Chen Xi looked at Wei Zi and fell into deep thought. In his conscience, Wei Zi's asking price was obviously calculated and lowered a lot.
Regarding the annual tax revenue of Guangtong Canal and Tongji Canal, the Han Dynasty also has statistics. In 206, which is the eighth year of Yuanfeng, the tax revenue of Guangtong Canal and Tongji Canal was about 5.6
100 million, this figure seems to be only slightly higher than the 500 million that Weitz said, and it only reached the 500 million level last year, but as of now, Guangtong Canal and Tongji Canal are still far from the upper limit of tax revenue.
The upper limit of tax revenue for this golden waterway was actually estimated when it was designed. With Chen Xi's current development rate, after the population enters an explosive period, let's not talk about Tongji Canal. According to Guanghe Dongwei's
The Guangtong Canal owned by us can generate an estimated tax revenue of one billion a year.
Therefore, the discount of 12.4 billion is not high. In fact, it is completely in line with the shortage of materials in this era. The price of emergency discount is 10% off. Of course, when the Zhen family was suppressed back then, 100% off was indeed an outrageous method. As an official, Chen Xi would not
To do that kind of thing, the Wei family took the initiative to make a 40% discount, which actually shows how bad the current situation on Cao Cao's side is.
Chen Xi could write down the cash of 12.4 billion on the spot, but to be honest, the materials of 12.4 billion were not available at a premium and were purchased at cost price in a short period of time.
To be realistic, it's not that Chen Xi doesn't have them. He does have strategic supplies stored at the end of the year. The only difference between Chen Xi and Liu Ba is this. Liu Ba really dares to empty them, but Chen Xi will never empty them, even in name.
There will also be a five-year plan contingency reserve (fund) plan. This is what Chen Xi does first in every five-year plan.
In the first five-year plan, this thing was about to be moved several times, but it was not moved in the end. In fact, Chen Xi's original intention was that he would rather waste this plan than touch this reserve.
"We have 12.4 billion yuan, but I'm afraid we can't transfer companies and materials worth 12.4 billion yuan." Chen Xi thought for a long time, and finally shook his head and said, it's too much. If the price is lower, Chen Xi can pass it, and now
Just providing assistance is really impossible.
"Chen Hou should have emergency reserves, can they be used? It is already the end of the eighth year of Yuanfeng, and the five-year plan is halfway through." Wei Zi said sincerely. As for continuing to reduce prices, according to the calculations of the Wei family, Guangtong Canal will be in Yuan Dynasty.
In about fifteen years, the annual income should be close to one billion. If it is packaged and sold at the current price of 12.4 billion, there is really no choice.
"Sorry, there is not enough reason not to use this thing." Chen Xi shook his head. Wei Zi was silent for a long time, and there was even a trace of sadness on his face. For Chen Xi, isn't this a sufficient reason? I see.
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"Chen Hou, wait a minute. I'll be right back." Wei Zi was silent for a while, then stood up and saluted Chen Xi. He needed to go back to discuss it. 12.4 billion was already the bottom line of their Wei family, and it couldn't be lower. However, facing
Chen Xi’s reply!
Chen Xi looked at Wei Zi's desolate back and couldn't help but shook his head. He didn't say anything. The price of 12.4 billion was indeed very low. Even if Chen Xi wanted to take advantage of this time to buy back, it was impossible for Chen Xi to extract such a large amount at the moment.
Supplies, as for using emergency reserves, Chen Xi just thought about it briefly and put an end to the idea.
Although Guangtong Canal and Tongji Canal are important, they can be redeemed sooner or later. Compared with the thunderstorms one after another in the past two years, Chen Xi is somewhat afraid, so Chen Xi still doesn't want to use the emergency reserves, even if they can be used.
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Of course, if Wei Zi is willing to accept the transfer of industry worth 7 billion, Chen Xi is even willing to pay more cash. Of course, this part of the cash will be paid before June next year. In total, the total value can reach more than 15 billion. Unfortunately, Cao Cao's current
The situation is not supported.
Wei Zi was sent back by Cao Hong. Among all the senior officials who were involved in Cao Cao's influence, there were only two people who did not participate in Liu Ba's financial operations. One was Chen Gong and the other was Cao Hong.
Needless to say, the former is a breeze, and Qian Quan operates on Chen Xi's side. As the last member to obtain the original shares of national capital, he does not get involved in financial operations such as Liu Ba. On the other hand, Cao Hong is involved in only one kind of financial management-related business called
Savings.
Do you understand what Pixiu is? Cao Hong is this type of person.
Cao Hong sends money back to Chang'an every year and stores it in Chang'an Bank, so Cao Hong is currently the richest person in Cao Cao's power. Of course, this time Cao Cao forced Cao Hong to use all the money he had accumulated over the years to purchase various supplies.
Cao Hong was very heartbroken, but Cao Hong was really a loyal supporter of Cao Cao, so Cao Hong painfully took out all the money, exchanged it for tickets in Chang'an, and sent them to the state-owned Tangkou in Midea, and then from the Tangtang there.
Either they were settling accounts with Rome, or they were mobilizing supplies from Central Asia. In short, they were delivering them to Cao Cao's forces in the Herat area as quickly as possible.
By the way, before Liu Ba's collapse, this settlement system could be directly connected with Liu Ba, and then Chang'an's tickets could be exchanged directly with Liu Ba. When the internal air is separated from the body to ensure communication, this settlement system
, settlement can be done on the same day.
It can be said that this is the most efficient settlement method at present, but this kind of ultra-large-scale bill-for-material settlement system, once it exceeds one billion, Chen Xi needs to review it, and then sign and seal the bill on the back. If it is less than one billion, it will be fine.
One billion, it also needs to be signed and stamped by the central bank personnel at the corresponding level.
In fact, this was the endorsement method of multinational banks in international settlements in the 19th and 20th centuries. Back then, there was no such online transfer and online docking. The settlement process of cross-border trade would be extremely complicated, and the Han Dynasty can currently undertake this kind of settlement.
There is only Changan Bank.
Of course, because Liu Ba has destroyed the Herat-Kandahar economic system, Chen Xi's tickets cannot be exchanged directly locally, so they can only be exchanged at Media Trading City and then sent to Herat.
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Relatively speaking, this efficiency is already very high, but compared with the previous method where you only need to bring a ticket to pick up the goods locally, it is already much worse. But who asked Liu Ba and the others to do it? Chen Xi had nothing to do
, we can only use the more primitive method before.
"How's it going? Did Shangshu Pushe pass there?" Cao Hong asked immediately.
"No, Chen Hou rejected this proposal." Wei Zi shook his head and said.
"The package price of two golden waterways is 12.4 billion. I have no money. If I had money, I would buy it directly." Cao Hong said very puzzled, "Does Chen Hou still think it is expensive?"
"It's not that it's expensive, but it's just that we can't mobilize supplies on that scale." Wei Zi sighed and said, "If you think about it carefully, whether there are so many supplies in Media Trading City is still a problem, and if you mobilize supplies from the mainland,
It takes too much time, and we have to endure the run. Now we have only calmed the restlessness, but we have not fully realized it. The run is still around the corner."
In fact, Wei Zi and others did not consider a more vicious method, that is, some families under Cao Cao's command, as well as the Central Asian aristocratic families, have now privately disposed of the tickets that Liu Ba sold to them at low prices to the people under Cao Cao's command.
After all, Cao Cao's current approach is actually to protect the people and soldiers, and cut off the big households under his command. Of course, for the sake of fairness, he cut off his own house first, and the big households under his command have nothing to do with Cao Cao, who has regained his support.
But are these families who follow Cao Cao really willing to lose their money, real estate, and factories and mines? It is true that even if these people riot and put pressure on Cao Cao, they will not be able to solve it when facing Cao Cao who has regained control of military power.
question.
After all, the problem of Cao Cao's power is now. After Liu Ba made the decisive decision to distribute the assets to the soldiers and the people, the original situation of internal explosion has become the situation before Chen Xi faced the middle and upper class, and he could face more than a hundred people represented by the middle and upper class.
The dissatisfaction of the masses, and the dissatisfaction of millions of people at the grassroots level who previously had military power and basic social organizational power, at least the former can be suppressed.
Therefore, for these middle and upper-class people, killing Liu Ba is not enough at all. It is just a way of venting. They also want to get their assets back. Why should the idiots rob them of their things? It clearly belongs to them. Why should they?
Share it with those people.
So when Cao Cao started to exchange tickets for the common people and soldiers, the smart ones among these people had already begun to sell their own tickets to the common people and soldiers at low prices - anyway, the common people and soldiers can exchange, but that does not mean that we can also
If we exchange it, the worst we can do is suffer some losses.
For the people and soldiers who had begun to actually exchange land, plantations, and farms at this time, the sudden appearance of new low-priced tickets on the market and tentative acquisitions were not a matter of course, and when these low-priced tickets really
After being able to exchange them at Cao Sikong's place, these low-price tickets will become free money.
Liu Ba was devastated at the time and did not consider this idea. However, a moral gentleman like Xun Yu never considered this possibility. This blind spot had already secretly threatened to hang Cao Sikong again, who was about to come back to life.
Of course, no one knows or realizes all this at present.
Cao Hong looked at Wei Zi. He didn't understand these things, but he knew that Cao Cao's current situation was very dangerous. Otherwise, he, a hard-working man, wouldn't have spent all his money to help Cao Cao tide over the difficulties. Although Cao Hong's money was very important to Cao Cao,
It was a drop in the bucket, but Cao Cao was still very moved.
"I'm going to discuss it again with Hedong. If it doesn't work, we can only lower it a little more." Wei Zi said with great frustration. The price is already very low, but there is no way. Who can let the current situation happen?
It was impossible to find a second person to take over.
It’s not that no one can afford more money than this. If he really wanted money, Wei Zi could just tell him to sell the rights to use the Guangtong Canal and Tongji Canal, and wealthy businessmen from all over the Central Plains would pool their money and buy this thing.
, Unfortunately, what Weizi wants is not money, but materials, all kinds of materials, that can be quickly transported to Herat to stabilize the entire Caocao market.
Of course, it would be better if we could switch to some more technologies and companies.
At present, under Cao Sikong's rule, the problem of running on local people and soldiers has affected the confidence of the people in Beigui in the market to a certain extent. Some daily supplies are already in a rush, even though Chen Qun has hoarded these supplies to a certain extent.
, is not enough to cope with it.
Coupled with the failure of follow-up supplies to arrive on time, the real run begins, which may also cause panic among those under the administration who are not involved in the matter, and finally collapse completely.
This is also the reason why Weizi must have supplies. The supplies are worth about 12 billion. For Cao Cao, who has a population of nearly three million under his rule, it is only about 400 taels of supplies if divided equally on one person. But as long as he can carry it
After the first wave of runs, the subsequent operations will be smooth.
However, the problem is how to survive the first wave of runs, and the longer the delay, the more serious it will be when the first wave of runs occurs.
"Didn't you change it?" Chen Gong came out from Lu Bu's side, carrying a paper bag, and looked at Wei Zi a little tiredly and asked.
"No, Chen Hou doesn't quite accept the price, and he's not willing to use emergency assets. He seems to want to give money. The question is, do we want money?" Wei Zi said helplessly.
Money is very important, but if you really just want money, Cao Cao can borrow some. In fact, the reason why there is no complete chaos under Cao Cao's rule is that Cao Cao divided the entire Helmand River Industrial Park and filled it.
In addition to the businesses owned by the Zhen family in the Central Asia branch, there are also more than ten tons of gold bricks piled at the entrance of the Kandahar government office.
These gold bricks were borrowed from the Yuan family. The Yuan family may be short of supplies, but the Yuan family really does not lack gold bricks. However, because Yuan Tan is not here, the mistress Wen can only borrow so much.
These gold bricks have stabilized people's hearts to a certain extent, but to a certain extent, they will not be able to stabilize people's hearts when the rush for supplies comes.
Just like the ibuprofen ten days ago, when I needed this life-saving help, the BRIC could not stabilize people's hearts. Similarly, when the supplies on the market were cleared out and a run occurred, the BRIC could not stabilize the people.
The people and soldiers calmed down.
Especially when gold cannot be exchanged for supplies, this becomes the Ming Dynasty sumu wood pepper discount salary. These things are indeed more valuable than gold, and there is a premium compared to the salary. The problem is that I have to eat! Send me a piece
BRIC, I can't buy supplies in the market, it's useless!
The same is true for Cao Cao now. If he wants to re-establish his credibility, he needs supplies. Only when more than 10 billion supplies arrive, Cao Cao can issue gold bricks to pay off debts. Otherwise, he will directly issue gold bricks and wait for a larger scale.
It's a run.
Money and tickets that cannot be exchanged for any supplies are no different from paper. Cao Cao never thought of borrowing a few tons of gold from the Yuan family to make a fortune. But after the gold was issued, he could not buy supplies. That is different from what he is doing now.
Is there any real difference between the tickets? Or die!
Happy New Year everyone, it’s another year. I’ll post a post at the beginning of this year. Just like I said a few days ago, I will finish the book next year, and then there will be another update later, so hurry up and vote. New year, new monthly vote, happy~
In addition, there are now four extras to choose from. Choose one today and it will be updated tomorrow.
One is a side story that owes book friends money for two years. It continues the timeline of Rome. Before Justinian I and Constantine succeeded to the Roman Empire, they faced the alien mythical creature Attila the Hun.
An extra chapter about the beating of the representative of the super timeline.
One of the highway bosses helped me clean the pool, play games, and draw new characters, so it was a three-way melee for the highway: King Mang, the Supreme Humanity, vs. Liu Yan, the Reborn Emperor of Shinto vs. Liu Xiu, the Father of Heaven. Extra, in short, you have to thank Highway, Highway can create at least several chapter updates every year.
One is the previously mentioned extra story about Alexander pushing Persia across the border, breaking through the imperial graveyard, and the enhanced version of Monarch Huo Qubing fighting in unparalleled chaos.
The last one is a chaotic dance of demons, a three-party melee between the Xiongnu of the Xia Dynasty and the Yin and Shang allied forces heading east to the Americas vs. the Han cultural circle collective of the orthodox descendants of the Xia vs. the westward march of the Yin and Shang forces to the Mediterranean and the Qin Dynasty. The orthodox battle, each of the three families has the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and the strong claim of Huaxia Zhengshuo , the one who wins can legally inherit the position of ball length.
For these four extras, I don’t know how many updates I can write for each one. According to the past, there will be at least three or four updates for each one. Hurry up and choose. I will finish the selection before noon. I will update it tomorrow.
