Tianjin New Town Guanhai Building.

Tianjin's Guanhailou and Beijing's Wangyue Tower are all famous restaurants in Beijing and Tianjin, and the location of Guanhailou is very good, and it is in the core area of Tianjin New Town.

Guanhai Building is built of reinforced concrete, with eight floors and a total height of more than 10 zhang, all of which are decorated with the most fashionable all-glass windows.

It takes at least a few dozen taels of silver to eat a meal in Guanhailou, which can only be enjoyed here by the real magnates, and the small landlords and old fortunes in the countryside are reluctant to come here to consume once.

At this time, the top two floors of Guanhai Building, the entire eighth and seventh floors have been packed, and a big man in the Beijing-Tianjin area is constantly entering and exiting here, and at the same time, there are some big businessmen and big family representatives from the southern region who have also come here one after another.

The seventh floor is bustling here, with big businessmen dressed in brocade clothes and with a lot of money in their pockets, emerging capitalists, and representatives of powerful people from the capital gathered together, talking and laughing with each other, chatting and chatting at the same time, and at the same time, looking at the stairs leading to the eighth floor from time to time, as if waiting for something.

Among these people were Zhu Benduan, Feng Xiang, Ye Li, and others, representatives of Hui merchants from the Jiangnan region, and this time it was not easy for them to find out a piece of news.

That is, the Tianjin Ocean Trading Company will organize a fleet to go to the South Seas region, open up the South Sea route, and even if conditions permit, they will also go to Tianzhu and Arabia in South Asia.

As soon as this news came out, the magnates, capitalists, and businessmen in the entire Beijing-Tianjin region were very excited, and at the same time, with the spread of the news, even Zhu Benduan, Feng Xiang, and Ye Li, the big businessmen, big families, and big gentlemen in the south knew about it, and they were also in a hurry, and rushed to Tianjin under the stars.

Tianjin Ocean Trade Company, discerning people know that these are now His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Liu Jin two people jointly established a special ocean trade, and now the most people go to Korea and the Japanese Kingdom is this Tianjin Ocean Trade Bank.

It would be good for other businessmen to be able to go once a month, this Tianjin ocean trading house because it was the first to eat crabs, and the capital was extremely abundant, plus the support of Tianjin Shipyard and Tianjin Maritime College, so it is also the largest ocean trading house now, and there are hundreds of merchant ships going to North Korea and the Japanese Kingdom alone every month, and they continue to earn back the silver spent in vain.

Now that the Tianjin Ocean Trade Company is going to open up a new route, a route to the Nanyang region, people who know the news are very excited, and they are flocking to Tianjin to inquire about the specific news.

Of course, the most important thing is to see if I can step on the giant ship of Tianjin Ocean Trade Company and go to the Nanyang region to make a fortune together.

There were so many merchant ships going to Tientsin and the Wa Kingdom that the profits on going to the Wa Kingdom and Korea were now plummeting.

At the beginning, it was no problem to go to the Wa Kingdom and North Korea and earn a million taels of silver casually, but now.

With the frequent trade exchanges, the Japanese and Korean people are not stupid, and their own people compete with each other, and the profit of a trip to the Japanese and Korean countries is now only less than 300,000 taels of silver.

However, this ocean-going ship is very expensive, coupled with the crew expenses, costs and so on are very high, and we also urgently need to open up new routes, open up new markets to meet the increasing demand, to meet the pursuit of capital for profits.

Visiting the Golden Continent is a craze, but it's safer to travel to the Golden Continent after the start of spring, and it's best to start in the summer.

What's more, the fleet to go to the Golden Continent needs to be very strong, ordinary people can't play at all, there is not enough money, you can't even afford a ship, not to mention hiring crews, preparing all kinds of supplies, and so on.

Now open up the Nanyang route, the Nanyang region is much closer than the Golden Continent, and everyone is more familiar, after all, the Nanyang region of Annam, Siam, Luzon and so on have been in history with the Ming Dynasty, in the past it was still a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and often had to come to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute.

Annam is even more so, deeply influenced by Chinese civilization, the kings of Annam need to be canonized by the Ming Emperor to be considered a truly legitimate king.

Go to the Nanyang region, in everyone's opinion, the risk is small, the profit is large, the Nanyang region is very large, there are many countries, if you can reach Tianzhu, Ceylon and other places in South Asia through the Nanyang region, then the profit will be even more considerable.

In addition, everyone is smart and wants to be the first to eat crabs.

Because Tianjin Ocean Trade Company was the first to eat crabs, it has already established long-term trade contacts with many local big forces on the side of Korea and the Japanese Kingdom, with stable business and guaranteed profits, and it is not so easy for you to meddle in this business if you are latecomers.

It's the same when you go to the Nanyang region, you can take the pit first, take the lead, and then you can have a steady stream of wealth when the route is mature.

"Do you think this Liu Jin will take everyone to Nanyang together?"

I wish Benduan to take a sip of tea and said to Feng Xiang and Ye Li beside him.

"I didn't see that all the people in the Beijing-Tianjin area came over, everyone just received the news, so they came to participate in this party, otherwise everyone will be full of food and support, and they will come to suffer in this winter."

Ye Li smiled and said affirmatively.

"Then I don't understand, what kind of medicine is sold in this Liu Jin's gourd, this good Jinshan Yinshan doesn't want it by himself, so I have to pull everyone to share it together?"

Zhu Ben felt very confused.

In his opinion, this route to the Japanese Kingdom and North Korea is a golden route, and if it is eaten by Tianjin Ocean Trade Company, it will definitely be eaten to the end.

However, Liu Jin is very generous, not only letting this route out, but also encouraging everyone to get rich, I really can't figure out how there is such a person in the world.

Now, too, this opening up of the Nanyang route is also willing to take everyone to the Nanyang region to make a fortune, rather than choosing to open up the Nanyang route alone, and then eat alone as a family.

These merchants from the south knew very well in this regard, and if they ate anything alone, it would definitely be sustained.

Just like the salt in the past, these salt merchants are all rich and rival the country, and except for them, no one else has no way to get involved in the salt business.

Supporting the sea ban is also because the big businessmen, big families, and gentry in the Jiangnan region want to monopolize the huge profits of this sea trade and want to eat alone.

But Liu Jin is different, he just came in reverse, if there is anything to make money, everyone will go together, and I can't wait to let everyone in the world know about it, and they will all go to make money.

The route to gold was all announced, how many gold mines were found along the way, where was the location, there was a country of descendants of Yin Shang in that place in the Golden Continent, and gold could be exchanged for gold with glass balls, etc., all of which were announced through the Ming Morning Post, so that the entire Ming people knew the richness of the Golden Continent.

In Zhu Benduan's opinion, Liu Jin is like a fool.

Why do you want to announce such a route, you go by yourself once a year, it's not tens of millions of taels of silver to go into your pocket.

Once this is announced, I don't know how many people will go to the Golden Continent, and then they will have their own food alone?

I didn't see that the whole Tianjin is almost full of rich people from the entire Ming Dynasty, everyone is buying ships, recruiting people, and preparing to go to the Golden Continent to dig for gold. v5

"I don't understand it either, but this Liu Jin, he has always done this."

Feng Xiang smiled and said.

Last year, he lost the market with Changlu Salt Field in the north, and then he calmed down and studied carefully, and also studied Liu Jin.

After studying Liu Jin, he discovered a very strange thing.

That is Liu Jin, as long as there is any profitable business, he can't wait for everyone to do it together.

This fishing industry, ocean trade, textile industry, cement, honeycomb coal, etc., it seems that in addition to glass, as long as it is a profitable business, Liu Jin selflessly announced it, and brought many people to do it together, and everyone followed to make money.

Now the capitalists in the entire Beijing-Tianjin area are very strong, so much so that now there is a saying 'North Factory and South Hui Merchants', which refers to the emerging capitalists in the north and the big businessmen in the south.

"Maybe this is his real cleverness, let more people come to his ship, make this ship bigger and bigger, and eventually everyone will make money together, and he will naturally make the most money."

Ye Li pondered for a while, thought about it and said.

The more you study Liu Jin, the more admirable people are.

"Don't worry too much, if you can really make money with him, nothing else matters."

Zhu Benduan nodded, then smiled and shook his head and said.

His words also made everyone else around him nod their heads, in the final analysis, everyone is still for silver, the world is bustling for profit, and the world is bustling for profit.

The eighth floor is much more deserted than the seventh floor, there are very few people, only more than 20 people, each of whom is a real magnate of the Ming Dynasty, a new powerful capitalist, a big businessman, and a big landlord.

Among them are Cui Wenjin, the chief manager of the Tianjin Ocean Trade Company, who represents His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Liu Jin, as well as Zhang Fen from the Three Princes Ocean Trade Company, and he represents the Ming Dynasty noble group such as the Duke of Dingguo, the Duke of Britain, and the Duke of Chengguo.

In addition, the two brothers Shou Ninghou and Jian Changbo, who were here in Tianjin, also came over in person, and were sitting in the most important position at this time, drinking tea leisurely while listening.

In addition, there is also Xu Long from Nanjing, who represents Wei Guogong, and the huge trade profits of the ocean, Wei Guogong, who is in Nanjing, can't sit still, and this time he also sent someone over.

Of course, Xu Long not only represented Wei Guogong, but also represented the big merchants, gentry, big families and big landowners in the Jiangnan region.

In recent years, the rise of capitalists in the Beijing-Tianjin area and the development of ocean-going trade, they have not shared their own cake, which is extremely unbalanced.

Originally, he wanted to limit the imperial power through means and suppress the development of these new capitalists and ocean-going industries in the north, but the Hongzhi Emperor's side followed the theft of the official warehouse, the Li Guang case, and the case involving the army dealt a heavy blow to Jiangnan Shilin.

Originally, officials from the Jiangnan region accounted for half of the imperial court, but after these three cases, the number of officials from the Jiangnan region decreased significantly.

Those who were killed were killed, those who were degraded, and those who were exiled, and the rest of the people were also terrified, and did not dare to act rashly, for fear that they would also suffer.

Even Xie Qian, one of the elders of the three cabinets, now has little say in the court, and many times he only watches and listens to large and small affairs, and does not express his own opinions.

Such a huge change also made the people in the Jiangnan area understand one thing, you can't force yourself with the imperial power, especially now that Emperor Hongzhi has money and soldiers, and he is still holding your pigtails in his hands.

If you come with Emperor Hongzhi, you will die even worse if you keep it.

What if you can't come hard and want to eat meat?

Of course, you can only keep up with the trend and take the initiative to cooperate.

Therefore, it is not only Zhu Benduan, Feng Xiang, Ye Li, these Hui merchants and big salt merchants who came to Tianjin, preparing to go to the fleet of Golden Continent, but also wanted to follow to the Nanyang region to make a fortune.

Even a top wealthy family like Wei Guogong couldn't sit still, and he also sent people here in Tianjin, and he also wanted to share the fruits of ocean trade.

"Cui Wenjin, what does Liu Jin mean?"

"There is a rumor here, no one will come to such an important matter."

Jianchangbo Zhang Heling said to Cui Wenjin with a slight dissatisfaction.

"That's right, Liu Jin, he's a bad guy."

Xu Long also followed and said, Xu Long is a side branch of Wei Guogong, not a descendant, but he can be sent over, and he is obviously an extremely important person.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry~"

"Everyone also knows that Liu Gongzi has been busy with the affairs of the new army recently, and he is really busy, and he has the emperor's order, there is no way."

Cui Wenjin immediately explained to everyone with a smile on his face.

In fact, Liu Jin is in Tianjin, and the time is still relatively sufficient, but Liu Jin is also an official of the five products now, and it is really inconvenient to come forward in person if there is something, just leave it to the following to do.

"Well, I would have gone directly to Liu Jin if I knew it, and there was a messenger in the middle of the trouble."

Zhang Heling nodded slightly.

"The people are almost there, and there are many people downstairs who are also waiting, what kind of charter is this opening up of the South Seas route, please say it, in this case, everyone should prepare as soon as possible."

Shouning waited for Zhang Yanling to be relatively more patient, looked at everyone, thought about it and said, here, that is, his identity is the biggest, the brother-in-law of Emperor Hongzhi and the uncle of Prince Zhu Houzhao.