Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 235 People are not as good as sheep

Chapter 239

"Gu heard that women from Goguryeo, Samhan, Silla, and Baekje on the Korean peninsula are very docile and very good craftsmen, and they can be recruited in large numbers!" Ran Ming said with a smile: "Strong slave, Gu Wang Also!"

As for not accepting Wang Hua.From Ran Ming's point of view, this is a joke.

The essence of capital is to pursue profit maximization.

Any enterprise likes to use free labor. If they refuse to obey discipline, the leather whip will teach them how to be obedient citizens.

Zhang Xun's eyes lit up.

He has business dealings with the nobles of the Yan Kingdom, and as long as he makes a lot of money, he can definitely buy a large number of prisoners of war from them.

Ran Ming has his own plans. In Qingzhou now, his various industries, whether mellow liquor, rice paper, or green salt, are all targeting the high-end market.

Although it occupied the high-end market, it also brought huge economic benefits to Ran Ming.

However, it was impossible for Ran Ming to influence the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the form of economic warfare.

Ran Ming has already made his plan.It is to take advantage of technological advantages and adopt a group-integrated production model to expand production.

Take the weaving industry as an example.

The loom that Ran Ming stole from later generations was more than ten times more productive than the family workshops of this period, and the quality was even better.Even if Ran Ming pays [-]% more salary and another [-]% more, compared to the cloth produced in Jin Dynasty Jiangdong, there is still a double price difference!

Ran Ming plans to build a loom in Jiaodong that can hold ten thousand looms at one time. The cloth produced in one year is enough for everyone in the Eastern Jin Dynasty to wear new clothes!

In this way, it will definitely have a strong impact on Jiangdong's household weaving industry.

In terms of quality, they couldn't compare to the cloth produced in Ranming Qingzhou, and they didn't have an advantage in price.Ran Ming can almost occupy the entire Jiangdong market without much power!

There is no profit, so the people in Jiangdong will not use weaving as a career.

Over time, Ran Ming was able to master the garment manufacturing industry in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

There is also table salt, blue salt is a high-end product, and now a waterwheel has been invented, which can extract seawater from the sea with faster efficiency, and the use of cement can expand the scale of production infinitely, not only to produce high-end green salt, but also to mass-produce common salt for the people.

In addition to green salt, rice paper, weaving, and other printing and dyeing, furniture, wine, canned food, and even weapons, the Ming Dynasty planned to expand the scale of production.

Because the shipbuilding industry adopts the keel structure, the big ship can fully adapt to sailing in the sea.Although there is no Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, it can also save transportation costs by sea, but the speed is a little slower!
Because of the limited thinking of the times, people in this era have not thought that industrial group production, a single family workshop, and the ability to bear market risks are extremely poor. This is Ran Ming's advantage.

Ran Ming relied on this advantage to form a large-scale capital group!

Profitable to develop rapidly.

If you want to develop technology, you must make this industry profitable, so that you have enough funds to further expand and study, and at the same time make more people interested in technology.Only in this way can we avoid the situation where Confucianism dominates.

To achieve this level, the premise is that there are sufficient human resources.Now that Ran Ming lacks human resources, it just so happens that he can take advantage of the profit-seeking characteristics of businessmen to make the most of the situation!

The status of merchants in ancient China, especially those without aristocratic background, was very different from that of capitalists in later generations.According to social development, China did not produce the prototype of primitive capital until the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

Although Chinese merchants and capitalists cannot be confused.

But their greed is the same.

Marx taught us: Once there is a reasonable profit, the capitalist will be bold.With 50.00% profit, capitalists will take risks. With [-]% profit, they dare to trample on all laws in the world. If they have [-]% profit, they dare to risk the gallows.

The cost of Ran Ming's baijiu is not too high. The cost of a jar of baijiu in ten catties plus grain transportation and craftsman's wages is only about [-] yuan.

Ran Ming is already black enough, basically ten times the cost price, which is the wholesale price.

But now the market price has reached [-] gold, or even [-] gold per altar.And there is no price and the market is in short supply.

You must know that the price of gold is hovering between 1:300 and [-] at this time.That is to say, the price of liquor per catty is [-] yuan, and you may not have any idea of ​​[-] yuan. If it is replaced with rice, you can get more than [-] catties of rice per catty of liquor. Food liquid is more expensive!

As long as he owns Ran Ming's liquor regional sales rights, it means he will get an inexhaustible golden mountain.

Such benefits are enough to drive businessmen crazy.When it comes to professional ethics, there is really no way for merchants in ancient China to say that they are all a bunch of villains.For the sake of profit, he has never done little to sell his ancestors.

Of course, they didn't realize that Ran Ming, a butterfly from another world, had quietly opened Pandora's Box and released an extremely greedy giant beast!
After many merchants left, they began to use their own means.

And Zhang Xun went all the way lightly, without even returning home, he went straight to Yanmen Pass without stopping.Zhang Xun had his own way at Yanmen Pass, and when he left the pass, he set foot on the vast prairie.

Shengle City in Yunzhong County, which is also Inner Mongolia Helinger in later generations.

The predecessor of Dai State was Tuoba Yilu of Xianbei. After the Yongjia Rebellion, the Xiongnu became powerful.At that time, Liu Kun, the governor of Bingzhou, wanted to use the 40 knights of Xianbei from the Tuoba tribe to fight against the Huns, so he went to the imperial court to make Tuoba Yilu the acting duke. A master of strategy, he died in the civil strife in the Tuoba tribe instead.

Later, Tuoba Yilu, the Duke of Dai, became the King of Dai and established the Kingdom of Dai.It became the predecessor of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Tuoba Wei Dynasty during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

As a country with the Xianbei ethnic group as the main body, Dai Nation's output is not rich, and it mainly consists of animal fur, horses, and medicinal materials.The Central Plains had the supplies they urgently needed, such as daily necessities such as salt, iron pots, and silk, as well as steel weapons.Even though the Central Plains was in chaos, the trade routes from Dai and Yan to the Central Plains have never been cut off!

There is another particularly interesting phenomenon here.The Hu people went through bloody looting and massacre of Han people during the period of the Five Husbands.However, they did not go through the Ease Caravan.No matter how good the caravan's goods were, they didn't know how to grab them, but bartered them at a clear price!Because they are afraid of looting the caravan, the merchants will be afraid and dare not enter the grassland. They will lose the supply of merchants from the Central Plains, and they will be in a desperate situation!
"Dear guest, what kind of treasure did you bring this time!" Zhang Xun had just arrived at a foreign reception tent in the Tuoba Department, and after a while, there was a slightly blunt Chinese voice.

Zhang Xun looked up and saw a man who was eight feet tall, slender, and looked like a general who came in.This person was slightly taken aback, and when he saw Zhang Xun, he immediately laughed heartily and said, "Master Zhang, long time no see, don't come here without any problems!"

Zhang Xun arched his hands and said with a smile: "Cao Min sees General Ma Yu!"

Mayu, his full name is Tuoba Shiyiyu, and those who are familiar with him call him Mayu!

The seventh son of Tuoba Shiyiqian, handsome in appearance, resourceful and brave.

Compared to Tuoba Shiyijian, Tuoba Shiyi Mayu is the tiger and wolf general of his Tuoba family!

"There is a saying in the Han people that if you have nothing to do, go to the Three Treasures Hall. I don't know what is the important thing that the shopkeeper Zhang Da came to Shengle today?"

"Xun came here today to congratulate the general, congratulate the general!" Zhang Xun laughed.

"Oh." Tuoba Shiyi Yu asked strangely, "Why am I so happy?"

"I know that General Ma Yu likes to drink Qingzhou spirits the most. Today, I brought ten jars of Qingzhou mellow wine to drink. Isn't it a happy event for the general!"

Zhang Xun took a step forward and said in a low voice: "Today, Xun also gave the general a piece of wealth, which can be described as double happiness!"

"Happy event" Ma Yu said with a smile: "The treasurer Zhang is not generous, just ten altars, the general drank it all in a few days, and if he can't drink green wine and fragrant wine in the future, life will be even more difficult... Wait, what do you say? rich?"

Zhang Xun said: "I plan to buy the prisoners of war from the general!"

"Prisoners?" Ma Yu asked back: "What do you want prisoners of war for? Do you also want to rebel?"

Zhang Xun said with a smile: "The general is joking. Xun has always been timid. He didn't even dare to kill a pig. How could he have the courage to rebel... It's just that Xun found an iron mine, which needs labor to mine. As long as there is enough manpower, Xun There is an inexhaustible supply of steel!"

Xianbei is a nomadic people. Ordinary herdsmen are very poor. The captives left in the battles are only children and women. Women can breed people, and children become the strength of their tribe when they grow up.And other young and strong or old and weak will basically be killed, so as not to waste food!Now the habit of not keeping prisoners has been passed down.Now he heard that the captives could be sold for money, which made him very happy.

Ma Yu said: "I have some captives in my hand, which are used to practice martial arts for wolf cubs. If the price is right, I can consider it. But..."

"But what..."

"But this general doesn't want money. He wants food, steel, and the down jacket you sent last time. It's so warm!"

Zhang Xun thought for a while and said, "Yes..."

The price was negotiated, and the first transaction began.

Ma Yuyong had more than 8000 captives, two-thirds of whom were women and children. These captives included the Huns, the Xianbei from the Murong tribe, and a few people from Buyeo, Goguryeo, and Sanhan.

Zhang Xun used 8000 shi of grain, [-] shi of salt, and [-] jin of pig iron to trade more than [-] captives with Ma Yu.

Even if according to the price of grain in Wei State, a stone of grain is less than 680 yuan, salt is a little more expensive, a stone needs 800 yuan, and [-] catties of iron, the actual price is about [-] million yuan.The average price per person is about [-] yuan.A cow can still be sold for six to eight dollars, almost the same price as a sheep!
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