Chapter 200 Making Money
Of course, the new policy has just begun to be implemented, and there will definitely be many disadvantages in it.
Zhu Cilang could only cross the river by feeling the stones. Fortunately, he had just won military victory and gained a lot of prestige in the court. These people dared not do anything excessive unless they didn't want their lives.
In terms of foreign trade, in addition to tea, Zhu Cilang quickly came up with the idea of silk and porcelain.
It’s not that Zhu Cilang is also very popular with these two transactions, and the transaction volume of these two transactions is no less than that of tea.
A single tea transaction allowed the Office of the Internal Affairs to obtain millions of taels of silver, which was a tax revenue of a wealthy province for one year.
So Zhu Cixuan called all the people from the Office of the Internal Affairs and the Lifan Academy and asked them to continue negotiations with foreigners. Now the translators on both sides are almost the same.
The purpose is still the same, and it must be increased by at least three times.
At the beginning, Hou Fangyu was indeed shocked by Zhu Cixuan's number.
Although Hou Fangyu is not a merchant and has not passed by, he also knows that the profit of goods cannot be that high.
However, if His Highness the Crown Prince has such an arrangement, it means His Highness the Crown Prince. Let’s listen honestly.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said to them, if we do not follow the profits we have proposed, we would rather not do this business.
At that time, we will see who will suffer more. As long as we can remember this sentence, we will not be afraid of any businessman in negotiations with foreigners.
Of course, it is time to give foreigners some sweetness, but also some sweetness.
Take porcelain as an example. In the past, official kiln porcelain was not allowed to be exported, so they could only buy folk kiln porcelain.
But even such things are already high-end products in Europe.
Now Zhu Cixuan asked his subordinates to give them some airs, and they could sell them a batch of official kiln porcelain, or even palace porcelain. Of course, the quantity must be very rare, otherwise how could they be sold at a high price?
At the same time, strict laws were enacted nationwide, and anyone who bypassed the court and made private transactions with Westerners would be the crime of killing the whole family.
Although Zhu Cixuan also knew that this law was too strict, it was for the next step of development of the Ming Dynasty.
For the current Ming Dynasty's money bag, we can only do this first. After the entire Ming Dynasty is stable, Zhu Cixuan will gradually relax this kind of official trade behavior.
After all, this kind of behavior violates market laws.
After foreigners received this news, most of them were so excited that they couldn't sleep.
They did see many exquisite official kiln porcelain on the land of the Ming Dynasty. They had fantasized countless times in their dreams. If these things could be transported to Europe, how much sensation would it cause?
As for the price, they didn't even think about it.
Spain and Portugal dug silver mines in the Americas, and shipped precious metals to Europe. Those people had money and loved these exquisite porcelains very much. They would definitely spend a lot of money on these things.
A person who has traveled through time hundreds of years later and has the highest power in the seller's market. If he cannot make huge profits, then go home and coax the child!
For official kiln porcelain.
Not only is the quantity limited, but the sale price is more than five times the normal price.
Maximize your own interests from the beginning.
Of course, whether the price will be increased next time depends on their future demand for such things.
If they are still eager to buy such a price, it means they can sell at a higher price in Europe. After all, it is hard to buy a favor with a lot of money, but if they don’t buy it anymore, it means that Zhu Cilang sets a higher price.
After all, porcelain is different from tea, and it is relatively loss during transportation. There are not so many shock-proof facilities in this era, so it needs to be observed more.
After Zhu Cilang's guidance, Hou Fangyu and Cao Renli were also considered to have become the leader.
The two of them also knew what these foreigners were most afraid of, that was the imperial court issued a sea ban.
The foreigners also knew that the Ming Dynasty was vast and wealthy, and they almost never bought anything from them. Most of the trade was for them to buy things in one direction.
If the door is really closed, it will be their East India Company that suffers.
As the saying goes, one trick is full of food. When these two people are negotiating with foreign devils, they always show impatience and always report to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. At most, they can issue a ban on the sea.
Whenever the negotiations cannot continue, the two of them use this method to threaten the foreigners.
In addition to the Dutch East India merchants, they also contacted some merchants from other European countries.
If you don’t do it, there will naturally be businessmen from other countries that will do it. Those people have made a lot of efforts to break the trade monopoly of the Dutch East India Company. They are naturally very welcome to the olive branch extended by the Ming Dynasty.
Gulad was also puzzled. When he was doing business with these Ming merchants, there were never so many strange names.
Now the Crown Prince has taken over, as if they have never had the initiative, and they are led by others in everything.
This feeling is not good for foreigners, but it is really great for Hou Fangyu and Cao Renli.
This is what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said. Do you like to buy? Without you, we may suffer losses, but your losses will definitely be much more than us.
In the end, you will definitely not be able to hold back first, and you will definitely give in. This has been verified countless times.
In addition to these, Zhu Cilang also asked Hou Fangyu to release the situation, and the court also had to auction the management rights.
What is management rights?
That is, only if you have a license issued by the court can you trade with the Ming Dynasty. If you don’t have these licenses, even if you have gold and silver in your hands, you will not be able to buy goods from the Ming Dynasty.
This is another layer of skinning.
In modern society, foreigners use this method to make no idea how much money we have made, so in the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago, Zhu Cixuan was preparing to make the money back.
Of course, you still have to use your method, and use a sentence in a martial arts novel, which is to use his own way to give him his body.
Hou Fangyu and the others didn't know what to say about Zhu Cixuan's operating rights auction.
The original export price of goods has increased by three or four times, and now another operating rights auction has been created.
It is estimated that at least 80% of the profits made by these foreigners in the end have been spent by His Royal Highness the Prince. Do they make money for themselves or work for His Royal Highness the Prince?
Chapter completed!