"The emperor who has been enthroned by heaven has issued an edict: I have been on the throne for more than ten years, and I have respected the emperor and asked for his fate, and I have not allowed a piece of wood to go into the sea. Now the Ming Dynasty has a prosperous sea, worshiping heaven and ancestors, and carrying heaven's fortune. I am willing to open the maritime gate and establish Weihai Port and Ningbo Port.
, Xiangjiang Port is the foreign trade port of the Ming Dynasty, and we hereby declare it to the world and send orders overseas."
On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the emperor's order to impose a sea ban was finally issued. In fact, the information had been delivered to various places far away, and it was not announced until the Mid-Autumn Festival.
At the wharf of Xiangjiang Port, Zhu Zhanchang prepared a grand ribbon-cutting ceremony. Huang Huihong, Fang Shi, and Liang Fu were all present. Of course, Zhu Zhanchang gave up the leading role to Chen Youshan, the magistrate of Xiangjiang County.
Chen Youshan looked radiant today. He originally wanted to ask Zhu Zhanxi to preside over the opening of the port, but Zhu Zhanxang asked him to do it himself and let him be the protagonist today.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, Your Highness the Crown Prince, Thank you His Highness the Prince of Zhujiang County, I, Chen Youshan, can take on this great responsibility. Thanks to His Highness's letter, Chen Youshan will definitely die of exhaustion and exhaustion."
Chen Youshan was a little excited. Today, almost everyone who could be named in the business community arrived. Because once the port opens, they can do maritime trade openly. Guangzhou is close to Nanyang. They have to rush early, but they have to rush late. When the time comes,
I didn't even have to drink the soup.
As the magistrate of Xiangjiang County, he has huge room for development. Following the right person is far better than struggling in the same place for decades.
The steam warship was parked in the port. At Chen Youshan's order, the cannons fired at the sea.
boom
boom
boom
When the cannon goes off, there is a thousand taels of gold.
Many people around came to watch the fun. After the port activities were over, Zhu Zhanyi led a group of people to start climbing the mountain. When they climbed to the top of the mountain, they could see the Pearl River Junwang Port in the distance. From a distance, the steam warships looked much smaller.
"Everyone, everyone must be very interested in how business will be done after the maritime ban is lifted? How will ships move around?"
"Your Highness, we are all waiting to follow you to expand our business overseas."
Zhu Zhanzhen was about to show off but he said: "I think there are some trading houses or families that have their own merchant ships and can go to Nanyang to do business."
No one answered at this time. If he answered, wouldn't it mean that he had a smuggling business before?
After glancing around, Zhu Zhanzhen said with a smile: "The port can accept your ships, as well as foreign ships, but the landing and boarding of goods requires customs inspection and a trade license."
"Your Highness, how to obtain a trade license."
"Don't worry, we still need to figure out everything about the maritime ban. In the early stage, trade licenses will only be issued to ten companies."
"Your Highness, I will be the first to sign up." The boss of a ceramics company was very positive.
"Look over there." Zhu Zhanzhen pointed to a place by the port, and then took out a plan: "I plan to build ten warehouses here. The person who takes the photo of these ten warehouses will get the first ten trades."
Of course, the license cannot be owned by one person. In theory, a business firm or family can only have one license, and it must be divided into industries, such as grain, ceramics, tea, etc. "
"Also, these warehouses are not sold to you. They are only selling the land use rights for forty years. All the proceeds will belong to Xiangjiang County, Guangzhou Prefecture and the Guangdong vassal treasury, and will be nationalized."
They had never seen this method before, and they started talking among themselves for a while.
After giving them a full discussion time, Zhu Zhanyang said: "I have marked the distinction between commercial land and residential land on this planning map. Most of the land on Xiangjiang Island will only be used in the form of transfer, and a small part of the residential land can be used directly."
Sell it and obtain the land title. For example, this mountain is called Banshan. The construction of my county king's villa has already started here. The residence here can be sold, but it will wait a little later."
Zhu Zhanzhen plans to sell land on Xiangjiang Island first and withdraw a wave of funds. In this way, all the initial funds for the construction of the port and the development of steamships will be in place. Otherwise, it will all rely on the tax bank in Guangzhou, and it will be troublesome if there is a loss by then.
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"The auction for selling ten warehouses will begin in three days. You can ask County Magistrate Chen for the rest of the specific matters." After Zhu Zhanzhen said some general important matters, he gave Chen Youshan the right to speak. At this time, he needed to deal with these people.
Already.
Of course, it was different from when he was the magistrate of Xiangshan Island. At that time, he was an official with no foundation and had to coax those high-ranking families. But now it is different. A group of people have to support him. He was able to handle the situation with ease at the time, but now he
It's even simpler.
Zhu Zhanzhen himself took Li Xiaozhu Zara and Cao Xinyue to see his Mid-Levels property.
Choosing the best location, you can have a panoramic view of the most prosperous location of Hong Kong Port in the future.
"Xinyue, you should also go into the construction business. Building houses will be a big deal in the future."
Cao Xinyue nodded, as long as Zhu Zhanzhen asked her to do it, it must be a project that has been considered.
The current house-building technology cannot build high-rise buildings made of cement concrete, and the residential area is very large. If Zhu Zhanyi makes money from selling land, he must first invest in the research and development of reinforced concrete to build higher buildings.
During the large-scale development stage, real estate developers are just sitting back and making money.
Now you have to earn the first batch of money to invest.
After touring the scenery for a while, Zhu Zhanzhen went to prepare for the land transfer auction.
A few days later, the auction will be held in front of the warehouse. After these few days of fermentation, today's attendance can be said to be a sea of people. Zhu Zhanzhen retreated to the lounge, not intending to show his face, leaving Chen Youshan fully responsible.
"Your Highness, aren't you going by yourself?" Zara asked curiously.
"I have to do everything myself. Instead of being exhausted, I have to let my subordinates do the work and give them room to develop. I save effort and they have a way to display their talents."
"Your Highness, you are just lazy." Zara said bluntly.
Li Xiaozhu covered her mouth and smiled.
Chen Youshan started here: "Everyone, the trade license of Hong Kong Port comes with the transfer of ten warehouses. According to the classification of the business, it is ceramics, tea, wood, jade and jade, food, spices, silk and raw silk, finished clothing,
Coal, iron ore.”
It is divided into ten projects, which should be available in a short time. The basic framework must be built first.
What merchants are most interested in are ceramics, tea, spices, and silk. These are the bulk of the smuggling trade. Spices are imported, and the other three are exported. They are all good and profitable businesses. Judging from the current situation,
Anyone who has obtained an import and export trade license is engaged in independent business.
Of course, this is only true at Hong Kong Port, but you can still go to the other two ports.
"The land transfer period for the warehouse is 40 years. After expiration, there is a priority right to renew the lease. It will be settled in gold. The subsequent maritime trade will also use gold as the settlement currency, supplemented by silver."
"The first warehouse is a ceramics shop. The base price is 500 taels of gold, and 5 taels of silver is worth 1 tael of gold." Chen Youshan did not set the price very high.
"550 taels of gold." Someone shouted immediately.
"570 taels."
"590 taels."
At the beginning, everyone was relatively cautious, but when they really started shouting, they became more enthusiastic. After all, ceramics is a major item in the export trade. Once it is in hand, the profits will be immeasurable.
"1100 Liang." The person shouting was the president of the business gang who came from Jiangxi.
The local boss in Guangzhou did not give in and shouted directly: "1300 taels".
You came and went, and finally the price was raised. Zhu Zhanzhen was very satisfied behind the scenes. This was just the beginning. If you miss this opportunity, all ceramic trade will have to go to this firm for at least one or two years. Its interests
The temptation is great.
Zhu Zhanzhen actually didn't want to do this, but after much thought, he still had to copy it.
Let some people get rich first.
Completely opening the port to free trade without protection will definitely lead to chaos, and there will be many quarrels when ships enter and leave the port. There must be order, even if this order does not seem too fair now.
Protecting the interests of those big trading houses is also a way to reduce smuggling. Of course, Zhu Zhanzhen has also decided that the trading companies that take over the warehouse must allocate a certain share to help other companies do import and export trade, otherwise they will be fined even if they have a monopoly.
But the big head must still be his own.
"4500 taels." As the ceramics store in Jiangxi called up the price, there was no reply from below.
Chen Youshan looked around and was about to make a decision when someone shouted again: "4800 taels."
The boss of Jiangxi Ceramics Company turned green, gritted his teeth and said, "5,000 taels."
Converting 5,000 taels of gold to silver is equivalent to 25,000 taels of silver. According to current prices, one tael of silver can buy slightly less than two shi meters, which means that the value of this warehouse transfer was 50,000 shi meters.
The annual salary of a county prince like Zhu Zhanzhen is only 2,000 shi. Of course, this is only an apparent salary.
Your salary is all you have. The salary of the county prince is just his cover. This little money is not enough for someone like his second brother to spend half a month. Since he is away from home, the filial piety of the local officials and the money worship of the wealthy gentry are the most important thing.
Big head.
The competition in the tea business and silk business was also extremely fierce. Both warehouses sold more than 5,000 taels of gold and 4,500 taels of spices.
It was an eye-opener for the people who came to watch today. This was really a carnival of money. Here, gold was calculated based on a thousand taels. In the eyes of this group of people, it was not even enough to fill their teeth with their usual expenses.
The wealth of merchants in the Ming Dynasty can be seen clearly.
The most amazing thing about Chinese civilization is that after experiencing the baptism of war and rebirth, our people can develop the economy to an even higher level than before as long as we give it a few decades.
This is the diligence and wisdom of the Chinese people.
Zhu Zhanzhen asked Cao Xinyue to invest in a coal business warehouse, and finally settled the deal with 4,000 taels of gold. Because he had previously let the Cao family take over many coal mining projects in the north, he happened to be a professional counterpart.
As for the iron ore business, the Nan family took pictures under Zhu Zhanzhen's instructions.
Downward from Nanyang, there are rich iron ore deposits, which are lower than the open area, and the potential for future development is also huge.
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