Zhao Shizhen thought about it for a long time, but still couldn't figure out who lost in the end.

Since all the merchants in the Ming Dynasty made money, the courts made money, and the military government made money, there must be someone who lost money, right? But it seems that the Spanish merchants did not lose money either. Not to mention silk or porcelain, they are all high-value luxury goods on their side, and they did not lose money either. Spain also collected taxes from the merchants, and in the end no one lost money?

He vaguely felt that Chen Mu's calculation method was wrong and he could not calculate it like this, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

For a moment, only Chen Mu and Zhao Shizhen were left with big eyes, but Xu Wei spoke and broke the embarrassment: "Where is the silver?"

Zhao Shizhen slapped his thigh: "Yes! The silver flowed back to the court from the military government. The money made by the merchants is not the money made by the military government. Even if the transaction was made after several transactions, the Western merchants made four taels of silver, and the merchants made more than three taels of silver, but they still lost twelve and half taels of silver."

He finally used his clever mind to figure out the mistakes in Chen Mu's speech. The silver flowed out of the Eastern Military Mansion and finally entered the pockets of the Ming Dynasty merchants. This had nothing to do with the military mansion. In the end, the military mansion exchanged twelve and half taels of silver for eighty kilograms of wool. It was cheaper than transporting wool from China, but it was more expensive than transporting good fabrics for textiles.

The price of wool in China is 10 kilograms, and even if it is transported here, it is a task assigned by the government. Just like when transporting military supplies, a certain type of military supplies must be transported by two or three ships of cargo. This ship of military supplies will be added to the market price and the money for the boat will not exceed ten kilograms and two taels.

However, if textiles are directly woven into fabrics in the country, the price can be further reduced.

Even Chen Mu didn't understand how powerful his own country was in handicraft industry - China's handicraft textile industry, and even before the British Industrial Revolution began to the outbreak of the First Opium War, England's industry could not be weaved with the same cost.

This is not to say that the industrial revolution is useless. On the contrary, the industrial revolution was a real leap, but it was too backward in other parts of the world before the industrial revolution.

Assuming that people have equal intellectual talents, they must be the most powerful one with a large population. Therefore, China, which accounts for the most populous in the world for most of the time in history, has provided most of the assistance to the progress of world civilization.

If not, it must be that the development of this world did not follow objective laws. It went wrong. Where did it go wrong? It is not just the industrial revolution, but even if people have equal intellectual talents, the chance of learning after tomorrow is more important.

Europeans who are all over the world can learn from all over the world to learn from their strengths and weaknesses. It only takes twenty years for the other party to learn the achievements of your inventions in the past two thousand years, but you do not have the opportunity to collect their intellectual achievements in time.

Just like the fire gun that became a bird gun after more than 200 years of traveling to the west, and was then taken to the Portuguese and immediately began to imitate and quickly fill the gap. This incident was a good fortune for the Ming Dynasty.

First of all, you can imitate the bird gun immediately when you see it. There are two reasons for each other. One is the manifestation of the strength of the handicraft industry in the Ming Dynasty, and the other is that the technical means of the bird gun are not separated from the cognition of the Ming Dynasty.

Secondly, they were not defeated with more advanced weapons, which was also due to two reasons: one was that the Ming Dynasty was not that weak, and the other was that Portugal was not that strong.

If you change any of the four reasons, the musket will only turn into a musket, and it will not turn into a bird gun even if it is sent to you.

This is passive acceptance.

Chen Mu has always opposed passive acceptance.

"I lost twelve and a half taels? Where did these twenty taels of silver come from? Tasco? Maybe, but the bigger thing is that Potosi is refined. No matter where it is refined, it is not the Ming Dynasty."

Chen Mu slapped his hands: "Isn't this a profit?"

OK! Zhao Shizhen stopped talking, and went around and finally returned to the topic of colonial plunder. So what else can he say? This colony is not a New World, but Spain.

The old madman asked from beginning to end, "Where did the money come from?" He had completely lost the ** to continue chatting, and was too lazy to listen to Chen Mu's long speech. He curled his lips and hummed his little shoes without wearing them. He walked out barefoot and his hands were shaking out.

He hummed, leaving behind seven words he had heard from Chen Mu.

"Semi-colonial and semi-feudal!"

In fact, Xu Wei had already understood everything, so he naturally didn't have to listen to it any further.

In the entire trade link described by Chen Mu, the wool came from the nomadic nobility of Spain's Masta, and the silver bought by the wool came from the Potosi silver mine occupied by Spain. Chen Mu also omitted many trade processes in the middle, but in the end, the Dongyang Military Palace got absolute trade profits.

"Hey, why are you leaving? Call Zou Yuanbiao to me!"

Mr. Chen was getting excited here, but Xu Wei waved his hand and went out. He quickly called a soldier to point at the shoes on the ground and said, "Take it to Mr. Xu, it doesn't hurt your feet, so let Magistrate Zou come here."

Zhao Shizhen looked helpless. Is there a two listener in the face of the Great Marshal? Or what happened? He had already accepted his fate and raised his hands and said, "Master is going to say anything if you have something to do, the students will listen."

"No, you can't solve this problem. You have to let Zou Yuanbiao come. Chang Sheng has to build several other factories and make a trademark for me."

"Trademark." Zhao Shizhen thought with these two words in mind, leaning forward and tilting his beard and wonderingly: "What is that?"

"To put it bluntly, it's the name of a worker." Chen Mudu turned his head and said, "For example, the four-inch white rabbit pounding copper seal placed at the door of the needle shop of the old Liu family who came from Shandong is a trademark. It is said that their family has been using it since the Song Dynasty, but I still doubt whether the store is a member of the Liu family of the Song Dynasty."

Liu's Needle Shop is very famous in Changsheng Market. After hearing what Chen Mu said, Zhao Shizhen remembered it and said, "Is that the shop No. 72 or No. 73? It is written at the door that it is bribed to buy high-quality steel bars and make fine kung fu needles. It is not misused by the house, and it is reselled and sold... etc., Changsheng sells it very well. Baitao's Baima Department always buys needles from him and sells them to tribes for women to weave them."

"But I heard that his shop does not make needles. They are transported from Shandong, and one ship is enough to sell for a year."

"Yes, that's the one. In the future, everything the Dongyang Military Office sold to Europa would have to be trademarked in Changsheng. For example, the wool coats and sweaters made in Majiagang can be sold to the Netherlands afterwards. Although there are competitors, they will be gone soon!"

This woolen industry, the European market has been occupied by woolen from England, and even most of the wool exported by Spain has been acquired by English merchants. Chen Mu can not get much wool from Spain.

Because English merchants bought wool in Spain for high prices, Spain's inflation was very serious. In addition to raw materials, handicrafts and agriculture in the country have collapsed one after another. In recent decades, grain prices have risen more than triple, and they are still rising. The country's economic environment is very bad.

The price of wool is high, so the price of selling after making woolen is high, so the profit will naturally be earned by England.

Fei Laoer had no way to let his handicraft industry pose a threat to England, so he could only use military means to destroy England.

Before Zhao Shizhen could ask where the competitors came from and why they were about to disappear, he saw the rushing sound of soap boots stepping on the floor on the second floor of the yamen. Zou Yuanbiao signed up loudly at the door, and then took a breath and saluted: "The Grand Marshal is looking for me? I'm just about to come over, and the county caught a strange Bu Shang!"
Chapter completed!