Ming Dynasty: The Sixth Brother of the Zhu Family Seeks Immortality

The Ministry of Commerce given by the court or the emperor is a fork in the road of choice.

For merchants, they have two paths.

One path is to continue to work as a slave for the nobles as before.

Most of the money earned must be paid to the master's family in order to get the protection of the master's family.

Real business is not as simple as the landlord calculating the tenant.

Buy low and buy high, earn the difference by information difference....

All these methods represent the behavior of merchants.

This path has no dignity, and it may be abandoned by the master at any time.

But it is stable and can see the future.

The other path is to accept the court's recruitment and become a part of the court's salt transportation.

This road is full of ruggedness and ups and downs, full of uncertainty.

But if you succeed, you will have the opportunity to become a member of the Ministry of Commerce! That is to become a real official!

As merchants, as merchants who are brave to do things, their best choice is of course to take risks to gain the greatest profit!

Of course, they have to bet on the salt transportation!

Moreover, although the salt transportation is simply calculated on the books, it seems that there is a high probability of making a loss.

But if you calculate it more carefully, there will not be a loss.

The imperial court sent some troops to escort the salt along the way.

Although it costs a lot of money to pay the imperial court, at least the tolls along the way can be saved.

The status of merchants is relatively low, not only in the court, but also in the countryside!

Passing through every county, prefecture and even village, they have to spend a lot of gold and silver to transport materials.

And when they join the salt transport, they can also follow their own caravans behind the salt transport caravan.

They can even do both at the same time.

Calculating the income from the salt transport alone, plus the naming fee, there will indeed be a loss.

But if the tolls saved from other goods are counted, the situation will be very different!

The merchants present looked at each other left and right.

Even the merchants who had previously agreed to jointly purchase an area were afraid that others would steal their homes.

The big merchants who had previously agreed to lower the price together did not dare to raise the issue of lowering the price.

If you lower the price here, other merchants on the other side may directly steal the home!

Therefore, most people dare not make a random offer.

They can only make a price as much as possible to avoid leaving any omissions.

After a night of auctioning the purchase right, the final result was presented to the emperor and the Ministry of Revenue!

After seeing the numbers on the paper, Xia Yuanji, the Minister of Revenue, breathed hard!

"Nine...ninety million taels of silver?"

According to the calculation of the Ministry of Revenue, the annual salt administration income is about 40 million to 50 million taels of profit.

Excluding costs and consumption, it is estimated that the total profit is only 30 to 40 million taels of profit.

Although the merchant contracted the salt transportation rights for three years.

But for three years, the total profit is estimated to be more than 100 million taels of silver!

And the court is the biggest part of this profit.

This salt transportation right brought in a year's profit?

"This...this...ga~"

"Not good! Call the imperial physician quickly! Lord Xia fainted!"

The Ministry of Revenue was in a mess.

Zhu Di in the imperial study was not much better.

Damn it, he has fought all his life and has never seen so much money!

Chapter 122 The chaos in the south spreads to the capital

Zhu Zhanji reported: "More than 90 million taels of silver have been credited, of which 36 million taels are deposits, and the other 55 million taels are the proceeds from the purchase of three-year salt transportation rights."

According to the first thing agreed, the deposit will be returned to the merchants three years later.

But this thing is unlikely to happen.

Three years is too long, won't these merchants make any mistakes?

The Ministry of Commerce is in its infancy, and there will definitely be no shortage of struggles with court officials.

And these merchants who travel around the world are likely to become the characters targeted by court officials.

Once targeted, they are likely to be pulled down.

How many merchants these days really make clean money?

Zhu Di nodded excitedly, and he took the money without hesitation!

This money is just the right to transport salt purchased by merchants, and there is still a part of the salt money after the transportation of salt.

Calculated in this way, the annual income should be at the level of 10 million taels.

The treasury of the Ming Dynasty can finally be a little more abundant, and he can also take more money to cultivate immortality!

"Grandson, where is the money transported?"

Zhu Zhanji said: "The treasury of the Ministry of Revenue is jointly guarded by the Jinyiwei and the Ministry of Revenue."

"Ministry of Revenue?" Zhu Di frowned slightly. In fact, he still wanted to keep some of it in the inner curtain, but Xia Yuanji probably wouldn't let him take much money.

Forget it, I will have the opportunity to secretly transfer money in the future.

As long as the money is in the account, it is better than anything else.

The court has money, and Zhu Di is much more relaxed. The subsequent struggle for money by various parties is a matter of later.

However, if you really need money, printing treasure notes may be a good choice?

Just after Zhu Di came up with the idea of ​​printing treasure notes, his heart suddenly shook violently.

Feeling uncomfortable all over, he stood up from the dragon chair at once.

Is printing treasure notes a threat to the Ming Dynasty?

When there is a chance, I will ask that grandson about the treasure notes.

......

Pot bang~Pot bang~

On the main road of the capital, there was a sound of galloping horses.

Several soldiers looked exhausted and tired.

Driving fast horses quickly, they shouted: "800 miles in a hurry! 800 miles in a hurry!"

On the crowded avenue, they still galloped.

The cavalry on the street ignored many problems.

It is likely that he has no experience in delivering messages.

Shouting the news of 800 miles in a hurry on the street is generally something that will be done when there is a great victory.

It is rare to be so ostentatious when encountering a disaster.

Zhu Zhanji found the soldier shouting 800 miles in a hurry on the road and hurriedly asked someone to stop him.

Judging from the soldiers' dress, they should be soldiers near Jiangnan.

Pale face, looking very tired.

But there should be no war in Jiangnan recently, why is there an 800-mile rush?

There is no clear regulation for the 800-mile rush in the court.

To be precise, many things in the Ming Dynasty did not completely separate the powers.

Generally, when encountering urgent problems, whoever sees it will be given priority to handle it.

Many things that seem to be big things in the local area are just small things in the eyes of the court.

Zhu Zhanji has seen similar urgent mistakes several times.

Since he encountered it, he took the nearly unconscious soldier to Wenhua Hall and handed him over to Fatty Dad to deal with it.

After the soldier handed a letter to the palace servant, he fell into a coma.