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Liu Jin was extremely busy here, busy discussing future colonial plans with the top people in the Ming Dynasty. On the other side, Du Mingen, who had just returned, was also busy. He became a legend in the Ming Dynasty.
In more than a year, Du Mingen became rich overnight. He made a huge fortune of more than 9 million taels from a trip to Golden Continent. It is no exaggeration to say that he is as rich as anyone in the country.
But this is nothing. He was originally a businessman. The status of businessmen in the Ming Dynasty was very low. They were scholars, peasants, industrialists, and merchants. Businessmen were ranked last. Moreover, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang disliked businessmen very much. He implemented a policy of focusing on agriculture and suppressing business. There were problems for businessmen. There was a lot of suppression, and even the laws of the Ming Dynasty clearly stipulated that merchants could not wear silk and satin.
Of course, these regulations are not in line with reality. In fact, the life of merchants in the Ming Dynasty was quite free, because the business tax was very low, with a tax of one for thirty. Even as long as you gave the officials some money, this small tax No need to pay.
By the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the big businessmen in Jiangnan even got involved in the court. If anyone said that they wanted to increase business taxes or the like, they would immediately kill them.
It can be seen that status or status is actually determined by economic basis. If a businessman has money, even if you stipulate that he has no status, does he really have no status?
Of course, at least on the surface, businessmen have no status.
But Du Mingen was different. When he went to Golden Continent, he not only brought back huge wealth, but also brought back huge wealth for Emperor Hongzhi.
More importantly, he brought back several high-yielding crops from Golden Continent. These high-yielding crops can prevent the people of Ming Dynasty from famine again. This is a great contribution!
So Emperor Hongzhi personally met with Du Mingen, Lin Shuhong, Tian Erniu and other main members of the fleet at the Jinluan Hall, and the generous Emperor Hongzhi even knighted them.
Du Mingen was granted the title of Marquis of Taiping, a marquis, and it was a hereditary and irreplaceable kind. That is to say, as long as the Ming Dynasty existed for one day, his family's Taiping Marquis could be passed down for one day, hereditary and irreplaceable, and shared with the country.
The title of Marquis of Taiping was also discussed repeatedly by the Ministry of Rites, and it was believed that the title of Marquis of Taiping was the most appropriate, because Du Mingen's main contribution was to bring back three high-yielding crops.
With these three crops, there will be no famine in the Ming Dynasty from now on, and the world will naturally be peaceful and the sea will be clear and the river will be feasting.
Lin Shuhong, Tian Erniu and other captains and key members also caught an earl, and all of them were transformed from ordinary people to the ranks of the aristocrats of the Ming Dynasty in an instant.
This is a legend!
Not only did he become rich overnight, but he also changed from a businessman to the Taiping Marquis of the Ming Dynasty. The key is that no one in the government or the public has any opinions. Even the usually pedantic civil servants expressed their support.
Gold and silver are nothing. Three high-yield crops have made the Ming Dynasty no longer famine. This contribution is so great that no reward can be exaggerated.
The front door of Du Mingen's mansion in the capital city is like a city, bustling with traffic. Every day, people from all over the Ming Dynasty come to visit Du Mingen and this legendary figure.
Of course, Du Mingen is a legend. It¡¯s good for everyone to get to know each other at once. There are plenty of opportunities and time. The real reason is actually for money.
Regarding the details of the fleet's voyage and everything the fleet encountered during the entire voyage, the Ming Dynasty Morning Post also carried out a large-scale special report.
Liu Jin reported everything about the fleet in detail. Liu Jin did not hide anything. He reported the gold mines, silver mines, various rich resources and minerals, fertile land, and the easy to deceive the Golden Continent discovered by the fleet. All descendants of the Yin and Shang dynasties were published.
It can be said that it was already very hot, and now it has been completely detonated.
The gold mines of Yuxi, and the snow-white, snow-white fur without a trace of mottled color brought back; the golden lake here at the mouth of Qianhe River, the fertile land; the gold and silver mines on the west coast of the Golden Continent, the gold and silver of the Inca Empire
Almost everyone in the entire Beijing-Tianjin area is discussing these things and is deeply attracted by them.
In the living room of Du Mingen's mansion, Du Mingen is meeting a group of businessmen and gentry from the Jiangnan area. Du Mingen himself is a Jiangnan native and was born in Jiangnan.
Among this group of people were Cheng Bo'an, Zhu Benduan, Feng Xiang and Ye Li, representatives of Huizhou merchants. These four people were not only representatives of Huizhou merchants, but also representatives of large salt merchants in the Jianghuai region.
These salt merchants are having a very hard time this year, because they are engaged in a price war with Changlu Saltworks and have suffered a complete defeat in the northern region. It can be said that they almost pawned their crotch off at a loss.The four big salt merchants, plus other big and small salt merchants, raised tens of millions of taels of silver to compete with the Changlu Salt Farm, and ultimately lost 7,788.
No one thought that the salt production capacity of Changlu Salt Field was so terrifying, not only meeting the needs of the northern market, but also being able to meet the large-scale purchases of big salt merchants like them.
It can be said that there is as much salt as you want.
In the end, there was no way. These salt merchants failed completely. Fortunately, Changlu Salt Farm had not yet entered the southern market, so it still had some breath left.
What they thought was a very profitable business was a loss, and it is estimated that the Changlu Saltworks will enter the southern market next year. By then, they will no longer have a share in the huge salt cake.
But there was nothing they could do about the Changlu Saltworks.
The Changlu Saltworks is the property of Emperor Hongzhi, the Crown Prince, Duke Ying, Duke Dingguo, Duke Chengguo and others. It is not that they have not tried to use the power of the civil service group to bring down the Changlu Saltworks.
But as long as that civil servant dares to come forward, several major cases in the hands of Emperor Hongzhi have not yet been concluded. One by one will die, and no one will dare to use these methods anymore.
So even if they no longer want to part with the huge benefits of salt, they have no choice but to give it up. And next year, the southern market will definitely be taken over by Chairman Lu Saltworks, and they will have to withdraw from the salt market.
This is very uncomfortable for salt merchants and Anhui merchants.
? suffered huge blows one after another.
The case not long ago involved several big Hui merchants, but mainly Hui merchants involved in grain merchants. Because of reselling military grain, passing off substandard goods, etc., their homes were confiscated and exiled by Emperor Hongzhi, which dealt a heavy blow.
The theft of official warehouses also dealt a blow to Huizhou merchants, big merchants in Jiangnan, and scholars, which also weakened the power of big merchants, gentry, and scholars in the entire Jiangnan region.
These were all done by Emperor Hongzhi, and they were attacks from above.
What is really scary is the attack from the foundation. What Liu Jin did was to dig into their foundation.
With the rise of emerging capitalism, capitalism in the northern region, especially the Beijing-Tianjin region, has developed extremely rapidly, and industry has been very, very fast.
The cement industry, shipbuilding industry, and textile industry developed extremely rapidly. The strength of the emerging capitalists in the north expanded rapidly, which in turn had a huge impact on the big businessmen, big landowners, gentry, etc. in the south.
Not to mention anything else, in the textile industry alone, with the emergence of new spinning machines and looms, spinning mills and weaving mills have sprung up like bamboo shoots after a rain in the Beijing-Tianjin area.
The cloth produced by machines is not only of good quality, but also of high speed and low cost. Naturally, these cloths will be sold throughout the Ming Dynasty, and even now they have been sold to North Korea and Japan.
Jiangnan region has always been an important textile production area, mainly relying on traditional household textiles. Faced with this huge impact, the textile industry in Jiangnan region suffered a complete defeat and was completely defeated by the impact.
Naturally, the interests of these businessmen, landlords, and gentry in the Jiangnan area were also affected.
A few years ago, when everyone in the Ming Dynasty said that the rich people must first refer to them, Huizhou merchants, and among Huizhou merchants, they were the salt merchants.
But now, only a few years have passed. When people say they are rich, the first thing they think of is these emerging capitalists in the north. Business in the factories in the Beijing-Tianjin area is booming.
The business of the cement factory is booming. Cement is now popular throughout the Ming Dynasty, and is even sold to Japan and North Korea. The demand is very huge.
Emerging capitalists in the Beijing-Tianjin area are blooming all over the Ming Dynasty, opening new cement factories everywhere, each with a larger scale and a larger output. The number of employees in each factory was only a few hundred in the past, but now it is tens of thousands. There are already many large human factories.
The emerging capitalists are accumulating wealth many times faster than those who rely on traditional methods to accumulate wealth. Just like one is using traditional handicrafts and the other is weaving with emerging machines, there is no difference at all between the two. Comparability.
This is a huge and menacing wave of wealth, but these big businessmen, big landowners, and big gentry in the south have not yet participated.
So they can¡¯t sit still now!
Especially with the return of Du Mingen¡¯s fleet, they brought back 30 million taels of silver at once. Under the impact of such huge wealth, no one was jealous and no one could remain calm.
So this time, these big businessmen, big landowners, and big gentry from the south also came to Beijing and Tianjin, and they also wanted to participate in this new wave of wealth.
At the court, the people who mobilized them asked Emperor Hongzhi to open more ports in the south. They originally opposed the sea ban and now actively requested the sea ban. Only they themselves are the most aware and capable of the huge changes. I have a deep understanding that in the final analysis, the benefits brought by the establishment of a sea ban are greater than the continued sea ban.
That¡¯s why they support the sea ban, and mainly demand the sea ban, in order to participate in this huge wave of wealth.
In addition to the activities above the court, these big businessmen and big landowners also found Du Mingen below, obviously hoping that Du Mingen could cooperate with them and lead them to participate in this wave of wealth. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)To participate in this new wave of wealth.
At the court, the people who mobilized them asked Emperor Hongzhi to open more ports in the south. They originally opposed the sea ban and now actively requested the sea ban. Only they themselves are the most aware and capable of the huge changes. I have a deep understanding that in the final analysis, the benefits brought by the establishment of a sea ban are greater than the continued sea ban.
That¡¯s why they support the sea ban, and mainly demand the sea ban, in order to participate in this huge wave of wealth.
In addition to the activities above the court, these big businessmen and big landowners also found Du Mingen below, obviously hoping that Du Mingen could cooperate with them and lead them to participate in this wave of wealth. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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