Chapter 283: His Highness Changsun is crazy! (Please vote for me)
Chapter 283 His Highness Changsun is crazy! (Please give me your monthly vote)
In terms of vision, Zhu Ying's vision is unmatched by anyone in this era of Ming Dynasty.
Even the fragmented knowledge on the Internet in the past life is a kind of crushing for today's era.
When it comes to setting up a factory, Zhu Ying's meaning is very obvious.
I just want to trap you and trap you to death.
All the latecomers will be killed.
You run a factory and the wages are not high, right?
That is to cultivate talents for me, and I can recruit good masters to myself at will.
Who benefits?
It's the common people.
At that time, all those who gain from this will only be grateful to the Qunying Chamber of Commerce and the Ming Dynasty royal family.
When Uncle Zhang heard this, he felt a little ashamed.
Compared with His Highness, I am as bright as a firefly, there is a world of difference.
"Hurry up and get it done. I'll post the notice tomorrow and arrange more manpower."
Zhu Ying ordered.
Such a salary, no need to think too much, will definitely cause a huge sensation in the entire capital.
Anyone who doesn't know anything can get two hundred coins a month.
What is the concept of two hundred articles?
If we only consider filling our stomachs, for an adult male, about five hundred cash per month is enough.
Five hundred Wen Zhe and later generations, it is about three hundred yuan.
Today’s prices in Ming Dynasty are on the low side because the country was founded not long ago and the country pursued a policy of recuperation and recuperation.
Among them, because Zhu Ying's settlement wages were Ming Dynasty treasure notes, there was still a discount to a certain extent.
However, as long as you join the factory, you will have basic food, which is a huge advantage.
The food standards are also divided into different levels.
Apprentices, senior apprentices, regular workers, master craftsmen and management.
The four grades also represent four different classes.
It is impossible to treat everyone equally, it is unnecessary and meaningless.
Different grades also have great benefits in improving workers' enthusiasm.
Only by taking the initiative to learn and do things can all factories develop faster.
After Uncle Zhang left, Ye Yueqing looked at Zhu Ying and hesitated several times.
"Yue Qing, if you want to say something, just say it directly."
After Zhu Ying noticed it, he asked directly.
Ye Yueqing saw that he couldn't hide it, so he could only say: "Your Highness, the Chamber of Commerce does not have much money now. Whether it is the expenses of setting up a factory, wages, or food, it requires a lot of investment."
"And I estimate that within two months, there will be no profit from these places."
"According to His Highness's current standards, there are now a total of five factories to run, including wine making, clothing making, textiles, frosting, and porcelain."
"Each factory has a minimum recruitment number of about 5,000 people and upwards. There are 25,000 people here."
"The money needed to build the factory, the money to purchase raw materials, and build various necessary tools, plus food for 25,000 people."
"I'm afraid that the current money of the Chamber of Commerce will probably not be able to support the profit generated by the factory."
"If we don't sell some properties, I'm afraid it will be difficult to even start a business."
The current structure of Qunying Chamber of Commerce is very large, but a lot of funds need to be circulated.
The last disaster relief operation had already damaged our muscles and bones, and we still haven't recovered from them until now.
In the coastal areas, especially that of Jin King Zhu Fan, the share of maritime trade can be said to be monopolized by the Qunying Chamber of Commerce.
There are huge profits here. Just in Zhejiang, the profits from overseas trade in one year are almost as much as half of the Ming Dynasty's annual income, with millions of taels of silver.
For the entire Qunying Chamber of Commerce, all burdens can be eliminated.
However, distant water cannot save the near fire.
When we first proposed setting up a factory, it was yesterday.
Ye Yueqing didn't think much about it, because no one thought that the decision to set up a factory could be made so quickly under the operation of Jin Yiwei Qianhu Chen Zhi.
This resulted in a complete lack of working capital for the entire chamber of commerce.
At present, there is actually another way, but it is not under Ye Yueqing's consideration.
That is His Highness, who takes the money directly from the Treasurer's Office.
Thinking of this, Ye Yueqing couldn't help but feel very sorry for the hundreds of thousands of Ming Dynasty treasure notes that were burned some time ago.
Those are all great discounts from the capital, and the money earned from them is huge.
It burned down all of a sudden, and now I need money urgently, which is really uncomfortable.
If you don’t become a householder, you don’t know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive.
From the very beginning, Zhu Ying was a hands-off shopkeeper who could only look at the accounts.
Before, Zhu Ying knew that she was rich, but she didn't know how rich she was.
The person who really understood him was Uncle Zhang at first and now Ye Yueqing.
According to the current regulations and wages of the five factories, including food, Ye Yueqing casually calculated in his mind that each factory needs at least 300,000 taels of silver to start up.
If converted into Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes, it would be 600,000 treasure banknotes.
And this is just the start-up capital.
If you want to make a profit, you probably won't be able to escape these millions of dollars.
The main reason is that in many aspects, His Highness has high requirements and the treatment is too good.
This kind of money may seem exaggerated, but it is actually indispensable.
Why didn’t Ming Dynasty have huge factories? Is it because they didn’t make money?
it's not true.
First of all, the amount of money means that only really big businessmen can afford it.
Currently, the government is mainly responsible for setting up large factories.
The government has an inherent advantage in this aspect.
That is corvee.
From the perspective of corvee, construction does not require money, building materials, and corvee settlement.
Construction workers, corvee settlement.
All you need is a minimum guarantee of food.
This one cost almost nothing.
Zhu Ying is in this area, so everything needs to be paid.
The current Qunying Chamber of Commerce has not yet put up the brand of the Royal Chamber of Commerce, and Zhu Ying has never planned to use corvee labor to benefit his own chamber of commerce.
That's why the current situation has arisen.
Zhu Ying looked at Ye Yueqing's worried eyes, which was actually a bit cute.
He couldn't help but scratch Ye Yueqing's brow with his hand to relax it.
Feeling the touch, Ye Yueqing's cheeks immediately turned red, her mind went blank, and the calculations she had just made in her mind flew straight out of the sky.
Seeing this, Zhu Ying smiled and said, "I have considered what you said. I don't know how much money the Chamber of Commerce has left, but it certainly cannot support the cost of setting up a factory."
"But, I have never planned to finance the establishment of the factory from the Chamber of Commerce."
When Ye Yueqing heard what she said, she recovered from her daze and asked subconsciously: "But where is the treasure bank transfer department?"
Zhu Ying waved her finger, interrupting Ye Yueqing's words.
Seeing that the same hand was touching her forehead, Ye Yueqing immediately lowered her head slightly, not daring to look at Zhu Ying.
"Of course it's impossible to let the Baochao Bank print banknotes. That would be shooting yourself in the foot. Although it does feel good to print banknotes yourself."
"But the value of the current treasure banknotes is too low. As far as the capital is concerned, due to strong control, the value has only dropped by 50%. In economically prosperous areas such as Susona, the value of the treasure banknotes has already dropped by 70%.
, if we keep doing it, it won’t be long before we finish playing.”
Zhu Ying said helplessly.
Print your own money, what a cool word.
In fact, having said that, even if Zhu Ying is ruined and the value of Ming Dynasty treasures continues to depreciate, if he can maintain it a little, at least he will not have to worry about it in this life.
But, now that it has happened, we still need to let it develop on a regular basis.
In fact, Zhu Ying now has many methods to soar the value of Ming Dynasty treasure notes, but they are just the same financial methods of later generations.
Although I am not proficient in this aspect, I have the power and it is much easier to control.
But in this case, it is the common people who will be cut off.
Because of a key point, no matter how much currency or goods are currently circulating in the market, they will not change.
When Zhu Ying made the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes directly proportional to the value of silver, there was only one result: prices skyrocketed.
From another perspective, it is to use silver, gold, and even cloth and satin, which are valuable things anyway, and it is almost the same as the concept of treasure banknotes.
This is a stupid approach, because as long as the treasure banknotes are only issued and not recycled, and issued in large quantities, there will still be a sharp decline.
After hearing this, Ye Yueqing calmed down her trembling mood slightly, and then asked: "Your Highness, if it weren't for the Banknote Lifting Department to print money, would it be possible for us to borrow money in the same way as before?"
This is also the only way out that Ye Yueqing can think of.
Although the Qunying Chamber of Commerce borrowed money from many companies last time, its reputation has not been ruined.
Many businessmen just think that the Qunying Chamber of Commerce is very lucky. Although some feel that it is very strange, there is no evidence.
The first is information dissemination errors caused by geographical factors.
Qunying Chamber of Commerce is a large-scale lending company, but it is distributed in many cities.
With today's information dissemination speed, merchants in this city cannot know the situation of merchants in another city at any time.
Of course, there is the most important point.
Generally, loans between businessmen, especially chambers of commerce, are completed in private, and no one will deliberately spread the word.
This is called not saving face.
Even if you are a black-hearted profiteer, you only care about profit.
But in the business world, there are some rules that cannot be broken. This is why so many businessmen have died, but few know about Qunying Chamber of Commerce's massive loans.
There was a little worry in Ye Yueqing's eyes.
This way, you can get money really fast, and after you borrow it, you can also run a wave of house raids and get another batch.
But this is tantamount to killing the goose that lays the egg.
The most important thing is that the amount this time is too huge.
This is not something that can be solved with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.
Based on the value of Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes, it is estimated to be five million guan, and it may be more than that.
Because of the inflow of large amounts of treasure notes, the value of treasure notes will continue to depreciate.
The current denominations of Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes are one tael, five hundred coins, three hundred coins, two hundred coins, and one hundred coins. According to the original banknote policy formulated at that time, the total denomination of the Ming Dynasty banknotes is one tael of silver, and four coins is equivalent to one tael of gold.
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In the seventh year of Hongwu's founding, Baochao Tijusi issued 10 million coins.
After that, it ranged from 30 to 40 million dollars every year.
The year with the largest number was the 18th year of Hongwu. Due to the impact of the Guo Huan case, the number of treasure banknotes issued exceeded 50 million, approaching the 60 million mark.
Zhu Ying no longer dares to use such Ming treasure banknotes.
At present, the treasure banknote raising certificate is still being printed.
The officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty could only rely on this to receive part of their salary and supplement part of their food and silk cloth, otherwise they had no other choice.
Nowadays, almost all merchants and chambers of commerce do not accept banknotes for loans.
Hearing about the loan, Zhu Ying replied: "You could say it's a loan, but it's almost the same, but we use another method."
"Remember what happened with Yao Guangxiao? Now let's use this method again in the capital."
When Ye Yueqing heard the words, he felt enlightened and suddenly became enlightened.
In fact, Zhu Ying's method is very simple.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t have money, just raise funds.
Wouldn't it be nice to sell the shares in these factories?
And for now, there is also a very good leader, and that is Lan Yu.
Lanyu already owns 30% of the shares of the brewery, which means its credibility is much higher for other noble families.
After all, in a sense, these 30% of the shares in the brewery were obtained by Liang Guogong Lan Yu in exchange for nearly 10,000 acres of fertile land.
Ye Yueqing thought for a while and then asked: "Then what your Highness means is, how much money can we get from selling 10% of our shares?"
Zhu Ying smiled and said, "Why are you talking about money? The ministers and soldiers in the court have received their salaries in treasure money. We, the Qunying Chamber of Commerce, have actually raised funds for the palace now, so naturally we have to use treasure money."
Ye Yueqing was a little confused when she heard this. It was always like this when communicating with His Highness.
This is also the reason why she has always admired His Highness Changsun in her heart.
It's only normal if you don't understand. If you understand, wouldn't it mean that you are in the same realm as His Highness Changsun? It's not possible to specify.
The corners of Zhu Ying's lips raised slightly and she said: "10% of the shares will be sold for 500,000 guan of treasure notes."
Hearing this, Ye Yueqing's mouth subconsciously opened slightly, forming an oh shape.
There is only one thought in my mind: Crazy!
Five hundred thousand guan banknotes, what kind of concept is this?
Nowadays, the value of one acre of fertile land is about ten taels of silver. This is still fertile land. If there is a famine, no one will want two or three taels of silver.
The farmland handed over by Liang Guogong Lan Yu was eighty-nine thousand acres. Even if it were calculated as ten thousand acres, the discount would only be one hundred thousand taels of silver.
According to the market price in the capital, that is 200,000 guan of treasure notes.
According to the lowest market price, 250,000 Guan Baobao is as high as the sky.
Now, a 10% share is equivalent to 500,000 guan banknotes, and a 30% share of the brewery is equivalent to 1.5 million guan banknotes.
Your Highness, Changsun, must be crazy!
"Yueqing, do you think I'm crazy?" Zhu Ying looked at Ye Yueqing's appearance and asked with a smile.
Ye Yueqing quickly restrained herself and replied: "I don't dare."
Zhu Ying walked to the side, picked up the slightly cold teacup, and took a sip.
"The tea is cold. I will give you a cup of hot tea for Your Highness." Ye Yueqing hurriedly walked over and said.
Zhu Ying shook her head and said: "No need, I just moisturize my throat first for what I will talk about later."
"Yueqing, today I will teach you a good lesson and let you know what hype is!"
When the weather was slightly cooler the next day, a large piece of white paper was pasted on the capital's notice wall, filled with notices.
This is the officer of the Wucheng Army and Horses Division. After posting it, it is pretty much the same as before. He just stays here, maintains order, and interprets the messages above.
"My lord, what kind of news is the notice above?"
A vegetable seller carrying a load came over and asked curiously.
For the uncle, selling vegetables on weekdays is nothing. When he sees a new notice, he naturally becomes curious, and maybe later, he will talk with other hawkers while selling vegetables.
The officer said: "This is the news that the Qunying Chamber of Commerce in the capital is about to recruit workers. What it says is that it will open five large factories on the edge of the outer city of the capital, and each factory will recruit at least 5,000 people."
"They are a brewery, a garment factory, a textile factory, a frosting factory, and a porcelain factory."
"Age must be between sixteen and above, forty-five and below, have no bad habits, and be capable of doing things."
"By the way, the textile factory is currently recruiting only female workers."
After listening to the introduction, the vegetable seller generally understood the situation and thought to himself, these British Chamber of Commerce are so powerful that they can even get help from the government when doing business.
I thought to myself, this is roughly what we will talk about today.
He turned around, picked up the burden, and was ready to leave.
He didn't dare to delay for too long. If he went a little later, someone else might take the good seat.
The family is still counting on this dish being sold today, and will buy a few liters of rice to cook later.
The vegetable seller had just stood up and walked two steps when he suddenly stopped, turned around and asked again: "May I ask, sir, how much do these factories pay and what are their requirements?"
However, the vegetable seller suddenly remembered that he had a nephew who had served as an apprentice to a porcelain master for two years.
Because I couldn’t afford the apprenticeship fee in the end, and I didn’t learn half of the lessons, I had no choice but to give up.
Recruiting so many people at once, maybe my nephew would have a chance.
After all, these are five thousand people, so it would be a bit fishy to fish in troubled waters.
My nephew is also smart. If he can sneak in, he can at least get some wages.
The younger brother died early, and the nephew was also raised by the uncle. Although he was said to be an uncle, he looked older, but in fact he was only in his early fifties.
When the yamen officer heard this, his expression changed a little. He paused for a moment and then said: "Apprentices receive two hundred cash per month, and senior apprentices receive five hundred cash per month. Those who can work alone will receive five hundred cash per month."
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Snapped!
The vegetable seller was stunned and the vegetable basket fell to the ground.
But now, he couldn't care anymore and asked quickly: "Master, what do you mean by apprentice and senior apprentice? How are they distinguished?"
The yamen officer explained: "Apprentices just don't know anything. They have never been exposed to these factory jobs. As long as they have the right physical qualities and no criminal record, they can be hired."
"It's two hundred cents per month, and it also includes breakfast and lunch. If you have something suitable at home, just wait for the date and queue up to sign up."
"A senior apprentice is someone who has studied and knows a few things, but is not yet at the point where he can do it alone. Tsk, tsk, that's five hundred liters."
Hearing this, the vegetable seller's eyes widened with disbelief on his face.
He looked at the big unknown character on the notice, then looked at the two government officials, and couldn't help but said: "Isn't the official making fun of me? Such a good factory, even if I have never seen it before, I can't even hear it."
Never heard of it.”
The government servant who had been silent next to him looked at the vegetable vendor coldly and said, "Believe it or not, it is clearly written on the notice. You are illiterate, but others are literate. We brothers don't have the time to mess around with you.
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The vegetable seller who was still a little unconvinced at first became convinced immediately after hearing this tone.
He picked up the burden and ran in the direction he had just come from, very fast, with only one thought in his mind.
"Not only my nephew, but also my sons and my mother-in-law can go."
"You also sell vegetables for a hammer. My two nephews, plus my mother-in-law, there are three people in total. Even if it is 200 cents per person, you are still paying 600 cents per month."
"The most important thing is to take care of the food."
"Haha, haha!"
While trotting quickly, the vegetable seller couldn't help laughing and making a pig noise.
Vendors and passers-by who are approaching.
Seeing the vegetable seller like this, I subconsciously ran away.