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Chapter 733: Businessmen will not do business at a loss

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    In an open playground on Turtle Island in the south of Nanyang Province, thousands of people stood upright, wearing armor, swords on their waists, bows and arrows on their backs, and muskets on their backs, with a formidable momentum.

    Hu Xian, who was standing on the general stage, nodded with satisfaction. At least he looked full of momentum and looked like that.

    The armed force in front of you, which was cobbled together by major commercial houses, is exactly the legal overseas armed force formed by Western commercial banks.

    According to the code promulgated by the imperial court, the armed forces of major commercial banks must and can only exist overseas. They are not allowed to set foot in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty for life, and they must also undergo regular inspections by the imperial court.

    At the same time, there are also strict restrictions on weapons and equipment. What size it has and how many weapons it can equip are all detailed and strict regulations.

    The armed force of five thousand people in front of them is already the largest armed force that Hu Xian and the others can assemble.

    For this armed force of 5,000 people, they have spent millions of taels of silver so far.

    Because the imperial court has strict regulations, weapons and equipment can only be purchased from Miyun Iron Factory. It cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver just to purchase these weapons and equipment.

    ?Obviously, the price of this weapon and equipment is very expensive.

    In the words of Miyun Iron Works, if we can¡¯t make the emperor¡¯s money, we will always make your money.

    There is no other way. In order to make a fortune overseas, they can only hold their noses and admit it.

    Of course, the quality of Miyun Iron Factory¡¯s weapons and equipment is unquestionable. Whether it is conventional swords and armors, or muskets and artillery, Miyun Iron Factory¡¯s weapons and equipment are definitely the best.

    The price is more expensive, but everyone is happy to buy it. After all, even the weapons and equipment used by the Ming Dynasty army were purchased from Miyun Iron Factory.

    In addition to weapons and equipment, Hu Xian and Zhang Yuan also spent a huge price to recruit these five thousand people.

    It is definitely not an easy thing to ask someone to work for you.

    ¡°At the very least, the money must be provided, otherwise who would be willing to sacrifice their life for you, let alone go overseas, God knows whether they will die there.

    And once you become a private arm of a trading company, you will never be able to set foot in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty again for the rest of your life. You can only settle in the overseas provinces of the Ming Dynasty and abroad.

    This means that not only do you have to move to the overseas provinces of Ming Dynasty, but your whole family also has to move out.

    This money must come from the bosses of the business houses like them. There are 5,000 people, and each of them will spend 500,000 taels of silver for a settlement fee of 100 taels.

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? If the imperial court had not vigorously encouraged the emigration to the Nanyang provinces, the whole family would have received a large amount of land and rewards, and no one would have been willing to pay the settlement fee of one hundred taels of silver.

    The owners of the major trading houses also relied on their influence in their hometowns to recruit 5,000 young people through coaxing and deception.

    With people and weapons and equipment, we need professional people to train them.

    For this reason, they had to spend a high price to dig out some training instructors from the Ming Dynasty Royal Military Academy to train these people.

    Now after more than a month of training, at least the team formation is still the same. It seems that the momentum is very good.

    "Instructor Chen~"

    "I wonder if they can go into battle now?"

    Hu Xian looked at the five thousand people on the playground, thought for a while and asked Chen Lin, the chief instructor next to him.

    "Into the battle?"

    "It's too early now. It's only been more than a month of training. It means you can stand in line, but all other aspects are far from good. Such an army is just a showpiece."

    Chen Lin shook his head slightly. To be honest, if it weren't for the extremely high salary offered by the Western Commercial Bank and the dividends after the success, he, Chen Lin, would not be willing to be an instructor.

    Now he is an instructor, and he may take them to fight overseas, so Chen Lin is still very careful in this regard.

    "My Instructor Chen, we are going overseas to deal with barbarians. Many barbarians don't even have swords and guns. We don't need too strict training to deal with them."

    "You just need to be able to shoot, fire cannons, and aim. We are not rebelling. Why are we so good at training?"

    When Hu Xian heard this, he couldn't help but said anxiously.

    If you continue training slowly like this, when will you be able to go overseas to fight?I used to be a censor and I know a lot about things very well.

    The investment in this armed force is huge. Naturally, he and the shareholders of Western United Trading Company will not invest casually. Ceylon Island is also their target after thousands of selections.

    To put it simply, when a businessman does business, how can he do business at a loss?

    Logically speaking, Myanmar is closer to Nanyang, so the first target should be Myanmar, but they did not attack Myanmar.

    Because Myanmar was strong and powerful during this period, it was difficult to conquer with a few thousand people, but Ceylon Island was different. They had also learned about the situation on Ceylon Island from the returned Taiping Hou Du Mingen.

    Ceylon is just an island. The country is small, weak, and more importantly, relatively backward. It is not difficult to conquer them, and there are enough interests on Ceylon. Ceylon produces a variety of gems.  This thing is very valuable here in Daming now.

    They set out to conquer Ceylon Island after two months of training. They also made detailed calculations and thoughts, and they definitely did not do it randomly.

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