When Xia Yan was discussing the opening of new shipping routes with Ming officials in the Liangguang region, the Ming Emperor Zhu Houzhao also arrived in Guangzhou, the southern country.

Zhu Houzhao came to Guangzhou naturally to take a closer look at the specific situation after the opening of the sea in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Zhu Houzhao did not make a big fanfare, but only made a light car and Jiancong suddenly appeared in Guangzhou Mansion, which could not only avoid disturbing the lives of the people along the way from the capital to Guangzhou Mansion, but also catch the officials in the Liangguang region off guard, so that he, the emperor, could see the most real situation in the Liangguang region.

The royal palace of Guangzhou Mansion is one of the palaces that Zhu Houzhao ordered the Royal State Administration of Taxation to fund in the tenth year of Zhengde and ordered the Ming Dynasty to build in various mansions.

Now, Zhu Houzhao can naturally directly use the royal palace of Guangzhou Mansion as his temporary residence for the emperor.

Zhu Houzhao is now looking at the map, and what he is looking at is naturally the map of the Liangguang region.

Moreover, Zhu Houzhao is still entangled in whether he should also draw a circle on the map of these two Guangzhous, but then he thinks about it and there is no need, after all, there is no Hong Kong now, and the small fishing village naturally has to wait for the future trade density to be more dense before drawing a circle, and now a mirror can also be enough to meet the trade transit of the entire Daming Sea area.

After looking at the map of Liangguang for a while, Zhu Houzhao felt a little bored, so he only got up and came to the lattice glass inlaid glass window, moved the model of a first-class battleship placed in front of the window, and asked: "Now, how is Xia Yan and the officials of Liangguang discussing, when will my Ming galleon be able to anchor in Goa City on a large scale?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, yesterday the discussion came to a result, the officials of the two Guangxi provinces said that they would cooperate with Xia Butang to open up this new route, in addition, Xia Butang has already followed your instructions, and began to convene the local squires and the heads of major commercial houses in the two Guangzhou, with the help of the officials of the two Guangzhous, to prepare for the construction of the Daming Stock Exchange in Haojing, and the newly established Imperial Sea Trade Corporation will be listed, and when the time comes, all the people of the Ming Dynasty will participate in the purchase of public bonds to form a fleet and shipping company to open up new routes!"

Liu Jin replied.

Zhu Houzhao nodded, and couldn't help but ask with some concern: "Do you say that he Xia Yan can be successful?" ”

"Xia Butang has received His Majesty's instructions, and the ministers believe that he will definitely be able to, not to mention, Your Majesty, among the assistants you have assigned to him this time are students who have learned abacus for several years with Wang Xijiu (Wang Wensu) of Jingshi University, and there are also household officials who have set up several banks with Manager Xu (Xu Jing), it should not be a problem to open this stock exchange, and besides, Xia Butang himself is also a student of Your Majesty who you taught at Beijing Normal University, Your Majesty You should rest assured!"

As soon as Liu Jin said this, Zhu Houzhao also nodded, thinking to himself: "I just don't know if these officials and gentry in the Liangguang region are willing to subscribe to the public bonds issued by the government!" ”

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Zhu Houzhao's worries are obviously unnecessary.

As soon as the Daming Stock Exchange was established in Guangzhou Prefecture and the public bonds that were opened up for new routes for the Imperial Sea Trade Corporation to raise funds were just put on sale, many officials and gentry from the two provinces came to subscribe for them.

Zhu Houzhao originally thought that there were not many people, so he and Liu Jin came here with Liu Jin Weifu to prepare to make a small fortune with the fake household registration certificate registered in the household department.

As a result, as soon as Zhu Houzhao came, he found that Rao had already begun to gather here in the morning of the first day of the issuance of public bonds, and many Ming scholars had already gathered here to prepare to buy public bonds.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but stop a scholar wearing a lazy scarf and asked: "Dare to ask this brother, are you really willing to come to buy the public bonds issued by the government, aren't you afraid of being deceived by the government?" ”

"Then don't worry, the court treats students preferentially, if the government dares to cheat, we can also make trouble", the scholar waved his fan, and saw that Zhu Houzhao was dressed luxuriously and his body was inlaid with gold and jade, so he replied with a smile.

Zhu Houzhao thought about it, after all, this is the Ming Dynasty under his rule, not the Qing Dynasty, although the emperor is not soft on killing civil officials, but it also encourages the Ming scholars to treat themselves more and more as individuals, and they don't even have the slightest suspicion of the government, even if the student in front of him seems to be not yet talented.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao continued to ask: "However, do you really believe that you can make money by buying the official treasury bonds?" ”

"That's natural, to say that this is still my Ming Dynasty in the past and present the first saint Ming created by the Son of Heaven, back then he engaged in such a way to raise shares to sit on the throne, to now, the old monks who followed him were so rich, these you should know, now private businessmen are also engaged in this, everyone knows, this kind of everyone together to raise funds, and then let the powerful people do business, everyone can get rich, this time this public debt is naturally the same."

The scholar said that he had the interest of showing off, not to mention that Zhu Houzhao was still dressed richly, and he also had the heart of friendship, so he continued: "This time the government issued public bonds, it is to open up a new route to Goa and even Cape Verde, I heard that the route is full of gold and silver, the last time Lord Xia came back, he brought back a lot, and the fleet of Shou Ning Hou (Zhang Heling) also brought back a lot, and now Lord Xia has the approval of the Son of Heaven to form a company to open up this new route, naturally he will definitely be able to bring more gold and silver back, Although we can't follow to make a fortune, we can invest money in individual stocks now!

In Zong's opinion, this matter is sure to make a profit, you see that one, it is the brother-in-law of Jiaoge's hometown, who came from Henan 0 to buy it, and I heard that he brought a full 20,000 silver dollars this time! ”

Zhu Houzhao heard this scholar say this, and he understood it, knowing that since Xia Yan, Zhang Heling and others brought back a lot of gold and silver things, the officials and gentlemen in the two regions have already known the benefits of this, and the officials and gentlemen themselves have not been able to organize a powerful armed fleet.

Zhu Houzhao nodded, and couldn't help but look at the brother-in-law of Jiao Ge's hometown who was sitting in the semi-open sedan chair in front of him and was pinched by the maid, and couldn't help but ask Liu Jin: "Jiao Fang is also eighty-three now, is his brother-in-law so young?" Looks like he's only sixteen or seventeen! ”

"Back to Your Majesty's words, this Jiao Ge has just accepted the eighteen-year-old twenty-sixth-room concubine Mei family, this brother-in-law must be his twenty-sixth room Ru Mrs. Mei's brother", Liu Jin couldn't help but reply embarrassedly.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help sighing: "It seems that the officials who followed me back then were indeed very rich, and even women received more than me. ”

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At this time, the queue in front of the Daming Stock Exchange has already begun.

After Wang Hua's spiritual civilization construction, queuing has now become a common practice in the lives of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Houzhao and Liu Jin appeared here in civilian clothes, and they didn't take advantage of their privileges, and they lined up in a regular manner, but when there were still two or three hundred people away from him Zhu Houzhao, there were suddenly two or three hundred people in front of him who were unwilling to line up anymore and dispersed directly.

Zhu Houzhao and Liu Jin appeared at the front of the stock exchange all of a sudden.

The scholar who had just finished buying the public bonds in front of Zhu Houzhao and Liu Jin couldn't help but be stunned and asked Zhu Houzhao: "Why don't they line up?" ”

Zhu Houzhao said that he didn't know, and it was not easy to say that this was his guard, so he only came to the counter.

At this time, a green-robed official of the stock exchange skillfully fiddled with the abacus and asked without raising his head: "Name, how much to buy?" ”

"Zhu Shou, 30,000 silver dollars, buy them all!"

Zhu Houzhao handed over the bill issued by the Royal Bank as he spoke, and at this time, another green-robed official smiled and handed over a coupon: "You are a big customer, according to the above meaning, I will give you a free coupon to go to Haojing Haitian Shengyuan." ”

Zhu Houzhao didn't quite know what the coupon of the Crystal Pavilion meant, so he only stood aside first, and waited for Liu Jin to buy it before asking, "Where is Haitian Shengyuan?" ”

"It is the first place of wind and moon in our two Guangzhous, and it is the property of the Hou family of Shouning, which specializes in snatching overseas orchid girls for fun, you are a pass volume, you can play a full set, this coupon starts at three hundred silver dollars! And it's priceless! ”

At this time, the scholar suddenly came over and said.

"I've got you!"

Zhu Houzhao gave it to this scholar, thinking that if he wanted to play orchid, he still needed to go to your Haitian Shengyuan, and he Shou Ninghou dared not to offer the most stunning one, so Zhu Houzhao took Liu Jin and left here after speaking.

After returning to the palace, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but ask Liu Jin: "How much did you buy?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, 10,000 silver dollars," Liu Jin replied.

"Did you give you a ticket for the Skyfield?" Zhu Houzhao asked.

Liu Jin hurriedly put the coupon into his sleeve and replied, "Back to Your Majesty, no!" ”

"It doesn't matter if you don't, this is of little interest to you," Zhu Houzhao said, and ordered someone to go to meet Zhang Heling, the Marquis of Shouning, who was temporarily living in Guangzhou Mansion.

After a while, Zhang Heling came to Zhu Houzhao with two gorgeous orchids that looked as white as jade: "I don't know that Your Majesty is coming to Guangzhou, the ministers have missed the welcome, please forgive your Majesty, one of these two orchids is the princess of Qianxiang Kingdom, and the other is the fiancée of the prince of the Duchy of Venice. ”

Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling are people who Zhu Houzhao specially arranged to go overseas to be pirates;

And Zhang Yanling also engaged in a round-the-world voyage, but Zhang Heling is purely about robbing and robbing people, but also because these two people are the uncles of the dynasty, even if they are impeached by the ministers of science, the two of them don't care, not to mention that Zhang Heling also knows the rules, and every time he dedicates the best to his nephew emperor.

Although Zhu Houzhao knew that according to modern education, people are equal, but now he finds that even if he is the emperor, he can only make everyone equal in the Ming Dynasty, and even so, he still uses the imperial power to intervene and even does not fully realize it, which is very difficult, as for these white and black people outside the Ming Dynasty, it is even more difficult.

Even reformist officials did not support Mr. Zhu.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao can only accept this phenomenon of treating non-people as human beings in the early days of the Ming colonial era.

Zhu Houzhao believes that with the progress of civilization, the Ming Dynasty will change, and many years later, whether it is white or black, it will choose to forgive themselves and the Ming Dynasty.

After all, in history, some people who were colonized by Western colonizers many years later have not forgotten their hatred, and some people are even grateful to these invaders because these invaders brought them advanced civilization.

Zhu Houzhao thought to himself that maybe a hundred years later, these Fanyi who had been enslaved by the Ming Dynasty would also be grateful to the Ming Dynasty, grateful to the Ming Dynasty for colonizing them, and even hoped that the Ming Dynasty would colonize them for another three hundred years!

What's more, it would be better to leave these robbed orchids by his side at least to be put into the Haitian Shengyuan for all the people of Daming to play with, so Zhu Houzhao also nodded: "Uncle has a heart, come here, take them to the backyard to see Concubine Su!" ”