Hearing that there was a real object comparison, both of them became excited. They were happy, but Li Yin had to go back again, to purchase steam engines and small blast furnaces for them as research objects, and to collect some structures of seagoing ships on the other hand. It is impossible to expect them to make iron boats. We still have to rely on wooden boats, but there are differences between wooden boats and wooden boats. This time, what Li Yin is looking for is the blueprint of the famous treasure ship in history, which is also a sharp weapon used by Zheng He in the Ming Dynasty. , This kind of treasure ship has four floors up and down, the bottom can be used to store goods, the second floor can be used for soldiers to live, the third floor is the operating room, which is also the location of the artillery, and the deck is the place for the ship to join the battle. After the kind of ship is built, the steam engine is used to transform the power of the treasure ship. After the artillery is researched, it is installed on the ship. Then the ocean will be his back garden from now on.

After talking with the two for a while, Li Yin left the research institute and returned to the palace. Li Yin unfolded the map. When Tong Yu came to him just now, he was studying the mineral distribution map. After the limestone incident, Li Yin deeply felt the pain of cramming , Sichuan is very rich in mineral deposits, including gold mines, silver mines, coal mines, natural gas, rare metals, iron ore, limestone, etc., and iron ore reserves in particular account for one-tenth of the country. Zhou Zhou's failure to use these minerals is no different from waste, so these days he has been using the information of the 21st century to make the distribution of various mineral resources in more detail, otherwise it is impossible to find these at this time relying on the approximate location Mineral deposits, and the way for Jin Daqian to find mineral deposits is to take the mineral template provided by Li Min and go to the local area to inquire. Fortunately, people who have seen this kind of mineral deposits are better. For this reason, after Jin Daqian came back, Li Yin prepared to become a mining exploration team, responsible for searching for mineral deposits.

  Li Yin was studying the drawings, and Cui Yingying came back. She glanced at Li Yin who was concentrating on it, and sat by the side watching Li Yin write and draw without speaking.

   Li Yin looked at her after a while and asked, "What's wrong?"

   "Those businessmen at the door, His Highness saw it?" Cui Yingying said.

Li Yin nodded. When he came back, he saw many businessmen blocking the entrance of the palace. After Li Yin asked the servants, he found out that they all came to see Cui Yingying and wanted to buy perfume and hard yellow paper. Since the perfume was sold in Chang'an, the supply has been in short supply. It's just that Chang'an consumed a lot, and later Tong Nian sold the perfume to Yangzhou area, and there were very few perfumes sold in Yizhou, so many people in Yizhou city only heard the name and didn't see what it was. Now the perfume is produced in Yizhou , since it was first sold in Yizhou City, as soon as the news came out, the profit-seeking businessmen immediately approached Wei Zimo of the Shengtang Chamber of Commerce, so Wei Zimo told the merchants that now the goods of the Shengtang Chamber of Commerce are all ordered by Princess Shu After all, the businessman surrounded the door, "If you are unhappy, just drive them away." Li Yin stretched his waist and sat down beside Cui Yingying.

   "I'm just wondering why Shengtang Chamber of Commerce doesn't sell perfume and hard yellow paper by itself, just like newspapers, why sell them to them?" Cui Yingying looked at Li Yin and said.

Li Yin embraced Cui Yingying's slender waist and said, "No matter how powerful the Great Tang Chamber of Commerce is, it can't sell its goods everywhere, and it will also cause resentment if you eat meat without sharing soup with others. Therefore, the Shengtang Chamber of Commerce In the beginning, I was only responsible for the production of goods, and then sold them directly to merchants. Later, in order to increase income for the palace, I asked Tong Nian to transport the goods to various parts of the Tang Dynasty to sell, but what you said today reminded me." Li Yin suddenly A brilliant idea came to mind.

   "What idea?" Cui Yingying has been focusing on business recently, thinking about it all day long.

   "Specialty store!" Li Yin stood up and said excitedly.

   "What is this?" Cui Yingying was at a loss.

Li Yin continued: "A specialty store is a shop that specializes in selling goods from the Shengtang Chamber of Commerce. There is only one such store in a state or a county. Only merchants who have paid fees to the Shengtang Chamber of Commerce can open it, and we only sell goods to this Tang Chamber of Commerce. Merchants supply the goods."

   "That's right! In this way, you don't have to pay attention to other merchants, and you can still earn money from them." Cui Yingying's eyes lit up little stars, "I'm going to find those merchants now."

  Li Yin grabbed her and said, "I'll go with you. This time, you have to see how I do it first. After you learn it, you can do it by yourself." Li Yin was afraid that Cui Yingying might not understand and would do nonsense, so he said.

   After finishing speaking, the two went to the front hall side by side, and Li Yin told the servant to let the merchants in.

   "Grassmen, see Your Highness, and see the Princess!" A group of businessmen entered the front hall and bowed to salute. Li Yin counted them, and there were quite a lot of them, more than 30 people.

   "I know that you are here for perfume and hard yellow paper, and maybe apricot flower wine in the future, but the Shengtang Chamber of Commerce has changed the rules now, and the goods of the Shengtang Chamber of Commerce will no longer be sold to merchants at will."

  After Li Yin’s words fell, the businessmen looked at each other in blank dismay, their hearts turned cold, and they still wanted to make some money by relying on these strange gadgets, but now it seems that it is a waste of time.

Li Yin saw the expressions of the merchants, and he continued: "The Great Tang Chamber of Commerce decided to set up agents in all states and counties of the Tang Dynasty. The agents are merchants who can exclusively purchase products from the Great Tang Chamber of Commerce. " Li Yin pointed to the businessman standing at the front, "If you are a perfume agent in Yizhou, then only the Shengtang Chamber of Commerce in your shop will provide the goods, and no one else in Yizhou can get the goods from the Shengtang Chamber of Commerce. to the goods."

   "There is such a good thing?"

   "Isn't that a huge profit, there is only one in the whole Yizhou city!"

"is not that right!"

   "..."

The businessmen whispered to each other, but Li Yin just pointed at the businessman, glanced at the other businessmen, and said, "Your Highness, what conditions do you need for this agency?" This was also the thinking of all the businessmen. , The merchants instantly quieted down.

  Li Yan said slowly: "The agent needs to pay an agency fee to the Shengtang Chamber of Commerce, otherwise the Shengtang Chamber of Commerce will suffer too much."

   "I understand what your Highness means, but how much is the agency fee?" He asked the important point.

  Li Yan pondered and said: "The agency fee also varies according to the situation of each state. For example, in Chang'an, the agency fee is at least 300,000 yuan."

   "Three hundred thousand guan!" Suddenly there was a sigh, and those businessmen who were not wealthy were immediately discouraged.

   "This is just an approximate price. The Shengtang Chamber of Commerce will announce the specific price standard in a few days. At that time, everyone can weigh whether to be an agent." Li Yin said.

All the businessmen were silent when they heard this, and each was thinking carefully. They are not fools, so of course they have to calculate the gains and losses. For example, the agency fee of 200,000 guan in Chang'an, the current price of perfume bought from the Shengtang Chamber of Commerce is 10 guan. One bottle, and according to the market price in Chang'an, even if the perfume is sold at 15 ounces, it can be sold in large quantities. It only takes one or two years to earn back the agency fee, and it will be pure profit in the future.

  The merchants were thinking in their hearts, and Li Yin was also thinking. He and Cui Yingying looked at each other and smiled, how could they be so good at buying!