Zhou Rui is still worried about his marriage. Zhou Kang is also looking for a suitable woman for Zhou Rui, so he doesn't care about Zhao Feng.
But Zhou Kang recommended someone to Zhao Feng.
"What? Are you saying you want me to work with Princess Jinyang?"
Zhou Kang smiled, nodded, and said to Zhao Feng.
"Mr. Zhao, don't forget that my sister has a lot of land. If you can help her manage this land and use it to grow grain for wine, wouldn't you be able to keep the cost to a minimum? ?”
When Zhao Feng heard this, he immediately felt that this was indeed a good idea.
And in this way, Zhou Tong can be allowed to participate in this business, wouldn't it be equivalent to royal support?
Zhao Feng's current wine-making business is actually to pave the way for future national trade. If Zhou Tong participates, the shares can be redistributed in the future, which will become much more reasonable.
Zhao Feng nodded happily, thanked Zhou Kang, and went directly to Zhou Tong's mansion.
Zhou Tong heard that Zhao Feng was coming and welcomed him out very happily.
"Mr. Zhao, you finally came to my place again. Are you here to teach me how to do business this time?"
Zhao Feng burst into laughter. Zhou Tong was so obsessed with doing business. It seemed that she resented her deeply for being a princess and always having no money!
"Your Highness, I am indeed here to do business with you, but rather than teach you how to do business, I want to take you to do business together."
Zhou Tong became happy and quickly welcomed Zhao Feng in.
After the two of them finished their work, Zhao Feng noticed that Zhou Tong was still wearing light makeup, and Zhou Tong's makeup skills were getting better and better.
Zhou Tong's foundation was already very good, but after putting on makeup, he was almost the same as those stars of later generations.
"Mr. Zhao, you said you want to do business with me. What kind of business is it?"
Zhao Feng smiled slightly and talked about his plans to build a brewery and start trade with other countries.
Zhao Feng originally thought that Zhou Tong would agree immediately after he said this, but unexpectedly Zhou Tong frowned and said with a strange expression.
"Mr. Zhao, although your voice sounds very good, if all the grains are turned into wine, will the people have no food to eat?"
"If that's the case, then I won't do it. After all, wine is prohibited in some special periods. But now you have to use so much grain to make wine. If I participate, I will definitely be punished by my father. !”
Zhao Feng opened his mouth, but he didn't expect Zhou Tong to have such an idea.
But what Zhou Tong said is right. Since wine requires a large amount of food, in some special periods, wine is explicitly prohibited. No one is allowed to brew it privately, let alone sell it publicly.
But this is based on self-produced and self-sold wine. If it is exported, there is no need to worry at all.
Zhao Feng explained to Zhou Tong with a smile.
"Your Highness, although making wine requires a certain amount of food, the wine can be exchanged for higher profits than the food."
"Actually, you have a very obvious misunderstanding of the needs of the people. You think that the people only need to have food to eat, but in fact this is not the case."
"According to my calculations, the current grain output of the Zhou Dynasty is enough to feed these people. The reason why many people cannot afford to eat is because grain is a hard currency in the market and occupies a certain amount of money. Attributes do not function as attributes of the product.”
Zhou Tong looked at Zhao Feng with some confusion. She had no idea what Zhao Feng meant by what he said.
Zhao Feng sighed helplessly. He regarded Zhou Tong as Chen Rou and Shen Chuchu.
He had explained the properties of currency when he was explaining the market to Chen Rou and Shen Chuchu before, but now facing Zhou Tong, Zhao Feng didn't want to talk about those things again.
"In short, many nobles are hoarding food instead of money."
"After all, in their view, food is the most important thing, so a lot of food is backlogged in their warehouses, including a large amount of food in the national treasury."
"If things continue like this, there will only be one result: there will be no idle land in the world and farmers will starve to death!"
Hearing Zhao Feng's words, Zhou Tong suddenly felt enlightened.
No one has ever told Zhou Tong these things, including those in the Zhou Dynasty, and they have never thought about these things.
But this is actually a very serious drawback, because food has a shelf life.
If the nobles hoard a large amount of food, not only will they be unable to feed the common people, but they will also be wasted in the warehouse due to storage and other reasons. Even if it can be stored well, these grains will Grain will also become old grain, which can only be used as rations but not as seeds.
If all this food can be liberated, the people can have more seeds to use, so that when the cultivated land area is expanded, these people can grow more food.
"So through this brewery, what we have to do is to purchase the grain and give these people a certain amount of money."
"When these people use money to buy food, some people will definitely be tempted to sell the food. In this way, the monetary attribute of food will disappear, and it will change from something that was originally hoarded to something that was sold. Slowly return to the original product attributes."
Zhou Tong didn't expect that the brewery that Zhao Feng was going to open would actually have so many things going on. If Zhao Feng said this, Zhou Tong would certainly not object anymore.
"Okay, I am willing to believe Mr. Zhao."
"Then let me spend 20,000 taels first and participate in this business..."
Zhou Tong gritted his teeth and said this. Looking at her troubled expression, he knew that she was very distressed when she took out the silver.
Zhao Feng smiled, waved his hand, and said to Zhou Tong.
"Your Highness, I don't need you to take any extra money. You just need to let me manage all your lands."
Zhou Tong breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Zhao Feng with great gratitude.
Since it was just the time for farming, Zhao Feng directly set up a farming plan and gave it to Zhou Tong, asking Zhou Tong to farm all the land under his name according to this plan.
Zhao Feng found people to build a distillery, and at the same time he also found some people who made pottery and porcelain, and designed the things used for distillation according to his own requirements.
After discussing the price with those people, Zhao Feng couldn't help but be speechless.
These things are too expensive!
