Hearing Zhang Ran’s words, Zhao Yu suddenly fell into deep thought. He frowned and thought for a long time before raising his head slightly, looking at Zhang Ran with a burning look, "Xiaolang, do you mean that you want to transfer the wool shop and the craftsmen to Shuofang? Because you don’t want to dismiss the craftsmen? Because Shuofang is closer to the origin? Because the wool sweaters are more sold there?"

"Uh? Isn't this enough?" Zhang Ran said in a daze.

"Haha..." Zhao Yu immediately glanced at Zhang Ran with some fun and smiled, "If you are just an ordinary merchant, your choice is naturally understandable, and it is even a very wise choice... But you are an official in the Shaofu!

Since you are an official in the Shaofu, you cannot simply consider the problem from the perspective of merchants. You should pay more attention to the deep-seated influence and consider the consequences of doing so!

What's more, what do you think the little bit of benefits you mentioned are worth to our Shaofu? Will Your Majesty care about the little money you earn by selling woollens? Or will I care about your business and earn more than a few thousand gold for the Shaofu every year?"

"This..." Faced with the problems raised by Zhao Yu, Zhang Ran was speechless. As Zhao Yu said, from a simple business perspective, compared with various unfavorable conditions in Guanzhong, Shuofang undoubtedly has many extremely favorable commercial elements such as lower labor prices, more skilled industrial workers, more abundant raw materials, and a broader market. There is no doubt that this is definitely the best choice for opening a wool textile factory!

But as the largest official economic complex in the Han Dynasty, how could Shaofu only focus on a little bit of commercial interests? Its existence is essentially more for the service of imperial power and various policies of the court... You should know that the Shaofu of the Han Dynasty is not only in charge of Weiyang Palace and Shanglinyuan, but basically has branches in every county. The most profitable industries in the world, such as salt boiling, iron smelting, textiles, grain and wine, etc., can almost all be seen in the shadow of Shaofu.

In the near future, Liu Che will adopt Sang Hongyang's suggestion, implement a salt and iron monopoly, completely monopolize salt and iron, and even related industries such as wine, and become the most profitable trust in the world!

In addition, the Shaofu also controls the taxes and other taxes of the whole world, and has the right to mint coins. Most of the two zhu coins, five zhu coins, half liang coins, etc. circulated in the world are from the Shaofu and Dameng Order!

Therefore, the Shaofu is actually not short of money. The one who is really short of money is Emperor Liu Che, because he wants to launch this land and support an unprecedented and largest war in ancient times!

This is a life-and-death battle that determines the life-and-death battle between two nations and even two different civilizations. The winner will completely have the dominance of this vast land, and the loser will lose everything, population, land, wealth, and even traces of existence, and will eventually disappear completely in the long river of history!

In short, since Liu Che made up his mind to send the great scholar Di Shan to the frontier and used thunder to eradicate all voices of opposition to the war with the Huns, the civil and military officials of the court had completely understood the emperor's determination. As one of the nine ministers, the young ministers and one of the emperor's most trustworthy ministers, Zhao Yu naturally knew the emperor's intentions very well... In this case, when Zhao Yu heard Zhang Ran's actions, it would probably have a negative impact on the Han-Hungary War, how could he agree with his suggestions?

Looking at Zhao Yu's questioning gaze, Zhang Ran knew that the reasons he had just said could not make the other party moved at all, and it was even more impossible to convince the other party and let the other party take risks to support his ideas!

Therefore, Zhang Ran could only smile bitterly, shake his head, and said helplessly: "Mr. Zhao is as smart as a torch, Zhang Ran admires him very much! Mr. Zhao, in fact, transferring the wool workshop in the workshop garden to Shuofang is not only because it is more in line with the operating rules of business, but also saving costs and making money, but it also contains a little selfishness!"

"Private? What selfishness?"

After hearing what Zhang Ran said, Zhao Yu was a little curious. In his impression, Zhang Ran has always been a person who is aware of the general and wise man. He has always been "selfless" in his work, and puts the world first and even for the sake of the Han Dynasty, the court, and the people of the world, he will sacrifice his own interests and benefit the world!

It seems that he has truly achieved "if you are poor, you will be safe, and if you are rich, you will be able to help the world." Zhao Yu asked himself that he was far inferior to that, which is also the most important reason why Zhao Yu is willing to have a good relationship with Zhang Ran. After all, people like Zhang Ran with "noble character" are more trustworthy than those kind of villain!

But as now, Zhang Ran publicly said that it is the first time in history that he has selfishness, so Zhao Yu really wants to know where Zhang Ran’s “selfishness” lies?

"Uh" Seeing Zhao Yu's expression excited, his eyes seemed to be full of inquiry, and he stared at him tightly, Zhang Ran felt a little speechless in his heart, and he felt that this old man was also gossipy sometimes!

"Well..." Zhang Ran hesitated for a moment, and replied carefully, "This is the thing. A few days ago, Mr. Dong and his disciple Yu Qiu suddenly came to visit and told me that Yu Qiu was about to serve as the commander of the rural commander of Shuofang, full-time responsible for the migration of people in Shuofang and the granting of fields, Balabala..."

Under Zhao Yu's surprised gaze, Zhang Ran made it a matter of being appointed by the emperor as the commander of the Agriculture Commander... Of course, Zhang Ran did not tell Zhao Yu that the idea of ​​giving money to apologize for the crimes, but said that he was moved by the King of Qiu Shou and wanted to give him some help!

Finally, Zhang Ran said to Zhao Yu sincerely: "After learning about the difficulties facing Brother Zigan, I gave him some ideas and asked General Wei to give Brother Zigan some help... However, this alone is not enough to completely escape from danger! So, I thought about transferring the wool workshop in the Workshop Garden to Shuofang and handing it over to Brother Zigan to manage and take charge!

In this way, it can not only solve the difficulties that our workshop garden is about to face, but also provide some help to Brother Zi Gan to help him open up the situation in Shuofang as soon as possible!

Moreover, based on my understanding of Brother Zi Gan, both his character and his abilities are trustworthy. What's more, he can be called a death sentence now. He is willing to live in death and is willing to live in death. I believe he dare not do anything! Therefore, he will definitely handle this matter well, and don't worry too much about the problem that the wool garment technology will be leaked!
Chapter completed!