Chapter 6 The most profitable industry

In the past six months since Chen Ying left Chang'an, he has rarely been involved in the industrial operation of Chen's mansion, but this time he has to be familiar with his industrial problems.

Ma Zhou was mainly responsible for the management of the money shop. Before he knew it, Ma Zhou extended Chen Ying's money shop from a headquarters in Chang'an to eight branches and twenty-six branches, including Taiyuan, Luoyang, Chengdu, Lingzhou, Jincheng (now Lanzhou), Jiuquan, Dunhuang, and Xiangyang.

The ideal of Chen Ying is still far away from the idea of ​​having one branch in each prefecture and at least one branch in each county. The key is that this has produced a very good start. What surprised Chen Ying the most was that Datang Tongli Money House now has a storage of 1.26 million guan, and loans loans to merchants or farmers for production or operation are more than 800,000 guan. These loan businesses alone do not count the profits of minting. The annual gross profit of Datang Tongli Money House is as high as 160,000 guan. Excluding necessary expenses, the surplus is more than 100,000 guan.

Other industries, such as four-wheeled carriage workshops, iron and steel workshops, weapons and armor and crossbow workshops, have produced 64,000 sets of Mingguang armor, 7,200 sets of heavy armor, more than 30,000 horizontal swords, and more than 10,000 crossbows. However, there are more than 16,000 bows and crossbows. Roughly estimated, the gross profits of these are more than 200,000 guan.

Chen Ying knew that he would never be able to control these industries, even if he was holding the tiger skin of the East Palace, it would still be impossible. After all, Li Jiancheng is not the emperor yet. Even if he was the emperor, these deadly industries would not be able to be controlled by him. However, what made Chen Ying feel a little more comfortable was that the profits of these industries would decrease as the Tang Dynasty won the battle of the Central Plains and the Battle of Hebei.

For a considerable period of time, the Tang Dynasty's consumption of armor and weapons will remain at a very low level. The output of weapons supervision alone can definitely ensure the consumption of the Tang Dynasty's army. By that time, the armor and weapons he produced will no longer have a market.

Of course, what Chen Ying felt most painful was the steel yard. With the victory of the Tang Dynasty in the Civil War, after three years of Wude, there was no large-scale war in the following period. Although military steel decreased, the Tang Dynasty's demand for steel was far from saturated. Because of the scarcity of steel resources, many remote areas still use stone tillage tools or wooden farm tools. In this way, the steel market is still very large.

The salt and iron court was specialized in. This was the national policy of the Tang Dynasty and the national policy of all dynasties. It was also an important link in the treasury income of the Tang Dynasty. Although major clans and aristocratic clans had such workshops and they also had a certain amount of steel output, most of this part of the steel output will be directly digested by major clans and rarely flowed to the market. The key is that Chen Ying's steel workshop output is really scary. I am afraid that the combined steel output of the major clans is less than half as much as Chen Ying.

As the saying goes, every man is innocent and has a sin.

Withdrawal from the steel and salt industry is also Chen Ying's established strategy. Because this industry is really too scary, after all, steel resources are strategic materials of this era. In later generations, industries such as oil, gas, and electricity will never be privatized.

However, Chen Ying had the idea of ​​changing careers long ago.

For thousands of years, a major factor in suppressing commerce, suppressing sea and suppressing craftsmanship is to ensure that the emperor's power is independent and the monarch's power is the only one. Once the opening is made and the voyage is expanded, the scale of commercial industry will make people lively. How many people will willingly bow to the emperor's power and the imperial power?

Of course, with the collapse of the agricultural society, industrial production has become increasingly the center of the empire, new trends of thought will inevitably come, and social changes will follow.

At that point, even if the monarchy can be barely maintained, it will be placed in a castle in the air.

But now, society is still dominated by agricultural production. With such a huge territory, a centralized imperial system is an effective means to maintain social order. The key is whether the imperial system can open up a hole for the social change that will be destined to come in later generations and ease the impact on society when the changes come; or use several generations of time to actively cater to new changes?

Chen Ying knew that the problem of land annexation was a shackle on the neck of the Chinese nation, and a curse on the head of the Chinese nation. From division to unity, from poverty and then to prosperity, from prosperity to decline, the Chinese nation has always been unable to get out of this vicious circle.

Chen Ying knew that the only way to change this phenomenon is to develop industry and business, and complete social changes and transformation. Although this change and transformation are painful and have obvious side effects, this is also a helpless move.

Steel is the foundation of the industry, and Chen Ying does not care who is in the hands of the steel industry. Reducing the price of steel to a bargain can serve the whole people and make it affordable for the people. This is Chen Ying's purpose.

Once the steel industry plate was thrown to the court, whether it was Li Yuan or the court, they could not look too ugly and would give Chen Ying some compensation. Chen Ying would use these compensations to open the Tang Dynasty University of Technology on the one hand, and on the other hand, focus on opening a Tang Dynasty Medical College.

The industry of saving lives and helping the wounded will not suffer from Confucian counter-revolution or fear from the court. At the same time, it can make money and win a good reputation. Most importantly, Chen Ying can use the hospital channel to operate his network.

Although Chen Ying was already a senior official of the third rank at this time, he had very little influence in the court and had almost no contact with major aristocratic families, clans, and officials.

When Chen Ying checked the accounts with Ma Zhou and Xu Jingzong, the sky was already bright. Chen Ying rubbed his red eyes and said, "It's getting late, so go back and rest."

Xu Jingzong wanted to speak. He didn't know it before, but now he knew that Chen Ying had an industry that could make nearly one million yuan in profits a year. Now he handed over this industry. Even if these industries were not Xu Jingzong's, he was reluctant to leave it.

Chen Ying looked at Xu Jingzong's expression and smiled and said, "As far as ancient times, there has been no good ending when opposing the court. The court has countless ways to kill individuals. Now I can really play emotional cards with His Majesty the Emperor and save these industries. Of course, this can only be temporary. But is it really necessary?"

"Why is there no need for a gross profit of millions of guan a year?" Xu Jingzong said: "In addition to the 30% profit we divided from the Eastern Palace, we also have at least 700,000 guan. This money is more useful!"

Chen Ying stood up, looked at Xu Jingzong solemnly and said, "Is it a lot of 700,000 guan?"

"Why isn't it too much?" Xu Jingzong said: "The income of the last year was nearly one-fifth of the national treasury income. If this was not too much, how could it be too much?"

Chen Ying pointed at Ma Zhou and said, "Ma Zhou, tell Mr. Xu that 700,000 yuan a year is really a lot?"

Ma Zhou shook his head and said, "It's really not much!"

"You... don't forget that although Tongli Money House has money, the money is not from the money house, but from the depositors!" Xu Jingzong said: "Ma Langjun, the Tongli Money House in the Tang Dynasty has only made a profit of 100,000 yuan in the past six months, which is much worse than the profits of the steel workshop!"

As the saying goes, apart travel is like a mountain. Xu Jingzong did not manage the money house, and he actually didn't know much about the money house.

Although the money shop's business profit was only 100,000 yuan, it was mainly because Chen Ying's Datang Tongli Money Bank is currently expanding its amateurs and investing most of the profits in the newly opened money shop. Therefore, from the books, the money shop's income and expenditure are balanced and slightly profitable.

However, once the Tang Dynasty Tongli Money Bank can truly benefit the world, that is when Chen Ying makes a large-scale money.

Chen Ying smiled slightly and said, "Don't disbelief, I have now thought of a better way to make money!"

Ma Zhou and Xu Jingzong's eyes met in the air, and the two almost said in unison: "What's the master's plan?"

Chen Ying smiled and said, "I am going to open the Datang Boren Hospital, and I am going to open the Boren Hospital to every road, every state, every city in the Datang..."

If in later generations, if we ask what the most profitable industry is, some people would say finance, some people would say it is real estate, and some people would say it is communication, electronics, and IT. The answers are varied, but the real estate industry is not real estate. Of course, the profits of ten times the real estate are not small, but compared with the profits of hundreds of times the medical industry, the profits of tens of thousands or tens of thousands of times the highest, the profits of real estate are really not enough.

In the Heavenly Kingdom, who dares to get sick? Even if a middle-class family is seriously ill, it will lose all its money.

In fact, this is even more so in this era.

Chen Ying decided to open a hospital, which was divided into three levels. The real poor enjoyed free or zero-profit medical services, small and medium-sized landlords enjoyed VIP services, while the rich and powerful enjoyed supreme services.

In this way, Chen Ying can not only gain support from the working people, but also gain favor from the aristocratic families, and both sides can take their needs. Chen Ying can also use the hospital management system of later generations to create the Boren hospital system of the Tang Dynasty.

Once this industry becomes large, it will be the industry with the highest profit besides printing money. This is the real joy for everyone.

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Finally, Li Jiancheng arrived in Chang'an before Li Xiuning left the house. When he saw Li Xiuning, Li Xiuning, wearing a red wedding dress, seemed to have just cried, and his eyes were red and swollen like peaches.

Li Jiancheng smiled and said, "A good happy event, you keep crying, are you wronged? Don't cry anymore, if you cry again, you will no longer be a beautiful bride."

Li Xiuning wiped the tears from her face and said, "Brother, what should I do if I bullied someone else?"
Chapter completed!