Suzhou Prefecture, Wu County.This is the richest and most prosperous place in the Ming Dynasty.The city gathered the richest merchants and gentry in the southeast.These people built houses in the city and spent a lot of money to build forest gardens, making the name of Suzhou gardens spread far and wide.In the south of the city, there is a city garden, called "Kun Garden", which is the courtyard of the former Shangshu Wang Duo.On this day, Wang Duo and several gentry were chatting over tea in the garden."
Brother Wang, I heard that you have recently harvested tens of thousands of acres of good land in Jiangbei!
Let's make a net profit of 100,000 yuan!
”A gentry laughed.Wang Duo smiled slightly, "It's just a little money."
There are no 100,000 taels, and there are still tens of thousands of taels.In other words, Brother Qian, you also bought a lot!
”The crowd couldn't help laughing, the people were afraid of the disaster, and the big families were looking forward to the disaster.Generally speaking, ordinary people have a thin family background and poor ability to resist risks, and once they encounter a famine and have no harvest, they have to sell valuable things or borrow money from large landlords with rich families.The gentry and landlords had a rich family background, and they took advantage of the disaster year to buy low, and then sold high when the disaster passed.In the past, the price of land in Jiangbei was between ten and twenty taels, but now two or three taels can be received, and when the year is good, the land price will recover, and it will immediately make nearly ten times the profit.Such an opportunity is rare, and the gentry and landlords naturally want to make a good profit.At this time, a few old fortunes were talking and sharing their harvest, but the doorman suddenly came to report, "Master, Lord Zhao is here!"
”Wang Duo smiled and said: "Zhao Zhilong is bold, and the fields are all received by the Huai River, and he is not afraid of the Qing soldiers killing him."
Let him in!
”Although the Ming Dynasty drove out the Qing army, the Huaijiang River is the front line after all, and if the Qing army comes again, it will definitely bear the brunt.Therefore, Wang Duo and others did not go to the edge of the Huai River to harvest the fields, but Zhao Zhilong had something to do with the Qing army, so he had the courage.After a while, I saw Zhao Zhilong hurriedly walk in, and as soon as he stepped into the flower hall, he hurriedly said: "Brother Wang, woe is wrong!"
”Wang Duo and the others were stunned, "What's the matter?"
”Zhao Zhilong said in a panic: "The regent went to Jiangbei, and the matter of letting the government reduce the relief grain and forcing the people to buy land may be exposed." ”As soon as these words came out, the gentry present were a little panicked.Wang Duo was quite calm, after all, he was a person who had been a scholar, and frowned: "Don't worry, how can the regent go to Jiangbei?"
”"It's not for the JAC cotton industry.Now, the imperial court has arrested the prefect of Huai'an, and has sent the imperial historian to investigate the matter of relief grain.Jianghuai Cotton Industry is also harvesting land on a large scale, raising the price to ten taels. ”Zhao Zhilong hurriedly said the news from his family."
Don't panic!"
Wang Duo frowned, and then looked at one person, "The prefect of Huai'an is Brother Gong's protégé!"
”An old man in the hall nodded, it was Gong Dingyu, one of the three members of Jiang Zuo, who was as famous as Qian Qianyi.Wang Duo immediately said: "Please also ask Brother Gong to let your protégé carry this matter down."
Let's just say that he himself embezzled and swallowed relief food, so don't involve us.It's a good thing for him, and for his family. ”Gong Dingyu had a calm face, "The old man asked someone to send him a message." ”In the Ming Dynasty, officials were not afraid of the punishment of the imperial court, they formed interest groups, did things for their own group, and when something happened, they dismissed the officials and went home, and some people took care of them, and the foodies did not worry, and even after a few years, the limelight passed, and under the operation of the party bigwigs, they could revert to officialdom.On the contrary, if he betrays his own interest group, the people in the DPRK will regard him as a traitor, and it will be difficult for him to survive when he returns to his hometown.Duoduo then said to Zhao Zilong: "This matter is because the government is greedy for relief food, and Lord Zhao and we are free to buy and sell."
As for your family, break your wrist!
Let's just say that he is doing nonsense himself, and it has nothing to do with you!
In this way, the court has no evidence, and if you let the people in the court help you talk, you can pass the test. ”Zhao Zhilong listened to his arrangement clearly, and couldn't help but know the bottom in his heart.When the Chongzhen Dynasty was in the past, this group of people probably played like this.In the Ming court, most of them are from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the relationship is intertwined, no matter how powerful the regent is, he has to rely on the civil official group to govern the world.Zhao Zhilong had a bottom in his heart, and couldn't help but ask again: "The fields in Jiangbei, we still can't collect them!"
”Wang Duo said: "Stop first, the people don't fight with the officials, and give the regent a face." ”Zhao Zilong regretted: "That's a pity.It's rare that the land price is so low, and you can earn it when you receive it!
”Wang Duo smiled and said, "Don't worry!
I inquired clearly that the treasury has no money now, and the Jianghuai cotton industry is only hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.The regent is now raising the price of the land, and as long as we stay consistent, when his money is spent, the price of the land will fall immediately.The regent couldn't last long, and the group of old emblems who followed the regent all lost money this time.I'm afraid that no one will buy the Regent's shares in the future, so that the Regent will have a heel before he knows that he needs our support.We wait until they run out of money and the price of the land falls, and then continue to buy!
”Zhao Zhilong and the others couldn't help laughing: "Alas!
The regent did not summon the royal brother into the cabinet, what a great loss!
”~~~~~~~ Yangzhou City Gate, there is a prospectus of Jianghuai Cotton, as well as a notice of the establishment of a stock exchange by the imperial court.JAC Cotton, as the first company, logged into the trading center, and the trading center, on the notice board, announced the assets, business strategies and other information of JAC Cotton, as well as its financial status.This caused a lot of onlookers, but most of them couldn't understand it, just glanced at it a few times, and left.In the imperial court newspaper, the news of the establishment of a stock exchange, as well as the shares of JAC Cotton, began to be traded on the exchange.Suzhou, Kunyuan.Wang Feng ate breakfast and looked at the arrival.At this time, he had just taken a sip of porridge, but suddenly it all squirted out.Wang Feng hurriedly stood up, and the maid took a towel and wanted to wipe him, but he pushed him away.Wang Feng shook the tainted report, his eyes widened, and he saw the information on it.JAC Cotton, with an original registered capital of 2.5 million silver dollars, a total of 250,000 shares, and the original stock price is 10 silver dollars per share.In this quarter, JAC Cotton has 300,000 mu of its own cotton fields and 700,000 mu of leased farming land, with an estimated revenue of 4 million silver dollars and a net profit of 2 million this year.At this time, Zhao Zhilong suddenly hurriedly broke in with a report, and said from afar: "Brother Wang, have you seen it?"
”Wang Duo's face was calm, and Zhao Zhilong continued to say urgently: "What is that stock exchange, I heard that the stock of Jianghuai Cotton Industry has doubled and risen to ten taels!"
”Wang Duo had a gloomy face, he didn't care how the stock of Jianghuai Cotton Industry rose, he was shocked that Jianghuai Cotton Industry actually controlled so many fields and was ready to plant cotton.This must have been a huge shock to the cotton fields of the gentry and landlords in the south of the Yangtze River.Wang Duo was no longer calm, and immediately said urgently: "Let's go, go see Mr.
Cheng!"
”Jianghuai Cotton Industry totaled 250,000 shares, and the imperial court sold 50,000 shares to Huizhou merchants and Jiangxi gentry for 500,000 silver dollars.The company left 100,000 silver dollars to recruit workers, buy seeds, and purchase tools, and the remaining 400,000 silver dollars were all used to purchase and control the acres.If all the 34 million mu of land in Jiangbei and 400,000 silver dollars are used for acquisition, it will be able to eat up to 300,000 mu, which is still 500,000 mu short of the company's planned target of controlling one million mu.Therefore, Jianghuai Cotton Industry did not buy a large amount of land, but relied on the power of the imperial court to gather the village chiefs and clan elders to adopt the mode of renting seeds.The ownership of the land is still owned by the people, and the Jianghuai Cotton Industry gives annual rents and hires the people to participate in planting and picking cotton.In this way, people who have lost their labor at home do not have to sell their land, they can get rent every year, and they can still have a job, so they don't have to worry about sitting on the mountain.For a time, the people of Jiangbei responded one after another and signed a contract with Jianghuai Cotton.Zhao Ming immediately packaged and went public, took out another 10,000 shares, and sold 200,000 silver dollars.In the whole process, the imperial court only had 200,000 acres of panicked land, and every time a silver dollar was taken, there was an additional large company with a valuation of 5 million silver dollars.The first batch of gentry and businessmen who bought shares in JAC Cotton also doubled their earnings, and they all regretted that they didn't buy more.And Zhao Ming also needs such an effect, to do a good job in the Jianghuai cotton industry, the two Huai coal industry, the two Huai salt industry, can be launched one after another, borrowing securities trading, to concentrate funds to do big things.()