Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Zhang Guoyuan hurriedly retorted:

"Director Fang, you can't think so!

Zheng Hongkui, Huang Degong and others had earlier purchased large quantities of Jiangnan grain.

Your Majesty gave you silver dollars for settlement!

When the silver dollar was first created, the exchange ratio reached more than [-]:[-]!

In order to earn the difference, these two people had already exchanged the silver coins in their hands.

Governor Fang, think about it, they forced the exchange ratio to about one to three, which is enough to see the scale of the amount of silver dollars flowing into Jiangnan!

According to the investigation of the secret guards, there are about 300 million pieces of money scattered in Jiangnan.

Calculated this way, the two of them absorbed approximately ten million taels of silver.

Huizhou merchants must have paid at least half of this money, right? "

Founder is stunned.

Jiangnan was originally dominated by Zhejiang merchants and Jiangxi merchants. Since the rise of Huizhou merchants, they have gradually eroded their share, and now they are able to overwhelm them.

It can be seen from this that Hui merchants may have exchanged more than half of the silver coins scattered in Jiangnan!

Fang Zhenghua smiled bitterly and said:

"How did I forget this one!"

"If calculated this way, plus the silver coins that the secret guards had deliberately exchanged in Huizhou earlier.

This is equivalent to digging out half of the silver deposits of the Eight Families! "

Fang Zhenghua suddenly realized:

"No wonder they have to use tax money so early!"

At this moment, Chu Xianzhang walked in and said:

"Director Fang, I asked those Hui people to make false accounts in their warehouses, and they have already transferred half of their inventory..."

"Director Fang, we have reached this point, is it time to kill him?

If it's any later, I'm afraid the secret will be exposed at the Huiren warehouse. "

The secret guards have reported several times that the Huizhou merchants have already written to the warehouse to hand over the data on the allocation of goods.

Although they all used fake accounts to fool them, they were afraid that the other party would send someone to check!

They can control the warehouse guards, but can they also control the people who check the accounts?

After all, if the auditors are taken down and they are not allowed to go back for a long time, the Huizhou merchants will definitely become suspicious!

When the time comes, the secret will be revealed!

Fang Zhenghua rubbed his forehead and asked:

"Where's Zheng Hongkui?"

Chu Xianzhang replied:

"He arrived in Nanjing last night and is now waiting at our dock."

"it is good!"

Fang Zhenghua laughed:

"The plan to remove the firepower from under the cauldron is launched!"

……

Three o'clock noon.

The price of sugar in Nanjing was reduced to three cents per pound by both parties who were already jealous.

At this price, for Huizhou merchants who shipped sugar back from Guangdong and Guangxi, they already lost four cents of silver per kilogram of sugar.

For Hanjiang merchants, it’s still less than the cost price!

You know, the Dog Emperor originally planted millions of acres of corn.

Dog Emperor's method of extracting juice is more advanced, and the cost is naturally reduced to the extreme.

The price of raw materials per mu of land is only one silver dollar.

……

Fang Zhenghua knew the detailed yield of sugar and also knew that one acre of land could produce about two hundred kilograms of sugar.

A pound of sugar only costs a few copper coins.

The bulk of the cost is actually a subsidy of one silver dollar per mu of land given to farmers!

Although according to the exchange ratio between silver dollars and silver, this subsidy is really too high!

Even now, a silver dollar can be exchanged for three or two cents of silver in Jiangnan!

This is equivalent to the emperor giving three times the income of farmers from growing grain per acre of land!

But when you think about the ingredients in which silver dollars are made...

Fang Zhenghua admired His Majesty even more!

A silver dollar weighs seven coins, of which lead and copper account for about two coins' weight. The silver dollar used is only five coins!

And the speed of silver dollar production is even more incomparable to silver!

The stamping workshop erected on Wangfuzhou Island has been operating in two shifts day and night these days.

Each machine can produce more than [-] silver coins every day!

After such a calculation, the actual cost per kilogram of the sugar in his hand was not even ten coins.

In other words, as long as the selling price of sugar is not less than one cent of silver, you can make money!

Even if the cost of transportation is added, it only adds three copper plates for every kilogram.

At today's selling price, you can earn more than twice the profit...

……

Although selling cotton yarn at this price is a huge loss.

However, when Fang Zhenghua took control of the Hui merchant warehouse...

The cotton yarns that appear in Hanjiang merchant houses are all made by Hui people.

Under the cunning manipulation of the all-pervasive secret guards, Hui merchants were taking their own goods and fighting with their own money...

……

Fushui Villa.

Wang Ranming's face was very ugly.

The great housekeepers of Huizhou merchants sitting aside also frowned.

too fast!

No one could have imagined that the originally planned three months would actually reach this level in just a few days.

In fact, even the family patriarch who was based in Huizhou was too late to come.

But they have already mobilized half of the family's savings...

"Brother Wang, we can't wait any longer!"

Zhang Xiaoquan's face was filled with frost:

"Each of our families has already spent more than half of our cash. If we continue to fight like this, even if Emperor Ming is driven away, we will not be able to recover within three to five years!"

Zhu Qingyi's face didn't look good either.

News has come from the master's family. If the losses in this battle are too great, he, the big shopkeeper, should just pack up and get out!

……

Compared with giving shares, Shanxi merchants, regardless of shopkeeper or clerk, can get dividends as long as they work with the boss.

Although the Huizhou merchants were united, there were great changes within them.

Many Hui people will join an Hui merchant shop to learn experience when they leave home.

After becoming fully fledged, Metropolis broke away from its old club and used the channels at its disposal to start over.

Huizhou business houses are equivalent to the cradle of training for Huizhou people to open shops.

In fact, in the eyes of Hui people, this is a matter of course.

Because of this rule, new Huizhou merchants emerged one after another.

This is also the reason why Huizhou shops can bloom everywhere, and it is even said that "no town can be built without Huizhou".

Huizhou merchants began to rise in the Song Dynasty until they withdrew from the stage of history at the end of the Qing Dynasty. In the long period of nearly a thousand years, there was no business that could survive for hundreds of years.

Although Huizhou merchants as a whole are becoming stronger and stronger, in essence, they are newly emerging business houses from generation to generation, replacing the old predecessors.

Broadly speaking, the relationship within Huizhou merchants is somewhat similar to the relationship between wage earners and bosses in later generations.

Old shops are the cradle of new shops.

Or it can also be called the Huangpu Military Academy of Hui people's shop...

And what about Shanxi merchants?

Without mixing in the feelings of family and country, let’s simply discuss the Shanxi merchants themselves:

The rise of Shanxi merchants was due to the border system of the Ming Dynasty - the imperial court relied on merchants to transport supplies to the border, and then gave Yanyin the "Kaizhong method" to settle the payment.