Please grant the concession of all trade routes to the Chamber of Commerce!

A seemingly simple sentence, when it sounded in the room, almost everyone was surprised, even Shi Lei didn't expect Jing Luo to say this.

The surprise of everyone made Zhu Mingzhong only smile slightly, he knew that for Chinese, this is tantamount to a fantasy talk, but in Europe this is a very common thing.

Just as decades ago, when the Queen of England granted a charter to the East India Company, she granted all of the East India's trading rights to the East India Company, Zhu Mingzhong, who knew the rules of the game in this era, naturally knew very well what kind of changes the charter would bring to the traditional chamber of commerce.

Zhu Mingzhong did not know whether this chamber of commerce could be sharpened into an enterprise like the East India Company in the future, but at least, this was an opportunity, and since it was an opportunity, it could not be missed. After all, it was these concessionaires who opened up the colonial era in Europe, and only driven by commercial interests would these private companies do everything possible to expand overseas trade and thus expand their colonies. It is not only the strong promotion of the state, but also the promotion of overseas undertakings, which must fully mobilize the interests of all parties, and the open chamber of commerce is a consortium that reconciles the interests of all parties.

Liang Tianyou looked at Zhu Mingzhong in surprise, and asked after a while.

"Is this true?"

Please ask the emperor to issue an edict to the Chamber of Commerce, this, how is this possible? But he didn't doubt it, after all, he had heard Westerners mention that something similar happened in the West. I just never thought that it could be done in China.

If he had learned about this from other people, he would have laughed it off, but now, when this sentence came out of Zhu Mingzhong's mouth, he did not have the slightest doubt. ，

"Why, does the old gentleman still suspect that this official is not successful?"

Liang Tianyou, who seemed to be calm on the surface, was turbulent in his heart, he never thought that Jing Luo would put forward such a condition, and if he put it aside, this condition would almost put him into the situation that Qianfu pointed out, but now...... When it comes to the Central Plains in the future, with this miraculous feat, how can the emperor refuse his request? At that time, how could this chamber of commerce not be successful?

"Dad, how can you refuse it again after being so warmly invited, not to mention, don't you often teach your children to put the country first, this matter is beneficial to the country and the people, what are you hesitating about?"

Ryazan Shi's pride made Liang Tianyou, who no longer wanted to let go of the great opportunity in front of him, smiled along the steps and said:

"Jingluo is so gracious, how can he refuse, but Jingluo needs to know that this sea merchant can be said to be full of risks, not every ship can be profitable, and not every ship can be returned!"

For this era of great voyages, how could Zhu Mingzhong not understand the risks of sea navigation, there are still various risks along the coastal routes, let alone "ocean voyages" such as going to Japan, so he nodded and said.

"The official here naturally knows that there are still various risks in doing business on land, not to mention the matter of selling the sea and the Chamber of Commerce, you can only handle it, old man, as for the government side, the official is busy with military affairs, how can he ask about everything?"

One sentence is equivalent to letting Liang Tianyou go, and Zhu Mingzhong's sentence is almost equivalent to a promise not to meddle in the affairs of the Chamber of Commerce. "Jingluo, since this chamber of commerce is run by Jingluo, Jingluo but if there are instructions, how dare we disobey."

Liang Tianyou's voice was not loud, and the voice was low enough for Zhu Mingzhong to hear. In fact, he also knows very well that the so-called non-interference does not mean ignoring it, if the government wants to interfere with the Chamber of Commerce, how can it care about anything else? The key is to master the degree.

In the course of the discussion of some details of the Chamber of Commerce, Zhu Mingzhong would from time to time provide some experience of joint-stock companies in later generations, after all, compared with the firms of this era, the joint-stock companies that have developed over hundreds of years have a more mature system in the 21st century.

Liang Tianyou did not praise some of the "wonderful ideas" in the management of the chamber of commerce mentioned in his mouth, and finally when it came to the specific operation, Zhu Mingzhong would naturally ask about the types of goods traded with Japan, after all, what he hoped was to stimulate the development of local commerce through overseas trade.

"What Japan needs, first of all, raw silk, and this raw silk is based on lake silk, and the lake silk is about 100 taels per load in my Ming Dynasty, and it can be transported to Nagasaki to get double profits, and then the Japanese people like sweets, but Japan does not produce sugar, and the sugar they eat comes from China, but all sugar in Japan can get several times the profit......"

Although he has not been to the sea to engage in trade with Japan for more than ten years, Liang Tianyou still talks very carefully when he mentions trade with Japan.

"As mentioned earlier, we can take the copper of Japan, and we can directly transport the raw silk and silk fabrics that the Japanese love to Nagasaki, so as to exchange them for Japanese copper, so that the profit is far greater than the others, and when I went to Japan in the following year, I knew several copper merchants, and if we were interested, we could sign and sell them with them, that is, we would give them all the goods on the ship, and then exchange them for copper bars or silver taels......

This is the role of Liang Tianyou, maybe he rarely goes to sea, but the Liang family has long accumulated a lot of relationships in Japan for decades, these networks are the key to the trade ships to enter Japan, without Liang Tianyou's participation, even if Zhu Mingzhong sent envoys, but waiting for the Tokugawa shogunate to approve the trade may face many problems, the first problem is the reaction of the Zheng family, but the Liang family will not, because they themselves are participants in the trade with Japan, and now they are just taking the opportunity to resume trade with Japan.

In fact, whether it is for copper or silver, for Zhu Mingzhong, all he needs is to open the door to overseas trade, so that Jiangbei, a place unknown to the world, will prosper again, and of course, more importantly, with the prosperity of overseas trade, the future routes will definitely not be limited to Japan or North Korea.

"Since the old gentleman is familiar with the sea route, has he ever been familiar with this sea route to the south, such as going to Guangdong and other places?"

Zhu Mingzhong's words had a hint of temptation, and his question made Liang Tianyou ask rhetorically.

"Is Jinglu interested in opening up a route to the south? The sugar that the Japanese like is produced in Lingnan, if you want to prepare sugar goods have to send ships to the south, the route to Guangdong and other places, I also have some understanding of the route, and there are also elders in the family who specialize in the south route. ”

Liang Tianyou's answer made Zhu Mingzhong's heart happy, and his face was even filled with inexplicable excitement, and he asked a little excitedly.

"In this case, I don't know if the old gentleman knows that there is a big island on the other side of Fujian Province called "Taiwan", and this island is the most suitable for growing sugarcane. ”