenguan. At the same time, the new refining workshops will be built by the imperial court next year, which is no longer our business.

The most important thing is that His Majesty cannot make the profits of our soybean oil this year. I have given him so much money, so he should give us a little. We spend so much this year, so we rely on this money to fill this year's spending.

You know, the refining technology we gave him can increase his income to the treasury by more than three million yuan every year. We just want his fraction of the money. That's not an exaggeration."

After listening to Zhang Yang's words, Zhang Yue began to calculate the feasibility of Zhang Yang's words. However, after Zhang Yue calculated for a while, he found that what Zhang Yang said was completely feasible. However, he still had some questions in his heart and asked Zhang Yang:

"Baby, your Majesty should agree to this year's profit. This year seems to be a bumper year. The court's food and salary should not be tight, and you have given up such a large profit next year.

No, I have two questions that I haven't figured out, I don't know what your plans are?

First, why do you insist that the price of this vegetarian oil is 50 cents per pound? I know that it cannot be lower, it is to ensure profits, but why don’t you raise the price?

Second, why do you say that this price is only guaranteed to be seven years of Zhenguan? After eight years of Zhenguan, it won’t be ignored. And why do you plan to launch this market out of time? Or if you don’t refine oil, you will start to sell oil instead of oil.

"So these two questions are the ones! Even if you don't ask, I will tell you later.

The first reason why we should sell oil at a price of 50 cents cannot be increased? It is because in order to ensure our profits and the profits of the people, you should know that the price of grain is extremely unstable. You see, this year's bumper harvest will be cheaper, but you and I don't know whether there will be natural disasters next year to reduce grain production and increase grain prices.

The purpose of stabilizing at 50 cents per pound is to prevent this situation, so that the people can eat oil and avoid a lot of oil shortage. At most, we and the court make less money, and we will not lose money anyway.

Your second question is actually similar to the first question. Even if the Tang Dynasty fluctuates every year under the leadership of His Majesty's wise and magical power, after several years of gradual improvement, the food in the people's homes will definitely accumulate like mountains.

If we store grain that can be used for several years, then the price of grain will definitely gradually decrease at that time. If our vegetarian oil is still sold at such a high price, it will make the people complain, and those families that have long been jealous will take the opportunity to spread some rumors that are unfavorable to us, and affect our other businesses.

I expect this time to be five to six years. I expect that by then, as long as nothing unexpected happens, the grain price at that time may drop to less than 4 or 5 cents, which is a low price in recent decades, and it will continue to think of it for a long time.

If the price of grain really drops to that level, then our vegetarian oil will definitely not be sold so high, and we will have to go down to 60 cents. Then, at that time, when each kilogram of soybeans arrives, we will only get a profit of about one cent at most, and in the best case a year, we can only find 30,000 cents in a year. If it is not good, it will only be a profit of 10,000 cents.

Instead of making people jealous and jealous for this profit of only 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, it would be better for us to make them public in exchange for favors from other aristocratic families."

After Zhang Yang's analysis, Zhang Yue looked at his baby son with relief and found that he had really grown up and thought about things more thoroughly.

This is a matter of eating alone. Although it is a cooperation with the court and the court has shared some hatred, the pressure from the Zhang family will be quite large at that time. Someone will definitely make a condom.

But if this is done for five or six years, it will be different. This year will definitely be fine, and someone will definitely start to be jealous next year. However, if the court is there, let the court block it for two or three years, it will still be fine.

As for the third and fourth years, it will be time for his son to reduce the price expected, and his family will have less money. If you promise to make it public, you will still hand over the business to the court. Then there will be no business for the Zhang family. However, based on Zhang Yue's understanding of Li Shimin, Li Shimin will definitely agree to disclose the refining method of the oil.

Then, once the Zhang family makes the oil refining method public, the person who uses this method will owe the Zhang family a favor, and the ones who can obtain the oil refining method will definitely not be aristocratic families or wealthy businessmen.

After the discussion ended, Zhang Yang and Zhang Yue had basically nothing to talk about, and it was getting late, so Zhang Yang and Zhang Yue went back to their rooms to rest.

The next day, Zhang Yang and Zhang Yue followed suit and started doing their own things.

However, after Zhang Yang finished practicing martial arts in the afternoon, Zhang Yue had already seen Li Shimin come back. Zhang Yue saw Zhang Yang say to Zhang Yang after practicing martial arts:

"Baby, today I went to the palace to see Your Majesty. After telling your proposal to Your Majesty, Your Majesty agreed to your proposal and said that from this year to the eighth year of Zhenguan, all the refining profits in the Zhang Mansion will be left to you to control. This is regarded as the reward for the princess to marry you!"

Zhang Yang replied in a pretty plain manner to Zhang Yue's words:

"Oh! I understand!"

Zhang Yue shook his head in disappointment in the face of his beloved son's reaction and left.

In the next half month, the whole Tang Dynasty knew that in addition to meat oil, there is also an edible oil called vegetarian oil, and this vegetarian oil stir-fried dishes are quite delicious.

This vegetarian oil was first introduced by the Zhang family. The restaurant was the first to launch vegetarian oil stir-frying, which made dozens of vegetarian oil restaurants in the Tang Dynasty full of every day. It was known as the 'ceremonious wine, which made people who ate this vegetarian oil stir-frying, and at the same time, everyone who worked in the business of this restaurant was happy.

However, after half a month of hot speculation, at the center of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial capital Chang'an City and the Zhangjia Chamber of Commerce in the eastern capital Luoyang began to sell vegetarian oil.

However, due to production issues, only 1,000 kilograms were sold in these two cities every day, and the other vegetarian oils were divided by the aristocratic families and high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen of the Tang Dynasty.

Originally, these two thousand pounds could not be evenly matched, but they only started selling them in these two capitals at Zhang Yang's strong request.

This kind of vegetarian oil that is as high as 50 cents per kilogram is still very popular. There are people waiting in the two stores selling this vegetarian oil before dawn every day, and they will be sold out before noon after opening. You must know that this is a purchase restriction!

When each person purchases one pound, it is sold out in less than two hours, which is too exaggerated!

There is no outside the store, but there are a thousand people queuing outside every day!

This shows how popular this vegetarian oil is. Of course, it is also related to the rich people in these two cities. "
Chapter completed!