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On October 25, the third year of Wenchang, the sky was gray, and the light appeared more dim at dusk, and the snowflakes were silently intertwined between heaven and earth, and the Yang family's grange was unusually quiet, only a mile away from the tenant farmer's house, and a few dog barks from time to time.

Han Bi'er changed into men's clothes, and Yang Yi each held an oil-paper umbrella, talking softly, and greeted the gate of the other courtyard.

At this time, more than a dozen ordinary-looking carriages were heading towards the gate of the courtyard in the wind and snow, and the first to get off the car was the big fat man Lin Ruhai.

A meeting led by Yang Yi, attended by 26 core members of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce, and attended by Han Bier in men's clothes, was held in the Yang family's grange on this snowy evening.

This conference was called the "Wenchang Conference" by later history textbooks, because it was a symbol of the germination of capitalism in the Great Song Dynasty, the starting point of the Great Song Dynasty's expansion from the sea and the plundering of capital in large quantities, and the trumpet of the arrival of the era of colonialism.

The spacious hall was filled with incense, tea was fragrant, and the twenty-eight people who attended the meeting sat together, Lin Ruhai knew that Yang Yi called everyone from Jiangnan to the capital, and there must be something important to announce.

Yang Yi, who was sitting at the top, swept over everyone and said indifferently: "In the past few years, everyone has been committed to maritime trade, and they have all been richly rewarded, I believe everyone understands one thing, that is, there are inexhaustible treasures overseas, and the current situation is that as long as you can arrive, countless gold and silver treasures are waiting for you to get there;

What I want to tell you is that the world is big, bigger than anyone could have imagined. If anyone is going to confine themselves to this small puddle in the South Seas, then. Please bring it up as soon as possible, I will never force him to participate in the following plan. ”

Yang Yi said this. The gaze swept over the faces of everyone in the hall again, and the gaze that was not angry made Lin Ruhai and the others feel a strong sense of oppression;

Over the years, in terms of economic interests, although the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce has formed a relationship with the Yang family, they rarely have the opportunity to contact Yang Yi. It was the first time for most of the people here to see this powerful and legendary figure, and they were already a little uneasy in their hearts, and most of them did not dare to face his gaze at this time.

Lin Ruhai hurriedly came out and said: "It is a great honor for us to be favored by the grandfather of the country, and the prince of the country has taken care of it a lot in the past few years. Entong reconstruction, everyone is grateful, how can you not know what to do, what the prince commands, even if it is indicated, we will definitely follow the instructions of the principality. ”

"Yes, yes, what does Grandpa Guo command, but please give me instructions, and the villain will listen to you."

The crowd echoed. The mind is a hundred turns and thousands of times, Nanyang is now the farthest distance that the Great Song Dynasty merchants have reached, but in Yang Yi's eyes, this is just a small puddle. So, how big is his heart!

Yang Yi continued: "Most of the islands in the South Seas are uncivilized indigenous people, and their productivity and consumption power are extremely limited. So, it is destined to serve only as a springboard. India, Persia, Byzantium, and Egypt are relatively developed. A place with a large population is our real goal;

When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty conquered the Xiongnu, he once said, Kou can go, I can also go, but hundreds of years ago, Persian merchants came to the Central Plains to trade by sea, and my merchants in the Central Plains have not gone to the South Seas until now, and none of them have reached India, in the eyes of this official, this is a great shame;

We pretend to be the kingdom of the Heavenly Empire, but we are stubborn, and our footprints are not as far as Di Yi's, and we don't know anything about other people's countries, we trade with them, but we don't know that most of the benefits have been earned by them;

This must change. I can tell you now that my goal is to make the ships of the Great Song Dynasty the masters of the endless sea, to let the goods of the Great Song Dynasty fill every shop in India, Persia, Byzantium, Egypt and other places, so that people from all over the world can come to consume the goods of the Great Song Dynasty, and let the gold and silver of the world continue to flow into the Great Song Dynasty and into our pockets, as long as you are willing to do what I say.

If these words were said by someone else, Lin Ruhai and others would definitely denounce them as madmen and idiots.

But from Yang Yi's mouth, it is another matter, Yang Yi himself is a legend, and facts have repeatedly proved that in Yang Yi, all unimaginable things can become reality.

Six years ago, who believed that the Great Song Dynasty could destroy the Western Xia, Jiaozhi, Liao, Gaochang, Heihan and other countries in a row, and expand the territory of the Great Song Dynasty several times?

If someone had said six years ago that they could do all this, they would have been regarded as crazy.

But Yang Yi did it, in the eyes of ordinary people, and even big businessmen like Lin Ruhai, Yang Yi is almost equivalent to the existence of God, what he said could be done, no one dared to doubt it easily, even if he said that he could pick the stars in the sky.

And this time, Yang Yi showed everyone this vision, the people sitting here will become the main participants, as long as it is achieved, everyone will also become another legend, thinking of these, Lin Ruhai and others couldn't help but be excited.

No matter what, follow Yang Yi down, yes, this is what Lin Ruhai and others thought.

"Grandpa Guo, what should we do, please publicize it."

"I solemnly remind you again, if anyone is unwilling to participate, please propose now, I will personally send him out of the other hospital, and we will not hurt each other, but once you hear the following words, you will no longer have a choice, you can only go on, whoever betrays at that time is everyone's public enemy, you have to think about it."

Yang Yi thought that some people would hesitate, but when he saw that his words had just fallen, the twenty-six people stood up one by one, bowed down, and expressed their willingness to go down with him.

"Okay, everyone, please take a seat, let's talk about the specific matters, in order to concentrate our strength, and at the same time make our trade more orderly, I have decided to become a Western Indian Ocean trading company;

Unlike the previous loose chambers of commerce, this trading company will be an inseparable whole, and it will be operated in the form of a collection of shares, and the profits and losses of the trading company will be divided according to the amount of shares held.

In terms of management, the general meeting of shareholders is the highest authority of the trading company, which is composed of all shareholders, and on this basis, a separate board of directors is established, and the board of directors will be the permanent body of the highest authority and will preside over the day-to-day production and operation.

For the time being, the West Indian Ocean Trading Company has a 50-share share, and at the general meeting of shareholders, each shareholder has one vote, in other words, the more shares you share, the greater the voting power at the general meeting. ”

These are somewhat similar to the original partnership of everyone to do business, after Lin Ruhai and others asked about the details, they secretly rejoiced in their hearts, the Yang family was too strong, and it was impossible for them not to worry that their rights and interests would not be guaranteed;

It is better to adopt this kind of shareholding management, so that according to the number of shares they participate, they can control how much voice they have, which is much better than letting them completely obey the orders of the Yang family. So these elves agreed without hesitation.

After there were no objections to the trading company's management system, Yang Yi continued: "Silk, cotton, porcelain, and tea, these four things will be the main commodities for us to expand overseas markets. ”

Shen Qingwen, the richest man in Mingzhou, immediately said: "Grandpa Guo, there is naturally no problem with the three commodities of silk, porcelain, and tea, but this cotton cloth .........."

"Listen to me about this, I believe everyone has guessed the cotton cloth I said, that is, there is a small amount of white stacked cloth sold on the market, and now the price of white stacked cloth is more expensive than silk, because of its high processing cost and low output." Yang Yi said this and gestured to Han Bi'er.

Although Han Bi'er was reluctant in her heart, she didn't dare to show it, she took out a quilt from behind the screen, and Lin Ruhai and the others were full of curiosity when they saw it.

Yang Yi said: "Let's take a look at this quilt first, it is made of cotton, as a winter cover, impermeable, warm and comfortable, I can tell you that the official has tried to make a few beds at home, and took two beds to the market for trial sale, and each bed sold 500 yuan." ”

Lin Ruhai, Shen Qingwen and others stepped forward one after another, pulled out the cotton tires in the quilt cover to watch, Yang Yi even let them try to cover it, the fluffy and soft feeling is warmer and more comfortable than covering the mink fur, such a big bed, in their old and spicy eyes, it is still less to sell five hundred yuan.

When they finished reading and sighed, Yang Yi said with a smile: "I can tell you one more thing, this official has a technology for processing cotton, and processing cotton is much simpler than processing silk, as far as this quilt is concerned, the pure processing cost is less than two hundred yuan." ”

Everyone was in an uproar when they heard this, now the white cloth on the market is more expensive than silk, and such a quilt, because of the scarcity of things, it is possible to buy thousands of yuan, and its processing cost is less than two hundred, what does this mean?

It means that whoever has mastered this processing technology is waiting to pull money to the big cart at home.

"You should know, in fact, the yield per mu of cotton is very high, the reason why white cloth is so expensive, is not that cotton raw materials are scarce, there is no cotton, just plant, so expensive is completely because the processing cost is too high, how much do you think my processing technology is worth?"

Lin Ruhai and the others were dumbfounded, how much is it worth, who knows this, anyway, with this kind of technology, a million profits are certain.

"Ladies and gentlemen, if this official is willing to use the technology of processing cotton cloth and quilts to buy shares, how many shares do you think this technology is worth?"

"Two thousand shares."

"Five thousand shares."

"No, it's worth 10,000 shares!" Lin Ruhai gritted his teeth and said this astonishing number, while the others thought about it and didn't refute it.

Yang Yi couldn't help but secretly say when he heard this, they are all rich, according to the price just set, one share is fifty yuan, that is, everyone has paid 500,000 yuan for this technology.

But after careful calculation, this is not too much, you must know that cotton cloth is more expensive than silk now, and such a quilt with a processing cost of one or two hundred yuan, it is not a problem to buy a few hundred yuan on the market.

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(To be continued.) )