Chapter 154 The real business (2)
Hearing Gong Tieshan’s problem, Yan Dechang, who was not good at talking, hesitated slightly, looked at Yan Liqiang, and then spoke, "It's so good for Lord Gong to learn that this knife was not made by myself, but was designed and conceived by my son Liqiang. I just made the drawings drawn by Liqiang into real objects..."
"Ah, did this knife actually come up with Li Qiang?"
Gong Tieshan was really surprised. He was not surprised when he knew that Yan Liqiang was the young man who taught the way to treat drowning people. He was not surprised when he knew that Yan Liqiang was the first in the third place in the Guoshu County exam in Qinghe County. When he heard that Yan Liqiang was able to invent such a wonderful weapon at a young age, he was surprised because in his opinion, the person who could invent and create such a scimitar was not a genius of swords, but was definitely a master-level figure who had been immersed in craftsmanship skills for decades and had a special understanding of swords. He never expected that this scimitar was "invented" by Yan Liqiang.
He looked at Yan Liqiang, his eyes full of exploration, "Can you learn to kill Liqiang?"
"I didn't learn to be a knife, but a gun!" Yan Liqiang said calmly.
"Then how did you think of conceived this kind of scimitar?"
This question is not only Gong Tieshan, but also Qian Su, who was a little curious. Qian Su knew before that the knife was made by Yan Liqiang, but he didn't know how Yan Liqiang thought of making such a clever and amazing scimitar.
Yan Liqiang smiled slightly, "It's a coincidence that I ate roasted whole lamb in Uncle Qian's craftsmanship camp a few months ago. At that time, several elder brothers in the craftsmanship camp cut a roast lamb leg for me. When I held the roast lamb leg in my hand, I pinched the sheep's hoof. I felt a strange inertia and force on the lamb leg when I waved the lamb leg, which felt very easy. At that time, I wondered if I could build a knife, just like this lamb leg. When waving it, I could use the weight and structure of the blade itself to achieve greater power. Later, I designed this scimitar based on the shape of the lamb leg..."
There is a saying that sells dog meat with the head of a sheep. Dog meat and mutton cannot be distinguished because the size of dogs and sheep is similar, and the rough shape of dog legs and lamb legs is not much different. Yan Liqiang called dog legs a lamb leg scimitar, which linked the discovery and the process of creating this conception with eating lamb legs. It was completely flawless and there was no problem. More importantly, just a few months ago, he really ate lamb legs in the craftsmanship camp, and Qian Su could testify.
Yan Liqiang's words made Gong Tieshan silent for a long time, and finally slapped his thighs and said with great emotion, "Grandma, I have eaten the legs of lamb for decades. For these thousands of years, countless people have eaten countless legs of lamb for thousands of years, why hasn't anyone thought of this?"
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Gong Tieshan stayed in the craftsman camp until the evening. He had a meal with Yan Liqiang and the other two, drank a lot of wine, and finally got a little drunk. He was escorted by a group of guards and returned to the camp of Gongzi Camp. The 100 Yan scimitars that Yan Liqiang and his son gave him had already been asked Qian Su to put in the car and sent them.
When Gong Tieshan left, he held Yan Liqiang's hand and called Yan Liqiang directly, asking Yan Liqiang to call him Uncle Gong.
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He sent Gong Tieshan away, Yan Liqiang, Qian Su, and Yan Dechang back to the living room of Qian Su's yard.
"Li Qiang, those 100 scimitars have been built by the workshop at home over the past few months. If they were sold, they would be at least more than 400 taels of silver. Why are you so generous and you will give it as soon as you say it?"
Yan Dechang came to give the knife with joy. He originally thought he could make a fortune, but he didn't expect that the knife was completely given to someone by Yan Liqiang. That was a lot of money. Yan Dechang didn't say anything at that time, but he still felt a sore heart.
"Dad, drink a glass of water to calm down..." Yan Liqiang accompanied his smile and poured Yan Dechang a cup of tea, then stood behind Yan Dechang, pinching Yan Dechang's shoulders, and said, "I gave those knives to Master Gong, so there is naturally my reason. Dad, don't worry, this money will not take long, Master Gong will definitely make ten or a hundred times more profitable?"
"How is that possible?" Yan Dechang turned his head and looked at Yan Liqiang in disbelief.
"Dad, what do you think our family is doing business now?"
"Of course it's to make money!" Yan Dechang said naturally.
"It's right to make money, but Dad, how did that money come from..."
"This..." Yan Dechang was stunned for a moment. He had not thought about this issue carefully.
"Dad, don't say that, if you do ordinary business and support your family and get rich, then money is earned by your ability. The so-called ability, in business, is to make low income and high income. No matter what you sell, the price of the thing you sell can exceed the cost of getting that thing. The middle is profit. With profit, you can make money..."
"Well, that's the reason!" Yan Dechang nodded.
"Everyone who does business wants to make money, but when the business is finally done, the highest level is not making money!" Yan Liqiang smiled and continued to put his shoulders on Yan Dechang.
"The highest level of doing business is not making money, what is that?" Not to mention Yan Dechang, even Qian Su, who was drinking hangover tea next to him, couldn't help but ask.
"It's profitable!" Yan Liqiang said three words firmly, with his eyes shining brightly, "As long as people make money, it's easy to make money. If you don't make money in business, it's not necessarily a good thing. Maybe it will cause trouble. Just like our family is really short of money now? It's not a shortage of money. If the world remains unchanged, it's enough for our father and son to live without worries until we grow old. But that's all that. When something really happens, how much use is that little field property? Just like the Hong family before, it usually looks rich, but if there is something to do, just a mountain breeze will make the entire Hong family disappear in the town. Dad, do you want our family to be like the Hong family?"
This is also a deep understanding that Yan Liqiang has after his experience. If it weren't for the last experience of pain, how could Yan Liqiang have thought that the Yan family, which was booming, became the second Hong family in Liuhe Town because of a word from the county magistrate. In the blink of an eye, the fields, houses, are nothing in front of power. Sometimes, no matter how much money you have, there is no use for birds.
It was also at that time that Yan Liqiang truly realized why the head of the richest Rothschild family on earth came to China and would say that the Rothschild family was not pursuing money, but influence. Because what really protected the richest family on earth was not money, and the influence of the Shi family, the so-called money, is just a projection of the influence of this family.
In addition to its own force, there is another influence that the Yan family should have. What we have to admit is that the Yan family has a little influence in Liuhe Town, even if it is in Qinghe County, the Yan family cannot be ranked at all. They are just a small landlord.
Therefore, after Yan Liqiang solved the threat from Ye Xiao and his friends, the most urgent thing now is to establish the influence of the Yan family step by step and learn to make money.
What is these hundreds of taels of silver? If you really want to say money, Yan Liqiang's wealth from Shatu people was enough for him and his father to eat in ten lifetimes, but it is not enough to have money alone.
Regarding Yan Liqiang's question, Yan Dechang naturally shook his head, "Of course I don't want to!"
"That's it, so if our family wants to last for a long time, we must talk about the rules and make money first, and make money second. As long as we make money, the money will come naturally and can be kept..."
Yan Dechang understood a little, "Then you give those knives to Captain Gong for free, is it just a profit?"
"Well, dad, you believe in my vision. With the temperament of Master Gong, today as long as our family gives him enough face, we can not only get closer to Master Gong and be friends, Master Gong will definitely give us a bigger surprise in the future. Otherwise, he will be embarrassed to see us again, so you will wait and see..." Yan Liqiang said confidently. This is also his experience of being a human being for two lives.
With such a son, what else can Yan Dechang say? Yan Liqiang's words directly convinced Yan Dechang's words and completely unblocked. He no longer felt sorry for those hundred scimitars. "Okay, Liqiang, do whatever you say, Dad will listen to you in the future!"
Not to mention Yan Dechang, even Qian Su next to him was convinced, and he was really convinced. A young man under fifteen years old could say that the highest level of doing business is to make people, not make money. Qian Su asked himself that he had never seen such a person. Not to mention that he was a teenager, even those who were 100 years old in the shopping mall may not have such an understanding and could say such words.
"Liqiang, you uncle Qian, I spend money every day, and I have to deal with some money at any time. Even if the position in this camp is so good, it is not enough to spend. Moreover, there are so many people in the craftsmanship camp who want to eat, live, and have to take care of everything about food, clothing, housing and transportation. They all look at me eagerly. This camp is not easy to be a prisoner!" Qian Su narrowed his eyes and smiled and looked at Yan Liqiang, half-true and half-false, "So, Liqiang, since you can make money in business so well, can you give you Uncle Qian a way to make money and also to help everyone in the craftsmanship camp?"
"Can the Governor's Office allow the craftsmanship camp to make money on its own?" Yan Liqiang asked Yan Dechang a question.
"As long as it does not affect the production of ordnance, as long as it does not do anything that violates the law and discipline, our craftsmanship camp can do anything!"
Yan Liqiang smiled slightly, "I have a way to make money here, but this method is too easy to make money. There are too few people in the marshalling and mechanical camp. Even if I put the gold and silver mountains in the marshalling and mechanical camp, the marshalling and mechanical business can't eat much. If you want to make more money, it's better to work with the Lu family to do it together!"
"What method can make money too easy?" Qian Su said disbelievingly.
"If I could sell the soil at the same price as coal, even a little more expensive than coal, Uncle Qian, would you like to make money by doing this method?"
Qian Su was slightly stunned, and then laughed, "Liqiang, are you kidding me. If this soil can be sold as expensive as coal, then I will find a mountain of earth and a circle, and there will be a sea of gold and silver. The legendary methods of divine people turning stones into gold are just like this..."
Yan Liqiang didn't say anything, but just looked at Qian Su with a smile, "Cough... Cough... Uncle Qian forgot how I used to know how to use moxibustion on the belly button to treat drowning people? I had a dream a few days ago. In the dream, I met the old white-bearded man again. He told me a way to sell soil at the same price as coal..."
Chapter completed!