"My lord, how do you want to open it up?" Charles was now completely convinced of the young county keeper, and immediately couldn't help but ask when he heard Joseph say these questions. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Jose smiled slightly, and then said lightly: "The county town of Sadrand is located in the western part of the desert, and if you want to develop and grow, you naturally have to make full use of the local advantages to develop. Let me ask you, what is the greatest advantage of our Saddland county?"

"Advantage?" Charles couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when he heard Joseph ask, and then said with some hesitation: "The biggest advantage of Sadland County should be that it is located in the center of the continent and has developed commerce and trade, right?"

"Yes, this is where the biggest advantage of the Sadrand town lies. Qiao Se then smiled faintly and couldn't help but talk eloquently: "In fact, the entire northwest, including the two provinces of Moxi and Turan, is famous for its developed commerce and trade. In particular, although the cultivated land population and land area are not large, it is far richer than the Moxi Province, relying on this advantage. And if we want to open source, we naturally have to start with business, are we afraid that we won't be able to buy food if we have money?

Moxi was originally an important grain producing area in the northwest, but because the war destroyed the productive forces, as long as it was delayed for a year and a half, it would not be a problem to feed Moxi by relying on the grain of the counties in the river valley corridor alone. Although Turan was also affected to a certain extent, Turan was rich and close to the middle of the empire, so it was completely possible to buy grain from the grain-producing areas in the middle and south of the empire.

Fortunately, I still have some money left, and although I can't feed the hundreds of thousands of people in the entire county, it is not difficult to tide over these difficulties. As long as we have money, we can even buy cattle and sheep from the grassland to serve as food, and the grassland people can sell tens of thousands of cattle and sheep on any small tribe, so there is no need to worry, the only thing to consider is how to make money. ”

Charles's heart moved, and then he looked at Jose with a smile on his face, and couldn't help but guess: "Presumably you already have a plan, sir, right?"

"Almost," José smiled, and whispered to Charles, "we can set up our own workshop, buy the raw materials for the caravanserans, and then produce them into finished products, and then sell them." In this way, it is possible to make a profit by using the technology of intermediate processing, and in general, the county seat of Sadrand acts as a workshop. ”

However, when Charles heard these words, there was a little puzzled look on his face, and Jose sighed and couldn't help but explain: "Let me ask you, what is the most important thing in the goods that the steppe people transported to the empire?"

Charles thought for a moment, quickly pursed his lips, and replied with some disdain: "The steppe people are a group of barbarians, who can only raise some cattle, sheep and horses, and sell them to the empire are some live cattle and sheep, or air-dried beef and mutton or leather and the like. ”

"What kind of commodities are most of the things that the Empire of Light sells to the grasslands?"

"Cloth, pottery, salt, oh, and tea and stuff like that. Charles seemed to think of something when he said this.

"For example, if we buy the leather of the steppe people from here, the price will definitely be much cheaper than in the imperial capital. But if we make boots, leather armor or other things from the leather of the steppe people, and then ship them to the imperial capital to sell, then the value is far more expensive than ordinary leather, do you understand?"

José glanced at Charles with a smile, and continued to shake his head and said: "How much can a primary commodity like leather beef and mutton be sold for? Now we have to talk about deep processing in everything, so as to increase the added value! If we want to do it, we have to recruit those blacksmiths, tanners, tailors, and other craftsmen, and with the technology in hand, we can use the cheap raw materials in Sadrand, open a workshop, and sell the finished products to a big city like Gilliat, and the value is far higher!"

Besides, there are so many displaced people in the city of Sadrand now, and they want cheap labor to grab a lot of money, which can not only solve the problem of feeding these displaced people, but also develop the industrial economy of Sadrand, which is called killing two birds with one stone.

Hmph, when we have finished the finished product, what kind of leather boots, leather clothes, leather armor and other goods are transported to the city of Gilliat, it is much cheaper than transporting leather to the city and then asking craftsmen in the imperial capital to process it, right? As long as it is slightly lower than the price on the market, these things will open the market in Gilliat, hmph, who doesn't like good and cheap things?"

"Of course, this is just an example, not just the leather business. Like the wool of the steppe people, it can be processed into silk threads and woven into clothing, and I also know a kind of loom that is far more efficient than your native loom in the northwest. Not only these, but wool, leather, dyes, pottery...... We can process these things by ourselves, as long as we recruit a large number of craftsmen and then hire homeless apprentices, it will not take us a year and a half, and we can even make a set of processing lines.

The investment, the early stage will definitely be larger, but this is not an overnight thing, I can think of a way in terms of money, but since it must be disaster relief, it is better to engage in a 'work for relief'. Once this set of measures is implemented, it is far better than directly giving water and bread to those homeless people to eat!"

José talked casually like this, but he didn't notice that at some point, Charles's face was full of surprise, and even his eyes were faintly dull.

"Genius, my lord, you are not only a political talent, but also a business genius!" Charles swallowed hard, and couldn't help but have a little light in his eyes: although Joseph's set of economic principles just now was the simplest, but in such a backward era as the Ceylon continent, it was a wonderful idea that was enough to surprise Charles and the others. What "deep processing", "enhance added value", "work for relief" and other terms, even more his eyes lit up!

Charles has been the treasurer of the county town of Sadland for some years, and he thinks that his financial management skills are not bad, but after listening to José's words, he is so surprised that he doubts his life. He only felt that the county keeper was simply omniscient, and the ideas proposed by Jose were even more fantastical, which amazed Charles.

If at first Charles respected Joseph only because of his position and Gould's face, now he was completely conquered by Joseph's erudition and unheard of wonderful methods. The treasurer only felt that with a county guard like Joseph's in Sadrand, Sadrand would inevitably develop and prosper, especially the policies he proposed, which made Charles even more shocked by him.

Charles could barely hold back the eagerness in his heart, and almost shouted: "Awesome, my county guard!