On the one hand, the sugar industry of the entire Delhi Sultanate is self-produced and sold, and how much oil and water can be pumped is arranged by itself.

On the other hand, the sugar industry is monopolized by neighboring countries, and the sugar industry of the big sugar industry depends on the people to survive.

The gap can be described as a world of difference.

Gandhi's forehead was covered with beads of sweat, and even beads of sweat ran down his cheeks, and Gandhi said,

"Lord Xia, can you let me ask first?"

Xia Yuanji smiled, "Of course, there are pen and paper, please." ”

"Really?"

Gandhi was shocked,

Originally, looking at this situation, the household officials of the Ming Dynasty were going to force him to death, and they wanted him to make a decision on the spot, but in the blink of an eye, they actually gave him room for accommodation.

"Of course, please."

Although Xia Yuanji pressed tightly, he also left a mouth for Gandhi, anyway, between a dozen pulls and a dozen, he flashed Gandhi enough,

Xia Yuanji's kindness made Gandhi even more frightened, and the Ming officials were so easy,

Only one thing can be said .... They are not afraid of any accidents at all, and they have the chance to win in their chests, but they have to lower their heads in the end.

"Lord Xia, can I go back to the letter?"

"Naturally, it doesn't matter."

Gandhi thanked him and hurriedly turned away, and little Marco Polo was completely stupid on the sidelines.

Obviously, little Marco Polo Guang, with his own family property, is completely unable to travel overland to China.

He, like his grandfather Marco Polo, had their travels supported by the Italian royal family, and Marco Polo Jr. also carried a mission,

He just wants to see with his own eyes whether China is a rich land of resources and gold.

The Italian royal family spent a lot of money to support Marco Polo's trip, and not just to let Marco Polo Jr. take a look and confirm that the next step in China's rich resources is, of course, aggression,

In the current European continent, there is a general consensus that China is rich in materials, but in the same way, it is a country with a backward system and military.

But what Marco Polo witnessed today proves that the Europeans are wrong.

What a hubris this idea!

Daming is the most powerful country! And in this day and age, there is not one!

Little Marco Polo didn't know that he had become the first person in the West to open his eyes to the world.

"Great, my lord, then I'll step down too."

Marco Polo saluted and walked away with fear in his eyes.

After the two left, a monk with a peach-colored scar on his head flashed out from behind and said with a smile,

"Lord Xia, it's really majestic, in the eyes of the poor monk, this matter is already nine out of ten."

Xia Yuanji let out a long breath, looking in a good mood,

After all, it was for His Majesty to do such a big thing, and this is also the first merit of the Shengwen Dynasty.

"This is really a breath of relief for Daming."

Xia Yuanji said with palpitations.

Don't look at the Ming Dynasty is now in its heyday, but Xia Yuanji, who is the head of the household, knows that there is one biggest problem in the Ming Dynasty.

That is, there is not enough money!

It is also a war and infrastructure, even if the troika of Changjia commerce, opening up territory, and collecting the Jiangnan Shi clan is pulled, it is still not enough.

In other words, if there were no these three ways to make money, Daming's economy would have collapsed long ago, and it would be impossible to support His Majesty to do so many things.

To put it mildly, the sufficiency of the Ming Dynasty's treasury has also been a matter of recent years.

Don't look at Hong Wuye's shouting every day, but when it comes to money, Hong Wuye doesn't squeak when he mentions it, the Ming treasury has been empty since the founding of the dynasty, and the national finances have always been overdrawn.

Yao Guangxiao said,

"Silk, porcelain, tea. Now that his two arms have been broken, Lord Xia is now using white sugar to connect the two broken arms again. ”

Xia Yuanji turned around to the table, made tea for Yao Guangxiao, shook his head and said,

"Definitely.

It is said that it is good to break an arm of tea, porcelain sales, Daming has always been a weakness, there is no such arm, how to talk about self-cutting arm? ”

Yao Guangxiao took the tea handed over by Xia Yuanji, thanked him, and said puzzled,

"Lord Xia, what do you mean?"

Xia Yuanji said lightly,

"Tea is the largest foreign trade in the Ming Dynasty, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the rest of the various goods sold are not as good as tea.

Who is this tea sold to? Yuanren.

In the tea and horse market, the price of tea sold is much higher than the price of tea sold in the Central Plains.

If they can afford it, they will buy it, and if they can't afford it, they will rob it, and they will rob it, but just by relying on the tea distributed to the north, Daming will make a lot of money.

But what is the situation now...."

Yao Guangxiao's eyes flashed, and he answered,

"Now Mongolian people are not outsiders, but their own family."

"Yes," Xia Yuanji sighed, "Since you are not an outsider, you can't go to death, on the contrary, now the tea leaves to the north are half bought and half given, which shows that Your Majesty's benevolence is true, but it is a huge blow to our Ming finances."

Also, there is still a war going on in the north, and it is difficult to distribute tea to the north, and the commercial lines in Central Asia are all broken.... It's hard..."

Yao Guangxiao also looked embarrassed, and then asked,

"The tea can't be sold, or rather, the tea can't be sold, it is indeed that Daming has lost countless white flowers of silver.

But what does Lord Xia say, what does it mean that porcelain can't be sold? ”

"It's unlucky."

Xia Yuanji sighed, and a look of surprise flashed in Yao Guangxiao's eyes,

Porcelain is the most special one of the foreign trade commodities, and tea, silk are completely different, although the sales of porcelain are good, but because of the fragile characteristics of porcelain, its transportation is particularly laborious,

If you take the land transportation, a car of porcelain can leave two or three percent, which is good.

In the Song and Yuan dynasties, the reason why the sales of porcelain soared was because of the developed shipping in the Song and Yuan dynasties, and the well-known large trade ports of Quanzhou and Xiuzhou were all dependent on the export of porcelain overseas.

In the Ming Dynasty, Hong Wuye did not like maritime affairs, even if the Seventh Highness now occupies Sun Moon Island, but still did not fully develop the advantages of overseas trade.

Xia Yuanji turned his words, clenched his fists, and said excitedly,

"However, the sea line is about to open! Now that His Majesty is in power, he attaches great importance to maritime trade,

I heard that Ma Sanbao, the right-hand man under His Royal Highness the Seventh, was also transferred back to Beijing, just to discuss the matter of shipping. ”

"Ma Sanbao?"

Yao Guangxiao frowned slightly, he was quite unfamiliar with this name,

Before the floods in Jiangnan, Ma Sanbao had supported His Royal Highness the Holy Sun, and Xia Yuanji was also in Jiangnan at that time, and he had a relationship with Ma Sanbao.

"Well, this person doesn't look like a mortal thing."

Yao Guangxiao nodded slowly, and carefully wrote down this name, to be so respected by His Royal Highness the Seventh and Xia Yuanji, this person must not be simple.