Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 1747 Made a fortune

   These days, people in the capital can be said to be in panic.

  The price of Xishan New City not only has no downward trend, but has even been rising day after day.

   In the middle of next month, it actually reached twenty-seven taels of silver.

   Twenty-seven taels per zhang, which is almost an astronomical figure, even in Xincheng, the price is terrifying.

   But Xincheng has everything you want, whether it is a school, a theater, roads, almost everything, but this Fang Jifan's fiefdom is still a big construction site.

   Comparing the two, any reasonable person can understand it after thinking about it.

   But the problem now is that the mansions in Xishan City are popular.

  The price tripled in less than two months.

  This income is extremely frightening.

   Therefore, there are more people who want to buy like crazy.

  It seems that people have gone crazy, and they no longer care about whether the small house is suitable for living or not, and what the future holds.

  Some families also poured out their wealth one after another, borrowing from each other, all wanting to get a share of the pie.

  Some commercial firms were so envious that they couldn't help but took out a part of the gold and silver that was originally used to expand production and devoted themselves to it.

  In the past two months, it is no longer the people like Li Zheng who bought it secretly. People seem to hope that the mansion here will continue to rise.

   So much so that the increase was at a high level of twenty-seven taels of silver, instead of any downward trend, it became even bigger.

  Therefore, when the price suddenly reached thirty-five taels, it only took six short days.

  Six days...the price has quadrupled.

  Li Zheng felt much lighter.

  Everything is as expected.

  And now...he was finally no longer nervous, but relaxed and elegant, and invited the assistant officer of the embassy to drink tea.

  The deputy envoy is an Ottoman, originally called Mustafa, but now he has changed his Chinese name to Zhu Cheng.

  Many people in this state changed their Han surnames.

   There are many people with the surname Zhu.

   After all, in their eyes, the surname Zhu is the surname of the country. Anyway, they don’t need to be included in the imperial book of Ming Dynasty, and no one will pursue it.

  After that, there will be people surnamed Li, Zhao, and Liu. These surnames are relatively few, but they are still in the majority. As for other surnames, there are quite a few. After all... the world is full of wonders, of course... people with the surname Fang are relatively rare.

It's not that there is no such thing. Last year, there was a Jiaozhi man who changed his surname. He was quite happy. It seems that someone said that the guards from Shuntian Mansion surrounded his inn that night, dragged him out, and insisted He is an overseas orphan of the Fang family, and he desperately denied it. As for what happened to this person later, no one knew. The people in the inn only knew that he was taken away, and then disappeared without a trace. No body was found, and no one had come to pick up the luggage left in the inn so far.

  Of course, everyone knows about such things and has a tacit understanding, but they will never speak out, forming an invisible taboo.

Zhu Cheng poured tea for Li Zheng himself. After all, he was not a tea boy, but a deputy envoy. Logically speaking, his status should not pour tea for Li Zheng. With a bit of reverence.

  Zhu Cheng said with a smile: "Li Shilang, the memorial to His Majesty has been sent."

"Oh." Li Zhengshi calmly picked up the teacup and took a sip, still calm and calm: "If your Majesty knows that the price has increased by four times, it must be Long Yan Da Yue, Don't worry, this time, everyone deserves credit, and the old man has credited you with credit to His Majesty."

  Zhu Cheng immediately showed a look of admiration, and quickly said: "Thank you Li Shilang for your support. Li Shilang, how did you know the location of Xishan New City..."

  Four times.

  It’s unimaginable how much ability this is, and it only took a few months to turn the clouds and rains.

Now, they have 60,000 to 70,000 taels of mansions in their hands, and when they bought them, they used a down payment, that is to say, they spent nine million taels of silver, but got tens of millions of taels of silver. mansion.

  For Osman, eight or nine million taels of silver is an astronomical figure.

   This time, it can be said that Osman is almost desperate.

  Before the large-scale influx of Han merchants into Ottoman, Ottoman received a lot of treasures from Ming Dynasty, and these treasures also had a sum of gold, plus the wealth of caravans and business houses, all of which were invested in it.

   And now...

  Luckily... it worked.

   "It's very simple, you should read The Wealth of Nations." Li Zheng smiled.

As soon as Zhu Cheng heard the words "The Wealth of Nations", although he was an Ottoman native, his face became tense, his eyes showed a bit of displeasure, and he said solemnly: "This kind of book of evil intentions, the lower officials will never read it. .”

   Li Zheng nodded, agreeing.

The Four Books and Five Classics spread to Ottoman, which opened a new door for the Ottomans. Coupled with the strong promotion of the Ottoman emperor, countless Confucian scholars entered the Ottoman upper-middle class and repeatedly preached. A group of Ottoman scholars like Zhu Cheng have gradually emerging.

  The biggest difference between them and the Han Confucians is that the Han Confucians who went to Ottoman were of course staunch diehards, sticking to Confucianism and attacking the new learning. But after all... Occasionally I also read some idle books. The Ottoman scholars seem to have a strange and fanatical atmosphere. They regard all non-Confucius, Mencius, Cheng Zhu, and Zhu as heresies. All should be discarded.

Li Zheng smiled again: "This book is indeed full of deceitful techniques. To deal with deceitful people, you need to use deceitful methods. In this The Wealth of Nations, there is a point that the so-called price fluctuations are essentially based on demand." , the reason why the price of Xishan New City has skyrocketed is that the supply is in short supply. On the surface, it has sold tens of thousands of mansions, but in fact, nearly half of them are in our hands. It can be said... the reason for the rise is not because of the old man Knowing that it will go up, but because the old man enters the market, it must go up."

  After hearing this, Zhu Cheng seemed to have realized something, and couldn't help but said: "In this way, as long as we have enough money, we can continue to push Xishan New City up."

Li Zheng smiled and continued: "There must be a limit. The mansions in Xincheng are more than 20 taels, but Xishan Xincheng is broken by 30. It is not impossible to go up, but...need More funds than before, in the past one million taels of silver could double the price of the mansion, but now, even if we invest five million, it may not be able to achieve this effect."

   "So..." Zhu Cheng seemed to understand: "Can't it go up?"

   "It's almost there." Li Zheng said confidently: "But there is no rush, we have to wait a little longer, maybe a month or two."

"this…"

Li Zheng then said: "We are not the ones who have increased the growth of the new city. Our funds have already been exhausted. But because of the continuous skyrocketing, many greedy people have bought the mansions in Xishan New City with money, so... the future It may rise slightly for a while, and the mansion will continue to be sold. With our gold and silver, this Xishan New City has already become a sweet pastry."

   "And what about after this?"

   "After that?" Li Zheng laughed again: "From now on, all these mansions will be sold in exchange for precious banknotes."

   "Precious banknotes?" Zhu Cheng said incredulously, "We have so many mansions...can we sell them all?"

Li Zhengdao: "If there are only a thousand houses, of course it will be more troublesome, but if you have tens of thousands of houses, then...it will be difficult not to sell them all. You know, in a market of 200,000 houses , suddenly 60,000 to 70,000 mansions start to sell, what terrible consequences will it cause? This consequence is... the price of mansions is bound to plummet, and the speed of this plunge will be ten times that of the rise. This is an extremely dangerous This means that there will be countless people who follow suit, and all the wealth will be wiped out overnight."

  Zhu Cheng still didn't understand: "In this way, isn't our mansion just a wealth on paper, once it is sold, then Li Shilang, we will also be finished with it?"

Li Zheng shook his head and smiled: "Impossible! The reason for this is very simple, because that Xishan is not an ordinary businessman. This Fang Jifan is Zhen Guogong, and he is the most important courtier of the Ming Emperor. Think about it, what if Tens of thousands of people, all of a sudden, everything came to naught. Can Fang Jifan afford the consequences? The only thing Fang Jifan can do is to try his best to stabilize the experts. But how to stabilize it? We have to buy back these mansions at a high price. We have invested eight or nine million taels of silver in the mansion, and Fang Jifan has to buy it back at the market price of forty to fifty million taels of silver. If he does not buy it back, his losses will also be It must be more than tens of millions of taels of silver, and it may even lead to many serious consequences."

  Zhu Cheng took a deep breath: "So that's the case. In this way, Li Shilang is really a master of chess. In just a few months, he has earned tens of millions of taels of silver for His Majesty the Emperor."

Seeing the more and more admiring expression on Zhu Cheng's face, Li Zheng felt even more proud, but shook his head and said: "You are wrong again, you have made so many arrangements this time, and earning money is actually secondary. The order of the Holy Emperor to come here is to weaken Daming, earning tens of millions of taels of silver, which is actually just the first step."

   Zhu Cheng looked at Li Zheng with piercing eyes and said in admiration, "Then what's the next step?"

"The next step is very simple. It is to use these tens of millions of taels of banknotes to exchange for gold and silver in a short period of time." Li Zheng narrowed his eyes: "Our real goal is the Xishan Bank. The Xishan Bank uses Gold and silver are used as reserves to issue precious banknotes. According to the rules, these precious banknotes can be exchanged for gold and silver in full. Now suddenly there are people with such a huge amount of precious banknotes in the market asking for exchange, so... for Xishan Bank In other words, it is nothing less than a catastrophe.”

  After hearing Li Zheng's arrangement, Zhu Cheng shuddered.

Li Zheng then said slowly: "Then next, Fang Jifan will face another terrible choice. He can choose not to exchange. If he does not exchange, then everyone will be in danger, because in this big world, everyone uses treasures. Banknotes, people firmly believe that the precious banknotes in their hands are equivalent to gold and silver, once the precious banknotes cannot be exchanged, isn’t the Ming Dynasty’s precious banknotes in this world no different from waste paper?”

   "But if Fang Jifan chooses to exchange in full, then he must be devastated. He will try his best to withdraw all the real gold and silver, and try his best to return the precious banknotes."

"So... something even more terrifying may be about to happen. This may cause the reserves of Xishan Bank to plummet. At that time, he will be Xishan New City and Xishan Bank. If you take this opportunity to create some gossip, the entire Western Mountain is like a giant with mud feet. If you kick it lightly, it may collapse, and even if it survives, it may hurt your bones. …With these real money, I have strengthened Osman and greatly weakened Daming, isn't this killing two birds with one stone?"

  (end of this chapter)