Various universities began to sprout from the mountains and Shaanxi provinces, and quickly rose to the ground. [More good-looking ones are available^^^^^^^^^^]

Mr. Zhou Changjun, who is in charge of the Foreign Trade Department, is not idle either.

After several months of hard work, all grain taxes in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, almost tens of millions of loads of grain, have been all entered into granaries in various places, waiting for processing.

At the same time, a large amount of surplus grain, cattle, sheep, and livestock scattered in the hands of the people in the garrison were also collected by the Governor's Office at a relatively low price, preparing to sell it for a high price.

At this moment, Mr. Zhou was sitting in his office and listening to the deputy director of the Foreign Trade Department report on the achievements and achievements of the Foreign Trade Department over the past month.

"Sir... So far, the food in our foreign trade department has reached an astonishing 13 million dan. In addition to the five million dan left for the Governor's Office for emergency response, there are eight million dans available for sale."

"In terms of cattle and sheep: there are 190,000 sheep in total and more than 6,300 cattle. It is not suitable for more than 6,500 horses as war horses, and it is urgently needed to be sold to the outside world..."

"In order not to affect the prices in the Yuan and Beizhili areas, although these areas urgently need a large amount of food and cattle and sheep. However, the Foreign Trade Department did not dare to take action rashly..."

"In the past few months, the Foreign Trade Department has only imported 1.5 million dan of grain to these areas, and a total of more than 25,000 cattle and sheep, earning 9.56 million taels of silver. So far, these silvers have been handed over to the Governor's Office for warehousing..."

Hearing this, Old Zhou's face showed a satisfied smile and affirmed to his deputy.

"I did a good job... in four months, I had an income of about tens of millions of taels of silver. Even if I exclude various costs, I had about six million taels... At this rate of making money, in a year, it was almost 20 million taels, which was almost the same as me guaranteed at the Standing Committee... "

"How about it, in the export process, are there any other problems that cannot be solved."

"Yes..." As soon as Mr. Zhou finished, the deputy director spoke for sure.

"The biggest problem is the sales of these grains and cattle and sheep... Although the demand in Yuan and Beizhili is very large, if all the grains and cattle and sheep we stock up in our hands will flow into Beizhili and Yuan, it will inevitably have a great impact on the prices in these places."

"In this case, we cannot obtain as high profit as expected. Not only that, those grains purchased from the Tunmins will not only fail to make money, but will also lose money due to the lower prices in the original and Beizhili areas... Therefore, in order to ensure enough benefits, we must find other sales channels..."

As an old man who has been in a shopping mall for a long time, Mr. Zhou is very aware of the huge impact on prices after oversupply. Therefore, as soon as his subordinates finished their words, the smile on Mr. Zhou's face was replaced by solemnity.

After some thought, he asked to his subordinate in front of him: "Is there any specific solution for the Foreign Trade Department? Of course, it is okay to have your own ideas. I will analyze it for you..."

Under the encouraging eyes of Mr. Zhou, his subordinates tentatively answered: "Sir, the official does have some ideas here, but I don't know if it is feasible..."

"Looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, the food needed was Yuan and Beizhili. In order to ensure our interests in the two places, we imported food from the two places. There must be no too much. Therefore, if you want to find other sales channels, you can only look for it from places outside the Ming Dynasty..."

"As I thought about it, the slave thought of the Later Jin, Mongolia, even Korea, Japan, which could hardly produce food by itself, and that is, our frequent Japanese pirates..."

"The officials thought that no matter what state these countries were in with us, we could sell food and cattle and sheep to each other at a very high price. Because we could use the food and cattle and sheep that the other party urgently needed to plunder as much wealth as possible from these countries..."

"In this way, the wealth of these countries will become less and less, and the potential for war will become more and more. And our Shanxi Governor's Office can develop itself and increase its potential for war by relying on the large amount of wealth earned from these countries..."

"The Xiaguan also gave a name for this kind of economic plunder, that is, 'economic war'... Through economic war, weaken the enemy's strength and increase his own strength..."

It is definitely a very innovative idea to use money to war. However, Mr. Zhou still figured out this idea at the first time and agreed to this idea.

However, such a big thing is obviously not something that he, a deputy prime minister, can make a decision.

With an admiring look at his subordinates, Mr. Zhou directly replied: "Your idea is very good, and it coincides with some of the ideas and ideas that the Grand Marshal once told me. Therefore, I decided to take you to see the Grand Marshal, hoping that you can fight for this opportunity to perform in front of the Grand Marshal."

Mr. Zhou was right. As soon as the deputy director of the Foreign Trade Department came up with his thoughts, Wei Zheng looked at him and showed a look of admiring look.

Then, without thinking about answering to the deputy director named Xiang Lian: "Your idea is very good, but there are still great difficulties in implementing it in detail..."

"Grain can indeed be exchanged for very large wealth from these countries. However, food can also increase the strength of the other party to a certain extent. Therefore, only relying on food, cattle, sheep, and horses alone can not achieve your ultimate goal, except for the huge wealth that can be exchanged for Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces."

Seeing the thoughtful expression on the other party's face, Wei Zheng changed his tone and continued: "However, if we forcefully sell some accessories to the other party while selling food, cattle and sheep to the other party, then the purpose of weakening the other party's war potential through economic means will be very likely to achieve it."

The idea of ​​economic war, something that only appeared in hundreds of years in later generations shows that Xiang Lian, the deputy director of the Foreign Trade Department, is a very smart person.

So, as soon as Wei Zheng finished his words, two rays of light shot out from Xiang Lianwei's eyes.

He asked Wei Zheng with anticipation, "Master, what do you mean is to sell our unique glass mirror and salt to these countries..."

Wei Zheng nodded and affirmed: "It's not just the fine salt and glass mirrors, but the flintlock guns we sold to the court and the Later Jin Dynasty... All things that cannot threaten us can be sold to these countries."

"Think about it, whether it is glass mirrors, salt and flintlock muskets, they are things that only rich people, or nobles of these countries can afford. I am sure that as long as we send these things to these countries, the nobles and rich people of these countries will definitely become crazy..."

"In my eyes, the more crazy they are about these things, the more we may earn from them. And these countries use countless wealth to exchange for a bunch of things that are only useful for their personal pleasure. However, for their country, there is almost no effect..."

At this time, Xiang Lian’s expression on his face can already be described as “excited”.

Yes, it's just excitement... being excited about the recognition of your thoughts by Grandmaster Wei Zheng, and being excited about the thoughts raised by Grandmaster Wei Zheng to make up for as many shortcomings as possible...

At this moment, Mr. Zhou spoke: "Master, I think that after you have improved your "Master," these "economic war" ideas for Deputy Director can be fully implemented..."

"I believe that with the help of this 'economic war', in less than a few years, these countries that were attacked by the 'economic war' will collapse because of the large plunder of national wealth. In this case, our Tiger and Leopard Army almost does not need to use too many troops to destroy these countries..."

"Not only that, I also thought that this 'economic war' could not only target the Later Jin, Mongolia, Japan, North Korea... and other hostile countries, but we could also point the finger at the court appropriately."

"Every time, the court plotted against us, and we fought back. This time, the court also let the court taste the sensation of being plotted, and let them taste the power of this 'economic war'..."

"Finally, I have another idea.... This 'economic war' idea was proposed to the deputy director. In addition, Deputy Director Xiang is young and promising, and I am old and I can't control so many things. So, I want to ask Dashuai to approve me and let me take the post of Director of the Foreign Trade Department late, and let Deputy Director Xiang serve as Director of the Foreign Trade Department to specifically implement this so-called 'economic war'."

"And I, the deputy prime minister in charge of the Foreign Trade Department, only assisted from the side and carried out some coordination work to ensure that the 'economic war' in Xiangxing can proceed smoothly and achieve the expected goals..."

Faced with Mr. Zhou’s proposal, Xiang Lian finally reacted from excitement with an excited look on his face.

However, in the face of this proposal, Xiang Lian was shocked again and did not react for a long time.

However, the two hot gazes that shot out from his eyes betrayed his inner madman and his desire for the Director of the Foreign Trade Department.

Wei Zheng did not show any dissatisfaction with this idea.

As a soldier in later generations, Wei Zheng believed in one sentence very much, that is: "Soldiers who don't want to be generals are not good soldiers."

If this sentence is put here, it is: "An official who does not want to be a high-ranking official is not a good official."

So, while watching the two eyes at the same time, Wei Zheng said with certainty without thinking.
Chapter completed!