Chapter 1877 National Strength

Of course Li Bo liked it, but he was still a little worried that it was too expensive, so he pretended to ask casually: "This mirror is so large in size, it must be very difficult to make, and the market price must not be low, right?"

Shi Diwen said: "It seems that the prince also knows something about the manufacturing process of glass mirrors! Yes, the larger the size of this glass mirror, the lower the yield rate. Even if it is made ten times, there may not be a qualified lens. Mirror surface

Although it is inlaid, this inlaying process is mastered by only a few craftsmen in our country. Because of the limited production capacity, most buyers have to pay for customization first, so the price is indeed higher than that of ordinary glass on the market.

The mirror is higher."

Shi Diwen's response is actually bragging. The production principle of glass mirrors is not complicated. After the process is gradually improved, the size of flat glass produced in Sanya is getting larger and larger. Although it is still difficult to directly produce such products.

Although it is a full-length glass mirror that is taller than a full-length mirror, there are actually not many technical difficulties in a full-length mirror made of several smaller lenses. However, rich people tend to take advantage of the scarcity of things, so Haihan deliberately

Control production capacity and increase selling price. Shi Diwen deliberately exaggerated the difficulty of production, in fact, it was also to maintain the current high price of this product.

Of course, in Shi Diwen's view, a nobleman like Li Bo who had never been out of North Korea had limited vision and knowledge. If he could win his favor by giving him a full-length mirror, it would be too easy.

Shi Diwen saw that Li Bo seemed to be hesitant because of this, and immediately expressed his position again: "Your Majesty, actually you don't need to consider the price of this mirror. This is just a small gift from me personally, and there will be no other

Any conditions attached.”

Shi Diwen insisted on giving it, but after a few words of refusal, Li Bo still couldn't resist. He could only accept the gift after thanking him. When he arrived in Sanya, the mirror of the same style would be prepared in advance and sent to his residence.

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After receiving such an unexpected gift, Li Bo's mood improved greatly, and he seemed to be more relaxed when talking to Shi Diwen. He was already at an age where he was quite curious, and he had never left North Korea.

He came to China and felt novel about everything in the outside world, especially in Haihan where there were so many new things that he had never heard of or seen before, which made him feel that this trip was really not in vain.

Think about it, this is just an overseas ruling area of ​​Haihan. There are many overseas enclaves like this. There are as many as five or six around the coast of the Ming Dynasty alone. It is said that the prosperity of its capital city is far greater than this place.

, Li Bo couldn't help but be full of curiosity about the unknown destination.

And this three-story trading center is not the only place where you can buy glassware. In fact, there are many categories of goods exported by Haihan to Daming. If Li Bo wants to see them all, he can't finish them in one or two hours.

In fact, by the time it got dark, he hadn't even finished reading half of the floor.

Even if it is daily necessities such as windproof oil lamps, matches, perfume, and hardware, Li Bo will look at them with gusto, because he has never seen most of these things in Gyeongbokgung Palace and does not understand their functions at all. The staff told

After he demonstrated it, Li Bo would praise its exquisite design, and Shi Diwen would ask his followers to record every item that Li Bo praised, and later put it all on the gift list.

In fact, the cost of these small things is not high, and they can be sold at an affordable price in the Ming Dynasty market. The main reason is that Haihan's industrial design capabilities and manufacturing technology are unparalleled in the world. At the same time, it also uses many business skills for marketing, which can open up the market of Ming Dynasty.

market.

Seeing that it was already late, Shi Diwen invited Li Bo and Jin Shangjiu to have dinner. It happened that Li Bo also had a problem and wanted to ask Shi Diwen for advice, so he readily agreed, but he refused to drink anymore no matter what.

. Shi Diwen knew that the banquet the night before had drunk Li Shu quite hard, so he didn't force it now.

The Zhoushan Islands are one of the main fishing grounds in the East China Sea. They are rich in various fish and shellfish resources, and the seafood banquet has become one of the local special banquets. Although yesterday's banquet was also mainly seafood, but in the next two days,

Not a single dish is the same. In addition to the skill of the cook, it also shows that there are indeed a wide variety of local seafood.

Although the dishes were sumptuous, Li Pu's mind was not on eating. After visiting some of the displayed products in the local business district and trading center, he wanted to have a deeper understanding of the operation of Haihan's business model.

"Master Shi, can you tell me how your country attracts merchants from all over the world to Zhoushan Island for trade?" After finishing the meal, Li Bo couldn't wait to ask his question.

Shi Diwen didn't expect that Li Bo asked such a general question. To explain it carefully, it would only take three days and two nights.

Shi Diwen thought for a while and responded patiently: "Your Majesty, this problem is indeed a bit big. I can only give you a rough introduction. If your Majesty has any unclear points, we can discuss it slowly."

"The Zhoushan Islands used to be a place where merchants and pirates from all over the world gathered to trade, but at that time it was an underground black market that was not under official control. After we occupied this place, we set rules here so that all transactions would be regulated.

It can be followed. The trading environment we have created can give more people the opportunity to safely obtain benefits from cross-border trade, so more and more businessmen will come here and join the trade system we have built.

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"The most important thing is this trading environment. Your Majesty must have seen it today. The variety of things you can buy here exceeds that of any other city on the mainland. From transportation to inspection to settlement of money and goods, we have

Very complete services can be provided during the transaction process. I don’t know if the prince has noticed that the transaction currency used on Zhoushan Island is banknotes issued by our country, which is far more convenient and safer than gold and silver, and it is also easier to use bank services."

Haihan's trade and financial systems were both built under the leadership of Schneider, an expert, and their operating principles have indeed surpassed this era. What Shi Diwen could explain to Li Bo was only scratching the surface. Of course.

How much this explanation can make Li Pu understand, in fact, Shi Diwen doesn't have much hope. After all, he also knows that the Joseon prince doesn't know much about trade matters, and he would ask such a question mostly just because

I was just curious after seeing the prosperity here.

As expected, the purpose of Li Bo's question was actually to see if there is anything that can be imitated. If North Korea can have several trading ports like this, it seems that it can also make money through international trade like Haihan.

Big money. Of course, Li Bo has a certain mentality of "I can do it if I want it", but he doesn't understand that the "trade environment" mentioned by Shi Diwen is not so easy to imitate or copy.

Li Ming said: "Your country's bank has already opened a branch in Seoul. I have also done some research, and it seems that it is indeed more convenient for businessmen. Then Mr. Shi thinks it is possible to develop a branch in our country based on Zhoushan's model.

What about a trading port like this?”

Shi Diwen said: "The model can be copied, but whether it can be developed depends on the market in your country. For example, if a businessman arrives in your country and finds that no one is buying goods and there is nothing to buy, then soon

will choose to leave.”

Li Pu couldn't help but feel a little disappointed when he heard this answer. He recalled that the commodities that North Korea could export seemed to be significantly different from the various commodities he saw in the trading center. It seemed that there were only some

Agricultural products can be sold for takeout, but depending on the trading situation here at the seaport, food crops are not the main trading content on the market.

It is true that primary agricultural products receive very limited attention in Dinghai Port, because most of the transactions between large grain merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang and Haihan are completed in private meetings. There are stable supply channels and settlement methods, and there is no need to go to the market.

Conduct public transactions. If North Korea's trading ports can only sell primary agricultural products, it will naturally be difficult to attract businessmen from foreign countries.

As for the deep processing capabilities of agricultural products, such as oil extraction, sugar refining, brewing, etc., the processing technology mastered by North Korea is also uncompetitive. Nowadays, Haihan's deep-processed agricultural products rely on their cost advantages and have begun to form a negative impact on the private workshops of the Ming Dynasty.

With a clear impact, more and more wine shops have closed down in Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas in recent years. After the North Korean market is gradually liberalized, such an impact will happen again in North Korea, and the impact on the social economy will probably be greater than

The Ming Dynasty is even more prominent.

Of course, with the help of Haihan, it is not impossible for North Korea to use this trade route to make a fortune. It can develop some labor-intensive industries locally and let them serve as a processing place for certain specific commodities or a specific link.

Taking the path of specialty processing industry can still be integrated into Haihan's trade system.

However, regarding this long-term plan, Shi Diwen was not prepared to say too much to Li Bo at the moment. After all, he was only the heir to the throne, not the owner of the throne. Li Bo could not be expected to contribute much to the decision-making of national affairs.

Moreover, with this kind of consciousness instillation at the business level, Shi Diwen knew that when Li Bo arrived in Sanya, there would be someone there who could do better than him - there would probably be a row of senior executives from various countries who had been brainwashed by Schneider over the years, like Li Bo.

A fledgling bird like me will definitely be captured by it.

Although Shi Diwen himself is a senior general of the Haihan military, he hopes that Li Bo can feel the strength of Haihan's national power in Zhoushan, not only in the military field, but also in many fields such as infrastructure, commerce, finance, and shipping.

He believes that only after fully realizing the strength of Haihan in various fields, Li Bo will truly accept the advanced nature of Haihan system ideologically, so that when he arrives in Sanya, he will start his real study abroad career.

At this time, there will no longer be too much resistance to the indoctrination of various ideologies.

For this candidate sent by North Korea to study abroad, Victory Fort has been led by Ning Qi to conduct a special investigation and read all the information about the North Korean crown prince in the large database. Since this prince had been in the Qing Dynasty in the original history, he had

If he has been a hostage for too long and even his basic position has changed, then there is every reason to believe that he will become a loyal Haihan supporter after studying abroad in Haihan. As long as the corresponding arrangements are made, perhaps Li Hao will return to China in two years.

It will become Haihan's biggest help in North Korea in the future.

Li Pu's feelings are actually relatively vague. He can indeed feel the strength of Haihan's national power from the two days of visits and conversations, but where does this strength come from? He still does not have a clear understanding, and he

There is no connection between this and Haihan's national system.

But there is no doubt that Haihan's success in these fields has given Li Pu the idea to follow suit. Although according to Shi Diwen, it is not easy for North Korea to follow suit, Li Pu believes that since the Xu family in Fujian,

Allies such as Annan Kingdom that have close relations with Haihan can be integrated into Haihan's system in terms of military and trade, so North Korea should also be able to enhance its own strength in this way.

As for how to do it, Li Fu believed that if he couldn't find the answer in Zhoushan, then his final destination, Sanya, would not disappoint him. This was the main reason why he traveled all the way to study there.

After dinner, when he returned to his residence, Li Bo asked someone to prepare the Four Treasures of the Study while his mind was clear, and record down everything he saw, heard, and thought after arriving in Zhoushan. He thought that after these things were sent back to Gyeongbokgung Palace, they might make him happy.

The father of the king will have more information for his reference when dealing with diplomatic relations with Haihan.

Halfway through writing, Li Bo felt that there were some things that he still didn't quite understand, so he asked someone to summon Jin Shangjiu. Jin Shangjiu slept until midnight for the second day in a row when someone woke him up to see Li Bo. He felt a little confused and confused.

I think the prince didn't drink at the dinner today, so it's impossible for him to suddenly lose his memory again.

Dissatisfaction was dissatisfaction. As a minister, Jin Shangjiu did not dare to complain at all. He immediately went to see Li Bo. But he really did not expect that Li Bo summoned him in the middle of the night just to clarify some details of these local cross-border trades.

While I couldn't help but laugh or cry, I was also a little moved by Li Bo's enthusiasm for research.

Jin Shangjiu has been in Zhoushan for more than half a year, and he naturally knows more about the situation here. However, he is an official from the Ministry of Rites and is not actually good at business affairs. The extent to which he can explain to Li Bo is still very limited.

Kim Sang-jiu has a more conservative view on the trade system formulated by Haihan and the trade system he created from scratch. He believes that learning this set of things in North Korea may not necessarily be beneficial. Because he has been here for a long time and has clearly seen that

See how the Han people bribed Ming officials to use them for their own purposes. If this trade system was introduced to North Korea, the integrity of their own officials might not be any higher than that of Ming officials.
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