Chapter 549: Trial Plane (11)

Augustus II came to visit almost every day, with his cavalry, as well as gifts for Chu Yining, sometimes valuable jewelry, sometimes simple bouquets, but every day there were new patterns.

Huang Xuan was very skeptical that this guy had hired a team of experts to pick up girls.

The farm is not very conspicuous, but the mercenaries above make people feel very unfriendly, His Excellency the King did not pursue it graciously, but asked Chu Yining: "Is it safe recently?" ”

Chu Yining smiled and said, "Mr. Augustus, now that there are more and more merchants coming to the vicinity, and there are a lot of funds in the manor, we feel that we need some soldiers to defend them." ”

Augustus still had the same camouflaged "color" grimace face, and said with a smile: "No problem, no problem, I'll send a few people over and ask them to bring 200 infantry." ”

The infantry in the Middle Ages was peasants and guns, but in the 18th century, the infantry was still relatively combative, especially the Kingdom infantry, Huang Xuan said with satisfaction: "Thank you, Mr. Augustus." ”

Anyway, as long as the infantry does not go to the position of the aperture.

"It's okay, it's okay." His Majesty the King said and looked at Chu Yining again.

Chu Yining smiled helplessly: "Thank you, Mr. Augustus." ”

If it weren't for Huang Xuan's strong request, she would probably beat the powerful king into a brainless king.

Augustus didn't know, and said with a puffed face: "Call me Frederick." They all called me Frederick. ”

Chu Yining simply didn't translate for Huang Xuan, and turned around angrily and left.

At this time, one behind Augustus II smiled and said, "Miss Chu, can we enter?" ”

He pointed to the silver mirror factory behind him.

There are only 4 apprentices in the Silver Mirror Factory, who specialize in the production of Silver Mirrors, and another 6 people who are responsible for purchasing various supplies, but they are not allowed to enter the factory. The apprentices here are much stricter than Betteger, and in a way, almost slave-like, except that after 10 years they can have their own identity and take their craft with them.

The four apprentices were able to produce more than 500 silver mirrors a day, and it was as if watching silver coins flow across the table, giving them great motivation.

Huang Xuan claimed that the cost was 800 thalers, and people naturally didn't believe it, but they would never think that a silver mirror sold for more than 1,000 thalers would cost only 10 thalers. The most important thing is, of course, not to let Augustus know.

Chu Yining said euphemistically: "The smoke inside is very heavy and poisonous, we have to stop work if we want to go in." ”

The man behind him asked with great concern, "Aren't the workers in there very dangerous?" ”

Chu Yining smiled and didn't speak, there was no human rights in the 18th century, and some anthropologists recorded in an extremely happy tone: 6-year-old children can completely "operate" a loom, which is the greatest achievement of the industrial revolution, and they can support themselves from now on, so that our society can ......

The man behind him said persistently: "Let's go in for a while, probably there won't be any problems." ”

This kind of situation is what Huang Xuan is best at, this guy rolled his eyes, and said: "The problem for ordinary people is not very serious, and the apprentices inside have already signed an agreement to give up their reproductive rights." ”

"What does that mean?" The man behind him said in surprise.

Huang Xuan smiled and said: "The materials we use are a bit special, so after more than 3 minutes of contact with the smoke, the lower parts are easy not to lift." ”

Chu Yining pretended to blush and translated, and stretched out his thumb behind his back to praise him.

Augustus II changed color in a state of flux. Is there anything more terrible for the powerful king than "not lifting"?

But the man behind him probably didn't believe it, or he didn't have the trouble of raising or not doing it at all, so he thought about it and said, "Mr. Huang, do you want to go to sea to operate?" ”

Huang Xuan was silent and didn't speak, and Chu Yining said first: "Where are you going?" ”

Augustus II was willing to talk to Chu Yining, and when he got the response of the beautiful woman, he put away his fear of "not lifting", and said with plastic surgery: "Because of your contribution to glass mirrors and porcelain, I can give you a monopoly on trade in the Baltic Sea, including not only silver mirrors and porcelain, but also the monopoly rights of the two or three commodities you want, of course, it is best not to conflict with the existing monopoly." ”

In the 18th century, the correct way to sell goods seemed to remain a monopoly.

The Dutch East India Company, the French Northern Company, and the former Hanseatic League all tried to do this, and each 'government' would give a monopoly on a certain region or a certain product to a company. For example, Henry IV gave the French Second East India Company a 15-year monopoly on trade, Richelieu gave the Antilles a monopoly several times, and the New French Company had a monopoly on fur business from 1628.

The terms free trade and free competition are shorter than the history of Americans.

As Elector of Saxony, Augustus II had about one-twentieth of the rights of Germany, plus one-twentieth of his unstable Polish throne.

This is certainly not accurate, but after the end of the Hanseatic League, there was an occasional agreement among the Electors to operate through ports such as Hamburg, but by this time the Dutch had risen to make the Germans much less vocal at sea.

Even so, Augustus II still couldn't wait, and wanted to give Huang Xuan and Chu Yining monopoly, he stared at Chu Yining with very manly eyes, but said to Huang Xuan: "I have talked with Austria, France and Prussia, and they are willing to exchange the monopoly of the two commodities in the Baltic Sea for the formula of the silver mirror." ”

He never mentioned porcelain anymore, because he still owned most of the profits from porcelain. Now it's about to see the profits of the silver mirror.

After Chu Yining translated, he didn't know what to say for a while.

Huang Xuan said in Chinese: "What do you want, you tell him this, just say that we produce silver mirrors, we need a lot of fuel, for the time being, there is no way for him to care, that, if they want, we can provide them with the formula of ordinary mercury mirrors, but ask them to exchange money." ”

Chu Yining gave him a translation immediately, but his heart was depressed. As a Level 3 Traveler, graduating first in class from Merstar University, the best in the plane world, she was a very proud woman, not to mention that she had just been promoted to the Temporal Authority, a position that could be equal to the highest officials of many dimensional regimes.

But now, when he can't come up with any way, Huang Xuan, who often looks at him with "color", "fan" and "fan", seems to have many ways.

In addition, when he rarely showed respect or admiration, and he did not "revea" the level of even the representative of the ordinary management bureau at all, Chu Yining's depression was even more noisy.

However, facts are facts, Chu Yining is unwilling to accompany Huang Xuan to stay in this plane where birds don't lay eggs, so she did her translation work with a trace of her face, and at the same time, along with Huang Xuan's thoughts, she is also studying hard.

The man behind him was Augustus's chief staff, and the two looked at each other, or the former said, "How much do you want for the formula of the mercury mirror?" ”

In the 18th century, there was very little such concept as strategic intelligence, so it was relatively difficult for them to judge how much fuel Huang Xuan had gotten home, but they only knew a lot. But they know that the number of workers in the silver mirror factory is definitely not more than 30, and judging by the number of mirrors sold by Huang Xuan in the last two months, they can naturally know that the production efficiency of silver mirrors is higher than that of mercury mirrors, so the man behind them is more interested in the formula of silver mirrors, but he does not refuse mercury mirrors.

Huang Xuan, who looked very tender, looked like an old god was there, and said: "Mercury mirrors require skilled glass workers, and each worker can make one or two mirrors per month." The material is very cheap, just the opposite of a silver mirror. ”

"Oh? What about the silver mirror? Augustus II was indeed attracted by Huang Xuan's last sentence.

Huang Xuan smiled and said: "It is quite a laborious thing to dissolve the silver, and it takes a lot of fuel, you see that the road is full of coal, but it is still not enough." ”

Chu Yining lowered his head and didn't look at Huang Xuan, he was quite amazed in his heart, and the little man next to him who looked stupid simply "seduced" Augustus.

In the 18th century, where did people know the difference between the reaction of the silver mirror and the dissolution of silver or even silver plating, they looked at the thin silver particles behind the mirror, and they looked like this, and the man behind them also asked deliberately: "Why don't you see fireworks in the manor?" ”

"Our stove is special." Huang Xuan smiled shyly.

"The roads around are really bad." Augustus said with a look of understanding: "Why don't you move the factory to Dresden, where it is more convenient to supply." ”

"It's better to be here." Huang Xuan interrupted when he heard Chu Yining's translation: "Your Majesty, how do you see this, we will price the formula of the mercury mirror at 100,000 thalers, as long as you bring in fuel worth 100,000 thalers, including wood and coal, and in a few months, your craftsmen are familiar with it, and we will talk about the recipe of the silver mirror." ”

In a few months, he felt like he would be able to leave.

"It's better to learn mercury mirrors first." Frederick agreed, and of course he liked the latter between the "expensive" silver mirror and the time-consuming mercury mirror.

Huang Xuan struck the railroad while it was hot: "Your Majesty, we don't want a monopoly on power, but we still want to get the right to tax reductions, not only for ourselves, but also for merchants who buy silver mirrors and porcelain." ”

Frederick immediately hesitated.

The tax rate in Germany was the highest in this era, mainly because the centigold was very high, and the tax had to be paid every time it passed through a region, and the double tax was very unbearable. The German monarchs of the 18th century were money-obsessed, and when they needed money, they would even sell their entire armies. During the Seven Years' War, the Duke of Württemberg leased 6,000 men to the French army, and a little later, the Duke of Hesse-Kassel sold 16,000 men to the British to fight in the Americas, and he used the money to build Wilhelmshornburg.

The main reason Frederick was willing to give the two of them a reward, but he wanted to sell more porcelain, he had more rights to porcelain, and the tax rate on silver mirrors was already 45%.

But if the tax is cut, he will immediately lose the tax revenue from the silver mirror.

Chu Yining looked at Huang Xuan inexplicably, and whispered in Chinese: "What good is it for us that you let him reduce taxes for other merchants?" ”

"It's a lot of sales. Reducing the cost of merchants is the only way to increase their motivation. Huang Xuan said as a matter of course.

Chu Yining shook his head and said: "If the number of silver mirrors on the market increases, we must reduce the price, so that the profit will not decline again." ”

Huang Xuan rolled his eyelids and said: "We are the people who do not need to consider the decline in the price of silver mirrors, mirrors are a luxury, it will start to slide from the price of 1000 thalers, and it will not slide to the bottom of the slope for a year or two, the more we sell, the more we earn, the cost of 5 thalers is to sell to 500 thalers, as long as the sales volume doubles, it will be the same as now, but I dare to guarantee the ticket, the increase is definitely not doubled, and you have to take into account that rich people will definitely buy mirrors immediately, but what about the rich ones?" What about the rich? ”

"And what about the price reduction to 200 thalers? If the price of the mirror falls, many people may be reluctant to buy it. Chu Yining was still unconvinced.

Huang Xuan now understands that Miss Chu in front of him doesn't have the most basic business acumen at all, he held his forehead and said: "We talked about marketing two days ago, think about it, if the price of the mirrors is reduced to 200 thalers, we haven't done it at that time, so let's think of other ways, at this moment, it's better to use killing chickens to get eggs." As for whether you say people will buy it, you don't have to worry, it will. ”

His final judgment naturally came from history, when the silver mirror appeared, but there was no monopoly, it was a chemist's invention, and it sold more than eggs.

Chu Yining's face turned pale with shame.