Chapter 263: Royal Smuggling and the Marginal Effect
Zhao Zhen has already embarked on the road back to the palace. It's just that he wasn't the one who came. Shen Yu asked him to wait in the No. 1 private universe in advance, and after Shen Yu moved Zhao Zhen, who was originally in this universe, to the No. 3 private universe, he could come out to replace the vacant seat.
It's just that this position is somewhat special, after all, he is a throne that can cause all careerists to covet it. After being reborn, Zhao Zhen already knew how the Great Song Dynasty was corrupted by his careless successor and his descendants in the years after his death.
Although no dynasty can escape the curse of the rise and fall of chaos, maybe the same will be true of the splendid country after a thousand years. But the destruction of such a lingering nest is something that Zhao Zhen absolutely cannot accept. And now, he has a chance to choose again. Compared with the last time when he could only drift with the tide in the long river of time, the situation in front of him has more than one more way for him to choose. Who brought him back to this position, and once again shouldered the burden of working for the well-being of the people of the world.
First of all, he knew where the root cause of the final fall of the Great Song Dynasty was. Like the Western Jin Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty, who was ridiculed by himself countless times, his country also slipped into the abyss of death in the cowardice and incompetence of the civil officials. Therefore, the first problem to be solved is education.
However, the power of the "Zhihu Ye" that has accumulated for thousands of years, even if he is the Ninth Five-Year Honor, he cannot easily offend, so he must first prove to the whole country that another kind of learning can bring you happiness, and then wait for them to taste the sweetness, and then they can start the reform with their support!
So first of all, what he has to do is to be able to get enough money in exchange for something that will bring happiness to everyone. Of course, the truck can't be so important in the eyes of this Zhao Zhen, but this Zhao Zhen is also a person who knows tanks. But now he can't equip his army with that thing, but fortunately, the Liao Kingdom in the north is also heading for the abyss of destruction.
Since there is no need to rush to increase investment in armaments, it is better to simply invest all funds in the people's livelihood. Anyway, this is also in line with the idea of creating a perfect world for the lord.
Now that the strategic direction has been finalized, the savings are the technical problems. The first thing in front of you is how to get the money?
The disadvantage of productivity made it impossible for the Great Song Dynasty to come up with decent export products to open overseas markets, and if normal trade was not good, then he could only prevent the army from studying and looting. But in that case, the splendid ** team, equipped with thermal weapons, may find an excuse to occupy their own country.
It's a problem, a very serious one.
"I'm worried about that, too." After Zhao Zhen saw Zhuge Liang, he told him his worries, and the latter's answer made Zhao Zhen fall into deeper fear.
"So what to do?"
"What we can do now is not let them think about immigration and occupation here. Then we quietly strengthened ourselves. ”
"The latter is obvious, we have to do it, but the first, I'm afraid, it's difficult."
"Then leave it alone." Zhuge Liang's answer made Zhao Zhen look surprised. Official security, can you say that you don't care about it? But Zhao Zhen quickly figured out that this was the base for the lords to test utopia, and for the military attack here, it would mean a complete break between Chief Zero and Shen Yu and the others. I'm afraid that the army of the Splendid Kingdom is not yet the opponent of the three lords who have several private universes. Then the way they can choose to cooperate is to slowly use the cheap labor here, or the cheap mineral resources, to add fuel to their industrial production. …
As long as they are willing to slow down, Zhao Zhen feels that there is still hope for the continued preservation of the country.
The topic has turned back like this, and the key is still the issue of money.
"The problem of money, in fact, is not that difficult to solve? Aren't the bulk commodities we can produce here just those ceramic jars that are called antiques or something? ”
When Zhao Zhen heard this, he patted his thigh and jumped up: "That's right! I still have several official kilns that are idle and have nothing to do. They have to be active and create foreign exchange for the country. ”
But Zhao Zhen's excitement didn't last long, and it gradually cooled down, "If you take it directly, there is no sense of historical obsolescence." ”
What Zhao Zhen means by this is: it will be seen at a glance that it is a new product, and maybe it will be regarded as a fake because it is a new product. Then the price will come down.
"No, it won't. You can rest assured. Zhuge Liang took out the drawing of crossing the enchantment and said to Zhao Zhen, "This crossing the enchantment has the function of automatically making it old." Compared to artificial aging, this thing really makes the antique span a thousand years of history. And he is also automatically recognized, we people get in, naturally we will not deal with it according to cultural relics. Otherwise, it will be a pile of bones when you go out. Only the artifacts will be automatically aged when they are crossed. This mode of cultural relics crossing can actually be adjusted. You can adjust it to tool traversal mode, currency traversal mode, etc. If there were the latter two modes, ceramics and ancient coins would not have been worn. It's just that when this kind of manual adjustment is required, it is only applicable on the basis that the target thing has two properties. ”
Zhao Zhen shouted: "This is really a good baby!" ”
So the dozen or so trucks that Ma Chao had just gotten were quickly stuffed with all kinds of ceramics, bronzes, and all kinds of ancient coins. In order to ensure that he would not lose money this time, Zhao Zhen also deliberately stuffed the Han and Tang Dynasty cultural relics that had been collected for many years. If cultural relics separated by a thousand years are not accepted, then more than a thousand years are always okay.
The actual situation is far more optimistic than Zhao Zhen imagined. A fairly fine ancient coin of the Song Dynasty has a market price of about 20 to 50 yuan in the Splendid Country. Of course, very rare coins, such as coins written on stacked seals, do not know how much they can buy.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, the famous Jingdezhen porcelain kiln was still an ordinary small private workshop, but Cizhou and Dingzhou had very good porcelain productions. Zhao Zhen has already issued a holy decree and ordered to make more fine porcelain.
Originally, Zhao Zhen wanted to use the quantitative advantage to squeeze out the market, but Zhuge Liang mentioned the maddening marginal effect. If the supply continues to increase, the return per unit of input will decrease.
This effect is actually not difficult to understand. For a group of hungry men, they will naturally rush to grab meat buns. But after the supply goes up, they are already full, who will go crazy to rob it. Originally, when it was robbed, the meat buns could still be sold at a good price, but now that consumers are full, they can only reduce the price and promote it.
Therefore, it is not easy to maximize profits by taking the advantage of quantity, but if you embark on the road of quality, you may be able to go through the long run.
After the cultural relics were transported to the 21st century, in order not to attract too much unnecessary attention, the main reason was that they did not want the partner Black Coat Society to know that all the processing channels were handled by the Star Cat Group. Although Zhuge Liang also knew that the eyes and ears of the Black Clothes Society had definitely infiltrated the Star Cat Group. But as long as the two families have not completely turned their faces, this small action in private is actually a harmless thing.
Originally, Zhao Zhen was going to find an auction house to auction these antiques to see how much money he could buy. But Zhuge Liang thinks that it is better not to attract too many people's attention, besides, it will take a long time to go to the auction house just to firm the procedures, which will seriously affect the speed of the return of funds, so it is better to find some collectors to deal with these things in private. …
So, they found Professor Ji Xinglin and asked him if he had any friends who were tinkering with this business.
As a master of Chinese studies, of course, there will be no shortage of friends in this area, so they quickly contacted more than a dozen collectors. And sent them a few photos of more representative antiques.
Soon, there was a response to their photos, but there was no offer, and they all wanted to see the antiques in person. Of course, Zhuge Liang wouldn't let them see more than a dozen truckloads of things, so he selected more than two dozen pieces and invited them to visit and appreciate them. As for the others, especially those ancient coins, they were soon quietly transported to various cultural relics markets by the newly established Star Cat Logistics Company and sold in various cultural relics markets.
Zhuge Liang took advantage of the time when the money had not been returned, and asked those collectors for a lot of leave of absence in this area, and also borrowed a lot of monographs on this subject. Thanks to the help of electromagnetism, Zhuge Liang has long had the ability to remember, and soon he knew which antiques in the Song Dynasty were more recognized by modern people.
It only took a few collectors a day to circle their favorite treasures, and after paying the money very happily, they left the celebrity university with the things. Zhuge Liang earned more than 100 million yuan in one day.
According to Zhao Zhen's meaning, this money should be used for education, in fact, mainly for papermaking and printing. However, today's printing machines and paper machines need electricity to supply energy. If you only rely on manpower, then I am afraid that it is more convenient to use rotary typesetting racks or gravure printing.
But Zhao Zhen will definitely not be satisfied. Both of those things can be found among the reborn, and they don't cost money to use them in the first place. Therefore, this money should be replaced with a water conservancy generator set as soon as possible.
This can stump Zhuge Liang, where to find these generator sets?
"Celebrity Group." After hearing this question, Shen Yu resolutely replied, "You just tell Liu Hengqi that our crossing base does not have power supply equipment until now." I remember that under the celebrity group, there happened to be a water conservancy generator set. By the way, you should put the firepower, the wind power, and the geothermal and nuclear energy if you can. ”
Zhuge Liang laughed, and there was no need to spend money on this matter. Give them a few antiques that have not been aged, just say that they were brought from the Song Dynasty, let them make an auction themselves, and help them ask for directions.
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