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Chapter 56: Cloth Industry and Catering

Half a month later, the latest edition of Huang Summer Daily sold 60,000 copies.

The sales volume here is mainly composed of two parts, one is the direct sales quantity in the capital that day, and the other is the quantity that some merchants have ordered long ago and sold to the outside.

Sixty thousand shares, that is, 180,000 cents, or 180 taels. In fact, because of the large purchase discount, the sales in the end were only 165 taels.

Print once every three days, and the cost is reduced, and it is only 35 taels of silver per day, only 1,000 taels a month.

If you cannot reach a million-level amount by selling newspapers, you will not make much money. The main income will be in advertising in the commercial section.

For example, a certain cloth store purchased an advertisement for a certain page in a newspaper for a month, totaling 900 taels of silver.

Of course, no matter how it is promoted, in the society of the late Ming Dynasty, such newspapers were destined to be too profitable, because money was monopolized in the hands of a small number of people, and those who rely on quantity to obtain money could not make much money.

Xiao Sheng didn't expect it to bring him much money. The Huangxia Chamber of Commerce has been purchasing gemstone gold. Now he has a lot of high-quality gems such as bloodstone, Tianhuang stone, jade, and Hetian jade. Through these gems, he can make at least 200 million yuan in profits from modern times every month.

Some high-quality medicinal materials can also bring him more than 30 million in income every month.

One hundred million can buy more than one million taels of industrial silver. Now he only transports it to Ming Dynasty time and space every month. If needed, he can also get one million or even two or three million taels of silver in one day.

As of now, he is not short of money, which means that Zhu Youjian is not short of money.

The Ming Dynasty was actually not short of money. Now the entire Ming Dynasty scholar-official class has a lot of money in its hands. The crux of the problem is not about money, but about basic living supplies.

The most basic thing is that food cannot be supplied. Even if there is more money and the land cannot grow food, many people will die.

Therefore, Xiao Sheng and Zhu Youjian must start dealing with this matter as soon as possible.

During the Chongzhen period, it was the most violent time when the Little Ice Age came. Almost every year, there would be severe droughts. When the drought was barren, locusts were everywhere; there were floods in the south, water flooded the earth and destroyed their homes; there were tsunamis along the coast, and thousands of people were drowned, and they were full of sadness.

Relying solely on internal means to improve people's livelihood, the productivity of the Ming Dynasty was far from reaching its goal.

After the two discussed, the final consensus was to transfer domestic conflicts to other countries, such as those surrounding countries that were eyeing the Ming Dynasty.

Other countries during the Little Ice Age were actually not feeling well. Take the Later Jin as an example. In history, because the defense line of the Ming Dynasty blocked it, it was unable to enter the pass and rob. When the country suffered a severe drought, Huang Taiji directly chose to invade the North Korea next to it.

On the one hand, it was to break the three sides of the Mongolian, Ming and North Korea siege of the Later Jin Dynasty; on the other hand, it was to transfer domestic conflicts and plunder food from North Korea, which not only eliminated the hidden dangers of the subsequent invasion of the Ming Dynasty, but also successfully transferred domestic conflicts.

The Later Jin was not a barbarian like the Mongol Yuan. They attracted a large number of Han people to be officials and developed themselves from a slave social system to a semi-slave and semi-feudal social system.

After resolving the worries of North Korea and Mongolia, the enemy's attacks were unstoppable with the benefits of cavalry.

The Ming Dynasty's officers and soldiers system was already difficult to return. From the lord to the small flag, corruption became popular, and the warriors believed in their lives, which created the illusion that the Jurchens were invincible.

The new army has not completed its training, so it is impossible to obtain wealth through barbaric invasion.

So the two of them could only find another way, and this method was economic invasion.

Neighboring countries have always been very dependent on the Ming Dynasty, and coins are all made of Ming copper coins and silver.

Some countries even fought against the Ming Dynasty just to be able to trade with the Ming Dynasty.

Since the 47th year of Wanli, the Ming Dynasty changed its previous strategy of economic blockade and instead focused on winning over Lin Danhan, who was isolated from Mongolia, gave a total of arrow rewards, and rewarded nearly 50,000 taels of silver for horses, and agreed to give away 1,000 taels of silver every year.

In the fifth year of Tianqi, Lin Dankhan, who was very ambitious and talented, went east to expedition the Korqin tribe and took the initiative to provoke a civil war in the left-wing Mongolian world, but the effect was not good. Not only did he fail to achieve the purpose of the battle, but instead prompted the more loyal Kharkha tribe to split. In order to protect himself, the Korqin tribe turned to the Later Jin Dynasty.

Nowadays, Mongolia has been in chaos and a pile of scattered sand. When the Jin Dynasty clears Mongolia in one fell swoop next year, there will be no worries about invading the Ming Dynasty. You can also use Mongolia to bypass the Ningjin defense line and fight to the Ming Dynasty capital.

At this time, it is very important to maintain the strategic relationship between Mongolia. As long as the Later Jin can be kept outside the barrier, it can gain enough time to train the new army.

At the same time, cheap industrial products can be used to exchange for Mongolia's cattle, sheep and war horses to ease domestic conflicts.

On October 25, 2018, the "Huangxia Fabric Chamber of Commerce" and the "Huangxia Catering Chamber of Commerce" were announced to be established.

The three factory areas of Jingshida Spinning Factory, Jingshida Weaving Factory and Jingshida Garment Factory have been completed, and the recruitment amount training for workers has been basically completed. However, once production starts, the raw materials currently stockpiled cannot be supplied.

So on the day when the Huangxia Fabric Chamber of Commerce was established, President Fu Wenbin summoned several merchants to Tianxianglou in the name of Liulihou.

Some of these people are merchants who engage in bulk trade with Mongolia outside the border areas, and some are merchants who purchase silk from Jiangnan to sell in Beijing. In short, they are all those who have complete trade channels and can directly carry out commercial activities.

Among them is a Mongolian named Barth.

"Everyone, my name is Fu Wenbin. Everyone has seen it in today's Huangxia Daily that the Huangxia Fabric Chamber of Commerce was established and I am the first president.

Everyone knows the purpose of calling everyone over, which is to hope that everyone can join the chamber of commerce, share business information, and communicate with each other, and to take all the cloth and garment trade industries around the Ming Dynasty in our hands!

In order to show the sincerity of the Chamber of Commerce to everyone, we are willing to purchase the textile raw materials in your hands at an unlimited quantity of 10% higher than the average market price, whether it is cotton or wool. As long as you join the Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Commerce can eat all the materials in your hands.

Manager Sun, according to the information I received, you have accumulated at least 200,000 kilograms of cotton in your hand and have not sold it.

Now the purchase price of cotton is between 90 and 120 yuan per pound. If your shop is willing to join the chamber of commerce, the chamber of commerce can buy them all at a price of 130 yuan per pound. If you have more, we can continue to eat it."

When Fu Wenbin spoke, his tone was very firm, and he looked like he had nothing else in his hands, but he was rich.
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