I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 762, Trademarks

The Zhen family's intelligence system is very powerful!In less than three days, Zhen Xing found out the source of the inferior silk for him, Izumo country!

"Cao Cao's territory? How is this possible? There are not only savages there, where does Cao Cao have a textile factory, and there are enough female workers to weave silk?"

Xu Lun almost forgot that there is such a country as Izumo in this world. The name Cao Cao is more like a character from the previous era. Shouldn't it only appear in history books?
Zhen Xing said in admiration: "Cao Cao deserves to be a hero who escaped unscathed in the troubled times. Although he was imprisoned in the Izumo Kingdom by the ruling party, he was unwilling to spend the rest of his life on this deserted island. He has dispatched 10,000 soldiers every year for these years. + The people of Izumo country came to Dagan to work and earn money, and a few years ago he even recruited many merchants to build textile factories in Izumo country, and this batch of inferior silk was produced by the original factory."

Xu Lun never expected that his opponent would be Cao Cao, the hero who had already ended the curtain!

He was surprised: "Little Crab Island, where did he get the silk industry?"

Zhen Xing said helplessly: "How hard can it be? First, transplant the mulberry tree and take it to Izumo. The mulberry tree can grow leaves, and then raise only silkworms. The textile industry in Izumo country will rise! At the same time, I also found these silks. Why is it such a poor quality? You also know that most of the people in the Izumo Kingdom are from savage origin. These people have only spent more than ten years putting on clothes. You can let these savages have some skills in hunting. But if you can get them to farm and weave, it will be hard for them.”

Then he said with a smile: "When Cao Cao recruited big businessmen to build textile factories in Izumo, he didn't want to produce silk. After all, Izumo also belongs to the north, and the climate is relatively cold."

"At that time, Cao Cao and the others wanted to produce woolen cloth, and the ideas of those merchants were also very simple. The salary of our female textile workers was less than 1000 yuan, and it was impossible to work in the textile factory, while those female savages of Cao Cao even had a salary of 300 yuan. They don't want any, and Cao Cao took the money for just such a small amount. Most of these wild women can only get enough food and clothing. Just like this, those wild men are already grateful.

Therefore, the labor cost of going to Izumo to build a textile factory is three times lower than ours. Those businesses who wanted to go there thought that relying on the low labor cost of Izumo would increase their profits. "

Then Zhen Xing said with a smile: "It's just that they never thought that weaving is an instinct for a capable woman, but for those savages in Izumo Kingdom, it is an extremely advanced skill. difficult."

"These merchants who went to the Izumo country all paid a huge price. Although those savage women also wove woolen cloth, the quality of the woolen cloth was extremely poor, not much different from the felt in the north, so those who went to Izumo The merchants of the textile factories in the state-made textile factories, let alone making money, almost lost all their money. It was Cao Cao who managed to invest some money to maintain these factories, but after such a thing happened, no one dared to go to the Izumo country to build a textile factory .”

"But Cao Cao didn't give up. He tried to train these savages, and the quality of the items improved a little bit. Later, the demand for Daqian silk began to increase. It was the textile factory that went to the Izumo country to use the woolen cloth to produce silk. , So these inferior silks appeared in front of you.

There is too much demand for woolen cloth, and of course no one wants low-quality cloth, but now the silk market is in short supply, and even this kind of inferior silk is still in demand. "

"And I don't know who gave Cao Cao a wicked idea to counterfeit the silk produced by him as the silk produced by us in Dagan. That's why the scene we see now appeared."

Xu Lun said angrily: "The residue of the old era should disappear."

After finding his opponent, Xu Lun immediately asked Xu Wei to see him, and told Xu Wei everything he had discovered in Jidu.

"In power, the silk industry is a pillar industry in Jiangnan. It can make Jiangnan earn tens of billions of dollars every year. This is where millions of people in Jiangnan live and eat. If Cao Cao's inferior silk affects Jiangnan's income, millions of people in Jiangnan will The surname will be affected, and the century-old plan to develop the south of the Yangtze River will also be affected, my subordinates, please point out and send someone to reprimand Cao Cao, and at the same time prohibit Cao Cao's inferior silk from entering our country!"

Xu Wei thought for a while and said: "Rebuking Cao Cao's behavior is certain, after all, he has affected the reputation of silk in Jingzhou, Yangzhou and Yizhou, but it may be very difficult to ban the silk from Izumo Kingdom from entering Dagan territory! "

"Now there are thousands of sea ships registered by Daqian. They want to sell silk from the Izumo country, which does not violate my decree at all."

"Government, you find a way to increase the tax on Cao Cao's silk, so that their market is extremely inferior. If the price is high, it is impossible to compete with us!"

But Xu Wei shook his head and said: "Do you know that the products I worked on are sold in the Izumo country, and it can even be said that the money Cao Cao made from silk and the money made by 10,000+ savages were all taken by my big money industry?" The product earns back.

He is just earning a little hard money. If we raise his silk tax, if Cao Cao pushes up the tax of Izumo, we will still suffer a lot. "

There is almost no customs in Dagan, and only a 5% miscellaneous fee is charged for incoming and outgoing goods.It can be said that this is the lowest among all the taxes before Daqian.

It’s not that Xu Wei doesn’t understand the importance of tariffs, but it’s completely unnecessary. First of all, Dagan has the strongest industrialization strength. For Dagan, other countries are almost equivalent to dumping places for goods. Raising tariffs is completely unnecessary. Be right with yourself.

Especially countries like Nanzhong and South China Sea are almost comparable to the mainland of Daqian. If Xu Wei imposes a tariff, it will remind himself of these younger brothers to find a way to protect their own market.

This is what Xu Wei does not want to see, and would rather see that there is no tax such as tariffs in the cultural circle of Dagan. In this way, this cultural circle is a unified market, and in this unified market, the level of technology and The Dagan with the highest level of education obviously has an advantage.

However, Cao Cao's actions certainly made Xu Wei think of an allusion. A country that has just entered the industrial age from the feudal era does not have the concept of a trademark.

The reason why trademarks appear is because of the industrial development of Prussia. Prussia, which has just developed its industry, has an extremely poor industrial foundation, so they pretend to be awesome products to make profits.

And this kind of behavior was naturally discovered by Niu Niu. They were very disgusted with the hooligan behavior of Prussia. In order to distinguish the goods of their own country from the goods of Prussia, they invented the method of trademark to distinguish.As a result, they did not expect that Niu Niu would not think about making progress later, and Prussian products became synonymous with high-end products.

Now Xu Wei also thought of this method, so he said to Xu Lun: "You can put a mark on the silk of Jingzhou, so that everyone can see that this silk is a product of Jingzhou. In this way, the inferior silk produced by Cao Cao You can’t just pretend to be fake.”

"I will also help you in the parliament. I will propose a trademark bill in this year's general assembly. Anyone and any case who imitates other people's trademarks with counterfeit or shoddy products will be punished. At that time, you will have reasons and evidence. The law can punish Cao Cao for this behavior."

Xu Lun was excited: "Then you should act quickly when you are in power. According to the information I have received, Cao Cao has transported nearly [-] pieces of silk to the quarter this year. In less than two or three years, the Izumo Kingdom will Send millions of bolts of inferior silk to us to fight! When the time comes, the people of my Dagan will suffer a great loss from Cao Cao.”

(End of this chapter)