Zhu Yuanzhang only felt that Li Jin was too good at doing business.

used to fool everyone to raise funds to set up a royal chamber of commerce, and now he has pulled Queen Ma to open a shipyard with his backhand.

After all, if you want to go to sea, you must have a boat, but what Daming lacks most now is a boat.

Now that Li Jin has opened a shipyard by himself, Zhu Yuanzhang previously felt that Li Jin might be eager to go to sea and planned to build his own ship, so as to go to sea faster.

Now it seems that this Li Jin was clearly premeditated.

If Li Jin really cleared the Japanese and opened up the sea trade in the future, then the ocean would be a place full of gold for the merchants of the Ming Dynasty.

And in this golden place, the key is now in Li Jin's hands.

Li Jin heard Zhu Yuanzhang's question and replied directly:

"A chamber of commerce is a chamber of commerce, a shipyard is a shipyard, and the two cannot be confused."

"These are two companies, even if the Chamber of Commerce goes bankrupt in the future, it will not affect the operation of the shipyard."

"As a qualified investor, you should learn to share the risk and not put your eggs in one basket."

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't hear what Li Jin was talking about there, anyway, if the Chamber of Commerce couldn't make money, Li Jin would have to compensate the shipyard to himself.

It's all Li Jin's industry, and Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't care if you are two different companies.

Queen Ma doesn't pay attention to these, she just wants to know how much money she earns now.

"Li Jin, you said so much, how much money do we make now?"

"When can I divide the money?"

Hearing this, Li Jin's high-spirited expression was suffocated, he touched his nose in embarrassment, and said:

"Madam, that's the case, our dock has earned no less than 300,000 taels in the past half a month."

Three hundred thousand?

When Zhu Biao and Queen Ma heard this number, they were overjoyed.

Half a month is already 300,000 taels of silver, isn't that a month 600,000 taels?

In this way, with this pier alone, Queen Ma can earn millions of taels of silver a year, which is really easy to earn.

Zhu Yuanzhang was blushing when he heard it next to him at the moment, and he had already known that he would not engage in any chamber of commerce and would come to invest in the port.

I wonder if I can get the money back now?

Zhu Yuanzhang stared at Li Jin with unkind eyes, hesitating whether to speak.

"Where's the silver? Give it to me, I'll take it back. ”

Queen Ma stretched out her hand towards Li Jin, and wanted to take the silver away directly.

After all, she spent five million taels of silver last time, and all the money in the palace has been drained by her.

Li Jin looked at Queen Ma's white palm, and said with a dry smile:

"Madame, don't worry, listen to me continue."

"All that silver, because to build a road to the county seat of Shanghu County, has already been spent."

"Not only that, but I also owe the government 150,000 taels of silver."

"What?"

Queen Ma's eyes widened and she looked at Li Jin in disbelief.

I just saw the money back, and it was gone in the blink of an eye.

Zhu Yuanzhang's face was even more angry, he knew that Li Jin, a bastard, must not have any good intentions.

The money he had just earned was all spent, and Zhu Yuanzhang immediately roared:

"Li Jin, are you deliberately here to deceive us? so that you may take the money to yourself? ”

"Aren't you the county magistrate of Shanghu County? How much it will cost, it's not up to you to decide? ”

"Let's see that this money was embezzled by you."

Li Jin knew that this was the result, so he could only say:

"The road built this time is a little different, you can take a look at it with me."

Li Jin said, and took the lead towards the door.

Zhu Yuanzhang followed behind angrily, Queen Ma's face was not very good-looking, only Zhu Biao, with doubts on her face, she didn't know what road could cost so much silver.

As soon as Li Jin went out, he called a carriage, and then led the three of them to the intersection of the port.

On the carriage, Zhu Yuanzhang stared at Li Jin with wide eyes, as if Li Jin owed him millions of taels of silver.

Queen Ma and Zhu Biao looked outside the curtain, wanting to see what the road Li Jin was talking about?

Not long after, I heard the coachman say:

"A few guests, here."

Li Jin was overjoyed when he heard this, and said:

"Let's go, let's take a look at the highway that has just been built in Shanghai County."

Queen Ma was at the curtain just now, and she didn't see any special roads at all, so she couldn't help but be a little curious.

Zhu Yuanzhang bore the brunt of the accident and got out of the carriage at once.

But when Zhu Yuanzhang saw Li Jin's so-called highway, he was completely stunned.

"It's... Is this still the road? ”

I saw that what appeared in front of Zhu Yuanzhang were black lanes, and these lanes were extremely flat and looked smoother than cement roads.

And there is still the smell of asphalt on these roads, which is obviously not long after it was built.

The road composed of eighteen lanes is extremely wide, and Zhu Yuanzhang looks insignificant when he stands at the intersection.

These roads stretched until the end of the field of vision, and Zhu Yuanzhang found that he could not see the end of the road at all.

Not to mention anything else, just because of the majestic momentum, this highway looks like it is worth 500,000 taels of silver.

"This place will also become our cornucopia in the future."

Li Jin looked at the shocked Queen Ma and explained with a smile.

"What cornucopia?"

Queen Ma looked confused, since she met Li Jin, Queen Ma suddenly felt that making money was really simple.

Zhu Yuanzhang also looked at Li Jin with a bright eye, wanting to see if he could intervene.

Li Jin pointed to the intersection where people came and went, and said:

"There will be a toll booth here."

"Only merchants who pay fees are qualified to walk through here."

"Otherwise, you won't be allowed to pass, of course the fee won't be very high, but you see the flow of people here."

"You can imagine the scale of this toll booth in the future."

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, his face sank and he said:

"You are competing with the people for profit, and since you have created a road, it is for people to walk."

"If you charge here, wouldn't it be against your original intention, let those poor people do?"

"Won't you let them walk?"

"Lao Huang, you are too small, the pattern is too small."

Li Jin shook his head and sighed, and said:

"The roads we build are naturally qualified to collect money."

"We have built highways that benefit the country and the people, and businessmen can get benefits and be able to transport goods to local places faster and more conveniently."

"The imperial court also received more taxes because of the prosperity of commerce."

"But if it's not good for yourself, how many people do you think are willing to do this kind of thing?"

"But if this kind of benefit to the country and the people and self-interest, how many people do you think are unwilling to do it?"

"As the saying goes, if you want to get rich first build roads, if businessmen all over the country are willing to pay money to help build roads, not only for the convenience of the people, but also for them to earn a sum of money, then the roads of Daming are not more and more repaired?"

"In this way, in the end, it is the imperial court that benefits the most!"

"Pattern, your pattern is too small, Lao Huang!"

Zhu Yuanzhang heard Li Jin's belittling this time, and unexpectedly did not get angry, but lowered his head and frowned.

After a long time, Zhu Yuanzhang raised his head and said:

"Even so, charging ordinary people is still too unreasonable."

"They don't have any money in the first place, so where can they still collect money from them?"

李進 says:

"Then they can take the national road!"

"This kind of highway was originally for merchants to walk, so that they could transport goods more conveniently."