Father, I really don’t want to be the emperor

"Your Majesty, have you ever thought that once the English are defeated, they will definitely jump over the wall in a panic. What if they come back to poison us again?"

Song Chengzhou said with some worry.

This is indeed a difficult choice. Even Ning Fan feels a little headache when he thinks about this issue.

"It is impossible to preserve the pathogen of this plague for a long time. Even if it can be preserved for a long time, it is impossible for you to achieve this with the technology of the English people now. Don't worry, as long as there is no new plague, the English people will not be infected by the plague. source, it cannot be poisoned.”

After thinking about it for a while, Ning Fan could only comfort himself with this statement.

Large and small textile factories, chemical factories, and small handicraft factories have sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain in the south of the Yangtze River. These are small factories founded by small private owners who raised their own funds.

The industrial products produced by these small handicraft workshops were of high quality and low price, and were transported to the inland through the imperial court's dedicated trains, and then directly to various countries in the Eastern Kingdom through the northwest exports.

"Your Majesty, all our goods are handed over to merchants from the Dabo Kingdom. These merchants don't have to do anything and take away 30% of our profits. This is unfair."

Luo Cheng said a little unbearably. At this time, he and Ning Fan were standing on the high attic, staring at the station in the distance. At this time, there were more than a dozen special trains parked at the station, and each steam train was piled with steam trains. Full of all kinds of goods.

All these goods are sent to various surrounding countries, and they basically contain daily necessities, such as clothes, matches, nails, sickles, hoes, etc.

The demand for these most basic industrial products is often the greatest, and the highest industrial product Dakang can produce now is watches. However, watches are in the proper ten fonts in this era. Except for some princes and ministers, Except for various nobles, ordinary people simply couldn't afford it.

"These businessmen from Dabo Country are really annoying, greedy and greedy, and they also use various means to make false accounts."

Ning Fan naturally knew everything about what the merchants from the Dabo Kingdom were doing.

"Yes, Your Majesty, since you know all these things, why don't you think of a way to tell these merchants from Dabo country to go away? Without these blood-sucking insects from Dabo country, our merchants from Dakang can still sell the goods produced by Dakang. Sold all over the world.”

Luo Cheng said angrily.

Hearing what Luo Cheng said, Ning Fan shook his head: "Do you know what competition is? What is free economy?"

"In fact, economics and trade are a complete whole. If it is forcibly intervened, it will disrupt the rules of the market. The competitive relationship is that the market will always choose the best people to cooperate. For example, these businessmen from the big wave countries have gone through natural selection. As a result, since these merchants from Dabo are able to gain a foothold in our Dakang, it means that they are superior to our own merchants in some aspects. "

"The imperial court has never stipulated that these goods can only be traded and resold by merchants from the Dabo Kingdom. Our own merchants also have this right, but once our merchants go abroad, they cannot sell anything at all. Who can blame this? ?”

Ning Fan looked at Luo Cheng with a smile and said.

Ning Fan said this from his heart. He did not want to interfere too much in the market. In Ning Fan's view, today's Dakang is already in the rising stage of capitalism. At this stage, the free market will slowly form, and the entire market will will smooth out fluctuations.

If the court's administrative means are forcibly used to intervene in the market, it will inevitably lead to a rebound in the market. It is difficult to say what the consequences will be.

But with Luo Cheng's current knowledge base, he simply couldn't understand that there was some profound meaning in what Ning Fan said. He only knew that Ning Fan didn't want to get involved in this matter.

"These merchants from Dabo Country are naturally cunning and stingy. This is their principle of doing business. Cheating and abduction are their methods of doing business. If your Majesty cooperates with these people, our Dakang market will be disrupted by them sooner or later."

Luo Cheng sighed and wanted to say something, but finally closed his mouth.

The conversation seemed to have ended unhappily, but Ning Fan looked at Luo Cheng's back with a smile on his lips.

Luo Cheng has a temperament that cares about the country and the people. Although this kind of person may not show off in a short period of time, once time passes, Luo Cheng's future abilities will even surpass Zhou Qun's.

The sound of a whistle came from the distance, and a train began to move forward slowly. As the train whistled, the steam train finally left the station and flew towards the vast wilderness in the distance.

This station is very large, and the daily cargo throughput has reached an astonishing figure. The Silk Road that Ning Fan was dedicated to promoting has now been successfully implemented. Almost all of the more than 100 countries along the way have become trade partners. the beneficiary.

Ning Fan has brought a large number of high-quality and low-priced new technologies and products to these countries that they have never seen before, and these countries can provide Dakang with a variety of resource labor.

These resources and labor will be put back into the market, allowing them to produce more newer iterative products, thereby making the market prosperous and forming a virtuous cycle.

In August, Bullard returned by ship from the West again. This time Bullard brought back more technical experts, and also brought back a lot of secret technical information. These were spies sent by some overseas research institutions of the Military Intelligence Agency. Spy technical secrets.

A large amount of technical information will be gathered here by Shen Mengxi, and then distributed to various research institutions by him for research, dismantling, review simulation, etc. This series of operations will take at least more than two months to slowly digest and integrate these new technologies, and then put them back into the market.

"Your Majesty, isn't it a bit unethical for us to steal ideas from foreigners without restraint?"

Seeing that Shen Mengxi and others were studying the manufacturing method of the crane, Luo Cheng asked excitedly.

"This is not stealing, this is stealing! And what we learned from the foreigners is their advanced technology. This is how the foreigners use their skills to control the foreigners. In the future, we will use their own technology to attack themselves and let them reap the consequences. "

After Ning Fan chuckled twice, he took Luo Cheng into the Jiangnan Shipyard.

During this period of time, Ning Fan had stayed at Jiangnan Shipyard for a full two months. In these two months, the entire shipyard also changed its appearance.

Now that the treasury has money, Ning Fan becomes bolder and more lavish in spending money. Ning Fan even invested huge sums of money in Jiangnan Shipyard.