After harvesting the land, the next step is to harvest gold and silver. Zhu Cijing spent a lot of money this time. In less than a year, he invested almost 500 million taels of real money and silver in the Mughal Empire to purchase various materials. Now he is a traitor rather than a rich man.

The four companies under his jurisdiction do not have so many gold and silver reserves at all, and almost half of them use the principal of dragon coins. In other words, if there is a trend of dragon coins running, he will immediately go bankrupt because he does not have so much gold and silver to acquire the issued dragon coins.

Of course, with such a stable situation in the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible for a dragon coin run in a short period of time. On the contrary, the issuance of dragon coin is in a period of rapid growth. Now the dragon coin issued every month has increased from the initial 20 million taels to the terrifying 50 million taels. In other words, the principal of the light dragon coin has accumulated almost 500 million taels!

If this momentum continues, the issuance of dragon coins will exceed one billion taels in another year, which is quite terrifying. If he wants to fight a trade war with a certain country, he can easily withdraw 300 million to 400 million taels of real money and silver from his principal. In this era, few countries can handle it.

Of course, those money that does not belong to him are only borrowed, and they have to be replenished in the end. The extent to which his personal assets can be expanded depends on the gains of this wool shearing operation.

In fact, before that, he had made two profits. The 30 million taels of real money and silver on the treasure ship of the Dutch East India Company had already been transported back to the Ming Dynasty. The Eastern Army advanced the Ming Dynasty Royal Xinglong Business Company along the way and made nearly 20 million taels of profit. Of course, these were far from enough.

The next third and fourth profits came soon. After occupying Batavia and Delhi, Ma Xianglin and Lu Xiangsheng all thought of controlling the vault of the Dutch East India Company and the treasury of the Mughal Empire. These two places were actually not difficult to find. After a series of coercion, inducement and torture, they quickly found the place.

There is nothing to be surprised about in the vault of the Dutch East India Company, because they are so large and the money they can make is limited. Finally, after counting, the value of real money and silver in total is only about 30 million taels.

The treasury of the Mughal Empire is different. You should know that nearly half of the land in the entire Mughal Empire is private property of the royal family. This time, most of the crazy acquisitions organized by the Ming Dynasty were agricultural and sideline products. The wealth earned by Shah Jahan is amazing, it is conceivable.

However, the data calculated by Lu Xiangsheng in the end still scared Zhu Cijing. In the treasury of the Mughal Empire, there were more than 10 million taels of gold alone, while the silver was less, only a few million taels.

What is the concept of more than 10 million taels of gold? The price comparison between gold and silver is 1 to 40. In other words, the gold in the treasury of the Mughal Empire alone is worth more than 400 million taels of silver!

Is this number exaggerated? Actually, it is not an exaggeration at all. The most famous Taj Mahal in the Mughal Empire was built by Shah Jahan. According to the price ratio at that time, it cost nearly two million taels of gold to buy gems and crystals. Then the Mughal Empire even built a new golden temple. A temple consumed tens of thousands of gold. This country has a special preference for gold. Gold is a symbol of identity and status. As the emperor, Shah Jahan naturally needs to be said. It is estimated that he should have taken most of the gold in the Ming Dynasty's acquisition to gather such terrifying wealth.

After Zhu Cijiu learned the news, he felt so relieved. In this hand, he almost recovered all his investments. All the profits he obtained were pure profits. This time he made a lot of money.

For this reason, he decided to build a palace for Shah Jahan and the Mughal Empire's royal family in the future when expanding the capital, and build it according to the scale of his palace to commend his contribution to the Ming Empire!

Next is the time to really shear the wool. The Ming Dynasty Royal Xinglong Business Company and the Ming Dynasty Portuguese Trading Company gathered in Goa, and even Kong Dede was back. Under the leadership of Zhu Cijiong, the two companies finally set the prices of various products.

The most important thing among them is of course grain. Zhu Cijiong set the price to be 10 taels per stone. So how much grain did the Ming Dynasty Royal Xinglong Business and the Ming Dynasty Portuguese Trading Company purchase from the Mughal Empire?

I really don’t know. I was shocked when I calculated it. This crazy purchase actually purchased more than 100 million stones of grain from the Mughal Empire. Can so much grain be sold?

There is no need to worry about this at all. You should know that the population of the Mughal Empire is nearly 50 million. Even if every two people consume one stone of food per month, it will be 25 million stones per month. These foods are enough for four months. Even if the Mughal Empire resumes production now, it will be at least half a year later when there is grain output. More than 100 million stones of food are not enough for half a year to consume.

In other words, this item alone can earn about one billion taels of income!

Although not many other materials were purchased, the value was almost 500 million taels of silver based on the set price. In this way, Zhu Cijing would earn more than one billion taels of silver this time, which was equivalent to scraping away nearly 80% of the gold and silver circulating in the Mughal Empire market!

Of course, this is just an expected profit, and it is a problem to sell all the things. It is also a problem to those civilians involved in the riots and the nobles who were holding a large handful of gold and silver, who were lucky enough to be robbed by the riots, and to take out the money to buy things.

Don’t underestimate these problems. According to the secret spies from the Jinyiwei, most civilians involved in the riot dare to dig out all the stolen gold bricks and silver ingots to buy food, because they are afraid, how much is a gold brick that is big in a brick? That’s thousands or tens of thousands of taels, and it can buy tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of kilograms of grain. How many people dare to take it out at one time!

Anyway, the country has been occupied by you now, what if you rob it directly? There is no place to cry at that time!

Therefore, most civilians buy food with broken gold and silver that are like dogs. If you buy a little at a time, you can guarantee that you will not starve to death. The so-called wealth will not be revealed, and the civilians of the Mughal Empire understand this truth.

This way of consumption can only earn back the gold and silver in their hands in the year of the monkey and horse. You must know that the golden time is only half a year. When the first wave of grain is harvested, the prices will gradually return to normal. What a profit at that time is nothing!

At this time, Zhu Cijing thought of the advantages of dragon coins, which is convenient for carrying. If you hold a gold brick as big as a brick, you can see it, but if you hold a dragon coins, you won’t even be able to see it.

It just so happens that the dragon coins are always promoted in the Mughal Empire. If all civilians can use the dragon coins, they don’t have to worry about the money being exposed.

How can all civilians believe it? This has been practiced once in the Ming Dynasty. All officials understood that it was just a demonstration. So many people from all over the Mughal Empire took dragon coins to the Xinglong merchants in the Ming Dynasty and the branch of the Portuguese Trading Company in the Ming Dynasty. The civilians in the Mughal Empire gradually understood that this kind of banknote could also be used as money.

Then, Zhu Cijing renovated the Ming Dynasty Royal Xinglong Business and the Ming Dynasty Portuguese Trading Company's semicolons in the Mughal Empire, separated many single rooms, and only one person was allowed to enter at a time. As for whether to buy things or exchange them for dragon coins, it will definitely keep them confidential for you!

After another deliberate demonstration, the civilians of the Mughal Empire finally began to follow the trend. More and more people exchanged gold bricks and silver ingots for dragon coins. Some even carried them in a large frame of gold bricks and then carried them out a basket of grain. Who knows how much he exchanged them for?

This finally revitalized the economy of the Mughal Empire. The Xinglong merchants in the Ming Dynasty earned more and more gold and silver, and ships of real gold and silver were transported back to the Ming Dynasty from the Mughal Empire, which was more frequent than when it was shipped.

Zhu Cijing estimated that his vault and silver treasury were about to be liquidated. Alas, it was a happy worry!
Chapter completed!