Chapter 13 Let Steel Be the Backbone of the Tang Dynasty (Open Update)

In the face of power, there is no family affection. Since ancient times, the imperial family was the most ruthless. For the sake of the throne, father and son became enemies, and brothers turned against each other. The emperor could also use his daughter as a bargaining chip to marry at will, or even marry him. What's more, he was a son-in-law. Li Yuanguang had only twenty-five daughters, which means that Li Yuan had more than twenty-five sons-in-law (the princess of the Tang Dynasty could remarry).

With too many son-in-laws, they will naturally be worthless. Li Yuan was puzzled whether Chen Ying had dug a big hole for him. Starting a hospital, opening a money shop, and placing seals of money are not a problem for Li Yuan. The key is to see if there is any hidden truth in it.

As the founding emperor, Li Yuan has many confidants. Yu Wenhua, Chen Shuda, Pei Ji, and Xiao Yu are all mature and mature. What Li Yuan could not see through for a while does not mean that they could not see through.

So Li Yuan first called these confidants and friends to the Wude Hall and held a tea party. If it were the past, Pei Ji would just say it about Chen Ying, but now, he really dared not assert directly. As Li Yuan's son-in-law and Li Jiancheng's confidant, Chen Ying's future will definitely be limitless.

The key is that Li Yuan is old and Pei Ji has to consider his future. One day Li Yuan will return to heaven. Li Jiancheng or Li Shimin, no matter who gets the final throne, can only be used to Chen Ying, the pillar of the country, and cannot be suppressed. Although he is older, his descendants are not as good as Chen Ying. Pei Ji's son, Lawyer Pei, is also Li Yuan's son-in-law, and he married Princess Linhai. He is also his brother-in-law with Chen Ying.

However, Lawyer Pei is far inferior to Chen Ying in terms of intelligence and ability. If Lawyer Pei is hated by Chen Ying in the future, Lawyer Pei will have no way to resist the revenge from Chen Ying.

After careful consideration, Pei Ji took a silent speech.

Chen Shuda was relatively honest. He pondered: "Your Majesty, if the money house opened by Chen Prince Madam only collects 20% of the profit, it would be a policy that benefits the people.

All major clans and families are operating this business. Chen Shuda's family also has a business of placing seals. The seals in Chen Shuda's family are typical of nine out of thirteen returns. That is to say, borrowing 100 stakes from Chen Shuda's family, only 90 stakes. When calculating the interest, 130 stakes will be repaid. Such interest is equivalent to more than 40%.

In fact, Chen Shuda is not the darkest, with the blackest interest rate as high as 67%, and even double the profit. Yu Wenhua and laughed and said, "If Chen's husband really plans to collect 20% of the profit, Weichen is willing to borrow 100,000 yuan and repay him 120,000 yuan next year. There is absolutely no problem!"

Li Yuan’s intuition told him that Chen Ying’s money house was not that simple. However, he couldn’t figure it out. The important officials present had nothing to say, only Xiao Shiwen, Xiao Yu and Pei Ji. Li Yuan looked at Pei Ji and said, “Pei Jian, what do you think about this?”

Pei Ji felt a lot of pain in his heart, and he vaguely felt something. But how dare he say it? Could it be that Chen Ying was invited to buy people's hearts? If he really said this, Li Yuan would probably not have any reaction, but this would probably offend Chen Ying to death.

Although in the Wude Hall, the monarch and ministers spoke in a small way.

But there is no secret in the deep palace.

After a while, Pei Ji murmured: "It's understandable that Mr. Chen wants to build a money house, but if the profit is more than 20%, then the policy that benefits the people will become a policy that harms the people."

Xiao Yu lowered his eyelids, was silent for a moment, and said, "This method is feasible, but it must be subject to supervision from Wutai!"

Wutai is the synonym of the Censorate.

When Li Yuan heard this, he also became careful. Anyway, his son-in-law gave such a big gift, and opened a money house and put some money to make some money to support his family. What problems can he have?

In ancient times, the biggest problem of rebellion was that he had military power. Chen Ying was named Zhuguo, Liang Duke, and the guest of the Eastern Palace, which was actually a disguised separation of military power. In fact, he handed over the steel industry, which was actually a disguised demonstration to Li Yuan that he and Hou Mo Chen had no intention of rebelling. Otherwise, Chen Ying would not be able to hand over the steel industry. With these industries in hand, Chen Ying could explode soldiers anytime and anywhere.

The equipment of the left and right guards of the East Palace and the left and right guards of the left and right guards are much stronger than those of the left and right guards. These are the things under Chen Ying's name that will be produced by master craftsmen. Whether it is strong or sharp, they are far superior to the weapon monitoring.

Li Yuan made the decision to endorse Chen Ying's Tang Tongli Money House, and later Li Yuan was extremely regretful.

However, Li Xiuning did not understand Chen Ying's approach at this time.

Once this person gets married, he will plan for his descendants.

The same is true for Li Xiuning. She believes that Chen Ying's things are all from her future son, with an annual profit of up to one million yuan, and she handed over them as soon as she said that she could hand them over. Li Xiuning was very unhappy.

Although building a money house can make profits, but the annual profit of 100,000 yuan is a question that can be clearly distinguished by fools.

When he returned to Chen's mansion, Li Xiuning said solemnly: "Chen Lang, you must explain to me why I have to give up the Tiefang!"

If a country is compared to a person, then the oil needed by this person's country is human blood, and the backbone is steel.

The Fe element iron is actually the most common on the earth, so we almost ignore it. The core of our earth is composed of huge iron elements, so our earth has a huge magnetic field. This magnetic field protects the earth from being damaged by solar wind and radiation. We can see magnificent and gorgeous aurora in the north and south polar regions - this is a natural phenomenon caused by geomagnetic changes in solar wind.

For the country, iron is an important strategic material, especially for industrialization, today, iron is very important to a country. Not to mention the distant, the division of human society is also initially divided according to the tools used. Primitive society can be said to be the Stone Age, and later developed into the Bronze Age. Since the discovery of the extremely iron smelting technology, iron has completely changed human society. From the reclaiming of wastelands of agricultural tools to the changes in eating habits, to the widespread application of military affairs, even sacrifices require iron tools to slaughter tributes. Especially in the industrial revolution, the development of iron tools has become increasingly important in the military and industrial proportion.

However, if Chen Ying continued to master the technology of steel blast furnaces, the people of the Tang Dynasty would need to continue to bear the price of one hundred cents per kilogram of iron, and steel would be twice as high as iron. The key is that if you have money, you may not be able to buy iron. Because of limited steel resources, in this era, you need to be given priority in the military field. In other words, the income of the people who worked hard to buy one kilogram of iron is almost enough.

Chen Ying knew that this was a very abnormal thing. In later generations, the price ratio of grain and steel was almost one to one, and the price of high-quality rice was definitely more expensive than steel. Chen Ying really couldn't imagine that people would have to tighten their belts to consider for a long time when they bought a kitchen knife.

If Chen Ying continues to expand steel production, he will definitely face the problem of overcapacity. However, once the price is reduced, he will immediately lose his advantage and competency. Without mechanization and relying entirely on manpower, if Chen Ying has mastered craftsmen of 100,000 or hundreds of thousands, Li Yuan will definitely not be able to sleep well.

Chen Ying naturally knew that selling steel made money, and it was very profitable.

The key is that the money is really hot.

There is an old saying in China that cut off people's wealth and wealth is like killing parents. Marx once said that capitalists dare to trample on human laws for 300% of profits.

Chen Ying is sometimes naive, but he is not stupid. How big is the plate of the Tang Dynasty steel industry? How big is this cake? He knows very well. Using the blast furnace gold finger, Chen Ying can suppress all the Tang Dynasty's clans and the steel industry controlled by the imperial court to the death. Chen Ying will continue to control the steel industry and will definitely be regarded as a thorn in the eyes by the aristocratic clans.

After all, in this era, the clans had rich resources, and steel was also their important source of wealth. Chen Ying ate this piece of fat, and this would be with them. Of course, Chen Ying was not afraid of struggle. The key was that he did not want to fall into this endless struggle and could not extricate himself.

Chen Ying carefully said, "My idea is actually very simple, to make everyone in the world afford steel, and then, to make steel the backbone of the Tang Dynasty."

Li Xiuning was stunned. She really didn't expect Chen Ying to have this purpose: "Is it not possible to have the steel industry in our hands?"

Chen Ying shook his head and said, "No, we can't do this, we can only leave it to the court!"
Chapter completed!