Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 463 Capital: Profit is far greater than life and death
The backbone of the South India Company's organization is to go to the sea from Guangzhou Port, who makes it the closest to India.

"South India Company?"

All the families in Guangzhou are also paying attention, and at the same time, they have learned something about this fledgling company through the relationship in the government. They know that they went to India for "development".

Although India is very close to Guangzhou, the businessmen in Guangzhou don't even know as much about India as they do about Arabia, East Africa, and North Africa.

The reason is naturally that their power cannot enter India at all, and even businessmen like Pushun only have a few small fishing ports in India, and the scope of trade is not large.

The Delhi Sultanate was established by a group of Turkic aristocrats. In other words, the leaders of the land of India were not indigenous, but foreigners.

What the Turkic people want is similar to the "long-term stability" of the Central Plains Dynasty. What they want is uncivilized and oppressed. How can they let go and allow India to develop? On the contrary, they try their best to limit the possibility of Indian indigenous people receiving foreign ideas.

It is a bit similar to the closed-door policy of the late Qing government.

The benefits of doing so have been mentioned before, and it is not difficult to understand why businessmen in Guangzhou are very unfamiliar with India.

There are so many companies in Guangzhou, but none of them have done business with India.

Chen Jiading was very curious about what the South India company was going to do in India, so he approached Wu Shigao to find out, but the latter didn't know much about it.

"Last year, hundreds of thousands of troops from the imperial court marched to India, and so far we haven't heard any good news or bad news. But now that there is another South India Company, it is not difficult to imagine that the imperial court should have established a certain force there. of."

Wu Shigao gave Chen Jiading a brief analysis, but it was limited to this. Chen Jiading proposed to hold a banquet at night, but Wu Shigao flatly rejected it.

"No, no, it's not convenient for the government during this time."

Wu Shigao wondered: "Chairman Chen should also know that the inspection team from Nanjing has arrived in Guangzhou, and is now watching the mansion all day long. I didn't know which bastards were behind the scenes to make trouble for us. What are you saying that our government has a meager relationship with your Federation of Industry and Commerce, and you keep chewing on the tongue of your government."

Chen Jiading smiled and nodded, knowing that Wu Shigao must not be in the mood to talk to him, so he took the initiative to leave.

Although he didn't get any useful information from Wu Shigao, the more Chen Jiading thought about it, the more he felt an unspeakable impulse.

This south Indian company definitely has a big article!
Maybe it's the opportunity for their Chen family to go up to the next level.

Gotta find a way to get a piece of the pie!

With this thought in mind, the first thing Chen Jiading did when he returned home was to invite several of his uncles together and bring the matter to light.

"Father went to the Nanjing Federation of Industry and Commerce. Before he left, he said that I should discuss matters at home with my uncles."

Chen Jiading said very politely: "The imperial court recently created a state-owned assets bureau, and added a new government office called the South India Company to the state-owned assets bureau. All uncles must know about it.

I just came back from Wu Shigao's place. Our magistrate is busy dealing with the investigation team in Nanjing, so he doesn't know what to say. I don't know if he really doesn't know or he doesn't intend to tell us more. "

Several uncles looked at each other, and one of them spoke.

"Jiading, what does the South India Company have to do with our Chen family?"

"The South India Company has nothing to do with us, but India may have something to do with our Chen family."

The person who spoke laughed: "Our Chen family has been doing business with Nanyang people and Arabs for more than ten years. When did we do business with Indians? I heard the Arabs in Guangdong say that Indians The poor don’t even wear clothes, run around the streets naked all year round, Lazard is in broad daylight, that’s an uncivilized land of herds, what does it have to do with our Chen family.”

Chen Jiading silently raised the tea bowl and asked a question.

"If India is really as bad as those Arabs say, do you think that Pu Shun is mentally ill to subsidize hundreds of millions of taels of military expenditure for the imperial court to help him fight India?"

"India, where the imperial court sent troops to last year, has established the South India Company this year. It is going to develop the land of India with great fanfare. Think about it, uncles, is it just that the Arabs and the imperial court want us to understand India? arrived.

In other words, they are afraid that we will get a share of the action. "

Everyone raised their eyebrows, and after smacking carefully, they all felt that Chen Jiading's words were reasonable.

"Jiading, what do you mean?"

"Should we also organize some people to go to India and have a look?"

Chen Jiading expressed his thoughts: "Guangdong is so big, our Chen family can't be the only one, and the imperial court will not let the Guangdong one be the only one, so there is also Quanzhou Shipbuilding Department, and Pingjin Port is also expanding. In less than two years, the direction of the Bohai Rim to the Northeast Sea definitely belongs to the Shipping Department of Pingjin City.

In other words, our Chen family will not only compete with other companies in Guangzhou, but also compete with companies in Quanzhou, Pingjin and other places in the future. What good development can there be?

Now we are going to be one step ahead of them and go to India. "

Several uncles hesitated.Yan said: "But, there is still a war there."

"If you fight a war, let's fight, what are you afraid of?" Chen Jiading said bluntly: "There is no risk in doing business, as long as the profit is large enough, life and death are fate, wealth and honor are in the sky. Just a rich man."

The courage of a businessman has always depended on the amount of profit in return. As long as the profit is large enough, life is not worth mentioning.

"Then what if the court doesn't let us participate."

"How could it be?" Chen Jiading said confidently, even with a certain chance of winning: "The imperial court can even allow Arabs to participate, so how can it restrict us blood compatriots? It is said that it is a signal sent by King Yu to the outside world, encouraging us to participate in the development of India, and even a signal to expand overseas for gold mining."

"Now, as the cost of labor is getting higher and higher, the profits of our companies have begun to shrink. I heard that India has a lot of Dingkou, which may not be able to catch up with our Daming, but it is definitely far more than the old land of Samhan and Nanyang. The sum of all countries is tens of millions, uncles.

What this means is that labor is cheaper than water.

Our factories, workshops, shops, and even the transportation personnel for salt, grain, and water imports no longer need to recruit workers from China. Every year, we can save millions of taels. "

The hearts of everyone in the hall were quickly moved.

"Okay, Jiading, what do you say, our old bones will support you."

"Then let's put it this way first, this matter cannot be leaked."

Chen Jiading stood up and made arrangements: "Tomorrow I will go to Nanjing first. First, I will visit my father and ask for advice. Second, I will ask my father to be in the middle, so that our family and the imperial court can communicate and see how we can participate."

The South India Company established by the imperial court has stimulated local firms in the Ming Dynasty. Merchants are always unwilling to be lonely. They are always looking for profits. Whoever has a sharper sense of smell will be able to survive to the end in the tide of drastic changes of the times.

At the outlet, pigs can go to the sky, but the premise is that the pig dares to take a step!

(End of this chapter)