In the end, Xia Yanyan defeated the Confucian scholars and won this time.
And the final amount was calculated.
All in all, the cost of the bow and gun handle is about 28,000 silver taels.
At Xia Yan's request, the warship's standards were also raised to some extent, and the total cost is expected to be around thirty-five thousand taels.
In this way, the total expenditure on weapons and warships was sixty-three thousand taels.
At this point, after all this operation, the entire treasury only had about two thousand taels of silver left.
Xia Yan still felt a little uneasy about this. Two thousand taels seemed a bit much, and Yuan Liyang happened to bring him good news.
It turns out that the production of playing cards has officially begun. In order to meet the output required by Xia Yan, the Ministry of Finance has accelerated the production of a batch of molds since the retreat yesterday. It is expected that they will be officially put into use in the afternoon.
By then, as long as there are no major problems, the Department of Revenue will be able to produce at least a thousand pairs of playing cards every day starting from today.
When Xia Yan heard this, it was a good thing. One thousand decks of playing cards every day meant that he could spend one hundred taels of silver.
Now that there are still seven days left before my settlement day, I can use this method to spend 700 taels of silver.
As a result, the national treasury only has three hundred taels of silver, which is simply perfect!
"Uh, Your Majesty, what should I do with the extra playing cards?"
After hearing Yuan Liyang's words, Xia Yan also fell into deep thought.
It seems that the same is true. There are only so many people in our army, and it is impossible for everyone to have playing cards.
But it was impossible for me to tell them to find a place to burn it, otherwise I would be breaking the rules again.
After thinking about it, Xia Yan had no choice but to say, "It can be sold."
“Then how much should I sell?”
Hearing this, Xia Yan thought for a moment and finally said: "Ten taels of silver."
"Fuck!" The seven old men in the court gasped.
Good guy, if you sell something that costs one hundred pennies for ten taels, that’s pretty damn shameful.
Okay, regardless of whether it is black or not, the price alone is not attractive at all.
You must know that the annual income of ordinary people is only three or four taels.
You want ten taels for a playing card. Can this guy buy it?
But Xia Yan refused to give in at all.
"Ten taels are necessary. Customers would rather have a shortage than an excess."
Xia Yan's strong statement also made everyone begin to doubt themselves.
Is it possible that the cheaper something is sold, the better?
Is there something wrong with my cognition over the years?
Or is it that His Majesty the Emperor's head is burned out and he is just messing around?
But his recent policies have had miraculous effects...
Getting old...it must be me who is getting old...
After countless ideological struggles, a group of old men nodded in agreement with what Xia Yan said.
"Okay, then we'll price it at ten taels of silver."
Hearing this, Xia Yan also nodded with satisfaction.
Ten taels is the most reasonable price.
Because the production of playing cards is relatively exquisite.
Xia Yan is really worried that if the price is too low, a lot of them will be sold.
But if it's 10 liang, this problem won't exist.
The people in the country only have so much money in total, and Xia Yan has basically plundered almost all of it. Who will buy it?
Thinking of this, Xia Yan felt extremely comfortable and retired from the court with great joy.
And in a place that Xia Yan had not seen after retreating from the court, Di Renjie and Zhuge Liang were walking and talking.
"Come, little brother Zhuge, come to Genhuazi."
"Well, Hua Zi is pretty good."
After a while, the two of them officially got down to business.
"Brother Zhuge, which level do you think His Majesty's operations are on?"
When Zhuge Liang heard this, he silently took out two huazi from his pocket and said silently.
"It should have reached the atmosphere."
"Oh? What does this mean?"
Hearing Zhuge Liang's words, Di Renjie was happy, and then showed an expression of expectation.
"Brother Di, have you ever thought about why His Majesty doesn't want to make poker cards cheaper?"
Seeing Di Renjie shaking his head, Zhuge Liang continued.
"That's because His Majesty wants to create a top brand that the world cannot imitate."
"Top brand?"
"That's right. Although His Majesty didn't say anything, I have roughly thought about it. This brand is called 'Tianxia No. 1' poker."
Then, Di Renjie's two big eyes kept blinking, as if he was still a little confused.
"Brother Di, please listen to me slowly. Making playing cards is simple and easy to understand. It is very easy to imitate them, and the cost of imitation is very low, right?"
"good."
Seeing Di Renjie nodding, Zhuge Liang's face became even more proud.
"It is precisely because of this that His Majesty does not want to make cheap playing cards. There are thousands of kinds of playing cards in the world, and the eternal classic is 'Tianxia No. 1'."
"I understand, Your Majesty wants our poker to be irreplaceable!"
"Yes, people in our country can buy cheap poker cards because of poor conditions, so what we have to do is to quickly open up foreign markets. From today on, the two of us should work on this together. All the products produced in the past few days will be sent to
Go and sell it to other countries."
Di Renjie nodded heavily when he heard this, "Well, you young people are really smart, so that's it!"
"Wait a minute." Zhuge Liang suddenly called Di Renjie, "In order to increase the popularity of Tianxia No. 1 Poker, we need to unify the advertising words."
"Poker lasts forever, and Tianxia spreads forever!"
"Okay, okay! Wonderful!"
Upon hearing this advertisement, Di Renjie immediately beamed.
Soon, the two of them headed to the household department with a smile on their faces. The market for playing cards must be opened, so from today onwards the two of them will live in the household department.
On the other hand, Xia Yan obviously didn't know what was happening here. At this moment, he was still reading a book leisurely.
After a period of exercise, Xia Yan can now read for more than fifteen minutes a day.
Of course, as long as it lasts longer than fifteen minutes, the ending will be the same and the book will be ruined.
Today, just when Xia Yan was about to fall asleep again, Eunuch Luo came and knocked on the door.
"Your Majesty, that girl from back then seemed to have some features."
"That girl, you mean..."
"Yes, yes, it's that girl. The name we registered is 'Su Yue'."
"Su Yue..." Xia Yan recited the name silently, and then continued to ask: "Then you have news about her, so you must have found her?"
"Of course...no!"
"……."
"Not only that, but it is very likely that she will never be found in this life, because according to our inquiries, she should have left the Great Xia Empire, and her current whereabouts are unknown."
"……."
Xia Yan wanted to scold your uncle, but he thought he couldn't find you to talk to me about, but soon Eunuch Luo continued to speak.
"Your Majesty, I am telling you this situation to tell you that the person cannot be found, so you should not fall in love with a flower unrequitedly and turn over the cards..." This chapter has been completed!