Chapter 442, Da Ming is not calm anymore
"Sell Newspaper~Sell Newspaper~"
"The fleet to the Golden Continent is back~"
"Bring back gold and silver worth 30 million taels of silver~"
The streets and alleys of the capital, accompanied by the sound of selling newspapers, the whole capital seems to come to life, and the Ming Morning Post has now become a part of the life of the old and young masters in the capital.
"Give me a copy ~ Give me a copy ~ "
Soon, the newsboys were surrounded by people who bought newspapers, and they all couldn't wait to get their hands on the newspaper to see the latest news.
"Oh my God~"
"Twenty million taels of silver plus one million taels of gold, the fleet brought back a wealth worth thirty million taels of silver from the Golden Continent~"
"The Golden Continent is really full of gold~"
Everyone who gets the latest issue of the Ming Morning Post can't help but be amazed.
Because this time, the Ming Morning Post reported on this matter in detail, and at the same time spent most of the space to report on this matter.
The most striking of these was undoubtedly the wealth that the fleet had brought back from the Golden Continent, worth 30 million taels of silver, which was a huge amount.
On a teahouse in the capital, the shopkeeper of the teahouse was reading the newspaper aloud to the guests of the teahouse as usual, and when he read about the gold and silver worth 30 million taels of silver that he had brought back, the whole teahouse was silent.
Everyone was dumbfounded, their mouths widened, and some couldn't help but pluck their ears, wondering if they had heard it wrong.
"Shopkeeper, did I hear it wrong, you just said gold and silver worth 30 million taels of silver?"
"Yes, it is clearly written, it is gold and silver worth 30 million taels of silver, of which 20 million taels of silver and 1 million taels of gold, a total value of more than 30 million taels."
The shopkeeper of the teahouse looked at it carefully again and said with great certainty.
"Thirty million taels of silver, how much is this?"
Someone couldn't help but exclaim.
"I have heard about this yesterday, this fleet came back yesterday, yesterday here in Tianjin Port, ten Daifuku ships came back from the Golden Continent, the gold and silver brought back were piled up on the wharf into mountains of gold and silver, I heard that the whole port is full of gold and silver."
A well-informed person spoke.
"Then aren't all these crew members who go to sea send?"
Someone thought about it and said.
"Nonsense, of course I sent it~"
"This fleet is funded by today's son, as well as Liu Jin and Liu Zhuangyuan, and a businessman named Du Mingen, the Son of Heaven and the businessman Du Mingen each account for 30%, Liu Jin and Liu Gongzi account for 20%, and the remaining 20% belongs to all the crew."
"I heard that yesterday, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Liu Jin both went to Tianjin Port to welcome them back, and on the spot, they distributed 20% of the gold and silver belonging to the crew to these crew members, counting the more than 1,000 people, each of them can almost get more than 2,000 silver."
"More than 6,000 taels of silver, these crew members used to be bitter haha, I heard that some of them are still military households, and the poor family can't even eat, but now, it's just a trip to the sea, more than a year, and they have earned more than 6,000 taels of silver, and they can't eat it all in their lives."
The shopkeeper followed, because the newspapers had clearly written all this.
Obviously, this is also what Liu Jin meant, that is, to use silver to stimulate the people of Daming to continue to go overseas, and not always limit their vision to this acre and three points of land in Daming.
Supporting the bold to starve to death the timid, Liu Jin wants this effect.
"More than a year, more than six thousand taels of silver!"
When the people in the teahouse heard this, they couldn't help but gasp one by one.
These people are all people in the capital, and they can come to the teahouse to consume, and they are obviously rich people, but when they heard that they had earned more than 6,000 taels of silver in more than a year, they couldn't help but reddened their eyes.
The purchasing power of silver is beyond doubt, in this era when three taels of silver can marry an aunt, a few taels of silver can build a house, even if the house in the capital has a few dozen taels, a hundred taels of silver can also be bought, six thousand taels of silver for ordinary people is astronomical.
Maybe 30 million taels of silver didn't have such a strong feeling for them, because everyone knew that they couldn't have these 30 million taels of silver at all.
But after hearing that the crew who went to sea could earn more than 6,000 taels of silver in just over a year, everyone couldn't help but blush.
It's just a trip to the Golden Continent, and in more than a year, you can earn a fortune that you can't spend in a lifetime, which seems to be something that everyone can reach.
The whole capital, no, the whole Beijing-Tianjin area is crazy.
And as this news continues to spread, it slowly spreads to the entire Ming Dynasty, and the people of the Ming Dynasty are not calm.
used to talk about small wealth is peace, there is a three-acre field, and the wife and children can be hot on the kang, and they are content with the status quo, and they don't like to go to the outside world.
But now, with the spread of the news, more and more people have gathered here in Tianjin, and countless people have sharpened their heads and want to enter Tianjin Maritime College, want to learn navigation technology, want to go to sea, want to go to the Golden Continent, and want to get rich overnight.
"Go, go, go to Tianjin, go to the sea to Golden Continent, get rich overnight~"
"Take a trip while you're young, and you can earn a lifetime of silver in more than a year~"
Here in the capital, young people invite their three or five friends, pack their bags, say goodbye to their parents, wives and children, and walk towards Tianjin, no one can remain calm under the attack of silver.
Even some scholars, at this moment, they have put down the four books and five classics in their hands, I don't even take the imperial examination, the imperial examination is too difficult, and not everyone can be admitted.
This trip to the Golden Continent will earn a few thousand taels of silver a year, and you can still take the test again slowly.
I heard that Tianjin Maritime University recruits students here, and it is required to be able to read and break words, and the advantage of reading is very great, and it is easy to be admitted.
It's not just the young people who are restless, but even some of the older people are also restless, and there is no way to plant them in peace.
People around you are thinking about going to Tianjin, if you are still farming, even your mother-in-law will look down on you, and you don't have to be young people to go to Golden Continent.
As long as you are hard-working, you can go the same.
The people of Daming are restless~
Of course, the restlessness is far more than the ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty, they are restless from top to bottom.
The reason why ordinary people are restless is because they earn thousands of taels of silver a year on this trip to the sea, and they can't spend it all in their lives.
For the middle and upper echelons of the Ming Dynasty, they were shocked by 30 million taels of gold and silver, and their eyes were red.
Du Mingen, a businessman, invested in a fleet to the Golden Continent in just over a year, and earned more than nine million taels of silver at once.
More than 9 million taels of silver, this is such a huge wealth, it will take two years for the treasury of the Ming Dynasty to receive almost how much tax silver.
Even if it is a big family of Hui merchants who are rich in the world now, not every big family has a lot of silver, the key is cash, and these big families can't take out so much silver at all.
Du Mingen got rich overnight, a real rich.
Suddenly became a legend among the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, countless merchants were talking about Du Mingen's time, and while their eyes were red, they began to dig out the silver on the ground and sell some fields, shops and the like.
Raise silver, invite some excellent friends, and bring the silver from all over the world of Daming to the Beijing-Tianjin area, they want to buy a boat, and they also want to go to the Golden Continent.
There are only ten great fortune ships, more than 1,000 people, as long as the silver is smashed into it, they will also organize a fleet to go to the Golden Continent, and they can also get rich overnight.
In the south of the Ming Dynasty, for the first time, these big merchants, big landlords, gentry, and big families in the south could not be calm, since the opening of the sea, they have lagged behind the north and cannot enjoy the huge dividends brought by sea trade.
Originally, they were doing their best to oppose the ban on opening the sea, wanting to monopolize the huge profits of the sea trade.
But now, they can't calm down.
Compared with 30 million taels of silver, their little bit of sea trade and the little bit of silver they earned were nothing but a small thing, sprinkled with water.
Therefore, above the court, officials from the Jiangnan region stood up for the first time and appealed to Emperor Hongzhi's side, demanding the opening of more foreign ports, and the need for open ports in the south.
Their eyes are red, and they can't calm down.
With such a huge amount of silver, such a huge cake, they simply couldn't keep it calm.
At the top of the Ming Dynasty, the military generals and noble groups will not be said, and the military generals and noble groups led by the British Duke, the Dingguo Gong, and the Chengguo Gong will send people to Tianjin here as soon as possible.
They want a boat to have a ship, they want silver to have silver, they want people to have people, such a huge cake, it must not be missed, Zhang Mao, Zhu Fu and Liu Jin's brother-in-law, that was from the capital overnight to Tianjin here, found Liu Jin, undoubtedly to pull Liu Jin to form a new fleet to the Golden Continent.
In the past, these civil officials were representatives of large landlords and gentry, and their families had huge land and property, and they were also engaged in some business.
But with the rise of capitalism, they soon found that their wealth grew much slower and too much than the new capitalists, relying on the little money they had collected from the rent.
Now, with the return of the fleet, all of a sudden thirty million taels of silver formed an even more terrifying impact, no one could remain calm in the face of such a huge wealth, they were also like everyone else, their eyes were extremely red, and at the same time, they did not hesitate to join in this huge feast of wealth.
The entire Ming Dynasty was restless, and they were all agitated by the huge wealth of 30 million taels of silver.