After thinking about it carefully, Wang Kun felt something was wrong. Doesn’t he know what kind of person Ye Rongbai is?

"Developing the Southern Land is much more difficult than building a city in Shanghai. And I heard that the Southern Land is hot in winter and cold in summer, and the climate is very different? If Brother Ye wants to go overseas, why not go to Luzon? Even Xinming is better. As for the Southern Land... I'm afraid there are not even many people now?"

Wang Kun asked tentatively that after the Ming Dynasty explored the Southern Land, it only set up front-line bases like New Guinea Island, leaving a hundred people to garrison and declared sovereignty. In addition, the number of immigrants in the Ming Dynasty is currently seriously insufficient. Some immigrants in the Xinming region have begun to migrate from Japan due to immigration reasons. As for the number of North Koreans in Liaodong, it is far from enough. In addition, Luzon and other places, the Ming Dynasty was unable to develop the Southern Land at all.

So the Nanlu is indeed a place where birds do not shit. There are no people and facilities. In addition, the mineral resources in the Nanlu are unknown. Ye Rongbai actually wants to develop the Nanlu, which is really surprising.

"These are not difficult things." Ye Rongbai said with a smile: "Since the Ming Dynasty has taken over the Southern Land, it must be developed. This is just a matter of earlier and later. It depends on your vision. I want to abandon it and I want to take it. Isn't this the world's things?"

Ye Rongbai said beautifully, but Wang Kun didn't believe it for half a cent, and he looked like he was a ghost.

Seeing Wang Kun's expression, Ye Rongbai touched his chin and laughed, then lowered his voice and said, "Actually, there is another reason, that is, I heard that the minerals in the southern land are rich and have made great efforts, so Brother Wei..."

"Minerals are abundant? Are you talking about Nanlu? Why don't I know? Is there a gold and silver mine in Nanlu?" Wang Kun was stunned at first, then was extremely puzzled. As a senior official of the Royal Bank, his information was more effective than that of ordinary officials. Moreover, although Royal Bank and Royal Trading are two separate institutions, they were actually one of them at the beginning. Even now, these two institutions have information exchanged.

How can banks make money? Ordinary deposit-absorbing and then lending is a kind of thing. This is also the most basic way for banks to make profits. However, this kind of business is just a primary business. The business that banks really make money is actually investment and acquisition, and then huge profits are obtained from it.

Regardless of the acquisition business of Royal Bank, its investment business accounts for a large proportion of the entire bank, and the profits obtained from it every year are almost astronomical. It is precisely because of this that Royal Bank's information channels are extremely smooth, and any movement in the business cannot be hidden from the Royal Bank. Wang Kun, as the vice president of the head office and the president of Shanghai, does not know Ye Rongbai's information about the southern land.

"There are no gold and silver ore, but it is said that there are iron ore and copper ore, and the amount of it is extremely huge." Ye Rongbai replied in a low voice.

Hearing this information, Wang Kun's eyebrows couldn't help but jump. Although gold and silver are good things, the gold and silver mines discovered in Xinming can bring huge wealth to the Ming Dynasty every year. Although the copper and iron ore are not as valuable as the former, they are also excellent minerals.

With the gradual formation of the Ming Dynasty, the demand for steel and copper materials inside and outside the Ming Dynasty is increasing. The former is not only used in industry and military, but the latter is even more important. However, although there is no shortage of iron ore in the Ming Dynasty, the quality of iron ore in the Ming Dynasty is not good, because it contains too many impurities such as rhododendron and carbon, it is not a good raw material for steelmaking.

Therefore, in recent years, most of the iron ore required by the Ming Dynasty's industrial industry was obtained from the surrounding areas to make up for the shortcomings, but even so, it was far from meeting the entire industrial process of Daming's rapid development.

Copper ore has always been produced in the Central Plains from Yunnan, which can be said to be an important source of copper material acquisition. However, after hundreds of years of mining, Yunnan's copper mountains are gradually withering, and these amounts cannot meet the needs of the entire Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the channels for obtaining copper ore in the Ming Dynasty are now almost the same as iron ore, and are transported from overseas.

The scarcity of copper and iron raw materials not only led to the rise in the prices of these two metals in the Ming Dynasty, but also restricted the pace of industrial development in the Ming Dynasty. Wang Kun was naturally clear about this, and now Ye Rongbai actually told him that there are huge copper and iron ore in the southern continent, which made Wang Kun understand Ye Rongbai’s real intention.

"This news is reliable?" Wang Kun asked for a moment. He didn't ask where the news came from, because he knew that even if he asked Ye Rongbo, he would not tell him.

"Of course it is reliable. Why should I go to Nanlu if Brother Wei?" Ye Rongbai said to Wang Kun very frankly: "Today, I came to ask Brother Wei to write a letter to take the initiative to resign, and secondly, I also want to discuss the matter of Nanlu. Nanlu is not as good as Shanghai. It has a huge investment in developing Nanlu. Although Brother Wei has some money, it is probably far from enough to invest in Nanlu for continuous development. So if Brother Wang is interested, the two can cooperate and form a company according to the investment ratio. What do you think?"

"This... such a big thing is difficult to make a decision for a while. Can I think about it carefully?" Wang Kun hesitated and replied.

"This is nature, this is nature. Of course, you have to plan such a big thing carefully. Don't worry, Brother Wang will tell you after you decide." Ye Rongbai nodded with a smile. Then he stopped mentioning this matter. Instead, he talked to Wang Kun about other things. The two continued to chat for half an hour. Ye Rongbai stood up and said goodbye. Wang Kun personally sent him out. After Ye Rongbai left, Wang Kun's face became serious.

"Come!"

Wang Kun, who returned to the office, called his subordinates and explained his subordinates several things, which were all related to Nanlu. After his subordinates left, Wang Kun stood in front of the glass window and looked out the scenery outside the window, and fell into deep thought for a moment.

Ye Rongbai's actions today seem to be about retreating and resigning from his post in Shanghai voluntarily, but Wang Kun noticed that Ye Rongbai was hiding great ambitions under the superficial retreat.

Developing Nanlu sounds good, but Ye Rongbai just pulled himself, or the Royal Bank as a partner. Is this really because the Ye family lacks funds?

This is to deceive ordinary people. The demand for capital for development in the southern mainland is indeed quite large, and the money is almost astronomical, but it is still affordable for the Ye family's wealth that is comparable to the country.

The reason Ye Rongbai just wanted to find a strong background, or the Royal Bank of China, to know that the real backend boss of the Royal Bank is Zhu Yicheng, so Ye Rongbai did this to sell it to the emperor, and at the same time he also took this opportunity to intervene in the royal industry, hoping to be truly tied to the royal family like the Wang family in the future.

In addition, Ye Rongbo also proposed to establish a company, which was clearly akin to the so-called East India Company established by Western countries in the East. Once this company was established, although Ye Rongbo went abroad, his rights were much bigger all of a sudden. In addition, he had the endorsement of the royal family, so naturally he no longer had to worry about the Ye family being plotted against.

It can be said that Ye Rongbo has planned everything and he is very sure to succeed. Today he came to find Wang Kun. In fact, his real purpose is to obtain Zhu Yicheng's ease through Wang Kun's channel. It is impossible to say that Ye Rongbo has done this with careful thoughts.
Chapter completed!