When Bai Ko walked into the dragon tent with her tea set box, she ran into a team of palace maids coming in with food boxes, and spread a table of sweet baked snacks on the table in front of the palace, and after they retreated in an orderly manner, the saint came out from behind the screen in neat clothes and sat down (Delicious Little Chef: The Prince Tastes Chapter 519).

After the salute, Bai Ko went to the tea table to boil water, first made a cup of tea to quench the sage's thirst, sorted out the table full of dim sum, classified them according to the sweetness, and then went back to make milk tea.

The sage didn't care at all that Bai Ko moved the snacks on the table, he drank tea and chatted softly with his chief eunuch.

When Bai Ko brought the first cup of milk tea to the table, he happened to hear the saint talking to Gonggong Xi about Gu Yun's fox hunting.

"Gu Yun's group of boys are planning to hunt all the foxes in this mountain forest, what are they trying to do, has anyone inquired?"

"No, Gu Shizi and a group of young masters are very strict-mouthed, I don't know what they are going to do when they hunt so many foxes, they still have to live, these days, they are good at their ability to play tricks."

Bai Ko pretended not to hear what they were saying, put down the cup and turned to leave, when he heard Grandpa Xi chuckle twice and continued.

"Holy Lord, we don't know what Gu Shizi does when he hunts foxes, but isn't there someone who knows it in front of us?"

Bai Ko paused and stood honestly.

"Well, it's true, this little girl knows best about Gu Yun's affairs." The sage put down the teacup and sat crookedly on the dragon chair against the cushion, "Say, little girl, what does Gu Yun want so many foxes for?" ”

"Go back to your majesty, do fox breeding, and sell furs in the future."

"Hehe, he's got the hang of doing business, and he's got all the answers?"

"Sort of."

"He's doing this fox business alone?"

"Those young masters have a share, and each of them invests a little money."

"No wonder, no wonder they are so interested in fox hunting. Who started it? ”

"Our son."

"Well, it's okay, don't eat alone. But breeding foxes belongs to farming, and the business he is running now belongs to industry, how can it span so much? Who gave him the idea? ”

"When chatting, it is said that winter fur has always been a best-seller, but the source of fur is not stable, it is better to breed foxes yourself, and supply one or two hundred skins every year.

"Foxes are not ordinary domestic animals, and the fur traders must have thought about raising foxes themselves, but they have never heard of anyone who has really succeeded in raising them, otherwise they can really supply the skin every year, which is really very profitable."

"I joined this industry because I saw that I could make money."

"Are you sure you're going to make money?"

"If you can continue to hold on to it despite losing money for several years in a row, then you can really make money."

"What kind of high-risk things are the boys willing to do? I can't see that they are all adventurous people. ”

"The family background of this group of young masters is all military merits, affected by the family style, they still have this adventurous spirit, not to mention that they have all reached the age of starting a family, I am embarrassed to reach out to the family every time to ask for money, invest money to raise foxes, and also have the meaning of earning private money for themselves."

"Gu Yun's idea, he started it, so this business will be based on his opinion in the future?"

"Probably yes, he seems to be the majority shareholder and invests the most money."

"He has money to spend because you have earned him a lot this year, so he has the extra money to invest in raising foxes, and he has the confidence to do things boldly."

The saint sat upright, staring at Bai Ko, who bowed his head and was silent.

"Why didn't I ever know that your old Bai family still had the talent to do business?"

"It's all forced by life." Bai Ko owed slightly, "Guiwei is also the son of the world, the expenses increase after entering the house, and if you are poor, you will think about change, and if you want to make money, it is the duty of the slave and maid to serve him, and it is the duty of the slave to share his worries." ”

"What you said is good, but now I look at the errand and do it beautifully, buy 200 acres of land to build a new workshop in one go, is it really a workshop?"

"It's really a factory."

"With the current soap making and transparent glass, you need a workshop of 200 acres of land to produce?"

"The prince wants to monopolize the capital and the ground of Zhili, so he really needs a workshop of 200 acres."

"Monopoly?! Do you know what monopoly means? ”

"It means taxes." Bai Ko raised his eyes and looked directly at the holy face bravely, "Even if the prince of the world has a meritorious name and can reduce taxes, as long as he achieves a monopoly, even if it is just a monopoly in the capital, it is enough to pay taxes of one to thirty thousand taels of silver to the national treasury every year." ”

Monopoly means a lot of things, controlling the market and manipulating prices, but the sage didn't expect Bai Ko to mention taxes, and he was stunned all of a sudden, and his father-in-law shrugged his eyebrows in surprise, and restrained his expression in an instant.

"Just your business of making soap and transparent glass living utensils? Can you pay tens of thousands of taels of taxes every year? ”

"With these 200 acres of land, you can do it."

"But don't you think about what will happen to those who are crushed in the process if you really have a monopoly? They also have to provide for their families. ”

"Those who are not as skilled as others and have lost their livelihoods, Your Majesty, the slaves and maids dare to ask, what is the total amount of taxes they pay each year?"

"This ......" such a specific number sage naturally couldn't answer, he felt that even if he called the Hubu Shangshu now, he would have to go back and calculate it clearly before he could answer.

Bai Ko saw that he had asked the saint, afraid that he would be annoyed and angry, and he wanted to retire when he bowed, and he didn't want to cook the milk tea in the back.

"Wait, you don't speak, where do you want to go? Stand honestly. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Bai Ko clasped his hands in front of him, looking well-behaved without fighting with the world.

"Well, even if after the monopoly, the taxes paid by your family are worth the total amount of taxes paid by a group of them, but for the imperial court, a large group of unemployed vagrants who have lost their livelihoods is terrible."

"So, Your Majesty, this is all the more necessary to monopolize, so that we can better save them."

"How?"

"Although the small workshops with inferior skills have closed down, our workshop is happy to accept those skilled masters, and will give them different wages according to their skill level, so that they can support their families with money and will not become ruffians and hooligans on the streets."

"It's easy to say, do you think things can go as smoothly as you expected?"

"Your Majesty, the soap industry and glass soap are the two most familiar trades for slaves, you can rest assured, there will be no social chaos."

"I'm not at ease, not at all, unless you tell me what you're going to do! The East Palace in the Imperial Palace occupies about 50 acres of land, and you can buy 200 acres of land in one go, which is equivalent to four East Palaces. What kind of workshop do you want to build, and you need 200 acres of land? If you don't make it clear to me today, don't want to go out, even if you abstain from today's game, don't even think about winning any reward! ”

The saint tapped his fingers on the table, looking as if his patience was waning.