Chapter 576 [Spring Silkworms Are Hard to Raise]
"I heard that you are selling the porcelain, tea and silk operated by the Bai family to Persia, and you have purchased a large amount of copper and iron from Persia to bring back to China, and the business is doing well. Besides, the road from China to Persia is long, and the road is very hard, not to mention, how much profit can it be? Even if the reputation of the Silk Road is achieved at that time, it is not the credit of your Xijun Baizi, wouldn't the Mo family become coolies? β
The more contact with Bai Dong, the more he had to cheer up, and Yu Huaxi warned himself not to fall for this kid.
"Not much profit? Chinese silk was so popular in Persia that only the richest nobles could afford it! Not to mention the Greek and Roman countries to the west of Persia, their commoners were wrapped in linen, even the nobles were just wearing a low-quality blanket over the linen, if they saw the beautiful Chinese silk, they would go crazy! All you need to do is transport the silk to the West and use the silver to buy local spices, wine, cattle and sheep, and even exchange copper and iron coins in large quantities; The price of silver in China is much lower than in the West, and those aristocratic lords who even like to use silver plates to serve their meals will go crazy when they see silver! But Huaxia needs such practical things as copper and iron, so will it be difficult to make hundreds of thousands of dollars back and forth? As long as you run a few more times, the Mo family will be fat and oily, and from then on you will become a nouveau riche."
Bai Dong's fresh terms are endless, and he has long been surprised by the fowl slippery, but the word nouveau riche makes him very uncomfortable, and it sounds a little weird. It is not in line with the way of the Mohists.
"The Silk Road is an idea I came up with a few years ago. However, at that time, it was only based in the Western Regions. Access to Persia, now Persia is also under the control of Lao Qin, and may even become the territory of Lao Qin in the future, with this springboard, in the future, my Chinese merchants can go as far as Greece and even Rome, how can such a great trade route be made by only relying on the Bai family? When the time comes, businesses from all over the world will join forces to form a grand event, and the Mo family doesn't want to take this step early? Shuzhong has always been a place for raising silkworms and producing silk, and the children of the Mo family are all capable of farming and rangers. If you can start with silkworm raising and silk reeling, then you will be able to control the upstream of silk, and which trading company can compete with you? In the future, even if it can be left in the history, the historian will note that 'the Mo family has a Shenzi, and the silk giant of Shu is also the first to open a trade route for a hundred people, thousands of miles away!' Listen, won't your blood be boiling? β
Bai Dong is now earnest, like a big bad wolf ready to seduce a little sheep. After Lao Qin stabilized Bashu, the next step was to quickly become the world's first power. As long as he gave good guidance and made use of Zhou Tianzi's surviving status and influence, China could not become a 'confederation' country with strong external and internal alliances. Even if it cannot completely eliminate the conflict of interests between countries, the huge interests from the West will make countries look more beyond China, and then set the main tone of peace in China.
In this environment, it is better for the Mo family to go as far as possible, this organization is not all farmers and workers, but more assassins and terrorists ~ terrorists, and now the Mo family is going to change and do business, God knows if he is on a whim? We must take this opportunity to lead him to the West, not to mention that this is not a complete deception, if the bird can move forward according to the route he planned, the hard days of the Mo family will be over, maybe the Mo family will become a 'Mo family trading company' in the future, and they can also leave a name in history, Fan Li and LΓΌ Buwei in the pre-Qin era were not all businessmen?
Bai Dong believes that once the bitter Mo family earns countless money, it will never be able to give it up, and it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift. Mo Zhai's theory can't be said to be unreasonable, but the times are different, and I haven't seen that even the bird has moved his mind? This is the best opportunity for the Mo family to change.
"Starting with silkworm farming?"
Bird Slip West hesitated slightly, is this the rhythm of turning the Mo family into a group of silkworm farmers?
"You don't have to raise it yourself, but you have to master a large number of mulberry fields and silkworm farmers. Brother Shenzi, think about it, businessmen from all countries are not fools, when the Silk Road is fully opened and they see the huge profits from the West, will they not be blushing? With the influx of more and more Chinese businessmen into the West, the blue ocean market will become the red ocean market, and the competition will become extremely fierce, which is an era of cost fighting! Only businesses that master the upstream of the industry can be invincible! Bashu will be Lao Qin's sooner or later, what is the name of your Mo family? Qin Mo! This time, the army of the Qin State was able to defeat the Shu State lightly, and the Mo family also made great efforts, I believe that the monarch will also look at the Mo family differently, this is a step ahead! If the Mo family does not master a large number of mulberry fields and silkworm farmers at this time, they will definitely regret dying! β
When he carefully asked what is called the 'blue ocean market' and the 'red sea market', what is the 'cost fight' and mastery of the 'upstream of the industry', he can't help but admire Bai Dong's five-body throw. No wonder this kid can write an article like "Capital", this is a natural 'capitalist'? Follow him and you'll definitely make money! With money, the ideals of the Mo family are easier to realize.
If it was the Warring States that Bai Dong did not come, Bird Slip West would not be so obsessed with money, but the information collected by the Mo family in the past few years is related to Bai Dong, and now the Bai family trading company has not only affected the Qin State, but also Wei, Han, Zhao, Chu Yue and other countries are not affected by it, with the implementation of the national mutual aid decree and the introduction of new laws with the Bai mark in various countries, the background map of this era has gradually shown a 'white' word, Bird Slip West is not just farming and working to engage in terror ~ first-class terrorism, He is also the elite of the elite of this era, how can he not see this change? It is also the change of the times that has prompted his change, as long as the ultimate ideal of the Mo family can be realized, even if he turns his back on the Tao of the ancestor Mo Zhai, what does it matter? By the way, Bai Dong, this kid, calls this kind of change 'improvement'.
"I heard that the fields of Shu are all official fields, imitating the Huaxia well field system, this time Mrs. Qin Guoguo came to Shu, and the ordinary land was changed to the well field and distributed to the farmers with joint insurance households, but the mulberry field still left fifty percent, Qin did not have a good mulberry field, it is obvious that it is going to be left to the government, although the remaining mulberry field is also distributed to silkworm farmers, but who will sell it? Shuzhong is famous for mulberry silk, and those who sell mulberry fields will be ridiculed by their neighbors as prodigals, and they will not be able to enter the ancestral tomb when they die! Where are you going to let me get a lot of mulberry fields? β
Yu Huaxi was obviously moved by Bai Dong's words, and now he is worried about Sangtian, the children of the Mo family are all capable workers and farmers, but they will not take it by force, and if they refuse to sell Sangtian, do they still have to rob it?
"You don't have to make up your mind about the mulberry field of Shu, Qin is short of silk, in the past you had to spend a lot of money to buy from Bashu or Wu Yue, and now you get Shu, naturally you have to keep some mulberry fields for the use of the government, Shu people have long been profitable mulberry silkworms, in the past, mulberry fields belonged to the monarchs or nobles of the enlightened dynasty, they can only be regarded as tenants, and now Mrs. Guo has given them some mulberry fields, who will be willing to sell? This is something more precious than one's own children. However, there is not only Shu between Bashu, Tho is known as having 30,000 hectares of mulberry fields, Ba is even more powerful, the mulberry fields near Langzhong are not only numerous, but also produce mulberry leaves of high quality, rare species, and the silkworms raised are more than other places to spit out more silk threads, it is said that there are often colorful cocoons! It's a natural colored silk that doesn't need to be dyed, and it's more expensive than red gold! β
"Pakistan and Tho? Qin Guo really has a big appetite! β
Yu Huaxi's face changed slightly, and he had already smelled an unusual taste from Bai Dong's seemingly ordinary words: "The Mo family talks about both love and non-attack, no matter how you change this, it will not change, I'm afraid you won't participate in this kind of offensive battle!" β
Bai Dong sighed: "Did I say that I wanted the Mo family to attack?" Not only can the Mo family not go, but even the Qin State will not do it. But what if it was Pakistan or Tho who started the war first? (To be continued......)
PS: Ps: Yesterday my wife's aunt died, and she, like my mother-in-law, married us from the south, and brought a child after the divorce. Yesterday, I carried her into the ice coffin, and suddenly I felt that life was so fragile