Chapter 495: The Gold Absorption Plan
"The Second Holy King? Hero King? William couldn't help but repeat in confusion what these terms seemed to him to be legends of Western Europe from his previous life.
"Yes, His Royal Highness is the second Holy King in the prophecy, the descendant of the Holy King Gilles, and has drawn the Holy Sword in the Stone in the Prophecy, the Sword of Bolognesia, he must be the new Holy King!"
"I see!" William made a look of sudden realization, but in his heart he still didn't think so.
Looking at the messenger's expression as if worshiping a god, he said to himself: "It turns out that Arthur, this kid, has learned to be a god, but it's okay, and he can fool people so deeply that he is also a skill!" ”
"Okay." William said, "Go back and tell him that I don't mind sending troops to support him as long as he can come up with a recipe that satisfies me!" ”
"However, this premise is a formula that satisfies me, and I want value!"
Sending the messenger away, William summoned Jia Yu again, and he had a way to quickly turn the current situation around financially.
Now that his financial situation has begun to make ends meet, he is afraid that he will have a fiscal deficit of more than 3.3 million silver coins this year.
Although he still has two or three million silver coins in his treasury, as well as mountains of grain, if he sits and eats like this, he will one day consume all the silver coins.
So he had to find one or more very profitable industries and take them into his own hands to be able to turn the situation around.
Policies such as promoting commerce and strengthening agriculture can no longer bring him huge economic benefits in a short period of time, after all, it has developed to a bottleneck, and if there is no greater scientific and technological breakthrough, then it can only grow by 34 or 4 or 4 or 5 percent a year.
So he needs a more profitable industry.
Vodka now accounts for the lion's share of his own business, while honey and the income from hotels, pubs and brothels make up a small share.
After all, vodka is a great luxury that cannot be replicated, and honey is something that can be produced everywhere, so it is not very competitive.
Now vodka brings him 400,000 silver coins a year, half of his personal fortune, and many merchants come from far and wide to buy this strong and mellow spirit.
William has been meditating in his study for the past few days, just to come up with a good way to make money, so that his income can offset the extra expenses of the expanded army.
You know, the Iron Cross knights have not yet started to recruit, and if the recruitment is completed, the knight's salary is not comparable to that of ordinary soldiers.
After thinking about it for several days, he finally got along with some methods, in fact, these methods were not that difficult, and the main inspiration came from what he had seen and heard in the Celestial Empire in his previous life.
William said to Jia Yu in the study: "I remember my teacher once said that there seems to be something similar to pottery in the Yun Dynasty, but the surface is extremely smooth, and it will make a crisp sound when struck, it should be called porcelain, right?" ”
William tapped sideways, for he wasn't sure if the Yun Dynasty really had such a thing.
Jia Yu suddenly realized and said: "The lord is right, this kind of thing is indeed called porcelain, and good porcelain can even be sold at an unimaginable price among dignitaries!" ”
William smiled and nodded, and said, "You know, our army has been expanded recently, and the extra salaries of these troops are a headache for me, so I plan to find a new industry to make up for this expense!" ”
Jia Yuyi arched his hand and said: "The lord is wise, once this porcelain is made, it will feel a thousand times more profitable, not to mention the soldier's salary, even if it is expanded, what can it be?" ”
William laughed and said happily: "Since Mr. Jia is so confident and confident, he knows the firing method of porcelain?" ”
Jia Yu shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Yu has only seen the process of making porcelain and the porcelain kiln, and it is not easy to restore it, how dare you say that you know it well!" ”
Feeling the disappointment exuded by William, Jia Yu then said: "But Yu is willing to give it a try, I think that as long as I try more, I will definitely be able to develop a method of making porcelain!" ”
William could only smile bitterly when he said this, and said: "In this case, Mr. Jia will go quickly, and I will let the pottery craftsman assist me!" ”
Although William was a little disappointed, he was still a little prepared, although he had heard about some of the processes of porcelain, but he had only heard of it.
If he is allowed to guide, he may not be able to burn porcelain in his life, and Jia Yu can have a little understanding of the process, which is already a good result.
After saying this, William did not let Jia Yu leave, but arranged another thing for him.
In William's money-making plan, in addition to the somewhat illusory profiteering industry of porcelain, there is also a more real giant industry.
There used to be some gambling in the taverns on William's territory, and although William had banned it, there were still some people who secretly enjoyed it.
And the chicken yard, although he runs it himself, but he has never really bothered about these things, just as a place for extra money and a stable territory.
But this time, he felt the urgency for money, so he began to look for ways to make money on various things.
hit the idea on the chicken yard, the Qinglou in his previous life can be said to be a gold cave, and the situation of drunkenness is definitely hot-headed and a lot of money.
What kind of Oiran contest, what kind of auction first night, watching singing and dancing and other performances, isn't this a good way to get money?
In addition to the chicken yard, William's idea is the casino, the casino is far more than the chicken yard, after the casino to go to the chicken yard for recreation, isn't this just a one-stop service?
As for whether you will lose money when opening a casino, do you still need to think about it? Ten gambles and nine cheats, if there is no dark box operation, what kind of casino will be opened, William has been in the Royal Casino of Macau for so long in his previous life, although he does not know much about these, but he has finally heard of it.
In this era of lack of food and clothing, who will spend a lot of effort to practice gambling? Therefore, opening a casino is a sure way to make a profit.
Especially in William's territory, the merchants who come and go are wealthy families, and they can empty their pockets when they go to the casino and go to the chicken yard for a while.
And these will also become the factors that attract them to come again, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.
Now there is a division of labor is very easy to deal with, the construction is under the control of Jia Yu, he is responsible for the construction of these chicken yards and casinos, as for the manpower, Vidal is responsible for the distribution, and the allocation of funds requires them to get William's order documents to go to Baron Reims to collect them.
Now William's territory has a perfect division of labor and processes, so that William usually needs to deal with a lot less things.