A smart man like Zhu He finally understood all the tricks His Highness had to do this job.
First of all, when the market was depressed, deflation, production was severely insufficient, and a large number of workers were unemployed, His Highness used a large amount of food stamps to replace currency to stimulate production.
Of course, this is also inseparable from the credit of "quantitative evaluation of merits and demerits". This new thing like food stamps quickly gained market recognition and even became popular. This is why food stamps have the same status as copper coins in Suzhou.
Status can greatly stimulate production and prevent workers from being unemployed.
Then in less than a year, His Highness wiped out the enemies on the sea and re-opened the Maritime Silk Road... This belongs to the category of hard power. But then, the cool maneuvers came again——
His Highness first used his own fleet to transport his own goods, proving that he could make a lot of money. Then he generously said that in the future, he could take out the business of buying and selling goods and share the profits with everyone!
Of course, Suzhou merchants export silk. But if you want to export silk, you must first have certified products. And where can you find certified silk? Of course, it is in the warehouse of the Yamen of the Weaving and Dyeing Bureau!
Now, do you still have to worry about selling the mountains of silk piled up in the Dyeing and Weaving Bureau? You don’t have to worry about selling them at all, and you have to sell them at a higher price, okay?
A rough estimate by everyone shows that the profit from exporting silk is ten times. If it is divided equally with the shipping company, the profit can be five times. Therefore, it is not excessive at all to double the price of silk in the warehouse of the Weaving and Dyeing Bureau...
Originally, the average order price of a piece of silk from the Weaving and Dyeing Bureau was two guan.
The selling price sold to them now can be set at Siguan...
Now even if all the food stamps issued before are redeemed with silk, the Weaving and Dyeing Bureau will still have half of its inventory left! It’s a huge profit!
The food stamp crisis that everyone was worried about was solved so easily. His Highness also made a huge profit...
The white wolf with empty gloves has played to the extreme. It belongs to him. When Meng Tuo comes, he has to kowtow to His Highness.
Buying back what you sold at double the price is supposed to be an act of taking advantage of others. But this time, no one had any complaints, but was very happy.
Because they are not at a loss either——
Since there is no need to worry about food stamps being used up, it seems that everyone does not need to spend all their food stamps in a hurry.
In this way, there is no need to worry about the credit of the food stamps, then it can continue to be used as money. Then it is money...
As long as you accept the setting that "food stamps are money", you will find that after a year of hard work, instead of losing money, you have actually made a small profit.
After all, they have been working hard to expand production, and even work day and night shifts. All the silk produced is eaten by the Dyeing and Weaving Bureau at a very fair price, but what they receive is food stamps... But they regard food stamps as food stamps.
In terms of money, their operating profits are simply sky-high, right?
If we hadn't donated more than ten million taels of silver in succession, everyone would have made a fortune this year.
But after donating more than 10 million taels, everyone's wealth can still grow. Isn't that outrageous?
Of course, it's still the same sentence, you have to accept that food stamps are a new type of currency and regard them as wealth.
It is not difficult for everyone to accept the food stamps when they have real value and will not be run on... Isn't this much more reliable than treasure banknotes?
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In addition, the contestants from the behind bars faction have been tortured by Lao Liu for almost a year, and they are more or less suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. Many people have regarded His Highness the King of Chu as an authority from the bottom of their hearts and regard his words as rules.
Already...
So soon there were many people with expressions of relief on their faces. In order to get to the top of the list, they got involved crazily and lost all their wealth.
I thought that I would suffer a huge loss this year, and that I would have to shed my skin even if I didn’t go bankrupt. Unexpectedly, in the end, not only did I not lose money, I actually made a profit. Who wouldn’t be happy if I changed it?
What makes them even more happy is yet to come. His Highness took the opportunity to announce that in view of everyone's correct attitude and outstanding performance in the past year, the "quantitative evaluation of merits and demerits" will carry out an unprecedented large-scale discount distribution!
With a speech like this that sells well, Thief Lao Liu no longer needs a tool and announced loudly in person: "First of all, the selection period will be shortened from one year to ten months!"
This month is the last month of the competition! All the players who performed well can go home to celebrate the New Year.
But the wealthy people were so excited that they all shouted "His Royal Highness is a thousand years old". After all, no matter how good the conditions in the prison are, they are still relative to ordinary people. Compared with their lives at home, they are as good as heaven and earth.
And it was the Chinese New Year. What would it be like to say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new year in prison? And have to die in desolation?
"It's not over yet," when the cheers of the crowd died down, His Highness loudly announced that the ranking rewards will also be fully upgraded!
For the final top ten contestants, in addition to the original promise of "gaining freedom, retaining all property, and becoming a subcontractor of the Dyeing and Weaving Bureau," each person will also be granted the right to use space on a thousand-material sea-going ship.
One voyage for five years!
It is conceivable that the focus of competition in the future will be the space in the fleet. Only when you have space can you carry out sea trade. If you don't have space, you can only stare at it.
Now within five years, the top ten can have the right to use cabins on a ship with thousands of materials. Although there is only one voyage per year, it is already very valuable! Even if you can’t use it at home, you can make a lot of money just by reselling the cabins.
And the big investors all know that you have it, but others don’t. Others are begging you to buy it, which is a guarantee of power and status! Of course, they are all flocking to it. Those who originally planned to reduce their investment have completely changed their minds.
I will decide on this top ten list!
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As for the 11th to 30th place, they will receive the reward that was originally reserved for the top ten - additional qualifications as a subcontractor of the Weaving and Dyeing Bureau!
This qualification is no longer as dispensable as it was before, but has become crucial. Everyone understands the principle of "first come first served", and the subcontractors of the Weaving and Dyeing Bureau are naturally the most likely to obtain the position of the Weaving and Dyeing Bureau.
Certified!
Even if you don't participate in maritime trade in the future and just focus on production, you can make a lot of money. Unlike before, because there are too many people and too little food, manufacturers always face price reductions from maritime merchants.
Now only certified silk can be exported, and maritime merchants have to beg them to sell it!
Then, the additional reward for the thirty-one to sixty people is that they can keep their entire property. Originally, they could only keep half.
As for the 61 to 100 people, who originally had to confiscate all their property, they can now keep half of it. Moreover, His Highness was extra gracious and announced that all investments used for the evaluation will be exempted!
In other words, if you invest all your money in the silk factory, it will not be confiscated!
There are still 100 to 200 people. The additional reward is that they can be exempted from exile, but all their family properties must be confiscated. However, they can also be exempted as long as they invest all the remaining family properties in the last month.
His Highness was also particularly merciful to the two hundred contestants who were traveling abroad and changed their exile to stationed abroad.
Their task is to go overseas to establish a business station for Shishi Shipping Company. After ten years of service, they can apply to return to the country, or they can stay locally and continue to cooperate with Shishi Shipping Company...
