Steel Dynasty - Chapter 925

[Chapter 921 War Dividends]

Early morning.

Amidst the crisp cries of the newsboys, newspapers publishing “Japanese State Officially Submits Letter of Surrender to Dayu State” spread rapidly in the streets and alleys of Qingzhou.

Last night, under Xiao Ming’s instruction, Qingzhou Daily printed this good news worthy of celebration, and just as he had guessed, the news had a huge impact.

Since the emergence of newspapers, a media that conveys major events at home and abroad, Qingzhou people have become more and more aware of newspapers, and the number of newspapers printed has increased dozens of times.

Coupled with the current development of the public sector, the literacy rate of the people of Dayu is increasing day by day. Not only young schoolchildren, but also many people have begun to learn characters and various knowledge through various channels in order to integrate into the ever-changing Qingzhou.

The rise of New Confucianism has caused the people to gradually abandon their ignorant ideas and identify with the strong scientific atmosphere. The entire folk is undergoing changes that Xiao Ming is looking forward to, and a new Great Chongqing is waving to him.

“It’s such a relief. When our Ding family was in Jinling City, our business was severely damaged by the Japanese. Unfortunately, the King of Wei was too cowardly to do anything to the Japanese pirates. Now these bastards have finally tasted the retribution they deserve.

” In the courtyard.

Ding Wanquan and Ding Wu were eating. While eating steamed buns, they read the newspaper and cheered loudly from time to time when they saw something exciting.

Ding Wu looked excited and said: “This is all because the emperor has managed the country well. In just a few years, the enemies that once threatened the country of Chongqing have fallen one after another. The lives of the people of the country of Chongqing are getting better and better.”

” No, it’s just a pity. If your father and I had surrendered to the emperor earlier, maybe the Ding family’s status would be even higher today.” Ding Wanquan was very proud, and he was glad that Ding Wu was left to make two preparations.

Now that the entire Ding family has moved to Qingzhou City, Ding Wu, the illegitimate son, is also recognized by his family because of his abilities, and no one dares to make irresponsible remarks.

Ding Wu smiled and shook his head. For him, this newspaper not only made him proud, but also allowed him to see business opportunities.

After the fall of Goryeo, the products of the Great Chongqing Kingdom quickly occupied the Goryeo market. Now the Koryo people exchanged a large amount of real gold, silver, grain and various ore resources for the industrial products of the Great Chongqing Kingdom.

As a result, the merchants made a lot of money. At this time, they finally tasted the sweetness of an industrial country versus an agricultural country for the first time. In many cases, the wealthy households in Goryeo needed hundreds or thousands of dans of food to exchange for an ox-powered car. irrigation.

“Dad, according to this newspaper, Japan is a country with a population of more than 20 million, which is much larger than the market in Goryeo. Now that Japan has signed a surrender letter, the merchants of Dayu basically have the same treatment as in Goryeo. This is a huge market. Business opportunities.” Ding Wu muttered.

Ding Wanquan basically no longer manages the Ding family’s business. He said: “You can just take care of it yourself. We old antiques can’t keep up with the rapid changes now.”

A smile appeared on the corner of Ding Wu’s mouth. He understood that this was The father was letting himself go, and he said: “That’s the case. I’m going to go to Chairman Li Kaiyuan now to see if I can get a guide to doing business in the Japanese country. Regardless of Goryeo or Japanese countries, officials and merchants are always the first to eat meat. We have to take advantage of the situation to drink some soup.”

While Ding Wu was gearing up, the merchants in Qingzhou who heard the news began to take action. The experience of Goryeo told them that once the market is opened, it is often the imperial court who eats meat and they drink soup.

“Buy a steam engine immediately to expand production, don’t delay, go quickly!”

Zhu Wuliu ordered immediately after reading the newspaper in the Zhu family’s white sugar workshop. His years of experience in shopping malls have given him an extremely keen business sense.

After entering the Goryeo market, his workshop expanded production, almost doubling its scale. After the reunification of the north and the south, the scale of his business expanded more than ten times. Now Japan has another blank market. Naturally, this opportunity cannot be missed.

After all, with the prosperity of commerce, more and more people are now involved in trade. In addition, Qingzhou Bank has been providing loans to support private industry and commerce. Now many people can borrow money to do business.

In just a few years, there have been workshops all over Qingzhou inside and outside. The most terrible thing is that with the establishment of the four major industrial and commercial districts in the Great Chongqing, the number of merchants in these areas has shown explosive growth.

They purchased equipment from Qingzhou and returned to their own city to set up workshops to produce various industrial products, and began to challenge Qingzhou’s industry and commerce.

In addition, after the cities to the west of Qingzhou resumed agricultural production, with the support of various state governments, many former wealthy families turned into big local businessmen, and some local wealthy households were also in the increasingly rich atmosphere. Projected to building factories and doing business.

Therefore, although the market in Dayu is getting bigger and bigger now, he does not dare to take it lightly because he understands that there are more and more business opponents. In addition to expanding production, he also has to beat his opponents in terms of quality and price.

Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce.

Li Kaiyuan got the news before the newspaper was published, and the palace had given him the news yesterday.

So today he was prepared to be blocked by businessmen.

However, although being surrounded by businessmen is a headache, it has to be said that it is a pleasant headache. After all, compared to the private sector, the biggest recipients of benefits are the chambers of commerce.

Currently, government-run workshops and private workshops coexist in Dayu, but in terms of trade, the government-run workshops have always taken the lead. After all, a large part of the court’s fiscal revenue now comes from the profits turned over by the government-run workshops.

In the past two years, the Chamber of Commerce’s profit from the Korean market has reached 10 million gold dragons, which would be about 3 million taels of silver before the city was converted.

After the reunification of the north and the south, Qingzhou merchants also reaped the largest profits immediately. In one year, the profit of goods in the southern market reached 80 million gold dragons, which was about 24 million taels of silver.

Of course, the reason why they were able to make such huge profits was because high-end technologies such as steam engines were under the control of businessmen. They made a lot of money just by selling steam engines.

“Japan, another big fat piece of meat has arrived.” Li Kaiyuan was very excited. He could already imagine going to Japan to exchange a large amount of raw materials for industrial products from Chongqing.

They can set high prices for exported industrial products to make huge profits. The most important thing is that the surrender document clearly stipulates that Qingzhou Bank can enter the Japanese country.

Japan allowed the use of Yu’s currency for transactions. In his opinion, this was the key point of the surrender.

Now he is no longer Wu Xia Amen. He knows very well how terrible it would be for the Japanese country to be financially controlled by the Great Chongqing Kingdom, because once the Japanese country uses the currency of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, the Japanese economy will become dependent on the Great Chongqing Kingdom. It’s very simple. The country of Chongqing can buy Japanese goods by printing money, but it leaves the negative impact of printing money on Japan.

(End of chapter)