After hearing Liu Jin's words, Zhao Dahu nodded quickly.
In fact, Daming's glass sales have indeed stagnated, with very slow growth. This is because the price of glass products continues to fall.
Everyone is not a fool, and gradually they can guess that this glass is actually not valuable at all, so they do not take advantage of them like they did at the beginning and spend a lot of money to buy various glass products.
This development of overseas markets has become extremely important and will also be the focus of next year.
After Zhao Dahu finished his report, Sun Xin, the manager of Tianjin Shipyard, also stood up soon.
"His Royal Highness, Mr. Liu~"
"Our Tianjin Shipyard built a total of 1,500 ships throughout the year, including 200 large ships, 500 medium-sized ships, and 800 small ships. The total operating income was 65 million taels of silver and the net profit was 2,500 taels.
Ten thousand taels of silver~"
Sun Xin clearly reported the situation of Tianjin Shipyard.
Tianjin Shipyard is now growing in size and has opened branch factories. There are more than 20,000 shipbuilding masters alone, plus shipbuilding apprentices, etc., and the number of workers exceeds 100,000.
Tianjin Shipyard is considered to be one of the many industries under Liu Jin's command, and Liu Jin attaches great importance to it, because it is related to the key to whether Liu Jin can lead the huge empire of Ming Dynasty into the colonial era.
The average salary of shipyard employees ranks first among many industries. Even the salary of employees at Beijing Glass Factory is not as high as the salary of employees at Tianjin Shipyard.
Employees in Tianjin Shipyard, even the most ordinary employees, now earn dozens of taels of silver a year. As for the masters who can build ships, their income is even higher, and they also have welfare benefits, housing allocation and many other benefits.
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In terms of business, Liu Jin really invested a lot of money, and he was a bit like a rich person.
Shipbuilding is really a technical job, and talents are rare, and it takes time to cultivate slowly. This is why Liu Jin sells all kinds of ships at a high price, because there must be enough profit to cultivate these shipbuilders.
Masters, so that some people can concentrate on studying shipbuilding, researching various new shipbuilding technologies, etc.
"Not bad, not bad~"
After hearing this, Zhu Houzhao nodded with satisfaction. He was another hen who earned more than 20 million taels of silver a year.
"Sun Xin, you have done well, but next year, you still need to further expand your production capacity and build factories in the south. Ryukyu, Fujian, and Songjiang are all very good places. You need to expand your production capacity. In addition, you need to build factories in the south.
Focus on innovation and cultivation of technology and talents.”
After Liu Jin heard this, he thought about it and warned him.
Liu Jin estimates that next year will be a year of explosive navigation. Now many people in the Beijing-Tianjin area are organizing to go to Huanghuangzhou to fish for gold next year. The major shipyards in Tianjin are receiving soft orders.
Marine fishing, whaling, overseas trade, and the upcoming overseas gold rush all require ships. Ships are the foundation. Without ships, going overseas is just empty talk.
Therefore, more ships must be built to let more people taste the sweetness of the ocean.
Especially in the south, Liu Jin must let the big families, big businessmen, big gentry, etc. in the south also taste the sweetness of the ocean, and let them know that they can make more money as long as they follow him.
As much as possible, these conservative and stubborn forces should be slowly transformed into emerging capital forces. Only in this way can the progress and development of Ming Dynasty be truly and quickly promoted.
You must know that the richest people in the entire Ming Dynasty are all in the south. If these southerners are not mobilized, the Ming Dynasty cannot be truly promoted.
"Yes, I understand~"
Sun Xin nodded repeatedly. The scale of Tianjin Shipyard is getting bigger and bigger, and more and more branches are opening. Next year, there are plans to open several branches at the same time, covering the coastal areas of Ming Dynasty to build more large ships.
come out.
After Sun Xin finished his report, another person quickly stood up. This person was Li Jiye, the steward of the Changlu Saltworks.
"Your Highness, Mr. Liu~"
"Last year, Changlu Salt Farm achieved a total operating income of 22 million taels of silver and a net profit of 5.5 million taels of silver~"
When he said this, Li Jiye's voice became quieter. The profit margin was indeed too low. It was only a little over twenty points. There was no comparability with the previous Jingcheng Glass Factory and Tianjin Shipyard.
No matter in terms of scale or profit.
"Why don't you make money from this salt?"
Zhu Houzhao was slightly unbelievable after hearing this. Among the old concepts, salt was the most profitable. He didn't realize that the richest people in the Ming Dynasty were the salt merchants.
Good guy, this Changlu Salt Farm produces a huge amount of salt in a year, but it doesn't make any money. This is unbelievable.
"Back to Your Highness, the main reason is that this year our Changlu Salt Farm and the salt merchants in the Jiangnan region have been engaged in a year-long price war in the northern region. The price of salt is now only more than ten cents per catty. In addition, in our first year
If you invest in building a salt farm, you have to pay a salt tax of two million taels, so the profit is very low."
Li Jiye thought for a while and replied.
In fact, it cannot be said that salt is not profitable. Its profit is still very high. For more than ten yuan per pound of salt, Changlu Salt Farm is still very profitable. However, due to competition for the market, the price of salt has dropped too much, so there is no profit.
How much silver is it?
Earning several million taels of silver a year may seem like nothing compared with other industries, but if you make some other comparisons, you will know that the Changlu Salt Farm is actually very profitable.
"Salt is a necessity for people's lives. It doesn't matter if the price is lower. At worst, we won't make money, but we still have to let people eat cheap salt."
Liu Jin didn't care. To be honest, he really didn't want to make any money from salt. He just saw that those salt merchants were not used to it. In addition, he also wanted to start a salted fish industry, so he came up with the salt drying method and this long-term business.
Lu Salt Field.
"Yes, yes, I have long disliked those salt merchants. This year's price war has been successful. Next year, we will continue to strive to capture the entire southern market and kill all those salt merchants."
"What kind of salt are they giving to the people, and they are sold so expensively? We will defeat them even if we don't make money."
When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he immediately nodded his head, thinking that Liu Jin was right. I just don't make money with this salt, so I don't want to kill those salt merchants.
"Yes~"
Li Jiye said quickly and respectfully.
One after another, stewards stepped forward to report to Zhu Houzhao and Liu Jin on the year's progress.
Tianjin Real Estate, Tianjin Maritime Trade, Tianjin Port, Tianjin Cement Factory, Tianjin Maritime Academy, Jingcheng Textile Factory, Miyun Iron Works, Jingcheng Machinery Factory, Ryukyu City, Jingcheng Real Estate, etc. Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao bought too many industries together.
Already.
Every industry is the hen that lays golden eggs.
Any one of them has a turnover of tens of millions of taels of silver and a profit of several million taels of silver. Some of them are profitable, such as Tianjin Cement Factory and Miyun Iron Works. Their annual profits can exceed tens of millions of taels of silver, which is very impressive.
of making money.
After various calculations, the annual operating income of many industries is 300 million taels of silver, and the total net profit exceeds 100 million taels of silver.
This is a very scary number!
The economy that these industries can drive is even larger. You must know that any industry can be related to dozens of industries, and even more are interconnected. How many people can be driven to employment and how many people can be driven to make a fortune.
Liu Jin, Zhu Houzhao, and Zhang Mao are the ones at the top who are popular and popular, and the related industries, industries, etc. below can also follow suit. Finally, when they reach the bottom of the ordinary people, everyone can also follow and have good results.
Work and income.
This is also the reason why the entire Beijing-Tianjin region is developing extremely rapidly.
Because all emerging industries are set up in the Beijing-Tianjin area, the number of workers in the entire Beijing-Tianjin area alone in major factories, workshops, etc. is extremely large.
The population in the capital has increased by more than two million. This is because the capital is under the emperor's feet and has too many restrictions. On the Tianjin side, because there are fewer restrictions and there is a port, the population in Tianjin has increased even more.
huge.
Tianjin, which was not very eye-catching in the past, now has a faint tendency to become the first city in the Ming Dynasty. The number of people gathered in Tianjin alone is almost 5 million, including the areas of Beizhili, Shandong and Shanxi.
people are attracted.
Even though the Ming Dynasty court was very Buddhist in terms of commercial tax collection, the tax revenue from the Beijing-Tianjin region soared, becoming the most important source of tax revenue for the court, pushing the Jiangnan region into the second place.
Many industries earn hundreds of millions of taels of silver a year, many of which were established with 50-50 investment by Zhu Houzhao and Liu Jin, and some with the help of Emperor Hongzhi, Zhang Mao, Xu Guangzuo, and Zhu Fu, but Liu Jin still
is an important shareholder.
So after calculation, out of the net profit of hundreds of millions of taels of silver, almost more than 30 million taels of silver can be attributed to Liu Jin.
Earning 30 million taels of silver a year is an extremely terrifying figure. Liu Jin's wealth can be described as being as rich as an enemy.
But Liu Jin knew that this was not a good thing. In the feudal dynasty, it was not good to be too rich, so the emperor and the prince had to be richer than themselves, so that they would not worry about their own money.
