Chapter 202: Hearing the Good News, Zhu Youzhen Feels Reverie (1st Update)
The coastal areas of Fujian were turbulent, and Li Yanzhi, on behalf of the Royal Maritime Trade Company and the Fujian Gentry and Merchant Gang, launched a brutal fight for the interests of the maritime trade share. The city of Beijing, which is 4,000 miles away, is gentle and drizzling, and it looks peaceful, as if it is unaware of what is happening thousands of miles away.
In fact, Zhu Youzhen's eyes have been fixed on Fujian, thousands of miles away, and every incident that happened in Fuzhou would be transmitted back to Beijing by Jinyiwei's secret agent Kuaima and sent to him to know. Although there was a delay of eight or nine days, Zhu Youzhen was still able to accurately grasp the situation in Fujian, at least much faster than those courtiers to get the news.
When he learned that the situation was critical, Li Yanzhi had to lead the Praetorian Guards to cross the sea to rescue Bon Harbor and fight to the death with the red-haired ghost, Zhu Youzhen's heart was hanging at that time. He understood Li Yanzhi's choice, if it weren't for Zheng Zhilong's help, the Royal Maritime Trade Company would be a mirror.
After Li Yanzhi returned from Ben Port and arrived in Xiamen, he immediately sent people to Beijing with the results of the war, and reported the next plan, that is, to take the opportunity to attack the Quanzhou gentry!
Zhu Youzhen's heart finally relaxed, excited about Li Yanzhi's victory, and at the same time a little worried, for fear that the situation in Fujian would be out of control.
And now, when he saw that Li Yanzhi won a complete victory and killed the Quanzhou merchant gang, Liu Mao angrily reprimanded him on the basis of reason, and the Fujian gentry who scolded him were speechless, Zhu Youzhen showed a happy smile.
Liu Mao's every scolding sentence was recorded in the recital, imagining the appearance of those gentry being scolded by the bloody sprinklers, Zhu Youzhen felt enjoyable when he thought about it!
Li Yanzhi is good, and Liu Mao is also good! These two cooperated with each other and completely opened up the situation in Fujian.
And what excites Zhu Youzhen the most is that the list of confiscated money attached to the back of the song, when he saw the incomparably huge number of nearly 10 million taels, Zhu Youzhen almost jumped up happily.
Once the house is raided, the income is worth all the treasury income for three years, and the benefits of sea trade are really huge!
And what makes Zhu Youzhen happiest is that with the establishment of the Royal Sea Trade Bank, there will be a steady stream of income in the future, a huge income of more than one million taels of silver per year!
With this cash flow, the situation was suddenly revitalized, and I had enough funds to raise soldiers, and I no longer had to think about whom's house to raid every day.
Although it is very cool to copy the house, it has always been cool to copy the house, but copying too much will make everyone of the gentry and officials endanger themselves, will end up with a tyrannical reputation, and will intensify and deepen the contradictions, and the gentry and civil officials will not be slaughtered!
With excitement, Zhu Youzhen looked at the information sent by Fujian, and the more he looked at it, the happier he became, and the more he watched, the more he became more and more engaged, so that he forgot to eat lunch, and Wang Chengen had to remind him one after another.
"Add food today, and have an extra duck tongue in the evening!" Looking at the four dishes and one soup that thunder couldn't beat, Zhu Youzhen frowned slightly and decided to be extravagant.
"By the way, find the best goldsmith and give each the queen and the ladies a set of jewelry. The silver in the middle palace increases by 1,000 taels per month, and the other mothers add 800 taels! Zhu Youzhen continued.
With silver, it is natural to treat yourself and your family well, Zhu Youzhen doesn't want to live the days when the dragon robe in the previous life is torn and the queen has to be repaired.
Not only to live a good life for yourself, but also to let the people of the world live a good life, this is what you, the emperor, should do.
"The slave obeys." Wang Chengen agreed with a smile, and he was also very happy to see that the emperor was happy.
After lunch, Zhu Youzhen ignored other notes and continued to read the information sent from Fujian. Sent to Beijing was not only Li Yanzhi's military intelligence report, but also various intelligence information probed by the Jinyi Wei secret agents.
When he saw the interrogation record of Xu Xinsu, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help frowning slightly.
This Xu Xinsu is really a fucking talent!
Not to mention the operation of hooking up with the red-haired ghost to lure Li Kuiqi, the idea of wanting to unite with the major business gangs in Fujian to form a company and completely monopolize the sea trade is absolutely thought-provoking.
If Xu Xinsu is not arrested, if he can really persuade the major merchants in Fujian to jointly form a company, he will definitely be able to monopolize Daming Sea Trade, and maybe he can compete with the Dutch and Franc people at sea!
So, can I do the same?
The sea trade is very profitable, the Royal Sea Trade Company can't eat it at all, there are too many people on the southeast coast who make a living from the sea trade, if the food is too ugly, it will make everyone disgusted!
I want to make money, in order to raise soldiers, in order to pacify Jiannu and recover the old land, but I can't harm the interests of the coastal people because of this.
The power of the southeastern gentry is very great, and they absolutely do not want to see the royal maritime trading firm continue to encroach on their interests, and sooner or later they will act against the maritime traders.
Why not form a company to unite those small maritime merchants who rely on sea trade for a living to deal with the southeastern gentry and merchant gangs?
Based on the establishment of the Royal Maritime Trade Enterprise, a company will be formed, and the maritime merchants can all join the shares, use sea vessels, and use goods, and dividends will be distributed according to the share capital after the sea trade makes money. If you don't have a sea vessel's cargo, you can also work as a sailor's crew and receive a salary.
The company is backed by Fujian sailors, and the sea ships do not have to be afraid of encountering pirates when they go to sea.
Every time you go to sea, you risk your life and death, and when you join the royal company, these dangers will no longer exist, and even if you make less money, many maritime merchants must be very happy.
The most important thing is that such a company unites most of the small and medium-sized maritime merchants along the coast of Fujian, and there are countless poor coastal people who can find errands in the company, or provide supplies for the crew, or provide goods, as long as they are willing to contribute, there is always something to do.
If the Fujian gentry and merchants dare to be enemies of the royal maritime traders, they will be enemies of the vast number of small and medium-sized maritime merchants, and they will be enemies of the common people!
Such a company will inevitably be able to completely monopolize Daming's foreign trade!
It is even possible to be like the Dutch East India Company, rushing out of the Daming Sea area, rushing to the four seas and five continents, selling the goods of the Daming to the world, and competing with the Xiyi people at sea!
Now is a world of great contention, those small countries in Xiyi are relying on their ships and guns, and they are occupying colonies all over the world, how can they miss this opportunity?
The best thing is that such a company is completely in the hands of the royal family, and the local government and the civil officials of the imperial court have no chance to interfere. It's up to you how you spend the money you earn!
The more Zhu Youzhen thought about it, the more he felt that the future was limitless, and the more he thought about it, the more excited he felt.
However, such a company needs to design reasonable rules and regulations, the number of shares, the distribution of benefits, personnel management, money supervision, and many things need to be considered. With Zhu Youjian himself, he is absolutely incapable of designing a perfect system.
After thinking about it, Zhu ordered the inspector to pass on to the professor of commerce at the Royal Academy of Sciences. Professional things are handed over to professional people to do, and many professors in business have been shopkeepers of business houses and know how to operate and manage, so it is most appropriate for them to do this kind of thing!