C199 Borrowing chicken to lay eggs (2/2)

What he did not know was that, in terms of jewelry, the amount of jewelry that the Huns looted each year from the west was close to the sum of the East Asian countries' own mining efforts.

Only the trade between Song and Ming countries along the Silk Road at sea was able to compete with the Huns.

After all, the present Huns were the closest countries to the history of the Arab countries that could compete with the wealth of the Song Dynasty.

By plundering the subordinate states next to this group of people and even waging war against them, this group of Huns could obtain an endless amount of wealth.

However, Xiao Wen then asked, ”In that case, Prince, do you know the price of your gold, silver, and jewelry in the East?”

”This …” After hearing Xiao Wen's words, he immediately became embarrassed.

In coastal countries like Song Ming, one tael of gold was enough to buy several dozen catties of salt.

However, on the prairie, trading a tasteful tasteful tael of gold for a jin of salt was already a matter of kindness to merchants.

And the other things were the same.

Most of the time, the merchants of the south only needed to bring a few things that were not too expensive, and they could change them into countless gold and silver jewelry at the Huns' place.

If it were not for the fact that many of these things had been exchanged for in exchange, they would have been looted by the bandits on the prairie, resulting in the loss of both wealth and resources. It was likely that the Huns had long become one of the most developed countries in the entire East Asian trade.

He knew that Renton already had an impression in his mind of his country's predicament in this regard. Xiao Wen then said, ”Because of this, although there are plains far away from the south, many things are very scarce. But that was only part of the reason. The most important thing is that you lack the craftsmen to process these jewels. ”

”Is that really the case?” Intuition told him that Xiao Wen's previous reason was the main reason.

Of course, this was also the truth.

But so what if it was the truth? Xiao Wen also didn't intend to tell him the truth.

What he wanted to do was to dupe others and gain benefits from them.

Therefore, his face was not red, and he calmly said, ”Of course. Take the sword you just received, Prince! The sword you received earlier, the words written on it, is in Latin. Meaning: Happy twentieth birthday to His Majesty Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanikos. Nero was emperor of the western Roman Empire. Prince. Who but the Romans would trade a sword carved with such words? ”No matter how extravagant the decorations are, the merchants of the south will not be interested in them.”

Upon hearing these words, he felt a burst of awkwardness.

That's true. Because the Huns themselves were not well-educated. Since he didn't know much about these things, it wasn't strange for him to create such an embarrassing situation.

He could only sigh helplessly and say, ”So our country has really suffered a lot from this each year! ”In the future, he decided, we must develop our jewellery industry and let us, the Huns, get rich.

”That's right!” Xiao Wen revealed a smile as he said this.

In fact, in Xiao Wen's eyes, the ancient jewellery craftsmen were a bunch of people who served the rich and powerful.

Although they could process all kinds of expensive jewelry, they could neither eat nor use them. They were merely tools used to fight for wealth among the rich and the noble.

No matter where they threw the jewelry craftsmen, they would only be able to make useless things.

In this world, only Xiao Wen knew of the need for these jewelry craftsmen to process precise parts.

Apart from him, no one else knew how to use the jewellery craftsmen to give real impetus to the country's industrial development.

Therefore, Xiao Wen could be considered to have used the wealth of the Huns to keep a group of jewellery craftsmen as a reserve for his talents.

Thinking about the future, Xiao Wen's smile became even wider when he realized that he had spent a lot of money to raise a jewelry craftsman, and some of them were even native jewelry craftsmen that he painstakingly cultivated. After Xiao Wen obtained control of the Huns' lifeline, Xiao Wen spat out blood.

”Borrowing an egg and a chicken, get!”