Chapter Ninety-Five: The Harvest When I Returned Home
"On this occasion, we spent almost half a year visiting all the famous sights and important coastal towns of Yamaben, but the results were obviously very disappointing. After accepting our millions of gifts, the stingy princess actually spent a few pieces of worthless mountains and land for us, and they almost all treated us as fortune boys. Although we know that in the future, the price of these lands will increase to hundreds and thousands of times the amount of investment with the development of the capital, but I am still not happy. Just like when the Dutch bought Manhattan Island from the Indians for only 24 US dollars, it took 370 years for the value to appreciate 100 billion times, and our money is used to invest, and the annual income growth is only 10%, and after 370 years, it can increase by at least 2000 trillion times. I feel like I'm losing a lot. Liu Xin joked with a smile.
"Don't promote your compound interest calculation theory, if you can guarantee a stable income of 15% per year with a capital of 100 yuan, you will have a 4 times return after ten years, let alone 370 years, and the increased wealth in 200 years will be able to buy planets from aliens. The question is, can you guarantee it? Besides, it is an undetermined income that cannot be seen in the future, and the vast amount of gold and silver minerals in these lands and the mountains and archipelago under our circle can be repaid in five years, and then the income will exceed 30% every year, and there will be no problem in maintaining it for fifty years. Are you still not satisfied with this result? ”
"Just kidding, we all know that the plan to come to Yuben to rob this time was a perfect success, from the emperor to the exiles, all of them took advantage of this founding of the country, and no one suffered except for the minister, who was diluted because of the samurai's entry into the court. They just took a bunch of land and minerals that they didn't know when they would be able to develop in exchange for an opportunity to reform and open up. Even if the ministers who were seized of power got enough wealth to fill the cellar financially, we can say that we have achieved a perfect win-win situation. Chen Guanxian calculated how much of the yield of this trade was an intangible asset that was difficult to discount.
"Do you think our biggest harvest this time is gold, silver and minerals? Is it those antiquities of the Tang Dynasty or even the Han Dynasty that were exchanged for glass? I don't deny the profiteering and scale of these high-end trades. But I don't think the biggest takeaway from the trip is the antiques, minerals, gold and silver. Nor is it the large amount of land we occupy and the many islands of unlimited strategic value; It's a lot of connections and talent.
Things are always moving and changing owners, but people are not. Without resources and wealth, we still have talent and technology, resources and wealth will always be in hand, without talent and technology, no amount of wealth and resources will be used up.
In the words of the great man, it is 'the land is lost, the land is lost, the land is lost, the land is lost, the land is saved'. We also have to further compete and cultivate talents, this trip to open the door of the country is only one of the results, to get the market, resources, wealth, gold and silver, to achieve the goal of travel, relaxation, meeting celebrities is only a side task attached to the main purpose, not the main purpose I want.
The main task is to nurture and cultivate an ideal agent and obedient doppelganger as the hub for us to search for talents and everything. This pivot was perfect for Taira Masamori, the progenitor who gave birth to the samurai regime, and it was his grandson who divided the history of Komoto into two eras: the regency politics and the shogunate politics. The vitality, creativity, and execution of this powerful family can be said to be the strongest among the many families in the current world, and it is more in line with our plan to support compradors and warlords than the seemingly powerful Fujiwara Kita family and the imperial family. We want to foster a chaebol who is completely dependent on us economically, who will fall politically without our support, who can only act as a warlord or commander of the green battalion who can suppress domestic turmoil militarily, who is completely controlled by Buddhism or Shingon sect systematically, and who is absolutely assimilated culturally and thinks that he is a brain-dead fan of the remnants of the Chinese kingdom. Leekey put on an expression that I am MacArthur.
"Holy, you think of Uncle Sam! The highest level of sheep shearing is that these sheep know that they have been sheared and are very happy to take the initiative to rub the scissors along the town, and the head sheep can do a good job of demonstration and control to let the sheep take the initiative to remove the hair, and even the steps of hand shearing can be omitted, and directly let the sheep take off the wool and put it into our sack. Zhao Shouzhong concluded.
"Let's not talk about these fictitious things, let's talk about some real things, how much do we need and how much do we make this time when we come to this archipelago where birds don't?" Wang Xinyu is another realist.
"Don't spoil the atmosphere all the time! This time, I managed to settle the old and cunning ministers and the emperor, and got dozens of gold and silver mines that have not yet been discovered, but the price I paid was also very large. Wang Neng had a big loss on his face.
"Will you lose? You don't think you can say that a business with a profit of less than 300% is considered a loss! I think that the value of minerals contained in the mine this time is more than 5 billion Chenji, and our capital is less than 6 million Chenji! Bai Jia pursed her lips.
"The value of precious metals such as gold and silver and non-ferrous metals such as copper is worth tens of billions of dollars, and it is said that 93% of all gold, silver and minerals in the next thousand years belong to us. These are just a drop in the bucket, the bulk of which is the dozens of industries we have opened, and most of the lifeblood of the monopolist!
We opened the first newspaper, the first shopping mall, and the first large-scale industrial and mining trust, and we monopolized road construction, shipping, postal services, banking, foreign trade, the production and marketing of cash crops, forest development, river transformation, and mineral exploration. The profits from this trade were basically not taken away, and the copper coins brought with them were left here (in the hands of the shops and the wealthy families of the Crossing Public, they returned to the bank opened by the Crossing after a few turns), and the materials were used for construction and local industrial expansion. We just went back with some of the gold and silver and all the antiques. It can be said that it comes with a full load and returns empty! Yang Wenhui counted the load in and out with his fingers.
"Empty fart! Loaded with supplies and copper coins, when he returned, he had dozens of times the cost of gold, silver and antiques, plus a bunch of trade privileges and stocks in many industries. Can this also be called empty-handed? In a few years, Ping Zhengsheng will be able to become a rooster that lays diamond eggs. If this kind of thing can be called a loss, I hope to lose a hundred times, not ten thousand times, and it is best to lose so much that I vomit blood every day. Liu Jiao was about to stare out when he held the manifest.
"80,000 taels of gold, 700,000 taels of silver, 500 tons of ingots and loose pieces of copper, 400 boxes of crystal, 50,000 pearls, 600 boxes of mercury (in the form of cinnabar), 500 tons of sulfur, 4,000 sets of lacquerware and luodian vessels, 300 swords and other fine swords, 750 folding fans, 7,000 tons of fine mahogany and precious wood such as huanghuali....... These things are shipped back to say that they will exceed the profit of ten times the cost, and what is going on with a hundred boxes of special animal and plant specimens and seedlings, are you illiterate when I am illiterate? Gao Jing looked at the list of dozens of fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls who had not yet shaved their eyebrows and teeth and shouted at the list presented by the Minister and the Emperor.
"An-la! These are the best goods that are not easy to screen, and we can't laugh at them if they are strong. Whether it is used as a maid or trained to be your ready-to-wear royal model, they are not short people who are less than 1.6 meters, and they are almost destined to be old girls who can't get married. We are also doing good deeds! Qian Jin explained.
"Forget about the models, their specialty is to serve people, not to show their beauty, in order to implement the principle of making the best use of our talents, or send them to the housekeeping center to distribute the meritorious employees who need it, if you have this need, go through the procedures for hiring servants yourself." Was their settling-in allowance given by us or arranged by the ministers and magnates who gave them away? ”
"I guess it's all handled by the powerful themselves, right? It is said that they are all these women who inquired about our aesthetic preferences and sought out from their own fiefdoms and family children. It seems that they have reduced the settling-in fees and selling fees paid by their families in the form of money, food, servitude, etc., right? ”
"So be it! The rules have already been set, and we can't break the rules ourselves, so let's re-sign an international labor employment contract for each of them on a ten-year long-term contract. Free people are better than serfs. After all, they are all people who trade their youth and labor for the lightening of the burden of the family and freedom. If we want to set standards and rules in the international labor market, we need to start now! Li Ji set his tone and went to the ballast area of the bilge to receive the sensory impact of the precious metal.