May 26. Beijing, South Street, East Fourth Pailou, Zhoufu. This is a very grand and luxurious mansion built, a large number of steel bars, cement, red bricks, tiles and other building materials, all with glass windows instead of traditional wooden windows, the tallest main villa building, is five stories high, obviously more than the height of many palaces in the palace, and here is only two or three hundred meters away from the palace, so this can be regarded as overstepping, if ginseng is a 'suppression of dragon energy', I am afraid it will not be good.

However, no one impeached or said that when the mansion was completed last year, Emperor Zhu Youzhen also came to visit and congratulate in person, and after experiencing the convenience of flush toilets, running water, floor heating and other facilities, he was shocked by the gorgeous scene of the crystal chandelier, and said on the spot that the palace should also be renovated, and those advanced and convenient facilities should all be introduced, but because there is no money, there is no movement until now.

That's right. This is the Zhou Mansion where the abbot Zhou Kui lives, and now it is one of the richest families in the capital.

This morning, in the Zhou Mansion, an extremely noble person was ushered in, so that hundreds of male and female servants in the Zhou Mansion had to get up early in the morning to prepare in advance, lay out the red carpet, hang ribbons on the trees, and purchase a large number of pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, fish and other ingredients in the kitchen to prepare for the noon meal.

It can be seen that it attaches great importance to it. In this regard, Zhou Yufeng, the queen of Zhou, said to her father Zhou Kui next to her: "Dad, I just came back for a temporary trip for something, why make such a big show?" How much does it cost? ”

"No! We are all people with status and status, and the pomp and circumstance that should be talked about must be spoken, and people will look down on us if we are too shabby. Zhou Kui had a jade pipe in his mouth, a pearl chain around his neck, several strings of jade beads in his hands, and a golden belt around his waist.

After all, who gave him a good life and gave birth to a good daughter?

"Father, you are a relative of the emperor, who in this world dares to look down on you." Queen Zhou said helplessly, her father's old peasant-like ideology and concept will never be changed.

"Whether you can afford to look at it, you have to look at the pomp and circumstance of the cards, and you have to see if you have money, especially money is very important, no matter how high your status is, you can't miss this thing...... My good daughter, I don't know if I have a good chance to make a fortune recently? You also know that I took two concubines last year and added a younger brother and a sister to you. In front of Queen Zhou, the mother of the country, Zhou Kui did not hide his greed and love for money, oh, and lustful, he was in his fifties, and he still ate tender grass, accepted two beautiful concubines in his teens, and added people, and he was full of naturalness.

Supercilious. Zhou Yufeng rolled her eyes, how did she get such a father? However, she still said: "I came here this time to discuss this matter with you, father. ”

"Okay, let's go to the living room and talk to my father in detail!" Zhou Kui was overjoyed. …… Soon.

in the living room. Empress Zhou took a moment to introduce the "Prince Manor" plan to her father Zhou Kui and her three elder brothers, and said to them: "My Majesty has discussed that I want to cooperate with Xu Jiazhuang, and build three 'Prince Manors' for Cihong and one 'Princess Manor' for Lou, and strive to complete it this year and next year, which will cost a total of 1.2 million silver dollars." ”

"Among them, the Prince Growth Fund provides 300,000 silver dollars, His Majesty and I invest 200,000 silver dollars, the teachers of the East Palace invest 100,000 silver dollars, and the remaining 600,000 silver dollars are short, I want to borrow money from my father, borrow for two years, and repay one million silver dollars after two years, which is equivalent to a high interest of 200,000 silver dollars per year, I don't know if my father is willing to lend?" Zhou Yufeng still planned to borrow money, and did not consider letting his father Zhou Kui become a shareholder.

Because if you build four sugarcane estates, a full 40,000 acres of sugarcane fields, there is no problem in harvesting a stubble, and you should be able to get no less than 200,000 stone of sugar, even if the value is not 20 million, but there are always 3 or 4 million, right?

After deducting such and such costs, there should be a net profit of two million silver dollars. If you pay back your father's one million, you can still earn one million.

If the estate is built so efficiently that two stubbles of sugar cane can be harvested in two years, then there must be at least four million net profits, and one million will be repaid, and another three million will be paid.

Later, it is even more profitable, because the dividend ratio of other shareholders is not high, and the royal family can take the absolute majority.

"No, don't take interest for my father, I want to take dividends from the manor!" Zhou Kui decisively rejected this plan, and said extremely unhappily: "Daughter, you have changed, you are not the obedient and filial good daughter before, you even have to take advantage of my father, such a good project in overseas estates, if you give me some interest, I will be sent away, chilling, my heart is chilled by you." ”

"Dad, the high interest rate of three percent every year, and the current loan sharks dare not open such a high interest, that is, they are looking for a loan from the Tianxia Bank, and the interest is about one percent, why am I not filial? If I am not filial, such a good project, will I be the first to think of borrowing money from you? Zhou Yufeng argued with reason and refuted.

"If you are really filial, then I will invest 600,000 silver dollars, you will give me fifty percent of the investment dividends, I have read the "Oriental Times" in the last few days, don't think that I don't know how profitable overseas colonization is, this is a good deal with a million profits, you take a little interest to send me, this wishful thinking is too loud, you are not filial to even the old father and I calculate! It's cold, it's so chilling. Zhou Kui thumped his chest and shed old tears.

"Dad, if you say that about me again, won't I borrow the money? I'm looking for a loan from Tianxiatong Bank. Queen Zhou was angry, and she wanted to cry when she was aggrieved, so she stood up and was about to leave.

But the three brothers hurriedly grabbed her and kept persuading

"What Dad said is all angry words, and it must not be taken seriously"

"If you talk about it again, why be angry"

"Both sides should take a step, don't hurt the peace" Under the persuasion and appeasement of the three elder brothers, Zhou Yufeng had to sit back and continue to negotiate.

It can be said that this was an extremely difficult negotiation. Several times Zhou Yufeng wanted to leave with his sleeves up, he couldn't stand Zhou Kui's filial piety kidnapping, and in terms of interests, he didn't let go, he didn't want to give in at all, and insisted on taking as much money as he could.

Zhou Yufeng believes that the cooperative relationship between the royal family and Xujiazhuang is also a valuable resource, and it is impossible for other businessmen to have such good conditions for development, and the cost will increase at least several times, so there is this relationship, even if the royal family does not pay a penny, it must account for at least fifty percent of the shares.

Even if his father Zhou Kui invests half of the funds, he will give him a maximum of 20% of the shares.

"No! It must be fifty percent, you are my daughter, shouldn't you be filial to me? Of course, Cihong is my grandson, for the sake of my grandson, I give up 10%, as long as 40% of the shares? That's my limit. Zhou Kui said.

"Thirty percent, I can only give thirty percent, forget it if you don't agree." Zhou Yufeng stood up and prepared to go out again, what filial piety is not filial, she doesn't want it at this moment, she must win no less than fifty percent of the shares for her son and daughter, so as to grasp the management and control of the manor.

Walk all the way to the gate. The three elder brothers chased after him, saying that his father finally compromised and agreed, and he achieved three percent of the three, but now he is scolding someone for being unfilial, and the scolding is particularly ugly.

Zhou Yufeng breathed a sigh of relief, revealing a hint of joy, as for scolding, the importance of money, the importance of the crown prince Cihong is much more important in her heart than infamy, she doesn't need to sacrifice so many interests that must be seized for the reputation of a 'virtuous queen'.

But in the afternoon. Zhou Kui asked his three sons to send the passbook deposit and check remittance to the palace, plus the 850,000 silver dollar deposit in the royal wealth management account, which actually reached 1.8 million silver dollars, which was three times more, and asked the three sons to say: "Since you want to do it, make it bigger, build twelve prince's manors at a time, and you can find your own way to borrow money from the bank for the remaining 1.8 million, anyway, I want thirty percent of the shares of twelve prince's manors!" The three elder brothers said in front of Queen Zhou: "This is all the working capital of the family, and in order to support the construction of the prince's manor, we are almost bankrupt." Queen Zhou couldn't help but be stunned, and couldn't help but feel a little moved, although her father Zhou Kui was greedy for money, he was still okay with her.

And she should indeed be moved, because in the normal historical timeline, Zhou Kui, who was stingy to the extreme, at the moment when the Ming Dynasty was about to perish, not only did he not donate a tael of silver, but even the five thousand taels that Queen Zhou gave him, he had to be greedy for two thousand taels and only donate three thousand taels...... Now Zhou Kui's behavior of throwing out 1.8 million silver dollars like a bankruptcy, even if it is mainly for his own interests, can really be called generous and courageous.

It's just that there are twelve princes or princess manors, resulting in a gap of 1.2 million silver dollars, so that Empress Zhou and Emperor Zhu Youzhen had to take out another 300,000 silver dollars, not to mention, but also found a way to invite more shareholders to join the shares, or temporarily embezzled some of the deposits in the royal wealth management account, but did not consider borrowing money from Tianxiatong Bank, because Zhu Youzhen did not want to borrow more.

In addition, in the palace, not only Empress Zhou's maiden family was powerful, but Tian Guifei's father, Tian Hongyu, also smashed 1.5 million silver dollars to support the establishment of five princely manors.

Concubine Yuan's father, Yuan You, invested 600,000 silver dollars to build two princess manors. As for the other concubines and concubines, although the mother's family behind them can come up with very few 300,000 silver dollars, two people can still make up a manor by combining shares and three people.

Even the imperial sister-in-law Zhang Yan took out the 50,000 yuan of the bottom of the box and invested in a prince's manor.

In the end, all of them were added up, and the number of overseas royal estates actually reached as many as twenty-four, which greatly exceeded Zhu Youzhen's expectations, even if these are small estates covering an area of 10,000 acres, which are only equivalent to eight standard Xu family manors, but they are also very happy.

It can also be seen from this that driven by the profit-seeking investment model of capital, even the royal family, which does not seem to be very rich, can burst out with amazing energy, which can make people who are stingy to the extreme willing to go bankrupt.

But this is just the energy that erupted from the royal family in the huge Ming Empire. The entire coastal areas of Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other coastal areas.

Gangnam area. Shandong, North Zhili and other regions. All the landlords and gentry class. All the big and small merchants in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

and even the low-level people who have almost nothing. Recently, they have been discussing how to colonize the South Seas and how to make a fortune overseas, and they are extremely impetuous.

In particular, the maritime business group in Zhejiang has taken action at the speed of light, organized merchant ships and cargo ships to load a large number of people eager to change their fate, and went straight to the southeast, and from the colonization action in Xujiazhuang, summed up three factors that will be successful in colonizing overseas.

First, occupy the most elite land. Second, the collective estate model. Third, invest a huge amount of resources to strive for a return that year.

As long as all the above three elements are in place, overseas colonization will be profitable and successful!

It can only be said that the merchants of the maritime business group in Zhejiang are not only rich, but also very smart, and the energy of the union is even greater, and there may even be a strategic-level genius within it, who accurately summed up the reasons why Xujiazhuang was successful, and then immediately imitated, and the action force was also extremely strong, and on May 27, a huge colonization fleet was formed to go to sea, carrying 30,000 immigrants, and went straight to Taiwan.

Xujiazhuang will never be allowed to occupy the essence of the land! But...... Zhejiang's maritime group, they may still think about the problem simply.

On 5 June, a storm struck a maritime colonization fleet, losing one-third of its ships and killing nearly 10,000 migrants.

On 8 June, he successfully arrived in southern Taiwan and successfully landed on the shore, but was harassed by savages on the mountain.

On 15 June, there was an outbreak of severe malaria and diarrhoea caused by soil and water inadvisation, killing 1,000 people in a single day.

On 20 June, there were only about 8,000 young and strong immigrants of 30,000 at the time of departure, and most of them were dying, their labor capacity was low, and the development efficiency was very low.

Fail! The colonization action of Zhejiang Maritime Group ended in failure, pouring a basin of cold water on this wave of overseas colonization in Daming that caused a national frenzy, so that countless people had to regain their consciousness.

At this time, people found that overseas colonization is promising, but to carry out large-scale overseas colonization and want to succeed, only Xujiazhuang has the ability to do so.

The most fundamental reason is that Xu Jiazhuang has a miracle medicine in his hands! If others want to succeed, they must find Xujiazhuang to buy magic medicine!

Otherwise, it will be a dead end, and you will only lose all your money.