On the top floor of Tianjin Wanghai Building, at this moment, there is an extremely important chamber of commerce in the giant, and the participants are all the proprietors of major commercial houses in the Ming Dynasty or famous magnates.

Like the two brothers Shou Ninghou and Jian Changbo, Li Chunyang, the owner of the Sihai Commercial Bank, Zhu Benduan and Feng Xiang of the Hui Commercial Bank, as well as Hu Xian and Zhang Yuan from the south of the Yangtze River, and so on.

Many people are inconvenient to come here in person, and they also sent their sons or henchmen to participate in this chamber of commerce, because this is a very high-standard chamber of commerce.

Those who can come to the meeting are all magnates, businessmen, big families and the like who have extremely huge influence in the entire Ming Dynasty, and they almost include the power of the Ming Dynasty to hurt the court and down to the locality.

And this time is a little different from the past, in the past, such a top chamber of commerce was generally held by the owners of the northern commercial houses, and the participants were generally from the northern commercial houses and so on.

But this time, the people who held this high-level chamber of commerce were Zhu Benduan and Feng Xiang from the southern Hui Commercial Bank, as well as Hu Xian and Zhang Yuan from the Jiangnan family.

It was they who took the initiative to send an invitation to everyone, scripted this top chamber of commerce, and invited everyone to come to the meeting to discuss important matters.

While the people were tasting the food, they whispered to each other.

"Brother, do you think there is something wrong with these southerners who are so good and suddenly call everyone over?"

Zhang Heling ate the food in a big gulp, very graceless, as if he was a poor person at the bottom, as if he had never eaten the food of this Wanghailou, and asked Zhang Yanling beside him while eating.

"You pay attention to the image~"

Zhang Yanling looked at his younger brother, and he was also helpless.

Pay attention to the image is not good, our family is now the top family of the Ming Dynasty, there is silver, there is nothing to eat, why bother with this starving ghost reincarnation.

"I just think it's a pity to waste it."

Zhang Heling slowly stopped helplessly, pouted and said.

"I guess these southerners should have some thoughts, I heard that the fleet of Taiping Marquis Du Mingen came back and arrived in Songhu a few days ago, so they were the first southerners to learn the news."

"I heard that Du Mingen's fleet sailed to the Western Ocean this time, sailing thousands of miles, visiting hundreds of countries before and after, reaching as far as the east coast of Africa, and going to the Middle East, Persia, Tianzhu, and Ceylon."

"Of course, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that Du Mingen and his entourage in the West, hundreds of large ships returned with a full load, bringing back countless gold, silver and jewelry, jade, jade, ivory agate, precious medicinal materials, it is said that if it is valued, it may be worth more than 30 million silver."

"Tianjin Ocean Trade Bank has made a lot of money again this time!"

Zhang Yanling couldn't help but blush when he said this, his eyes were really red, this Tianjin Ocean Trade Company is really good at making money, no matter what he does, Tianjin Ocean Trade Bank is very profitable, and everyone is just following their butts to make money.

"Another 30 million taels of silver~"

When Zhang Heling heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned, and then said with red eyes: "Brother, let's also organize a boat to go to the Western Ocean, one trip a year is enough." ”

"Do you think that if you are smart, you will organize a fleet to go to the Western Ocean?"

"There have long been people who have been doing business along Du Mingen's route to Western countries, jade from Burma, gems from Ceylon, gold and silver from Tianzhu."

"There are too many people now, a shipload of goods has arrived in Nanyang, and now it is more than 100,000 taels of silver, and there are too many people, the competition is fierce, and life is not as good as before."

"So everyone is also going to the West, Zhang Mao and Liu Jin are sweeping the Quartet in the Nanyang region again, in the future, this Nanyang may slowly become my Ming place, and it will be more difficult to do business here."

Zhang Yanling still has brains, and he can see many things accurately.

"What then?"

"Won't you drink the northwest wind in the future?"

When Zhang Heling heard this, he immediately said anxiously.

".....'ve been so straightforward with you, you still don't understand?"

"To go all the way to the west, all the way to the west, the West is still just beginning, this is the land of gold, if it can be like Africa and Europe, where it will be more profitable, didn't Liu Jin say, this porcelain and silk can be equivalent to gold in Europe."

Zhang Yanling sighed helplessly, his younger brother really made people have nothing to say.

On the other side, Zhu Benduan, Feng Xiang, Hu Xian, and Zhang Yuan also gathered together, discussing something with each other.

"There's a fleet coming back from the Golden Continent?"

Zhu Benduan asked with some surprise.

"Yes, I just arrived in Songhu in the past two days, there are more than 50 ships, each ship is full of gold and silver, and those commercial houses that have invested in going to the Golden Continent will be sent this time."

"I heard that on this side of the Golden Continent, thousands of large and small gold mines have been discovered, and people from major commercial houses are desperately mining gold, and many commercial banks have replied that the manpower is far from enough, and the Golden Continent is really full of gold."

Hu Xian nodded solemnly and said: "The news will soon reach the Beijing-Tianjin area, and we will quickly speed up and pass the news one step by one." ”

"Fifty big ships?"

"How much gold and silver can this hold?"

When Feng Xiang heard this, he couldn't help but stare slightly.

"I don't know, there must be tens of millions of taels of silver, especially Tianjin Ocean Trading Company, they really made a lot of money this time."

"Listening to those who came back from the Golden Continent, Tian Erniu of the Tianjin Ocean Trade Company is on the side of the Golden Continent, and with less than 10,000 people, he has conquered the two kingdoms of the descendants of Yin Shang here in the Golden Continent one after another."

"The Aztec kingdom and the Inca empire, Tian Erniu asked the people of these two countries to make pyramids with gold and silver bricks to atone for their sins, and it is said that here in the Aztec kingdom alone, they obtained gold and silver worth 50 million taels of silver, and also let the descendants of the Yin merchants of these two kingdoms use gold and silver to pile up pyramids every year to atone for their sins."

Hu Xian shook his head slightly, and then sighed: "It's still Liu Jin's people, when the major trading houses were desperately looking for gold mines and digging gold mines, they directly conquered the two kingdoms of the descendants of Yin Shang, and let them help them dig gold and silver, and enjoy their success." ”

"Pyramids made of gold and silver bricks?"

When the others heard this, they couldn't help but take a breath, and their eyes were red.

Pyramid They know that the year before last, when Du Mingen came back from the Golden Continent, the newspaper reported the pyramid, and they actually used gold and silver to pile up the pyramid, this pyramid, where is it a pyramid, it is the golden tower, the silver tower.

"Fifty million taels of silver!"

Feng Xiang's eyes were red, he also started as a salt merchant, but even in the most glorious era of salt merchants, these salt merchants together did not make money from this Tianjin Ocean Trade Guild.

"This time, not only did they bring back a large amount of gold and silver and news from the Golden Continent, but also on the east coast of the Golden Continent, the people of the Tianjin Ocean Trade Company met the Europeans."

"The Europeans have a country called Spain, and their ships have also arrived on the east coast of the Golden Continent, and according to the news, our Daming things are indeed very valuable in Europe."

"Silk, porcelain, mirrors, spices, sugar, tea, etc., these things are very much needed by those Europeans, and the prices are very high."

"The Golden Continent, it's not just the Golden Continent, it's also able to connect with Europeans, you can do business with Europeans, which is very important."

"As soon as the news spreads, there will be a lot of people who will organize goods to go to the Golden Continent to do business with Europeans, so we have to be fast, we have to be one step ahead, organize a fleet to transport goods over, and make a lot of money first."

Hu Xian then said another piece of news, which made several other people couldn't help but open their mouths wide.

"Anyway, the world we live in is really a ball, this west can reach Europe, this east can also reach Europe, we actually met the Europeans first here in the Golden Continent."

When Zhu Benduan heard it, he immediately thought of what Liu Jin said, the world everyone lives in is a round ball, and I always didn't believe it before, but now it seems that this is really the case.

"It doesn't matter anymore, whether it's round or square."

"As long as we can make money, that's all that matters."

Zhu Benduan smiled and said.

"Yes, yes, hurry up and organize a fleet to bring goods to the Golden Continent, this is the first step to make a profit, the news spreads, and the competition is fierce."

Zhang Yuan nodded again and again.

"Buying and selling is naturally to be done~"

"But how can we give up a more profitable deal?"

Hu Xian nodded slightly, then thought about it and said.

"A more profitable deal?"

When the other three heard this, they immediately asked suspiciously.

"Don't you want to learn one and two cows?"

"It's easy to conquer a country and make them compensate for a huge amount of wealth, the world is very big, there are many, many countries, not to mention anything else, just on the Western side, big and small countries don't know how many."

"Didn't you talk about private armies when you chatted with Liu Jin here in Songhu a few months ago~ With the joint efforts of everyone, the imperial court has also allowed us firms to have small-scale overseas armed forces."

"This time, I summoned everyone here, naturally to unite with you, and we can also learn from Tianjin Ocean Trade."

"They can conquer a country, why can't we?"

"The jade here in Burma, the gems on the side of Ceylon, the gold and silver on the side of Tianzhu, and the gold and silver in the Middle East and Persia, now we are going to exchange them for commodities, if we can win them and conquer them, we don't need to change them in the future, just let them pay us tribute every year."

Hu Xian looked at a few people around him, and finally said the purpose of holding this chamber of commerce today.