Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1825, the prosperity of Tianjin
Tianjin Shili Commercial Bank, Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin were wearing ordinary clothes, holding fans in their hands, like literati, walking very casually on this most famous street in Tianjin.

Shili Commercial Bank is the most concentrated place in Tianjin. On both sides of the entire street, there are many buildings, and each building is a commercial bank.

Here you can find almost all commercial firms with names and surnames in the north and south of the Ming Dynasty. As long as they are powerful commercial firms, almost all of them will set up an office here.

Not only the commercial firms of Ming Dynasty, but also the large commercial firms of the vassal states such as Japan, North Korea, and Siam also opened branches here, Spain, the Ottoman Empire, the Persian Empire, Egypt, etc. also set up offices here, Ningguo, Chu The vassal states and colonies such as China, the Western United Firm, and the South African colony also set up offices here.

It can be said that on this street, you can almost find powerful business houses from all over the world. Here, you can find any kind of commodity that comes to any part of the world.

The daily transactions here are calculated in [-] million taels of silver.

For later generations, this place is equivalent to the economic and financial center of Ming Dynasty and even the whole world. Thanks to the breakthrough of wireless technology, the trading and transactions between commercial banks here are more convenient.

It is very likely that the slave trade in the Mediterranean was negotiated here between the two parties; in the naval battle in West Africa, the food, cloth and the like needed by both sides were also negotiated and purchased here.

This place almost controlled the economic center of Ming Dynasty, and even the global economic center. Large-scale transactions and sales in the world were almost all negotiated here.

Times are changing.

The previous era of needing to bring goods and talk about buying and selling with gold and silver face to face has gradually gone. Set up an office here or simply set up the headquarters here.

You can negotiate any business with any buyer or seller on a global scale, and you don’t even need to bring gold and silver to talk, because the First Bank of Daming has a large branch here, which is dedicated to major commercial banks. Provide transfer services.

It is fast and convenient to use the transfer service of Daming First Bank for the exchange of funds. The key point is that it is also very safe. Money and gold and silver are not exposed, which greatly facilitates business exchanges.

"Tsk tsk, this is the world-famous Shili Commercial Bank. It really deserves its reputation. All the cars coming and going here are all Mercedes-Benz cars. It's really rich!"

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the ten-mile commercial house in front of him. The street was very long. It was not an exaggeration to say ten miles, but it was really ten miles, extending to the end of the field of vision.

The road is very spacious, the two-way sixteen-lane design is extremely spacious, and the buildings on both sides of the road are also extremely magnificently decorated, and the panoramic glass is shining brightly under the sunlight.

Here at the entrance of each building, the cards are bigger than the other, with a big lion sitting in the town, and two rows of waiting guys standing upright, wearing uniforms, standing upright, and whenever a car comes, their faces are full of faces. He went forward to greet him with a smile.

There are eye-catching signs on the walls of each building, so that people can tell that it is a certain firm at a glance. At the same time, it is inherited from the tradition of the sea, and many flags are erected high on the top of the building.

The dragon flag of the Ming Empire, the banner of the firm, and the family emblem of the owner of the firm, or the symbols and flags of some vassal states and colonies.

People can tell at a glance what kind of firm this firm is, which family it belongs to, or that feudal state, vassal state, and the like.

Standing at the Shili Commercial Bank and looking at it, the feeling is very different. There are flags everywhere, and there are huge words of each commercial firm, vehicles coming and going, and businessmen, capitalists, and factories in and out of extraordinary clothes. Lord or something.

"Your Majesty, these ten-mile commercial firms have almost gathered the most powerful commercial firms, factories and other offices in the world, and any business can be negotiated here."

"It can be said that this is the economic and financial center of my Ming Dynasty and even the whole world. The transaction amount here is estimated to be calculated in [-] million taels of silver."

Liu Jin said with a smile: "The number of these commercial firms listed on the Tianjin Stock Exchange exceeds 500, and the market value of most of them exceeds 1000 million taels of silver."

"There are more than a dozen commercial banks with a market value of more than 1 million taels of silver. In addition, there are a large number of commercial banks that have not been listed at all, but their own strength is very strong."

"My Daming receives more than 1 million taels of silver in taxes every year!"

"Tsk tsk, it seems that I, Ming, are really rich. This can easily reach hundreds of millions of taels of silver. In the past, the national treasury was only 300 million taels of silver a year."

After hearing this, Emperor Hongzhi also sighed with a smile.

Thinking about the days before, it was really not the life of an emperor. The national treasury only had 300 million taels of silver a year, and it was a drizzle, a drop in the bucket, not even enough to play games with the whole huge empire.

Looking at the present, it is just this ten-mile commercial bank that can receive hundreds of millions of taels of silver every year, which was unimaginable in the past.

"Let's go, go to Tianjin Port to have a look."

Emperor Hongzhi shook his head slightly, the business development of Ming Dynasty was really fast.

After thinking about it, I decided to visit Tianjin Port. There are several places that you must visit when you come to Tianjin, such as Tianjin Port, Tianjin Stock Exchange, Shili Commercial Bank, and Tianjin Industrial Zone.

These places are the most representative places in Tianjin, and they can best represent the places where Ming Dynasty is today.

Sitting in the car, Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin soon came to Tianjin Port again.

Today's Tianjin Port is no longer the original Tianjin Port. After expansion again and again, the area that stretches for more than ten miles along the coastline is a port.

But this can no longer meet the demand for ports and terminals in Tianjin. Many sub-ports and terminals have been built in other places to divert traffic to meet market demand.

Standing at a high place in the port and looking over, the entire Tianjin port is very prosperous and busy. There are large ocean-going ships moored here and there.

Traditional sailboats, steamships, and new-style internal-combustion engine ships are fully moored at every wharf here.

Here at the wharf, the workers loading and unloading the goods are constantly busy. As soon as the shipments of goods arrive here, they are immediately unloaded, and then they are immediately transported away by four-wheeled carriages and trucks.

At the same time, at one of the wharves here, you can see a large amount of goods being piled up continuously. As soon as the ships carrying the goods arrive, they will start loading immediately, and the ships full of goods will leave the port soon, giving up their positions. , because there are still a large number of ships waiting in the adjacent sea area.

too busy.

The Beijing-Tianjin area is currently the most industrially concentrated area in the Ming Dynasty, with a large number of factories, workshops and businesses. At the same time, it is also the largest consumer market in the Ming Dynasty and even in the world.

The demand for raw materials is huge. The amount of cotton and wool needed every day is astronomical, and these need to be transported from all over the world.

Most of the industrial products produced here, such as cloth, glass, cement, ports, clothes, shoes, automobiles, bicycles, motorcycles, wine, flour, steel, arms and weapons, etc., are also transported out of this port.

The industrial products produced by the factories, workshops, and commercial firms in the Beijing-Tianjin area accounted for more than [-]% of the entire Ming Dynasty. There were products of all kinds, large and small, and from the very beginning, the capital of Daming Doctrines are all oriented to the world, not just for the local market of Ming Dynasty.

Its market has been facing the global world from the beginning, obtaining raw materials from all over the world and selling its own products.

The combination of capitalism and colonialism is a feature of the development of Daming capital, and it is also an important reason for its rapid development, because there are enough markets and raw materials.

The Beijing-Tianjin region is also the region with the highest income in the world. The current per capita income in the Beijing-Tianjin region has exceeded 6 taels of silver a month.

The two cities have a combined population of more than 2000 million. Such a large population and such a high income naturally form a huge consumer market in the Beijing-Tianjin area.

The number of cattle, sheep and pigs to be eaten here exceeds 1500 million every year, and a large amount of marine products are consumed, all of which need to be imported from outside.

A large number of commodities produced around the world, a large part of which have arrived in the Beijing-Tianjin region, become raw materials for factories or become meals on the tables of young and old in the Beijing-Tianjin region.

The two cities of Beijing and Tianjin are like super giant beasts, handling a large amount of goods and commodities, and the port in front of them is carrying a large part of the import and export tasks.

"The number one port in the world really lives up to its reputation!"

"It was just a small fishing port back then, but in a blink of an eye, it became the largest port in Ming Dynasty."

"The boats coming and going can no longer see small boats, one after another, and each one is bigger than one."

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the bustling and busy Tianjin Port with a lot of emotion, it has changed too much.

(End of this chapter)