Ruins of the past

Looking at the unfathomable depth in front of him, Chu Qiguang's consciousness seemed to gradually stop thinking at this moment, and countless strange murmurs and weird whispers poured into his mind.

The bizarre and bizarre pictures kept jumping in his sea of ​​​​consciousness, as if to pull his spirit into a magnificent dream that would never bottom out, and he was so mesmerized...

Until a sound exploded in his ears.

"It's you again? I found you..."

The dry and hoarse voice exploded in Chu Qiguang's mind like a thunder, completely tearing apart the tranquility in Chu Qiguang's consciousness.

When Chu Qiguang came back to his senses, he found that he was still standing in front of the water-powered spinning machine and the water-powered loom.

He felt that his spirit had just been sublimated, and the road to the fifth realm of spiritual cultivation had suddenly gone from 30% to 60%. There was still 40% left to break through to the fifth realm.

'The improvement is huge...even greater than the improvement in my last arena match. ’

'But something seems to have happened just now...' Chu Qiguang frowned, but always felt that he had forgotten something: 'Huh? ’

Suddenly, Chu Qiguang felt some pain in his chest, as if someone had made some kind of wound on his flesh with a knife.

'what? ’

However, the strange feeling came and went as quickly as it was some kind of hallucination. Chu Qiguang didn't have time to think about it and watched everyone in the audience continue their work today.

‘Let’s cut this wave of leeks first, and then we’ll see what’s going on with the chest when we get back. ’

With the appearance of two textile machines, the atmosphere suddenly reached its climax.

The crowd kept pushing towards the machines on the stage, as if they wanted to see every step of the machine's operation.

After confirming that no one was operating, and seeing clearly the efficiency of spinning and weaving, the audience present could not help but express surprise and admiration.

"It really doesn't require labor."

"The speed is so fast, much more efficient than the weavers in ordinary workshops."

"It's really strange. How does this thing move?"

Some people just looked at it curiously, but some people saw huge commercial value from these two machines based on the various data given by Chu Qiguang just now.

Wang Cailiang and his son were also invited. At this moment, his father Wang Chengwang stared at the two machines with wide eyes: "These two machines are worth tens of thousands of gold."

He turned around and looked at Wang Cailiang: "Do you think Nephew Chu really wants to give up this opportunity to make money to so many people?" Seeing Wang Cailiang nodding, he said in confusion: "I can't figure it out, I can't figure it out. "

At the same time, Chu Qiguang on the stage continued: "These two textile machines cover all the processes from cotton to cotton yarn to cotton cloth. Not only do they require no labor, but the productivity has been increased by a full twenty times."

"And the cost of a machine is only four to fifty taels of silver."

Hearing this, there was another exclamation from below.

Chu Qiguang clapped his hands, and a new picture fell on the scroll behind him. It showed the comparison of the production capacity of traditional machines and hydraulic machines.

"With traditional hand-made machines, the spinner can get four or five taels of yarn per day, and the weaver can make one piece of cloth per day."

"The new hydraulic machines can work day and night, and their productivity is twenty times that of traditional machines. One machine can produce fifty pieces of cotton in one day. Even if it is limited by the seasonal influence of river water, it can be produced in one year. More than 10,000 pieces of cloth were produced.”

"Excluding labor costs, there is no cotton fabric on the market that can compete with our price. We will sweep the northern cotton spinning market."

"If it's one hundred new machines, it's one million pieces of cotton a year."

"A piece of cotton cloth is priced at 3 cents in Lingzhou. If it is sold to the Yaozu Mutual Market...even if it only sells for 6 cents, one million pieces can still get 600,000 taels of silver."

At the same time, a new scroll fell again, showing cotton markets in several northern states.

"If it is a thousand new machines, it will be 10 million pieces of cotton this year."

"If it is sold to the people in Lingzhou, Yongzhou, Jingzhou and other northern areas, even if it only costs 2 silver a piece, it will be better because the quantity is larger. You can get 2 million taels of silver a year."

"A thousand looms and a thousand spinning machines only require one hundred thousand taels of silver."

"The bulk is still cotton. To weave 10 million pieces of cloth, the cotton required is about 11 million kilograms. If the local area is not enough, it must be imported from other places. In this way, cotton is about 6 cents of silver per kilogram, which is 660,000 kilograms. Two pieces of silver."

Listening to Chu Qiguang's words, everyone present was already excited.

What Chu Qiguang said next made them even more excited.

Chu Qiguang opened his arms and said: "But Wu Daguan, Abbot Chenzhu and I have worked hard to develop these two new machines, not just to make money, but also to build Qingyang County, and to bring every household here together." Make money.”

"So the two of me and I decided that we will hold 50% of the shares in total, and the remaining 50% will be transferred to everyone here. Together with everyone, we will establish a Qingyang Chamber of Commerce and give the profits to all the folks."

Hearing this, everyone below was more excited than the other, and they all wanted to get a share of the millions of taels of silver business.

"But there were so many people. We were afraid that the 50% shares would not be divided well, so we divided the 50% shares into 10,000 shares."

Everyone present was slightly stunned. This was the first time they heard such an approach, but after thinking about it carefully, they understood that it was just a more detailed accounting of the shares.

Some quick-thinking people have already begun to wonder how much money each share can get.

Chu Qiguang originally invested 3,000 taels for 20% of the shares, while Wu Wei and Tao Guan each contributed 10,000 taels for 40% of the shares.

Now Chu Qiguang holds 2,000 shares, and Wu Wei and Tao Guan each hold 4,000 shares.

"Each share is currently priced at 10 taels of silver."

"Share holders can conduct share transactions at the headquarters of the Qingyang Chamber of Commerce, which is currently tentatively located here."

"The trading price of each share will also be published here every day."

"Although the shares can be traded, the Chamber of Commerce only registers shareholder changes once a year."

Of course, there are a bunch of dense rules and regulations and the power of the Chamber of Commerce to supervise stocks that Chu Qiguang has listed down. No one can understand it now, but in the future, if Chu Qiguang secretly short-sells, washes the market, trades, and becomes a banker, ...I guess I understand.

The next step was to subscribe for shares. There were nearly forty households present, ranging from the richest, such as the Hao family, high-ranking Jinshi officials, to the most ordinary, like the Wang family, landlords' families.

Under Chu Qiguang's series of incentives, these 10,000 shares worth a total of 100,000 taels of silver were quickly divided up.

After all, they had just raided the Ding family together, and these local powerful men in Qingyang County had no place to spend the silver they had.

"That's how you got 100,000 taels of silver?" Wu Wei was still a little dazed looking at this scene. Then he thought about how the shares he originally invested with 10,000 taels of silver were now worth 40,000 taels?

For the first time, he felt that making money could be so easy.

When he told Chu Qiguang this idea, the other party told him... this was just the beginning.

Two days later, Wu Wei understood why Chu Qiguang said this, because the price per share had risen from 10 taels to 12 taels.