Iron Dynasty

The heat in the tea cup slowly rose.

King Wei's eyes kept rolling, apparently weighing the purpose of these demands.

After a long time, he asked hesitantly, Only this condition?

Only this condition, of course, is not only that Uncle Sanhuang cannot prevent Qingzhou goods from entering Wei, but no one in Wei can stop it. Xiao Ming said indifferently, the only purpose of this condition is to allow Qingzhou goods to flow unimpeded in Wei. Moreover, King Wei could not levy taxes from the Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce in any name.

King Wei nodded. In fact, when Qingzhou goods entered Weidi, he set up cards to collect taxes, which led to the fact that Qingzhou goods that were originally low-priced often doubled in price when they arrived at the destination.

However, he did not specifically target Xiao Ming. In fact, Da Yu collects business tax in this way in the country.

Now Xiao Ming puts forward this condition, which means that he can no longer collect taxes on Qingzhou commodities for any reason, and he will lose a lot of silver, and the more commodities Xiao Ming imports, the greater his losses.

After pondering for a while, King Wei said, My nephew, your move is ruthless. Doesn't this mean that Wei Di's money will be earned by you in vain?

Since it's compensation, is it because I don't think that the emperor will pay the money? The emperor thinks about it for himself. If he agrees to his nephew, he will draw up a contract. If the three emperors don't agree, let's meet in court.

King Wei said anxiously, Nephew, can't this condition be changed? How about I compensate my nephew with three million taels of silver?

Xiao Ming shook his head.

Five million taels! King Wei raised five fingers.

Xiao Ming still shook his head.

Gritting his teeth, Wei Wangyi said cruelly, 10 million taels of supplies!

Hearing this number, Xiao Ming's eyelids lifted, but he still shook his head, but he was surprised that King Wei understood the harm of this agreement to his fief, and would rather give him 10 million taels worth of materials. unwilling to sign this agreement.

Uncle Three Emperors, nephew is only on this condition. It's up to you whether you agree or not. Xiao Ming set his tone.

King Wei was completely discouraged, his expression kept changing, and finally he said: My nephew, would you mind letting me think for two days?

Of course, Uncle Three Emperors please, my nephew is not far away. Xiao Ming's expression was cold.

King Wei stood up at this moment, looked at Xiao Ming with complicated eyes, and then walked out.

Watching King Wei leave, Xiao Ming raised a sneer at the corner of his mouth.

He had already thought about this when he came to Chang'an, and this trade agreement was the strategic economic weapon he had prepared.

For the past two years, his products have indeed been very popular in Dayu Kingdom, but one thing that makes him uncomfortable is that every time he passes through a fief, his products will be taxed heavily.

And these heavy taxes have to make the chamber of commerce raise the price of goods. After all, not raising the price is equal to a loss.

Therefore, under the deliberate targeting, Qingzhou's foreign trade income is astonishingly high just in terms of taxes, and the increase in commodity prices also reduces the number of consumer groups.

When he summed it up, these feudal lords were like mosquitoes lying on his body to suck blood, and the most important thing was that this kind of behavior would seriously stifle the development of Qingzhou's local industry.

So after discovering the problem, he formulated this agreement in order to promote this agreement.

Not to mention the different surnamed vassal kings, at least his neighbors Wei King and Yong King must have this agreement. As for other surnamed vassal kings, he will slowly toss.

He admitted that he was even a little overjoyed when he learned that King Wei sent Shanzi Camp, because it was equivalent to King Wei sending it to the door himself, but the only thing he miscalculated was that Shanzi Camp was really fighting five scumbags.

It should be King Yong below.

Xiao Ming took out a stack of paper from his arms. These were the trade agreements he had drawn up. There were dozens of agreements listed above. Once King Wei signed it, it meant that the commodity market in Wei was completely defenseless against him. The high quality and low price will soon completely destroy the low-level business system of Wei Di.

In the end, Wei Di will only become a raw material supply market for him, which is the famous unfair trade of rice for cannons.

Outside the palace, King Wei's carriage slowly left.

Inside the carriage, King Wei's face was terrifyingly dark, and he clenched his fists like a beast that only eats people.

After the carriage ran out for a while, King Wei finally couldn't help but shouted fiercely, Xiao Ming, you are deceiving people too much!

Then he looked at a young man in the car, this young man was Xiao Qi, and he never got off the carriage.

Seeing that King Wei's face was so bad at first, he wisely didn't ask about it, but now King Wei finally burst out, he sighed, Uncle Sanhuang, I persuaded you not to send Shanziying, but We must do our best to help Xiao Ming defeat the barbarians, but if you don’t listen, now that this handle is in Xiao Ming’s hands, he will naturally take hold of us.”

King Wei also regretted the original, he said: I knew this earlier, why did Xiao Ming's power do us no harm at first, I was just thinking of letting Xiao Ming and the barbarians fight to the death, and we sat in the back and reap the benefits of the fisherman.

Xiao Qi sighed. At that time, King Wei had already mobilized a 150,000-strong army of the fief, waiting for the barbarians to enter Qingzhou and capture Xiao Ming. In this way, he could take the opportunity to command Qingzhou to defeat the barbarian's tired army.

At that time, not only was the credit for defeating the barbarians his, but if Xiao Ming was killed by Bei Shan, the Qingzhou would also be his, and the Cangzhou city built by Xiao Ming like a steel fortress would also be his.

It's just a pity that his plans all came to nothing.

What conditions did Xiao Ming put forward this time? Xiao Qi asked.

At this time, King Wei told the matter of the agreement, and Xiao Qi also showed a surprised look when she heard that, Uncle Sanhuang, this agreement is really vicious.

King Wei nodded with a wry smile, Why doesn't this king know that local goods in Wei are still subject to taxation. According to Xiao Ming, he is guaranteed to make a profit without losing money.

Xiao Qi sighed again and said, Uncle Sanhuang, what if this is the case?

I'm also disturbing, although most of Wei's taxes come from farming, but this matter is a big hidden danger after all, but if you don't agree, I'm afraid this time will be an endless battle, and now Qingzhou has no threat from Youzhou barbarians. , I'm afraid Xiao Mingteng will take care of us.

Xiao Qi rolled her eyes and said: Uncle Sanhuang is now a knife to stretch his head, and a knife to shrink his head. I am afraid we have to sign this agreement, but since it is a negotiation, even if we sign it, we can't lose all of it. Signing is fine, but this The muskets and hot air balloons used by Xiao Ming to defeat the barbarians?

King Wei immediately reacted. He looked at Xiao Qi admiringly and said, Yes, you are still thoughtful.