Chapter 332

In the Eastern Han, the clothes of ordinary people were extremely thin!

Most clothes were made of hemp, wadding, and the like!

Some even used dry grass!

Many people froze to death in winter!

"Uh!"

Mi Zhu looked at Lin Yang, somewhat stunned!

This was a cold-resistant item comparable to a brocade robe!

Two thousand cash was definitely not expensive!

"My lord, at what price are you prepared to sell it?"

Asking weakly, Mi Zhu had been with Lin Yang for a long time and had some premonitions!

"Let's sell it for five hundred cash each!"

Thinking about it, Lin Yang set a price!

A cloth robe in the Han Dynasty cost about that much!

His cotton-padded coat was much better than a cloth robe!

For the burden on the people, it wasn't too much!

"Hiss!"

Hearing five hundred cash each, Mi Zhu couldn't help but gasp!

Cheap!

Isn't it too cheap!

A brocade robe worth two thousand cash, sold for five hundred cash!

Lin Yang wasn't doing business at all!

"Zijhong, you have to understand that many people can't afford a two-thousand-cash robe!"

Two thousand cash; according to the price of grain under Lin Yang, fifty cash per shi, two thousand cash was forty shi of grain!

Forty shi of grain was enough for a family to eat for half a year!

Even at five hundred cash each, it was worth ten shi of grain!

Only the people under Lin Yang, after planting rice, had surplus money and could afford it!

"My lord, I don't know how many of these you have?"

Looking at the mountain of cotton-padded coats, Mi Zhu finally asked!

A five-hundred-cash brocade robe!

He could already imagine!

Once this was sold publicly, what kind of scene it would be!

"Not many, ten million pieces!"

Since refreshing this cotton-padded coat, Lin Yang had decisively chosen to lock it!

In the past half month, he had accumulated fifteen million cotton-padded coats!

Enough for the people under his command to have a warm winter!

Hiss!

Breathing became rapid, and Mi Zhu's mind was full of shock and astonishment!

Ten million pieces?

Heavens!

Are you crazy!

Ten million brocade robes!

Where did my lord get these?

For a moment, Mi Zhu's eyes were full of shock and astonishment!

But immediately, Mi Zhu reacted as if he had realized something and shook his head!

"My lord, if you have ten million cotton-padded coats, then the price of this item cannot be five hundred cash each!"

Mi Zhu's expression became serious!

"Oh?"

Mi Zhu's opposition surprised Lin Yang!

Signaling him, the other party spoke directly!

"My lord is kind and doesn't want the people under his command to suffer from the cold, which is correct, but has my lord considered that Xuzhou, Yangzhou, and even Qingzhou combined don't need ten million cotton-padded coats!"

Mi Zhu, who started in business, had experience in the way of business!

Especially after taking charge of Xuzhou's finances, Mi Zhu was also familiar with the way of making money!

"My lord, the areas suffering from the cold are only the two commanderies of Qingzhou, the province of Xuzhou, and the southern commanderies of Yangzhou, Kuaiji and Yuzhang, which don't need cotton-padded coats at all!"

Mi Zhu explained that Kuaiji and Yuzhang were in the far south!

It wasn't too cold in winter there!

Coarse hemp clothes were enough for them to resist the winter!

What really needed cotton-padded coats were Xuzhou and the northern Qingzhou!

Xuzhou had over four million people, Qingzhou only had over seven hundred thousand, even adding parts of Yangzhou, the consumption of cotton-padded coats would only be over five million!

If the remaining four million plus were sold just like that!

Lin Yang would lose a lot!

"Oh? Then what does Zijhong mean?"

Lin Yang hadn't considered the problem Mi Zhu raised!

He only thought about not letting the people under his command freeze to death!

But he didn't think!

Ten million cotton-padded coats were a bit too many!

"My lord, these cotton-padded coats can be sold in the three provinces of Xuzhou, Qingzhou, and Yangzhou; with a provincial certificate, one can buy one!" Mi Zhu's eyes flashed, and he was very familiar with business, "In this way, my lord only needs to prepare five million cotton-padded coats!"

One per person, buy with identity!

Prohibit outsiders from buying and prohibit repeat purchases!

This way, to a large extent, the cotton-padded coats could fall into everyone's hands!

"As for the remaining five million cotton-padded coats, my lord can sell them to Yanzhou, Jizhou, or even Youzhou!" Mi Zhu said with a smile, revealing a treacherous merchant's grin, "These places are freezing, and cold-resistant items are scarce; my lord can sell them for two thousand cash each!"

Five million cotton-padded coats, sold for two thousand cash each!

That was a solid one million gold!

The value here was much more violent than selling salt!

One had to know that a Han household had an annual income of about nine thousand cash, forty percent of which had to be paid in taxes!

Calculating ten million households in the Han, the annual tax collected was only three point six million gold!

This cotton-padded coat of Lin Yang's could sell for one million gold!

Occupying one-third of the Han's annual tax revenue!

"Two thousand cash, can ordinary people afford it?"

At this moment, Lin Yang asked a question!

The people of Xuzhou and Yangzhou, because they had their own rice seeds, had their annual output increase sixfold in a situation of two harvests a year!

Equivalent to going from nine thousand cash a year to over fifty thousand cash a year!

But the income of the people in Jizhou and Yanzhou hadn't doubled!

A two-thousand-cash piece of clothing occupied one-fourth of their annual income!

Could they afford it?

"My lord, that's where you don't understand!"

Mi Zhu shook his head, his eyes showing a complex look!

"Not every place is under my lord's command; whether it's five hundred cash or two thousand cash, does my lord think the people of Jizhou and Yanzhou can afford it?"

Mi Zhu's rhetorical question stunned Lin Yang!

After tasting it carefully, Lin Yang understood!

He was the one who was too naive!