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Chapter 717 Daming Board of Directors

While the generals came to Beijing to congratulate him during the wedding, Zhu Cilang also summoned several Tianwu nobles, including Duke Sun Yingyuan of Qin, Duke Huang Degong of Jingguo, Duke Cao Bianjiao of Xiangguo.

These are all staunch supporters of the Imperial Party. Zhu Cilang will definitely not treat them unfairly, and let these subordinates who have been following him to conquer the world.

In the Ganqing Palace, there was a large table of imperial meals. Zhu Cilang and Xu Chenyun were on the head, Sun Yingyuan, Huang Degong and other nobles sat on both sides.

Seeing that they were a little restrained, Zhu Cilang smiled and said, "Today, you only discuss family affairs, not state affairs, so you don't have to be restrained."

"Yes, Your Majesty!" everyone responded.

Under Zhu Cilang's instructions, Empress Xu Chenyun personally served tea to everyone.

Everyone was immediately frightened and said, "No."

Xu Chenyun smiled and said, "You are the heroes of the Ming Dynasty and the old man around Your Majesty. Your Majesty often tells me that you are like his elders, always protecting him and the Ming Dynasty. I have grown up listening to your stories since I was a child, and admire you from the bottom of my heart!"

As she said that, she walked towards the Qin Gongsun Yingyuan, the first in the next leader.

Sun Yingyuan quickly stood up and waved his hand and said, "How dare I bother the Empress to serve tea, I must not!"

Xu Chenyun smiled and said, "Duke Qin, you are the first general to follow Your Majesty. Your Majesty's original Eastern Palace Guard was also trained by you. Your Majesty once said that Duke Qin was the first person to make me feel safe."

Sun Yingyuan hurriedly bowed and shouted: "I thank Your Majesty for your trust!"

After taking the tea, Sun Yingyuan thanked Empress Xu again.

Xu Chenyun then served tea to Duke Jingguo Huang Degong: "Duke Jingguo, when I was among the people, I often heard Mr. Shu telling you stories, saying that you were the number one general of the Ming Dynasty. Your Majesty often praised you for your loyalty, anger, and speaking out loudly. The Tianwu Army was achieved based on the Yongwei Camp you trained."

Huang Degong, who was rough, felt a little embarrassed to be praised and kept rubbing his hands.

Zhu Cilang smiled and said, "Aren't you just praising you? Why did you become such a mother-in-law?"

Yan smiled a few times, and Xu Chenyun looked at Cao Bianjiao who was sitting straight.

She smiled and served the tea ceremony: "The Duke of Xiangguo is in charge of his fierce and fierce resources. He is defeated. During the Northern Expedition, he led tens of thousands of cavalry on the ground and chased the thieves for thousands of miles. People at that time said: There is a Cao in the army, and tens of thousands of people are enemies. The thieves are terrified when they hear it."

Cao Bianjiao stood up and bowed and said, "Thank you, the Empress, for giving tea!"

After the round, Zhu Cixuan said: "You all watched me grow up. Today, in the Ganqing Palace, there will be a family in the closed door. In the future, your wives will come to the palace to accompany the queen."

"Yes!" everyone agreed.

Zhu Cixuan began to get to the point and said, "I am not polite to you anymore. I ask you, how much money can you earn in the fields and shops in your mansion earn every year?"

Everyone was stunned, wondering why the emperor suddenly asked this.

Based on my understanding of this person, some people's first feeling is to investigate someone.

We all have the power of following the dragon, and have always been at ease and have never done anything to violate taboos. This shouldn't be true!

And seeing that His Majesty had no anger on his face and a smile on his face, the queen had just praised him one by one.

Huang Degong said with courage: "I have no descendants, my family does not operate a shop, only rewarded tens of millions of fertile land. I hired hundreds of tenants to manage it. I only sold the remaining grain every year to earn a few thousand taels of money."

Zhu Cilang nodded. Huang Degong was not good at managing his wife, and his wife Weng was also relatively conservative. His adopted son Li Yu is now a viscount and has already started a family and has no need to worry about it.

Sun Yingyuan followed and said, "My mansion is relatively wealthy, with more than 30 shops under his name, all of which are in Zhili, and there are about 30,000 taels of silver every year."

Then Cao Bianjiao, Li Tingbiao and others reported their property one after another, but when they found that Sun Yingyuan was the richest.

Marrying a capable wife is awesome!

Sun Yingyuan's wife Chen Yuanyuan was born into a peddler's family. Her original name was Xing Yuan. Her mother died early and grew up in her uncle's house. Her uncle's surname was Chen. Later, she sold her to Suzhou Liyuan.

After the two got married, Chen Yuanyuan changed her original name and gave birth to a son and a daughter for Sun Yingyuan.

After hearing the property reported by several confidants, Zhu Cilang sighed and said, "Twenty or three thousand taels of silver a year, it seems to be a lot. But the great Duke's Mansion and the Marquis' Mansion, apart from eating, drinking and chewing, and giving out some money, there is nothing left in the whole year. You are too poor!"

"What, Your Majesty, are you going to give us silver?" Huang Degong laughed.

Zhu Cixuan said: "You can't pay money. If you all become paupers, who else can follow me?"

When everyone heard this, a row of question marks appeared on their heads, not knowing what constitution is here.

Zhu Cilang did not keep it a secret and said directly: "I asked you to come this time, one is to reminisce about the past, and the other is to give your descendants a golden rice bowl!"

"I have a Royal Group under my name. I don't know if you have heard of it. Dezhuang Hotpot, Northeast Barbecue Building, Zhonghua Building, Jinjiang Inn, Mingshang Bank, Shanxi Carshop, Mingzheng Fleet, Taiping, Hanyang two major iron plants... These are all industries under the Royal Group."

Zhu Cilang just said a few briefly, except for Li Tingbiao and Xu Sheng, the other nobles had their eyes widened as if they were bull's eyes.

It is said that the emperor is rich all over the world. The person in front of him is really amazing. He has created so many properties quietly, but according to the name, many of them are obtained from the search of the house!

Zhu Cilang said: "If I have meat to eat, I will not let you lick the bowl. Let your descendants drink the northwest wind. It is a state affairs to reduce the feudal and title. Today I will discuss with you the family affairs."

Then, Zhu Cixuan began to divide the shares, and each noble family who participated in the imperial banquet received one percent of the shares of the Royal Group.

One percent seems to be a small one, but in the huge Royal Group, which accounts for one percent of its shares, it has a dividend of at least 100,000 taels of silver per year.

As the Royal Group became larger and gradually opened up maritime trade, Zhu Cixuan decided to truly build the Royal Group into an East India company model, focusing on overseas markets, establishing stronghold colonies overseas, and monopolizing trade.

The Royal Group also needs to establish a separate armed force, mainly composed of retired personnel from the Tianwu Army, and recruit personnel overseas.

The future royal group will be carried out with the royal family as the main body and the nobles as the auxiliary, which is equivalent to a board of directors, with the emperor as the chairman and the nobles as the members of the board of directors.

Zhu Cixuan gave a detailed introduction to several nobles about the future model of the Royal Group.

The Royal Group is a private business group. Except for paying taxes to the Ministry of Finance of the Ming Dynasty, it does not belong to any department of the imperial court.

However, all political activities must obey the interests of the Ming Dynasty, that is, they cannot oppose the court's policies.

In order to prevent large consortiums from interfering in court policies in the future, Zhu Cilang stipulated that the two were not subordinate to each other and that the board of directors had the power to make decisions in the emperor.

The relationship between the royal group and the court is the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.

No matter how many vassal kings and nobles invest in the future, the emperor will hold at least 51% of the shares and hold absolute control.

To put it bluntly, the nature of the royal group is the imperial countryside, which belongs to the emperor's private property. It is already the nature of the God of Wealth that disperse wealth. You can't lose the God of Wealth.

Shares can be inherited, but as an obligation, the nobles have their own tasks every year, so the money cannot be taken in vain.

After talking for a long time, Sun Yingyuan and others realized that His Majesty was actually separating public and private affairs, shifting the burden of the royal family and nobles from the court to the royal group, from political hereditary to economic hereditary, and his home court was overseas.

The Royal Group can not only serve as a place for retirement for nobles and soldiers, but also a pioneer in expanding territory for the Ming Dynasty.

The group mercenaries first set the way, the land belongs to the Ming Dynasty, and the economic management rights belong to the group. If they cannot be defeated, the regular army of the Ming Dynasty went to sea to fight again...

Finally, Zhu Cixuan said again: "I can assure you that the Royal Group will earn more money in the future. If it is managed well, each company can get millions of taels of silver a year."

A smile immediately appeared on the noble's face. It seemed that the emperor was still thinking about himself, and he really did not follow the wrong person!

As long as the Emperor of Ming Dynasty and the Royal Group are there, his descendants will not fall into poverty even if they are not talented or official.

Of course, even if the descendants who are willing to die are given a mountain of gold and silver, they will still be ruined.

Zhu Cixuan naturally took this into consideration and was starting to establish various systems within the group, striving to enable future royal families and noble descendants to have the will to explore and make business all over the world.
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