Four hundred and fiftieth chapters the best of both worlds
Han Du nodded with a smile and asked: "May I ask your Majesty, if a minister accepts a hundred taels of silver from a foreign minister, not only will the court and the people not suffer any loss, but he will make a profit of 10,000 taels from the country. What about the minister?"
Will he be skinned and used as grass?"
"He gave you money and also let you profit from him. Is he crazy?" Although Lao Zhu understood that Han Du would not be innocent, he still didn't believe it.
Han Du had no choice but to explain patiently: "Your Majesty, the same thing has completely different values in the eyes of my Ming Dynasty and in the eyes of those foreign countries. Although the humble minister has benefited from him, it does not mean that he will
Suffer a loss. Just like a mirror, even if we sell to them at the current price, we may not suffer a loss."
"The price has been reduced by half, and you still say that Ming Dynasty has not suffered a loss? Han Du, I think you really took their money, so you speak for them like this!" Old Zhu stared at Han Du with red eyes, as if his money was stolen by Han Du.
The speed is gone.
It was obviously Lao Zhu who agreed to someone else's price, but now it became Han Du's fault.
"Your Majesty, there are advantages to both high prices and low prices, and there are also advantages to low prices. This cannot be black and white. Your Majesty might as well think about it and give it to them at the current price, even though they have never made more every time.
But the huge profits will drive them to continue to buy more mirrors. Because only by buying more mirrors can they make more money." Han Du smiled confidently and continued: "
No one can resist the temptation of ten times huge profits. In order to make money, they will only come to Ming Dynasty to buy more and more mirrors. In this way, although Ming Dynasty makes less money per mirror, it can sell more.
Then you will make more money than raising the price."
Lao Zhu's anger gradually disappeared as he listened. The more he listened, the more he felt that Han Du's words made sense. If he had only doubled the profit, he might not be very active. Just like the Ming Dynasty's tribute, at the beginning
Fortunately, Lao Zhu was so proud that he hoped that the foreign countries would come to pay tribute. But now the Ming Dynasty has lost interest in paying tribute. Why, isn't it because the profits are too little?
If you can't make money, who would care to argue with you?
So why are the foreign countries becoming more and more active in paying tribute? It's very simple, they can make money. Bringing back the things from the Ming Dynasty will be several times the profit, so how can they not be active?
The more Lao Zhu felt it made sense, the more he felt something was wrong.
Suddenly, Lao Zhu frowned and asked dissatisfiedly: "Are you talking nonsense? If that's the case, why did you raise the price in the first place?"
Han Du helplessly spread his hands and explained: "There is no way, the current production of mirrors is insufficient. The current production is simply difficult to satisfy the internal requirements of the Ming Dynasty. There are really not enough mirrors for those foreign ministers to take back. Weicheng improved
The price is also a helpless move, I just want to maximize the interests of Ming Dynasty."
Lao Zhu was finally satisfied with Han Du's explanation, and nodded with a smile. He tugged his beard and thought to himself, if this is the case, doesn't it mean that the production of mirrors only needs to be increased. Not only does the emperor not have to break his promise, but he can
Earn more?
"Then how to increase production?" Lao Zhu asked excitedly.
He was naturally excited because he didn't have to break his promise and could earn more. How could he not be excited when he encountered such a good thing that had the best of both worlds?
"If all countries want to purchase a large number of mirrors and want to increase production to fully satisfy them, Weichen estimates that it will definitely not be possible to rely solely on the Banknote Bureau. After all, the Banknote Bureau has limited manpower, and it also has to take care of the banknotes.
It's impossible to be too busy with paper making." Han Du briefly explained to Lao Zhu.
Lao Zhu also thinks that this is the case. After all, there are only so many craftsmen in the banknote bureau. If they all make mirrors, who will make the banknotes?
Judging from the current situation, treasure banknotes are more important in comparison. Even if the production of mirrors is insufficient, it will at most affect how much money you make, and treasure banknotes are related to the lifeblood.
Which one is lighter and which one is more important is naturally clear at a glance.
"How about I mobilize another group of craftsmen for you? Is five hundred enough? If not, I will recruit a thousand." Lao Zhu became excited and couldn't help but rub his hands.
Among scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, Lao Zhu has always valued scholars the most, followed by farmers, then craftsmen, and preferably businessmen. Even though he was rude to officials, he would either arrest or kill them. In fact, almost all Lao Zhu captured and killed
They are corrupt officials, and they are all officials who harm the people. Lao Zhu is generally reluctant to kill officials who work hard like an old scalper and contribute to the world of his family, Lao Zhu. Moreover, Lao Zhu has always been seeking talents.
He not only opened the imperial examination, but also allowed princes and nobles to recommend talents, which all showed that he valued scholars.
Relatively speaking, Lao Zhu didn't pay much attention to craftsmen, which is why the life of craftsmen is relatively miserable now. But now Han Du told him that craftsmen can bring huge income to the court. At this time, Lao Zhu's thoughts happened.
After the changes, I feel that craftsmen are also very important.
Although craftsmen are not able to govern the country like scholars, nor can they pay taxes like farmers, they can make money through craftsmen. Lao Zhu still knows how important money is.
But Han Du shook his head and did not agree with Lao Zhu's method.
"Your Majesty, in Wei Chen's opinion, it is a huge waste to have craftsmen make the mirror from beginning to end. Because except for some key areas that require skilled craftsmen to operate by themselves, in fact, when making the mirror,
There are many things that ordinary people can do.”
After hearing this, Lao Zhu muttered: "If you have any ideas, tell me and listen."
"Do you think we can use a small number of craftsmen to do key things, and then spend money to recruit some common people to do those simple things? In this way, there is no need to mobilize a large number of craftsmen, only the existing craftsmen are needed to lead these common people.
We can increase the production of mirrors." Han Du kept watching the changes in the expression on Lao Zhu's face and said very carefully, because this matter is not trivial.
Recruiting people privately during the Hongwu Year was not a trivial matter. If you were not good enough, someone would accuse you of gathering a crowd to rebel.
Therefore, even with Han Du's boldness, he would not have dared to recruit people privately in the past. But now Han Du has to take the risk to mention it. One is that he was very critical of this and restricted the people.
It is indeed a bit too much to restrict our activities to this extent.