The knowledge that a certain Xinhuang professor gave to the merchant students has already been put to great use. Regardless of whether they face their local or overseas counterparts, these guys who have improved their own connotation feel that they are able to deal with it with ease.
Sales models, business management, promotional activities, and manufacturing processes that the other party has never seen before can all be seen in Beidu's factory. It can be said to be an eye-opener.
The business class was held only once that year. At that time, no one enrolled because they were reluctant to spend money. At first, they felt that they were safe from being deceived.
As time went by, I discovered that there was a certain difference between myself and those peers who spent money. After many years, there were even more dramatic changes.
At that time, the tuition fee for the business school was one thousand taels of silver per person, including ten classes, each class lasting one hour.
It seems extremely expensive, but in fact, after you put your knowledge to use, the tuition fees can be earned back with interest within one year.
Many merchants in Beidu are ostensibly divided according to industry, but in reality they are divided into fellow villagers and relatives.
Since becoming business school students, these businessmen have been divided again.
The relationship between classmates is the relationship between people. This is something that a certain new emperor made clear in class.
For the sake of classmates, they will help each other more or less.
If one person helps a little, the accumulated power of dozens or hundreds of people cannot be underestimated.
The two most famous little aunts in Beijing, Zhou Xin'er and Qi Yu'er, no longer need to show their faces.
After working hard for more than ten years, each person earned more than half a million taels of silver, and the ladies under his command also changed several batches.
As long as they can redeem themselves, they will not deliberately make things difficult, and they are also willing to see these laughing women find a good home.
Grain merchant Yu Songyi, president of the Chamber of Commerce, benefited from his bought identity, and was upgraded from a solid grain seller to the owner of a pastry company.
The profit margin of making snacks, cakes, biscuits and other foods is much higher than simply selling food, thus perfectly avoiding the squeeze of a large amount of funds due to falling food prices.
Yu Songyi does not need to worry about not selling his products. As long as the quality of the random inspection is up to standard, the compressed biscuits produced by the company will become military supplies.
Except for summer in the north, it is easier to preserve food in other seasons.
On the contrary, in the south, especially in the Nanyang region, compressed biscuits have become the most reassuring ration for soldiers.
The taste of this thing is definitely not as good as tonkotsu ramen, but it is still much better than eating moldy and wormy rice every day.
Each ship in Zheng Zhilong's fleet has stored a large amount of compressed biscuits, as well as newly launched luncheon meat.
That's right!
It’s the kind of luncheon meat where you have fried luncheon meat in the morning, boiled luncheon meat at noon, and grilled luncheon meat at night…
After the birth of canned food, luncheon meat naturally appeared.
Since R&D costs have to be lowered initially, it is temporarily impossible to reduce them to the point where ordinary people can afford them.
But for those in the scholarly and upper classes, there is no problem eating it every day. This thing is not a luxury.
A certain new emperor's goal is to make luncheon meat food on the people's tables, and he will work hard to achieve this goal.
Before that, luncheon meat would still be used as military supplies to boost the morale of the king's division.
Going deep outside the customs, the feeling of eating dried meat during a break is completely different from eating luncheon meat.
In the same way, after the battleship sailed at sea for half a month, the sailors looked at the moldy pork and pink luncheon meat, and it was impossible not to think...
A certain kind-hearted Xinhuang divided luncheon meat into three grades. The third grade was mixed with 60% flour, the second grade was mixed with 40%, and the first grade was only mixed with 20%, but the price was naturally the highest.
After Zheng Zhilong tasted three grades of luncheon meat, he immediately made a decision and purchased 100,000 boxes of two kilograms of third-grade luncheon meat at one time as the main meat for the fleet.
Zheng Zhilong is now enjoying great glory, but he endured a lot of hardships in his early years. After becoming famous, he did not join the sailors under his command.
If the fleet goes on a long voyage, a box of lunch meat that seems ordinary on the shore will become a gluttonous feast.
This is the meat that satisfies sailors the most, besides directly setting up nets or fishing.
It has a long shelf life, a mouth-watering color, and the purchase cost is lower than bacon. This is the biggest advantage of luncheon meat.
Just from the luncheon meat project alone, Yu Songyi pockets more than 100,000 taels every year.
In addition, dozens of pastry chain stores have been opened in major cities in Beidu, Datong, Taiyuan, Tianjin, Baoding, Yexian, Dengzhou and Jifu.
There are dozens of stores in the Jiangnan area, plus stores in Huguang, Guangdong and Guangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang, and the total number of chain stores in Daming is as high as hundreds.
With these stores as a basis, Yu Songyi successfully achieved industrial upgrading based on low value-added resale grain and successfully entered the more profitable food industry.
In order to hug the chicken thighs tightly and show his loyalty, salt merchant Ma Yongliang, who is the vice president, has already abandoned Huaiyan salt and sold sea salt instead.
This was the initial stage of Haiyan's listing. Later, thanks to the introduction of a certain new king, Ma Yongliang met the Tengjisi brothers and successfully expanded his sales channels to the grassland.
In the past, the price of salt on the grassland was one or two taels per pound, which was probably the lowest price of coarse salt.
Nowadays, the maximum price is 300 Wen per catty, and the price of refined salt. In the southern part of the grassland near the Great Wall, the price will drop to about 100 or 200 Wen per catty.
The price of salt in the customs has dropped to fifty or sixty cents per catty, but since most of the salt drying workers are from the disaster area, their expectations for wages are not too high.
In addition, the natural disasters have disappeared, Minsheng has improved, and salt consumption in various places has increased. Major salt farms along the coast can adopt the method of small profits but quick turnover.
As the profits of salt declined, Ma Yongliang was also looking for other profitable projects. He soon received the guidance of a certain new emperor and started to get involved with sugar.
Sugar is naturally an ingredient, but due to its high price, it was not widely available in Minsheng until a certain emperor invented snowflake sugar.
A certain new emperor no longer had much energy to make snowflake candy, so he divided the factory into three. The southern factory was sold to Zheng Zhilong, and part of the northern factory was sold to Ma Yongliang.
The remaining part is used to make higher-end and more profitable various candies, as well as snacks such as wafers.
This was done to reward Zheng Zhilong for fighting so hard. From now on, the business with General Tokugawa would be a matter between them. Secondly, it is also to collect funds for other projects.
Zheng Zhilong now has the power to produce, and combined with the previous transportation price difference, he can completely monopolize the snowflake candy business with Japan.
Ma Yongliang was lucky enough to get involved because he had brought a salt merchant to cheer for a certain Xinhuang station.
It is definitely not possible to use salt to express it, but by analogy, literature and history have been inseparable since ancient times, and now salt and sugar can also be inseparable.
A certain Xinhuang candy factory became the downstream of Zheng Zhilong and Ma Yongliang, but the profit margin was more generous than before.
In contrast, tea merchant Fan Qiaozhi is not involved in other industries and is focusing on running his own tea business according to the instructions of a certain new emperor.
The Fan family used to be responsible for selling tea in the Jifu area, but now they have their own tea house in Zhejiang. With continuous acquisitions over the years, the Fan family's tea production has reached about 40% of the entire Zhejiang.
Reaching this level, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a powerful influence within the local area. The tea shipped to the grasslands and exported to the West mainly comes from Zhejiang, headed by the Fan family.
The tea produced in Fujian was transported by Zheng Zhilong to many vassal states in Southeast Asia and the North, which did not conflict much with the sales channels of Zhejiang tea.
The customers of industries in Huguang and Sichuan are mainly from the northwest and western regions. Since the development of Yanchang Oilfield and Yulin Coal Mine, Shaanxi has once again become a favored place for tea merchants.
The total output value of these two major projects alone reaches millions of taels of silver every year, creating a new group of wealthy people.
As long as you can own a dozen or so carriages for transportation between the Yanchang Oilfield and the West Bank of the Yellow River, your annual income will definitely be high. There are countless people like this in the local area.
After they get rich, they will drink wine and eat meat, but after meals, like the chiefs on the grassland, they will always drink tea to relieve their greasiness.
Coupled with the mining of gold mines and the gradual recovery of the northwest, tea from Huguang and Sichuan will no longer have to worry about selling.
Unlike those who like to drink bitter tea, a certain new emperor prefers to drink iced black tea...
A certain new emperor did not intend to touch the three major categories of food, salt, and tea.
As long as you firmly control the telephone, telegraph, electricity, petrochemicals, daily chemicals, media, department stores, banks, real estate, pharmaceuticals, plus many gold mines and railway companies that you own or own shares in, you can sit back and relax.
According to a rough estimate by a certain new emperor, the total assets under his command have expanded to more than 300 million taels of silver, which is roughly around 350 million taels.
But after taking into account the expenses that have been invested in many projects, the working capital is very small, only 11 million taels. Fortunately, the imperial court still owes itself 45 million taels.
According to the interest calculation, the Ministry of Accounts has to repay the loan for ten years, which is five million taels per year. A certain new emperor is not worried at all about this repayment level.
As long as ironclad ships are still being built in an orderly manner, goods are still being shipped in large quantities for export, railways can still transport supplies, and gold mines, coal mines, oil fields, and salt fields are in operation, the imperial court will not stop.
Different from the time when he just took over the mess caused by the dumper, the imperial court has now entered into a formal state, and can harvest more than 40 million taels (including grain in silver) from the eight corners of the north every year.
If we use troops against Liaodong, this money will naturally not be enough, but once we defeat Huang Taiji and use it to organize various places, it will be more than enough.
There is also good news, that is, Zheng Zhilong, who has a unique vision, has thoroughly mastered the performance of the Zhiyuan-type ironclad ship and learned that the Yoshino test ship is under construction.
He immediately decided to spend 10 million taels for the deposit. After all, the first-generation ironclad ship was so powerful, and the performance of the second-generation armored ship kept him awake at night.
This amount is a floating purchase price, that is, after the test ship is completed, the purchase quantity will be calculated based on the construction cost of the warship, and the purchase quantity will be calculated based on 10% of the mass production cost.
Assuming that the cost price of each Yoshino reaches 2.5 million taels of silver, then 10 million taels can buy four boats. If the unit price is reduced to 2 million taels, five boats can be bought.
But the first batch of Yoshinos were built in four shipyards. Zheng Zhilong could only buy two at most, and the goods would not be available until four years at the earliest.
It is expected that after ten years, Yoshino will enter the mass construction stage like Zhiyuan.
To cope with the current naval battle, even if it is a battle related to the fate of the country, the Zhiyuan-type ironclad ship is sufficient.
Once Yoshino, who can completely crush the opponent's wooden toys, enters the battle, it will be pure bullying...
As for the 2,900-ton "Laiyuan" type, it can be regarded as a model that is not as good as the previous model but more than the inferior model.
A certain new emperor didn't care about achieving success overnight, but within his ability, he still wanted to see how capable the guys from the Academy of Sciences were.
When the second batch of Zhiyuan is launched, the freed dock can be used to start building a "Laiyuan".
Since there is no dome armor, the process difficulty will be lower, which is equivalent to the Zhiyuan PLUS version.
A certain new emperor believes that in contemporary naval warfare, armor such as dome armor is completely useless and is a waste of time and tonnage.
With this time and money, it is better to renovate the warship to add more gun positions and anti-ship missile launchers.
When the Laiyuan was put into mass production, the domestic and foreign sales of the ironclad began to differentiate.
Zhiyuan is equipped with both internal and external equipment, but Yoshino is not the same. It is only used to equip the local navy. The top warship sold to foreign countries is Laiyuan.
It's not impossible for the other party to buy Yoshino. They must either eliminate the Ming Dynasty or offer a new emperor a price they can't refuse...
Fifty million taels of silver for a Yoshino!
This price should be enough to sell it!
It is estimated that no one is willing to pay this price!
The East India Company could afford it, but it would never be taken advantage of.
Looking around the world, apart from that, there should be no other wealthy buyers, and Osman does not have the financial resources.
If you sell an armored ship like Zheng Zhilong for less than 3 million taels, I guess that guy will be happy in his dreams.
In view of Zheng Zhilong's considerable contribution in the logistics of the Northern Expedition, and his contribution to transporting the troops and people of the vassal state, the new emperor no longer cared about the ironclad ship.
Anyway, if our own navy cannot afford to equip it on a large scale, there is no need to build it in large quantities. On average, Yoshino only needs one ship launched every year.
You can use Zhiyuan and Laiyuan battleships to make up the rest. If you are really strapped for money, you can still use wooden ships to continue charging into the battle!
On New Year's Eve, a certain new emperor held a banquet as usual in the front hall, a three-story building in front of the main building, for civil servants, military generals and various distinguished guests.
Few people present could have imagined that twelve years later, Ming Dynasty, especially the capital, would undergo earth-shaking changes.
I even sat in the newly built palace, watching the performance of singing and dancing birds, already feeling a little happy and reluctant to miss Shu.
After twelve o'clock, it was the new year, and a certain new emperor also announced at the party that there would be another Northern Expedition after the spring.
Three dozen Royal Chicken is a must, otherwise this guy will always want to slice himself into hot pot!
This time is different from last time. Not only must we go deep into Liaodong, but we must also invade the hinterland of Huangtaiji.
Not early or late, in the critical period for crop growth - June.
The army will push forward and we will see if you dare to fight!
The second time I mobilized troops to go there, and you still didn’t receive me, that would be unjustifiable.
Otherwise, the crops and the slaves can only remain the same!
