Although it is winter, the wintersweet blooms in the courtyard are located in an attic deep in the Champs Elysees. The lights are slowly burning, and the charcoal fire in the copper basin beside it is burning red and steaming.
The pattern woven on the large food carpet makes people feel warm. A picture of a lady is painted on the screen in the corner. The girl in the picture is graceful and graceful, soaring in the clouds and mist, just like the Luo Shen coming to earth.
The tables and chairs are made of fine sandalwood, which is thick and has a woody fragrance. Because it has just been repaired, there is even a faint smell of varnish in the air.
Zhu Youtang sat on the sandalwood chair, slowly drinking tea with his head lowered. Empress Zhang sat next to Zhu Youtang with a smile, and looked at Liu Chengfeng below with a pair of phoenix eyes.
Liu Chengfeng sat across from him, talking endlessly about his ideas. From the attic window through the gap between the trees, he could see the bustling scene at the Jubao Building, which confirmed his fantastic ideas.
As for the two brothers Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling sitting on the side, their initial apprehension turned into surprise. They thought they would lose face this time and make them laugh in front of their sister and brother-in-law. Who knew that Liu Chengfeng's move turned out to be a big deal?
When they heard that it cost ten taels of silver to get in, a pot of tea cost ten or twenty taels, and the cost of coming to this attic was more than five hundred taels of silver, Brother Zhang Heling could even foresee it.
, they were fooled, they were fooled completely, this Liu Chengfeng was a lunatic, completely wishful thinking.
First, a few businessmen entered the Jubao Building. Brother Zhang Heling's expressions were not very good either. After all, in such an expensive teahouse, there will always be a few who come to see what is good. After all, there are really people in the capital who are not short of money.
Quite a few.
But later, when someone entered, the news about the Treasure Building came out, and then countless people rushed to get in. Suddenly, the entire Treasure Building was overcrowded. The Zhang Heling brothers were shocked. They really couldn't understand that such an incredible thing existed in this world.
, Jubao House is not even considered an elegant tea house, and the price is actually ten times or a hundred times that of the highest-end tea house. However, the merchants are like crazy, fearing to be one step behind others.
In fact, not only brother Zhang Heling was surprised, but Zhu Youtang was also full of doubts. Naturally, Liu Chengfeng did not dare to neglect and shook off all his ideas and assumptions.
Merchants in this era thought they were being criticized as a lowly business, so the government generally did not care about them, which resulted in many business rules being irregular.
Liu Chengfeng's teahouse actually regulates this rule.
As soon as merchants enter the door, they can see the latest prices of various goods in various places. Then they can enter the hall and mark the goods they want to buy. After finding a partner, they can take them to the private room to discuss in detail and conclude a contract. If
If you are richer, after signing the contract, you can even go to the bamboo forest and have fun together.
The Jubao Tower is like a rope that connects merchants, ensuring the safety of their transactions, ensuring the conclusion of their contracts, and speeding up the flow of their goods.
In an unregulated market, it is enough for Jubaolou to launch such a measure. No matter how high the entry threshold is and how expensive the price of tea is, merchants will flock to it.
Moreover, the credit evaluation and membership created by Liu Chengfeng are equivalent to qualification certification to some extent, and will inevitably evolve into a kind of credit for businessmen in the future. Businessmen who have obtained certification will be able to do business unimpeded, while those profiteers and swindlers will
Naturally being eliminated, although there may still be many loopholes here, being able to achieve this step is already of epoch-making significance for merchants. It is conceivable that in this world in the future, any merchant who wants to trade must first obtain
This membership qualification is not enough, Jubaolou has a bright future.
Zhu Youtang nodded while listening, and was somewhat interested in Liu Chengfeng's measures. The Ming Dynasty emphasized agriculture and suppressed business, but Zhu Youtang didn't understand that merchants had existed since ancient times, and it was absolutely impossible to eliminate them.
, rather than letting them go, it would be better to restrain them.
It is better to block things than to open them up. There are some things that are inconvenient for the court to do, but letting a confidant like Liu Chengfeng do it is a solution.
Moreover, Liu Chengfeng also mentioned that some spies from Jinyiwei will be stationed in the treasure gathering building. This is a place where merchants from all over the world meet, and it is easy to get information. The Mingjiao stall is so big, sooner or later, we will receive some information from here.
Sound of wind.
Zhu Youtang couldn't help but smile and said: "This method is not bad, you have used your heart."
In fact, Liu Chengfeng was sweating when he opened the business, but now that he has seen the results, he feels extremely relaxed.
At this time, Wen Feng, the shopkeeper of Jubao Building, came in cautiously, holding a list and said to Liu Chengfeng: "My boss, since we opened, we have received 5,400 applications. I'm afraid that the number of applications today will be even higher."
Over 10,000. I guess the manpower of Jubao Tower is not enough."
Liu Chengfeng couldn't help but smile and said: "I know, you go and say hello, I will take care of the manpower matter."
Wen Feng didn't know the status of the people who were talking to Liu Chengfeng, so he didn't appear too reserved. He nodded, raised his legs and left.
Brother Zhang Heling couldn't help but be shocked. There were more than 5,000 applications, and today it would be at least over 10,000. Even if only half of these applications were qualified in the end, then the number of members recruited today would be around 5,000, even if they don't drink tea every month
, if you don’t just sit here, the net income of Jubao Tower is at least 50,000 taels of silver. This is only the first day, and everyone has applied for ordinary membership, and we don’t count the sale of tea and cakes. No one comes here for entertainment.
As a result, the real income will be at least ten times and a hundred times that of the fifty thousand taels of silver. This is only one month's income, what about one year?
Although the two brothers together only accounted for 10% of the shares, in just half a day, they were able to steadily earn a net net income of 5,000 taels a month. Over time, this 10% share would earn them several times a year.
One hundred thousand or even one million silver tattoos is not difficult to achieve.
This time, the bet was right.
Going to get rich.
There was already a blush on Zhang Heling's face. He never imagined that things would evolve to this point, let alone that he could earn such a huge wealth with just a thought.
The Zhang family is going to be prosperous...
Zhang Heling looked at Liu Chengfeng with naked eyes, filled with a kind of joy and more of a kind of admiration.
Compared with Zhang Heling's excitement, Liu Chengfeng's expression was very calm. Sooner or later, Jubao Tower will become a distribution center for merchants from all over the world. When businesses such as banks are opened again, the future here will be even more immeasurable. One of them is
This kind of business tax is a disguised form of business tax. It is just like plucking the hair of a goose. Even if every businessman does not drink the tea from Jubaolou, he still has to pay a monthly membership fee of ten taels, twenty taels, or fifty taels. It is absolutely impossible to be like the imperial court.
, although there is also business tax, there are opportunities for people to take advantage of loopholes.
Liu Chengfeng even thought to himself that it might not be impossible to earn tens of millions of taels of silver a year.
At this time, not only Liu Chengfeng was calculating, but Zhu Youtang was also calculating. Deep in the Forbidden Palace, although he had heard that merchants were wealthy, he never imagined that they would be so wealthy. And from merchants, ordinary people collected a lot of money.
The annual expenses are a drop in the bucket for these merchants. This treasure gathering building has a lot of potential. Zhu Youtang even couldn't help but think: "Given time, I'm afraid the annual income of the imperial court may not be as much as the annual surplus of the treasure gathering building."
In order to increase the annual income, Zhu Youtang and the cabinet racked their brains, but Zhu Youtang never imagined that the taxes collected by the billions of people in the Ming Dynasty were not as good as a teahouse. As soon as this idea came up, Zhu Youtang's face couldn't help but
He changed slightly, and then said calmly: "This treasure gathering building is quite interesting. It is said that the prince has also invested in it?"
Liu Chengfeng smiled and said: "Your Majesty, the prince has already invested in shares earlier. Of the 10% share capital, the two uncles accounted for 10%, the ministers accounted for 30%, and the prince accounted for 60%."
"Sixty percent..." Zhu Youtang couldn't help but be shocked.
Zhu Youtang originally thought that Zhu Houzhao just joined in for fun, and at most it was only 10%. Who would have thought that the real major shareholder of Jubao Tower was his son, the prince of Ming Dynasty?
Originally, Zhu Youtang had other thoughts. After all, after the treasure building was opened, Liu Chengfeng's annual income was almost as much as that of Ming Dynasty. Although Liu Chengfeng was good at doing things, he had many fantastic ideas.
, but such people are inevitably a little too rich to overwhelm their masters.
But he never thought that Liu Chengfeng would directly hand over 60% of his profits to Zhu Houzhao, and who was Zhu Houzhao? The only crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, the only son of Zhu Youtang, and the future emperor. In the future, the position of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty must be
Inherited by Zhu Houzhao, Liu Chengfeng gave up 60% of the profits, which was equivalent to putting the money into the national treasury, but there was not much difference.
The original weird thoughts were dispelled by Zhu Youtang with a smile. Liu Chengfeng took 30%, which he deserved. Moreover, the maintenance of the Jubao Tower depends on him and let him do the work.
As a rich man, he is not afraid of anything going wrong. As for the 60% of the profits, it is equivalent to forming an inner treasury in the East Palace in disguise. The money in this inner treasury should be the sum of money accumulated for him when Zhu Houzhao succeeds to the throne in the future.
Expenditure from the treasury.
Of course Zhu Youtang understood the importance of the national treasury and the internal treasury. To maintain the world, officials needed money for their salaries, frontier troops needed money for fighting, building rivers needed money, and disaster relief needed money. Every year, the court struggled to maintain it. He sat on the
This Jinluan chair can still be maintained when he is on the throne, but the prince is different. When he ascends to the throne in the future, the national treasury and the internal treasury will definitely improve a lot.
The country is meant to be left to children and grandchildren, and so is the money.
Zhu Youtang nodded expectantly towards Liu Chengfeng and said: "You have worked so hard, but you have given the prince such great benefits for nothing. I feel very ashamed, but I don't know what reward you want?"