The Zhen family's intelligence system is very powerful! In less than three days, Zhen Xing found out the source of inferior silk for him, Izumo Country!
"Cao Cao's territory? How is this possible? There are not only savages there. Where did Cao Cao get the textile factory and enough female workers to weave silk?"
Xu Lun has almost forgotten that there is a country like Izumo in this world. The name Cao Cao is more like a figure from the previous era. Shouldn't it only appear in history books?
Zhen Xing admired: "Cao Cao is worthy of being a hero who escaped unharmed in troubled times. Although he was imprisoned in the Izumo Kingdom by the ruling party, he was not willing to spend the rest of his life on this desert island. In these years, he has sent ten soldiers every year. Tens of thousands of people from Izumo Country came to Dagan to work and make money. A few years ago, he even recruited many businessmen to build textile factories in Izumo Country. This batch of low-quality silk was produced in the original factory."
Xu Lun never expected that his opponent would be Cao Cao, a fallen hero!
He was surprised and said: "Where did the silk industry come from on this small Crab Island?"
Zhen Xing said helplessly: "How difficult can it be? First transplant the mulberry trees and bring them to Izumo. The mulberry trees can grow leaves, and then raise silkworms. The textile industry in Izumo will rise! At the same time, I also found these silks Why is it so inferior? You also know that most of the people in Izumo Country are from savages. These people have only been wearing clothes for more than ten years. If you let these savages hunt, they can still have some skills. But if you can make them farm and weave, it will be difficult for them.”
Then he smiled and said: "When Cao Cao recruited Daqian merchants to build textile factories in Izumo Country, he did not want to produce silk. After all, Izumo Country also belongs to the north and the climate is relatively cold."
"At that time, Cao Cao and the others wanted to produce woolen cloth, and the ideas of those merchants were also very simple. The salary of our female textile workers was less than 1,000 yuan, so it was impossible for them to work in the textile factory, while Cao Cao's female savages did not even have a salary of 300 yuan. They didn't want any, and even with such a small amount of money, Cao Cao took advantage of them. Most of these female savages could only make ends meet, which made those savages grateful.
Therefore, the labor cost to build a textile factory in Izumo Country is three times lower than here. Those merchants who wanted to go to Izumo Country at the beginning thought that relying on the low labor cost in Izumo Country would increase their profits."
Then Zhen Xing said with a smile: "It's just that they never expected that for the women of Daqian, weaving is instinctive, but for the savages of Izumo Country, this is an extremely advanced skill, and they want to learn it extremely well." difficult."
"These merchants who went to Izumo Country all paid a huge price. Although the savage women also woven woolen cloth, the quality of the woolen cloth was extremely poor, not much different from the felt in the north, so those who went to Izumo Not only did the businessmen of the state-owned textile factories make money, they almost lost all their money. It was Cao Cao who managed to invest some money to maintain these factories. However, after this happened, no one dared to build a textile factory in Izumo Country. .”
"But Cao Cao did not give up. He tried to train these savages, and the quality of the items improved slightly. Later, the demand for Daqian silk began to increase, and that was when merchants going to Izumo Country used the textile mills that produced woolen cloth to convert them into silk production. , so these low-quality silks appear before you.
There is an oversupply of woolen cloth, so of course no one wants the inferior cloth, but now the silk market is in short supply, and even this inferior silk is still wanted by traffickers."
"And I don't know who gave Cao Cao an evil idea to pass off the silk he produced as the silk produced by our Daqian, that's why the scene we are seeing now happened."
Xu Lun said angrily: "The remnants of the old era should disappear."
After finding his opponent, Xu Lun immediately asked to see Xu Wei and told Xu Wei everything he discovered in Jidu.
"In power, the silk industry is a pillar industry in Jiangnan. It can earn Jiangnan tens of billions of dollars in revenue every year. This is where millions of people in Jiangnan live in food and clothing. If Cao Cao's inferior silk affects Jiangnan's income, millions of people in Jiangnan will The surname will be affected, and the century-old plan to govern and develop Jiangnan will also be affected. Please send someone to reprimand Cao Cao, and at the same time prohibit Cao Cao's inferior silk from entering my country!"
Xu Wei thought for a while and said: "It is necessary to reprimand Cao Cao for this behavior. After all, he has affected the reputation of silk in Jingzhou, Yangzhou and Yizhou, but it will be difficult to ban Izumo silk from entering Daqian!" "
"There are thousands of ships registered by Daqian now. They want to sell silk from Izumo Country. This does not violate my Daikan law at all."
"Government, please find a way to increase the tax on Cao Cao's silk. This will make their market extremely inferior. If the price is too high, it will be impossible to compete with us!"
But Xu Wei shook his head and said: "Do you know that my Dagan products are sold in large quantities in Izumo Country? It can even be said that Cao Cao's money from silk and the money from hundreds of thousands of savages were all used by me." Industrial products are profitable.
He just earns a little hard-earned money. If we raise the tax on his silk, and if Cao Cao raises the tax on Gaoyun, we will suffer a big loss."
There is almost no customs in Daqian, and only 5% of the miscellaneous fees are charged for goods entering and exiting. It can be said that among all the taxes in Daqian, this is the lowest.
This is not because Xu Wei does not understand the importance of tariffs, but that it is completely unnecessary. First of all, Daqian has the strongest industrialization strength. For Daqian, other countries are almost equivalent to dumping grounds for goods. Raising tariffs is completely unreasonable. Be right with yourself.
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Especially for countries like Nanzhong and Nanhai, which are almost equal to the mainland of Daqian, if Xu Wei introduces a tariff, it will actually remind his younger brothers to find ways to protect their markets.
This is something Xu Wei does not want to see. He would rather see that in the cultural circle of Daqian, there are no taxes such as tariffs. In this case, this cultural circle is a unified market, and in this unified market, the level of science and technology and Daqian with the highest level of education obviously has the upper hand.
However, Cao Cao's actions certainly reminded Xu Wei of an allusion. In a country that had just entered the industrial era from the feudal era, there was no such concept as a trademark.
The reason why trademarks appeared is because of the industrial development of Prussia. Prussia, which had just developed its industry, had an extremely poor industrial foundation, so they pretended to be genuine goods to make profits.
Such behavior was naturally discovered by Niu Niu. They were disgusted with Prussian hooliganism. In order to distinguish their own country's goods from Prussian goods, they invented the trademark method to distinguish. As a result, they did not expect that Niu Niu would not With an enterprising spirit, Prussian products have become synonymous with high precision.
Now Xu Wei also thought of this method, so he said to Xu Lun: "You can put a mark on the silk in Jingzhou, so that everyone who sees this mark will understand that the silk is a product of Jingzhou. In this way, the inferior silk produced by Cao Cao will You can’t just look the other way.”
"I will also help you in the parliament. This year I will propose the promulgation of a trademark law. Anyone and anyone who imitates other people's trademarks with counterfeit goods will be punished. Then you will have a reasonable basis. There are laws and regulations that can punish Cao Cao for this kind of behavior."
Xu Lun was excited: "Then you have to act quickly. Judging from the news I got, Cao Cao transported nearly 100,000 pieces of silk to the quarter this year. In less than two or three years, Izumo Kingdom will be Transport millions of pieces of low-quality silk to our Daqian! Then the people of our Daqian will suffer great losses from Cao Cao."