Ruan Dacheng is a treacherous minister!

However, those who can become treacherous officials will have no brains! Even the other directors are discussing how to save the huge decline of United East India Company. He always pinched his chin and thought about what the wonderful word Mao Jue said.

Like him, Mao Jue was the only one who said nothing. In addition to the question he just asked and praised the wonderful words, Mao Jue also listened calmly, listening to these shareholders expressing their opinions every word.

However, listening to the fierce discussions of these shareholders, Mao Jue felt increasingly disappointed. Since the Han Dynasty abolished all schools of thought and respected Confucianism, China has been emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce for 1,780 years. The current merchants, at least the group of ancestors in front of them, are far inferior to their ancestors during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, are like Tao Zhu Yidun and Lu Buwei. They are used to being parasites under powerful power, and Luzon, which has been stable, is directly left behind by them. As for the five central and southern countries in the current turmoil, some hope that Mao Jue will send troops to intervene, and some simply plan to spend money to deal with which high-ranking officials and nobles. As for the current dilemma of the company, more than a dozen major shareholders have passed the same method in unison.

Discount!

I guess they were hoping that they would kill people, loot the territory like Western colonists, and they had a long-term plan. They had no choice but to cough and interrupt Zhao Deyong's words. They put their right arm on the table and stretched their hands forward. Mao Jue opened his mouth and wanted to put forward his proposal, but at this critical moment, Ruan Dahuzi, who had a layer of sweat on his forehead, suddenly clasped his fists heavily.

"You..., the big boss, I think of Miss Luo in the southeast who wanted to stop the trading of coastal defense, which made Annan chasm chasm too. Although Chameng is a vassal state of Annan, the two countries have a feud. Originally, the southern part of Annan, including coastal defense to the seashore, were all Chameng, which was just the land of Linyi Kingdom in the Tang Dynasty. Annan was a small country and was warlike. Once turmoil, I would not be able to hold back and attack Chameng. Chameng could not resist it, and I had to ask my Ming Dynasty for help. At that time, my East India Company would be able to do everything and the fisherman could benefit!"

"Everyone!"

Ruan Dacheng suddenly stood up and clasped his fists at the surprised major shareholders: "The company has been operating for six years, and the seventh branch of the Southeast Five Kingdoms and the Southeast was in an orderly and vigorous manner under the operation of Miss Luo. Although the five countries are in chaos this time, the fault is not her. Moreover, no one among us knows the actual situation of the five countries better than her. Instead of making any ideas here, it is better to delegate power to her. Anyway, it is impossible to be worse than now!"

"In the name of the executive director, Ruan suggested that the eight gunboats, including Xingluo, Salt Merchants, Kaihai, and Huoshi, and the command of the eleven mercenary groups under the company were handed over to Director Luo Yu, and a special project was to form an accounting team, and Director Luo Yu would decide the import and export list of the five countries and seven ministries. What do you think?"

Ruan Dacheng's words really made the directors stunned and deafening, and he valued agriculture and suppressed commerce for thousands of years. For the government, merchants are cash machines! Fat pigs! So politics is also a forbidden area for merchants, especially in front of the emperor Mao Jue, Ruan Dacheng actually suggested provoking a war between two vassal states! There was also sweat on his forehead. At the first time, Zhao Deyong looked at Mao Jue tremblingly.

But what made him sweat even more was that at some point, Mao Jue was already lying on the chair with his hands in front of his chest without saying a word, but his face was full of playful smiles on his face, not knowing whether he agreed or his heart was filled with murderous sneer.

The silence lasted for a few seconds, but Zhao Deyong decided to take the conservative route. He shook his head with difficulty.

"It is too ridiculous for us to be a businessman who is committed to the public and law-abiding the war between the two countries. Lord Ruan's words are not uncommon!"

He took the lead in giving his opinions and followed the other major shareholders below and started to take sides. Fourteen executive-level shareholders, eight supported old-fashioned, only three were younger, and one was the British, who stood on Ruan Dacheng's side.

In the end, everyone's eyes fell on Mao Jue again.

Even if he was eliminated from his emperor status, Mao Jue, who owned 40% of his assets, had the final say. The reason why Luo Ning was able to serve as the chairman of the board of directors above all shareholders was because Mao Jue granted his voting rights to Luo Ning. With Zhao Deyong and Ruan Dacheng's uneasy eyes, Mao Jue finally stood up slowly, bent down, took out a bright red rose medal from his pocket, and put it on his chest in Ruan Dacheng's stupid eyes.

Now, the old shareholder Zhao Deyong almost cried. The Blood Rose Badge, the Royal Family’s representative flower badge, and the identity token of the Imperial Property Committee. Luo Ning had one before. Now Mao Jue handed over this thing to him, which is equivalent to handing over the rights and rights of the executive chairman of the East India Company’s board of directors to this wicked and bearded fat man. He bet wrongly!

Fortunately, his bet is not as high as Ruan Dacheng. Although he is full of regret, he has at least no actual losses for the time being.

The guys looked different and were full of complicated times. After doing this series of actions, Mao Jue sighed secretly, reached out and pulled the chair he was sitting forward, and then coughed heavily.

"I basically agree with Director Ruan's suggestion! But I would like to add a few more points. First of all, from the overall perspective, this United East India Company is not only the emperor's company, but also yours. I will make a profit with you, and I will lose money with you! Secondly, the United East India Company is not held for a year or two, maybe a hundred years or hundreds of years, and live with the empire! So everyone's vision must be long-term!"

"So my opinion, this is..."

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A few months ago, Nanming encountered an economic crisis. A group of sea merchant families that had been in trouble for decades and hundreds of years did not take any response measures except to go bankrupt and die. In the end, Zhang Pu took advantage of Luo Ning's sense of responsibility to Luo Zhen and transferred the consequences of the economic crisis to the East India Company. Now, he is also facing difficulties, but the company's reaction is unprecedentedly fierce.

The first thing is to burn an extremely huge fire in the spacious garden space in front of Empire Square, which has been expanded four or five circles.

After growing for a hundred years, hundreds of taels of rosewood were thrown to the bottom layer and acted as a fire-induced fire, and then became a bucket of South China Sea pearls, thousands of taels of dragon-brain fragrance, several taels of dozens of taels of lavender, pepper, and lemongrass were all put into the fire in a basket, and cat-eye tortoiseshell, various gems, ivory rhinoceros horns, boxes of ships were shipped out from the headquarters of the East India Company, opened, displayed, and then threw them into the fire.

Every move attracted the crowd of people watching, no matter the rich or the poor, they couldn't help but exclaim. Every handful of these was burning a lot of money!

Sitting on the third floor of Empire Square, facing the large glass, the fire burning fiercely in Mao Jue's pupils was also jumping. In addition to leaving a portion of the sales this quarter, the remaining Southeast Asian goods that Luo Ning had bought back were burned by his order!

I remember the economic crisis in the United States when I was in school. The poor were unable to eat, but the big capitalists would rather pour milk into the river, throw away the meat, burn down clothes, and destroy all kinds of industrial products than give them to the poor. At that time, Mao Jue was still full of justice and thought these capitalists were simply terrible!

But now he understood these capitalists and the efforts of the Roosevelt administration, which was ruling at that time, did so.

Originally, the economic crisis was caused by inflation, too much goods on the market and lack of consumption. If these things were given to people for nothing, the poor would eat and use them and still have no jobs, and the rich factory owners and farmers would still be unwilling to employ people and not be willing to produce them because they did not have sales, and society would collapse!

Only by eliminating these surplus products and shrinking the production value to a suitable quantity, or even less than market demand, and increasing the demand again and making business active again can the fundamental solution to the social crisis problem.

Of course, the current economic environment is far from as complicated and difficult as the economic depression of the Roosevelt period. The current dilemma faced by the East India Company is simply that the excessive stockpiling of imported luxury goods in Southeast Asia has hit producers, far from the level of a large-scale economic crisis.

The directors' suggestions for lowering prices and opening positions were directly denied by Mao Jue. From later generations, Mao Jue knew the value of the brand too much. Now, these luxury goods rich people will look down on it in the future. Moreover, the sale has further saturated the market. It is also the beginning of the crisis. The little money the company has collected is not enough to lose money in the future. Instead of doing so, it is better for a hero to cut off his arm!

If this fire continues, it saves the value of these imported luxury goods from Southeast Asia and also saves the market. It has a good market, with only tens of millions of taels of silver, and can come back in a few years! This is what Mao Jue said to look forward!

Moreover, this economic crisis is not all a bad thing! It has brought all kinds of disadvantages to the surface.

A few days after the fire in Hangzhou, the Ming planters who moved to Luzon finally received the orders that were belated this year, including compensation and contracts from the colonial Governor's Office. From this year on, the cooperation model between planters and merchants in Luzon and East India Company has completely changed. It is no longer a simple way to buy and sell. Every autumn, the United Company will release next year's orders in advance based on the sales of this year. Planters will produce according to demand, eliminating the inflation crisis of overproduction.

Mao Jue's move is not a flood of sympathy or a whim. Although the Luzon Islands are the safest in this Southeast Asian crisis, Huang Degong, a martial artist, suppressed things, but it hurt the people's hearts the most. Without the shareholders' attention, more than 20 planters have abandoned their wasteland in more than a month. Once this kind of enthusiasm for going to Southeast Asia is hit, both the company and the Ming Dynasty will not only lose money, but the entire colony!

But now this contractual change has come just right. Not only are the planters who have lost confidence back, but they have even brought about a new wave of voyage to Southeast Asia.

Another thing is the reform of the company's own rights model, how to eliminate the next Luoning incident! But in one thing, Mao Jue did not intervene. He completely delegated power to the newly appointed executive chairman of the board of directors, the treacherous minister Ruan Dahuzi! There is no way. On the one hand, he needs to prevent privileges, but on the other hand, he cannot hand over the emperor's absolute privileges now, so he can only let them decide how to prevent and restrain without taking action.

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Just when the Hangzhou headquarters was quarreling about power, Luo Ning, the core of the storm, finally ended her escape journey and fled to Nanjing City.

But what greeted her was not a warm hug and a warm meal, but a cold face.

"What are you doing?"

In front of the gate of the mansion that had been completely renewed, Luo Zhen stopped him there with his arms coldly, and there was no sign of letting his own sister come in at all.

"Xiao Zhen, I..."

The smart and capable and mature aura in daily life, the former shopkeeper Luo has disappeared completely. He is wearing a cloak, and is as pitiful as a puppy falling into the water. Hong's eyes are extremely difficult, and Luo Ning said the words aggrievedly.

"I entered the batch of goods in Wenzhou. I, I, caused a big fuss in the company and caused a big loss. Hangzhou can no longer stay there. I, I can only come to find you!"

"Don't call me Xiao Zhen, I am the third-rank official of the Ming Empire! And what are you asking me for? I still have to take this responsibility? I didn't ask you to buy that batch of goods!"

The cold answer made Luo Ning unable to help but stay stunned. The next moment, she grabbed Luo Zhen's sleeve even more excitedly.

"I didn't mean that! It's just... I have no place to stay now, you are the only brother! My sister really has no choice but to come to you. Even if it's because of the sibling relationship, please take your sister in there!!!"

Before Luo Ning could finish her begging, she screamed and was thrown hard on the ground by her own brother. In her unbelievable expression, Luo Zhen pointed at her face irritably and hummed with a sneer.

"My brother-in-law relationship? Since you instigated that thief, the biggest traitor in the world, we have no siblings since then, let alone the great minister of the Ming Empire. You are just a thief mistress who is unfaithful. You are ruining your reputation here! Get out of here! Don't let me see you again!"

"Xiao Zhen!!!"

He screamed heart-wrenchingly and fell to the ground. Luo Ning suddenly reached out his hand in panic, but Luo Zhen was already leaving. With a bang, the dark door suddenly closed towards her.

Sitting on the cold steps in shock, then, hot tears flowed out from the corners of his eyes, and hit the ground along his cheeks. With silent sobbing, his beautiful eyes were red in tears. After a long time, Luo Ning stood up with difficulty, looking at the closed gate of Luo Mansion in despair, shaking towards the busy street.

But at this moment, a shocking voice rang behind her.

"Isn't this the shopkeeper Luo?"

Turning back dullly, Zhang Pu's elegant and solemn face under the Confucian crown came into her eyes.
Chapter completed!