Zhao Youzhang hummed a little song and handed the reins of the horse to the servant who greeted him, and the servant said in a low voice: "Several princes are here in person!" ”

"They're like cats that smell fish!" Zhao Youzhang muttered dissatisfied.

Don't look at him as only ten years old, and he keeps calling Zhou Quan "Brother of the Zhou Family", in fact, in the emperor's house, how can he have no scheming.

Especially when it comes to the position of the son, there are 100,000 ...... No, millions of family assets, how can he not care?

For example, in the past, this servant was respectful to him, but he would never tell him what was happening in the house. Now it's different, as soon as he comes back, he immediately comes forward to greet him, and always communicates the big and small things at home to him. To put it mildly, as long as Zhao Youzhang is willing, even where his father Zhao Yu stays at night, someone will report to him.

Zhao Youzhang knew very well what the reason was: money.

At the beginning, he and a group of gentlemen joined the East China Sea Chamber of Commerce and became the governor of the Chamber of Commerce, originally just wanting to take a hitchhike. But in the past two years, the downwind boat they took was simply a giant ship riding the wind and waves, and the benefits brought to Yanwangfu have far exceeded the rest of Yanfu's income!

Touching the five jiaozi in his arms, Zhao Youzhang was in a very good mood, and he casually threw a gadget into the hand of the servant.

But it was a silver coin that glittered with silver.

It was impossible to mint copper coins because they were not authorized by the imperial court, but Zhou Quan had a way to circumvent this restriction by using the hydraulic stamping method to make silver coins on a small scale in Liguojian.

Each silver coin contains six silver coins, and if converted into today's market price, each silver coin is equivalent to a consistent coin. This time Zhou Quan came back, and each governor of the Chamber of Commerce gave them two hundred silver coins, just to let them get used to it in advance.

The servant took the shiny thing, looked at it for a while, and was sure that it was silver, and then looked at it, and there were patterns and handwriting.

"Sailboat?"

On the obverse of the silver coin, Zhou Quan used the picture of the "Blue Bird" sailboat realistic pattern, above the pattern, the semicircular distribution is the "China East China Sea Chamber of Commerce" six characters, this handwriting is Zhao Ji's own handwriting. On the reverse side of the silver coin is an Arabic numeral "1", plus the Chinese character "One Yuan", and at the bottom, the lowercase "Zhenghe Five Years".

"Shizi, what is this?" The servant saw that the thing in front of him was very fresh, and chased after Zhao Youzhang and asked.

"Silver Yuan, if you buy something at the Donghai Chamber of Commerce in the future, you can use this to offset the consistency." Zhao Youzhang waved his hand and walked into the door quickly.

The servant played with the silver dollar repeatedly for a while, and laughed out loud: "I was stupid to use it to be consistent, this silver dollar is like this, and it will definitely be more than consistent in the future!" ”

Zhao Youzhang did not go to the front of the hall first, but came to his own room, and slowly sorted out for a while, until his father sent someone to urge, he slowly arrived in the hall.

Here he saw more than a dozen relatives.

Emperor Renzong had no children, and left Yingzong in the palace to raise him since he was a child, Yingzong's four sons, three of whom grew up, there were Shenzong, Shenzong had many sons, in addition to the dead Zhezong, today's son Zhao Ji, in addition to King Wu, King Yan, King Chu, King Yue, and King Changcheng, leaving heirs. What Zhao Youzhang saw was these descendants left by Emperor Yingzong.

"Youzhang is back!"

The one who spoke was Zhao Youyi, the king of Heyi County, he was the son of the late King Wu, after the death of Zhezong, the king of Wu was the oldest among the princes, but he resigned because of his eye disease, so that Zhao Ji picked up the cheap. It is precisely because of this that King Wu's department is quite taken care of by Zhao Ji, and he is more confident when he speaks.

Another smiling and silent king of Yongning County, Zhao Yougong, is the opposite. His father, King Chu, once competed with Zhao Ji for the throne, and was quite suspicious after defeat, so Zhao Yougong should be much more cautious.

However, the person with the highest rank present was Zhao Zhongli, the heir of Pu, who sat on the top.

His rank is one generation higher than that of the official Zhao Ji, so he should be the emperor's uncle. Seeing Zhao Youzhang coming in, he smiled and said, "Youzhang, tell me quickly, what did Zhou Xiaocai God call you to go today." ”

"It's nothing more than the matter of the East China Sea Chamber of Commerce, and the settlement of last year's profits."

"How much dividends, say quickly." Zhao Youyi screamed, he was the most anxious, and he couldn't wait.

"My family has a dividend of 520,000 yuan, and the voucher is here, and it can be paid after March." Zhao Youzhang said as he presented the flying money representing 500,000 yuan to his father, Zhao Yu, the king of Yan.

The figure of 520,000 immediately frightened the entire hall.

Zhao Youzhang can be sure that the same thing is happening in the homes of all members of the Donghai Chamber of Commerce now.

The smallest share also has half of the shares, which is also a dividend of more than 200,000 yuan, even if it is placed in the Beijing Division, only the noble family can make such a profit every year!

"How can you make so much money at sea?" Zhao Zhongli, the king of Sipu, muttered to himself.

"The production of Jeju Island alone is worth hundreds of thousands of pieces every year, so how can you not make money! Goryeo and Japan, for my Great Song products, are really hungry and thirsty, and I heard the steward of the East China Sea Chamber of Commerce say that no matter how many things are transported, they will be sold out in the blink of an eye! If it weren't for the fact that the imperial courts of the two countries forbade us to travel too often with the Great Song Dynasty ships, we would have earned at least double, or even several times! ”

"Is Japan's gold and silver mountains real?" Another clan asked.

Hearing this question, Zhao Youzhang laughed.

In order to promote the Great Song Dynasty's attention to the ocean, Zhou Quan hyped up the news that Japan has gold and silver mountains and copper mountains. This news caused a sensation in the Great Song Dynasty, and no one thought that that that small island country would have these precious metals.

For almost half a year, one of the most frequently talked about words in Beijing was the phrase "Japanese gold mountain".

"Last year, the Chamber of Commerce provided more than 200,000 kan of funding to Japanese businessmen, allowing them to hire people to carry out exploration in the mountains of Japan, such as a place named Iwami in the country, which has discovered a mountain of silver, with abundant reserves, and in the past half a year, more than 2,000 catties of silver have been obtained from this place. There is another place, called Sado, which has both gold and silver, and in the past half a year, 1,200 catties of silver and 600 taels of pure gold have been obtained from this place......"

This is only the output of the two places, and because these two places are slightly remote, the Japanese court is not strictly controlled, so the Tokai Chamber of Commerce smuggled a lot of gold and silver from here.

Zhou Quan couldn't remember anything else, but the impression of Iwami Silver and Sado Gold was quite profound, so when he was looking for Japanese prospecting, he focused on the names of these two places. Previously, the mineral deposits in these two places were mined on a small scale in Iwami, while Sado was almost uncared for. Zhou Quan estimates that this kind of mining will continue for another one to two years, when the Japanese court will find out and restrict it.

But he did not tell the governors of the Tokai Chamber of Commerce his predictions, and in his description, gold and silver were abundant all over Japan, and as long as there were ships and goods, they could be sold there, then they could make a lot of money.

Everyone was talking in a whisper, and it was a little noisy, so Zhao Youzhang stopped talking. After a long while, he heard Zhao Zhongli, who was the most senior, cough, and after suppressing everyone's voices, he looked at Zhao Youzhang: "Youzhang, since maritime merchants are so profitable, what do you think of these uncles and brothers who are interested in starting a maritime merchant by themselves?" ”

Zhao Youzhang was stunned for a moment.

He originally thought that everyone wanted to come to fight the autumn breeze, at most, they just wanted to borrow his relationship and join the Donghai Chamber of Commerce, but he never thought that they wanted to set up a chamber of commerce by themselves!

Then Zhao Youzhang sneered.

"Are you moved to see how much Zhou Quan is making money? But I want to remind you, although we are all in the same lineage as Yingzong, but we see the official family more often, or Li Bangyan and others see the official family more often? Li Bangyan and others, do you all know what the situation is now? ”

Of course I know that although I follow Zhao Ji on weekdays, I don't even dare to say the word "Zhou", and as soon as the New Year passes, I get out of the Beijing Division in a gloomy way, how far away I hide. This is not sad, the saddest thing is that Zhao Youzhang and their group of gentlemen ran to his house to collect debts if they had nothing to do!

"If you don't have that ability, don't think about it, uncles and brothers, my family follows Zhou Quan behind him, earning hundreds of thousands of yuan a year, and I am very content, if I am a little greedy, I will lose all these hundreds of thousands, which of you will post it to me?"

These words should have been said by Zhao Youzhang's father, Yanwang Zhao Yu, but Zhao Yu didn't speak at this time, and Zhao Youzhang didn't care about his seniority, so he said straightforwardly.

Everyone looked at each other, and Zhao Youyi, who was anxious, was a little unconvinced: "Our relatives of the Son of Heaven are not as big as him in a poor market?" ”

"Brother Yi, if you want to go and be with Li Bangyan, then go by yourself, brother, I won't accompany you." Zhao Youzhang smiled.

Originally, this was the reason, his family earns hundreds of thousands of yuan a year, and judging from the current development momentum of the Donghai Chamber of Commerce, it will not take a few years to earn millions of yuan, so why take such a risk?

"Youzhang, you misunderstood, we didn't say that we want you to go against Zhou Quan, you know all the projects operated by the Donghai Chamber of Commerce, so we will choose other goods outside of its business projects. For example, linen, now that cotton cloth is in the market, linen has plummeted, we may be able to sell the linen cloth of the Emperor Song Dynasty to Japan? ”

It was Zhao Yougong, the king of Yongning County, who spoke, and he spoke softly, but it made Zhao Youzhang's eyes light up.

Everyone nodded, it is more difficult for the Donghai Chamber of Commerce to squeeze in now, the Chamber of Commerce is not short of money at all, nor is it short of power, and there is no need to expand shares for the time being. That being the case, why not find some sub-businesses to do in the corners and corners that the Donghai Chamber of Commerce does not need?

"I look at Zhou Quanqi, not the kind of person who wants to make all the money in the world, there are rules, if you can't make up your mind, you might as well ask. However, there are many smart people in the Jingshi, and those who have the same plan as us are definitely not just one or two households, and you have to hurry up in terms of time. ”

Zhao Yougong said again, then closed his mouth and leaned back. His identity is a bit taboo, so he likes to hide everything in his heart, and this time it is a rare situation to say two words in a row.

But his two sentences are the key!

Zhao Youzhang is already a little moved, if he can really set up another chamber of commerce, with their family as the mainstay, he should be able to earn hundreds of thousands more yuan a year, right? (To be continued.) )