From Chief to Ball

Waiting for the trade wind to turn, and waiting for the fleets of other parties to meet Chen Jian at the port of Mincheng.

The fleet of the Great Wilderness is about to return, and the flagship Lanfang will go to sea with Chen Jian, and the rest will continue to maintain a round-trip transfer with the Great Wilderness every year.

Every voyage to the settlements in the west devoured the funds accumulated by Chen Jian like a gold-swallowing monster, and it was far from the time to reap the benefits.

Now they have to pay a tax package of [-] silver coins every year, but the most critical tariff issue has finally been rewarded.

As an immigrant place rather than a colony, the Great Deserted City enjoys the treatment of Chinese people. Except for prohibited imports such as food, the rest do not need to pay customs duties.

The price is that the country will not help wipe its ass if something happens in the early stage, and the fate of the future will be determined by the country rather than the hands of the wild city.

If tariffs are raised, industrial development is strictly prohibited, and it can only be used as a dumping ground for domestic goods, independent thoughts will soon spread.

This is not for the people in the immigration area to decide. It depends on the industrial and commercial bourgeoisie in the country who have not yet taken power. They will inevitably do such things after taking power for their own benefit.

But there are benefits to the current situation.

Chen Jian can systematically transfer many industries to the Great Deserted City.Since salt is included in the tax package, the glass factory can be expanded there, and export trade can be carried out with the advantage of being closer to Europe.There are also some timber for shipbuilding, cotton cloth, jute that can be planted, etc., which are all bulk export goods.

As early as when the fleet returned to the Great Wilderness in the spring, a group of young backbones of the party, craftsmen, students from the Lanxiang Technical School and a group of activist miners were also on board.

As well as several sets of hydraulic spinning machines and a large number of hand-looms, a set of flat glass iron desks, a hydraulic sawmill, and some heavily paid prospectors.

In addition, there are a batch of stallions and bulls purchased at a high price from the northern racecourse. Chen Jian doesn't know whether these things will arrive safely.

I can only pray for good luck and no big storms.

Those captains and sailors can be considered veterans. As long as the ship is not completely destroyed, there is a great chance of surviving even if it is lost when sailing according to the latitude.

This reflects the great significance of mechanical level or astronomy and mathematics.If you have a good nautical clock and a moon phase map issued every year, the chance of shipwreck will be extremely low, as long as you are in the northern hemisphere, you can be prepared to know your position.

It's a pity that none of these things can be produced by Chen Jian's ability. It can only be achieved by time accumulation or exchanges between civilizations, as well as planned investments that don't expect returns for the time being. Perhaps this process can be accelerated.

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While waiting for the return of the Great Huangcheng fleet, Chen Jian had to deal with a lot of things in Mincheng.

The fleet for this round-the-world voyage has been settled, with a total of seventeen large ships.Three of them belonged to the navy of the former Qi State, and the Republic also sent several sea-going ships.

The army has prepared two battalions of soldiers for this voyage. There are no cavalry, swords and shields, spearmen, etc., and only one battalion newly equipped with flintlocks.

Insufficient overseas bases, no legal berthing rights, lack of nautical charts and other factors determine that the Republic's external long-distance projection capacity at this time is only about 500 to 1000 people.

This point is not for war, but to defend the fleet from possible pirate attacks.When necessary, some force can be displayed in the form of drills.

Chen Jian in the navy was very guilty. The sailors on his side and the captain's two brushes could tell that they might be bad guys after a big fight.

Lu Jun can rest assured, covering half of his face, hiding the ugly and only showing the beautiful, it can still scare people.

The so-called deficiencies are navy, experience, charts, and religion.

The so-called good, in addition to the army, there are many things to show.

With the request of Chen Jian and the help of some gentlemen, the Academy has provided many outstanding young scholars.

Astronomers, naturalists, agronomists, doctors... These precious treasures will be on the flagship with Chen Jian.

These people are indispensable for European exchanges.Similarly, an astronomer is necessary for communication with Ming Dynasty. Although the scholar-bureaucrats over there still explain astronomy with the induction between heaven and man, astronomy is the most important thing that can be established.

In addition to the coming comet coming soon, I am afraid that no one can predict the current world except Chen Jian. This is an opportunity to gain a foothold in the Ming Dynasty.Even if the probability is one in ten thousand, Chen Jian has to give it a try.

There are also many craftsmen and outstanding apprentices mobilized by the state. If conditions permit, they will study in Europe or Asia for five years.

Mainly concentrated in shipbuilding, machinery, metallurgy, and painting.Starting as an apprentice, and returning after working for three to five years, all food and drink expenses are paid by the fleet, but it must be organized over there for easy management.

Chen Jian personally, as well as within the party organization and the Progressive Alliance, also sent out a lot of exchange personnel stationed abroad.

A large part of them are people who are proficient in law or writing, and their main task is to learn foreign languages.

By the way, after finishing my studies, I translated Chen Jian and some radical anti-feudal, democratic, freedom, and human rights stuff written by Chen Jian and the party.

All these, piles and items, all aspects of busyness are overwhelmed.

In the six coastal counties in the south, the campaign activities have not stopped since Chen Jian came back in the spring.

The stock exchange in Mincheng is crowded with people waiting to subscribe for the shares of Nanyang Trading Company every day, not only people from Mincheng, but also some speculators and big businessmen from nearby counties.

In the spring, Chen Jian had already taken the lead and raised a part of the money to customize the boat.

At that time, the situation was still unclear, so Chen Jian ordered about 110 merchant ships and three frigates with the Amethyst as the template, with [-]% of the shipbuilding cost to resist the preferential terms of shares in the future.

However, it is impossible for the ship to change so quickly. In this kind of place, it is impossible to learn from the Dutch to make the merchant ship thin and stuffed. It is impossible to even prepare the muzzle of the armed guard just to load more cargo.

In the fall, the situation finally became clear, and the wave of subscriptions in the coastal counties reached its peak after more than half a year of fermentation and the combined effects of the activities of the trading company and Chen Jian's reputation over the past few years.

The large number of accountants trained by the trading company for several years finally came in handy.

In order to get more people involved, except for the big merchants in Mincheng who subscribed, Chen Jian set the amount of each stock very small, only three silver coins.

The purpose is to bring in a large number of craftsmen, citizens and other middle-level people, and involve more people for possible conflicts of interest in the future.

One and a half months after Chen Jian returned to Fujian City, the summary reports of the six coastal counties had also been calculated.

A total of 660 million silver coins were raised, of which nearly half were raised in Mincheng's stock exchange. If Chen Jian hadn't tried his best to separate the shares of these shares, it is estimated that there would be more.

Deliberately lowering the share of each share has increased a lot of labor for no reason, which has caused dissatisfaction among some people.

However, the effect was that nearly [-] citizens, artisans, petty bourgeois, and middle-level landowners in the six coastal counties were drawn in.

Behind these 6 people may be family members of 10,000+ people.

The shares of these 6 people are not many, but it is necessary for them to exist.Chen Jian's interface is that this can be regarded as better for more people, and the rich can't eat all the good things.This reason sounds like Chen Jian's usual style, and no one has delved into the horror behind it.

A large number of small citizens and bottom-level stock holders only have the right to trade and pay dividends, but have no decision-making power.

But the interests are related. Once someone wants to touch the cake in their hands, a little incitement will be an earth-shattering event.

Most of the shares are still controlled by a few people.

Among the 21 members of the board of directors, four are officials appointed by the state, three are under the control of Chen Jianneng, four are businessmen from Mincheng, and the rest are big businessmen from the other five counties or landlords with a certain reputation and capitalists.

Chen Jian is still needed now, so let Chen Jian temporarily handle some matters of the board of directors, determine the internal regulations, salaries of employees, dividend distribution methods, business plans, etc.

Before long, Chen Jian might be kicked away.He doesn't care, anyway, his shares will be thrown away when discussing the use of slaves here. Some bottom lines would rather not make this little money than get involved. It will be a matter of time before slaves are used, and it is even a matter of arresting locals as indentured slaves. possible.

It is impossible for him to occupy an absolute advantage here. These people are only future allies, and they will become enemies immediately after the interests of the alliance are satisfied. You can make troubles as you like. Before the interests of the alliance are aligned, you must maintain your own Independence and proper cooperation are required, so there is no need to make it so rigid for the time being.

Chen Jian and some people have already prepared various policies and internal regulations in the past six months. The only thing that has not been prepared is the merchant ship.