Chapter 513

PS: there's another chapter.

"Your Highness, I've almost been eaten by businessmen these days."

In the main hall of king Qi's mansion, Li Kaiyuan presented the account book of the chamber of commerce with both hands and complained.

Xiao Ming smiles. He also heard about these two things. Businessmen almost broke the threshold of the chamber of Commerce because of the sugar business.

However, for him, when he was preparing to release the white granulated sugar technology, he had already made psychological preparations. After all, the success of the soap shop made many businessmen very envious.

Moreover, this time the white granulated sugar chamber of Commerce has not even sold it in Dayu, which means that white granulated sugar will be a brand new commodity. Compared with soap, which has been made a lot of money by the chamber of Commerce, the profit of white granulated sugar is bound to be higher.

Because of this, the merchants are so eager to get the white granulated sugar production technology.

"I won't eat you. It's possible to send you tens of thousands of taels of silver and pick up some concubines for you." Xiao Ming said with a smile as he took over the account book from Li Kaiyuan.

Li Kaiyuan cried and said, "Your Highness, don't bury me. I've always been honest."

Xiao Ming, of course, is only joking. He pays Li Kaiyuan a high salary in order to keep clean. If he is outside the feudal state, Li Kaiyuan's position will be broken.

With a teasing smile, Xiao Ming looks at the account book, which records the merchants who bought the white granulated sugar production technology these days.

"Three hundred seventy-eight." Seeing the number of people on the account book, Xiao Ming was shocked, "so many."

"No, they have been reminding them not to buy technology blindly, but they just don't believe it." Li Kaiyuan shook his head.

"Since they have been reminded, let them go. It's up to them to make money or lose money. But even if there are more than 200 people, I'm afraid they will make money in the early stage."

"That's what I think. The sugar has never appeared in the market. There will be a lot of sales in the market. Besides, with the opening of maritime trade routes, merchants can still sell the sugar to Korea and Japan." Li Kaiyuan said.

Xiao Ming nodded after hearing the speech. It seems that the number is very large, just because the white granulated sugar workshops are concentrated in Qingzhou. It's just like there is only one canteen in a modern town, but the whole country adds up to tens of thousands.

In the same way, if these 300 plus sugar factories are evenly distributed in all parts of Dayu, they will only drop water into the sea. Moreover, if he wants to open up private capital, he can not interfere too much in the actions of these merchants.

In business, he only needed to control the general business operation of the whole feudal state, and the government would manage the specific details.

"More than 3 million Liang plus the sale of sulfite, the white granulated sugar chamber of commerce is making a net profit, not bad, not bad."

The figures on the account book make Xiao Ming laugh happily. In fact, he is the one who makes the most money. He can sell both sugarcane and chemicals, which means that businessmen have to give him part of their money.

In addition to the white granulated sugar, the pendulum has not yet been sold. Once it is sold, it will be a huge income. The tight financial situation caused by the crazy expansion of the army is finally relaxed.

Li Kaiyuan's eyes narrowed with laughter, but he thought of one thing and suddenly said: "Your Highness, there is one thing that the officials have forgotten. After these businessmen have bought technology, they are complaining that they can't find enough craftsmen to be responsible for production. The slaves in Qingzhou market are also in short supply, which is not enough for the businessmen. The problem of the officials below will cause some problems for the development of Commerce It's a question

"Well, you're right." Xiao Ming nodded and had to say that Li Kaiyuan was very accurate.

In fact, he is also thinking about this issue. Now he obviously can't compete with Europe for the slave trade, and it's very difficult to carry out the slave trade in Asia. After all, neither Japan nor Korea exists in the tribal situation just like Africa.

But he also had a specific replacement plan in mind, so he said: "you can tell the merchants to let them recruit craftsmen from outside the feudal state."

"Recruit craftsmen from other places?" Li Kaiyuan's eyes turned and suddenly laughed, "Your Highness, this move is really high. In this way, no matter these businessmen buy from outside or cheat, it is to increase the population of Qingzhou."

Xiao Ming has a bad smile on his lips, which is exactly what he wants to achieve. After his demand, these businessmen, in order to pursue profits, are bound to sell people from outside the feudal state to Qingzhou to meet the needs of the industry.

In his opinion, this situation is the same as that of European businessmen who sell African people in pursuit of profits, but his way is more civilized, which is similar to modern labor export.

"That's right, so you can remind the businessman when you go back." Xiao Ming said.

Li Kaiyuan nodded, "yes, your highness. I will prepare for this when I go back."

Seeing off Li Kaiyuan, Xiao Ming asks people to prepare horses. He is going to the military workshop.

Now the situation in Dayu country may turn to a sharp turn for the worse at any time. He has to prepare in advance, so he has not been idle these two days. Instead, he is thinking about changing the equipment for the army in each state.

After discussing with Niu Zhen, he felt that now it was time to focus on replacing the equipment for the three armies. Naturally, the Youzhou army ranked first.Comparatively speaking, the Youzhou army is the largest one in the Fengguo army, with 20000 infantry and 20000 cavalry, a total of 40000 people. The second is the Dengzhou army.

After Dengzhou's position became more and more important, he expanded the Dengzhou army from 10000 to 20000, and the last one was Yunzhou army, which currently has only 10000 people.

This army is for the resource preparation of King Yong's fiefdom. If there is a war in Dayu, he said that this army should not be used.

As for the army of other states, Xiao Ming only left a standing army of 1000 people. It's not that he didn't want to expand the army, but that his fiefdom has a population of 2 million. The total number of troops in Youzhou, Qingzhou, Yunzhou and Dengzhou is 90000, which is the limit that the fiefdom can bear. This is equal to one in more than 20 people is a soldier, with a very high proportion.

Even so, he could not use all the 90000 troops at one time. After all, the logistics of the 100000 troops would have to be followed by 50000 or 600000 civilians. If he continued to fight like this, he would end the feudalism himself.

So after thinking about it, Xiao Ming felt that he could only improve the equipment level of the army, focusing on the quality and quantity. Because of this, he decided to go to the military workshop to check the equipment and urge the production. At the same time, he asked Chen Qi to deliver the accumulated equipment to the army of each state.

When he arrived at the military workshop, the sound of metal percussion rang out. Xiao Ming had not come to the military workshop for two months since he went to sea last time.

Remembering the rifled gun song Changping had brought to him, he first went to the firearms workshop.

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