"Long-term wealth? Your Highness, Angel, do you mean to allocate hereditary official positions and rewards to our brothers of the Tiandihui?"
Jiao Hong took up Luo Yaoguo's words with anticipation and asked further.
Luo Yaoguo smiled and did not answer, but turned his attention to a fat and fair middle-aged man sitting here: "Ruxiao, tell me, what kind of business is the most profitable today?"
This middle-aged man named "Ru Xiao" was originally a white paper fan in Guangyi Hall, that is, Su Sanniang's subordinate. His surname was Wu and his name was Wu Ruxiao. In addition to working as a white paper fan in Guangyi Hall, he was also a thirteenth-level official. He was the accountant of Tongfu Bank. Because Tongfu Bank closed down, he went to Guangxi to rebel with his eldest sister Su Sanniang.
Although he has taken up a promising job in the rebellion industry, Wu Ruxiao, his old profession, has not forgotten it. He certainly knows the best way to make money in today's world.
"Of course it's trade!" Wu Ruxiao gave the answer without thinking, "Think back then, all the owners of the Thirteenth Bank of Guangzhou were very wealthy, and their worth of several million taels was nothing. There are quite a few of them!" As he spoke, Accountant Wu looked envious.
"That's in the past. Thirteen lines are all down now!"
Immediately, a big boss from the Tiandihui pointed out that what Wu Ruxiao said was untrue.
Wu Ruxiao smiled bitterly and said, "That's because after the five-port trade, foreigners no longer have to go through the Thirteenth Bank in Guangzhou to buy our silk and tea, but can purchase our silk and tea directly from Shanghai at the mouth of the Yangtze River.
Silk and tea produced in the south of the Yangtze River can be directly transported by the Yangtze River, Wusong River, and the Grand Canal to Shanghai, and can be loaded onto foreign ships and sailed out to sea. There is no need for the Thirteenth Line to draw a fortune from them... The Thirteenth Line Can our business not be pornographic? But this does not mean that there is no profit in trading with foreign countries!”
Luo Yaoguo nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, Ruxiao is right. The reason why Thirteen Lines became obsolete is not that trade is difficult, but that they cannot control the supply of silk. The best silk is produced in Jiangnan. The area around Taihu Lake is called the Lake Silk Road. How convenient is it to go to Shanghai by water? How difficult is it to get to Guangzhou? It is a good place for trade in the past, and foreigners can only buy goods in Guangzhou. This allows those idiots in the Thirteenth Bank to make a lot of money. .
Now that things are going well, Shanghai has opened a port, and foreigners are going there to buy goods. What else is the Thirteenth Line doing? Of course it’s down!
Ruxiao, tell me, if we can capture Huzhou and Shanghai and control the origin and port of Husi silk... If we replace the Thirteenth Bank and foreigners in the Husi silk business, will we be able to make money?"
"Of course there is!" Wu Ruxiao said with a smile, "We can make more money than Thirteenth Line!
"More than thirteen lines?" Su Sanniang blinked, "How can you see that?"
Wu Ruxiao laughed and said: "Thirteenth Line takes goods from Jiangnan and travels thousands of miles to Guangzhou. How much does it cost along the way? Moreover, Thirteenth Line only does import and export, or it sits in Guangzhou and waits for business to come to your door. It doesn't matter. I went overseas to find customers and sources of goods, and I didn’t even run a commercial market in Guangzhou, making money from the food, drinks and entertainment of the foreign visitors.”
"What's more!" Luo Yaoguo added, "The Thirteenth Industry didn't know how to improve products or develop new products. The business was getting smaller and smaller. In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, China still had porcelain, tea, silk, The four major exports of sugar are good products that make money, but now only silk is acceptable, and tea is gradually becoming difficult to sell.
Moreover, there are people competing with us for the only remaining silk...
To be honest, the business of these thirteen industries is really not smart! When we take over Huzhou and Shanghai, we can’t be so stupid. We must make Huzhou silk better and better, and run Shanghai’s commercial market. The Japanese silk that competes with us will be punished to death!
good?"
Once the Japanese silk industry is destroyed, we will be the dominant family and have pricing power. With pricing power, we can ensure that we make millions of dollars a year! Only by following our Tiandihui brothers can we be popular and drink spicy food. Do you think this angel’s business experience is good?
This angel Luo not only knows the Bible and Anti-Sutra, but also the Business Book!
Isn’t food delivery also a business?
Isn’t it that the platform can make money because it has pricing power by squeezing out its competitors? Can it suppress merchants and younger brothers?
The reason why China's industrialization path after the late Qing Dynasty was particularly difficult was that, in addition to the sharp internal conflict between man and land and repeated "explosion", there was no flagship product that could earn large sums of foreign exchange.
Porcelain cannot be sold in Europe, the tea business has been robbed by India, white sugar has also lost to industrial sugar production, and only Hu silk has also been fiercely competed by Japanese silk. First, it has lost the pricing power of silk - it can no longer be sold at a high price. .Then the foreign trade market was robbed by Risi, and they could no longer be sold.
Finally, because of the continuous payment of compensation and the deficit, silver continued to flow out of China, and the price of silver gradually collapsed. The exchange rate with gold fell from more than ten to one to several dozen to one or even lower - this is equivalent to washing out money. It represents the accumulation brought about by China’s hundreds of years of trade surplus.
Without the foreign trade surplus and hundreds of years of accumulation, the most important "capital" of capitalism is gone.
Without "capital", it would be very difficult to achieve industrialization!
To seize more capital necessary for industrialization, we must seize the lake silk production areas and lake silk export ports.
And those who can help Luo Yaoguo achieve these two major things are none other than the characters from the "Second Green and Red Gangs".
Poor peasants like Wang Yan and Zhu Ba couldn't do this. They belonged to the bottom class in rural areas. In the late Qing Dynasty, the industrial, commercial and transportation industries were actually in the hands of gangsters like the "Qinghong Gang".
The Tiandihui is the "Red Gang" in the "Qinghong Gang", which is Hongmen. The "Qing Gang", also known as the Cao Gang, is a major force entrenched along the Grand Canal and controlling the canal water transportation.
"Okay!" Wu Ruxiao, the white paper fan at Guangyi Hall, has already shouted for her help, "Not to mention how lucrative the export of Husi silk is, Suhusong and other places alone were already extremely rich. During the Ming Dynasty This is the saying that Su Song is half the world! If we can seize the land of Su Song and then control the transactions between Shanghai Port and Hu Silk Road, then we will be rich!
"It's not just about getting rich," Luo Yaoguo said with a smile. "We can also arrange a lot of errands! There are Songjiang Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture, Huzhou Prefecture, Jiaxing Prefecture, Changzhou Prefecture, Taicang Prefecture, a total of five prefectures and one prefecture...Shanghai and It is a port with great potential. Customs offices and offices for overseas exchanges can be established there. We can also rely on the financial resources of these five prefectures and one state to establish a navy. With a navy, we can also take over Taiwan and the Ryukyu Kingdom by water.
In addition, the Diplomatic Office can also send envoys and consuls to foreign countries, and the God Worship Association can also rely on the port in Shanghai to send branches to Southeast Asia, Japan, and Korea... How many errands can be allocated?
Although you all have hereditary official positions in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom...but this kind of official position is actually a title. If you don't have a job, you will only be able to raise tens or hundreds of taels of silver a year in the future. How can you control six prefectures, one state, and one country? Would it be pleasant to conduct diplomacy, conduct a navy, and spread the word about worshiping God?"
The cake painted by Luo Yaoguo is so big and beautiful that he almost paints himself as the "Formerization Angel" of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Minister of Nanyang Trade.
"Your Highness Angel," asked Jiao Hong, the leader of the Tiandihui here in Hunan, "what can we give to the brothers below? There are many miners in Chenzhou who want to join us. There are six prefectures, one state and one country. , it is both diplomatic and naval, when will it be realized?”
Su Sanniang took over the topic and said with a smile: "It would be pointless to allocate land to the brothers of the Tiandihui in Hunan. Now that they have joined the Tiandihui, who wants to go back to farming? Why not give everyone a Shanghai Commercial Market If you have a real estate certificate, how about giving each person half an acre of land?"
Wu Ruxiao nodded: "That's good... Although Shanghai has just developed, its future prospects are not inferior to those of Guangzhou! If there is half a house near Guangzhou's Tianzi Pier, it will be better than having dozens of acres of farmland in the countryside!"
Jiao Hong, Xu Yuegui, Xu Xianggui and other leaders of the Tiandihui have all seen the world. They know that dozens of acres of land in the countryside can only be rented for tens of taels a year... There is a small town near Tianzi Pier in Guangzhou. The number of shops is only a few dozen taels a year.
Moreover, some rental properties in Guangzhou and Shanghai do not require much energy to manage. I can still work as an errand, which is another source of income, which is very beautiful!
But, this is still a painting!
Seeing Jiao Hong, Xu Yuegui, and Xu Xianggui speechless, Luo Guangguo smiled and held out three fingers: "Every brother who participated in the Daozhou battle will be counted as one, and each of them will be given three taels of silver to take over. This sum The money can be distributed today! As for the brothers who will join the gang in Chenzhou and Changsha in the future, I will also give this amount! If you want more, then I can’t afford it.
As for the hereditary duties of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the homestead in Shanghai, and the errands in the southeast will be dealt with in the future. I swear to God Haotian that I guarantee that everyone will have a share. How about that?"
There are both current benefits and future prospects, and I also made an oath... full of sincerity!
"That's good!" Jiao Hong said with a satisfied smile, "With your words, the brothers below and I can explain."
Xu Yuegui also smiled and said: "Brother Jiao and I also have something to say about the big guys in Chenzhou and Changsha... Your Highness, when will you march to Chenzhou and Changsha? We can mobilize the brothers of the Tiandihui to respond!"
Chapter completed!