Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 665

The Eastern Yin Capital City was the first city built by the Ming Dynasty in North America, and it was also the largest city on the North American continent so far.

Originally, Taichang was for the convenience of stationing troops and hoarding supplies, so it directly planned the city to a scale of one million people. Moreover, the barracks and various warehouses alone filled the half of the city near the port.

At this moment, the warehouse was being used. The goods of Daming Western Company and the gifts he brought were stuffed in, and most of the warehouse was full.

However, the barracks, which can accommodate nearly 50 troops, are currently empty.

Because he left a total of 20 horses for Cao Wenzhao.

This huge North American continent can be guarded by the elite of the 20 Shenwu Battalion, and Cao Wenzhao has to be responsible for mining and guarding the gold mines. He can only stay in the capital of Eastern Yin with about [-] troops.

5 people live in a barracks that can accommodate nearly 50 troops, which is naturally empty.

However, the other half of the city was crowded with people and it was very lively.

Especially on the main road from the east gate to the palace, the flow of people is even more dense, just like the West Chang'an Street in the capital of Ming Dynasty.

As for the reason, it is very simple, because the shops of Daming Western Company are all on this street.

There is no way, the things of Ming Dynasty are good, and the people of the Indian tribe are all flocking to the goods of Ming Dynasty, as long as they have some money, they want to exchange them for goods of Ming Dynasty.

The problem is, they don't have much money.

At this moment, the business of the Daming Western Company has not started here, and they seem to only buy cowhide, and they haven't started buying other things yet.

Although the cowhide is worth a little money, for the [-] North American Indian tribes of the tribal alliance, the amount of money that Daming Western Company bought the cowhide is really pitifully small. While buying military rations.

The military rations consumed by more than 500 soldiers seem to be a lot. It seems that they will eat 2000 million shi a year just for food. If the food and salaries are added, at least [-] million shi will be needed a year.

However, this demand is nothing compared to the Indian tribe's production of more than 2 million stones.

Moreover, they still insist on selling at the lowest price, and only charge one tael of silver for five shi of grain, and 2000 million shi of which is about 400 million taels.

400 million taels seems to be a lot, but once it is distributed to various dependent countries, each dependent country is only about 20 taels.

This amount of money is not enough to buy a whole shipment!
In other words, plus the income from selling cowhide, the annual income of the [-] Indian tribes' dependent countries can buy at most [-] to [-] ships of goods.

It's no wonder that it took nearly two years for the Daming Western Company to bring in more than a hundred shipments, because they can afford so much at most.

Looking at the bustling people on the street and the poor goods in the hands of the Indian tribal civilians, Taichang couldn't help frowning slightly.

"Oh, there are so many good things over there!"

Concubine Su Su Yi suddenly cheered excitedly.

Upon hearing this, Imperial Concubine Wu Wan'er couldn't help asking curiously: "Where is it, where is it?"

Taichang also turned his head curiously.

Daming capital seems to have everything to buy, why is Concubine Su so excited?

At this moment, Concubine Su has brought a group of concubines, princes and princesses to another street that intersects with this street.

It turned out that there were many civilians of Indian tribes setting up street stalls on the street there.

The civilians of the Indian tribes basically sell traditional costumes made of painted cloth, horn ornaments, feathers, and earthen dyes.

Naturally, these things cannot be bought in Daming capital.

Concubine Su was too excited, and imperial concubine Wu Wan'er and the others also felt that it was too novel.

When they buy things, they basically don't care about the price. As long as they like something, no matter what the price is, it's all buying.

The problem is, the civilians of the Indian tribe saw that it was Concubine Su, and they were not very willing to accept money, so they had to leave the money and run away.

Well, a silver ingot is at least five taels, and the price of a high-quality raw cowhide at the moment is only about half a tael at most.

They threw the silver around like this, and they directly stunned the Indian tribe civilians who had set up street stalls.

My God, something worth a few pennies is dropped with a silver ingot. How much pennies can this be exchanged for?

Many civilians of the Indian tribe who set up street stalls sat there for a long time without making a clear calculation, but Concubine Su and Imperial Concubine Wu Wan'er had already wandered around and disappeared.

Taichang looked at the closed shop doors on both sides of the street and the street stalls all over the street, and frowned again.

He thought for a while, then ordered: "Zi Ru, send someone to call You Ping and Wen Zhao to the city wall."

After finishing speaking, he led a group of guards to the city wall of the east gate.

He brought a group of concubines, princes and princesses here to go shopping, why did he go up the city wall?

Simple, because he guessed where so many Indian tribal civilians lived.

Sure enough, he boarded the city wall and looked out. The road outside the east gate was densely packed with tents on both sides.

Moreover, the outside of the city gate is more lively than the inside of the city gate. In the aisle among the tents, there are countless people setting up pots and even directly burning firewood to cook Indian specialties for sale.

At this moment, Daming didn't need to feed the commoners of the Indian tribe with porridge. They also preferred their own special delicacies, and there were piles of people in front of every stall selling delicacies.

Alas, the development here is still too slow.

Soon, Huang Daozhou and Cao Wenzhao came to the city wall hand in hand.

After paying respects to the monarchs and ministers, Taichang pointed directly at the tent outside the city that could not be seen at a glance, and said, "Youping, how could you let them live outside the city like this?"

Uh, this.

Huang Daozhou quickly explained: "Your Majesty, they are used to it, basically all Indian tribe civilians who come to play will bring their own tents.

Besides, there is not enough space in the city. If tents are pitched indiscriminately on the street, it will be blocked.

Weichen had no choice but to let them pitch their tents outside the city.

Needless to say, they all pitched their tents outside the city on their own initiative. "

Alas, this guy still has a way of managing the place.

At least, the entire Eastern Yin capital was managed by him in an orderly manner, and the civilians of these Indian tribes were also honest, and no one made trouble, let alone made trouble.

The problem is that as an official, you should not only know how to manage the place, but also how to make the people under your rule rich.

In this regard, Huang Daozhou is not as good as Tang Wang Zhu Yujian.

Zhu Yujian, king of the Tang Dynasty, was thinking of a way to rule the common people to create opportunities for making money. The new Chang'an City was governed by others, comparable to Jinling City and Daming Capital.

This Zodiac Zhou has no business acumen, and the management is a bit too rigid.

There is no way, the former officials of the Ming Dynasty were like this, they were not corrupt or corrupt, they were conscientious and conscientious, and they were considered good officials if they did their duty.

As for what makes the people under the rule rich, there are really not many officials who have this idea.

Taichang could only sigh slightly: "Youping, I've said it many times, we have to look at problems from the perspective of development, and we can't stick to the old ways."

Uh, how should we look at this issue of development?

Huang Daozhou was a little ashamed and said: "My humble minister is stupid, so I ask the emperor to teach me."

Taichang could only helplessly explain: "For example, the civilians of these Indian tribes outside the city, since they like to come to the capital of Eastern Yin to play, you can completely set aside more than half of the barracks in the west of the city and transform them into an inn or something for them to live in.

At least there are hot kangs in the barracks, at least these civilians will not freeze in winter.

Another example is the Indian tribe civilians who set up street stalls in the city. Since they have business awareness, you should cultivate them well and rent and sell all the shops in the city to them.

So many shops are all closed and empty, isn't it a waste? "

It was this.

Huang Daozhou quickly explained: "Your Majesty, these humble ministers have also thought about the problem, they don't have much money.

At this moment, they can only earn that little money a year. On average, each person doesn't have a tael of silver. Let alone renting a shop, they can't even afford to live in a hotel! "

Alas, this guy really has no business sense.

Taichang pointed helplessly: "Isn't it easy without money?

You can let them live in the inn for free first. After they live in such a comfortable inn, they will be willing to pay for it when they have money in the future?
You can also let them use the shop for free first, and it will not be too late to collect rent after they make money.

You have to let them have needs and think of ways to make money, so as to invigorate the local economy. "

Huang Daozhou thought for a while, and then said cautiously: "Your Majesty, ordinary people don't worry about being few, but about unevenness!
If everyone didn't, no one would have an opinion.

If some people have it and some people don't, you're bound to have someone with an opinion.

This inn is a little bit easier to say, it just allows people to live for free, and there are enough places, it is not a problem to barely accommodate a few hundred thousand people.

This shop is not easy to manage. Although the population of Indian tribes is not large, there are 700 million people, and there are at least 60 million people who come here all the year round.

Weichen estimated that at least one of them would set up a street stall for business, or had such an idea.

In other words, if the store is given to them for free, there will be at least 6 to [-] people scrambling to use it.

The problem is that there are only three to four thousand sets of large and small shops in the capital of Eastern Yin, which is not enough for so many people! "

This is a problem.

Taichang thought about it carefully, and then said decisively: "How about this, the shops just send it directly, first give each vassal country [-] sets, let them divide it by themselves, and let them learn how to do business first. As for the rest, they If you learn how to do business, you will naturally know how profitable it is to do business here, and they will naturally pay for it.”

what?
Send directly!
Well, you are the emperor, you have the final say.

Huang Daozhou nodded, and then asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, where is the barracks?"

Taichang thought about it carefully, and then estimated: "If it is a barracks, it is enough to leave 10 people to live in, and change all the others to inns. Be careful not to change them to the same level, and score grades.

Some are changed into a room that can accommodate a family, some are changed into a room for one or two people, and some are changed into a separate courtyard.

How about this, you can go to Erjue to discuss it, and in the future the inn will also be handed over to Daming Western Company to operate. "

When Huang Daozhou heard the words, he quickly cupped his hands and said, "I understand."

(End of this chapter)