Methwald and Robert. As Blake was talking, the feast in the suite above them was also in full swing. Wang Chunyun asked the guests at the table: "All the uncles and brothers who can sit here today, which family is counting on this investment to eat?" With your current status, you still value this little bit of petty profit so much, don't you think it's too short-sighted? ”

Wang Chunyun's words immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of some people, and some people immediately choked back: "Status? When did we businessmen have a status? If it weren't for giving us face today, where would we be in the position? God knows when His Majesty will turn his "sex" again, and we will have to be beaten back to our original form. If you want me to see it, the real money in my hands is the most reliable, with this money, I can finally make some friends with officials and celebrities to protect me..."

"Yes, yes. Those of us who are in business, are we still afraid that money will not be able to bite our hands? Since ancient times, there have been people who have done the business of killing heads, but no one has done this loss-making business. We just poked a big hole in Shenyang's sky, and now we want to go in again, if Jiannu comes to close the door and beat the dog, won't it all be lost..."

Wang Chunyun suddenly shook his head and said with a smile: "I thought that your uncles and brothers had made a lot of money in the past few years, and this horizon should have broadened a lot, but I didn't want you to be so short-sighted." Such a great opportunity is in front of you, but it is regarded as a loss-making transaction, in the future, uncles and brothers, don't blame me Wang for not reminding everyone. ”

Hearing Wang Chunyun say this, the businessmen present began to hesitate again. With a medium-sized merchant, Wang became a wealthy businessman in charge of the central bank of the Ming Dynasty in just over ten years, and won the title of emperor.

Of course, there are many rumors about Wang Fengyuan's shit luck, getting the pie that fell from the sky, and being named by the emperor to build a central bank, so there are many rumors about having such a career. But being able to seize the opportunity when it comes, instead of turning it away, is also a skill.

After all, when Emperor Chongzhen had just ascended the throne, his reputation had not yet been revealed, and no one in the world knew what kind of person this emperor was. Therefore, when Chongzhen recruited merchants from various provinces to go to the capital to discuss taxation and commercial affairs, the really well-established businessmen tried their best to shirk it.

And when Chongzhen first ascended the throne, the level of emptiness of the treasury was that it was also a great adventure to be able to accept the emperor's order and invest money with the palace to establish a bank, and God knows if this would be a means for the palace to embezzle the property of these merchants?

Wang was able to seize the opportunity in such a complicated situation and finally ascend to the sky. For them, the businessmen, they are also extremely admired. Now Wang Chunyun actually regards investing in Shenyang as an opportunity, which makes the businessmen who were very opposed to it before have to rethink and think about what opportunities they have missed.

It's just that everyone can't remember where the opportunity is for a while, so a businessman who is more anxious about his "sex" opened his mouth and asked Wang Chunyun: "Nephew Wang Xian, what is the opportunity you are talking about?" Can you be clearer? ”

Wang Chunyun glanced at the people in the room, and found that everyone had focused their attention on themselves, and even a few who had contradicted him before were now listening with pricked ears, so he couldn't help but say: "Okay, the one who can sit here today is not my Wang family's world friend, since I invited you over, I should explain it to you."

Everyone just said that the danger of investing in Shenyang is too great at the moment, but have you ever thought that it is precisely because of the danger that the return we can get will exceed expectations.

Since the collapse of Shenyang's stock market and paper money last year, the entire Shenyang market has indeed become a black hole, the market prices are high, and the gold and silver are nowhere to be seen.

But in good conscience, is the economy of Jiannu really hopeless? I can't see it. The timber, various mountain goods, and fur produced in the Northeast alone are actually enough for them to get through this current difficulty. It's just that their biggest trouble now is that the biggest market for their goods is in my Daming, and the tea, tobacco, salt, sugar, cotton, silk and other daily necessities they want are also from my Daming.

In other words, as long as we don't buy their goods and don't sell them the daily necessities they need, Jiannu will face an extremely difficult situation. But what's in it for us businessmen? Jiannu cannot trade directly with us, and will inevitably trade indirectly through the Mongols in our territory or the Koreans adjacent to them, which may cause Jiannu to lose a lot, but for us, the loss is greater.

Let's not forget that we are the largest market and the largest supplier of Jiannu, but on the other hand, Jiannu is not a very important market and raw material source in the north. If we sever the trade relationship with Jiannu, although the loss of Jiannu is greater at the beginning, but in the long run, our loss will be greater.

As long as Jiannu survives these two years, the Daming Yuan banknotes in our hands will be expelled from the market in the Northeast by Jiannu, and they will also be accustomed to the lack of daily necessities, and once again lower their living standards, so that our daily necessities will lose an important market, which is good for us?

On the contrary, if we re-enter Shenyang now, the first thing is to control the right to issue Manchu banknotes, and use the banknotes of the Ming Dynasty in Shenyang as gold and silver.

You can try to think about it, once we can control the power of the Manchu paper money issuance, then it is equivalent to controlling the Manchu financial market. As long as we are willing, a financial storm like last year's one may not be impossible to repeat.

In addition, the power to issue paper money is in our hands, and with the Manchu loans guaranteed by commercial taxes, do you think these Jiannu can really repay our loans?

You can think about it, at that time, although the Jiannu ruled the northeast, but the money they scavenged from the local area will eventually fall into our pockets, isn't this a great opportunity? ”

Although the room was completely silent, some people soon retorted in disbelief: "Isn't this idea too idealistic?" If Jiannu is unwilling to repay the money, then isn't our investment in vain? ”

Wang Chunyun did not avoid this question, but nodded directly and said in agreement: "Yes, what you said is right, once Jiannu does not repay the money, our investment may be wasted, which is the biggest risk at present."

However, this risk is not uncontrollable, first of all, we intend to invest in paper money, the central bank is ready to print a new version of the banknote, if Jiannu turns his face, we will be a big deal to invalidate this batch of banknotes, the loss should not be very large.

Second, with the current comparison of the armed forces of the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, sooner or later China's strength will surpass the armed forces of Jiannu. So once Jiannu dares not to repay the money, I believe that Your Majesty will not stand idly by, after all, a large part of the funds we have invested are property belonging to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Third, through the contact with Shenyang in the past few years, everyone should know that Jiannu is not monolithic, as long as we can win over some Jiannu magnates to stand on our side, then what Jiannu's Great Khan wants to do to us, we can still receive some rumors first.

With these three guarantees, I think this risk can still be taken. ”

Before Wang Chunyun's words fell, the guests at several tables had already started to discuss, and soon an uncle in his early fifties got up and asked him, "What the virtuous nephew just said is only the first benefit, so what are the benefits below?" ”

Wang Chunyun glanced at this uncle, and then said with a smile: "With the current situation in Shenyang, all uncles should know that one of the reasons for the rise in prices in Shenyang is the shortage of money. We are now buying property in Shenyang, even if we don't do anything, as long as we stabilize the prices in Shenyang, we can more than double the profit, isn't this a benefit?

As for the other benefits, I haven't figured it out yet, but don't forget that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is just one of the small countries around my Ming Dynasty, and further afar, there are still overseas princely states such as Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, and they do not have such a powerful force as the Manchu Dynasty.

We did this for the imperial court, and in the future, can't the surrounding countries let me wait for a bite as compensation? As long as we can do something for Your Majesty and the Imperial Court that they are unwilling to do and cannot do, Your Majesty and the Imperial Court will naturally need us to stay in our current position, won't we? ”

In a back alley a few streets away from the small building where Wang Chunyun and others are located, there is a small Japanese-style restaurant hidden, although there are several red lanterns hanging in front of this restaurant, but it fails to illuminate the long alley, but a few green bamboos in front of the door are ghostly, which makes people feel sad.

A few Japanese people in kimonos walked to the door, and they didn't hear any noise coming from inside, and the young Japanese who walked in the front couldn't help but say to their companions, "This izakaya is so deserted today, but it's a good place to talk." Before I entered, I would only say that after entering, you are not allowed to clash with the samurai of other feudal kingdoms without my orders. ”

"Please rest assured, the Chinese do not allow us to bring knives to the streets, and we will not learn from those reckless people who raise their fists and wave them 'randomly', which makes people laugh at it..." Several accompanying samurai replied to him in unison.

Gamo nodded and smiled at his companion before he stepped forward and lifted the curtain and walked into the izakaya.