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Chapter 1627 The private army of powerful people

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    Clipper-type sea trading ships are more than three times faster than traditional sailing ships.  East India Company has a net worth of 20 million yuan, and orders from major shipyards in the south of the Yangtze River, such as Mingzhou Shipyard and Binzhou Shipyard, are almost fully booked.  There is a fundamental difference between maritime trade, four trips a year and one trip a year.  Going four times a year speeds up the capital turnover rate, which is equivalent to making the money of the previous four years in one year.  The East India Company owns its own ships, and everyone occupies their own cargo space according to their share capital.  Children and elders do not deceive, act according to the rules, and everyone is convinced.  " Moreover, as long as the merchants' own ships can keep up with the speed, they can also carry cargo and go with the large fleet.  You can¡¯t rush shipbuilding, you can only wait.  However, the first time they set out from Mingzhou to go to sea, in addition to the escort of a dozen sail cruisers of the Southeast Ocean Fleet, the fleet of wealthy merchants amounted to nearly 300 ships.  Businessmen in the Celestial Dynasty all have the habit of hiding wealth.  The main reason for this is that the court always does not follow the rules, and when it is short of money, it will take action on businessmen.  Businessmen are afraid of being killed by pigs, and they don¡¯t dare to show off their money.  But this time is different. We have signed a contract with the imperial court and monopolized the maritime trade of the four countries. If we want to hide our wealth, we will be unable to live with our own money.  As a result, a traditional Chinese sea-going ship worth 500,000 guan, or three ships per person, was filled with tea, porcelain, silk, cotton, candles, oil lamps and other items from the Central Plains, and sailed to Southeast Asian countries in a mighty manner.  The Southeast Ocean Fleet, led by Lin Renzhao personally, sailed outside the merchant ships, escorting them and making charts at the same time.  The original sea map was full of errors and omissions. Even Penghu and Liuqiu could not be found on the map.  Later, after Li Zhongyi personally drew the rough outline of the coastline according to the shape of a rooster, the sea maps drawn in various places slowly became more realistic.  However, due to the backwardness of drawing technology, many details are still full of errors.  ??Navigation charts that are enlarged or reduced according to scale are crucial for navigation at sea.  Merchant ships mainly rely on the experience of the helmsman.  If something happens to the old helmsman, the entire merchant fleet will be shut down.  After the military had relatively detailed charts, the situation was completely different and it saved a lot of time.  Li Qiong and the others are not very clear about the hardships at sea.  However, Li Qiong knew about the grand purchase of various commodities by the maritime merchants after they returned from selling goods in the four countries of Southeast Asia for the first time.  In this era, not only did the farming technology of the Nanyang countries lag behind that of China, but their handicraft technology was also far behind.  ??Chinese porcelain, tea bricks, silk, and cotton cloth are in short supply in Southeast Asian countries.  Every time he arrived at a city, he sold out a ship's worth of goods.  Even if the price is increased, it cannot stop the purchasing desire of officials and businessmen from various countries in Southeast Asia.  Rich people in Nanyang are just like when Apple mobile phones first landed in the Chinese market, Apple fans lined up in a two-kilometer long queue, and their desire to buy them was unprecedentedly strong.  It is impossible for outsiders to know how much money wealthy businessmen make overseas.  However, the wealthy businessmen have bought up almost all the goods on the market in the capital. This cannot be hidden from anyone.  The Ministry of Commerce of the imperial court only focused on the prices of grain, salt and vegetables. The prices of these three commodities were not allowed to be too high, they could not be hoarded, or the grain should not be sold.  As for other commodities, it is impossible for the Ministry of Commerce to control so much.  "Your Majesty, I have something I don't know about. I don't know whether to ask or not?" Li Qiong asked Li Zhongyi with his hands raised.  Li Zhongyi smiled and said: "But it doesn't matter." He understood that something must have happened.  "Your Majesty, the businessmen have made too much money, and I'm afraid it will shake the country's foundation." Li Qiong kindly reminded Li Zhongyi that the power of the businessmen should not be allowed to become too great.  Li Zhongyi smiled. He knew that Li Qiong was thinking of suppressing business.  No wonder Li Qiong is worried. For thousands of years, how could the idea of ??valuing agriculture and suppressing business disappear so easily?  Li Qiong is not an ordinary person. He has been the Prime Minister of the Cabinet for many years. General principles will definitely not convince him.  Li Zhongyi thought for a while and said: "My old husband doesn't know something. As long as the Royal Bank is in hand, these businessmen cannot afford to make big waves." Li Qiong is a typical old-style military general. How did he understand the power of monopoly banks?  As long as commercial capital cannot overcome financial control, it will never threaten the security of the imperial court.  Capitalism, when it develops to an advanced stage, must control banking financial institutions.  No matter how rich a businessman is, he will always have to borrow money from a bank to turn around, right?  As long as Li Zhongyi holds the bank's nose, he will?So he held the businessmen's hand and asked them to follow the imperial baton.  The richest man in this era is engaged in monopoly business.  For example, the salt merchants in Xuhuai.  Li Zhongyi auctioned off the trading rights of the four Nanyang countries just to set an example.  Tell the majority of merchants that the profits from maritime trade are greater than those of salt merchants, and it is as easy as scooping water.  Who gets up early when there is no benefit?  As for the matter of the Royal Trade Fleet, Li Zhongyi had never thought about it.  Damn it, the royal monopoly grain store actually dares to suffer losses. This is in line with the old saying: If it is not your own money, who will feel bad?  "Your Majesty, all the maritime merchants have made a fortune, and some people in the court are already jealous." Li Qiong hesitated for a long time, and finally couldn't help but tell the truth.  Li Zhongyi smiled slightly, just like at the beginning of the reform.  At the beginning, all workers in state-owned enterprises looked down upon the self-employed.  "However, when self-employed people can make a fortune by setting up a bamboo bed and selling slippers, buying a house, a car, and a beautiful girl, the wages of the workers seem particularly shabby.  Power and money are both necessary resources for society.  When social resources began to tilt towards businessmen, it became inevitable to go overseas to do business.  Wealth and silk touch people¡¯s hearts!  "Okay, it's still the old rule. Everyone pools money to subscribe for stocks. I will supplement the amount of money. If you have money, everyone will make a fortune together." Li Zhongyi knew very well that the people standing behind Li Qiong could not be better than the wealthy businessmen.  Richer.  " However, those people standing behind Li Qiong each have connections and power in the court.  In these days, power and connections are also resources, and they are very powerful resources.  If you force people with power not to make money, your resentment will go out to the sky!  In the past, powerful people suppressed business on the surface.  In fact, in private, relatives or domestic slaves were allowed to do business and make money. ???????????? How can you, the powerful men, have the ability to do business?  It is nothing more than using power, establishing monopolies, exercising privileges, bullying and dominating the market, and extorting money.  This approach will destroy the domestic business ecology and cause endless troubles!  Now, Li Zhongyi has opened up the sea trade, which is to divert the trouble eastward and let the powerful people focus on the Philippines and the Indian subcontinent.  ??For wealthy businessmen, the starting price is 10,000 yuan per share.  In the face of powerful people, Li Zhongyi did not ask for basic share capital. Anyway, it was still the old rule. If you want to participate, everyone should calculate the share capital together.  Those who pay more will hold more shares and share more profits.  In the same way, if you lose money, you lose much more.  ??In business, except for the monopoly operation of salt, there is actually no business that is guaranteed to make money.  However, colonizing overseas is different.  The income of the powerful may not be as good as that of the large merchants, but the advantage is that they have a harvest every year.  The merchants¡¯ families have money.  The families of the powerful had soldiers, children, and weapons, and they were one of the main forces in overseas colonization.  In the western development of the United States, as long as all the indigenous people are killed or driven away, and a small amount of money is paid to the country, a large area of ??land can be obtained.  Li Zhongyi¡¯s current countermeasures are also the same. Anyway, the land he conquers belongs to whoever has it, as long as you have the ability to hold it and don¡¯t need to pay money to the court.  This move seems very simple.  In fact, anyone who covets overseas land will fall into this trap.  The logic is actually not complicated.  ¡°The sons and daughters of the powerful families and their soldiers have gone overseas to develop land, and there are far fewer powerful people in the country.  With fewer powerful people, the domestic business market will develop more healthily!  This is the essence of diverting misfortune to the east!  After the news got out, the powerful people who wanted to take advantage of it enthusiastically signed up.  ¡°If you have money, send money, if you have troops, send troops. Li Zhongyi will not refuse anyone who comes, and he is open to sign up.  When spring arrived, Li Zhongyi looked at the thick stack of lists on the table and couldn't help but smile.  "Your mouth can deceive people, but your heart that wants to make money cannot deceive you!"  According to preliminary statistics, there are actually more than 18,000 children of powerful men and their family soldiers who have signed up to participate in the overseas colonial land grab.  What is the concept of a private army of more than 18,000 people who bring their own weapons and everyone has a horse?  Hehe, in this era of Indian states, the largest force only had five thousand soldiers and horses.  As for the ancient Philippine tribes that are still in the state of chiefs, they are not worth mentioning.  When spring was warm and flowers were blooming, the Yellow River and canals began to freeze, and hundreds of ships from the Yellow River Navy were ordered to enter Beijing.  The new army of the imperial court no longer needs helmets.After the war, the colonial private armies spent their own money to buy various armors from the imperial arsenal.  A pair of Mingguang armor costs 500 guan, and more than 18,000 pairs of armor, which is an income of nearly 10 million guan.  "It's just that the colonial private troops made a scene before setting off.  Some smart people suggested that the imperial court must send new troops to colonize with them.  This is opportunistic.  ????????????????????????????????????????????¡­?????????????????????????????¡­ Others don¡¯t know the combat effectiveness of the new army of the imperial court, how can they, the sons of the powerful and powerful, not know?  Li Zhongyi had long expected that the disciples of the powerful would definitely bring up the matter of sending new troops to assist.  Anyway, the new army will always send troops.  However, it was actually quite cost-effective for the colonists to pay and the court to send troops.  With a stroke of his pen, Li Zhongyi ordered the tenth mark of the third town, which had been prepared long ago, to follow the colonial private army to the Philippine Islands.  After sending away the colonial private army, the security in the capital became better, and the number of cases reported to the Jingzheng Temple every month decreased many times.  Everyone has the dream of getting rich, it depends on how you lead it!  In the past, agriculture was emphasized and business was suppressed.  The powerful can only stay at home to monopolize and annex land, which over time completely depletes the country's financial resources.  Now it¡¯s better. The powerful people have been led to colonize overseas, which is causing harm to the countries in Southeast Asia.  There is no greater kindness!
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