After the villagers left with fear and hope in their hearts and with a lot of gratitude, Zhu Youdong turned to Wei Zhongxian and smiled slightly: "Zhongxian, you have worked hard during this period. Zhuangzi has done a good job in reforming it. I am very happy."

satisfy."

"This slave has won the approval of the young master, so he is willing to do it even if he is tired to death."

"Hahaha, you can't be exhausted. I still have a lot of things for you to do. Well, there is news from my father that two masters from Jingdezhen will be arriving soon. Then I will take care of them

and other masters are put in the village. How is the house I asked you to build? When the time comes, no one will come and there will be no place to live."

"Please don't worry, young master. My servant has already made arrangements. I can go and check it out in person later."

"Well, are there any difficulties in the operation of Zhuangzi?"

"Uh... Master, speaking of difficulties, it's a bit difficult."

"It's okay to speak up."

"Silver, young master, there are only more than 1,200 taels of silver in the village now. Originally, such a sum of money was enough to support the launch of the soap, but what if some blind and poor person breaks the two rules that the young master just established.

I have to reward you with a thousand taels of silver at once."

Speaking of which, Zhu Youdong is really generous with his money.

Wanli gave him 5,000 taels of silver as a start-up capital. Before his hands were warm, he gave 1,000 taels of silver to Cao Huachun to go south. After that, he killed people and set fires to pay hard work to the guards, and demolished the wheat fields along the river to give to the villagers.

High compensation, etc. In addition to building factories, purchasing production raw materials, etc., after counting all kinds of things, most of the 5,000 taels of silver have been lost.

"Hahaha, what do I think? How simple it is. Zhang Shize, Li Shizhong."

"I'm here."

"Go back and ask your elders if you two want to invest in the production and sales of soap. I will give each of you 10% of the shares at a price of 10,000 taels of silver!"

"Thank you, great grandson. I can make the final decision on this matter later. I will send you the stock tomorrow at most."

"Look, Lao Wei, doesn't this make you rich?"

Ouch, my dear, we have money, but our shares have also been diluted. When the time comes to distribute profits and dividends, there will be a lot less.

However, Lao Wei thought so in his heart, but he said cheerfully: "Now I don't have to worry about it. Next, I will buy breeding pigs, build a breeding farm, etc., and I won't be short of money."

After all, people are separated from each other. Of course, Zhu Youdong didn't know what Wei Zhongxian was thinking at this time. Even if he knew, he would only laugh at Wei Zhongxian's low structure: Such a hugely profitable business does not rely on diluting shares to bring representatives of the military and nobles into the car.

, how can he do it for a long time? With the current share, he still feels that he has too much and needs to dilute it further.

After returning to Beijing, the first person he went to find was Zhu Changluo. After he demonstrated the effect of the soap and Zhu Changluo's eyes began to shine, he spoke directly: "Father, do you want to invest in my son's Zhuangzi?

Dividends for you.”

There is a saying that goes like this: When it comes to religious beliefs, the most unbelieving people are often the higher-ups of the religion. This is also true. If it weren’t for the overall rottenness of the Catholic upper-level, which completely violates the doctrine. How could there be any Protestantism in Europe now?

The ascendant?

Specific to the Ming Dynasty, Neo-Confucianism in this era has encountered fierce challenges from the psychology. The atmosphere of discrimination against businessmen in the whole society in the early Ming Dynasty had basically disappeared without a trace by the Wanli period. So Zhu Youdong told Zhu Changluo about investing in shares.

Zhu Changluo was not disgusted.

However, this prince was a kind man after all. Faced with such a huge temptation, he still said honestly: "Dong'er, of course I am willing to buy shares. But, I don't have much money."

As mentioned before, although Wanli became the prince a year early due to the birth of the time traveler, Wanli still felt uncomfortable. Therefore, the prince Zhu Changluo was probably the most vulnerable prince in the Ming Dynasty. He really didn't have much money left.

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But the less money he had left, the more money Zhu Changluo needed: After all, he was still a prince and the second person in the Ming Dynasty in name, so he still had to have pomp and ceremony. Apart from anything else, when Zhu Changluo was the eldest son of the emperor, his teacher came

He had to bring his own food to teach him. Although he is no longer in such embarrassment now, Zhu Changluo still has to worry about giving some gold and silver jewelry to his many daughters-in-law.

What man doesn't want to have the courage to spend a lot of money in front of his woman? Not to mention that although Zhu Changluo is a weak prince, but in this environment, he naturally knows that he needs to win over some ministers for the future. But how to win over? After Corporal Li Xian has to have some

Real things. A weak prince has no say in the appointment and dismissal of personnel. If he cannot be promoted to another official, he always needs to give something as a gift - this also requires money.

"If a father wants to buy shares, he doesn't need to give his children a tael of silver. However, after all, the British father-in-law and Uncle Ning Yuan's house both took cash. It's not good if the father doesn't take anything. Let's do this. Let the father use salt to introduce the shares.

.Don’t have too many children, just twenty stones of refined salt from Honghe Village that the father gives to the children every year will be enough.”

There was a huge difference between the prices in the Ming Dynasty and those today. Later historians mentioned in papers that housing prices in the Ming Dynasty were very low: a house covering an area of ​​five acres, with more than 30 houses and a yard with gardens and ponds, sold for money during the Wanli period.

It’s only one hundred and sixty taels, which is only more than 20,000 yuan when converted based on the price of rice. As for the price of salt during the Wanli period: one pound of salt was three taels of silver, and one stone salt was 48 taels of silver. Compared with today, the price of salt

It's simply ridiculously high.

This is of course caused by the lack of other taxes in ancient times and the excessive reliance on salt tax for national finance.

But now it is not Zhu Youdong's turn to worry about the Ming Dynasty people's difficulty in eating salt. What he is concerned about is the large amount of pork that will be produced in his village every year.

There are no refrigerators these days, and there is no fast logistics. To preserve meat for a long time, it can only be made into bacon. To make bacon, you need a lot of salt. If you can get salt, at least this piece of pork will not be wasted.

"Well, if it's just Shiobei, my father can think of a way."

Well, you are the prince after all, and there are still officials who are willing to work around you. It is quite easy to get twenty stone salt.

After making an agreement with Zhu Changluo here, the next step is of course to find Emperor Wanli.

As a typical example of a shameless person who wants money, Wanli's eyes lit up as soon as he saw the soap's effect demonstration.

"My dear grandson, how much stock are you going to give Grandpa Huang?"

Damn it?! How can you say that!

But Wanli also had a reason: Didn’t Huangzhuang give it to you? Didn’t he also give you five thousand taels of silver?

"Hey, okay, do these count as 10% dry shares?"

"Well, this is fair and reasonable. You just said that the British father and Uncle Ning Yuan both paid 10,000 taels of silver to buy 10% of the shares. Then I will give you another 30,000 taels of silver to buy 30% of the shares?"

"No! Grandpa Huang, I still need to leave some money for other things."

"What do kids do with so much money?"

"Hehehe, Grandpa Huang, am I an ordinary child?"

"...Okay, I will give you another ten thousand taels of silver, plus the 10% of dry shares you promised. How about two shares in total?"

"Thank you, Grandpa Huang. Don't worry, Grandpa Huang, you will know by the end of the year that this investment is definitely a good deal!"
Chapter completed!