Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

Changsun Wuji hadn't realized the seriousness of the matter, after all, it was just the beginning, but only in the next few days, Changsun Wuji fully realized that, first of all, it was the non-registered households in their shop All master masters and apprentice craftsmen ran away.

The rest of the people can make their own. As for the sale...Let’s not talk about the cost or not, at least how much you lose from making it. Secondly, he found out that Cheng Yaojin’s blacksmith shop is also selling it like Li Ke’s. Quyuan plowshares and related kitchen knives, iron pans and other ironware, and the price is only one-third of their selling price.

After a little inquiry, I know that the pig iron ingots in Cheng Yaojin's house are directly supplied by Li Ke. I don't know how much the cost is, and I don't know the supply price. These pig iron ingots meant that the price Li Ke gave him was absolutely profitable.

This also means another thing, Li Ke still has spare energy to sell pig iron ingots to the outside world.

Changsun Wuji fell silent, this trick... has no solution.It's not like the method of "Datang Weekly" that makes them have no solution to admit defeat, but from the beginning to the end...from the commercial means to make them have no solution.

Directly monopolizing all the buyer's markets, no common people come to them to buy things. This is one, and the other is that Li Ke will cut off their sales to the official channels.

If Li Ke continued to sell the pig iron ingots used by Datang officials to make armor at the price he sold to Cheng Yaojin, what would he fight for?Can't Datang officials buy his iron ore at a loss?impossible.

If he dared to say that, he was waiting to die.

When the new issue of "Datang Weekly" was on sale, the news on it made Changsun Wuji's heart sink. In the past few days, Chang'an City actually set off a wave of purchasing. After seeing the selling price of the ironware in the blacksmith's shop, they all ran over to buy ironware, whether it was a kitchen knife or others.

Because these iron wares are cheaper than ever, the common people are simple in their hearts, and they are afraid that the price of iron wares will increase in the future.

But in the new issue of "Datang Weekly", Li Ke asked the people not to rush to buy these ironware in his own name, but to refer to the situation in his own home before purchasing as appropriate, and guaranteed that in the next three years, the In the name of His Highness King Qin, the price of ironware will never increase!

This guarantee has already shown...the cost of pig iron smelting in Li Ke's hands is definitely much lower than theirs, otherwise Li Ke would not be able to make such a loss even if he had a golden mountain!There is only one explanation, that is, Li Ke has a better iron smelting method in his hands, which greatly reduces his smelting cost.

Even if he sells ironware at the current price, Li Ke can still make money!

At present, there is only this possibility. Just thinking about this possibility, Changsun Wuji feels powerless, because there is really no way to deal with it?Find a way to get the smelting method from Li Ke?

Stop making trouble, it's impossible, their eldest grandson's family had mastered the most advanced iron-making technology in the Tang Dynasty before, has their eldest grandson's family popularized it to others?No.

At this time, you want Li Ke to take it out, are you shameless?If it can be solved by being shameless, his eldest grandson Wuji's old face is also gone. The problem is that even if he is shameless, this matter cannot be achieved!

And the most important thing now is that although Li Ke raised the monthly money of the people around him, but... he may not lose money, but still make money, because for the people, ironware is what they have to buy, one piece every seven days The [-]% discount for buying ironware exchange coupons means that the monthly money that these people work for more than a month will almost all be used to buy ironware in addition to food for their own lives!

In other words, the monthly money that Li Ke sent out finally came back to him, and there was still profit!

Changsun Wuji is numb!

For the present... there is only one way!After much deliberation, Changsun Wuji only thought of one trick.

Only this trick can make Li Ke hand over the method of ironmaking, otherwise there is no way at all.

But for now... the iron mines and blacksmith shops of Changsun's family can only be closed. This trick is called putting them to death and then reborn. body.

Just do what you want, since Changsun Wuji made a decision, he went directly to see Li Shimin, and this matter had to go through Li Shimin.

As for what he said when he met Li Shimin, no one knows, but after Changsun Wuji met Li Shimin, Li Shimin informed Li Ke to go to court tomorrow.

Although Li Ke didn't know why he was asked to go to court, and he didn't know what Changsun Wuji and Li Shimin said, but Li Shimin asked Li Ke to go to court after Changsun Wuji approached him. Iron is related.

Iron can be said to be the most important weapon of the Tang Dynasty, so if Changsun Wuji can guess the news and listen to Li Shimin, it will make sense for Li Shimin to let him go to court.

As for what Changsun Wuji wants to play, Li Ke doesn't care, for the Changsun family, they are hopeless, just wait for death.

On the second day, Li Ke went to court on time. Obviously, many people have been notified that Li Ke is going to court today. Everyone has no special expressions, because today is the direct confrontation between Changsun Wuji and Li Ke, which has a lot to do with everyone. Tang's ironware, so everyone didn't want to get involved.

"The minister has something to announce." Changsun Wuji stood up immediately after going to court.

"Ai Qing, please tell me." Li Shimin nodded.

"Qizou Your Majesty, the price of ironware in Chang'an City has fallen sharply recently, which is a good thing for the country and the people. The cost of the first 3 coins is already the limit, but His Royal Highness King Qin’s shop can reduce the price to 900 coins, presumably His Highness King Qin must have brand new smelting technology.”

"And my blacksmith shop can't continue to operate, so I want to close the blacksmith shop. In addition, [-]% of the pig iron under the name of the minister's mansion is sold to the imperial court. Considering that His Highness King Qin may have better smelting technology, in order to save money For the cost of the imperial court, I feel that maybe the imperial court can purchase it directly from His Highness the King of Shu, so I also want to close the iron mine." Changsun Wuji said directly.

Changsun Wuji's words made Li Ke squint his eyes. This old Yin man actually cut himself off today?

Here I want to talk about Datang’s iron ore operation. Although Datang’s iron mines allow private operations, they have to levy a 20% iron tax. That is to say, if your iron ore mines 100 catties of iron ore, you have to pay 20 catties of iron ore. Give the ore to the court, and the rest is yours.

The iron ore in the imperial court’s official iron smelting workshop basically comes from the imperial court’s own iron mines, as well as the iron ore handed over by private iron mines in various places.

In addition, the imperial court also purchased some pig iron directly from private blacksmiths. For example, in addition to the iron ore handed in by the Changsun family, [-] to [-]% of the remaining iron ore after smelting was basically sold to others. The Tang court.

This can also be regarded as Li Shimin's benefit to the eldest grandson's family, because the imperial court will definitely reserve part of the profits for the purchase.

Although the blacksmith shop of Changsun's family was forced by Li Ke to be unable to sell, mainly because there was no one to smelt it, he could still sell iron ore to the court, but he chose to kill himself.