Chapter 66: The Big Deal
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The edict of the monarch to build a new palace in front of the palace made the ministers puzzled, but it was difficult to refute it. I'm afraid this "Yuxuan Palace" has been built. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"The king stays behind! Stay on top of the king! As soon as the meeting dispersed, Jing Cang walked quickly in small steps, and soon caught up with Wei Zheng.
"What's the matter with Jingqing?" Wei Zheng stopped his pace and turned around and asked.
"Your Majesty, why is there such a large amount of construction and the construction of a new temple at the expense of the people and money?" Jing Cang asked, at present, the entire Weiguo is like a huge machine in non-stop operation, a series of projects such as building roads, building post stations, and opening tracks are often tens of thousands of slaves and slaves, if it were not for a large number of slaves, Weiguo would have complained and dug his own grave.
Although the construction of galloping roads, post stations, and tracks consumes a lot of people's labor, the benefits of building these facilities are also huge, which can be said to be in the present and beneficial in the future, but the construction of palaces is really inappropriate in Jingcang's opinion.
"The widow wants to see all the talents in the world, so he built this 'Yuxuan Palace'." Wei Zheng replied.
As soon as these words came out, Jing Cang was puzzled, and he arched his hand and said: "Weichen doesn't notice it, and he dares to ask the king to show it." ”
Recruiting talents from all over the world and building a palace on a large scale, no matter how you look at it, are two things that are not related, how can they be connected?
Of course, Jingcang didn't know that Wei Zheng ordered the construction of this palace to build the first "library" in history, and he didn't know that his purpose was to compete with Qi for the center of the world's culture.
Today, the hundreds of schools of thought are contending in the country of Qi, the cultural atmosphere of Linzi, Wei Zheng was deeply impressed when he visited the Jixia School Palace, and he was deeply impressed by the grand scene, and he also admired King Qi Wei's initiative to build the Jixia School Palace in his heart, and the idea had already been germinated since then, but it was just due to the limitation of strength.
Today's defense is no longer the vassal state that needs to survive in the cracks among the great powers, trembling, today's defense of the country, even powerful countries like Qin and Qi have to pay great attention to it, with strong national strength as a backing, and there is no constraint to compete for the cultural center of the world, Wei Zheng will certainly not hesitate.
But in the face of the courtiers' questions, they still have to answer, and the matter has to be handed over to the people below to handle, there are doubts in their hearts, and it is not good to do things, Wei Zheng thought about it, looked at Jing Cang and asked: "Jing Qing, the widow asked you, how is Qi Zhiji?" ”
"Jixia Academy?" Jing Cang was stunned for a moment, blurted out, and then thought about it carefully, and couldn't help showing a surprised face: "The king's words are quite meaningful......"
"Hehe......" Wei Zheng chuckled lightly, and said leisurely: "Eight or nine out of ten scholars in the world have entered the Qi country, and Linzi is full of talents at the foot of Linzi...... Jing Qing looked at it, and saw how the widow brought the hundred families of the princes to my Yuxuan Palace. ”
Jing Cang took over the task of building the "Yuxuan Palace" with doubts, although he had doubts in his heart, but seeing that Wei Zheng was not building a palace on a whim, and also believed that the monarch was not wasting national strength and wasting money and money, he honestly took over the task and began to supervise the construction of the "Yuxuan Palace".
The monarch issued an edict to build the "Yuxuan Palace", which was soon implemented, and 20,000 people were allocated to build a large number of buildings, and under the supervision of Jingcang, the first "library" in history rose up in Chaoge City.
At the same time, the magic of "books" began to spread rapidly among the aristocratic class of the country, Wei Zheng printed a book with classic works to reward the ministers, for the ministers and nobles who often sealed a room of bamboo slips at home, the books rewarded by the monarch can be described as a number of treasures.
Despite the lavish rewards for the courtiers, the books sent out were still very scarce, in fact, printing and papermaking never stopped, and a large number of books and white paper were sealed in piles.
The ministers and nobles of the country only knew that the "book" was a magical treasure that only the monarch had.
The news spread as soon as the entire aristocratic class began to know about such strange things as "books", and those who were rewarded by the monarch also showed off to their colleagues who did not have such things as treasures, and various "exhibitions" appeared one after another, and vanity was greatly satisfied, and as a result, the fame of the book spread, and it became more and more popular in the territory of the country.
Wei Zheng has been paying attention to this, and estimating that the heat is almost over, he started the second step.
On this day, the heads of several large trading companies in Chaoge City were once again summoned into the palace by the monarch, and these heads entered the palace with a little excitement one by one, because according to past examples, the monarch summoned them merchants, and they all had big deals.
"Lao Ji, you said that this time the king summoned us and others, what kind of big deal will it be?" The head of a trading company asked his colleague sitting next to him.
At this moment, there are eight "giants" of the trading company who defend the country sitting in the side hall waiting for the monarch, and Wei Zheng has not yet arrived, so he began to discuss.
"In my opinion...... Ignorance! ”
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At this moment, the old chamberlain in the palace shouted in a sharp voice: "The king has arrived——! ”
After a while, the eight businessmen and wealthy people suddenly got up quickly, and after a while, they saw the Lord of the Patriotic Kingdom appear from the side hall, and everyone hurriedly bowed their hands neatly: "Meet the king!" ”
"You're all exempt!" Wei Zheng said with a deep smile, and walked to his main seat without looking back and sat down.
"Thank you, the king!"
Wei Zheng watched the eight top billionaires of the country take their seats one by one, and said with a smile: "The widow said in the past that if you are summoned, you will have a big deal for you......"
As soon as these words came out, the eyes of this group of wealthy businessmen were hot, and their eyes were full of excitement, but they didn't grab the words, what kind of jokes, robbing the monarch's words?
At the end, under the expectant gaze of a group of businessmen, Wei Zheng patted three times, and as soon as the applause fell, he saw a few wrestlers carrying a few heavy boxes into the hall, and the eight businessmen on both sides immediately focused their eyes on these boxes.
After a while, the boxes were opened one by one, and at a glance, these merchants' pupils suddenly shrank.
"Dare to ask the king, this is ...... Book? A businessman immediately turned his eyes to Wei Zheng and asked.
"Not bad!" Wei Zheng said with a smile.
Really! Now everyone's eyes are even hotter, after the book is a strange thing from the palace, it seems to have become a favorite thing of the nobles and scholars, and of course these well-informed wealthy merchants also know about this strange thing.
As merchants, everyone quickly understood what it meant that the books in these boxes were what the king called a big deal, and that nobles and scholars loved to put it down.
Money, of course!
"What do you think this thing is worth?" Wei Zheng on the main seat asked everyone with a smile.
"Books, the treasure of the study, are also very valuable, and we are immeasurable!" A businessman said sleekly, and everyone echoed.
"It is reported that there are many wealthy families who pay high prices for this book and strange things." Another businessman spoke.
"Oh? What is the price? Wei Zheng asked curiously.
"One hundred gold, even so, there is no market." The merchant replied immediately.
One hundred gold? Wei Zheng couldn't help but be secretly stunned when he heard it, but he was relieved to think about it, the wealthy family is not short of money, and it is not uncommon to spend hundreds of dollars to ask for a book.
Wei Zheng was silent, thought about it in his heart, and said straight to the point: "Everyone, the widow has 50,000 books and 10 gold here, are you interested in this deal?" ”
When he said this, Wei Zheng scolded himself in his heart for being the blackest person in the world, only he knew the cost of a book, it was simply the price of cabbage, but he offered ten gold for a book, which was no different from robbing money.
However, books are a new thing born in this era, and they are regarded as treasures by readers, although it is the same cost as the price of cabbage, but only Wei Zheng can make it, monopolize the product, and the price is of course Wei Zheng's final say.
"Of course there is, Wang, the Jinxian Trading Company is willing to buy 30,000 units!" It was Fan Rong who spoke, and it was said that after Fan Rong was Fan Li, only Fan Rong himself knew whether it was true or not.
"Of the 50,000 books, you Fan Rong will take away 30,000, which is really excessive!" Another businessman suddenly said angrily, Fan Rong also felt a little too much, and laughed embarrassedly.
According to the price code set by Wei Zheng, one is ten gold, and fifty thousand is only 500,000 gold, which is indeed not a small amount, but among the eight wealthy businessmen here, the thinnest one has more than one million, and it is not a problem for one family to eat it.
Dare to eat it.
Everyone is a person who has been in the shopping mall for a long time, and knows that books are definitely in demand, and the love of the aristocracy is not afraid of sales.
"You don't have to fight!" Wei Zheng opened his mouth and said: "The eight trading companies have a share, and the widow does not favor one over the other, 50,000 books, one can be evenly divided into more than 6,000 books, and it can also make a lot of money, and there will be more transactions in the future." ”
"That's what the king said!" Fan Rong hurriedly said, the monarch has spoken, of course everyone does not dare to object.
"But there is one condition for the widow!" Wei Zheng said again.
"Please show me the king!" Fan Rong said.
"Books cannot be sold in the territory of the country, only in the six countries, as for how much you can sell for a price, it depends on your ability." Wei Zheng said lightly.
The eight businessmen looked at each other, and they actually smiled, Wei Zheng saw it in his eyes, this is the black-hearted smile, the purchase price of ten gold, this group of black-hearted businessmen, God knows what sky-high price they will be fired up?
Looking at this posture, the nobles of the world in the kingdom of heaven are afraid that they will be slaughtered by them.
"However, this time it can't be tax-exempt, how much is the tax paid!" Wei Zheng said with a smile.
It is foreseeable that after Wei Zheng made a lot of money in the early stage, those books that were bought at a high price were then launched like the price of cabbage, and the nobles of the world were probably angry to death.
The number of books sealed in the palace is far more than 50,000, but a staggering 500,000.
Wei Zheng still knows that he is a monopoly trader, and there is no need to say much about the truth that scarcity is expensive.
The amount of 50,000 books will be 500,000 gold, which is no different from robbery.
After the businessmen left, Wei Zheng immediately drafted a copy.
Compared with the sale of books to make money, for the monarch, it is the greatest benefit that Wei Zheng can obtain to transfer the cultural center of the world from Linzi of Qi to the court song of Weiguo, and this copywriting is Wei Zheng's killer weapon to take Jixia Xuegong to the party.
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