The third issue of "World Monthly" introduces the development of the top 20 provinces. Due to the wider coverage of the content, there are more readers who are eager to understand the local situation.
The sales volume was naturally higher than that of the second issue, approaching 800,000 copies, which also brought the total sales of the first three issues to exceed the two million mark.
The twenty most profitable companies in Ming Dynasty introduced in the fourth issue have aroused strong interest among readers, especially money fans.
The number one ranking is not Imperial Oil and other companies fully controlled by Emperor Haojing Zhu Cixiang, but Monan Jinshan Group.
The group has four companies, each of which is responsible for a mining area. The total number of employees, including slave miners, reaches more than 3.5 million. It is considered the largest enterprise in the Ming Empire and even in the world.
Last year, the total revenue from mining reached about 100 million silver coins. Excluding costs, profits and taxes were 16 million silver coins. One company accounted for 6.4% of the imperial court's annual income.
In second place is Nanyang Gold Mountain Group, which is the Grasberg gold mine on the island of Papua New Guinea.
Although the company only has one mine, it reserves 3,400 tons of gold, 18,000 tons of silver, and 39 million tons of copper.
Now it can produce nearly 100 tons of gold, more than 400 tons of silver, and more than 100,000 tons of copper annually, with profits and taxes of more than 14 million silver coins.
Ranking third, fourth and fifth are Northwest Petroleum Group, Northern Bank and Maanshan Iron and Steel Group respectively.
Northwest Petroleum Group includes the Yanchang Oilfield, which has been exploited for many years, the Qingyang Oilfield, which has been exploited for a short time, and the Karamay Oilfield, which has just started to be exploited after exploration.
Emperor Haojing does not plan to set up another oil company in the Western Regions. It will just be placed under the management of the Northwest Petroleum Group. The personnel are sent here anyway, so separation is not conducive to coordination and allocation.
On the other hand, it is also for the long-term stability of the northwest. As long as the group can operate normally, local idle people will not go hungry, and the millions of family members behind the industrial chain will not be sucked by the northwest wind.
Northwest Petroleum Group, which received the Holy Family, can be said to be the largest local oil company, with its strength and output far ahead of its peers such as Sichuan Petroleum, Shandong Petroleum, and Liaodong Petroleum.
In contrast, Imperial Petroleum and Xianji Chemical, controlled by Emperor Haojing, are only responsible for importing oil and processing supplied materials, and are downstream enterprises in this industry.
Especially when the Ministry of Revenue was in dire straits, Emperor Haojing would often allow two of his subordinates to sell products to the Ministry of Revenue on credit, so it didn't look too good on the books.
Northern Bank is not only the safe deposit box of the account department, but also the bank that can best absorb deposits in the entire Ming Dynasty.
In the Jifu area, all the money of the royal family, merchants, generals, soldiers, and ordinary people was placed in the bank.
The head office moved to Xincheng. There are nine branches in Beidu City and 28 branches in Shuntianfu.
It has nearly 600 branches in six provinces: Beizhili, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong and Liaodong.
The bank's current reserves include platinum, gold, refined copper converted into silver, approximately 2.65 billion silver coins, and an additional 1.77 billion silver coins for external investment loans.
The entire northern railway line and the newly formulated and implemented shipbuilding plan of the imperial court were fully loaned by the Northern Bank.
Private banks are also allowed to be established in various places, but the interest on external loans cannot exceed 20% and the interest on deposits cannot exceed 10%.
The imperial court does not provide guarantee services to private banks. In the event of a run or even bankruptcy, the imperial court and local governments will not be held responsible.
By contrast, Northern Bank's interest rate has remained steady at five percent for five years.
Although the interest rate is relatively low, the advantage is that it will not collapse. The bank's backer is the emperor.
The assets include the Ministry of Household's mortgage of many Jinshan shares, which are used to exchange for silver coins, so that the Ministry of Industry can hire miners and purchase mining and transportation equipment and machinery.
As long as precious metals can still be dug out of the golden mountains, Northern Bank will not collapse.
The reason why this company ranks fourth is that the ranking is based on the company's total assets.
The assets of the top three have reached tens of billions of silver coins, although most of their assets are still buried underground...
Ma'anshan Iron Mine is located on the edge of the Yangtze River. It has a unique geographical location and is extremely convenient for mining, smelting and transportation.
The south is more iron deficient than the north, making the group a fish in water and developing at an extremely rapid rate.
Especially after obtaining the license to produce stainless steel, almost all stainless steel products in the southern market are produced by this group.
Ming Dynasty has no anti-monopoly regulations, so as long as it doesn’t go too far, it will be fine.
According to the current production capacity, Maanshan Iron and Steel Group is not able to monopolize the entire southern market with a population of hundreds of millions.
The sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth companies on the list are Southern Bank, Northern Railway Group, World Media Group, Daming Communications, and Guanghui Pharmaceuticals.
The Southern Bank was established under the guidance of Emperor Haojing, based on the original Nanting's own funds, absorbing some funds from loyal merchants and merchants loyal to the imperial court.
The purpose is to localize and serve customers in the south, especially in developed areas south of the Yangtze River, in order to achieve the same functions and effects as banks in the north.
However, due to the lack of court flow and the support of the emperor, it only absorbed deposits from merchants and ordinary people, so the assets and funds of the Southern Bank were not as good as those of the Northern Bank, and the capital was only about a quarter of the latter.
Emperor Haojing had no strict requirements on the performance indicators of Southern Bank, nor did he expect the bank to make much money for the court.
There is only one thing to note, that is, you are not allowed to steal from others, otherwise you will be severely punished.
Except for large projects such as Nandu Shipyard, only merchants with a good reputation in the south can get loans from Southern Bank.
The Northern Railway Group can enter the top ten only because the evaluation criterion is total assets. Otherwise, based on the group's losses, it would be a quasi-bankrupt enterprise.
Not counting the branch railways, the railway from Beidu to Moscow cost 400 million silver coins.
Including the branch railways that have been built and are under construction, the total investment reaches more than 700 million silver coins.
This is how the assets of the Northern Railway Group came to be. They appear to be extremely valuable, but in fact they are losing money every day.
It’s not that the court and users don’t pay, and passengers have to buy tickets to get on the bus, but it’s because the initial investment is too large.
In addition, there are still 100,000 railway soldiers to protect the railway along the way, including building gun towers and other infrastructure on both sides of the railway.
In a short period of time, such as within ten years, it is impossible to settle the accounts...
After the Ming Dynasty was brought into the all-media era of newspapers, radio, movies and other media by Emperor Haojing, the development of the world's media groups was very surprising.
Its paper media include "Jingshi Daily", "Panorama Daily", "War Chronicles", "Fashion Trends", "Men and Women and Bodybuilding", "Story Collection", "Entertainment Circle", "Real Estate", and the newly published " World Monthly.
Non-mainstream text-bound volumes include "Secret History of Guanwai", "Legend of the Prince", "Sou Shen Ji", "Ancient Myths", and comic-bound volumes of "Spring and Autumn and Warring States", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Southern and Northern Dynasties", "Five Dynasties and Ten Years" Kingdom" and "Legend of the Prince".
"Legend of the Prince" was first published in text version, and then due to the strong demand of readers, it had to be published in comic version.
The text version is about the plot, especially the process of brainstorming, which makes people think a lot.
What you see in the comic version is the pictures, which are characterized by great visual impact, making people keep buying the volumes...
Emperor Haojing didn't mind if the protagonist based on himself made money for himself, and was willing to keep having fun.
Broadcasting is still controlled by the imperial court for the time being, but film companies are a blowout growth point for the world media group.
Sixty-five blockbusters have been released and three are currently being filmed.
The original annual output of action films was as high as more than 700 films, with an average of about two films per day.
The film segment alone brings the group annual revenue of tens of millions of silver coins. Including the print media segment, last year's profits and taxes were more than three million silver coins.
The reason why World Media Group has high assets is that it holds a bunch of copyrights of big names. This is the most valuable part.
Daming Communications has achieved monopoly control over the local urban market through telephone networks covering the entire Beidu, Nandu and other major cities.
Even if someone mentions monopoly, Emperor Haojing will deny it flatly, because our company does not monopolize the township market!
Not to mention villages and towns, even third-tier cities were looked down upon by Emperor Haojing.
If you can capture the local first- and second-tier cities, you can already make a lot of money.
Due to the presence of operators, Daming Communications has the highest ratio of female employees among the top ten companies.
There is no such thing as son preference in this company. There are even more women's toilets than men's toilets.
Of course, when doing outside work, such as installing telephones, laying telephone lines, and repairing lines, these tasks must be done by male colleagues.
The internal work, including installation procedures, daily wiring contacts, and incoming consultation services, are all completed by female employees.
If a girl can work in Daming Communications, her livelihood will be guaranteed.
Even if you don't get married, you can still support your family.
Although working as an operator in this company is essentially a waiter, because it is a high-tech company with a good working environment and good remuneration and benefits, you will definitely be looked down upon by the other party during a blind date.
Operators' blind date partners are usually editors, clerks, low-level military officers, and managers of small and medium-sized enterprise departments. This is how the matchmakers say that the status of public institutions is second only to the yamen...
Weekends are off, the monthly salary starts at ten silver coins, and there are gifts during holidays. The company provides three meals a day and provides many fruits. All female employees are provided with free accommodation.
Therefore, we can select the best among the girls in Beidu. Some girls who have attended middle school or even college are willing to work here.
There are thousands of operators working at Daming Communications Beidu Head Office, all of them women.
Supervisors and team leaders at all levels will be older because they have rich practical experience and, coupled with manuals, can resolve various user problems.
If there is a user who is deliberately looking for trouble, the complaint will be reported to the biggest boss, and a certain boss will send factory guards to the door to provide necessary services...
Many operators have sweet voices, which makes some men reluctant to get through to the other party as soon as possible if there is nothing urgent.
Even if you spend money to ask questions to the operator, you are very happy to do so.
Emperor Haojing didn't intend to make this money, but he couldn't resist the other party and took the initiative to stuff it into his pocket.
The technology licensed overseas and the telephone equipment exported every year can also bring huge profits to the company.
Guanghui Pharmaceutical, which ranks at the bottom of the top ten, is not a monopoly. Those who can afford its drugs are basically not poor.
Emperor Haojing wants to make a living for the local herbal medicine companies no matter what, and he will not deplete the benefits.
Not only that, but it will also provide technology to help some established large pharmaceutical companies turn herbal medicine into portable pills in bottles.
Due to the relatively good confidentiality measures and the complexity of the production process, Guanghui Pharmaceutical still controls the global penicillin and petroleum jelly market.
Now even aspirin, cough syrup, dermatitis ointment, vitamin family and other drugs have been manufactured, so the market value of Guanghui Pharmaceutical is naturally rising.
The names of companies from the 11th to the 20th include Imperial Petroleum, Xianji Chemical, Qianqi Department Store, Linglong Gold Mine and other companies.
In Emperor Haojing's view, these are all companies that are not as good as the superiors but more than adequate.
It is somewhat unexpected that two companies located in the southwest border can be included on the list.
One is Southwest Tobacco Group located in Yunnan, and the other is Guitang Group located in Guangxi.
These two companies were born when Emperor Haojing encouraged local tycoons to adapt to local conditions, and they are developing very well.
The former is the largest tobacco company in the entire Ming Dynasty, and similar companies in other places will also import tobacco leaves from Yunnan for processing.
The existence of this enterprise is the greatest benefit to the poor local people.
Whether working as a worker in a company or growing tobacco locally, the whole family can be fed and clothed.
Guitang Group has formed an entire industrial chain relying on the characteristics of large-scale sugarcane planting in Guangxi.
From sugar cane processing to finished products such as rock sugar, snowflake sugar, soft sugar, and candies, we have them all.
It has now surpassed Fujian-based Mintang Group and become the leading company in the industry.
It is certainly a good thing that a company of this level can be born locally, but Emperor Haojing can also see the flaws.
That is because the local area relies too much on such enterprises, causing the economic structure to become deformed.
There is still a long way to go before Guangxi and Yunnan reach the development level of the southeastern coastal areas.
In the TOP20 list, there is not a single multinational company, let alone a military industrial enterprise.
The reason why the former did not appear was to prevent foreign guests from mistakenly thinking that Ming Dynasty was taking advantage of them, while the latter was due to confidentiality considerations.
The first issue has already introduced the weapons and equipment of the Ming Empire, so there is no need to explain the military industrial enterprises now.
The only companies in Jiangnan that can be on the list, apart from Maanshan Iron and Steel Group, are Jiangxi companies.
Jiangxi Porcelain Group literally means products produced by official kilns, and the quality is very guaranteed.
As for tea, because the production areas of famous brand industries are too scattered, even Zhejiang, which produces the largest amount of tea, cannot launch a decent leading company on the list.
There is another company on the list, which is still not from Nanzhili or Zhejiang, but Jiangxi Metal Group, which mines tungsten sand and rare earths.
Then came Yue Steel Group, formerly Foshan Iron and Steel Company, which dominated the South China market. In the past few years, it integrated similar companies in Guangzhou, Zhaoqing, Huizhou and other places to form a group.
In the southern market, especially in South China and Southwest China, including the markets in the four provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou, Yuesteel Group controls more than half of the market share.
Its products are also exported to Annan and Siam, covering the entire Ming Dynasty territory in Southeast Asia.
It can be said that companies that can enter the TOP20 have their own merits.
