Chapter 342
Chapter 342
James was depressed, he was really unlucky as a member of the cabinet!
He actually wanted to pay the eldest prince Charles to go to the Daming Empire.
Although the Daming Empire said that the goods were very good and the value was very high, I went to the Daming Empire, and the goods there were so expensive, I was afraid that I would only be a beggar.
The royal grain shop of the Daming Empire in London, the price of many things, even if he is a cabinet minister, the money for a month is only enough to buy a case of beer.
So occasionally just buying a bottle of beer, the whole family has to cut back on food.
However, this beer bottle is a glass bottle and has a high collector's value.
But they didn't know that the beer of the Daming Empire was already as cheap as the lowest two cents a bottle, and these glass bottles were even thrown in the trash can.
"King, this Daming Empire commodity is so expensive! We sent an envoy to Daming, I am afraid that the funds are not enough, and we can't afford to eat in the Daming Empire! "
King Charles frowned, and what Minister James said made sense.
The annual income of the English Empire's treasury could not buy many pieces of goods for the Daming Royal Grain Store.
Even King Charles's palace only bought ten bottles of beer, and after drinking, the glass bottles were placed on the collection rack to decorate the palace.
Even King Charles was reluctant to smoke the cigarettes in his pocket, because a box of Daming royal special cigarettes was equivalent to almost one hundred taels of silver.
That's all, the royal grain shop of the Daming Empire now even sells weapons.
Since most of the soldiers of the English Empire were armed with arquebuses, flintlock gun production was extremely low.
In order to defeat the Dutch Republic and win the Anglo-Dutch War, King Charles bought five thousand flintlock guns at the royal granary.
This flintlock gun, equivalent to silver taels, is almost two hundred taels of silver, and the entire English treasury will be hollowed out.
That's all, the Daming Empire even lent money.
King Charles is now mired in the Anglo-Dutch War, and the whole country owes too much money.
In order to sustain the war, they had to go to the London branch of the Royal Bank of Daming to request a loan.
A total of 10 billion Daming Coins were loaned, equivalent to 2.1 billion taels of silver, which were repaid in ten years, 1.1 billion Daming Coins were repaid every year, and 11 billion Daming Coins were repaid in ten years.
When repaying the loan, you need to use silver to exchange Daming coins at the Daming Royal Bank and then repay the loan with Daming coins.
The most important thing is that the Daming currency they borrowed has basically become a currency recognized by all countries in Europe.
Because they found that the people of European countries preferred to use the Daming currency to trade.
Now Minister James wants to take the eldest prince Charles to send an envoy to Daming, and King Charles handed over a hundred million Daming coins to James.
"James, the price of the Daming Empire must be very high, this 100 million, should be enough for you to spend'.!"
"Try to bring back our scientists and professors from the English Empire, otherwise our weapons development and many technological developments have reached a bottleneck!"
James looked at King Charles with a determined look.
"The king is assured that he will bring back our scientists and professors."
Daming Jingshi At present, scientists from various countries live in the Daming Scientific Research Bureau.
Their families live in allocated houses.
In addition to these, their families received monthly food subsidies, coal subsidies, meat subsidies, and various clothing subsidies from the Ming Imperial Court.
These scientists ate in the canteen of the Daming Scientific Research Bureau.
The food in the canteen is indeed much better than that in the three-masted sailing ship.
A variety of rice, pasta, meat, vegetables, melons, beer, melon seeds, etc., are available in unlimited quantities.
Even if they were hungry on the way to research, they could come to the cafeteria to eat at any time and eat all kinds of delicacies.
"Xanadu, the Daming Empire is simply a paradise!" , Galileo was busy with research all morning, came to the cafeteria, and couldn't help but sigh.
Song Yingxing sat on the side, calm and natural.
"It's all ordinary life!"
"So our family, what do they eat?"
"Your family members are all in the family area, and the imperial court in the family area subsidizes two hundred kilograms of rice, one hundred pounds of meat, two hundred kilograms of vegetables, one hundred kilograms of fruits, one case of beer, five cigarettes, five boxes of matches, five bottles of gasoline, and two hundred kilograms of coal per month for each household!" (Read violent novels, just go to Feilu Fiction Network!) )
"So many things? The treatment of the Daming Empire is really, really, really too good. "
Song Yingxing was very calm: "There is still a salary of five thousand yuan every month, which is very good." "
"But developing something new or a new theory that proves to be useful, even if it is a theory, will be rewarded a lot!"
"Your Majesty, he, it's not bad money!" , Song Yingxing continued.
"But it's not bad money, this money is too big!"
"Money always runs out one day!"
Song Yingxing scratched his head: "Daming Coin knows!" Your Majesty is not enough, just reissue! "
"Aren't you afraid of skyrocketing prices?"
"The price of things in the Daming Royal Grain Shop will never increase."
"Let's take coal! It's November now, and it's already very cold in Kyoshi. "
"Every household, ten yuan can buy a hundred pounds of coal."
"In the past, there was no coal at all, so I had to buy firewood, and the price of firewood was one price a day, and I couldn't stand it."
"~ You look at the cafeteria, there are also several large stoves, which are full of coal."
"Including the place where we conduct research and research and development, each office has a small stove, and the chimney is connected to the outside to prevent poisoning!"
Galileo was surprised: "I mean, in the cafeteria and office places, it's not cold at all." "
"On the way home, people are almost frozen."
"Inside the house, the imperial court also allocated coal?"
"Yes, I even gave you gasoline, and gasoline can be added directly to the gasoline lamp."
"Five bottles of gasoline, you light the gasoline lamp every day at night, and you don't have to worry about running out of gasoline."
Galileo was very excited, and if it was true, the Ming Empire was arrogant.
"In this way, His Majesty is really not bad for money."
"Why not be bad money, it's just not treating money as money!"
Galileo was very curious, and coming to the Daming Empire was an eye-opener for him.
"Lord Song, what is your majesty, don't treat money as money?"
"All the cement highways of the Daming Empire are all lanes of eight dollars!"
"As the name suggests, build a little longer and provide more jobs for the people."
"In addition, all the dynasties have been conscripted to build roads, and they have to bring their own dry food to build roads, and there is no wage!"
"Our Majesty not only eats all, but even thirty a day for citizens and fifteen a day for untouchables."
"The people live in this era, and they are simply the happiest people in history."
Galileo nodded: "Indeed, I am in the Italian principality and in the Daming Empire, this treatment is a hell, a paradise." "
"According to the current point of view, the Daming Empire is not only rich, but also willing to spend money, the key is that the output of various items is extremely large, and there is no shortage of resource rules!"
"In this way, the Daming Empire can be regarded as the hegemon of the world."
"Only the Daming Empire can lead human civilization to a new peak in the world."
Galileo's words made Song Yingxing not surprised at all.
At present, the Daming Empire is indeed the most powerful in the world.
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