Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

Chapter 244: Tianjin Wei’s joint venture
The opening of the sea, the implementation of this policy that he knew best about benefiting the country and the people, made Zheng Hongda tremble with excitement.

Looking at the hands raised in approval, Zheng Hongda didn't know who he was, whether he should or was qualified to participate in it and raised his hand. For a moment, I felt even more restless and at a loss.

The supervisor smiled kindly and asked, "Commissioner Zheng, what do you mean?"

When asked, Zheng Hongda immediately slipped to the ground, lay on the ground and kept kowtowing. I dare not even say that.

Zhu Cixiang smiled and offered help: "Please get up and speak."

Zheng Hongda got up tremblingly, faced the future emperor and replied: "Opening the sea will have hundreds of benefits and no harm. If the supervisory country opens the sea, I will call on my colleagues around me to invest in Tianjin Port."

Zhu Cixiang asked with a smile: "Why do you invest in the construction of new cities as long as the sea is opened?"

Zheng Hongda answered cautiously: "Common people are businessmen, and it is the nature of businessmen to pursue profits."

Zhu Cixiang smiled generously: "This is understandable."

"If the Supervisory State opens the sea, then Tianjin Port will become the only seaport in the north in the future. And Tianjin Port is backed by the imperial capital, so it has huge internal and external needs. Furthermore, our Ming Dynasty is the only country in the world where almost all products are All the materials produced in the Ming Dynasty, as long as they are transported to the outside world, will bring huge profits to our Ming Dynasty." When he said this, he forgot to be cautious. Both shine.

He is right. Since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the entire Central Plains Empire has been the production center of the world's materials.

Almost all the materials needed by the entire world, especially the current European countries, are imported from China. The price of exquisite silk and porcelain, especially tea, which is indispensable for going to sea, is equivalent to gold in European countries.

Therefore, the current world trade situation is that for the enjoyment and necessary life of those countries in Europe, they can only exchange massive amounts of gold and silver for materials from the Central Plains Empire.

This caused a serious shortage of gold and silver in European countries and a serious money shortage.

But if the Central Plains dynasty is a weak country, those tiger and wolf countries will of course come in and rob it without any courtesy.

But unfortunately, God is unfair. No matter how weak and chaotic the countries in the Central Plains may be from time to time, they will always crush the European countries in terms of technology and materials.

There is no other way. In order to obtain supplies from the Central Plains Empire, those countries can only go outside to grab gold and silver, and then send the gold and silver they snatched to the Central Plains Empire in a steady stream.

In fact, according to this principle, it was the Central Plains Empire that developed the world's pirate group and colonial group. It is not an exaggeration to define the tragic fate of many colonized countries in the world as being caused by the Central Plains Empire.

Facing Zheng Hongda's eyes full of light, the emperor and his ministers couldn't help but be infected. Think about the Tianjin Port in the future, with sails like a forest, and bandits from all over the world, dedicating shiploads of gold and silver to the Ming Dynasty; and the Ming Dynasty casually used a handful of porcelain made from clay to Silk woven from the excrement pulled out by an insect, paper made from bamboo, and leaves on the tree are continuously exchanged for real gold and silver. By the way, there is also the iron pot worth half a tael of silver, which can earn dozens of times the profit when shipped to Europe. So how rich will the Ming Dynasty be in the future?

"So the common people believe that this is the principle of paid public toilets that the regent just explained to everyone. As long as there are supporting policies, then the business of that public toilet will definitely prosper. And as long as the sea is opened, we businessmen will take notice of the trend. Be the first to take the lead here We will buy land in this new city and build our shops to lay the foundation for future foreign trade. Therefore, the regent said that the imperial court only needs to build this port and provide the first initial capital, and then launch the policy of opening up the sea. , then the remaining funds to build this port city will definitely not be a problem. "

Zhu Cixi nodded slowly.

Lu Mou took over the topic: "As long as we invest the first amount of capital, as a start-up, big businessmen will flock to buy properties there. Then we don't need anything else first, as long as we take the planned urban land and Once the land is sold, we will recover a large amount of funds, which will then be invested in the construction of military and commercial ports. As the land is sold, merchants will build houses and start businesses. Give us a large amount of tax revenue. If we invest the tax revenue in the construction of the commercial port, it will attract a large amount of import and export of materials from inside and outside, and we will get more trade tax revenue. Therefore, it is not practical to build such a magnificent city. No matter how much money the court needs to invest, as long as there is the first amount of money to cultivate this sycamore tree, the phoenix will naturally fall and lay a steady stream of golden eggs for our court household. "

All the people rejoiced.

Zheng Hongda made an excited request: "As long as the imperial court orders the opening of the sea, I will be the first to invest no less than 1 silver dollars to purchase land on what is still a salt-alkali flat in everyone's eyes."

Lu Mou immediately added fuel to the fire: "I will apply to my father to use internal funds to purchase a huge area in that commercial port and build a storage base. I will apply to my father to use internal funds to build a warehouse in that commercial port." Tianjin New City purchases half of the city's land, engages in real estate development, and then resells or leases it, providing our royal family with a steady stream of income for tens of millions of years."

After hearing such a plan, the officials were really angry. You, the regent, instead of thinking about the country, have been collecting money for your royal family. This is intolerable for a scholar. Here, we must have a share, otherwise, we will never be done with you.

In the end, everyone looked at the de facto emperor with eagerness.

The truth has been explained and the effect has been seen. Zhu Cixiang pondered for a while and asked again carefully: "My dear friends, do you have any objections to the regent's proposal? As for the opening of the sea, who is in favor and who is against? Please A show of hands." As a result, the ministers had completely accepted the future prospects during this period, so Huang Daozhou, who is famous for his reputation as a gentleman, raised his hand and said: "I object."

Zhu Cixiang frowned slightly without being noticed: "What is the reason for Master Huang's objection?"

"If we can't give priority to leaving a homestead and opening an academy for you in that planning, I will never agree to it."

Liu Zongzhou spoke sternly: "If I, the chief minister, cannot be left with a college homestead in a place that connects the north and the south and connects China and the outside world, I will fight to the death against it."

Qian Qianyi stroked his beard and said leisurely: "If I can't build a sea view house for my concubine on the Tianjin seaside, I and my colleagues in the Ministry of Rites will not agree."

At this time, all the ministers in the palace shouted together: "If we, the veteran ministers, cannot be given priority, we will fight to the death."

Zhu Cixiang smiled, a gentleman doesn't talk about benefits? What other gentlemen study is land and homesteads. That will be a huge profit in the future.

"You have worked so hard and accomplished so much. This time, the lonely king pretends to be a public servant and enriches his private life. He sells each homestead to you first at the price of ten taels of silver."

At that time, Lu Mou was so anxious that he stamped his feet at his brother: "Brother, I'm sorry."

Zhu Cihong wiped the spit that his brother had sprayed on his face and officially announced: "After the meeting, King Gu will petition his father to start building Tianjin Port."

The Ministry of Household Affairs immediately allocated one million yuan to start construction of the military port.

Lu Mou took out three million of the profits from the cigarette factory from internal funds and invested them in the commercial port and the new city. The ministers all took out their savings or went to banks to apply for installment loans. The entire Tanggu area was immediately crowded with people and turned into a huge construction site.

For a time, merchants gathered and money poured in like water.

For this reason, Lu Mou specially laid the foundation stone for the first new city store - "Yihongyuan"

Yes, it really is a brothel.

After hearing this, Chongzhen, who was resting in Xihaizi, burst out with blood: "Shameless, so shameless. Is money so important?"

Zhou Hou said leisurely: "But it's more shameless than driving a nail into his master's ass."

Chongzhen was speechless with a guilty look on his face.

Although the father and brother are too unbearable, how can there be a daughter in the world who doesn’t feel sorry for her father and brother? When she came back from the dead for the Ming Dynasty, as a queen, she really wronged herself emotionally.

"The regent is sending a decree to use internal funds to build three villas for the father-in-law and uncle on the seaside. They will be as comfortable and spacious as possible."

Now the emperor has a lot of money, the cigarette factory is making a lot of money, and the one-shot elixir factory is making a lot of money every day, so there is no shortage of money.

Zhou Hou gently nestled her head on her husband's shoulder.

"Send the order to Concubine Yuan Feitian's family and follow the same instructions."

Chongzhen, who had been poor for half his life, had never been so generous again. It feels so good to have money.

(End of this chapter)