At this time, Mooney was annoyed by the malicious price of the princes, and Bai Liyan was unexpectedly scolded for being bloody:

"You Central Plains people are all ugly and moral, one by one is insatiable and greedy, in my opinion, your "shame" is a fig leaf written to yourself, you want to want, you can step on the ground at any time when you don't want it. You tell me, apart from the word shameless, what else will you Central Plains people do! ”

"Don't get excited, I can't help it, come and discuss with you."

"Okay, give me the herbs in half a month, this should be done."

"The herbs are on the way to be transported, and you can inspect them at any time after they are concentrated, and then send them to the south, but I'm afraid it will be a little difficult to deliver them."

"There is a difficulty, what a difficulty, don't you sell it if you have money!" Mooney's tone of questioning remained tough.

"It's not that we don't sell, it's that if we don't agree to the demands of the state, my king will be very embarrassed."

"It's the dead fat man, isn't it?"

If Mooney pointed out, Bai Liyan didn't know who the "dead fat man" was referring to, and hurriedly asked:

"Who is the dead fat man you are talking about?"

At this time, Su Fangyi answered:

"It's Boyuan Jun Jifeng."

"Oh...... It's him......"

Bai Liyan suddenly recalled that when she first saw Ji Feng twenty-five years ago, his body was very fat, and most of the spicy food and spicy food in the past twenty-five years had developed horizontally, otherwise Mooney would not have used the word "dead fat" to describe Ji Feng.

With this in mind, he continued:

"Your Excellency has met Bo Yuanjun?"

"Hmph, then he didn't come to do business."

"Hi ......" Bai Liyan pretended to be helpless: "How can you be as knowledgeable as him, twenty-five years ago, Ben Hou also suffered a big loss from him, if you don't believe it, you can ask Mr. Su, Mr. Su knows." ”

"You know each other, too?" Mooney questioned, pinching his fingers and counting, no, twenty-five years ago, Baili Yan was only fifteen or sixteen, can he know?

"To tell you the truth, Bo Yuanjun is a famous businessman in the Central Plains, and his brother is the son of Liang Guotian, just with his face, he can go around and owe debts on credit. If the Son of Heaven does not speak, who dares to make a move. ”

"Then why don't you see you working together in the fight? Could it be that you will stab a soft knife in the back! ”

Mooney said mockingly, and Bai Liyan's face alternated red and white, and he was deeply ashamed. He said:

"War is war, business is business, two different things."

"I think it's the same thing. Back then, without your interference, most of us have killed at the gate of Liang Country, grabbed the dead fat man and pressed him to the ground to beg for mercy. ”

"Okay, the heroes don't mention the courage of the year, not to mention that you are completely defeated, and the generals of the defeated army will be counted in front of the victorious country, you are still reasonable!"

Mooney's old face turned red, and his heart knotted:

"Hmph, you say, what now. Our Majesty is here sincerely, but you are making things difficult in every way, if my people suffer any more losses for this, this blood debt will be recovered from you sooner or later! ”

"Don't worry, Ben Hou wants to think about it, there is only one way.

"What's the solution?"

"Bid!"

"What is ...... Bidding? Su Fangyi asked.

"The so-called bidding, in fact, is the buyer and the seller bargaining, but the bidding will make this bargaining process public, the buyer will gather all the sellers, who has the lowest bid, the best quality of the goods, the priority to obtain the right to sell, the shortcomings are made up by the second lowest selling price, the third lowest price, and so on.

Similarly, in a seller's market where things are hard to find, the seller can gather the buyers, and whoever bids the highest will get the goods. ”

"This ...... It seems like something wonderful, but ......"

Su Fangyi wanted to speak and stopped, and Bai Liyan said:

"Mr. Su is worried that countries will compete to lower prices and suffer losses."

"Yes, it is said that peers are enemies, how can there be a reason for sellers to bid together, I don't think the countries may be able to agree."

"I think he's sick in the head!" Mooney scoffed, and then said, "Right now, you don't sell herbs to my clan, but now you let them sell them to our clan at a low price, and I haven't seen you do this." ”

"Of course, it is impossible for them to willingly lower the price, so it has to be profitable for the countries. For example, why don't you change the order of your purchase, put the herbs aside for the time being, buy the secondary goods first, then the others, and then the valuables. ”

"You are really sick in the brain, the medicine has not arrived, but you want me to use life-saving money to buy useless things, are you stupid or am I stupid!"

"What's the hurry, Ben Hou hasn't finished his words yet. Secondary goods also have to look at the high and low, the amount of money is more and the quantity is geometric. Taking silk fabrics as an example, the higher the grade, the more expensive the price and the less the output, and the lower the reverse grade, the larger the output and the lower the price. At the same time, the higher the grade, the more expensive the price, the fewer buyers there are, and the lower the grade, the lower the price, the more buyers.

I don't think Lord Mooney can buy all the good goods, and then ship them all the way back to sell them at a very high price, smash them in his own hands, and finally press them in the warehouse and wait for them to rot. ”

"What the hell do you mean?"

"Do you think, among the nations, the silk fabrics of the eldest grandson country are the second, and the inferior silk fabrics account for the majority of its output, accounting for more than sixty percent of the Central Plains, while the inferior silk fabrics of other countries are very few, so you can bid for the inferior silk fabrics first. In this way, the price of silk fabrics in the Changsun Kingdom was relatively low, but the quantity was huge, and at the same time, there was not much conflict of interest in the inferior silk fabrics of various countries, and most of the other vassal states would not obstruct it.

On the contrary, if it is common sense to trade valuables first and then secondary goods, a large amount of gold and silver will be consumed by valuables, and the investment in buying secondary goods will inevitably decrease.

Now on the contrary, seeing that it is profitable, the eldest grandson will inevitably actively trade with you, and because of the large production of inferior silk fabrics, the cost is slightly lower than that of the other vassal states, so the quotation can be much lower.

In the end, as long as an agreement is attached to the transaction, once the transaction is reached, the required herbs will be supplied together, and the price will be privately agreed. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to get herbs and buy more goods at a lower price? ”

"There's some truth to what you say. But why do I think that when I don't eat this mutton, I smell a commotion. According to what you said, all the princes are bidding, and you Xianguo are also bidding, competing with each other to lower the price, you press me and I press you, why does it seem that they are all making profits for our clan, can you be so kind? Say, what good can you get! ”

"Huh...... Your Excellency must have been on the street lately. ”

"What do you want to say?"

"Have you been to Benhou's department store?"

"I've been there, I've also been to the largest No. 1 on Ginkgo Street, and there are really a lot of goods."

"Then Your Excellency can see that the silk of the Xianguo sold in the shop is the same price as the silk of other vassal states?"

"So what."

"Because the cost of Benhou's silk is lower than that of other countries, even if I am of the same grade, even if I am only one penny lower, the number of 100,000 horses, Your Excellency can save a thousand gold, and Benhou's profit will be more profitable because of the quantity."

Regardless of political and war factors, the production of silk in peacetime is closely related to looms. Since it takes a lot of land and manpower to grow mulberry and raise silkworms, when agricultural productivity is low, it is impossible to free up more manpower and land for silkworm spinning to make silk.

Therefore, while the relative slow increase of raw materials, the efficiency of the loom determines the speed and cost of converting silk into silk after production, the higher the efficiency of the loom per unit time, the lower the labor cost, and at the same time stimulate the scale expansion of the mulberry sericulture industry, and further reduce the cost of silk.

Before the takeover of the Xianguo government-run weaving workshop Bailiyan, the cost per silk fabric was higher than that of the weaving mills owned by the local magnates for a long time, because the magnates occupied the best land and climate, and then monopolized the sericulture area and controlled the silk.

The price of silk purchased by the government was higher than the price of the nobles for their own use, and the Xian kings of the past dynasties had to buy silk at a higher price than normal in order to attract the magnates from all over the world, and then use the money from the treasury to pay dividends to the silk merchants.

As soft gold, silk has always been the best in fabrics, and silk is used as a raw material for soft gold, and all countries strictly prohibit silk from being exported abroad. Therefore, it is not possible to obtain silk through trade, and even if silk is obtained, the price will be much higher than in China.

Soon after Bailiyan took over the government-run weaving workshop, she actively opened up the silkworm base while promoting the improvement of looms.

Silk looms and cotton looms have the same theory, but in fact they are very different, even in modern industry, the mechanized weaving of silk is much later than cotton. Because silk is a highly extensible protein, the force is different from that of cotton thread, and the traditional loom cannot weave the warp and weft threads of the silk thread into a net properly, so the silk loom is much more complex and less efficient than the cotton loom. But it does not hinder the transfer and application of the technology of cotton looms.

The improvement of looms has improved the efficiency of manufacturing, and the supporting and breeding technology exploration of mulberry gardens and sericulture bases have reduced the dependence of government manufacturers on foreign raw materials to a certain extent, and reduced costs.

Nowadays, the price of the same grade of silk fabrics in the government-run weaving workshop is generally lower than that at home and abroad, but the price is the same as the price of the same silk in various countries, and the extra profit in the middle is the benefit of technological change.

Xianguo is mainly in the production of high-quality silk fabrics, the main competitors are Liang and Qi, among which the silk of Qiguo is occupied by nobles from all over the country, after the silk of Liang State is taken over by the government, although there is no advanced loom of Xianguo government, its basic scale is still larger than the Xianguo government-run weaving workshop, the scale is large, the cost is lower, and the cost advantage of Bailiyan is not obvious.

Therefore, as long as the Qi country is squeezed out, the Liang and Xian countries can basically divide the majority share of the middle and upper grade silk equally. Free market bidding will avoid the passivity brought about by simple political pressure to the greatest extent, but as long as everything is used as an excuse for commercial activities, Liang Guo wants both components or all, and the final decision is the buyer's behavior, not the buyer's behavior.

The remaining most expensive brocade and satin were too expensive, the weaving was more complicated, the production cycle was longer, and the output was low, and Mooney would not buy much in total.