After receiving Mao Yulong's entrustment, Xu Jie solemnly promised: "As long as the amount of food needed by Dongjiang Town in the future is proposed, I will do my best to complete it." ”

Mao Yulong is relieved of this promise, and businessmen in this era pay the most attention to commitment, which is the foundation of life.

"And Brother Yuanshan, I will use your smuggling fleet to transport our surplus silver coins to Japan for digestion."

Although Song Yuanshan does not run his family's business, he is the most optimistic candidate for the entire family, of course, there are many things that are not hidden from him, and he also knows the root of this. So he was embarrassed and said: "Our family's fleet is indeed not, there are more than 100 ships, and it is not false that we have a secret agreement with Li Dan in private, which is why our Song family did not go all out to help the government when Hangzhou was besieged this time." When he said this, his face was already covered with shame. But when he saw that several brothers and brothers all had expressions of forgiveness from him, he breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "Although we have a good relationship with Li Dan, according to the relative rules of smuggling in Jiangnan, we can only export a certain amount of goods to Japan every year. Of course, I can ask my father to exchange our silver coins for the purchase of goods, but it is indeed a bit difficult to buy materials from Japan and transport them back, because our surplus is already large, and Japan has nothing to cross the Central Plains, and if we bring a large amount of silver coins, we will not be able to buy much at all. ”

In this era, the Ming Dynasty was the world's exporter of materials, and any other surrounding countries, including European countries, sold to the Ming Dynasty was indeed pitiful. Just as it is the same in some countries now, what you don't have, I have; What you have I am better than you and cheaper than you. You pick up my wool, but my things are cabbage prices, what do you do? I'll run you to death. The current Ming Dynasty is like this, don't be at this time, the materials produced by the Ming Dynasty are compared with any other company in the world. In this era, all the world's firsts are in the current Ming Dynasty, even if it is the declining sailor, in fact, even if it declines, in the naval battle, it is still the first in the next one. As a result, it is precisely because of many firsts that the fall of this old empire has been accelerated. This is the same as the United States in later generations, in the original time, he occupied the next first place, but also planted the seedlings of decline.

Mao Yulong understood Song Yuanshan's helplessness, but smiled: "I hope to unite with your family this time, and I am ready to give him a big benefit." When you go back, you can tell your family's think tank that what we bought with silver coins in Japan this time is not anything ordinary, but silver. We took the silver coins and went to buy his silver. ”

This kind of law simply makes everyone completely blinded, using money to buy money, in principle, using money to buy goods, the middleman wants to make a difference, if so, he is losing money.

"Actually, don't doubt my Fa, just tell your family's think tank about my Fa in Brother Yuanshan's voice, and they will understand it immediately. All you have to do is tell him that we exchange a silver dollar for one or two taels of silver, and then I will buy it according to the standard of one or two silver dollars and one silver dollar, and they will know what to do. ”

"Why?" Everyone didn't understand, didn't this mean that the Song family made two dollars of silver, but the most fundamental thing was that the Song family could buy one or two dollars of silver with a silver dollar? Are the Japanese stupid?

"Japan is not stupid, because they are very rich, and they are very rich, because Japan has the largest, most output, and best quality silver mountain in the world."

The discovery of Iwami Ginzan and the subsequent mass production was an event of great significance in the history of East Asia. Using trade as a medium, Japanese silver began to intervene in Sino-Japanese trade and the global trade system centered on the Ming Dynasty, which left a deep mark on the history of exchanges between the East and the West since the Age of Discovery.

During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, the Muromachi regime of Japan paid tribute to China, joined the East Asian tributary system dominated by the Ming Dynasty, and carried out exploration and trade with China. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, with the development of social economy and the increasing frequency of domestic and foreign trade, silver became the main currency in circulation. In contrast to the strong demand, the Ming Dynasty was highly short of silver and often imported silver from overseas. In the beginning, Japan did not produce much silver, and in order to make high profits from Sino-Japanese trade, it imported silver from Korea and Southeast Asia, and then resold it to China. But that changed with the mining of Iwami Ginzan, and Japan went from being an importer of silver to an exporter of silver. At that time, trade in the seas of East Asia was very frequent, and Japan needed Chinese copper coins, raw silk, and medicinal herbs; The Ming Dynasty needed silver, and after it was put into production, Iwami Silver Mountain became a major source of silver imports in the Ming Dynasty. During the Wanli era, silver became a major item exported by Japan to China. At that time, most of the silver produced by Iwami Ginzan in Japan went to China.

But at that time, the silver produced in Japan was a pre-processed thing, also called coarse silver, which had the huge drawbacks of silver circulation now, so in Japan, due to the large output of silver, the silver in Japan was very cheap, for example, in the Ming Dynasty, one tael of gold should be exchanged for 10 taels of silver, and it must be official silver, and the fineness should be sufficient and the quality should be good.

But in Japan, one tael of gold is enough to exchange for 15 taels of silver, which is a huge difference.

Now it is impossible for Mao Yulong and these people to collect enough gold, so now Japan is circulating a large number of silver dollars flowing in from foreign countries, and one silver dollar can be exchanged for one or three coins of silver. Therefore, Mao Yulong took advantage of this huge price difference and exchanged the counterfeit coins he minted for Japanese silver. In addition to the profit of 20% to 30%, he exchanged a silver dollar for one or two silver, and then minted it into a silver dollar weighing seven coins and five weights, plus 20% of other metals, and he could still earn 30% of the money interest. And then store that profit, and that's a steady stream of income.

After hearing Mao Yulong's explanation, several brothers had to admire Mao Yulong's calculations. Even the most shrewd Xu Jie had to praise: "If you become the director of the Ming Baoying Bureau (the minting agency of the Ming Dynasty), it would be a pity that the finances of the Ming Dynasty would be abundant to an outrageous level in the blink of an eye." ”

Mao Yulong just smiled faintly: "All in all, I will give you a bottom now, there are only two ways for my development, one is to become a minister within 5 years." But you don't believe in this goal, and I can't believe it in the big picture of this gerontophilia. Then my second way is that after I left school in Guozijian, when I arranged for officials to go to the Ministry of Officials' Examination Division, I volunteered to go to Dongjiang Town, and fought side by side with my uncle Mao Wenlong, facing Jiannu. When he said this, his face was solemn and impassioned.

No one objected to him, although they would worry about him, but everyone knew that this was the path that Mao Yulong was about to take.

"So when I landed on Phi Island, I needed to use this huge amount of money to change the financial situation of Dongjiang Town, I must not let the soldiers drag the corpses of their companions against Jiannu to happen, at least, I want to ensure that the soldiers have something to eat." WeChat pays attention to "excellent reading literature", chats about life, and looks for confidants~

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