Chen Xi looked at Wei Zi and fell into deep thought. In his conscience, Wei Zi's asking price was obviously calculated and lowered a lot.
Regarding the annual tax revenue of Guangtong Canal and Tongji Canal, the Han Dynasty also has statistics. In 206, which is the eighth year of Yuanfeng, the tax revenue of Guangtong Canal and Tongji Canal was about 5.6 100 million, this figure seems to be only slightly higher than the 500 million mentioned by Weitz, and it only reached the 500 million level last year, but as of now, Guangtong Canal and Tongji Canal are still far from the upper limit of tax revenue.
The upper limit of tax revenue for this golden waterway was actually estimated at the time of design. With Chen Xi's current development rate, after the population enters an explosive period, let's not talk about Tongji Canal. According to Guanghe Dongwei's The estimated annual tax revenue from Guangtong Canal can reach one billion.
Therefore, the discount of 12.4 billion is not high. In fact, it is completely in line with the shortage of materials in this era. The price of emergency discount is 10% off. Of course, when the Zhen family was suppressed, 100% off was indeed an outrageous method. As an official, Chen Xi would not To do that kind of thing, the Wei family took the initiative to make a 40% discount, which actually shows how bad the current situation on Cao Cao's side is.
Chen Xi could write out the cash of 12.4 billion on the spot, but to be honest, the materials of 12.4 billion were not available at a premium and were purchased at cost price. Chen Xi could not come up with them in a short time.
To be realistic, it's not that Chen Xi doesn't have them. He does have strategic supplies reserved at the end of the year. The only difference between Chen Xi and Liu Ba is this. Liu Ba really dares to empty them, but Chen Xi will never empty them, even in name. There will also be a five-year plan emergency reserve (fund) plan. This is what Chen Xi does first in every five-year plan.
In the first five-year plan, this thing was about to be moved several times, but it was not moved in the end. In fact, Chen Xi's original intention was to waste the plan rather than touch the reserves.
"We have money of 12.4 billion, but I'm afraid we can't transfer companies and materials worth 12.4 billion." Chen Xi thought for a long time, and finally shook his head and said, it's too much. If the price is lower, Chen Xi can pass it, and now It is indeed impossible to provide assistance.
"Chen Hou should have emergency reserves. Can he use them? It is already the end of the eighth year of Yuanfeng, and the five-year plan is halfway through." Wei Zi said sincerely. As for continuing to reduce prices, according to the calculations of the Wei family, Guangtong Canal will be in Yuan Dynasty. In about fifteen years, the annual income should be close to one billion. If it is packaged and sold at the current price of 12.4 billion, there is really no choice.
"Sorry, there is not enough reason not to use this thing." Chen Xi shook his head. Wei Zi was silent for a long time, and there was even a trace of sadness on his face. For Chen Xi, isn't this a sufficient reason? I see. !
"Chen Hou, wait a minute, I'll be right back." Wei Zi was silent for a while, then stood up and saluted Chen Xi. He needed to go back to discuss it. 12.4 billion was already the bottom line of their Wei family, and it couldn't be lower. However, facing Chen Xi’s reply! Chen Xi looked at Wei Zi's desolate back and couldn't help but shook his head. He didn't say anything. The price of 12.4 billion was indeed very low. Even if Chen Xi wanted to take advantage of this time to buy back, it was impossible for Chen Xi to extract such a large amount at the moment. Supplies, as for using emergency reserves, Chen Xi just thought about it for a moment and then killed the idea.
Although Guangtong Canal and Tongji Canal are important, they will be redeemed sooner or later. Compared with the thunderstorms one after another in the past two years, Chen Xi is somewhat afraid, so Chen Xi still doesn't want to use the emergency reserves, even if they can be used. .
Of course, if Wei Zi is willing to accept the transfer of an industry worth 7 billion, Chen Xi is even willing to pay some more cash. Of course, this part of the cash will be paid before June next year. In total, the total value can reach more than 15 billion. Unfortunately, Cao Cao's current The situation is not supported.
Wei Zi was sent back by Cao Hong. Among all the senior officials who were involved in Cao Cao's influence, there were only two people who did not participate in Liu Ba's financial operations. One was Chen Gong and the other was Cao Hong.
Needless to say, the former has a clear mind and money is all operated by Chen Xi. As the last member to obtain the original shares of national capital, he does not get involved in financial operations such as Liu Ba. On the other hand, Cao Hong is involved in only one kind of financial management-related business called Savings.
Do you know what Pixiu is? Cao Hong is like this
types of people. Cao Hong sends money back to Chang'an every year and stores it in Chang'an Bank, so Cao Hong is currently the richest person in Cao Cao's power. Of course, this time Cao Cao forced Cao Hong to use all the money he had accumulated over the years to purchase various supplies.
Cao Hong was very heartbroken, but Cao Hong was really Cao Cao's loyal supporter, so Cao Hong painfully took out all the money, exchanged it for tickets in Chang'an, and sent them to the state-owned Tangkou in Midea. Either the settlement was with Rome, or supplies from Central Asia were transferred, in short, they were delivered to Cao Cao's forces in the Herat area as quickly as possible.
By the way, before Liu Ba's collapse, this settlement system could be directly connected with Liu Ba, and then Chang'an's tickets could be exchanged directly with Liu Ba. Under the condition that the internal air is separated from the body to ensure communication, this settlement system , settlement can be made on the same day.
It can be said that this is the most efficient settlement method at present, but this kind of ultra-large-scale bill-for-material settlement system, once it exceeds one billion, Chen Xi needs to review it, and then sign and seal the bill on the back. If it is less than one billion, it will be fine. One billion, it also needs to be signed and stamped by central bank personnel at the corresponding level.
In fact, this was the endorsement method used by multinational banks in international settlements in the 19th and 20th centuries. Back then, there was no such online transfer and online docking. The settlement process of cross-border trade would be extremely complicated, and the Han Dynasty can currently undertake this kind of settlement. There is only Changan Bank.
Of course, because Liu Ba has destroyed the Herat-Kandahar economic system, Chen Xi's tickets cannot be exchanged directly locally, so they can only be exchanged at Media Trading City and then sent to Herat. .
Relatively speaking, this efficiency is very high, but compared with the previous method where you only need to bring a ticket to pick up the goods locally, it is already far behind. But who asked Liu Ba and the others to do it? Chen Xi couldn't do anything about it. , we can only use the more primitive method before.
"How's it going? Did Shangshu Pushe pass there?" Cao Hong asked immediately.
"No, Chen Hou rejected this proposal." Wei Zi shook his head and said.
"Two golden waterways are packaged for only 12.4 billion. I have no money. If I had money, I would buy it directly." Cao Hong said very puzzled, "Does Marquis Chen still think it is expensive?"
"It's not that it's expensive, it's just that we can't mobilize supplies on that scale." Weisz sighed and said, "If you think about it carefully, whether there are so many supplies in Media Trading City is still a problem, and if you mobilize supplies from the mainland, It takes too much time, and we have to endure the run. Now we have only calmed the restlessness, but we have not fully realized it. The run is still around the corner."
In fact, Wei Zi and others did not consider more vicious methods, that is, some families under Cao Cao's command, as well as the Central Asian aristocratic families, have now privately disposed of the tickets that Liu Ba sold to them at low prices to the people under Cao Cao's command.
After all, what Cao Cao is doing now is actually to protect the people and soldiers, and cut off the big households under his command. Of course, for the sake of fairness, he cut off his own house first, and the big households under his command have nothing to do with Cao Cao, who has regained his support.
But are these families who follow Cao Cao really willing to lose their money, real estate, and factories and mines? It is true that even if these people are ***, even if they put pressure on Cao Cao, they will not be able to solve the problem when faced with Cao Cao who has regained control of military power.
After all, the current problem of Cao Cao's power is that after Liu Ba made the decisive decision to distribute the assets to the soldiers and the people, the original internal explosion situation has become the situation that Chen Xi faced with the middle and upper class before, and could face more than a hundred people represented by the middle and upper class. The dissatisfaction of the masses, and the dissatisfaction of millions of people at the grassroots level who previously had military power and basic social organizational power, at least the former can be suppressed.
Therefore, for these middle and upper class people, killing Liu Ba is not enough at all. It is just a way of venting. They also want to get their assets back. Why should the mud-legged people rob them of their things? It clearly belongs to them. Why should they? Give it to those people.
So when Cao Cao started to exchange tickets for the common people and soldiers, the smart ones among these people had already begun to sell their own tickets to the common people and soldiers at low prices - anyway, the common people and soldiers can exchange them, but that doesn't mean that we can also If we exchange it, the worst we can do is suffer some losses.
For the people and soldiers who have begun to actually exchange land, plantations, and farms at this time
For example, it is not a matter of course to try to acquire new low-price tickets that suddenly appear on the market. And when these low-price tickets can really be exchanged at Cao Sikong's side, then these low-price tickets will become Got it for free.
Liu Ba was so devastated at the time that he did not consider this idea, and a moral gentleman like Xun Yu never considered this possibility. This blind spot had already secretly threatened to hang Cao Sikong again, who was about to come back to life.
Of course, no one knows or realizes all this at present.
Cao Hong looked at Wei Zi. He didn't understand these things, but he knew that Cao Cao's current situation was very dangerous. Otherwise, he, a hard-working man, wouldn't have spent all his money to help Cao Cao tide over the difficulties. Although Cao Hong's money was very important to Cao Cao, It was a drop in the bucket, but Cao Cao was still very moved.
"I'm going to discuss it again with Hedong. If it doesn't work, I can only lower it a little more." Wei Zi said with great frustration. The price is already very low, but there is no way. Who made this situation happen? There was no way to find a second person to take over.
It’s not that no one can afford more money than this. If he really needed money, Wei Zi could just sell the rights to use Guangtong Canal and Tongji Canal, and wealthy businessmen from all over the Central Plains would pool their money to buy this thing. , Unfortunately, what Weizi wants is not money, but materials, all kinds of materials, that can be quickly transported to Herat to stabilize the entire Caocao market.
Of course, it would be better if we could switch to some more technologies and companies.
At present, under the rule of Cao Sikong, the problem of running on local people and soldiers has affected the confidence of the people in Beigui in the market to a certain extent. Some daily supplies are already in a rush, even though Chen Qun has hoarded these supplies to a certain extent. , is not enough to deal with it.
Coupled with the failure of follow-up supplies to arrive on time, the real run begins, which may also cause panic among those under the administration who are not involved in the matter, and finally collapse completely.
This is also the reason why Weizi must have supplies. The supplies are worth about 12 billion. For Cao Cao, who has a population of nearly three million under his rule, it is only about 400 taels of supplies if divided equally on one person. But as long as he can carry it After the first wave of runs, the subsequent operations will be smooth.
However, the problem is how to survive the first wave of runs, and the longer the delay, the more fatal it will be when the first wave of runs occurs.
"Didn't you change it?" Chen Gong came out from Lu Bu's side, carrying a paper bag, and looked at Wei Zi with a somewhat tired look and asked.
"No, Chen Hou is not willing to accept this price, and he is not willing to use emergency assets. He seems to want to give money. The question is, do we want money?" Wei Zi said helplessly.
Money is very important, but if you really just want money, Cao Cao can borrow some. In fact, the reason why there is no complete chaos under Cao Cao's rule is that Cao Cao divided the entire Helmand River Industrial Park and filled it. In addition to the businesses owned by the Zhen family in the Central Asia branch, there are also more than ten tons of gold bricks piled at the entrance of the Kandahar government office.
These gold bricks were borrowed from the Yuan family. The Yuan family may be short of supplies, but the Yuan family really does not lack gold bricks. However, because Yuan Tan is not here, the mistress Wen can only borrow so much.
These gold bricks have stabilized people's hearts to a certain extent, but to a certain extent, they will not be able to stabilize people's hearts when the rush for supplies comes.
Just like the ibuprofen ten days ago, when I needed this life-saving help, the BRIC could not stabilize people's hearts. In the same way, when the supplies on the market were cleared out and a run occurred, the BRIC could not stabilize the people. The people and soldiers calmed down.
Especially when gold cannot be exchanged for supplies, this becomes the Ming Dynasty sumu wood pepper discount salary. These things are indeed more valuable than gold, and there is a premium compared to the salary. The problem is that I have to eat! You send me a gold brick, but I can’t buy supplies in the market, so it’s useless!
The same is true for Cao Cao now. If he wants to re-establish credibility with his money and tickets, he needs materials. Only when more than 10 billion in materials arrive, Cao Cao can issue gold bricks to pay off debts. Otherwise, he will directly issue gold bricks and wait for a larger scale. A run on it.
Money and tickets that cannot be exchanged for any supplies are no different from paper. Cao Cao never thought of borrowing a few tons of gold from the Yuan family to make a fortune. But after the gold was issued, he could not buy supplies. That is different from what he is doing now. Is there any material difference between the tickets? Or die!
