Daming Military Empire

Chapter 176 Overseas Trade
Hu Xianzong is a scholar in the capital. He is in his thirties this year. To say he is a scholar is a bit general. To be precise, he is a child. Tongsheng does not mean that he is young. People in their 30s are naturally "children" It's nothing to do with it, since he was born as a child, it means that he has no fame.

He started studying at the age of ten, ten years of cold windows, and began to take the imperial examination at the age of 20. He even took the exam three times, but he failed the college entrance examination. home business.

His family is from Kaibuzhuang, and has a big facade in Gaopo Hutong, Shiyongfang. He is famous and famous, but he is really not the material for studying. After three times, his parents gave up. It's a good thing. If it's not the official's life, then continue to run a lowly career. At least you can make a rich life.

To be precise, this cloth shop sells cloth and also operates custom-made clothes. Don’t look at Hu Xianzong who is not good at reading, but he is amazingly talented in starting a business. Under his management, the business of the cloth shop is booming day by day. The cloth shop has gained a bit of fame in the whole capital, and most wealthy families in the capital are willing to go to his cloth shop to buy cloth and make custom clothes. Hu Xianzong of Lao Hu's family has also become a celebrity in Shiyongfang.

Once this person became famous, he would come to him inadvertently for some things. No, one day in August this year, he was sitting in the cloth shop and reading the "New Beijing News" leisurely. Mr. Fangzheng came to the door suddenly coming.

Usually the old man had a casual smile on his face, but today it was as if his face was cramp, laughing non-stop: "Hehehe, Shopkeeper Hu, where are you reading the newspaper?"

His family is also an official, so Hu Xianzong naturally did not dare to be negligent, so he hurriedly asked him to sit down at the main seat, ordered him to make hot tea, and then asked curiously: "I don't know what you can do with Mr. Fangzheng?"

Lao Fang glanced at the newspaper he put on the coffee table, pointed to an article on it with a smile on his face and asked, "Master Hu, have you read this?"

He glanced at it and read it. It seemed that the Ministry of Industry had developed a batch of machines. He nodded quickly and said, "I read it, I read it. It's pretty good."

Lao Fangzheng had no excuse to comment on the writing style of this article, but smiled and said seductively: "Don't shopkeeper Hu have any ideas?"

idea?Hu Xianzong was a little confused. The things made by the Ministry of Industry are good, but there are no clothes-making machines in them. What kind of ideas can he have?

Seeing his confusion, Lao Fang continued to seduce him: "Do you know the shuttle loom and steam spinning machine, the speed, tsk tsk..."

Hu Xianzong was even more confused. I am not a cloth maker, so what do you mean by loom?

Why is this kid so out of his mind?Seeing that the temptation was not going to work, Lao Fang suggested directly: "Master Hu, don't you want to open a weaving factory?"

Open a weaving factory?What kind of money can you make? You have to buy looms and hire people, and the loom is too big. If you open a weaving factory in the capital, it will be considered good if you can earn back the rent.

Hu Xianzong was about to rebuff, but suddenly saw the word Fei Shuo, wait a minute, what he saw was an old-fashioned loom, and he had never seen a Fei Shuo loom before. Is it the same as flying?

He thought for a while, then asked hesitantly: "Master Fangzheng, does this flying shuttle loom really weave cloth like flying? How much faster than ordinary artificial looms?"

Seeing that this kid finally got on the road, Lao Fang couldn't help adding fuel and jealousy: "Tsk tsk, you haven't seen it. I was lucky to go to the inner factory to see the prototype of the shuttle loom. It's so fast that the eyes can't keep up. At least Ten times faster than humans!"

ten times!The profit is terrifying. Hu Xianzong couldn't help but eagerly said: "I don't know how many sets a person can buy. If he can buy more than ten sets, then he will make money."

Seeing that a target was about to be completed, Lao Fang excitedly said: "As long as you dare to buy, you can buy as many units as you want."

After all, Hu Xianzong is a veteran in the business field, not the kind of rough-and-tumble young man. If he really wants to set up a factory, he has to consider all aspects. Then he thought of a very serious problem. He must have a place to buy the machine. Swing!He couldn't help frowning and said: "It's a pity that my place is too small, and I haven't seen any compound nearby for rent."

Lao Fang is the clearest about this matter, he hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, there is a big house in Siji Hutong behind it, it used to be a doctor in the household department, and it was released as a magistrate two years ago, and it has been empty. , he sent someone to ask me a few times, but the place is too big and no one has taken over it. If you want it, I will negotiate the price for you and make sure it is cheap."

The venue was settled, Hu Xianzong continued to think about it, but he was a little confused: "I want to buy a hundred and ten units, but the money is a bit tight."

Lao Fang immediately patted his chest and said: "Lend it to Rixinglong Company, and I will guarantee it for you."

Seeing that Lao Fang was so eager to help, Hu Xianzong was a little embarrassed, but he still asked the last question: "Person Baishi, where can I find him?"

Lao Fang was gritting his teeth and said, "I'll post a notice for you, and go to all directions to recruit."

The relationship is good, Hu Xianzong thinks there is no problem anymore, he is also a person who handles big things, so he immediately decides to do it!

This guy is not ordinary fat. He actually ordered fifty shuttle looms and fifty steam spinning machines. There are enough spinning machines and steam spinning machines, and the goods were delivered to him within a few days.

Lao Fangzheng is also very active. Once Hu Xianzong's factory is established, his task will be completed. With such a big factory, the economic growth is not so fast. The magistrate should not bother him anymore. In order to keep his black yarn, he didn't try his best to help, but in less than half a month, Hu's weaving factory was miraculously put into operation!

The flying shuttle loom really deserves its reputation. After several improvements by Wang Zheng and Song Yingxing, the speed is more than ten times faster than that of manual labor. The average person can weave a piece of cloth in ten days, and the flying shuttle loom can weave almost one day. One and a half horses, that is to say, a shuttle loom can weave more than 40 bolts of cloth in a month, and the market price of more than 40 bolts of cloth is about ten taels of silver. In this way, he can earn at least 500 yuan a month. Two taels of silver can pay back the capital in more than a year, and after three years, you can earn tens of thousands of taels of silver. What kind of concept is this? You must know that his family has opened a cloth shop for four or fifty years and only earns less than 50 taels in total. Two taels of silver!
In the first two months, Hu Xianzong almost woke up laughing from his dreams, but recently he was a little worried. With the increase of weaving factories, the price of cloth in the capital is slowly falling, although now he can still earn about 500 taels a month. Silver, but if the price continues to slide like this, I am afraid that in two years, I will only be able to protect my capital!
Just when he was worried, the "Beijing News" published a news that the navy of Ming Dynasty had newly equipped a batch of super warships and was preparing to go to sea for drills. This time, it would take private merchants to an ally called Portugal for free To open up markets in the colonies is not doing business in Ming Dynasty, but some kind of overseas trade.

I heard that the aborigines over there are extremely backward, and they don’t know how to make cloth and porcelain at all. A piece of cloth can be sold for half a tael of silver over there, while the price of rice over there is equivalent to half a tael of silver for a stone, that is to say, Just going there to sell the cloth is about double the profit, and if you bring the rice back to Daming to sell, it will be four times the profit!

Hu Xianzong was originally a bold person, so he would not miss such an opportunity. As for the danger outside, be careful when going out, he really doesn’t care, he only knows how to support the bold and starve the timid. The man's ambition is everywhere, isn't it just overseas trade, do it!

Regardless of the fact that the private economy of the Ming Dynasty did not seem to be very developed in history, it was just that the court did not advocate it. In that environment, the seeds of capitalism emerged. It can be seen that there are still many bold businessmen among the people. Now Our Emperor Chongzheng made it clear that he supported the private economy, so there are even more bold people.

Hu Xianzong thought he was brave at first, but he didn't expect to be much braver than him. He only prepared [-] pieces of cloth. When he went to the train station to check in the luggage, he saw a fierce man who checked it in. One hundred thousand horses!
Forget about this piece of cloth, it's not like he hasn't seen a hundred thousand pieces of cloth before. What kind of train is this amazing? A lump of iron can run by itself!

It seems that the people at this station said that consignors can take the car to Dongdaying with the goods, so let’s take it, everyone dares to drive, but he dare not take it.

So, Hu Xianzong got on the first train in his life. The experience was amazing. Not only could the iron lump run by itself, but it also ran extremely fast. Without panting, I drove to Dongdaying in one breath!
He was even more surprised when he arrived at Dongdaying. He didn't care about the goods at all, he just hoisted a gourd to a flatbed cart, and then a horse pulled the flatbed cart to the port very quickly.

The port is so spectacular, there are a long row of iron shelves more than ten meters high, and he hoisted his cargo onto a large ship about ten meters high with a single gourd. Such a large ship stopped near the entire port Hundreds of ships!

Oh my god, he really has never seen so many big ships. He never thought that Daming would have so many big ships. They are knowledgeable, majestic, and ambitious!

It's not over yet, when he gets on the ship and sees the two rows of cannons on the deck, it will be a shock. Is this Da Ming's super battleship?There are more than 20 cannons!

Unexpectedly, this is not the end. When he followed the battleship out of the port, there were 25 giant ships neatly lined up in front of him, which were bigger than the battleship he was sitting on. Could it be that there were three layers of openings on both sides of the battleship? All cannons?He carefully looked at the muzzle pattern in front of him, it was exactly the same, it was really a cannon!
If you count carefully, there are fifty gates on one side alone, and there are one hundred gates on both sides!Super battleship, super battleship, that is Da Ming's super battleship!
Daming is so powerful, as a commoner of Daming, he can't help but feel pride in his heart, amazing, my Daming!
(End of this chapter)