Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1296, a new round of sea tide
Tianjin Stock Exchange.

With the ringing of the new round of market opening bells, stock investors who had been waiting for a long time rushed in, and soon the huge trading hall was packed to the brim.

"I want to buy 1 shares of Burmese Emerald Trading Company's stock ~ [-] tael of silver for every ten shares!"

"I also want to buy the shares of Burmese Emerald Trading Company. I will buy [-] shares, and the price for every ten shares will be three taels of silver!"

"Buy [-] shares of Myanmar Emerald Trading Company, and bid five taels of silver for every ten shares~"

Many people almost walked and ran, hurried to the stock purchase window, and hurriedly took out their bank notes to buy the stocks of Myanmar Emerald Trading Company.

The Zhang brothers waited for several years, and finally took Burma in one go. Since then, Myanmar has been a colony of the Zhang brothers.

The Burmese Jadeite Firm is the biggest beneficiary among them. It is almost equivalent to directly owning the huge colony of Myanmar. In the future, it will not only monopolize Burmese jadeite, but also Burmese teak, mahogany, nanmu and many resources and minerals.

No one cared about it before, and the shares of the Myanmar Jadeite Trading Company, which had fallen into the abyss of hell, suddenly became fragrant. A large number of people waved their banknotes and wanted to buy the shares of the Myanmar Jadeite Trading Company.

On the stock announcement wall of Myanmar Jade Trading Company, the entire wall was covered with orders to buy stocks in a blink of an eye, but the announcement wall for selling stocks was empty here.

The stock of Myanmar Emerald Trading Company also rose rapidly at the speed of a rocket.

Originally, ten shares could not be sold for a tael of silver, but in a blink of an eye, it became a tael of silver per share, and then quickly climbed to more than ten taels of silver per share, and it continued to rise at a terrifying speed.

"Haha~"

"Get rich~ get rich!"

"The [-] shares of Burmese Emerald Trading Company that I bought just yesterday skyrocketed today. I thought it was the cheapest and no one wanted it, so I bought it without thinking too much."

Someone looked at the soaring stocks and couldn't help laughing happily on the spot.

Some people laugh, and naturally some people cry.

"Fuck~"

"I have held this stock for more than a year, and it has been falling, and it has been falling. I thought that the Zhang brothers must have taken everyone's money to enjoy themselves. The stock of the Myanmar Emerald Trading Company must be penniless. It's worth it."

"Who knows, once I sell it, it will immediately skyrocket, what a fool~"

"My silver~ my silver!"

"I sold [-] shares of Myanmar Emerald Trading Company for more than a thousand taels of silver, and now it has doubled dozens of times~"

The people who sold the shares of the Burmese Emerald Trading Company couldn't help but howled in pain. The difference between before and after was so great that it was difficult to accept this fact, and some people even made trouble.

In the stock market, some are happy, some are sad, some are laughing, some are crying...

In the private room on the top floor of Wanghai Building in Tianjin, a group of young people gathered together. These young people were all dressed in gold and jade, and they were dignified, and they could be seen as the children of the rich and powerful.

"Brother Li, you are hosting a banquet in Wanghai Tower today, so you must have something important to discuss?"

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, these rich and powerful children also began to discuss serious business.

Hearing someone questioning, everyone also looked at Li Zhaofan who was sitting in the middle in unison. Li Zhaofan was the stepson of the current cabinet minister Li Dongyang.

Although this Li Dongyang was a cabinet minister, his fate was not very good. He had three sons, the eldest son died at the age of twenty-seven, the second son also died at the age of ten, and the third son died before his first birthday.

As an official, he has become an extremely human minister, but he doesn't even have a son, which is naturally impossible, so his fourth brother adopted a son, Li Zhaofan, to Li Dongyang as his stepson.

"Brothers~"

"Today's Ming Morning Post, everyone must have read it, what do you think?"

Li Zhaofan looked at the people present. These people are the sons of important civil servants in the current dynasty, and they have always been close to each other. They used to eat, drink and have fun together a lot.

"It's filled with emotion. Even the Zhang brothers, a pair of idiots, were able to build such a large overseas colony. It's really unbelievable."

"That's right, Brother Zhang, it's not like we haven't come into contact with them before. What can they do?"

"Whether they are capable or not depends on actual actions. Now they have colonized East India and Burma, and they can plunder a huge wealth of tens of millions of taels of silver from the colonies every year."

"In contrast, we, we have not achieved anything so far."

"In my opinion, it is not difficult to get a colony overseas. Our family has a colony in East Africa, but it is not very big, it is the size of a county, and there is no profit. We have to go in every year It’s a lot of money.”

"That's because you didn't choose the right place. You can see that Myanmar is very good. Emeralds, jade, gold, silver and copper, mahogany, nanmu, and teak are all valuable goods."

"Don't mention it, all the good places are occupied first."

"Those honorable sons, Dukes of England, Dukes of Ding, Dukes of Cheng, Dukes of Australia, and Dukes of Liao, have already been divided up in sevens and eights, and those vassal kings are more powerful than each other. Good place They robbed them all, and it took a lot of effort for our family to get a colony in East Africa."

"Your home is also called a colony?"

"The brothers of the Zhang family are called colonies. They occupy a country at once."

"It can't be compared. Their Zhang family has tens of thousands of colonial troops. Our family has even recruited the entire family's males, plus the folks from the village. We only have a team of [-] people. We can get one A colony the size of a county is not bad, at least you can still sell ivory, various spices, and some frankincense and myrrh to survive, but don’t expect to make much money.”

"It's not good to have a colony overseas. At least your Xie family has the final say on this colony. I heard that your land is fairly fertile. At least speaking, there are more ways out from now on."

"It's okay, there is a lot of land, but not enough manpower, so I spent a lot of money to buy slaves."

"Colonies are actually not that easy to manage. It still depends on the location. Of course, colonies in good places are still very profitable. The brothers of the Zhang family are also very accurate and act quickly."

"There are many people who are interested in Myanmar, but no one can compete with their Zhang family brothers."

"......."

As soon as everyone heard it, you and I couldn't stop talking.

"Brothers~"

"There is great potential in overseas lands. The Zhang brothers can build a large colony overseas. Why can't we?"

"Aren't we even inferior to the Zhang brothers?"

"Could it be that we can only eat, drink and have fun in this land of Beijing and Tianjin?"

Li Zhaofan looked at the crowd in front of him and told his plan.

"I'm going to work hard overseas, and I also want to lay down a vast colony overseas."

"I don't know if you guys are willing to join me?"

Hearing Li Zhaofan's words, everyone present immediately fell silent.

These rich and powerful children usually eat, drink and have fun in the capital, walking dogs and fighting cocks are naturally comfortable, but if they really go overseas, go to wild places, and work hard to make a career out of it.

"Brother Li?"

"are you serious?"

"This overseas is a barren land. The sea is far away. Drifting by boat is extremely dangerous. There are many barbarians and various unknown diseases overseas. I don't know how many people died overseas."

"It's easy to go out, but I'm afraid I won't be able to come back in the future."

"Yes, yes, even if you really want to go overseas to seize colonies, you can just send people in your family to go. There is no need to go there yourself."

"I heard that the mosquitoes in Africa are bigger than dragonflies, the frogs there are as terrifying as cows, and the Kunlun slaves are as black as charcoal. It is said that there are tribes that specialize in eating people, which are extremely barbaric. , In addition, there are many diseases in Africa, and many people go to Africa, and they get sick and die for no reason.”

Hearing Li Zhaofan's words, everyone immediately tried to persuade him.

"A bunch of trash who only know how to eat, drink and have fun~"

"I shouldn't be with them. How can I be successful with them?"

"Everyone kept saying that the Zhang brothers were idiots, but at least the Zhang brothers dared to go out and work hard, dared to go out and break through, and built a huge colony."

"But as for them, when they heard that they were going out, they were all frightened to death. They were afraid of this and that, so they could only watch horse racing and play football here in the capital."

Hearing everyone's words, Li Zhaofan was very disappointed in his heart. He thought that some people would support him and go to sea with him, but now it seems that these people are just a bunch of trash.

"Brother Li, I don't know which place you fancy?"

Just when Li Zhaofan was disappointed, someone stood up and asked.

"Arabian Peninsula~"

Li Zhaofan looked at the other party, then came to the huge world map next to the wall of the hall, drew a big circle on the Arabian Peninsula and said.

"The Arabian Peninsula?"

"It is said that the Arabian Peninsula is all barren land, all deserts and deserts, and only a few oases have villages and towns. What's the use of occupying such places?"

"What's more, as far as I know, the Arabs on the Arabian Peninsula have been tough and xenophobic since ancient times. If they want to occupy this place, it may not be an easy task, and they may have to pay a heavy price. "

When the man heard this, he immediately frowned.

Going overseas to open up colonies is a good thing, but it also depends on the place. Some places are very rich, and you will get rich if you conquer them, but in some places, not only are the poor dying, the key is that the poorer the place, the tougher these people are. The harder it is to conquer, the more the loss outweighs the gain.

The Arabian Peninsula, in the eyes of Ming people, is a barren land, full of deserts, what is the use of such a colony?

"I think it's pretty good here. It's useless now, maybe it will be useful in the future."

Li Zhaofan said helplessly, in fact, there is no place to occupy, and the Arabian Peninsula seems to be doing well, at least these Arabs can be sold as slaves.

(End of this chapter)