jdhmnovel Chapter 500 In the end, we were just too poor.
Chapter 500 In the end, we were just too poor.
Old Deng has been in a bad mood these past few days, like he's on his period.
Compared to Lao Deng, Yang Shaofeng was in a much better mood.
The only problem is that we need to be a little more careful these few days, and not cause trouble for Lao Deng all the time.
After all, Old Deng is a decent father-in-law.
It wouldn't be good if we really angered Old Deng to death.
So Yang Shaofeng took Emperor Zhu and Empress Ma to the border market.
"The scale of the Dengzhou border market is only this big."
"If we want to expand further, the city walls of Dengzhou Prefecture will have to be demolished and rebuilt, which is not cost-effective."
"So, I'm thinking about whether to set up a few more warehouses in other places."
“Grain from Annam can be transported to several prefectures and counties where warehouses are located, and then distributed to other places.”
"This way, we can also alleviate the warehousing pressure in Dengzhou."
"..."
The famously decadent writer Lu Xun once said that there is no problem that money cannot solve.
If so, it only means there isn't enough money.
By substituting the equation, it becomes clear that there is no problem that the market cannot solve.
If so, it only means that the money earned from the border markets is not enough.
While discussing the plans for the border market with Emperor Zhu, Yang Shaofeng led Emperor Zhu and Empress Ma toward a shop selling mirrors.
"The first two days were a trial operation for demonstration purposes."
"Today is the official opening day."
Yang Shaofeng said with a smile, "Father-in-law, why don't you guess how much money this shop will make today?"
Emperor Zhu glanced at Yang Shaofeng, considered for a moment, and then said, "Ten thousand strings of cash?"
In Emperor Zhu's view, mirrors were too expensive, and not many people would buy them.
However, Yang Shaofeng shook his head slightly and said with a smile, "I think this shop can earn at least 100,000 strings of cash today, and it wouldn't be surprising if it even earns a million strings of cash."
A million strings of cash?
According to the tax collection method of Dengzhou Prefecture, this shop can earn a million strings of cash, and the total tax revenue should be at least 800,000 strings of cash.
Earn 800,000 strings of cash in a day?
Earning 800,000 guan a day would be 24 million guan a month?
Just a few shovelfuls of sand?
Thinking about the frighteningly low costs and the terrifyingly high profits, Emperor Zhu's breathing became rapid.
Yang Shaofeng glanced at Emperor Zhu discreetly, then sighed softly.
"such a pity."
"That's how much money I made on the first day. It will probably be less in the future."
Emperor Zhu couldn't help but glare at Yang Shaofeng.
This bastard thing.
Couldn't he just let us be happy for a little while longer?
Just as Emperor Zhu was secretly displeased, Yang Shaofeng sighed and said, "Once things stabilize, the daily transaction volume will probably only be a few hundred thousand strings of cash."
As Yang Shaofeng finished speaking, Emperor Zhu almost fainted from anger.
Was that bastard doing it on purpose?
He must have done it on purpose!
Yang Shaofeng said with a smile, "After all, it's a luxury item."
"If it's sold cheaply, or if people can afford it by gritting their teeth, it can only be considered low-end at best."
"The truly high-end way to play is not something you can achieve by just gritting your teeth."
Even if you bite your teeth to pieces, it won't help.
Yang Shaofeng casually picked up a small mirror the size of a palm and said with a smile, "If you want a full-length dressing mirror made by Viscount Wang Laowai himself, you must first have spent more than one million strings of cash at the border market back then."
"Back then, if your spending was less than one million strings of cash, it was useless no matter how much money you had."
"If the annual consumption amount reaches one million guan, it also depends on whether the monthly consumption amount reaches one hundred thousand guan."
"After these two conditions are met, we also need to see if there is a deposit business at the Baochao Shop and whether the deposit amount reaches ten million guan."
"If you meet the above three conditions, you must first purchase the goods, which are small mirrors that are not easy to sell. Only when the amount of the goods reaches 10,000 strings of cash can you be eligible to purchase the full-length dressing mirror made by Viscount Wang Laowai himself."
"Of course, being eligible is one thing, but the actual final price is another."
"..."
As Yang Shaofeng continued to explain the various ways to enjoy luxury goods, Emperor Zhu was completely stunned.
Ultimately, it's because our old Zhu is too poor.
Poverty limits our imagination.
……
The famous philosopher Wang Jingze once said that no one in the world can escape the "it smells so good" phenomenon, not even an emperor.
As it turns out, Mr. Jingze was right.
Faced with the mirror shop's sales of 1.3 million strings of cash, even Emperor Zhu had to admit, "It's really good!"
But after the initial excitement, a deep sense of anger followed.
Emperor Zhu never imagined that of the more than 1.3 million strings of cash in sales from the mirror shop, more than 900,000 strings were contributed by merchants from the Ming Dynasty.
"We originally thought that this mirror would be like other things, mainly a scam... mainly to make money from Korean and Annam merchants."
"But look at this, the merchants from Goryeo, Annam, Ryukyu, Siam, Burma, and Champa combined don't spend as much as the merchants from our Great Ming."
"Does the emperor possess the wealth of the entire realm?"
"Is the emperor truly wealthy throughout the four seas?"
Compared to them, I, the emperor, am more like a pauper!
The more Emperor Zhu thought about it, the angrier he became.
"We really didn't expect that just a mirror could bring them all out."
"They've really stopped pretending altogether."
However, Empress Ma chuckled and said, "Isn't this quite good?"
"Whether they pretend or not, they've already spent their money at the border market."
"As for where they resell the mirrors and how much money they make from it, that's their own business."
"Besides, don't you know your wonderful son-in-law?"
"Since he allowed those merchants to buy large quantities of small mirrors, it means he had already thought of a way to deal with them."
"Of course, it cannot be ruled out that he simply wanted to use those merchants to swindle people."
Emperor Zhu hummed in agreement, then sighed softly and said, "I understand this principle, but I just don't feel at ease."
"How could a few merchants possibly have the ability to buy so many mirrors?"
"These people are truly rotten to the core."
At this point, Emperor Zhu couldn't help but sneer, "Not competing with the people for profit, ha, I think it's because they don't want us to compete with them for profit."
"In the eyes of these bastards, only they are the common people. They don't care about the lives of ordinary people!"
Seeing the furious Emperor Zhu, Empress Ma smiled and said, "They don't care, but aren't there some who do?"
Empress Ma reached out and grasped Emperor Zhu's hand, smiling as she said, "You, as the emperor, care."
"Your good son-in-law cares too."
"The combination of border markets and progressive taxation, along with this luxury goods and luxury tax, isn't this just helping you take money out of those people's pockets?"