I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

Governor's Palace.

After a night of statistics, the seizure of other materials has almost achieved results.

As the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties and the political, economic and cultural center in the south, Nanjing is much richer than Suzhou, Changzhou and other places.

There are 350,000 taels of cash in the yamen warehouse alone. Although there is a lot of money, there are also many officials in Nanjing City. There are a large number of idle officials. It takes a lot of money to run this administrative team.

Wu Changqing has decided to cut some old-fashioned officials who do not have real jobs to save money.

The military rations were also seized, with a total of 2.4 million catties. But for an army of 100,000 people, this is only ten days of consumption during wartime. It consumes a little less when there is no war, but it is enough for more than half a month.

With the rapid expansion of Wu Changqing's power, his spending has also increased rapidly.

It’s not enough to feed the 100,000 army by just relying on these captures.

Open source, of course, is to count on taxes.

Apart from these, the rest is some real estate. For example, Hong Chengchou's house and antique furniture, Boluo's house and so on. All officials who were completely loyal to the Qing court were subject to inspections.

Officials who refuse to surrender will also be searched.

This part of the money is also a lot, worth two or three million, but it will take time to realize it.

After listening to the statistical report, Wu Changqing came to the hall to meet business representatives from Nanjing.

There were more than a dozen merchants who came, and seven of them contributed to the siege of the city by the Ming army.

Several other merchants who did not participate in the competition for the city gate were already feeling remorseful at this time, and they could not have imagined that the Qing army would be so vulnerable.

If they had known this would happen, they would definitely have joined without hesitation.

And now, those merchants who did not contribute must be treated differently.

"I have seen Wu Guogong."

As soon as Wu Changqing appeared, everyone bowed their heads slightly and saluted.

When bowing their heads, many businessmen were also muttering in their hearts, lamenting Wu Changqing's age.

Such a young man actually started his life from scratch, holding more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and defeated Hong Chengchou of the Qing Dynasty and killed the general Bo Luo.

Tsk tsk tsk, such a great achievement, is another rare historical hero. As long as there is no accident and continue to develop like this, for decades to come, Wu Changqing will be one of the best figures in this court, and he will have a great say.

This kind of character must be pleasing, and there is no other choice.

"Everyone, please take a seat. This time we successfully won Nanjing. You are all heroes."

Wu Changqing said.

"Don't dare, we just did our best, mainly relying on the wise leadership of the grandfather of the country."

Tong Youwei quickly declined, not daring to take credit.

After all, their role did not affect the overall situation, but only helped the Ming army to accelerate the speed of breaking the city and reduce some of the losses of the Ming army.

"The credit is irrespective of how big or small, but my heart is with our soldiers, and I will never treat them badly. For the seven shopkeepers who contributed to this siege, I will put perfume, soap, soap, and glass mirrors in Nanzhili's The management rights are handed over to you.”

His promise made Tong Youwei and others smile. They risked genocide because of these benefits.

Now that Wu Changqing kept his promise, they were finally relieved.

Although it is only the right to operate and does not have the right to produce the formula, it is already very good.

The right to operate means that only seven of them are allowed to do this kind of business in this area of ​​Nanzhili. The goods produced in Suzhou must be supplied to them at the agreed price and cannot be supplied to others.

In this way, Tong Youwei can control the supply of goods and set higher selling prices to earn huge profits.

This is no loss for the Chen family in Suzhou. Anyway, they sell their goods the same to everyone, just give money. For Tong Youwei and others, there are many benefits.

The only person who suffers a loss is the consumers in Nanzhili. It may not be easy for them to use cheap perfume soaps in the future.

Of course, Hong Chengchou had imposed heavy taxes on these goods before, so these things were already very expensive in Nanjing. Now Tong Youwei and others don't need to raise the price any more, they can make a lot of money just by selling them at the original price.

The people who contributed to the seven of them are naturally smiling, but the other merchants who did not contribute can only sigh in their hearts.

At this time, they didn't dare to make any excessive demands, and could only watch others get rich.

They can only wait for future opportunities to see if they can find a chance to please Wu Changqing, and then get some benefits.

After all, the good things Wu Changqing has in his hands are not only perfumes and soaps, but even those cheap cloths are also very tempting.

"Many thanks to the grandfather of the country. In order to support the grandfather of the country in recovering more of his homeland, I would like to donate 100,000 taels for the grandfather of the country to support the army."

Wu Changqing gave them benefits, and Tong Youwei also donated money very wisely.

Although 100,000 taels is a lot, it is nothing compared to the long-term profits of those soaps.

More importantly, donating these 100,000 taels is equivalent to selling one's favor to Wu Changqing, and there is no need to worry about being disrupted and extorted by those big bosses when doing business in the future.

Collusion between officials and businessmen was very important when the ancient legal system was not particularly sound. When doing business, you must have a good relationship with the officials, otherwise, no matter how big the business is, it will be in vain.

Destroy the county magistrate, destroy the prefect

, which means that an official can easily ruin other people's homes.

This money is to be spent no matter what. As long as Wu Changqing doesn't take money and do nothing like Hong Chengchou, Tong Youwei and the others will not lose.

"I'm also willing to donate 80,000 taels."

Another giant businessman named Cui Mingchong also pledged to donate, and several other businessmen then reported the number they wanted to donate, and the least one was 50,000 taels.

The seven merchants alone donated 500,000 taels, enough for Wu Changqing to support the military for a long time.

"The villain Sun Daoming, I was deeply ashamed that I couldn't help Master Wang when he broke the city. I donated 200,000 taels of silver, and I hope the general will accept it with a smile."

Before Sun Daoming was afraid of causing trouble, he did not interfere with Tong Youwei's actions.

But now, when he watched Tong Youwei and others make big profits and established a close relationship with Wu Changqing, he knew that he had to do something.

Otherwise, it will be a problem for Nanjing to accept Sun Daoming in the future.

In order to show his loyalty, Sun Daoming also donated 200,000 directly as soon as he gritted his teeth.

He won't be able to earn this money for three or four years. If Wu Changqing can't keep it in Nanjing for three years, he will lose a lot.

However, Sun Daoming still made this decision because he is very optimistic about Wu Changqing now.

Young and courageous, talented and virtuous, and know how to win the hearts and minds of the people, all the signs on Wu Changqing's body show that he is a rare hero in troubled times.

Investing in such a hero is absolutely not wrong.

When others saw Sun Daoming, they also donated, and they all expressed their opinions.

Regardless of whether they are happy or not, as long as they still want to be treated fairly and do business, the protection fee must be paid.

Not only to pay, but also to pay more than Tong Youwei and others to show obedience.

Sixteen merchants donated a total of 1.5 million taels of silver, enough for Wu Changqing's military pay for seven or eight months.

The merchants in the late Ming Dynasty were indeed very rich.

Wu Changqing sighed in his heart.

The distribution of wealth in the late Ming Dynasty had a great feature that the court and the common people had no money, and officials and private merchants were especially rich.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the tax on land was too heavy and the tax on business was too light, which led to this deformed society. Moreover, with the increasing number of overseas trade and smuggling, the wealth of private merchants has increased rapidly, and even the germ of capitalism has begun to be born.

The early development of capitalism relied on squeezing the common people and overseas colonies.

There were no overseas colonies in the Ming Dynasty, and capitalist wealth accumulation basically depended on squeezing the people.

And the people rebelled if they couldn't survive without money, and the court couldn't suppress without money, so Li Zicheng was able to break through Beijing, and Daming would perish in a confused way.