Otherwise, it would have to sell for more than 4 strings.
In the Song Dynasty, an ordinary working-class family used to earn at most 3 strings of cash per month.
In recent years, with the increase in infrastructure construction by the imperial court, the number of paper money issued by the royal bank under Zhao Ding's jurisdiction has continued to increase, and the wages of ordinary workers have also risen.
The maximum is now 5 strings.
With this income, if the imperial court did not control the grain price in Youzhou, the people could barely afford to eat their fill.
Now that we have trains, everything is completely different.
Yu Yunwen continued, "This time, the transportation cost for 40,000 catties of grain was only 100 guan. Zhu Qing saved a full 300 guan on transportation costs. He gave the 40,000 catties of grain to Zhang's Grain Shop for 600 guan. Zhang's Grain Shop originally planned to sell the grain for 1,200 guan, but Xinghua Trading Company planned to sell the same 40,000 catties (400 shi) of grain to the public for 800 guan. Zhang's was forced to lower its price to the same level, which is 2 guan per shi."
Yu Yunwen spoke very quickly; he had a clear understanding of the accounts and knew the details very well.
"In my opinion, the biggest change is that previously a transport team could only transport a maximum of 20,000 catties of grain at a time, but now a trading company can easily send out 40,000 catties, and it only occupies 5 carriages."
Yu Yunwen concluded, "Thanks to Your Majesty's teachings, time is money."
Zhu Qing was willing to lower the price because it reduced transportation costs and, at the same time, helped him reduce more inventory.
The other ministers were completely confused.
I never expected Yu Yunwen to be so quick-witted; he could calculate things so logically.
Finance Minister Zhou Chao felt a pang of jealousy. This was his specialty, how could Yu Yunwen have stolen it from him in front of the Emperor today?
However, when you consider it this way, the train is indeed much better than horse-drawn carriages for transportation.
Zhao Huan sighed inwardly: The value of logistics is not something to be taken lightly. Trains are the most important infrastructure in the industrial age. They not only save costs and improve efficiency, but more importantly, they connect various places closely.
Zhao Huan believed that once the Song Dynasty entered the era of trains, a true golden age would not be far off.
"His Majesty!"
"Zhou Qing, is there anything you want to say?"
The Zhou dynasty originally planned to find a horse-drawn carriage to compete with the train, hoping to wake the emperor up and stop his stubbornness.
But now it seems, damn it, I should be the one waking up!
"Your Majesty, I believe we could add more carriages!"
Chen Yang looked at Zhou Chao with a strange expression, thinking to himself: "Lord Zhou, you didn't say that before!"
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