Chapter 108: Silver Shop

Xian Jing didn't know what his wife was doing at the moment.

And at this moment, on the banquet, the wine has passed three rounds, and the dishes have passed five flavors.

Xian Jing clapped his hands, and the people below immediately left, leaving only him and these big businessmen.

Xian Jing waved his hand, and immediately a eunuch walked up with a tray in his hand, and on this red sandalwood tray, there was only a thin piece of paper.

He let the eunuch hold the tray and let the merchants see it one by one.

Even though these businessmen are all well-capitalized, when they see this piece of paper, they all change color slightly.

Wang Yue, the head of the Wang family in Huizhou, said: "Horse, what does this mean? Please also explain a thing or two to us. ”

Xian Jing said: "This is the license of the Foshan Iron Works, and with this license, my family can establish a large iron factory in Foshan that is similar to Shaofu, which is approved by His Majesty." ”

Shaofu's business who is not envied, especially the merchants of the north.

After all, most of Shaofu's production capacity is in the north, and the northern merchants have been hit the hardest, while the southern merchants have many less. But the envy of Shaofu is average.

Even many family businesses began to imitate Shaofu's production methods, intentionally or unintentionally.

I just want to build a large factory and establish this kind of workshop, but I have to deal with the government.

After all, hundreds of people gathered in the place, or even more, without the nod of the government, were told to the yamen, and they had to eat a meal.

Suddenly, when many people saw this license, the thing that came to their minds was, how much does this license cost? Whose way are you going?

Xian Jing seemed to see their thoughts, and said, "The kid is fortunate to meet Your Majesty. Your Majesty knows that our businessmen and people are working hard, and intends to open the door of convenience, but when opening factories and mines to gather people, the imperial court must always have a way to manage it. ”

"That's why I arranged for the kid to run this Foshan Iron Works. Once it is successful, other industries will be opened up one after another, and everyone can go to the Ministry of Industry to apply for this kind of license. ”

"But really?" But it was the head of the Songjiang Xu family who said.

Today, Songjiang is already the production center of Daming cloth, and the Xu family, unlike many merchants, all his industries are on cloth.

He had long wanted to open a big cloth village, but there were many problems, such as the problem of female workers and the problem of land. After all, the weaving in the south of the Yangtze River is also under the jurisdiction of Shaofu.

Now when I hear such conditions, I can't help but be moved.

Xian Jing said: "Naturally, it is true, but my Xian family has a thin background, but I don't know what to do with this iron factory, and I have already attracted some share capital from the Qian family, but it is still not enough." ”

"But, the country's ruler Qian's family?" One person asked.

Xian Jing said: "Exactly. ”

There was a slight silence for a while, and almost everyone said at the same time: "I am willing to take shares." ”

Xian Jing didn't hide his goal at all, these people are all veterans of the ups and downs of the business world, how can they not understand what it means?

Shareholding management is not a new thing in the Ming Dynasty, and even in the Song Dynasty, as a businessman, it is very clear.

For them, most of them came over today, and most of them wanted to get on the line with this colt, even if they couldn't get on the line, they couldn't be offended.

It's not impossible to even let them pay some filial piety money.

The only difference is that some businessmen have hard back. Regardless of seeking prosperity, some businessmen are already in crisis and come here for a glimmer of life.

It's like the returning merchant.

But Xian Jing's condition is within the bottom line of many people, they are willing to contribute a little money, and some people should take it seriously.

So, as little as a few thousand taels or as much as 150,000 taels, it was the money that the merchant took out. In just a few moments, Xian Jing raised nearly one million taels of share capital.

In this way, Foshan Iron Works is no longer a problem.

Even Xian Jing can do more.

Of course, Xian Jing also knew that some of them did not necessarily come for the Foshan Iron Works.

In the middle of the night, Xian Jing personally sent these people out of the Horse Mansion one by one. Although they only have one sentence left now, Xian Jing has no doubt about the credibility of these big businessmen.

Xian Jing left this back businessman, and there is no need to elaborate on it.

Just to say, the next morning, everything Xian Jing talked about here was on Zhu Qizhen's table.

Zhu Qizhen looked at the list of these big businessmen.

Secretly figuring out the backstage of these people, he thought about it, and said to Huaien: "Let Dongchang check the background of these people, remember to just check." Don't touch anything else, don't let them know. ”

Most of the first pots of gold that businessmen started out were not too clean, even in later generations, let alone today.

Not to mention anything else, Zhu Qizhen is sure that most Fujian businessmen have done maritime business. As for the businessmen in Shanxi and Shaanxi, they also did smuggling business at the beginning.

In the original border army smuggling case, Zhu Qizhen had already seen the wrists of the Ming merchants.

However, times have changed.

When he was short of money back then, Zhu Qizhen estimated that the first thing he thought of when he saw these big businessmen was to raid their homes and fill the treasury. This is no longer the case.

Zhu Qizhen hopes for the development of Daming industry. A lot of things can be compromised.

As long as these big businessmen really become independent capital forces and promote the development of Daming society, Zhu Qizhen can turn a blind eye to many things.

And if they really become a capital force. Zhu Qizhen also has to make a layout first to prepare for the future.

Naturally, it is necessary to make the bottom clear.

The reason why Huaien has been able to be by Zhu Qizhen's side for so many years is actually capable. At least the ability to figure out Zhu Qizhen's mind is not a lot at all. Huaien said: "Your Majesty, the case records of these people, the slaves and maids have been found from Jinyiwei, Hubu, and Dongchang, but now it takes time. ”

"Only these few have been found, and the rest are estimated to be able to be found in the next two days." Immediately sent a few files up.

Zhu Qizhen is still quite satisfied with this result.

It is already good for the Ming Dynasty to have this effect, not to mention the investigation, just from the Jinyiwei, Dongchang, Hubu, and the vast number of documents, it is not a small project to find out the documents about these people.

Not to mention, there may not be any files of these people in these local documents.

After all, although businessmen are rich, they may not have enough social status to make them pay attention to the state organs.

Zhu Qizhen looked at it for a few minutes, smiled coldly, and said secretly: "Sure enough, almost everything is more or less suspicious, as if it is the Zhang family in Shanxi, which has too close a relationship with Yanchi." ”

Almost none of them were too clean.

Zhu Qizhen suddenly saw Wang Yue's file, but he stopped and read it carefully several times.

It's not that Wang Yue is relatively clean, Wang Yue is not too clean, his starting silver is his wife's dowry, but his first pot of gold, Jin Yiwei suspects that it is stolen goods.

Pirate's swag.

Of course, Zhu Qizhen didn't care too much about any stolen goods.

What he cares about is that the Wang family's industry is very complicated. There are almost everything, the Wang family is prosperous, and it is a big family among the Hui merchants, and almost all the men in the family are going out to do business.

Everywhere.

This creates a dense web.

And many families also operate in this way, just to avoid risks.

It's like Ximen Qing in the Golden Bottle Plum After making a fortune in a crude medicine shop, he ran a lot of businesses. That's it

It's just that Zhu Qizhen found that Wang Yue has always had a focus of business, which is the silver shop.

That is, there is always a place for different silver taels, but after the implementation of silver coins in Zhu Qizhen, the currency was unified, and it was not important to think of such an industry. But the Wang family has not changed.

Because the Wang family began to run a business of remote access. Also acts as some pawnbroking industry.

What is it?

This is the original financial industry.

Zhu Qizhen's heart moved, and something seemed to have been touched in his heart.

The problem of the silver shortage he faced was a financial problem. Although he had some basic knowledge of finance, it was not enough for him to solve this problem.

And this wild banker, can you give him an answer?

Zhu Qizhen didn't know, but he was willing to give it a try, but before that, he still had a lot to do. Zhu Qizhen pulled out Wang Yue's file, put it on the table, tapped his fingers lightly, and said, "Check it out, especially the Wang family's silver shop." ”