Chapter 362: The Emperor's Grandson's Treacherous Scheme!
The people in the Wenhua Hall were very excited after putting on the shark costume and whale suit, and they were a little more capable and murderous than before.
After this day, Zhu Yunxi also resumed the habit of making a morning pilgrimage every day.
Whale on the left, shark on the right.
Whales act as civil officials, and sharks act as military attachés.
But when it comes to actual work, there is no distinction between civil and military at all.
Lao Zhu came over to see it a few times, and when he saw that his eldest grandson was having a good time, he didn't care about it anymore.
In his opinion, the shark costumes and whale costumes made by Zhu Yunxi are just toys for children.
However, a few days later, he heard a group of officials complaining, and only then did he realize that the eldest grandson, a small rebel dragon, began to bark his teeth at the court he controlled.
In the Wenhua Palace, Zhu Yunxi sat in his seat and listened to the reports of his subordinates.
"Emperor Taisun, the people from the Ministry of War took the weapons away, and they didn't give us money for the workshop, so we sent someone to ask for it, and the people from the Ministry of War said that we should go to His Majesty the Emperor, and they only collected the weapons and issued them, regardless of the money!"
Zhu Yunxi said angrily after hearing this.
"How can it be?"
"Didn't Lone tell the Ministry of War a long time ago, Lone is responsible for managing the workshop, and the Ministry of War is responsible for paying for it, and now they dare to cheat?"
"Zhu Value, Zhu Quan!"
"Uncle Wang is here!"
"You two take ten brocade guards to the military department to ask for money, if Ru Yu doesn't give it, you will eat in the military department and live in the military department!"
"No!"
Zhu Quan each took ten brocade guards and swaggered into Ru Yu's duty room.
Ru Yu saw Jinyiwei break in at first, and thought that she had committed something. Later, when I saw two princes wearing shark suits, I knew that this group of people was here to ask for money.
As long as the emperor didn't arrest him, then things would be easy.
"The two princes are angry, it's not that the lower officials don't want to give money, it's really that the household department didn't allocate money to the military department!"
Zhu Zhi Zhu Quan sat down on Ru Yu's table and said with a grin.
"It's okay!"
"If you have the ability, you can drag it out, anyway, the imperial grandson has spoken, if you don't give money for a day, the two of us won't leave for a day."
"Wherever you go, we'll follow!"
When Ru Yu heard this, her heart was full of disdain. The old man comes home at night, can you two still follow?
However, he underestimated the patience of these two princes.
Ru Yu spent a day with the two princes in the military department during the day, and when he went home from work at night, Zhu Zhi and Zhu Quan really went back with him.
"Lord Ru, you must be very welcome to come to your house as a guest, right?"
"Welcome, Welcome ......"
Zhu Zhi and Zhu Quan followed Ru Yu home, they didn't cry or make trouble, they ate whatever Ru Yu ate, even if Ru Yu went to the back house to rest, the two of them also took the brocade guards to stand guard outside the door.
The prince stood guard, and the brocade guard guarded the door.
Ru Yu couldn't stand this treatment, so she ran to the household department to cry the next day, and asked the household department to allocate money and send the pair of plague gods away.
After this battle, Zhu Zhi and Zhu Quan completely made a name for themselves in the capital. Whenever there is a debt between the government and the Wenhua Palace, the two of them will lead the Jinyi guard to the door to collect it.
For a time, almost all of the departments of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Industry were tossed by the two.
Even the money for Ying Tianfu's renovation of the cell was asked for back by the two of them. ….
Zhu Yunxi was also very generous to the two of them, and directly allocated 20,000 taels from the Ministry of Finance of Wenhua Hall to repair the palace for the two.
Although it is only a rough house, it is much stronger than the palace built by the imperial court, at least the houses and ponds that should be in it have been repaired.
The two of them got the sweetness and worked harder.
The local government owed the money to the Minggang Chamber of Commerce, and the two of them also demanded it.
The direct consequence of this was that the two were collectively sued by the civil officials to His Majesty the Emperor, and the two were dragged out by His Majesty the Emperor and beaten on the board.
The two of them made a fuss as always after the board, and it was best to be Lao Zhu
There is no way to take these two goods, but they are ordered to stay in the palace and are not allowed to go out and run around.
However, the two have already gotten the sweetness, how can it be so easy to stop?
According to Zhu Zhi's words, now there is a palace, but the decoration inside has not yet been settled.
If you don't make more money before you become a vassal, where will you find such a lucrative thing as a "commission" in the future!
So, after the two were beaten, they slipped out of the palace to collect debts, and the cycle began again and again, and they did not change their ways.
Fortunately, Lao Zhu was annoyed by tossing a few times, and let the two rebels make trouble.
Compared with the restlessness of the two princes, the sons of the other nobles also trembled.
Chen Mi, the son of Chen Zongli, the head of the household, deliberately returned to his hometown after wearing the royal gift "shark suit".
Chen Zongli naturally scoffed at this, he had heard of unicorn suits, flying fish suits, and bullfighting suits in his life, but he had never heard of shark suits.
This shark with a bloody mouth and a mouthful of big white teeth looks like a child's thing.
However, within a few days he was not happy.
Chen Mi, the minister of finance, in the name of his son of the head of the household department, visited several state capitals, fooled them into transferring the work of escorting taxes to the Ministry of Posts, and asked them to temporarily deposit the funds for the activities of the county government in their local branches.
Kong Yanjin was also much bolder after putting on the shark suit, even in the face of the reprimand of his father and grandfather, he felt that there was someone behind him.
When it comes to business dealings with the local government, their shark suits are even more unfavorable.
In Lao Zhu's eyes, this thing is a child's housework. But in the eyes of the officials below, it is the cronies of the imperial grandson.
Who is the emperor's grandson, that is the future Emperor of the Ming Dynasty!
They would rather offend the six departments of the imperial court than dare to offend this group of young people in shark suits.
It didn't take long for the shark suit to become famous in the Gyeonggi area, and even some remote prefectures and counties had heard about the shark suit, knowing that these people were the emperor's grandson's own army, and they didn't dare to provoke them easily.
Zhu Yunxi took advantage of this time to frantically buy land and build factories in various places, recruiting a large number of workers.
At the same time, supply and marketing cooperatives also blossomed all over the Gyeonggi area, achieving a profit of 100,000 taels of silver in the first month alone.
Although this 100,000 taels of silver has long been out of the eyes of Zhu Yunxi.
But he didn't expect to make money when he founded the supply and marketing cooperative, but it was just a convenient service for the people to shop and sell agricultural products.
Now that he can not lose money, he is already very happy.
For this reason, he feasted the ministers in the Wenhua Hall and treated them well. ….
Lu Shiyuan, a scholar of Wenhuadian University and the acting director of Songjiang City, also brought good news to Zhu Yunxi.
He has recruited a group of maritime merchants through his own connections, so that the business of the city company is gradually on the right track.
Michael Harris also gave full play to his subjective initiative, recruited a group of Nanyang maritime merchants for him, and registered them in Songjiang City.
Zhu Yunxi was very excited to get this report, and felt that his dream of great voyage had taken another big step.
However, he was not carried away by the victory in front of him and remained awake enough.
Recruiting maritime merchants is only the first step, and the next step is to prepare for trade and crack down on smuggling by other maritime merchants.
However, if you want to accomplish this strategic goal, the most important thing is money.
Without money, there is no way to develop a navy, without a navy there is no blockade of the coastline, and there is no way to control rampant smuggling.
In the same way, if you want to prepare enough goods, you also need a large amount of financial support.
Therefore, on the second day after receiving the report, Zhu Yunxi came to the Jinling Stock Exchange and checked the funds on the books.
Because the stock exchange has not been open for a long time, the merchants of Daming still don't trust it very much, so a few months have passed, and there are not many shares sold, only more than three million taels have been bought.
In normal times, this is already a lot of money.
After all, the treasury of the imperial court may not be able to have so much money all year round.
However, Zhu Yunxi now has to build railways, open mines and factories, and order sea ships to build a navy, which is a drop in the bucket.
Xie Kui, who was in charge of the exchange, saw that Zhu Yunxi's face was not good, and he was also worried in his heart.
"Imperial grandson, in fact, being able to sell 30,000 shares is already good."
"After all, we've only been open for less than three months, and many merchants are still skeptical about it."
Zhu Yunxi shook his head indifferently when he heard this.
"You don't have to explain, Lone knows what's going on!"
In fact, Zhu Yunxi had long expected that the stock sales would be cold.
Because from the very beginning, he had a certain wariness of this thing. If it weren't for the lack of money and being too ruthless, he wouldn't even have made this thing in Daming.
Therefore, he has not done many things to stimulate the stock price, and has always been a laissez-faire attitude.
"You haven't been red yet, have you?"
"Yes!"
"Originally, it was said that the dividend at the end of the year was divided, but now it is less than three months, and there is no reason for dividends!"
Zhu Yunxi nodded.
"Let's divide it!"
"After discussing with Chen Mi of the Ministry of Finance, combined with last year's profits, the dividends will be distributed to them every month."
"But don't divide too much, just guarantee that the monthly income is about one percent."
"No!"
After Zhu Yunxi made this decision, he went to Ma'anshan to inspect the preparations for the construction of the Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant.
However, the stone he threw down caused an uproar in the capital.
Wang Fuqing, the owner of the Fuqing grocery store, opened the door panel as usual, thinking that the first customer who entered the door was the old bachelor Tian Ergang in the innermost part of the alley.
This goods have to be drunk three taels of wine every day, and only those who are drunk will go to work on the docks. ….
However, to his surprise, it turned out to be a person dressed as an official who entered the door today.
It's just that this official's clothes are a bit special, and a palm-sized carp is embroidered on his left chest, indicating that he is not an ordinary official.
"Dare to ask the other side, but Wang Fuqing, the shopkeeper?"
"Are you?"
"Below is a staff member of the Jinling Stock Exchange, who has come to ask the shopkeeper Wang to receive the monthly dividends on the orders of the Enlightened Lord."
"What?"
"Isn't the dividend paid at the end of the year, why is it still paid monthly?"
"We said that Master Xie has collected several arrears from the Minggang Chamber of Commerce this year, and there is a lot of spare money in the Chamber of Commerce now, so let's share some profits with old friends first, and let everyone be happy!"
When Wang Fuqing heard this, he immediately smiled.
"Can you tell me how much you can get this time?"
"I don't know about that, but I say I can get a point."
"One point?"
The so-called one point is one-tenth of one percent, which is one percent as Zhu Yunxi said.
When Wang Fuqing heard that he could get so much, he was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth. The staff had been walking far away, and Tian Er came to the door to drink, and he came back to his senses.
However, he didn't have time to deal with Tian Erchao at this time, so he greeted the guy and asked the guy to entertain Tian Ergang, so he hurriedly took the voucher and ran to the stock exchange hall to receive the dividends.
Wang Fuqing was not the first to arrive, and when he arrived, the hall was already full of people.
He searched around the crowd and sure enough, he saw two old fellows.
"Liu Neng Liu shopkeeper!"
"Zhao Yuande Zhao Dongjia, you two are very fast, you are a few steps faster than me!"
The two laughed when they heard this.
"Of course, you have to hurry up when you share the money!"
Wang Fuqing hurriedly asked when he heard this.
"You two came early, do you know what the rules are about splitting the money?"
"I don't know!"
"But it's said that we'll be divided at the point, so let's just wait in line now!"
"Yes, the imperial grandson is rich, can he still care about our little money?"
Several people were all well-known people on the street, and after discussing with the others, they adjusted the position of the queue and whispered together.
"Tell me about it, why did the imperial grandson pay dividends in advance?"
"I guess it's the emperor's grandson who has made money, and I want to give back to those of us who have supported him!"
Zhao Yuande shook his head when he heard this.
"It's hard to say about this, and it may be that the emperor's grandson thinks that there are too few people who buy it, so he raises his hand......
When Liu Neng and Wang Fuqing heard this, the two fell silent. After a long while, Wang Fuqing spoke quietly.
"If that's the case, then it's hard to say about this thing, let's get the dividends or sell the shares quickly!"
Zhao Yuande shook his head again and said.
"Let's see!"
"If we are given too much money this time, then we will get the dividends. If it's just a normal dividend, then we'll keep it."
Hearing this, the two hurriedly asked.
"What does that mean?"
Zhao Yuande smiled.
"You two use your brains to think about it, if the imperial grandson ignores the operation of the Minggang Chamber of Commerce and deliberately gives us more money, it proves that he wants to simply raise his hand and then continue to sell his shares." ….
"If he gives us less and pays attention to a long stream, it proves that the imperial grandson has confidence in the Minggang Chamber of Commerce and wants to take care of this as a century-old foundation!"
"If it's the latter, even if it's a little less, then this thing is worth a lot of money."
"After all, the title of the imperial court is not said to be no, but this share can be eaten every month of the year, which is more stable than the official Yulu!"
When the two heard Zhao Yuande's analysis, they immediately nodded like chickens pecking rice.
Although they run small businesses, they make hard money. But it doesn't prove that they are stupid, and they are fully wary of new things.
While they were chatting, the bell in the hall of the stock exchange rang eight times.
"Let's not talk about it, the exchange is open!"
Wang Fuqing really stopped talking when he heard this, and stared at the counter in front of him with a bad eyeball, looking at how much money others could share.
Soon, the first person in line received the dividend and left happily.
Wang Fuqing wanted to pull over and ask, but when he saw the businessman he didn't know, he extinguished the idea.
Just when he was as anxious as a cat's claw, a sign hung above the counter in the hall.
"In May, the profit was 300,000 taels, and the dividend per share was 300 wen!"
"In June, the profit was 500,000 taels, and the dividend per share was 500 wen!"
"In July, the profit was 700,000 taels, and the dividend per share was 700 yuan!"
Wang Fuqing silently calculated in his heart, he bought a total of 100 shares, and in three months, he could get 1,500 wen per share, which was 150 taels of silver?
To be honest, this is not a lot of money, at least it is less profitable than many businesses in his store.
Even if he uses this money to go into straw sandals, the rate of return is about 20 percent.
However, straw sandals have a market saturation to follow, and it is not that he can sell as much as he buys.
Therefore, even if his family saved tens of thousands of taels of silver, the money that could be used for the turnover of the store was only a few thousand taels.
The rest of the silver money could only be left in the cellar to rust, and it had to be taken out from time to time to bubble with potions.
The dividend ratio on the stock exchange does not seem to be high, but it is the best place for him to spare money.
After all, it's better for money to make money than money to rust, right?
Other people are also similar to Wang Fuqing's thoughts, for them businessmen, what they lack is not money, but investment channels and directions.
Now I see that the crown prince is willing to pay dividends, and the proportion of dividends is quite reasonable
At first glance, they plan to run the two chambers of commerce with their hearts, what else do they have to worry about?
Wang Fuqing was excited, and received his own 150 taels of dividends, but he didn't take them home, and threw them into the bank next door to eat interest.
Many people have the same choice as Wang Fuqing.
Bringing back such things as silver is easy to attract thieves, not to mention, it is especially easy to rust. If one is not stored well, the silver will be blackened.
Therefore, it is most convenient to keep it at the bank and withdraw it at any time, and the money withdrawn is new every time.
Through this dividend, the Jinling Stock Exchange not only won the trust of the majority of businessmen, but also raised the bank's credit to a new level by the way.
After receiving dividends, many businessmen immediately inquire when they will sell new shares.
As for selling shares, they didn't even think about it.
Finally, there is a place to spare money, and they sell it when they are stupid.
The businessmen didn't sell, but Zhu Yunxi took the opportunity to sell a thousand shares.
The thousand shares were released and were snatched up in a blink of an eye. Immediately afterwards, someone was listed for acquisition, one hundred and one hundred and twenty-one shares.
Many businessmen saw this purchase price, and their eyes were red with excitement.
When they bought it three months ago, it was at a price of one hundred and twenty-one shares.
However, less than three months have passed, and the stock in their hands has risen by 10%!
As soon as this listing price came out, many people were wait-and-see and did not make a move at the first time.
However, there are also smart people who have seen through the female plan of the imperial grandson.
Sun Ruhai, the boss of the porcelain shop, keenly sensed that something was wrong and felt that someone was deliberately inflating the stock price.
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