Chapter 722, Western United Commercial Bank
"Conquer a country and get 50 million taels of silver!"
Everyone present breathed heavier, such a huge wealth, not to mention a trading house, even if it was given to the entire Ming Dynasty, it was a huge amount of money, but the entire Ming Dynasty became rich overnight.
Now Tian Erniu is only relying on about 10,000 men and horses, and he has conquered two huge countries here in the Golden Continent one after another, and this time he may have to make a profit of more than 10,000 taels of silver.
Everyone had no doubt that Hu Xian would lie to them, because this matter was not necessary at all, and there was no point in deceiving.
Since the fleet has arrived in Songhu, the people from the trading house under your command will soon have news, and everything will be known clearly at that time.
What's more, there is no need for him to deceive people.
"Ladies and gentlemen, everyone must already know about the affairs of Nanyang."
"Liaodong Marquis Liu Jin cannon fire Malacca City, conquered Malacca almost effortlessly, and let Malacca cede land and pay compensation."
"This world is very big, many places are still very backward, very primitive, as long as we dare to break through, dare to fight, we can't be the same as Tian Erniu."
The more Hu Xian spoke, the more excited he became, thinking that Tian Erniu led the 10,000 people to conquer the two huge countries of the Golden Continent, and he couldn't wait to be able to arm a few thousand people now and plunder all over the world.
Hearing Hu Xian's words, everyone's eyes couldn't help but light up slightly.
That's right, Tian Erniu can plunder in the Golden Continent, they can go to Tianzhu in South Asia, go to Africa to plunder, he can conquer these backward and ignorant countries, why can't they?
"Mr. Hu, if you have any ideas, you might as well say it directly."
Li Chunyang thought about it and said.
"Yes, yes, Mr. Hu might as well say what he thinks."
When the others heard this, they immediately nodded their heads, in fact, everyone had already guessed the purpose of Hu Xian's call to come over, and it must also be to learn from Tianjin's ocean trade.
In the whole Ming Dynasty, there are many large and small commercial banks, and in Tianjin alone, there are thousands of large and small commercial banks, and even the commercial banks of North Korea and the Japanese Kingdom, and they have set up branches in Tianjin to facilitate business.
Although there were many commercial houses, only the Tianjin Ocean Trading Company had its own armed forces, and the Tianjin Ocean Trading Company had armed forces from the very beginning and was equipped with more advanced weapons and equipment than the Ming army at that time.
Therefore, the Tianjin Ocean Trade Company was able to gallop on the ocean, run rampant and domineering, fought the pirates, and Du Mingen almost wiped out the Luzon State with only one fleet.
Tianjin Ocean Trading Company, which has its own armed force, is a trading house, but it is a real and powerful armed force, with a lot of warships, artillery, weapons, armor, etc., which is very advanced.
That is, because Emperor Hongzhi and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince are the major shareholders, they are the biggest profiteers, otherwise how could they tolerate the existence of the Tianjin Ocean Trading Company.
Now, with everyone's efforts, the imperial court allows major trading houses to have a certain number of private armed forces, and in fact, many people want to build their own overseas armed forces.
Not for anything else, but to protect their own merchant ships.
There are a lot of pirates and thieves in the South Seas, and these small countries in the South Seas are extremely greedy, imposing heavy taxes on them, and many times they are put on their necks with knives.
It's very uncomfortable and very humiliating.
But if you don't have anything to do, you don't have anything you can do.
Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty took the lead for them, taught the Nanyang countries a hard lesson, and shocked the entire Nanyang.
But it is better to seek others than to seek oneself, not to mention, now the profits of maritime trade in the South Sea region are also declining, and those with ambition have begun to go to the West.
The West Ocean is far away from the Ming Dynasty, and if there is no armed force of its own, to be honest, everyone sends ships to the West Ocean, and they really have no confidence.
It's not the Tianjin Ocean Trading Company, their merchant ships are all armed merchant ships, armed to the teeth, they don't bully people, it's good, and they're not afraid of anyone at all.
If you want to make a fortune in the West, this armed force must be formed.
"Ladies and gentlemen, not long ago, the imperial court issued a bill to allow us firms to have a certain amount of armed forces overseas."
"Your Majesty loves the people like a son, and is afraid that we will be bullied when we are doing business overseas, so this is why there is this unprecedented "Code of Armed Management of Ocean Trading Houses", which is absolutely impossible to allow anyone to have armed forces in private in previous dynasties."
"Your Majesty is really a saint monarch of the ages, an emperor of all ages, Your Majesty's mind and bearing surpass any emperor of previous dynasties, this is the blessing of my Ming Dynasty, and it is also the luck of our people."
Hu Xian raised his hand slightly, and then said very respectfully in the direction of the capital.
This is the truth, the emperors of all dynasties, it is absolutely impossible to allow someone to have armed forces privately, but today, he allows it.
Although this is the result of the joint efforts of the whole court, it is also absolutely unprecedented.
"I know a lot of people are already trying to figure out how to arm their merchant ships so that they won't be bullied at sea."
"The West is far away from our Ming Dynasty, the road is far away, if we are just a trading house, go to the West alone, I am afraid we will inevitably be bullied."
"So I think we can consider forming a large trading house like Tianjin Ocean Trading Company, where we can concentrate our strength and go to the West together."
"When the time comes, we will not only be able to protect our merchant ships and protect our interests, but we will also not be able to learn from the Tianjin Ocean Trade Company, and learn from the Taiping Hou and Du Mingen."
"I think you may already know about the situation in the West."
"Myanmar is rich in jadeite and jade, Myanmar's jadeite and jade are better than Hetian jade, the output is larger, some trading houses have done business with Myanmar, should be very clear about the situation in Myanmar."
"Ceylon is rich in gemstones, all kinds of gemstones, not only in large quantities, but also of very high quality, and most of the gems we get from the South Seas are actually from Ceylon."
"Tianzhu is rich in gold and silver, Persia is also rich in silver and gold, and on the east coast of Africa, frankincense and myrrh, ivory, gold, diamonds, and so on."
Hu Xian said that his mouth was a little dry, and he paused slightly.
"We still need costs to do business, especially with more and more commercial houses, the competition is becoming more and more fierce, and people in these places are not stupid, they will continue to raise too high prices."
"It's going to make our profits skyrocketing, and it's obviously not appropriate for us to take a huge risk and just make a small profit."
"If we can do the same as the Tianjin Ocean Trading Company, we can conquer these places, for example, if we can conquer Ceylon, then the gems of Ceylon can be mined by us."
"We don't even need to pay anything, we can directly let the local barbarians mine it for us, just like Tian Erniu in the Aztec kingdom of the Golden Continent."
"Conquer them, let them mine gold and silver, we just have to sit and reap."
"A thousand-mile deal~"
"The conquest of these places is not only for their precious stones, jade and jade, gold and silver, but also for the conquest of these places, these places can also be included in our Ming land, and we will go down in history, these kelp lands, maybe in the future can be passed on to our children and grandchildren."
The more Hu Xian spoke, the more excited he became.
If you are willing to do business with me, I will do business with you.
If you are verbose and maliciously raise the price or something, I will directly conquer you and make everything here mine, and then not only your land will be mine, your wealth will be mine, and even your people will be my slaves.
This is the model of Tianjin Ocean Trade Company.
Hearing Hu Xian's words, everyone couldn't help but open their mouths wide, and they were all slightly dumbfounded.
Although everyone wants to have a certain amount of armed force, it is also to increase the self-protection ability of their merchant ships, so that they do not have to be afraid of pirates and thieves.
But they never thought of relying on these armed forces to conquer other countries and places in the world, and the Ming people were somewhat influenced by Confucianism.
Doing business and doing business is a little bit of duty.
It will not be like Westerners, they are like robbers at the beginning, sowing discord everywhere they go, burning and looting everywhere, and only if they can't beat you will they do honest business with you.
If they can beat you and conquer you, they will squeeze you to the extreme very directly, even chewing the bones for you and swallowing them in your stomach.
This is the Western colonizer of this era.
Compared with them, the Ming people are still too gentle, and they only think about doing business and doing business honestly.
Now Hu Xian is telling them a new path, a path exactly the same as that of the Western colonizers.
"Will this work?"
Zhang Heling put down the food in his hand, it suddenly didn't smell good, and then said with red eyes.
"Why not~"
"The world is very big, not every country is as strong as our Ming Dynasty, there are many, many countries and places are very weak, their strength is very weak, we are enough to easily conquer them."
Hu Xian said very confidently: "What's more, there are some things, if you don't try them, how can you know that they won't work?" ”
"It's done~"
"A profitable deal, conquered them, who came to work hard to do business with these barbarians, I have long seen those barbarians unpleasant."
Zhang Yanling drank a glass of wine in one gulp and said fiercely.
"Count me in~"
Li Chunyang's eyes were slightly red.
I have worked so hard to do business, I said how can I not compare to Liu Jin, I feel that this Tianjin Ocean Trade Company under Liu Jin is often doing businessless business.
Tian Erniu conquered the two powerful countries of the Golden Continent with 10,000 people, and it was also very easy for them to unite and concentrate their strength and strength to make a small 10,000 people come out.
Why do they honestly watch others eat meat, and why do they do business with those who are satisfied and honest?
did it, directly killed them, scared them, subdued, everything is their own.
Jade, jade, gemstones, jewelry, gold and silver, as long as they conquer them, these things are still at their own disposal, where do you need to work hard to transport them over and do business with them honestly.
The key is to do business honestly, these small countries, small places are still very arrogant, and dare to levy their heavy taxes, and dare to loot their merchant ships, kill their crews, and so on.
There was no armed force before, but now that you can have it, what else is there to say, fuck it.
"It's also my share~"
"Count me in one share~"
"Do what kind of business you do with these barbarians, you should learn from the Taiping Marquis and Tian Erniu, directly do his things, conquer them, everything is ours, and then there will be enough slaves in the plantations of Nanyang, and there will be no one to worry about."
Everyone spoke one after another, and they were all excited.
Do business, be a fart.
A tiger with teeth, does it honestly exchange meat with you to eat?
"Good~Good~"
When Hu Xian saw it, he couldn't help but laugh happily.
He took out a map and pointed to the location of Ceylon and said, "The first goal of our Western United Trading Company was to conquer this place, and from then on the gems were brought back by our ships." ”