Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

Chapter 362 Is Money Still Money?
Although the merchants of Ming Dynasty did not experience the stock market crash in later generations.But they are still keenly aware that something is wrong and the potential danger of the stock.

Sun Ruhai was one of them. The stock price rose by [-]% on the day he found out that the dividend was distributed, and he decisively sold all the [-] shares he held in his hand.

After Sun Ruhai got 3000 taels of silver, he proudly showed off to the people around him.

"If you want to sell, buy quickly, I guess the stock will fall tomorrow!"

"What?"

"Isn't it obvious that someone wants to drive up the stock price and then take the opportunity to sell more stocks to make money?"

"what?"

After hearing this, the surrounding merchants became more active, thinking about whether they should also sell their stocks.

Zhu Yunxi hid on the top floor of the trading hall, constantly listening to the reports of his subordinates in the exchange.

"His Royal Highness, three hundred shares are sold!"

"buy!"

"His Royal Highness, another five hundred shares are sold!"

"Buy all!"

Zhu Yunxi bought 110 shares that day, which was enough to stabilize the stock price at [-] taels per share.

His move gave those holders great confidence.

The next day, Zhu Yunxi followed suit, raised the stock price to 110 taels, and bought [-] shares.

On the third day, Zhu Yunxi raised the stock price to 110 fifty taels, but only received two hundred shares.

Two days after Sun Ruhai sold the stock, he saw that the stock had risen another five taels of silver, and his guts were so ruined.

He never thought that this thing is still going up!
According to the current price, it is already higher than the annual dividend. Are people who buy stocks fools?
In fact, not only Sun Ruhai thought so, but many merchants were suspicious.

This thing is too evil, how can it rise so high?
However, within a few days, news came out that the Ming Steel Chamber of Commerce had acquired the Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant, and everyone suddenly realized.

It turns out that Minggang Chamber of Commerce's future income is far more than what it is now. This is the emperor's grandson secretly buying back shares!

A group of merchants wanted to understand this, and immediately covered the stocks in their hands tightly, treating them as family heirlooms.

The emperor's grandson would rather increase the price to repurchase, which shows a problem, the emperor's grandson did not intend to steal by chance!

This point is very important.

In the era when imperial power was supreme, if the grandson of the emperor sent Jin Yiwei to his door and asked them to hand over their shares, who would dare not hand them over?
However, now the emperor's grandson would rather spend money than send Jin Yiwei, and would not send those people in shark suits to the door.

From this point alone, it can be seen that the emperor's grandson is a man of rules.

After Zhu Yunxi released the news of the Ming Steel Chamber of Commerce's acquisition of the Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant, he publicized the expected output of the Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant in newspapers, as well as the funds invested.

On the day this matter was published in the newspaper, he did not need to operate in the dark, and a large number of powerful merchants entered the market to buy stocks.

There are also many North Korean and Chinese officials and nobles who heard that stocks can make money, they also ran into the market one after another and invested a lot of money.

However, Zhu Yunxi was not in a hurry to sell, but waited until they raised the stock to 120 taels before secretly selling 1000 shares and getting back [-] million taels of silver.

As soon as he got the money, he hurriedly paid 100 million to Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Works and the Ministry of Railways each, and then took out 300 million taels to order sea-going ships.

The sea-going ships of Ming Dynasty were mainly Fu Chuan, and each small sea-going ship cost 1 taels of silver.3 taels of medium-sized sea-going ships.A large sea-going ship would cost more than 10 taels. As for the blueprint of the Ming Dynasty treasure ship that Zhu Yunxi searched in his mind, according to the Chen family's boatman, there was no 30 taels that he couldn't even make a frame.

Now that Zhu Yunxi had money, he immediately ordered ten large sea-going ships.An additional fifty medium-sized ships were ordered, with five cruisers per large ship.

The remaining 50 taels will be used by Fujian ship merchants to build the treasure ship of Ming Dynasty.

As for the issue of weapons and equipment, we have to wait for the sea-going ships to be built and drive to Jinling City for unified assembly.

One is that the transportation of artillery is a big problem, and the other is that it is inconvenient for the country's important weapon to be handed to others.

After Zhu Yunxi finished all this, he still had 500 million taels of silver on hand, which he deposited in his bank as the principal.

Now the bank is still in the adaptation period, and many people in Ming Dynasty have not fully adapted to the existence of this thing, they just regard it as a shop for exchanging money.

But Zhu Yunxi is not in a hurry, he has plenty of time to cultivate the market.

After Zhu Yunxi ordered the ships, he started the recruitment mode.

Ten large sea ships and fifty medium sea ships require at least 5000 navies, plus [-] marines.

Zhu Yunxi just mentioned this casually to Lao Zhu when he was having lunch with Lao Zhu, and didn't say the specific number of people, nor did he say what he was doing.

Old Zhu didn't ask any further questions when he heard the words, he just nodded his head and agreed.

With Lao Zhu's authorization, Zhu Yunxi became a lot more courageous, and sent ten conscription teams to various places in Ming Dynasty to recruit soldiers.

In order to increase the authority of the conscription team, Zhu Yunxi assigned a prince to each conscription team, and even the newly married Zhu Gui was sent to the vicinity of the capital to be in charge of conscription.

Old Zhu has been quietly watching Zhu Yunxi's performance. In fact, he has already learned about Dasun's thoughts from Wang De before Dasun mentioned this to him.

Twenty thousand navy!

Something that has never happened since the founding of the Ming Dynasty!
But where did this grandson get so much money?

He opened a factory, repaired the railway, and dealt with maritime merchants at the same time. Could it be possible that this grandson will turn into money?
Lao Zhu didn't know the twists and turns of the stock exchange, and he didn't want to know.

He is not good at financial management, and he doesn't care much about money matters. He only knows one thing, as long as he seizes the military power.

Whether it is dishonest merchants or dishonest officials, just send troops to arrest them.

However, Zhu Yunxi's affairs made him interested in money matters.

He spent a whole day learning about the rules of the stock exchange, ordered someone to call Xie Kui over, and asked Zhu Yunxie about the details of how he manipulated the stock price.

After knowing the cause and effect, for the first time, Lao Zhu admired Dasun, and felt that he was really a bit old and couldn't keep up with Dasun's thinking.

This grandson's method is very simple, it is nothing more than the way of merchants to buy low and sell high.

However, as an outsider, how easy is it to see the doorway inside?

What's more, people's hearts are inherently greedy, and merchants are inherently profit-seeking.

With the two gold-lettered signs of Minggang Chamber of Commerce and Jinling Coal Industry, Zhu Yunxi's grandson can have as much money as he wants!

After Lao Zhu figured out the source of Dasun's money, he didn't care about his conscription.

He is still at ease with his grandson.

If Zhu Yunxi really wanted to rebel, he could have forced himself to abdicate with the help of the smallpox incident last year, so why wait until today?

It's just that I'm a little scared of my grandson's conscription of [-] soldiers all at once. Isn't this grandson's stride too far?

Old Zhu mentioned it to Zhu Yunxue several times at intervals, and seeing that Zhu Yunxue was still playing the foolish trick with him, he didn't bother to care about it.

He just told Jin Yiwei to keep an eye on him.

Zhu Zhi also received an errand for conscription, and it was the direction Zhu Yunxi personally designated for him——Yiwu.

Before Zhu Zhi came to Yiwu, he had no impression of Yiwu at all, and he didn't even know that this place was the prefecture of Daming.

For the arrival of Prince Daming, Wang Tiren, the county magistrate of Yiwu, took good care of him. He not only ran ten miles away to greet him early in the morning, but also ordered people to clean up the county government office early in the morning to entertain His Highness Liao Wang.

Although Zhu Zhi is an expensive prince, he is not coddled in terms of food and clothing. He belongs to the kind who eats what he gives, catches a few toads from the moat by himself, and roasts them until they are tender on the outside and charred on the inside, and he can eat them with relish.

But he doesn't have the tendency of masochism. He is very happy to see a good house to live in and good food to eat.

After Zhu Zhi moved into the county government, he posted conscription notices throughout the county that day.

The next day, they even ordered people to call the chief and township chief of the obligatory county to the county government to explain to them the conditions and quantity of conscription.

"Gu is here to recruit the navy under the order of the emperor's grandson!"

"First of all, the most important thing is to be able to bear hardships and stand hard work!"

"The second rule is to obey the law!"

"Third, don't be afraid of death!"

"The fourth thing is to give money. As long as you are elected, you will get one or two taels of silver a month. It will be doubled during the war. If you win the battle, you will get an extra reward!"

When Zhu Zhi was talking about this, a village chief suddenly interrupted him and asked a question he had never thought of.

"Dare to ask your nobleman, what if you are unlucky and die in battle?"

Zhu Zhi immediately frowned when he heard this question.

His eldest nephew didn't tell him about it, and he didn't know how much the compensation for the dead soldiers of Ming Dynasty was.

However, before he could speak, an old man next to him curled his lips in disdain.

"How else can it be calculated?"

"Of course the one who died in battle is considered unlucky, you still expect the imperial court to pay you money!"

The village head who asked the question, his face darkened when he heard the words, he sighed and stopped talking.

Seeing this, Zhu Zhi quickly stretched out five fingers.

"There is a pension!"

"If unfortunately you die in battle, the emperor's grandson will compensate you 50 taels of silver!"

As soon as Zhu Zhi said this, all the village chiefs and township chiefs present were dumbfounded, and asked in disbelief.

"My lord, you are not lying, are you? Can the court really pay us 50 taels of silver?"

"Could it be that the imperial court paid 50 taels, and it will become five taels in our hands?"

"My brother went to war with the King of Wu, and he was paid a total of ten taels of silver when he died on the battlefield. It was not enough to buy a cow."

Seeing that everyone didn't believe him, Zhu Zhi immediately swore to the sky.

"Gu just made it very clear that it is the emperor's grandson who loses money, not the court!"

"The pension money does not go to the court's public account, but to the emperor's grandson's private account!"

"The grandson of the emperor wants to open a bank and a supply and marketing cooperative in every county. It hasn't opened to you yet, and you will know when it opens in the future."

"At that time, if there are really unfortunate family members who died in battle, the money will be sent directly to you through post offices, supply and marketing cooperatives, banks and other stores!"

"If you agree on 50 taels, then 50 taels, you don't need to take a penny!"

At this time, a well-informed person spoke.

"I know about the supply and marketing cooperative. I saw it when I went to Fucheng last month. Everything is sold there, and they also collect grain, chickens, live chickens, live ducks and so on!"

"It's not as troublesome as it is when the government collects grain. As long as your grain is clean and you don't mix gravel in it, the price will be based on the quality."

"When harvesting grain, it's not as difficult as the people in the government. You have to kick a few times on the bucket and spill the grain. Instead, you pay for every bucket, and settle accounts every bucket. It's very fair! "

"My brother sold two loads of grain, plus three hens, for a total of [-] Wen in exchange for his daughter's dowry!"

The surrounding township chiefs and district chiefs only listened to a joke at first, but their eyes turned red when they heard the last sentence.

"What?"

"Thirteen hundred words?"

"How much is a load of grain, and how much is a hen?"

"Food is not expensive. A load of money is worth 560 Wen, and a chicken is worth [-] Wen."

"But this is just their purchase price. If you buy from them, it will be more expensive. A chicken will cost you [-] cents more."

When everyone heard this, they all thought secretly.

If these things were sold to the wealthy households in the village, it is estimated that they could be sold for [-] yuan, which is too much to say.

However, it was a surprise to be able to sell five hundred more Wen to that supply and marketing cooperative.

Regardless of whether this soldier is inappropriate or not, this supply and marketing cooperative is a good thing.

In fact, this is why Zhu Yunxi advocated supply and marketing cooperatives.

Because according to Gao Ming and others, it was never the government that exploited the people the most, but the wealthy squires in the village.

People usually use money, they can only exchange grain with them.They use this to lower prices and collect grain, chickens, ducks, geese, livestock, etc. from the people at extremely low prices.

Then, they resell it to grain merchants in the city at a high price, or they own a grain store, and resell it to the people in the city who need to buy grain.

In this way, if the inside and outside hands are reversed, they will gain a few percent more profit for nothing.

Once Zhu Yunxi wants to implement a whip method, the biggest obstacle is that the common people have no money.

If the common people want money to pay taxes, they have to exchange the grain they have grown so hard with the squires, so that the common people will be raided for nothing.

Therefore, Zhu Yunxi never expected the supply and marketing cooperative to make money, but only wanted to cut the squire from it.

As the common people brought the news of the emperor's grandson's conscription back to the village, the news that the county would open a supply and marketing cooperative also spread in the village and among the people.

Many ordinary people have little interest in being a soldier, but they are looking forward to the supply and marketing cooperatives.

Only the rich households and gentry in the village are very disgusted, because once the supply and marketing cooperatives are opened in the city, they will lose a source of income for no reason.

Mr. Liu Zhen Liu, Huangsan Village, Shangxi Town, Yiwu County was very angry. He not only dropped his most beloved porcelain bowl, but also ordered his whole family to starve together with him.

He has released a lot of debts over the years, and the interest alone can make his family earn a lot of money every year.

If the imperial court really opened the Raoshizi Supply and Marketing Cooperative in Yiyi County, wouldn't the poor ghosts in the village become rich?
Once all the poor ghosts in the village have money, is that money still money?

Liu Zhen paced around the room thinking about it all night, and the next day he sent out some long-term workers in the family and asked them to go door to door in the village to ask for money.

If you really have no money, you can use things to pay off the debt!
Mr. Huang's family was in the ranks of pressing debts. He went to the mountain to dig mines and suffered a collapsed house in his early years. One leg was broken. In order to treat his illness, the family borrowed five taels of silver from Mr. Liu.

Over the years, the revolving interest has rolled to ten taels. Now that he is asked to pay off the debt at once, how can he get so much money?
Old Man Huang's eldest son, Huang Gou'er, saw his father worrying, then looked at his younger siblings, gritted his teeth and said.

"father!"

"I heard from people in the village that the grandson of the emperor is recruiting soldiers in the county. As long as he goes on a mission, each person will have ten taels of silver to settle down!"

As soon as Father Huang heard this, he interrupted his son's words.

"no!"

"Even if Father pays this life to Master Liu, he won't let you become this soldier!"

The yellow dog laughed when he heard this.

"Father, don't talk big, I'm afraid Mr. Liu won't care about it!"

When Old Man Huang heard this, he immediately threw the walking stick and hit his eldest son on the body.

"You bastard, you can't even count the number. Wouldn't it be death to serve as a soldier?"

Huang Gou'er laughed again when he heard this.

"People are soldiers to fight, not to recruit us to count."

"Furthermore, people have said that you can have enough food when you become a soldier."

"father!"

"My son has never had enough to eat since he was a child. My son is hungry. My son wants to be a soldier. My son wants to taste what it feels like to be full!"

When Old Man Huang heard this, he stopped talking immediately, and just let the tears run down his face.

At this moment, he only hated himself for being incompetent, for letting his son grow up so big that he didn't even have a full meal!
"Son!"

"If you say so, then you go."

"It's not very good to be a soldier, but at least you can have enough food."

"Ok!"

"Thank you dad!"

After thanking his father, Huang Gou'er packed his luggage and went alone.

It is said to be packing, but in fact there is nothing to pack. It is just a few pairs of straw sandals and a couple of rags.

As for the bedding and luggage, he didn't want to take them at all, he just wanted to keep the covers for his younger brothers and sisters.

The next day, Huang Gou'er bid farewell to his father and went to the county conscription office to report.

As soon as he registered his name at a scholar's office, he was brought by a military master in front of a nobleman sitting under a red umbrella.

Zhu Zhi looked at Huang Gou'er's thin body, and a trace of displeasure flashed in his eyes.

"This body is too thin, can you fight with this?"

Huang Gou'er heard the nobleman say that he was thin, and he didn't care about the other party's identity, so he immediately argued for himself.

"Don't look at me as skinny, I'm very strong, I can pick two bundles of a hundred catties of millet by myself!"

Zhu Zhi said with disdain on his face.

"Can you pick two hundred catties?"

"Come here, give him a one-hundred-jin stone lock. If he can pick it up, he will pass the test!"

As soon as Zhu Zhi's words fell, a heavy-backed guard immediately threw a stone lock in front of the yellow dog.

The yellow dog couldn't dodge in time, and was choked by the dust splashed by the stone lock.

However, he didn't have time to complain, and immediately went to grab Shisuo.

However, he exerted all his strength, and the stone lock was firmly attached to the ground, motionless.

Seeing this, Huang Gou'er was so anxious that he was sweating, but he still couldn't do anything with the stone lock.

Seeing this, Zhu Zhi couldn't help laughing.

"What did Gu just say? Gu can't do it just looking at your body!"

"You'd better go home and raise it for another two years, wait until you lift this stone lock, hahaha!"

Huang Gou'er's face flushed red when he heard this.

"That's not true!"

"I haven't had enough to eat. If you let me have enough to eat, I will definitely be able to lift the stone lock!"

Zhu Zhi sneered when he heard this.

"Isn't that easy?"

"Come here, take him to dinner, if he still can't carry it after eating, give him ten coins and send him back!"

"promise!"

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