Anyway, Chongzhen couldn't understand the eunuch's mentality.
You said that you, a eunuch who doesn't even have a lifeblood, insist on keeping a beautiful and charming girl by your side. Apart from highlighting your own physical defects and aggravating your pain, what other purpose can there be?
However, Wang Chengen was loyal to him after all, and this was a private matter, so Chongzhen didn't bother to ask.
At this moment, Chongzhen changed the topic back to the Japanese slaves: "Let's not talk about this anymore, let's get back to business, and then talk about the price of slave labor."
Kang Wanwan responded with a yes, and then continued: "Before the labor shortage broke out, the price of slave labor in eight prefectures and one state in the south of the Yangtze River was probably this. After the labor shortage broke out, the price increased tenfold."
Chongzhen thought for a while and said: "If we calculate it based on the price after the labor shortage broke out, it would be bullying you, but if we calculate it based on the price before the labor shortage broke out, the Navy would suffer a huge loss."
"Let's just take the middle value and calculate it five times."
After a pause, Chongzhen continued: "Considering that there are many children among the Japanese slaves sold this time, we will reduce the price slightly if appropriate, so we will calculate it four times, and the price will be 20 yuan per Japanese slave. How about it?"
When it came to business, the chamber of commerce representatives present became serious.
After dozens of big merchants present whispered for a moment, Youkang Baiwan asked: "Your Majesty, there are a total of 300,000 Japanese slaves. How many men and women are there, and how many boys and girls are there?"
Chongzhen said: "There are a total of 300,000 Japanese slaves, including 120,000 young men and women, and 30,000 boys and girls."
Dozens of big businessmen discussed again for a while, and finally Kang Wanwan replied: "Yes, 300,000 Japanese slaves, with a total price of 6 million yuan."
"Quickly." Chongzhen said, "Deal."
Kang Baiwan smiled and asked, "Does Your Majesty have anything else to say?"
"There is nothing special here." Chongzhen shook his head and said, "There is only one thing. The 300,000 Japanese slaves must be separated as much as possible, even if they are a family. The rest should be treated as ordinary indentured slaves of the Ming Dynasty."
"Besides, you can't eat meat in response to the Tianfu Chamber of Commerce, and you won't be able to drink soup from other prefectures."
"You have to distribute these 300,000 Japanese slaves evenly among eight prefectures and one prefecture according to the labor shortage."
After a pause, Chongzhen warned again: "And the price cannot be increased, it must be transferred at a fair price."
"Accept the decree." Kang Baiwan responded respectfully, but it could be seen that he was not very willing in his heart.
Other merchants such as Wang Tao and Sun Tinglan also frowned, obviously unhappy.
After all, he is still a businessman. He only sees the immediate interests and cannot see the greater interests behind him.
Therefore, merchants, or capitalists, need to be relied upon, but they must not be left to their own devices.
The correct approach is to draw clear red lines for businessmen or capitalists, which things can be done and which things must not be touched. If they do, they will be punished or even lose their fortune!
At that moment, Chongzhen emphasized in a threatening tone: "I solemnly tell you once again that these 300,000 slave workers must be evenly distributed according to the labor gaps in the eight prefectures and one state, and must be transferred at a fair price, and no profit can be made from them."
The representatives of the Yingtianfu Chamber of Commerce who were present suddenly looked at each other with concentration. Is this His Majesty showing his dragon power?
Kang Baiwan was also awestruck. It seemed that there was no room for negotiation on this matter.
However, Chongzhen is also well versed in the art of controlling people by giving a sweet date a stick. After beating the representatives of the Yingtianfu Chamber of Commerce present, he gave another benefit: "As long as you are fair and fair, you can go through this period of employment smoothly."
If there is a shortage, more slave labor will continue to be shipped to the capital in the future, and then you can set prices freely."
"Will there be slave labor in the future?" Wang Tao couldn't help but ask.
"Of course." Chongzhen said, "This is where the big head comes from."
Upon hearing this, the chamber of commerce representatives present suddenly became excited again, and then stood up to leave.
They had to rush back to the Meixiang Building on Chaoku Street for a meeting to discuss how to distribute the 300,000 slave workers.
Chongzhen called over Zheng Zhilong and Qian Xi, the boss of the shipping and shipbuilding bank who had just arrived.
"The price has been negotiated, and the total price is 6 million." Chongzhen said to the two of them, "Get ready for delivery."
"Your Majesty, this price is a loss." Qian Xi couldn't help but feel a little regretful after hearing this, "According to the current market price, 300,000 slave laborers can earn at least 10 million. If you take the time to get them to be auctioned separately at the auction house on Chaoku Street, you can even
It could be sold for 15 million, but the price is at least twice as bad. It's a pity, it's a pity."
Chongzhen frowned slightly when he heard this.
I think the Qian brothers are good at financial management, but their strategic vision is still inferior to that of Zheng Zunqian. The Qian brothers can only see the small profits in front of them, and they are not as good as Zheng Zunqian who can calculate the general ledger.
300,000 Japanese slaves were sold at a low price of 6 million. On the surface, it seemed that they suffered a loss.
But in fact, it can greatly alleviate the labor shortage in Jiangnan in a short period of time.
And if 300,000 Japanese slaves were detained and auctioned bit by bit in the auction house, they could be sold at a high price, but the military shortage in eight prefectures and one state in the south of the Yangtze River would not be alleviated, which would inevitably have a negative impact on the industrial and commercial development of the south of the Yangtze River.
Huge obstacles will even form a siphon to the rural labor force in surrounding provinces, thereby affecting food production.
What's more, 6 million yuan is a lot. Adding the compensation from the Tokugawa shogunate and the special tax levied on Osaka merchants, the total amount is nearly 20 million yuan.
You must know that before the 17th year of Chongzhen, the annual income of the Ming Dynasty was only 20 million taels of silver.
Although at the beginning of the currency reform in the Ming Dynasty, banknotes depreciated due to inflation, after the large-scale use of steam engines, industrial products were greatly enriched, resulting in price declines. The decline in industrial product prices in turn stabilized
After changing the currency value of the silver dollar, the purchasing power of one silver dollar and one tael of silver is now roughly the same.
In other words, this trip to Japan directly brought back the annual income of the previous Ming Dynasty.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, Chongzhen did not criticize Qian Xi for this, but gently exposed it: "Just let the loss be small, at least it can make the shipping and shipbuilding bank
Take a breath, in the three years since its establishment, the shipping and shipbuilding bank has only made expenditures, but no income. If this continues, no matter how big the family is, it will not be able to support it, not to mention that the expenditures will increase sharply in the next few years."
In the next few years, we will build an armored fleet on a large scale, which will be a huge investment.
The cost of building the Zhou Yu was 2 million. Even if the cost was halved, it would still cost 1 million.
One million ships, ten ships are 10 million, and a medium-sized fleet of 50 ships is 50 million!
"That's true." Qian Xi was relieved when he heard this. "As of the end of last year, the shipping and shipbuilding bank was really close to bottoming out, and almost even the daily payment of depositors had problems. But now it's better.
With this 20 million yuan in income, at least there will be no money shortage this year, otherwise I, the big shopkeeper, will really have no choice but to hang myself."
"I'm afraid it's not as much as 20 million." Chongzhen shook his head and said, "Thirty percent of it is a bonus, which needs to be paid to the army and navy officers who participated in this combat operation. As for the dividends from the shipping and shipbuilding bank, it can be calculated based on the bank at the end of the year.
The performance of the account will be calculated separately, but the 6 million must be divided first."
Zheng Zhilong next to him suddenly felt his heart pounding.
If the 6 million reward money is given to him for distribution...
However, Chongzhen quickly dispelled Zheng Zhilong's unrealistic illusions.
After a pause, Chongzhen said again: "Master Qian, please directly deposit the 6 million bounty into the accounts of the 2nd Army Division and Navy officers participating in this combat operation, 200 yuan each."
"Ah?" Zheng Zhilong, Jiang Tianyi, Qian Xi and others were all dumbfounded.
Lu Jiude, the only one who still stayed with Chongzhen, was also in a complicated mood. His heart was really unpredictable. Long live the Lord sometimes was stingy to the extreme. He gave it to the prince on the first day of the first lunar month, and Prince Ding and the others only had a few taels of silver to give him.
, but when it was the turn to distribute bonuses to the soldiers, they were given out 6 million at once!
Well, with Lu Jiude's perspective, he really can't understand the underlying logic of Chongzhen's move.
In fact, in this world, except for a few people such as Crown Princess Kang Xi and the head of the industrial and commercial bank Zheng Zunqian, probably no one can understand Chongzhen's underlying logic.
This is actually the Ming Dynasty version of stimulating domestic demand through consumption.
Anyone who is slightly involved in economic development will know that there are generally only three types of means to develop the economy, one is investment, the other is foreign trade, and the third is consumption. The Ming Dynasty is now in a period of explosive growth in the early stages of industrial development. The total industrial output value is not five years old.
Doubling, but doubling in one year, but Chongzhen still thought the speed was too slow.
Therefore, Chongzhen also wanted to speed up the development of Ming Dynasty.
However, investment and foreign trade have entered a bottleneck period.
What restricts investment growth is not a lack of capital, but a shortage of labor.
What restricts the growth of foreign trade is insufficient external demand. Purchasing power from overseas can no longer keep up with the crazy expansion of production capacity in the Ming Dynasty. For example, in the textile industry, porcelain industry and tea making industry, the proportion of foreign trade has dropped to the point of insignificance compared with domestic demand. Now domestic
The market is the big one, the absolute big one.
For example, silk, before the 17th year of Chongzhen, the output of raw silk in Jiangnan was about 17 million jins. Calculated based on an average of 10 jins of silk, about 1.7 million pieces could be woven.
Among them, about 800,000 pieces of silk are used for foreign trade.
In other words, nearly half of the silk is exported.
But by the 22nd year of Chongzhen, the output of raw silk in Jiangnan had increased to 30 million jins, and nearly 3 million pieces of silk were woven, but the silk used for foreign trade dropped to less than 500,000 pieces.
The reason is simple: Ming Dynasty's domestic demand is skyrocketing.
With the explosive growth of industry and commerce, coupled with hundreds of thousands of new army officers and nearly one million soldiers, a newly wealthy group of more than two million people has emerged in the Ming Dynasty.
This newly wealthy group has a strong yearning for a better life.
Silk fabrics are the most typical feature of a good life.
This is Chongzhen's logic. If these 6 million yuan are distributed, 30,000 new wealthy people can be created in an instant, and the basic demand for 6 million yuan can be directly put into the market. Considering the amplification of the industrial chain, the basic demand for 6 million yuan can at least
Drive a 4-fold or even 5-fold increase in domestic demand, which is a demand of 24 million to 30 million.
