My life skills in Daming Liver

The reason why Second Young Master Yu didn't subscribe for stocks was because he was afraid of making money.

He bought the most railway bonds. Now railway bonds have become popular, and many people have paid to buy railway bonds from him.

I hold this public bond in my hand, and it is paying out dividends every six months.

Yu Zongyuan can only sell these public bonds at the market price of the political center.

Now, the annual return on railroad bonds three years ago was 3%, and the three-year return is 9% of the principal.

The hot public bond market allows the direct transfer price of public bonds to be 1.04 times the original price.

In other words, Yu Zongyuan only held these public bonds for less than half a year and suddenly made a profit of 4% of the total purchase amount.

Even though it was only 4%, Yu Zongyuan only paid some funds, and this profit, based on his huge total subscription, was an astronomical figure for ordinary people.

All in all, Mr. Yu made money again, and he made a lot of money without any risk.

When he got this profit, Second Young Master Yu was numb. He still doesn't understand why this public bond is so profitable!

Second Young Master Yu's purchase of railway bonds was also praised by various tabloids, and some even called him the "King of Investments."

Now Yu Zongyuan is even more afraid. The Grand Governor Su Ze has not proclaimed himself the king, so he is called the "King of Investment". Isn't he doomed? He quickly asked the newspaper to withdraw the article, but the reputation of the "King of Investment" had already spread.

Yu Zongyuan pinched his nose and ate the profits, so this time Pang Xinyue approached him to subscribe for stocks, and he refused to pay even if he died!

The reason why the Xu family of Songjiang Prefecture did not subscribe was also very simple.

After Xu Kun consulted his father Xu Jie, he had figured out the nature of Donghai Trading Company.

Donghae Trading Company, named a trading company, is actually the army that colonized Korea in the southeast.

Knowing the nature of this company, the Xu family, which has been trying to stay away from politics, naturally did not dare to buy shares of this company.

Xu Kun knows his abilities very well and has a clear idea of ​​his position.

As the descendants of the former court elders, we were lucky enough to avoid being liquidated by the southeastern government. If we wanted to get involved in such a highly political event as foreign colonization, we would be really seeking death.

The Yu family and the Xu family did not subscribe to Donghai Trading Company's shares, but the stock price was still soaring, all of which made Pang Xinyue worried.

The southeast side is further digesting the land that has been swallowed up, and at the same time, it is advancing on the two fronts of Annan and North Korea.

Capital, June 20th.

The weather in the capital has been getting hotter and hotter these days, and Xiangzi also bought a straw hat. But even at noon, he still had to find a shady place to rest for a while. Several of his colleagues were caught in the heat because they were greedy for the noon business. He fainted and fell to the ground.

They had no money to go to the hospital for treatment, so they had no choice but to hold on, and some even lost their lives.

Xiangzi could only get out of the car as early as possible. After it got dark for a while in the evening, he would come to this tea break stall at noon to get a bowl of strong tea and drink it to escape the heat.

During this time, the atmosphere in the capital became even more tense.

Zhongshu Prime Minister Zhang Juzheng has issued a decree to dispatch troops from nine sides to North Korea to assist the North Korean leader in "quelling the rebellion."

Such a military deployment is not a simple order.

The entire military depot and logistics system in the north had to be mobilized, and the court spent a huge amount of money.

After losing Huguang, losing the Datong liquor trade, and cutting off North Korea's trade with Japan, Zhang Juzheng understood that the current Ming Dynasty could go bankrupt at any time.

But Zhang Juzheng also knew that Su Ze used bloodletting tactics against the Ming court.

Now the deer in Ming Dynasty has had its blood vessels cut open. If it continues to run away, it will eventually die because the blood will drain out.

Zhang Juzheng must stand up and resist before Ming Dynasty's blood dries up to have a chance.

Therefore, this time Zhang Juzheng can be said to have devoted all the efforts of the Ming Dynasty. Not only did he reform the old armies in Jiubian and equip them with the equipment of the new army, he also took out all the balance of the Ming Dynasty's household department and used all his strength. Support this war.

After using the last reserves of the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng turned on the water pump of the court and began to extract taxes from private and government-run workshops. Now Zhang Juzheng no longer cares about killing the goose that lays the goose to get the eggs. Let's get through this first!

The summer grain collected in advance, the government-run workshops are also delaying the wages of employees, but the overtime work in the workshops is increasing.

Even for green rickshaw drivers like Xiangzi, Shuntian Prefecture set up a green rickshaw franchise bureau in the capital, requiring all green rickshaw drivers operating green rickshaws in the capital to obtain a license from the franchise bureau.

Now besides the car owner, there was another big mountain above Xiangzi's head.

Xiangzi and the coachmen were helpless about this. This was an order from Shuntian Mansion!

These days are getting more and more sad.

Xiangzi sat drinking tea, thinking about how many sales he had to do today to get his money back, and his face became even more sad.

At the same time, Wang Gongchang in the west of the capital city.

This is the largest gunpowder factory in the capital, and its location is exactly in the corner of the inner city of the capital.

Wang Gong Factory is the royal arsenal, also known as the Gunpowder Bureau. It is a place specialized in making gunpowder. Precisely because it is an arsenal and a gunpowder factory. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty arranged it inside the city instead of outside it.

We were also afraid that it would affect the safety of the palace if it exploded, so we placed it in a corner of the city, about three kilometers away from the palace.

The establishment of Wang Gongchang can be traced back to the Yongle period, when Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, built the capital.

It is a government-run workshop affiliated to the Ministry of Industry, and has been one of the thirteen government-run workshops since the Gao Gong Reform.

The gunpowder produced by Wang Gong Factory was specially supplied to the new army. After Zhang Juzheng came to power, some surrounding residential buildings were demolished and the factory area was doubled.

Recently, troops have been mobilized all over the country. The machines at Wang Gong Factory are running day and night. The workers have changed from three shifts to two shifts, but their wages are still being reduced.

Some employees were owed wages, and some were even forced to work overtime by their foreman and died of exhaustion in the workshop.

Due to the increase in work intensity and the decrease in wages, the production safety of Wang Gong Factory has also declined significantly.

These days, various accidents continue to occur in Wang Gong Factory. Although there are no major explosions, there are many small explosions and fires, which makes the entire Wang Gong Factory employees panic.

Now Yan Jun is taking Tong An to give lectures to the workers of Wang Gong Factory at a secret gathering point.

After explaining how to conduct a strike, Tong An said to Yan Jun: "Master Yan, most of the employees are ready, but there are still some employees who say that the foreman treats them well. They also support a family in Wanggong Factory and don't want to Join our strike."

Yan Jun looked at Tong An and asked, "Why, you have been absent-minded recently. Is there something on your mind?"

Tong An nodded and said: "Teacher, I can understand that these employees do not participate in the strike. Many of them are farmers fleeing famine. If they could not enter Wang Gong Factory as employees, they would have starved to death. Moreover, the foreman treats them well. , it is not the kind of workshop that exploits workers, so they are naturally unwilling to participate in a strike.”

Yan Jun said: "Then do you think it is wrong for us to launch a strike?"

Tong An shook his head and said, "The students just don't understand."

Yan Jun said: "So you still need to read more. You haven't read this book "Morality and Criticism" written by the Grand Governor, right?"

Tong An said sheepishly: "Teacher, the book "The Governor" is really too deep and I can't understand it."

Yan Jun said: "The Governor's articles are becoming more and more sophisticated. This book is indeed too profound."

"Let me give you an example."

"You know the landowner, right?"

Tong An nodded.

Yan Jun said: "There are many bad landlords in the countryside who forcibly rob other people's farmland. Such landlords are naturally angry and resentful. Such bad landlords have been eliminated in the first round of land clearing in the southeast."

"But landlords are just a group. There are bad people in this group, and of course there are good people."

Tong An nodded.

"If there is such a landlord who never relies on his power to grab land and often helps the poor around him, would you say that this landlord is not good?"

Tong An shook his head.

Yan Jun added: "In the disaster years, some farmers had no food. At this time, the landlord stepped forward and purchased the land from the farmers at normal prices. After that, the landlord kindly gave the land to the farmers for cultivation. , just collect land rent according to the market price, do you think this landlord is exploiting?"

Tong An was stunned.

Yan Jun added: "The same is true for workshop owners. A workshop owner only provides land and machinery and recruits surrounding landless farmers to work in the workshop."

"A farmer can only earn a little money by farming at home for a year. By working in a workshop, he can earn several times the original income, and he can also support his family with his salary."

"Is this employee being exploited?"

Tong An was at a loss again.

Yan Jun said: "Exploitation has nothing to do with morality or individuals. It is just a phenomenon."

"What we are resisting is not a specific workshop owner or a few specific landlords. What the governor is opposing in the southeast is this exploitative system."

"Just by owning land and workshops, you can get half or even most of the profits from the labor output of hired workers. Is this system reasonable?"

Tong An's eyes regained their clarity.

Yan Jun said: "The land is like this, and so are the workshops. If we want to organize a strike, we don't simply oppose a certain foreman."

"To put it bluntly, this kind of struggle does not appeal to morality, nor does it require the conscience of the foreman to find out, but it requires the entire society to make concessions, distribute more profits to the employees, and improve the treatment of the employees."

"This is the meaning of our struggle. What we strive for is not moral criticism, but a change of interests."

"So I have been telling you that to fight this system, we need a stronger organization, and it must be stronger than these opposition forces."