Chapter 111: Press Conference (Part II)
After a pleasantry, the press conference also entered the theme. The detailed description of the Seven Star City plan by Li Jiancheng and his team, the so-called handing over the people's livelihood plan to the businessmen is just a false slogan.
Ye Congfeng said: "This Seven Star City plan to create the first column of my Ming Dynasty, and it can also be said to be the first column in history. Business is profitable, and everyone in the world knows that businessmen are inseparable from interests. Interests trend businessmen, interests determine businessmen! For these reasons, many of the merchants in the literature are powerful, cunning, and mercenary. It seems that businessmen are no longer good for anything but profit. ”
Ye Congfeng said such a paragraph at the beginning, which made the business leaders sitting below frown, depending on their dissatisfaction with Ye Congfeng's words. Fang Congzhe also looked at Ye Congfeng with more interest, wanting to see how he would end.
Ye Congfeng continued: "Is this really the case? Majesty is not like this. His Majesty said that everything has roots and reasons, just like the branches of a big tree, without a thick branch, there is no dense branch and leaf. He told me about the fact that if there were no merchants in the cities around us, what would happen to them. Imagine a city without shops, restaurants, and people selling all kinds of goods, so can this city still be inhabited? Imagine that if there were no merchants walking, the people's food production would be reduced on a large scale, because the food did not need to be sold, and the people would not have many varieties. If the grain production decreases, the population of my Ming Dynasty will decrease, and the population will decrease, and my cities in the Ming Dynasty will be depressed, and if there is no merchant salt, there will be no way to travel far, and the body of my Ming people will be weak. Thinking about a country without food reserves and weak people, how can his army be formed? So if there were no merchants, the grain would be less, and the population would be lower. Cities will be depressed. The army will be powerless. In the same way, without the walking books of merchants, they cannot be transmitted, and the entire culture of China will begin to regress.
So what is the business profit? Profit is the driving force behind the trend of businessmen, and business is the demand of social development. Business profit is the inevitable trend of pushing society to prosperity and development, because the opening of the trade road, the people's grain production increases, and the increased grain can feed more people. And because of the sale of food, the people have money, and exchange the money for salt and bedding to make the children warmer and more fed. The child will grow stronger, so I will have a strong army. If the family can still be rich, the children can learn culture, the spirit of Chinese culture has been spread, and the way of Confucius and Mencius has been promoted.
The transmission of Chinese culture, the prosperity of the population is the prosperity of the whole country, and this is the prosperity path brought by commercial profits. Therefore, business profit is a social subjective phenomenon in which facts exist, and it is a good phenomenon; It is a great force that actually exists, and if it is not handled well, it will cause social unrest and cause a catastrophe in which the city is empty. So 'Shangli' is a form of society. It is a part that cannot be ignored, he is not a moral corruption or a flood beast as mentioned in the books. That's not an artificial character, it's a social fact.
Therefore, His Majesty attaches great importance to this matter, and this time the Seven Star City Plan was personally decided by His Majesty, and it was carried out in order to attribute business profits to the territory of social politics. The word "business profit" needs someone to study, to penetrate, and to integrate it into the law to the country's government and politics, so His Majesty hopes that we will work together to accomplish this feat! Seven Star City is seven independent towns, this time the resettlement of displaced people and Liaodong refugees a total of two million, the next year is estimated to increase at least one million people, by the distribution of the three million population gathered by the Seven Star City will be the seven most important commercial exchanges, I believe that everyone here can see that he has a very large market prospects.
According to His Majesty's daily business survey of Beijing and Tianjin not long ago, it was found that the low-end consumption of commercial transactions in these two places alone is more than 1.5 million taels every day. A month's commercial circulation currency is about 45 million taels, counting my Ming Dynasty 12 months a year alone in Beijing and Tianjin is as high as 540 million taels of silver, His Majesty expects that in the future Seven Star City, as long as 5 years can surpass this number! ”
Ye Congfeng's words were not shocking, to be honest, the impact of his words today on these Ming Dynasty natives was too great, not only the merchants below were surprised, but Fang Congzhe, who was sitting next to Ye Congfeng, also had his jaw fall to the ground.
Fang Congzhe has not yet understood what Ye Congfeng said that business profit is a phenomenon of social development, not a flood of beasts with moral corruption, he needs someone to study and merge it into the social and political territory, and then Ye Congfeng gave an economic report on the GDP of Beijing and Tianjin, and he was cut to the ground. 1.5 million taels a day, 45 million taels a month, 540 million taels a year? How terrifying these 540 million taels are, just look at how terrifying it is when the Ming Dynasty sometimes earns less than two or three million taels a year. This TM is only the value of the businessmen in Beijing and Tianjin, but what about the whole country? What a terrifying force this is! No wonder the emperor did everything possible to do so much, from the very beginning he talked about the government in the court in the form of a market exchange, such a terrible force was not grasped by the court, and the emperor must have trouble sleeping!
Fang Congzhe felt how much short-sighted he was in an instant, and said together that they were rich and the people, time is not what they don't know how rich this is, and today it can be regarded as a simple understanding. The statistical society has made people see that the horror of numbers is not covered, and I believe that how many students will have a sleepless night tonight.
The numbers provided by Li Jiancheng are definitely not too false, and in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, with the recovery and development of the commodity economy, the social life of urban residents changed greatly. First, the material is gradually enriched, and many places have formed commercial or production centers, such as Songjiang cotton cloth "clothes are all over the world", "the lake is ripe, the world is full", Jingdezhen porcelain "all over the world" and so on. Second, the social atmosphere is gradually tending to pursue extravagance. The gentry and bureaucrats are also involved in business, and "most of them are anxious about the cultivation of goods". The reasons for this situation are: first, commerce is booming, the commodity economy has developed, and in some places there have even been the germ of capitalism; Second, a large number of cities and towns have become concentrated places for the production or sale of goods, and urban life has stimulated social consumption; Third, the social atmosphere is led by the upper class. In the Ming Dynasty, political consumption and group consumption were mixed, and they followed suit, gradually pursuing luxury and high-end consumption.
The number listed by Li Jiancheng is even very low. Ye Congfeng's words made many people feel novel. It only takes five years to exceed the market price of 500 million taels, which will definitely make the eyes of businessmen shine. It's a super big cake! But businessmen are not blind, and everyone knows that the situation is not so simple.
As everyone thought, Ye Congfeng also continued: "With the promotion of our Agricultural Bank plan, His Majesty has built houses and reclaimed farmland with money, and now I believe you can also see that a large number of farmers are planting seeds. The form has gradually opened up, and it can be said that the future is already bright. Today's Seven Star City has been built into its prototype, and today's press conference is not only to release these news. It is also a bidding meeting to select the commercial monogram of Seven Star City.
Before that, I want to explain that although we expect the future development of Seven Star City to be huge, Seven Star City is currently under construction. The people around Seven Star City are still poor, and these people still need to repay agricultural loans, so the business plan around Seven Star City is currently very thin, and the theme of this meeting is 'Let businessmen plan people's livelihood', which means to use business to assist farmers, and to erase poverty with wealth, so as to promote the development of farmers and get rich.
The speed of development of Seven Star City depends on whether the farmers can get rich quickly. The prosperity of the peasants depends on the fields! Therefore, the rule of the commercial monogram this time is to bid by a merchant group resolution. A future plan for farmers in a certain area of Seven Star City to invest in insurance and other commercial incentives!
For example, a certain business group provides farmers in a region with preferential prices for agricultural seeds, or orders the grain output of farmers in the future, so that farmers have no worries, such a plan and so on. ”
Ye Congfeng's words caused the following business leaders to communicate with each other, this bidding rule really surprised the businessmen, if this is the form of the championship, then the value of the Seven Star City will be greatly reduced, which has completely shown that the Seven Star City will take food and agriculture as the economic theme, which makes these big merchants feel cheated. None of them have ever done a grain business, so it's not a very lucrative business. And if you want to make this money, you have to invest first, which means that if they want to earn the money of the common people, so that they have more consumption needs, they must first raise them rich, what a painful thing.
This is also a big problem in Seven Star City at present, although Li Jiancheng has introduced a variety of foreign agricultural products, and can also make deeply processed products, he has all the information to make Seven Star City with agricultural products. But this thing can't be blown now, it needs to be in kind, so the embarrassment of Seven Star City is that it can't see the prospect in the early stage, and this situation will lead to many people not interested in bidding for Seven Star City, so Li Jiancheng's plan to sell the current houses in Seven Star City into skyscrapers will be ruined.
So then Ye Congfeng said: "This time, His Majesty will hand over this construction matter to Zai Xia and all my business colleagues, and to be honest, I really feel heavy in Xia. I believe everyone knows that in the second leaf from the wind is just a person of business. I am not qualified to sit here, but I have to be appreciated by His Majesty to be the executive chairman, this matter is the livelihood of nearly three million people, His Majesty handed this over to our businessmen, is to let everyone know that businessmen are also people, businessmen are not mercenary, we are a group of people who can create great value and beauty for the world, and His Majesty hopes that we will become such good businessmen and benevolent businessmen! ”
Ye Congfeng's sensational words are amazing, most of them are old, they all squint and smile at Ye Congfeng, they don't see rabbits or eagles! Li Jiancheng was scolding upstairs, and he really couldn't expect others to have any enlightenment.
How do you know that as soon as Li Jiancheng finished thinking about it, he heard a crisp voice below shouting: "Well said!" ”
This sound made people look sideways, but they saw a slim girl drinking, this girl was about twenty years old, and her face was not as heroic as ordinary people. At this time, someone next to him said: "This is the new shopkeeper of Fengmanlou, called Qi Fengyu, Fengmanlou has opened all over the north and south, and it has long been quite eary." ”
"Oh? What does this Fengmanlou do? Li Jiancheng asked Ning Xue next to him
"It's a restaurant, mainly engaged in diners' accommodation!" Ling Xue replied suspiciously.
"Wow, it's a national chain of hotels! This girl is at the helm at such a young age, what a woman can't let her eyebrows have! Li Jiancheng praised, saying that he was praising it, but he was full of resentment towards Ye Congfeng downstairs. , if you didn't have a face, you might have a woman to support you!
Grievances and grievances but Ye Congfeng's press conference downstairs continued, he smiled and looked at that Qi Fengyu, depending on the public appearance, Ye Congfeng's expression was a lot. He then threw out the bait as planned, saying, "Your Majesty will reward the good businessmen who have bid enthusiastically for this time. In the end, these good businessmen and benevolent businessmen will fill the huge vacancy in Shanxi shopping malls. To be honest, the matter of Shanxi shopping mall is a shame for my business community, and His Majesty also hopes to use more virtuous businessmen to do business, and the vacancy in the Shangxi market must also be filled. (To be continued......)