86_86695 What is an industrial country and how big is the gap between industrial and agricultural countries. A paper of hundreds of thousands of words can be written on this question, which is just a simple explanation of some basic concepts of industrial and agricultural society. In Wang Shuhui's view, the most direct and concrete embodiment of the gap between industrial countries and agricultural countries is that industrial countries make money on everything they sell, and agricultural countries lose money on everything they buy.

Just a simple example. Wang Shuhui saw an idea from a netizen in the forum on the Internet. One can travel back and forth between modern society and antiquity, making money simply by reselling candles. After Wang Shuhui saw this idea at that time, he went directly to the nearby supermarket to inquire about the price of candles, and learned that one dollar can buy two candles, and if the amount of money is large, it can be reduced to the level of three candles per dollar. Wang Shuhui made a simple inference about reselling candles in two time and space.

If the price of a candle was set at ten cents in ancient society, one tael of silver could be obtained for selling a hundred candles. And one tael of silver was taken to modern society, and one or two in the Ming Dynasty weighed 37. 3 grams and the purity is not high, it is best to reach nine layers of silver. According to 2014 per gram of high-purity silver3. At a price of 15 yuan, every tael of silver in the Ming Dynasty could be sold for about 117 yuan in modern times.

$117 minus $50 cost. In this way, the net profit is 67 yuan. And in reality, ancient candles simply could not have been so cheap. But even if dumping is carried out in such a cheap way, there is still a huge profit margin. In fact, candles can be purchased cheaper if they are purchased directly from the factory.

From this small example of a simple candle, modern society, as an industrial country, can make huge profits in trading. On the surface, the ancient society, which was a backward agricultural country, had nothing to lose except that the candle-making industry was bankrupt, and it was possible to obtain extremely cheap candles. However, in the process of this transaction, the ancient society lost a large amount of precious metals as currency, and it was unilateral and pure in the transaction.

In fact, the difference between an agrarian and an industrial country is as simple as that. The industrialized countries traded with the agricultural countries by means of freedom or military threat. In any case, in the case of mechanized mass production, the cost of manufactured goods is much lower than the cost of handmade products in an agrarian society. So the industrial countries sell everything cheaply, and sell everything to make money. No matter how much it seems that the agricultural countries have gained actual benefits and bought more cheap goods, in the process of trade, the agricultural countries are constantly losing blood, and their related industries are destroyed and damaged, and the country as a whole continues to be weakened.

In order to accumulate funds and manpower for industrial construction, Wang Shuhui is ready to use the golden finger of crossing to obtain a large amount of funds by dumping industrial products. Of course, he also had to use the money he used to dump industrial products in ancient times, buy gems, jade, antiques and other things of higher value in ancient times, and sell them in modern society. In modern society, the funds from the sale of gems, jade, antiques, etc., are used to buy modern products and sell them in ancient times. This simple process allows Wang Shuhui to master a large amount of money at the same time, both ancient and modern.

The reason why Wang Shuhui chose the cotton cloth trade as the cross-time and space trade is that in the era of the last years of the Ming Dynasty, Songjiang cotton cloth was already famous all over the world. Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the cotton planting industry in Songjiang Prefecture has been further promoted and developed, and most of the land is planted with cotton. At the same time, cotton textile production has also become an important pillar of Songjiang's economic development, and almost every household in each township has invested in textile activities. At that time, "there is an inch of cotton cloth" and "there must be ten rooms of looms".

Ming Zhengde's "Songjiang Mansion Chronicles" recorded: "Rural textiles, especially still sensitive, when farming, the cloth produced, tens of thousands of days." With weaving to help farming, female red is powerful. "Weaving is not only in the villages, although it is also in the city, the weaver rate is becoming a horse every day, and there are those who can't sleep all night." Li Yuan entered the market with yarn in the morning, and Yi Kapok returned; Mingdan will re-hug the yarn to come out".

Due to the continuous popularization and promotion, Songjiang cotton textile industry is increasingly prosperous, the output is getting higher and higher, the quality is getting better and better, Songjiang cotton cloth has a reputation in the country, Ye Mengzhu said in the "Reading the World Edition": "Wuyi real estate kapok, line in the counties of western Zhejiang, woven into cloth, clothes are the world." "Songjiang Mansion Chronicles" contains: Songjiang people "secular textiles, he does not have many skills", the weaving of fine thread silk, three shuttle cloth, silk yarn square scarf, cut velvet blanket "are the first in the world", "my hometown is practical, such as silk, cloth two things, clothes are the world, although Suzhou and Hangzhou are not as good".

In the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty, Songjiang Province became the center of the country's cotton textile industry. Merchants from other places came to Songjiang to collect cloth, and cloth merchants came with heavy capital, and the silver moved tens of thousands of taels, and more than hundreds of thousands of taels.

It can be seen that cotton cloth, as a consumable product, was a best-selling product with a large-scale sales market during this period.

Under Li Mingzhi's warm hospitality, Wang Shuhui learned about the approximate price of cloth and silk in the late Ming Dynasty. The price of good Shu brocade is about twenty taels to thirty taels of silver. A piece of white cotton cloth sells for three dollars of silver, and a horse of three shuttle cloth sells for six dollars and a penny of silver. A high-quality cotton cloth called "twill" is sold for one tael of silver per horse. As for all kinds of silk, according to different levels of weaving and dyeing, the price is between ten taels and fifteen taels of silver.

Hearing this price, Wang Shuhui really sweated for himself. Thanks to the fact that he is not prepared to simply pull the money earned from selling goods back to modern times.

You must know that a tael of silver with a purity of more than 90 percent is only 117 yuan in modern times.

The width of a piece of cloth in the Ming Dynasty was 62. 26 cm, length is 1089. 22 cm (from the "Ming Huidian"), the area is 6. 78 sq.m.

Calico 1 in modern society. The price of a 5-meter-wide one is 8 to 14 yuan per meter. Then it is equivalent to 1 of the area of a piece of cloth in the Ming Dynasty. 5 meters wide modern cloth is 4. 52 meters. According to 8 to 14 yuan per meter, the total price of modern cloth in the Ming Dynasty is 36 to 63 yuan. If you take the silver you earned by selling a high-grade cotton cloth in ancient times and sell it for 117 yuan in modern times, you can earn about 80 yuan at most.

And he was ready to dump, and a piece of cloth was sold for two cents of silver at most than the cheapest white cotton cloth at the end of the lamp. Two coins of silver are about 8 grams, and in modern times they are worth up to 24 yuan. At this price, for every piece of cloth you sell, you will lose at least 12 yuan. Because of the purity of silver and the fluctuation of the market price of precious metals in modern society, it is possible to lose even more.

It seems that the most cost-effective way is to use modern rare things such as gemstones, jade, antiques, and wood to transform the value of ancient silver in ancient times, and modern money in modern money. Even if you sell candles, this method can guarantee a huge profit in the trading process.

Wang Shuhui carefully understood the prices of various fabrics and silks, and bought dozens of various cotton cloths and silks according to the quantity of two horses each. Those high-grade Shu brocades were also bought by Wang Shuhui. With the help of the guys in the shop, after transporting everything to the shelves of the carriage, Wang Shuhui left the cloth village with everyone.

Along the way, Wang Shuhui ignored the chatter, constantly checking Zhu Weiyan, who was constantly checking all kinds of cloth and silk, and thought about how to start trading in the last years of the Ming Dynasty. In his mind, the various fabrics produced by the various chemical fiber materials of modern technology and the advanced means of weaving and dyeing should be much better than the sales of these handicrafts that look very rough.

Seeing Wang Shuhui frowning as if thinking about something, Liu Huaiji remembered the warning of his niece not long ago, the county lord, and said to Wang Shuhui, "Yibin wants to visit the prosperous place of Zhijiang County, so he shouldn't come to the county seat." To say that the most prosperous place in the county is Dongtankou in the west outside the city. Most of the various shops in the prefecture are concentrated there. ”

Zhu Weiyan heard this and complained to Liu Huaiji, "The fourth uncle is also true, he knows where the most prosperous and fun is, but he wasted a lot of time when the world brother and I went to the city. ”

Wang Shuhui found that Liu Huaiji's kung fu this afternoon was very abnormal. For a while, she is like a mother, and for a while, she is honest, and this attitude is not successful. Wang Shuhui is also ready to let this fourth uncle, who has been the shopkeeper of the warehouse, be the person in charge of the future trade work.

Wang Shuhui pondered for a while, and said to Liu Huaiji, "Fourth uncle and I don't have to be polite, we can talk directly." We are a family, and our family will have many things to trouble my uncle for help in the future. I have an idea here, if I ask my fourth uncle to help me sell cotton cloth and other goods, can my fourth uncle support this matter? ”

When Liu Huaiji heard this, he didn't know how excited he was. Among the seven brothers, the eldest brother, the second brother, the third brother and himself have been studying with the auxiliary officials of the palace since childhood, and the remaining three younger brothers are practicing martial arts with the military attachés of the palace. The three elder brothers are all keen to read and learn etiquette, only themselves, although they read well, but they like to engage in business by nature.

Later, he was forced to leave the palace, and he also chose to make a living as a bookkeeper in the warehouse. He had long hoped that one day he would be able to run an industry on his own. It's just that because of money and connections, my wishes have not been satisfied. Now listening to Wang Shuhui's words, how can Liu Huaiji not be overjoyed.

Thinking that his dream was about to come true, Liu Huaiji became steady, the original somewhat frivolous temperament suddenly changed, showing a bit of calmness after a long time in business, he stabilized his feelings, and said to Wang Shuhui, "How much is Yibin going to invest, and what kind of business is he going to do." ”

Wang Shuhui thought about it and decided to ship in small batches first to test the market situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty. He said to Liu Huaiyi, "I have some things that have been left over the years, and it is useless to pile them up there, so it is better to open a shop and sell anything, just some grain and cloth, and some ironware, candles and other miscellaneous things." After a while, I will go to Dongtankou to see if there is a suitable store. The general requirement is that the store must be spacious and large, and always plan more for the future. If you don't have a suitable storefront, you can also buy a smaller store first and start the business first. At the same time, depending on the location, we built a spacious store by ourselves. ”

Liu Huaiji thought for a while and said to Wang Shuhui, "Don't hide it from the guests, the old slave likes to run a business by nature. I've always wanted to be able to run my own business. If the guest can trust the old slave, the old slave can give it a try. Always contribute to the guest of honor, the old slave must be loyal to the service, and work hard for the guest of honor. ”

Wang Shuhui looked at Liu Huaiji's watch and found that Liu Huaiji at this time was only at the level he deserved. Originally, after observing in the past few days, these relatives of Zhu Youzi's family have different specialties and abilities. He originally thought that his fourth uncle, Liu Huaiji, was a sleek and shrewd businessman. However, his expression this afternoon made Wang Shuhui's judgment of Liu Huaiji a little shaken, and it was only now that Liu Huaiji showed himself as he should be.

Wang Shuhui didn't speak, just nodded, summing up the lesson in his heart. It seems that I can't always keep my thoughts in my heart like this in the future. The idea that there is always a scruple must be put aside. Before carrying out the work, you must clearly introduce your ideas and specific executors. Otherwise, if this is always the case, the executors do not know the goal of the work, and their subjective initiative cannot be mobilized, which is too delayed