Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1654, Yangtze River Bridge Stock Listing

Upstairs at Wangyue Tower, Liu Jin naturally didn't know that Zhu Yunming was disheartened and ready to become a petty official. At this time, he was discussing with Wang Shouren about the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge.

"Old Wang, what is the approximate budget for the Yangtze River Bridge?"

Liu Jin carefully looked at Wang Shouren's plan.

The Yangtze River Bridge to be built this time is a double-deck bridge, with a cement road on the top and a train on the bottom floor. It is very expensive, but the construction method adopted is relatively simple and reliable. It requires the construction of a large number of piers, but It also leads to a much higher construction cost.

"About forty million taels of silver is needed."

Wang Shouren replied.

"Forty million taels of silver~"

"This is really not a small number."

Hearing this number, Liu Jin couldn't help sighing.

In this era of relatively backward technology and industry, it is too expensive to build a bridge across the Yangtze River.

Forty million taels of silver, if you put it in the past, you wouldn't even dare to think about it.

That is to say, the current Daming is rich and powerful, both the court and the people have huge wealth, so they dare to say that they invested forty million taels of silver.

Of course, the value of silver in Daming is now much lower than before, because the amount of silver flowing into Daming from all over the world is too huge.

Colonizing the world and trading globally at the same time, the amount of gold and silver flowing into Ming Dynasty every year is an astronomical figure, and the value of silver is much lower than before.

In the past, when Liu Jin just traveled here, ordinary people may have never seen silver in their entire lives, and all they used were copper coins.

But now, as long as every household goes to work, a person can easily earn dozens of taels of silver a year, and every household has silver. Naturally, this value is completely incomparable.

That is to say, Daming has a vast land and abundant resources, and can plunder the huge colonies around the world and certain development of capital industry, so it did not lead to a sharp rise in prices in Daming, but the labor price has been rising.

But no matter how you calculate it, the [-] million taels of silver is still an extremely large number and wealth.

The risk of spending such a huge amount of wealth to build a bridge is still very high. The key is that after it is built, it may take a long time to recover the cost.

"Yes, this is indeed a very large number, so it needs the strong support of the imperial court."

Wang Shouren also nodded solemnly.

Nanzhili's development is now extremely slow because of Jinling's arrears of wages. A large number of factories in Nanjing have closed down, and they have to go to Songhu, Wuchang, Nanchang and other places if they can't find workers.

This made Wang Shouren very anxious. As the chief envoy of Nanzhili, he hoped that the construction of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge would drive the development of Nanjing and slowly bring Nanjing and Nanzhili back to life.

As long as the bridge is repaired, the business travelers traveling from south to north will still have to pass through Nanjing. Coupled with the railway and the water transport of the Yangtze River, the traffic in Nanjing can be said to extend in all directions.

With such conditions, it can develop naturally.

Now, they can be regarded as having tasted the bitterness.

Everyone is unwilling to come to Nanjing to work, and Nanjing people are unwilling to work. Many times, when they hear that the other party is the boss of Nanjing, they leave directly.

In this era, it is still an era that is extremely concerned about credibility and reputation. If the reputation is ruined, everyone else will be implicated.

Originally, the various forms of Ming Dynasty are very good, capitalism is developing rapidly, and industry is also developing rapidly, so you can get good returns by investing and building factories casually.

But because no one is willing to work for you, you can't even recruit workers, so naturally you can't do it.

"Forty million taels of silver. Even if the imperial court can allocate half of the funds, it needs to raise 2000 million taels of silver from the society. This investment is more than that of the Egyptian canal."

"I'm worried that the shares of the Yangtze River Bridge will not be easy to sell at that time, no one will subscribe, and it will not be able to raise enough funds."

Liu Jin thought for a while and said worriedly.

The strategic value and shipping value of the Egyptian Canal are irreplaceable, so even though the investment is huge, everyone is willing to invest.

Now the Egyptian Canal can bring good returns and benefits to investors every year, which also proves the value of the Egyptian Canal.

But the Yangtze River Bridge is different. If your toll is too expensive, people may prefer to cross the river by boat. In addition, you can build the bridge in Nanjing, and you can also build it in other places.

And it is unique, there are too many alternative ways, which is also doomed, even if the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge is built, the return it can bring to investors will not be too high, and it will take a long time to return Book.

"It's only 2000 million taels of silver. Old Liu, you are still short of this little silver. You can't raise enough silver. Then, old Liu, you can invest."

Zhu Houzhao on the side pouted and said.

For others, 2000 million taels of silver is an astronomical figure, but for Liu Jin, the god of wealth, [-] million taels of sincerity is nothing. Even Liu Jin himself can invest in the construction of this bridge by himself, and it is very easy .

Others may not know how huge Liu Jin's property and wealth are, but he, Zhu Houzhao, will not know. Zhu Houzhao has a share in all the properties under Liu Jin's command, and they are all major shareholders.

Zhu Houzhao is very clear about how much money he can get every year.

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"Your Highness, all my money was spent on running the school, but His Highness has so much money that there is no place to use it. Why don't you invest some time, Your Highness?"

Liu Jin was speechless immediately. I earn a lot of money a year, but most of it is spent on education. In addition, there are various new investments every year. I really don’t have a lot of money.

"Okay, let's raise funds publicly first, if there is not enough, it will be all mine."

"Old Liu, you like to invest in education. As a prince, I also need to build bridges and pave roads."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Houzhao readily agreed.

Think about this long bridge, in the final analysis, it is for the infrastructure of Daming, in order to facilitate the communication between the north and the south of Ming Dynasty, it is a good thing that is good for Daming and has no harm.

He has no reason not to do it, what's more, he really has so much money that he has no place to spend it. These industries under his command are like gold mines, and he is continuously earning huge wealth for himself.

Liu Jin's money is spent desperately on education. Elementary schools, middle schools, and senior colleges are everywhere, and tens of millions of taels of silver are spent in them every year. The burden and pressure are getting bigger and bigger.

That is to say, Liu Jin is good at management and has a huge industry under his command, otherwise it would be really difficult to persevere.

"I am relieved to have His Highness's words."

When Wang Shouren heard this, he immediately laughed.

Now I don't have to worry about money, I really found the right person.

These two people in front of them are Daming's God of Wealth, who have incomparably huge wealth. As long as they are willing to invest, no matter how large the funds are, they will not be a problem.

"What is the design height of this bridge?"

Liu Jin smiled. It is naturally the best that Zhu Houzhao is willing to invest. His money may be more than that of Emperor Hongzhi.

Then he carefully looked at the planning and design drawings of the bridge, thought for a while and asked.

"According to your request at the beginning, the bottom of the bridge should be 40 meters high from the river surface. In the future, even large ships can pass through. For this reason, many people strongly opposed it, thinking that there is no need to design it so high. And there is no need for the bridge deck to be designed so wide."

Wang Shouren immediately replied that he had already remembered all aspects of the bridge's data clearly, so he could reply right away.

"Of course it needs to be built higher. If it is built too low, it will cut off the water transportation of Huguang and Jiangxi. It will be poked at the backbone. The bridge deck should be built wider, which is also for future considerations. Our vision cannot It’s only limited to the present, and we have to look at the longer term.”

"It doesn't matter if you spend a little more money now, but don't affect the future development and potential because of the unreasonable design, then the gain outweighs the loss."

Liu Jin smiled and replied that the Yangtze River Bridge of later generations was too short when it was designed, so that the value of the Yangtze River’s golden shipping could not be realized. Without Huguang, Jiangxi has completely become an inland area.

Otherwise, with the golden river channel of the Yangtze River, if [-]-ton cruise ships can easily pass through, there will not be much difference from the coastal areas, and the development of river transportation can also be followed.

"I can't see it now, but what you said must be right. It is always better to build taller and wider."

Wang Shouren nodded after thinking about it. To be honest, he didn't understand why Liu Jin had to build it so high and wide. Maybe thirty million taels of silver would be enough.

Soon, the Ming court passed the memorial submitted by Nanzhili on the construction of the Nanjing Changqiao Bridge, and agreed to build the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge on Nanzhili's side.

The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge was built in the same way as the railways built in various parts of the Ming Dynasty. Part of the funds were funded by the imperial court, and the rest of the funds were publicly raised from the entire Daming at the Tianjin Stock Exchange.

After the bridge is built, the income brought by the bridge will also be distributed in proportion to the investment and returned to investors.

"Sell newspaper~sell newspaper!"

"The imperial court has launched another major project, and the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge has passed the review."

"Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge has a total investment of [-] million taels of silver, the Ministry of Households allocated [-] million taels of silver, and the remaining [-] million taels will be listed on the Tianjin Stock Exchange to raise funds."

Soon, as soon as the news was announced, it was quickly published in newspapers, and suddenly there was a wave of discussions about the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge among the young and old in the entire Beijing-Tianjin area.

(End of this chapter)