Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms

It’s not that you can’t sell silk at a high price. In fact, the silk you bought for Rome in the past was all high-priced silk. As for the quality, that’s all. You can collect it anywhere, as long as it can be shipped over, it can be compared to gold. Rome estimates I'm used to the price by now. .

Therefore, if you really have no morals, it will be the same as before. Anyway, it is impossible for Rome to travel thousands of kilometers to attack the Han Dynasty. It is the same as the fact that the Han Dynasty has no way to attack Rome. However, after Chen Xi thought about it, he still give up.

The main reason is that it is meaningless. Rome can spend so much money to buy silk every year. It really has reached its limit. One-twentieth of its fiscal revenue is used to buy luxury goods. It should be over by now.

Therefore, Chen Xi reckoned that even if he sold high-priced silk, he would not be able to extract more money from Rome, and if he really sold silk at the price of gold, he would not be able to sell much silk that year. It's actually meaningless.

After all, if sold at the price of gold, Rome only had a dozen cartloads of silk a year. Such a demand was of no great significance to the Han Dynasty, and it would not have any impact on the upstream and downstream of the silk industry. .

And the biggest problem is that the money has basically entered the hands of the state, and the common people can't share a penny. Although it can still be redistributed, but when you think about it, there will definitely be a procurement system. If there is such a big benefit, just buy a few things. , and finally it will definitely become a quota system.

If Chen Xi thinks about the quota system, the cheap ones must be those aristocratic families. It is better to just lower the price and increase the purchase quantity to the extent that it can benefit the entire agricultural and mulberry system. This is one of the very few people who can really make the whole country A proposal with more than a hundred copper coins in his pocket.

After all, compared to making money, Chen Xi feels that social stability and the happiness of the people are more important. There is no end to earning such things as money. Let the people under his command have more money and circulate it, and the country will be richer. be quick.

"It's roughly like this. If it were Liu Zichu, it would be a one-size-fits-all government operation. Ninety percent of the money would go into the treasury, and the rest would be sent to the common people." Chen Xi said with a slight resentment.

"That's not too bad." Jia Xu said calmly. In fact, most of the court officials of the Han Dynasty did not think there was any problem with Liu Ba's actions.

"I'm not arguing with you. Anyway, I definitely can't do this here. I must give what should be given to the people. A group of poor people, even if you collect taxes, what can you get?" Chen Xi rolled his eyes and said, "Here we It was finalized after planning to make some adjustments.”

"So that's how it is. I thought you would go directly to the government." Seeing this, Jia Xu didn't continue to refute. Anyway, no one is willing to fight with Chen Xi in terms of economics. Did Liu Ba run away without seeing it? It was up to Chen Xi to make a fuss about this business.

"It's a government-run business, let's separate out a division to take care of it." Chen Xi said with a smile, "Set the price lower, the state-owned company buys it from the common people, and Rome wants more, so we can adjust some things as a whole. The price is also conducive to the prosperity of the entire country."

"Stop, increase the prices of some products as a whole?" Jia Xu was stunned. Although he didn't understand economics very well, he at least knew that certain things should not be messed with.

"Zi Chuan, don't study this one any more." Xun Tingbi, who had been pretending that he didn't exist all the time, looked at Chen Xi and said, "If any thing suddenly makes money, it is easy to have an influx, and then the output will increase greatly, and then the price will increase. Just come down."

"I mean subsidies." Chen Xi sighed and said, "This money can be used to subsidize some agricultural products and provide support. Instead of directly adjusting prices, other methods can be used to control the overall industrial layout. more reasonable."

Xun Wenyan stopped talking, took the official document and began to review it. He was not familiar with this kind of thing, and he didn't want to talk about it. Chen Xi could finish it with confidence.

"Using this method to control the country's overall agricultural output." Liu Ye said thoughtfully, "It's a good way. No one dared to do this before. Although everyone knows that cheap grain hurts farmers, no one dares to do it this way. Hands and feet."

"At that time, try to control it like this." Chen Xi nodded and said, "Although the official camp will inevitably take away about half of the profits, the remaining half will be taken from the people and used for the people." Chen Xi thought for a while and said, "Let me ask someone to investigate."

"We can only rely on you. There is an obvious gap between us and you." Lu Su glanced at Chen Xi and said very calmly.

"Leave it to me. Anyway, there is still at least half a year for the two parties to trade and purchase. I still have time to investigate and sample, and make some adjustments to the industrial structure, not to mention that we have already established many large-scale government-operated enterprises. The farm? It has a mediating effect." Chen Xi said with a little complacency.

The advantage of the historical downstream is that many successful and era-appropriate initiatives have been tested by time, and if the execution is sufficient, they can be implemented step by step.

At present, the Han Dynasty neither lacks national reputation nor executive power, and there are not a few capable officials. As long as Chen Xi has the right plan, this group of people can tinker with the plan and create something more suitable for this era. program, so many things become very easy to do.

"You just have to know what you have in mind." Lu Su said without raising his head, "Speaking of which, you should have dealt with all your own affairs, and the minting is just waiting for the new version of five baht coins to be minted. You are ready to exchange, right?"

"Yes, as for other matters, I have basically dealt with them." Chen Xi said complacently, "But I am going to ask Ye Tiaoguo what happened."

Ye Tiaoguo is a small country, which belongs to a country that Chen Xi only has a vague impression of. Chen Xi can't even think of the location of that country based on Chen Xi's impression of history books, which shows how salty this country is in this era.

However, not long ago, the envoys of Ye Tiaoguo came to submit the form. However, due to special circumstances, this country has not come to the Han Dynasty to submit the form for 60 years. It just gave some things, and did not send envoys there.

Naturally, when the envoys of this country come here this time, they need to stay in the station for a while, bathe and burn incense, and wait for the call of the emperor of Han before they can meet with them. If the emperor is not interested, then shelve it, or even leave it aside for a year and a half Loading is not impossible.

Well, now there is no emperor of Han, the eldest princess regent, so it is the eldest princess who summons, and Rome is also in the same process, but because Rome is very draggy, after two days of rest after arriving, Liu Tong just brought Rome over when he went to court, of course When Herodian saw that the Han family was the empress, he was really surprised.

But fortunately, Rome is also experienced in many battles, and I have seen female emperors, but a female emperor in such a powerful empire as the Han Dynasty, Herodian is still more curious, of course, Herodian is not rude in any way, sincerely He expressed his blessing to Liu Tong and gave him a gift.

There is no shortage of gemstones in Rome, and they brought gifts when they came. They gave Liu Tong several very beautifully cut gemstones. Of course, Liu Tong accepted it unceremoniously. The resistance is very low, so it is naturally pleasing to the eyes of Roman envoys.

In fact, Herodian gave the gem as a gift on a temporary basis, because the Egyptian empress had no resistance to this thing last time, so Herodian decisively replaced the gold crafts he had prepared with gems.

The effect is excellent. The level of mathematics and carving technology in Rome is basically second to none in the same period, especially the carving technology is already invincible. The rest are basically salted fish.

Naturally, the six gemstones given to Liu Tong as a congratulatory gift were all perfectly cut. Although due to the limitations of craftsmanship and mathematics, the strange cut of diamonds like eight hearts and eight arrows could not be made, but Chen Xi visually observed that Those six gems reflect almost all the light.

At that time, Chen Xi's first feeling was that the Romans' mathematics was a bit unexpected. Of course, Liu Tong's eyes were probably only gemstones at that time, but fortunately, he was not ashamed, and then Chen Xi secretly prepared Find professionals, get some stones from northern Xinjiang, let a mathematician do the math, and then cut them into eight hearts and eight arrows.

Anyway, those shiny things are completely worthless in essence, and Chen Xi doesn’t feel bad if they cut them up. Moreover, the mine in eastern Siberia cuts them casually, and it might take thousands of years to cut them all. Chen Xi thought about getting someone to bring them back. A car, practice hands.

The gemstones in Rome reminded Chen Xi that women like such shiny things, and the reason why diamonds are shiny is not only the material, but also the degree of cut and reflection. There are a lot of worthless stones for practice. Come out what Chen Xi wants.

At that time, it can be used to please my wife, fiancée, and eldest lady.

After all, up to now, Chen Xi has not seen Zhen Mi just as Cai Yan expected, and she has indeed hurt Zhen Mi badly. Fan Jian also asked about it, and hinted that Chen Xi should go to appease Zhen Mi, but now The problem is that Zhen Mi doesn't show up at all.

Thinking about the difficulty of poetry and poetry, Chen Xi thinks it is better to cut diamonds or gems to please, at least the latter is more reliable and universal.