In Ceylon, in the palace of the Lion City City Lord, Hu Xian, Zhu Benduan and Feng Xiang lay on comfortable chairs and carefully looked at this luxurious palace.
Unlike the Ming Dynasty people who are reserved and low-key, the Persians like to show off their wealth and power, and the same is true for Adal.
This small Caicheng palace is extremely luxuriously decorated, with carpets from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the walls are covered with gold sheets, and a large number of gems and jade are inlaid.
Blue and white porcelain from the Ming Dynasty was used as ornaments, thick ivory tusks, beautiful corals, and whole tiger skins. I used almost everything I had to decorate it as magnificently as possible.
Now everything is cheaper for Hu Xian and the others.
"Tsk, tsk, these Persians are really not subtle at all. They are decorated so luxuriously. I don't know how much money we can get from conquering this Lion City."
Zhu Benduan looked at the luxurious City Lord's Mansion and couldn't help but sigh.
The businessmen of the Ming Dynasty wished that no one knew that I was rich, while the businessmen of Persia wished that the whole world would know that they were rich, which formed a sharp contrast.
"I'll find out soon. I guess we can get a lot of money from the Lion City alone."
Feng Xiang smiled and said, this feeling is really wonderful.
Relying on powerful force to directly conquer a place and take possession of the wealth that others have worked hard to accumulate as one's own, this kind of capitalless business seems to be the highest level of business.
"Now it's just an appetizer. Chen Lin has already attacked the Middle Eastern cities. After sweeping out the Middle Easterners and Arabs, we will have a foothold here. The next step is the main event."
Hu Xian smiled. It was unexpectedly smooth. He captured the Persian Lion City almost effortlessly. The cities built here in the Middle East are similar to the Lion City. It is estimated that they can be captured very quickly.
In an open space in the city lord's palace, boxes are being brought in one after another. There is an accountant with paper and pen who is constantly recording, recording in detail every piece of loot obtained here.
The accounting room is constantly recording here, and there are also several people writing separate account books next to it. Gold and silver, gems, jewelry, coral, ivory, jade, etc. are numbered separately and recorded in detail.
Even the gold and silver obtained here had to be melted together, numbered, and finally transported back to the Ming Dynasty.
Every thing obtained here? A tiger skin, a sheep skin? It must be recorded clearly? Even the Persians who were demoted as slaves were like this.
Western United Commercial Bank is a joint-stock commercial bank, and major commercial banks contribute capital and employees? Therefore, they also attach great importance to profits. Each shareholder sends someone to supervise the actions of Western United Commercial Bank? What is more important is to record Western United Commercial Bank.
The income situation here.
Every bit of wealth obtained here belongs to the Western United Trading Company, and will need to be distributed uniformly when the time comes.
Not only are they shareholders, but the soldiers also send people to supervise. Do they also have shares? According to the original agreement.
What was gained on the Island of Ceylon? The soldiers who participated also had a share. The wealth and land gained here all had their share. Even if they died in battle? This share would also fall to their children.
On the head.
Of course, correspondingly, they cannot hide anything they get here. If someone is found to be hiding something, the consequences will be very serious. The punishment will be very terrible.
"Twenty thousand taels of gold~"
"Silver? Five hundred thousand taels~"
Excuse me? Someone shouted out at the same time. There are too many things plundered here in the Lion City. It is difficult to calculate the value of gems, jade, ivory, pearls, corals and the like, so they are all numbered separately. Back to the Ming Dynasty
We will deal with it together later.
But gold and silver are more convenient to count. Just weigh them directly and calculate the weight.
Box after box of gold and silver was constantly weighed, and soon the combined value of gold and silver exceeded 700,000 taels of silver.
"You only have 20,000 taels of gold?"
"The amount of silver exceeds five hundred thousand taels?"
Zhu Benduan, Feng Xiang and Hu Xian also came over when they heard the voice and asked in disbelief.
"Yes, more than half of the weighing has been completed. In addition, our people are still digging into the ground. I believe they can still dig out some gold and silver."
"In addition, the gold and silver in the City Lord's Mansion have not yet begun to be scraped off. There are also gems, emeralds and the like. The value is difficult to estimate. At present, they are only numbered and will be evaluated and processed uniformly after they are brought back to the Ming Dynasty."
Master Hu, who was in charge of this matter, saw the three people coming and nodded quickly in reply.
Master Hu is not a person under the command of the three of them, but a person sent by Sihai merchant Li Chunyang. He is responsible for the financial affairs of Western United Commercial Bank. He can be regarded as the financial director of the company in later generations.
"Then how can we say that our gains from the Lion City alone are enough to recoup our costs?"
Feng Xiang was stunned, thought for a while and replied.
"Yes, the wealth gained here in the Lion City is enough to repay the capital, and there is still profit."
"The gold and silver here are not too much. What is really valuable are the gems, jade, ivory, coral, pearls, etc. I estimate that the value of these things may exceed five million taels of silver."
"In addition, we captured about 12,000 Persians and sold them as slaves to Nanyang. The minimum price can be sold for 20 taels of silver each. After all, it is more than 200,000 taels of silver.
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"In addition, we captured more than 20 Persian ships at the port, and there was a large amount of cargo on the ships. These things can be worth hundreds of thousands of taels of silver."
"After all the calculations, we can get more than eight million taels of property in the Lion City alone."
Master Hu said very seriously while looking through the account books.
He is from Jiaxing. The master in Jiaxing is well-known. He makes very detailed statistics on all aspects and calculates the accounts clearly. His valuation is absolutely correct.
"Property worth eight million taels of silver?"
When everyone around them heard this, they all couldn't help but gasp. Then looking at the mountains of gold and silver, boxes and boxes of jewelry, emeralds, gems, corals, etc., everyone couldn't help but smile.
stand up.
"How can you find eight million taels worth of property in such a big place?"
Zhu Benduan was dumbfounded. He was also a man who had seen the world. When he was a salt merchant, the money came in like a rolling river.
But he couldn't believe that this small and big Lion City could actually plunder eight million taels worth of property.
Did the money come a little too fast and too much?
Property worth eight million taels of silver. This is not eighty thousand taels, nor eight hundred thousand taels, but eight million taels of silver. This is simply unbelievable.
"Could it be a miscalculation?"
Feng Xianger Research Institute was slightly dumbfounded, this is too much.
One or two million taels is about the same. I can’t believe such a huge number.
"It can't be wrong!"
"Gold and silver can be seen and weighed. It's easy to calculate."
"The gems and emeralds here are of the highest quality, especially gems. Many gems are extremely precious and of very high value. Like this sapphire, it is large in size, pure in color, and has no flaws. It was shipped back to our Daming Dynasty.
It is very easy to sell it for one hundred thousand taels of silver."
"And these jadeite, you see, such top-notch imperial green jadeite, its value is immeasurable."
"This island of Ceylon is located at the center of a major transportation route. Almost all the good things from the entire Western region are gathered here, traveling south to north, east to west."
"The Persians are extremely good at doing business. Their merchants are everywhere in the Western region. Doing business on the sea is naturally very profitable."
"So it's not surprising at all how much wealth you can get here."
Mr. Hu said very confidently that he was an old man from Sihai Trading Company. Not only was he a good accountant, but he also had a sharp eye. He could recognize good things at a glance and estimate their value.
"Haha, okay, now I'm really rich~"
"It's just a small lion city. Once we conquer that city in the Middle East, wouldn't it be easy to get more than ten million taels of wealth?"
Feng Xiangzhi nodded, and then laughed happily.
This business can be done, and it can be a very profitable business.
They had just arrived in Ceylon. Not only had they recovered their capital, but they had also made a lot of money. It was simple and easy. Compared with the hard work of doing business at sea, making money from this business was too fast and too easy.
"Okay, okay~"
"I finally understand why Tian Erniu wants to attack the two Golden Continent kingdoms. This business is really profitable."
Zhu Benduan couldn't help but sigh, a business with a huge profit is indeed a quick way to make money.
"Haha, let me just say, we should learn from Liu Jin and Tian Erniu. They never talk about etiquette, justice and shame overseas. As long as things can be solved with artillery, they will never waste words.
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"Look, this is just a small Lion City on the island of Ceylon. The world is very big. What if we can take over the entire island of Ceylon?"
"Or will we conquer Burma in the future?"
"And Tianzhu in the north is so huge and has so many kingdoms. What if we can conquer Tianzhu?"
"How much wealth can we gain by then?"
Hu Xian's face was full of smiles. The harvest here in the Lion City proved that he was right and his idea was right. This is an era where the bold will starve to death and the timid.
If you want to get rich, you have to conquer the whole world like a robber.
