Soon, Chen Mu saw the goods that Drake brought out when he set off from the island of England.

There are not many goods, but the workmanship is not bad, but correspondingly, the price is also very high.

Taking woolen wool as an example, there are two kinds of woolen wool produced in England, one is a semi-finished product of plain wide woolen wool, which has not yet been dyed and processed, and the price is 35 florins and five florins per horse.

The flori was a gold coin, one weighing one penny, while the imperial horse was ten zhang long and five feet wide, which was very large.

The Ming system is three feet two feet long and one foot eight inches wide, and the area is 6.5 times smaller than that of the imperial system.

This means that the price of a semi-finished product of woolen woolen was worth three taels of gold and twenty-eight taels of silver in the Ming Dynasty.

After dyeing and processing, the value of the woolen wool will be expanded by three percent.

"Dashuai, there is another problem that they settle in gold, the country has one gold and eight silver, and they have one gold and twenty silver."

Cheng Dawei, who was urgently summoned from Jincheng, fiddled with the abacus, although he looked a little humble in the military mansion, he was indeed the person who had the deepest understanding of arithmetic in the entire New World, and he said to Chen Mu: "If the settlement is in gold, the price of an undyed woolen wool is nearly six times more expensive than the processed Lu silk. ”

Chen Mu rolled his eyes and asked, "What about the other things, the price ratio?" ”

The price of goods is high This is expected by Chen Mu, Europe is in the process of price revolution, Zhao Shizhen checked the price data stored in Spain in the water shelter over the years and concluded that the price of Spain has been rising, Europe is a whole, with Spain occupying half of the volume of Europe, no country can stay out of the wave.

The abacus crackled in the partial hall of the official office, and Chen Mu, the minister of the Orient, Zhao Shizhen, the director of the military government, Zou Yuanbiao, the magistrate of the county, and others all stared at Cheng Dawei intently, making the forehead of the master of arithmetic sweat unconsciously appear, and the more he calculated, the more nervous he became.

One by one, the data was listed, Cheng Dawei's face became more and more ugly, when the sound of the abacus stopped, he wrote the last one on the paper with a hard pen, put it aside and raised his head again, his face was very bad: "Dashuai, all prices except glass are higher than ours, including salt, cotton, wool, flour, copper, iron, coal, all are much higher, much higher." ”

"And in terms of quality, their highest production of wool is no better than that we produce in Majiagang, at most it is only between the best; Iron products and copper products are mostly rough, if you want to compare, not to mention Fujian and Guangzhou, any military craftsman in the two capitals and thirteen provinces can make such a level of things. ”

In the manufacturing industry, especially in the textile industry, ancient China has never been afraid of anyone.

"Only glass is lower than our glass price, if there is no handsome way to do business." Cheng Dawei said a word of praise, but it didn't sound like he was praising Chen Mu's business talent, he said: "Then except for exchanging goods and gold for silver, it is not cost-effective to buy anything from them." ”

Gold for silver?

Chen Mu felt that this was not appropriate: "It's better to exchange goods, our gold is not much, not enough to support the purchase and sale of bulk goods, not to mention that it is only twice the profit, it is not worth a trip by merchant ships." ”

Zhao Shizhen suddenly spoke: "Dashuai, the student has been doubting for a long time, why Dashuai is unwilling to let the Spanish royal family make money, but he doesn't care about the English royal family?" ”

"Don't care? What do you mean, to make money for their queen? ”

Chen Mu shook his head with a smile, but soon the smile on his face disappeared, and he said very cautiously: "Of course I care, in every inch of land outside of the Ming Dynasty, I don't want anyone to make any money from me." ”

"But there is always a loss and a profit in buying and selling, and the difference is who makes the ...... Spain is very big, Fei Lao Er is belligerent, and whether he wants it or not, he will see me as a thorn in his side, his country can't keep talented people, so money makes his people earn some better, and they will buy us like the most loyal second-way dealers. ”

"England is small, but the queen is wise and has made laws that are conducive to the development of the people, so it is better for the queen to earn money than their creative citizens, after all, they are different from us, will their royal family find ways to use the treasury to build roads and dig ditches for the people?"

"What's more, it's okay to let them make some money."

Chen Mu smiled: "Like I said, England is very small, there will be a war in a year or two, they are very dependent on European goods, and once the war starts, the economy will inevitably weaken, and all kinds of materials will be in short supply, for a better victory, I think we should still buy more things from them." ”

"Mr. Cheng, look at the prices of iron, cotton, flax, wool, and copper, if the loss is not too much, I will let the merchant buy some from there."

Cheng Dawei just glanced at the accounts and said that he would accurately quote the price that was about two or three times more expensive, and finally concluded: "Since it is a loss, why do you still want to do such a transaction?" What's more, we all have these materials, even if they are not shipped from Daming, they are all produced in Asia. ”

"It won't lose money, it's just a little less, the higher cost of raw materials will make the cost of processed products rise, but the price of processed products in their place is also very high, we are also profitable, although the cost of these goods with their own raw materials will be low, but it doesn't matter."

"The important thing is that our purpose is not to compete with England for the European market, but to suppress the manufacturing industry in England.

"But the crackdown on the manufacturing industry, the process is that we use their raw materials to produce one more wool, they lack wool to produce one less wool, and at the same time, because of more production, they will also seize their market in Europe, they enclose the country to make people angry and we make money, this is a win-win."

Killing two birds with one stone is probably the earliest win-win statement.

"Okay, now that the price has been figured out, then the direction of the development of the Oriental Military Government in the next step is there, and Chang Ji has remembered it."

As he spoke, Chen Mu got up and paced the first two chairs in the side hall aside, put down the chart, and casually picked up the bamboo whip to draw a line on the map of Asia, and said: "Changsheng, Jincheng and the three counties where the delta was discovered will continue to vigorously reclaim land in agriculture in the future, gather the aboriginal people, and strive to grow a variety of agricultural products, and the primary task is still to ensure food self-sufficiency." ”

"In addition, to encourage the people to grow cash crops, cotton, linen and vegetable oil, as well as sheep breeding on the Boundary Peninsula, the Dongyang Military Government can give farmers a subsidy of one to three tongbao per catty of cotton, wool, flax and vegetable oil."

"In industry, the production of clay pots, linen, wool, cotton cloth, copper and iron processing products is encouraged, and the military government subsidy of up to 5 percent is also given according to the price of goods."

"Finally, militarily, we are still too far away from England, and in order to gain an advantage, the next step is to send an envoy to Paris to establish contact with France, whether it is by diplomatic means to induce trade, to buy and lease goods, or to obtain commercial permission to establish a trading post, or to create military friction to fight a small war."

Chen Mu pointed with a bamboo whip to the side of the Channel adjacent to England in northwestern France, and said: "In the next year, we must obtain the lease of the Ming Dynasty in this area, not too big, but it is best to have a ready-made port and shipyard, and it is conducive to stationing two thousand troops and a matching number of warships in case of emergency." ”

"The 1,579th year after the birth of Jesus?"

Chen Mu restrained his smile, put the bamboo whip flat on the case, and said to everyone: "The world will remember this year." ”