Most people went to the north dock to see the sea boats, but some people stayed behind, such as wine shops and restaurants. After a while, he hesitated before entering the restaurant, he finally walked in. When an elderly servant greeted him, he whispered: "Swallows are sour, ducks, chickens are sore, and 8 pounds and eight ounces of Chuli."

The shop servant looked at him strangely, but quickly withdrew his gaze and said, "Please follow the villain."

The place where the shopkeeper took Ago Valla to was actually a garden behind the restaurant. His Greek dress surprised a middle-aged man here. The shopkeeper retreated and asked suspiciously: "Who can you ask?"

"If you know your enemy and know yourself, you will never be defeated in a hundred battles. If you don't know your enemy and don't know yourself, you will always be defeated in a battle." Ah Ge Vala smiled and read a very famous sentence from Sun Tzu's Art of War in a certain order of light and stress syllables and sentences.

"Know the enemy?" The man looked at him even more surprised. Fortunately, he was surprised. He had already stood up and welcomed Ago Vala into the back room. After Ago Vala sat down, he bowed and asked, "How dare you ask what you are doing?"

"The envoy of Bactrice wants to meet the envoy of Seleucid..." said Yago Vala slowly.

*

"Brother Wang, I want to build boats, I want to build boats, I want to build boats, I want to build boats..., wuwu." Yan Chao was sleeping, Mi Yu cried in front of Xiong Jing. She had not gotten married yet, and she could not build a ship without a dowry, and she would not build a ship... The married princess had ships under her name, and gold, silver, pearls and jade were transported to her home one by one. Not to mention whether she was noble or not, wealth was certain, and the most important thing was to show off. Mi Yu, the legitimate princess, felt that she was neglected.

"You are not married yet, how can you build a boat?" Xiong Jing was helpless when he looked at his mother. Although she was older than him, in his opinion, this mother was not much different from the little girl who was spoiled in later generations. He didn't want to bring any portraits of a man, and he was picky.

"If you don't marry, you can't build a boat?" Mi Qing burst into tears. She felt even more wronged when she talked about getting married. She likes men like Wang, but there is no such king in the whole world.

"Don't cry, don't cry." Xiong Jing wiped her tears, "If you get married, I will give you five sea boats, can you?"

"Wuwu, I won't marry, I won't marry. Wuwuwu..." Thinking that after she got married, she would face other strange men, she could no longer see Brother Wang and Queen Mother. Mi Yu really started crying loudly this time. While crying, she hugged Xiong Jing and kept hugging her harder and harder, her small breasts pressed tightly.

He was born with more than 30 sisters, four or five brothers, and one younger brother. Such a big family made Xiong Jing a little dull at first, and he didn't know how to deal with his relationship with them. Now Mi Qi was holding him like this, and he kept reminding himself not to think wrongly, but the more he warned, the more he thought wrongly, and fortunately, Xiong Han came.

Xiong Han has grown taller, his eyebrows and eyes are very similar to Xiong Jing, but the outline of his cheeks follows Concubine Li, not square, but sharp. After he saluted, he knelt in front of Xiong Jing and asked with concern: "Why is the mother crying?"

"Wuwuwuwuwu..." Mi Qi was still crying. Seeing Xiong Han coming, she finally let Xiong Jing go and began to wipe her tears.

"The mother misses her good man, and she cried as she thought about it." Xiong Jing secretly breathed a sigh of relief and joked with a smile.

"Ah?" The naive Xiong Han looked at Mi Yan, "So there is a good man in Yan's mother?"

"Brother Wang is nonsense, how could Mi Yu have ever had a good man?" Although Mi Yu stopped crying and wiped tears, she still threw Xiong Han with a brocade scarf.

"It's because there is no good man that I can't stop crying." Xiong Jing smiled, and then looked at his own sister with concern and asked, "Mother has chosen many people, why are all brides..."

"Brother Wang forced me too?" Mi Qi's tears were about to burst into tears again.

"I won't force you. I won't force you." Xiong Jing raised his hand and shook it. He saw that Shi Zhi and Shi Zhi had just arrived at the ranks with the shipping company's bookkeeper. They must have come to report the foreign trade income this time. If Mi Yu heard their report, he would probably cry and make a fuss again. Xiong Jing glanced at Chang Jiang beside him, and nodded his mouth. Chang Jiang went there knowingly. Just when Xiong Jing promised to send a sea boat, Mi Yu left happily, and Shi Yu took the people into the hall to report.

"Brother Wang, I will take my leave first." Xiong Han saw that his brother was dealing with government affairs, so he was about to take his leave.

"No hurry." Xiong Jing looked at him and smiled, "Don't your mother also have two sea boats."

The princesses used dowry to build boats. Although the concubines didn't know what the sea boat was, they saw the call of the queen mother, and one or two ships also invested money in. Concubine Li was imprisoned. When he heard that the boat was buried, he sold all the goods that could be sold and built two Taotie. Xiong Jing remembered this matter when Xiong Han said that, he sat upright and waited for Shi Qi to say something.

"Reported to the great king, the fierce prince, there were ten sea boats that went out to sea this time, and there were no losses. A total of 565 dragon horses were transported back, 31 dead, and 534 were left; 120,000 Indian muslin cloth were transported back; 45,000 stones of rice were transported back; 23,155 kilograms of gold coins were transported back, and 114,103 kilograms of silver coins were transported back..."

The big head is in front, and the rest are small things, corals, sea beads, conchs, etc. Buying these luxury goods is the idea of ​​Shi Zhi and Qi. Once the sea is transported, the originally rare Eastern luxury goods are transported into the West one by one, and the result is gold and silver ships back to Chu. With these gold and silver, the coins of the four countries are worth a constant connection, and the abominable consequences are also followed, that is, there is too much money and high prices.

What to do? Xiong Jing originally wanted to push up housing prices, increase his 50 times or 100 times, and use the housing market to absorb hot money. The idea was very good, but the law could not keep up. Even in Qin, land and houses were private property, and building houses did not require official approval. No matter how simple thatched houses were, they still had front and back yards. Turning land and houses into commodities can only be found in specific areas like Daliang North City, and cannot be copied in other places.

The suggestions of Shi Zhi and Qi State's light and heavy families in addition to strictly controlling the amount of minted coins and the release of gold and silver, and then to use luxury goods from the West to attract money. The economy is structured. Give each household a silver coin, and these silver coins will eventually flow to specific large households along the inherent economic structure. It is not hindering the overall situation. The means of recovery include taxes, deposits, government bonds, stocks, and luxury goods produced in the West.

If it weren't for the purpose of reclaiming the gold and silver that had flowed out, Xiong Jing was not interested in Western luxury goods at all. He had always had a feeling that China was at a disadvantage on the Silk Road. Silk, tea, and ceramics were sold and exchanged for some gold and silver utensils, glass, gems, and scarily expensive treasures. Like the elixir of immortality made of cannabis, it was a scam.

Because buying Western luxury goods that are essentially not worth a lot of money has caused a large outflow of gold and silver - similar to East Asia, the Romans also had large-scale outflows of gold and silver, but not much of these gold and silver flowed to East Asia. The so-called mystery of the disappearance of Han gold is essentially the result of the large-scale purchase of Western luxury goods by the court and nobles.

This was the case in the Han Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty was the same. A very simple question: Since the Tang Dynasty obtained a large amount of gold and silver by selling silk, why did the Tang Dynasty use silk as currency instead of gold and silver as currency? Gold and silver are naturally not currency, but currency is naturally gold and silver. The convenience and cutting ability of gold and silver are obviously stronger than silk. Is it the most appropriate explanation for using silk as currency that the Tang Dynasty's large-scale outflow of gold and silver and even copper coins, and there is no money available in China?

With full of malice, the tariffs on Western luxury goods shipped back from sea were at least thirty times, but the nobles and rich people in the world were still flocking to them, so this time I bought some Syrian glass, Mediterranean amber, Persian golden bowl, silver cup, Indian sea beads, and Sinhalese nautilus. Shi Zhi said it for about a quarter of an hour before he finished all these things.

"How many times the profits of silk?" Xiong Jing asked. Silk is a major profit-making item, but its profit margin is declining significantly.

"It's twelve times." Shi Jie looked at the accounts carefully before answering. He added: "Many Persian merchants in Port Wublai have complaints, and I blame my silk prices for getting cheaper."

"It's getting cheaper?" Xiong Jing smiled. "Silk is not a completely luxurious thing. The wealthy common people of Chu also use silk brocade. If the silk brocade in their hands is not sold quickly, it will be eight times the profit next time."

"If so..., the king, the profits of the sea boats have been greatly reduced." Wu Gou Chang warned him when he first went there that all silk must be sold within a year, and the next ship of silk must be sold at a lower price. Therefore, all Persian merchants transformed into fruit vendors and must take out all the silk in their hands regardless of the price before the goods were 'rotted', so that sea silk can quickly seize the market space and drive all the land silk out of the market.

"So what about the big cut? Not being honest means suppressing the price of silk, making the people of Didaorong unable to benefit, and the people of Qin cannot get a horse." Xiong Jing's smile was a bit sinister. The attack on Qin was all-round, and foreign trade was only one aspect. He wanted to know what he could use if Qin could not use silk to buy what he wanted.

"How about the other profits besides silk?" Xiong Jing asked again.

"Ju Bian, Ju Jia can be sold for one and a half gold, and the profit is extremely high, but few people buy this item. Only India, Pandya, Zhuluo, Zheluo, and Sinhalla buy it from several countries; Lu Li Jing also makes a lot of profits, and a Lu Li Jing can be sold for thousands of coins and gold depending on its size..."

"How about porcelain?" Apart from mirrors, Lu Li was really inferior to the Sidon Glass Factory in Syria, but Xiong Jing was concerned about porcelain.

"Porcelain..." Shi Yan was speechless, "The porcelain was not sold out the last time."

Porcelain is a new thing, and the market needs to be cultivated. Xiong Jing skipped the porcelain and asked, "How about Chu paper, how about pig iron?"

"Chu paper is still good, and it has three times the profit." Shi Zhi said. "Check iron has ten times the profit, but this thing is really cheap."

"Three times the profit?" Xiong Jing was puzzled. He heard Wu Ji say that papyrus is very expensive, and a piece costs at least two Drake horses.

"Yes." Shi Zhi knew Xiong Jing's doubts. "The king didn't know that although papyrus was expensive, it was very long, and one piece was three feet long."
Chapter completed!