Steam Daming: Stop calling me to supervise the country

Chapter 182 Land Grants and Trade Licenses

"Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, and the edict said: I have been on the throne for more than ten years, and I have respected the emperor's examination and orders, and I can't go to the sea. Today, the sea is prosperous in Daming, worshiping the ancestors, and transporting the sky. I am willing to open the maritime gate and establish Weihai Port and Ningbo Port. , Hong Kong Port is Daming’s foreign trade port, hereby announce to the world and send orders overseas.”

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the emperor's order to open the sea ban was finally issued. In fact, the information has been delivered long ago, and it will be announced on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

At the dock of Xiangjiang Port, Zhu Zhanchang prepared a grand ribbon-cutting ceremony. Huang Huihong, Fang Shi, and Liang Fu were all present. Of course, Zhu Zhanchang gave up the protagonist's position to Chen Youshan, the magistrate of Xiangjiang County.

Chen Youshan was radiant today and wanted to invite Zhu Zhanchang to preside over the opening of the port, but Zhu Zhanchang let him do it himself, and let him be the protagonist today.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, His Highness the Crown Prince, and His Highness the Prince of Zhujiang County. I, Chen Youshan, He Dehe, can take on this great responsibility. Thanks to His Highness's letter, Chen Youshan will definitely die, and die."

Chen Youshan is a little excited. Today, almost all the business people who can be named have arrived. Because when the port opens, they can do maritime trade in a fair and open manner. Guangzhou Prefecture is close to Nanyang. Not even soup.

As the magistrate of Xiangjiang County, he has a lot of room for development in the future. It is far better to be with the right person than to suffer in the old place for decades.

The steam warship was parked in the port, and under the order of Chen Youshan, the cannons were fired at the sea.

boom

boom

boom

As soon as the cannon rang, the gold was ten thousand taels.

Many people around came to watch the fun. After the port activities were over, Zhu Zhanchang led a group of people to start climbing the mountain. When they climbed to the top of the mountain, they could see the Wanggang Port of Pearl River County in the distance. From a distance, the steam warships looked much smaller.

"Everyone, I think everyone is very interested. After the sea ban is lifted, how will the business be done? How will the ships go?"

"His Royal Highness, we are all waiting to follow you to do business overseas."

Zhu Zhanchang wanted to raise his eyebrows: "I think there are some firms or families who own merchant ships and can go to Nanyang to do business."

At this time, no one answered, and answering is not equivalent to saying that he had a smuggling business before.

Glancing around, Zhu Zhanchang said with a smile: "The port can accept your ships as well as foreign ships, but the landing and boarding of the goods requires customs inspection and a trade license."

"His Royal Highness, how to obtain a trade license."

"Don't worry, you still need to explore everything when the sea ban is started. Only ten companies will be issued in the early stage of the trade license."

"My Highness, I'm the first to sign up." The owner of a ceramics firm was very positive.

"Look over there." Zhu Zhanchang pointed to a place beside the port, and then took out the plan: "I plan to build ten warehouses here, and those who take pictures of these ten warehouses will get the first ten trades. Of course, a license cannot be owned by one person. In theory, a firm or family can only have one license, and it must be divided into industries, grain, ceramics, tea, and so on.”

"Also, these warehouses are not sold to you, but the right to use the land. For 40 years, all the proceeds will go to Xiangjiang County, Guangzhou Prefecture, and the treasury of the Guangdong feudal secretary, and will be nationalized."

They had never seen such a method before, and they were chatting with each other for a while.

After giving them plenty of time for discussion, Zhu Zhanchang said: "I marked the distinction between commercial land and residential land on this plan. Most of the land in Xiangjiang Island will only be used in the form of sale, and a small part of the residential land can be used directly. Sell ​​it and get the title deed, for example, this mountain is called Banshan, my county king Bieye has already started construction here, and the residence here can be sold, just wait a bit later."

Zhu Zhanchang intends to sell the land on Xiangjiang Island first and return a wave of funds, so that the construction of the port and the development of the steamship will all be in place. .

"The auction of ten warehouses will be sold in three days. You can ask Chen Zhixian about the rest of the specific matters." After Zhu Zhanchang said some general matters, he gave Chen Youshan the right to speak. At this time, he needed to deal with these people. .

Of course, it's different from when he was the magistrate of Xiangshan Island. At that time, he had to coax those noble families as an official with no foundation. Now it's different, a group of people have to hold him. Much simpler.

Zhu Zhanchang himself took Li Xiaozhu Zara and Cao Xinyue to see his mid-level career.

I chose the best location, and at a glance, I can see the most prosperous location of Hong Kong in the future.

"New Moon, you should also do some construction business. Building a house will be a big deal in the future."

Cao Xinyue nodded, as long as Zhu Zhanchang asked her to do it, it must be the project she had considered.

The current house building technology cannot build high-rise buildings with concrete and concrete, and the residential area is very large. Zhu Zhanchang has to invest in the research and development of reinforced concrete to make the building even higher.

In the stage of large-scale development, real estate developers lay down to make money.

Now you have to earn the first batch of money to be invested.

After visiting the scenery for a while, Zhu Zhanchang went to prepare for the land sale auction.

A few days later, the auction will be placed in front of the warehouse. After the fermentation of the past few days, it can be said that there are a lot of people present today. Zhu Zhanchang retreated into the lounge by himself, and did not intend to show his face, and let Chen Youshan take full responsibility.

"Your Highness, aren't you going by yourself?" Zara asked curiously.

"Do everything by yourself. It's not that you are exhausted. You have to let your subordinates do things and give them room to play. I save effort, and they also have a way to display their talents."

"Your Highness, you are just lazy." Zara said bluntly.

Li Xiaozhu covered her mouth and smiled.

Chen Youshan started here: "Everyone, the trade license of Hong Kong Port is generated with the sale of ten warehouses. According to the classification of business, it is ceramics, tea, wood, jade, jade, food, spices, silk and raw silk, finished clothing, etc. Coal, iron ore."

Divided into ten projects, it should be available in a short time, and the basic framework must be built first.

The businessmen are most interested in ceramics, tea, spices, and silk. These are the main sources of the smuggling trade. Spices are imported, and the other three are exported. Whoever wins the import and export trade license is doing a unique business.

Of course, only in Hong Kong Port, the other two ports can still go.

"The lease period of the warehouse land is 40 years. After the expiration, there is a priority to renew the contract. The settlement is in gold, including the subsequent maritime trade, which also uses gold as the settlement currency, supplemented by silver."

"The first warehouse is a ceramics shop. The base price is 500 taels of gold, and 5 taels of silver equals 1 tael of gold." Chen Youshan did not set the price very high.

"550 taels of gold." Someone shouted immediately.

"570 taels."

"590 taels."

At first, everyone was relatively cautious, but after they really shouted, they went up. After all, ceramics is a major item of export trade. Once it is in hand, its profits are immeasurable.

"1100 taels." The one who shouted was the president of the business gang who came from Jiangxi.

The local bosses in Guangzhou also shouted directly: "1300 taels".

You came and went, and finally called the price up. Zhu Zhanchang was very satisfied behind the scenes. This is just the beginning. If you miss this opportunity, all ceramic trade will have to go to this firm for at least the next year or two. Its benefits The temptation is great.

Zhu Zhanchang actually didn't want to do this, but after thinking about it, he still had to copy it.

Let some people get rich first.

Fully open the port, trade at will, without protection, there will be chaos, and there will be many disputes when ships enter and leave the port, and there must be order, even if this order does not seem to be too fair now.

Protecting the interests of those big firms is also a way to reduce smuggling. Of course, Zhu Zhanchang has also made a decision. The firm that has won the warehouse must allocate a certain share to help other firms do import and export trade, otherwise even if they are monopolized, they will be fined. It's just that the big head must be his own.

"4500 taels." As the Jiangxi ceramics firm called up the price, there was no answer for a while.

Chen Youshan looked around, and when he was about to make a decision, someone shouted, "4800 taels."

The boss of the Jiangxi Ceramics Firm turned green, gritted his teeth and said, "5000 taels."

Converting 5000 taels of gold to silver is 5000 taels of silver. According to the current price, one tael of silver can buy a little less than two shimi. That is, the sale of a warehouse this time has gained the value of [-] shimi.

The nianlu of a county king like Zhu Zhanchang is only 2000 stone. Of course, this is just a salary on the surface.

Your salary is all yours, the county prince's salary is just his cover, this is not enough money for someone like his second brother to squander half a month, since you go out, the local officials of the domain are filial piety, and the wealthy gentry is the money-worshipping big head.

The competition in the tea industry and the silk industry was also extremely fierce. Both warehouses sold more than 5000 taels of gold and 4500 taels of spices.

The people who came to watch today have opened their eyes. This is really a carnival of money. Here, gold is calculated according to thousands of taels. In the eyes of this group of people, it is not enough to stick between their teeth.

The wealth of the Ming Dynasty merchants can be seen.

The most amazing thing about Chinese civilization is that, after experiencing the baptism of war and rebirth from ashes, as long as it is given to our people for a few decades, the economy can develop to an even higher level than before.

This is the hard work and wisdom of the Chinese people.

Zhu Zhanchang asked Cao Xinyue to invest in the warehouse of the coal business, and finally made the transaction with 4000 taels of gold. Because the Cao family had previously undertaken a lot of coal mining projects in the north, it happened to be a professional counterpart.

As for the iron ore business, the Nan family took pictures under the instructions of Zhu Zhanchang.

As the South Ocean goes down, iron ore is abundant, but it is lower than open, and the potential for future development is also huge.

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