Zongben's arrival made Tang Xiaoqiao feel extremely comfortable.

The arrival of Zongben represents the support of the indigenous Ming people for the previous plan to cross the South Seas. More importantly, this means that at least some of the indigenous elites have recognized the superior system of the Crossing Public, and are willing to pay real money to officially bet the future of the family on Cao Chuan, a warlord.

The seventeenth century was the era of unlimited accountability. According to the tradition of thousands of years, once you lose in this level of struggle, then the person who invests in the family and follows Cao Chuan with his family will not be able to escape from a person who has robbed his family and exterminated the clan.

"Haha, Boss Zong, you are quite supportive of your brother's work, you must be treated ceremoniously!"

While patting the arm of the sect boss vigorously, Tang Xiaoqiao let the visitor into the building: "Go have a cup of coffee first, let's have a good chat today." ”

Drinking coffee is the time, and going through the procedures is the main thing. No matter what the situation of investment, you must verify the capital before you can talk about the right thing, right?

So the next thing to do is first of all capital verification.

Due to the suddenness of the incident, the head office was not prepared, so Tang Xiaoqiao urgently sent someone to the bank for help. Fortunately, the newly opened 17th-century version of the People's Bank, the National Reserve Bank, was not far from the company, and it was all on the same street, so the moment the coffee was brewed, people came.

The following is a very common large-scale gold sharing activity in this era.

In the infield of the head office, which was surrounded by a small building, the staff brought tables and chairs, opened the three boxes brought by Zongben, and took out the precious metals inside and registered them one by one.

The composition of the silver money brought by Zongben is very messy. Among them, there are not only gold and silver bars of various colors, but also a large number of Ming silver ingots, as well as foreign gold and silver currencies such as Spanish pistor, rial, guilder, etc.

All these precious metals must first be classified according to the currency, and secondly, the fineness must be checked.

Master Zong sat on the chair, holding coffee in his hand, and while talking to Manager Tang, he looked curiously at the strange measuring tools on the table.

He understands the scales, and there are things of the same shape in the Ming Dynasty, but they are a lot rougher. However, he did not recognize the metal hydrometer brought by the bank employee.

The specific gravity meter made according to the principle of Archimedes' buoyancy has an electronic screen and a transparent sink, which the Akito must not understand.

Soon, the hydrometer detected several pieces of fake silver.

Don't say that the ancients were simple, fakes were rampant in the Ming Dynasty.

Since the Wanli years of the Ming Dynasty, the social economy has gradually developed, and fake silver has emerged in an endless stream, and the government has repeatedly banned it, which has caused great damage to commodity trade and people's lives. Among them, there are not only traitors who counterfeit silver, but also merchants such as gold and silver pawnshops.

In the late Ming Dynasty, counterfeit silver has developed into an industrial chain, and there are dozens of varieties of fake silver, such as paper cover, Ding silver, hanging copper, lead filling, whisk white, burning partition, shaking silk, double green, flying white, etc.

And that's not all. In addition to fake silver, in the economically developed Suzhou and Hangzhou regions of the Ming Dynasty, the wine was mixed with ash, the chickens were stuffed with sand, the geese and sheep were blowing, the fish was filled with water, the bayberry was brushed with purple-black dye, and the old hen inserted a long tail to pretend to be a pheasant...... There are also fake milk, fake rat poison, fake antiques, fake books, and so on and so forth.

The above are all self-recorded by the Ming people, and there are many Ming poetry stories that ridiculed the fakes in Suzhou and Hangzhou at that time. Therefore, those counterfeit and shoddy products in later generations are actually leftovers from the ancients. In addition to the fact that the ancients had fewer types of goods, they really did not lose to their descendants in other aspects.

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A group of employees from the National Reserve Bank quickly sorted the silver money brought by Master Zong, then identified the color, weighed it, and picked out a small pile of fake silver by the way.

Regarding the fake silver, Master Zong can only admit that he is unlucky this time. He usually does business and delivers silver taels, and he must be carefully inspected. This time, mainly because the time is too tight, I am afraid of long nights and dreams, and the amount of silver money is too large, so the proportion of fake money received is slightly higher.

When all the precious metals were measured and weighed, according to the exchange table publicly given by the bank, the total value of the precious metals brought by Master Zong was 100,000 and 400 yuan. The yuan here is calculated according to the one-dollar denomination banknote/Cao Datou issued by the cross-public.

After learning the total amount of money, Tang Xiaoqiao got up, held Master Zong's hand, and led him to his office on the second floor.

On the concrete floor, a simple office with whitewashed walls, and a rosewood desk, a shareholding agreement lies quietly.

Immediately, Mr. Zong enjoyed the treatment of the CEO of Nanyang Company personally explaining the contract payment. In the process, he nodded frequently and did not raise any objections to the contract.

The reason is very simple: whether ancient or modern, the so-called contract will only be effective when the strength of both parties is equal. In the barbaric environment of the seventeenth century, Zongben did not have the legal environment of later generations to support him. He can think with his feet, whether this contract can be executed, and to what extent, it is all in the other party's thoughts, and he himself does not have any bargaining capital.

In this case, what is written in the contract does not matter to him who has already bet everything, so let's study it slowly when I go back.

Slowly stretching out his hand, Zongben took the brush on the table. At this moment, his expression finally became solemn. Eventually, after thinking about it, he sighed and signed his name on the contract.

"In this way, Zong will entrust his net worth to Lord Tang and Lord Cao, and I hope that the adults will take care of it in the future!"

According to the system, if a person like Zongben suddenly appeared, the head office would definitely do a background check on him afterwards. But Tang Xiaoqiao didn't need a background check today, and he also knew that the person who came was betting his whole net worth: because Zongben did not appear on the key invitation list of the China Merchants Association before.

So Tang Xiaoqiao was still a little moved at this time: this benevolent brother can come to him today, I don't know how many resources have been used behind him, and it must be a lot of pressure! . You know, this is 100,000 taels of silver, and you can take it out when you can say it.

"Shopkeeper Zong, please rest assured." Tang Xiaoqiao's face was stern at this time: "I can now promise you on behalf of Lord Cao that no matter what happens in the future, your money will never be wasted!" ”

From the moment Tang Xiaoqiao said this, Zong Ben became the first Ming shareholder of Nanyang Development Division.

And at this moment, someone outside suddenly came to report: A Bai Shen understood that Xiaolian also came to the company to send silver to buy shares!

General Manager Tang Xiaoqiao is a double happy today, and he couldn't help laughing again when he heard the words.

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If it is said that Zongben has mixed up the achievements of "revolutionary masses who are willing to get closer" in the crossing organization today, then Bai Juren was already an "old friend of the crossing crowd" and belonged to "the local backbone and revolutionary activists who can be relied on".

So Bai Juren is swaggering today, taking Lao Wu as the shopkeeper and bringing silver into the head office.

When Bai Juren came, the scene was even more lively. After learning that this Zong Master actually took the lead in front of him, Bai Juren couldn't help but glance at Zong Ben. After that, the two big speculators quickly got together, after all, everyone is now a grasshopper on the same line, with a common pursuit and the same risks.

Like Zongben, Master Bai's investment capital is not much or less, and it happens to be 100,000 taels of silver. These 100,000 taels of cash also cost Master Bai's life: he not only sold the farmland in the countryside, but also drained almost all the cash in his commercial system, and even took out the cellar gold buried in the house, and borrowed some debts.

After Tang Xiaoqiao learned of these situations, he immediately dealt with the matter. In the future, when foreign businessmen come to invest, the local people will have to give some matching funds plus bank loans. The same was true in the seventeenth century, and shareholders should not be allowed to drink the northwest wind after their investment.

So Tang Xiaoqiao cashed in with the bank on the spot and released a sum of money to Mr. Bai to save the emergency. Immediately afterwards, he contacted a batch of in-demand industrial products and granted them to two Xinke shareholders to maintain their own sales network.

Master Bai is really grateful now. He didn't expect that after receiving 100,000 taels of silver from him, he not only returned some of it to him at low interest, but also gave him a batch of goods.

You must know that in this batch of goods, there are best-selling products such as kettles and oil lamps. In Guangzhou City, where the rich are gathered today, as long as Mr. Bai gets the bill of goods, he doesn't need to leave the warehouse at all, he can sell it at a high price, and he can make money while sitting at home.

After initially experiencing the benefits of the shareholders of Nanyang Company, the two masters went through a series of procedures. This includes not only the two of them, but also the men they are going to take to Nanyang. These people are all selected and capable people, and now they are all integrated into the "security team" of Nanyang Company, which can be regarded as famous.

After all the formalities were completed, in the end, the two gentlemen got the official documents.

There are two types of documents. One is the cowhide cover work card, which is no different from later generations, and there are also photo names and stamps on the inner page, but for technical reasons, the photos on the certificate are black and white.

Knowing that this small leather booklet was the "confession document", the old man hurriedly put it away.

The second type of document is a badge.

The tag made of glass, colored rope, thin iron sheet and identity paper is undoubtedly much heavier than the genuine products of later generations, but the two masters solemnly put it away, not considering that this weird "waist tag" is very indecently hung around the neck, a bit like a dog tag.

Mr. Tang told them that in the future operation of attacking Ho Kiang Macao, only those who hung this "waist card" were allowed to observe the battlefield and enter post-war Macao at the first time.

Based on the day when the two masters became shareholders, from the second day, there were Ming people who came to buy shares one after another, and the East India Company opened by the public was on the right track.

At the same time, the Crossing Group, which was almost prepared in all aspects, also began to gradually show its fangs.

On April 3, 1631, a group of Ming soldiers, surrounded by a soft sedan chair, entered through the lotus stem gate, and went all the way to the gate of the Macau City Council.