Wu Zheng didn't hear it, and if he didn't want to hear it, Wu Zheng couldn't hear it.

Seeing that Wu Zheng ignored him, Fan Yongdou looked at Mo Nian in embarrassment.

Mo Zhi smiled and said, "Lord Fan, but it doesn't hurt to say it. ”

In the north, Fan Yongdou and others are used to the power of foxes and fake tigers, but in the south, I am afraid that when I see people, I will have to be three points shorter, because his financial resources, even if they are the financial resources of the eight imperial merchants together, compared with the scale of more than 200 merchants in the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce, it is really not a heavyweight, and many of them are even rich businessmen in Jiangbei, while Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku and other eight imperial merchants are excluded.

This is also the main reason why the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce launched a business war against the north, and Fan Yongdou and Wang Dengku were unable to support it alone.

Because at this time, basically the influential Northern Merchants are inextricably linked with the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce or the Mo's Money Estate, once the Southern Merchants are launched, they know that the so-called more is better than less, and they would rather sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, than go to help the imperial merchants.

The so-called peers are enemies, and the North Merchants have long hated these eight imperial merchants, not all because these eight imperial merchants betrayed the country, but because of the possession of the northern shopping malls, most of which were robbed by these eight with the help of the imperial court, and the North Merchants dared not speak out about it.

Fan Yongdou nodded gratefully at Mo Obsession, he only then realized that all his wealth and status, in front of his true strength, was just a fart.

He became respectful, as if he had never been arrogant before.

"Lord Wang, I am thinking about it, please ask the prince for permission, let me wait to join the Chamber of Commerce."

Rao is Wu Zheng had been mentally prepared, and he was also shocked by Fan Yongdou's conditions.

"Shareholder Chamber of Commerce?"

"Yes, Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce."

Wu Zheng and Mo Zhinian exchanged glances briefly, then turned their heads and asked, "Do you know the scale of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce?" ”

"You know, the share capital is 20,000 taels."

Mo Zhinian corrected with a smile: "This was a year ago, and now it has increased from more than 200 to nearly 300, with a total share capital of nearly 30,000 taels. ”

Speaking of which, Mo Nian's look is proud, he does have proud capital.

The Mo family has been operating for several generations, and its influence is not only in the south of the Yangtze River, but has long penetrated through the east and west, and runs through the north and south.

From scratch, in less than four years, the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce has developed into a behemoth.

Although it is a loose alliance of merchants, the impact of a gesture can not be underestimated.

Fan Yongdou and Wang Dengku were stunned and said, "Then ...... Less? ”

Mo Zhinian was even more stunned and asked, "What does this mean?" ”

Fan Yongdou said with a kind of pride that could not be concealed: "We are waiting for eight, and our financial resources are limited. ”

It was one and a half lightly, that was forty-five million taels, which would take more than ten years to accumulate this wealth in the last years of Chongzhen's imperial court.

It can be seen how thick the financial resources of these companies are.

It is no wonder that Li Zicheng entered the Shuntian Mansion, and Liu Zongmin extorted 70 million taels of silver from the wealthy nobles in the capital in just 20 days, which shows that the Ming Dynasty "hid the wealth from the people" to the point of breathtaking.

It is said that Li Zicheng failed the exam by "entering Beijing to catch the exam", but in fact, although Liu Zongmin did do a little excessive, which was strongly supported by the wealthy nobles and scholars in the capital.

But just because of this, Li Zicheng did not fail and left the capital gloomily.

Li Zicheng's departure, the biggest reason is two, one is with Tongguan, Liu Zongmin first fought unfavorably, and then the Dashun army was attacked by Wu Sangui and Dolgon, this defeat, there are not many Dashun troops around the capital, Li Zicheng had to leave the capital gloomily. The second is the plague that they are talking about.

In the autumn of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the plague had appeared in the capital, but because it was about to enter winter, the temperature was low, and the spread of the plague slowed down, and it was not noticeable for a while.

In March, when the spring flowers bloomed, the peachy and apricot white, fleas and rats began to become active, and a large-scale outbreak of plague broke out.

After Li Zicheng's army entered Beijing, he was infected with the plague, and his natural combat effectiveness was greatly reduced, and it was understandable that he could not defeat the Qing army.

Although the number of Qing troops was far lower than that of the Dashun army, in fact, when the battle was engaged, Li Zicheng was in a hurry, and Wu Sangui must be blamed for this, and Wu Sangui's false surrender made Li Zicheng lose his vigilance. Of course, in Li Zicheng's view, Wu Sangui is Han after all, how could he have thought that Wu Sangui would go to the Qing court?

After this defeat, although Li Zicheng was rich and wealthy and could recruit troops on a large scale, the new recruits were infected with the plague and lost their combat effectiveness when they joined the army, and no matter how many troops they had, they were useless, and they were never able to resist the tiger and wolf army of the Qing Dynasty.

The plague spread to the barracks, and could not get rid of it for a long time, Li Zicheng's spirit suffered a blow, in this era, people are still more trusting in fate, even the capital is occupied, but suffered such a natural disaster, which makes Li Zicheng think that God will not let him succeed, so he was disheartened and took the initiative to evacuate the capital. Therefore, Li Zicheng really did not flee, but took the initiative to evacuate.

Even, Li Zicheng took Zhu Cihong away, which is also the reason why Zhu Cihong did not fall into the hands of the Qing court.

Ahem, it's far away.

Fan Yongdou's fluttering sentence really brightened the eyes of Wu Zheng and Mo Obsession, forty-five million taels!

This is the result of the inability of merchant capital to enter the industry at that time, the germ of capitalism in the Ming Dynasty did not thrive because of the Ming Dynasty's seven trips to the West, and almost all merchant capital was hoarded, such as the two profiteers and the other six in front of them, the cash they hoarded, according to reliable records, more than 40,000 taels, what kind of concept is this, calculated by one catty and sixteen taels, more than 20 million catties, more than 10,000 tons, enough to pile up into a hill.

Therefore, it is rumored that the dynasty is short of gold and silver, which is simply nonsense, and Liu Zongmin extorted 70 million taels of silver in 20 days, which can be called a lack of gold and silver.

It's just that due to the continuous hoarding of merchant capital in the Ming Dynasty, it can't enter circulation and is buried in the soil.

But the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce is different, under the operation of Wu Zheng and Mo Zhinian, these share capital have been effectively used in construction and circulation.

Yes, the share capital of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce has indeed reached nearly 30,000 taels, but this is not the share capital of cash silver, but the assets of stores in various places containing nearly 300 merchants.

Moreover, after two years of investment, only 10% of the cash silver remains, and according to the economic theory of later generations, it has entered a dangerous range. Among them, Wu Zheng instigated the investment in the land of the new city, which has exceeded 20 million taels.

Therefore, even if Wu Zheng hated Fan Yongdou and others the most in his heart, he didn't want to get along with Yinzi.

Fortunately, Wu Zheng has been tempered by "blood and fire" for more than four years, and he is still good at endurance and kung fu.