When Lu Ming left the Lu family's old house, he felt relieved as he recalled his father's stubborn and extremely angry appearance.
He muttered in his heart: "Mom, I am incompetent, so I can only use this method to avenge you."
Lu Ming knew that Lu Yuan was most disgusted with businessmen, especially those who traded slaves.
He chose to do this job just to make Lu Yuan angry.
Lu Ming believes that today's thinking is still not very open, and unfilial people still find it difficult to move forward.
He could only choose this method, a secret revenge.
Lu Yuan hates businessmen, which is determined by Lu Yuan's own position.
Traditional Confucianism is now weak and can only be supported by these great Confucians with integrity.
Lu Yuan was one of the few traditional Confucian scholars who remained in the officialdom.
They will never allow themselves to be stained and criticized by others.
Lu Ming used this method to deal with Lu Yuan because Lu Yuan was his father and his mother-killing enemy.
His mother is just a concubine.
Back then, Lu Ming's mother was having an affair with a servant because her first wife spread rumors.
Lu Yuan did not investigate and directly asked his mother to be dipped in a pig cage, just to maintain the so-called family tradition.
After Lu Ming, in order to protect himself, he always behaved calmly.
Until the new dynasty established the empire, Emperor Su He asked officials to enforce strict laws and at the same time cut down the clan system.
The patriarch of the family can no longer punish clan members at will through clan laws and rules.
Lu Ming also grew up and left the Lu family to start his own business. He also had his own opportunities, made a name for himself, and gained some capital.
He then changed from his normal behavior and wanted to take revenge on Lu Yuan through this method.
He just gave it a try today and saw Lu Yuan getting very angry.
This strategy was very successful and directly hit Lu Yuan's seven inches.
Lu Yuan values his reputation more than his life, so Lu Ming wants to attack his reputation.
Lu Ming vowed to become the largest slave merchant in the Great China Dynasty.
Lu Yuan's son became the largest slave trader. Seeing what else he could look like, he called himself a Confucian scholar and maintained the famous religion and etiquette in his heart.
Lu Ming alone cannot achieve this goal, he must take advantage of the situation.
He had an opportunity, and after several years of hard work, he only had a net worth of several million taels of silver coins.
But if you want to become the largest slave merchant in the Great China Dynasty, this little bit of wealth is nothing.
If you find a well-known businessman at random, his net worth will be dozens of times higher than his.
The first person Lu Ming thought of was the person he wanted to cooperate with, and that was the Hanzhong Yang family, who were currently working very well with them.
He has a good relationship with Yang Tengfei, the head of the Yang family in Hanzhong.
Lu Ming knew that the Hanzhong Yang family was related by marriage to Feng Sanqiu, the governor of the Royal Navy's Second Fleet.
The Royal Navy of Dahua broke through the borders of Japan.
Japanese slaves are the largest source of slaves in China.
Through his connections with the Yang family in Hanzhong, he opened up a network of connections to Japan.
The territory of his slave empire has obtained the most important piece of the puzzle.
When Lu Ming thought of this, he felt very excited.
Brother Yang Tengfei should not refuse to do business with him.
Lu Ming took a carriage and rushed to the Yang family's mansion immediately.
He stood in front of the Yang family's mansion, looking at the two huge stone lions at the door and the magnificent gate.
Lu Ming was very envious in his heart. Sooner or later, he would have to shine on the lintel and build a grand garden even more grand than this one.
Under the guidance of the housekeeper, he came to the Yang family's living room.
Yang Tengfei, the head of the Yang family, personally placed tea in the living room waiting for him.
Lu Ming hugged Yang Tengfei and said, "Brother Tengfei, my little brother Lu Ming is here to disturb you."
Yang Tengfei invited Lu Ming to sit down. He took a sip of tea and said, "Brother Lu, if you are so polite, you must be asking me for something.
This has always been the case before, and I believe this time will be no exception.”
Lu Ming's face turned red, and he quickly adjusted his mood.
"Brother Tengfei is really good at judging people, and I really want something.
In order to save costs for repairing the Yellow River, Qian Mingyi asked the court to bring in a large number of laborers.
The younger brother thinks this is an opportunity to make a fortune.
My younger brother wants to form a joint venture with Brother Yang to set up a labor company and recruit workers overseas.
The cheap Japanese labor cost only ten silver coins for a strong laborer, which was not as valuable as a cow.
Labor in the Nanyang region is cheaper, and you can even get some cost-free labor from places like Siam, India.
When I was doing business with those Western barbarians, I heard that they were selling Kunlun slaves from a place called Africa to America.
Africa is too far away from us, but India and Siam have large indigenous populations.
We don’t need to arm the merchant ships ourselves.
What Westerners did was to let the local indigenous tribes capture local people and sell them for money.
We can definitely use this method and unite with local indigenous tribes to capture laborers.
As long as they pay for some meals, one person can earn at least ten taels of silver coins.
As long as it reaches a large scale, the money earned from this business will soon exceed the profits of the textile factory."
Lu Ming briefly stated his purpose of coming, and at the same time stated the detailed plan he had thought of in the carriage.
If he wants to impress Yang Tengfei, he must have something practical to say, and empty talk will not be able to impress this man.
Lu Ming needs to show some value to be valued by others.
He calculated the profits in detail. This simple business can bring huge profits.
Before, he just wanted to make Lu Yuan angry and carefully calculated the costs and profits. Lu Ming found that this business had great potential.
After Yang Tengfei listened to Lu Ming's words, he frowned and said, "This is indeed a good business, but Brother Lu came too late. Our Yang family cannot do this business now."
Lu Ming was a little puzzled when he heard Yang Tengfei's blunt refusal.
Business families like the Yang family will get involved in any industry that makes money as long as it does not violate the law.
The plan he talked about has a very high success rate, and the Yang family can occupy most of the shares by paying a small amount of money and some connections.
Even if the project fails, the Yang family will not bear too much loss.
The Yang family simply gave up on the low-cost and high-yield thing.
The Yang family is definitely not dissatisfied with this business. The Yang family in Hanzhong started their business by bringing in a large number of female workers to help the military with matchmaking and solve the life-long affairs of the soldiers.
Their approach was praised by Emperor Su He, but in essence it was still a slave trade.
Even if the Yang family didn't want to get involved in this business, he was at the front desk and the Yang family was hiding behind the scenes, thus isolating many risks.
Lu Ming's expression changed, and he thought of a possibility: the trend in the court had changed.
The Yang family's information must be better informed than his.
How could he be angry with Lu Yuan if he couldn't be the biggest slave merchant?
Lu Ming asked tentatively: "Brother Pengfei, do you have any inside information? This business can't be done."
When Yang Tengfei saw Lu Ming's nervous look, he laughed and pushed the tea cup in front of Lu Ming.
"Brother Lu, let's have a cup of tea to calm down. It's not that our family doesn't want to participate in this business, it's just that we can't participate in this business.
This business is possible. Brother Lu really wants to do this business. I can help you introduce Governor Feng Sanqiu."
When Lu Ming heard Yang Tengfei's promise, he was completely relieved. He drank a cup of tea to suppress the tension in his heart.
His most important purpose was to ask the Yang family to introduce him to Feng Sanqiu, the governor of the Second Fleet of the Royal Navy of Great China.
Lu Ming wanted to do the slave business, and only with official assistance could it develop rapidly.
He thought he would pay a huge price, at least 50% of his shares, but he didn't expect Yang Tengfei to take the initiative to help him without asking for anything.
Lu Ming asked nervously: "Brother Pengfei, has something happened in your family?
If you can use me for anything, I will do my best."
Yang Tengfei waved his hand and said with a smile: "It's a bit tricky, but we don't need help.
You also know the major forces of our Dahua businessmen."
Lu Ming nodded, thinking about the power of Dahua businessmen.
The largest force is the merchants of the original Hanzhong Chamber of Commerce, now known as the Hanzhong Gang.
These businessmen, headed by the Ding family and the Yang family, had a good relationship with the imperial court.
Some technologies eliminated by the Shaofu cannot be obtained by other merchants, but merchants from the Hanzhong Gang can easily obtain them.
The second largest merchant force is the Sea Trade Gang. As their name suggests, they are merchants who mainly focus on sea trade.
These sea trade merchants are also divided into two parts, the pure sea trade merchants headed by An Lebo, Zheng Zhilong and the Zheng family.
Nanyang merchants headed by Li Gong and Du Baonian were engaged in maritime trade and industry.
The third largest merchant force is Huizhou merchants, mainly southeastern merchants, who deal in traditional silk, porcelain and other trades.
Shanxi merchants and other merchant forces have not developed yet and can only be regarded as small forces with little impact on the overall business environment.
These three major business forces are not clearly differentiated. They show that there is me among you, and you among me.
But the core interests are completely different. The Hanzhong Gang is mainly engaged in industry, while the Hai Gang is mainly focused on trade.
For example, the Yang family is also actively involved in maritime trade, but has always been the leader of the Hanzhong Gang.
Yang Tengfei drank a cup of tea and said helplessly: "The three major business forces in the country have been fighting openly and secretly.
Many conflicts of interest cannot be reconciled, such as fighting for preferential policies from the court.
It is difficult for all businessmen to be satisfied with the imperial court's preferential policies, which only give preferential treatment to one or two industries.
Whoever can get the preferential quota will be like eight immortals crossing the sea, each showing his magical powers.
For example, the Nanyang Governor-General's Office has issued many preferential policies.
It was only when Li Gong and others spent a huge price to buy a lot of bad land in Nanyang that the Nanyang Governor-General issued favorable policies against the Nanyang Gang.
In order to fight for the interests of the business community, Uncle Ding joined the parliament and became a member of Parliament, where he helped us businessmen fight for the interests of us businessmen.
He will not be able to continue to serve as the president of the Huaxia Chamber of Commerce."
When Lu Ming heard this, he was still a little confused.
Ding Wannian, the first president of the Huaxia Chamber of Commerce, was also a person who single-handedly changed society's view of businessmen. Many people admired him.
What's more, he is the father-in-law of Prime Minister Wang Zhongce. He doesn't look at the face of a monk or the face of a Buddha. With such an important son-in-law, no one will criticize Ding Wannian's face.
Ding Wannian resigned as president, and the position of president of the Huaxia Chamber of Commerce fell to his good friend's father, Yang Wencai.
Lu Ming said worriedly: "Brother Tengfei, could it be that something happened to Uncle Yang?"
Yang Tengfei saw Lu Ming's worried look and felt that this friend was not in vain.
"The Chinese Chamber of Commerce is a private organization that originally included all businessmen.
The purpose of Uncle Ding's establishment of this chamber of commerce was that the previous major chambers of commerce were competing with each other, and the internal fighting was fierce.
The establishment of the Huaxia Chamber of Commerce is to ease the conflicts between all parties.
Reduce the infighting among businessmen, conduct fair competition and resolve disputes at the same time on the platform of the China Chamber of Commerce.
Uncle Ding is just wishful thinking. Where there are interests, there must be struggles.
If you touch a businessman's interests, you touch his soul.
A qualified businessman will not let go of the interests he controls.
The goals set by the Huaxia Chamber of Commerce are too ambitious and some are unrealistic, laying hidden dangers for the existence of the Huaxia Chamber of Commerce in name only.
Now, the only thing left for the Huaxia Chamber of Commerce is to convey the consensus of the chamber of commerce to the outside world, and at the same time accept the suggestions of the imperial court.
The chairman of the Huaxia Chamber of Commerce was not important before and there was no competition. This made my father miss the mark.
He was even reluctant to sit on this useless president's throne.
But some time ago, Emperor Su He wanted to strengthen the role of the parliament and began to remove unqualified members.
For example, Anlebo Zheng Zhilong joined the parliament through a businessman quota.
He made several proposals in the parliament, but the things he mentioned had nothing to do with businessmen. He was considered not to represent businessmen, so he quit the parliament.
Many people were dismissed from the parliament, and it was not an election year for the parliament. Emperor Su He ordered the parliament to temporarily recruit some members.
These members will be selected based on their status, and the president of the China Chamber of Commerce will be added as a member."
When Lu Ming heard the news, he was very envious.
Nowadays, the functions of parliamentarians have been strengthened. He read the news in the newspapers these days and found that the parliament was known as the Little Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Members can directly question an official or even submit a proposal to remove the official.
Whoever has a member of parliament will no longer have to worry about being missed by the bureaucracy.
Yang Tengfei sighed and said: "Now there are many forces vying for the position of president of the Huaxia Chamber of Commerce.
Our family is seeking stability during this time, and no movement is worse than silence.
I will never allow any flaws in my family to be exposed and affect my father's position as president of the Chamber of Commerce."
After Lu Ming heard the cause and effect, he also understood the choice Yang Tengfei made.
The Yang family has so many assets but does not have a high-ranking official. Once someone takes notice of it, it will be very dangerous.
Once Yang Wencai entered the parliament, this danger disappeared.
A member can be re-elected for one term at most. As long as the Yang family is given another ten years and someone in the family passes the Jinshi examination, they no longer have to worry about the family property being misappropriated.
As for the laws implemented by Emperor Su He, people believe that the law can protect the family. The rule of law has been too short, and no one dares to believe it.
Everyone just listens, no one takes it seriously.
A few years ago, during the Ming Dynasty, people were executed just because of one sentence.
Nowadays, words on paper can protect a family, and no one will put their treasure on it.
Even if Emperor Su He kept his promise and let the Legalists rule the world.
Who knows if Confucianism will come back if the emperor changes.
Lu Ming thought to himself, once he let someone like his hypocrite father.
Those businessmen who hold the power of the government are meat on the chopping block.
Lu Ming learned some information from Yang Tengfei, and he also got Yang Tengfei's promise.
He said goodbye and left the Yang family, and immediately began to prepare a labor company.
A labor company is a slave-trading company, and this new term is now being used in newspapers.
Lu Ming also chose to use this new word. The word labor does sound more pleasant to the ear.
He came to the company he was handling and explained the situation to his subordinates.
For those who are willing to work hard in distant places, give them twice the salary and follow them to bring in workers.
Those who are unwilling to go out stay at home, and their task is to contact customers.
Lu Ming made all preparations and was ready to set off to open up trade routes.
The destination is the Japanese country. As long as the relationship is cleared on this trip, the subordinates can maintain this trade route.
There was a steady stream of Japanese laborers, following his trade route, contributing to Dahua's various projects. This chapter has been completed!
