Chapter 861: Embarrassed

"Director of the Ming Empire's World Trade Comprehensive Data and Statistics Committee, Zhang Guangde?" What the hell is this department? Zhang Guangde, Chen Ping knows, a very popular role in his father recently. On the side of the United Firm, he helped a lot when he arrived, he was a little friend from a village, and the little contradiction when he was a child had long passed, and he even felt that it was still a good memory. This guy came to visit, what kind of fame is he going to do?

Chen Ping didn't want to see him, but with Liu Yiming, the third shopkeeper (deputy general manager) of the joint firm, leading the way, it was a matter of minutes. Besides, everyone is a little friend of Zhangjiazhuang, Zhang Guangde is a few years older, although he used to bully everyone with his height, but it was all a matter of childhood, who still holds grudges?

Chen Ping put down the bronzing post, stood up, and the concubine and secretary next to him hurriedly came over to help sort out the clothes, and then looked in the mirror, and then walked out of the office and came to the living room. Under normal circumstances, Chen Ping would not easily walk into the reception room, only others went to see him, and today he came out, which shows that the guests are very important.

Zhang Guangde, who was dressed in Tang costumes, and Liu Yiming were talking about speculation, and the two had a deep friendship, which was really a gesture. The two generations of the Liu family have served the joint firm, and the third generation is about to take over. In this era, professional managers are normal to work for an owner until death, and then the descendants will pick it up. They and their owners are fundamentally one. If the shopkeeper is opened by the owner for some reason, it often shows two problems, the owner's business is not good or the family changes, and the shopkeeper has done something that should not be done.

There is no doubt that the Liu family will not produce such a person, and even if it does, it will be taken down by his own family as soon as possible. Give credit to the owner first. The first generation of shopkeepers Liu are all lying on the bed and can't move, and they still enjoy the highest shopkeeper treatment of the United Firm. Even his position, no one dared to say that he reached out and took it. He will have to wait until he dies before he can decide who will take over the position.

Chen Ping is very good, but standing in front of Liu Da's shopkeeper, he also has to respectfully play the role of junior. Dafabet Bank. Not to mention that people have shares, they are also one of the founders of this bank. Liu Yiming, the youngest son of the old shopkeeper, has excellent business talent, and is now the third-ranked shopkeeper, but the second-ranked shopkeeper is also a person who is almost seventy.

"Two, rare guest." Chen Ping appeared, bowed his hand, and the two stood up. A pleasant greeting. talked about some old things, and mentioned the matter of the French mission, and finally Zhang Guangde threw out the main purpose: "Are you interested in doing loan business in Europe?" Chen Ping smiled disapprerovingly: "Dafa Bank has a branch in Xinghai City, and the European business is mainly handled there. It's not easy for me to interfere in the business over there. ”

Chen Ping pointed out that it involves Chen Xie's old personal privacy, a Dutch mixed-race child and Chen Jiye. The Chen family is quite taboo, and it is basically just a one-sentence explanation.

Of course, Zhang Guangde understood the meaning here, he was mixed up by the navy. I don't know it's all weird. Chen Xie withdrew from Beijing that year, and Zhu Yujiao took Chen Jiye to the south. Officially stationed in Xinghai City. The Father's Mansion has changed its brand and become the Royal Mansion, which is all escorted by the Navy, which is not a secret at all.

"There are more European countries, and besides, this time the loan is not collateralized." When Zhang Guangde said this, Chen Ping not only did not express contempt, but sat up very solemnly. Nodding his head, he said, "So that's the case?" ”

Liu Yiming, who was in the dark, interjected: "Wait a minute, why didn't I understand this?" Chen Ping explained with a smile: "The state loan is used to stimulate military production. You may not know that there are some old factories in Liaodong that produce civilian ordnance, and the benefits are very average. But the lives of more than 100,000 people are at stake. It's not a thing to shut down. ”

What is the standard of civilian ordnance in the Ming Dynasty? Both front-loading rifles and artillery count. The great development of navigation has now reached a peak, and as new small-caliber artillery can be purchased by the people, there are not many orders from the old factories. Like bronze cannons, rear-loading smoothbore naval guns, etc., no one wants the merchants you gave to the Ming Dynasty for nothing.

The internal market is no longer good, so we have to rely on the external market. But the external market has always been in the hands of the military, and not everyone can buy and sell arms, right? Every year, the army is counting on the profits from the export of arms to replace more new equipment, and Zhang Guangde is in Europe, so he works for the army. Take a closer look at the equipment that the army has replaced, and you still expect a large order?

It is very difficult for this kind of enterprise to change production. The civilian market is sluggish, enterprises are not full, and they are barely able to keep their capital in operation every year. How many land forces does France have? Two hundred thousand? Three hundred thousand? Even if it's 200,000, right? It can also allow these enterprises to continue to have business to do in the process of changing production, so that it is necessary to forcibly switch production after stopping production. Even some old equipment can be disposed of to France. Don't talk nonsense about funding potential opponents, capitalists don't sell ropes to hang themselves, they are not qualified capitalists.

It is only a matter of time before the large-scale export of out-of-gas arms to the outside world. In the past, all the shotguns sold to European countries were not too large, and the main big customer was the Netherlands. Now, as long as the Mini rifle is paid, it is not impossible to sell. For bankers, this money is a process from the left hand to the right hand, and the money is still stored in the account, and not much really flows out.

"Do you remember the story that grandpa told? Go to the monk's temple and sell combs! Zhang Guangde smiled and said again, of course Chen Ping knew, this is well known in Zhangjiazhuang. Isn't it just market cultivation? It doesn't matter where he is in the market?

"How?" Chen Ping immediately made a gesture, and the concubine who served the tea hurriedly went out and took the door of the reception room. Zhang Guangde then spoke: "This involves a national strategy, and when we were in Europe, we made a plan ....... After talking for half an hour, he explained the matter clearly, and finally Zhang Guangde came with some private goods: "Right now, this French nobleman can just help us sell combs, but the capital is insufficient, what should I do?" ”

Chen Ping understood it, and it turned out to be this truth. In the past, European merchants were mainly Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish, and the French did not catch up with the first wave, and now they are still a weak empire at sea. It doesn't matter if you're weak, just be strong. Isn't there just no money? I'll lend it to you, and the interest may be a little more expensive, but you get the money. The return of purchased goods to Europe is a lucrative sale. No boats? Well, do you want to rent or buy? These are negotiable. Without this attitude, you are not a businessman.

"The European market is far from saturated, and if it weren't for the grandfather's strict ban on tea transplanting from the Ming Dynasty, it would have been fully planted in India and other places. That's it, I heard about last year. He arrested more than 50 bold guys and went overseas with tea seedlings, but the local military arrested and killed them without saying a word. "Zhang Guangde made up for it, this is all a secret of the military. Even if those people die overseas, the family will be unlucky, and the army will directly come to arrest people on the charge of fornicating with bandits.

"Tea is easy to do, and the United Firm has a tea mountain in Anhui. If you want people, you need money, and then you can expand. When Liu Yiming heard this, he immediately took over the conversation. The three of them got together, it was called embarrassment, and after muttering and discussing for a while, Zhang Guangde smiled and said: "Let's have dinner together in the evening, and introduce you to a top French aristocratic beauty." It's just that he's a little taller, and everything else is of the best quality. ”

"It's good to be tall. I'll just take this one. Chen Ping thought he was joking, he didn't scare him at all, his thick skin could block bullets, and he still cared about this? Are you really the blushing boy you were back then? Purebred European women are not absent in Daming, but there are few good-looking ones. In the territory of the Ming Dynasty, there is really no market for European women. There are no hot sales of slave girls from India and Arabia.

The night is dark. At the beginning of the lanterns, Mira began to dress up after receiving the news at three o'clock in the afternoon, and did not come out of the room until it was dark at half past five. Zhang Guangde said very clearly, what he wants to see today is the top magnates of the Ming Dynasty. No need to say much. Mira knows what to do. Don't look at her only nineteen years old, but because her father is old and her brothers are not angry, she actually carries the banner of the family business. This trip to Daming, she has very big ambitions. When other women were busy purchasing, she had been silently observing the entire Daming market. Each commodity is documented, and then compared with the situation in Europe, hoping to find a different path from others.

The carriage was waiting at the door, looking at the low-key wood-colored appearance was very inconspicuous, and then looking at the domestic servants standing by the car, it was a different feeling. The waist bar is straight, and the door is opened without squinting. When she got into the car, she found that there was a hole in the sky. First of all, the place is big enough, and the car is covered with pure white bear skin, which alone is enough to make people exclaim, dare to be more extravagant?

The car is Chen Ping's special car, and it is rarely used to pick up people. Today is what Zhang Guangde meant, and he sent it out to save face. Mira was also a knowledgeable person, but she was shocked and couldn't speak. Carefully sitting on the soft cushion, I didn't know what to do with my hands. Even His Majesty the Emperor can't afford such a luxurious carriage, right?

It was four tall horses of pure white that pulled the cart, not European horses yet. The carriage ran without any bumps. There was a maid in the car, who respectfully handed over a cup of black tea and said, "Guest, please use tea." "Look at this maid, just by comparing her face, she is really not inferior to Mira. This time, Mira lost her confidence. I heard that the people here don't like the big ones and think the small ones are beautiful. The advantage of being proud has become a disadvantage in this country.

When she saw the brightly lit manor from afar, Mira was already immersed in a deep inferiority complex. The black tea in his hand is still warm, which means that this manor is in the capital of this empire. How much does it cost to buy such a piece of land? According to Mira's understanding, the 10,000 gold coins she brought can be exchanged for 100,000 Chinese yuan in Daming, and at most she can buy two two-story well-decorated small buildings with courtyards in an area near Chongwenmen in this city. This kind of house can be more comfortable for a family of up to five, and it is said that it was specially built and sold to those rich people to place concubines.

Look at the manor in front of you, how come there are fifty two-story buildings with a large area, right? This estate, if not at night, is difficult to see in its luxury. During the day, it looks like a very ordinary house from the outside, but it is different at night, the lights illuminate a piece of the sky, and at a glance you know that it is an electric light that the rich people of the Ming Dynasty are willing to use. Oh, it's also installed in the pavilion, but it's all in the bedroom, and the place is a little bigger, or a kerosene lamp.

Mira, who shoulders the mission of revitalizing the family, took a deep breath when she got out of the car, calmed her mood, stepped on the carpet made of unknown materials, slowly swayed her waist, and followed the maid in front of her to go inside.

Mira didn't know that this was the top consumption place in Daming, and she thought it was a private sale. Even if this realm is outside Chongwenmen, and such a large piece of land is built, it is not possible for anyone to do it. The shareholders here are involved in the hereditary titles of the Ming Dynasty, and there are all kinds of political investment, capital investment, etc., so that such a place called "City That Never Sleeps" appears. The behind-the-scenes boss of this realm is not surnamed Chen, but Chen Ping's carriage can come and go at will, and no one dares to stop him.

Zhang Guangde invited a treat, and it was Chen Ping who was invited, so he naturally chose the most expensive and murderous place.

Dressed in a seemingly casual, but actually unreal and solemn dress, Chen Ping came to Zizhuyuan five minutes early. Zhang Guangde had already arrived first, and he was naturally accompanied by Liu Yiming. The three of them sat down, and naturally there were beautiful women with excellent appearances, in groups of two, standing quietly around the three of them. Zhang Guangde pointed to the two women standing beside Chen Ping and said, "You guys stand a little behind." ”

After saying a word, the two women couldn't help but show a hint of disappointment and retreated silently. Chen Ping had been here, so he naturally understood what he meant, and said with a smile: "What? Really prepared? Zhang Guangde smiled: "The time is almost up, this can be there." ”

Chen Ping tilted his head and smiled: "No wonder you want to borrow my car, it turns out that you are holding back such an idea." Well, I'll see what you can conjure. As soon as the words fell, Mila arrived at the door, stood at the door and bowed his head slightly and said, "I'm sorry, I'm late." "A woman who talks like this is very rude in Daming." What the hell is I? They are all powerful people who can come here, and they call themselves "slaves", and they are not ashamed. Obviously, the other women in the room showed disdain, a ghost sister, who didn't know how to be polite.

Chen Ping didn't care, it's not that he hadn't seen the ghost, the old man also had a ghost aunt's wife, who had been lost in Xinghai City for a long time.

"You're welcome!" Chen Ping waved his hand casually, but he was secretly surprised in his heart, why did he really come here to talk about the loan today? Could it be that what Lao Zhang said is the truth? (To be continued......)