Chapter 113: Datang's Foreign Trade Business
Li Junxian Next, he received orders from many people, mainly starting with those nobles of the imperial court and local wealthy nobles. Later, many wealthy businessmen and tycoons also came to order these bone china, and they also wanted to be elegant. And Li Junxian does not refuse, these are fat sheep, fat sheep who can work hard to make money!
No, Li Junxian has already begun to count how much money he can make at home.
"Ten thousand, twenty thousand,......" Li Junxian began to count the money.
"Damn, I've made tens of thousands of dollars in the past few days? If it is in the future life, it will be tens of millions! The luxury business really made money, and it was easy to make so much money. Moreover, although the people have no money, their wealth is concentrated in those wealthy families. The war has just ended, and officials at all levels have received a lot of war dividends, and now they are all rich! No, I started to enjoy it right away. Li Junxian whispered.
And when Li Junxian was greeting guests, a eunuch actually came to find Li Junxian.
"Father-in-law, is there something wrong?" Li Junxian asked.
"General Li, there's nothing to do, it's just that Your Majesty is meeting with a vassal who wants to get some of your kind of porcelain." The eunuch said.
Li Junxian then asked; "Where are the feudal people?"
"It seems to be from the Western Regions Kangguo." Father-in-law said.
Li Junxian then stuffed a large silver nugget into his father-in-law's cuffs, and the father-in-law accepted it very naturally, as if this kind of thing was very normal. And Li Junxian is for eunuchs, then they all love money. If that kind of thing is gone, then naturally all the goals are turned to money. Therefore, it is very normal for Li Junxian to take money and bribe.
Li Junxian followed his father-in-law to the palace, secretly wondering who that Kang Guo was. And Li Junxian has read the ancient commercial history and knows that Kang Guo should be in the area of the Western Regions now, that is, the area of Uzbekistan, and now part of it is still preparing to belong to the territory of the Tang Dynasty. However, at present, the Tang Dynasty has just stabilized, the national prestige is not strong, and that piece of land has not yet been attached to the Tang Dynasty, and it has asked for the protection of the Tang Dynasty, so it still belongs to foreign countries.
Regarding the Western Regions, Li Junxian knew that the famous one in this era was the surname Zhaowu Jiu. And Kang Guo is the status of the overlord in the Zhaowu Nine Surnames, and belongs to one of the most powerful countries in the Western Regions. Countries such as Kang were founded by the Sogdians, mainly from the Silk Road. They transported the precious items of the Tang Dynasty, light weight, and high-value items from the Silk Road to the area of present-day Europe, and then made high profits.
Li Junxian doesn't know much about how rich the profits are, but Li Junxian is preliminarily sure that the selling price is at least 100 times the cost of the source. The profits in this are very large, and Li Junxian is very blushing. However, Li Junxian knew that at present, the Tang Dynasty did not support merchants, but suppressed commerce. In fact, the trade between the Tang Dynasty and Europe was carried out through these Sogdians. The Tang Dynasty did not send too many Han caravans to Europe to trade in person, mainly to sell to the Sogdians, and then the Sogdians traded to Europe.
"Your grandfather, a country's foreign trade was actually handed over to outsiders? This is absolutely intolerable! Li Junxian thought to himself.
Li Junxian, a later generation, of course, knows that if all the trade of a country is handed over to foreigners, then I am afraid that it will be a big trouble. If foreign trade is controlled by foreigners, then what profit do you have! Even, a powerful country can control the economy of other countries by controlling foreign trade, which is very fatal.
And now that the foreign trade business of the Tang Dynasty is in the hands of the Sogdians, the economy of the Tang Dynasty after that is worrying. Although the foreign trade business in the Tang Dynasty is relatively small at present, there will be more and more in the future, Li Junxian believes that with his own existence, commercial development is certain. In the future, there will be more and more commercial trade in the Tang Dynasty, and if the commercial benefits of the Tang Dynasty are still in the hands of foreigners, then Li Junxian cannot tolerate this. If China's foreign trade is completely controlled by foreign countries in the future, then China, which is mainly export-oriented, will probably go out of business.
Li Junxian even planned that although it would be impossible for the Tang Dynasty to completely control Europe by force in the future, because the current conditions were not available. However, the power of foreign trade is very important, so that it can influence Europe through the trade war, and it can play a role in deterring the Quartet. In this case, Li Junxian could not tolerate the foreign trade of the Tang Dynasty being controlled by foreigners, because this was related to the strong foundation of the Tang Dynasty.
"Father-in-law, that Kangguo man wants our porcelain, so what else do you want?" Li Junxian asked.
The eunuch seemed to hesitate, and Li Junxian very quickly put a large silver piece into the eunuch's cuff, and the eunuch was full of smiles.
"General Li, that Kangguo man wants to give him this porcelain after the Tang Dynasty, and then he will sell it elsewhere. He even wanted to ask His Majesty to issue an order to let him completely control the power of purchasing this bone china. The eunuch said.
Li Junxian scolded in his heart: "This is such a big appetite! I'm not afraid to hold on. ”
This Kangguo man really has too much appetite, and he actually wants to completely control the foreign trade power of bone china. And what is Li Junxian working so hard to get this bone china for, isn't it to be able to do foreign trade business? If you just rely on those local tyrants in your country, where can there be so many markets! Only by relying on foreign countries can you make enough money. Where can the profit of foreign trade be compared with the domestic business? And now those Sogdians seem to have asked about fishy flies, and they want to monopolize their bone china completely when they see their bone china, can Li Junxian not be angry?
If you let this guy monopolize it, then how will you choose a buyer in the future! It is only possible to make a huge fortune if there are multiple buyers. If Li Shimin ordered the foreign trade power of bone china to be given to someone, then he would not have to desperately lower the price, so as to maintain high profits.
"Your grandfather's, I want to see which onion you are, and you actually want to monopolize my bone china business?" Li Junxian scolded secretly.
The eunuch saw Li Junxian's expression, and hurriedly said, "General Li, that Kang Guo is a tribute envoy who came to pay tribute, don't you cause any problems!" ”
The so-called tribute envoys, that is, the envoys sent by various countries in ancient times to pay tribute to China, can be regarded as diplomats. And this kind of tribute envoy can generally get preferential treatment, and even be lucky enough to get a reward from China.
"Envoy, that's more interesting." Li Junxian said secretly.
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