Daming Military Empire

Chapter 368 Development of Industry
The Royal Family’s property is not limited to the Daming Royal Nikko Bank. After discussing the issue of the Daming Dragon Coin, the bank’s business has come to an end. Under Zhu Cijiong’s hint, Xu Erjue began to report on the performance of the Daming Royal Xinglong Company.

Xu Erjue unhurriedly opened the account book on the Internet, turned to the last page, and then read aloud: "Since the establishment of the Daming Royal Xinglong Company last year, it has received the original Da Ming Ri Xinglong Company's various places in Daming and Dongying, North Korea and other subordinate countries. There are a total of 1562 branch offices, and another 26 new branch offices have been established in Nanyang Luzon, Xingcheng Port, Goa, Ceylon and other places in South Asia, and one new branch office has been established in Europe, Spain, and now there are a total of 1589 branch offices. In addition, last year also received There are 36 Huangzhuangs in Beizhili and other places, and 325 Huangzhuangs are newly built in the northwest. There are now a total of 361 Huangzhuangs, with a total of more than [-] employees. Last year, the total profit from various branches and Huangzhuangs was about five silver. More than fifteen million taels."

As soon as he finished reading, Zhu Youjian, Zheng Chenggong, and Sun Zhihang couldn't help but gasped. They were not frightened by the profits of the Ming Royal Xinglong Firm, but by its subordinates' semicolon and Huangzhuang. The number is scary, the scale is really scary.

Luo Yangxing didn’t show any surprise. Almost all these semicolons were built under his hands. When the Daming Mingri Xinglong Company was separated in the early days, what the Daming Royal Nikko Bank received was mainly gold, silver and silver bills in stock. business, and the Royal Xinglong Company of the Ming Dynasty mainly gets semicolons and goods from various places, so it is not surprising that there are so many semicolons.

Zhu Cijiong is also very calm. In his previous life, he occasionally saw an introduction about the Dutch East India Company on the Internet. In its heyday, the Dutch East India Company had thousands of branches around the world, more than 7 employees, and total assets The valuation is about [-] trillion U.S. dollars, and the scale of Daming Royal Xinglong Company is still far behind!

After listening to the report, he smiled and encouraged: "Well, you did a good job, do you have any ideas for the next development?"

Hearing this, Xu Erjue closed the account book and thought about it: "Weichen feels that the business of this firm is mainly based on volume, that is to say, the more branches are built, the more profits will be made, but now the semicolons of the Daming Royal Xinglong firm It has almost spread all over the mainland of Ming Dynasty and the capitals and counties of Dongying, North Korea and other subordinate countries. Even if the new provinces such as Nichinan, Jiaozhi, Siam, and Donghu are all established, there are only more than [-] branches in the capitals and counties of the subordinate countries. It may be very difficult for this profit to increase greatly. Weichen wants to expand the semicolon to the villages below, but the number of semicolons will be too terrifying, and I am afraid it will not be able to control it. "

Having said this, Xu Erjue's expression turned pale, and he didn't know how to proceed.

This question is indeed a difficult problem for Xu Erjue or other people present, but it is a very simple matter for Zhu Cijiong. It is something that the common people need daily, and the profit is definitely not much higher. It is only right to rely on quantity and expand to the bottom. As for this management, since it cannot be managed, let others take care of it.”

Xu Erjue's expression changed when he heard the words, and he carefully reminded: "Your Majesty, please forgive me for being bold. I'm afraid it's not appropriate to leave it to others to manage it. Everyone has selfish desires."

He didn't dare to go into too much detail, for fear that the emperor would be angry, and if he said it in more detail, he would mock the emperor for being unreasonable. To mock the emperor would be deceiving the emperor!
Zhu Cijiong didn't think about it, he patiently explained: "What I mean is that the branch of the Daming Royal Xinglong Company is only built up to the county level. As for the sub-colons in the lower towns, you can find local people with reputation or ideas to cooperate. Daming Royal Xinglong Company only provides goods and guidance. They pay for the construction of the shop and hire the personnel themselves. The payment for the goods must be settled in cash. In fact, it is to sell things to them and let them sell them by themselves, but the price must be adjusted appropriately. Just keep it low and make them profitable."

Hearing this, Xu Erjue suddenly realized that this is equivalent to selling in batches. Although the profit is a little lower, it can't support the large volume. How many villages are there in a county? In this way, the sales of Daming Royal Xinglong Company can at least double!
Zhu Cijiong saw that Xu Erjue had understood what he meant, and immediately signaled Sun Zhihang to report on the performance of the Daming Royal Machinery Group. It was getting late at this time, and if he didn't hurry up, he might not be able to finish talking by noon.

Seeing the emperor's urging expression, Sun Zhihang immediately opened the ledger and read aloud: "Since its establishment last year, the Daming Royal Machinery Group has taken over two iron foundries, one machinery factory, and one cement factory of the Ministry of Industry. , North Korea and other dependent countries established 38 branch offices, and another 6 branch offices were established in Nanyang Luzon, Xingcheng Port, Goa, Ceylon and other places in South Asia, and one branch office was established in Continental Spain, with a total of 45 branch offices now. There are a total of more than [-] employees, and a total profit of about [-] million taels of silver last year."

Zhu Cijiong is not dissatisfied with this performance, because the Daming Royal Machinery Group was established last year, and cement, steel, and mechanical equipment are all new things. There were no such things for sale before, so the business development was naturally not so fast.

In order to save time, he directly instructed: "Well, yes, the products produced by Daming Royal Machinery Group are new things that many people have never heard of. It is already very good to have such performance. In the future, you The focus should be on promotion, so that more people know what cement, steel and even various mechanical equipment are used for. Only when everyone understands the functions of these things will they think about using them, and they will understand when they use them. These are actually good things, so sales will slowly increase.”

Hearing this, Sun Zhihang nodded thoughtfully. According to his previous understanding, the Daming Royal Machinery Group should also learn from the Daming Royal Nikko Bank and Daming Royal Xinglong Company and build semi-colons everywhere. Now he understands , this kind of thinking is wrong. People don’t know why these things are used. What’s the use of building more semicolons? You must first let people understand the purpose of these things before this business can develop. As for building semicolons , that's all for the future.

Speaking of this, Zhu Cijiong suddenly remembered what he said about road construction in the early court. He took this as an example and continued to guide: "I have decreed that roads should be built everywhere in the early court today. This is a very good idea." To promote opportunities, you can send people to the chief ministers and state capitals to introduce the performance of cement and steel, and try to get them to use cement and steel when repairing bridges and paving roads. You can even take them there. Take a look, if all the road constructions in various places use the earth-turning dragon, the speed will be many times faster. However, the earth-turning dragon should not be sold to them. The price of such a big thing must not be low, and the operation, maintenance, Professionals are needed for maintenance, and it is not cost-effective for them to buy this thing. You can rent it out to them, calculated on a daily basis, and you can charge as much as you want per day.”

The Daming Royal Machinery Group can already be classified as the industry of later generations. In the Ming Dynasty, no one really knew how to develop industries. A few words from Zhu Cijiong could benefit them infinitely. With these foundations, Daming's industry Destined to be at the forefront of the world.

(End of this chapter)