"Bring back gold and silver worth thirty million taels~"
Along with the sounds of newspapers being sold in the streets and alleys of the capital, the entire capital seemed to come alive. The Ming Dynasty Morning Post has now become a part of the lives of young and old men in the capital.
"Give me one~Give me one~"
Soon, each newsboy was surrounded by people buying newspapers, all of whom couldn't wait to get the newspaper and read the latest news.
"Oh my god~"
"Twenty million taels of silver plus one million taels of gold, the fleet brought back wealth worth thirty million taels of silver from Golden Continent~"
“Golden Island is really full of gold~”
Everyone who picked up the latest issue of the Tomorrow Morning Post could not help but marvel.
Because this time the Ming Dynasty Morning Post reported this matter in detail and spent most of its space on it.
The most eye-catching thing is undoubtedly the wealth that the fleet brought back from Golden Continent, which is worth thirty million taels of silver. This is such a huge number.
In a teahouse in the capital, the shopkeeper of the teahouse was reading the newspaper loudly to the teahouse guests as usual. When he read that he had brought back gold and silver worth thirty million taels, the entire teahouse fell silent.
Everyone was dumbfounded, their mouths widened, and some couldn't help but pick their ears, wondering if they heard it wrong.
"Shopkeeper, did I hear wrongly? You just said gold and silver worth thirty million taels?"
"Yes, it is clearly written on it. It is gold and silver worth thirty million taels of silver, of which there are twenty million taels of silver and one million taels of gold. The total value is more than thirty million taels."
The shopkeeper of the teahouse looked at it carefully again and said with great certainty.
"Thirty million taels of silver, how much is this?"
Some people couldn't help but said in amazement.
"I heard about this yesterday. The fleet came back yesterday. Yesterday at the Tianjin port, ten big fortune ships came back from Huanghuangzhou. The gold and silver they brought back were piled up on the dock.
, Yinshan, I heard that the entire port is filled with golden and silver light."
A well-informed person spoke up.
"Then aren't all the sailors who went to sea paid?"
Someone thought for a while and said.
"Nonsense, of course I posted it~"
"This fleet was jointly funded by the emperor, Liu Jin, Liu Zhuangyuan, and a businessman named Du Mingen. Emperor Zhan and the businessman Du Mingen each owned 30%, Liu Jin, Liu Gongzi, 20%, and the remaining 20% belonged to all
crew."
"I heard that yesterday, His Royal Highness the Prince and Liu Jin went to the Tianjin Port to welcome them back, and they distributed 20% of the gold and silver belonging to the crew to the crew on the spot. Counting these more than a thousand people, each day
One person can almost get more than two thousand silver."
"More than six thousand taels of silver. These crew members used to be miserable. I heard that some of them were military households and their families were so poor that they couldn't even afford food. But now, they just go to sea and earn a lot of money in more than a year."
More than six thousand taels of silver, I can't eat them all in a lifetime."
The shopkeeper followed, because all this was clearly written in the newspaper.
Obviously, this was what Liu Jin meant, which was to use money to stimulate the people of the Ming Dynasty to continue traveling overseas, and not always limit their sights to this three-acre land of the Ming Dynasty.
Stressing the bold to death and starving the timid to death was what Liu Jin wanted.
"More than a year, more than six thousand taels of silver!"
When everyone in the teahouse heard this, they all couldn't help but take a breath.
These people are all from the capital, and they can come to the teahouse to spend money. They are obviously rich people, but when they heard that they earned more than 6,000 taels of silver in more than a year, they all couldn't help but their eyes turned red.
There is no doubt about the purchasing power of silver. In this era, you can marry your mother-in-law with just three taels of silver, and you can build a house with just a few taels of silver. Even a house in the capital can be bought with dozens of taels or hundreds of taels of silver. Six thousand taels of silver can buy it.
To ordinary people, two taels of silver is an astronomical figure.
Maybe thirty million taels of silver don't have such a strong feeling for them, because everyone knows that it is impossible for them to own these thirty million taels of silver.
But after hearing that sailors who went to sea could earn more than six thousand taels of silver in just over a year, everyone couldn't help but become jealous.
It's just a trip to Golden Continent. In more than a year, you can earn more wealth than you can spend in a lifetime. This seems to be something within everyone's reach.
People in the entire Beijing city, no, the entire Beijing-Tianjin area went crazy.
And as the news continued to spread, it slowly spread to the entire Ming Dynasty, and the people of the Ming Dynasty were no longer calm.
What I used to talk about is that a small rich man is content with a three-acre field, a wife and children, and he is content with the status quo and does not like to venture into the outside world.
But now, as the news spreads, more and more people are gathering in Tianjin. Countless people want to enter Tianjin Maritime Academy, want to learn navigation skills, want to go to sea, and want to go to gold.
I want to get rich overnight.
"Go, go, go to Tianjin, go to the sea to Huanghuangzhou, and become rich overnight~"
"Go out for a walk while you are young, and you can earn more money than you can spend in a lifetime in just over a year~"
Here in the capital, young people invite their close friends, pack their bags, say goodbye to their parents, wives and children, and walk towards Tianjin. No one can remain calm under the attack of money.
Even some scholars have put down the Four Books and Five Classics in their hands at this moment. I don't even want to take the imperial examination. The imperial examination is too difficult and not everyone can pass it.
If you go out to sea and go to Huanghuangzhou, you can earn thousands of taels of silver a year, and you can still take the exam slowly after that.
I heard that Tianjin Maritime Academy requires students to be able to read and write, and those who are educated have a great advantage and can easily get admitted.
Not only the young people are restless, but also some older people are also restless. There is no way to cultivate in peace and contentment here.
Everyone around me is thinking about going to Tianjin. If you are still working hard, even your own mother-in-law will look down on you. You don’t have to be a young person to go to Huanghuangzhou.
As long as you endure hardship and stand hard work, you can still go there.
The people of Ming Dynasty were restless~
Of course, the restlessness was not limited to the common people of the Ming Dynasty. They were restless from top to bottom.
The reason why ordinary people are restless is because they can earn thousands of taels of silver a year by going to sea, but they will never be able to spend it all in their lifetime.
For the people in the middle and upper classes of the Ming Dynasty, they were shocked by the thirty million taels of gold and silver, and their eyes were red with shock.
Du Mingen, a businessman, invested in a fleet heading to the Golden Continent in just over a year and made more than nine million taels of silver in one fell swoop.
More than nine million taels of silver. This is such a huge wealth. It would take the Ming Dynasty's treasury two years to receive almost any amount of tax money.
Even among the Huizhou merchant families who are now the most wealthy in the world, not every big family has a lot of silver. The key is cash. These big families simply cannot afford so much silver.
Du Mingen got rich overnight, really got rich.
He suddenly became a legend among Ming businessmen. Countless businessmen were talking about Du Mingen's time. While jealous, they began to dig out the money from the ground and sell some properties, shops and so on.
Raise money, invite some good friends, and bring money from all over the world to the Beijing-Tianjin area. They want to buy a boat, and they also want to go to Golden Island.
There are only ten big fortune ships and more than a thousand people. As long as the money is thrown in, they can also organize a fleet to go to the Golden Continent, and they can also get rich overnight.
In the south of the Ming Dynasty, for the first time, these big businessmen, big landowners, big gentry, and big families in the south could not calm down. Since the opening of the sea, they had fallen behind the north and were unable to enjoy the huge dividends brought by sea trade.
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Originally, they were doing their best to oppose the sea ban and wanted to monopolize the huge profits from sea trade.
But now, they can't calm down anymore.
Compared with the 30 million taels of silver, the little money they earned from sea trade was nothing but water.
So at the court, officials from the Jiangnan region stood up for the first time and wrote a memorial to Emperor Hongzhi, demanding that more ports be opened to the outside world and that there must also be open ports in the south.
They were jealous and couldn't calm down.
With such a huge sum of money and such a huge cake, they simply couldn't keep calm.
Not to mention the military generals group at the top of the Ming Dynasty, the military generals group headed by Duke Yingying, Duke Dingguo, and Duke Chengguo sent people to Tianjin as soon as possible.
They want ships, money, and people. Such a huge cake must not be missed. Zhang Mao, Zhu Fu, and Liu Jin's brother-in-law came to Tianjin from the capital overnight.
, found Liu Jin, and undoubtedly wanted to recruit Liu Jin to form a new fleet heading to Golden Continent.
The civil servant group couldn't calm down anymore. In the past, these civil servants were all big landowners and representatives of the gentry. Their families had huge properties and they were also engaged in some businesses.
However, with the rise of capitalism, they soon discovered that relying on the little money collected from land rents, their wealth grew much slower and much slower than that of emerging capitalists.
Now, as the fleet comes back, thirty million taels of silver suddenly form an even more terrifying impact. No one can remain calm in the face of such a huge wealth. Like everyone else, they are extremely jealous, and at the same time, they are absolutely jealous.
Hesitantly joined in this huge feast of wealth.
The entire Ming Dynasty was in a state of agitation, and was agitated by the huge wealth of thirty million taels.
