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Li Mu was a little troubled by the nobles of Zhao State and the investors about the iron ore of Yan State. Judging by their attitude. They don't seem interested in it.

Li Mu's idea was that the slave trade in Goguryeo might provoke greater investment in the Zhao state, or at least they would actively participate in it, but that would be the case. This made Li Mu feel a little disappointed, but Li Mu did not give up, he thought that his method was wrong.

Li Mu thought of many ways, but none of them could quickly mobilize the interest of these investors. There was no way, Li Mu could only stop thinking about this matter and then read the newspaper. Perhaps, he was able to read something in the newspaper that interested him. Or maybe something else is going to happen.

Because Li Mu is prime minister, he is now paying special attention to economic issues. Li Mu habitually turned to the economic content of the "Handan Times". "Handan Times" is a commercial and economic newspaper founded by Zhao Guo himself, and this kind of newspaper not only focuses on Zhao Guo's own domestic economic problems, but also reprints some large-scale economic articles. Mainly articles on the Qin side.

"The four major steels were purchased by Wenyang at a low price." At this time, Li Mu saw the Qin State article reprinted by economic reports. The time when the article was published and reprinted is still very new, and it seems that this incident happened not long ago. Li Mu suddenly noticed it.

The report said. The Qin government deliberately sold the four major steel groups of the Qin State at a low price. and resold to the Wenyang Bank of Qin State at a low price, coupled with the special relationship between Shangwen and the princess of Qin, the newspapers of Qin State publicly accused Prime Minister Shangwen of Qin State of being unfair.

In the later reports, Zhao Guo did not pay attention to the domestic affairs of Qin, they paid attention to the stock price of Handan Iron Works, which was affected by such news. There was a big shock in the shares of Handan Iron Works, and investors were worried that the sale of the four major iron and steel groups of Qin State would affect the economic benefits of Handan Iron Works, after all, their Handan Iron Works mainly sold iron ingots, and the four major iron and steel groups of Qin State bought a large number of iron ingots from them and further processed them into various types of steel.

"This thing." Li Mu felt that this matter was not simple.

"Prime Minister, it's time to eat." Li Zuoche put the meal on the coffee table. Li Mu thought about this matter.

"What do you think about this?" Li Mu handed the newspaper to Li Zuoche and asked.

"What's the matter?" Li Zuoche took the newspaper and looked at it.

"What the prime minister said is Wenyang's acquisition of the four major steel groups of Qin?" Li Zuoche asked Li Mu.

"Yes. What do you think about this? Li Mu wanted to know Li Zuoche's opinion on this matter at this young stage, after all, there were some ideas, and Li Mu couldn't keep up.

"My opinion is that Qin's move may increase the production of steel, and in this case, the iron produced by our Handan Iron Works may not be enough." Li Zuoche said.

"Oh. Why? Li Mu asked with some puzzlement.

"This matter, in fact, I also read what I said in the newspaper, the economic experts of the Qin State are more pragmatic, they will not pay a lot of attention to the personal relationship between the Prime Minister of the Qin State and the princess, what is the beginning of the cold relationship between the Prime Minister of the Qin State and the princess, etc. These are inconsequential things. Li Zuoche said.

"Then tell me something important!" Li Mu said at this time.

"Hmm. If the Qin government did this, it was actually said in the newspapers. Li Zuoche paused and said.

"In fact, most of the steel before the Qin State was built by the government, and these steel factories initially met the military needs of the Qin State, that is, specialized in manufacturing guns and cannons, and later a small number of them accepted some tasks of manufacturing machine tool steel, and then rails, rails. And then there's a lot of building materials. However, they only have to meet some military needs. Li Zuoche said.

"But now the military needs are gradually decreasing in Qin. Especially recently, the Qin army's equipment rearmament has slowed down and military spending has decreased. The previous military production gradually became a burden, which was very bad for the efficiency of the steel plant. And they still have to produce, as a result, they can't accept more orders for profitable civilian projects, and the production capacity of Qin's iron and steel plant is very limited, because if they want to produce steel for civilian projects, they have to pay a lot of profits, so that there will be big problems in the operation of the steel plant, which is also the reason for Qin's current low steel production. It's not what I said, it's what the newspapers say. Li Zuoche emphasized.

"Hmm. It doesn't matter who says it, as long as it makes sense. Li Mu said.

"Hmm." Li Zuoche nodded.

"Given the situation. Prime Minister Qin resolutely threw off such a burden and converted all the government-run iron and steel groups into civilian use, and civilian steel plants will produce a large amount of civil steel in order to meet the demand for steel. In this way, the operating efficiency of the steel plant will increase, and the government will only take a small part of the shares, so that the government's profits will also be guaranteed. Li Zuoche said.

This move, in the eyes of Qin's economic experts, has major reform benefits. Qin's economists were in favor of this. But in order to attract attention, the Qin newspapers did not pay attention to this. Although this incident has had a certain impact on Handan Iron Works, some stock experts believe that the stock price of Handan Iron Works will continue to rise in the future. Li Zuoche said. In fact, the reason why Li Zuoche knew about this was because he also bought some shares of Handan Iron Works, and at first he felt a little distressed when he saw that the price of his Handan Iron Works could not rise, but he soon figured it out. Because in the long run, the demand for steel will be a staggering one. The current Handan Iron Works is far from being able to meet such demand, and the current scale of the Handan Iron Works may be upgraded to a steel plant if it continues to expand. It is precisely because of this that Li Zuoche insists on holding his own shares in Handan Iron Works.

"A steel plant built by the Qin government." Li Mu whispered.

"In other words, these steel groups are government-run." Li Mu said.

"Yes, Prime Minister. But now they have become civilian projects. Later they will accept civilian orders, not military ones. Li Zuoche explained.

"That's right." Li Mu patted the armrest of the sofa and said. Li Zuoche nodded and said that this was it.