Chapter 108                                                             

Xian Jing didn't know what his wife would do now.

At this moment, at the banquet, there were three rounds of wine and five flavors.

Xian Jing clapped his hands and the people below left immediately, leaving him and these big merchants.

Xian Jing waved his hand and immediately a eunuch walked up with a tray. There was only a thin piece of paper on the rosewood tray.

He asked the eunuch to hold the tray and let the merchants look at it one by one.

Even though these businessmen have strong capital, they change color slightly when they see this piece of paper.

Wang Yue, the head of the Wang family in Huizhou, said: "Mr. Concubine, what does this mean? Please ask the Prince. Concubine to explain it to us."

Xian Jing said: "This is the license of Foshan Iron Factory. With this license, my family can build a large iron factory like Shaofu in Foshan. This is approved by His Majesty."

No one envies the business of Shaofu, especially the businessmen in the north.

After all, most of the production capacity of Shaofu is in the north, and northern merchants are hit the most, while southern merchants are much less. However, their envy of Shaofu is just the same.

Even many family businesses began to imitate Shaofu's production methods intentionally or unintentionally.

I just want to build a large factory building and build such a workshop, but I have to manage some government offices.

After all, hundreds of people gathered in the local area, and even more, without the government nodding, and being sued in the yamen, it was about to have a meal.

Suddenly, many people saw this license, and what they thought of was, how much does this license cost? Whose way should they go?

Xian Jing seemed to see their thoughts and said, "I am lucky to see Your Majesty. Your Majesty knows that our business people have worked hard and intends to open a door of convenience. However, when opening factories and mines to gather people, the court must have a management method."

"I'm just arranged for the boy to run this Foshan iron plant. Once it's successful, other industries will be liberalized one after another. At that time, all companies can go to the Ministry of Industry to apply for such licenses."

"But it is true?" said the head of the Xu family in Songjiang.

Now Songjiang is already the production center of Ming cloth, and the Xu family is different from many merchants. All of his industries are on cloth.

He had long wanted to open a large cloth shop, but there were many problems, such as female workers' problems and land problems. After all, the weaving fabrics in Jiangnan were also under the jurisdiction of the Shaofu.

Now that I heard about such conditions, I couldn't help but feel moved.

Xian Jing said: "Of course, it's because my Xian family is poor, but I don't know what to do with this iron factory. I have already attracted the Qian family to invest in some equity capital, but it's still not enough."

"But, the father-in-law Qian family?" asked one person.

Xian Jing said, "That's right."

After a moment of silence, almost everyone said at the same time: "I am willing to invest."

Xian Jing did not hide his goals at all. These people are veterans of business, how could they not understand what it means?

It was not new to invest in the Ming Dynasty, but even in the Song Dynasty. As a businessman, I understand it very well.

For them, when they come here today, they mostly want to join the prince-consort online. Even if they can’t join the online, they can’t offend them.

It is not impossible to even ask them to pay some filial piety.

The only difference is that some businessmen have some confidence behind them. If they don’t ask for Xian Jing, some businessmen are now in crisis and come here with a desire for a little chance.

Just like that Huihui businessman.

However, Xian Jing's condition is within the bottom line of many people. They are willing to pay a little money, and some people just think it's worth it.

So, as few as a few thousand taels, as many as 150,000 taels, were the money taken out by the Hui merchant. In just a moment, Xian Jing raised nearly one million taels of capital.

In this way, Foshan Iron Factory will definitely not be a problem.

Even Xian Jing can do more.

Of course, Xian Jing also knew that some of them might not have come for the Foshan Iron Factory.

At midnight, Xian Jing personally sent these people out of the Prince Consort's Mansion one by one. Although they only left one sentence now, Xian Jing had no doubt about the credit of these big merchants.

Xian Jing left this Hui merchant behind, and there was no need to explain in detail.

Just talking about it, the next morning, everything Xian Jing talked about here was on Zhu Qizhen's desktop.

Zhu Qizhen looked at the list of these big businessmen.

He secretly figured out the background of these people, thought about it, and said to Huaien: "Let the Dongchang check the foundation of these people, remember to just check it. Don't move anything else, don't let them know."

The first pot of gold that a businessman started his business was probably not too clean, even in later generations, let alone now.

Not to mention anything else, Zhu Qizhen is sure that most of Fujian businessmen have done maritime business. As for Shanxi and Shaanxi businessmen, they also did smuggling business at the beginning.

In the original border army smuggling case, Zhu Qizhen had already seen the skills of the Ming merchants.

However, time has changed.

When Zhu Qizhen was short of money back then, the first thing he thought about when he saw these big businessmen was to search the house and fill the national treasury. But now it is different.

Zhu Qizhen hopes that the Ming Dynasty will develop industry and many things can be compromised.

As long as these big businessmen truly become independent capital forces and promote the development of the Ming Dynasty society, Zhu Qizhen can turn a blind eye to many things.

And if they truly become capital forces, Zhu Qizhen must also make plans first and prepare for future development.

Of course, you have to understand the details clearly.

The reason why Huaien was able to stay with Zhu Qizhen for so many years is actually capable. At least he had a lot of skills to understand Zhu Qizhen's mind. Huaien said: "Your Majesty, the case of these people is found by the Jinyiwei, the Ministry of Revenue, and the East Factory, but now it takes time."

"I only found these few, and I guess the rest will be found in the next day or two." Then I sent some files up.

Zhu Qizhen was quite satisfied with this result.

It was already good that the Ming Dynasty court could have this effect. Not to mention investigation, it was a big project to find documents about these people from the vast documents of Jinyiwei, Dongchang, the Ministry of Revenue, and the vast number of documents.

Not to mention, these local documents may not contain files of these people.

After all, although businessmen are rich, they may not have enough social status to make state organs pay attention to them.

Zhu Qizhen looked at it a little, smiled coldly, and said to himself: "Sure enough, there are almost any suspicious things, just like the Zhang family in Shanxi, which has too close relationship with Yanchi."

Almost all that one is not too clean.

Zhu Qizhen suddenly saw Wang Yue’s file, but stopped and looked carefully several times.

It’s not that Wang Yue is relatively clean, and Wang Yue is not too clean. The money he started with was his wife’s dowry, but his first pot of gold was suspected to be a sell-off of stolen goods.

Pirate's swag.

Of course, Zhu Qizhen didn't care much about the stolen goods.

What he cared about was that the Wang family’s industries were very complicated. They had almost everything they did. The Wang family was prosperous and was a big family among Hui merchants. Almost all the male members of the family were going out to do business.

There are everywhere.

This forms a dense network.

Many families also operate in this way in a dispersed manner just to avoid risks.

Just like Ximen Qing in Jinping Mei, who made his fortune with a pharmacy shop, he ran a lot of businesses. That's it.

However, Zhu Qizhen discovered that Wang Yue had always had a focus of his business, which was the silver shop.

That is, there are always different places to exchange for silver coins. However, after Zhu Qizhen promoted the currency, the currency was unified, and it seems that such an industry is not important. But the Wang family still has not changed.

Because the Wang family started to run a business of depositing and withdrawing from other places, they also acted as some pawnshops.

What's this?

This is the original financial industry.

Zhu Qizhen's heart moved, and something seemed to have been touched.

The silver shortage problem he faced was a financial problem. Although he had some basic financial knowledge, it was not enough for him to solve this problem.

And can this wild banker in Daming give him an answer?

Zhu Qizhen didn't know, but he was willing to give it a try, but before that, he had a lot of things to do. Zhu Qizhen pulled out Wang Yue's file, put it on the table, tapped his fingers gently, and said, "Find it clearly, especially the Wang family's silver shop."
Chapter completed!