Rule the Ming Dynasty Alone

Five years later, Beijing.

The stock exchange hall located in the prosperous area in the north of Beijing is bustling with people and bustling.

On a towering blue brick building built in the tenth year of Hongzhi, the five golden characters "Stock Exchange Hall" shine in the sun.

In the hall, hundreds of investors came to the window, holding up the bearer stocks in their hands to trade, while the traders in red vests were busy like robots.

On the innermost wall, there are signs with various names: "Royal Textile", "United Textile", "First Dyeing and Spinning", "Royal Money House", "Royal Shipbuilding", "Ping An Fishery", "United Trade", etc.

Under each four-character sign, there are two horizontal bars "Buy" and "Sell", with prices marked on them, and these prices keep changing.

As early as the beginning of the sixth year of Hongzhi, because the Beijing-Tianjin Railway needed 10 million silver dollars in funds, the Ministry of Households issued bearer stocks to the public for the first time, opening a new era of shareholding system in the Ming Dynasty.

After that, under the underwriting of the Royal Bank, enterprises such as the Royal Weaving Factory and the United Weaving Factory issued bearer stocks to the public to raise funds for the construction of new factories.

As the number of bearer stocks increased, the Beijing Stock Exchange was born in the tenth year of Hongzhi due to the market's trading needs, and at the same time provided a trading venue for stock market transactions.

Now it is the twenty-second year of Hongzhi. After twelve years of development, the Beijing Stock Exchange has become famous both at home and abroad and has become the most active stock trading market in the world.

Unlike the financing stock market that many people knew in the past, the stock market of the Ming Dynasty is now the best in the world. Not only does it bring rich investment returns to the majority of stockholders, but it also attracts overseas royal funds to enter, becoming the most successful stock exchange.

Among so many stocks, the most eye-catching one is the Royal Shipbuilding.

The predecessor of this company was the Tianjin Shipyard. After divesting its military business, the Royal Shipbuilding became the largest shipyard in the world. In addition to providing warship frames for the Ming fleet, it also sells three types of ships: cruise ships, cargo ships and fishing boats.

Cruise ships are the key business of the Royal Shipping Industry. Because the Ming Dynasty has frequent exchanges with various countries, the Ming Dynasty now has passenger routes with most coastal countries or regions. The Golden Ship Line is naturally the passenger line between Beijing and the Ming City in America.

The cargo ship business is also in high demand. After the Pacific Governor's Office settled in Europe, it has become a veritable maritime overlord. Now the cargo ships of the Ming Dynasty not only undertake the transportation of goods between the country and foreign countries, but also the trade between third-party countries also requires the transportation of Ming merchant ships.

As for the fishing boat business, this is the fastest growing business of the Royal Shipping Industry.

As everyone's life continues to improve, enough oil and water have accumulated in their stomachs, and the seafood that was originally despised has become more and more popular, causing the price of seafood to continue to rise.

On the other hand, the Ming Dynasty has become a well-deserved maritime overlord. The four oceans are all fishing areas of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, the new material of nylon net can support deep-water operations, so the fishing industry of the Ming Dynasty has ushered in a golden period.

In addition to small-scale fishing in the coastal waters, more and more fishermen are now engaged in deep-sea fishing, especially fishing boats that go to Hokkaido to catch whales for whale oil.

In view of this, more and more coastal people have devoted themselves to the fishing industry, so various places have purchased fishing boats from the Royal Ship Industry.

Thanks to the booming Ming Dynasty's strong demand for various types of ships, although the Royal Shipyard has nearly 100,000 ship workers, orders have been placed for two years, and the annual profit can be terrifying.

That's why the shipbuilding industry has become the bottom demand of the three golden industries of maritime passenger transport, freight and fishing. Coupled with the large orders of the Ming fleet, the Royal Ship Industry has now become the most profitable factory in the world.

"998 silver dollars!"

"999 silver dollars!"

"1000 silver dollars!"

...

The investors in the hall suddenly shouted in unison, and as the stock price of the Royal Ship Industry climbed to 1000 silver dollars, the entire trading hall suddenly exploded.

This is the first stock in the Ming Dynasty to break the 1,000 silver dollar mark, and it is also the first super company with a market value of 100 million silver dollars. Everyone present today witnessed history.

"It's rich! It's rich!"

"Haha... I'm really rich!"

"1,000 silver dollars, I have 10 shares!"

...

As the stock price of Royal Shipbuilding continued to rise, and the number of investors in Royal Shipbuilding reached hundreds of thousands, all participating investors saw considerable profits, and some even made more than ten times the profit in Royal Shipbuilding.

If it is said that a certain wine in the previous life barely supported the soft backbone of the Burmese market, now Royal Shipbuilding is already the backbone of the Ming Dynasty stock market.

In addition, the profits of major textile factories, as well as maritime trading companies and other enterprises are very considerable, and the Beijing-Tianjin Railway also creates a lot of profits, so these listed companies also bring investors considerable income.

That's right, in this wave of stock market, in addition to radical speculators like Zhao Xiaosi, many ordinary people who were originally very ordinary have made a fortune through the stock market.

Among this group of ordinary people, many are just ordinary farmers, craftsmen or small vendors, but due to the continuous bull market in the stock market, they have gradually accumulated huge wealth.

"Farming? Wouldn't it be better if I sell the land and invest in the stock market?"

"Cooking? How much does it cost to buy a Nanyang maid now?"

"The food cooked by the Nanyang maid is not even eaten by dogs. The Japanese maids are more attentive!"

"How can the food at home be compared with the chefs outside? Come with me to Zuixianlou for a seafood feast!"

…

Thanks to the dividends of this era, as long as people who entered the stock market in the early days were not as unlucky as Zhao Xiaosi, they are now making a lot of money and living a very comfortable life.

Because everyone's life has improved in recent years, it has also promoted the Ming Dynasty's consumer market, which in turn has stimulated the productivity of major workshops.

As the clock reached three o'clock in the afternoon, the stock market officially stopped trading, and the share price of Royal Shipbuilding was fixed at 1,010 silver dollars.

“Is Royal Shipbuilding about to pay dividends?”

"It's about this time every year. I wonder how much it will be distributed this year?"

"Everyone is guessing that after making so much money last year, one share would cost at least 50 silver dollars!"

…

Seeing that the market was closed, the stockholders present also left from the gate one after another, driven away by security personnel, but the topic still revolved around the stock of Royal Shipping Industry.

A middle-aged man walked out of the door and was greeted by everyone like a star.

Li Si was originally just an ordinary worker in the dyeing shop in Beijing. Although the wages in the dyeing shop were not low, his mind was very flexible. After seeing the shares issued by Royal Textiles in Sunchon Ilbo, I decided to give it a try.

Since he has always been lucky in gambling, he has been going smoothly for more than ten years and has become a well-known stock god.

At first, because of the dyeing workshop, he accidentally bought the shares of Royal Textile. As a result, this move brought him dozens of times the profit.

Later, the Beijing Stock Exchange was officially established. He immediately quit his job and became a professional investor. At the same time, he sold his Royal Textile stocks to make a profit. By then, he was already a small rich man.

Seeing that more and more people were going to Nanyang and the Western Sea to look for gold, he chose to buy trading stocks, just in time to catch the wave of the trade concept, and made a lot of money from it.

He became famous after fighting against Foshan Iron Steel six years ago. After learning that the imperial court was mobilizing two million people to immigrate overseas, he immediately invested all his wealth in Foshan Iron, which produced iron pots. As a result, Foshan Iron was stirred up, allowing him to earn ten times the profit.

Just like this, Li Si went from an ordinary working class to a wealthy boss, and he is also the stock god that everyone talks about. Now he has a house in the capital, bought more than a dozen servants from Nanyang and Japan, and lives a life like a master.

"Li Gushen, what are you going to do next?"

"How else can I buy it? Of course I will continue to buy Royal Shipbuilding!"

"Li Gushen, this is already 1,000 silver dollars, isn't it too high?"

"Sea trade is the general trend in the future. The Zhujiang branch will be able to produce cargo ships when it is completed next year. The dividend this year is expected to be 50 silver dollars. The Royal Ship Industry naturally has unlimited potential. I believe that it will not be long before the market value of the Royal Ship Industry can double again. Double!”

…

Li Si faced the humbly asking for advice from the people next to him, but he did not hold back at all and still chose to continue to be optimistic about the Royal Shipping Industry.

Of course, there is still a certain degree of selfishness here. After all, he is now heavily invested in the Royal Shipbuilding Industry. Only if everyone continues to buy the Royal Shipbuilding Industry in large quantities will the market value of the Royal Shipbuilding Industry be doubled again.

When the surrounding stock investors heard these remarks, some decided to follow up tomorrow, but some felt that the stock price of Royal Shipbuilding was too high and turned to other low-priced stocks.

But no matter what, today's Beijing Exchange has indeed allowed most of them to benefit from it, and it has also made their lives better and better.

Among the lively crowd, three young noble men watched all this.

Although they were wearing ordinary young men's clothes, their fair and delicate skin and confident eyes that were incompatible with their age all proved that they had extraordinary status.

"Even if you get 50 silver dollars every year, it will take 20 years to get your money back. The bubble in our stock market is too big!"

"As long as our Ming Dynasty can continue to obtain resources from overseas, then this bubble will digest itself in a few years!"

"Development is the last word! If we keep moving forward, the stock market will not suddenly plummet!"

…

The three young noblemen all had their own opinions and expressed their opinions one after another, but all three of them had already seen the bubble under the hot stock market.

While talking, they got on the human-drawn cart at the same time and headed towards the direction of Xiyuan.

Xiyuan, Tingchao Pavilion.

Zhu Youtang, wearing a dragon robe, sat on the Tingchao Pavilion and slowly sipped tea, admiring the lake view through the window. The years had carved some traces on his face.

He is no longer the young emperor who ascended the throne at the age of seventeen, but a middle-aged emperor who is about to enter his forties, with gray hair appearing on his head.

Since the decision to develop America in the 16th year of Hongzhi, and after five years of governance, although the Ming Dynasty still has various problems, its overall strength has reached a new level.

What satisfied him most was the Americas. As two million immigrants arrived in the Golden Basin, it had been built into the granary of the Ming Dynasty in the Americas.

Based on the support of the American granary, the American Governor-General now basically controls the entire North American region, and has a firm control over the maritime trade of the American continent.

In accordance with the established policy of "land, sea, and sea", Europe and England were turned into land countries by the Atlantic Governor's Mansion. More and more European countries obediently surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.

If there is something unsatisfactory, it is that there is a little turmoil in the Indian Ocean.

"Your Majesty, are you worried?" Xiang Fei Han Youying's posture seemed more charming, kneeling opposite and personally making tea for Zhu Youtang.

Zhu Youtang took a sip of tea and looked away from the lake and mountains outside the window: "I am the most powerful person in the world, and now I am probably the richest person, right?"

When he said this, his eyes fell on Jing Fei Su Yuner, whose face remained unchanged.

Jing Fei is a real Jiangnan woman, born in Suzhou, a silk family, and her appearance is the best in Jiangnan. Although she is in the palace, she has been helping Zhu Youtang to manage the inner treasury.

She used her business talent far beyond ordinary people to become Zhu Youtang's most capable assistant in managing money and grain. Over the years, she helped Zhu Youtang to manage the inner treasury.

Take the Royal Ship Industry, which has a market value of 100 million yuan, as an example. Although the largest shareholder is the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the inner treasury holds 20% of the shares. Just this share, the market value of the Royal Ship Industry stock of the Neiku has reached 20 million silver dollars.

In addition, the Neiku is present in almost all other listed companies. Like Royal Textiles and Royal Watches, these two companies have nothing to do with the State-owned Assets Department, but are completely the industries of the Neiku.

That is why the total funds owned by Zhu Youtang's Neiku are now nearly 100 million silver dollars. In addition to the fact that he still has several unincubated companies, Zhu Youtang has become the world's richest man in name and in reality.

"Your Majesty, the current assets of the Neiku are more than 90 million, but the Royal Telegraph will be listed next month, and your Neiku's assets will definitely exceed 100 million by then!" Concubine Jing Su Yun'er met Zhu Youtang's gaze and smiled.

100 million silver dollars?

Although Concubine Yi Yang Zisu already knew that the Neiku had very exaggerated assets, she couldn't help but take a breath when she heard this specific number.

With the influx of gold and silver dollars from overseas, although one silver dollar is no longer equivalent to one tael of silver in the past, the purchasing power has not dropped too much.

Now the inner treasury has 100 million silver dollars in assets, which was unimaginable a few years ago.

You know, the Minister of Revenue Li Min was already the most corrupt in the Ming Dynasty when he embezzled one million taels, and now the wealth owned by the inner treasury is a hundred times that of the most corrupt in the Ming Dynasty, and these are all legal assets.

Zhu Youtang gently put down the teacup, but his eyes fell on Yang Zisu's increasingly plump body: "Doctor Concubine, your Royal Pharmaceutical should prepare and arrange for listing as soon as possible!"

If the Royal Telegraph is the most imaginative technology company of this era, then the Royal Pharmaceutical, which owns penicillin, also has broad prospects and may even become a century-old enterprise with a global reputation. (End of this chapter)