Just as Xia Nan was pondering where to find silver to run the increasingly complex system of the Qiongzhou camp, Liu Quan muttered: "Guangzhou's money village is piled up with silver, but unfortunately it can only be seen and not ......spent."

This sentence reminded Xia Nan, and he laughed: "Who said you can't spend it?" As long as we save it for a fixed time, this silver will be the same as our own silver! ”

Sun Yuanhua reminded: "General, although I don't understand why I am drumming up this money, but other people's silver is deposited, it is still other people's silver, I still understand this truth, if you use it without authorization, isn't it no different from a robber?" The Qiongzhou camp stands upright, and it will do great things in the future, but it can't ruin its reputation because of greed for floating wealth in front of it! ”

Xia Nan explained: "Please rest assured Mr. Sun, it is definitely not taken without telling you, even if it is borrowed and spent, it will be returned in the future, the purpose of making this money is to use money to make money, and everyone will share the money together. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

This explanation is easy to understand, Sun Yuanhua immediately understood, nodded and said, "That's very good." ”

Liu Quan also understood, and he asked tentatively: "What does the general mean to take out a part of the Qianzhuang for emergency?" ”

"You guessed half right, but not all of them." Xia Nan said, "The current flow of water can still meet daily expenses, we transfer some money from the money bank to use it for business, not for expenses, this is tantamount to drinking water to quench thirst, the hole will get bigger and bigger, sooner or later it can't be filled, the money bank will go out of business." ”

Liu Quan scratched his head: "But what kind of business can make so much money in a short period of time, which can not only meet the needs of the Qiongzhou camp, but also return the money with interest?" ”

"Didn't I say that the fastest money is Haimao." Xia Nan asked Van Bommel, "What was the most profitable business of the East India Company?" ”

Van Bommel replied: "The East India Company had dozens of merchant houses and strongholds in the Far East, including Japan, Luzon, and the Ming Kingdom, and it dealt in many goods, from spices, pepper, and amber to sugar, medicinal herbs, and rice. ”

"What about the profits and cycles of trade?"

"For example, it takes a month to transport hot goods such as tea and silk from Fujian or Dayuan to Batavia, and three to five months to return to the European mainland, depending on the wind and waves at sea. As for the profits, the goods from the Ming Kingdom were the highest, reaching more than 200% of the profits. ”

"Nearly half a year of trade cycle, only 200% profit?" Xia Nan was quite disappointed, although the profit margin is not low, but compared with Japan's profit of 300 or even 400 percent, it is much inferior, and the trade routes in Europe are basically controlled by the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal -- unless a new trade war is launched like the Netherlands against the Ming Dynasty, there is no way to break the monopoly of these countries -- it is not feasible to meddle in this trade route, and it is better to focus on Japan, which is closer to the Ming Dynasty.

He turned his head and asked Murong Longcheng: "If you are given 500,000 taels of capital, what will you do and how long will it take to make money and return to your capital?" ”

Murong Longcheng thought for a moment and replied: "If you want to make money the fastest, I will go to Japan to do business, I have been running this line for a few years, and I am very familiar with it." Raw silk, cotton cloth, needles, iron pots, porcelain, fat powder, books, medicinal herbs...... You can make money on anything. If there is a huge capital of 500,000 taels, I will smash all the money on raw silk, as long as I sell it in Japan, it will be 2.5 million taels, there is no more profitable business in the world than this! ”

The two had discussed this issue in Guangzhou, but it was the first time that the others had heard of such a huge profit from Japanese trade, and they all let out exclamations of surprise. Liu Quan's eyes lit up and said: "I knew that Japan could make money, but I didn't expect it to be so profitable!" General, as long as you make a few trips to Japan according to this method, you can solve all the problems of what money cannot be fully prepared, and you can build dozens of big ships and expand the army by 35,000 people, or even tens of thousands...... "The others echoed and said yes.

Murong Longcheng calmly reminded: "But this is just the most ideal situation, in fact, it is not that simple. Most of the raw silk comes from the south of the Yangtze River, especially in Suzhou and Hangzhou, the whole Suzhou and Hangzhou raw silk market is controlled by the local silk industry, and the purchase of private raw silk needs to be issued by the Ministry of Household Affairs', it is difficult for outsiders to get involved in this industry, even if they can receive one or two hundred quintals in private, it is a drop in the bucket. ”

This is the first time that even Xia Nan has heard of it, isn't this a naked industry monopoly? No wonder the raw silk industry is so profitable, but I don't see people all over the world going to Suzhou and Hangzhou to pick up silver, which turned out to be the same as the tobacco and salt industries in the old time and space.

He hesitated: "So, it's impossible to meddle in the raw silk industry?" If you only buy a few hundred quintals privately, the shipping cost to and from Japan will not be enough, right? ”

Van Bommel interjected: "No, there is no so-called license for the Dayuan Merchant House - you call it 'ministry post' - isn't it still possible to buy raw silk and sell it to Japan and Europe?" ”

Murong Longcheng explained: "You bought it from Zheng Yiguan, and he has already made a fortune from it. ”

Xia Nan keenly discovered what could be used in it, and asked: "The East India Company can eat the goods from Zheng Zhilong, why can't we eat the bulk of raw silk at a higher price from the silk company that has the 'Ministry of Posts'?" ”

Murong Longcheng hesitated: "Of course it's okay to buy at a higher price, but in this way, the profit will be reduced by ......."

"Let me ask you, will the silk shops in Suzhou and Hangzhou organize their own fleets to go to sea and produce and sell their own?"

This Murong Longcheng had a lot of right to speak, and replied without hesitation: "No." The raw silk industry is a closed circle, outsiders can't enter, the silk industry single-handedly controls more than ninety percent of the people's raw silk supply, and sells it to maritime merchants to make a soft hand, so why take the risk of going to sea? In this year, the sea is not only afraid of encountering wind and waves, but also afraid of encountering pirates, and the road is far away, a trip is often a year and a half, once an accident occurs, it is a loss, and the businessmen who are willing to go to sea are either strong in capital and can afford to lose, or they are gambling on their lives, but where there is a stable and profitable business, no one wants to go to sea and endure hardships. ”

Xia Nanyi clapped his hands: "This is not over?" We have clippers, and it takes a fifth of the time to travel to and from Jiangnan Japan as a regular boat, and the long distance is not a big problem for us; As for the purchase at a higher price and the reduction of profits, it is not a problem, we are engaged in a business of several hundred thousand taels of silver, and the profit is as high as 400 percent, and a slight increase in costs has no real impact -- what about the original 500,000 taels of raw silk increased to 600,000 taels of silver, compared with the income from selling to Japan for 2.5 million taels, the extra 100,000 taels can be ignored. ”