Chapter 522: It is a great honor for our Tang family that you can come in person!

"Your Majesty, the crystal mines in the Sassan region are already being mined at full capacity. The Ministry of Works has built many manufacturing workshops in the Sassan area, which has also solved the employment problem there..."

The Minister of Works reported the recent progress excitedly in the court.

In the court, the Minister of Works was excitedly reporting the progress of chip research.

Suddenly, a crisp bell rang, interrupting the court discussion.

I saw the Minister of War hurriedly taking out a chip glowing with blue light from his sleeve, and awkwardly saluted Li Chen: "Your Majesty, forgive me, I forgot to lock the screen when I put it in my pocket, maybe I touched it."

Li Chen waved his hand to indicate it didn't matter, and a burst of kind laughter sounded in the court.

The Minister of Works wiped the sweat from his forehead: "Your Majesty, currently more than three hundred chip mobile phones have been trial-produced, and the response after trial use by colleagues is excellent. It's just that for the pricing after mass production, please give your instructions, Your Majesty."

There was a lot of discussion in the court.

The Vice Minister of Revenue was the first to stand out: "This crystal mine is precious and has high technological content, so it should naturally be priced high. In my opinion, it should start at at least a thousand taels of gold."

"Absurd!" The Vice Minister of Works immediately refuted, "Your Majesty developed this item to benefit the people. If the price is so high, wouldn't it violate the original intention?"

"But if the price is too low, how can the imperial court recover the costs? Just the construction of the workshops in Sassan cost millions of taels of silver." The Taichang Temple Minister was worried.

The arguments were one after another, but Li Chen just smiled without speaking.

Until the ministers realized they were out of order and stopped talking, he spoke slowly.

Li Chen said in a deep voice: "What you ministers said all makes sense. My meaning is, the first model should be priced high, so high that only famous families and wealthy merchants can afford it."

Seeing the ministers show puzzled expressions, Li Chen continued: "Imagine, when high-ranking officials in the court and local powerful people all use this rare item, when they go out..."

He deliberately dragged out the tone.

The Minister of Rites said excitedly: "Wonderful! These people love to show off the most and will definitely show it off everywhere. At that time, although ordinary people cannot afford it, they will all know the magic of this item!"

Li Chen nodded approvingly: "Exactly. After a few seasons, when these nobles get tired of using it, we will launch the second generation, with improved performance, adding video calling functions, and launching high-end models and affordable models at the same time."

There was an uproar in the court.

The Minister of Revenue, Liu Minghan, was so excited that his beard was trembling: "Your Majesty is wise! In this way, we can not only recover the initial investment but also realize the original intention of benefiting the people!"

The Vice Minister of Works said excitedly: "Not only that! Those wealthy households will definitely compete to buy the new models to show their status. And ordinary people, after saving for a long time, will finally be able to fulfill their wish."

Li Chen looked at the excited ministers and laughed secretly in his heart.

This was just a common marketing strategy from his previous life.

When the time is ripe, what group chat functions, ultra-thin designs, membership services... there are plenty of ways to make these people pay obediently.

Li Chen would not push out many functions all at once, because he knew that this technology would definitely attract other countries to imitate it.

Perhaps some small countries don't have the ability, but that doesn't mean the Eternal Day Empire can't.

This technology was originally invented by them. When they see Li Chen doing this, they will definitely follow suit.

When they imitate the first generation, Li Chen will release the second generation, and so on. The Eternal Day Empire will definitely lag behind by one version.

Many court officials were discussing the wealth that mobile phones could bring in the morning court today.

Making Li Chen unable to get off work, until noon, they discussed almost enough, and Li Chen retired from the court.

Li Chen would not dampen their enthusiasm for discussion, because only by maintaining their passion for work would they work hard.

He couldn't just let the ministers get out quickly because he wanted to rest. After a few times like this, the ministers wouldn't work so passionately.

Selecting the virtuous and capable is just the basic work of an emperor; how to stimulate the ability of the ministers is the skill of an emperor. ===== CHAPTER 523 =====