Daming: A four-year-old imperial grandson, Zhu Yuanzhang begged me to succeed to the throne Chapter 113

Chapter 113: Kidnapping All Daming Officials! May the bait be taken!!

Looking at Zhu Di’s greedy eyes, Xu Da’s fiery expression… Zhu Xiongying had already prepared in his heart.

In fact, he also planned to let the top figures of Daming, especially the officials of various departments, take a stake in his own business.

The first business that is ready to be taken out to ‘share the loot’ is the glass products industry.

In the time when Leonardo da Vinci lived, crystal glass was already being produced in some parts of Europe.

Newton, who lived in a later era, certainly knew more about this.

Now, the crystal glass produced in the workshop has further improved the purity of crystal glass, making it more suitable for the production of luxury goods.

Zhu Xiongying intends to sell crystal glass as a luxury item at the very beginning.

He estimated that if the crystal glass products were sold to the world, the annual profit should reach more than 10 million taels of silver.

At the current rate of scientific and technological development, if the formula is strictly kept secret, he should be able to monopolize the crystal glass industry for at least 20 years.

The huge profits of 20 years are enough to attract many people to join Zhu Xiongying’s great Daming industrialization cause.

Zhu Xiongying plans to first take out more than half of the profits of the crystal glass industry and let the princes, county kings, and officials take shares.

There are two major benefits to doing so:

First, the Manchu Dynasty’s civilization and military can be kidnapped on the carriage of Daming’s industrialization to form a community of interests.

This will make the industrialization process of Daming an unstoppable force!

Second, this is tantamount to a disguised and substantial increase in the salaries of all officials in Daming.

The salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty were historically at a relatively low level in the early years of Hongwu, with nearly 28,000 officials nationwide.

At that time, he was an official of the first product, and the monthly salary was eighty-seven stones.

From one pin, the moon is more than ten stones.

Zheng 2 product, moon sixty-one stone.

From the second product, the moon is forty-eight stones.

Zheng Sanpin, Yue Li Thirty-five Stone… From the fourth pin, the moon is twenty stones…

One stone, about 180 pounds, was worth about 1 tael of silver at that time.

In this way, the monthly salary of the official of Zhengyipin is equivalent to 15,660 kilograms of rice

Equivalent to the modern rice price, it is about equivalent to the monthly salary of 560,000 yuan in later generations, even if it is from the fourth grade of officials, the monthly salary is equivalent to more than 10,000 yuan in later generations.

In the opinion of Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born at the bottom of society, this life should be quite good.

However, considering the actual social situation at that time, such a salary level would inevitably make ends meet.

At that time, most officials had three wives and four concubines, and many servants.

Plus there are quite a few other additional expenses.

For example, to take care of the people of the clan and so on…

Therefore, this little salary seems a little insufficient.

On the other hand.

Zhu Yuanzhang’s crackdown on corruption was the most severe.

Peeling real grass at every turn, the means can not be described as not vicious!

However, although the criminal law is strict, it still cannot stop many people from taking risks, risking their lives and committing corruption.

This has an inseparable part of the relationship with excessively low wages.

Although a high salary may not be able to maintain integrity.

However, excessively low salaries will inevitably lead to corruption for almost everyone!

Today, the officials of the whole country and the princes and princes of various places are equivalent to about 8 million taels of silver a year.

Among them, nearly 60 princes and county kings received an annual salary of 1 million taels of silver.

The remaining more than 28,000 officials received an annual salary of 7 million taels of silver, with an average annual salary of less than 250 taels.

Today, Zhu Xiongying intends to sell 60% of the shares of the glass industry, which is equivalent to more than 6 million taels of silver per year.

This is almost equivalent to raising everyone’s wages by more than 75%.

Then, if these bastards are corrupt again, they will be a little too much.

Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Xiongying in the future, have even more reason to pick up the butcher knife and kill in a big way!

One hand turnip, the other big stick.

This is an unwavering truth…

Making a fortune was not only extremely desired by officials, but also had a great attraction for clan kings like Zhu Di.

At that time, the lord of the clan was extremely high on the surface.

The King of Qin and the King of Jin, who had already taken over the domain, had an annual salary of 50,000 stone meters, in addition to other goods equivalent to 25,000 taels of silver.

However, most of these servants were to be used to feed tens of thousands of guards and slaves under them.

Therefore, the clan kings were actually not rich.

In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang had already considered cutting the lord’s fortunes at this time to ease Daming’s tight finances.

This gave Zhu Di, who was about to join the domain next year, a headache.

He has been thinking about making money for a long time.

At this time, seeing a golden mountain as big as Zhu Xiongying in front of him, where did he not immediately pounce?

At that moment, Zhu Xiongying nodded slowly and said his plan.

Zhu Xiongying intends to divide the shares of Crystal Glass Company into 1 million shares.

It was open to Wang Ye, and the officials subscribed at extremely favorable prices.

Only 10 taels of silver per share.

After the large-scale production of glass products, the annual dividend of each share is about 10 taels of silver.

It only takes one year to recoup the capital.

The prince can subscribe for 1000 shares, the county king 300 shares, the duke 200 shares, the marquis below the title 100 shares, the zheng yipin 100 shares, from the first product 90 shares…

In this way, if Daming’s more than 28,000 bureaucrats were subscribed, a total of 600,000 shares could be allocated.

Of course, if you want to abandon the subscription, you can also do it.

In this way, the annual profit of a positive official will reach 1,000 taels of silver

In the early days of Hongwu, 1 tael of silver could basically buy 1 stone of rice.

Therefore, the dividends of a zhengyipin official are already similar to those of the imperial court!

As a duke, if Xu Da also subscribes to the full amount, the annual dividend is about 2,000 taels of silver.

For a prince like Zhu Di, the annual dividend is about 10,000 taels of silver.

Although it is also very good, for Zhu Di, he wants more.

He said with some greed:

“Big nephew, can you let me subscribe more?”

In his opinion, ice crystal glass is a profitable business.

Of course, the more subscriptions, the better!

Zhu Xiongying nodded and said, “Then you publicize for me…”

“If the total subscription of everyone exceeds 500,000 shares.”

“I’ll sell another 10,000 shares for you to subscribe to Sun!”

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