"Sixty million...are you sure?" Tang Huo couldn't count, so he stopped counting and looked up at Zhou Chaozong.
You are so talented. It turns out that you are trying to support the wealthy businessmen in Jinling, but behind your back you are colluding with the small businessmen in the northwest.
High, too high. He is indeed a profiteer.
Zhou Chaozong smiled slightly: "I'm just sharing your worries with you and being loyal to Your Majesty!"
"That's very well said, brother. Believe me, you will definitely be promoted and make a fortune in the future. Your Majesty likes people who can make money like you the most!"
Too much, really too much.
That's 60 million in hand.
Tang Huo quickly found a box, packed the flight tickets, locked it, and looked at Zhou Chaozong and said: "The northwest merchants are so loyal to His Majesty, they are very powerful. They want so many shuttles, aren't they afraid of losing money?"
Zhou Chaozong smiled and said: "Sir, merchants are very informed. Our court will soon trade with the Western Regions. The Western Regions court has always been short of cloth. Although the northwest is prolific in cotton, it has insufficient cloth production capacity. This time the shuttle appeared, those northwest merchants were overjoyed.
It's just because of the suppression by wealthy businessmen from aristocratic families that they have no way to talk to me, Shang Fang Mansion. Now that your lord wants me to sell shuttles, this is naturally not a problem, your lord has money in the Western Region!"
You are indeed rich. How can you not be rich if you order 3,000 machines at one go for 20,000 yuan per machine?
Although there are not many wealthy merchants in the northwest, there are many of them.
Tang Huo sighed: "No wonder the last time you met the Saint, Your Majesty called me a pig-headed person who holds a mountain of gold and doesn't know how to make a fortune. It seems that I really don't have the brains to do business, but luckily I have Chaozong.
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"Now, my Shang Fang Mansion is also rich. This time someone is driving up prices. I will serve your Majesty. Chaozong, go ahead and do it. Shang Fang Mansion will be your backing. How much does it cost? Write a document and send it to someone.
Approved for you!"
Is there such a thing as being wealthy?
Tang Huo didn't care. With 60 million yuan, why couldn't he suppress prices and give the emperor a surprise?
Zhou Chaozong was well prepared. He deliberately mentioned the price of goods, and then took out the money from selling the shuttle. This was what he meant.
Seeing that Tang Huo agreed, he went to organize it immediately. He had already contacted businessmen from various places and gave the order!
The prices that Zhu Youde secretly set up plummeted instantly!
After Wang Zhonghou got the news, he hurriedly came to report to Zhu Youde: "Your Majesty, it's not possible anymore. Prices have dropped by 30% in less than a day!"
"What's going on? Who did it? A noble family? Or a wealthy family?" Zhu Youde said.
Who on earth can't get along with me? Could it be that the ministers from outside the DPRK discovered something?
"Your Majesty, this is Shang Fang Mansion!"
"Say it again, I didn't hear you clearly!"
"The old slave asked Jin Yiwei to check it out. It was Shang Fang Mansion who took action to stabilize prices!"
Damn it!
Zhu Youde sprayed Wang Zhonghou in the face with a sip of tea.
"Where did Shang Fang Mansion get the money to stabilize prices? Tang Huo is rich. No, why did they join in? Southeast and other wealthy merchants are already organizing goods to go to Beijing. My purpose is to trick these Southeast wealthy families and earn some bodyweight by the way.
Ji Qian, why did Shang Fang Mansion get involved, where did they get the money!"
Wang Zhonghou was also speechless. Doesn't Shang Fang's Mansion belong to His Majesty? Doesn't Tang Huo belong to His Majesty?
Beat your own people!
The key is that Zhu Youde is secretly planning to trick people this time and cannot let others know, so even if he finds out that Shang Fang Mansion is responsible, he will only suffer the loss of being dumb.
Zhu Youde quickly figured it out, and his eyes widened when he looked at Wang Zhonghou.
After a while, Zhu Youde said: "Tang Huo doesn't know it's my plan, right?"
Wang Zhong said kindly: "The old slave works very secretly. The people below don't know that it is a royal arrangement. Shang Fang Mansion should not know!"
"So I suffered the loss of being dumb!"
"That seems to be the case!"
"Damn it, where did Shang Fang Mansion get the money? Tang Huo begged me to allocate money before. Now you have money. Haven't you checked?"
Wang Zhonghou naturally investigated. When doing things for the emperor, how could he wait until the emperor asked before doing it? Naturally, he knew about the drop in prices and asked Jin Yiwei to investigate. Zhou Chaozong and Tang Huo had already been under Wang Zhonghou's
In my heart.
When he found out it was these two people, Wang Zhonghou almost wanted to beat them.
You idiot, if you don't sell machines in Shang Fang Mansion properly, why would you come out to deceive people?
But after all, because these two people were important to Zhu Youde, Wang Zhonghou spared them once.
"Zhou Chaozong seems to have formed a shuttle business with merchants in the northwest. Shang Fang Mansion received 60 million today..."
"Hey, are the merchants in the northwest so generous? Haha, I understand. It is Daliang that wants to trade with the Western Regions. The northwest merchants plan to produce cloth nearby. There is a lot of cotton in the Western Regions and the northwest of our country, and the Western Regions even occupy the Silk Road!"
Ouch, shit!
The businessmen in the northwest are very knowledgeable.
Wang Zhonghou felt that Zhu Youde was focusing on the wrong thing, and reminded him in a low voice: "Your Majesty, sixty million... sixty million, this old slave was really scared when he found out!"
"You know what the heck, once the machine rings, there will be ten thousand taels of gold. I have never doubted that Shang Fang Mansion can make money!"
Is it possible to make money by engaging in machinery manufacturing?
Machinery represents advanced productivity, okay? There is no heavy industry in this world, and Zhu Youde's Shangfang Mansion is barely related to heavy industry.
Why would he run Shang Fang Mansion if he didn't make money?
The ancients were not stupid, but the three views created by Confucianism have always suppressed the development of the times and put craftsmen into the ranks of pariahs!
Zhu Youde is the emperor, and he supports Shang Fang Mansion. This gives the craftsmen a way out and a chance to become a master!
Tang Huo used to be just a tool man, but now he is an official in Daliang. Anima craftsmen from the Western Regions, who were no different from humanoid garbage in the Western Regions, are now also high-ranking master craftsmen with status in Daliang.
As social status has improved, those craftsmen will take the initiative to show their subjective initiative without Zhu Youde's urging.
In the pre-Song Dynasty, we already knew how to make seismometers and armillary spheres. This kind of craftsmanship is actually no worse than that of later generations.
There was a man in Han Dynasty who could farm hundreds of acres of land a day without using any oil. Can you believe it?
As long as Zhu Youde recovers the lost technologies of the Han family, it will be enough to dominate the world.
The Southern Tang and Northern Yan are nothing. When I am strong enough, I will directly attack you and use the human wave tactics to kill you all.
But now I still have to pretend to be a dog.
"What I value is money. What I care about is the opportunity to dominate the Western Regions. Cotton spinning has appeared, can wool spinning be far behind?"
Zhu Youde smiled slightly, very charmingly: "When the Western Regions are full of cotton and cattle and sheep, the Western Regions will one day return to the embrace of the motherland. I heard that the beauties of the Western Regions have their own charm!"
What Reba, what Liya, aren’t they everywhere?
I'm afraid I won't be able to make it.
Zhu Youde fully believed that when those merchants in the northwest discovered the speed of cotton spinning of shuttles, they would definitely think of wool spinning, and it would not be too far away for sheep to eat people in the Western Regions.
Don’t the nobles in the Western Regions not want to make money? When they discovered that wool can bring huge profits, the common people still want to farm?
Moreover, the appearance of these northwest businessmen made Zhu Youde think of ways to deal with the wealthy families in the southeast.