If you want others to agree to your request, you need to first make a higher request, a request that is difficult for the other party to accept. In this way, when you make a real request, it will be easier for the other party to accept.
Regarding this, merchants were the most skilled. For example, if a piece of clothing was sold for a hundred copper coins, a shrewd merchant would price it at a price of one thousand copper coins. Then, he would write that it was a great discount and sell it at a twenty percent discount. When you asked, the merchant would give you a discount again and say that it was fated to be with you, selling it at a price of one hundred copper coins. Under such temptation, the buyer naturally had no reason not to buy it.
It would be unlucky of them to have a price that was ten times the selling price. This was considered more conscientious. Some shrewder merchants could price it at a price that was a hundred times or even a thousand times the selling price. However, when they sold it, they would sell it according to the actual price. This would naturally give the buyer a sense of great benefit. In this way, what reason would there be to refuse to buy it? How could the sales not be high?
The most important thing was that it was the most dignified time to give a gift. Spending one hundred copper coins to buy a gift that was priced at ten thousand copper coins was a very dignified thing for both the giver and the recipient.
It was precisely because of the desire of some people to save face that some shrewd merchants would deliberately package a hundred copper coin product as ten thousand copper coins. The retail price on the market would also be ten thousand copper coins. Only high-end people could afford it. Naturally, the sales volume would not be very high and the total profit would be limited. Then, in order to increase the sales volume and make more money, they would secretly sell this product in large quantities at a price of one thousand copper coins through another channel. Although the price was much lower, the total profit was very high. For the buyer, if they could buy a product that was priced at ten thousand copper coins on the market for one thousand copper coins, naturally there would be no reason to refuse. This was the merchant's trick.
And this trick was the most popular in the yamen. For example, during the New Year festival, the yamen needed to give benefits to the internal staff. If the person in charge of giving benefits could buy a product that was worth ten thousand copper coins in large quantities on the market for one thousand copper coins and then distribute it, when reporting the expenses, the price of each benefit would be ten thousand copper coins. Even if the higher-ups came to investigate, there would be no problem. The invoice would also be ten thousand copper coins. There was no evidence of corruption. In fact, the person in charge of giving benefits only spent one thousand copper coins and easily embezzled a large amount of the imperial court's funds. As such, who could resist such a great temptation and not buy a product that was worth one thousand copper coins?
The simplest example was the sale of tea leaves in the future. It was normal for the tea leaves that ordinary people drank to have a price difference of hundreds or thousands of times. Who could really distinguish between good tea and bad tea? Even if the tea was expensive, in fact, it was just the leaves picked from the tea tree. How high could the cost be? What was the difference between the tea leaves picked from the deep mountains and the tea leaves picked from the fields? As long as it was the same variety, the taste was almost the same.
But for people who liked to hype the concept, it was very different. As long as the tea leaves were all from the depths of the unpolluted mountains, the tea leaves were all picked by fifteen- or sixteen-year-old girls, and the person in charge of frying the tea was the best tea frying master in the empire, then the value of the tea leaves would increase by hundreds or thousands of times. In fact, as long as it was the same variety, the difference in quality was not big. They were all ordinary goods that had been artificially packaged. That was the only difference, but the difference in price was hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of times.
Those high-end tea leaves might not be as advertised when they were actually produced. The tea leaves that were said to come from the deep mountains and dense forests were very likely to be near the industrial polluted areas. The girls who were said to be fifteen or sixteen years old were very likely to be aunties in their fifties or sixties. The tea leaves that were said to be made by tea frying masters were very likely to be made by old men in the countryside. It did not match the actual situation at all. It was purely done to raise the price.
The industry owned by Ang Lee was also a business with huge profits. However, it was all based on real technology. He did not use such deceptive methods, and there was no need for this at all.
However, this time, in order to solve the housing shortage problem in Beijing, Li An had no choice but to play some tricks. He proposed a property tax strategy that the rich and powerful were extremely afraid of. As a result, these people had no choice but to agree to Li An's less influential strategy.
Seeing that all the ministers agreed to Ang Lee's strategy of forcing workshops to provide housing for craftsmen, the emperor nodded with satisfaction. The housing shortage in the capital had been for a long time. This time, it could finally be alleviated a little. As the supreme ruler of the empire, he was naturally very happy.
Ang Lee's mood was naturally very good. He made these guys admit defeat with just a verbal battle. He was naturally quite proud. After this strategy was implemented, the housing shortage in the capital would be greatly alleviated. This would have a great effect on improving the lives of the people in the capital.
As a model of loving the people wholeheartedly, Ang Lee's heart was always thinking about the people at all times. This was because only the people at the lowest level could live well, the Tang Empire could be more stable and prosperous. If the people at the lowest level could not live well, the people at the top of the ruling class would probably not live well either.
This was because the living conditions of the people at the bottom determined the security situation of the entire society. If the people at the bottom did not live well, it was very likely that they would commit violent crimes. At least, this probability would be greatly increased. The target of violent crimes was uncertain. It could be targeted at the ordinary poor, or it could be targeted at the rich.
But in any case, when the society was in turmoil, it was definitely not a good thing for the rich. The more chaotic the society was, the more insecure the rich would feel.
Therefore, when there was turmoil, the rich were more willing to migrate to safer places. Wherever it was safer, they would live there.
When there was war, the poor people had no choice but to continue to stay where they were. The rich people could cross the sea and live in safer places.
For example, when the Japanese pirates invaded the Central Plains, many of the wealthy families in China migrated to the Free World, where there was no war. These wealthy families all had the financial resources and technology. These elites flooded into the Free World, establishing the foundation for the Free World to become a superpower.
If it were not for these excellent talents from the war-torn areas of various countries, the free world would not have been able to become the world's most powerful country so quickly. It was because of its internal security that it quickly became the world's most powerful country after the war ended. A safe and stable environment and comfortable lives attracted most of the excellent talents from all over the world. In this way, it was impossible for the free world not to become the world's most powerful country. This was the advantage of stability.
The Tang dynasty was now in a similar situation, especially the capital city of Chang 'an. After many years of hard work by Ang Lee, it had really become a model city for long-term stability. The royalty and nobles of the surrounding countries came to Chang' an in admiration, hoping to live in this wonderful land forever. This was the great charm of stability and prosperity. If there was no stability and prosperity as a foundation, the royalty and nobles of the surrounding countries would never come to Chang 'an.
However, Li An had also clearly seen the truth. The gap between the rich and poor in the capital was too great. The lives of ordinary craftsmen were too tight. Those who were doing well could still survive, but those who were not doing well had to fork out half of their salary to pay rent. This pressure was too great, and it was unbearable for some craftsmen.
Therefore, there was a possibility that the security of the capital would continue to deteriorate. In order to prevent this from happening, Ang Lee had to plan ahead and solve all the factors that could cause the security of the capital to deteriorate. In this way, there might be no possibility of the security of the capital deteriorating.
Ang Lee was powerless to solve the gap between the rich and poor. This was a problem that no expert could solve. Ang Lee himself was a millionaire. How could he give his money to the poor? This was obviously impossible.
Moreover, it was very beneficial to have a certain gap between the rich and poor in society. This could encourage more poor people to work hard to support themselves and their families. If there was no gap between the rich and poor, it meant that many people would lose the motivation to work hard.
However, even if there was a huge gap between the rich and poor in the entire empire, as long as ordinary people could eat and drink without worry and had a lot of extra money, the stability of the entire society was still guaranteed and the control of the people at the bottom could still be maintained.
As the most hardworking and hardworking people on the Blue Planet, the people of the Hua Xia family were very satisfied as long as they could eat and drink and have a little extra money. It was simply a pipe dream to make the people who had eaten and drunk enough to cook for you. No one was a fool. After eating and drinking enough, the first thing they would think of was naturally to enjoy life. Who would be so free as to risk being beheaded to do something illegal?
Since Ang Lee's policy of forcing workshops to build housing had been unanimously approved by the ministers, the next step was to implement the policy. Now, in the capital, there were new workshops, restaurants, and shops opening almost every day, and the number was huge. The sooner this policy was announced, the better it would be to solve the housing problem in the capital.
Ang Lee was the one who came up with the idea, but the people in the Political Affairs Hall were the ones who implemented and drafted the policy. This matter had been confirmed by the emperor himself, so these guys did not dare to neglect it.
In addition, Ang Lee had other tricks to make them not dare to delay. That was the power of the media, which included the Tang dynasty newspaper, the morning and evening newspaper in the capital, and some privately created newspapers and periodicals. All of them swarmed over and blocked the entrance of the Daming Palace as if they had agreed beforehand. As long as the officials of the Political Affairs Hall came out, they would immediately ask about the specific situation. Although these people's ranks were relatively low, the standard of the Tang dynasty newspaper was very high. The emperor read the newspaper every day, so how could the ministers not pay attention to it?
Therefore, even the officials above the third grade were quite careful when they saw these people from the Tang dynasty newspaper. It was impossible for them to take the initiative to salute them. Their status was there, but they still had to abide by the most basic etiquette. At least, they could not berate these media people with bad attitudes. Instead, they had to be patient and answer some questions asked by the media people in a friendly manner. Otherwise, if these guys wrote something unfavorable to them, it would not be a joke.
After leaving the Zichen Palace, Ang Lee and the ministers walked out of the palace gate in groups of three or five. Among them, Ang Lee and Li Yu walked in the front. Because of their fast pace, they gradually pulled away from the others.
If they had encountered such a situation before, the ministers behind them would have definitely chased after them. But this time, they did not.
Because before, Ang Lee had invented a lot of wonderful things. They chased after him to better understand the functions of the new inventions. But this time, Ang Lee only proposed a strategy to solve the housing problem in the capital. Moreover, it was a loss to many of them, so they more or less had some complaints in their hearts. In this case, why did they chase after him? They were just asking for a snub.
Li Yu did not have this concern. He did not have extra real estate. It was not that he did not have foresight and did not understand the rising trend of the housing prices in the capital. It was just that his goal was different from others. As the eldest grandson of the Tang Empire, Li Yu only had one goal, which was the throne of the empire. As long as he could sit on the throne of the emperor, all the houses in the world would be his. Why should he speculate in real estate?
If he speculated in real estate like a businessman, he might be impeached and lose the chance to fight for the throne. This was unacceptable for Li Yu. In Li Yu's mind, there was nothing more sacred than the throne.
People with different identities were destined to have different ideals. As someone who had the possibility of inheriting the throne, how could Li Yu pay too much attention to business? He only cared about politics. Everything he did was to gain political capital and finally ascend to the position he dreamed of. For this position, he was willing to pay any price.
However, as far as the current situation was concerned, Li Yu still had a long way to go before he could ascend to the throne. His imperial grandfather was too good at living. He was already seventy or eighty years old, but he was still so healthy. His father's position as the crown prince was not absolutely secure. Once his father's position was weakened, his identity would also be weakened. It would be too difficult for him to become the emperor.
"Assistant Minister Li, you can relax now. This matter has been fully approved. It won't be long before the rent in the capital is loosened. The people can live a better life. This is all thanks to Assistant Minister Li!"
Li Yu said.
"Gwangbyeong Of Gojoseon, don't praise me. It's hard to say how much this method can alleviate! Even if it has an effect, it can't be seen in a short time. "
Ang Lee said modestly.
: :
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
