OBS Chapter 846: Configuration cut in half, price doubled—what kind of game is this?
Chapter 846: Configuration cut in half, price doubled—what kind of game is this?
Yang Shaofeng went mad in his mind, roaring darkly and crawling in a twisted manner.
Zhu Biao and Li Shanchang exchanged a glance, and each saw three words in the other's eyes.
Keep copying!
Copying homework feels so good!
Road construction work can be copied.
City planning can also be copied.
They also copied the operations of the Dengzhou border market and the reform of the prefectural government, so that other prefectures and counties could follow suit.
Hmm, the Dengzhou Farm looks good, here you go.
The University of Denzhou looks pretty good, doesn't it?
Will the medical school at the University of Terengganu have its first batch of graduating doctors next year?
However, with so many assignments, which one should I start copying from?
After a few moments of haphazard thinking, Li Shanchang quickly made up his mind.
"I plan to visit the Dengzhou border market tomorrow."
Li Shanchang smiled and looked at Yang Shaofeng, saying, "To be honest, Your Highness, Ningbo, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, and even Zunhua in Beiping and Jinzhou in Liaodong have all submitted memorials requesting the establishment of border markets."
"I've been thinking that other things are easier to deal with, but things like warhorses and oxen are better if they can be traded locally than transported all the way to Dengzhou."
"And in the Western Regions, the Tea and Horse Bureau is still lacking something. If we could open a border market, the Ming Dynasty would have another source of revenue."
"..."
Li Shanchang spoke candidly about the plans for the border market, leaving Yang Shaofeng completely stunned.
These days, the big shots don't step forward; they let the small ones take their place.
So what if I copy homework?
However, Zhu Chongba, that old scoundrel, didn't personally get involved, but instead sent his son, Heizhima Tangyuan, and his henchman, Li Shanchang, to raid the place.
This is absolutely outrageous!
While inwardly cursing, Yang Shaofeng said with a dark face, "Since Prime Minister Li wants to go to the border market, then I will accompany him tomorrow."
I hope that after you read this, you old scoundrel, you'll still have enough confidence to copy homework!
……
Although he had known from Emperor Zhu that the prices in the border markets were outrageous, it wasn't until he personally visited the border markets and saw the prices of various goods that Li Shanchang realized just how corrupt they were.
In Dengzhou Prefecture, Laiyang County, a glass tea set that even an old man's family could afford was priced at 999 strings of cash per set at the border market.
The key point is that the price of 999 guan is only for the glass tea set itself, and does not include the price of any other items that need to be purchased to complete the set.
If you include the tea tray, tea whisk, and other such items, a tea set consisting of only a teapot, a fairness cup, and four glasses would probably cost tens of thousands of strings of cash.
Li Shanchang just couldn't understand it.
"This piece of junk isn't something that only your Dengzhou Prefecture could burn, is it?"
"Not to mention that there are workshops producing glassware in Ningyang County, there are several in Jiangnan as well."
"Don't those barbarian merchants think it's too expensive to sell at such a high price?"
Zhu Biao stared blankly at Yang Shaofeng and said, "Brother-in-law, this isn't right."
“I remember it very clearly. It used to consist of a teapot, a covered teacup, a fairness cup, eight small cups, a small brush, and a wooden tea tray, priced at ninety-nine strings of cash. Only one set could be sold each day.”
"Why is it that now the gaiwan teacup is gone, the tea whisk is gone, and the tea tray is gone, yet the price is as high as 999 guan?"
Cut the configuration in half, and increase the price tenfold.
What kind of gameplay is this?
Faced with Li Shanchang and Zhu Biao's questions, Yang Shaofeng simply pointed lazily to the sign next to the glass tea set.
"Does His Highness Li Xianghe think those merchants were only buying glass teaware?"
"No."
"If a glass tea set is worth one string of cash, then the four characters 'Imperial Made Same Style' on this brand must be worth at least ten thousand strings of cash."
"Does His Highness Li Xianghe think those foreign merchants bought the tea sets to resell at high prices?"
"Not really."
"They had already identified the buyer before purchasing the tea set."
"Does His Highness Li Xianghe think those buyers are just buying them to show off?"
"Actually, it's not yet."
"They buy them mostly to display as artifacts."
"Unless there is someone who is truly worthy of them bringing out this tea set, they would never use it to drink tea."
Li Shanchang nodded as if he understood, and asked, "Even so, aren't four teacups a bit too few?"
Yang Shaofeng glanced at Li Shanchang and laughed, "Aren't four teacups too few? It's simple. Each teacup costs one thousand strings of cash. How many would you like, sir?"
How many?
Did you just mention that a tea set used to have eight small teacups?
Now you, Yang the Madman, have cut the price in half and are still charging 1,000 strings of cash per item?
Li Shanchang stared blankly at Yang Shaofeng and asked, "Isn't Your Highness afraid that others will copy it?"
Yang Shaofeng smiled nonchalantly, picked up a glass teacup, turned the bottom of the cup towards Li Shanchang, and said with a smile, "Prime Minister Li, look here first."
"The marks here may seem inconspicuous, but they are actually made with Longquan ink paste."
The small seal script character "明" at the bottom of the Longquan inkpad was engraved on while the glass was still hot during firing.
"Longquan ink paste is already rare, and the engraving technique used when firing glass cups is unique to this company and cannot be found anywhere else."
After showing off for a while, Yang Shaofeng said with a hint of sarcasm, "Besides, the shape of a glass teacup can be easily imitated, but how could just anyone dare to imitate the words 'Imperial Made' on the bottom of the cup?"
Using the word "imperial decree" casually is a capital offense!
Li Shanchang took the teacup from Yang Shaofeng and carefully examined the small seal script character "Ming" on the bottom of the cup.
Indeed, the process of engraving characters during the firing of glass cups alone is not something that just anyone can imitate.
Not to mention the Longquan inkpad mentioned above.
Strictly speaking, the value of the entire set of glass cups is not even as much as the Longquan ink paste used to inscribe the words "Imperial Made" at the bottom.
So, where did you, Yang the Madman, get so many lotus roots from?
Faced with Li Shanchang's question, Yang Shaofeng immediately smiled smugly again.
"When I was the magistrate of Ningyang, I had people plant lotus roots and raise fish in all the ponds around the village."
"The amount of lotus roots in one village may not be much, but if there are ten villages or a hundred villages, the amount of lotus roots will gradually increase."
"Moreover, Ningyang County also has Daming Lake and several reservoirs."
"It's pretty much the same here in Dengzhou."
"In short, we have plenty of lotus root shreds, so the rest will be much easier."
As Yang Shaofeng finished speaking, Zhu Biao added with a hint of envy, "Prime Minister Li, you may not know this, but my brother-in-law has a pair of boots in his collection. They are the famous Lotus Silk Cloud-Walking Boots, which took the people of Ningyang County three whole years to make for him."
Li Shanchang looked at Yang Shaofeng with a bewildered expression once again.
Yang Shaofeng, with a dark and sour face, snorted coldly again.