Li Xian blinked and felt aggrieved, "I really have time now. There are really many things to be busy with after the New Year."

I would like to add to my heart that maybe I will get married.

Before the prime minister could speak, Wang Chuan spoke; Wang Shangshu smiled happily, "The nephew did a good job, so he should do this. Everything should be said to others. What does the prime minister have? You can say it now, and Your Majesty can also savor it."

Needless to say, Wang Chuan's words made Prime Minister Ouyang Wubing look even more ugly. Finally, he looked at Li Xian angrily, "Li Xian, since you are going to say it here, then I will ask you a few questions.

First, the textile machine is very expensive! I later carefully calculated the calculations. If the textile machine is not counted, the price of weaving can indeed be reduced to 30% off, but if the textile machine is included, the price seems not much cheaper!

How do you answer this?"

I have to say that the prime minister is the prime minister, and he asked the point in one sentence. Both officials and the emperor looked at Li Xian.

Li Xian knew that he seemed to have really annoyed the prime minister who was "upright, honest and dedicated" and asked such a question at the beginning. He immediately sat up straight and looked serious.

"Master Prime Minister, how did you calculate it before you ask this? To be precise, how did you calculate this result?"

"This is not simple. I have seen the price of your textile machine. It actually costs 500 taels of gold, which is 5,000 taels of silver.

Take a low-quality silk as an example, the market price is about one tael of silver. A skilled textile worker can weave one piece of cloth a day, and about 200 pieces of textile a year (it is impossible to work all year round). Including the relevant expenses, the annual profit is about 20 taels of silver.

The textile machine can weave 10 pieces of cloth a day, but it cannot work all year round. Even if you work 300 days a year, it will be better if you make 3,000 pieces of cloth, and the profit will not exceed 300 taels of silver. Because using the strategy of small profits but quick turnover, it would be great to have a profit of 200 taels of silver.

In this way, it will take 25 years to earn back the cost of 5,000 taels of silver. Including the remaining expenses, it will not be profitable within 30 years.

And this textile machine will probably not take five years.”

Li Xian was stunned. Prime Minister, how do you settle the accounts? Damn, this is the level of a prime minister in a country? I'm scared to death!

Not to mention that Li Xian was stunned, even some officials who learned the specific situation were stunned. The next moment, Wang Ping laughed first, and the drinks were squirting, "Sir Prime Minister, you... haha, the textile machine at the expo is not selling textile machines, but opportunities.

The textile machine is easy to imitate. To be honest, our Wang family also bought a textile machine and took it apart and studied it. If we only carve the formation to make the textile machine, the cost price of a textile machine will not exceed 4 taels of gold. But such a textile opportunity is very bulky.

Moreover, the textile machines sold by Li Xian are all models, not real textile machines. With a slight transformation, they can weave about 15 pieces of fabric a day. After all, the textile machines are not humans and can operate continuously all year round. As long as the personnel are arranged to be on duty, it is fine.

In just half a year, you can earn the cost of the textile machine.

The cost of large-scale textiles has been reduced to a level that you would never dare to imagine if you were the prime minister.”

Ouyang Wubing was stunned for a moment. After a long time, he made a mistake. It was not that the textile machine was worth 500 taels of gold, but that the "opportunity" was worth 500 taels of gold.

This time, Wang Chuan took the initiative to ask, "Sir, you just said the first point, and there is another point?"

"The second point..." The prime minister obviously hesitated, and then he estimated that he had jumped too many "points" and said: "If we use textile weaving fabrics on a large scale, how can the people live? They will lose their income! Textile income accounts for at least 30% of the income of a family."

Li Xian was annoyed when he heard this. What he hated the most was the stubborn conservative school. Many things were broken by the conservatives, and he always wanted to "remain unchanged" instead of "solving". So, his tone was a little rude, "Can the Prime Minister only look in front of him and the past, and can't he look forward?

If there are a large number of textile factories established, have you calculated how many people will be arranged as needed?

In addition to textile work, there is also planting!

In addition to planting, people can be encouraged to do business and make foreign money.

Why can’t there be no way to survive without textile? In addition to textile, you can also raise chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep and pigs. You can also encourage the establishment of lantern workshops, textile workshops, and various joint organizations to develop together.

Especially when planting cotton, mulberry silkworm breeding, etc., these are all very important textile raw materials. In this way, the whole society will turn to the social form of industry and commerce. People will be richer and more striving. What a wonderful picture this is?!"

Li Xian himself was intoxicated by himself; even His Majesty the Emperor was intoxicated.

But the Prime Minister's persistence is strong. He pointed at Li Xian and said, "You are encouraging people to commit crimes. Since ancient times, business has been a low-key karma, and handicrafts has also been a low-key karma. Cultivation is the foundation.

And if everyone is swimming around to make money, it will inevitably lead to sin. Robbery and theft will emerge one after another."

"Thieves are emerging one after another? Then the national law will deal with it! As long as you deal with it with it twice or three times, I don't believe that he will really emerge one after another!"

The prime minister was so angry that he blew his beard and stared at him, "I don't mean this! I mean, if you have interests, you will cause crime. Don't think I don't know all kinds of frauds in business!"

Li Xian asked back: "Then, are there still fewer cheating in society now?"

"But at least within the control range! If you follow your method, you will not be able to control it."

"Okay OK, then Prime Minister, tell me, how can we eliminate these things?"

"Return to the state when ancient countries were just born, the people lived alone in villages, and there were few exchanges between villages. They did not close their doors at night and did not pick up their own remains. The sound of chickens and dogs was heard, farming made a living, and practiced the Lord."

Li Xian finally laughed out loud, really couldn't help it, "Sir, Prime Minister, I'll ask, can we go back?"

"This... cannot." Even if the prime minister is unreasonable, he must admit that this is really impossible to retreat.

Li Xian raised his tail again, "Sir, I can tell you clearly that if you don't close your door at night, it's because you are so poor that you have nothing to steal! If you don't pick up your belongings on the road, it's because there is nothing falling on the road, and you have to pick up cow dung to make firewood.

You go and ask the people, are they willing to live such a hard life?"

"I...you...I...I..." The Prime Minister was so angry that Li Xian couldn't speak; but what Li Xian said was very correct; many people nodded in agreement.

Li Xian stood up and made his voice for the first time in front of the officials, "Everyone, this society is developing, and can only develop. Why did the past become the past? Because it was eliminated. There is no way out for retreating, but the future requires active and active pursuit.

The industrial fire has been ignited and will inevitably not be extinguished. You have already seen the ability of mechanical looms. A loom is a money tree. If you have ten thousand or even hundreds of thousands of looms in your hand, what kind of scene would it be? I don’t need to explain it!

Besides, what is the focus of cultivation? Is the right place for wealth and partner? Wealth is the first priority!

So, I think that if you want to strengthen your country, you must vigorously develop industry and commerce in the future.”

Taking this opportunity, Li Xian shouted the slogan of "Business and Commerce Promotion of the Country". So, what are the reactions of everyone?

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