"Am I blind? Why am I blind with my words? Bai Pengfu is also very angry! Especially now that I've drunk too much wine, I'm on the top. If it was left in normal times, he would not quarrel with Hou Lixing, an old friend.

"Let me ask you, am I holding your head and not letting you invest more shares?" Hou Lixing said angrily: "Is there any?" ”

Although Bai Pengfu drank too much, he still replied: "No." ”

"Isn't this the end of it!? Then you blame me, does it make sense? Hou Lixing sighed: "Don't think about those things, let's follow Wei Gongzi in the future, are you still worried about the silver?" What else do you mention about the past? Didn't Wei Gongzi say that Yongping Mansion originally opened two sales joint-stock companies? When our company earns money, let's go to Yongping Mansion to open a semicolon! ”

"Hey, this is good, when the time comes, I will invest a lot of money and become a major shareholder." Bai Pengfu immediately grinned and rushed to say.

"The beauty you think!" Hou Lixing said angrily: "Everyone knows that when you can make money, it is your turn to invest a large amount of money and become a major shareholder?" ”

"It's not my turn, it's your turn?" As soon as Bai Pengfu heard Hou Lixing's words, his anger came up again, and with the strength of the wine, he spoke louder than usual.

"Okay, okay, don't make any noise." Zhao Kehu smiled and persuaded: "You guys, when you encounter something difficult, you will quarrel." Now that I've made some money, why are I still noisy? Two old kids? ”

Wei Bao also helped persuade: "In the future, let's talk about it later, don't you have many opportunities to invest in silver?" Not only Yongping Mansion, but also seven or eight prefectures in Beizhili, when the time comes, you can contact the local big businessmen to join forces! It's hundreds of millions of taels of silver, and I'm not afraid of more! ”

Ooh! Hundreds of millions of taels of silver are not afraid of much?

Wei Gongzi's 'big words' shocked all the shareholders present, and now they feel Wei Gongzi's strong spirit!

Han Xin's more soldiers the better, and Wei Bao does business, and the more silver the better. If there is a lot of silver, but the businessman who does not know how to operate, is by no means a qualified businessman, at least he will never be able to become a big businessman, and the pattern is not enough.

Once you look at a wider space, you will not be too confined to a small area of gains and losses.

It's not that Wei Bao suddenly opened his mind in ancient times and became powerful, he is still a modern ordinary person, it's just that his transcendent identity through the giant makes him accustomed to thinking about the entire Ming Dynasty and even the whole world of this time and space.

This is unimaginable for modern Wei Bao, when a person can only be limited to food and clothing for a long time and struggles, the mortgage and car loans have been repaid, and then the wife wants to travel, and the son wants to go to various high-priced interest classes, what else to talk about looking at the world?

Not only is it financially limited, but the most important thing is that time is shackled by life, and every step is like an invisible force pulling Wei Bao forward, and there is no space to be quiet.

Now that Wei Bao is in the time and space of Daming, he can do whatever he wants, and after worrying about food and clothing, he has a wider range of choices. This troubled world seems to provide him with more possibilities.

Wu Sanfeng's subordinates did not develop Wei Bao's new products, soap, matches, kerosene lamps, these things, let alone research and development, even the materials are not clear.

A group of large and small shopkeepers under Wu Sanfeng gathered a lot of skilled craftsmen, most of whom were the best among the craftsmen, and they couldn't do anything.

Wei Bao has made significant progress on his side. Lin Wenbiao found Xu Weibing, a big businessman in Nanzhili, who was stationed in Shanhaiguan in charge of a business, called Xu Leijian.

Xu Weibing's father was Xu Dahua, the Cheng of Dali Temple, one of Wei Zhongxian's minions. Wei Zhongxian has not been in power for a few years, and he has only slowly begun to seize power since the apocalypse ascended the throne, and now it is only four years of the apocalypse.

However, Wei Zhongxian's power has spread all over the government and the opposition, and many Qichu and Zhejiang party members and a small number of Donglin party members have taken the initiative to cling to it.

Wei Zhongxian, who had the imperial power behind him, quickly became the head of the largest power group inside and outside the government and the opposition.

The big merchants in the south of Zhili only do business in Beijing and some important passes in the north, and on the side of western Liaoning, most of them are transshipment and trading, and do not directly conflict with the local shopping mall forces in western Liaoning.

"Childe, someone has found it, but I'm afraid it's not easy to do." Lin Wenbiao said again: "As soon as the other party heard that we wanted food, and seemed to know that Gongzi and the Wu family did not deal with each other, he was unwilling to take such a big deal, he said that he couldn't be the master." ”

Wei Bao thought about it, if he was in a hurry, the other party would definitely say that he would discuss with the big boss behind him, this kind of communication development in ancient times, cross-regional contact, at least ten days and half a month, everything was delayed.

"Didn't you tell this Xu Leijian, let's only do a business secretly? It's not about takeaway food, it's only used internally, and the outside world won't know about it! Wei Bao said: "Let's see if this person can break through, it's best not to alarm the boss behind him, and directly ask him to help us buy a batch of grain." ”

Wei Bao knows that the people under him do things, although this era is a domestic slave system, not as easy to bribe as modern workers, but people are always selfish, and they are in charge of affairs far away from the border, with a lot of power and strong constraints.

The reason why Wei Bao generally engaged in the development of the form of IPO in the sales of Tiandi firm is to take this into account, in this era, the supervision of the same affairs is too complicated, transportation, communication are extremely inconvenient, rather than a large amount of money loss in supervision, it is better to let go of the profits to other businesses.

In this way, he could not only absorb a large amount of money as soon as possible, but also facilitate his own ideas about the transformation of the Ming landlord class into the bourgeoisie.

"Childe means, bribe this person?" Lin Wenbiao said: "I'm afraid it's very difficult, these stewards who are placed outside are generally very loyal, and they supervise each other, in case they are exposed, it is a big crime, and the head of his family can use capital punishment against him!" ”

"People die for money, birds die for food, you haven't tried, how do you know it's not feasible?" Wei Bao said indifferently: "Grain doesn't cost much silver!" The more you buy, the better! One hundred stones, or two hundred stones, not afraid of much. As for the amount of the bribe, you can open it as you like until he is tempted! ”

Wei Bao is still willing to spend money to do things, besides, now he is going to take the industrial road, what is the amount of funds for industry? What is the amount of funding for agriculture?

In this era, if it is a normal year, a stone of grain is about 900 kilograms, but it is only about five taels of silver.

It is a year of calamity, which has increased tenfold, and it is only fifty taels of silver.

For the sake of convenience, Weibao is also unified by Weibao, so as not to cause confusion in the measuring tools. He unified all the weights and measures under his own in modern units of counting: catties, kilograms, centimeters, decimeters, meters, miles, and kilometers.

Wei Bao calculated that 10,000 people, half a catty of grain per person a day, need 5,000 catties of grain a day, can survive a month, and when the spring flowers bloom, the problem of food shortage can be alleviated, because he has a large area of sea, and he will not starve to death just by eating fish.

Thirty five thousand catties, but 150,000 catties, 75,000 kilograms, even if it is 90,000 kilograms, but a hundred stone of grain, according to 50 taels of silver and one stone of grain, it is so expensive that it can no longer be expensive, but it is 5,000 taels of silver. Even if it is two hundred stone of grain, it is only ten thousand taels of silver, which is within Wei Bao's bearing.

He is now going to take the route of industrialization, and compared to the huge costs and outputs of industry, food is really nothing.

Therefore, the silver is not what Wei Bao is worried about, Wei Bao is just worried that something will happen in the process of purchasing and transporting, and when the time comes, he will be arrested by the government as a whole, and the grain will not be obtained, and he will pay himself in, which will be troublesome.

With Childe's clear instructions, Lin Wenbiao had a bottom in his heart, "Don't worry, Childe, I will find a way, there is no one who does business without money." ”

"Remember, get to the point, one is that we can give silver! We will sell as much silver as we sell on the black market, and we will not be worse than silver. The second is to only do it this time, never for takeout, just for your own use! Won't get him in trouble. Wei Bao said.

"Yes, Childe." Lin Wenbiao agreed and withdrew.

Now for general questions, Wei Bao no longer comes forward in person.

He doesn't like to talk about things in person, unless he has to.

This kind of black market business is more appropriate for Lin Wenbiao, who was originally on the underworld, to talk about it.

When Wei Bao and Lin Wenbiao were talking, Xu Rui avoided it.

Because Wei Bao didn't tell Fan Xiaolin, Xu Rui and Wang Qiuya about going outside to buy food secretly. Wang Qiuya went to the shop below to see the goods.

However, after Wei Bao came back from Xu Rui, Wei Bao took the initiative to tell her about this important matter.

Wei Bao didn't deliberately hide anything, Fan Xiaolin, Xu Rui and Wang Qiuya were all his personal secretaries, and after they found out, Wei Bao was not worried about leaking secrets.

After hearing this, Xu Rui just hummed softly and didn't say anything.

The problem of food had an eyebrow, which made Wei Bao feel a little more comfortable, and continued to read.

He read the Four Books and Five Classics, and originally said that he was going to find Liao Fuzi today and go to school like an ordinary student, but he sent someone to contact him, but he didn't really want to go.

I don't know why, Wei Bao, who hadn't entered the school for a long time, suddenly didn't want to go to the school. The ancient school is not like the modern one, boring, and there are no girls at all, which makes Wei Bao interested?

While reading a book, Wei Bao's ears were still listening to the sound of the sales joint-stock company under the Tiandi firm downstairs next door selling goods.

More than 200 shareholders wandered around the shop all day long, and they even saved money from finding friends, and the house slaves brought by so many rich men were almost thousands, making this street lively.

These rich people also seem to be very good at getting things done.

The brick pillars along the street are full of various billboards, all of which are original advertisements with words and drawings on big red paper.

These all made Wei Bao feel funny, he thought that the ancient people didn't know how to advertise, but now that he thinks about it, he has shallow knowledge.

What is available in modern times, everyone has it in ancient times! It's just that with the passage of time, in modern times, it has become more mature and more progressive, not that there were no ancient times.

Although a lot of goods were sold on the first day, most of them were relatives and friends found by a group of rich landowners, half sold and half given away.

Now taking advantage of the heat, a group of rich people took advantage of this opportunity to direct their men to solicit customers.

The guys are very enthusiastic, because they are all domestic slaves of the rich people.

Although Wei Bao took away most of the villagers' debts, there are still die-hard house slaves, and there are a few in each big family, and these people are willing to follow their masters, which is called loyalty, and they will not leave no matter what the situation.

Because Wei Bao has released all the management rights of his sales joint-stock company, from the shopkeeper to the guys, they are all selected by these rich landowners, and they naturally do not flow into the fields of outsiders, and they all let their domestic slaves act as slaves. They can also receive an extra 'salary'.

In this era, it should be called monthly silver, and the guys in the general store are very great at most in charge of the rice, but Wei Bao asked that the guys not only take care of the rice, but also have the monthly silver.

This article alone made all the shop owners in Shanhaiguan mad, and it also made the eyes of all the shop guys jealous, and they had never heard of the guys still having a monthly salary.

The guys enthusiastically and vigorously promoted it, but it didn't work much, the year was so bad that ordinary people couldn't afford soap, matches, and kerosene lamps.

They are reluctant to even use soaphorns, most of the poor people in this era have a smell, only girls will try to find some crude homemade soaphorns to bathe, men do not take a bath all year round, it is not uncommon.

It's better in the south, but the winter in the north is so cold, and it's a tradition to be next to the Mongols and Jiannu, and people don't take a bath.

As for matches, they were willing to ask for them if they didn't cost money, but no one wanted to buy them if they had a fire fold that cost almost no money.

Kerosene lamps are even more so, the poor people can't even afford ordinary oil lamps, and they still don't have the money to light kerosene lamps with the same price and higher performance, so there will be no difference.

The object of business is still the wealthy. It is a pity that the Tiandi business is vaguely ostracized by the wealthy, and the habits cannot be changed overnight, and those who are accustomed to using soap horns, matches, and kerosene lamps will not accept fresh soap, matches, and kerosene lamps at once.

Faced with this situation, Wei Bao was not impatient, because he had predicted this situation before.

After reading the book for an afternoon, Wei Bao waited for good news again.

"Childe, it's done!" Lin Wenbiao was a little excited: "The steward surnamed Xu wants a benefit fee of 500 taels of silver!" promised to help buy 200 stone of grain, all from North Korea. ”

Wei Bao didn't say excitedly, his face was indifferent, all of this was within his expectations, if Lin Wenbiao brought back bad news, he would be a little strange.

Because Wei Bao knew that there had always been trade between the southern merchants and Koreans, and the Koreans wanted silver and goods. The goods are mainly daily necessities that are considered 'advanced products' for them.

For example, the North Koreans collect silk, but they can't make silk. Even if there is, it is not as good as the quality of Daming. Even pen, ink, paper, inkstone, farm tools, as long as they are things from the Ming Dynasty, they are all good things.

Of course, the main thing is that they still want silver.

At present, North Korea is still relatively peaceful.

Due to the existence of the Great Khing'an Mountains and the Mongolian Plateau, most of the time North China can only be connected to the Liaodong region through the narrow walkway on the edge of the Yanshan Mountain, through the Shan Customs, while the northern fishing and hunting peoples Jiannu can easily cut off this connection.

Before the Qing Dynasty entered the customs and brought the Northeast into the Central Plains Dynasty as a dowry, the Ming Dynasty actually failed to effectively bring the Liaodong region to the rule of the central government for a long time.

The premise of attacking Korea was to pacify Liaodong, and there were not many periods in history when the Central Plains were unified and Liaodong was war-free.

The terrain of North Korea is mountainous and watery, and it is actually hilly.

North Korea is a mountainous country, especially in the northern region, where 80% of the country is mountainous and there are very few plains, while the south has more plains.

However, the Central Plains ethnic groups had to enter the Korean Peninsula from the north, and the terrain in the northern mountainous areas was easy to defend and difficult to attack, which made it more difficult for the Central Plains Dynasty to attack.

Although the terrain in the north is not conducive to agricultural production, it is conducive to defense, while the south has several relatively large plains with relatively large areas and agriculture is relatively developed.

In this way, it has also independently formed a geographical structure similar to China's north-south mutual assistance.

That is, the northern region is used to block foreign invasions, and the southern region provides corresponding economic support.

The Korean Peninsula is a small system of its own, and it is not easy for external forces to completely break it.

The Ming Dynasty had recently advanced into the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, but in fact the Han forces could only advance along the more gentle areas of the west coast of the Korean Peninsula, and could not occupy all of North Korea.

As for the situation in the south of Korea, it is similar to that in the south of the Ming Dynasty.

Although the North has been lost again and again, the abundant economic base and complex terrain of the South have made it far less frequent than the North.

The southern part is mainly a hilly and plain area, which can not only become an important agricultural center, but also effectively resist and regain lost territory according to the topography, making it difficult for external forces to gain a foothold.

Therefore, it is difficult for the Han Chinese to maintain their influence on the Korean Peninsula for a long time.

Daming is a land power country, an inward-looking and closed country, and there is no sense of sea power.

In the feudal era, the criterion for judging whether a place is worth beating is whether the place is suitable for farming.

It would be good if the grain produced on the Korean Peninsula could barely feed itself, but it would be a waste of food to have to help him in a famine year.

It was no good to fight it with great effort, so it was listed as a place not to be conquered by Ming Taizu.

Wei Bao didn't know if he should give Taizu a thumbs up?

It's time to win the Nobel Peace Prize."

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, to take North Korea, it was actually a matter of minutes. At least that's what Wei Bao sees. Even the Mongolian iron cavalry was driven to Mobei, not to mention ......

Of course, the rulers of North Korea are also more obedient, aware of the existence of the behemoth Celestial Empire around them, and most of the time they can be a little brother with peace of mind, call the minister Nagong, send some ginseng and send a few beauties.

Even if Korea is defeated, the meaning of this place to the ruler is nothing more than these two things.

Therefore, for the ruler to be able to control North Korea, there is no need to include it in the territory, and there is not much difference.

In Wei Bao's view, the Ming Dynasty, like the previous dynasties, also has no sense of territory, and many times both sides tacitly assume that this is yours and mine, unlike the Europeans who have to draw a clear line from mountain to ditch.

The first time that Chinese forces officially entered Korea was when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent troops to eliminate Wei Manchu Korea and set up four counties, and officially included the northern part of the Korean Peninsula under the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty.

However, with the fall of the Han Dynasty and the decline of the Wei and Jin dynasties, the Koreans continued to resist and eventually expelled the Chinese forces from Korea, gradually forming the Three Kingdoms of Goguryeo, Silla and Baekje, known as the "Three Kingdoms Period".

In the late Tang Dynasty, the Korean Peninsula tended to be unified, but it also resisted Japanese aggression, and the reason for this was that in the era of agricultural civilization, the Korean Peninsula was far from the core area of Central Plains civilization.

From the North China Plain to the peninsula, the land route has to pass through the West Liaoning Plain, the Qianshan Mountains, the Changbai Mountains, cross the Yalu River, and enter the Korean Peninsula. Since the battlefield is far from the core area of the homeland, it needs to be supported by huge logistics.

Extremely consuming national power, coupled with the severe cold of winter, the available time is limited, and the Central Plains Dynasty needs to win quickly.

Once Goguryeo defended the danger, the Central Plains Dynasty could not quickly expand its gains and could easily advance and retreat.

In view of the fact that it was still difficult for the Sui and Tang dynasties to conquer the Korean Peninsula, and that the Korean Peninsula was mountainous and narrow, the costs of conquest were disproportionate to the benefits.

Later, the Central Plains Dynasty did not attempt to conquer Korea again.

The Korean Peninsula regime was also happy to maintain a nominal vassal relationship with the Central Plains Dynasty, but in essence to maintain independence.

Japan first showed interest in the Korean Peninsula during the Battle of the White River Estuary.

China intervened, and the Tang and Silla coalition forces defeated the Japanese army, and this battle was crucial, laying the basic pattern of Northeast Asia until modern times.

Japan's failed invasion of Korea again during the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty was nearly a thousand years later.

Throughout the history of the Korean Peninsula, the continental civilization represented by China has tried to conquer the Korean Peninsula, but has failed and given up due to various reasons.

Later, it helped the Korean Peninsula defend itself against maritime threats.

Mainly Xiaoben, in modern times, Xiaoben and the American powers are entangled together, and Xiaoben invaded Korea three times.

After World War II, the situation on the Korean Peninsula was even more complicated under the influence of Russia, China, the United States, and Xiaobenzi, which became four major powers.

Although the regime on the peninsula has always intended to maintain its independence, the peculiarities of its geography make it impossible for any regime to avoid the tremendous influence of its strong neighbors on the peninsula.

In general, the role of the younger brother played by North Korea is still the most 'real'.

During the Ming Dynasty, Goryeo and Damyeongwen were incomprehensible, and the script they used was Chinese characters, and the language had its own pronunciation.

This is the majority of low-level North Korean people, high-level North Koreans, most of whom can speak Chinese, and it is very convenient for the two sides to communicate.

Being able to speak Chinese is a lofty thing in North Korea.

Chinese and Chinese characters are the official lingua franca.

Due to the fact that at that time, the officials of the upper class of Korea, the aristocracy, and the official texts of books were still in Chinese.

The proverbs made up by the North Koreans themselves were boycotted by two classes because they were mostly used by the North Korean population without formal education.

In the early 20th century, after Korea was annexed by Japan, Korean characters began to be written alongside Chinese characters due to the influence of the Japanese language, and at this time, "Korean-Chinese mixed writing" became the main way of writing Korean.

After Wei Bao longed for the style of North Korea, he said indifferently to Lin Wenbiao: "Got it! You are responsible for this. He said, how soon will the grain be delivered? Do I need to pay a fixed amount upfront? ”

"Within half a month at the earliest, there is no need to pay the fixed money, he knows that our Tiandi firm has the strength, and he said that when the time comes, he will pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other, and directly drive the ship to our Weijiazhuang." Lin Wenbiao replied.

Wei Bao nodded, satisfied with Lin Wenbiao's errand, but he never let go of his hanging heart.

No matter what, if you don't get food, you always have no bottom in your heart, Wei Bao has tasted the taste of hunger, and when you are hungry, people are easy to lose their minds and be like wild beasts.

Lin Wenbiao agreed to go down.

Wei Bao yearns for North Korea because although North Korea is a subject country of the Ming Dynasty, its control is not strict and the ties are not close.

It's easier to get the metal ore he needs in North Korea!

No matter how closed Weijiazhuang is, it is impossible not to let people in, if the huge metal mine is mined, it can't be hidden if you want to, it is a capital crime to commit the law of the Ming Dynasty.

Bringing iron ore, copper ore, and various metal mines from North Korea, and then building a steel mill in Gunkan Bay for smelting, this is Wei Bao's planned plan.

As soon as Lin Wenbiao left, Wang Qiuya came in, "Son, isn't it time for dinner?" ”

Wei Bao knew that Wang Qiuya was in the store all afternoon to see the sales, so he asked, "How are the goods selling today?" ”

Originally, Wei Bao didn't want to ask, but he didn't like to hear bad news more and more.

But it is still necessary to know the specific situation, and as a 'leader', you must have a mind, and the mind also includes knowing the bad news within yourself.