Guo Jia couldn't help but nod when he saw this model. He found that under this model, it is very convenient for merchants to find buyers and sellers of bulk commodities, whether they are buying or selling them.
Just by looking at this wooden board, he can roughly understand the price of goods in Jidu and even Hebei. He can also easily understand the price of Crab Island's goods in Daqian!
He looked at the prices of wood and sulfur materials in Daqian, but when Guo Jia saw the prices, his face turned ugly. It was not that the prices were too low, but that the prices sold here were too high, far higher than The price paid by the crab merchant.
Guo Jia said with suppressed anger: "It's true that there is no businessman and no traitor!"
Guo Jiadu would not be so angry at a price that is double the price, but the price of sulfur here in Jidu is more than ten times higher than the price they paid for Crab Island, and the price of wood is also five or six times different, especially for giant trees that are hundreds of years old. Exceeding 20 times, this is like fools!
"Even if we borrow money to form our own caravan, otherwise we will be at a huge disadvantage! Otherwise, we have valuable specialties on Crab Island, but we won't be able to make any money due to the exploitation of these merchants!" Guo Jia realized that Crab Island has no one of its own. The transport fleet suffered a huge loss.
In order to understand the truth, Guo Jia found the merchants who purchased these goods and asked about the prices of wood and sulfur during this period. The wood was okay and the price fluctuations were relatively small. What surprised Guo Jia was that the price of sulfur unexpectedly increased a bit. .
This made Guo Jia very angry. You must know that the merchants who came to Crab Island before tried their best to squeeze the price of sulfur ore, saying that the world had been peaceful and the demand for gunpowder had been reduced, so the sulfur could no longer be sold at a high price.
But this is not the case here at all in Daqian. Although the war has ended, the demand for gunpowder in the entire world has not decreased with the end of the war. On the contrary, because of the end of the war, the world has entered a period of construction, and the demand for gunpowder has increased. Demand has increased.
Daqian is not about governing by doing nothing. The governors and prefects under Lei Gong all want to make contributions. Therefore, Guo Jia saw several infrastructure constructions along the way, each of which cost hundreds of millions, billions or even hundreds of millions. A huge project worth billions of dollars.
These large projects require a large amount of cement, ore, bricks and other construction materials, and the mining of these ores requires gunpowder to blast mountains. After these large projects, newly opened minerals are everywhere in Hebei, and the demand for gunpowder is not only low. The decline has actually increased, and the increased demand for gunpowder has driven up the demand for sulfur.
They built Crab Island with the largest number of sulfur mines in the world. Logically speaking, they should make more money, but after being manipulated by these maritime merchants, they made even less money. They only got a hard-earned money for their hard work. Part of the profits were earned by these maritime merchants. How could this not make Guo Jia angry? He considered himself a national scholar but now he was tricked by a group of maritime merchants.
This incident made Guo Jia determined to build a transport fleet. Even if he borrowed money, he had to find a way to buy some sea-going ships. Otherwise, it would be impossible to stop this kind of thing. He didn't want to continue to be a fool!
Suddenly, in this noisy environment, Guo Jia heard a jingling sound.
Then Guo Jia saw that the Jizhou Water Transport Company that the carriage driver just mentioned was hanging at the highest place on the stock exchange!
Immediately, the people at the stock exchange rushed to the counter one by one, holding banknotes with a face value of 1 min to buy the shares of Jizhou Water Transport Company!
This scene made Guo Jia envious. He was so rich. Especially later, he saw some big businessmen putting a large suitcase on the counter. When he opened the suitcase, it was full of bundles of banknotes. This suitcase is estimated to be tens of thousands of dollars, which is several times more than the fiscal revenue of Crab Island.
Guo Jia took a closer look and found that among the people in the queue, there were several people carrying glove boxes like this. They had the wealth of a country in their hands. It can only be said that they are indeed very capable businessmen. They are indeed heroic!
Guo Jia murmured to himself: "If you hadn't come to the stock exchange, you wouldn't have known that there are so many wealthy businessmen who are so rich that they can rival the country. It is worthy of the name of the stock exchange with flowing golden rivers!"
After getting the information he wanted, Guo Jia left the stock exchange, got into the driver's car again, and said to him: "Go to Jidu Library!"
This place was the place he wanted to visit most when he came to Jidu this time. It is said that Lei Gong collected the books of the entire Han Dynasty, as well as the books collected by Lantai of the imperial court for hundreds of years, all in this library.
At that time, the Guo family did not have the conditions to go to Lantai to read these books, but now that Lei Zongzong is on the bright side, Guo Jia of course wants to go and have a look! For him, these books are priceless treasures!
Jidu Library is also a very tall building. Although it has only five floors, it is taller than the average eight or nine-story building. It is built in a square and large dry style building, but it is built in a square shape at the top. It also adopts a wing-angle structure, with a hint of Han Dynasty classics. It can be regarded as a combination of Han and Han Dynasty architectural features, but it is not full of the atmosphere of the nouveau riche like the stock exchange.
At the door of the library, Guo Jia saw something that surprised him. Many stone tablets were placed at the front of the library. There were so many of them that a square was built in front of the library to house these big guys!
These stone tablets are the famous Xiping Stone Scripture. Guo Jia had seen them many times in Luoyang City, and Guo Jia knew the contents on them by heart!
The so-called Xiping Stone Classics actually happened when Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty found the great Confucians of the Han Dynasty and asked them to work together to correct the Five Classics, and then burned these scriptures on stone tablets for readers all over the world to copy.
Guo Jia knew that Emperor Ling had spent a lot of money to produce the Xiping Stone Scripture because he wanted to compete with the powerful gentry of the Han Dynasty for the right to speak. He wanted to change people like Xu Shao who could determine the fate of a scholar in the officialdom. He wanted to change the fate of officials. The power of appointment is in your hands.
To a certain extent, Guo Jia agrees with Emperor Ling's behavior, which can provide poor families like them with the opportunity to leap over the Dragon Gate. However, Emperor Ling wasted his efforts. Although the Xiping Stone Scripture caused a high price in Luoyang, it did nothing. Despite the changes, the world is still controlled by the powerful gentry.
After repeated defeats in battles, Emperor Ling completely lost his faith and simply became a salted fish, only caring about his own enjoyment. This led to the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the birth of Thunder Lord. To a certain extent, the powerful nobles of the Han Dynasty were They are asking for trouble. Zhang Jiao has a close relationship with the powerful gentry in Hebei. It is very likely that they started the Yellow Turban Rebellion in order to lift the shackles of the party. However, they did not expect that their actions would find themselves a gravedigger. The whole world All the powerful nobles were buried with the Han Dynasty.