Walking into the Bai Family Headquarters is like being in another world, which makes Tian Yinqi feel an indescribable feeling of depression; From the moment he walked into the central place of the Bai Family Headquarters, he found that he was a beat slower than people everywhere, or that the people here were too fast, and their pace of doing things far exceeded that of the people of this era, whether they were diligent or lazy.

At this moment, he was standing in a hall with a radius of 100 zhang, and on the wall hung a huge map of China, with more than 200 small red dots on the map, which should be the 237 trading bases in Bai Dong's mouth; Next to each trading outpost, there is a blank piece of paper, on which more than a dozen writers are ready to add and revise content.

There were also more than a dozen copper wires hanging in the hall, which were connected from afar, and from time to time you could see a strange thing made of copper and iron tied to the copper wire flying from outside the door, and immediately a merchant in green clothes caught it, and took out the eagle barrel and pigeon barrel from this thing, and took out the letter in it, and some people divided the categories and sang aloud the contents recorded on it, and then the writers recorded it on the big map. Tian Yinqi glanced at it a few times and found that the changes in each trading base were vivid, including the Linzi Jiazi trading base, which listed the recent grain and salt prices of Qi State, the corresponding storage of goods in the stronghold, etc.

"I've seen Qi Hou"

Seeing Bai Dong and Tian Yinqi, he walked over with a bitter smile, and first saluted Tian Yinqi. Then he looked at Bai Dong. But he did not speak. Bai Dong smiled: "Qi Hou is my old friend. If you have something to say about bitter wine, you don't need to guard against Qi Hou's."

Kujiu's face was slightly red, and he said a little unnaturally: "The order of the husband has been sent to various trading bases, and now all countries in China are promoting new silver and recycling copper and iron coins at the ratio of ten copper to one silver. But I'm afraid that we won't be able to support it for too long, many people are exchanging copper coins for our silver, and exchanging our silver for copper and iron coins elsewhere, and they can often earn money with a ratio of eleven or even twelve to one. This includes many large trading houses, as well as those aristocratic families who own copper and iron ore, fortunately, the Bai family trading company has a limited amount of silver to exchange every day, otherwise it will be more difficult. ”

"Open the door and do business. Then you can't refuse people to make money. How long can the amount of silver in our hands last? This kind of possible problem has already been calculated by Bai Dong, but there is not much surprise.

"The silver mines in Yue have been bought by our family, and if you count Xu Gong and Fan's families, there are a total of three silver mines, and if you use the current amount of money, you can still maintain it for three months. However, Xu Gong and the Fan family used money to buy shares instead of silver mines, and how much silver we need is still to be purchased from their silver mines at the market price, and the husband and the husband exchanged silver at a ratio of ten to one, but the Bai family was not allowed to lower the silver price of Xu Gong and Fan Gong. The Bai family bought their silver, but the ratio of twelve to one went on like this. We will lose more and more, even if the Bai family is the richest man in the world, it will be difficult to support it for long. ”

Bitter wine is a person who is accustomed to living a hard life, and he likes to be diligent and thrifty, and now he sees a lot of money wasted like this, and it is strange not to feel distressed; In fact, if Bai Dong hadn't insisted, she would have stopped this loss-making business a long time ago.

"The silver price of the acquisition of Xu Gong Fan Gong cannot be reduced, the merchants are all for profit, they are the partners of the Bai family, but they are also merchants; Nowadays, although our business base promotes new silver with a ratio of ten to one, the ratio in the customs market in various places is still higher than this ratio, if we reduce the price of huàn, even if the Xu family and the Fan family do not say it, their hearts will be greatly unhappy, this is not the style of the Bai family. ”

"If the husband continues like this, the Bai family will suffer heavy losses, can the Bai family buy silver from the customs markets of various countries? Maybe we can press the ratio to eleven to one, so that we can reduce the loss slightly, otherwise even if we have tens of thousands of dollars, we won't be able to support it for too long."

Don't you know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, bitter wine and dog leftovers are about to be depressed now, they all think that the Bai family is rich and rich in the world, but the Bai family has only risen for a few years? If you really want to compare the heritage, I am afraid that compared to the rich people of the Xu family and the Fan family, who have been doing business for many years, how can they withstand such a squander? In the past year, the Bai family has spent too much money, and it hurts to think about bitter wine.

"No, the Bai family trading company can buy silver from the major silver mines in China, and the price must not make them suffer, but they can't buy silver from the customs markets of various countries!"

"Husband, what is the truth of this?"

Bitter wine is really anxious, after a few years of experience, the poor and helpless little girl in the past is now a strong woman in the business world, and the dog leftovers, the more proficient in business, the more focused on profit gains and losses, she is now the head of the Bai family trading company, naturally unwilling to watch her husband come to Hu, such a toss, no matter how big the family business is difficult to support.

"There are only a dozen silver mines in Huaxia, and after many years of mining and refining, they are nearly exhausted, and all the silver that survives in the world comes from them; Nowadays, the price of silver is high, but it is used for extravagance, and the price of copper money is cheap, but it has a practical effect, so the silver mines of various countries will deliberately control the output, which is intended to control the price of silver! As far as few people know, in the north and west of the silver-deficient land, the price of silver was even as high as thirteen copper to one! Now Bai Zi wants to promote new silver, the first thing is to lower the price of silver, but the Bai family calms the price of silver by exchanging ten copper for one silver, but there is a limit on the amount of huàn per day, so it is impossible to eliminate those who seek profit. They bought silver from the Bai family, and they would sell it at a high price, so that the Bai family would be damaged; However, after all, with the silver price of the Bai family in front, the silver price of Huaxia has still been suppressed to a certain extent, and now in some areas it should be the ratio of eleven copper for one silver? ”

Tian Yinqi listened quietly for a long time before he interjected: "Bai Zi controls the price of silver on the one hand, but on the other hand, he has to ensure that there is enough silver in his hand, but can this silver be obtained from the customs markets of various countries?" That is just the silver in circulation, the more it is recovered, the greater the loss of the Bai family, and the amount of silver in Huaxia will not increase as a result, how to talk about the promotion of 'new silver'? Therefore, what Baizi wants is to increase the output of silver mines in various countries, so that the amount of silver in China can be increased, so that we can talk about the realization of China's 'silver standard'! ”

"Hehe, Qi Hou knows me so well, I'm afraid that Qi Guo's intelligence department has put a lot of effort into it, right?" Bai Dong looked at Tian Yinqi and just smiled, after all, he was the future King of Qi Wei, so he couldn't be underestimated too much.

"Baizi and the widow are good friends and geniuses in the world, how can the widow not care about you? I also know that Bai Zi's exchange of ten copper for one penny is not a genuine transaction, but to intimidate the owners of those silver mines at such a price. The fact that the Bai family trading company gave such a low price would make them frightened; But it also gave them a chance to breathe by limiting the amount of huàn per day, and these nations and nobles who owned silver mines knew that they should mine silver in large quantities at this time and sell all this silver to Baizi as long as they were not stupid. After all, Baizi didn't let them suffer, and he had enough prestige and goodwill."

"Hehe, Qi Hou's analysis seems to be very reasonable, but you still ignore one point, Huaxia silver mines are only a dozen, and Huaxia's silver is only the number of these ten mines, so why should these countries and nobles who have silver mines be afraid of me?"

"Really? The widow just knows that since the Shang Dynasty, there are only a dozen silver mines in Huaxia, and it can be as big as Huaxia, so are there only these ten silver mines? In fact, it's just that the world lacks the ability to discover new mines. If the world doesn't have the skills, won't Baizi have them? Naturally, they should be afraid. The widow also knows that the Qin State has expanded its army by 50,000 in recent years, but Ou Yeliang, the big palm furnace, did not build weapons and armor in the Qin State, but brought more than 100 excellent smelters to the Yueguo Temple District, and he is still the strongest doctor in the Yue Kingdom? I heard that this person is especially happy to build a magic weapon, if a famous iron smelter is seen by him, even if he uses all means to stay, but when Mr. Ou Yeliang passed by the temple home, he was only well received, but no one dared to keep them, this is because the temple still knows that Ou Yeliang is standing behind Xijun Baizi, how can he afford to provoke a doctor of the secretary of the country? Bai Zi invited Mr. Ou Ye to go to Yue Kingdom, could it be just to help Dr. Guiwei build weapons and armor? Everyone in the world knows that Yue is a land of silver production, but it is difficult to find new mines."

Tian Yinqi looked at Bai Dong and lowered his voice and said, "The widow also knows that Bai Zi's rigid and soft methods will make those Huaxia silver mines have to be exploited hard until they are exhausted. At that time, the price of silver in the world is only afraid that it is only between the palms of Baizi and only if the silver of the world is brightened, it is far from enough to use silver as the currency, and there are never fewer experts in smelting and mining in China, and copper ore and iron ore are mostly excavated, but silver ore is extremely rare, which shows how difficult it is to find a large number of silver ores. Why is Baizi so confident? Even if you find silver mines in Yueguo, will the silver produced be guaranteed to promote Baizi's new silver and bring China to the 'silver standard'? Unless Bai Zi has another place to find silver mines, if this is the case, then the wealth of the world is in Bai Zi's pocket! The widow and the white son are best friends, isn't this benefit a share of the Qi country? ”

Seeing that Bai Dong just smiled and didn't say anything, Tian Yinqi couldn't care about the bitter wine: "Bai Zi, you know the things of widows best, in this life, I am only afraid that I have no children, and Jiang Er will be like my own widow, I only care if Qi can be strong in the future, if Jiang Er becomes the monarch in the future, with Bai Zi to help, Qi is afraid that it will be difficult if you want to be strong."

"Oh? Qi Hou said this, I can't refuse. But I only hope that Qi Hou's words are sincere, after all, I am not a husband, and you can't do a trick of lying on the salary."

After glancing at Tian Yinqi deeply, Bai Dong couldn't help laughing. The Jiang'er in Tian Yinqi's mouth is the future Qi Xuan King Tian Bijiang; Where did Tian Bijiang come from in history, Bai Dong no longer knows, but he knows that now Tian Bijiang is actually Yue Baobao, his own son. (To be continued......)

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