Chapter 483: Being a Cow and a Horse for Tubo 2
readx; During this period, due to inconvenient transportation, the main source of the economy of most countries still relied on agriculture. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoAs long as the crops are planted well, the country's economy is basically not much worse. Tubo belongs to the multi-basin terrain, spanning the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Hengduan Mountains, the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, and the Qinba Mountains; Because of this complex landform, it is also quite difficult for Tibet to develop agriculture. It is not feasible to simply grow food, so in order to improve the economic situation of Tibet, in addition to agricultural development, commerce must also play a supporting role. But the problem comes again, in addition to the complex topography, there are really not many products that can be used for commercial purposes. Suddenly remembered what a certain god had said, if you want to get rich, build a road first. No economic model can function well without easy access.
But road construction is also a problem, and there are no bulldozers and excavators in these years, and there are no single hangings. If you want to build roads, you rely purely on manpower. In this way, the construction of roads has certainly become a matter of labor and money for Tibet, which is already in a very bad economic situation; If we don't build roads, the economy won't improve, and road construction will be criticized by the world, which has become a dilemma.
After a long period of deliberation and discussion with the Tibetan minister in charge of economic affairs, it was finally decided to start with agriculture and animal husbandry. The land must still be planted, after all, people have to eat food to live; Animal husbandry, on the other hand, can provide additional economic income. The secondary industry of agriculture and animal husbandry only belongs to the policy of benefiting the people, and it is impossible to see benefits in a short period of time, and it requires a long period of accumulation. After solving the problems of the people, it is the problem of the country, and there is a saying that if you want to enrich the country and enrich the people first, it is the most rational policy to hide the wealth from the people. As soon as the country has financial problems, as long as there is a slight increase in taxes, the treasury will be immediately full, and the people have money, and they do not care about the slightest tax. But this requires the people to get rich first, the problem is that the people can't get rich for the time being, so they must take another road, let the country save a little money in business operations, and only with money can they have confidence.
The 'banking model' built by Wei Hong in Datang is not suitable for Tibet, after all, the transportation in Tibet is extremely inconvenient, and the people have no money. In addition to the banking model, that is, industrial business operations, just like the central enterprises in later generations, create several state-governed enterprise companies and other institutions for the country, and directly make profits for the country.
During this year, the main industries that made money were the following: cloth, tea, porcelain, ironware, and the trading of livestock. The flax production in Tibet is still good, and you can take the road of the cloth industry, and tea is also available. In fact, Tibet used to buy and sell cloth and tea, but the scale was not large. As long as these two industries are developed, they can still create very objective profits.
Wei Hong started as a cloth maker, so he is familiar with the cloth industry, and the three sisters of the Li family around him are all proficient in the cloth industry, which can be regarded as having a unique innate advantage. To help Tubo support the cloth industry, Wei Hong is not afraid to squeeze his Hongyuan commercial bank down, after all, in any industry, there is competition to develop, and competition is an indispensable favorable factor for business.
With a goal, there is a momentum to move forward, Wei Hong and Saima Kar proposed that the two industries of cloth and tea should be carried out at the same time. First set up two trading houses, one specializing in cloth and the other specializing in tea, the two are mutually readable, and there can be no slightest relationship. This puts an end to the possible confusion of power and allows the two industries to go their own way. Wei Hong's proposal was unconditionally accepted by Saima Ka, and the efficiency was quite fast, and it only took half a month to establish two commercial banks at the same time. With the signboard, the next thing is to recruit workers, tea belongs to the business of the season, when the tea farmer picks the tea, the firm earns a low price, hoards, and when the tea farmer finishes picking the tea, there is no low-priced fresh tea on the market, and it is time for the firm to make money. In short, the profit model of tea is hoarding, making money for time. Therefore, the tea is in a hurry, and we must wait for next year's tea to come down before we can get on the right track. Therefore, now it is mainly busy with the cloth industry.
Seeing that winter was approaching, there was no flax left from the people, so they could only buy grey cloth from merchants everywhere and process it. Under the all-out acquisition of the horse race, it only took two months to purchase 50,000 pieces of grey cloth, which is still a considerable amount. Subsequently, dyeing and manufacturing, these things do not need to be directed by Wei Hong personally, and are carried out by professionals recruited by Saima Ka. It is easy to collect cloth, but it is relatively difficult to make clothes, just by virtue of the embroidery girls' stitch and thread sewing, the speed will definitely not be fast. Saima Ka relied on his relationship with Wei Hong, and as his wife, he ordered Wei Hong to bring the sewing machine of Hongyuan Commercial Bank.
If Saima Karma ordered Wei Hong as the princess of Tubo, Wei Hong would definitely ignore it! But now Sai Ma Ka is extremely smart to move out of his wife's identity, Wei Hong has no way to refuse. If the wife is in trouble, the husband naturally wants to help! However, it is not an easy task to transport sewing machines from Datang to Tubo, and besides, the craftsmen who can make sewing machines have been brought to Tubo by Wei Hong, so why bother with that? Just build it here. Two months later, 100 brand-new sewing machines were shipped out of the valley to the royal capital of Tibet. When Wei Hong handed over these sewing machines to Saimaga, the well-informed Saimaga did not react much, while the lonely workers around her were all bright-eyed and eager to move one each home.
With the involvement of a sewing machine, the process of making clothes is much easier and more enjoyable. During this period, Sai Ma Ka proposed to make some Tang Dynasty clothes at the same time as making local Tibetan costumes, so that they could be sold to the Tang Dynasty. Wei Hong denied the idea of Saimaga, the reason is very simple, the Tang Dynasty lacks everything, the most important thing is the cloth merchants, the cloth shop in Tubo does not have the slightest competitiveness, if you blindly enter the cloth business circle of the Tang Dynasty, it is very likely to be squeezed and die without a place to bury. Of course, Wei Hong did not deny it entirely, the method of exporting to Datang is still desirable, but it is not to make Tang clothes, but to sell Tubo's clothes to Datang. The cultural acceptance ability of the Tang Dynasty is quite high, and it can be seen from the prevalence of Hufu that the clothes of Tubo are sold to the Tang Dynasty, which can be regarded as strange costumes, and will have some unique competitiveness with innate surnames. Of course, this is only a trivial external marketing, and the most important market is domestic demand. (To be continued.) )