Hiss... everyone suddenly took a breath of air. One hundred and thirty million silver dollars, converted into silver taels, is more than one hundred million. This is in units of hundreds of millions, which is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
In ancient times, there was no concept of inflation. Money was all real gold and silver. This kind of precious metal was rare on the earth.
Ordinary people had no chance to use silver at all. It was all traded in copper coins. Only landlords and officials and dignitaries were qualified to store some silver.
But it is still very few. Before the country opens and before there is a large inflow of silver, a family can have a deposit of several hundred taels of silver, and that is a properly wealthy family!
Thousand taels of silver, ten thousand taels of silver, these are huge properties that can only be owned by big landowners or businessmen in the city!
As for hundreds of thousands or millions of taels of silver, only the rich and powerful can enjoy it!
In fact, these princes sitting here don't have much knowledge. They have lived in fine clothes and food, and enjoyed endless wealth and splendor in the world. But how much cash reserves do you want to say they have in their hands? In fact, it’s not much, just millions.
Because the prince's life is sometimes very simple. The prince's palace is customized and has been built since the founding of the People's Republic of China. You don't have to pay for annual maintenance, the court will naturally take care of it.
Different titles have different properties, some outside the customs and some within the customs. These villages have domestic slaves to run the cooking. In fact, these imperial villages can provide seven or eight things for eating, drinking, and fresh vegetables all year round. It’s done.
You don't even have many opportunities to spend money to buy women, because the imperial court only drafts women, and those who have no chance to enter the palace will naturally be divided into various palaces, and a portion will be allocated almost every year.
As long as you are not particularly lustful, then you don't have to worry about women at all. Of course, if you are a lustful ghost like Yixin's son Zaicheng or Prince Zheng Chengzhi, then you will have to spend a little money to buy women.
In fact, the princes did not spend much money on their normal life, and their property existed more in the form of physical objects. After all, the Qing Dynasty belonged to a feudal society, not a capital-based Europa.
The way to calculate wealth is fundamentally different. Currency is just a category of wealth!
The prince's family's floating wealth is usually only one or two million, and the greedy three or four million will end. Later, thanks to the blessing of Zai Chun's reform, after the stock market was established, they finally understood how capital operates. Something happened.
That is to say, because of the Capital Exchange, the properties of these princes and dignitaries took off as if they had wings. One or two million is not considered rich, but five or six million does!
Is there any prince in the capital with more than 10 million in funds? It's hard to say, but there must be some princes whose assets are approaching this figure.
But even so, when they heard the figure of 130 million taels of silver, they were so frightened that they gasped!
Fu Qing held the wine glass in his hand and slowly rotated it, with a slight smile on his lips. He was very patient, as patient as fishing. He knew what kind of virtue these people were. Under the temptation of huge interests, few I can live with it as long as I can.
As expected, after a while, Prince Zheng was the first to be unable to sit still, "Hehe...hehehe... Third Master, Daqing Yuanyang alone needs to raise 50 million yuan... I wonder what the return is?"
"Rewards...good question...rewards are unlimited, including the Beijing-Hankow Railway, their rewards will always be unlimited!" The third master slapped the white porcelain wine glass on the table.
The third master’s hard work was not lost at all, and the white porcelain wine glass was turned into fine porcelain slag by him!
"Repay? For the Europeans on the sea, wooden sailing ships from two hundred years ago are still in use, transporting precious cargo back and forth one after another. Do you know how many generations have the owners of those ships been inherited?"
"Not to mention railways. A one-time investment will bring benefits for thousands of years. As long as humans still need to travel and transport goods, the money for the road must be paid!"
"As for the risks in doing business, don't even mention it to me. What can you do without risks? Did you choke to death when you drank cold water? It's not impossible that you fell and died while walking!"
"When the railway encounters flash floods and earthquakes, the money spent on repairing and rebuilding it is just a drop in the bucket compared to the money they make every day!"
"The same is true for ocean-going trade. If you only have one ship and it capsizes, you will lose all your money! But what if you have a hundred ships?"
"Even if you turn over one or two, the remaining ninety or so are still profitable! This is a hardcore crop that will last forever!"
"Haha... If there's any downside, I'm afraid that's the only one. It's that the investment is too big, and it's simply not a game that poor people can afford!"
"Princes, think about it carefully... Our world has undergone profound changes. The wealth in the new era cannot be compared to the salary of one or two princes!"
"I'm not boasting. If a good ship runs smoothly, why can't it make more money in a year than your prince's salary?"
"All princes are superiors to others. According to the Chinese, they are called the powerful class! But don't think that you are all safe if you stand at the top of the pyramid!"
"Times have changed, and the way of making money will also change! Are you princes really better than the railroad tycoons of North America? The steel kings? The shipping emperors?"
"Haha... I'm afraid that the annual salaries of all the princes you are doing together are no more than a fraction of the annual profits of the Carnegie Steel Company in the United States, right?"
"Haha! Those who refuse to progress with the times will be eliminated by the times!"
The third master's eloquent words shocked the princes present and their heads were buzzing. No one expected that at the end of the drink, Fu Qing gave him a heavy hammer, but you couldn't fall out because they said That's right.
There is a sense of crisis, everyone has a sense of crisis! You're right, now we are all princes, the most noble people in the Qing Dynasty besides the emperor.
But what does this kind of nobility mean in front of this era? It’s almost being eliminated! What steel, railways, and shipping are being developed in Europe and the United States? There may be more weird industries in the future.
But every emerging industry will have a period of huge profits! Anyone who catches such a huge profit period will be as rich as the enemy, so what does the prince mean?
With a bang, Prince Zheng jumped up and said, "Damn it! You did it! We Manchus came out of the White Mountains and Black Waters to fight against the Ming Dynasty. Isn't that a big gamble?"
"But we won the bet! We only have two hundred years of flowers and rivers! Our ancestors bet, so we can't bet?"
"Let's do it! Not only do I want to buy the ship, but I also want to take the original shares. Reserve three million for me!"
