Chapter 426: Profiteering
Yu Qian had obviously also known that Zhang Anshi had already belonged to him.
He pondered for a moment and didn’t bother refusing any more, instead, he said with a straight face, “If Your Highness doesn’t give up, then my humble servant will naturally try his best to do so.”
His sentence of doing his best was clearly satisfactory to Zhang Anshi.
He knew that Yu Qian was a man who kept his promises and would not change them once they were made.
Yu Qian is well known in history, in addition to his effective organization of the defense of the capital, the continuation of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to his integrity and honesty, as well as a promise of gold.
Once such a person promises, in the future customs affairs, it can be said, Zhang Anshi simply do not need to have any worries.
Customs’ coursing money, even if it is a single coin, will be credited as it is.
Zhang Anshi was in a happy mood and said very casually, “It’s late at night, go rest earlier.”
Yu Qian nodded, and he had a strange feeling in his heart.
Essentially, he is a scholar, still believe in the four books and five sutras in the set, but came to the Taiping Province, but clearly visible here the people, to be more peaceful and happy than other places.
And Zhang Anshi’s trust in him was even beyond anyone’s imagination.
Now, finally, he’s going to start meddling in actual affairs.
To be precise, this was more than just meddling, it was like directly starting to be in charge of the matter of the lifeblood of the Taiping Mansion, which made him not help but lose his smile over it.
He thought in his heart that, in any case, it would be enough for him to do his own thing according to the sage’s request, and if he could do one thing for the world in that case, it would not be a shameful thing to do.
One by one, the feudal lords have entered the capital.
In addition to the very grand courtesies, the Emperor himself hosted a banquet, and when all were looking forward to the most pressing matters of commerce, it was discovered that His Majesty had disappeared.
Zhang Anshi, on the other hand, seemed to have disappeared without a trace all of a sudden.
It is strange to say, clearly in the time when everyone pushes the cup, his majesty and Zhang Anshi are very enthusiastic, the wine is over the time, because of the wine pleasure, we hate to hold, together with the sleepy sue.
But when it comes to talking about serious matters, this old man and young man, it is like disappearing into thin air.
The ones in charge of approaching them, however, were Zhu Jin, who always had a false smile on his face, and Gao Xiang, who was stern-faced and unselfish.
“His Highness promised what, I don’t know, also don’t care, I was only ordered to contact, do business, both to be peaceful and make money, but also have a bottom line, if not, this business will not be done.”
Jukin grinned and made his opening remarks first.
On the side, Gaoxiang added: “Precisely because it is a big matter, so I am a minister, since I should be impartial, the situation of the various clans we already know a little bit, the specialties that you reported, but they are all good things, but to extract them, but they are all silver.”
“This to large-scale trade, close cooperation, will need a large number of shipbuilding, the need for countless merchants willing to invest gold and silver, need to build ports, to open mines, to build roads …… these …… which a pile, which one, is not a flower of silver. The silver, so Taipingfu this side, to draw up some statutes, your highnesses please pass through the eyes.”
The clerks, aside, began to hand out the charters, which had been printed long ago.
The kings have lowered their heads to see, this charter, but also said clearly, if the mining, up to tariffs, down to the development of various minerals, almost everything.
The crowd looked at it and exchanged pleasantries; the agreement was far more lenient than they had expected.
It’s really all about running for mutual benefit.
After all, for the clans, their land, agricultural products as well as minerals themselves are worthless, this thing, give them a shipload of ordnance, they can take hundreds of miles around in a month to come.
However, the medicines and firearms of Taipingfu, as well as the constant interchange of merchant ships, are of great benefit to them.
At that moment, King Han Zhu Gaoxu took the lead in stating, “This is good to say, this king has no problem with it.”
King Ning, Zhu Quan, also nodded and said, “Not bad, this king also has no problem with it, since it was agreed upon, then it shall not be changed without authorization.”
The crowd nodded in agreement.
Three days later, Zhu Jinze came to see Zhang Anshi with the agreement, and said with a smile on his face, “Your Highness, everything is in order.”
Zhang Anshi’s eyes suddenly revealed a glimmer of luster as he smiled and said, “In that case, I’m considered to have dropped a big stone in my heart.”
“But ……” Zhu Jin thought for a moment and said, “However, Your Highness, the subordinate is a bit puzzled, the conditions given to them this time are too lenient, in the opinion of the subordinate, in fact, the conditions can be a little more harsh, and the kings will be willing to accept it .”
Zhu Jin has been given a shade of official, counting, and can also call himself a subordinate official.
He is the first person in the world who can get an official position as a merchant.
Zhang Anshi laughed: “Doing business, of course, we all have to have the benefits, if the benefits are all we accounted for, this agreement even if it is signed, sooner or later will also be invalid. Instead of this, we might as well let each step, so that we can do inseparable, we can not leave anyone.”
Zhu Jin had a look of sudden realization and said admiringly, “My humble servant is taught that Your Highness is right.”
“Furthermore.” Zhang Anshi smiled, then said, “In the long run, it actually looks like this agreement benefits everyone, but the real meat is all for Taipingfu to eat, and they are just sharing a mouthful of soup! Think about it, Taipingfu is unique, all the clans are dependent on Taipingfu, but what about the clans everywhere?”
“In fact, they are the competition, whether it is grain production or mines, or other things, their trade to Taipingfu have overlap, which ensures that their things, because each other to compete, it is difficult to sell at high prices to this Taipingfu, but my Taipingfu business goods have scarcity, but is equal to the mastery of the sale of the pricing right, which is one of the most favorable profits. ”
When Zhu Jin thought carefully, he laughed, “It is still Your Highness who is far-sighted …….”
Zhang Anshi said: ”You don’t come to this set, don’t you understand the reasoning? It is only that you feel that this oil and water is not enough and want to earn more. My brother-in-law is the Crown Prince, all the kings are the Crown Prince’s closest relatives, in theory, they are also my relatives ah! How can I take all the benefits away from them? There must be a bit of soup and water, scraps of food, even if it’s meat scraps, if not, is that still a person?”
Jujin smiled and didn’t say anything.
At this moment, Zhang Anshi’s heart was surging, he stood still, carrying his hands behind his back, slightly raising his head upwards, he felt that he was moved by himself.
At this point, with great emotion, he said, “Wuhu, it’s taking off!”
Right now for the people of the world, they obviously haven’t seen the biggest benefit behind this.
Some people even feel that the Taiping government is self-exclusion from the world, in the eighteen provinces to implement the new policy resistance, so, simply had to hit the idea of the sea.
Although Daming had opened the sea, or rather, even if a large number of feudal lords began to feudalize outside the domain, people still did not have much knowledge about the overseas.
It is nothing but a land of barbarians, and I have nothing to offer in China.
This impression, ingrained in the minds of all, is deeply rooted.
Although it is true that compared to overseas, Daming has been called rich, but they apparently do not know a truth, those undeveloped barbaric land, in a sense, there is room for appreciation.
It’s like everyone is scrambling to buy all the good land that has already been reclaimed, but the price of this good land is already high, the value has already reached the top, but Zhang Anshi chose to go to open up the land!
Wasteland is certainly worthless, but the future appreciation is unlimited.
A few days later, Zhu Di issued an imperial edict.
This is considered to be the Wuhu County King and the vassal states completely concluded all the agreements, and the palace carried out a determination, buy fixed away from the hand, the next, is the implementation of the problem.
As a result, the Taiping Province Customs was prepared.
The United Chambers began to issue large loans, especially for shipbuilding, which is the hottest business today.
At the same time, the bank began to implement the marine insurance business, the ocean, inherent in a lot of danger, to a certain extent, for many merchants, the sea is a big gamble, but with insurance, but so that all can share the risk, to ensure profitable.
Since then, Sushil Merchant Bank has announced a big investment in the matter.
Many merchants and businessmen, who had made a fortune in Qixia, were now, with silver in hand, concerned about this big move.
There have even been quite a few business firms that have apparently seen the business opportunities and have secretly begun to lay out.
The clans began to cooperate at this time, granting a large number of edicts of favorable treatment.
On top of that, the ordnance workshop in Sushima began to expand on a large scale.
News after news after news after news after news after news after news after news after news after news after news after news after news after news after news after news after news after news after news.
Almost every day among the diaries, new news appears.
Naturally, the vast majority of people do not see very much, but there are people who pay close attention, in addition to a number of merchants and businessmen! They tend to be extremely sensitive to these, after all, …… have suffered losses before, and sometimes hindsight can produce huge losses.
There are also a lot of readers who always pay attention to what is in some of the diaries.
As for the news about Sutra, it’s just incidental.
At this time, in an inn not far from the Confucius Temple, many young scholars were gathering together.
These are to the capital to participate in the examination of the readers, the ancient transportation inconvenience, once in the lifts, in order not to delay the examination, often all over the scholars, will be in advance into the capital, will live in the capital to read, at any time to deal with the examination.
The inns like the Temple of Literature are the places where the students often come.
Many people here read the diary and couldn’t help but look relieved.
They couldn’t help but let out a long sigh of relief and said, “Now it seems that this Wuhu County King is also well aware of his New Deal, it is already difficult to be sustained in my Daming. Now …… but hit the idea of extraterritoriality, this barbarian land, even want a new government?”
Some shook their heads in disbelief.
Others laughed shamefully and said, “This new policy, which is the law of the barbarians, is it not just the right time?”
The crowd then burst into laughter.
Someone oddly said to a quiet-looking reader on the sidelines, “Why is Sex and Harmony silent today?”
This is known as the sex and the person, is a Shandong lifts Ma Yu, Ma Yu into the Beijing, but also love to read the di newspaper, of course, this is also no way of doing things, the examination also involves the ‘strategy’, can be examined well strategy, it is necessary to have a good understanding of the world’s affairs can be.
He is also considered to be a talented man in Shandong, this time to the Beijing, but also hesitant, the people marveled at his talent, are happy to socialize with him.
In the past, the horse Oracle to the new government, but also playful and angry, but these days, constantly go to the diary, but seems to have few words.
“Yeah, sex and say a few words.”
Ma Yu, however, smiled bitterly and said, “Today’s body is not good, there is no talk, let’s talk about it some other time.”
After saying that, he arched his hand and bowed, bid farewell to the crowd, and went back to his room to rest.
The servant who came with him, Ma San, saw the young master like this and thought he was sick, so he cleaned up the bed and said with concern, “Young master, do you want to call a doctor?”
The horse Oracle slightly sunken eyebrows end sitting on the chair, but the answer is suddenly said: “Qixia side, are in shipbuilding?”
“Yes, I heard that now the ship material, the price is going up to the sky ……” Ma San said: “Now I also heard that, but all involved in the sea trade, the money bank to give loans, are willing to give up, as long as the collateral is enough, do not need much scrutiny, direct Issued …… and ……”
Said here, Ma San suddenly laughed, scratched his head with his hand and said: “I forgot that the young master always do not like to listen to these, then again, young master, we may not have enough money on hand, Shandong has been hit by the disaster in the past two years, the old master’s side is also not good, and the three young masters …… he is also good at gambling, lost so much family business, and also I don’t know if you will be able to go to high school next year, if not …… I’m afraid …… that you won’t be able to go to high school.”
Ma San didn’t continue with the latter words, but a worried look permeated his face.
Ma Yu nodded, he pursed his lips and lowered his head to think about something, half a ring, he suddenly said, “I heard that some time ago, the king of Zhao people such as malaria, in the medical school, to cure?”
Ma San nodded and said, “Yes, it says there is some kind of divine medicine.”
Ma Yu’s frown deepened and he mouthed, “If so …… if so ……”
Ma San finally noticed Ma Yu’s unusualness and looked at him strangely, “What’s wrong with you, young master ……”
Ma Yu, however, said, “You are from Dengzhou, aren’t you?”
Ma San did not understand why Ma Yu suddenly asked about this, but he honestly said, “Yes, I am from Dengzhou.”
Ma Yu then said, “Didn’t someone from your ancestry also go to sea?”
Ma San was first stunned, and then complained with a bit of sadness, “The outside world is very bitter, and there are pirates, and easy to get sick, out of a trip, it is a life of nine deaths, in the first place, if it is not Grandfather with someone to go out to sea …… would not have lost his life … …”
Ma Yu is a native of Shandong, the Yuan Dynasty, Quanzhou and Shandong’s Dengzhou and Laizhou, are important seaports, Ma Yu since childhood also heard a lot of things.
Overall, this going to sea was horrible business for Ma Yu. Such as disease, such as pirates, such as wind and waves, is that those who go to sea are often seen as inferior.
This is all because one would never go out to sea with a ship until one has no way out.
But at the same time, the other image people have of going to sea is that of profiteering.
During the Yuan Dynasty, many of the great food merchants as well as the Han Chinese sea merchants were not without riches, and these, Ma Yu has heard about.
Ma Yu came from a scholarly family, and someone in his ancestry had been involved in seafarer’s trade, but of course, it wasn’t going out to sea, but purchasing seafarer’s oddities and making a fortune as a result.
And now, after reading the various initiatives in the Di Di report, Ma Yu suddenly, gave birth to some ideas.
Relying on medicines to solve diseases, sharing risks through insurance, borrowing a lot of money, encouraging shipbuilding, and in addition to this, the various clans, which are not foreigners, but are the brothers and sons of His Majesty, means that seafarers are not traveling to foreign countries, and that they share the same language and script with each other.
Every day, after reading the new initiatives in the diary, Ma Yu could feel that almost every decree was right on the mark, and everywhere was paving the way for the sea trade.
“Once upon a time, I was looking down on the Taiping House, thinking that it would only impose tyranny, and now it seems that it is really powerful, and every place is the right medicine, it seems …… that the future of this Taiping House is really immeasurable.” Ma Yu emotional up, can not help but shake his head.
He actually had some regrets; essentially, he was hostile to the Taiping government, and his impression of Zhang Anshi was even worse.
Can his cognition, this Ma Yu but very clear, this matter …… brings the impact, may far exceed his fellow students, fellow years of imagination.
Ma San said, “Young master, we don’t have enough money, we have to hurry to send a letter to the master to send some silver. Young master, you are too honest, young master’s several brothers, only young master you are the most competitive, but the master of this family belongings, but you ask for the least ……”.
“Silver …… is …… is …… is ……”
Ma Yu muttered under his breath, as if he suddenly remembered something, and stood up violently, pacing up and down, looking thoughtful.
Ma San did not know what to do, nagging, “Young master ……”
Ma Yu, however, jerked his head up at this moment to look at Ma San, “You said that on the money bank side, if you use your merit as a guarantee, you can pawn the silver and get a loan, right?”
Ma San Da shocked, frowned: “Young master …… how can you say such words, this …… is not a joke? Although we are not enough money on our plate, but at least …… we can still think of a little way, how can we come out of this?”
Ma Yu shook his head, but his eyes became stern, said: “In fact, it is not impossible to try, they are both to do collateral, is because of the fear that some people can not return to the silver, I am the countryside examination, the day is about to be examined, my family in Shandong, although not a famous family, but is also considered a family of books. Perhaps you can try, not try, how do you know?”
Ma San coldly looked at Ma Yu and said, “Young master you are ……”
Ma Yu at this time the look shows a few solemn, said: “have to go to get a silver to purchase a boat, the future price of this boat, must also rise again, not only so, if I expected it is not wrong, as long as the boat in, will be able to get a few times the profit, at that time, will not worry about not having the silver.”
Ma Yu paused, but then brightened up, and then said, “I have another idea, like me, there must be quite a lot of people, why not, with me taking the lead, teach everyone to buy a boat together?”
“The price of this sea boat is not expensive, but there are people who are coveting it, but they do not have enough money, if they buy it in partnership with others, they are worried about causing trouble, but I am a graduate, if I can take the lead and make a guarantee, this matter can be accomplished!”
With that, Ma Yu instructed Ma San, “Ma San, hire me a car, I want to make a trip to Qixia immediately.”