Daming: Distribution of Lingnan, you develop the Pearl River Delta?

Chapter 17 Make it big!

The deal is still five days away.

All these goods can be prepared.

Zhu Fang also rushed back to Panyu from Xin'an County, and then asked Xiang Hai to take people to deliver things to trade with Dudat.

To Zhu Ping's surprise, Daotong actually came back.

He was not alone, he really brought several businessmen.

Among them are merchants from Huizhou and merchants from Fuzhou, and the most famous one should be Shen Sen, a merchant from Wudi.

This is Shen Wansan's grandson!
The former richest man.

However, Shen Wansan is dead now.

His son Shen Wang inherited part of the family business and was also very wealthy and continued to do business. Zhu Ping also had Shen Wansan's name in his memory, but there was no memory of Shen Wansan and Zhu Yuanzhang having an intersection.

The Shen family is now continuing to make noises in a lively manner, without any impact at all.

Even now, Shen Sen, who is in his 40s, has gone to Lingnan to do business.

The reason why he came to Lingnan was probably because of Zhu Cang.

Zhu Cang knew about Shen Wansan's family because after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, Shen Wansan's sons Shen Rong and Shen Wang brothers, as the heirs of the Shen family, were the first to express their loyalty to Zhu Yuanzhang, offering gold and silver, and spending tens of thousands to help Zhu Yuanzhang build some pavilions. There are pavilions, four restaurants, an iron bridge and a dam, and even steps to the city wall were built.

This may be one of the prototypes of Shen Wansan building the city wall for Zhu Yuanzhang.

In fact, Shen Wansan did not do these things, thus offending Zhu Yuanzhang and being exiled to death.

The sharp eyesight of the Shen brothers made Zhu Yuanzhang very happy. The Shen family also developed during the Hongwu years, and Shen Rong's son Shen Sen was even named Guangjiku Tiju.

Shen Wang's nephew, Shen Jie, was also banned as a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Just imagine, if Shen Wansan was really exiled to death by Zhu Yuanzhang, could his family property be left to his son?

Can his descendants still be officials?

Perhaps because Shen Wang was old and lacked mental strength, Shen Sen resigned and returned home to continue running the family. This time, he heard that King Qin was convening businessmen in Lingnan. Shen Sen, who did not dare to offend, came in person.

This is what Daotong told Zhu Ping.

As for these, it was because Daotong knew that Zhu Xi didn't actually need to connect with so many businessmen.

Zhu Ping only needs to choose one of them.

Among these businessmen, the one with the most outstanding ability and the strongest financial resources is Shen Sen.

It’s Daotong’s top recommendation.

"Since you think so highly of this person, I, the king, should meet him first!" Zhu Fang gave way and called for Shen Sen.

Soon, Shen Sen arrived at the government office.

"Grassman Shen Sen, meet Your Highness!" After all, Shen Sen was an official, but his official position is not as high as his cousin Shen Jie, and his future is not as good as Shen Jie, so when the two brothers need to go home alone to take care of business, Shen Sen chose to sacrifice himself.

He went home to take care of business and used the family's financial resources to help Shen Jie take a further step in the court.

The idea is good.

However, there is a reason why Zhu Ping has not yet decided to choose the Shen family even though he knows his financial resources and abilities.

Because the Shen brothers are good at currying favor with officials.

Among them, he has a good relationship with Lan Yu and others.

It is precisely because of this that the entire Shen family will be implicated in the Lan Yu case in the future and will be beyond redemption.

If Zhu Xi uses him now, he will inevitably get into trouble in the future.

However, after contact, Zhu Fang discovered that Shen Sen, or rather the Shen family, did have a good way of doing business and could meet Zhu Fang's requirements by transporting supplies from various places to Lingnan. Moreover, the Shen family also had branches in Fuzhou. Jiangxi and Hunan both have shops owned by the Shen family. If you want to trade with Lingnan, it is more convenient than others.

Zhu Xi had no choice.

After chatting with Shen Sen, Zhu Ping said to Daotong: "Go to Shen Sen again tonight and ask about his family affairs. After you find out everything, come back and report."

Daotong nodded and went to find Shen Sen.

The next day, Daotong came back and told Zhu Xi: "Your Highness, we have found out. There are a lot of people in the Shen family now. Among the collateral or outside members, there is only Shen Sen's cousin-in-law Gu Xuewen."

This is Gu Xuewen!
Zhu Xi immediately remembered.

It was because of this person that the Shen family was exterminated in the future.

This time Zhu Xi was not worried anymore.

On the contrary, if this point works well, it can also become the key for him to control the Shen family.

Zhu Fang then said to Daotong: "You can let the other merchants go. As for Shen Sen, you will take over with him. He said he wanted 30 pieces of silk last night, right? Okay! Promise him, and It will be delivered next month, and you can negotiate the price. My bottom line is three taels of silver per horse."

In the early Ming Dynasty, silk was still a rare commodity.

Those who can use it are either rich or noble.

A piece of silk can be sold for about seven taels of silver.

The bottom line price given by Zhu Xi is actually very low.

If it weren't for the troublesome shipping out of Lingnan, he would definitely have charged more than this price.

This is also where Zhu Xi feels quite helpless...

In the early Ming Dynasty, there was no development at all in Lingnan.

There aren't even roads.

The pipeline has not been repaired, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty of transporting goods.

What's more, there are many hills along the Lingnan border.

This is harder.

If Zhu Ping didn't lower the price, even if he was the King of Qin, no businessman would be willing to go to Lingnan to purchase goods.

Zhu Ping must give up the benefits.

Only with enough benefits can we move people's hearts.

This is why people often say: If you want to be rich, build roads first.Only when transportation improves can trade improve.

Zhu Ping wants to make money.

Otherwise, supplying 10,000+ people every day, even if he still has a little wealth, he can't support it.

This business must be done.

He would make 30 pieces of silk, even if it was 90 taels.

This 90 taels is not a net profit.

Costs are also included.

The cocoons purchased from Sanghu and the raw silk purchased on the market all require costs.

In the end, Zhu Xi could earn 30 taels, which is not bad.

However, with the addition of a box of pearls from Dudat, we can still persevere.

The good news is that when Daotong came back, he told Zhu Xi that Shen Sen was willing to pay 30 million taels for the 100 pieces of silk, of which 60 taels would be paid in raw silk, and the remaining 40 taels in silver would be paid in cash. Pay in silver or gold.

What a guts!
Zhu Xi knew that since the eighth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang had issued banknotes such as Daming Treasure Banknotes.

Moreover, in order to protect the status of Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes, all private cash, gold, copper coins and other currencies were ordered to be blended into treasure banknotes by the government.

However, because Zhu Yuanzhang did not understand economics, he gave random rewards, and even rewarded the emperor's relatives and ministers with 9000 million Guan of Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes at once, and treated the money as waste paper to print, which naturally destroyed the status of Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes. .

Originally, Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that one shi of rice could be purchased with Da Ming’s banknotes, but after only two years passed, the treasure banknotes fell to [-] pennies per shi of rice, depreciating by a full [-] times!
As a result, people are not very willing to trade with Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes.

This is why Shen Sen offered to use cash to do business with Zhu Ming.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang had not become ruthless and did not forcibly collect gold, silver and copper coins from the people, so it was okay.

Otherwise, with Shen Sen's behavior, Zhu Ping could directly confiscate his home.

But even if that was the case, Zhu Xi would not really do it.

Because Zhu Xi understood that the cause of Ming Baochao's sadness was his father, Zhu Yuanzhang.

In fact, it has nothing to do with these people.

In order to prevent the Ming Dynasty's banknotes from continuing to depreciate, there must be systematic control and adjustment.

This set of knowledge involving the financial field may not be understood by Lao Zhu and others in their lifetime.

Zhu Chong could only be thankful that the disaster of Ming Dynasty Baochao did not spread to Lingnan Mansion.

But it also gave him a wake-up call.

Zhu Ping will definitely issue banknotes as well.

After all, it is easy to carry and trade.

But now that Daming has the precious banknotes, Zhu Xi has to be careful.

It would be best if he independently comes up with a currency.

Just so...

Will it be a capital crime?

It also requires Zhu Yuanzhang’s approval!
That would be a bit difficult to handle.

But always give it a try.

Otherwise, write a letter to the capital?

Thinking of this, Zhu Xi couldn't help but think of Xu Miaoyun.

That innocent, beautiful, and elegant woman.

Since leaving Beijing, he and she have stopped contacting each other.

I don’t know what the situation is in Beijing now.

Zhu Xi gritted his teeth, and after asking Dao Tong to reply to the letter and agreeing to Shen Sen, he immediately went to the study to write a letter.

Soon, the letter was written.

In the letter, Zhu Xi did not express anything.

There is a "Dream of Red Mansions" in the system's mall, and I bought it for a hundred points, wrote it once, and then marked it as a storybook I wrote in Lingnan because I missed Xu Miaoyun, and so far, she is the only one who has written it. One person has seen it.

Of course, Zhu Xi naturally also wanted to write a letter to Queen Ma.

If it weren't for his old lady, it is really a question whether he can live to this day.

In the letter, Zhu Fang naturally expressed that he was very well-behaved after arriving in Lingnan, tried hard to change his mind, and made a lot of efforts to marry Xu Miaoyun, while not forgetting to express his longing for his mother...

Anyway, Zhu Xi is sure that Empress Ma's love for her son will definitely make her cry secretly after watching it.

Finally, Zhu Ping wrote a letter for hospitalization.

However, the memorial was written to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Fang said that Lingnan is a very special place. It is isolated from the Central Plains by high mountains and ridges, which is very inconvenient. He hopes that Zhu Yuanzhang can give himself the power to issue treasure banknotes. As long as Zhu Yuanzhang agrees, then Zhu Fang and he will have the confidence to increase the taxes in Lingnan a lot. .

For this reason, Zhu Xi specifically checked the taxes paid by Lingnan in previous years.

Then, the results startled him.

Good guy!
In the entire Lingnan region, only tens of thousands of dan of rice were delivered last year.

If converted into cash, it would probably be only a few thousand taels.

It seems that Zhu Yuanzhang not only left Lingnan to fend for itself, but he also had no hope that this poor and remote place could collect much tax...

Zhu Chenren is numb!
At the same time, he also made up his mind to wait until the first tax collection in August to do something big and scare Zhu Yuanzhang and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty!
Especially Xu Da.

It must have frightened him.

Otherwise, it would be really difficult to marry a wife.

(End of this chapter)