Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 351
In Dongyang New City, more than [-] Japanese pirates captives are busy obediently under the supervision of tens of thousands of soldiers from the Shenji Battalion.

Everyone is so serious, so focused, so hard-working, no one is playing tricks at all.

They really didn't dare to play any tricks anymore, because as long as they showed any signs of working hard or whispered secretly to discuss something, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion would whip them to death without hesitation!
People are really pumping to death.

Those who are dissatisfied, unwilling, arrogant, fierce, bad-tempered, have a lot of tricks, want to play tricks, etc., are basically beaten to death!

People are really not afraid of their dissatisfaction.

Anyway, if you refuse to accept it, you will do it, do it to death, and do it until you die!
Now they are really convinced, completely and thoroughly convinced, they dare not play any tricks anymore, and they work very hard.

With more than 3 hard-working laborers and the newly invented cement, the construction speed of Dongyang New City is quite fast.

At this moment, the four walls of the city have been completed, and the yamen and shops in the city have also taken shape. I believe that in a few months, this Dongyang New City will almost be completed.

At this time, on the city wall of Zhenwa City, Taichang was leading a large group of people to scan this commercial city like Taicang New City.

These people included Cheng Jiashuo, the new minister of the Ministry of Commerce; and many more.

Even the letter king Zhu Youjian has come!
These people accompanied Taichang to scan for a long time, and Xin Wang Zhu Youjian finally couldn't help asking: "Father, my son, do you think these Japanese pirates are honest? Are they really as cruel as the legends?"

Hmph, brutal.

Taichang said indifferently: "Of course there are vicious ones, but they were all beaten to death. These Japanese pirates just owe it to them. If they don't get beaten to death, they won't be honest."

Uh, I was pumped to death!
When Zhu Youjian heard this, he couldn't help shrinking his neck.

Taichang looked at it for a while, and then waved decisively: "Okay, everyone has seen this Dongyang New City, let's discuss business matters."

Do business?
Except for Cheng Jiashuo and Zheng Zhilong, the rest of these people were basically in a daze.

This business seems to have nothing to do with them, right?
They didn't even know why the emperor recruited them to Japan!

After a while, everyone came to the meeting hall of the Governor-General's Mansion.

Taichang arranged a few seats for everyone, asked everyone to sit down with him, and then cut straight to the point: "I invite you this time to discuss the establishment of the Daming Western Company. In the future, you or the family you represent will be Daming Director of the Western Company."

Daming Western Firm!

director?

Many people present are still confused.

They don't know what Daming Western Company does at all, and they don't even understand the word director.

Could it be that they were ignorant before?

The letter king Zhu Youjian couldn't help asking: "Father, what does it mean to be sensible?"

Taichang heard the words, and patiently explained: "The meaning of directors is similar to that of shareholders, but directors are directly involved in the management of the firm, while shareholders mostly just get dividends."

Oh, that's what it means.

Zhu Youjian nodded, and asked for everyone: "Father, what does this Ming Dynasty Western firm do?"

Taichang continued to explain: "Daming Western Firm is a firm that controls most of the shares of the Ming Dynasty. The main business of this firm is overseas business, for example, the business of Dongying. From now on, you will be the directors of Daming Western Firm. Each of you has one percent of the shares."

Everyone was very excited when they heard the words.

Naturally, they had heard about the huge profits of overseas business. This Ming Dynasty Western firm was still a firm opened by the imperial court. The profits were simply unimaginable!

One percent, that's probably at least 10 taels a year!

In fact, the reason why Taichang recruited these people was to reward them or the family behind them.

People like Xu Guangqi, Bi Maokang, Wang Zheng, Song Yingxing, Sun Yuanhua, etc. did not know how many advanced things were developed for Daming, and he has not given them any rewards.

This time, the establishment of the Daming Western Company happened to need a dozen directors or shareholders, so he brought these people in by the way.

As for the Dukes of Yongle, the main reason he brought these people into the shares was to allow the Daming Western Company to have a military character. After all, the Duchess of the Five Armies was basically controlled by a few Dukes of Yongle.

That is to say, among the more than ten directors of the Daming Western Firm, Xu Guangqi and Bi Maokang and other technical officials with great achievements accounted for a small half, and Yongle Guogong accounted for a small half.

Of course, there is one more important thing.

Taichang immediately said to Wu Yangchun: "Master, you first held 5.00% of the shares on behalf of the King of Han."

The king of Han is Zhu Youfeng, the precious son of him and Wu Waner, and the father of the country, Wu Yangchun, is the grandfather of the king of Han.

This means that from now on, the biggest director of this Daming Western Company will be Hanwang Zhu Youfeng.

Hearing this, Zhu Youjian couldn't help asking: "Father, what about me, my eighth brother is still drinking milk, and they all have 5.00% of the shares, am I only [-]%?"

This guy is just like a child snatching candy, always in the hands of jealous people.

Do you think that [-]% of the equity is less!
I didn't ask you to come here, okay, you were the one who begged and followed the abbot.

You didn't even own this one percent share!

However, since this precious son has spoken, he has to think about it.

Taichang couldn't help but smiled and shook his head and said, "You, aren't the dividends from Daming Bank not enough for you to spend? However, when you said that, I also remembered that Daming Bank and Daming Western Firms will also have to cooperate with each other in the future. I will give you an additional [-]%, and the shares of Daming Bank will also be divided into [-]% for your eighth brother, so you should cooperate well in the future."

okay.

Hearing this, Zhu Youjian couldn't help but nodded excitedly.

In fact, he just wanted to share some candy.

Taichang then solemnly said: "This Daming Western Company is not just about opening shops and doing business. In the future, you must have your own armed merchant ships, you must have your own guards, and you must compete with others all over the world for business and land. For example, The Dutch East India Company, they dare to provoke Daming, you must rob them of all their business in the world, and their territory, so that they have no business to do, no place to stay!"

Grab business with others, grab land?

Hearing this, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but excitedly said: "Your Majesty, what do you mean, can we directly rob their merchant ships?"

This guy is worthy of being a pirate leader, so he knows how to rob!

However, the purpose of recruiting him into the Daming Western Company was not to make the firm look like a pirate like the Dutch East India Company.

People secretly rob it if they can.

If the Daming Western Company is honest and honest, and competes with others in a well-behaved manner, how can it be possible to win!
Taichang nodded slightly and said: "Well, you can grab it if you can. If you can't grab it, you can ask the navy to help you grab it. In short, you can't be polite to them. These guys have turned them upside down. A company established by a small barbarian Dare to bully Daming, no matter what method is used, they will have no business to do, no place to stay!"

Perhaps, the purpose of establishing the East India Company successively by Britain and France was also to compete with the Dutch East India Company for business and land.

Now that the Daming Western Company is involved, it will be even more lively.

So, is it the Ming Dynasty's Western firms that are powerful, or the European powers' East India Company?

Wait and see!

(End of this chapter)