Jabs's real name was Lin Yihu, and he was a Jinyiwei secret agent who had infiltrated the enemy. On the roster of Jinyiwei North Town Fusi, Lin Yihu had the title of deputy commander, and also had the title of Count of Kenan Zhongyong. He has farms in Fengyang Mansion and Shuntian Mansion, has titles in Yingtian and Wuhan, and also has a mansion in Tangquan Town of Yingtian Mansion.
But Jabs did not care at all about the high-ranking officials, generous salaries, and titles given to him by the Ming Dynasty... He was indifferent to fame and wealth, and did not like being an official. He only wanted to do something useful for the country, the nation, and the emperor. things.
But now...the Manchuria group outside the customs won't last long no matter what! I guess it will be wiped out in a few years!
After Guanwai was recaptured by the Ming Dynasty, what should Manchuria's richest man Jiabus, the richest man in Manchuria, do?
Can he still be the richest man? Whose business does Jiale City belong to? That’s a huge fortune! When Jia Le Market first started, it was a trading house that only bought and resold, and it didn't have a big market. However, under the painstaking management of Jabs for more than ten years, the market has grown bigger and bigger, and a large-scale comprehensive business group has gradually formed across multiple industries such as commerce, handicrafts, shipping, banking, pharmaceuticals, and salt. . And he also opened the semicolon to Acapulco and San Diego on the other side of the ocean!
He has worked hard to create such a large industry. Now he has hundreds of thousands or millions of net profits every year. The Ming court has invested some capital, totaling hundreds of thousands taels...
Now, if Jobs is asked to hand over such a large share of his property and become Lin Yihu again, how can he be willing to do so? Of course, he is not doing it for money. The main reason is that Jia Le Shi Xing was brought up little by little by him. It is part of his life!
Thinking that part of his life might be gone, Jabs felt bad and couldn't help but shed tears.
Just when he was about to cry, the carriage he was riding in suddenly stopped, and then the door of the carriage was opened.
Got home?
When he thought of going home, Jabs sighed again. He could row boats and race horses in Hanyang House!
There lived thirty concubines who were as beautiful as flowers and jade, one for a day and no duplicates for a month.
What if we go back to Nanjing and have so many concubines and so many children? How much income can a strong and brave man like Kenan and a deputy commander make in a year?
Do you want to get rid of some concubines?
But we have been together for so long, and we fall in love with each other over time!
After sighing again, Jabs weakly got out of the carriage and looked up. Hey, the front is quite broad and looks very grand. The high-walled courtyard...is this really an Earl's Mansion?
When he was in a good mood, Jabs saw the door lined with four big characters "Pang's Garden"!
Wrong place? Jabs thought to himself: Why did it become the Pang family garden?
Just as he was about to find someone to ask, a plainclothes guard who sent him over smiled and said to him: "Jia Yuanwai, we are at the place, please come in!"
"This is..." Jabs still wanted to ask.
But the plainclothes guard replied: "I don't know!"
You didn't know where it was, so you sent the person here... Jabs looked around, sighed, go in! It's probably some kind of yamen from Jinyiwei!
He walked towards the closed door. Just as he was about to knock on the door, the door opened a crack by itself, and a voice with a male duck's voice came from inside: "Is it Lin Zhongyong?"
Jabs was stunned for a moment before he remembered that his title was Kenan Zhongyongbo, and he quickly responded: "I'm going to Lin Yihu."
With a creak, the door crack opened wider.
"come in."
Then go in!
Jabs took a breath and stepped inside. After entering, I realized that this was not Jin Yiwei's yamen. Because the person talking to him inside the door was actually wearing a very brightly colored tuxedo with exaggerated embroidery and a white wig on his head... Jin Yiwei should not be allowed to dress like this. .
And that person looks and behaves a bit like a eunuch!
What exactly is this place?
With questions in his head, Jabs followed the eunuch and walked for a while in the courtyard of the mansion, passing through a green lawn, passing by a flower bed, and finally arrived in front of a three-story Western-style building. .
The door to the hall on the ground floor of the building was open, and there was an older woman dressed as a palace lady standing there. The eunuch in a foreign dress said to the aunt, "Wang Yiren, Earl Lin has brought her here."
What? pleasant? Jabs was surprised. What was the title of the female official in charge of the ninth concubine in the harem?
"Uncle Zhongyong, come with me." Auntie waved to Jabs, but Jabs didn't dare to move.
"Uncle Zhongyong!" Auntie was unhappy, "Do you want His Majesty to wait for a long time?"
His Majesty?
Jabs was a little dizzy. Why was the emperor here?
where is this place?
This is the cozy home of Zhu Cixiang and his royal mistress Marie Mancini. It is also a place where Emperor Zhu conducts personal business activities.
In addition to being Zhu Cixi's mistress, Mary Mancini was also his business partner - Emperor Zhu wanted to make money from everything. He would not just focus on arms, banks, minting silver coins, or making money. Then dig gold mines and open copper mines.
In his opinion, culture and fashion are more profitable than arms, banks, and mining.
For example, the silk and porcelain exported by the Ming Dynasty, the lacquerware exported by Japan, and the furs and Dongzhu exported by Manchuria are all selling culture and fashion! To the Puritans of England, everything was useless rubbish...
Zhu Cixi now hopes to use Mary Mancini and her vixen sisters, as well as the French King Louis XIV himself, to trigger a craze in Europe for drinking tea, wearing pearl jewelry, and wearing furs.
Among them, tea is a new market waiting to be explored, while pearls and fur products are markets that need to be developed in depth. The pearls and furs exported by the Qing Dynasty through Spain were only raw materials, not finished products delivered to consumers. There is still a lot of profit to be mined here!
Zhu Cihong summoned Jabs from North Korea to discuss with him how to take over the pearl and fur trade. After the Kagoshima Bay War, the Pacific fur and Eastern pearl trade would definitely not be able to continue. But the demand in Europe is still there, so Ming Dynasty can take over and continue to do it, and it can also make it bigger and make more profits.
In addition to Jabs, Emperor Zhu also summoned Huang Jiang, the general manager of Maritime Bank, in the Pang family garden today. The two of them were sitting on a platform on the second floor of the small building, talking and chatting while admiring the scenery of Laoshan.
Mary was also here, wearing a long white silk dress, playing with a small red clay stove, a copper kettle, a large bottle of milk, a pot of tea, a pot of sugar and some cups and saucers.
She is trying to make milk tea... In the future, there will probably be no British milk tea in the world, but French milk tea!
According to Mary's research, the combination of milk, tea, and sugar not only produces a wonderful taste, but also has a beautifying effect. This is the little secret of the Mancini family. Why did her family produce so many beauties? This is the magic effect of milk tea!
Emperor Zhu and Shopkeeper Huang each had a coffee cup. There was no coffee in the cup, it was the milk tea that Mary had brewed before.
While drinking milk tea, the two were discussing the business of opening a bank in Europe. In Zhu Cihong's plan, Huang Jiang would be the first general manager of the Imperial Bank!
"Old Huang, I have to thank you for your hard work. This journey is dangerous, so you must take care of your health." Zhu Cixiang smiled at the profiteer who had followed him in Beijing, "After arriving in Europe, you must prepare to stay for a long time... ..The environment in Paris is not very good. You can buy a manor in the countryside and settle down.
In addition, remember to bring more pearls and furs... find the best craftsmen to process them, put them in the most expensive Japanese lacquerware, and give them to the ladies who can travel in and out of the French court... ..Mary, please remember to make a list for Shopkeeper Huang. "
