Late Ming Dynasty: Infinite Violent Soldiers

　　Grandpa Ren said with a heartache.

　　"I heard that the new owner of Weihaiwei welcomes us to do business, but they have to follow their rules, and the tax is close to ten to one, far exceeding the Ming's thirty to one, but fortunately, after paying the tax, You don't need to pay all kinds of management fees, and you don't need to donate every three days..."

　　"It's just that they put the trading market on the side of the dock, and they can only open after the trading market is established!" Wang Fushang explained.

　　When he heard the news before, he was still very excited, but still a little nervous, he needed to attract more people to do it.

　　After listening to Wang Fushang's words, everyone fell into silence again. They decided to wait until the trading market opened to see the situation.

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Chapter 3 Business Finance (4/[-])

　　Tens of thousands of strong farmers, leading nearly [-] people in Weihaiwei, frantically carried out infrastructure construction for Weihaiwei, making the construction progress of Weihaiwei terrifyingly fast.

　　In just ten days, the city defense construction of Weihaiwei has been completed. The city defense is not only the city wall, the city gate and the moat. For these three kinds of defense facilities, Lin Feng has not carried out large-scale construction. The city walls were torn down.

　　The city defense construction of Weihaiwei mainly consisted of peripheral positions. Small fortress-like strongholds were set up on the main traffic roads, and permanent fortifications were established on the hilltops and highlands everywhere.

　　According to the principle of keeping the enemy outside the national border, the city defense construction of Weihaiwei is extremely advanced. Each stronghold and fortress has reserved positions for artillery batteries, which can be installed directly after the artillery is owned.

　　The roads leading to various highlands and the main traffic roads have been widened and thickened. The main road is kept at a width of ten meters, and the branch roads are kept at about six meters.

　　On this kind of road, let alone a sports car, even if you take out a car, you can run.

　　The perfect transportation network has improved the movement of materials and the speed of army mobilization by several levels, thus greatly expanding the territory directly controlled by Weihaiwei.

　　According to Lin Feng's plan, in the future, the city center of Weihaiwei will not be in the city, but in the direction of the east of the city near the seaside pier.And the avenues leading to the wharf are all paved with blue bricks and all built.

　　When those squires and wealthy merchants in Weihaiwei left their mansions and walked out of the city gate in the east of the city, they all widened their eyes when they saw a straight, [-]-meter-wide blue-brick avenue.

　　Especially when I saw the dense houses rising up on both sides of the avenue, every eyeball almost popped out.

　　This kind of immortal-like method shocked them too much.

　　"Is this the eastern suburbs of the city?"

　　Grandpa Ren got off the carriage and looked at the spacious and flat green brick avenue in shock. Looking at the two-story blue brick pavement with a height of seven or eight meters on both sides of the avenue, his eyes almost popped out.

　　In his impression, the area leading to the wharf in the eastern suburbs of the city is not a bird or shit, but it is really a shack.Because it is close to the pier, many fishermen live here, and the smell of fish and excrement and urine is everywhere, which is dirty and messy.

　　But now, looking at the scene in front of him, he is a little confused, where is the city center? !

　　"This is indeed the suburbs of the east of the city!" The wealthy businessman surnamed Wang laughed, and then added: "Of course, no one says this is the suburbs anymore. Along the road from the east of the city to the wharf, thousands of buildings have been built. The shops on the street, although there are not many people yet, but you can imagine how prosperous it will be once these shops open?!"

　　"How do you sell the shop here?!"

　　Grandpa Ren saw that these shops were all courtyard houses, consisting of four two-storey buildings, each covering an area of ​​hundreds of square meters. There are many houses with this structure in the capital of Daming, and they are also very popular.

　　Because each set of shops facing the street can not only live in people, but also be used as warehouses, which is extremely practical!

　　If you can buy it, and after Weihaiwei is prosperous, it will definitely increase the house price, and the profit will be tenfold and one hundredfold!

　　The wealthy businessman surnamed Wang shook his head and said with a heartache: "These street-facing shops are not for sale, they can only be rented..."

　　Grandpa Ren understood instantly, and only felt that the master who occupies Weihaiwei is simply a business genius!

　　Once the city develops, almost all the shops in Weihaiwei are owned by him. How much money does he earn every month? !

　　If the imperial court had such a means of making money, how could it be short of money? !

　　"Then let's rent them all!" Mrs. Ren immediately had another idea.

　　The wealthy businessman surnamed Wang laughed and shook his head: "Above

　　There are regulations that rented shops must be opened, and there are conditions for limiting sales, and the conditions change at any time with the market. For example, the monthly transaction volume of Weihai Weicheng East is one thousand taels of silver, and all shops are averaged, not reaching the average. Shops with high value will be warned, if there is not even one fifth of the average value, then the shop will be taken back! "

　　"It's impossible to rent all the shops and then sublet them to others!"

　　"It's watertight!" Mr. Ren sighed, shook it, and let the carriage continue to move towards the trading market near the dock.

　　About [-] meters away from the pier, another [-]-meter avenue crosses with Chengdong Avenue, forming a crossroad, and the place surrounding this crossroad is the newly built trading market.

　　Looking at the intersection, there is a five-story building in all four corners.

　　The five-story building, nearly [-] meters high, is very shocking in this era.

　　When these squires and wealthy businessmen looked at the two buildings with the words "Commercial Building" and "Bank Building" on the big signs, they were very curious and asked, "What is this?"

　　"The commercial building is the Weihaiwei Exchange Management Office. Anyone who wants to open a shop in Weihaiwei must go to the management office to obtain a business license. If there is no business license, the shop will be sealed."

　　"As for a bank, it is very similar to a bank, where deposits and loans can be handled." The wealthy businessman surnamed Wang explained that he went to understand these things early.

　　"Loan?" Mrs. Ren said straightforwardly, "Isn't this just putting money in print?"

　　"It's similar to putting money in print, but it's not that high. Most of the annual interest is no more than one cent, between seven or eight percent! It can be said that the interest rate is very low!" explained the wealthy businessman surnamed Wang.

　　"The annual profit is indeed very low!" Mrs. Ren nodded, and the dozens of wealthy squires around him also nodded.

　　Then everyone poured into the bank building and found that many people were lining up inside, exchanging silver dollars and copper dollars.

　　These people were curious to exchange the silver in their hands for dozens of silver dollars and copper dollars. Silver dollars were not popular in Daming, but because of the coastal areas, many people were running to the sea and obtained a lot of silver dollars from sea trade. .

　　Naturally know the convenience of silver dollars in transactions.

　　"This silver dollar is very well cast, and it is more delicate than the foreign dollar outside!" Mrs. Ren looked at the delicate pictures on the silver dollar and the copper dollar and could clearly identify it. He nodded involuntarily, then weighed the weight and said curiously: "This piece of silver dollar is almost two or two, right?"

　　The wealthy businessman surnamed Wang nodded: "90% sterling silver is cast with other metals. Weihaiwei defines this as ten taels per catty instead of sixteen taels. It is easier to calculate, and a silver dollar is a new tael!"

　　"As for the exchange of silver dollars and copper dollars, it changes in real time according to the ratio of silver and copper prices in the market. Currently, it remains at the position where one silver dollar is equal to 780 copper dollars!"

　　Speaking of this, the wealthy businessman surnamed Wang said helplessly: "Now Weihaiwei stipulates that all transactions must be made of silver dollars and copper dollars. The previous copper coins and broken silver cannot be traded!"

　　"What a big ambition!"

　　When Grandpa Ren heard this, he immediately knew that the new owner of Weihaiwei was not satisfied with controlling the land, population, food and other resources, and now he had to control the money!

　　The rules of custom money, its importance, are important to any power.

　　This is equivalent to controlling the source. If the businessman is not obedient, it will leave you in an embarrassing situation where you can't spend money in minutes.

　　What's more, he has no choice!

　　Unless you don't buy food, don't buy cloth, don't buy salt.

　　Otherwise, obediently escape the real money to exchange.

Chapter 4 Warships, Commerce (4/[-])

　　Leaving the bank building and heading to the opposite street, a large market.

　　In the market, many people bought supplies with newly issued silver dollars and copper plates.

　　Although the vast majority of Weihaiwei people take food as remuneration, there are always those who work diligently and have the brains to do things well, so they are promoted and raised.

　　Like the first batch of fishermen who surrendered on Liujia Island, almost every household began to make a small fortune.

　　In the market, there are several large shops that are very lively.

　　One is a shop that sells sea salt, another is a shop that sells salted fish, another is a shop that sells grain, and the last is a shop that sells cloth.

　　These four major stores and four types of industries can be said to be the four pillar industries on Lin Feng's site at present, with a huge daily transaction volume.

　　Of course, for Lin Feng, this transaction is not a sale.

　　But if he wanted the people of Weihaiwei to work for him, he had to pay for these things.

　　In addition, the transaction volume of hardware stores of various tools made of steel is also beginning to increase.

　　"Such a good sea salt, actually three coppers a pound?!"

　　"My God, there are only ten copper plates in this colorful and brightly printed cloth?"!

　　"Good rice, one pound per pound?"

　　"Two coppers for a pound of salted fish?!"

　　"Ten eggs per copper?!"

　　"My God, this is too cheap, isn't it?!!"

　　Looking at the prices of the best-selling living materials on the market, all the rich and wealthy countrymen were stunned, and looked at this scene in a stunned manner.

　　Then, looking at the silver dollar copper plates that he had exchanged out of curiosity, he counted how many things he could buy with these silver dollar copper plates...

　　Counting back and forth, counting headaches, just forget it!

　　Because there are so many things to buy!

　　"This...."

　　"Buy these things in large quantities and sell them to other places, and you can earn more than ten times as much!"

　　Grandpa Ren felt dizzy when he thought of the profits.

　　In today's Daming, prices are bizarrely high, even terrifying.

　　For example, the price of rice in Beijing has skyrocketed to more than ten taels of silver and one stone!

　　One stone is only over [-] catties, and after all, it takes more than [-] copper plates to buy one catty of rice.

　　The price of salt is even more terrible!

　　As for salted fish, I don't know how many people in the mainland can't even eat rice, let alone meat.

　　Just because this salted fish has salt or meat, it can sell for a sky-high price!

　　"Can we buy a boat?!"

　　Grandpa Ren responded very quickly, and asked the wealthy businessman surnamed Wang beside him.

　　The wealthy businessman surnamed Wang was stunned for a moment, and then nodded quickly: "Yes, of course, and the price is still very cheap!"

　　Then he said: "Their [-]-ton warships are equivalent to selling thousands of large ships!"

　　"Sell that kind of boat too?!"

　　The eyes of the other squires and wealthy businessmen lit up, and they even felt that they were dreaming.

　　Weihaiwei came across the sea, of course they knew about those mighty and domineering warships.Both the structure and the sails on it are strong.

　　The fastest sailing speed, sometimes more than twenty knots!