Cao Cao has indeed lived a good life in the past two years. More than 100,000 people from his tribe have gone to work in Daqian, which can earn him hundreds of millions of dollars in income every year. The textile industry has taken root in Izumo Country, and it has also continued to improve Izumo Country. Income, especially when the factory owners were losing money one by one at the beginning, Cao Cao followed Guo Jia's instructions and bought shares in these textile factories, occupying a lot of shares.
Later, when the Daqian silk industry emerged, these textile mills switched to making silk. Even though the quality was poor, they still sold well because of the low price. This made Cao Cao make a fortune, which was actually no more than the hundreds of thousands of workers working in Daqian. How much less do you make?
The profits of the labor industry can be seen at a glance. It is impossible for him to continue to increase the labor force. After all, Izumo also needs labor force to develop, and the textile industry only has a few thousand female workers, but the money earned is not much worse than that of hundreds of thousands of people. More importantly, the potential of the textile industry is unlimited, and it can continue to expand tenfold or a hundredfold.
Now Cao Cao finally understands why his eldest son said that if a country wants to grow stronger, it must have industrial industries. If it only develops agriculture, it will starve to death.
And now he finally sees the power of industry. The silk industry alone is more profitable than other industries in Izumo Country, and it has endless potential. He has already planned to expand the area of the silkworm garden and continue to expand silk production. Industry has become the pillar industry of Izumo.
Xun Yu saw that Cao Cao was not concerned about the poor reputation of the silk industry and said firmly: "But Ming Gong cannot let the reputation of inferior silk come to our Izumo country. You must know that our silk cannot always be sold at low prices. Now the highest-grade Shu brocade One piece can be sold for more than 20,000 yuan. We sell more than a dozen pieces of silk to be worth one piece of Shu brocade. We make the Izumo silk the quality of Shu brocade. This is what we should do!"
Since Izumo Country has made the silk industry a pillar industry, it must fully support the development of the silk industry. Things that tarnish its reputation like now must not be done. Without a reputation, it is impossible to create an industry that can prosper for decades or even An industry that lasts hundreds of years!
These words made Cao Cao's face turn cold. What he was thinking of was not the reputation of Izumo Silk, but the fact that Shu Brocade had sucked up all his hard-earned money.
Shu brocade has been the most popular silk brand since the Han Dynasty. It can be said that the wealthy nobles of the Han Dynasty would not wear Shu brocade, so now Shu brocade is also extremely popular in Izumo country. This year, Izumo has become rich, and Izumo country has started to wear it. A thousand horses were imported. To a certain extent, all the money Cao Cao had worked so hard to earn went back!
He said with a cold voice: "These families don't have much ability, but their enjoyment is not lacking at all!"
Because Cao Cao controls the Izumo Country's wharf, he knows the Izumo Country's import and export data very well. This year they exported 400 million yuan worth of goods to Daqian, which has increased by 30% from the previous year, but the import quota is also nearly 400 million yuan, which means that Cao Cao and the others have almost worked in vain this year!
And Cao Cao would not have such a big objection to the imported machinery, iron farm tools, etc. After all, these are tools for production and life, but what happened to Izumo Country was to import high-end silk, high-end pens, ink, paper, and inkstones. Fresh fruits from the South China Sea, precious wood from Nanzhong! There are even troupes from Jidu singing songs from the Izumo Kingdom. These are all for enjoyment. How can this not make Cao Cao angry? You don’t have to be ambitious, but you can You can't do this in a wine pond and a meat forest.
I really regard Luojing as the city of Luoyang. I don’t feel bad about spending money at all. I, Cao Cao, still feel bad about it. This is what I saved little by little frugally!
When Cao Cao saw the country of Izumo, where fruits from the South China Sea could be brought fresh from thousands of miles away, Cao Cao almost went crazy: "With such extravagance, Lei Gong is not afraid of the death of Da Gan II!"
Among all the foolish kings in the past dynasties, there is no such excessive thing as Lei Gong! A lychee costs a hundred dollars, a pineapple costs a thousand dollars, these two hundred and five dollars are actually willing to accept. And the thing that is most unacceptable to Cao Cao is that this trend actually affects the Izumo Kingdom. !
Cheng Yu smiled bitterly and said: "But we can't do without them now. Without them, how would we suppress the millions of savages in Izumo Country? No matter how extravagant they are, they are still our own!"
Xun You said seriously: "My lord must also find a way to increase the income of migrant workers, otherwise it will be very detrimental to me, Izumo! In the past, these people in Izumo respected my lord as a god, but now they are full of complaints!"
There is a saying that if you have not seen the light, you can still tolerate the darkness, but once you have seen the light, the darkness will be extremely difficult to accept.
And this sentence is being fulfilled in Izumo Country. The savages in Izumo Country don't have much knowledge, but no matter how passive they go to work in Okan, they will come into contact with Okan's prosperity and know how wealthy the people of Okan are.
After being exposed to such a wealthy world, it is difficult for them to accept a poor country like Izumo Country. They also want to live the same life as the common people of Daigan.
However, although they are building Daqian, the prosperity of Daqian has nothing to do with them. No matter how hard they work, they can only earn an income of 600 yuan per month, and half of this money has to be turned over to the Yun Kingdom court!
In the past, their tribe was publicly owned, so they could accept the money they earned being taken away by Cao Cao and then rewarded to them again. After all, this was how they lived before.
But after coming into contact with Daqian's distribution system, they were also polluted by private ownership. Now they can tolerate the low income, but it is difficult to accept half of their income being plundered by Cao Cao.
It was not that Cao Cao had not noticed this trend, but labor fees amounted to hundreds of millions per year, which was one of the important incomes of the Izumo court. Cao Cao was reluctant to give up this income, so the way he came up with in the face of the resentment of his subordinates was to kill anyone who had any problem. All the complaining tribesmen were not allowed to go to work in Da Da.
And Izumo Country is an out-and-out feudal country. You can't work, so you can only work as serfs in Izumo Country. The income is even worse, and you can barely support your family.
Cao Cao relied on this approach to suppress the Izumo people's desire to increase their income, but the people's resentment towards Cao Cao grew stronger every day.
This caused another situation. Many people in Izumo simply escaped from the migrant workers team and wanted to become common people in Daqian. Guo Jia had also anticipated this situation when he dispatched the migrant workers team. In order to prevent his family from The labor force of Izumo was absorbed by Okan, and Izumo Country and Okan agreed at the beginning that if a commoner of Izumo was lost, Okan would compensate Izumo Country 200,000 yuan.
Although Dagan wants labor, it is obviously extremely uneconomical to pay 200,000 yuan for a savage! Therefore, even if the savage escapes from the construction site, he will soon be caught by Dagan's basic officials, so Izumo Country escapes every year There are very few people!