Poor family mother and son

Chapter 261 Cutting Leeks or Pulling Leeks?

Seeing the emperor lowering his eyes to think, but slightly raising his brows, Hu Hengqiu seemed to have guessed some of the emperor's thoughts - what is clear is mine, what is mine is still mine, the world belongs to me!
There is nothing wrong with this principle!
only……

"Your Majesty, it's really interesting that you say that Chu Qing is really interesting, the two of you still share yours and mine," Hu Hengqiu said with a smile, "But that's right, his son's money for running the school is all earned from the food street, and it is taken from the people. It can be used for the people, and it can also train a large number of craftsmen."

The emperor raised his eyelids to look at him: "Training?"

Hu Hengqiu said: "Look, it says on it: The first year is exempt from training. If you don't charge money and teach skills for nothing, isn't that just training?"

The emperor laughed: "That's obviously because I'm afraid we won't be able to recruit people! Will we start collecting money next year?"

Hu Hengqiu: "Your Majesty is wise! However, who would teach others their skills? As the saying goes: 'The disciples of the church starve to death the master', these skills cannot be bought with money."

Emperor: "Hmph, his son is very calculating. He took someone else's Shuxiu and ordered him to work for nothing. The master who recruited apprentices didn't do that either!"

In the eyes of the emperor, running a school is the most profitable.

Why do folks open all kinds of academies? Who would do such things if they don’t make money?This is a good way to earn both fame and money.

Xiao Bao really thought so, the emperor was right.

Hu Hengqiu: "Yes! Your majesty is wise, so her son should 'pay taxes'! Anyway, the skills taught in his school are his mother's, and his mother has to 'pay taxes'. Why doesn't he pay?"

The emperor suddenly choked.

The various crafts used in Chuqing's industry were either invented by Chuqing or improved by Chuqing, all of which had never been seen before. It was precisely because of these that the emperor took a fancy to intervene in Chuqing's business, and used some policies to replace them. Great "benefits".

It's not impossible to "grab it openly", but it's too ugly to do it like that, Chu Qing can stop doing anything, and Xiao Fu will be fine.

What's more, she dedicated things like looms, improved spinning wheels, and blast furnace blueprints to the imperial court. If the imperial court went too far, she would have no way out.

The emperor looked at the "Cotton Picture" in his hand, and glared at Hu Hengqiu: "You boy, you are turning around and scolding me for being greedy!"

Hu Hengqiu immediately put on a smiling face: "Look at what the emperor said, how dare I dare, I just wonder: is it better to cut leeks or pull them out?"

The emperor disagreed with this statement: "You are still a commander! Chu Qing is more knowledgeable than you! What people say is 'sustainable development'!"

Hu Hengqiu touched his nose: "That doesn't mean the same thing. Besides, the metaphor of leeks is also clearly stated."

The emperor changed the subject, and clicked on the second-to-last page of "Cotton Picture": "Hey, he is not greedy for merit."

Hu Hengqiu agreed: "Yes."

The emperor put the "Cotton Map" aside, and said: "This album, take it to be engraved, printed into a book, and distributed by the state governments."

Hu Hengqiu: "Chu Qing's son has already printed a batch of textbooks for his college."

Emperor: "Free too?"

Hu Hengqiu: "Yes."

The emperor was silent.

Hu Hengqiu couldn't guess what the emperor was thinking, so he said something else: "Your Majesty, Chu Qing reported an interesting thing..."

Chu Qing purchases cotton at ten cents per catty in Daxuan, and after the lord of Tuhuerte, King Guli, breached the contract, he no longer imports their cotton.

This incident made several major silk merchants headed by Jiangnan's Meng family see an opportunity, and they placed orders with King Guli one after another. Of course, the purchase price was seven cents per catty that Chu Qing had set at the beginning.

King Gu Li has made a lot of money from cotton in the past two years, so he is no longer proactive in establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries. He also suggested that the Voss royal family should also plant more cotton.

King Guli said: "As long as we have money, there is no need to establish diplomatic relations. We are planning to establish diplomatic relations because we lack food and iron, but we can buy these if we have money!"

King Voss believes that the key iron and grains will be passive if they only rely on purchases.

But King Guli said: "The food we grow ourselves is not enough to eat, so we still have to buy it.

As long as we have enough money, we can buy food and iron ingots. Merchants are mercenaries. As long as we pay, there is nothing we cannot buy!

In less than ten years, we will be able to attack Daxuan directly. By then, everything will be ours, and we don't need to negotiate terms with them! "

King Gu Li also suggested to King Voss: "Your wise king, you should call on the whole country to plant cotton. Do you know that people in Daxuan use cottonseed oil to make soap? We can sell them both cotton and soap. , isn’t this earning two shares of money?”

Chu Qing's workshop did not keep some simple techniques secret, such as soap, so King Gu Li got the production method without much trouble.

This is also the main reason why the two sides have exchanged visits several times in the past two years but have not established formal diplomatic relations.

Regarding the establishment of diplomatic relations, the emperor of Daxuan was not in a hurry, he thought it was a dispensable thing.

But what Hu Hengqiu said next made the emperor interested.

Hu Hengqiu said: "Several major silk merchants in the south of the Yangtze River began to compete for the cotton business, trying to squeeze Chuqing out, but Chuqing's "Bao Qingxiang" has established branches in many state capitals and has a reputation, so they want to squeeze out It's hard to break down.

And these silk merchants found that the production cycle of cotton cloth was short, and they saw quick profits, so they had already put a lot of money on the purchase of cotton.

Daxuan's cotton is currently in Chuqing's hands, so these merchants have basically divided up the cotton in the country of Voss, so much so that the Virat area, which originally cultivated grain, has also changed its grain fields into cotton fields. "

"They don't grow food anymore?" asked the emperor.

Hu Hengqiu said: "Yes, Chu Qing's report mentioned such a thing: At the beginning, Hong Guogong killed the leaders of the two big tribes, Tuhuerte and Suote;

Only the leader of Virat returned alive, and he controlled the food of the entire country of Voss, so the new leaders of the other two tribes have always hated him and felt helpless towards him;
And King Voss' attitude was also very indifferent, because only the leader of Virat survived, which was a kind of betrayal to King Voss, thinking that he didn't try his best at the beginning, so his sons died, but he was still alive.

In order to impact the cotton fabric market and defeat Chuqing, Daxuan's silk merchants not only bought cotton, but also directly purchased their white folds, making the cotton supply in the country of Voss in short supply.

So when King Vos ordered Virat to switch to cotton, the leader of Virat, the Right Wise King Champa, could only agree. "

The emperor slapped the table angrily: "We value profit over justice, see profit and forget justice, there is no bottom line!"

Impacting the cotton market and crushing Chuqing, is this dealing with Chuqing?This is against me!
But it's useless for him to be angry. Only the three of them know that he accounts for [-]% of the property's income.

"Chuqing doesn't have any countermeasures?" The emperor was not in a hurry to establish diplomatic relations, but worried about Chuqing's benefits.

What will happen if diplomatic relations are established, that poor place!
Hu Hengqiu: "Yes..."

The emperor finally calmed down, and heard Hu Hengqiu say: "Chu Qing disguised the spies of the secret investigation department as agricultural masters again, and taught them to manage the cotton fields."

"What?" The emperor was about to pat the table again, but felt that Chu Qing was not so stupid, so he stopped and looked at Hu Hengqiu.

Hu Hengqiu said: "The report that Chu Qing gave me didn't specify details, but it only guaranteed that it would not affect the silver taels she handed in."

(End of this chapter)