Chapter 108 Ziwei Chamber of Commerce
It is late autumn now, and the temperature will drop soon.
Most of the disaster victims outside the city can only live in simple huts.
The White Lotus Rebellion has not been quelled, and these disaster victims have no way to return to their hometowns to farm.
If they wait until winter, less than 30% of these disaster victims will survive!
Therefore, Lin Chen plans to make use of these disaster victims.
From a certain perspective, these disaster victims are not a burden, but a wealth to be developed!
For this, Lin Chen has already made a plan in his mind.
Of course, he has to talk to Shangguan Wan'er first.
"Ziwei Chamber of Commerce?"
Li Zhao looked strange when he heard what Shangguan Wan'er said.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, what Lin Chen said is to establish a Ziwei Chamber of Commerce, and Your Majesty will participate in it."
Shangguan Wan'er thought of what Lin Chen said when he came to find her, and her thoughts were similar to Li Zhao's.
Let the emperor do business, what do you think? !
"Lin Chen's intention is to let Your Majesty endorse the Chamber of Commerce." Shangguan Wan'er added.
The so-called endorsement, to some extent, is to borrow the prestige of the emperor himself.
"This Lin Chen, how courageous!"
Li Zhao, who seemed to be enraged, angrily scolded.
But the next second, Li Zhao took a look at the details of the memorial written by Lin Chen.
"Hey, this..."
According to Lin Chen, if nothing unexpected happens, this Ziwei Chamber of Commerce can contribute at least 5 million taels of profit to the emperor's inner treasury every year!
5 million taels? !
Li Zhao took a breath of cold air.
For her, now the national treasury can run away, only the inner treasury has some surplus.
But this surplus is only about 2 million taels of silver.
This money has to provide all the expenses in the palace.
Because of this, Li Zhao didn't even have the money to build a palace.
If there is really so much profit, what's wrong with her endorsing this Ziwei Chamber of Commerce!
Even if she was impeached by the censor for competing with the people for profit, she didn't care!
These guys are only hypocritical, saying that I compete with the people for profit, but in fact they make a lot of money for themselves!
"In this case, I agree!"
"Ah~" Shangguan Wan'er was stunned for a moment.
Your Majesty's tone sounded like you were going to punish Lin Chen before.
There is no way, Lin Chen even dares to make a fuss here with the emperor!
Of course, Lin Chen's memorial also included a request to confer the title of imperial merchant on Xue Ke.
The focus was on Xue Ke's donation of his property and his contribution to the suppression of the White Lotus Rebellion.
Moreover, as the open operator of the Ziwei Chamber of Commerce, Xue Ke should be given some benefits by the emperor.
As the saying goes, if you want the horse to run, you must feed it grass.
Li Zhao naturally understood this truth.
"However... Xue Ke has made contributions and needs to be rewarded, so first restore the official position of his ancestor Ziwei Sheren."
The so-called Ziwei Sheren, to put it bluntly, is a civil servant of the seventh rank.
The reason why the Xue family can become big in Jinling is because of their status as imperial merchants.
The implication is to tell outsiders that the Xue family has a close relationship with the royal family.
After all, those who do purchasing work for the royal family are almost the emperor's alternative white gloves to make money.
Li Zhao plans to wait until the Ziwei Chamber of Commerce really sends the profits to the inner treasury before awarding the title of imperial merchant to Xue Ke.
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At the same time, the servant who followed Xue Ke to the capital was busy recruiting workers.
"Ziwei Chamber of Commerce is recruiting workers, ten coins a day, including two meals! Only 3,000 people are needed!"
"Ziwei Chamber of Commerce is recruiting workers!"
Many of them were the shopkeepers who managed Xue Ke's property in Jinling.
These people were arranged by Xue Ke to recruit workshop workers, which is a professional match.
"Really?!"
"I, I sign up!"
In the disaster camp outside the city.
As soon as this news came out, countless people were willing to work.
You know, these disaster victims only have two bowls of porridge a day to fill their stomachs.
These two bowls of porridge can only keep people alive.
"Don't make a fuss, don't make a fuss!"
Wang Wu, who had to return to the military camp after his wedding, led his soldiers to maintain order in the disaster camp today.
As for Lin Chen, he was inspecting the land purchased by Xue Ke in the suburbs of Beijing.
According to Xue Ke, it cost 30,000 silver taels just to get the land deed from the government.
The reason is that this wasteland is close to the canal and has water conservancy.
"How many people have you recruited?"
Lin Chen looked at Xue Ke, who was excited between his eyebrows, and asked with a smile.
"There are 5,000 people!"
After Xue Ke really got the official position of Ziwei Sheren granted by the emperor, his whole spirit was different.
Although Ziwei Sheren was an idle official position and had no real power.
Hearing this, Lin Chen's eyes flashed with a hint of thought.
"How many days will it take to build this workshop?"
"According to the craftsman, it will take ten days."
"Is that so?" Lin Chen nodded thoughtfully, and then took out a drawing made of rice paper and handed it to Xue Ke.
"Let the craftsman build the equipment according to the drawing."
Once upon a time, as a frequent visitor to the political key, Lin Chen had also seen many teaching guides on how to make a fortune in ancient times.
Glass, perfume, refined salt and icing sugar.
Now that winter is approaching, there is also the killer weapon of honeycomb coal.
"After remembering it, destroy it."
Lin Chen saw Xue Ke was absorbed in reading it, and reminded him.
"Yes!" Xue Ke was extremely excited.
He understood that the drawing Lin Chen gave him was the craftsmanship of refining refined salt and icing sugar.
In Xue Biao's view, these important craftsmanship are handed down from generation to generation in anyone's home.
But he didn't expect Lin Chen to give it to him directly!
Such trust made Xue Biao not even know what to say.
Lin Chen didn't know what Xue Biao was thinking at this time. He just looked at the other direction of the canal, slightly lost in thought.
"On the contrary...it seems that I still have two famous generals in Qing Dynasty in Jia Mansion."
He suddenly thought of this matter and planned to visit Lin Chen at Jia's residence someday.
At first, Jia Zheng used Jia Gongjun as an introduction, but now Lin Chen can also use this to come to express his gratitude.
Going back and forth, isn't it a simple matter to ask for two domestic slaves?
Suddenly.
Lin Chen heard the rapid sound of horse hooves behind him.
Looking back, it was Yang Zhi coming on horseback.
Um?
The other party is not practicing martial arts and military formations in the camp, so what is it doing here?
"grown ups!"
Yang Zhi turned over and dismounted, knelt down and said, "There is an urgent military situation, please return to camp!"
"Military emergency?"
Lin Chen's expression changed slightly when he heard this.
"Walk!"
Lin Chen said, grabbing the reins of a war horse, getting on his horse and heading towards the military camp in the capital.
When Lin Chen felt the military camp, he saw several eunuchs in red standing at the door.
This style of clothing seems to be that of a young eunuch in charge of setting up a supervisory department.
Lin Chen's status as a eunuch in the palace was still that of the Chief Supervisor.
"General Lin?"
"Exactly a certain family."
"Your Majesty has a decree to summon Lin Chenjia into the palace!"
When Lin Chen heard the decree read out by the little eunuch, his surprise became more and more intense.
certainly.
Lin Chen didn't think much and went straight into the palace.
In the palace.
Lin Chen was not the only one who was summoned.
Lin Chen glanced over and saw that the six tribes, generals and ministers were all present.
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