Shengsheng sells pork at the price of cabbage, is it reasonable? Yan Shikuan really couldn't turn the corner for a while, he took the cigarette on the table and lit one, and took a few puffs before he said in a sullen voice: "I still don't understand, how much is medicine worth?" If it's expensive, no one buys it, right? ”

"You know? Have you ever heard of packaging sales? Yi Zhisuff glanced at him, and said slowly: "Sold as a medicine, especially a popular drug, the price cannot be expensive, but have you thought about it, as a medicine such as cough medicine, the content of this thing is very small, as long as the sales volume is large, this profit will not be inferior to the opium trade." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition, dumping in the West under the guise of drugs will not only not be resisted, but will be widely popular, which is conducive to quickly opening up the market and expanding sales. Our current military strength is not as good as others, and we can't forcibly dump opioids like England, but we have to package it well and package it into a medicine that they are willing to accept. ”

"Isn't this the darkness of Chen Cang." Yan Shikuan blinked his small eyes and said, "This method is really possible?" ”

"It should be fine." Yi Zhizhi groaned: "What we need to pay attention to is that we can't make too much money, and we must balance the trade between the East and the West, otherwise, it will inevitably lead to war." ”

"You can't make too much money......." Yan Shikuan smiled when he heard this, "Then don't sell any aspirin for the time being." ”

With a slight groan, Yi Zhizhi nodded and said, "This suggestion is not bad, aspirin can be hidden first." After a pause, he said: "This thing has a large demand for opium, and it must have its own opium planting base, but you can consider planting opium in the Japanese country. ”

"Mosquitoes are small but also meat." Yan Shikuan said smoothly: "This thing can also be sold in the Wa Kingdom, why don't you make money if you have silver?" ”

"It's too close." Yi Zhizhi said: "I'm worried that the return of the sales to the Japanese country will be in our Qing Dynasty, wouldn't that be lifting a stone to shoot myself in the foot?" ”

"The trade with the Wa Kingdom is completely monopolized by Yuanqi, who has the guts?" Yan Shikuan said slowly: "This thing can definitely make a large amount of gold and silver outflow from the Wa Kingdom, which is conducive to Yuan Qi's ...... issuing banknotes in the Wa Kingdom." ”

This is also true, but Yi Zhixiang is worried that this will destroy the existing situation of the Japanese State, he does not want the Japanese State to break out a large-scale curtain movement, and hopes that the Japanese State will always maintain the existing policy of closing the country, and only after a little muttering, he said: "There is no hurry for the time being, and we will consider the Japanese State after large-scale production." As he spoke, he turned his head, "Is there any circulation in the market for the big money issued by the imperial court?" ”

"It's not just a lot of money, but also official tickets and treasure money." Yan Shikuan said and took out a few coins and banknotes and put them on the table one by one, Yi Zhizu took a piece of money and looked at it, and said, "This is not big money." ”

"This is Daoguang to lose weight and make less money." Yan Shikuan glanced at it, and said like a few treasures: "According to the custom of the Yongzheng period, each piece of money should weigh one penny and two cents, and every thousand pieces should weigh seven catties and eight taels." This light money has already begun to lose weight, and it only weighs four catties and eight taels per thousand. As he spoke, he pulled it and said, "This is when ten coins, each weighing four coins and four cents, and this is when a hundred coins weighs six coins and five cents each..... ”

Yi Zhisuff picked up a few coins and looked at them, and picked up another banknote, "This is an official ticket, a silver ticket..... Yan Shikuan introduced: "The Hubu Bank issued four kinds: one tael, five taels, ten taels, and fifty two, and the other few are treasure banknotes, which are equivalent to making money, and are divided into four types: five hundred wen, one thousand wen, one thousand five hundred wen, and two thousand wen. At the same time, the Hubu Bank also stipulated that one tael of official bills should boycott 2,000 wen of money, and 2,000 wen of treasure banknotes should be worth one tael of silver. ”

This is equivalent to the official stipulation that the price of silver money is exchanged for two thousand Wen, Yi Zhizhi did not say a word, and carefully read all the banknotes that should be made, and then said: "Whose bad idea is this?" Can this solve the problem of the imperial court's financial constraints? It's just chaos! It will inevitably lead to the corruption of the currency system and financial chaos! ”

Yan Shikuan looked at him and said, "Do we Yuanqi refuse to accept it?" ”

"Of course I refuse!" Yi Zhixiang said without thinking: "All money, official bills, and treasure banknotes will be refused, and you know with your ass that the imperial court will definitely issue uncontrollably and resolutely refuse to accept them!" Otherwise, it's looking for death! ”

Hearing this, Yan Shikuan hesitated and said: "Our Yuanqi has the confidence to refuse to accept it, but other money and silver numbers may not dare, and it is impossible for the gentry and merchants to refuse to accept it, so Yuanqi's loss is not ......" ”

"No matter how big the loss is, it will be rejected!" Yi Zhishu said in a deep voice: "Otherwise, we will be killed by the imperial court!" ”

"And." Yan Shikuan said softly: "I heard that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is also minting money in Tianjing...... ”

"The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has also minted its own money, and it has done a good job." Yi Zhishu sneered, and then said: "We only recognize money, not people, as long as the money of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is good and weighty, we will accept it, if it doesn't work, we will also refuse to accept it!" ”

"What about the money?" Yan Shikuan said tentatively: "Now, if the exchange ratio stipulated by the imperial court is one or two for two thousand Wen, are we equal?" ”

Yi Zhizu said in a deep voice: "Inform the general number and all branches, let's stop the silver money exchange business and exchange all the money on hand into silver." ”

After a slight sigh, Yan Shikuan said: "The big shopkeeper is worried that the money-to-money ratio will continue to rise? ”

"Not bad." Yi Zhi's jaw said: "The currency system is corrupt, the financial situation is chaotic, and the silver-to-money ratio will gradually rise, so we don't need to take this risk!" ”

"Okay, I'll let you know right away." Yan Shikuan said and stood up, "Wait." Yi Zhisuff stopped him and said: "Northern Jiangsu, the silver that blocked the breach must be allocated as soon as possible, and it must not be delayed." ”

Seeing him mention this, Yan Shikuan couldn't help but say: "Big shopkeeper, the river engineering budget silver that Lin Xiang transferred is five million taels, and our silver is not blown by the wind, and the imperial court is not collecting ......money by unscrupulous means." ”

"The court is not a dime." Yi Zhishu said and picked up the newspaper and threw it over, and said: "Look at it, intercept 650,000 grains for disaster relief, besides, Lin Yuan Qi has a great favor, we can't let Lin Xiang not get off the stage, and don't be so short-sighted, Yuan Qi's disaster relief this time and the money to block the breach are also an invitation to buy people's hearts, which is conducive to the ...... of Yuanqi's garrison in northern Jiangsu, Henan, and Shandong in the future." ”

Yan Shikuan was overjoyed when he heard it, "The big shopkeeper is preparing to garrison troops in Jiangbei?" ”

"What do you rejoice in? You don't have your share in fighting. Yi Zhishu said and waved his hand: "Hurry up and get busy." ”

After Yan Shikuan left, Yi Zhizhi got up and paced to the window to push open the window, allowing the air to circulate and disperse the smoke in the room, but he was a little bored in his heart, the imperial court widely implemented the gold system along the Yangtze River, Jiangsu, and Henan, after all, this method can still effectively collect money, but it is very unwise to issue large amounts of money and banknotes, not to mention the limited amount of money, it will also cause a wave of financial chaos, and for Yuan Qi, it is not a good thing.

Lin Meilian came in to clean up, and when she saw him leaning against the window, she said tentatively: "Sir, I am scheduled to go to Baoshan Machinery Factory today, do you still want to go?" ”

"Go, why don't you go?" Yi Zhishu said and raised his wrist to look at the time, and said, "It's still early, pack up and go to Baoshan with me to relax." ”

"My subordinates understand." Lin Meilian said with joy in her heart.

Baoshan Machinery Factory is located in the western suburbs of Baoshan County, almost synchronous with the construction of Shanghai New City, although the factory was not built for a long time, but because of the focus of easy contentment, just a few years has developed into a vast area, huge scale, with 3,000 workers of the factory, is one of the largest factories in Baoshan.

Yi Zhizu took Lin Meilian into the factory in a carriage, and then turned straight to the factory on the right, which is not only surrounded by high walls, but also heavily guarded, and workers who enter and exit must go through strict inspections, because this is a military factory, specializing in the production of firearms, and the famous Mini gun is produced from here.

Yi Zhizu came to inspect, not only because the demand for Mini guns in the Qing army and the Taiping Army increased greatly during this time, but also because the pace of the Crimean War is getting closer and closer, and now it is the end of the first year of Xianfeng.

After entering the factory, the carriage went straight to a single courtyard, which is the courtyard where Yi Zhizhi lives in the military factory, he usually comes to the military factory to live for a period of time, as short as three or five days, as long as seven or eight days, and the longest one lives for more than a month, which is why Lin Meilian happily accompanied him here.

The yard is taken care of every day, the flowers and plants in the yard are waited for very well, although it is winter, the yard is also a piece of emerald green, the room is also neatly cleaned up, the windows are bright and clean, into the yard, Lin Meilian stomped her feet and said: "Xiaotian, Xiaotian." ”

"Here we are." A seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy with thick eyebrows and big eyes ran in from outside the courtyard, bowed down and said, "I've seen the lord, I've seen Sister Lian." As he spoke, he smiled and said, "The room has a charcoal fire, so go in and warm up,"

All the way by train and carriage, Yi Zhizhi really felt a little cold, especially his feet were cold, he glanced at the gloomy sky, he estimated that there would be another continuous winter rain, he didn't say much, nodded, and walked into the house quickly, Xiaotian said while making tea with his hands and feet: "The lord will rest first, and the soup manager will come in a while." ”

Lin Meilian said with a smile: "Is there hot water, let the lord wash up and soak his feet first." ”

"Yes, yes, yes." Xiao Tian hurriedly said: "The hot water has been prepared for a long time." ”

After washing up and just starting to soak his feet, the chief manager Tang Renhui hurried over, bowed his hand and said with a smile: "The big shopkeeper hasn't come for some time." ”

"It's been a busy time, and I just came back from Xuzhou." Yi Zhishu pointed to the chair and said, "Sit, don't be formal." Seeing this, Lin Meilian served hot tea to the two of them, then gave them a look, and retreated with the little celestial body.

Yi Zhizu casually asked, "How much inventory of Minnie guns are there today?" ”

"Not much." Tang Renhui said slowly: "Originally, there were 10,000 in stock, 5,000 were delivered to the Wuchang Eight Banners New Army, and 3,000 were delivered to the Yangtze River Water Division, but now there are only about 2,300 left. ”

Yi Zhizhi smiled: "There are still more than 2,000 stocks, not bad, it seems that the output has increased again?" ”

"It's a little bit better, but it's not very noticeable." Tang Renhui said: "The proficiency of barrel rifling has steadily improved, however, the pass rate of barrel forging has not increased significantly, mainly because of the large difference in caliber, and now it is mainly subject to the barrel. ”

After taking a sip of tea, Yi Zhizu took out a cigarette and lit it, and then said slowly: "In the past two or three years, the demand for mini guns is indeed large, but we can't always think about imports, there is pressure to have motivation...... The pass rate of the barrel caliber is not high, and it is necessary to find more reasons and find reasons from all sides. ”

"The big shopkeeper." Tang Renhui hesitated and said: "I wonder if Citigroup's gun barrel qualification rate is also not high. ”

"This, it's really not clear, let's take a look later." Yi Zhishu turned his head as he spoke, "What about the situation of land artillery and mountain howitzers?" ”

"There is no problem with the bronze cast cannon, but the cast iron cannon still doesn't work, and there is not much progress." Tang Renhui said: "The barrel is easy to break, and if the barrel is applied, the weight is too heavy. ”

"Where's the hoop?"

"The hoop is not as good as bronze." Tang Renhui was a little puzzled and said: "Why does the big shopkeeper repeatedly insist on using iron cannons? Isn't the bronze cannon better? ”

"Cost." Yi Zhisuff flicked the soot, "The cost of the copper cannon is too expensive, and the quality of the copper is too soft, which limits the further increase of the power of the artillery, and the iron cannon is the mainstream in the future, don't rush this matter, take your time, this has to accumulate slowly, if you want to eat a big fat man in one go, it is impossible."

One thing you may not know is that the power of gunpowder is getting bigger and bigger, and it can even be said that it is a qualitative leap, and the copper cannon will soon face elimination, so you should not waste too much energy and manpower on the copper cannon, but concentrate the main energy and excellent talents on the iron cannon, and the large-caliber naval artillery of the navy must also be completely self-sufficient in the future. ”

Before the words fell, Lin Meilian coughed lightly outside the door, and then came in and said, "Sir, Lord Wu is here." ”

Wu Changqing is here? Yi Zhisuff was surprised, and hurriedly said, "Let him in." Saying that, he hurriedly pulled his feet out of the basin to wipe his feet and put on socks and galoshes, he knew very well that something must have happened urgently, otherwise Wu Changqing would not have been able to chase him here, he generally knew that he had entered the military factory, and he would never bother him with idle things.

Seeing Wu Changqing walking in sweating profusely, his heart couldn't help but sink, and he hurriedly said, "What's wrong?" ”

"Grandpa is critically ill." Wu Changqing said and took a sip of the hot tea on the table, he rushed to the train station and didn't catch the train, so he rushed over quickly.

Wu Bingjian is critically ill! Yi Zhizhi couldn't help but be content, and then realized that Wu Bingjian must have wanted to see him, so he immediately pulled his feet and left, and ordered: "Hurry up and go to the dock and requisition a small steamer." ”