In the study of Liu Jin's mansion in the capital.

The crown prince Zhu Houzhao sat on the chair, crossed Erlang's legs, looking like a hanger, if he didn't know his identity, no one would think that he would be the current crown prince.

"Lao Liu, there is really you, I have always had to lose money in this Changlu Salt Farm, but I didn't expect to be able to make money, according to this trend, I will almost be able to recover the investment next year."

After listening to Li Jiye's report on the output and sales of Changlu Salt Farm, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but give Liu Jin a thumbs up.

The investment in Changlu Salt Farm is huge, and it is necessary to pay the imperial court two million taels of silver in taxes every year, and if you want to make a profit, it is absolutely impossible for anyone to see.

But Liu Jin did it, relying on the strength of the salt drying method and some simple chemical knowledge, so that the salt production of Changlu Salt Farm completely exploded the boiling salt method of this era, and the quality was even more unknowing.

"When the weather warms up after the spring of next year, you'll know, and now, just barely make ends meet."

Liu Jin smiled, looking confident, and then waved his hand to Li Jiye, and the other party immediately left Liu Jin's study.

"Your Highness, you came just in time, the New Year is coming soon, and it is time for the year-end liquidation, this is the account book, you see."

Liu Jin took out an account book and handed it to Zhu Houzhao, and the two of them did a lot of business together.

The glass factory in Beijing, the cement factory in Tianjin, the port in Tianjin, the real estate in Tianjin, the shipyard in Tianjin, the soap factory in Tianjin, and the garment factory in Tianjin are all partnerships between Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao, and there is no business of other shareholders.

In addition, there are also Miyun Iron Works and Changlu Salt Farm, which are big guys working together.

"Hehe, it's harvest time again, I like to read the ledger the most."

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, his little eyes suddenly narrowed, and he hurriedly sat upright, picked up the account book and looked at it seriously.

In fact, Zhu Houzhao naturally has a number of the benefits of many industries under his command, because the people in his prince's mansion are also among the many industries, and he can receive relevant reports every month, and he is very clear about the income of many industries under his command.

The best benefit is naturally the glass factory, glass, which is not worth much at all, after a wave of operation by Liu Jin, it has now become a thing sought after by the middle and upper class of the Ming Dynasty, especially the mirror, if the daughter of a large family marries a daughter without a mirror that can be handled, it is not embarrassing to see people at all.

In addition, with the development of maritime trade, the glass industry also began to sell well to North Korea and the Japanese country, opening up the overseas market.

After calculation, the glass factory alone made a profit of more than 20 million taels of silver a year, and Zhu Houzhao and Liu Jin were able to share tens of millions of taels of silver.

"Nice, nice~"

Seeing the account book of the glass factory, Zhu Houzhao nodded with a smile on his face.

He is really rich now, richer than his Laozi Hongzhi Emperor, and a single glass factory can have tens of millions of taels of silver dividends every year, which is incredible.

You must know that the imperial court's annual tax is less than three million taels.

But the data can't bias people, and the silver brought into his prince's mansion every month can't bias people, which can only show that the Ming Dynasty is indeed rich, but the silver is buried in the cellar, which also shows that the Ming court is really poor.

In addition to the glass factory, the next is Tianjin shipyard, Tianjin port and Tianjin real estate, at the beginning of the year in Tianjin investment is also beginning to bumper harvest, of course, compared to the glass factory is still a lot worse, but these are long-term transactions, the glass factory business is also in the first few years, after other people research out the glass will decline sharply, until it becomes a chicken rib.

The annual revenue of Tianjin Shipyard exceeded five million taels of silver, but the expenses of the shipyard were very large, and the shipyard's masters, shipbuilding costs, etc., calculated that the profit was only three million taels of silver.

Of course, the shipyard did not exert force in the first half of the year, and the real force was in the second half of the year, when the operation of the shipyard became more and more mature, the technology became more and more mature, and the speed of shipbuilding began to soar.

Therefore, it can be estimated that the revenue of the shipyard next year can exceed 10 million taels of silver, and the shipyard will continue to expand its scale next year, because there are too many orders now, too much, and the current production capacity of the shipyard is difficult to meet the market demand.

The annual revenue of Tianjin Port is also more than one million taels of silver, which is simply small compared to the previous one, but the growth of Tianjin Port is very rapid, because there are more and more ships, not only fishing boats, sea vessels, but also cargo ships from the south will choose to berth in Tianjin Port.

Tianjin Port makes a lot of money by collecting berthing fees and service fees.

The revenue of Tianjin cement plant is also more than 2 million taels, but the profit margin is relatively low, because the competition in cement is more fierce, there are now hundreds of large and small cement plants in the market, although the market demand is very large, but it is inevitable that a competition will be formed, so the profit margin is compared, and the profit margin is only 800,000 taels of silver in a year.

Seeing this, Zhu Houzhao seemed a little bored, and there was no business stimulation of the glass factory at all, but he also knew that these businesses and transactions were normal transactions, and anything that was too profitable would inevitably attract more people to enter, and then make the profits of this industry tend to be ordinary.

In fact, the profits from these transactions are still quite good, and the growth is extremely rapid, the development is fast, they are all golden egg hens, and there is great potential in the future.

"Haha, Tianjin real estate is good, not bad~"

Soon, when Zhu Houzhao saw the account book of Tianjin Real Estate, he couldn't help but smile and squint his eyes.

Tianjin real estate is mainly to do real estate, when a Moon Bay community was sold to more than 700,000 taels of silver, and then, Tianjin real estate has also launched several real estate projects one after another, with an annual turnover of more than four million taels of silver, and the profit is very amazing, even more than three million taels.

This is mainly because of the large use of cement to build houses, which is very fast and efficient, and of course, more importantly, because Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao took land very cheaply in Tianjin.

When he went to Tianjin, he brought millions of taels of silver, but Liu Jin bought a large amount of land, and most of the silver was almost smashed into the land.

At that time, people here in Tianjin thought that Liu Jin was a fool, what was the use of the land by the sea?

The land that could not be used to grow the dealer was all wasteland and useless land, so at that time, Liu Jin almost swept the land in the coastal area of Tianjin at an extremely cheap price.

Now with the rapid development of Tianjin port, shipyard and cement factory, etc., these lands have also begun to increase in value rapidly.

And now there are some discerning people who want to buy land from Liu Jin, but how can Liu Jin easily sell the land in his hands and keep it for real estate slowly?

"Your Highness, now you know why you want to buy land on a large scale here in the capital, right?"

Liu Jin said with a smile.

"I know, I know~ When will we also engage in the Liangwan community here in the capital for a few months?"

"When the time comes, if a house is not sold for thousands of taels of silver, I will not be surnamed Zhu~"

Zhu Houzhao squinted his little eyes, nodded frequently like a chicken eating rice, and thought that if he was also engaged in real estate in the capital, he suddenly came to his senses.

"Ahem~"

When Liu Jin heard this, he couldn't help coughing when he laughed, sure enough, the wealth is moving, you are also His Royal Highness the Prince of the Ming Dynasty, can you pay attention to your eating appearance.

"Hehe~ I've finished reading the account book, so be it, Lao Liu, I still have millions of taels of silver in my hand, do you think there are any other projects to make a fortune?"

"It's useless to keep this silver in the warehouse, it's better to invest it, and it's better to make silver from silver."

Zhu Houzhao smiled, put the account book down, rolled his eyes, and asked with a smile.

"Let's talk about it after the New Year, I still have to prepare for the spring festival~"

Liu Jin thought for a while and said.

"Yes, it's going to be spring soon after the New Year, but for Lao Liu, there shouldn't be any difficulty, right?"

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he nodded and said after thinking about it.

"In my opinion, Lao Liu, you don't want to take any imperial examinations, your ability should be to make money, just make money for me, and when I become the emperor, I will directly give you the head of the cabinet."

“……”

Liu Jin was speechless for a moment, and he didn't know if Emperor Hongzhi would be angry to death now when he heard it.