The capital's treasury was like a water pump, and developed it from the port. Then it transported boxes of gold and silver to the north. There were 23 ports in the eleven provinces of Nanyang. The three development zones paid a total of 31 million taels of taxes. Before the sealing was completed, they were loaded with carriages and escorted by the army to disperse all over the country. In the battle of Jiangnan, the Ming Dynasty quickly ate almost one million square kilometers of land in Jiangxi, Hunan, Zhejiang, southern Jiangsu, and southern Hubei. It has a good geographical location and talents are just a source of funds that are available or lacking.

Nanjing Development Zone, Suzhou Development Zone, Hangzhou Development Zone, Jiujiang Development Zone, Wuchang Development Zone and five ports, countless interconnected roads leading to Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangdong, Fujian and Guizhou are all about to build. Zhu Jun is even thinking of a railway track from Kunming to Nanjing. If these projects are calculated together, they will be at least hundreds of millions of silver coins. This is just a plan within five years, which will be enough to consume the treasury income of the Ming Dynasty in the five years. However, construction requires money, and the army also needs money to pay. The various expenses of the imperial court still need to be maintained. The Ming Dynasty was simply unable to invest all the taxes to the south of the Yangtze River.

Faced with the detailed list issued by the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works, Zhu Jun felt his mind was swollen. How should he make up for such a large deficit? There was no other way, so Zhu Jun could only issue an order to introduce the cost of the inner court and order officials above the seventh rank to be frugal. Of course, this would not be much money, and he had to do it from the mouth of the merchants.

Going to Jiangnan, to explore his hometown, and to contribute to his hometown, all government offices posted notices, calling on the Han merchants in Haidu to support their investment in their hometown, and the government bonds began to look for buyers frantically. As long as you spend 30,000 silver coins, you can get the title of Justice of the Peace. There are also various donations at the door of the yamen. As long as you donate more than 10,000 silver coins, the emperor personally wrote the calligraphy of the imperial treasure and donated more than 3,000 silver coins. When the cabinet was in college, he wrote thank you letters for him. The ministers and ministers of various departments provided the calligraphy of the 1,000 silver coins. For a time, the signs of each merchant store were changed to the emperor, and the inscriptions of the seventh-rank small official were actually a symbol of identity and status. If you hang the calligraphy written by the emperor's emperor's pen at the door, you will be excited to say hello to others. If you encounter a handwriting of the seventh-rank small official, you should be arrogant.

This idea was thought out by the cabinet counselor Wang Chengzhi. When Zhu Jun heard it, he thought it was good. He could only make ten thousand silver coins with one stroke. Where can I find such a business in the world? When it was revealed, Zhu Jun did not expect that dozens of merchants immediately donated 10,000 taels of silver, and each of the three giants of the sea merchants in Haidu donated 50,000 silver coins. In fact, this big merchant would not care about ten thousand silver coins. What they wanted was face and was respected by others. How great is the face that the emperor wrote for them personally? So he flocked to him, so that Zhu Jun began to write ink since the dawn, and did not stop until noon.

The most painful thing is Mu Tianbo, Yang Side and Zhou Mubai. There are not many merchants who can donate 10,000 silver coins, but three thousand silver coins are only a few months' income for merchants. They look down on the official. If you hang the inscriptions of the fourth and fifth grades or even sixth grade officials at the door, it will be a matter of extra price. Do you still have the nerve to go out? In the future, when you talk to people about business, people will know that you are a small guy and you can't even take out thousands of silver coins. Who dares to order your goods? The comparison between merchants is terrifying. In fact, they are also very happy to spend their huge wealth on various luxury goods that are not good to use. Therefore, the Cabinet University

The scholar's calligraphy became the target of everyone's scramble. On the first day, the merchants received donations reached more than 600. Mu Tianbo, Yang Side, and Zhou Mubai could only put down their government affairs and concentrate on writing. A few big characters in the flying phoenix were three thousand silver coins. The three of them didn't care about writing more, especially Zhou Mubai, who has always been smart. The emperor said that every time the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet earned three thousand silver coins, he would give him a commission of fifty silver coins. This is called market economy. Therefore, Zhou Mubai worked very hard to write, rolled up his sleeves and saliva. What kind of scene is this? In half an hour, he would be seven or eight fifty silver coins. Although Zhou Mubai thought it was a high salary, he was really sorry for him to not drool in the face of such huge wealth.

After a few days, the profits of calligraphy and paintings earned four million silver coins, and the title of Justice of Peace sold for 2.7 million silver coins. The deficit was still very huge. Zhu Jun knew that it would be less kind to plunder the merchants, so he turned his attention to East India, where there seemed to be a huge amount of wealth waiting for the Ming Dynasty to mine.

As early as five months ago, after discussing with Jason, Zhu Jun challenged the East India territory of the Netherlands. The fleet of warships of Baisou Nanyang Navy continued to appear near Ceylon Island and attacked the passing Dutch merchant ships. The East India Fleet knew that it was no match for the huge warships of the Ming Navy, and the Ming Navy was just constantly making temptations, which made the East India Fleet dare not go out rashly, and could only knock down its front teeth and swallow it.

The Ming Navy declared war on East India, causing the Netherlands

The company is more working hard to find buyers, while the fertile East India colony Portugal, Spain, Sweden and other countries have given up on purchasing. No one is stupid. Your colony is full of gold. Who would like to buy it without safety? After buying it, maybe you have to send an ocean-going fleet composed of hundreds of warships to fight a battle with the Ming Dynasty in Ceylon. Aren’t you obviously cheating people? Don’t say that these countries cannot send an ocean-going fleet composed of hundreds of warships to fight overseas. Some countries have no naval forces in total. And even if they defeated the Ming Dynasty’s Nanyang Navy, there are the Eastern Navy and Beiyang Navy, and their territory is across the sea from East India. Do you have the courage to fight and do you have the courage to defend?

The East India colony suddenly dropped from tens of millions of silver to two million. The Netherlands East India Company was going crazy in an effort to get rid of the market. Even if it jumped to the house price, it was still willing to sell it. Everyone knows that every day it delayed. East India was in danger of being occupied at any time. It was worthless. Instead of doing this, you always have to find a sucker. Anyway, the company was going to go bankrupt. You have to make some money to give the shareholders some more and then split them.

At this moment, a sucker appeared in the eyes of Europeans. William III expressed his interest in East India and sent a negotiating representative, hoping to be in line with East India. Of course, the East India Company was desperate to do so. He immediately sent a representative. However, when the British offered the price, the company's negotiators could not help but look at each other. Because the price was unacceptable in any case. This was simply challenging the Dutch bottom line and insulting the IQ of the East India Company.

"One hundred thousand Dutch silver coins. No more." The British negotiator firmly stretched out one hand and crossed his legs very gentlemanly.

It's unreasonable to cheat people. It's a bastard. I don't know if the Dutch people scolded this three-character classic in their hearts. But for sure, it's too much lower than their baseline. Even if the East India Company is on the verge of bankruptcy, it's impossible to sell a piece of fertile land for this price. These British people are so bad. But looking at Europe, there is only a British buyer. The Dutch urgently needs to take it off. Therefore, the Dutch still politely stated that they are unwilling to accept this price.

The British negotiator was a very "cultivated" gentleman. From the moment he sat on the negotiating table, he began to meticulously repair his nails. When he heard that the Dutch were unwilling to accept it, the gentleman immediately got up and picked up his hat. He was about to go out gracefully, as if he had finished admiring a graceful opera. In short, he was definitely not here to negotiate.

The Dutch were panicked. The British could delay. But they could not. They could delay for a moment. They might not make a single silver coin. So the Dutch negotiator immediately stopped this "respectable" gentleman and said that they could talk about it again.

"Your Excellency, I feel very sympathetic about your company's experience. The shameless Ming navy attacked the legal colonial land of your country completely disregarded etiquette. However, you should be clear that the land of your company is not worth so much, and it is extremely reasonable to have a hundred thousand silver coins." The gentleman finally spoke.

"How about the Dutch silver coins of 500,000 gulf?" The Dutch felt very wronged. Since the rise of the Ming Dynasty, they have always been slaughtered. The Ming Dynasty and Spain have now become British. The most annoying thing is that when facing the Ming Dynasty and Spain, the Dutch can still curse these shameless "robbers" in the name of hostile countries. However, when facing the British, they dare not say this, otherwise the business will be ruined.

"Your Excellency, you obviously have no sincerity in negotiations. I have already said that the land of your company is only worth so much and cannot be added up." The gentleman looked at the Dutch in a sarcastic way, and the mockery was obvious.

The Dutch were convinced. It was obvious that this guy who had been manicure in the negotiations had no sincerity, but now he blamed the Dutch. It was really unreasonable. The Dutch still started bargaining politely: "How about 400,000 Dutch currency? It can't be less. I can guarantee that the annual tax and silver taxes in the ports in Ceylon are also more than this."

The gentleman shook his head and sat back on the negotiating table to continue his manicure.

"It's 300,000 yuan, let me tell you the truth, this is the lowest price acceptable within the company."

Continue to repair.

"Well, 250,000, sir, if you still do this, then I have reason to think you're playing with us."

The gentleman raised his head and said nothing, because he had to continue to manicure.

"Two hundred thousand, this is the lowest price, sir, it's the last time." The Dutch representative's face began to become ferocious. He packed up his hat and was ready to lift his legs and leave at any time.
Chapter completed!