The man in the peach shirt half-closed his foxy eyes and took the initiative to introduce himself, "My last name is Ren, and my courtesy name is Mingbi. You can just call me Mingbi."
Chu Qiuze: "......" Here it comes, here it comes again, surname Ren, name Minbi? Just call him Mingbi?
RMB? What the fuck is that? ? ?
Seeing that he was stunned, Lan An thought that his cousin was being abrupt, "Don't worry about him."
"Hey!" Ren Mingbi was dissatisfied, "What do you mean don't bother with me? I am your cousin after all."
It's not that he is so bold as to rely on his status as a royal relative, but that he has been dealing with Lan An for too long and has long lost that sense of class.
Chu Qiuze came back to his senses. As long as he wasn’t a close male friend, it would be fine. A cousin was just a cousin. It would be one more relative.
I heard Concubine Wu mention before that she had an older sister who married a wealthy businessman in her early years and gave birth to a son.
I guess it must be Ren Mingbi!
"So it's RMB. I've heard a lot about you." Chu Qiuze wanted to laugh but didn't dare to. "I guess you must be very popular, right?"
Ren Mingbi was stunned. "Hey, how do you know? My aunts and uncles have liked me since I was little, and when I grew up, the girls also liked me."
This is said frivolously, but it is not offensive.
Chu Qiuze, on the contrary, felt that Ren Mingbi had a good personality and was not as old-fashioned and boring as the others.
The two of them joked around for a while, and Lan An just watched silently.
After a long while, Ren Mingbi finally stated his purpose: "Prince, you see, now that cement roads have been built all over the country, shouldn't we expand our cement workshops? The supply is not meeting the demand now."
Yes, Ren Mingbi is an imperial merchant.
Scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, the word "merchant" is the lowest class, but it is different from the imperial merchants.
But Chu Qiuze didn’t understand, if the cement factory was going to expand, why would they ask his man to do it?
Lan An seemed to see through his confusion and explained, "When my mother entered the palace, my grandfather also prepared some dowry for her."
Although his mother was forced to enter the palace, his grandfather truly loved his daughter and prepared a rich dowry for her even though she had to enter the palace.
Shop, title deed, estate, these are all necessary.
Although it was insignificant compared to the dowries of other concubines, it was still too much to let my daughter suffer too much.
In the early years, those shops were managed by special people, who would just send the account books to Concubine Wu every once in a while.
Later, when Lan An grew up and set up her own household, the dowry was handed over to her to take care of.
Lan An was originally a lazy prince. He had no interest in government affairs, but was quite interested in business.
As a result, Lan An has made his mother's business bigger and bigger over the years.
Later, he also helped his maternal relatives, that is, Ren Mingbi's family.
So over the years, the two of them have been doing business together, but one of them was in the open while the other was in secret.
And the blue gum is that dark!
It’s not that royal relatives are not allowed to do business, but if they do it too big, it will still arouse suspicion, so it was Ren Mingbi who was running around outside in recent years.
The old emperor knew what was going on and had always adopted an attitude of turning a blind eye.
Anyway, to the old emperor, Lan An was more interested in money than Lan An was interested in power.
Under this tacit understanding, Lan Euan made a fortune. It is no exaggeration to say that he was rich enough to rival a country.
After listening to Lan An's explanation, Chu Qiuze nodded thoughtfully.
No wonder Lan An was so rich. Previously in Yugou County and Rujing City, he was very generous and spent hundreds of thousands of taels of silver at a time.
Later, when he learned that there was a gold mine in Dahan, he didn't think much about it. But he never imagined that all that money was earned by Lan An himself, not from mining.
Tsk tsk tsk.
He really couldn't believe that his friend, a regent, actually liked to study business.
Chu Qiuze thought that this was a good idea, as his family was also in business. Since Lan An was good at business, he would have something in common with his father and brother in the future.
After Lan An finished speaking patiently, he responded to his cousin who was silently serving as a background board, "Roads need to be built all over the country, and expanding the workshop is inevitable."
As he spoke, he remembered what Chu Qiuze had said, that the houses in that world were all made of steel and concrete.
If Dahan's craftsmanship and technology can reach that level in the future, he can just ask Chu Qiuze for a recipe for building a house.
If people want to build new houses in the future, there will definitely be no shortage of sales for cement.
After all, in his opinion, the cost of cement is much higher than the green bricks commonly used in the market.
Ren Mingbi received an accurate reply and had a plan in mind.
He had been traveling outside for some time, and only returned to the Imperial City a few days ago. Even after returning, he was not free, and it was only after receiving the notice for the winter hunting that he was able to find a few days' time.
It's also a good opportunity to chat with his cousin, the prince.
During the past six months, we have added a lot of industries, including cement, movable type printing, etc., in addition to the previous industries.
He really was overwhelmed, and his cousin the prince was now a hands-off manager, so he had to find a way to solve the problem.
Otherwise, the beauties in his family would be resentful.
Chu Qiuze listened to Ren Mingbi's request and said, "Since you can't handle it yourself, then find a partner, or outsource it."
Ren Mingbi and Lan An both became interested and looked serious.
Chu Qiuze would definitely not be able to run a business on his own, as he is just an outsider, but his experience in the 21st century is enough to guide these two ancient people.
"Looking for partners, aren't you going to build factories all over the country? Then find local businessmen to cooperate with, let them build the factories and provide manpower, you provide the recipe, and then give a suitable share of the profits, and then sign a contract to bind both parties."
This method is the simplest.
When doing business, the ancient people wanted to control everything in their own hands, which is unscientific.
He guessed that Lan An and Ren Mingbi's original plan was to build factories across the country, then leave a trustworthy person to guard them, and then they would have to inspect them regularly.
However, it is different when doing business in partnership. Everyone wants to make money, and the two parties are restrained by each other and are bound by contracts. It is definitely much easier than doing things on your own.
Ren Mingbi suddenly became enlightened, but then frowned again, "My male god, but if this happens, won't the concrete house be lost?"
If all businessmen do this business by then, how will they make money?
Chu Qiuze shook his head. This cement recipe was actually not difficult. Even if they didn't actively spread it out, smart people would have figured it out in a year or two, or even shorter.
Besides, can we earn all this money?
If you eat the meat, you should let others drink the soup!
But he considered the actual situation of the ancients and said, "If that doesn't work, you can outsource it."
"What is outsourcing?" Lan An also looked serious and felt that he had learned a lot of knowledge today.
Chu Qiuze explained: "Take cement for example. You see, to make cement you need to mine limestone. Previously you hired people to mine it, right?"
Lan An and Ren Mingbi nodded.
"Then just outsource the quarrying work to someone else." Chu Qiuze shrugged his shoulders: "If you hire someone to quarry the stones yourself, you have to pay them, right? It's also time-consuming and laborious. It's better to outsource the work to someone else. When the time comes, we'll take the ones with qualified quality and discard the ones with bad quality."
Similarly, other materials can also be outsourced, and even other businesses can do this.
There is no need to do everything yourself.
When Chu Qiuze said this, the two ancient people understood.
For them, outsourcing is indeed much more practical than finding partners.
Lan An gave Ren Mingbi a look, and Ren Mingbi understood and knew what to do.
I sighed in my heart, it seems that I will be busy again.
However, thinking of the huge sums of money he had earned, he rekindled his fighting spirit.
They immediately chatted about business for a while. Chu Qiuze, an outsider, left the two ancient people stunned by what he said.
Ren Mingbi became more and more interested in this male god.
When he first saw the attitudes of his cousin the prince and the male god, he guessed the relationship between the two, and his heart was filled with shock and relief.
There has been a distinction between immortals and mortals since ancient times, but this is their own choice. After all, he is just a cousin, and he has no right to interfere in other people's feelings.
But the more they talked, the more he felt that his cousin the prince had found the right person.
This man not only has unique insights into doing business, but he is also very humorous.
He had nothing in common with the Taoist demeanor he had imagined. Instead, he looked more like a young man from a wealthy family.
The initial restraint disappeared and we became more and more excited as we talked.
Chu Qiuze was also happy to give Ren Mingbi some advice, after all, that was also the business of his friend Lan.
Who would complain about having too much money?
As a result, the two of them were so engrossed in their conversation that they completely ignored Lan An's increasingly darker face.
He knew that his cousin was a playboy and was always popular. He was in his thirties and had no wife, but he had more than a dozen concubines, and they all got along very harmoniously.
It can be seen that his cousin has his own way of dealing with feelings.
Although I have never heard that my cousin has any kind of homosexuality, his dozen or so concubines are all as beautiful as flowers.
His cousin is only two years older than him.
When I think of Chu Qiuze again, I always feel like I can't move when I see good-looking people...
At this time, Lan An didn't know what face control was.
I just knew that the more I listened, the more uncomfortable I felt, since the two of them were clearly talking about their business experiences.
It wasn't until he heard that the two of them had returned to the imperial city and wanted to have a drink together that he finally couldn't help himself.
He swung the whip in his hand, tightened the horse's belly, and the horse galloped away.
Chu Qiu Ze was completely confused, not knowing what was going on. The sudden cold wind made him shiver, and he had no choice but to crawl back into Lan An's arms to keep warm.
“What are you doing riding so fast?” Chu Qiuze’s voice was carried by the wind and he took a mouthful of cold air.
Lan An was a sympathetic person after all. When he saw that his cousin had been left far behind, he gradually slowed down.
Chu Qiuze realized it later and turned around with a smile, "You left your cousin behind? Do you want to be alone with me?"
Lan An was stunned. He had never had this idea before. He had always believed that one should not be too intimate before marriage, but it seemed that he had crossed his bottom line again and again.
"Go ahead." Chu Qiuze refused and insisted that he tell him the whole story.
I twisted my head for a long time without getting a response, and my neck became sore.
On the other hand, he was not a very disciplined person and forced himself to change his sitting position on the horse.
Originally he had his back to the blue gum, but now they were facing each other.
Chu Qiuze hugged Lan An's neck and said, "Do you want to be alone with me? Or do you want to do something to me while we are alone?"
After saying this, he acted coy and shy, "What do you want to do to me? I'm so scared. I'm petite and weak, and I can't resist a tall and mighty man like you."
Blue Gum: “…”
The posture itself was ambiguous enough, not to mention these words that seemed to be a rejection of my welcome.
Lan An's hand around Chu Qiu Ze suddenly tightened. The two of them were very close at this moment. With her other hand, she lifted her cloak, half-covering the two of them, and kissed them.