Chapter 285 Do you want to be a royal merchant?
When Jiao Haiqing heard this, he was happy and said, "I knew you would definitely have a solution! Why isn't it difficult to do it?"
Wei Renshi said: "Do you want to be an official? Or be an official businessman?"
Jiao Haiqing was stunned.
Wei Renshi said: "The emperor now has the plan to revive the Sixteen Guards, and the crown prince and the crown prince also have ambitions. The three of them reached an agreement on revive the Sixteen Guards. This means that the decision to revive the Sixteen Guards will be implemented continuously. To revive the Sixteen Guards, a lot of investment is required. Now the vassal states have become shackles, and the court's taxes have been seized by the vassal states. The court lacks money, so it needs even more people who can make money for the court. This is actually an opportunity."
"This..." Jiao Haiqing hesitated for a moment and said, "I have no way!"
"Are you stupid?" Wei Renshi looked at him and said, "Isn't this me?"
"You..." Jiao Haiqing said: "I'm afraid you are not sure about this."
Wei Renshi said: "What I said is certainly not counting. However, there is a person who occupies either the first or the second largest in the green vegetables in Weinan, glassware in glass shops, and cement in these industries. He is the Prince of Guangling."
"This is the Prince Chun you said." Jiao Haiqing nodded and said, "Since you said that, is he a member of the court?"
Wei Renshi nodded and said, "He is not only a prince, but also the eldest son of the current crown prince and the eldest grandson of the emperor."
"What?!" Jiao Haiqing glared at the boss, his mouth trembled and said tremblingly: "What? What?! That... it actually... it...
Wei Renshi looked at him and said, "How excited are you?"
"Excited? How can I not be excited! That is the eldest grandson of the emperor! He will be the emperor in the future..." Jiao Haiqing did not finish speaking, but paused and said, "This is naturally an excellent opportunity, but how do I become an official and businessman?"
"The emperor wants to form his own overseas caravan." Wei Renshi said, "It is unknown to the court officials, his own private caravan."
When Jiao Haiqing heard Wei Renshi say this, he understood it as soon as he thought about it.
He said to Wei Renshi: "Do you want me to run this caravan?"
"The emperor will definitely not take charge of the caravan affairs by himself." Wei Renshi said for granted: "I have to do too many things, so I will naturally not take charge of them myself."
"I just don't know if I can..." Jiao Haiqing frowned and said, "Although my main business is to go to maritime business, in fact, I, Aye, are hosting most maritime business."
"I can't learn it." Wei Renshi said: "Haha, maybe you will become the governor of one side in the future?"
"Governor?" Jiao Haiqing said: "The court has this official position?"
Wei Renshi smiled and did not explain, but said: "Think about it, since it is the emperor's fleet, it must be the best sea ships and the best talents to collect. Who dares to make things difficult for him? Moreover, I have already told His Majesty that he should use shares as a reward for hosting the maritime merchant fleet. This is a rare opportunity."
Jiao Haiqing naturally understood the benefits, but he also had some concerns.
"Brother Renshi, it is said that accompanying the king is like accompanying a tiger. If I preside over the fleet for the royal family, I will be the one who serves the emperor. But you also know me, I am also a casual guy. If I get into Longyan somewhere, I will..."
"The emperor is not that bad. As long as you are honest and have no intention, there will be no problem." Wei Renshi said: "And I have told you before that building a maritime merchant fleet is not something that can be done in a short period of time, so I first cooperate with your caravan, opening up the sales of goods, and learning how to build a maritime merchant fleet. When you have learned almost everything, you will definitely form your own overseas business team. This fleet is the emperor's private maritime merchant fleet. If you are the one who presides over it, it will be unique and will definitely be conducive to the formation of the fleet. It is a credit to the emperor's eyes that can not only form a fleet smoothly."
"But of course, I'll just tell you about this. If you really want to stay in Chang'an City, you can try this path. If you don't want to, there's nothing." Wei Renshi said again.
"The opportunity is rare. I'll do it!" Jiao Haiqing suddenly opened his mouth.
Wei Renshi had known that Jiao Haiqing looked lazy on weekdays, but he was very decisive when encountering problems. Seeing that he agreed so decisively, he smiled and said, "Okay! After you Aye comes to Chang'an and the caravan cooperation is negotiated, you can start to form a caravan. What you need at that time, just tell me what you want."
Wei Renshi is still very confident now.
In terms of money, Yimenglou has now become another giant that competes with Huachunlou in Luoyang City, and its daily income is considerable. In addition, the winery business alone has a huge annual income. In addition, half of the streets next to the Luoyang River embankment are the industries of Yimenglou, so it is naturally Wei Renshi's industry.
With these as support, Wei Renshi can do many things right now.
In addition, forming a caravan is something that Li Shi agrees, so he will naturally get Li Shi's support.
With these conditions, the biggest problem in forming a caravan is actually the operation and management of the caravan.
Jiao Haiqing's family is mainly maritime businessmen. He is influenced by his own experience and is definitely stronger than others. What's more, Wei Renshi doesn't believe that his family will not support him strongly after hearing about this.
It is very likely that it is even possible to directly assign people from the original Jiao family's sea merchant caravan to Jiao Haiqing.
The profits of overseas caravans are too great, just look at Hu merchants since ancient times.
The sooner this profit is saved, the faster it can use the places you need - the Sixteen Guards and the Beijing Military Equipment Supervision.
By revitalizing the Sixteen Guards, we can obtain an army that we control. Through the capital city military weapons and equipment, this army has achieved combat effectiveness far exceeding other armies.
If this matter is done, then why are you afraid of the eunuch party and vassal states?
There is only one thing that needs to be sober, that is, you must never become the leader of this army.
Because the emperor was absolutely unwilling to see the wolf not being driven away, but he raised another tiger.
Unless the tiger is controlled by the emperor only.
But as an outsider, even if Wei Renshi has no second intentions, once he controls this power, he will definitely arouse suspicion.
That's why Wei Renshi pushed Li Chun ahead and left himself clean.
If Li Chun was the leader of this army, then this problem would not exist.
Because Li Shi and Li Song had only been around for more than a year at most. In the future, this Tang Dynasty belonged to Li Chun.
After all, Wei Renshi never wanted to compete for power with the emperor, so that would be too troublesome.
Chapter completed!