Steel Dynasty - Chapter 374

[Chapter 374 Divide the Cake]

In the chamber of commerce, the merchants all turned red with excitement because of Xiao Ming’s words.

When the map was unfolded in front of them, they stood up one by one, staring greedily at the vast land of Youzhou.

“Everyone, according to the rules set by me and you, now you can get three times the value of pasture in Youzhou. Such high-quality horse breeding land is the first in Dayu.”

Xiao Ming said while pointing. He said while looking at the map.

The businessmen nodded. After entering the Chamber of Commerce, they already learned that the reward they received was pasture, and on the pasture they could only make a living by grazing.

They were not disappointed by this. On the contrary, they were all looking forward to it, because even if they did not manage the pasture themselves, they could sell it to others.

Raising horses is a very profitable business, and a large number of businessmen will rush to do it.

“Thank you, Your Highness. Your Highness is indeed a man of gold.”

Cao Zhengyang looked happy. His eyes were already patrolling the Youzhou grassland, and he already had his own horse-raising plan.

“Yes, His Highness’s words are truly impressive. If this is King Yong, he must have regretted it by now.”

“No, not to mention King Yong, some of the other vassal kings treat our merchants as human beings.” “Yeah.”

“Only His Highness values us merchants so much. We must do our best for His Highness.”

“…”

After Cao Zhengyang, the merchants began to flatter Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming smiled, but he didn’t care about the flattery of the businessmen. The businessmen pursued profits, and now that he was giving them benefits, they would naturally show their loyalty.

If he didn’t give them benefits this time, he would probably scold his mother behind his back. However, although he understood the nature of businessmen, in order to use this capital monster to carry Qingzhou forward, he still had to be good at using it.

So he said: “Thank you for your compliments. I am just fulfilling my promise. Now you should choose the pasture you need. Of course, if you dislike the small size of your pasture, I can sell you some more pasture.”

Hearing this ,

, the businessmen are even more excited. Some businessmen with little money are worried that the pastures they can get are too small. Now this problem is solved in one go.

They no longer hesitated, and one by one they took pens and began to draw circles on the huge map of Youzhou.

After a while, one hundred and three blocks appeared on the map.

At this time, Xiao Ming glanced at the map. The locations of these pastures were mainly concentrated near Cangzhou and Youzhou, and some were also near Shanhaiguan.

These businessmen are very shrewd. The closer they are to the city, the safer their pastures will be.

Looking at the square area on the map, Xiao Ming asked Li Kaiyuan to take the ruler and start measuring.

This map was drawn according to scale, which the merchants had already understood before. Now Xiao Ming asked Li Kaiyuan to write down the dimensions drawn by the merchants and replace them with actual dimensions.

Then, more refunds and less supplements will be made based on the actual amount of merchants’ support for the Northern Expedition.

Soon, Li Kaiyuan handed the data to Xiao Ming.

“Cao Zhengyang, your Cao family’s taste is really great. You have to make up a lot of money to draw such a large area.” Xiao Ming said after seeing Cao Zhengyang’s data.

In terms of data, Cao Zhengyang drew a pasture sixty miles long and wide, but his one hundred thousand taels of silver could only cover a pasture ten miles long and wide at most.

“Your Highness, what can we do with a ten-mile long and wide pasture? Since we are raising horses, the more the better. Our Cao family also wants to provide His Highness with a steady stream of horses, cattle and sheep in the future.” Cao Zhengyang said with a smile on his face.

Xiao Ming sneered in his heart, this Cao family has amazing financial resources.

Since Cao Zhengyang settled in Qingzhou, the Cao family has shown its strong financial resources in Qingzhou. He can at least be sure that he is really not as rich as the Cao family.

And it’s not even a little bit worse.

He suddenly remembered Shen Wansan of the Ming Dynasty. When Zhu Yuanzhang was building the Nanjing City Wall, Shen Wansan was killed by Zhu Yuanzhang because he showed his wealth everywhere.

If it were another person, I’m afraid he would also have the Cao family’s idea at this time. This sheep is too fat. No wonder the King of Chu has been sharpening his sword.

Although Xiao Ming is also somewhat envious, envious and hates the Cao family’s strong financial resources, his most important plan now is to attract capital to help Qingzhou become rich.

The financial giant of the Cao family came at just the right time, so not only could he not scare the Cao family away, he had to lock it up in Qingzhou step by step to lay eggs for himself.

So he smiled and said: “Okay, I am indeed right about your Cao family. In this way, I will give you a hundred miles of pasture, but I will cooperate with you with the remaining pasture, which means that in the future, the pasture will be I will share 40% of the profit, what do you think?”

Cao

Zhengyang was startled, then he realized with a smile: “Your Highness, Cao is just what he wants. With His Highness’s support, our Cao family can run this farm with peace of mind.”

Ming nodded and said to Li Kaiyuan: “Discuss this matter with the Cao family and settle the matter.”

Li Kaiyuan understood and nodded with a smile. How could Xiao Ming feel at ease with such a big deal from the Cao family? ? At this time, forming a cooperation also means monitoring the Cao family.

After all, war horses are an extremely serious issue. Everyone knows that there is a shortage of horses in the south. The price of a batch of war horses transported from the grassland to the King of Chu’s fief is enough to triple the price.

Such huge profits are enough to make many smugglers take risks. Therefore, Xiao Ming naturally wants to control the output of war horses. After all, this is a strategic resource.

In addition to his own ten-kilometer long and wide area, Cao Zhengyang paid another 1.5 million taels of silver to purchase the remaining fifty miles of grassland.

Then Xiao Ming looked at other people’s data, but what puzzled Xiao Ming was that in the end, the pasture was basically controlled by three people.

Because some businessmen obtained their own small pastures and sold them directly to Ding Wu, Cao Zhengyang and Dai Zixing.

The overall result was that Cao Zhengyang won a large area of grassland in Cangzhou, Ding Wu won a large area of grassland in Youzhou, and Dai Zixing won a large area of grassland in Shanhaiguan, forming a three-legged situation.

I have to say that this ending made Xiao Ming very depressed. The game of capital fish eating small fish was played out in front of him.

But there is no way. The ultimate goal of capital is to become a monopoly, but he will not give them this opportunity, because the biggest pasture is Xiao Ming’s own.

This pasture is controlled by the Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce.

In order to prevent future capital expansion, he will not give up state-owned capital.

After dividing the pasture, he earned two million taels of silver from Cao Zhengyang, Ding Wu, and Dai Zixing to purchase the pasture. Overall, he was very satisfied with the result. This Northern Expedition was a big profit for the war.

(End of chapter)