It’s not that silk can’t be sold at a high price. In fact, the silk I bought for Rome in the past was all high-priced silk. As for the quality, that’s about it. I can collect some anywhere. As long as it can be shipped, the price will be comparable to gold. I guess it’s better than gold in Rome. I'm used to this price by now.
Therefore, if you really have no moral integrity, then it will be the same as before. Anyway, Rome cannot travel thousands of kilometers to attack the Han Dynasty. Just like the Han Dynasty, there is actually nothing that can be done against Rome. However, after Chen Xi thought about it, he still give up.
The main reason is that it is meaningless. Rome has really reached the limit of how much it can spend on silk every year. One-twentieth of its fiscal revenue is spent on luxury goods. Unfortunately, Rome is now in a domineering stage. It should have been over long ago when we were playing like this.
Therefore, Chen Xi estimated that even if he sold high-priced silk, he would not be able to squeeze out more money from Rome. And if he really sold the silk at the price of gold, he would not be able to sell much silk that year. For the overall silk industry In fact, it is meaningless.
After all, selling at the price of gold, Rome only produced more than a dozen loads of silk a year. Such a demand was of little significance to the Han Dynasty, and it would not have any impact on the upstream and downstream of the silk industry. .
And the biggest problem is that the money basically goes into the hands of the state, and the people can’t get a penny from it. Although it can still be redistributed, but think about it, there will definitely be a procurement system. With such a huge benefit, only a few things will be purchased. , it will definitely become a quota system in the end.
Chen Xi thought about the quota system. The ones who are cheaper must be those aristocratic families. It is better to directly lower the price and increase the purchase volume to the extent that it can benefit the entire agricultural and mulberry system. These are the very few who can really benefit the people of the entire country. A proposal with an extra hundred or ten coppers in your pocket.
After all, compared to making money, Chen Xi thinks that social stability and people's happiness are more important. Money can't be earned in full. If the people under his command have more money, it can be circulated, and the country's richer people will be able to make more money. Be faster.
"That's roughly it. If it were Liu Zichu, the government would be all over the place. Ninety percent of the money would go into the treasury, and the rest would be sent to the people." Chen Xi raised his head and said with a slight resentment.
"That's not bad." Jia Xu said calmly. In fact, the vast majority of Han Dynasty officials did not think there was anything wrong with Liu Ba's actions.
"I won't argue with you about this. Anyway, I definitely can't do this here. What should be given to the people must be given to the people. For a group of poor people, what can you get even if you collect taxes." Chen Xi rolled his eyes and said, "Here I am. I plan to make some adjustments and then finalize it.”
"I see, I thought you would go directly to the government." Seeing this, Jia Xu did not continue to argue. Anyway, no one was willing to compete with Chen Xi financially. Didn't Liu Ba run away? It's up to Chen Xi to handle this business on his own.
"It's a government-run company. Let's separate a department to take care of this." Chen Xi smiled and said, "Set the price a little lower. The state-run company buys it from the people, and Rome wants more. This way we can adjust some things overall. The price is also conducive to the prosperity of the entire country.”
"Stop, raise the prices of some products as a whole?" Jia Xu was stunned. Although he didn't understand economics very well, he at least knew that certain things should not be messed with.
"Zichuan, we should not study this further." Xun Yu, who had been pretending that he did not exist, stopped writing and looked at Chen Xi and said, "If anything suddenly becomes profitable, it is easy for an influx to occur, and then the output will increase greatly, and then The price just came down.”
"I mean subsidies." Chen Xi sighed and said, "This money can be used to subsidize some agricultural products and provide support. Prices cannot be adjusted directly. Other methods can be used to control the overall industrial layout. It’s more reasonable.”
Hearing this, Xun Yu stopped talking and took the official document and began to review it. He was not familiar with this kind of thing and did not want to speak in this aspect. Chen Xi could only finish it if he was sure of it.
"Using this method to control the country's overall agricultural output." Liu Ye said thoughtfully, "It is a good way. No one dared to do this before. Although everyone knows that low grain prices hurt farmers, no one dares to do this in this way. It’s all hands and feet.”
"Try to control it like this when the time comes." Chen Xi nodded and said, "Although the government will inevitably take away about half of the profits, the remaining half should be taken from the people and used for the people." Chen Xi thought for a while and said, "I'll have someone investigate this later."
"We can only rely on you. There is a clear gap between us and you in this aspect." Lu Su glanced at Chen Xi and said very calmly.
"Just leave it to me. Anyway, it will take at least half a year for both parties to conduct business and purchase. I still have time to investigate and sample and make some adjustments to the industrial structure. What's more, we have already established many large-scale government-run enterprises. A farm? It has a mediating role in itself." Chen Xi said with a hint of pride.
The advantage of the historical downstream is that many successful and timely measures have been verified by time. If the execution power is sufficient, they can be implemented step by step.
At present, the Han Dynasty lacks neither national credibility nor execution ability, and there are many capable ministers and officials. As long as Chen Xi has the right plan and these people tinker with the plan, they can come up with something more suitable for this era. program, so many things become very easy to do.
"You just have to know what you have in mind." Lu Su said without raising his head, "Speaking of which, you should have settled all your own affairs. The minting side is just waiting for the new version of the five-baht coin to be minted. Just prepare to redeem it, right?"
"Yes, as for other things, I have basically handled them." Chen Xi said proudly, "But I am going to ask Ye Tiaoguo what happened."
Ye Tiaoguo is a small country, a country that Chen Xi has only a vague impression of. Chen Xi can't even think of the location of that country based on his impression of history books, which shows how weak this country is in this era.
However, not long ago, envoys from Ye Tiaoguo came to submit a petition. However, due to special circumstances, this country has not come to the Han Dynasty for sixty years. Moreover, when it submitted the petition, it was said that the distance was too far, and the Han Dynasty In other words, they just gave some things and did not send envoys there.
Naturally, when the envoys from this country come this time, they need to stay temporarily in the post station for a period of time. After bathing and burning incense, they can wait for the emperor of the Han Dynasty to call them before they can have an audience. If the emperor is not interested, then he will put it aside or even leave it aside for a year and a half. It's not impossible to set up.
Well, now there is no emperor of the Han Dynasty, and the eldest princess is the regent, so the eldest princess summons, and Rome is the same process. However, because Rome is very powerful, he rested for two days after arriving. Liu Tong just went to court and brought Rome over. Of course Herodian was really surprised when he saw that the Han Dynasty was the empress.
Fortunately, Rome is experienced in many battles and has seen empresses before. But when an empire as powerful as the Han Dynasty has a empress, Herodian is still curious. Of course, Herodian is not rude in any way and is sincere. They expressed their blessings to Liu Tong and gave him gifts.
There is no shortage of gems in Rome. They also brought gifts when they came. They gave Liu Tong several beautifully cut gems. Of course, Liu Tong accepted them without hesitation. For such shiny things, Liu Tong’s The resistance is very low, so it is naturally very pleasing to the Roman envoys.
In fact, Herodian's gift of gems was really impromptu, because I remember that the Egyptian empress had no resistance to this thing last time, so Herodian decisively replaced the gold crafts he had prepared with gems.
The effect is excellent. The level of mathematics and carving technology in Rome is basically second to none at the same time. Especially the carving technology is already invincible in the world. The level of gem cutting seems to be comparable to that of Rome except Kushan. Others are basically salted fish.
Naturally, the six gemstones given to Liu Tong as gifts were all perfectly cut. Although due to limitations in craftsmanship and mathematics, it was impossible to achieve the weird cut of diamonds with eight hearts and eight arrows, but Chen Xi visually inspected, Those six gems almost reflected almost all the light.
At that time, Chen Xi's first feeling was that the Romans were a little better at mathematics than expected. Of course, Liu Tong's eyes were probably filled with gems at that time, but luckily he was not embarrassed. Then Chen Xi secretly made preparations. Find a professional and bring back some stones from northern Xinjiang. Let a mathematician do the calculations and cut them into eight hearts and eight arrows.
Anyway, those shiny things are completely worthless in nature. Chen Xi doesn't feel bad if they are cut into pieces. Moreover, if you cut them casually in the mine in eastern Siberia, it might take thousands of years to cut them all. Chen Xi thought about asking someone to pull them back. One car, practice your skills.
The Roman gemstones reminded Chen Xi that women all like such shiny things. Besides the material, the reason why diamonds are shiny mainly depends on the cutting degree and the degree of reflection. There are a lot of worthless stones to practice with, and sooner or later the diamonds are shiny. Come out with what Chen Xi wants.
Then you can use it to please your wife, fiancée, and eldest lady.
After all, until now, Chen Xi has not seen Zhen Mi as Cai Yan expected. He has indeed hurt Zhen Mi badly enough. Fan Jian also asked about it and hinted that Chen Xi should comfort Zhen Mi. But now The problem is that Zhen Mi doesn't show up at all.
Thinking about the difficulty of poetry and poetry, Chen Xi thought it would be better to cut diamonds or gems to please. At least the latter is more reliable and has high universality.
