Zhao Shizhen thought about it for a long time, but he still didn't understand who lost in the end.

Since the Ming merchants have earned, the court has also earned, and the military government has also earned, there must be a personal loss, right? But it seems that the Spanish merchants did not lose anything, regardless of silk or porcelain, they were all high-value luxury goods on their side, and they did not lose anything, and Spain also collected taxes from the merchants, and in the end, no one lost?

He vaguely felt that Chen Mu's calculation method was wrong, and he couldn't calculate it like this, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

For a while, only Chen Mu and Zhao Shizhen stared at each other, but Xu Wei opened his mouth to break the embarrassment: "What about the silver?" ”

Zhao Shizhen slapped his thigh: "That's right! The silver flowed back to the imperial court from the military government, and the silver earned by the merchants was not the silver earned by the military government, even if it changed hands several times later, the western merchants earned four taels for silver, and the merchants earned more than three taels for silver, but they still lost twelve and a half. ”

He finally used his clever brain to figure out the mistake in Chen Mu's words, the silver flowed out of the Oriental Military Government, and finally entered the pocket of the Ming Dynasty merchants, which had nothing to do with the Military Government, and finally for the Military Government, it was exchanged for eighty catties of wool with twelve taels of silver, which was cheaper than the wool shipped from China, but it was more expensive than the cloth that was transported to the country.

The price of wool in China is 10 catties and 1 tael, and even if it is transported here, it is also a task assigned by the government, just like when transporting military supplies, transporting a ship of a certain type of military supplies is allowed to transport two or three ships of goods, and this ship of military supplies will be added to the market price plus the money of the foot boat, and it will not exceed 10 catties and 2 taels.

But if it is directly woven into cloth in China, the price can be further reduced.

Even Chen Mu didn't understand how powerful his own country really was in the handicraft industry - China's handmade textile industry, even before the beginning of the British Industrial Revolution and the outbreak of the First Opium War, England's industry could not be woven at the same cost.

This is not to say that the Industrial Revolution was useless, on the contrary, it was a real leap forward, only that the rest of the world was too backward before the Industrial Revolution.

Assuming that people are equal in intellectual gifts, then it must be the most powerful one with more people, so China, which occupies the world's largest population for most of the time in history, has provided most of the help for the progress of world civilization.

If not, then it must be that the development of this world does not follow objective laws, it is wrong, where is it wrong? Not just the Industrial Revolution, even if people are intellectually gifted, acquired learning opportunities are even more important.

Europeans can learn from all over the world to complement each other's strengths, and your inventions of the past 2,000 years can be learned by the other side in just 20 years, but you don't have the opportunity to collect their intellectual results in time.

Just like the fire gun became a bird gun more than 200 years later, and then it was taken by the Portuguese to hit the door, and immediately began to imitate it to quickly fill the gap, which was good luck for the Ming Dynasty.

The first thing to see is that the bird gun can be imitated immediately, which is two reasons for each other, one is the embodiment of the strong metallurgy and handicraft industry of the Ming Dynasty, and the other is that the technical means of the bird gun have not departed from the cognition of the Ming Dynasty.

Secondly, it was not defeated by people with more advanced weapons, which are also two reasons for each other, one is that the Ming Dynasty is not so weak, and the other is that Portugal is not so strong.

If you change any of the four reasons, the firecracker just turns into a musket, and it doesn't become a bird's gun when it is delivered to you.

This is passive acceptance.

Chen Mu has always opposed passive acceptance.

"Lost twelve and a half? Where did the twenty taels of silver come from? Refined by Taxco? It may be, but it's more likely that it was refined by Potosi, no matter where it was refined, it was not refined by Da Ming Dig. ”

Chen Mu clapped his hands: "Isn't this still profitable?" ”

Get! Zhao Shizhen stopped talking, went around and finally returned to the topic of colonial plunder, so what else did he have to say, this colony was not the New World, it was Spain.

The old madman asked from beginning to end, 'Where does the silver come from', this will have completely lost the ** to continue chatting, and he didn't bother to listen to Chen Mu's tirade, pouted and hummed a small song, and walked out with his bare feet and hands.

Snorted, leaving seven words that he had heard from Chen Mu.

"Semi-colonial, semi-feudal!"

In fact, Xu Wei has already understood everything, so naturally he doesn't need to listen anymore.

In the entire trade link described by Chen Mu, the wool came from the Spanish Mysta nomadic nobles, and the silver to buy the wool came from the Spanish occupied Potosí silver mine.

"Eh, why did the old man leave, call Zou Yuanbiao to me!"

Second Master Chen is rising here, how do you know that Xu Wei waved his hand and went out, and hurriedly called a personal soldier to point to the shoes on the ground and said: "Take it for Mr. Xu, it's not too embarrassing, let Zou Zhixian come over." ”

Zhao Shizhen was helpless, Dashuai, must have two listeners or what's going on? He had already accepted his fate, arched his hand and said, "If the marshal has anything, just say it, and the students will listen." ”

"No, you can't solve this matter, you have to let Zou Yuanbiao come, Chang Sheng has to build a few more factories and make a trademark for me."

"Trademarks." Zhao Shizhen pondered these two words, leaned forward and leaned forward with his little beard and wondered, "What is that?" ”

"To put it bluntly, it's the name of the worker." Chen Mu tilted his head and turned outside, and said: "For example, the four-inch white rabbit pounding medicine copper seal placed at the door of the old Liu's needle shop from Shandong is a trademark, and it is said that their family has been using it since the Song Dynasty, but I still doubt that the store is the Liu family of the Song Dynasty." ”

Liu's needle shop is quite famous in Changsheng Market, and when Chen Mu said this, Zhao Shizhen remembered and said, "Is that the seventy-second or seventy-third store?" At the door, it is written that you will buy high-quality steel bars and make fine needles. Do not mistake the use of the house, resell the ...... Whatever, it sells very well in Changsheng, and the white horse department of white pottery always buys needles from him and sells them to various tribes for women to weave. ”

"But I heard that he doesn't make needles in this shop, they are all shipped from Shandong, and one ship is enough to sell for a year."

"Yes, that's it. In the future, everything that the Oriental military government sells to Europa will have to be trademarked in Changsheng, such as the wool coats and sweaters and pants made in Majiagang, which can still be sold to the Netherlands when they turn around, although there are competitors, but they will soon be gone! ”

In this woolen industry, the European market has been occupied by woolen produced in England, and even most of the wool exported from Spain has been purchased by English merchants, and Chen Muneng does not get much wool from Spain.

Because English merchants bought wool at a high price in Spain, Spain has a very serious inflation, in addition to raw materials, handicrafts and agriculture have collapsed, food prices have more than tripled in recent decades, and they are still rising, and the country's economic environment is very bad.

The price of wool is high, and the price of wool is also high, and the profit is naturally made by England.

Fei Lao Er had no way to make his country's handicraft industry a threat to England, so he could only use military means to destroy England.

Before Zhao Shizhen could ask where the competitor came from and why he was about to disappear, he saw the sound of soap boots stepping on the floor from the second floor of the yamen. I'm just about to come over and catch a weird dealer in the county! ”