Korea.

Gyeonggi-do.

Yangyang, north of Seoul.

When Zhu Weiming returned from Nanyang, he was greeted by many people, including famous businessmen such as Luo Zhongheng and Wu Hong.

"Although the island is called an island, the land area is actually very huge, and after long-term exploration by the people below me, it is estimated that there are fifty to one hundred Goryeo areas."

"Sss

"It's so big."

Luo Zhongheng and others exclaimed.

Why is such a large area unheard of?

Zhu Weiming understood everyone's surprise very well, and said with a sigh: "Although the local area is very large, there are many deserts and deserts, but the area of the island is vast, so the terrain is diverse, from vast deserts and plains to steep mountain ranges. ”

"In that case, why is there no big force?"

Wu Hong couldn't understand.

As long as there is a big force, it will at least affect the South Seas, but the news of the South Seas about the Jedi Island is also unheard, and it is still learned from the mouths of some natives at the southern end of Boni Tusi that there are endless islands in the south.

"Although the local area is rich in products and has a vast area, the civilization is stuck in the era of drinking blood and hair, and according to the analysis below, it is concluded that it is because it is too closed, and the most important thing is that there are no horses."

Zhu Weiming said seriously: "With the conditions of traditional society, horses can bring the exchange of news, without horses, people can only walk on two legs, and there are restrictions on the transportation of goods, so the local exchanges are backward, and there is no change today, and the development is very slow." ”

Wu Hong understood, not only did he understand, but the rest of the people also somewhat understood the reasons for the local backwardness.

What made Wu Hong sigh even more was Zhu Weiming in front of him.

This Japanese with a scar on his face, formerly known as Oshikawa, has been engaged in eunuch trade for more than ten years, because of the changes in policy, so he began to change careers, and has been deeply involved in Goryeo for many years, but the result is not very effective, and he began to serve the merchants of Goryeo again.

Behind the trading houses in Nanyang, the support of Korean merchants is inseparable.

Many years ago, on behalf of the Goryeo merchants, he went to Nanyang to meet the Siamese king Indra Jaja I, and reached a lot of cooperation, which played an important role in the large-scale annexation of land by the Goryeo merchants.

The model of the stock bank integrates the resources of Korean businessmen, Wu Hong's firm has Luo Zhongheng's shares, and Luo Zhongheng's firm also has Wu Hong's shares, and everyone has formed a community of interests.

Scarface usually claims to be a Ming person, and even named Zhu Weiming, but in the eyes of everyone, this person is still an outsider, and Scarface is also self-aware, so he has to bear the hard work and dirty work.

Relying on the manpower accumulated in the eunuch trade back then, and the credit for the Korean merchants over the years, Scarface has indeed gained a firm foothold in this emerging system.

"Twenty years ago, who would have thought that Goryeo would be where it is today."

Luo Zhongheng said softly.

The deep meaning of this sentence made the big businessmen think.

In fact, everyone is a loser.

Under the system of the domestic Daming Industrial Bureau, no one can stand out, and the largest commercial houses in Daming are inextricably linked with the Daming Industrial Bureau, such as the founders of Heji and Hezhong, all of whom are from the Daming Industrial Bureau.

Even the richest coal mill owners, they rely on the Daming Industry Bureau system to eat.

They have no power and no power, they can't compete with these "dog legs", Wu Hong also served the military-industrial complex, but still left the country in a gloomy manner, and finally took root in Goryeo.

In the past, the corners that the big domestic businessmen looked down on had a lot of profits after 20 years, and even relied on the advantage of being the first mover to monopolize the coal mines, land, and population of Goryeo.

The expansion of capital never ends.

The birth of the stock bank, the integration of resources, they have set their sights on Nanyang, the domestic market they have given up, but they can take advantage of domestic resources, the imperial court relies on commodities to implement the clan system, and their merchants rely on commodities, they can also control overseas land and population resources.

Therefore, Luo Zhongheng's meaning is very clear, although the situation of Jedao is very backward and everything is so barren, compared to Goryeo, the advantage of Jedao is more than ten times.

Ten years, twenty years, thirty years, control the trade of the island, then their size may even exceed the Ming Industry Bureau.

"I'm afraid that the Daming Industry Bureau will not give up easily."

Wu Hong said worriedly, he knew the Daming Bureau too well.

The Daming Industry Bureau is very hateful, only picking peaches, everything in Goryeo is created by them, but in the end? Relying on the power of the imperial court, the Daming Industry Bureau took the lion's share.

Twenty years ago, in Goryeo, was there a Daming Industry Bureau? Only them.

"Jedo Island is different from Goryeo." Luo Zhongheng shook his head, he is different from Wu Hong, Wu Hong has a lot of relationship with the military because of his cooperation with the Military Industry Joint Office back then, and he has a lot of friendship with the Ministry of Industry of the Imperial Court because of his acquaintance with Zhang Lian.

Not only are they exploring, but the Daming Bureau is also sending people to explore.

Luo Zhongheng explained: "The area of the Jedi Island is too large, the current foundation is blank, even the Daming Bureau can't control everything, according to my understanding, their main focus is on the Ma, that is, the northern part of the Jedi Island, preparing to build a port there, since this is the case, we will go to the south." ”

"Fifty to one hundred Goryeo size, such a large area, as long as we don't take the initiative to compete with the Daming Industry Bureau, they won't and can't care about it." Luo Zhongheng proposed.

Goryeo lost Hamgyong Province and Pyongan Province, and the southern part was also semi-independent, so Goryeo, which is less than 100,000 square kilometers, is indeed far inferior to the nearly 8 million square kilometers of Jedo Island.

Eight million square kilometers of the island.

According to the preliminary exploration of the Ministry of Exploration, the local mineral resources are extremely rich, and the quality is not inferior to the high-quality coal in Shanxi, and more importantly, the local mining conditions are very good, which is conducive to mining.

Goryeo is very big, but in fact it is too small, no matter how to develop and lay out in advance, in the end, it is impossible to avoid being swallowed by the Daming Industry Bureau the biggest fat, and only leave them some "leftovers".

The island is different, such a boundless land, the value contained in it, only the Nanyang Railway plan, can swallow a percent of the supply, it is also a splashing wealth, plus the development of the Nanyang.

The development of the Ming Dynasty brought Goryeo on his side. Therefore, the development of the South Seas is also destined for the development of the island.

"In this case, we need to set up a firm in Nanyang and concentrate resources to compete with the Daming Industry Bureau." Wu Hong proposed.

The distance between Goryeo and Nanyang is too far.

It is impossible for him to go to Nanyang in person, as for Zhu Weiming, he can only act as a thug, Wu Hong will not hand over the rights of Nanyang to the other party, and Luo Zhongheng is not suitable, his reputation is too great, and going to Nanyang will attract a lot of attention.

"It's a good thing to set up a new business house and everyone has a stake."

"The old man supports."

"Yes."

The rest agreed.

Businessmen are also divided into three, five or six, and people like Wu Hong and Luo Zhongming, who have connections in the country behind them, undoubtedly have the highest status, even if their relationship is not worth mentioning in the eyes of the Daming Industry Bureau.

But if they had a deep relationship, they would not have left their hometown and come to Goryeo.

More are small businessmen who have no heels, in order to make a fortune, they emptied their family funds to gamble in Goryeo, and became winners in life by relying on the outlet, more or less accumulating wealth that ordinary people could not get in a few lifetimes or more than a dozen lifetimes.

They have no relationship in China, they are deeply involved in Goryeo, and with the help of their own identity, they have established relationships in Goryeo and formed a monopoly interest group, of course, among which locals are indispensable.

Luo Zhongheng looked at Gao Yutai.

Gao Yutai's father was Gao Jinquan, when Hongwu was more than 20 years old, Zhu Gaochi was still a little prince, and Lu Shunyi, Gao Jinquan and others, who were still the banchens of Li Joseon, wanted to open a business group in Beiping.

In the end, because of Zheng Daochuan in history, this person turned against the Ming Dynasty and confiscated their goods, and they came to Beiping to see Zhu Gaochi, and cried to Zhu Gaochi to accuse Zheng Daochuan.

Gao Jinquan has become ancient, but relying on his father's friendship with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in his early years, the Jin family is currently mixing well, and Gao Yutai, who is not the eldest son, is mixed with the Ming merchants.

Gao Yutai is a low-key young man, very measured, and has won the favor of many people.

Seeing Luo Zhongheng's gaze at him, Gao Yutai thought for a moment and understood the other party's thoughts, "If you feel the need, I am willing to go to Nanyang, just to live up to you." ”

"Hahaha."

"Okay."

Luo Zhongheng was very happy.

Gao Yutai is a Korean, but his family is different from other families, he is the most suitable to go to Nanyang, there is not much movement, it will not attract too much attention, and it has a lot of advantages.

Neither he nor Wu Hong can do it, the two of them have already been on the list of the Daming Industry Bureau, including the Tax Department is also keeping an eye on their property.

If they go to Nanyang, it won't be long before the Daming Industry Bureau can guess their ideas, which is not conducive to their business plan, and at this stage, no one can face the size of the Daming Industry Bureau.

Whoever the Daming Bureau wants to give birth to, whoever will give birth; Whoever wants to die, he will die.

The resources at the disposal of the Daming Bureau are too huge.

Soon, each company divided its shares, raised an initial capital of one million yuan, divided into three phases, and planned to form a production scale within five years, and join the Nanyang Railway Development Project as soon as possible to make a profit.

One million yuan, these businessmen easily took it out.

Relying on the Daming industrial system, Goryeo's wealth was also expanding rapidly, except for the Daming Industrial Bureau, most of the rest were controlled by them.

The established Lianji firm was registered with the Ministry of Industry and People's Union, Gao Yutai was the big shopkeeper, and Zhu Weiming was the second shopkeeper, because of Gao Yutai's relationship, the registration process was very smooth, and the main project was Nanyang.

On the day of the opening of the firm, the newly established Lianji firm was very low-key, and there was no such thing as a large domestic firm such as Hop Kee and Hop Zhong, and a change of shopkeeper had to be published in the newspaper to hype it up, and on the day of the opening of the firm, it was just a lion dance team at the door of the shop and firecrackers.

There is no shortage of manpower in the commercial houses.

They relied on the large-scale annexation of land in Goryeo and Siam, and mastered a large number of people, while Zhu Weiming had a semi-militarized organization, whether it was the disbandment of the overseas corps or the disbandment of the auxiliary defense corps, many military personnel were absorbed by the trading houses.

However, the development of Jedao requires weapons for self-protection, so this requires a relationship with the military, and it is illegal for overseas armed firms to be issued without military approval, and if they encounter the inspection of the Ming Navy, it will be over.

Small fights can hide in Tibet, and although Lianji Commercial Bank is very low-key, it has a large amount of real implementation, and it cannot be maintained without formal legal procedures.

In short, it can't be hidden.

So Gao Yutai went to Siam, and Zhu Weiming accompanied Wu Hong back to China.

The headquarters of the Joint Office of Military Industry has been moved to the capital by Beiping, and the two and their entourage arrived in Zhejiang first by steamer.

Because of the development of small commodities, Zhejiang Province has become the main purchasing location of overseas commercial banks.

Yingtianxing Province is also developed with small commodities, but because of the reason of the capital, the local management is strict, so the goods of Zhejiang Province are mostly circulated overseas, and the goods of Yingtianxing Province are mainly circulated domestically.

Zhu Weiming watched with envy Wu Hong and the owners of various factories having a banquet.

His only shortcoming is that he can't smoothly obtain the domestic goods of the Ming Dynasty, because he is not a Ming person, Zhu Weiming is very dissatisfied, but he is helpless, the Ming people are too arrogant, and they look down on outsiders.

Japanese people, Korean people, Nanyang people. They all looked down on them, and their goods were only sold to Ming merchants.

In addition to the guidance of policies, there is also an invisible threshold tacitly reached by businessmen.

Therefore, even if Zhu Weiming has a strong thug in his hand, not even weaker than the army of a small country, but he can't get Ming goods, then Zhu Weiming can only start forever and can't go to the front of the stage.

Goryeo merchants are inseparable from domestic goods, but over the years in Goryeo, Goryeo merchants have developed Goryeo into a supplier of cash crops, and the import of coal mines is in the hands of the Daming Industry Bureau, as for jute and other cash crops, it is the normal trade of the people.

Therefore, the two sides need each other, and there is a relationship of equal cooperation.

Wu Hong, who returned to Zhejiang, was entertained by domestic businessmen, and the merchants of Qiantang County, who imported tens of millions of catties of jute from Wu Hong every year, enthusiastically accompanied Wu Hong around the county, and finally booked a private room in the most famous local restaurant.

"If you don't have a private room, then make room for it."

"I'm sorry guest officer, I don't have this reason."

Suddenly.

There was a quarrel in the corridor on the second floor, Wu Hong and the others didn't care, but as the quarrel became louder and louder, they had already arrived in front of their door, and the next moment the door of their box was opened.

A young man barged in, and the shopkeeper behind him apologized with a bitter face.

"I'm sorry everyone, this guest officer has to break in, I didn't stop him, don't take it to heart." The shopkeeper looked back at the young man angrily, and said dissatisfiedly: "Why are you unreasonable." ”

The young man is about twenty-five years old, but he has a strange appearance, a square face, a tall body, and a loud voice, which is difficult to get along with at first glance.

"I'm sorry for you, if it's the past, I won't be unreasonable, there are really distinguished guests, you still take the initiative to make a place to come out, in order to compensate, I am willing to compensate you for double the cost of the banquet."

Zhu Weiming was furious.

When he was overseas, he had always bullied people, but he didn't expect to be bullied to the head, and he was about to get angry, but he saw Wu Hong's eyes to stop him, Zhu Weiming knew that there was a deep meaning, and quickly stopped his movements and sat back.

"Since Your Excellency has a request, what's the harm if we wait for each other, go out and help each other, multiple friends and multiple roads."

Wu Hong got up and smiled.

Seeing Wu Hong say this, the businessman of Qiantang County also held back his dissatisfaction, it was really the other party's dress, not only Wu Hong recognized it, but he also recognized it, the person was wearing a badge on his chest.

The carved shield has a swallow on it.

This is only available to the children who graduated from the Beiping Military Attache Military Academy.

The Beiping Department is already yesterday's yellow flower, but the Beiping Military Attache Military Academy has been founded for nearly 30 years, is the most senior military academy in the Ming Dynasty, in order to make up for the senior military attachés in the guard, their children as long as they pass the assessment, excellent performance can enter the Beiping Military Attache Military Academy to train and study, students who graduate from here join the army, the starting point is the end of most ordinary people.

A child of this status runs errands in person, so the nobleman in his mouth is absolutely unspeakably expensive.

The young man laughed, "My surname is Shi Mingheng, you can hear me in the capital Feng Yongjun, you have helped me, I accept your love, he has suffered every day, as long as he does not violate the law, I will repay you." ”

Hearing the young man's self-introduction, everyone had no idea.

The Pig Yongjun is the Beijing camp given by Emperor Taizu, the army that guards the imperial city, this person dares to say that the Pig Yongjun can hear him, and his status is definitely not small, Wu Hong was curious, who would be the noble person in such a person's mouth?

However, Wu Hong understood the reason and would not inquire about what he shouldn't ask, so he said goodbye to the young man for a while.

Seeing that the customers themselves had no objections, and after this, they also understood that the other party's origin was extraordinary, so they didn't dare to delay any longer, carefully re-cleaned the private room, and then prepared the name of the dish reported by the young man.

In fact, it's already past the meal, who cares.

Soon after.

A few carriages were parked at the door of the restaurant, and a group of young men came out of the carriages, who knew that they were either rich or expensive just by looking at their clothes, and everyone gathered around a younger child.

The man was dressed in a medium uniform, and there was no extravagant decoration, but it was very clean and tidy, and the corners of the clothes were neatly ironed, as if they were paintings.

There are also eight men.

The men wore regular clothes, but they couldn't hide the fierce military atmosphere, they seemed to be standing guard, with short guns hanging around their waists, and the people also had bows and arrows and bird guns, and every military household had them.

But the short gun is different, the short gun is a forbidden object.

More than a dozen young people all looked at a person, who was about twenty years old, with clear eyebrows, but very sharp eyes, and extraordinary momentum, he didn't need to care about anything, just do what everyone had prepared for him.

The dishes were all his favorite dishes, the drinks were rice wine, and his father did not allow them to drink spirits.

Tofu is a regular dish.

My father said that tofu is a relatively nutritious vegetable, and many people can't afford to eat meat, but cheap tofu can be replaced.

Taizu just likes to eat tofu, so Jiankang has a long life.

"Since there is no private room in this house, then you have to run more errands, go to the next one and ask again, how can you get rid of the original guests."

"This restaurant is the best in the local area, just now, I will not have an empty box when I go to any one, do you want to find a roadside shop without a private room, sit on the road to eat?"

Shi Heng said indifferently.

Scholars just like to be troublesome, and obviously no one else has an opinion, so he has to show himself.

This local prodigy, although he has only been in contact for half a day, Shi Heng has a very bad impression of him, but he just wants to show himself in front of nobles.

Shi Heng dared to say that he would call the original gang back and let them choose to continue to eat, or get a favor of their own, with the attitude of the other party, it must be the latter, and everyone would be happy.

The reader looked dissatisfied.

Arrogant soldiers, no rules.

If there are such people around you, it is difficult for you not to be affected.

"Alright."

The young nobleman spoke.

The box immediately fell silent, and the young nobleman continued: "What Yu Qian said is not wrong, and what Shi Heng did is not wrong, if the guests in front of you are not satisfied, Yu Qian, you go to find them, apologize to them and make compensation, until they are satisfied." ”

Shi Heng was about to explain, but when he saw the young nobleman's face, he stopped in embarrassment.

Hearing the nobleman's remedy, Yu Qian had no rebuttal, and it could only be so, so Yu Qian went to ask the store and learned the identity of the other party, it turned out to be a local businessman, Yu Qian knew the other party, and thought of turning back to the door.

"My father often said that things are difficult in the world, and since I traveled to school, although it is just a small thing, a lot of things have happened, including today's events, which shows that my father's sigh is indeed a feeling."

Shi Heng and Yu Qian both restrained their faces and looked respectful.

The fame of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, they are all convinced.

"My eldest brother is a patient person, today's matter is replaced by him, he would rather skip lunch, than bother others, I am not the character of the eldest brother, I want to eat, you also want to eat, so I am willing to make amends, unless the other party does not compensate, then I will not eat this meal. Shi Heng understands me, so I don't take today's things as an example, and I need to pay attention to methods and proportions in doing things in the future. ”

Shi Heng was criticized in public, with his temperament, he was not a patient person, but the other party said "Shi Heng understands me", and Shi Heng had no complaints in his heart.

What's wrong with taking the blame for the nobles.

He does.

Yu Qian did not hide what the nobleman said, but he paid attention to benevolence and righteousness, which was really rare, and the nobleman's bearing made him secretly sigh.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's second son Zhu Zhanyong is twenty years old and has started a study tour, and the school is implementing study tours, so the royal children will naturally not lag behind. Whenever I go to a place, I will invite famous local children, Yu Qian is fortunate to be invited, and when I see it today, although there are twists and turns, I am also convinced.

Wu Hong had not yet left, and spent the night at the merchant's house.

Although there are hotels in Qiantang, the environment is good for the businessman's family, and the businessman is also very warmly invited, and the two sides have common interests and the relationship is very harmonious.

Until Yu Qian's arrival, he apologized to them for the nobleman's affairs.

At this moment, Wu Hong, the businessman and Zhu Weiming were all surprised, one Shi Heng is not enough, Yu Qian is a Guozi who graduated from Guozijian, and he is interning in his hometown unit, and his future is promising.

What is the origin of the nobleman?

actually let children like Shi Heng and Yu Qian run for it.

Wu Hong is not leaving.

He's going to try his luck. (End of chapter)