1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 44 Sulu ([-])

"So, shopkeeper Zhou, which one do you want to learn?" Qi Tianhao asked leisurely.

Tao Zhugong, Lu Buwei, and Shen Wansan, these three are probably the three most successful businessmen in history.

Zhou Yingping was stunned for a moment, although he had great ambitions and vowed to make a career, earn a position for his humble mother, and prove to the family elders that he, a concubine son, was better than everyone else.

But he never dared to expect to be able to surpass the family for several generations, let alone dream of being able to compete with the ancestors of the three merchants.

"I, Mr. Zhou, have little ability, so I dare to pretend to learn from these three people." Zhou Yingping smiled wryly and shook his head.

"People always have an ideal. Maybe one day, if you are not careful, you will realize it?"

"Hehe..." Zhou Yingping laughed, this young man has a very loud tone.Do you think that business transactions, like you pirates, can be easily robbed with a knife?
"Shopkeeper Zhou, do you think I'm lying?"

"Don't dare."

"Why don't you dare!" Qi Tian said with a smile, "Shen Wansan, it is said that Zhouzhuang is used as a place for the distribution of goods, a wide range of land, and wealth through sea trade. This is the best way to learn."

"He shocked the emperor with his wealth, and in the end, he was sent to Yunnan by Emperor Hongwu."

"Uh, that's why Zhu Yuanzhang is jealous of other people's money!"

"You..." Zhou Yingping was taken aback. You little pirate dared to say the name of Emperor Hongwu casually. Could it be that you should lose your awe if you betrayed the court?
"Since you don't want to learn from Shen Wansan, then learn from Lu Buwei. You can live in rare goods, but this is a bit of a test of your vision?" Qi Tian said again.

"Lu Buwei, indeed, had a unique vision, but in the end he was bestowed to death by Emperor Shihuang!"

Qi Tian has black lines all over his face, you're tearing things apart!Can you chat? Talking to you is really hard work!
Seeing that Zhou Yingping didn't take it seriously, Qi Tian knew that the other party was belittling him, so he didn't take it seriously.As a businessman, you need to be bound by interests.Although the guy in front of him may not be the best choice, but it is quite helpless that he is the only choice at this moment.You can't expect to find a businessman among those short, black and thin Sulu natives. In other words, will they count?
"Shopkeeper Zhou, I won't play around with you anymore." Qi Tian felt that he had to open up with him straightforwardly, "We, with you, will form a joint venture and do business together!"

"What, you and me? Joint venture? Doing business together?" Zhou Yingping was taken aback.It originally wanted to act as a broker for these pirates and make a profit from the difference, but unexpectedly, the boy proposed to cooperate with him and do business together.In addition to killing people and looting, can you also do business?

"That's right, we will contribute the money and the boat, and we will do business together with you. In the end, everyone will share the money according to the proportion of the capital contribution!"

"Does what you said count? Your big boss agrees?"

"Of course. The chief of my family entrusted me with full authority to do this." Thinking, in the future, they will need to purchase a lot of supplies in the early stage to meet their initial survival and development needs in order to gain a foothold in Australia.However, looking at this guy with a disapproving expression, he thinks that he can eat us.

"Treasurer Zhou, are you willing to form a partnership and seek prosperity together?"

"In this situation, even if I think about it, I can't bear my reluctance!"

"That's fine! Since you are willing to do business together, then... how much money are you going to pay?" Qi Tian didn't care about Zhou Yingping's dissatisfaction at all. When he finds out later that this is to make you rich, let's see if you don't cry. Thank you Lao Tzu.

"How much is the share capital?" Zhou Yingping asked.

"Share capital, 100 million taels of silver!"

"One million taels of silver!" Zhou Yingping exclaimed, "You... How much silver can you pay?"

This young man has such a big tone!Do you know how much one million taels of silver is?No way, just because they have a large number of pirates and know how to kill people, they dare to open their mouths to shout 100 million taels of silver, and then let themselves take a small share no matter how much silver they pay.

"How much can we pay?"

Qi Tian thought about it for a while, the captured Spanish galleon contained nearly 50 taels of silver, and there were about 4000 Spanish pesos in the small town, um, [-] taels of silver.As for the supplies on the four ships, except for food, cloth, gunpowder and ironware, etc., which cannot be sold, other tobacco, lacquerware, and sacred objects (acquired by the church in the small town), etc., can be sold at a price, and can also be counted as capital investment.

"We can pay about 50 taels of silver, and two big ships." Qi Tian said.

"50 taels of silver! You...do you really have 50 taels of silver?" Zhou Yingping was a little disbelieving.If you say that Zheng Zhilong can take out 200 million silver at once, he will definitely believe it.After all, Zheng Zhilong almost monopolized all of Daming's foreign trade, and he also controlled all the sea routes along the coast.Wealth can rival a country, nothing more than that.But with your four boats and hundreds of little pirates, how can you have 50 taels of silver?At this moment, he really doubted whether Qi Tian was talking nonsense.

"If you don't believe me, I'll take you to the boat for inspection tomorrow morning." Qi Tian was very uncomfortable with Zhou Yingping's contemptuous eyes, "Then how much money can you pay?"

"..." Zhou Yingping was a little hesitant. After traveling by sea for several years, he accumulated fifty to sixty thousand taels of silver. However, most of it was buried in his own cellar. This time he went to sea and traveled to Champa, Batavia, and The current Sulu, if he made another round and returned to Daming, he could earn nearly ten thousand taels of silver, but he had to sell all the Nanyang goods he brought back.

As for how much share capital to pay, Zhou Yingping dare not invest all his savings in this unreliable partnership, but if he wants to pay less, won't he make this boy a joke?

For a while, Zhou Yingping hesitated.

"Are you having difficulty investing?" Seeing that Zhou Yingping kept replying for a long time, Qi Tian wondered.

"I..., I want to see if your 50 taels of silver is real!" Zhou Yingping was a little annoyed when Qi Tian asked him this question.

"It's capital verification!... No problem! I'll take you to the inspection tomorrow morning."

"..." Seeing that Qi Tian spoke so firmly, Zhou Yingping was a little surprised and flustered.Could it be that these pirates really got 50 taels of silver!
"The 50 taels of silver must be combined with others!" Hu Wenjin said in surprise: "These silvers are enough for all our brothers to share more than 1000 taels of silver each, and enjoy a lifetime of happiness!"

Indeed, in this era, the monthly needs of ordinary people are only one or two taels, and the annual fee is only around 20 taels of silver.More than 1000 taels of silver per person can really make people live comfortably for the rest of their lives.

Seeing that everyone almost nodded in agreement with Hu Wenjin's statement, Qi Tian couldn't help being a little annoyed, everyone, please don't be so short-term, okay, you must have a developmental vision!
"Everyone, what do you want to do when you have money?" Qi Tian said patiently, "I just want to buy a house, buy a field, marry a wife and have children, and live comfortably. Isn't it?"

Everyone nodded. If you have money, that's how it should be!

"So, everyone, do you want to buy land in Daming, or here in Nanyang, and live a stable life?"

"Of course I can't go to Daming!...Nanyang people are either natives or barbarians. Didn't we say that we are going to the southern continent to build a foundation?"

"Yes, we are going to the southern continent to build a foundation. But the problem is, there must be nothing in the early days, food, cloth, salt, and even nothing to build a house! Do we want to buy these materials? "

"50 taels of silver seems like a lot, but we are going to create a new foundation, and even build a kingdom. We have divided the money, so we won't just sit and eat. In the future, we will move the people from the mainland to build We need to build houses, build cities, farm..., and strengthen our armed forces, all of which cost money!"

"That's right." Someone listened to Qi Tian's argument and nodded in agreement.

"Everyone knows that although sea trade is risky, it is also huge profits. We invested money, partnered with others to do sea trade, made money, bought more materials, built more houses, opened more fields, Move more Ming people, with the accumulation, we can also do the emperor's career on that continent as Emperor Hongwu did. At that time, each of us will be worth more than a thousand taels of silver!" Qi Tian continued to bewitch .

"That's right, on that continent, we created an imperial career, and everyone, we will also create countless achievements for our descendants!" Cao Xiong stood up excitedly, and said loudly, "We all work together with Lao Tzu, The wealth you will get in the future will not stop at this 50 taels of silver!"

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