What is your view of the world?

Such a grand proposition actually requires him, a five-year-old child, to answer it? Zhang Zhixiang once again realized the importance of this era to the four words "reincarnation of an immortal".

But he was puzzled again, isn’t Wang Yuanzhi… not a businessman?

If Emperor Jiajing asked this question, Zhang Zhixiang would feel it was normal, but Wang Yuanzhi asked... He thought about it and asked back, "What aspect do layman want to ask?"

Zhang Zhixiang can naturally speak a little bit, but there is no need to tell everything.

After all, it was just a chance meeting.

Wang Yuanzhi smiled slightly. He was very courteous and highly praised. In addition, with a daughter sitting beside him, if he was an ordinary boy, he would have already said everything. But Zhang Zhixiang was still very calm and cautious.

Not to mention just a child, even if a teenager is sitting here, it is excellent.

The immortal is reincarnated...

"Scholars, farmers, businessmen, businessmen, businessmen, what do you think of the little immortal?" Wang Yuanzhi chose an aspect related to him, not only to hear some unique insights, but also to investigate Zhang Zhixiang.

Although the merchants of the Ming Dynasty were lawless, what laymen could see was always the tip of the iceberg.

They are first and foremost shadows hidden behind the civil service group.

If you want to see through them, you must first bypass the civil servant group, so the emperor cannot see through them.

Not to mention people outside the world?

Zhang Zhixiang had never seen how powerful the merchants of this era were. In his impression, the Ming Dynasty emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce, and was taught in textbooks, which also caused China to lag behind the world and eventually suffered humiliation from modern times.

He was just about to say something.

Suddenly I thought that my senior brother and father knew that the earth was round, and that Zheng He had completed the common sense of global navigation behavior, and Dafeng Feng appeared alive...

Perhaps, history was not what was written in the textbook, he thought.

"Dare you asking about the business of the layman? Does it involve overseas?" Zhang Zhixiang did not choose to state one by one, but asked again. He had no specific ideas, but was indeed robbing the dominance.

Wang Yuanzhi narrowed his eyes and his mind was slightly paused.

Their source of ginseng products comes from Beishangzhou, which is the core business secret. They also do some overseas businesses, but they all cover up their eyes and ears, including porcelain, silk, fur, and even going to Jianzhou and North Korea to purchase ginseng. These are all tricks.

actual.

In a certain place in Beishangzhou, there are as many ginseng as wild grass.

The year is high and the quality is good. The locals regard weeds as weeds. It can be said that it is a profitable deal. If an ordinary person does business, he will definitely continue to buy weeds.

But the Wang family is different.

In addition to the lack of capital for the first ship of ginseng, it was purchased at the price of weeds, and after that, it was fair, and after becoming rich, it also made up for the first time. In the Ming Dynasty, ginseng was 3 taels of silver, which was the result of the Wang family's hype of ginseng marketing over the years.

A few years ago, the lowest price of ginseng was 1 cents and 5 cents per kilogram.

The Wang family transported the first ship of ginseng back twenty years ago, with a total of 2,000 stones, totaling 240,000 kilograms, which is far beyond market demand. The annual medicinal ginseng in the Ming Dynasty actually does not exceed 20,000 kilograms. It is impossible to sell so many goods using ginseng as medicinal materials.

Even if you sell it at a low price, you will only earn 20,000 taels of silver.

It is unworthy of this pair of Wang brothers who have spared their lives to go to Beishangzhou to make a fortune. Those who engage in armed robbery and looting several tribes in Yin Di'an were not just profitable.

But business is done by mind after all.

The Wang family focused on promoting the health benefits of ginseng and launched supplements mainly for Baisui Decoction.

Baisui Decoction, as the name suggests, can last for a long time by drinking it regularly. Due to the effect of ginseng tonic and replenishing the spirit, this medicine is popular among the people as soon as it is released. Anyone who has a headache or fever likes to buy a bottle of Baisui Decoction, and rumors say that it can cure all diseases.

so.

The Wang family made a fortune. The first ship of ginseng made the Wang brothers earn a full 500,000 taels of silver. Baisui Tang was even more popular all over the country, and the profit was more than dozens of times higher than simply selling ginseng...

At this time.

The Wang brothers made a decision. They told the local tribes with a population of millions in Beishangzhou, and told them that the price of this thing in the Ming Dynasty was 1 cents and 5 cents of silver per catty. At the same time, they also took the tribe's messengers thousands of miles to the port on the east coast for investigation and inquiry.

The sincerity of the Wang family has brought friendship between local tribes.

They signed a contract and determined the exclusive trade at a price of 1 qian of silver per kilogram. Millions of local people kept the Wang family confidential and protected the ginseng all over the mountains and fields for them. The Wang family not only gave the silver, but also purchased the supplies they needed at the Ming Dynasty prices and sent them to them from thousands of miles...

To be honest.

The Wang family has been doing business for so many years, and the biggest capital is no longer open wealth, but the support of millions of Yin Di'an people in the Superior region.

If they were willing, they could have established a country there.

The Xu family controlled more than 100,000 pirates in the Southeast Sea, and their Wang family could also arm tens of thousands of people in the Superior area...

"Our Wang family naturally has business involving overseas."

After reviewing the Wang family's history of making a fortune, Wang Yuanzhi replied lightly, but unexpectedly, Zhang Zhixiang's next sentence actually asked him: "So, how big is the business?"

Wang Yuanzhi smiled, looked at Zhang Zhixiang and said, "How big can the little fairy think this business can be?"

Zhang Zhixiang closed his eyes, not because he was afraid of looking at each other, but because he couldn't bear to look at some data in his mind, and said, "Maybe, 3.2 billion taels of silver and 200 million taels of gold are just the beginning."

Starting from Spain's capture of Maya, Aztec and Inca.

For a whole century, only official statistics have shown that 100,000 tons of silver and thousands of tons of gold have inflowed. Although the official statistics are not the tip of the iceberg compared to smuggling, it is probably not better than this compared to the proportion of hidden households and tax-related populations in the Ming Dynasty, so the total amount has to be at least quadrupled.

That is a huge, unimaginable wealth, and it is also an unimaginable... a sea of ​​corpses and blood.

Zhang Zhixiang said heavy, but Wang Yuanzhi's pupils shrank slightly. He was doing a big business, so he estimated that the silver flowing into the Ming Dynasty every year was about 100 million taels.

The old master could not know about this, but Zhang Zhixiang could summarize the trading volume in a complete way?

From Zheng He's voyage to the West to the present century, world trade has developed step by step, so it was not as large as it is today in the early days. If we want to count the stock, it is almost the number Zhang Zhixiang said.

About 5 billion taels of silver.

Wang Yuanzhi didn't know that the two of them were not talking about the same thing.

But it coincidentally reflects a fact.

That is to do business and do tribute, it is indeed better to make money by robbing, especially when they can’t grab it, God gave them a fortune...

"The Wang family has a million taels of business overseas every year."

In the Ming Dynasty, businessmen talked about business and did not like to talk about scale or how much money they cost. Generally, they refer to the profits of this business. Wang Yuanzhi said less about the order of magnitude, but looked at Zhang Zhixiang's reaction.

This number is unimaginable to many people.

However.

Zhang Zhixiang was just slightly surprised, and what was surprised was not that the business was so big, but that they could do such a big business, which was completely different from the one in the textbook...

In the textbook, the Xiluo people were brave and adventurous. The Ming Dynasty, who had Zheng He voyage to the West, only dared to walk along the coastline, and then hung up the plane for more than two hundred years because of being in a closed country...

If you think about it carefully, there were many unreasonable things when you were reading books back then.

Why did Zheng He's fleet take tens of thousands of people to sail for 28 years and seven times, just walking along the coastline, while Columbus and Magellan dared to sail around the world with one or two hundred people, and the goal is clear and the voyage is completed smoothly?

Does this conform to the law of objective development?

Just look down on the ancient Chinese people so much?

The more Zhang Zhixiang came into contact with him, the more he noticed the difference between knowledge and facts. He was not sure what happened to the Ming merchants doing overseas business now, so he could only ask again: "Guiyuan Trading Company is engaged in medicinal materials business, and lay Buddhists also purchase medicinal materials in overseas business?"

Wang Yuan's eyelids drooped, and said, "Yes."

Zhang Zhixiang hesitated for a moment and said, "In Beishangzhou, the Great Lakes area, well, it may be called Lake Superior, which is the one closest to the Ming Dynasty. There are countless ginseng growing on the south side of Lake Superior, as numerous as wild grasses. If you are interested, you can visit it."
Chapter completed!