Beiyang new warlord

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Discount!

It is estimated that expecting them to kill people, plunder goods and seize land everywhere like the Western colonists would be a long way to go. Reluctantly, he coughed lightly and interrupted Zhao Deyong. He put his right arm on the table and stretched forward. Mao Jue opened his mouth and wanted to put himself At this juncture, the bearded Ruan, whose forehead was covered with sweat, suddenly slammed his fist heavily.

"Your Majesty..., Da Bo, I think that Miss Luo in the southeast wants to stop the Haiphong exchange market, causing Annan to be in chaos. Although Champa is Annan's vassal state, the two countries are feuds. Originally, the southern part of Annan, including Haiphong to the sea, was Champa, which was the land of Linyi Kingdom in Tang Dynasty. Little, if you can't stand it anymore, you have to ask me, Daming, for help, when the time comes, our East India Company will be able to benefit both sides, and the fisherman will benefit as much as possible!"

"Everyone!"

Ruan Dacheng stood up abruptly as his sleeves wiped away the sweat from his forehead.Facing the surprised major shareholders, they clasped their fists heavily: "The company has been in operation for six years, and the Seventh Branch of the Five Kingdoms in the Southeast has been organized and flourishing under the management of Miss Luo. Although the Five Kingdoms are in chaos this time, it is not her fault , and among us, no one knows the actual situation of the Five Kingdoms better than her, so instead of making random ideas here, it is better to delegate power to her, anyway, it can't be worse than it is now!"

"Ruan, in the name of the executive director, proposed to hand over the command of the company's eight gunboats, including Xingluo, Salt Merchant, Kaihai, and Mutual Market, and the company's eleven mercenary regiments stationed in Borneo to director Luo Yu, and set up a special What do you think of the accounting team and Director Luo Yu deciding the list of imports and exports of the Seven Ministries of the Five Kingdoms?"

Ruan Dacheng's words really stunned and deafened those directors. Emphasis on agriculture has suppressed business for thousands of years. To the government, businessmen are cash machines!Fat pig!So politics is also a forbidden area for businessmen, especially in front of Emperor Mao Jue, Ruan Dacheng actually suggested to provoke a war between the two vassal states!Sweat was also on his forehead, and Zhao Deyong tremblingly looked at Mao Jue at the first moment.

But what made his head sweat even more was that at some point, Mao Jue was already lying on his back on the chair, with his hands on his chest, without saying a word, but looked at them with a playful smile on his face A group of directors don't know whether he agrees or has a murderous sneer in his heart.

The silence lasted for several seconds, Zhao Deyong still decided to take the conservative route, and he shook his head with difficulty.

"As a businessman in his duty, we should abide by the law and instigate a war between the two countries. It's too ridiculous. I don't agree with Master Ruan's words!"

He took the lead in expressing his opinions, followed by the other major shareholders below, and started to stand in line. Fourteen executive-level shareholders, eight supported the old, only three were younger, and one was the British. Ruan Dacheng's side.

In the end, everyone's eyes fell on Mao Jue again.

Even if his status as emperor is removed, Mao Jue, who owns [-]% of the assets, still has the power to make the final decision. The reason why Luo Ning was able to serve as the chairman of the board of directors above all shareholders is because Mao Jue granted his voting rights to Luo Ning. Under the apprehensive eyes of Zhao Deyong and Ruan Dacheng, Mao Jue finally stood up slowly, bent down, and took out a bright red rose flower medal from his waist pocket. worn on the chest.

Now, the old shareholder, Zhao Deyong, almost cried. The blood rose badge, the representative flower badge of the royal family, is also the identity token of the Imperial Property Committee. Luo Ning had one before, and now Mao Jue handed it over to him , It is equivalent to handing over the rights of the executive chairman of the board of directors of the East India Company to this fat bearded man with a bad face. I made a wrong bet!

Fortunately, his bet was not as high as Ruan Dacheng's. Although he was full of remorse, at least he didn't have any actual losses for the time being.

A group of guys with different expressions were full of complex moments, but after finishing this series of actions, Mao Jue still sighed secretly, stretched out his hand and pulled the armchair he was sitting on a little bit forward, and immediately coughed heavily.

"I basically agree with Director Ruan's suggestion! But I would like to add a few points. First of all, from the overall situation, the United East India Company is not only the emperor's company, but also yours. I will make profits with you, and I will make profits together with you. Lose money together with you! Secondly, the United East India Company is not held for one or two years, maybe 100 years, hundreds of years, and the same life as the empire! So everyone must have a long-term vision!"

"So my opinion is this..."

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A few months ago, Nanming encountered an economic crisis. A group of decades-old merchant families did not come up with any countermeasures other than going bankrupt and waiting to die. In the end, Zhang Pu used Luo Ning's sense of responsibility to Luo Zhen to wipe out the consequences of this economic crisis. , Transferred to the head of the East India Company. Now, facing the same difficulties, the company's response is unprecedentedly fierce.

First of all, in the center of Hangzhou, which has been expanded by four or five circles, in the spacious garden open space in front of the Empire Square, an extremely huge fire is burning blazingly.

Growing for a hundred years, hundreds of taels of red sandalwood and nanmu were thrown to the bottom layer to serve as fire starters, and then there were buckets of South Sea pearls, thousands of taels of dipterocarp, and dozens of taels of lavender, pepper, and incense. Baskets of Maoquan were still put into the fire, as well as cat-eye tortoiseshell, gemstones of various colors, ivory and rhinoceros horns, all of which were transported from the headquarters of the East India Company in boxes, opened, displayed, and thrown into the fire .

Every time it hits, the crowd of onlookers, no matter the rich or the poor, can't help but exclaim, each of these blows burns a lot of money!

Sitting on the third floor of the Empire Plaza, facing the big glass, the burning fire in Mao Jue's pupils was also beating non-stop.Except for keeping a part of this quarter's sales, the remaining nearly 500 million taels of various goods in Southeast Asia that Luo Ning had bought back were all burned at his order!

I remember what I learned about the American economic crisis when I was in school. The poor could not eat, but the big capitalists would rather pour milk into the river, throw away the meat to rot, burn clothes, and destroy all kinds of industrial products than Take it out and distribute it to the poor. At that time, Mao Jue still had a sense of justice, thinking that these capitalists were really bad!

But it was only now that he understood the painstaking efforts of these capitalists and the Roosevelt administration that was in power at that time.

Originally, the economic crisis was caused by inflation, too much goods on the market, and lack of consumption. If these things were given away to others for free, the poor would still have no jobs after eating them, and the rich factory owners and farmers would still be unwilling to employ people because of lack of sales. If you don't want to produce, society will collapse!

Only by eliminating these surplus products, shrinking the production value to an appropriate amount, even smaller than the market demand, increasing the demand, and making business active again, can we fundamentally solve the problem of social crisis.

Of course, the current economic environment is far from being as complicated and difficult as the economic depression during Roosevelt's time. The current difficulty faced by the East India Company is only the excessive hoarding of imported luxury goods in Southeast Asia, which has hit producers.Far from reaching the level of a large-scale economic crisis.

The directors’ suggestion to lower the price to open a warehouse for sale was directly rejected by Mao Jue. From later generations, Mao Jue knew the value of the brand too well. Now that the value is lowered, these luxury rich people will look down on them in the future. Besides, the sale will further saturate the market. This is the beginning of a crisis, and the little money the company has collected now is not enough to pay for it in the future.

This fire will save the value of these imported luxury raw materials from Southeast Asia, and also save the market. With a good market, only tens of millions of taels of silver can be returned in a few years!This is what Mao Jue said about looking forward!

And the economic crisis isn't all bad!It brought to the surface a series of disadvantages.

A few days after the burning of goods in Hangzhou, those Ming plantation owners who moved to Luzon finally received orders that were late this year, as well as compensation and contracts from the Colonial Governor’s Office. Starting from this year, Luzon’s The cooperation model between plantation owners and merchants and the East India Company has completely changed. It is no longer a simple business of buying and selling. In the future, every autumn, the United Company will release orders for next year in advance according to the sales situation of the year. The main production is based on demand, eliminating the inflationary crisis of overproduction.

Mao Jue's action was not out of sympathy or a whim. Don't look at the three islands of Luzon in this Southeast Asian crisis. The three islands are the safest, but Huang Degong's martial arts method to suppress the matter is the most hurtful. Without them noticing, more than 20 plantation owners had already abandoned the land and planned to return to Daming in more than a month. It's a whole colony!

But now this contract change came at the right time. Not only did the plantation owners who had lost confidence come back, but it even brought about a new round of travel to Southeast Asia.

There is also the reform of the company's own rights model, how to prevent the next Luoning incident!It's just that Mao Jue didn't intervene in the matter. He completely delegated power to the newly appointed executive chairman of the board of directors, the treacherous minister Ruan Dabeard!There is no way, on the one hand, he needs to guard against privileges, but on the other hand, he can't hand over the emperor's absolute privileges yet, and he can only let them decide how to guard against them without taking action.

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Just when the Hangzhou headquarters was arguing about power matters, Luo Ning, the core of the storm, finally ended her escape journey and fled to Nanjing City.

But instead of warm hugs and hot meals, what greeted her was a cold face.

"What are you doing here?"

In front of the completely new mansion gate, Luo Zhen stood there coldly with folded arms, showing no sign of letting his own sister in.

"Xiao Zhen, I..."

The usual shrewd and capable, mature aura, the former shopkeeper Luo has disappeared completely now, wearing a cloak, pitiful like a puppy in the water, with red eye circles, extremely difficult, Luo Ning He said the words aggrievedly.

"The batch of goods in Wenzhou, I, I made a big mess for the company and caused a big loss. Hangzhou can't stay any longer. I, I can only come to you!"

"Don't call me Xiao Zhen, I am the Minister of the Third Rank Zhengyin of the Ming Empire! And what do you want me to do? You want me to take this responsibility? I didn't let you buy that batch of goods!"

Luo Ning couldn't help being stunned by the cold answer, and the next moment, she pulled Luo Zhen's sleeve even more excitedly.

"I didn't mean that! It's just..., it's just that I have no place to live now, only you, my brother! My sister really has no other choice, so I came to you. Please take my sister in!!!"

Before Luo Ning's pleading could be finished, she already let out a scream, and was slammed to the ground by her own brother. In her unbelievable expression, Luo Zhen pointed at her face violently, and sneered. road.

"Sisterhood? Ever since you encouraged that traitor, the biggest villain in the world, to cut off my leg, we have no brotherhood since then, let alone a dignified minister of the Ming Empire. You are an anti-thief mistress who does not obey women's morals, you are here to ruin the reputation of this official! Get out of here! Don't let me see you again!"

"Little Zhen!!!"

Shouting heart-piercingly, and falling to the ground, Luo Ning stretched out his hand in panic, but Luo Zhen had already walked away, and with a bang, the pitch-black door was also slammed shut against her.

Sitting on the cold steps in a daze, hot tears flowed from the corners of his eyes drop by drop, and hit the ground along his cheeks. In the silent sobs, a pair of beautiful eyes turned red from crying for a long time, Only then did Luo Ning stand up with difficulty, looked desperately at the closed gate of the Luo Mansion, and swayed towards the busy street.

But at this moment, a stunned voice sounded from behind her.

"Isn't this Master Luo?"

Turning back dully, Zhang Pu's handsome and dignified face under the Confucian crown came into her eyes.

"How did you get to Yingtian?"

Chapter 836. One person picks five countries

"No wonder!"

Putting down the resume at hand, exhaling lightly, Mao Jue suddenly easily picked a bottle of [-] Lafite from the wine cabinet carefully prepared for him by the major shareholders at the back!He poured the bright red wine into a silver cup with a few pieces of rock sugar, shook the rock sugar, and took a sip.

He was getting married again, or had to get married again!