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Chapter 304: Will Liu Jin make a loss-making business?

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    In the square in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the morning court was over and the ministers retired, walking together in twos and threes, chatting while walking outside the palace.

    "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Liu Jin want to build Qianqing Palace for free. What do you think of this matter?"

    Liu Jian smiled and said to his colleagues that around him, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, Zhou Jing, and Ma Wensheng were all cabinet ministers or six ministers of the current dynasty.

    "It seems that His Highness the Crown Prince and Liu Jin have really made a lot of money."

    Xie Qian sighed with a smile.

    "Actually, this is also a good thing. Since they are willing to pay to build the Qianqing Palace, the national treasury can also have a remaining amount of expenditure."

    Zhou Jing, the Minister of Household Affairs, was troubled when it came to money. It was not easy for him to be a housekeeper, but this time he showed a rare smile, because the Qianqing Palace was burned down. It would definitely cost a lot to rebuild the Qianqing Palace.  It is impossible to say that it all came from the internal funds of Emperor Hongzhi, and some came from the national treasury.

    It is definitely a happy thing for him to be able to have some expenses left, not to mention the two million taels of silver Liu Jin paid for the private salt farm not long ago. The national treasury finally has some silver.  The mice will not starve to death.

    "What I'm worried about is whether the Qianqing Palace, built with reinforced concrete, is strong and safe. After all, this is where the emperor lives."

    Li Dongyang thought for a while and said.

    "There should be no need for us to worry about this aspect. Liu Jin dared to build the Qianqing Palace, so he must have considered this aspect. I am really looking forward to what the Qianqing Palace will look like after it is built."

    Liu Jian said with a smile that he had already seen the design plan and drawings, and they were very good, especially since the new Qianqing Palace no longer uses wood to build, which can greatly save the construction period and also save expenses.

    You must know that all the wood needed to build palaces in the past had to be cut down from the deep mountains and old forests in the Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan region. Just to prepare these woods required a lot of manpower to cut them in the mountains.

    Then a lot of manpower and material resources were spent to transport the wood to the capital. You must know that this was the Ming Dynasty, with inconvenient transportation and no machinery. Everything relied on manpower to transport a large amount of wood to the capital. The cost involved  One can imagine.

    "Building a palace for the emperor has to be done at the level of the entire country, which is extremely expensive. This is why every time an ancient emperor wanted to build a palace or a garden, he would be strongly opposed by his ministers.

    Without it, it would be a huge waste of national power.

    ?Some people may ask, why should this wood be cut down from the Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan areas? There are no trees in the mountains around the capital?

    In fact, it is not that there are no trees, but that the requirements cannot be met. To build the emperor's palace, the requirements for the huge wooden pillars in front of the palace are very high, and ordinary trees cannot do it.

    ¡°And because of early development in the north, after thousands of years of logging, it has been difficult to find wood that can be used to build the emperor¡¯s palace. Only the virgin forests in the Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan areas can still find wood that meets the requirements.

    Of course, more importantly, in order to show the nobility of the emperor's status, the wood used in the construction of the Qianqing Palace must be precious wood. The most important thing is golden nanmu. Golden nanmu has always been the most ideal and precious among civilized Chinese buildings.  , the highest-grade building materials are widely used in the construction of palaces, gardens and royal tombs.

    The production area of ??golden nanmu is only found in the south, and because the ancients liked to use it to build houses, the general areas have long been cut down, and you have to go to the virgin forests of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan to find it.

    Now someone is building the Qianqing Palace for Emperor Hongzhi, which can greatly save human, financial and material resources. Ministers like them are also happy to see it, otherwise building a palace will inevitably waste people and money.

    On the other side, a group of military officers and nobles such as the British Duke Zhang Mao and the Chengguo Duke Zhu Fu were also walking together, talking and laughing with each other.

    "Lao Zhang, what do you think of this?"

    Zhu Fu, the Duke of Chengguo, asked Zhang Mao with a smile.

    "I wonder if Liu Jin has too much money and no place to spend it. The cost of building Qianqing Palace is not a small number. If money is really needed to calculate everything, it will be an astronomical sum.  "

    Zhang Mao looked at Zhu Fu, thought for a while and said with a smile: "Liu Jin, is this guy going to make a loss-making business?"

    Hearing Zhang Mao¡¯s words, everyone was stunned for a moment, then thought for a moment and said, ¡°How can he still make money by building the Qianqing Palace for His Majesty for free?¡±

    &nb??Curtain fabrics also need to be manufactured separately. Taking this opportunity, Liu Jin is also preparing to come up with the big killer of the Jenny spinning machine.

    Salt merchants, grain merchants, and tea merchants in the Ming Dynasty made money. In fact, there was also a cloth merchant who was also very profitable, because cloth is related to people's clothing, food, housing, and transportation. The market demand is very large, and the merchants who deal in cloth are also very strong.

    Liu Jin took a pen and paper and wrote down one item after another. The construction of a huge palace requires too many materials, involving many industries and fields, all of which have great potential.

    "The most important thing is the steel bars. If the Qianqing Palace had not been built for Emperor Hongzhi, it would have been impossible to get the permission to build a steel plant in the Year of the Monkey. But now it is better, and it can be obtained easily."

    Liu Jin couldn¡¯t help but smile from ear to ear after looking at the dozen or so industries that were about to be established on the paper.

    Salt and iron have always been the exclusive domain of the imperial court, and no one can easily get involved. Now all of a sudden, the salt farm can be opened privately, and even the steelmaking license has been obtained.

    Liu Jin has always wanted to build a steelmaking plant and smelt steel himself.

    Because there are so many areas that require the use of steel in the many industries under Liu Jin's command, especially in real estate development in Tianjin, steel is almost always indispensable.

    But the production of steel in this era was very small. The key was that the quality was extremely poor. Many of the iron purchased from various channels were very brittle and would break when hit with a big hammer.

    Friends who have read chemistry know that this is because iron contains too much carbon, so iron will be very brittle. This is why ancient iron had to be repeatedly beaten by blacksmiths to remove the carbon before it could be used.

    The output of iron in the Ming Dynasty was low, and the output of steel was even lower. All steel was hammered by the blacksmith, so good iron was extremely expensive, and it was too expensive to use it to build houses.  No, I simply can't afford it.

    Steel is also an extremely profitable industry in this era, because the demand for steel is so strong that weapons, armor, farm tools, kitchen knives, iron pots, etc. are all inseparable from iron.

    The dynasties will firmly grasp their own hands in the dynasties. Although they can prevent people from relying on the purpose of this smelting weapon rebellion, it is more for the profit of steel.

    It¡¯s just that the smelting technology in ancient times was limited, and the smelted steel was often not enough for the court to use. Therefore, although the salt and iron were specialized, there were still a large number of local gentry and wealthy families in various parts of the Ming Dynasty smelting steel to make huge profits.

    This is also the reason why Liu Jin was able to easily get a license to smelt steel, because one aspect was to help the emperor build a palace, and Emperor Hongzhi had to express it. The court did not have to spend money, manpower, etc., so naturally it didn't matter, anyway.  Liu Jin is not the only one who smelt steel.

    Another aspect is that the output of the imperial government's own steel-smelting workshops is too low, each has its own tasks, and there is simply no excess production capacity to meet Liu Jin's needs for building the Qianqing Palace.

    ¡°Steel plants need to be carefully planned and planned. It is best to choose a place closer to the iron ore producing area, so that freight can be greatly saved.¡±

    Thinking of the steel plant, Liu Jin took out a map again. This was a map Liu Jin made with his golden finger. It showed in detail the distribution of mineral resources in various places.

    "When Shougang Group in later generations just started, all its iron ore came from Miyun. Although the output of Miyun iron ore cannot be compared with other large-scale iron mines in the world, it is absolutely sufficient to meet the current demand."

    Soon, Liu Jin drew a circle in Miyun near the capital. Miyun Iron Mine was also famous in later generations.

    "Well, we will be very busy next. There are so many industries to be managed at once, and we have to run back and forth between Tianjin and Beijing."

    After carefully calculating, Liu Jin also began to make a detailed plan for the next itinerary.

    But before Liu Jin could make plans, a hearty voice came over.

    "You stinky boy, you stinky boy, you don't tell Lao Zhang even if you have a profitable business, it's so meaningless."

    Hearing this voice, Liu Jin quickly put away the paper on the desk.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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