Chapter 373: Leave if you don’t want to invest money
"Prime Minister Li." Meng Yi asked, "Sir, have you agreed?"
Li Si smiled and said: "Of course he agreed, he had no choice. Your Majesty has already figured out Qin An's character.
He is too soft-hearted, has no reverence, and treats everything equally.
So he cares very much about other people's lives, as well as his own.
Therefore, whenever His Majesty bets his life and the lives of others, Qin An is bound to lose. "
Meng Yi nodded and said: "Your Majesty is worthy of being your Majesty. You can see how extraordinary your Majesty is by unifying the six countries."
"You already know everything you need to know, what questions do you have?"
"Can we also participate in telephones and telegraphs?" Meng Yi asked.
He had seen enough business opportunities from the telegraph and telephone.
Although he is an official of the court and a member of the military generals, it does not mean that he does not like money, and he needs it very much.
Meng Yi has already seen that the future of Da Qin is in the hands of merchants. It does not mean that merchants control the court, but that Da Qin needs merchants' money and relies on merchants to develop.
Li Si nodded and said: "You can participate. Your Majesty will be the first to tell the civil and military officials about the telegraph machine and telephone machine. The purpose is to let the officials pay first.
Only when the officials pay for it will they be willing to be attentive in this regard, and the way to get them to be attentive is through profit.
In fact, there is one thing your Majesty has not said yet. "
"What's going on?" Meng Yi asked.
"It costs money to collect newspapers, and it also costs money to send newspapers." Li Si said, "People have to pay if they want to send newspapers. There is no money to receive newspapers, but the telegraph office also needs money to notify them."
Meng Yi suddenly realized that if the nobles knew about this matter, they would invest money desperately, and the profits would be huge.
The most important thing is that the court will not care about this matter. As long as nothing out of the ordinary is done, the telegraph office will be run by businessmen.
The nobles have invested money, and they will definitely control this telegraph office, and other businessmen are not qualified to compete with them.
"No." Meng Yi said immediately, "The telegraph office is an important weapon of the country and can be handed over to businessmen. They value profits. As long as the profits are sufficient, they will not do anything to harm the court.
Even if there is no profit, they will only give up managing the telegraph office, let alone do anything to harm the imperial court.
Once the nobles took control of the telegraph office, they might sell the contents of the telegraph office to their enemies for the sake of their family, or for money.
What they fear most is that they will leak the news and sell both the telegraph machine and the code book to the enemy. "
Li Si nodded and said: "What you said makes sense, but this is what the general situation requires. There is no other way. The only thing to do now is to establish the telegraph office.
Then connect the wires to the entire Daqin. Let’s talk about other things later.
In addition, don't forget that there is a telephone, which also uses wires. In the future, telephones will be the mainstream and telegraphs will be left unattended. "
Meng Yi suddenly realized that he finally knew Ying Zheng's plan. He wanted to let the nobles taste the sweetness, and then defeat them all at once.
"Your Majesty is wise." Meng Yi admired it, "But what if the nobles find out about this and they are unwilling to pay? They have gone to find Prime Minister Feng."
"Then let the merchants come forward." Li Si sneered, "If the nobles don't come forward, it will only be a loss for the nobles.
Although the mainstream is telephones, how many years will it take for all the people in Daqin to install telephones? "
"I understand, I understand it completely," Meng Yi said. "Although it may not make money in the future, it is very profitable at the beginning, and the money may be more than they invested."
"That's right." Li Si nodded, "But there is a prerequisite before this."
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Feng went to Ji's house.
"Prerequisite?" Fu Zikang asked, "Xiang Feng, what's the prerequisite for this? Profit is profit, loss is loss, what other prerequisites are there?"
Feng Quji said in a deep voice: "The premise is to promote business. Just imagine, according to the current business situation of businessmen, even if we install a telegraph line, how many people can use it?"
When everyone heard this, their expressions changed.
Damn it, no one is good at all. If all the money was invested, wouldn't it be a total loss?
"Prime Minister Feng, in this case, there is no need for us to invest money at all." A nobleman said.
Feng Quji's face darkened and he said: "Stupid, if you can say such a thing, it can only mean that you are an unqualified head of the family."
"Prime Minister Feng, please calm down." Another noble said, "We have never been in contact with the Emperor's Master, so we don't understand what the Emperor's Master means. Do we support it or not?"
Feng Quji's expression softened a lot and he said slowly: "Then it depends on whether you want to make money or not."
Fu Zikang asked: "Prime Minister Feng, what do you mean?"
Feng Quji smiled and said: "It means literally. If you want to make money and strengthen your family, then support His Majesty in starting business.
If you don’t want to make money, then exit here now. There are some secrets that cannot be known by others. "
When everyone heard this, they all showed strange expressions, and there was actually a secret.
The strategy to promote business is not to improve the status of businessmen, but this is a huge blow to them.
But if you leave here, the secret will be known to other nobles, and this secret may affect the future of your family.
Feng Quji picked up the purple clay pot and took a leisurely sip of tea. He felt very happy watching the noble struggle.
Qin An said that the future will be the world of businessmen. It does not mean that businessmen are in charge of the world, but that the world is full of businessmen.
So it was better for the court to let the merchants grow stronger and control the court than to let the merchants grow stronger and then control the merchants.
Business law is the best way to control businessmen. It can not only prevent businessmen from doing evil and doing things that harm the court and the people.
It can also bring huge revenue to the court. In the future, the world's annual tax revenue will be 1.5 billion taels of gold.
This has completely conquered Feng Quji.
Because of the continuous increase in the production of cloth and grain, the days of grain and cloth becoming the currency of transactions are coming to an end, that is, the days of bartering are coming to an end.
Soon, the entire Qin Dynasty will usher in the day when copper coins, gold coins, and silver coins will be used as currency.
At that time, the price of food may fall because everyone has food on hand and it is not appropriate to sell it to anyone.
In the end it could only be sold to the court.
Although the entire Qin Dynasty did not use copper coins, gold and silver for consumption, the quantities were very small, and most people used barter for things.
At this time, Feng Quji could already see the prosperous age of the Great Qin, the true prosperous age of the Great Qin. Although the unification of the six kingdoms was considered an unprecedented prosperous age for the Great Qin, the people were not living well.
In the near future, it will not be the case. In the near future, people's lives will make a qualitative leap.
Some people died, but not completely...
