"Dare to ask Your Highness, how do you join this exchange?" It was Liu Yunsheng who grabbed the head again.

Luo Jianglun was even more arrogant, and immediately opened his mouth and shouted: "Your Highness, I, Xintian Luo, am willing to repay all the silver, money and grain mentioned just now as a capital to join!" ”

Hearing this, Liu Tong swept away his previous hesitation and shouted directly: "Your Highness, I, the Liu family and the four families of Macheng, are willing to repay 40,000 taels of silver and 40,000 stones of grain as the capital to join the exchange!" ”

Compared with the two wealthy families who have commercial and trade industries, He Fengsheng, as a pure gentry family, knows a little less about the twists and turns of this, and he did not understand the value of this exchange mentioned by Zhu Cihong at first. A place where you can buy and sell, it doesn't seem worth exchanging at least 100,000 taels of gold and silver for a threshold of entry.

Seeing this, Zhu Feiran on the side whispered a few words in the old man's ear, which immediately made He Fengsheng suddenly realize.

What is Zhu Cihong's identity, the prince of the prison country, the real controller of the Jiangnan region, not to mention that the army is stationed here, and the safety of the whole family in Huguang depends on Zhu Cihong's thoughts.

Such a distinguished position Zhu Cihong is definitely not satisfied with a small wholesale market, the qualification of this exchange is actually a qualifying competition for the gentry of Huguang, and the recognition of the qualification of a grain merchant.

Entering the exchange, of course, you can enjoy the irreplaceable services that Zhu Cihong said could not be provided by predecessors.

Can you not enter?

That means being excluded, it means that the cost of commerce and trade has increased greatly, and it means staying away from Zhu Cihong.

This entry and exit is a huge gap, which is enough to make a grain merchant who was originally only a third-rate merchant ascend to the status of a top big businessman. The reverse is also true.

Thinking of this, He Fengsheng also gritted his teeth, wanting to shout out a number that was painful enough.

It's just that Zhu Cihong said at this moment: "There must be a membership fee for the exchange." But all the same. But it's not such a price. The so-called returns that you have reported, I thought about it, and if I received it, this is against the belief that I founded the exchange alone. If you don't accept it, you will definitely be embarrassed. Since this is the case, Lone became the master and set a rule. All this money and grain were converted into silver bills of Hengxin Commercial Bank. The account balance is opened, and the physical item is pledged on the exchange for trading. What do you think? ”

Zhu Cihong said it so properly, how else could everyone say, and they immediately praised one after another: "Your Highness is well-thought, and we are impressed." ”

In this way, the rules of the exchange are settled.

In each household, a minimum of 10,000 taels of silver and 10,000 stones of grain and rice were pledged into the account of the exchange as reserves. Of course, this account can also be used as an account with Hengxin Commercial Bank. You can also use the silver ticket that you take out. It's just that everyone unanimously spread the news: the reserve of 20,000 taels will not move until the last moment.

As a result, many small businesses with little strength have been squeezed out and either choose to withdraw or merge.

As for the chairman of this exchange, when everyone was elected in the end, it was at the suggestion of Zhu Cihong that Zhu Feiran, the son of the king of Chu, was promoted.

This ending was very unexpected by everyone, but it was also reasonable.

Because, Zhu Feiran immediately announced that he would move out of the Chu Palace. He also handed over the vast majority of the land in the Chu Domain.

With the city of the Daming Commodity and Grain Exchange, Wuchang's commerce suddenly flourished.

What's more. When wars were frequent, the price of grain in Huguang slowly declined due to commercial circulation.

Liu Tong sat in the splendid former Chu Palace, now in the private room of the Ming Commodity and Grain Exchange, drank the gold-expensive Dahongpao tea, looked at the stubborn nephew in front of him, and said helplessly: "Nephew." Why should you be confused at this critical time? As a soldier, a dignified Huguang family, if you don't want to be an official, you want to be a big-headed soldier! Hear clearly, hear clearly! You're a family of brocades. Your father is the governor of the five armies, and with this official skin, you can't be a general in any town, but you have to be a rankless and classless soldier! ”

Liu Yunsheng looked at the irritable uncle, with a hint of apology in his eyes, but soon he cheered up, looked at Liu Tong and said, "Uncle! If I only say that His Royal Highness's personal guard camp is a powerful and majestic Red Army uniform, and it is a real man's attire, I'm afraid you won't believe it. But if you put it another way, the nephew is really willing to follow His Highness to fight the world! Some time ago, didn't my uncle go to the ceremony of the Wuchang Army School too? His Royal Highness said that the child is vividly in his heart, and he really doesn't want to spend this life in this copper smell! ”

When Liu Tong heard this, he couldn't help but think of the situation that day.

Zhu Cihong was more enthusiastic about the holding of the Wuchang Army School than the opening of the exchange, where Zhu Cihong held a triumphal ceremony to celebrate the defeat of Zhang Xianzhong by the Guards Battalion, and then announced the opening of the Wuchang Army School.

This is actually Zhu Cihong's decentralization of the military academy.

Originally, Zhu Cihong's military academy moved with the main force of the Royal Guards Legion. Before that, where Zhu Cihong was, the army basically followed him.

Today, the regiment has a huge structure, with 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers and countless auxiliary soldiers. Zhu Cihong has already taken up the post of superintendent at this moment, and it is obviously unrealistic to take such a huge army with him wherever he goes. Then, at this time, the military academy has obviously reached the point of a fixed establishment.

In the end, Zhu Cihong chose to place the place of the military academy in Wuchang City.

And at this moment, those students who have outstanding academic performance in the military martial arts school have also reached the time of graduation. It has been 16 years since Zhu Cihong enrolled a large number of students in Beijing in October last year, and more than half a year has passed during this period.

At the same time, Zhu Cihong also expanded the pro-guard battalion here, delegated a group of pro-guard camp students, and added the veterans from the army and the entire battalion of the Flying Bear Battalion to form the Flying Bear Regiment.

The Flying Bear Regiment has a small establishment, with a total of only 3,000 people, but it is a test site for Zhu Cihong to build an all-firearms battalion.

There are the largest number of veterans in the battalions and regiments under Zhu Cihong's command, the grassroots grassroots officers with the highest literacy rate, and the largest number of military academy students. Similarly, Zhu Cihong is not worried about the future of the Flying Bear Regiment. In Wuchang, a large-scale recruitment has begun.

In line with the principle of preferring shortage to excess, Zhu Cihong attaches great importance to the recruitment of soldiers, and all recruits undergo three months of recruit training, and only after the assessment is successful can they have the opportunity to be selected into the Flying Bear Regiment, but they are all beaten to the Wuchang garrison camp.

In this regard, Zhu Cihong not only put forward higher physical fitness requirements, but also tended to recruit those soldiers who were eager to learn and love to read, which provoked many people in Wuchang City to think that Zhu Cihong wanted to recruit Xiucai. (To be continued.) )