Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 488 Daming General Chamber of Commerce

As Zhu Cijiong grew older, he became more and more assertive.

At that moment, Zhu Cijiong said with a dark face: "Master Huang, is this king wrong? God sent me such a big drought on Daming, but only a negligible one on Jiannu. Isn’t it blind? Ordinarily, it should be the other way around, and Jiannu and Pseudo-Shun should suffer a catastrophe.”

"King Ding's statement is absurd." Huang Daozhou retorted with a serious face, "I have heard that those who love others and benefit others will be blessed by heaven, and those who are wicked and rob others will be cursed by heaven. It is the emperor's virtue to bring disasters from the sky." There is a loss..."

"Fart!" Zhu Cijiong said angrily, "Where is the father's virtue?"

Zhu Cihong also couldn't help but refute the teacher, saying: "Master Huang's words alone dare not be harsh. Regardless of what happened before Chongzhen 17 years ago, what his father did 17 years later is really worthy of countless living people. Jiangnan and even In the entire Ming Dynasty, I don’t know how many people live because of the father’s thought, how can this be virtuous and detrimental?”

Even Lu Zhenfei and the three of them felt that what Huang Daozhou said was too much.

I won’t talk about what happened to the Holy Majesty before Meishan’s enlightenment, but they all saw Meishan’s deeds after enlightenment. Both martial arts and martial arts are impeccable.

Therefore, the evaluation of virtue and demerit cannot be judged by the Holy Majesty anyway.

Being scolded by Zhu Cihong and Cijiong in front of everyone, Huang Daozhou couldn't hold back his face.

Dang even took off the black yarn and begged for the bones from Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, this old minister is too old and dizzy to bear the heavy responsibility of the cabinet minister. Please also ask the Holy Majesty to allow this old minister to bury his bones in his hometown for the sake of his dedication to the Ming Dynasty for many years. "

Seeing Huang Daozhou standing there relying on the old and selling the old, Chongzhen was also a little bored, and he came to this f*cking thing.

To be honest, Chongzhen is most annoyed by the theory of the relationship between heaven and man. Natural disasters are natural disasters. Droughts, floods, earthquakes or landslides, etc., have half a cent to do with people?Why did the emperor offend his edict when a natural disaster occurred in Ming Dynasty?The next time the crime against oneself is not enough, do you have to repeat the crime over and over again?

Immediately, Chongzhen directly kicked the ball back to the cabinet, and said to Lu Zhenfei: "Old Lu Ge, Huang Ge said that he is too old to be competent for the affairs of the cabinet, what do you say?"

"Your Majesty, Mr. Huang Ge's words are just angry words, I will try to persuade him later."

Lu Zhenfei still wanted to show Huang Daozhou face, but Huang Daozhou couldn't hold back anymore.

Seeing that Chongzhen did not keep him as usual, Huang Daozhou put down his black yarn, turned and left.

At the beginning, Huang Daozhou fantasized that Chongzhen would speak out to keep him, but Chongzhen didn't say anything until he walked out of the gate, so he could only go back to his apartment in a sad and lonely carriage, and then left Nanjing that night.

Watching Huang Daozhou leave, Chongzhen said: "Although the output of Henan and Huguang is enough to make up for the food shortage, eggs cannot be put in one basket, and the Ming court cannot only pin their hopes on Henan or Huguang. Otherwise, if something happens to these two provinces, wouldn't you be blind?"

Lu Zhenfei asked solemnly: "Then what does the sage mean, you have to buy food from overseas?"

"Yes, we still have to buy grain from overseas." Chongzhen said, "The Chamber of Commerce's annual board meeting will soon be held. I will attend this year's board meeting in person, and call on everyone to buy grain by the way."

……

Shi Jiuke will also attend this year's general chamber of commerce board meeting.

Not everyone can participate in the general chamber of commerce board meeting, only the board members are eligible.

Shi Jiuke is the director of Xinchang County, Kuaiji Prefecture, Zhejiang Province, so he is eligible to participate in the meeting.

Shi Zhengwen was telling Shi Jiuke: "Son, after arriving in Nanjing this time, remember to donate 5000 yuan to the Hanlin Daily. It is best to find some important scholars to write a few articles through your brother-in-law Xu Yingwei's relationship." Xiongwen, I would like to refute the fallacious theories mentioned in the Huangming Times, how dare these people talk about restricting the monarchy? It is simply unreasonable."

As a Taoist, Shi Zhengwen naturally hated the theory of restricting monarchy.

Shi Jiuke didn't want to get involved in politics, so he frowned and said, "Father, can we not get involved in this matter?"

"You can't stand idly by on this matter." Shi Zhengwen became anxious, "This matter is related to the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, and if one is not careful, the mountains will be shaken. If a man does something or not, other things can be dealt with calmly." In short, this is the only thing that can’t be done, even if it takes our Huangtanshi family’s wealth and life, we can’t just sit back and watch.”

Shi Jiuke had a bitter expression when he heard this.

I said in my heart, is it easy for me to create such a big business?

Why do you have to take it all in one sentence?

Just because you are my father?Is it still unreasonable?
But Shi Jiu didn't dare to contradict his father, so he brought out his brother-in-law Xu Yingwei.

Because Shi Jiuke knew that in the whole family, his father only listened to his brother-in-law's opinion, and the reason was very simple, because his brother-in-law was a senior official.

Immediately Shi Jiuke said: "Father, Youzhen asked someone to deliver a message to me some time ago, telling me to concentrate on the business of silk and raw silk, and avoid getting involved in disputes over ideas."

"Did Zhen really tell you these words?" Shi Zhengwen asked doubtfully.

"Youzhen really told me this, what did my son lie to you?" Shi Jiuke swore, "Youzhen also said that it is the general trend to revise the emperor's ancestral precepts, and His Majesty also supports it. And, if you have to participate, you can only support Huangshi Mingbao, not Hanlin Daily.”

"Ah? How could this be?" Shi Zheng asked anxiously and began to pull his beard.

Seeing that he finally "suppressed" his own father, Shi Jiu couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

After leaving Huangtan Shi's house, Shi Jiuke made another detour to Dongshan Village.

Xu Shiyi was quite polite to Shi Jiuke, and even "introduced" over a hundred helpers to Shi Jiuke.

Since Xu Yingwei returned to his hometown to recruit soldiers, the life of Xu's grandparents has been much better, but this year suffered another severe drought once in 500 years, and many families have returned to poverty.

This time Xu Yingwei was far beyond the reach of Gaizhou Guards.

But fortunately, Shi Jiuke's workshop has grown.

Arranging a few hundred helpers is a piece of cake for Shi's several handicraft workshops.

By the way, Shi Jiuke's silk weaving workshop has grown to have more than 500 looms, more than 2000 weavers, and can weave [-] to [-] pieces of silk a year, which is already considered a large workshop.

Shijiazhifang can grow to this level in less than two years, in addition to Shi Jiuke's courage, it is also inseparable from the strong support of the Industrial and Commercial Bank. Up to now, Shi Jiuke has successively divided For three times, he has borrowed 11 yuan from the Industrial and Commercial Bank, and also pledged 20% of the shares in exchange for [-] capital injections.

Up to now, the total capital of Shijia Workshop has exceeded 50 yuan.

But with the expansion of the workshop scale, Shi Jiuke also encountered a bottleneck.

When the workshop was small, there was no need to worry about sales.

But now, the Shijia Workshop produces more than [-] pieces of silk a year. It can be regarded as a medium-sized silk workshop in the south of the Yangtze River. It already has a certain influence on the entire silk market, and the competition it faces has changed. Intense, it is no longer possible to negotiate a deal and sell everything like before.

The biggest problem Shi Jiuke encountered was the price suppression among silk merchants.

Because there is only one piece of silk trade cake in total, whoever eats more will definitely eat less, but no one wants to eat less, so they can only lower the price, and in the end, everyone will have no money to make.

Last month, Shi Jiuke made a calculation. This year, there are more looms and more silk weaved, but the profit is less than half of last year's, which means that half a year has been wasted work. .

So Shi Jiuke was going to ask this question when he came to Nanjing to participate in the conference.

Going from Xinchang to Nanjing had to go through Kuaiji, so Shi Jiuke made another trip to Kuaiji Fucheng.

"Brother Jiuke, why did you come here?" Seeing Shi Jiuke, Zheng Zunrang looked very happy, "If you don't come, I will leave alone."

Zheng Zunrang, the younger brother of Zheng Zunqian, the treasurer of Royal Industrial Bank, is also the young owner of Kuaiji Distillery.

Zheng Zunrang was very grateful for this great era. If it hadn't been for catching up with this great era, it would have been impossible for him to inherit the Zheng family's winery, and it would be impossible to borrow so much money to expand its scale.

Back then, Zheng's distillery could only brew a few hundred shihuangjiu a year.

But now, Zhengjia Distillery can brew tens of thousands of stone fermented wine in a month.

The former Zheng's Winery is still a bit famous in Kuaiji Fucheng.

But now, who in the eight prefectures and one prefecture in the south of the Yangtze River doesn't know the name of Zheng's Winery?
Of course, the expansion of the Zheng Family Winery to such an extent in such a short period of time also cost a lot, that is, [-]% of the shares were pledged to the Bank of Industry and Commerce.

Thinking of this, Zheng Zunrang was full of complaints about his elder brother.

Others thought that the Zheng Family Distillery must have taken a huge advantage from the Industrial and Commercial Bank, but only Zheng Zunrang knew that the loan interest from the Industrial and Commercial Bank to the Zheng Family Distillery was based on the highest standards, such as the pledge of the shares of the distillery. Cheng Biejia, at most, pledged [-]% of the shares, but Zheng's Winery had to pledge [-]% of the shares.

Zheng Zunrang complained a few words, and in return Zheng Zunqian reprimanded him head and face.

Seeing his close friend Shi Jiuke, Zheng Zunrang couldn't help complaining again: "Brother Jiuke, do you think I, Zheng Zunrang, have been wronged? With the reputation of Zheng Zunqian's younger brother on his head, he didn't even get any benefit. The big order to supply fermented wine to the new army was also led by Xu Gejian and Brother Jiuke."

"Hey, what are you and my brother talking about?" Shi Jiuke waved his hands and said again.

"By the way, is your Zheng Family Winery going to deliver fermented wine to Liaodong again?"

"Well, it will be shipped in a few days, and the rice cakes from Xianhenglou will be shipped together." Zheng Zunrang nodded and said, "If we don't ship them over, we will have to wait until next year if Beihai freezes."

[It’s not that I don’t want to write more, I really can’t write, my brain can’t keep up after the infection]

(End of this chapter)