On the bustling royal road street, here is a avenue in front of the palace, allowing people to walk, but Zhu Jun still ordered the ban, because this is the only way for civil and military officials to go to the court, plus it is very close to the palace, and the largest square in the city is also near the left, so the land was quickly fried, and the owners of some large shops have broken ground on the side of the road and built a number of shops, which is now extremely prosperous. (Thousand ^ ^ ^ ^ text - > at the end of the royal road, a very large area of the shop was put down, after a few days of construction finally opened the door, the day of the opening, attracted countless merchants and people to stop and watch.

In front of the door, hundreds of brocade guards holding new-style firearms stood solemnly, and the plaque on the door was dancing with dragons and phoenixes, but the handwriting on it made people not understandable.

"Royal Railways Operations Limited."

The word "royal" is added in front of it is naturally very easy to understand, and the people who are talking about it see the hundred "Han generals" in front of the door naturally know that this is related to the emperor, as for what railway is easy to understand, the section of the road from Haidu to Yunnan is repaired, I heard that it is extremely convenient to run on it with a unique carriage pulled by horse, and finally everyone has heard of it a little, and now Haidu is not the most popular financing to form a company? Some people who have dealt with Westerners know the concept of the company, but the combination of these three non-compromising words makes people feel incredible.

After a few moments, several carriages passed through the crowd and stopped in front of the shop, and out of the carriage came an old man in good spirits, who got out of the carriage and entered the shop with the help of the coachman.

"Tsk, aren't those old men of Haidu giant merchant Ma Renma?" The sharp-eyed recognized the old man and was amazed.

This voice is not loud, but it has caused many people to exclaim, who is Ma Ren? I am afraid that the people of all the states and counties in the south of the Yangtze River have heard a little, the president of the legendary China Maritime Chamber of Commerce, the first maritime merchant in the Ming Dynasty, has hundreds of large and small cargo ships, monopolizing several trade routes, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is entering Jindou every day.

Then more carriages came, so that the wide royal road was jammed, and one by one the well-known figures in the newspapers came out of the carriages and entered the shops.

The decoration in the store is brand new, Zhu Jun has been waiting here for a long time, behind him, a huge map of the Ming Dynasty occupies the entire wall, under Zhu Jun, dozens of benches have already been placed, and there are already sparse guests who have come in to salute Zhu Jun and sit quietly in their positions.

When all the people came, most of the more than forty businessmen sitting here were the number one businessmen in the Ming Dynasty, some were in ocean trade, some were steel land, some were textiles, and they were basically top-notch figures in various industries, Zhu Jun coughed lightly and opened the conversation: "I have summoned you here this time to let everyone invest in a big deal." ”

Zhu Jun finished speaking. He lowered his head and drank tea with a tea cup. Give the businessmen a little time to adjust their mentality. In fact, among the more than 40 businessmen in the real estate industry. Zhu Jun has more or less 5 to 20 percent of the shares. Among them, the amount of land exceeds hundreds of millions of taels of silver. This is all Zhu Jun's silver at the bottom of the box. Back then, when these businessmen started their businesses. Zhu Jun sold all the treasures in the underground treasury. In exchange for silver, he invested another 100,200,000 yuan in various industries. Today, these industries are snowballing. Its market value has been made hundreds or thousands of times. After all, it is the initial stage of industrial land. In addition, national policies support industrial production areas. These first crab-eating merchants are now all extremely wealthy. And Zhu Jundi's capital investment has also been greatly rewarded. Every year, there are tens of millions of taels of silver. Zhu Jun concocted the same method. The surplus money in hand is continuously imported into various industries in the form of shares. Who is the richest man in the world? I'm afraid it's Zhu Jun. These people have some business dealings with the emperor behind their backs. Because Zhu Jun is their local shareholder. The financial budgets of each factory and the company were also inspected by Zhu Jun. So everyone knows the roots. The businessmen also know it. This emperor's ability to circle money is endless. How can there be soup behind him. So they all cheered up. Prick up your ears.

"What does the emperor command. A verbal message is all it takes. The villains are giving up all their wealth. and share the sorrow for the king. ”

"Yes, extremely. Yes pole. Many chimed in.

Zhu Jun pursed his lips and smiled. The merchant can only believe half of the words. He didn't expect these people to really break the bank to support him. Who does the work without profit? In fact, Zhu Jun is also a businessman through and through. After all, it is from the commercial society. There is still a thirst for money in his bones. Zhu Jun slowly put down the teacup. Said leisurely: "Everyone. If there is an iron ore in Yunnan. But who wants to invest? ”

The merchants paused for a moment. The emotional emperor wants us to go to Yunnan to open mines. Many have begun to shake their heads. Mining in Yunnan? Hum. First, the imperial court asked for a contract fee. It also requires a lot of money to buy equipment and recruit workers. And that's not all. The cost of this transportation is enough for you to drink a pot of land. People sell local ore for one tael of silver a ton. You will have to pay three or four taels of silver if you convert the freight. Where to sell the land? This kind of thing is purely a discount for money. Whoever goes to drive is a fool.

Zhu Jun was not annoyed. Leisurely continued, "If only one day. The cost of transporting a ton of ore has been reduced from two taels of silver to one penny of silver? ”

A penny? Many people thought they had heard it wrong, and they began to discuss, what is the concept of a penny of silver? That is, it means that goods and minerals from all over the world can be exchanged at any time, and they are not subject to any restrictions at all.

Zhu Jun said: "If I want to drive a novel means of transportation, the original horse-drawn carriage can carry one ton of cargo, and the new car can carry thousands of tons of cargo, the original one or two horse-drawn carriages from Yunnan to Nanjing takes nearly a month, and the new car only takes three or five days, then what changes will the world's commerce and trade take in the future?" ”

This sentence is even more moving, how can there be such a tool in the world, if so, the Ming Dynasty's commerce will be faster, the transportation is more convenient, what does this mean? It means that the goods of every businessman here are no longer limited to one province and one city, and the price of the clothes produced in Haidu's factory is one hundred copper plates in Haidu, and when they arrive in Jiangnan, they are only sold for one hundred copper plates, and Haidu's goods can compete with the local goods in Jiangnan at any time, without worrying about the high price and losing the market.

Zhu Jun finally revealed the mystery: "Are you willing to invest in this means of transportation, I named him the train, if the train wants to move forward, it must lay the same railroad tracks as Haidu and Yunnan, if you are willing to raise funds, the annual dividend of the future transportation profit is probably not a small amount." ”

Many people began to calculate, once the rails were laid, and the train that the emperor said really had such capacity and speed, then how much silver could be earned every year, without asking, without calculating, I knew that the huge profits, more than half of the world's commercial goods need to be transported by rail, which is equivalent to a business that makes a steady profit.

"Your Majesty, what kind of charter should this financing be, please make it clear to the emperor." Someone has already asked.

Zhu Jun stood up, turned to the wall behind him with the map, pointed to the map and said: "The project is divided into three, the first is the laying of railroad tracks from Yunnan to Nanjing, the second is the laying of railroad tracks from Nanjing to Guangzhou, and the third is naturally the railway line connecting Nanjing to Yunnan from Wuhan and then branching out a branch line to Guangzhou." I have calculated that the cost of the entire project is more than 70 million taels of silver, and the construction will be carried out at the same time in five years, and the imperial court has allocated 5 million taels of silver. ”

Many people began to hesitate, after all, it was a big project of 70 million taels of silver, and they were embarrassed to participate in the shares if they didn't pay a few million taels, about the capacity of the train, they believed it, after all, the emperor was so sure that he took out 10 million taels of silver from the inner treasury, which was almost the maximum amount of liquid money that the emperor could withdraw. The merchants hesitated because the project was too large, and the period of time it took was too long, and it was probably not a matter of ten or twenty years to recoup the cost of investing the money.

"The villain is five million taels." Ma Ren was the first to stand up, he is the president of the Maritime Chamber of Commerce, the emperor's loyal lackey, I don't know how much money he has earned by relying on Zhu Jun's big tree over the years, and now even if he smashes five million taels into the water, he has to express this attitude, otherwise he can't say it.

With the first one, there is the second, and none of the people here are stupid, so they naturally know the huge benefits involved, and Huang Xin, the second seaman in Haidu, also stood up: "The villain is three million taels." ”

"One million taels for the villain." This time stood up is the last time to compete for the Jinling vein contracting rights of the steel Haidu steel giant Yang Fang, the last time the Jinling vein was snatched away by the machinery firm, Yang Fang as a foreign businessman, has long been worried about the biggest advantage of the steel industry in the sea is in the cost of transportation, if the railway is really built, there is that extremely fast train, he Yang Fang is not without the possibility of turning the tables, so he has to support anyway.

"One million taels for the villain."

"The villain is 800,000 taels."

"Two million taels of villains."

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With the lead, everyone also let go of their courage and reported their own amounts, all of them are big businessmen, a million taels of silver is actually nothing, the emperor personally asked everyone to finance, even if it is unprofitable, you have to give some face, the clerk on the other side of the file has been busy, hurriedly wrote down the figures they reported, and began to count. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

A friend said that he wanted to get the train out for an experiment and refinancing, I think it is a bit of a delay, after all, the industrial revolution is actually a race against time, the Europeans obtained the technology of the Ming Dynasty very quickly, and if they are one step late, they will lose the opportunity, and Zhu Jun knows that people who are in the direction of history should be one step ahead.