Hepu Wharf finally arrived, and Bai Minghe didn't stay here for long, so he returned to Beijing, and then came back to Guangzhou City. This is its own roots, but there is not much effort left here.

"Minghe, we won't go to see the pearl field. I'd be interested in taking a look at your Divine Weapons Workshop, as well as the Essential Oil Workshop and the Dye Workshop. Hu Hu took the initiative to speak, and it also stopped some people who wanted to see the white name crane bead field.

Hu Hu thinks that he knows the white crane well, but the white crane bead field doesn't know how big it is, this thing is too attractive. Don't let some people think that they shouldn't be, it's not the best policy to be the enemy of the white crane. So I didn't choose to see the bead field of the white crane.

Bai Minghe took the initiative to say: "Go to the place where I used to live and rest for a day, and let them send the pearls after picking the best once, since you have come, you must not return empty-handed." ”

"It's good!" Hu Huxin said that Bai Minghe would be a man.

Arrange for all the adults to stay, naturally Cheng Kai is responsible for the reception, and he also brings dozens of plates of pearls for them to choose by themselves, just to pass the time.

And this is the first time that Bai Minghe has met with the merchants.

"Guys, it's the same thing that day. Are you tempted by the benefits of this official in Da Nang? ”

"Back to my lord, my heart is excited. But it's not blind, the old man thinks that there should be a variety of costs in the benefits of adults. The first is the silver for buying goods, the second is the silver for raising soldiers, the third is the tax of the Ming Dynasty, and the fourth is the payment of the adults to the Wanzai Inner Treasury. There is a charter for everything, and there is a rule to last for a long time, and I guess the adults took us around this circle to let me wait for some understanding before I set this charter. "Xie Yiyuan, as the oldest person here, and there used to be an old president who was a person, naturally spoke on behalf of everyone.

Bai Minghe clapped his hands: "Whoever dares to say that there is only profit in the eyes of businessmen, I will beat him." ”

Bai Minghe's words made the atmosphere relaxed.

"Actually, I want to do a few big things. Good for Daming. Good to you too. I'll say a word, and you think about it. Anyone who has read history books knows that the people of the Song Dynasty were very rich, and the Great Song Dynasty was also very rich. But why were they destroyed, the Great Song Dynasty's divine arm bow is unparalleled in the world. But why is it difficult for Yue Shuai to have it after that. Because the Song Dynasty had no money, money was not the treasury of the Ming Dynasty. The money in the hands of gate valves, corrupt officials, and giant businessmen is thousands of times that of the state treasury. You can refute me after thinking about it, and I apologize if I'm wrong. ”

Bai Minghe said, closed his eyes and stopped looking at these people.

The discussion continued, but Bai Minghe didn't listen, he was just waiting for the result.

Half an hour passed, and Xie Yiyuan spoke again.

"Lord White!"

"Xie Lao, please speak!" The white crane still respects the old man.

"Lord Bai, the old man has discussed it with others. The results we have all gotten have been completely unified. There is only one. We believe in Lord Bai, and we only ask Lord Bai to make an oath, and even if the old man takes his life, he will not regret it. Xie Yiyuan's tone was extremely firm.

Bai Minghe took a deep breath: "Please speak!" ”

"Please swear by Lord Bai, why do you make a qiē, can you use heaven and earth as a testimony to give us a fairness!"

What a weird question.

Xie Yiyuan continued as Bai Minghe pondered: "We people are businessmen, but we also have some means. Master Bai, what you have done step by step, how much does Dongchang know. We know at least eighty percent. In the beginning, it seemed to be flattering. But then it's different, your Lord Bai's knife hasn't been pointed at the people, and even those officials in Guangdong have enough capital crimes, and you have taken it down. Your sword kills the most Japanese people, followed by the Annamite people. ”

"Well, I'll just say two words. But don't get out of the house. I can swear, but don't pass it on either. Of course, I will personally report to Banzai, but I don't want to spread it among the people. ”

"We can also make a blood oath!" Xie Yiyuan didn't take a step back, this was related to the future of their business gang, and he couldn't retreat.

"For me, Huaxia will no longer be enslaved by foreign races. For my Chinese civilization can be proud of the world, and my white name crane can give up a qiē. Whether it's my life, or my name. The second sentence is that there is no absolute fairness in this world, only relative fairness. I dare to charge you 30% of the tax, so that you can earn more. That's my fairness. ”

At the time of the Yuan Dynasty, the Han people were not as good as dogs.

Bai Minghe's first sentence, if another person says it, no one will believe it.

But Bai Minghe is indeed doing it, he is constantly improving the national strength of the Ming Dynasty and reducing the cost of living of the people.

"No matter how brave you are, as long as the adults are reasonable, don't say thirty percent, no matter how much we can recognize." Xie Yiyuan asked again on behalf of the Shang Gang.

"For example, there is a firm that sells a hundred horses of silk a year. But the tax paid was only three horses. So I can sell him 10,000 horses of silk, but the tax he pays is 3,000 horses, what do you think? Of course, the 30% tax is limited to a few special industries, and my tax is not so black, except for the maritime trade, because the cost of raising soldiers by sailors is too high. ”

The merchants began to settle accounts.

The net profit of 90 horses, and the net profit of 7,000 horses, what can be calculated, in general, the income is definitely very high.

"Don't think I'm bullying you. The money I receive will also be useful, and some of it will become incorruptible. That official dared to collect black money from the people, and directly raided his family and exterminated the clan. There is also a part of it used to build roads, which are truly national-level straights, so that the original one-month road only needs to be walked in ten days. You are businessmen and you should understand how important the road is. ”

The businessmen continued to discuss, and in the end, Xie Yiyuan finally spoke on behalf of everyone.

"My lord, if it is really as you say, we will admit it."

"Don't be nervous, there are no goods with a 30% tax yet. I will change the tax, but it will also have to be approved by Banzai. It's lower than 30%, but the goods I have in the sea trade may receive three times or even five times the tax. At least 50% of the tax will be charged, and I will discuss it with you in detail when the time comes. ”

Is it more than three times?

In terms of the silk that Bai Minghe sold for sky-high prices, three times as much is not a hundred and fifty taels per load, and the cost is one thousand taels of silver, but these goods are worth at least one thousand five hundred taels overseas. And it is another amount of money to buy some very special goods back, so even if it is five times, these merchants will rush to do it.

"Then, the old man asks how much is the benefit of silk?"

There is no one who does not care about this question.

"The net profit of a load, back and forth, take syrup as an example. Ten times over! "Shira-naka burst out with a staggering number. But Bai Minghe said: "However, the consumption at sea accounts for about one-third, and I am not afraid of anything else, but I am afraid of heavy rain and strong winds." ”

Ten times over!

If it is true that a tax of five times is not high, even if it is three times that of silk and three times that of syrup, it is a huge profit for the merchants.

"But Silk, I want to change the way I play, and raise the profit twenty times higher. When I return to Beijing and live Mingming, you will have to contribute. I also ask, how much silver did the Xie family earn this year? ”

"Back to my lord, the Xie family has not yet remitted accounts at the end of the year, but the preliminary estimate is that it can exceed one million taels of gross profit. It is divided into shops, merchants, and weavers, and after paying the tax, it is definitely not a problem for me to have 100,000 taels of silver in the Xie family's mansion. Xie Yiyuan gave a big truth, not mentioning his other businesses, just cooperating with Bai Minghe on white linen, silk, and dyes, and the income was amazing.

Of course, the Xie family is not just a few members of his family. Naturally, it is also a big family, as well as cooperative businesses, as well as a large number of weavers.

After Xie Yiyuan finished speaking, he gave Bai Minghe a salute: "Since cooperating with adults, the cumulative gross profit of the top ten merchant gangs is estimated to be 50 million taels to 80 million taels. The tax paid to Daming is about four million taels, but the other expenditures are more than ten million taels, so the three percent tax that the adults said, in the eyes of us, if it is only a net payment of these three percent, it is really fair! ”

Xie Yiyuan's implication is obvious, that is, some officials are greedy.

Bai Minghe took out a cigar and lit it, took a puff of cigarette and sighed: "It seems that it is not possible to kill people." ”

Naturally, there is no one to talk about this.

Bai Minghe will not continue on this topic: "Xie Laojia, I want to change the way I said about silk, I am going to occupy Wadao, where all mulberry trees are planted, and raw silk is produced for us, and the purchase price is worth one hundred taels of silver equivalent goods, in exchange for a load of raw silk." You go to discuss this matter, help me think about a complete method, how to ensure the quality of these raw silk, as well as the output, five years later, my requirement for the raw silk of Washima is not less than 100,000 quintals per year. ”

Xie Yiyuan felt a little dizzy.

Bai Minghe really analyzed them, this butcher's knife is very sharp, and when it strikes at a small foreign country, it is really ruthless enough.

"This matter is a military secret, and the leaker Dongchang will not be soft, remember!"

"Yes!" Xie Yiyuan could only answer one word, what else could he say. It's just 100,000 quintals of raw silk, for them, this thing can guarantee a net profit of millions of taels of silver a year.

Bai Minghe put down his cigar: "Finally, I will consider issuing twenty-six sea trade brands, which will be changed every three years." Twenty yuan for your ten major merchant gangs, and six yuan for small merchant gangs in other provinces. But the big thing I mentioned has nothing to do with the small merchant gang, they don't have such a big force to help us Ming, please remember that we are the people of Daming. ”

"Respect the words of the people, we are all the people of the Ming Dynasty, we are proud of the Ming Dynasty, and we are also humiliated when the Ming Dynasty is humiliated!"

The people of the Shang Gang all stood up, and Bai Minghe listened carefully to these words, and they were not lying. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, many people were able to listen to the elders talk about the misery of the late Yuan Dynasty, which was the enslavement of the Han people by the steppe people.

Therefore, in the country of the Han people, the people still have the Ming in their hearts.

The white crane stood up and bowed.

"Then please write it to Mr. Xie, and I will make an oath with you in two copies. It doesn't matter if it's in my white name as a crane, or in my official position. After I return to Beijing, I will take over the East Factory, and then go south to Jiangnan to choose a government office to expand the territory for my Ming Dynasty. ”

The people of the White Crane Sincere Business Gang felt it, and originally they were a little afraid of the White Crane.

Hearing that Bai Minghe was in charge of the East Factory, several people felt a chill in their backs. (To be continued......)

PS: The name of the previous volume is seduction...... No way, there are more and more forbidden words,