Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 153 Joanna Giovanni

"How widespread is the news?" Dmitry helped him analyze it: "If not many people know about it, we can still think of something."

But Tuo Huan frowned, thought for a while, then turned to Guo Kang and asked, "Do we really need to keep it secret?"

"Ah?" Guo Kang didn't know what he was thinking.

"The reason why the Venetians can keep it secret is because they are small in scale. Of course it's easy to keep it secret on that one island." Tu Huan reminded him: "But you didn't tell me before that our idea is to mobilize more people to research and produce. The more people involved, the easier it is to improve and make breakthroughs?"

"We have a great demand for all kinds of glass, and we must open many workshops. There are too many people involved, and it is impossible to keep it secret." He shook his head and said, "Also, we have a larger number of slaves. They may not understand anything, but if interested people ask about the various situations they have seen, it is easy to infer many details. Our side will inevitably escape the slaves, so these news will be leaked sooner or later."

"If you want me to say that these measures can be done, there is no need to force others. Compared with Venice, our biggest advantage is that we have so many people? Even if they learn it, with our output, we can easily overwhelm them .”

"For profit, their factories have to join our workshop system, and their chambers of commerce can only obey our schedule. We don't even need to compete with them. At that time, they will beg us to bring them to cooperate."

"So, my brother, you don't need to worry about things like the propaganda you should promote, the lectures you should give lectures." He patted Guo Kang on the shoulder and said, "Compared to controlling the spread of technology, controlling money and sabers is more important." Stable."

Guo Kang thought about it, and felt that it made sense, so he nodded.

Although Tuo Huan looks out of tune, it is still reliable at critical times.

Moreover, unlike the royal education in the Central Plains, the Prairie Khan court attaches great importance to the cultivation of business ability, and being able to do business can be said to be a necessary skill for a qualified Khan King.Even people from wild backgrounds like Zizhang are no exception.The importance of commerce is even stronger because of the special location.

The Khan court is divided into internal and external treasuries, and a large part of the funds of the inner government is the workshop industry accumulated by the great Khans of the past dynasties, and the caravans directly under the Khan family.Most of the huge profits brought by these industries every year are used to sponsor public facilities and welfare projects, as well as to give additional rewards to those who have made meritorious deeds—in fact, this is also the way for the Borgiginus family to maintain the legitimacy of their rule one of the important ways.

So thinking about it this way, it seems normal for Tuo Huan to study these things.

"The matter of the mirror may be kept secret for a while now." Tuo Huan was still thinking: "It will take time to select the location and construction of our workshop. After this period of time passes, there will be no big problem."

"Of course, I'm not afraid that everyone will leak it." He added: "The people who are engaged in research here are all pious theologians and philosophers. But what about Venice? They are all businessmen. I believe that compared with It's easier for us to bribe them."

"Oh yes, and more." He remembered something: "The last time I sent out a batch of mirrors, who did you give them to?"

"Acquaintances and sponsors." Guo Kang said: "My mother, my sister, your mother, your sister, Li Xuanying's two younger sisters, Li Anning and her cousin... Uh, I'll go back and look at the list. Anyway, we All of my acquaintances, except for 'Shi Zetian'."

"Actually, it's okay to give it to her." Tuo Huan thought for a while, and said: "After all, they are members of the historian family. Unless they publicly fall out and declare that she is not their own family, they should still give it. As for what they think, that's fine. It's their business, we can't control it, just follow common sense."

"It's not that I don't give it, it's that she said she didn't want it." Guo Kang corrected.

"Huh?" Tuo Huan was surprised.

"She thinks it's too girly, so she doesn't want it. She also said that this kind of family gift is meaningless, and she has to make something herself in the future, so she can exchange it with me." Guo Kang said dumbfounded.

"It's the first time I've seen women not like this mirror." Tuo Huan showed a look of giving up: "Forget it, then just pretend I didn't say it and leave her alone."

"But isn't that good?" Dmitry began to quote the theories of the sages again: "Plato believed that if a woman's soul was the same as that of a man, then she would be perfect. From a philosophical point of view, this kind of woman is is the perfect person."

"Are these Greeks staring at their brothers every day, and want women to be their brothers too?" Tuo Huan said puzzled.

"This is philosophy." Another monk also came to help, trying to reason with him.

Guo Kang hurried forward and said that there was still business to be done, and finally got them to stop discussing.

"You continue to talk." Tuo Huan said to Guo Kang: "Who else?"

"There is also the sponsor from last time." Guo Kang told him: "The representative of the church is Master Wang, this is no problem; the donation from Han Ting was given by you, this is no problem. Dean John raised part of it, this is also own people."

"In addition, there are donations from some businessmen. Several wealthy Greek businessmen raised funds to donate, but they only hope to obtain the right to sell products in the future, and they are not very interested in technology, so there is no problem."

"If there is anything else... Joanna Beach also came to donate, she is the daughter of Ms. Maria from Hungary." Guo Kang explained: "You may not be familiar with her, but her family knows my adoptive father. It is estimated that it is because of this relationship that they came to help."

"Oh, the Italian who opened the bank, right?" Tuo Huan thought for a while and said.

"Yes. I asked specifically before." Guo Kang nodded: "Her father's name is Giovanni di Bicci, a down-and-out nobleman in Florence."

"At that time, the contradictions in Florence were sharp. The big nobles, the small nobles and the low-level citizens fought against each other very seriously. Giovanni's cousin was the representative of the small nobles. He played a major role in helping to suppress the rebellion of the combers, thereby mastering the city. Power. But it didn't last long, and he was overthrown shortly thereafter."

"Is it the citizens who don't like him?" asked Dmitry.

"No." Guo Kang said, "It was the nobles who came to their senses and realized that this man wanted to affect their power, so they killed the donkey and drove him away."

"so……"

"Yeah, anyway, after he lost power, the whole family could only run away. Giovanni was implicated, and he didn't dare to interfere with the political situation in Florence, so he did some business among the city-states. Later, in order to import goods, he Came to our place again, while walking up and down, I met Maria." Guo Kang continued.

"Probably because both of them were depressed and had no choice but to leave their homeland, so they had some common language. In short, they decided to get married in the end. Han Ting thought it was good, so he didn't care about it."

"A few years ago, Giovanni's bank sponsored the return of the Bishop of Rome. He made the right bet and made a fortune. He took his son and went back to Italy. This daughter... seems to have traveled around before and came back last year. Accompany mother, and manage the business here by the way."

"Anyway, this guy is quite rich." Guo Kang said, "As I told you before, she is the one who donated a Tianxiong antenna."

(End of this chapter)