The rise of overseas trade had a profound impact on all aspects of the Great Jin Dynasty, especially for the traditional large landowners, who found it impossible to hoard land and grain to make their fortunes as usual.

The traditional big landlords have always insisted on annexing land, controlling tenant farmers, collecting heavy rents, and valuing agriculture over business, and the idea of valuing agriculture over business is deeply ingrained in their minds, and they often adopt the traditional means of annexation by hoarding grain, selling it high and buying it low, so as to obtain profits.

However, the rise of overseas trade, coupled with the imperial court's control over grain and land prices, led to the complete failure of the traditional way of doing business of large landlords. When the price of grain is high, sell land, and when the price of land is high, sell grain. Draining almost all the cash of the traditional big landowners, and then suppressing the grain and land they bought in debt to the low price of vomiting blood, forcing the borrowing landlords to pay back, or confiscating the mortgaged land and hoarded grain.

The failure of traditional management, combined with the high profits of overseas trade, attracted a large number of new farming classes to invest their main capital in them, attracting more capital to flow into higher-yielding manufacturing and industry, and the crisis caused by land annexation was greatly alleviated.

President Wang led the King of Huainan around his own territory, especially the three 500-material lucky ships that made the King of Huainan and his son stunned. Seeing this scene, he knew that the time was ripe, so he tried to ask, "Lord Wang, what do you think of this chamber of commerce?" Are you interested in investing? ”

"President Wang has just learned about it, the widow is very satisfied with the strength of your chamber of commerce, of course, the reason why the widow chose to cooperate with the Maolin Chamber of Commerce is that the most important thing is that you are trustworthy. In this way, this king is ready to invest 1 million yuan to buy 30% of the shares of your chamber of commerce. What do you think? ”

After listening to the other party's introduction so much, King Huainan also has a preliminary understanding of the Maolin Chamber of Commerce, and the cooperation between the two sides is a win-win situation, so he quickly made up his mind, but his decision made his son a little dissatisfied, and the king of Linchuan felt that one million yuan, coupled with the identity of the prince, could at least get half of the other party's shares.

President Wang didn't expect the other party to be so easy to speak, and the conditions given were also very kind, not to mention buying 30% of the shares of the Chamber of Commerce. It is to count the appreciation of equity. Thirty percent of the equity also lost. Besides, the other party also has the identity of a prince, which is cheap that can't be bought with ten thousand dollars.

"Well, the conditions given by the prince are very real, but the small ones can't take advantage of the prince. So be it. The small self-assertion gives the prince fifty percent of the shares! It's just that there are some things that need to be bothered by the prince in the future! Chairman Wang said after weighing the pros and cons.

"Fifty out of ten no. Fifty percent, others should say that this king has taken it by skill! After hearing this, the king of Huainan immediately objected, if it had been a year ago, this price was very reasonable. But now, as long as the chambers of commerce are involved in overseas trade, which one is not worth a hundred times more than before?

Chairman Wang saw that the king of Huainan was unwilling to accept fifty percent of the shares no matter what, and his eyes turned and he persuaded: "Why don't you do this, this year is the most critical year for the imperial court to promote cotton planting, and the imperial court needs to plant a large number of cotton and textile hemp crops in order to provide raw materials for the textile mills that give land." ”

"Especially last year, the thousands of cotton cloth tested by the imperial court have long become a hot commodity in the market, and this year various chambers of commerce have said that whoever can get cotton cloth will have a hen that lays golden eggs. It's a pity that a large number of cotton plantations are now in the hands of powerful people, if the prince can solve this problem for our Maolin Chamber of Commerce, these fifty percent of the shares should be taken by you, and no one can say a word! ”

"Father, President Wang's suggestion is good, isn't there a cotton plantation in Shuzhong this year? At that time, the cotton cloth produced by the textile factory will be handed over to the Maolin Chamber of Commerce for sale, which can be regarded as a great favor to the other party. The child had heard that silk, cotton, porcelain, soap, matches, and paper were the most profitable goods. With our cotton support, Maolin Chamber of Commerce will definitely make a lot of money! In this way, it is not considered that we will take advantage of each other's fifty percent shares. ”

"That's it, that's it, the little prince is right, the king promised to come down, otherwise the little one really can't go back and explain to the shareholders!"

"This ...... All right! The widow answered! ”

Soon, the Maolin Chamber of Commerce reached a cooperation agreement with Huainan Wang, and the two sides formed a strategic alliance. Huainan Wang found a partner who was familiar with business operations, and the Maolin Chamber of Commerce filled the weakness of its own weak background through this cooperation, making the development prospects of the Maolin Chamber of Commerce more brilliant.

After completing the cooperation task, King Huainan did not turn around and leave, but began to visit Qingdao Port, which had begun to take shape, under the arrangement of the Maolin Chamber of Commerce. The attendant opened the water bladder and handed it to the king of Huainan and said: "The king has a saliva, we have entered the core area of Qingdao Port, although there are few buildings here, this is all reserved for the construction of better functional buildings in the future." ”

When the king of Huainan heard this, he looked around and found that there were many cement concrete foundation pillars that were driven into the ground five or six zhang deep in the open space, which were all prepared for the construction of high-rise buildings in the future.

He also found that around the port of Qingdao, there are many specially cultivated landscaping belts such as willow and camphor trees, and around the green belts are distributed concrete roads, residential areas, shops, workshops, factories, docks, warehouses and other areas, all of which are divided by the lattices formed by trees.

This unique architectural style made the Huainan Wang father and son look at it with relish, and soon the group came to the city of the station. The entourage looked at the city and introduced: "Lord Wang, this place is mainly responsible for managing the import and export trade of the empire to the East and South Seas, and the goods exported are mainly silk and other commodities from all over the country, and most of the imports are minerals. ”

Despite the sea breeze, more than 5,000 people in the port are busy on the front line of construction. In the sea of people and sweaty raincoats, Sima Yun and his son stepped on the smooth stone road and walked to the side of the seawall, Huainan Wang climbed the seawall, took a few deep breaths, and the breeze sticking to the smell of the sea immediately rushed from the nostrils into the lungs, there was an indescribable comfort.

Qingdao Port is really not small, and there are countless sailing ships from all over the Great Jin Dynasty on the turbulent harbor. Among them, Fukubunes of various tonnages are the mainstream, and there are also flat-bottomed ships from Jiangdong, which are all merchant ships that smuggle between the north and the south. In addition, there are the latest dhows and brigs from the Laoshan Shipyard. And the largest number are some small speedboats, which shuttle between them, or transport people, or transport goods.

It may be because the port has just been put into use, and it is close to night, the port is much more deserted than usual, but there are still thousands of people working on the port platform. Many of the goods that were carried down from the ships that had just entered the port were piled up on the harbor according to the area, like hills; Some of the ships that had sold their goods short were slowly turning around and sailing into the vast sea under the command of the port staff.

"It's so beautiful here! It's a completely different life from the outback! ”

"Yes, my father might as well buy a yard nearby, and have the opportunity to take my mother and younger brother over to live for a while in the future. Hahaha, it's really nice here, to be honest, the kids don't want to go back! ”

"You! Just know to play, okay, when we make money in the future, we will buy a house here. But it's not cheap! ”

"King, the whaling fleet is coming back soon, do you want to open your eyes?" The entourage suggested to Sima Yun's father and son.

"A fleet of whals? Who's handwriting? ”

"Which one else could it be? Of course, it's from our Maolin Chamber of Commerce. ”

"Oh? Our chamber of commerce also has a boat dedicated to whaling? Father, let's go and see! ”

Without waiting for the King of Huainan to answer, the King of Linchuan was full of excitement and chased after his entourage to ask. He had only heard of a very large fish in the sea in the capital, and had eaten whale meat from Qingzhou, but he had never seen a complete whale.

"Oh, little one, forget that the king is not familiar with the Maolin Chamber of Commerce, last year our Chamber of Commerce bought three new big ships, specializing in whaling in the Sea of Whales (the ancient name of the Sea of Japan), and sometimes only come back once in a few months. The last time I returned to Hong Kong, it caused a sensation, and I killed three whales at one time, and the meat obtained from the whales alone was sold for 30,000 yuan, and those bones were sold to the newly opened bone china factories and fertilizer factories on the island for 10,000 yuan, not to mention the expensive fish oil and fish fat, which were not sold to oil merchants from all over the country. Even the huge whale liver and intestines have been carried away, and I wonder what the use of those internal organs is?"

"Hehe, of course you don't know, this king has seen it in the capital, whale internal organs are the best raw materials for making many medicinal materials!" Huainan Wang said with a smile that the promotion of the medical plan has greatly promoted the development of the Dajin pharmaceutical industry.

"I can't imagine that whaling is so profitable! In recent years, the fleet has also made a lot of profits, and it seems that it will still need to expand its scale. ”

"Yes, let's go back and discuss with Chairman Wang and the others, we must expand the scale of the whaling industry in the future!"

Walking and walking, everyone returned to the pier from the breakwater.

"It's back to port, it's back to port, the whaling fleet is back to port."

The dock staff who had already identified the fleet by the flag cleaned up the reserved dock prepared in advance, and hundreds of butchers armed with knives and axes who specialized in dismantling whales cheered and rushed to the whale carcasses that had been lowered from the cranes.

Behind the scene of flesh and blood is the growth of a golden industrial chain, whale skin can be tanned, whale fins can be made into shark fins, whale meat can be made into pickled and smoked canned meat sausages, whale baleen can be used for musical instruments and bras, whale fat can be used for high-grade lubricating oil, candles, soap, whale offal can be used for medicine, whale bones can be used to make phosphate fertilizers and handicrafts. As an important raw material industry before the industrial age, its profits were at least ten times that of fishing. (To be continued......)