Most people go to the north pier to see the boats, but there are also some people who stay behind, such as wine shops and restaurants. He hesitated before entering the restaurant, but he eventually walked in. When an elderly shopkeeper greeted him, he whispered: "Hu's sour and sour, dew's chicken, and eight catties and eight taels of Chuli." ”

The shopkeeper gave him a strange look, but quickly withdrew his gaze and said, "Distinguished guest, please come with the villain." ”

The place where the shopkeeper took him to was the garden behind the restaurant, and his Greek dress surprised a middle-aged man here, and when the shopkeeper retreated, he asked suspiciously, "Dare to ask who is at your feet?" ”

"Know your opponent and know your friends, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles. If you don't know who you are, you will die in every battle. Vara smiled and read out one of the most famous lines of the Art of War, in a certain sequence of syllables and sentences.

"Knowing the Boss?" The man looked at him in even more amazement, but fortunately, he had already gotten up and welcomed him into the backrooms. After inviting him to sit down, he bowed and asked, "What do you dare to ask?" ”

"The envoy of Bactria wants to meet the Seleucid envoy......" said Ngago Vala slowly.

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"Brother Wang, I also want to build a boat, I want to build a boat, I also want to build a boat...... woo." In the Yan Dynasty, Mi Xuan cried in front of Xiong Jing. She hasn't married yet, and there is no way to build a ship without a dowry, and ......if she doesn't build a ship, the princess who marries out has a ship in her name, and the gold, silver, pearls and jade are transported to the family one by one. Mi Xuan, the princess, felt that she had been left out.

"You're not married, how can you build a boat?" Xiong Jing looked at his sister-in-law very helplessly, although she was older than himself, but in his opinion, this sister-in-law was not much different from the little girl who was spoiled in later generations. I don't want as many portraits of men as I want, I pick and choose.

"You can't build a boat if you don't get married?" Mi Xuan burst into tears, and she was even more aggrieved when she talked about getting married. She likes a man like Brother Wang, but there is no such king in the whole world.

"Don't cry, don't cry." Xiong Jing helped her wipe her tears, "I'll give you five sea boats when I get married, can I?" ”

"Woo, I'm not married, I'm not married. Woo woo woo woo ...... "Thinking that after she got married, she would have to face other strange men, and she would never see her brother Wang and her mother again, Mi Xuan really cried loudly this time, she hugged Xiong Jing while crying, and she hugged her more and more fiercely, and her small breasts were tightly attached.

He was born with more than thirty sisters, four or five brothers, and one younger brother. Such a big family made Xiong Jing a little sluggish at first, and he didn't know how to deal with their relationship. Now that Mi Xuan is holding him like this, he keeps telling himself not to think crooked, but the more he admonishes, the more he wants to be crooked, fortunately Xiong Han is here.

Xiong Han has also grown taller, his eyebrows and eyes are very similar to Xiong Jing, but the contours of his cheeks follow Concubine Li, not square, but pointed. After saluting, he knelt down in front of Xiong Jing and asked with concern, "Why is Xuan Xiao crying?" ”

"Woo woo woo woo ......" Mi Xuan was still crying bitterly, and when she saw Xiong Han coming, she finally let go of Xiong Jing and began to wipe her tears.

"Xuanxiao misses her lover, and she cries when she thinks about it." Xiong Jingdian breathed a sigh of relief and joked with a smile.

"Huh?" The naïve Xiong Han looked at Mi Xuan, "It turns out that Xuan Xiao already has a lover?" ”

"Brother Wang is talking nonsense, how can Mi Xuan have a good person." Although Mi Xuan was crying and wiping away her tears, she still shook the bear with a brocade scarf.

"It's because there is no lover that I can't stop crying." Xiong Jing smiled, looked at his own sister with concern and asked, "There are many people to choose from the queen mother, why are they all ......?"

"Brother Wang also forced me?" Mi Xuan's tears are about to burst out of her eyes again.

"Don't force you. Don't force you. Xiong Jing raised his hand and shook it, and he saw that Shi Yan, the secretary of the company, had just climbed the stairs with the bookkeeper of the shipping company. They must have come to report the foreign trade gains, and if Mi Xuan heard their report, he would probably cry again. Xiong Jing glanced at Chang Jiang on his side, and his mouth was full, and Chang Jiang went knowingly. Only when Xiong Jing promised to send a sea boat did Mi Xuan leave happily, and Shi Yu took people into the hall to say goodbye.

"Brother Wang, the younger brother will retire first." When Xiong Han saw his brother handling government affairs, he was about to retire.

"There's no hurry." Xiong Jing looked at him and smiled, "Doesn't your mother also have two sea boats." ”

The princesses built a boat with a dowry, and although the concubines didn't know what a sea boat was, when they saw the call of the queen mother, one or two ships also invested money in. Concubine Li was in prison, and when she heard that she had built a boat, she sold all the property that could be sold, and built two gluttonous ships. As soon as Xiong Jing said that Xiong Han remembered this, he sat upright, waiting for Shi Yan to speak.

"The king, the prince, there are a total of ten ships that went to sea this time, and they have not been damaged. A total of 565 dragon horses were brought back, 31 died, and the remaining 534; 120,000 muslin returned to India; 45,000 stone of rice was brought back; Twenty-three thousand one hundred and fifty-five pounds of gold and one hundred and forty-four thousand one hundred and three pounds of silver were brought back......"

The big heads are all in front, and the rest are some small things, corals, sea pearls, conch and so on. Buying these luxury goods was the idea of Shi Yan and the Qi family. As soon as the sea was passed, the originally rare oriental luxury goods were transported into the West by ship, and the result was that the gold and silver were transported back to Chu by ship. Relying on these gold and silver, the coins of the four countries are worth communicating constantly, but the evil consequences will follow, that is, there is more money and more goods, and prices are high.

What to do? Xiong Jing originally wanted to push up the housing price, increase him by 50 times and 100 times, and use the real estate market to absorb hot money. The idea was good, but the law couldn't keep up. Even in the Qin State, the farm house is also private property, and the government does not need to approve the construction of the house, and no matter how simple the thatched house is, there is also a front and back yard. Turning a farmhouse into a commodity can only be found in a specific area like the northern city of Daliang, and cannot be replicated elsewhere.

In addition to strictly controlling the amount of coinage and the release of gold and silver, Shi Yan and the Qi Guo's light and heavy family suggested that they should use luxury goods from the west to absorb gold. The economy is structured, and if each household is given a silver coin, these silver coins will eventually flow to specific large households along the inherent economic structure, and it will not hinder the overall situation to 'collect' gold and silver from these large households. The means of recovery include taxes, deposits, national debt, stocks, and also Western-made luxury goods.

If it weren't for the fact that he wanted to recover the gold and silver that flowed out, Xiong Jing would have no interest in Western-style luxury. He had always had a feeling that China was at a loss on the Silk Road. Silk, tea, and ceramics were sold for gold and silver vessels, glass, precious stones, and other treasures of terrible value. Like the elixir made of marijuana, it is a trick scam.

The purchase of Western luxuries, which were not worth a fraction of the money, led to a massive exodus of gold and silver – similar to East Asia, where the Romans did not go much. The so-called mystery of the disappearance of Han Jin is actually the result of the large-scale purchase of Western luxury goods by the court and nobles.

This was true of the Han Dynasty, and so was the Tang Dynasty. A very simple question: since the Tang Dynasty obtained a huge amount of gold and silver by selling silk, why did the Tang Dynasty use silk as currency instead of gold and silver as currency? Gold and silver are not money by nature, and money is naturally gold and silver. The convenience and cutting of gold and silver are obviously stronger than that of silk silk, and the most appropriate explanation for using silk as currency is not the large-scale outflow of gold, silver and even copper coins in the Tang Dynasty, and there is no money available in China?

With full malice, the tariffs on Western-style luxury goods brought back by sea are at least 30 times, but the nobles and rich people in the world are still flocking to them, so this time they bought some Syrian glass, Mediterranean amber, Persian gold bowls, silver cups, Indian sea pearls, and Sinhala nautilus. Shi Yan said for about a quarter of an hour before he finished all these things.

"How many times is the profit of silk?" Xiong Jing asked. Silk is a major profit-making item, but its profit margins are declining dramatically.

"Twelve." Shi Yan carefully looked at the accounts before answering, and he added: "The Persian merchant Jaddo of Wubrai Harbor has complained, blaming me for the price of silk becoming more and more cheap. ”

"Getting cheaper?" Xiong Jing smiled. "Silk is not completely a luxury, and the common people of Chu also use silk brocade. If the silk brocade in their hands is not sold quickly, it will be eight times more profitable next time. ”

"If this is the case...... the king, the benefits of the sea boat will be greatly reduced." When I went for the first time, I was warned that the silk must be sold within a year, and the price of a boatload of silk would be lower if it was not sold. As a result, all the Persian merchants turned into fruit sellers, and they had to get rid of all the silk in their hands regardless of the price before the goods 'rotted', so that the sea silk could quickly seize the market space and drive all the land silk out of the market.

"What about the big cut? It is not to suppress the price of silk, so that the Di Daorong people have no profit, and the Qin people have no way to get horses. Xiong Jing's smile was a little sinister, the blow to the Qin State was all-round, and foreign trade was only one of the aspects. He wanted to know what Qin could use if he couldn't buy what he wanted with silk.

"Outside of silk, what about the rest of the profits?" Xiong Jing asked again.

"The big blade and the huge armor can be sold for one and a half gold, and its benefits are extremely rich, but there are few people who buy this thing. Only India, Pandia, Cholo, Jero, and Sinhala are purchased by several countries; Lu Lijing also makes a lot of profits, and a Lu Lijing can be sold for thousands of dollars according to its size......"

"How's the porcelain?" In addition to mirrors, Chu is really inferior to the Sidon Glass Factory in Syria, but Xiong Jing cares about porcelain.

"Porcelain......" Shi Yan stammered, "The previous porcelain has not been sold out." ”

Porcelain is a new thing, and the market needs to be cultivated. Xiong Jing skipped the porcelain and asked, "How about Chu paper and pig iron?" ”

"Chu paper is still good, and it has three times the benefit." Shi Yan said. "Pig iron is ten times more profitable, but it's really cheap."

"Triple the profit?" Xiong Jing was puzzled, he heard Wuji say that papyrus was very expensive, and a papyrus cost at least two drachmas.

"Yes, yes." Shi Yan knew Xiong Jing's doubts. "The king doesn't know that although the price of papyrus is high, it is very long, and one has three zhang."

"Sanzhang?" Xiong Jing gestured for a moment, and finally nodded, the Egyptians are really perverted, and it takes so long to make a piece of paper.

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