I was pulling trees in Daming, and Lao Zhu begged me to come out of retirement

Chapter 137: Raw silk sales are booming!

In this market economy that has obviously gone out of control,

The price of raw silk skyrocketed, and a new business called Riyue Trading Company suddenly opened up in all major states and counties, making money by collecting brokerage fees from various places on behalf of others.

No one knows how it transmits information, but the signs hanging outside the doors of local chambers of commerce are adjusted uniformly every day without any delay.

They also provided guarantees for raw silk transactions. Merchants could hand over raw silk to their chamber of commerce for safekeeping and obtain circulating bills to facilitate raw silk transactions. Merchants could then exchange the bills for silver at any time.

The only thing you have to pay is a small handling fee and cargo storage fee.

As a result, a large number of idle landlords, merchants, and nobles began to gather in front of the Sun and Moon Trading Company every day to look forward to the daily purchase price of raw silk.

Whenever they see a purchase price higher than the market price, they will rush to sell it, and then put up a tag to purchase raw silk at the market price.

The profit from this round trip is at least several dozen taels, and some people with large quantities can even make tens of thousands of taels a day.

A large amount of idle gold and silver flowed into the raw silk market.

Even Zhu Yuanzhang and others who were mentally prepared could not help but secretly smack their lips in amazement at the huge transaction volume delivered by the Sun and Moon Trading Company.

And this funding pool is far from reaching its upper limit, and it has even just begun.

After a year of pursuit, the price of raw silk not only did not decrease, but became even more outrageous. After a year of continuous purchases, the listed price of raw silk has increased from 65 taels per dan to 300 taels per dan.

A large amount of buried gold, silver and copper coins were exchanged for raw silk bills of the Sun and Moon Trading Company, and the treasure notes circulating in the market were gradually replaced by bills.

Two years passed.
At this time, the court's guiding purchase price was just over 800 taels, but the purchase price listed by the Riyue Trading Company had reached an outrageous taels per dan.

At this time, some coastal merchants felt something was wrong.

At this time, the gross profit was only 1200 taels compared to the 400 taels leaked outside the court, which was not a happy figure at all for ocean trade.

Moreover, the internal news circulating in the court three years ago has not provided any accurate information, and there has been no news of any ships returning from the sea in exchange for large amounts of silver.

So some people began to place small-scale orders of raw silk on the market.

This change quickly attracted Shen Wansan's attention.
He looked at the data summarized from various places every day and hurried to the palace to report on his work.

The year is 1368.
Zhu Yuanzhang had already reached the age of forty.

Having just turned 40, he no longer has the vigor and vitality he had in his 30s. Instead, he looks tired, and his eyes occasionally reveal a hint of surprising majesty.

"His Majesty."

Shen Wansan knelt in front of Zhu Yuanzhang with the documents in his hand and said, "I have something important to report."

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at the information in his hand, then helped him up and said with a smile:

"Didn't Minister Shen say that we in the Ming Empire don't practice kowtow or kneel?"

Shen Wansan did not respond directly, but only replied respectfully: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace."

Then he took out the stack of reports in his hand and said solemnly:

"Your Majesty, something is wrong. The market has seen some abnormalities in terms of shipments in recent days, and a large number of raw silk orders have been dumped."

"Although I have ordered people to buy it secretly, the daily shipment quantity has been increasing."

Zhu Yuanzhang did not look at the data in Shen Wansan's hand.
He just turned around, sat at the table, took a sip of tea from the cup and laughed:

"It's been three years, so it's normal for some people to get impatient. After all, they haven't seen any ships returning to the port. This is normal. I thought they would have discovered it earlier."

Shen Wansan looked at Zhu Yuanzhang who was confident in his plans and lowered his head even more. He knew very well how the emperor in front of him could control the wealth of the entire China in his own hands at the touch of a button.

At present, Sun Moon Trading Company controls more than 90% of China's gold and silver, as well as countless raw silk. However, the landlords, nobles, and merchants all have some worthless deposit certificates in their hands.

If this guy turns hostile and packs up and runs away, more than 90% of the landlords in China will go bankrupt and commit suicide.

Zhu Yuanzhang stretched out his hand and knocked on the table, thinking:
"Go spread the word. Half a month later, our Ming fleet will return to Qingdao Port. I will personally welcome the heroes who set out to sea!"

Shen Wansan nodded his head and nodded, then bowed and left the hall.

Soon, a batch of Ming Dynasty economic monthly reports were delivered to various Sun and Moon trading companies at full speed.

At this time, both the old Song Dynasty supported by Liu Futong and the Yuan Dynasty of Emperor Shundi of Yuan turned a blind eye to the attributes of the Riyue Commercial Bank.

In recent years, they have purchased a large amount of grain from businesses to meet the food needs of the people who have abandoned farming and switched to mulberry cultivation, and have more than doubled the value of their treasury.

Both sides tacitly acknowledged the national status of the Daimyo Empire, and even compared themselves to Wei and Shu among the three parts of Wei, Shu and Wu in an attempt to divide the world equally.

The next day,

Some merchants and landlords who had a keen sense of smell and were secretly dealing in raw silk came to the Riyue Trading Company early to prepare to put up the raw silk for sale.

As soon as I arrived at the door, I saw a big poster posted on it.

Because of Tianyu's disappearance, the photo function of MC painting could not be used, so Zhu Yuanzhang had to ask people to use sketching to draw similar real scenes for publicity.

Mr. Liu stared at the majestic fleet of huge ships with his eyes wide open. He called the teller and asked in a low voice:

"How is this going?"

The teller laughed and said to the businessman with envy:

"Mr. Liu, you are going to make a fortune."

The teller's words attracted the attention of the surrounding merchants.

Mr. Liu asked in surprise:

"Little brother, why did you say that?"

The teller pointed at the picture and said to Mr. Liu with a smile:
"In half a month, the fleet of the Ming Empire will return from Europe. I heard that this time is different from the past. The West has suffered from a plague. Nine out of ten houses are empty. The population of the entire West has decreased by at least 5%!"

"There's a lot of idle land there, and only one in ten people survive. Hiring young laborers is extremely expensive!"

"Even the lowest tenants have two pieces of beef, roast meat, wine and bread for three meals a day. Money there is not money at all. Everyone is begging for our Oriental silk on their knees."

"Do you know what the clothes we wear are called over there? They are called luxury goods! A piece of silk shipped over there can be directly exchanged for gold!"

"I heard that the wealth brought back this time is ten times more than usual. The entire ship is full of shining gold. His Majesty Zhu Yuanzhang, the King of the Ming Dynasty, will personally go to greet the fleet. It is said that the gold brought back this time is at least this amount!"

The teller said mysteriously and raised a finger.
Mr. Liu swallowed his saliva and guessed carefully:

"10 taels of gold?"

The teller chuckled, squinted his eyes and spoke slowly:

"1000 million... taels of gold!"

"What?! Impossible!"

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar.

　Sorry, I forgot the protagonist, I'll get him back...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)