Zhao State, Handan Li Mu's prime minister's mansion.

Li Mu was a little worried about the Zhao State nobles and investors about the Yan State Iron Mine. Judging from their attitude. They don't seem to be interested in this matter.

Li Mu's idea is that the slave trade in Goguryeo may lead to greater investment enthusiasm in Zhao's country. At least they will actively participate in it, but the result will be like this. This made Li Mu feel a little disappointed, but Li Mu did not give up. He believed that his approach was wrong.

Li Mu thought of many ways, but there is no one way to quickly mobilize the interest of these investors. There was no way, Li Mu had to stop thinking about it, and then read the newspaper. Perhaps, he can read some interesting content from the newspaper. Or maybe some content will cause other things to come.

Because Li Mu is the prime minister, he is now paying special attention to economic issues. Li Mu habitually turned to the economic content of the Handan Times. "Handan Times" is a business and economic newspaper founded by Zhao Guo himself. In addition to focusing on Zhao Guo's own domestic economic issues, this type of newspaper will also reprint some large economic articles. Mainly articles from Qin State.

"The four major steels were purchased by Wenyang at a low price." Li Mu saw Qin Guo's article reprinted by economic reports at this time. The time when the article was published and reprinted is still very new. It seems that this happened not long ago. Li Mu noticed it all at once.

According to the report. The Qin government deliberately sold Qin's four major steel groups at a low price. And it was sold to Qin Wenyang Bank at a low price. In addition to the special relationship between Shang Wen and Princess Qin, the Qin newspaper publicly accused Prime Minister Qin Shangwen of unfairness.

In subsequent reports, Zhao Guo did not pay attention to the domestic affairs of Qin State. What they were concerned about was the stock price of Handan Iron Works, which was affected by such news. The shares of Handan Iron Works have fluctuated greatly. Investors are worried that the sale of the four major steel groups in the State of Qin will affect the economic benefits of Handan Iron Works. After all, their Handan Iron Works mainly sells iron ingots, while Qin Iron Works mainly sells iron ingots. The four major iron and steel groups in the country purchased a large amount of iron ingots from them and further processed them into various steels.

"This matter." Li Mu felt that this matter was very difficult.

"The prime minister, it's time to eat." Li Zuoche put the food on the coffee table. Li Mu thought about this.

"What do you think of this matter?" Li Mu asked Li Zuoche, handing the newspaper.

"What's the matter?" Li Zuoche took the newspaper and looked.

"What the prime minister said about Wenyang's acquisition of the four major steel groups in Qin?" Li Zuoche asked Li Mu.

"Yes. What do you think about this matter?" Li Mu wanted to know what Li Zuoche's views on this matter at this young stage. After all, there are some ideas that Li Mu can't keep up with.

"My opinion is that Qin's move may increase the output of steel. In this case, the iron produced by our Handan Iron Plant may not be enough." Li Zuoche said.

"Oh. Why?" Li Mu asked somewhat puzzled.

"I actually said this in the newspapers. Qin’s economic experts are more pragmatic. They don’t pay a lot of attention to the personal relationship between the prime minister and the princess of Qin, and what is Qin’s move. The prime minister eased the beginning of the cold relationship between the princesses and so on. These are all irrelevant things." Li Zuoche said.

"Then you can talk about important things!" Li Mu said at this time.

"Well. What the Qin government did in this way is actually what the newspaper said." Li Zuoche paused and said.

"In fact, most of the steel before the Qin State was built by the government. These steel plants initially met Qin’s military needs, that is, specializing in the manufacture of guns. Later, a small number of them accepted the task of manufacturing machine tool steel. It was the rails, the steel rails. Then there were a lot of building materials. But their premise was to meet some military needs." Li Zuoche said.

"But now the military demand in the Qin State is gradually decreasing. Especially recently, the Qin Army's equipment replacement speed has slowed down and military expenditures have decreased. The previous military production has gradually become a burden, which is very bad for the efficiency of the steel plant. They still have to produce. As a result, they cannot accept more orders for profitable civilian projects, and the production capacity of Qin Guo Iron and Steel Plant is very limited, because they have to pay if they want to produce steel for civilian projects. A large amount of profits will cause big problems in the operation of the steel plant. This is also the reason why Qin's current steel production is low. This is not what I said, this is what the newspaper said." Li Zuoche emphasized.

"Well. No matter who said it, as long as it makes sense." Li Mu said.

"Yeah." Li Zuoche nodded.

"In view of this situation. Prime Minister Qin decisively shed such burdens and convert all government-run steel groups into civilian use, and civilian steel plants will produce a large amount of civilian steel in order to meet steel demand. In this way, steel plants The operating effect of the company will increase, and the government will only occupy a small part of the shares. In this way, the government's profits are also guaranteed." Li Zuoche said.

"This move, in the eyes of Qin's economic experts, has significant reform benefits. Qin's economists support this. However, Qin's newspaper did not pay attention to this in order to attract attention. Although this matter is right Handan Iron Works has caused a certain impact, but some stock experts believe that Handan Iron Works' stock price will continue to rise in the future." Li Zuoche said. In fact, Li Zuoche understood this because he also bought some shares of Handan Iron Factory. At first he saw that the price of his Handan Iron Factory could not rise, and felt a little distressed, but soon he thought about it. understood. Because in the long run, the demand for steel will be an amazing demand. The current Handan Iron Plant is far from being able to meet this demand, and the current scale of Handan Iron Plant, if it continues to expand, may be upgraded to a steel plant. It is also true that Li Zuoche insisted on holding his own shares in Handan Iron Works.

"The steel plant built by the Qin government." Li Mu whispered.

"In other words, these steel groups are government-run." Li Mu said.

"Yes, Prime Minister. But now they have become civilian projects. In the future, they will accept civilian orders instead of military orders." Li Zuoche explained.

"That's it." Li Mu said, tapping the armrest of the sofa. Li Zuoche nodded and said that's it.