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In the original history, by the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the government had collected military funds from the people, and some Liu proposed to be willing to pay on behalf of the lower households in the state: please ask the county officials to donate 1 million yuan with private money, so as not to lose the lower households. More than a dozen houses were built to empty his accumulated money, and then he could fill them up. The officials of a county and several counties were allowed to write in a simple book, and their inhabitants were saved from exile.

This Liu donated 1 million guan in cash only once, and it was only "more than ten rooms" in the "dozens of houses", in terms of one-third, his family's cash reserve was about 3 million guan, so even with real estate, it is estimated that the entire family property is close to 10 million guan, similar to the billionaires of later generations. Despite this, the family was not well-known at the time.

This incident is also clearly recorded in the history books, and it was a sensation at the time.

This time, the West Indian Ocean Trading Company was even more unresounding, and made a blockbuster, making a one-time investment of 5 million yuan to support the cotton industry of the Great Song Dynasty.

The first bombshell fell, and before the hundred officials came to their senses, another bombshell fell again, and another 5 million yuan was spent to support the mulberry sericulture in Guangnan.

A trading company, smashing 10 million yuan at a time, has never been seen in history, these two bombshells smashed hundreds of officials in the DPRK and China into a daze, and they wandered out of the world.

For a long time, the imperial court's expenditure on agriculture is mainly the cost of building water conservancy, in fact, when it comes to a certain agriculture, the imperial court basically has no input, such as rice, usually the local officials go to the fields during spring ploughing, supervise it, and don't teach the people to miss the agricultural time;

In fact, the government has no financial input, let alone agricultural subsidies for peasant households, and there is no technical guidance. How well the people planted it was all up to them to figure it out.

Now the West Indian Ocean Trading Company has smashed down 10 million of them. In addition to providing high-quality cotton seeds and mulberry seeds to the people, there are also cultivation techniques to teach. These are all free of charge, and even if the people want to expand their production and need money, the trading company also provides interest-free loans, as long as the people sign a production and sales contract with the trading company.

Such a large amount of capital investment, the promotion of the cotton mulberry industry in the Great Song Dynasty is immeasurable, and this is only the investment in pure cotton mulberry, and the matching cocoon, silk reeling, cotton, elastic cotton, textile and other large factories will invest nearly 10 million guan, which is 20 million guan.

This figure is staggering, and how much benefit these investments will bring to the imperial court in the future. No one can calculate how many opportunities to hire workers will be created for the people, and how many people will be able to lead them to prosperity.

From the beginning of the founding of the country, the Great Song Dynasty encouraged industry and commerce, and did not adhere to the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce like other dynasties, so that industry and commerce flourished unprecedentedly;

The investment of the West Indian Ocean Trading Company was not only beneficial to industry and commerce, but also to the traditional agricultural and mulberry industries, and the imperial court had no reason to refuse at all.

This incident caused a huge sensation among the government and the opposition, and there was a lot of heated discussion in the streets and alleys. Astonished by the magnanimity of the western Indian Ocean, the sensitive businessmen also saw in it the great business opportunities and the crisis it caused them, and the big businessmen sharpened their heads. I want to drill into the western Indian Ocean trading company.

But most people are disappointed that the West Indian Ocean Trading Company is now not short of money and does not need to pay additional share financing. Therefore, adhering to the principle of preferring shortage to excess, the threshold for shareholders is set extremely high. It's not that anyone with the money can get in.

Some wealthy people have started to think of other things, and they have tried every possible way to find the existing shareholders of the trading company. At the price of 55 guan per share, the original shareholders purchased shares, not selling, 58 guan, not selling, 60 guan, and finally the stock price came out of 60 guan, which is still unwanted.

The trading company was originally 50 guan into one share, that is to say, in a short period of time, the stock price has soared by 20 percent, and if the Yang family transfers all the shares in their hands at this price, they can immediately make a net profit of 1.2 million yuan.

As soon as the imperial court approved the plan to support cotton in the north and mulberry silkworms in Quang Nam, the tremendous energy of the Western Indian Ocean trading company immediately erupted;

Responsible for grafting mulberry seedlings, purchasing cotton, collecting planting technology, visiting places and signing contracts with farmers, preparing cocoons, silk reeling, weaving factories, by the major shareholders are responsible for each, countless manpower and material resources, under the support of huge financial resources, rapid and incomparably operational, all of a sudden, the north and south of the river, inside and outside the Great Wall, are the carriages and horses of the West Indian Ocean trading companies galloping.

In addition to signing contracts with farmers, tens of thousands of acres of land in Guangnan, Hexi, Hebei, Shandong and other places were bought by the Western Indian Ocean Trading Company and opened up into mulberry gardens and cotton fields;

The pace of promoting mulberry cotton is to start from these huge mulberry gardens and cotton fields, radiate to the surrounding areas, and all kinds of processing plants are also built on these mulberry gardens and cotton fields.

And these are only known to the people of the country, what they do not know is that the West Indian Ocean Trade once again spent money to order 100 ships of 2,000 materials and 50 ships of 1,000 materials from the official ship yard of the imperial court;

In addition to being thick, a ship of 1,000 materials is also strict in terms of speed, so that the cost of a ship of 1,000 materials is the same as that of 2,000 materials.

In fact, these thousand-material sea ships, after going to sea in the future, as long as they are slightly transformed, they will be the best armed merchant ships, this is what Yang Yi means, we will never be fat sheep to be slaughtered.

Ship material is the volume of people and goods that a ship can carry. One material is ten cubic meters. The load of a "material" volume depends on the proportion of the goods. Ship feed can be estimated by multiplying the product of length, width and depth. Generally speaking, there is a ratio of 1 material = 1 stone = 92.5 catties.

According to this calculation, the ship of 2,000 materials can carry about 100 tons, and the carrying capacity of 100,000 ships of 2,000 materials is 10,000 tons, but this is only a relative value, mainly depending on what goods are loaded, such as silk, tea, cotton, etc., its quality is relatively light, and the loading capacity mainly depends on the volume of the ship.

This is a very staggering value, because whether it is silk or porcelain and other goods, their prices are increased several times, or even dozens of times, after going to sea;

In some places, the price of silk is more expensive than gold, then you have to think about it, if a hundred ships full of 10,000 tons of goods go to sea, and when they return smoothly, it is not an exaggeration to say that they can bring back half a ship of gold and silver, how much profit does this have?

And 100 ships of 2,000 materials is just the beginning, as long as the trading company is running well, the number of ships will continue to increase.........

Although there is no goods coming in and out of the trading company headquarters in the old Song Gate, the cars and horses that come and go every day are crowded on the way, day and night.

In the president's signing room, Han Bier, Lin Ruhai, and Shen Qingwen, the three presidents and vice presidents, issued various orders like a stream, and at the same time received information from all over the country, sorted out by their subordinates, and then handed it over to the desks of the three people for approval.

At the beginning of everything, the headquarters of the trading company was no less busy than the Shangshu Province of the Great Song Dynasty.

Han Bi'er looked at the document on the table and read most of it, rubbed her sore wrist, called Aoba in and asked, "Is there any news from Japan?" ”

Aoba replied softly, "Not yet, but if nothing else, the five ships should have set sail from Japan." ”

"Are the ships ready to supply halfway?";

"It's all ready, and I'll supply them near Penghu when the time comes."

"Well, now I'm riddled with everything, Aoba, you pay more attention to this matter, you can't be careless, the domestic stalls have been rolled out, Puluozhong must take the port as soon as possible, and the mulberry garden labor in Guangnan must also count on them, pay attention to this matter, you can't let people know that we did it, and the five ships are absolutely not allowed to enter the coastal port of the Great Song Dynasty to dock."

"Yes, the servant will keep an eye on it.".

(To be continued.) )