Wen is actually a smart person. Although he is not from a wealthy family, following Yuan Tan over the years, he can see Yuan Tan's worried look, so he also understands what the Yuan family lacks.
To be honest, the Yuan family does not lack gold, stone, jade, or silk antiques. The Yuan family does not dare to say how many of these luxuries they want, but as long as they want to produce them, they can produce a batch.
Yes, including antiques, as long as the craftsmen raised by the Yuan family want to produce them, they will definitely be able to produce a batch. As long as the antiques flowing out from the Yuan family are not too outrageous and can be justified, then basically everyone will agree with them. It's an antique.
Therefore, the Yuan family did not lack these things. However, after embarking on the road to becoming a king, Yuan Tan realized that these gold, stone, jade, silk and antiques were just for decoration. What their family wanted were very practical things, namely weapons and armaments, and agricultural equipment. , things that are affordable for food and clothing are the real things.
Wen Shi has been following him for a long time, and he has learned this kind of thinking. After all, in that environment, what goes up and what goes down works. Yuan Tan worries about this and that every day. Today he will see if the food below can solve it, and tomorrow he will see what's new. How are the refugees living?
It is said that the King of Chu has a slim waist and many people starve to death in the palace. Yuan Tan pays attention to these things every day. The people below also focus on the people's livelihood. Even the mistress Wen Shi also pays attention to such things as food and clothing. But these things are what really build the foundation of the country.
The simplest point is that Western Europe and Northern Europe are a group of small countries with high welfare. They are indeed very successful in terms of per capita GDP, but are they considered successful countries?
Doesn't it count? They are only upstream of the overall international industrial chain, controlling part of the means of production, and have the capital to harvest other industries in the midstream and downstream. But if they enter an international emergency at any time and extend this emergency for several months, these so-called Successful countries? Countries that can provide high welfare? Even basic food and clothing cannot be guaranteed.
Most countries in the world are just failed states. The difference is just that they play chess pieces or chessboards. The former is in the hands of others and waits for the necessary exchange of interests by the manipulator, while the latter just needs to be beaten throughout the process.
Wen didn't see it that far. But Wen's attitude was very simple. Instead of buying something, it would be better to buy a factory. The factory would produce it by itself, so wouldn't there be no need to think about where to buy it from?
This is several levels higher than simply buying finished products from other places, at least it means that we can produce most of the products we need.
As for machines such as production machines? Machines used to manufacture production machines? That is the final state, but currently there is no such barrier.
Yuan Tan's advice to Wen at that time was that if gold could not be exchanged for money, then he would ask his uncle to help open a gold jewelry store throughout the counties in the Central Plains and slowly recover the funds. If money could be exchanged, in addition to luxury goods, , food and clothing, don’t be afraid of anything, just buy the goods, don’t be afraid, the Yuan family wants everything.
What about iron pots, plows, kitchen knives, sickles, hoes, and agricultural supplies?
Winter clothes, summer shirts, and ready-to-wear clothing stores were swept one by one.
After that, the frame, steering gear, and various mechanical parts, as long as they are standard parts, don't let them go. Whatever you want, it's better if you are willing to buy finished products. Anyway, you can be a spendthrift and ship back the suitable ones. Don’t miss out on suitable molds or anything else...
In short, Yuan Tan's attitude is very clear. Except for luxury goods, you can buy anything. Of course, try to buy something that can be used when you take it back. If it doesn't work, it won't be a loss for anything else. Anyway, these things are now in Yuan Tan's hands. Home is missing.
With more than one billion dollars, you can't buy much of these things without Chen Xi's subsidies. Farm tools are often subsidized by Chen Xi, because without subsidies, according to the market price of steel, ordinary people can't afford them at all, so Chen Xi directly prices If you hang upside down, you will receive benefits.
Of course, Yuanjia Buy does not have subsidies. In fact, many things purchased on the market do not have subsidies. Whether or not there are subsidies means that the price will be so bad that people will collapse.
There is one more sanity-breaking thing that needs to be mentioned here, which is about selling salt. This is currently the best government-owned industry that Chen Xi is engaged in, at least in the eyes of others, because this thing is currently not privately owned...
The entire Central Plains, even Central South, then the Southeast, then Central Asia, and even Eastern Europe, consume more than 10 million shi of salt every year, and the net profit exceeds 2 billion yuan. Although in Chen Xi's opinion, it is just that. have nothing to say.
Anyway, individuals have to eat salt. At present, salt dealers in various places buy salt from the official price of 200 Wen per stone, and sell it to the people for 150 Wen per stone.
Because Chen Xi pegged the price of salt at 150 Wen, and Liu Tong’s edict was issued to local governments, pegging certain prices for the past ten years. Unless a second edict is issued, the price of salt will be 150 Wen in the last ten years. One stone, no matter what the price is.
Therefore, the official purchase price is 200 Wen and the selling price is 150 Wen. At the end of the year, according to the scale of your sales, the unsold items will be returned and you will be refunded at 200 Wen. The sold items will give you a subsidy of 90 Wen per stone.
In this case, as long as the official salt is not sold out, private salt sellers will only lose money. Do you think I am selling salt? No, whoever sells this thing loses money. The salt sellers all rely on subsidies, and salt sellers are very happy. The state is their backer and they don’t worry about settlement issues.
If you don’t want money, you can directly exchange for materials. The country’s material settlement list allows you to settle accounts. Therefore, many businessmen have no business recently and just bring a ship of salt from the salt field. Then they go back and study the country’s public material settlement manual to find the latest price reduction items.
In this case, the private sector wants to make money? Wake up, you're going to be a ghost if you don't die.
Major aristocratic families have discovered this situation a long time ago. You often buy three sickles for 30 coins and a fourth sickle for 300 coins. The main reason is that Chen Xi is not targeting them.
Wen doesn't understand these things, but because he can get the price list of all commodities, Wen knows that instead of buying these things, it's better to make them himself. Anyway, as long as he can make them himself, it will be very cheap. If he can't, it will be expensive. I want to scold my mother.
"Do you want to buy it?" Liu Tong's mind is actually very flexible. After Wen made a start, Liu Tong already understood it.
"Yes, I want to buy a large textile factory. The price is less than 80 million yuan, and it also has three thousand female workers. In addition to producing wool, cotton armor, and cloth, it can also produce five More than a million sets of clothes..." Wen looked at the secret mirror that Stina opened and didn't know what expression to use.
What Chen Xi gave was a scroll, but Si Niang was bored and wanted to show that she was also working, so she made the contents of the scroll into a mystical mirror, which now looks much better.
"This factory only costs 80 million?" Liu Tong was a little confused? This is unscientific. More than five million sets of clothes are probably not worth 300 million, so why are they only worth 80 million?
In fact, this factory does not specialize in the production of clothes. It mainly produces fabrics. The scraps are used to make labor protection gloves and the like. After all, infrastructure construction is happening everywhere. The gloves are really deadly to use. They are faster than weapons. Every once in a while, they will be used. hair.
"It feels like the prices above are very unscientific. They are probably less than one-tenth of what I imagined." Wen looked at the flour mills, sugar factories, complementary food processing factories, etc. above with some ghostly eyes. Wait, the prices are so low that Wen feels incredible.
"It's probably the price given to me. I didn't study it carefully at the time." Liu Tong scratched his head and didn't know what to say. If he thought about it carefully, it was indeed incredibly cheap.
"It seems that we can only visit Chen Hou. I hope Chen Hou is willing to sell part of the company to us." Wen Shi reluctantly returned the secret magic mirror to Liu Tong, because the price is low even for Wen Shi. Everyone thought it was too outrageous. It was obvious that this was the so-called welfare for the eldest princess. As for the Yuan family, it was definitely impossible for them to pay this price.
What is the actual situation? That large textile factory has all its advantages and none of its disadvantages, because this large textile factory has no profit at all. Even if it is operating at full capacity, it can produce more than five million clothes a year.
But if it is divided equally among everyone, in fact, only five pieces are produced in a day. This efficiency is very different from the minute-by-minute efficiency of the garbage and black-hearted garment shops in later generations. Plus, with so many people, To put it bluntly, this factory is a health care factory used to maintain social stability, recruit more people, and improve national happiness...
By the way, the wages in this factory are low. The average female worker is less than 7,000 yuan a year, and the salary expenditure of the entire factory is only 20 million. And the assets of this factory can be worth 20 to 30 billion, but the profit Well, Chen Xi actually doesn't care about profits.
Anyway, if it can produce something, can feed so many people, and can operate stably, and don't overdo it, then that's fine. I don't ask you to create any profits.
Then build a textile city next to it. The money goes round and round, and it drives another round. It is perfect. It is impossible to lose money. If you buy it, it is actually impossible to give such a low price. Normally, you would have to charge 200 to 300 million yuan. No To lay off people and maintain the current situation, it would cost an estimated 80 million, and the cost would be recouped in ten years...
But after all, this was a defrauding of Liu Tong's money, and Chen Xi was embarrassed to go too far, so the asking price was mostly based on the situation where the capital could be recovered within ten years if he did not continue to recruit people. Anyway, he had agreed not to lay off people. As long as he doesn't lay off people, continues to cut marginal utility, and ensures revenue and expenditure, Liu Tong may be prosperous all year round, but there will be no money...
Naturally, other people didn't know the truth behind this, so they could only think that this was the welfare price offered by Chen Xi to Liu Tong, because it was too low, incredibly low.
