"Wei Qi, go ask for a pot of spring tea and two refreshments."

"No."

Wei Qi turned around to do it, and then said to Li Yi:

"Uncle, I haven't been to Chenling for a few years, and there are a lot of teahouses now."

"What, Jinye didn't?"

"Yes, there are, but there are only two, and there is no such grand scene as Lingling as everywhere. Uncle, you also know that Xianguo and Liang Guo are very different, and the teahouse can't be built. Moreover, drinking tea is also expensive, and ordinary people can't afford it. ”

"Yes, why didn't the Son of Heaven follow my example to change the law of land and industry and commerce in Xianguo, and revitalize the commercial market for the benefit of the people."

"Hi...... It's useless. Li Yi waved his hand, and then said: "Now that Liang Guo has been disposed of and sealed land, who wants to be a landless feudal lord." And uncle, didn't you also seal a Yongxing City, on the surface, there is no land, but the annual income of my uncle's industrial and commercial workshop is as rich as the country, and the Liang country is different. ”

When Wei Qi brought refreshments, Bailiyan poured Li Yi full, and said while drinking:

"It's not that I'm talking about you, if Liang Guo continues like this, he will be hopeless. It is inevitable to exchange land for industry and feed farmers with industry to support the people. The Son of Heaven continued to maintain the separation, which was by no means a long-term solution. ”

"But the defense of the country is still the old slave system, can't it also try to be hegemonic."

Li Yi retorted, Bai Liyan smiled lightly and shook his head:

"Huh...... The national conditions of the patriotic state are special, but they will not last long. Don't mention it, let's talk about Bo Yuanjun for now, he asked you to come, he must be a lobbyist. If I didn't expect it to be wrong, you came to talk to me, he Ji Feng must have gone through the back door to see King Xian, and at the same time arranged for Ji Kang to trade with Yin Yangjun, but that's the case. ”

"Hehe, I really can't hide anything from my uncle, that's exactly what my uncle arranged."

"Hmph, he's just going to make a difference, and he can't make another plan. It was so then, and it's still true today. Say, what does Ji Feng want. ”

"Uncle said that the price of silk and cotton cloth in Xianguo cannot be lower than that of Liang country."

"Hmph, didn't he make me offend."

"But the cotton cloth production of Xianguo is very large, and the cost is also small, the cotton cloth of my Liang country cannot meet the needs of the barbarians, if the cotton cloth of Xianguo is only a few points higher than that of my Liang country, the remaining share of the income is still a lot."

"But the total amount of high-grade silk is small, and the price of silk is high, if you sell one less silk, you have to sell a few more cotton cloths to earn it back, 10,000 ordinary silk is tens of thousands of cotton cloth, not to mention that it is not only 10,000 horses of silk that is given up, but his Bo Yuanjun's business is inevitably too good to do, this is to let me Xianguo silk merchants go to the northwest wind!"

"Uncle, most of the cotton cloth in Xianguo is in your hands, uncle, you can make some money, and you don't care what other silk merchants do."

"It's easy to say, but now the four counties of Jiangdong, Suidang, Dongyuan, and Beihai are only silk merchants, tea merchants, and salt merchants, and the amount of transactions with Jin Xuedi people is very huge, if the silk merchants have no half of the benefits, how to use them for the imperial court in the future."

Salt, iron, tea, silk since ancient times four profiteering industries, after the implementation of the salt law halo Hou changed to chemical industry, salt owl harm eliminated, after the expansion of iron production, iron prices in the country no longer have room for profit, after the ban on the tea industry, tea merchants and tea farmers around the rise, tea no longer become a monopoly commodity, market competition has gradually become the invisible rule of regulating capital, under the regulation of the government tea merchants are difficult to become bigger, can not form capital harm and interfere in politics.

Only the silk merchants have the greatest profits and are the most involved in politics, and suppressing but not the same as defeating them is not the same as defeating them, and the core interests are hurt too deeply, which is easy to cause political turmoil, which is obviously not the result that Bailiyan wants.

Ji Feng blindly forced the Xianguo silk trade to make concessions, and the deeper reason was that the Son of Heaven did not want the Xianguo to continue to reform the national system to make it bigger, and the loss of the silk merchants could intensify the conflict of interests within the Xianguo, which in turn caused domestic political turmoil.

Seeing that Bai Liyan had no intention of backing down, Li Yi said again:

"Uncle, there's no room for negotiation at all?"

"It's not that your uncle refuses to save your face, if it's an ordinary thing, my uncle loses hundreds of thousands of gold and silver without blinking, this transaction is related to the safety of Xianguo, my uncle takes a step back, and Xianguo may be ruined, how do you say I can let it."

"......"

Without waiting for Li Yi to speak, Bai Liyan immediately interrupted and said:

"There is no need to mention this matter again, there is no room for negotiation."

"Alas...... Anyway, since he couldn't talk about it anymore, the nephew took his leave. ”

Li Yi got up to leave, and Bailiyan shouted to him:

"Wait, sit down for less than a moment and leave, just talk to your uncle like this, come back and sit down."

"There's nothing to talk about, what else to say." Li Yi complained.

"Let me ask you, do you know what Xihuan invited Ji Feng and Ji Kang to Liuhu to talk about?"

"I don't know."

Li Yi said neatly, Bai Liyan didn't believe him:

"I know Xihuan is wary of you, but you can't know anything."

"I really don't know too much, it's all about my cousin's son, can I ask more."

"After staying for so many days, I ask Mrs. Ji Kang about it every day, and there is nothing else?"

"Then there is this transaction, which should have been agreed, but now that there is a bidding, it is useless to say that it is good."

When the Jin State was strong, Liang Tianzi was the Jin State, so Ji Tong and his son Ji Kang went to the Jin Kingdom to say goodbye, and then married the eldest daughter of the Jin King Jijun as his wife when he became an adult.

Xihuan and Ji Feng can make decisions, and only the internal affairs of Jin and Xian can be worthy of such close contacts between the two of them. Li Yi said that he didn't know, there were some truths and some falses, the real part was that he only knew the superficial interests, and the false part was that he didn't know what deal Xihuan and Ji Feng had secretly made.

After a moment's thought, Bailiyan continued:

"It's not that my uncle said you, you are also a dignified man who has children in his thirties and sixteens, can you have a few more eyes? Why don't you inherit the title of Duke Jingshang in the future, and you will be led by the nose by Ji Feng and Ji Kang's uncle and nephew like this? ”

"Uncle is serious, how can my cousin hide it from me."

"Look at you, you haven't grown much over the years. Let me tell you, the Jin State has been plotting against the Xianguo for a day or two, and Liang Tianzi has not harmed the Xianguo once or twice.

Far from it, a few years ago, the eldest grandson would be in the alliance, Liang Tianzi acquiesced to the Jin State to swallow my Yongxing, and later the treacherous plan was revealed, Ji Tong promised to give me the land of the three counties to the king, and then Liang Tianzi promised the east of the Sun Kingdom to the eldest grandson behind his back, and the west to the Wei Kingdom, but in fact, he secretly promised all the land to the Wei Kingdom, so that the princes attacked and killed each other, such a two-faced and three-sword move, you don't understand it at all?

Twenty-six years ago, when your uncle was still working as a proton in Qiguo, this Bo Yuanjun actually relied on his power to blackmail your uncle, and today he met Xihuan, not to pit Xianguo again. ”

"This can't be, the third uncle never asks about political affairs."

Li Yi said without heart, Bai Liyan said with a bitter face:

"How do you want me to say hello, Ji Tong is in charge, Ji Feng is in charge of wealth, but all national affairs can not be driven by money. The Liang State is still a feudal system, if the Son of Heaven does not have the assistance of his siblings, how can he control the whole country. Say you lack heart, I think you are stupid. ”

"I don't care about that, it has nothing to do with me."

Li Yi didn't care, and Bai Liyan hurriedly said:

"It's none of your business, but you know that you were being used by others to harm your uncle."

"What did my uncle say, how could my nephew harm you?"

"You don't use your brains, Ji Feng went to see King Xian, Ji Kang went to see Uncle Fang, why did you want to come to see me."

"Because I'm your nephew."

"Yes, it's my nephew, that's right, most of the time you think the same way. Uncle Ming told you that Ji Kang went to see Uncle Fang, and he must have participated in the bidding for Liang Guozhong's silk and Jin Guo's bidding, and Ji Feng's visit to King Xian must be to lobby King Xian, so that the high-quality silk of Xianguo and the high-quality silk of Liang State would be tied up and bid together, and in the end, it was your uncle who suffered, and Xianguo also suffered together. You say it yourself, you have no brains. ”

"Uncle, you said that you suffered a loss, but why doesn't your nephew feel it."

"You, you, you think it's only about silk, the amount of silk is small and the price is high, it is bidding before the cotton cloth, the cotton cloth is large and the price is low, and the silk is sold at a high price, and the gold and silver and unit price of cotton cloth are bound to decrease, so Ji Feng has never told you."

"This ......"

Li Yi was speechless, not knowing how to deal with it, Bai Liyan then said:

"Yangxian and Yangjin silk are bundled together to bid, it seems that Xianguo will benefit, but in fact, without Xianguo silk bidding, the price of silk will be higher, and there will be less money to buy cotton cloth. Do you really think that he is the only smart person in the world, Ji Feng, and everyone else is stupid! ”

"That'...... So, King Xian also knows? ”

"Of course!"

The essence of competition is to promote the rational development of the market, when competition disappears, monopoly and capital monopoly appear, the price will be determined by the seller.

Changsun Guo produces almost all of the low-grade silk fabrics, and Liang Guo cannot control this market share, and the only market that can control and has the highest value is the mid-range and high-end market.

Among them, the Jin Kingdom benefited from the Northland and the East China Sea coast, and could produce more mid-range silk and a small amount of high-quality brocade, and the quality of brocade and high-grade silk is different, and there is no absolute market conflict of interest.

However, due to the small number of people and low production in Yan, Qi and other countries, the price of medium and high-grade silk is not competitive. Zhiguo is affected by the climate, silk mainly produces expensive brocade and a small amount of low-grade silk, and cannot afford to produce mid-grade silk, the same is true for Weiguo, but the production area is far away from the Central Plains, and the cost is higher.

In addition to the government-run weaving workshops, the cost of the high-grade silk of the Xianguo is higher than that of the Liang State, so the silk of the Xianguo is bundled and bid together, and the price is only high and not low, so the share of the high-end silk in the country such as Zhiqi, Yan, Zhi, Wei, and Xu can only be apportioned to the Liang and Xian countries.

Ji Feng's ultimate goal coincides with Baili Yan, both of which are to divide the market by squeezing out Qi and Yan, but the methods are very different.