Iron Dynasty

ps: There is another chapter below. ≥8

"His Royal Highness, the senior officials have almost been eaten by the merchant these days."

In the main hall of the Qi Palace, Li Kaiyuan presented the Chamber of Commerce account book with both hands and complained.

Xiao Ming smiled. He also heard about these two things. The merchants almost broke the threshold of the Chamber of Commerce because of the sugar.

But for him, he was mentally prepared when he was preparing to release the white sugar technology. After all, the success of the soap workshop made many businessmen very jealous.

And this time the white granulated sugar chamber of commerce has not even sold it in the country of Da Yu, which means that white granulated sugar will be a brand new product. Compared with soap that has already been made a large sum of silver by the chamber of commerce, the profit of this white granulated sugar is bound to be higher. .

Because of this, business people are so impatient to get the white sugar production technology.

"You won't be able to eat it. I will give you tens of thousands of taels of silver tickets, and it is possible to pick a few concubines for you." Xiao Ming smiled as he took over the account book from Li Kaiyuan.

Li Kaiyuan cried and said, "His Royal Highness, don't bury the official. The official is always clean."

Of course, Xiao Ming was just a joke. He paid Li Kaiyuan a high salary in order to maintain integrity. If he was outside the country, Li Kaiyuan's position would probably be broken.

With a teasing smile, Xiao Ming looked at the account book, which recorded the merchants who bought the white sugar production technology these days.

"Three hundred and seventy-eight people." Xiao Ming was a little shocked to see the number of people on the account book. "So many."

"No, Xiaguan has been reminding them not to buy technology too blindly, but they just don't believe it." Li Kaiyuan shook his head.

"Since the reminder is over, let them go. At that time, it will be their own lives to lose or earn, but even if there are more than 200 people, I am afraid that they will earn at the beginning."

"Xiaguan thinks so too. This white sugar has never appeared on the market. There will be a lot of sales on the market. Moreover, now that sea trade routes are open, merchants can still sell white sugar to Korea and Wa." Li Kaiyuan said.

Xiao Ming nodded when he heard the words. The number seemed to be huge, just because the white sugar workshops were concentrated in Qingzhou, just like there is only one small shop in a modern town, but the whole country adds up to tens of thousands.

In the same way, if these three hundred white sugar workshops were evenly distributed throughout the country, it would be just dripping into the sea, and now he wants to open up private capital and cannot interfere too much with the behavior of these merchants.

To do business is to make a loss and make a profit. He only needs to control the general business operation of the entire country. The specific details will be managed by the government.

"More than three million taels plus the sale of sulfites, this white sugar chamber of commerce is a net profit again, not bad, not bad."

The numbers on the account book made Xiao Ming laugh happily. In fact, he is the most profitable. He can sell both sugar cane and chemicals. This means that businessmen have to give him part of the money.

Except for the white sugar, this pendulum has not yet been sold. Once it is sold, it will be a good income. The tight finances due to the crazy expansion of the army are now finally relaxed.

Li Kaiyuan's eyes narrowed with a smile, but when he remembered something, he suddenly said: "His Royal Highness, there is something that the officials almost forgot. After buying the technology, these merchants complained that they could not find enough craftsmen to be responsible for the production, and Qingzhou Market Slaves on the upper hand are also very scarce, and they are not enough for the merchants. The issue of lower officials will cause some problems in the development of commerce."

"Well, you are right." Xiao Ming nodded, having to say that Li Kaiyuan was very accurate.

In fact, he is also thinking about this issue. Now he obviously cannot compete with Europe for the slave trade, and the slave trade in Asia is very difficult. After all, neither the Japanese nor Goryeo exist in tribal situations like Africa.

However, he already had a specific replacement plan in his mind, so he said: "You can talk to the merchants and let them recruit artisans from outside the country."

"Recruit craftsmen from other places?" Li Kaiyuan rolled his eyes and suddenly laughed, "His Royal Highness is really a high trick. In this way, regardless of whether these merchants buy from outside or cheat, they are all increasing the population of Qingzhou. ."

There was a smirk at the corner of Xiao Ming's mouth. This was exactly what he wanted to achieve. After his on-demand broadcast, these businessmen would inevitably traffic people from outside the closed country to Qingzhou in order to meet the needs of the industry.

In his opinion, this situation is the same as that of European businessmen who are selling African people in pursuit of profit, except that his method is more civilized, which is similar to modern labor export.

"Yes, so you can secretly remind the merchant after you go back." Xiao Ming said.

Li Kaiyuan nodded, "Yes, Your Highness, I'll prepare for this when the next official returns."

Li Kaiyuan was sent away, and Xiao Ming had someone prepare a horse, and he was going to a military workshop.

Now the situation in Dayu State may take a turn for the worse at any time, and he must prepare in advance, so he has not been idle for the past two days, but is thinking about replacing the equipment for the army of each state.

After discussing with Niu Ben, he felt that now the three armies should be replaced with equipment, and the first one is naturally the Youzhou Army.

Relatively speaking, the Youzhou Army is now the largest army in the country, with 20,000 infantry and 20,000 cavalry, totaling 40,000. The second is the current Dengzhou Army.

After the position of Dengzhou became more and more important, he expanded the Dengzhou Army from 10,000 to 20,000, and the last one was Yunzhou Army ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ currently only has 10,000.

This army was prepared for the resources of King Yong's fief. If there is a war in Great Yu, he said that this army must not be used.

As for the army of other states, Xiao Ming just left a standing army of 1,000 people. It is not that he does not want to expand, but that his fief has a population of 2 million. The army of Youzhou, Qingzhou, Yunzhou, and Dengzhou combined is enough. Ninety thousand people, this is the limit that the fief can withstand, but this is equivalent to one out of more than two dozen soldiers, a very high proportion.

Even so, it is impossible for him to use all of his 90,000 troops at a time. After all, the logistics of the 100,000 army will have to be followed by five to six hundred thousand civilians. If he continues to fight like this, his fief will be over by himself.

So after thinking about it, Xiao Ming felt that he could only improve the level of the army’s equipment, in terms of quality versus quantity. Because of this, he decided to go to the military workshop to check the equipment, urge production, and let Chen Qi hoard the equipment. Delivered to the army of each state.

When he arrived at the military workshop, the sound of metal percussions rang out. Since the last time he went to sea, Xiao Ming has not been to the military workshop for two months.

Thinking of the rifled gun Song Changping had sent himself, he first went to the gun workshop.