1710: Just one part of a huge plan
Of course not everyone can do this business.
When it was evening, when Zhou Qiu and his group settled down in Yuejing City, Yin Fu appeared in the Ming Dynasty's Commercial Department's Office, sitting in a side hall, waiting for Wang Yueyao's summoning.
Yin Fu was powerful outside and could meet in front of many officials. With the strong support of the court, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty were no more than any other era. Now, through industry associations, they have formed a powerful force in the Ming Dynasty. Now they are striving to have more say in politics. In their opinion, the establishment of the Ministry of Commerce is a big step towards this goal. The court is proclaiming the people of the world that these industries that were most despised in the past have now become an important part of the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty's taxes on farmers were the lowest in all dynasties, and the huge gap in taxes was made up by merchants, and the Ming Dynasty's taxes on merchants were also the heaviest in all dynasties. Despite this, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty enjoyed it for no other reason, because the Ming Dynasty gave them an extremely relaxed business environment. Even if the tax was heavy, they made more money.
Now many important businessmen in the Ming Dynasty wanted to pay more taxes to the country in exchange for a say in the policy.
Yin Fu is one of these big businessmen.
But as soon as he entered the business department, Yin Fu would immediately put away his arrogance and transform into the most well-behaved young wife. Even though Wang Yueyao had left him here for an hour and had not come to see him, he was still not anxious and drank a cup of tea into white water, but he was still chewing on the tea leaves and waiting patiently for Wang Yueyao to finish the business at hand.
The emperor may not pay attention to him, but it is really just a matter of one word that Wang Yueyao wants to deal with him.
Who was the most impressed by the merchants of the Ming Dynasty? It was not Geng Jingming, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. Even though that guy was their idol before, since he became the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, he had been thinking about cutting money from them or snatching food from them. However, Wang Yueyao has always been the patron saint of the merchants of the Ming Dynasty. He led them and opened up one source of wealth after another, allowing the merchants of the Ming Dynasty to continue to climb from one level to another.
The door creaked softly, Yin Fu immediately stood up and an official appeared at the door.
"Boss Yin, sir, please come over." said the official.
"Thank you." Yin Fu nodded, stood up, dressed up, and followed the official to the public office where Wang Yueyao worked.
When he stepped into the door, he saw that there were two people in the room. He was stunned at first, then was shocked. Wang Yueyao was not sitting in the main seat now. Behind the big case was a goatee-bearded official. He looked familiar, and his mind was just a turn. Yin Fu immediately remembered who this person was.
Jin Jingnan, the current chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty.
"I have met the Chief Auxiliary." He took the step forward, clasped his fists with both hands, and Yin Fu bent down deeply.
"Do you know me?" Jin Jingnan was a little surprised. He rarely dealt with businessmen.
"I have been fortunate to see the prime minister from afar." Yin Fu said respectfully.
"Yeah!" Jin Jingnan nodded indifferently.
Yin Fu turned around and looked at Wang Yueyao: "I have met Lord Wang."
Wang Yueyao waved her hand: "Forget it, you may not know this, so let me introduce you to Lord Tian Kangtian, Minister of the Ministry of State Security."
As soon as the name of a person and the shadow of a tree came out, Yin Fu immediately felt a layer of sweat in his vest. How could a person like them be so clean that he could see people? He did not do much about the matter of wandering in the gray area between black and white. Take the matter of exporting cotton as an example. In addition to the quota permitted by the court, he also did a lot of smuggling.
"I've seen Lord Tian!" He swallowed and greeted Tian Kang.
Tian Kang looked at him with a smile: "Boss Yin, I have been reliant on you for a long time. Where are you here, your files are pretty good. If Lord Wang hadn't protected you, you would have been drinking tea in me now."
Cold sweat suddenly emerged from Yin Fu's forehead. In front of this person, he didn't even dare to defend himself, so he could only look at Wang Yueyao for help.
"Okay, Lord Tian, don't scare him." Wang Yueyao chuckled.
"It's really not to scare him." Tian Kang laughed: "If he hadn't had made a big deal every time he bought a government bond, built a canal and a railway, and had done many good deeds on weekdays, the emperor would have had some impression of him, so I would have dealt with him long ago."
"The Empress is pregnant with the prince, Caomin gave His Majesty a hundred thousand taels of congratulations this time." Yin Fu said again quickly.
The three senior officials in the room all laughed.
"Okay, Yin Fu, although you don't make some money clearly, the flaws do not cover up the merits. Shangshu Tian really scares you. However, it is best to do less of this kind of thing. Even if most of the money you earn like this is devoted to the country, but the sin is a sin after all, do you know?" Jin Jingnan.
"Caomin understands that Caomin will be honest and honest in the future." Yin Fu immediately made a statement, but when he thought of this incident, his face couldn't help but feel bitter: "Mr. Wang, what happened this time?"
"This time we asked you to do it, so there is nothing to do." Wang Yueyao smiled and said, "How about it, did Zhou Qiu take the bait? Are you suspicious?"
"He was so happy that he was almost crazy to get a lot of cotton seeds that we had been controlling. This was the capital he took back to seek credit." Yin Fu said: "But Lord Wang, Caomin didn't understand. If the people of Qi planted cotton on a large scale, how could we make their money in the future?"
Wang Yueyao smiled and said, "Don't worry about this matter. It's not something you should care about. You just need to sell cotton seeds to Zhou Qiu through smuggling channels in the future. I think this person will not take long after returning to China and will definitely ask you for purchases again. If you don't want to, he might threaten you."
"He dared?" Yin Fu said angrily.
"It is when he starts to threaten you that you can pretend to be reluctant and sell cotton seeds to him again, helplessly. Our purpose is to enable them to plant at least millions or even tens of millions of acres of cotton within this and next two years." Jin Jingnan knocked on the table and said.
Yin Fu looked at the people in the house with a little confused, not understanding what they were selling in the gourd. But he remembered what Wang Yueyao said before, don’t ask questions about things that should not be taken care of.
"Mr. Wang, Zhou Qiu was very suspicious of the kind of loom I mentioned to them that I used as a hundred. He asked to go and take a look. Where can the grass people make the decision on this matter? I wonder what Lord Wang has to give?" Yin Fu thought of something and asked.
"Sinceremony, do you think about this?" Wang Yueyao looked at Jin Jingnan.
"It's no big deal to let him go and see it." Jin Jingnan said decisively: "Don't you still have to use this Zhou Qiu in the future? It's no big deal to give him a reassurance in advance. Besides, those machines can't be hidden for long. Think about it, after the experiment in Qinghe County was successful, it will soon be spread out in Chu on a large scale. Such a big guy and such a loud noise, who can hide it from? The spies from Qi don't need to go near. Listen from a distance and look at it, and you will know that this thing is very ordinary. Lord Tian, don't you think?"
"Indeed!" Tian Kang smiled and said, "But seeing it does not mean you can learn it. Qi people have been exploring the technology of steel and iron making for many years, and have only made a breakthrough now, but they are still behind us for more than ten years. Even if they see this thing, it will take at least ten years to learn it. At that time, it will be a question whether Qi is still there or not."
"Since that's the case, you can take Zhou Qiu to take a quick look. Don't let him approach the steam engine. It's enough to see the weaving and silk reeling workshop." Wang Yueyao said.
"Yes, Lord Wang, then I will arrange to take him to Qinghe County tomorrow." Yin Fu said.
"This matter must be done very naturally, and people cannot see what we specifically arranged." Jin Jingnan reminded.
"Yes, the people can save themselves from it." Yin Fu said.
With a lot of confusion, Yin Fu retreated.
Naturally, he didn't know that this was just one of the huge plans of the Ming Dynasty to destroy Qi's economic plan. When the Qi people began to plant cotton on a large scale and achieved a fruitful harvest, what they were greeted was not the joy of harvest, but the devastating impact of the extremely low-priced Ming cotton cloth. The cotton farmers who planted cotton in Qi's country, relying on cotton to draw silk cloth, would embark on the road of bankruptcy in one of the impacts of low-priced dumping in Ming Dynasty.
Today, Jin Jingnan met Yin Fu just by chance. In fact, he was here to coordinate the division of labor and cooperation between the Ministry of Commerce and the Bank of the Ming Dynasty in this huge plan. The package of financial intrusion plans formulated by Su Que, the chief of the Ming Taiping Bank, was naturally inseparable from the assistance of the Ministry of Commerce, the omnipresent tentacle monster.
"Mr. Tian, your report earlier mentioned that the ghost shadow senior Qin Li disappeared after entering the Ming Dynasty. Has this person not been found yet?" Jin Jingnan suddenly remembered something and asked.
"Not found." Tian Kang shook his head and said, "Wu Zhengting dug three feet into the Wuling War Zone but couldn't find him. I think he had penetrated into the mainland of Ming Dynasty, but so far, we still haven't found any trace of this person."
"Finding him, this person is not an ordinary person. If you go deep into the Ming Dynasty, you will have a plan. No matter what he wants to do, I don't want him to leave the land of the Ming Dynasty alive." Jin Jingnan frowned.
"I understand." Tian Kangdao.
At this time, Qin Li, who was strolling the night market with great enthusiasm in Yuejing, naturally did not know that his whereabouts had attracted the attention of the top group of people in the Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!