Looking at Xizi's angry expression, Di Xin smiled hoarsely and said, "My dear concubine, you look like a royal mistress now."
Xizi was shocked when he heard this and immediately wanted to break away from Di Xin's arms.
"I have overstepped my bounds. Please punish me, Your Highness."
Di Xin sighed slightly.
Although under his guidance, the people in the house have changed subtly, the three views they have had since childhood are not so easy to change.
It's just normal, they will still be restrained when it comes to status and rules.
Di Xin held Xizi's hand and did not let her leave his arms.
"I am joking, don't think too wildly."
In order to prevent Xizi from having random thoughts, he forcibly changed the topic back again.
"My beloved, you guessed wrong this time about the prices of these two glass products. Yue'er and Qianwei bought them for two cents of silver."
"ah?"
Xizi let out a small exclamation, and as expected he stopped moving, and a pair of beautiful eyes looked into Di Xin's eyes.
"Your Highness, are you really making fun of me this time?"
She subconsciously asked: "Is it two pieces of silver, or two pieces?"
Emperor Xin nodded and said, "Two pieces total two coins."
Xizi didn't reply.
In fact, it didn't make any difference whether it cost two denarii for one piece or two denarii for a total of two denarii. She just asked that to express her uncontrollable surprise.
After a long while, she murmured: "Why is it so cheap?"
Although it was a bit unbelievable, she knew that His Highness did not call her here in a hurry to deceive her.
"This is exactly why I called you here."
Di Xin said: "The difficulty of glass products is not in the raw materials, but in the production process. I suspect that the Western lands have mastered more efficient production processes, so the price of glass products has dropped to this level."
Xizi did not refute Di Xin's words.
Although she was just a village girl before, her father's teachings from a young age and her experience in controlling a think tank in the past few years meant that she didn't know everything like other little girls.
Although two taels of silver are enough for an ordinary family to spend one month, considering the distance traveled from the West to Dali, this price is already low enough.
She could probably figure out how terrifyingly fast the production process of glass products in the Western Land could increase in efficiency, so that an item that was previously worth twenty taels could be reduced to two cents of silver.
But she was still a little confused.
"Your Highness, what does this have to do with us?"
"I suspect that the land of the West is no longer in a state of divided rule by a group of heroes like it used to be."
"ah?"
Xi Zitan opened his mouth slightly and let out a small exclamation again.
Isn't this talking about glass products?
Why did it suddenly turn to the state of those foreign countries in the West?
"You have to understand that all development requires a transition process. If drastic changes occur in a short period of time, the price to be paid will be greater."
Di Xin suppressed his smile, rubbed Xizi's Rouyi and said, "Even if it's just a glass product."
Xizi frowned nicely and twisted his body slightly so that he could better look at Di Xin.
"I am stupid."
Di Xin continued to explain: "Although glass products in the past were expensive and rare, a complete industrial chain has been formed."
"Nowadays, a new production process has emerged, making the previously expensive glass products suddenly become cheap goods. This means that the entire industry chain needs to be overturned and restructured."
"The industrial chain is a chain of interests. If the industrial chain is overthrown and reorganized, the interests of many people will be affected."
"It would be fine if the speed were slower. Enough time would be enough for everyone to find their place again."
"But it's different now."
Di Xin said: "It's too fast now. Glazed products are suddenly flooding in, but most of the vested interests in the original industry chain have no time to re-divide the share of this cake."
Xizi subconsciously asked: "Your Highness, what is a cake?"
"A kind of dessert, this is just a reference."
Di Xin briefly explained and then said: "No one likes others to touch their cake. In order to ensure that their own interests are not lost, they will only have one reaction."
Xizi asked: "What's the reaction?"
Di Xin said: "Prevent the birth or promotion of new production processes until they find their place in the new industry chain."
But Xizi still didn't understand: "But what does this have to do with the state of Western countries?"
Di Xin said: "The continent we are on is centered on the huge Dali Dynasty, and those small countries are dependent on the surrounding areas."
"But the land of the West is different from our place."
"In the land of the West, there was not a unified dynasty in the past. Instead, it was composed of small countries, such as the Turks and Goguryeo, and several loose alliances were formed based on blood ties or alliances."
"This alliance has no binding force. Its only function is to allow small countries in the alliance to communicate with each other."
"And because the territory is small, a complete industrial chain in the Western Land may involve several countries."
Seeing that Xizi was still a little confused, Di Xin continued: "Different parts of an industrial chain are in different countries, which means that there is no unified voice, and each link has little binding force on each other."
He said: "In other words, if someone in this industry chain wants to promote a new production process despite public outrage, there are not many methods that vested interests in other links can use."
"And those who have vested interests are mostly the royal families of Western countries."
Xizi was stunned.
There are dedicated people in Dali who collect information from the Western side, so she is also aware of these things. But now after passing Di Xin Di Xin, a flash of light flashed in her mind.
"Your Highness means..."
Xizi asked with some uncertainty: "In order to protect their own interests, will Western countries go to war with each other?"
"It's just a profit from a glass product. Is it worth it?"
"It should be impossible to start a war."
Di Xin said: "Not many people can take the initiative to accept changes. In order not to become the target of public criticism, they will be attacked by groups. Once someone uses the excuse of starting a war, they will have to give up."
"But after an efficient manufacturing process emerges, it is destined not to be buried forever."
"If it develops normally, this brand-new manufacturing process will be temporarily concealed, and then improved technology compared to the previous glass product manufacturing process will be used to slightly increase efficiency."
"Then through step-by-step development, the time will be extended and the transition will be smooth."