Thinking of this, Shi Qing couldn't help but smile.
After laughing for a long time, he started to worry again.
When you really have more things like family property, you will find that more does not make people happier. He suddenly started to think, which one is more profitable: sailing ships in the South China Sea or sailing ships in Korea and Japan? Compared with the output of northern Xinjiang pastures, are the interests at sea higher or lower?
He also thought that Prime Minister Xu said when he passed through Tongzhou half a year ago that there is no need for everyone to rush into businesses that directly generate money, and they can also consider other things. Xu Ding used Shi Qing as an example at that time, saying that the Jing's Book Engraving Workshop in Ningjin County, Xingzhou he contacted had already opened a new workshop in Tianjin Prefecture.
The people behind the Book Engraving Workshop are only a few local military households in Ningjin County. However, due to the stability of the Central Plains and prosperous commerce in the past two years, everyone's demand for books has increased tenfold and a hundred times. A military household who wanted to make a small fortune became one of the first-class wealthy families in Xingzhou.
Hearing Xu Ding talk like this, Shi Qing felt a little regretful. His financial resources are naturally much stronger than those of ordinary soldiers. Unfortunately, he did not have the foresight to let go of the boss's wealth.
Fortunately, Xu Ding knew that a former member of the Red Coat Army like him might not be willing to sacrifice his life and blood, but he still longed for glory and wealth.
So he introduced many more industries to Shi Qing, such as textile, porcelain making, mining and metallurgy, casting and other industries. In recent years, these industries have all flourished in Dazhou. If Shi Qing is really worried about his family's reputation, even if he collects some money, buys a piece of land on the Tongzhou water and land transportation road, builds several large warehouses, and sets up a place to repair cars and boats, he can still make a lot of money.
Both generations of Xu Ding and his son were top-notch moneymakers, and what he said was definitely true.
Shi Qing threw the book in his hand to the side and his eyes rolled around...
Tongzhou? I am the defense envoy of Tongzhou. It is easy to do this.
However... doing this under one's own rule would be like taking advantage of one's backers. The laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty are not to be flouted. If the law is violated anywhere, the superiors will be dismissed from their posts if they are investigated. If the spies from the Recording Department are provoked, they will even shout for beatings and killings, and their heads will be lost!
In this regard, even if Shi Qing had some preferential treatment as a former member of the Red Coat Army, he could not compare with Xu Ding.
Of course Xu Ding can talk casually, he has no scruples.
Anyone who was an official in the Great Zhou Dynasty knows that one of the two prime ministers of the Great Zhou Dynasty loved money as much as life, and the other loved to promote and cite fellow Khitan people. The two things were more or less out of line, but the emperor turned a blind eye and clearly gave these two special privileges. But these two are the only ones who have the privilege. No matter how many benefits others receive, they must be within the limits of the law.
So it’s better to…
Although the emperor suddenly decided to send troops to the grassland, he must be sure of it. After this incident, the Zhou Dynasty's control over the grasslands will inevitably expand greatly, and the power of the Mongols will inevitably decline. Taking this opportunity to build a wool spinning factory in northern Xinjiang, is it very profitable?
These industries have always brought money, but it didn't start from this dynasty. But those who have held it in their hands since ancient times have been either local gentry or high-ranking central families. During the Jin Dynasty, the powerful Jurchen clan had to be added.
Until the Mongols invaded and the Ding navy rose.
The Mongols used the most brutal method to completely destroy the old local structure. Guo Ning's Dinghai regime relied on its strong force advantage to launch a purge of the central government and the Jurchens. After the purges, interest groups representing the Great Zhou Dynasty, with warriors as the core, supplemented by the downtrodden civil servants of the previous dynasty and some foreigners, appeared.
If this were the case, the ruling class of the Great Zhou Dynasty was not fundamentally different from that of the previous generation, except that there was a different group of people who were domineering over the people.
However, the Ding Navy relied on maritime trade to make its fortune. After they seized power, they still regarded trade as the financial support of the imperial court. Therefore, they did their best to continuously expand trade routes, even at great cost, including many powerful people including the Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty. The characters were forcibly gathered into a group, and they were all involved in the trade network.
If Guo Ning had not been the first generation to build a country from scratch and become emperor, he would not have been able to promote such a decision. Once such a decision is promoted, it will bring a large inflow of gold, silver, copper and other precious metals, bringing private wealth.
In particular, the wealth of the military class in the Zhou Dynasty increased explosively.
With this growth rate, the military class gradually became richer, but their desire to expand land in the Central Plains was suppressed by the decrees of the founding court and found it difficult to break through. If you want to be a big landowner across states and counties, you really don't have many opportunities. On the contrary, there are no obstacles in both industry and commerce, and the rewards are immediate.
So huge wealth is either invested in consumption or invested in the next step of production expansion. In Zhongdu, Hebei, Nanjing Road and even across Liaodong, factories with hundreds or even thousands of workers began to appear. A large number of officials and merchants invested money in shipyards to build ships and go to sea. The fleets have reached as far as the South China Sea.
The output of the Central Plains and the North could be sold to distant countries. Originally, horses were the main products. With the economic recovery in various parts of the Central Plains, porcelain, lacquerware, medicinal materials, cloth, etc., and of course, wool products from the grasslands were gradually added.
After the Dajin Zhangzong Dynasty, the weather was always not correct, and winters were often violently cold. Natural disasters have had a great impact on agriculture in various places. Fortunately, all the ports, factories, and trading houses in Dazhou are like bottomless pits of important people, who are very helpful in resettling the victims. The imperial court only needed to deliver news and arrange for the relocation of disaster victims, and did not need to provide money and food for disaster relief for a long time.
On the other hand, this cold weather has made sweaters, blankets and other items that are good for keeping warm popular. Even if the output on the grassland keeps doubling, demand is increasingly in short supply.
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Shi Qing received a letter from his uncle Shi Quan a few days ago. The letter said that some Mongolian blankets of particularly good quality were recently competing for the market with Tuanhua blankets from Dashi in Lin'an, a place in the Southern Song Dynasty. For this reason, the merchants of Zhou Dynasty were fighting fiercely with the Hu merchants of Quanzhou.
On the Tianjin side, even the worst-quality wool was snapped up by maritime merchants to fill the gaps between cabins and cargo, and to ensure that valuable porcelain would not be damaged by wind and waves. Regardless of the low unit price, each sea-going ship buys more or less large bundles, and the combined total quantity and total price are terrifyingly large!
Before the beginning of sea trade, who would have thought that even the most worthless wool could be converted into money? Who would have thought that such a poor grassland could produce such a source of wealth out of thin air?
The grassland covers thousands of miles. As Zhou continues to cultivate it, who knows whether this land will become a cornucopia?
By the way, I have acquaintances in several mining and metallurgical companies in Shandong. Maybe you can call some people over and try prospecting on the grassland?
Are you sure you can find some gold, silver, copper and iron?
Thinking of this, Shi Qing made up his mind.
His eyes narrowed and a smile appeared on his lips. In his eyes, the grass outside the tent, illuminated by the autumn sunshine, also looked bright.
This expression looks a bit silly in the eyes of outsiders.
Not far from the tent, a group of elite soldiers were passing by. The leader was Chen Ran, a senior general of the Ding Navy and the former leader of Guo Ning's bodyguard.
Several soldiers looked at Shi Qing's appearance and all snickered: "The auxiliary soldiers from Tongzhou said that Shi Qing was good at everything, but he was only passionate about profit and salary, and often thought about money and was in a daze. Looking at his appearance, this is another example. I was stunned."
Chen Ran coughed twice: "You guys, stop talking nonsense."
