In terms of vision, Zhu Ying's vision is unmatched by anyone in this Ming Dynasty.

Even the fragmentary knowledge on the Internet in the past life is a crushing blow to today's era.

When it comes to setting up a factory, Zhu Ying’s intentions are very clear.

I just want to roll you up and roll you to death.

All the latecomers will be crushed to death.

You run a factory, so the wages aren’t high, right?

That is to train talents for me and easily recruit good masters to my side.

Who benefits?

It’s the common people.

At that time, all those who benefit from this will only thank the Qunying Chamber of Commerce and the Ming Dynasty royal family.

Zhang Bo felt a little ashamed when he heard this.

Compared with His Highness, I am like a firefly, as bright as the moon, there is a world of difference between us.

"Hurry up and do it. Put up the notice tomorrow and arrange more manpower."

Zhu Ying ordered.

There is no doubt that such wages will cause a huge sensation throughout the capital.

Even those who know nothing can earn 200 wen a month.

What does two hundred wen mean?

If you only consider filling your stomach, for an adult male, about 500 wen per month would be enough.

Five hundred wenzhe and later generations are roughly equivalent to three hundred yuan.

The prices in Ming Dynasty are relatively low now because the country was founded not long ago and the whole country is pursuing a policy of recuperation.

Among them, because Zhu Ying settled his wages in Ming Baochao, there was a discount to a certain extent.

However, as long as you enter the factory, you will have basic meals, which is a huge advantage.

The standards for food are also divided into different grades.

Apprentices, senior apprentices, regular workers, master craftsmen and management.

The four levels also represent four different classes.

It is impossible to treat everyone equally. It is unnecessary and meaningless.

Different grades are also of great benefit in improving the enthusiasm of workers.

Only by taking the initiative to learn and do things can all factories develop faster.

After Zhang Bo left, Ye Yueqing looked at Zhu Ying, wanting to say something but stopping herself several times.

"Yueqing, if you have anything to say, just say it directly."

Zhu Ying noticed it and asked directly.

Seeing that he couldn't hide it, Ye Yueqing could only say, "Your Highness, the Chamber of Commerce doesn't have much money now. Whether it's the expenses of setting up the factory, or the wages and food, it will require a lot of investment."

"And I estimate that within two months, these places will not bring any profit."

"According to your highness's current standards, there are a total of five factories to be established, brewing, clothing, textiles, icing, and porcelain."

"Each factory recruits at least 5,000 people, so here we have 25,000 people."

"It costs a lot of money to build the factory, buy raw materials, and make all the necessary tools, plus the food for 25,000 people."

"I am afraid that the Chamber of Commerce's current funds will not be able to support the profits generated by the factory."

“If we don’t sell off some of our properties, I’m afraid it will be difficult to even start the business.”

The current structure of the Qun Ying Chamber of Commerce is very large, but a lot of funds need to be circulated.

The last disaster relief operation already caused severe injuries, and I have not recovered yet.

In the coastal areas, especially on the side of King Jin Zhu Gang, the share of maritime trade can be said to be monopolized by the Qunying Chamber of Commerce.

The profits here are enormous. Just in Zhejiang area, the profit brought by overseas trade in one year is almost equivalent to most of the annual income of Ming Dynasty, which is millions of taels of silver.

For the entire Qun Ying Chamber of Commerce, all burdens can be eliminated.

However, distant water cannot put out a nearby fire.

When the idea of ​​setting up a factory was first proposed, it was yesterday.

Ye Yueqing didn't think much about it, because no one had expected that the action of setting up a factory could be decided so quickly under the operation of Chen Zhi, a captain of the Jinyiwei.

This resulted in a complete shortage of working capital for the entire chamber of commerce.

At present, there is actually another way, but this is not considered by Ye Yueqing.

That is His Highness, who gets the money directly from the Baochao Tizhusi.

Thinking of this, Ye Yueqing couldn't help but feel very sorry for the hundreds of thousands of Ming treasure notes that were burned some time ago.

Those are all the treasure notes earned from the great discounts in the capital.

It was all burned up in an instant, and now I need money urgently. It’s really painful.

If you don’t manage a household, you don’t know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are.

From the very beginning, Zhu Ying was a hands-off manager who at most just took a look at the accounts.

Before, Zhu Ying knew that he was rich, but he didn’t know how rich he was.

The people who truly understood were Zhang Bo at first and Ye Yueqing now.

According to the current regulations and wages, including food, for the five factories, Ye Yueqing roughly calculated in his mind that each factory would require at least 300,000 taels of silver in start-up capital.

If converted into Ming Dynasty treasure notes, it would be 600,000 treasure notes.

And this is just the start-up capital.

If you want to hold on until you make a profit, you'll have to get those millions of dollars.

Mainly because in many aspects, His Highness has high requirements and the treatment is too good.

This amount of money may seem exaggerated, but it is actually indispensable.

Why didn’t the Ming Dynasty have any large-scale factories? Was it because they didn’t make money?

That is not the case.

First of all, it is the amount of money that means only the real big businessmen can afford it.

At present, it is mainly government agencies that open large factories.

The government has an inherent advantage in this regard.

That is corvee labor.

From the perspective of corvée labor, construction does not require money, and the construction materials can be solved by corvée labor.

Construction workers were solved through corvee labor.

All you need is the minimum food guarantee.

This part costs almost nothing.

Zhu Ying has to pay for all the work in this area.

The current Qun Ying Chamber of Commerce has not yet been named the Royal Chamber of Commerce, and Zhu Ying has never intended to use corvée labor to gain benefits for his own chamber of commerce.

So this is the current situation.

Zhu Ying looked at Ye Yueqing's worried eyes and found them somewhat cute.

I couldn't help but use my hand to scratch Ye Yueqing's brow to relax it.

Ye Yueqing blushed when she felt the touch, her mind went blank, and the calculations in her mind just now flew away.

Seeing this, Zhu Ying smiled and said, "I have considered what you said. I don't know how much money the Chamber of Commerce has left, but it certainly can't support the expenses of setting up a factory."

"But I never planned to pay for the factory from the Chamber of Commerce."

Ye Yueqing came back to her senses after hearing what was said, and subconsciously asked, "But what about the Treasury Department..."

Zhu Ying waved his finger, interrupting Ye Yueqing's words.

Seeing that it was the hand touching his forehead, Ye Yueqing immediately lowered his head slightly, not daring to look at Zhu Ying.

"Of course, we can't let the Treasury Department print money. That would be like shooting ourselves in the foot. Although, printing our own money does feel good."

"But the value of the treasure notes is too low now. In the capital, the value has only dropped by 50% due to tight control. In economically prosperous areas like Suzhou and Songjiang, the value of the treasure notes has dropped by 70%. If it continues like this, it won't be long before the game is over."

Zhu Ying said helplessly.

Printing your own money, what a cool word.

In fact, even if Zhu Ying gave up, the Ming treasure notes would continue to depreciate, and if he could maintain it for a while, at least he wouldn't have to worry about his life.

However, now that we have encountered this problem, we still have to allow it to develop in the right direction.

In fact, Zhu Ying now has many ways to make the value of Ming Baochao soar, but they are the same financial methods used in later generations.

Although I am not proficient in this area, I hold the power and it is much easier to control.

But in this way, it is the common people who are ultimately the ones who get exploited.

Because of a key point, no matter how much currency is circulating in the market, the quantity of goods has not changed.

When Zhu Ying used some tricks to make the value of Ming treasure notes proportional to that of silver, there was only one result: soaring prices.

From another perspective, it means to sell silver, gold, even cloth and silk, basically anything valuable, which is similar to the concept of treasure notes.

This is a stupid method, because as long as the treasure notes are only issued and not redeemed, and are issued in large quantities, there will still be a crash.

After listening to this, Ye Yueqing calmed down her somewhat agitated mood, and then asked: "Your Highness, if it weren't for the Banknote Administration to print the banknotes, would we have to borrow money in the same way as before?"

This is the only way out Ye Yueqing can think of.

Although the Qun Ying Chamber of Commerce borrowed money from many companies last time, its reputation has not been damaged.

Many businessmen just think that the Qun Ying Chamber of Commerce is too lucky. Although some feel that it is very strange, they have no evidence.

The first is geographical factors, which cause errors in information dissemination.

The Qun Ying Chamber of Commerce is engaged in large-scale lending, but it is distributed in many cities.

With the speed of information dissemination today, merchants in one city cannot always know the situation of merchants in another city.

Of course, there is one most important point.

Generally, lending and borrowing between businessmen, especially between chambers of commerce, is done privately and no one will deliberately spread it out.

This is called not giving people face.

Even unscrupulous businessmen only care about profits.

But in the business world, there are some rules that cannot be broken. This is why so many businessmen have died, but few know about the massive borrowing by the Qun Ying Chamber of Commerce.

There was a hint of worry in Ye Yueqing's eyes.

This method can really make money quickly, and after borrowing all the money, you can also take advantage of the situation to raid the house and get another batch.

Just doing this is tantamount to killing the goose that lays the eggs.

The most important thing is that the amount this time is too huge.

This is not something that can be solved with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Based on the value of Ming Dynasty treasure notes, it is estimated to be five million strings of cash, or possibly even more.

Because of the large influx of Baochao, Baochao will continue to depreciate.

The current denominations of Ming Baochao are one string, five hundred coins, three hundred coins, two hundred coins, and one hundred coins. According to the paper currency policy originally formulated at that time, one string was equivalent to one tael of silver, and four strings were equivalent to one tael of gold.

By the time the Baochao Tizhusi was founded in the seventh year of the Hongwu reign, it had issued 10 million strings of cash.

After that, the amount varied from 30 to 40 million strings of cash every year.

The year with the most issued notes was the 18th year of Hongwu. Due to the influence of the Guo Huan case, the amount of issued notes exceeded 50 million strings of coins, approaching the 60 million mark.

Zhu Ying no longer dared to use such Ming Dynasty treasure notes.

At present, the Baochao Tizhusi is still printing it.

The officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty could only rely on this to pay part of their salary and supplement part of their food and silk cloth, otherwise there was no other way.

Nowadays, merchants and chambers of commerce almost do not recognize Baochao when lending and borrowing between them.

When Zhu Ying heard about borrowing, he replied, "If you want to call it borrowing, it's almost the same, but we use a different method."

"You still remember what happened with Yao Guangxiao, right? Now let's use this method again in the capital."

When Ye Yueqing heard this, it was as if she had been enlightened, and everything became clear immediately.

In fact, Zhu Ying’s method is very simple.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t have money, just raise funds.

Wouldn't it be better to sell the shares of these factories?

And as of now, there is also a very good leader, that is Lan Yu.

Lan Yu already owns 30% of the shares of the brewery, which makes him much more credible to other noble families.

After all, in a sense, these 30% shares of the winery were obtained by Duke Lan Yu of Liang in exchange for nearly 10,000 acres of fertile land.

Ye Yueqing thought for a while and asked, "So your Highness means that if we sell 10% of the shares, how much silver will we get?"

Zhu Ying smiled and said, "Why are we talking about money? The ministers and soldiers in the court receive their salaries in the form of banknotes. Our Qunying Chamber of Commerce is now the treasury of the imperial palace, so we naturally have to use banknotes."

Ye Yueqing was a little confused. It was always like this when communicating with His Highness.

This is also the reason why in her heart, she has always admired His Royal Highness Chang Sun very much.

It's normal not to understand. If you understand, then you'd be at the same level as Lord Changsun, which is definitely not possible.

Zhu Ying raised his lips slightly and said, "One tenth of the shares, selling five hundred thousand coins."

Hearing this, Ye Yueqing's mouth subconsciously opened slightly, forming an "oh" shape.

There was only one thought in my mind: Are you crazy?

Five hundred thousand strings of precious coins, what does this mean?

Nowadays, the value of an acre of good farmland is about ten taels of silver, and this is still good farmland. If there is a disaster, no one will want even two or three taels of silver.

Duke Lan Yu of Liang surrendered eight or nine thousand acres of good farmland. Even if it is calculated as ten thousand acres, the discount is only one hundred thousand taels of silver.

According to the market price in the capital, it is 200,000 strings of treasure notes.

According to the lowest market price, the maximum amount would be 250,000 strings of treasure notes.

Now, a 10% stake is equivalent to 500,000 strings of treasure notes, and a 30% stake in a brewery is equivalent to 1.5 million strings of treasure notes.

His Royal Highness Chang Sun is crazy!

"Yueqing, do you think I'm crazy?" Zhu Ying looked at Ye Yueqing and asked with a smile.

Ye Yueqing quickly restrained herself and replied, "I dare not."

Zhu Ying walked to the side, picked up the slightly cold teacup, and took a sip.

"The tea is cold. I'll get your Highness a cup of hot tea." Ye Yueqing hurried over and said.

Zhu Ying shook his head and said, "No need. I just want to moisten my throat for what I'm going to tell you later."

"Yueqing, today I will teach you a good lesson and let you know what hype is!"

…

The next day, when the weather was slightly cooler, a large piece of white paper was posted on the bulletin board in the capital, covered with notices.

This is an officer from the Wucheng Bingmasi yamen. After the posting, his duties are pretty much the same as before, just guarding here, maintaining order, and interpreting the messages above.

"Sir, what news does this notice say?"

An old man selling vegetables with a load on his shoulder came over and asked curiously.

For the old man, selling vegetables on weekdays is nothing special, so when he sees a new notice, he will naturally be curious. Who knows, it may be the topic of conversation with other vendors when he is selling vegetables later.

The yamen runner said, "This is the news that the Qunying Chamber of Commerce in the capital is about to recruit workers. It says that they will open five large factories on the edge of the capital's outer city, and each factory will recruit a minimum of 5,000 people."

"They are a brewery, a clothing factory, a textile factory, an icing sugar factory, and a porcelain factory."

"The age must be between 16 and 45, with no bad habits and capable of doing things."

"By the way, the textile factory is currently only recruiting female workers."

After listening to the introduction, the vegetable seller roughly understood the situation. He thought to himself that this group of British merchants had a very powerful background. They could even get help from the government just to do business.

I thought to myself, this is roughly what we’ll talk about today.

He turned around, picked up his load, and prepared to leave.

He didn't dare delay too long. If he went a little late, the good seat might be taken by someone else.

My family is counting on the vegetables sold today so that we can buy a few liters of rice to cook.

The vegetable seller stood up and took two steps, then suddenly stopped, turned around and asked again: "Excuse me, sir, I wonder how much the wages are in these factories, and what are the requirements?"

The vegetable vendor suddenly remembered that he had a nephew who had worked as an apprentice to a porcelain maker for two years.

In the end, I couldn't afford the tuition, and ended up not learning anything, so I had to give up.

Recruiting so many people at once, I don’t know how much chance my nephew will have.

After all, there are 5,000 people here, so there will definitely be some who try to take advantage of the situation.

My nephew is also smart. If he can sneak in, he can at least get some wages.

The younger brother died early, and the nephew was raised by the uncle. Although he looks older, he is actually only in his early fifties.

The yamen runner's expression changed when he heard this. He paused for a moment before saying, "Apprentices get 200 coins per month, and senior apprentices get 500 coins per month. Those who can work independently get 15 coins per month."

Bang!

The vegetable seller's body went limp and his basket fell to the ground.

But now, he could no longer care about it, and hurriedly asked: "Sir, what does this apprentice and senior apprentice mean, how do you distinguish them?"

The yamen runner explained: "An apprentice is someone who knows nothing and has never been exposed to these factory jobs. As long as they meet the physical requirements and have no criminal record, they can be hired."

"It's two hundred coins a month, and breakfast and lunch are included. If you have a suitable family, wait for the day and queue up to sign up."

"An advanced apprentice is someone who has learned something and knows something, but is not yet at the point where he can do it on his own. Tsk, tsk, that's five hundred coins."

Hearing this, the vegetable seller’s eyes widened with disbelief on his face.

After looking at the large, unreadable characters on the notice and the two yamen runners, he couldn't help but say, "Sir, you are kidding me. I have never seen such a good factory, let alone heard of it."

The yamen runner who had been silent all this time looked at the vegetable seller coldly and said, "Believe it or not, it is clearly written on the notice. You can't read, but others can. We two brothers don't have the time to mess around with you."

The vegetable seller, who was a little skeptical at first, immediately believed it after hearing this tone.

He picked up the load and ran in the direction he had just come from, very fast, with only one thought in his mind.

"Not only my nephew, but also my sons and my wife, can all go."

"What kind of vegetables are you selling? I have two sons and nephews, plus my wife, three people in total. Even if it's 200 wen per person, you still charge 600 wen per month."

"The most important thing is that they provide meals."

“Haha, haha!”

While trotting quickly, the vegetable seller couldn't help laughing like a pig.

The vendors and passers-by coming towards us.

Seeing the vegetable seller like this, I subconsciously avoided him.

"I'm afraid this is not insanity."