Rebirth of the Ming Dynasty: Sixth Generation of Glory, I don't want it

Zhu Gaochi, the new Tatar Khan, was also very pleased with himself for being sarcastic.

After dealing with all his father's reasonable and unreasonable demands, he ran back to Zhang Xin.

Zhang Xin has no intention of having a baby yet.

She was sitting back and looking at the royal shops, as well as the summaries handed in to the palace by the owners of her own shops and the stewards who were out at sea.

It's the end of another year.

The annual revenue of a shop is basically the same as the annual income of a maritime trade caravan.

Zhang Xin frowned as he watched and didn't even notice Zhu Gaochi coming in.

"bad business?"

Zhu Gaochi made a reasonable guess.

"Well, not as good as last year. Not a big increase."

Zhang Xin had estimated the revenue for the next year. Based on the increase in expenditure this year, the revenue should at least remain the same, but it was not, and it initially showed a downward trend.

"Someone is embezzling money?"

Zhu Gaochi asked again.

"No. It's been two years. The things I brought out have increased in price, and the things I brought back have decreased in price."

Zhang Xin gave a brief summary.

"Oh, that's normal. Scarcity makes things more valuable."

Zhu Gaochi understood.

"Not only that, the ships that will return at the end of this year are starting to be sold at low prices."

Zhang Xin added.

"Is it really that exaggerated? Not really. Most of the things from sea trade can be stored and won't go bad."

Zhu Gaochi didn't expect this.

"It will only get worse. I thought it would appear later, but I didn't expect there would be so many smart people. We should set up a Royal Maritime Trade Chamber of Commerce. It will be a good opportunity to cut off the source of the problem."

Zhang Xin closed the account book.

Seriously give Zhu Gaochi suggestions.

"That's too out of context. Why don't you elaborate?"

Zhu Gaochi seemed to understand, but after thinking about it carefully, he didn't understand.

"Isn't it said that the deaths of our predecessors were caused by the people behind the court officials? How about we make the people behind the court officials our own?"

Zhang Xin explained patiently.

Zhu Gaochi was stunned for a moment, then he understood and jumped up and shouted:

"Zhang Dahua, are you playing such a big game? How dare you call me a fool!!! You made so many moves in this game! How can I be embarrassed???!!!"

"Your Highness, what's wrong? Are you about to give birth?"

Wu Shanggong, who heard Zhu Gaochi shouting outside and thought the couple was arguing again, hurried into the room.

He didn't say anything to stop the fight, but just reminded Zhu Gaochi that Zhang Xin was a woman who was about to give birth.

"I'm just excited, not angry, Wu Shanggong."

Zhu Gaochi understood the implicit meaning and quickly explained.

"Your Highness, if you startle so much, the child will be frightened too."

Wu Shanggong spoke with deep sincerity.

"It's alright. Your Highness should move."

Zhang Xin also spoke to comfort her.

"Yes, Your Highness, I will leave now."

Wu Shanggong bowed, went out, and made a decision.

After taking care of Zhang Xin's baby, she decided to go to Beijing to retire.

Can't stand this couple.

There were so many women in the late emperor’s harem, but none of them were as noisy as these two who came and went from time to time.

This most noble couple in the royal family live a noisy life just like an ordinary couple.

"Your Highness, didn't you understand it immediately? I've been thinking about it for a long time."

After Concubine Wu left, Zhang Xin rolled her eyes at Zhu Gaochi.

"Take away the firewood from under the cauldron, brilliant!"

Zhu Gaochi did not hide his admiration.

“Everything is just right.”

Zhang Xin had thought about this matter eight hundred times. She had always been a rigorous person, so naturally she would not allow any mistakes.

But the fact that it went so smoothly was a little beyond her expectations.

"It just happened because of proper planning, and nothing went wrong at all."

Zhu Gaochi did not hesitate to give the highest evaluation.

Zhang Xin really did something big without making any noise, which was completely beyond his expectations.

She started by building a shop, and then got in touch with King Ning to start maritime trade.

The main goal is to earn the first pot of gold from maritime trade.

There was a time lag between the time when her father lifted the maritime ban and when everyone followed suit and went to sea to trade. Before everyone had prepared ships and goods, she had already earned her second pot of gold.

By the way, he also asked Li Jinglong to go to Japan to confirm the existence of the silver mine.

So far, everything is pretty standard.

But the Royal Chamber of Commerce mentioned just now was really a brilliant idea that he had never expected.

Everyone was scrambling to go out to sea.

The items sold are very similar, and there is already competition here in the country, so it is very important who can purchase the goods at the lowest price.

Only by keeping the price low enough can you earn the highest difference.

The same goes for buying things. Buy them at the lowest price so that it will be easy to sell after returning home.

But the supplier doesn't think so.

Whether at home or abroad, suppliers also want to sell their products at the highest profit.

This is where the contradiction arises.

The production of domestic porcelain and cloth, and foreign spices and gems is limited, and in the end, only the highest bidder wins.

Invisibly, the cost of maritime trade has increased significantly.

But this is not a big contradiction.

The biggest contradiction is, does China need so many things from abroad? Does the foreign world need so many things from China?

Let’s not talk about foreign countries, let’s just talk about domestic ones.

Pepper, sappanwood, spices -

These are all things that only truly wealthy people can afford.

But the truly wealthy people have invested in overseas markets themselves. They don’t need to pay a high price to buy.

The remaining ordinary wealthy people could not digest the goods brought back by those old caravans from the Maritime Customs.

Ordinary people don’t even dare to think about buying it.

So, after two years of huge profits in maritime trade, when everyone made a lot of money, it is now difficult to make money.

Compared with the high investment and high risks required in the early stage, the profits in the later stage are far from meeting the expectations of maritime merchants.

And the trend is gradually going down.

Therefore, in order to recoup their investment, they had to sell at a low price, quickly recover their capital and buy goods for the next trip.

Once one person does this, a bunch of people will do the same.

This can easily turn into a vicious cycle.

The fleet, which was once glorious and made a fortune, is now struggling to make ends meet.

The maritime trade that was so hard to build up may be abandoned again because of the lack of profit.

So it was just right for the royal family to intervene at this time.

He set up a Royal Maritime Trade Chamber of Commerce and used the power of the imperial court to set the prices of goods going abroad so that goods coming in from abroad would not be dumped at low prices in China.

Only merchants who join the Royal Chamber of Commerce can enjoy this price protection.

So, in the Ming Dynasty, didn’t the richest people just seek support from the royal family?

What other courtiers do they support?

Is taking off pants to fart an extra procedure?

It's really wonderful!

This isn't just removing the firewood from under the cauldron; this is taking the cauldron away as well!

The Zhu family no longer needs to worry about court officials killing promising Zhu family members in order to control the government.

The more capable the royal family is, the more territory they can expand, and the larger the Ming Dynasty's trade with the outside world will be.

The more profit-seeking people behind the scenes are, the happier they are!!!

"Zhang Dahua, what's wrong with your brain? How can you be so cute!!!"

Zhu Gaochi walked up to Zhang Xin and kissed her hard, then turned around and ran away again.