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Jiang Yan is one of them, he came this time, between Nanzhi and Zhejiang, he must get one, and Beizhi is not what he wants the most, and it is beyond his expectation to win Beizhi.

"Two hundred and sixty thousand!" Jiang Yan quoted again.

"Two hundred and seventy thousand!" As soon as Jiang Yan's words fell, someone continued to quote, and this time the quote was also made by a salt merchant named Wang Xin. Among the salt merchants in Huizhou, Huang, Wang, and Wu are the old salt merchants, while Jiang Yan is the new big salt merchant.

But after 270,000, another competitor also decisively gave up the competition, and now only Jiang Yan and Wang Xin are the only people who compete.

"Two hundred and eighty thousand!" Jiang Yan glanced at Wang Xin, Wang Xin also glanced at Jiang Yan at this time, and then Jiang Yan made a move that outsiders couldn't understand. Both of them are representatives of Hui businessmen, and they have cooperated a lot in the business field, and the two still have a tacit understanding, Wang Xin immediately understood what Jiang Yan meant, and Jiang Yan would give up the bid for Nanzhi.

Seeing Jiang Yan's statement, Wang Xin immediately gave up the battle for the Zhejiang cement franchise. In the end, the price of Zhejiang cement franchise was fixed at 280,000 yuan.

Nanzhi appeared as the finale of this investment promotion. The southern part of the Ming Dynasty, which included today's Jiangsu, Anhui and Shanghai, was the most economically prosperous province in the Ming Dynasty, and its taxes ranked first in the country. The area of Nanzhi accounted for about 7 percent of the entire Ming Dynasty, but the population accounted for about 18 percent, and it is estimated that by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the population would exceed 30 million.

Nanzhi is also a political, economic and cultural center. Thanks to Shanghai's opening to the outside world, Nanzhi has developed faster since last year, and Shanghai is backed by the richest area of Daming, and it is possible that it will become the first port of Daming within a year or two.

The auction for the Nanzhi cement franchise is destined to be the most intense, with a reserve price of 50,000 yuan, and half a cup of tea has exceeded 200,000 yuan. Wang Xin knew that once Zhu Youxiao abolished the monopoly system of salt, the Wang family would have to find a new business, and the regional cement franchise was a rare opportunity for him, and he would never let go of such an opportunity this time.

The price of the Nanzhi cement franchise climbed to 300,000, and the number of competitors was reduced to two, and finally the Nanzhi cement franchise was sold to 350,000. Zhu Youxiao didn't know how long it would take for these merchants to return to their capital if they sold at such a high price.

The next day, the auction of the cement franchise in eight provinces sold a total of 1.4 million taels, and Zhu Youxiao won a total of 2 million taels of silver in the two days of investment promotion. Through the auction of the cement franchise, Zhu Youxiao received almost half of the funds needed to build the Jingguang Chi Road.

After the end of the investment promotion, Zhu Youxiao finally appeared.

"Today you have won the cement franchise in various places, I hope you will go back and immediately raise cement workshops, I will build at least three galloping roads connecting the east, west, north and south next year, the first is the Beijing-Guangzhou Chi Road, that is, from Beijing to Guangzhou, the second is the Jingxi Chi Road, that is, from Beijing to Xi'an, and the third is the Shangcheng Chi Road, that is, the Chi Road from Shanghai to CD. We will enlist the assistance of the Ministry of Industry and provincial officials, and construction will start by the end of next year at the latest. Zhu Youxiao said.

"No." They all replied together.

"Today I will hold a banquet here to entertain you, and I will not dine with you, I will let Wang Liqian, Li Yongzhen, and Tai Kangbo entertain you, so that everyone will not be too restrained." Zhu Youxiao said with a smile.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the banquet!" Everyone said happily.

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Through the cement auction, Zhu Youxiao suddenly thought of a very important thing, that is, inflation at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Inflation at the end of the Ming Dynasty was also an important reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

Since the beginning of a whip law, silver has gradually become the most important circulating currency of the Ming Dynasty, but the silver of the Ming Dynasty mainly comes from abroad. However, by the middle of the 17th century, natural disasters affected the whole world, and a trade crisis broke out in Europe, and the major silver-exporting countries interrupted trade with the Ming Dynasty one after another, resulting in the interruption of silver transportation channels from abroad. In the past, the silver that was transported in was hidden in the homes of officials or merchants of the Ming Dynasty. This caused the Ming Dynasty to break out of extremely serious inflation, the southeast economy collapsed, and the northwest did not pay taxes on silver, and finally under the impetus of natural disasters, a peasant uprising broke out.

How to deal with the upcoming inflation is also something that Zhu Youxiao urgently needs to solve. There are not many ways that Zhu Youxiao can think of, and he doesn't know what the specific result will be?

The first means that Zhu Youxiao thought of was to control Dongying, which was an important means to solve inflation. Dongying is a silver-producing country, and controlling Dongying is equivalent to controlling an important import channel for silver, but now Zhu Youxiao is not sure whether Yan Siqi can completely control Dongying or control Dongying before the large-scale outbreak of inflation?

The second means of shipping banknotes to avoid over-reliance on silver. It's just that the paper money issued by the imperial court in the early days has been reduced to waste paper, so that the paper money has lost its credit, and now the issuance of paper money can be said to be difficult, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was tried to issue paper money again, but it became a farce. Zhu Youxiao also doesn't know if he can succeed before the massive inflation?

The third means is to find a way to dig out the silver hidden in the people. The Chinese like to save money and grain, and when Li Zicheng broke through the Jingshi, he found that the silver in the homes of officials and merchants was piled up. There are also Chinese who also like to buy land and houses, and they are very keen on investment in fixed assets. At this time, Zhu Youxiao thought of whether he could buy and sell real estate? But real estate involves a lot of problems, and he doesn't know if he can get it right?

During the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang once implemented the system of affordable housing, but Zhu Yuanzhang's affordable housing did not conform to the economic laws of the time and finally failed. In the Ming Dynasty, the system of "looking for a house" also made the sale of houses restricted, the so-called money for finding a house, is to allow the seller to "find a post with the public estimate", in other words, to allow the seller to find the buyer to make up the difference, if the seller sold at the price of 100,000 taels of silver, a few months later, found that the price rose to 150,000 taels, at this time the buyer must make up another 50,000 taels to the seller.

In the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty, more and more people went to the city to work. What Zhu Youxiao wanted was to introduce the commercial housing system of later generations into this era. The houses of the Ming Dynasty were subject to the "over-regulation and transgression", basically low-rise, and the self-built houses of single-family families, the housing prices were definitely more expensive than the commercial houses such as two-bedroom and one-living rooms or three-bedroom and two-living rooms.