Chapter 0085 Uninvited Guest
Xu Lie's attitude or rules are like the relationship between private enterprises and the state in the original time and space, you are under my rules, everything is easy to say. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoIf you're going to go beyond that, be prepared to break the bank.
And in the new time and space, in addition to bankrupting the family, there is also the practice of killing the whole family.
And this is also the reason why Xu Lie thinks that Lu Xiang's self-determination is good. As a person who has lived in the original time and space for more than 30 years and has experienced countless life and death experiences and various affairs, Xu Lie's mind has long lost the kind of Zhonger-style impulse or the so-called unification of the world, pure and pure idealism.
To change the fate of the Dragon Kingdom, we cannot rely on ideals, but only on pragmatism. Ideal, traditional Confucianism has long provided a template for life for the society of the Dragon Kingdom and all kinds of people, and it is precisely because the Confucian proposition is too idealistic that it has caused the decline of the Dragon Kingdom day by day.
And this is also the reason why Xu Lie seemed very happy to see the sudden increase in commercial trade. Only when the cake is made big enough that more people can share the benefits from it, such a leader is good.
After a few months of testing the waters, the types of commodities transported from the original time and space have also changed, and some commodities with obvious advanced technological characteristics that are easy to compete with technology have gradually become less advanced, or are only used in the Mengyin control area, such as steel, iron nails, etc., and are no longer sold to the outside world.
As for the gold watch, Xu Lie continued to keep this item, but only for mechanical watches, even self-winding automatic watches were forbidden to enter the new time and space.
The current list of commodities and goods mainly focuses on the following aspects:
Laundry and low-end cosmetics. The main items are soap, soap, toilet water, etc., these products can actually be produced in this era, and there are even many varieties. However, Xu Lie's import of similar products from the original time and space, the biggest advantage is the price difference, the industrial production capacity of the original time and space, said that it is a hundred times stronger than the new time and space, absolutely no one will deny it, even if the original time and space sold a can of beer for three or five yuan, transported to the new time and space, it will be sold for at least 5 cents of silver, this price is converted into soft sister currency, at least equivalent to 30 yuan, and it is not worried about selling, the profit is more than 5 times the cost. Of course, beer is a food and drink, not a cosmetic, but the reason is the same.
Low-end hardware glass products. For example, low-grade ordinary cement, ordinary knives, aluminum tableware, mirrors and ordinary glass products, all kinds of industrial miscellaneous parts (excluding plastics), etc., these things, in the 1900 era, have mature technology and products, but because of the restrictions of the overall industrial level, their prices are quite high, and most of the goods that Xu Lie wants to buy are similar to the goods sold in the "one-dollar store" and "ten-yuan store" in small and medium-sized towns. Oil lamps, horse lamps, gas lamps and other lamps also belong to this category.
Cloth and needles and threads. Cloth is a bulk commodity, not to mention its value, air transportation to the new time and space is at least ten times the profit; Needle and thread brain, is an indispensable thing in every family, for example, there is a kind of hammer, the sole of the shoe must be used tools, generally copper products, this era of copper is also very expensive, but in the new time and space, also because of the progress of mining and smelting technology, the price of ordinary copper is really very cheap, to use ordinary copper ingots to suppress a set on the middle finger of the "hand", only a pressure is afraid that it can produce hundreds of thousands.
Grains, oils and condiments. Grain can be sold in large quantities, and the effect of improved seeds and agricultural residues in later generations exceed the standard, even if the great powers want to decipher anything from it, they do not have the equipment and technology. Needless to say, especially this edible oil, as a big agricultural country, its edible oil production capacity is almost seriously overcapacity, the quality of general edible oil, but 4 yuan or 5 yuan a catty, and the price of a pound of fresh vegetables in the vegetable market is comparable.
However, the era of the new time and space is the era of the most scarce edible oil, even in the homes of the squires and landlords, there are only animal oils at most, and vegetable oils are rarely seen. As for the ordinary poor, if they want to eat vegetable edible oil, they don't dare to think so.
As for condiments, in addition to monosodium glutamate and chicken essence, all kinds of other varieties can be sold, all kinds of soy sauce, vinegar, salt, beans, etc.
In the original time and space, except for the people who entered the kitchen who knew that the last type of items were indispensable to home life, it was almost impossible to understand the huge market demand for the first few types of goods. For example, needlework is a must for every household in the new time and space, a woman, if she doesn't know how to needlework, that is, she will not be "female red", the light one is looked down upon by others, and the heavy one may not be able to marry, even if it is the daughter of a large family, she has to honestly learn to be a female celebrity. Of course, this kind of needlework can also meet the romantic needs of young women, such as "embroidered purse" and embroidered mandarin ducks sung in folk songs.
All kinds of colored silk threads and cotton threads produced in the original time and space may definitely cause some kind of sales storm in the new time and space.
When Lu Xiang's sales force could sell 20,000 taels of silver a week, Xu Lie's Mengshan army, if the production link was not considered, had entered a virtuous circle.
Because Xu Lie's biggest expenses in the new time and space are salaries and military salaries, this money is issued to his subordinates, but after his subordinates get these money, they are not completely saved, but to consume, and they also want to buy the goods in Xu Lie's hands, so Xu Lie can use this to recover about one-third of the silver taels.
But this sales are far from enough for Xu Lie. Because at this rate of sales, it is only 1 million taels of silver a year, which is seriously incompatible with what Xu Lie wants to do.
Xu Lie must expand his territorial power as soon as possible, open up access to the sea, and sell his goods to the north and south of the river.
However, just when Xu Lie arranged for Wang Qinian to pay attention to the situation in several nearby counties, two uninvited guests came to Mengyin. And these two uninvited guests turned out to be Rhine's countrymen!
This is really too unexpected for Xu Lie. It's just that after a little analysis of Shandong in 1898, Xu Lie had a feeling that he couldn't laugh or cry, Nima Rhine was originally his neighbor!
This has to start with the past.
Around 1890, the Rhine and Gaul finally gained the right to preach in Shandong. Of course, the idea of the Rhine was obviously more than that, and if it was only a missionary and no other benefit, it would not be in line with the expansionist policy of the Western powers at this time.
Thus, a very favorable opportunity for the Rhine kingdom came.
A year earlier, on November 1, 1897, more than a dozen men armed with daggers and short blades broke into the church of Zhangzhuang in Juye Mopan and killed the Rhine missionaries Franciscan and Han Ligalio in the night.