Domineering Daming

Sun Chuanting dismissed these and pressed down on the cabinet like a mountain, forcing all parties to speed up reforms and advance the established plans.

At the beginning of May, as the leader of the Qingtian team, Li Banghua, the servant of the household department, left Beijing and went to Shandong to take charge of land registration and surveying.

Governor Feng Jiangfeng is also on the front line, giving those new magistrates and county magistrates a platform to promote the reform of official administration, determine the powers and responsibilities of new yamen at all levels, and promote the development of a series of affairs.

On the twelfth day of the lunar month, a carriage from Nanzhili slowly entered Beijing from Yongdingmen and drove straight to the Forbidden City.

Sitting in the carriage was Li Youtang who had served as the chairman of the Royal Commercial Group for several months.

Beside him is an old man of half a hundred who looks like a "staff". He looked at Li Youtang and said: "My lord, I'm afraid there will be a lot of pressure coming to Beijing this time, so you must be prepared."

Li Youtang nodded calmly, with a calm expression, not flustered.

The reason for the "multiple pressures" is because the Royal Business Group has a huge amount of money and food in its hands.

Not only is the Royal Commercial Group itself huge in scale and infinitely profitable, the most important successor and executor of the Royal Bank's "[-] million silver plan" is the Royal Commercial Group, not to mention the most important land acquisition plan is still in progress.

Therefore, the amount of money and food coming and going in his hands is unimaginably huge. As the chairman, Li Youtang is under pressure from all aspects.

The old man looked at Li Youtang, paused for a moment, and said, "Now the gentry hoarded more than [-] million mu of land, the plows they made, the cattle they raised, and the total amount of fertilizer they produced was [-] million taels. Now rumors are spreading, and the gentry , the big merchants are eager to sell, but only our Royal Trading Group is able to undertake it. We can still hold on now, if it takes another month, there will be big troubles..."

Gentlemen, big merchants have invested so much, and there are more ups and downs involved. If these people go bankrupt, to put it bluntly, the bankruptcy of the gentry is equivalent to the collapse of the grassroots of the Ming Dynasty, and the common people become duckweeds with no sustenance; the big merchants go bankrupt , the business order is in disorder, and the entire Ming Dynasty will be in chaos.

Such consequences are unimaginable!

Li Youtang glanced at him, and said in a tone neither sad nor happy: "Many people are looking for you?"

The old man hurriedly bowed and said: "Not only the villain, I don't know how many people have come to the door in the past half a month, and there are more than 20 banquets that the villain has to go to."

Li Youtang looked normal, but felt a headache.

Not only them, even Li Youtang is the same.Some officials from Nanzhili went to the Shenlong Mansion to talk about things, and what they said was probing, and he couldn't avoid these officials. Fortunately, he really didn't know about the cabinet's arrangements, so he felt at ease.

Li Youtang entered the palace through the Donghua Gate and entered the cabinet building.

Sun Chuanting as the leader and the three cabinet ministers met him, and after talking for half an hour, Sun Chuanting led Li Youtang to Qianqing Palace.

In terms of establishment, the Royal Commercial Group is subordinate to the cabinet. Although there is no establishment, Li Youtang is a member of the third rank, and in disguise, he has elevated the Royal Commercial Group to the position of a "third rank yamen".

Sun Chuanting brought Li Youtang to the gate of Qianqing Palace, looked at Li Deyong who was walking out quickly, and asked, "Eunuch Li, is the emperor in the palace?"

Li Deyong quickly raised his hand, and said: "Looking back at Shuufu, His Majesty just went to the Empress's place, and now he should be in Yonghe Palace."

Yonghe Palace, also known as the imperial concubine Xingzi empress.

Both the empress and the imperial concubine are about to give birth, Sun Chuanting could understand, and said: "Okay, then I will wait for a while."

Faced with Sun Chuanting's great pressure, Li Deyong dared to let him stand here and wait, and said with a smile: "There is a tea room inside which has just been tidied up. The Chief Assistant and Lord Li are sitting down for a while. His Majesty must be back soon."

Sun Chuanting nodded slightly, and led Li Youtang into the tea room.

Zhu Xu is indeed in Yonghe Palace at the moment, chatting with Xingzi.

Xingzi was nine months pregnant and was about to give birth.She sat on a soft chair, touched her stomach with both hands, looked at Zhu Xu with a smile on her face and said, "Your Majesty has a lot of things to do every day, so you don't have to work hard to come here to your concubine. .”

Zhu Xu was very relieved towards Zhang Yun, looked at Xingzi and said, "I originally wanted you and the empress to go to the emperor's wife, but the empress felt that it was inappropriate to go out of the palace and trouble the emperor's wife. If you need something, just tell me."

Although Xingzi used to be the emperor of the Japanese kingdom, he didn't have so much pampering, and had countless needs. He smiled and said, "I don't need anything. Please don't worry about it, Your Majesty."

Zhu Xu glanced at Hezi standing beside her, felt relieved, said something, and then returned to Qianqing Palace.

Sun Chuanting and Li Youtang followed Zhu Xu into Qianqing Palace, reporting the development and future plans of Shenlong Mansion and Royal Business Group.

Chapter 1509 World Perspective

Li Youtang had already made a brief report to the cabinet, and now it is a formal report to Zhu Xu.

"Your Majesty, the current structure of the Shenlong Mansion is still a seven-member management team, the chairman, six directors, and sixteen bureaus to manage Shenlong, including the Security Bureau, Arbitration Bureau, Commerce Bureau, Taxation Bureau, Judicial Bureau, Inspection Bureau, and Maritime Anti-Smuggling Bureau. It governs four counties of Tianjin, Guangzhou, Gansu and Zhangjiakou, and mainly develops foreign trade..."

"Shenlong Mansion's own development plan is becoming more and more mature. There are as many as a thousand merchants and chambers of commerce in the jurisdiction, both at home and abroad, and there are many people of all kinds. The annual rent alone is as high as 200 million, and the related taxes are as high as 500 million..."

"The current registered population of Shenlong Mansion has exceeded [-], and it is still expanding rapidly. Most of them are businessmen and family members, and there are also people from Western Yi who are constantly pouring in. Among them, most of them are Portuguese, Spanish, and Jewish..."

"The number of ships entering and leaving the port of Shenlong Mansion has exceeded [-] every month, of which my Ming's ships accounted for [-]%, Dutch ships accounted for [-]%, and others accounted for [-]%..."

"Tianjin, Guangzhou and other four counties have basically been established. Relevant institutions have been stationed in succession and have begun to operate. Among them, Zhangjiakou and Gansu are developing rapidly, trade is booming, and the import and export of commodities is huge... The port in Guangzhou has basically been built. I am very excited, there are already [-] caravans registered in the Guangzhou government, and there are many others. It is estimated that the tax revenue alone in Guangzhou will exceed one million this year and next..."

"The Royal Commercial Group has set up six branches in Xiyi, covering almost all major countries. Spain, the Netherlands, and England all pay considerable attention, have certain privileges, and the trade is relatively smooth...Osman is relatively resistant to trade, and to us Daming has a certain degree of vigilance, and its development is relatively slow...Eighteen branch companies have been established along the sea and land coasts leading to Xiyi and other places, mainly following the United Fleet..."

"There are more than [-] caravans registered in the Shenlong Mansion, and the total number of merchant ships exceeds [-]. There are more than [-] ships that can go to sea. Among them, the Royal Commercial Group is the main one. Most of the others are sailing in Wa Kingdom, Ryukyu, and the South China Sea..."

"The development of Shenlong Mansion this year is mainly to undertake the cabinet's '[-] million silver plan', sign a bundled contract through large orders, sell a large number of our Ming products, consolidate the presence and influence in some countries and places, and establish stable and long-term business relations. ..."

"Shenlong Mansion placed an order of 3000 million shi rice with Spain, and Spain purchased 3000 million yuan of weapons, ships, silk, tea, porcelain, etc. from Ming Dynasty for a period of five years. It placed an order of 5000 million grain, livestock, etc. with the Netherlands, and the Netherlands paid me The orders placed by Ming Dynasty are relatively complicated, including merchant ships, spices, tea, silk, porcelain, firearms, weapons, and armor, and there are also a lot of cans, glass, matches, salt, etc. The number of merchant ships from England to Ming Dynasty is increasing day by day, and they propose Compared with Spain, the conditions in the Netherlands are better, and they are more eager for my orders and products from Ming Dynasty, especially warships and cannons... Although Osman is more resistant to business, he also borrowed 200 yuan from my Ming Dynasty. Wan Baiyin, the mortgage is a piece of land [-] miles east of Morocco, around the Mediterranean Sea...France has almost no cooperation, they just want to buy our cannons and firearms arbitrarily, and the Foreign Affairs Council has clearly rejected it..."

"Shenlong Mansion is also following the cabinet's order to requisition land across the country. Not only the Royal Commercial Group itself, but also all commercial organizations and partners involved are also helping. Currently, the acquired land has exceeded [-] million mu. Although there are various way to pay, but the financial pressure is still very high, and the reserve funds of the Royal Commercial Group are basically exhausted..."

Li Youtang stood in front of the table, reporting slowly, as if he was worried that Zhu Xu would not hear everything, so he deliberately spoke slowly.

Sun Chuanting stood beside him, his expression was motionless, and his eyes were full of thoughts.

Zhu Xu was sitting on the chair, tapping the table with his fingers.

The development of Shenlong Mansion is basically on the track set by him, which is also the foundation laid by Bumbutai, without major changes.

Zhu Xu didn't care about other things, there was only one thing that Li Youtang, Sun Chuanting and others could do well.

That is foreign trade, which involves complicated relations in Europe. Daming tried to be as detached as possible, seemingly neutral.

The relationship between Spain and Ming Dynasty, with the continuous expansion of Ming Dynasty in Europe, especially the approach to the Netherlands and England, plus the fleet sold to Ottoman, deeply stimulated Spain, the close relationship disappeared day by day, and became increasingly vigilant.

The Netherlands is very keen on maritime trade, but has always been subject to Spain. With the continuous approaching of Ming Dynasty, especially with the protection of the United Fleet, Spain's scruples, the safety of the sea is more than ten times higher than before!The most important thing is that Daming is too rich, and the Netherlands is narrow and sparsely populated, and what they do is transshipment business. Now they want to be Daming's agent in the world!

England hangs alone overseas and destroyed Spain's combined fleet, but its strength is still very weak. It depends on Spain's face. After interacting with Daming, they have a kind of "pure trade" idea, ignoring everything outside, just want to be with Daming do business.

France is an arrogant Gallic chicken. Now it competes with Spain every day, and fights from time to time.I am not interested in maritime trade at all, and only want to become the overlord on land.

They are indeed deadly rivals. One is the struggle for land hegemony, and the other is religion, that is, the struggle between old and new teachings. The two sides have many allies in Europe. The war that has lasted for many years has not yet ended, and a new war is coming soon.

Osman is also not keen on going overseas. The reason why he wants the navy is to compete with Spain, an old rival, and expand his living space.The relationship with Daming seems to be close, and there are various obstacles to the development of the Ming business corps in the Ottomans, with little effect.

The reason why Ottoman wants to expand its development space is because of the rise of Russia, which hinders both east and west.The rise of Russia is the decline of the Golden Horde, developed on the basis of annexing the Golden Horde.

However, Russia's strength is still not strong enough. The Ottomans are unmatched. It is difficult for Russia to advance westward. It has also suffered repeated setbacks in Central Asia and other places, so it can only turn to the east.

At this time, the Mongolian tribes and various assimilated Mongolian tribes were still relatively strong, and Russia's development in the East was not very smooth.

Today's Russia is still a landlocked country that is surrounded, and it is difficult to get in touch with Europe in the West and Ming Dynasty in the East.