jdhmnovel Chapter 438 I don't even want to expose you!
Chapter 438 I don't even want to expose you!
Yang Shaofeng always treated the border market as a marketplace.
After all, it's such a big market, with all sorts of random goods, so it's nice to go shopping with my wife every now and then.
However, there were also aspects of this shopping mall that Yang Shaofeng was not satisfied with.
The waiters' Mandarin was not standard and sounded very awkward.
This won't do. I'm here shopping with my wife. Your way of speaking is so awkward. Doesn't this affect my and my wife's shopping experience?
Therefore, the official language of the Ming Dynasty must be spoken uniformly in the border markets from now on, and it must be standard.
Faced with Yang Shaofeng's demands, Park Sung-sung was completely bewildered.
No, can you, Prince Consort Yang, even act like a human being?
In the border market, any shop owned by a foreign vassal state employs Ming Dynasty civilians. If you refuse to let them serve you and insist on having the shopkeepers serve you, aren't you just asking for trouble?
However, Park Sung-sung didn't dare to say it directly.
Like I said before, we can't afford to mess with them.
The entire labor dispatch project in Goryeo is in the hands of this Prince Consort Yang. To put it bluntly, Goryeo still depends on this Prince Consort Yang for its livelihood.
If we really piss him off, what if he causes trouble regarding labor dispatch?
If you can't afford to gamble, then there's no need to gamble.
Park Sung-sung said with a big smile, "Yes, Your Highness is right. After I return to Goryeo this time, I will naturally persuade the King of the Lower Kingdom to build more schools and start promoting the official language of the Ming Dynasty."
Yang Shaofeng smiled, not paying any attention to Park Sung-sung's little scheme.
We could start by promoting the official language of the Ming Dynasty.
After all, language and writing complement each other; writing cannot exist independently of language, and language cannot exist independently of writing.
Give the simplest example.
Why is it necessary for Koreans to include Chinese characters on their ID cards in later generations?
Because Korean characters are not labeled, the Korean language and script cannot be 100% compatible.
The reason for this situation is that the Koreans had already accepted Chinese characters, but after completing the adaptation of the Korean language to Chinese characters, they forcibly broke away from Chinese characters, which naturally led to the situation where the newly created Korean script and the Korean language were incompatible.
Important note: Koreans originally did not have a written language and relied entirely on Chinese characters. The Korean script appeared when King Sejong (Yi Do), the fourth monarch of Korea, promulgated the "Hunminjeongeum" (the Korean alphabet).
In other words, Goryeo during the Hongwu era only had a language, but no written script of its own.
Once the official language of the Ming Dynasty is widely promoted, it will be only natural to promote Chinese characters in the future.
As for the possibility of another South Korean ruler attempting to create a South Korean version of the written language...
Also.
As long as they haven't restored the four prefectures of Liaodong before they develop the Korean script, then they are allowed to develop their own script.
Yang Shaofeng smiled, then pushed a small box on the table in front of Park Sung-sung.
"There are two small gifts inside, which I would like to give to Vice Envoy Park. Vice Envoy Park may wish to open them and take a look."
Yang Shaofeng smiled and said, "These two things will also appear in the border markets in the future."
Park Sung-sung opened the small box with great curiosity and took a look inside, only to find two small jars.
After opening one of the small jars, Park Sung-sung stared blankly at Yang Shaofeng and asked, "Your Highness, this is... salt?"
Yang Shaofeng smiled and nodded.
"Yes, it is salt."
"The other small jar contains spices. Just a tiny bit of it when cooking will make the food exceptionally delicious."
Park Sung-sung didn't look at the spices, but instead looked at Yang Shaofeng and asked, "The Prince Consort just said that salt will be sold in the market from now on?"
Yang Shaofeng smiled and nodded. Park Sung-sung then asked, "May I ask, Your Highness, how much is this salt?"
Yang Shaofeng thought for a moment and smiled, "About fifty copper coins per catty."
Park Sung-sung exclaimed in surprise, "So cheap?"
What the hell!
It was sold too cheaply!
Yang Shaofeng had already had it calculated that even including labor costs, the cost of one pound of sea salt produced in Dengzhou Prefecture would not exceed two coins, and there would still be a profit even if it was sold for five coins.
Therefore, the price of salt produced at the saltworks was three coins per pound, while the price that the people of Dengzhou paid for salt was five coins per pound.
As the number of salt fields increases in the future, salt production will rise further, and costs will fall further.
Furthermore, with the massive road construction projects to be launched throughout the Ming Dynasty, transportation will become increasingly convenient, and the price of this salt in Shaanxi and Shanxi may not exceed ten coins.
It sells for fifty coins per catty, but Yang Shaofeng, adhering to the principle of taking care of vassal states, habitually added a zero to the price in the Ming Dynasty.
I never expected that the price of fifty coins per catty would actually be cheaper!
Suppressing the urge to cry out in his heart, Yang Shaofeng forced a smile and said, "After all, Goryeo is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, so the price of salt cannot be set too high."
After thinking for a moment, Yang Shaofeng simply added, "What I just said was the final price."
"It's the price that salt from the Ming Dynasty was sold to the people of Goryeo."
"If the Korean Minister of State places a large order, the price can be reduced even further."
Since we've already sold it cheaply, let's just push the price down even further.
Completely destroy the South Korean salt industry.
This will make the Koreans dependent on the Ming Dynasty for salt.
Park Sung-sung was completely numb.
Can it get any cheaper?
After pondering for a moment, Park Sung-sung tentatively asked, "May I ask, Your Highness, what is the price of salt if the Ministry of Revenue places a large order?"
Yang Shaofeng said, "It probably won't exceed thirty coins."
"I won't hide it from you. According to the cost accounting of the Dengzhou Saltworks, the cost of one jin of salt is about ten wen."
"Logically speaking, the price of salt sold to Goryeo merchants should also be ten coins."
"However, the output of Dengzhou Saltworks is still too small, and it is not enough to supply the salt needs of the people of Shandong at present."
"For every pound of salt sold to Goryeo merchants, the amount of salt sold to the people of Ming must be reduced."
"That's why the price is a bit high."
"Vice Envoy Park should be able to understand, right?"
Park Sung-sung nodded and replied, "Yes, I understand."
After a pause, Park Sung-sung continued, "May I ask, Your Highness, how much does the common people of the Ming Dynasty pay per pound for this salt?"
Seeing Yang Shaofeng looking at him, Park Sung-sung quickly said, "Your Majesty, I just wanted to ask about the salt price in the Ming Dynasty, so that I can set a price for the people of Goryeo to buy salt later."
Yang Shaofeng thought to himself, "I don't believe you for a second. You big-faced Korean are really bad."
Are you trying to find out the price of salt in the Ming Dynasty?
Or rather, is it even necessary to inquire about the price of salt in the Ming Dynasty?
You just want to guess how much money I swindled from you!
I don't even want to expose you!
Yang Shaofeng smiled and said, "The cost of this salt is about ten coins per pound."
"However, the price sold to the people of the Ming Dynasty is five coins."
"The difference of five coins will be borne by the Ministry of Revenue."
"..."
Park Sung-sung eventually left the Dengzhou government office in a daze.
Let's go back to Korea.
The changes in the Ming Dynasty were too numerous and too rapid, and many things were no longer within our control.
In particular, it affected Prince Chen and Prince Ming, as well as the promotion of the official language of the Ming Dynasty and the issue of salt.