If Ju Hu hadn't said the last sentence, the others might have been immersed in the big deal of the old Yuan family. But after Ju Hu said that, these old guys who had been in the court for more than ten years or even decades could not react.

Both of them suddenly realized and had a considerable understanding of the Yuan family's thoughts. They even used this method. It can be seen that the Yuan family is still very short of people until now.

"I think there are some other problems." Liu Ye glanced at the court officials present, and finally sent a soft voice to Jia Xu and others.

"This is just an end, a purpose that is deliberately exposed." Chen Xi suddenly spoke. Others may not have the sensitivity of this aspect, but later generations used too many such means, and Chen Xi suddenly remembered a possibility.

"Sure enough," Lu Su glanced at Ju Hu and said, "I was wondering before, why Ju Hu was so careless? I think it makes sense when you say this."

"The Yuan family probably has discovered the problem. It's not that they don't have money, but that they have enough money, but they can't buy supplies." Chen Xi stroked the corner of his mouth and sent a message to Jia Xu and others and said.

"Can't buy supplies?" Jia Xu raised his eyebrows. Jia Xu had never encountered it before when he had money and could not buy supplies. The Han Dynasty has always been short of money, and the materials are barely rich. Many times, silk can be used as hard currency.

"Well, after all, it's Wangxing's land. There is no shortage of mineral resources, but those things do not mean that the most commonly used materials are enough. The current development of the Yuan family is likely to be locked up the materials produced annually. In addition, it is quite far from the Central Plains, so there is no way to buy them. If you have money, there is no place to spend them, so you are now creating such a stupid and expensive style." Chen Xi said to the other people with teasing voice.

"In other words, money cannot be converted into food and grass, is it equipped with these?" Lu Su understood the situation in just a few seconds and couldn't help but smile.

"Well, that's it. Gold, silver, gems and other things are luxury goods. They will become human pursuits when people are rich. But if basic materials cannot be satisfied, those things will be jokes." Chen Xi smiled and said, "The Yuan family cannot digest so many things themselves, and they are also trying to find a way."

In fact, this is an economic means. If the old Yuan family wants to farm, it will not be a big problem, and if it wants to make a fortune, it will not be a big problem. But this is a splitting of the soil and splitting the grass. If there is no combat power, the old Yuan family will not stand firm. Although the old Yuan family is striving to arm some of the elites now, Chen Xi can ensure that the old Yuan family will basically use up all the steel they have reserved when doing this step.

Unlike precious metals such as gold and silver, which are extremely difficult to smel and can solve problems by just mining, steel is one of the most basic indicators of the country. Since having iron tools, steel output has basically been equated with the national combat effectiveness.

A large part of the reason why the old Yuan family could accept the Celtics was that the Celtics were one of the earliest peoples in the world that could smelify iron. As for the current situation of the Yuan family, not to mention 100,000 blacksmiths, two-thirds of them were cut off, and even 30,000 people were not even allowed to 30,000 people.

In addition, his technical strength is insufficient, his management is not in place, and the blast furnace in the civilized method has not been fired. The blacksmith of the old Yuan family is the limit to reaching this level.

Since there is not enough supplies, there is only the choice to buy this way. After all, there is a Han Empire behind their Yuan family. Compared with the situation of their Yuan family, the Han Empire has abundant supplies, and the money from the old Yuan family can be exchanged for a large amount of supplies in the Han Dynasty.

However, this involves another problem. The Yuan family and the Han Dynasty are now too far away. If they transport basic materials, it would be a loss.

Even though the Yuan family repeatedly stated that they were rich, the merchants were not fools. I ran so far and the road was so difficult to walk. If I sent basic supplies over, it would be better to go to Midiya to sell silk.

This is very embarrassing. Even the merchants don’t go to the Yuan family, and the only thing left is to buy equipment in Rome. The problem is that Rome is not a second-hand man, you can buy luxury goods such as gems, jade, pearls, and agate at will, but you will be detained when you come out of seclusion.

In this way, the Yuan family's last choice was to give a lot of money to the Han Dynasty. The merchants who sent it to the Central Plains all realized that my Yuan family was also a way to make money. Then, in order to make money, everyone spent money and people to work together to build the road. Well, in fact, this is not a problem with money. If Zhongyuan is willing to build this road, it would be fine for the old Yuan family to pay for it at their own expense.

However, the Yuan family dared not speak like this, for fear of scaring people away after opening their mouths. This is no longer a matter of money, it is purely a matter of people.

Xun Chen estimated that it would take five years to build this road just by considering a series of problems such as permafrost. The Central Plains families joined forces to bring the guys who are now in various venues in the Western Regions on board, which basically only takes two years.

After all, the road from west of Yumen Pass to the Western Regions has been built. After Sima Lang was in charge of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions, he really communicated with the monarchs of various countries while using a knife to threaten the ministers of various countries to organize people to build domestic roads.

Now the Thirty-Six Kingdoms have been forced to start and work hard to build the Western Regions roads to the level of county roads planned at the beginning. In this way, what the Yuan family needs to do is to connect their own roads with the roads in the north of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms.

Only when this road is built and commercial transactions are in progress, will major merchants bring some supplies that are very scarce for Sizhao City when purchasing various luxury goods in Sizhao City. At that time, the old Yuan family can blatantly purchase whatever they want. After all, it is commercial transactions and all need to be understood.

Even the old Yuan family has even thought about its own future business. There is no way. The five major luxury merchants are not good. None of them invested in the old Yuan family, and there is no strong man from the old Yuan family within the chamber of commerce. So the old Yuan family is thinking now, if you bastards don’t take me to play, I will just build a business by myself, specializing in selling all kinds of top luxury goods.

I didn’t see that the gem mines in our old Yuan family were all the ones that paid tribute to the royal family. What are your things? Look, this is the royal gem mine, my family is next door!

As for whether this routine will offend Rome, it doesn't matter if the Yuan family is right next to you. Can you still stop selling me? Supporting the Yuan family means supporting domestic products, Rome means garbage, and Xu You even thought of the future slogan.

Of course, the most important thing is that gem ore is something like gem ore. When the Han Dynasty was not playing with it, it didn't feel valuable. But since the Romans sent the cut gems to the Central Plains, the bright luster greatly attracted the attention of women and then it was done.

The price of gems jumped up, and the old Yuan family felt that it was a bit sorry for not using this to cheat money. As for the problems with the export of gems by its large-scale sales of gems, the old Yuan family no longer cared about it. Anyway, they had to do it, so they care about it.

Since we are destined to fight, we are not allowed to disgust you two.

With this attitude, the old Yuan family first came an emerald of royal tribute. There is nothing more attractive than sticking it to the royal family. As for the mine, it’s just a money to buy a road. Don’t be afraid. I also have more than a dozen large mines and dozens of medium-sized mines. It’s not a loss to use one for private label!

"I really didn't expect that the old Yuan family would think like this." Jia Xu said incredible. To be honest, if Chen Xi didn't explain, even he would be hidden inadvertently.

"It's a good thing to do with each other, and in this situation, I feel very sad to pay Rome's IQ tax every year." Chen Xi said with a smile.

It was agreed that the Han Dynasty would supply silk, and Rome used gold coins to settle the settlement, but the final settlement was made of gems and jade. After all, compared with gold coins, Rome produced more gems and jades, and the former was a hard currency, while the latter was a luxury goods.

Although there is no difference between the two for most people, there is a difference between Chen Xi and Pompianus.

Pompianus really didn't understand the difference, but this did not prevent Pompianus from thinking that it was more cost-effective to exchange gems and jade, so the settlement method between the Han Dynasty and Rome was gems, jade and silk.

Fortunately, the Han Dynasty's consumption capacity for jade is extremely high. As long as the level of cutting gems is high enough, women's consumption capacity is also extremely high. With the Romans' mathematical level, the level of cutting gems is indeed very terrifying. Therefore, Chen Xi's everything he got was converted into currency and injected into the industry.

But if you really want to say it, Chen Xi was still quite unhappy, because this kind of exchange was equivalent to both parties receiving each other's IQ tax. Although both Pompianus and Chen Xi had a lot of money, they were still unhappy.

Therefore, Chen Xi would rather let the IQ tax be taken away by the Yuan family than by Rome. At least the former is a true self-center, while the latter is just a hypothetical self-center.

"IQ tax?" Lu Su asked in confusion.

"You didn't buy gems for your wife?" Chen Xi asked casually.

"How could it be that I didn't buy it? My wife has finally become interested in external things. I can't buy it. I have bought a lot." Lu Su said very proudly.

Ji Xiang is usually in a state of being neither good nor evil, without self nor morality. Of course, that was once, and now it is somewhat humane, but the demand itself is actually very low. However, it was extremely rare to be attracted by the shining gems before. Lu Su was of course buying!
Chapter completed!