The Ming Dynasty’s Prodigal Son - Chapter 1837

[1837. Chapter 1747 Make a fortune]

These days, people in the capital are in a state of panic.

Prices in Xishan New City, instead of showing a downward trend, are even rising day by day.

By the middle of the next month, there were actually twenty-seven taels of silver.

Twenty-seven taels per foot is almost an astronomical figure. Even in Xincheng, the price is terrifying.

But in Xincheng, everything you need is available, whether it’s schools, theaters, roads, almost everything, but this Fang Jifan’s fiefdom is still a big construction site.

Any rational person can understand the comparison between the two.

But the problem now is that the mansions on the market in Xishan are very popular.

The price has tripled in less than two months.

This income is extremely shocking.

Therefore, more people want to buy it like crazy.

It seems that people have gone crazy and no longer care about whether the small house is suitable for people to live in or what the future will be like.

Some families have also spent all their wealth and borrowed money from each other, all trying to get a piece of the pie.

Some trading houses were so enthused that they couldn’t help but take out part of the gold and silver that was originally used to expand production and join in the effort.

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

So much so that the increase was at a high of twenty-seven taels of silver. Instead of showing any downward trend, it actually got even bigger.

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

In six days… the price had quadrupled.

Li Zheng felt much more relaxed.

Everything is as expected.

But now… he was finally no longer nervous, but had a leisurely and elegant mood, and invited the assistant officer from the Chinese embassy to have tea.

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

Many people in this country changed their surnames to Han.

There are more people named Zhu.

After all, in their eyes, the surname Zhu is the surname of the country. No matter how you call it, you don’t have to be included in the Ming Dynasty’s imperial rolls, and no one will hold you accountable.

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

It’s not like nothing. Last year, there was a Jiaozhi man who changed his surname to Fang, and he was quite happy. It seems that someone said that that night, officers from Shuntian Mansion surrounded his inn, pulled him out, and insisted that he He was an overseas orphan of the Fang family. He denied it with all his strength. As for what happened to this person, no one knew. The people in the inn only knew that he was taken away and disappeared without a trace. No one was seen alive or dead. No body was found, and no one has come to pick up the luggage left in the inn.

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

Zhu Cheng personally poured tea for Li Zheng. After all, he was not a tea boy, but a deputy envoy. Logically speaking, his status meant that he should not pour tea for Li Zheng, but he still enjoyed it and looked at Li Zheng with a look in his eyes. With some reverence.

Zhu Cheng said with a bright smile: “Li Shilang, the memorial to Your Majesty has been sent out.”

“Oh.” Li Zhengshi calmly picked up the tea cup and took a sip. With a light breeze, he said: “If your majesty knew that the price has increased four times, he would definitely be very happy. Don’t worry, everyone has contributed this time. I have already credited you with your majesty.”

Zhu Cheng immediately With a look of awe, he quickly said: “Thank you, Mr. Li, for your support. Mr. Li, how do you know the location of Xishan New City…”

Four times.

It’s hard to imagine how much ability this has. In just a few months, it can turn everything upside down.

Now, they have 60,000 to 70,000 mansions in their hands, and when they first purchased them, they used a down payment. In other words, they spent nine million taels of silver, but got a house worth tens of millions of taels. Mansion.

For Osman, eight to nine million taels of silver was an astronomical figure.

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

Previously, Han merchants poured into the Ottomans on a large scale. The Ottomans received a lot of Ming Dynasty treasures, and these treasures also had a sum of gold, plus the wealth of caravans and trading houses, all of which were invested in it.

And now…

luckily… it’s successful.

“It’s very simple. You should read The Wealth of Nations.” Li Zheng said with a smile.

As soon as he heard the words “The Wealth of Nations”, even though Zhu Cheng was an Ottoman native, his face tensed up, with a bit of displeasure in his eyes, and he said seriously: “This is a book about evil people’s minds, I will never read it.” .”

Li Zheng nodded and agreed.

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

The biggest difference between them and the Han Confucians is that the Han Confucians who went to the Ottomans were indeed diehards who adhered to Neo-Confucianism and criticized the new learning. But after all… I also read some casual books occasionally. The Ottoman scholars seemed to have a somewhat strange and fanatical atmosphere. They regarded all non-Confucius, Mencius, Cheng, and Zhu as heretics. In their eyes, any other knowledge was nothing more than idle books, miscellaneous books, or even the knowledge of bad people. All must be abandoned.

Li Zheng smiled again and said: “This book is indeed full of deception. To deal with deceitful people, you need to use deception. There is a point in The Wealth of Nations that the so-called rise and fall of prices lies in demand. , the reason why the price of Xishan New City has skyrocketed is basically because the supply exceeds demand. On the surface, it has sold hundreds of thousands of houses, but in fact, nearly half of them are in our hands. It can be said…the reason for the rise is not that I know it will rise, but because I enter the market, it must rise.”

After hearing this, Zhu Cheng seemed to have some understanding and couldn’t help but said: “In this way, as long as we have enough money, we can continue to do so. Xishan New City pushes up.”

Li Zheng smiled and continued: “There must be a limit. The number of mansions in New City is more than 20 taels, but Xishan New City actually exceeds 30 taels. It’s not impossible to go up. Maybe, but… it requires more funds than before. In the past, one million taels of silver could double the price of the mansion, but now, even if you invest five million, it may not achieve this effect. “

“In this way…” Zhu Cheng seemed to understand: “Can’t it go up?”

“It’s almost there.” Li Zheng said confidently: “But there’s no rush, you have to wait a little longer, a month or two.” “

Well

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Li Zheng said, “It’s not us who are causing the increase in Xincheng. Our funds have been exhausted. But due to the continuous surge, many greedy people have used their money to buy Xishan. The mansion in the new city, so… it may increase slightly in the future, and the mansion will continue to be sold. With our gold and silver, this Xishan New City has become a piece of cake.”

“What happens next? “

After that?” Li Zheng laughed again: “After that, all these mansions will be sold for treasure money?”

Zhu Cheng said in disbelief: “We have so many mansions… Are you going to sell them all?”

Li Zheng said: “If you only have a thousand mansions, it will be more troublesome, but if you have tens of thousands of them, it will be difficult not to sell them all. You know, one. In a market of 200,000 houses, if 60,000 to 70,000 houses suddenly start to be sold off, what terrible consequences will it cause? This consequence is…the price of houses will inevitably plummet, and the speed of this plummet will increase. Ten times, this is an extremely dangerous situation, which means that there will be countless people who follow the trend, and all their wealth will be wiped out overnight.”

Zhu Cheng still didn’t understand: “In this way, ours will be lost.

Isn’t the mansion just a piece of wealth on paper? Once it is sold, Shilang Li, we will also be finished?”

Li Zheng shook his head and smiled: “Impossible! The reason for this is simple, because Xishan is not ordinary. Businessman. This Fang Jifan is the Duke of Zhenguo, and he is the most important minister of the Ming Emperor. Think about it, if there are hundreds of thousands of people, and suddenly everything is reduced to nothing, Fang Jifan can bear the consequences. The only thing Fang Jifan can do is to try his best to stabilize the family. After all, we have to buy back these mansions at a high price. Then Fang Jifan. He had to use the market price of 40 to 50 million taels of silver to repurchase it. If he didn’t repurchase it, his loss would definitely be more than tens of millions of taels of silver, and it might even lead to many serious consequences.

Zhu Cheng took a breath: “I see. In this way, Minister Li is really a master of the game. In just a few months, he earned tens of millions of taels of silver for His Majesty the Emperor.

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Looking at the increasingly admiring expression on Zhu Cheng’s face, Li Zheng felt even more proud, but he shook his head and said: “You are wrong again. You have made so many arrangements this time. Making money is actually secondary. This time I Coming here on the orders of the Holy Emperor was to weaken the Ming Dynasty and earn tens of millions of taels of silver, but it was actually just the first step.

Zhu Cheng looked at Li Zheng with piercing eyes and said with admiration: “Then what’s the next step?

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The next step is very simple, which is to use these tens of millions of taels of treasure banknotes to exchange them for gold and silver in a short period of time.” Li Zheng squinted: “Our real target is Xishan Bank.” Xishan Bank uses gold and silver as reserves and issues treasure banknotes. According to the rules, these treasure notes can be exchanged for gold and silver in full. Now suddenly there is someone on the market with such a huge amount of treasure banknotes asking for redemption, then… for Xishan Bank, it is nothing short of a disaster. “

After listening to Li Zheng’s arrangement, Zhu Cheng shuddered.

Li Zheng then said slowly: “Then next, Fang Jifan will face a terrible choice. He can choose not to redeem it. Once he does not redeem it, everyone will inevitably die. I am in danger, because in this world, everyone uses treasure banknotes. People firmly believe that the treasure banknotes in their hands are equivalent to gold and silver. Once the treasure banknotes cannot be exchanged, wouldn’t the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes in this world be like waste paper? no difference?

“But if Fang Jifan chooses to exchange the full amount, he will definitely be in a state of despair, trying every means to withdraw all the real money, and trying every means to return the treasure.

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“Such… something more terrible may happen, which may cause Xishan Bank’s reserves to plummet. At that time, he will be Xishan Xincheng and Xishan Bank. He has to take care of both ends, but he cannot take care of both ends. , if we take this opportunity to create some rumors, the entire Xishan Mountain will be like a clay-footed giant. I’m afraid it may collapse with just a slight kick. Even if it survives, I’m afraid it will only be broken. , so… With these real gold and silver, I have strengthened Osman, and also greatly weakened the Ming Dynasty. Isn’t this killing two birds with one stone? ”

(End of chapter)