Chapter 227: Making Money

Jun was hugged into the yamen of the open area by a group of people, and went up to the second floor, which is the business hall, the hall is very open, in the middle is a special long table, and more than 100 seats are arranged on both sides.

Zhu Jun looked at the interior Chinese and Western decoration, couldn't help but smile, the businessmen knew that the emperor had something to say, and quickly stopped the buzzing low discussion, countless eyes fell on Zhu Jun, Zhu Jun looked a little embarrassed, said a few words of the court's strong support for the businessmen, everyone applauded, the atmosphere was very warm.

Zhu Jun began to ask about the workshop again, and some people began to pour bitter water, it turned out that there were more and more workshops, and the competition among merchants was naturally very fierce, and some large workshops could produce a full warehouse of goods every day, but the sales gradually shrank, so they had to sell at a low price.

Overproduction! Zhu Jun's mind quickly remembered this term in later generations, now there are millions of people in the Ming Dynasty, but the opening area of Haidu is mainly oriented to the nine provinces of Siam in Myanmar, the population of the nine provinces is only five million people, due to the increasing productivity and the larger and larger scale, it will inevitably cause overproduction. But the problem is that the northern provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangdong, Guangdong and Fujian will also build open areas in the future, and the sales channels of the Haidu Development Zone cannot be expanded to the north, otherwise it will cause great competition to the industries of those backward provinces, Zhu Jun can't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, it seems that no matter how history changes, it can't escape the law, primary capitalism is followed by the beginning of imperialism, once overproduction is caused, then businessmen in order to protect their interests, it is inevitable that they will be ready to use the state apparatus to serve their money-making business, at least Zhu Jun has not thought of a novel way, the only thing that can be borrowed is to use strong ships and cannons to open the doors of all countries, frantically grab their resources and silver, and dump the products of merchants.

Zhou Mubai is also upset about this matter, on the one hand to attract large-scale investment, on the other hand can not find a market, many workshops have warehouses full of goods, if they can no longer be sold, then I don't know how many businessmen will go bankrupt, this is what Zhou Mubai does not want to see, once such a problem arises, all the hard work will be in vain: "Your Majesty, now that the sea trade is flourishing, the Nanyang countries have restricted the exchange of goods on the grounds of the outflow of silver, and some vassal countries have also set up barriers, It is stipulated that the ships of maritime merchants can only dock once a year, and the period of mutual market is only three days, and many maritime merchants and merchants are complaining.

"Needless to say." Of course, Zhu Jun knows that the collision in the middle, the capitalists' commodities poured into the closed agricultural society, will only cause two results, one is that a self-sufficient super-large economy like China does not need any commercial goods at all, and the other is that these peninsula and island economies, once they suffer from the dumping of goods, the economic lifeline of the whole country will collapse, the country's local small peasant economy will suffer a heavy blow, many people are unemployed or unemployed, and a large amount of domestic silver will also flow into the capital side, which is unbearable for the Nanyang countries. If you don't resist, then your country will be equivalent to becoming a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, in the past, when there was little trade, they hoped that the Ming Dynasty would trade, but now in the face of such a huge capital monster, who else dares to open the door? Isn't that a wolf in the house?

There is no possibility of mutual benefit, but the domestic capital has reached the most critical moment, either continue to expand, or gradually shrink, and finally the sprouts that have just borne are stifled because of the loss of the soil for growth, Zhu Jun stroked the long table with a solemn face, and said for a long time: "Tomorrow, let the envoys of the vassal states stationed in Haidu meet me, in addition, order Liu Er, the chief soldier of the Nanyang Naval Division, to prepare the Nanyang Naval Division's battalion, and I will salute first and then soldier." ”

All the merchants were happy, they didn't care how many people were slaughtered once the war started, the important thing was business, it was sales, and the sailors of the Ming Dynasty were their best salesmen.

"Ahem, cough ......" Zhu Jun coughed lightly, this battle is for this group of businessmen, and now the treasury has been unable to make ends meet because of the construction of the northern gallop network and the laying of the railroad tracks from Kunming to Haidu, especially the railroad tracks, that thing is simply burning money, Zhu Jun originally thought that he could do it by investing six million taels of silver, but now that the project is only halfway through, the project money will be consumed, and the officials of the Ministry of Industry are running to the household department every day, in order to get more silver from there, but the household department is also tight, and the front line is using soldiers to ask for silver, It takes silver to recruit new soldiers, it costs silver to gallop the road, it costs silver to build a port, and the emperor's wedding also cost a lot of money, and even the officials' monthly salaries don't know which tax money to draw from, do you still want money for the fuck? There is no money, there are hundreds of lives in the household hall, such as the scholars, the waiters, the chiefs, the inspectors and the soap subordinates, if you want it, you can get it at any time.

In a word, the money earned is more, the money spent is even more sea, the court is short of money, the emperor is even more short of money, how can you businessmen not have some blood when the sailor goes to sea?

Zhu Jun said: "Now that the finances are beyond their means, and the sailors are going to sea again, you Aiqing can't sit idly by, right?" If not, let's buy some bonds for the country here today, and after the difficulties, how about the imperial court? ”

The merchants nodded. For this emperor. They have nothing to say. Not to mention that the sailors open the market for them. Let's just say that the emperor formulated these mercantile policies. It's also worth it to let them shell out some pockets.

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Sits. asked Zhou Mubai and several other officials to find paper and pencils. Record the amount of tt]v purchased. The stakes of this move. Many people are planning to make a perfunctory 51,000 silver coins in their hearts. But now the emperor and his colleagues are watching from the sidelines. If there is less land, it is really not good-looking on the face. What's more, the state bond makes it clear that it is returned once every ten years. So it's not a meat pain. So the first businessman stepped forward: "I have limited financial resources. Purchase treasury bonds of three thousand taels of silver. ”

The first person to appear in the field immediately attracted the strong contempt of countless peers. He gave three thousand pieces of silver. It is equivalent to raising the minimum land purchase amount to 3,000. If the number of people in the latter is less than that. Both disgraced. It will make the emperor look down on him again. Maybe it will hold a grudge against you. When will I make you a mix?

So the people behind came forward one after another. This three thousand. The four thousand. The rich and generous quoted five thousand. And then there were the small businessmen. They don't have a lot of capital. So they all cried and mourned. stood up and stretched out his fingers, helplessly quoted two hundred. Five hundred. One thousand silver coins. It immediately attracted the eyes of countless big businessmen. Two hundred and five hundred and one silver coins were also embarrassed to stand up. It's a shame.

Several officials in the opening area quickly counted. As a result, merchants of all sizes in the area purchased a total of 5.1 million silver coins of treasury bonds. Zhu Jun was startled when he heard this number. Grandma's land. On average, 3,000 people bought 2,000 silver coins and land bonds. That's a lot of money. Businessman is two words. Rich!

By the way, there are also maritime merchants, there are nearly 1,000 maritime merchants in Haidu, this is also a large amount, since the money is borrowed, of course, everyone borrows it once, so as not to favor one over the other, Zhu Jun thought happily, and said to the merchants: "Everyone rest assured, just a small Nanyang domain, the Celestial Empire is majestic, but there are those who do not obey the king, I will punish his clan, destroy his temple, and see who dares to close the door and obstruct the freedom of trade."

"Long live my emperor!" Money is a trivial matter, sales is the foundation of businessmen, borrow some money to the emperor, the emperor to open the door to various countries, it is simply a matter of great profits, none of the businessmen in the hall are stupid, naturally they also feel that they have taken advantage of it, and they have responded.

Zhu Jun appeased again, and let people go to the Maritime Chamber of Commerce to 'borrow money' non-stop, seeing that it was about to pass noon, Zhu Jun thought about accompanying Qu Ci to pay tribute to his father-in-law, so he asked Zhou Mubai not to prepare a luncheon, and after a few words, he drove 'back to the palace'.

Qu Ci Zhou Xue'er sat in the carriage, accompanied by the guard of honor and the guards around the open area a few times, obviously a little tired, on the way back were lying in the carriage and pretending to sleep, Zhu Jun practiced equestrianism with high interest, and after a while, he arrived outside Xicheng again.

Zhu Jun pulled his horse to the carriage and said to Qu Ci: "Ci'er, that mountain is in front of you, I will accompany you up." ”

Qu Ci nodded Yingying, got off the carriage under the traction of the old woman, Zhou Xue'er also came out, and she also wanted to go with her, Zhu Jun nodded, in addition to a group of guards, Zhu Jun asked the honor guard to wait by the gallop, and he accompanied the second daughter, dragging a team of guards to the foot of the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, the little eunuch who listened to Zhu Jun's instructions had prepared incense, candles, yellow paper and other things, and the group went up the mountain along the winding path in the mountain, chose a place to burn incense and pray, burned yellow paper, and bowed a few times in the direction of Guangxi, where Qu Shi was killed.

After returning to the palace, Zhu Jun accompanied the second daughter to have lunch, at this time, the official who went to the Maritime Chamber of Commerce to raise national debt funds came to report that the Maritime Chamber of Commerce had subscribed to a total of 3.3 million silver coins of national bonds, Zhu Jun couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this, the Maritime Chamber of Commerce only had a total of 1,000 merchants, and each person actually subscribed for more than 3,000 silver coins on average, which was really unexpected to him, when he heard the official say that Ma Ren, Huang Xin and other giants of the Maritime Chamber of Commerce had subscribed for 200,000 silver coins each, Zhu Jun was relieved. Habra and the others are huge, any one of these people has hundreds of large merchant ships, and they maintain a relatively good relationship with Zhu Jun, each of them has a profit of hundreds of thousands of silver coins a year, and it is too normal for them to repay the favor and subscribe for 200,000 silver coins.

In this way, the treasury suddenly had nearly 10 million more silver coins, and the situation of making ends meet was over, and Zhu Jun could imagine that the Hubu Shangshu who got the news would probably be able to sleep peacefully for a few days.

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Let's put it bluntly, the protagonist is a monarch similar to Elizabeth of England, Queen Victoria, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, Meiji of Japan, Peter the Great of Russia, etc., who brought the country to prosperity and strength, and let the Han people occupy a certain advantage when the capital storm came, and took the lead in opening the industrial revolution.

He is open-minded, but it is absolutely impossible to allow the so-called democracy to flourish, and the foolish people must want it, even in modern times, which country's government is not fooling the people? It's just a little different and explicit.

People who don't like to see it, let's go, don't scold, your thoughts may be right, but you may not be the truth, and mine is not necessarily the truth, the little brother really can't write a character like Washington, I'm afraid that Washington will have been regarded as a psychopath when he arrives in Nanming. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in*, more chapters, support work, support genuine reading!) )