Since the Eastern world values not exposing wealth, Emperor Haojing asked the newspaper to remove the content about the rich from the fifth issue because many rich people were paying taxes according to regulations.
In order to avoid causing unnecessary trouble, especially after some bad people read this issue, they may attack some rich people or even their family members.
This issue was printed, but not publicly available.
It's not that the people below didn't obey the emperor's orders and insisted on going their own way, it was the rich people who became the only buyers!
They don't want outsiders to know their own worth, but they really want to know the worth of others. This is the curiosity at work.
Since it is sold privately and the content is relatively fascinating, the price cannot be two silver coins per copy.
one million!
Not counter-offer!
This is Emperor Haojing’s asking price, and it is also the final price!
It is equal to half a million copies sold in the current period, which is considered worthy of the hard work of the newspaper editors.
Merchants are allowed to raise funds to purchase, whether they are from Beidu or Nandu, Qiantang or Cheung Chau, they can all take shares.
Can I buy stocks by buying magazines?
If the emperor agrees, of course you can!
With the telegraph and the offices of various group companies in Beidu, the fundraising speed is quite fast.
Within a week, one million was collected. The amount seemed to be a lot, but it could not stand up to the large number of rich people.
There are no less than 500 rich families participating in the project, and each family only contributes two thousand silver coins on average, which is just a drop in the bucket.
Except for Emperor Haojing and the royal family, cabinet, and military aircraft department, no other yamen received this privately sold magazine.
A total of 50,000 copies were printed, with an average price of twenty silver coins, which is considered the price of a series of hardcover books.
Emperor Haojing kept 500 copies for himself on behalf of the royal family and officials, and the remaining 49,500 copies were available for distribution to shareholders.
Depending on the level of investment, each shareholder can receive fifty to one hundred and fifty copies.
Using two thousand silver coins to know the situation of the most powerful wealthy families in the entire Ming Empire is of course an extremely cost-effective thing.
This will greatly facilitate future marriage and cooperation. Whether it is a shopping mall or a battlefield, only strong alliances are the most convenient way to succeed.
Since it is a private sale version, in response to the strong request of readers, the Top20 has also become the TOP500. Only an introduction of this scale can meet their demands.
The explosion of content has resulted in an unprecedented thickness of the magazine, with more than a thousand pages.
Even so, each rich man can only produce two pages of content.
In the eyes of Emperor Haojing, this is simply the "Rich Rich Dating Guide"!
But according to reports from informants, the readers who were not short of money enjoyed reading it with gusto.
The magazine introduces the background, current situation, assets, holding companies, industry status, development prospects, etc. of the local tycoons. Although it is a comprehensive introduction, it is an eye-opener for readers.
However, the three richest families in the Ming Dynasty were Zhu, Zheng, and Mu, and they will not be included here. In Shangyanshang, pure businessmen are the main targets.
For example, Yu Songyi, the grain merchant who took the lead in being loyal to Emperor Haojing, benefited from orders from the imperial court and timely transformation and upgrading. His family's total assets have exceeded 50 million silver coins, ranking 12th.
The Ma family of Ma Yongliang is the largest local salt merchant in the Ming Dynasty. The family alone occupies more than 10% of the market share in Beidu, ranking 15th on the list.
The Fan family, where tea merchant Fan Qiaozhi belongs, is the largest tea merchant in Zhejiang and ranks second in the Ming Dynasty. The first is Zheng Zhilong, who controls the entire Dahongpao tea garden in Fujian.
Of course there are rising stars on the list, such as the Chen family in Suzhou Prefecture, which has jumped into the top 30 in the list relying on its factory with tens of thousands of textile machines and local silk raw materials.
The Chen family has factories in Changzhou, Changshu, Kunshan, Taicang, and Jiading. It is the largest private taxpayer in Suzhou Prefecture and even Southern Zhili, and the largest textile merchant in the Ming Empire.
In the southern Zhili region, there are many families like the Chen family that have relied on the textile industry, numbering no less than 30, and their export momentum is very strong.
Half of the major textile companies in the TOP500 are from South Zhili, and the rest are divided up by the five provinces of Zhejiang, Sichuan, Huguang, Guangdong, and North Zhili.
In terms of tea merchant rankings, it is completely dominated by the five provinces of Zhejiang, Sichuan, Huguang, Fujian, and Southern Zhili, making it difficult for tea merchants from other places to intervene.
The industry with the most complete monopoly is papermaking. The Wang Group from Shenyang, Liaodong, controls no less than 7% of the market share of paper products in the Ming Dynasty.
Not only writing and printing paper, but also daily paper, such as napkins and toilet paper, is also a huge piece of cake.
Emperor Haojing would certainly not be reassured that the local families in Liaodong, especially Shenyang, had such strength.
Although Shunji had already taken away all the people in the city, including the coated slaves, when he retreated north to the Songhua River.
The people who later settled in the city were all immigrants. Even so, Emperor Haojing asked the Ministry of Household Affairs to conduct strict inspections.
The Wang family has such an opportunity because their ancestors were doing business in Liaodong, but they were actually undercover agents for factory guards.
Later, in order to send the information, I walked for five days and five nights in the ice and snow. When I finally saw the person I was trying to contact, both man and horse were dead and could not be rescued.
In order to thank such a loyal and brave person, Emperor Haojing gave the descendants of the Wang family an opportunity and start-up funds.
Almost all the people who can stand out in Shenyang City have some relationship with the factory guards.
Emperor Haojing did this so that they could supervise each other while eating, drinking and having fun.
Emperor Haojing wouldn't care about them even if they ride their horses every day. There are only two things they should do: they are not allowed to disturb Min, and they are not allowed to rebel!
Shenyang is not only the largest paper, board, and furniture manufacturing center in the Ming Dynasty, but also a distribution center for Northeastern specialties, and also takes care of the smelting of iron ore shipped from Benxi.
Paper and wood products, logistics, and steel, with these three major businesses, local Ming people have no worries about making a living.
Among the TOP500, there are seven paper-making tycoons, three of whom are from Shenyang, and the Wang family, who are fortunate enough to be responsible for the tribute task, ranks among the top 20.
Why is the grain merchant Yu ranked only twelfth?
Because there are good examples like Sunit Tengjisi and his younger brother Tengjite who are good examples of winning without hesitation!
The Sunit Ministry holds 20% of the shares of the Oyu Tolgoi mine and the Tavan Tolgoi mine. The former is rich in precious metals such as gold, silver, and copper, and is worth tens of billions of silver coins.
The latter contains coal, which is poorer than the former. Fortunately, there are 6 billion tons of coal...
With these two mines, brothers Tengjisi and Tengjite instantly became winners in life.
Other nobles and all members of the Sunit tribe occupy 10% of the shares in the two mines, while the Tengjisi brothers and their family occupy the other 10% of the shares.
Tengjisi and Tengjite each hold half of the shares. Conservative estimates suggest that each of them is worth more than one billion silver coins!
At present, the Sunit tribe can receive mining dividends of up to millions of silver coins every year.
This means that according to the size of the population of each family, at least a hundred silver coins can be distributed a year, and as many as several thousand silver coins can be distributed.
As a direct result, the tribesmen were too lazy to herd their cattle and sheep, and had already hired a large number of black slaves to herd for them.
The tribesmen sing and dance every day, eat barbecue, drink and talk happily, and live a life of intoxication...
It's not unusual for people from the Sunit tribe to have someone buy a car.
Families whose annual income is less than one thousand silver coins are almost all considered poor!
Even the robes they usually wear have changed from gray cloth to beautiful satin. Families with high incomes directly wear silk.
If you understand this, you will not be surprised at all that factories in Suzhou manufacture silk robes across the grassland.
Not only the Sunit tribe, but also more than a dozen other tribes, large and small, all receive dividends, it's just a matter of amount.
Due to the mining of the Suholoi gold mine, the tribes over there have also begun to receive dividends, and their momentum is catching up with the Sunit tribe.
Before the advent of machine guns, the children of the prairie became good at singing and dancing, which made Emperor Haojing a little disappointed...
The industries that the eleven families in front of Yu are engaged in are all mining and investment!
The Tengjisi and Tengjite families are worth two billion silver coins!
Many families in the pass can only look at the mine and sigh!
Some merchants who lack working capital also hope to borrow money from grassland chiefs who are not short of money, but the latter do not know how to borrow money.
Emperor Haojing had to become an intermediary and commentator, so that the chiefs could use money to make money, so that they would not be left in vain.
It is impossible to run out of money in a short period of time, at least for a hundred years, but being able to transform into investment can also make them famous.
Nowadays, the bosses behind more than half of the investment companies in Beidu are chiefs from the prairie.
Since the Sunit tribe began to borrow money from merchants and made its first pot of gold, chiefs of other tribes have learned from it in the name of treating guests.
After a while, everyone learned the lesson and began to use the spare money in their hands to lend money.
The imperial court stipulated that the annual interest rate should not exceed 20%, so it would be exactly 20%. The interest alone would be enough to make money several times.
In order to ensure safety, the lender must provide an asset certificate from Northern Bank and have collateral of equal value.
This is Emperor Haojing's rule to avoid a large number of financial disputes, and it will be difficult for the emperor to pay off triangular or even polygonal debts.
Today, the most famous investment company is of course Sunit Tengfei, which has now become an investment group.
Not only external lending, but also equity investment, angel investment, private equity listing, asset restructuring, mergers and acquisitions and many other aspects.
Of course the chiefs don't know how to do it in detail, but as long as they pay to hire talented college graduates, they can get away with it.
Some chiefs who dare to eat crabs will even get involved in the entertainment industry and promote some of their favorite female stars...
Emperor Haojing doesn't care about these things at all, as long as they don't break the law and pay taxes according to regulations.
After reading this magazine, William III's mind was "buzzing"!
Mining can be so profitable, something he had never thought of before.
So I decided to take a train to the mining area to have a look. At the same time, King Carl XI of Sweden also planned to go there and have a look.
There is an iron mine in northern Sweden, and it is rich in terms of iron content.
Karl XI intended to build a railway from the mining area to the seaside port, and also introduced a large number of heavy-duty trucks to enable mechanized transportation in the mining area.
The Monan Jinshan A Mine is the Oyu Tolgoi Mine and is the largest mining area under the group. It is a model of official operation, multi-party supervision, scientific management, and market-oriented operation.
There are currently more than 3.5 million people, including more than 3 million slave miners. There are more than 600 loaders, thousands of bulldozers, and more than 24,000 heavy trucks.
Except for blizzard days, even if it rains, the mining area is a bustling and busy scene, with teams of trucks passing back and forth, and countless slave miners.
William III and Karl XI, accompanied by Emperor Haojing, came to a high ground near the operation area, where they could overlook the whole scene.
Karl XI believed that this was his ideal mining area, which was much better than the workshop-style mining in his country.
The heavy-duty trucks at this time were not the dump-type trucks of later generations. To dump the ore into the train carriage, a device was needed.
The driver will drive the truck to a large moss located at the top of a high slope. This moss is steam-powered and has a principle similar to that of a locomotive.
Workers will fix the four claws of the moss on the truck, and then the moss will tilt in the direction of the car.
The ore will be poured into the truck, and then the moss will return to a level state, and the truck can drive away.
There are hundreds of such slow mosses. Each slow moss can be operated about twenty times to fill a train.
It’s not that there are so many train cars, but that slow mosses sometimes break down and load capacity must be maintained at all times.
Trains are used to transport part of the ore over long distances, while part of the ore is trucked to local smelters.
Karl XI did not expect that the Ming Empire's technology had advanced to this point, and he was determined to introduce this device.
Emperor Haojing doesn't mind exporting this device, but the premise is that you build a railway first, okay?
The railway branch lines in the mining area are at least two lines, and some sections are even four lines.
Only in this way can we ensure high enough mining volume all year round to ensure the interests of shareholders.
The two heads of state looked at personnel, machinery, and equipment as money. Emperor Haojing and the court made a lot of money from mining and made secondary investments in the mining area.
According to the order of Emperor Haojing, in order to achieve sustainable mining, the employees in the mining area must be well fed, and the slave miners must be well fed.
For a banquet with two heads of state, it would be boiled lamb and roasted whole lamb...
It’s only two meals, so there’s no chance of you getting tired of it.
After seeing the mining, transportation, smelting and other links, you can leave on the same day.
They were riding Emperor Hao Jing's armored train, which was stronger than the third-generation tank.
Breech guns are installed at the front and rear, and each carriage is protected by machine guns. The turrets and cavalry along the way can undertake escort tasks.
Since we have to visit several countries on the route when we return, we will not take the train this time.
Karl XI decided to take a train at Polo Castle next time he visited the Ming Empire.
It takes about fifteen days to reach the capital of the Ming Empire, which saves about three-quarters of the time than traveling by sea and land.
William III also intended to do this. He wanted to see how well the Ming Empire controlled the former Russian hinterland...
Emperor Haojing naturally agreed. At worst, he would send his own armored train to pick up these two "tourists."
Let them see how Ming Dynasty digests this piece of fat, which is also a way to show off its national power.
Large-scale mining is a reflection of national strength, and so is the Wanli Railway!
