novelslam Chapter 396: Start A Business
Chapter 396: Start A Business
Xian Wang is a dog nose.
Both Xu Qing and Xiao Ye have experienced this.
At the beginning, Concubine Xian hid the wine tightly, and King Xian could find it by following the smell of the wine.
Xu Qing thought for a while and said, "My lord, don't you only have a concubine?"
King Xian said with a proud face: "Of course, why are you acting like a fool behind your wife's back?"
Xu Qing asked: "Then why can the lord be able to distinguish so clearly that there are four women's fragrances on my body?"
King Xian's expression froze when he heard this, and then he suddenly smiled and said, "Come, come, sit down, let's continue to discuss how to solve the military budget that is still short of 500,000 yuan. Do you have any good ideas?"
Xu Qing couldn't help rolling her eyes, but she sat down anyway, then looked around wonderingly, "Why didn't you call the Minister of the Household Department over? He's the one who manages the money."
The virtuous king said: "The fact that the emperor can come to this king proves that the court has no idea. Five hundred thousand taels is not fifty taels. How can you get it casually? You have the most active brains in the civil and military affairs of the dynasty. Hurry up and give it to me." Wang Xiangxiang, is there any good way? Where can I get another 500,000 taels?"
Xu Qing thought for a while and said, "Can we issue national debt?"
The virtuous king wondered, "What is a national debt?"
Xu Qing said: "In the name of the country, the imperial court borrowed silver taels from civil and military officials and wealthy businessmen in the country. When the treasury is full in the future, it will be returned with interest."
Sitting on a chair, Emperor Chu was playing with a piece of ice that he grabbed from a plate on the table, shook his head and said, "It's a good idea, but unfortunately it doesn't work."
Xu Qing asked suspiciously, "Why does Your Majesty say that?"
Emperor Chu said: "The imperial court has always suppressed businessmen. Rich merchants are afraid of resenting the imperial court. Naturally, they will not lend money easily, let alone the interest. However, all the officials seem to be interested in the imperial court, but in fact they have evil intentions. They are afraid of borrowing money from them. Will immediately turn around and cry poorly to the court, let alone them, I will borrow from you, are you willing to borrow?"
Xu Qing immediately said: "Don't tell me, Your Majesty, they are all crying poor, I am really poor! Besides, even if I sell Andingbo's mansion by myself, I still can't raise 500,000 taels!"
Seeing Xu Qing's appearance, Emperor Chu didn't feel the slightest surprise: "So, if you expect all the officials to raise enough military supplies for the court, they won't accept this trick unless the imperial brother force them to submit in such a swift and violent way."
Xu Qing thought for a while and asked: "Why don't the rich merchants who lent money to the imperial court grant them some false titles and official positions?"
The Emperor of Chu shook his head and said: "No! If this is the first of its kind, it will make other countries and the people feel that the imperial court took the lead in selling officials to collect money, and the local chief officials will probably also do this in private to seek money. Although it may solve my emergency for Da Chu, but it will cause endless troubles!"
Xian Wang also felt that he was a bit difficult to make things difficult for others. This is not good, that is not good. Xu Qing is also a person, so he can't be used as a god of wealth!
It can't be like what Xu Qing wrote in the "Beijing Xunbao" last time: throw five hundred thousand taels of iron into the river, pray for a dull river god to run out of the river, and say: What you dropped is This five hundred thousand taels of gold, or this five hundred thousand taels of silver?
If this can be changed, I will definitely throw the shadow guards in, bring a golden shadow guard and a silver shadow guard, and then go back and forth many times, throw out five million shadow guards, and unify the Central Plains.
Just when the virtuous king was sighing, Xu Qing suddenly said: "Why don't we do business again?"
When Emperor Chu heard what Xu Qing said, he immediately asked, "What business?"
King Xian immediately pulled Emperor Chu away: "Come on, don't listen to the emperor, just tell me."
We all know that Xu Qing generally doesn't do business, but once he does, he may make a lot of money!
Sitting on the chair, the Emperor Chu stretched out his hand and resisted the Xian King's pulling powerlessly: "Whoever sees it has a share!"
But obviously, the Emperor Chu couldn't beat the Xian Wang, and couldn't resist the Xian Wang's pull at all.
In the end, the victorious king looked at Xu Qing and said, "Come on, tell me in detail, what kind of business is it?"
Xu Qing put the ring around his waist on the table and said, "I wonder how much the prince and His Majesty think this ring is worth?"
The Xian King and the Emperor Chu who had just been pushed aside and leaned closer with a face down looked carefully at the pendant that Xu Qing put on the table.
Emperor Chu took the lead and said: "Crystal clear, translucent and smooth, it is the top grade among colored glazes. I never imagined that you have such a treasure. Where did you get it? However, this piece of colored glaze ring pendant cannot be sold for five dollars no matter what." One hundred thousand taels, right?"
Colored glass is rare, and top-grade glass is even harder to find.
Among the Three Kingdoms in the Central Plains, colored glaze was once considered to be more valuable than jade.
The world is vying for glazed objects.
There is a price but no market!
Xu Qing said: "How about taking out a few more boxes of colored glaze like this or bigger?"
Emperor Chu was surprised and said, "How many boxes do you have of this kind of glass?!"
Xu Qing shook his head and said, "Now...no..."
Chu Huang: "What a fart without you!"
Xu Qing: "If not, we can do it now..."
"Do it now?" Chu Huang frowned and said: "The method of making colored glaze costs a lot of money, how can there be time?"
Liuli is indeed handmade, but not only the production cost is high, the materials used are also very demanding, and the time period is long.
Although colored glaze is man-made, it consumes a lot of money and energy.
Now that Da Chu is short of money, and has no time to make colored glaze to sell for money, naturally he will not allocate funds for Xu Qing to make colored glaze now.
Xu Qing smiled and said, "Real colored glaze is hard to make, but what about fake colored glaze?"
King Xian frowned and said, "Can Liuli be fake?"
Xu Qing said: "This ring pendant of the minister is fake colored glaze, doesn't your majesty say it is the top grade colored glaze?"
Emperor Chu was surprised: "You say your piece is fake colored glaze?"
Xu Qing nodded: "Fake ones can't be faked anymore."
The Emperor Chu looked disbelieving: "This thing is much clearer than most colored glazes, how can it be fake? If this thing is fake, is there any real colored glaze in the world?"
Xu Qing said: "A pile of sand burnt out, your Majesty thinks this thing is real or not?"
Emperor Chu swallowed involuntarily: "A pile of... sand?"
Xu Qing nodded: "Yes, this kind of fake colored glaze is not only pitifully cheaper than real colored glaze, but also takes much less time than real colored glaze, and can be produced in large quantities."
Emperor Chu continued to confirm: "You really didn't lie to me?"
Xu Qing said: "Didn't that minister commit the crime of deceiving the emperor?"
The Xian Wang was also looking at the ring jade pendant and said, "If a pile of sand can make such exquisite colored glaze, wouldn't I, Da Chu, be the richest country in the world by selling colored glaze?"
Xu Qing hurriedly said: "My lord, please put away your bold idea. Rare things are the most precious. The reason why colored glaze is expensive is not because of its exquisiteness, but because of its scarcity. If tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of catties of colored glaze are produced for sale, then the price of colored glaze may be the price of sand in the future.”
The Emperor Chu on the side came over and said, "That's right, Brother Huang really doesn't understand anything. If you entrust this business to him, sooner or later the business will be messed up. Xu Qing, I heard that Brother Huang has always been at odds with you. It's too much, so why don't I give you four or six? This price is more sincere than the emperor's brother, right?"