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Hundreds of major shareholders murdered directly from the large meeting hall of the board of directors upstairs, and also gave Luo Xin, the little girl who was the assistant to the executive chairman. With big arms and a small bulging chest, he stopped in front of him in panic and shouted

"You can't go in! The eldest lady ordered, she has important papers to do today, so don't be disturbed, ah!!!"

But now that her patience is exhausted, who cares about her?There was not even a theory, Ruan Dacheng actually pulled her aside when she screamed, and then his fat body slammed into the gate, with a click, the Huanghuali gate from Nanyang was knocked down directly .

The documents in the windy office were splashed all over the place. However, what surprised the director was that there was no one in the huge office. He broke in unbelievably, and immediately pushed open the lounge. At the door, the bearded Ruan returned to the many directors who were looking at each other with a gloomy face. Suddenly, he stretched out his hand violently.

"Take this girl down!"

Following his roar, several company bodyguards who had been mobilized directly pushed the assistant Luo Xin who was afraid of retreating to the ground. As she screamed, they pulled her delicate little hands behind her back. Those slender hands The strong jade legs were also pulled together, and amidst the clattering sound, the strong and heavy handcuffs were directly handcuffed on her back.

The shackles were only about ten centimeters dragging on the delicate ankles, and the female assistant was holding her hands behind her back full of fear. She was pushed and shoved by several bodyguards and escorted to the security room downstairs. I didn't even dare to think about it, but this time, even the old shareholders of the Luo family didn't say a word! Looking back at the big messy desk, Ruan Dacheng was finally annoyed and helpless, and he clasped his fists again.

"Everyone, no matter what, this matter must be reported to His Majesty!!!"

Chapter 834. Defecting

The Butterfly Effect is so real and scary!

In the spring, Luo Ning bought the Nanhuo hoarded by those Nanming businessmen in Wenzhou last autumn at a high price for selfishness, which not only consumed more than 2000 million taels of working capital of the joint company, but more fatally, encroached on the precious market share!

Although the Ming Dynasty has ended years of domestic wars and has become prosperous again, the population of the Northern Dynasty is only 6000 to [-] million. Regardless of Sumu, Nanzhu, Dipterocarp, and Burmese Emerald, they are all luxury goods, and it is rare for ordinary people to spend a year as a luxury. There is not much demand from high-ranking officials, especially after a hoarding and selling, which hurt the market. The stocks that Luo Ning forced to buy are enough for the East India Company to sell for more than two or three years, and they are almost It is profitless marketing, loss-making marketing!

In order to make up for a mistake, the experienced female shopkeeper made another series of crazy mistakes. In order to make up for the losses on the company's books, Luo Ning completely disregarded the industrial chain formed in Southeast Asia over the years and imported these luxury goods to the South. The share of goods is reduced to the minimum, and the export volume is greatly increased. On the one hand, the merchants and farmers living around these southern goods industrial chains in the five central and southern countries have been destroyed. On the other hand, the healthy market has been forcibly piled up to saturation. Originally, Daming Scissors was still a healthy little scissors, but she stretched it like this, and turned into a terrible alligator.

At this time, Luo Ning was scared, desperate, and helpless. She chose to confess to Mao Jue, but after confessing, the female shopkeeper made the last fatal mistake. After that, Luo Ning couldn't bear the pressure of Shan anymore, she abandoned the company and ran away!

Even the secretary who was closest to him didn't bring him with him. He slid down from the office on the third floor with ropes made of curtains, covered his pretty face with a headscarf, and got out of the company with his assistant's identity certificate. Unexpectedly, the eldest lady of the Luo family, who is truly considered as a candidate for the princess under one person and above ten thousand people, would take this step. Unexpectedly, she escaped from Hangzhou just like that.

And it was only the third day after Luo Ning fled, three magnificent and extremely gorgeous sailing gunboats arrived in Hangzhou Bay.

Public is public, private is private, Mao Jue's own property is completely independent from the household department, with Wen Bo's son Wen Shenzhi as the managing director, a group of literary family members, a few descendants of Yuhang Mao's family, Out of relatives from the Chen family, the Yu family, and even the former royal Zhu family's reliable talents, Mao Jue set up his own royal property committee and entrusted them with the management of the industries he invested in and built over the years. He now has a small group in his hands .

However, a small imperial property committee does not even have a ninth-rank sesame official, but even a first-rank bachelor has to be served carefully, because Mao Jue is really a god of wealth! Among the five largest groups in the world, he owns [-]% of the shares in Liaoshang Group Mingying united with the East India Company to occupy [-]% of the shares, he invested [-]% of the shares in the Century-old Salt and Tea Guild of Huizhou Merchants, and he invested [-]% of the shares in the Shanxi Merchants Guild, operating the Ancient Tea-Horse Road and the Old Silk Road Mao Jue, the Shaanxi Chamber of Commerce on the road, didn't think much of it, but invested another [-]% of the shares.

In addition, he has a large number of iron and steel manufacturing plants and Lushun shipyards in Liaodong. In Southeast Asia, he has thousands of hectares of sugarcane and spice gardens, pearl-growing tidal flats, and he has invested in several large mines in the New World. In his previous life, he was afraid of poverty. All the money that could be collected was drawn into his hands.

It is estimated that if the money is collected desperately, the civil servants and scholar-bureaucrats will only earn 4000 to [-] million taels of money by cursing their spines for most of their lives. Quanxia Youzhi, the emperor of Wanli, will have to live alive. The same emperor, why is the gap so big?

It was also because of this level of power that when the Commissioner of the Imperial Council arrived, on July [-]th, all the large and small shareholders of the East India Company, led by the temporary executive shareholder Ruan Dacheng, went to the port to welcome them.

This group of people is really rich and powerful. The first-class thick red carpet can be paved for ordinary people's weddings. They directly covered the entire port, and tens of thousands of square meters were red, extremely grand. Those railings The trees were also tied with colorful silks forcibly. On a hot day, Ruan Dacheng and his party wore heavy silk knightly dresses thickly, lined up in three neat rows and waited by the port.

Seeing this magnificent, majestic and majestic sailing battleship slowly approaching the company's dedicated harbor here, whether it is Ruan Dacheng, Zhao Deyong, Sun Shutong and other major shareholders are all relieved, especially Sun Shutong whispered to Ruan Dacheng with emotion. Said: "The company is saved! Judging by this posture, it's either Mr. Wen, the director, or Mr. Taiping Bo Chen!"

Those major shareholders also nodded to each other relaxedly, watching the small and medium shareholders of the board of directors behind them couldn't help but feel relieved, but as they waited and watched, after the huge sailing battleship was pulled to the shore by the tracker, it turned out to be a large ship. A pile of the royal guards wearing the kind of high-pointed helmets wrapped in red velvet and red armor uniforms ran down ferociously, and then stood in a long row at the port with bayonets and flintlocks. The gun was full of murderous intent. Under the surprised eyes of Ruan Dacheng and the others, an imperial guard led by waving the red velvet on his hat strode up to them, pointing at the wealthy shareholders and shouting arrogantly.

"Your Excellency is not feeling well! Those of you who have titles, please board the boat!"

What a big show!

However, Ruan Dacheng and other shareholders who were named still did not dare to be negligent. They agreed, trotted along with the captain of the guard, and walked through the guard to the boarding ladder. On the deck, there were actually a few female guards with small hands After groping the body of these twenty or so rich grandsons of varying sizes and sizes, not to mention sabers and swords, even cigarette bags, pots, abacus and boxes were removed, and only then did they get on the bridge.

On the other end, Ruan Dacheng was still guessing which important person from the fallen imperial property committee was coming, but Zhao Deyong, the veteran shareholder who was following behind him, suddenly lost his legs and fell to his knees on the ground in an incredible panic. Said: "The emperor!!!"

"My minister bows to His Majesty, long live, long live, long live!"

With a trembling in his heart, Ruan Dacheng also threw himself on the ground. Opposite him, he was sitting on the big sofa, with his right leg resting on his left leg like the admiral in One Piece. He was wearing a spiritual black robe similar to the Chinese tunic suit of later generations. The majestic middle-aged man with the five-clawed dragon embroidered on his sleeves, is it Mao Jue or who?

Not only because of Luo Ning, but the United East India Company and its subsidiaries paid 5 taels of tax annually, accounting for a quarter of the empire's tax revenue. Only the earliest developed Liaodong merchants could compete with it. Gang and Liao merchants only reach 300 million yuan in tax and silver each year, and the remaining three major merchant groups of Shaanxi merchants, Shanxi merchants, and Huizhou merchants are only 600 million taels, and the three plus one can fight for a tie , such a super export trading company in a monopoly position, something went wrong with the giant monopoly trust, it's no wonder that Mao Jue was not in a hurry.

Looking at the sweaty shareholders, Mao Jue stood up suddenly, somewhat surprised and asked angrily: "Where is Luo Ning? She dares to poke such a big basket, and she dare not come to see the widow in person?"

Looking at each other in dismay, and finally seeing everyone's eyes on his back, including the three useless old men of the Luo family, Ruan Dacheng bit the bullet and kowtowed: "Go back to Your Majesty! Executive Director, she has defected!"

"Defect!!!"

Mao Jue's head was really buzzing. He and Luo Ning have been in a relationship for so many years. Even if there is no strong relationship, there is always an old love. Now the world is to be determined, so Mao Jue can't think of this juncture , Luo Ning abandoned him, which annoyed him even more than the basket Luo Ning poked!

For more than half a minute in astonishment, the angry Northern Emperor couldn't suppress his anger, lifted the big vase on the table, and smashed it fiercely at the ground. In an instant, the precious big porcelain vase from the Tang Dynasty fell to pieces. The violent voice frightened a group of major shareholders to tremble violently.

But after all, it was Emperor Mao, not Chongzhen, who vented his anger on others. After a little venting, Mao Jue took a few breaths violently, and managed to slow down. He glanced at the shareholders kneeling on the ground. He was helpless. waved.

"You are all noble people, just pay your respects, and get up to discuss matters! Come, set up the round table meeting, and send someone to the company to get all the documents. I need to know what's going on before I can Think of ways to!"

"Your servant obeys!"

It was the first time for Ruan Dacheng to participate in this kind of meeting, especially as one of the resolution directors, he was still sitting at the front, and it was the first time that he sat on an equal footing with the emperor. Khan, fidgeting, he was the closest to Mao Jue, but he didn't say a word when he explained the situation, but Zhao Deyong, the big director who had been under Mao Jue for a long time, talked eloquently, introduced the general situation, and followed other small and medium shareholders to add , Mao Jue's brows were really twisted into a pimple.

The Luzon colony is alright. The large plantation owners who are now reclaiming there are basically Ming people under the command of the East India Company. Although the company suddenly cut off their purchases and caused them heavy losses, they are not to the point of being injured. , the trade in the three islands of Luzon is still normal, and the import of commodities such as bulk rice, sugar, dried fruit and rubber is still normal.

However, the population of Luzon is still too small, and the trade volume only accounts for one-fifth of the turnover of the East India Company, and one-half of the trade volume. After the import of expensive luxury goods, a large number of industrial chains including the aristocratic elites of these countries were severely hit, and even large businesses such as exporting silk, tea, tobacco, metal products, imported rice and medicinal materials were unable to start, because 2000 million taels of hoarding southern goods , This year there is a deficit of 4000 to 800 million taels, and the tax revenue will be reduced by at least [-] to [-] million taels. Mao Jue's cheeks twitched like a toothache, and he pinched his chin's romantic mustache for a long time. asked.

"How can Huang Degong, the governor of the Luzon colony, and the Central South Seventh branch respond? What can the directors do?"

"Go back to Dadong's house! Mr. Huang puts the state affairs first, and persuaded everyone to go back. Luzon is not a big problem, but Miss Luo Yu, the director of the Champa Headquarters in the Central and Southern Five Countries, has not reported any disposal plan yet! "

"Luo Yu!"

One Luo Ning was enough to make Mao Jue upset, and here came another useless Luo Yu, who made Mao Jue's head grow a little bigger, and couldn't help but ruthlessly grabbed his mustache again.

It was probably caused by the party struggle in Donglin, Ruan Dacheng finally came to his senses and added a sentence hastily.

"Your Majesty, not only did there not be any response or disposal plan to report, a few days ago, the shopkeeper Li of the Annan State Coastal Defense Branch came to Han to accuse Miss Luo, and she forced the Haiphong Branch to stop import and export business activities, so that the peaceful Annan The southern country is also in chaos!"

"It's all messed up?"

This made Mao Jue subconsciously raise his eyebrows again, but after a while, he actually showed a smile and muttered.

"Wonderful!"

wonderful?

He never expected that Mao Jue would have such a reaction, Ruan Dazi shuddered, and at the same time, his round brain also turned rapidly.

How wonderful?

Chapter 835.**

Ruan Dacheng is also a traitor!

But those who can become traitors are not bad at brains!While the rest of the directors were discussing how to save the huge decline faced by the United East India Company, he kept pinching his chin, thinking about the meaning of this wonderful word in Mao Jue's mouth.

Like him who was silent, Mao Jue was the only one. Except for the question he just asked and then praised a wonderful word, Mao Jue was also listening calmly, listening to what these shareholders said. expressing opinions.

However, listening to the heated discussions of these shareholders, Mao Jue became more and more disappointed. Since the Han Dynasty abolished Confucianism, China has emphasized agriculture and suppressed business for 800 years. Today's businessmen, at least in front of them Compared with Tao Zhuyi, Lu Buwei, their ancestors in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, they are really far behind. They are used to being parasites under the power, and Lu Song, who has settled down, is directly left behind by them. As for now In the turmoil of the five central and southern countries, some hoped that Mao Jue would send troops to intervene, and some simply planned to spend money to manage some high-ranking officials and nobles. As for the company's current predicament, more than a dozen major shareholders agreed with one voice. a way.