For the high price of coke, Lu Hanqiang has his own long-term plan.
In the face of a few people in the room, he couldn't hide it, so he said his plan.
"First, we are still short of money, the silver given by the emperor is limited, and it can't play any role in disaster relief, and we can raise the price of things that are unique to us now, so that we can earn more food."
This is obvious to all, and they all nodded.
"Second, Jiangnan is rich, Jiangbei is withered, and Jiangnan people in their hearts, is to distinguish Jiangnan from Jiangbei, in the hearts of most people, Jiangbei even if the flood is monstrous, do not do their Jiangnan business, as a result of the silver alone, Jiangbei silver a large amount of money into Jiangnan, and Jiangnan almost does not flow to Jiangbei, resulting in Jiangbei silver shortage, inhibiting the development of industry and commerce, but also inhibiting the imperial court's taxation, only today the state treasury is in distress, I can be regarded as forcing Jiangnan silver to flow to Jiangbei, It has led to the revitalization of Jiangbei's economy. ” "That's right."
Speaking of this, Lu Huanzhi couldn't help but sigh, as an official, he had a better understanding of the mentality of the gentry of the people in the north and south: "The war in the north, but far away from the south, more than 200 years of comfort in the south, it has developed a character that the south does not know the difficulties of the country, once the north imposes taxes on the south, the south is convenient to boycott, thinking that the south is sticking money to the north, and the southern literary style is flourishing, and every big exam occupies the absolute majority, even if Hong Wuye strongly stipulates the amount of the north and the south, he will not hesitate to set off a shocking case and can do nothing.
Therefore, the officials representing the Jiangnan family almost occupied the court, leading to whether it was out of selfishness or otherwise, in terms of policy, it was to speak to the big family occupied in the south, such as after the current saint ascended the throne, those who were born in Jiangnan Donglin issued a series of tax reduction and exemption policies, and the preferential treatment was all in the south, therefore, now the war expenses between the dynasty and the Houjin, and the rebellious Tartars, are almost all the people in the north to resist, and a small Lu'an Tusi rebellion in the south has lasted for almost ten years.
Every year, they still have to send troops from the north to support them, don't they know the truth that the skin does not have hair?"
This truth, even Zhao Liang, who had just made a tour in the south, deeply felt the gap between the north and the south.
For a moment, the atmosphere in the room became dull.
"That's the third."
Lu Hanqiang broke the dullness and continued to say the plan in his heart: "If you want to let the silver of the south flow to the north, the north must have something to buy in the south, so I will choose this coke for this breakthrough, and now I will raise the price, mainly to buy the rich people in the south, as a face project, popular things are first popularized in the upper echelons, once the atmosphere is formed, the use of coke will be greatly popularized, at that time, our little production capacity is no matter how can not meet the needs of the huge market."
Therefore, after I raise this price, it is to let the people in the north see the profits, so that the buried silver in the north can run out of the ground and participate in this vigorous coke industry, so that coke plants can blossom in various places.
At that time, although the price of our coke has fallen, our production and sales volume have gone up, and that is when my goal will be realized. ” Wang Gonggong's eyes lit up, and his hands clapped: "Yes, as long as the rich people from all over the country come to set up coke factories, then they will have to hire many, many people, and to practice coke, they will dig coal, and digging coal will need more manpower, so that it will not set off a wave of labor in various places, and how many displaced people will be resettled in the local area."
"Yes, just in our place, the investment is only 100,000 silver, and as a result, we have hired more than 10,000 people, and these 10,000 people have a livelihood, so we can settle no less than 50,000 displaced people, and if this continues, in less than a year, the problem of the displaced people in Shanxi will be greatly alleviated, which is really the luck of the dynasty and the people."
Lu Huanzhi couldn't help but tremble lightly with excitement.
"Yes, now we need food, just take coke for food, therefore, within this half a year, we need to keep the coke production method secret, half a year later, once there is not so much food in the south, and the north is no longer hungry and thirsty for so much food, they will use silver to buy, at that time, the silver in the south will flow to the north like a flood bursting the embankment, which will drive the economy of the north to improve, once such a virtuous circle is formed, I can't think of three years, we will settle down in the north of the Ming Dynasty, Our finances will improve, and then the successors, the Mongols, the Rogues, will all collapse in the face of a mighty empire. ” After a long period of silence, the prince, Lu Huanzhi and Zhao Liang couldn't help but stand up together, and respectfully gave Lu Hanqiang a deep salute: "Lord Lu, the true countryman is also." ” The prince left in a hurry, and he had to inform the emperor in Beijing of this policy as soon as possible.
Li Zhiqiu's uncle and nephew delivered the grain, loaded it with coke, and went straight down to the south of the Yangtze River without stopping for a moment, they wanted to make a few more trips back and forth in the shortest possible time, this is all money, just this trip, a back and forth is no less than 50,000 net profits, this is a family's income for a year, how not to make people anxious, especially when going down, along the way to see an endless stream of large and small fleets going upstream, taking advantage of the strong south wind, blowing full sails, carrying countless grains to the flat land, This urgency is even greater.
When the grain was available, Lu Hanqiang discussed with a group of people and others, and decided to sell the grain, and said with great fanfare that he would subsidize three yuan per stone to suppress the price of grain in various places, and at the same time withdraw cash and continue to invest in construction.
It is hoped that the price of grain will fall back to his reasonable price of one or two taels of silver from the original one stone and one or two taels of silver.
In this way, those small and medium-sized businesses will not go bankrupt.
At this time, the governor of Taiyuan no longer turned away Lu Hanqiang, but also sent someone over to discuss the matter of borrowing grain, yes, borrowing.
But Lu Hanqiang bit it to death, it was for sale, and he never owed it on credit, and the reason was outrageous.
There was no way, those gentry and giants could only grit their teeth and take out the silver to buy, and Lu Hanqiang's silver shortage was immediately solved for a while.
He has the capital to continue to develop.
And what Lu Hanqiang planned that day was also written to Chongzhen by the prince word for word, such a result was not expected by everyone in the capital, and in the loss of letting Donglin see that the joke was not successful, he had to admit that Lu Hanqiang's methods were clever, and he just let him turn a dead game into a live chess, and it was still prosperous, and there was no excuse for even the opportunity to impeach others.
Sending the others away, Lu Hanqiang took Zhao Liang to his secret room, the so-called secret room is just his own bedroom, and then let Da Zhuang take his original forbidden army brothers to guard around, not to let outsiders approach, even the prince also used the excuse to branch, therefore, there are only four people in Lu Hanqiang's bedroom, Lu Hanqiang, Zhao Liang, Zhao Zi and Zihan.
"You go to Jiangnan, how is the situation of the commercial house" Lu Hanqiang asked Zhao Liang bluntly about the original task, when the two of them went out of Beijing, one south and one north, now Lu Hanqiang is worried about things in the south.
"My lord, the business bank has been very successful in the south, and after I was instructed to inspect the postal routes of the business houses in some remote places, and after giving subsidies to those places that are really losing money, in just the last quarter, the Jiangnan Post Inn Che Ma Xing has earned no less than two million silver for our business bank."
"So much" such a result is indeed a big surprise to Zhao Zi, in his opinion, after the upper and lower subsidies, there are five or six hundred thousand silver is not bad, I really didn't expect to have such a big income in just three months.
Zhao Liang bowed slightly: "So that the governor knows that Jiangnan Taiping has been developed more thoroughly for two hundred years, and the dynasty has been implementing the policy of hiding the wealth from the people, in Jiangnan, a medium-sized family, there are nearly a thousand customary furniture, and those big families, the family property of tens of millions is no longer a problem, not to mention that the southern trade is already developed, overseas trade is nominally cut off, in fact, it is more prosperous than before, which has accumulated a lot of wealth for the south, Suzhou and Hangzhou two states, Anhui Fujian and other places, just take out a rich household, they are rich and rival the lord of the country. ” Zhao Zi sighed: "The north is withering, but it bears the largest cost of the country, and the south is rich, but it is still the icing on the cake. ” Zhao Liang ignored Zhao Zi's lamentation, and asked solemnly: "Co-organizer, according to the date, it has been a quarter since the establishment of the commercial bank.
Lu Hanqiang nodded: "Fulfill the promise, this must be done, this can not only play a role in stabilizing the hearts of shareholders, but also attract more people to join the firm, and bring us more share investment, which not only allows the silver in the hands of those big investors to settle, but also strengthens the strength of our firm, and stands firm in the upcoming competitiveness." ” "Yes, my lord, as the so-called people have no foresight must have near-term worries, this time I inspected Jiangnan, and found that some big families in Jiangnan began to study our mode of operation, as long as they unite to do this thing, according to the model of our business bank, it will be a great impact on us, which has to be prevented."
Lu Hanqiang smiled slightly: "There is no top secret in the world, and business operations are even more so, as long as we stand at the highest point and constantly improve our model, not only will we be imitated forever, and we will never be surpassed." ” Looking at Lu Hanqiang's confident expression and sonorous and powerful words, everyone's hearts became even firmer.
"What the proprietor said is that the adults ran the newspaper at the beginning, and now it has become popular all over the country, and all parts of the country have followed suit, but it is not the Ming News and Danet to enshrine and master the newspaper industry, no matter how hard others try to imitate, but they can't imitate our essence, this is competitiveness."
Saying this is a bit off-topic, Lu Hanqiang stood up and slowly paced and arranged: "Zhao Liang, you go back immediately, the two million profits in the south of the Yangtze River and the profits of no less than one million in the north will be escorted into Beijing, and you will immediately preside over the shareholder dividend with Wang Shilang and Wang Fang." ” "Yes, co-organizer."
"But remember, this time the profits should not be used to expand shares, we still let everyone see the dividends first, which is the most stable for people."
"My lord, does General Manager Wang's office want to divide dividends according to the proportion?"
Zhao Liang asked tentatively.
At the beginning, Lu Hanqiang promised the emperor that he would squeeze out 500,000 silver in a quarter, but now it far exceeds this amount, that is, three times 1.5 million, and this achievement also makes Zhao Liang, who is the emperor's family, proud.
After Lu Hanqiang frowned and walked around, he said categorically: "Zhao Liang, you go back to Wang Shilang and Wang Fang this time and tell you that no matter what, you must deduct a minimum of no less than 500,000 silver, and it would be better if you could deduct 1 million." ” Zhao Liang was very surprised, and looked at Lu Hanqiang with his mouth open, shouldn't this adult start to be greedy for the public property of the Mo Commercial Bank now, now he knows that Lu Hanqiang only has two newspapers, deducting the expenses of various places, and the minimum net profit will reach more than 100,000 yuan a month, and in a year, it will definitely not be less than one million, why are you still not satisfied Lu Hanqiang didn't know Zhao Liang's thoughts, he still lowered his head and said slowly: "This silver is kept by you and Wang Shilang, Wang Fang, and Lao Fang and a few of you, without my order, you can't use a penny, this is more than money, I want to be of great use, tens of millions." ” This is Lu Hanqiang's inner worry, and this is also the most important step for Lu Hanqiang to prepare for the Emperor Taiji's entry.
This time there is a lot of silver, but as long as they enter the inside, as soon as they enter Wang Chengen's pocket, they can only go to two, one is targeted by the bastards in the household department, and the money is spent to I don't know where it goes, and the second is Wang Chengen's small pick, and no one will take it out anymore, and so on after October, Jin will enter the Kou, and the soldiers and horses of the Qinwang will arrive in various places, and everyone still has no money and food to support, and finally the mutiny forced by the Qinwang soldiers in various places, or looting the place, I think that at the beginning, Shanxi Hu Tingyan with 5,000 people and horses was because there was no money and money to mutiny, Not only did it not play the role of resisting Houjin, but it became the main force of the troubled place, and finally ran back to Shanxi, strengthened the pole, and there was also the Ganzhou army Qin Wang, and as a result, there was no money and food to pull, Li Zicheng led the army to mutiny, killed the benefactor who promoted him in the kingdom, and played a banner to rebel, the most serious is his father-in-law British Gong, 200,000 Beijing camp army, five months without a little money and food, the hungry 200,000 army can not lift swords and guns, in the face of the wolf-like Manchu Qing Tartars, a touch of the collapse, His father-in-law had to take his only family general to fight to the death as a moth and throw himself into the fire, and sacrificed his life bravely.
Now as long as he has a million silver in his hands, even if it is 500,000, he can directly allocate some to those poor Qinwang generals, so that they will not kill thieves on an empty stomach, and let them shed blood and tears.
Zhao Liang saw what Lu Hanqiang said solemnly, and heard that the money was handed over to himself and five others for safekeeping, so he breathed a sigh of relief, this is not Lu Hanqiang's greed for ink, this is indeed useful.
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