Can you live forever

Chapter 14 The fairy guides the way, in one sentence

view of the world?

Such a grand proposition actually requires him, a five-year-old child, to answer it?Zhang Zhixiang once again realized that this era attaches great importance to the word "immortal reincarnation".

But he was puzzled again, Wang Yuanzhi...wasn't he a businessman?

If Emperor Jiajing came to ask this question, Zhang Zhixiang would think it was normal, but Wang Yuanzhi came to ask... He thought for a while and asked, "Which aspect do you want to ask?"

Zhang Zhixiang can naturally say something, but there is no need to know everything.

After all, it was just a chance encounter.

Wang Yuanzhi smiled slightly, he was very courteous and highly respected, and with his daughter sitting beside him, if he was an ordinary boy, he would have known everything, but Zhang Zhixiang was still very calm and somewhat cautious.

Don't say it's just a child, even if the person sitting here is a teenager, that's still outstanding.

Immortal reincarnation...

"Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and merchants are at the end. What does the little fairy think?" Wang Yuanzhi picked an aspect related to himself, not only wanting to hear some unique opinions, but also studying Zhang Zhixiang.

Although the merchants of the Ming Dynasty were lawless, what laymen can see is always the tip of the iceberg.

First of all, they are the shadows hidden behind the civil servants.

If you want to see through them, you must first bypass the civil official group, so the emperor can't see through them.

Let alone people outside the party?

Zhang Zhixiang has not yet seen how powerful the businessmen of this era are. In his impression, the Ming Dynasty emphasized agriculture and suppressed business. The teaching in textbooks was also because it suppressed the germination of capitalism, which caused China to lag behind the world, and finally had modern times. humiliation.

He was just about to say something.

It suddenly occurred to me that both my senior brother and my father knew that the earth was round, and it was common sense that Zheng He had completed his global voyage, and Da Fangfeng appeared beside him alive...

Maybe history isn't what it says in the textbooks, he thought.

"May I ask layman's business, does it involve overseas?" Zhang Zhixiang didn't choose to state it one by one, but asked again. He didn't have any specific ideas, but he was indeed trying to seize the dominance.

Wang Yuanzhi narrowed his eyes and paused for a moment.

The source of their ginseng is from North Shangzhou, which is the core business secret. They also do some overseas business, but they are all deceiving people. Porcelain, silk, fur, and even going to Jianzhou and North Korea to purchase ginseng are all deceptions.

actual.

In a certain place in Beishangzhou, ginseng is as abundant as weeds.

The vintage is high, the quality is good, and the locals regard it as weeds. It can be said that it is a profit-free business. If ordinary people do business, they must continue to buy weeds.

But the Wang family is different.

Except for the lack of capital for the first shipment of ginseng, which was bought at the price of weeds, the price has been fair since then, and the first purchase price has been made up after the fortune. In the Ming Dynasty, a catty of ginseng was 3 taels of silver. It is the result of the Wang family's marketing hype on ginseng over the years.

In the early years, the lowest price of ginseng was 1 yuan and 5 cents per catty.

The Wang family brought back the first shipment of ginseng 20 years ago, a total of 24 shi, totaling 2 catties, which has far exceeded the market demand. In fact, the annual medicinal ginseng in the entire Ming Dynasty does not exceed [-] catties. Only ginseng is used as medicinal materials. It is impossible to sell so many goods.

Even if it is sold at a low price, it will only make a profit of twenty thousand taels of silver.

It was not worthwhile for the Wang brothers to risk their lives to go to North Shangzhou. Those who engaged in armed robbery and ransacked a few tribes of Yindi'an people made more money than this.

But business is, after all, done with the mind.

The Wang family focused on promoting the health-preserving effects of ginseng, and launched a supplement based on Baisui soup for sale.

Baisui soup, as the name suggests, can live a long life if you drink it regularly. Because of the tonic and refreshing effect of ginseng, this medicine has become popular among the people as soon as it comes out. Whenever the folks have a headache and brain fever, they like to buy a bottle of Baisui Soup, it is rumored that it can cure all diseases.

such.

The Wang family became rich. The first shipment of ginseng made the Wang family brothers a full 50 taels of silver. The Baisui soup became popular all over the country, and the profit was dozens of times higher than simply selling ginseng...

At this time.

The Wang family brothers made a decision. They told the value of ginseng to the local tribes with a population of over one million in North Shangzhou, and told them that the price of this product in Daming was 1 cent and 5 cents per catty. The tribe's envoy traveled thousands of miles to the port on the east coast for investigation and inquiry.

The sincerity of the Wang family was exchanged for the friendship of the local tribe.

They signed a contract and established an exclusive trade at the price of 1 qian silver per catty of ginseng. Millions of local aborigines kept it secret for the Wang family and protected the ginseng all over the mountains and plains for them. The Wang family not only gave silver, but also bought them at the price of Ming Dynasty The needed supplies were sent to them all the way...

To tell the truth.

The Wang family has been in business for so many years, and the biggest capital is no longer the wealth on the surface, but the support of millions of Yindians in the Superior area.

If they are willing, they can establish a country there.

The Xu family controls more than [-] pirates in the Southeast China Sea, and their royal family can also raise tens of thousands of armed forces in the Superior area...

"Our Wang family naturally has business involving overseas."

Reviewing the history of the Wang family's fortune, Wang Yuanzhi replied lightly, but unexpectedly, Zhang Zhixiang's next sentence was to ask him: "So, how big is the business?"

Wang Yuanzhi smiled, looked at Zhang Zhixiang and said, "How big does the little fairy think this business can be?"

Zhang Zhixiang closed his eyes, not because he was afraid of looking at each other, but because he couldn't bear to look directly at some data in his mind, and said, "Perhaps, 32 billion taels of silver and 2 million taels of gold are just the beginning."

It started with Spain breaking the Maya, Aztec, and Inca.

For a whole century, according to official statistics alone, 10 tons of silver and thousands of tons of gold have flowed in. Compared with smuggling, the official statistics are not the tip of the iceberg, but compared to the hidden household population and taxation of the Ming Dynasty As far as the population ratio is concerned, it must not be better than this, so the total amount must be at least quadrupled.

That is a huge, unimaginable wealth.It is also unimaginable... a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

Zhang Zhixiang said it was heavy, but Wang Yuanzhi shrank his pupils slightly. He has a big business, so he can estimate that the annual silver flow into Daming is about [-] million taels.

It is impossible for an old master to know about this matter, but Zhang Zhixiang can fully summarize the trade volume?
From the beginning of Zheng He's voyages to the present century, world trade has developed step by step, so the volume in the early days was not as large as it is today. If we want to count the stock, it is almost the number mentioned by Zhang Zhixiang.

About 50 billion taels of silver.

Wang Yuanzhi didn't know that they were not talking about the same thing.

But it coincidentally reflected a fact.

That is, doing business, making tribute, is indeed not as profitable as robbery, especially when they can't get it, but the gods send them a fortune...

"The Wang family has a million taels of business overseas every year."

When businessmen in the Ming Dynasty talked about business, they didn't like to talk about the scale and the amount of money. They usually referred to the profit of the business. Wang Yuanzhi didn't say a lot, but he looked at Zhang Zhixiang's reaction.

This number is unimaginable to many people.

however.

Zhang Zhixiang was only slightly surprised, and what was surprised was not that the business was so big, but that they were able to do such a big business, which was completely different from what was in the textbook...

In the textbook, it is that the Xiluo people are brave and adventurous, and the Ming Dynasty who had Zheng He's voyages only dared to walk along the coastline, and then hung up for more than 200 years because of the seclusion of the country...

Thinking about it carefully, there were many unreasonable things when I was reading books back then.

Why did Zheng He's fleet of tens of thousands of people spend 28 years and sail seven times, just walking along the coastline, while Columbus and Magellan dared to sail around the world with 200 people, and their goals were clear?And successfully completed the voyage?

Does this conform to the objective law of development?

Just look down on the ancients of China?

The more Zhang Zhixiang got in touch with him, the more he became aware of the difference between knowledge and facts. He was not sure what the current situation of Ming merchants doing business overseas was, so he could only ask again: "Guiyuan Commercial Company is in the business of medicinal materials, and laymen are overseas. Is your business also buying medicinal materials?"

Wang Yuanzhi lowered his eyelids and said, "Yes."

Zhang Zhixiang hesitated for a moment, and then said: "In Beishangzhou, the Great Lakes area, um, it may be called Lake Superior, which is the one of the Five Great Lakes closest to the Ming Dynasty. In the south of Lake Superior, countless ginseng grows like weeds. There are so many kinds, if you are interested, you can visit them.”

Wang Yuanzhi suddenly stood up! ! !
(End of this chapter)