After Bai Minghe returned to his residence, he saw Cheng Kai busy talking about the details of the certification of the grain collection by several minor officials of the Ministry of War.

The food in the garrisons around the capital needs to be collected by themselves. In this way, they can send more refined rice as freight, and then the transportation will be achieved by their own garrisons.

"Master Cheng!" Bai Minghe walked to Cheng Kai's side.

Cheng Kai is also a seventh-rank official. There is nothing wrong with calling him "Mr. Cheng" by a white crane.

Cheng Kai, who was busy, got up and returned a greeting: "Master Bai."

"Mr. Cheng, I thought that after the Battle of Tumu Fort, these soldiers were able to return to their military status, or the victims were given pensions. It is always a gift of long live. Should the garrisons be arranged by each garrison, and then the prefectures and counties make an arrangement, so that the original soldiers and lieutenants who had originally fled to the mountains and forests and turned to the light this time also chose some representatives, and let them come to the capital to thank them for their kindness."

When Cheng Kai heard this, he thought for a while and asked, "Mr. Bai, a few days ago, many soldiers came to the capital to thank him. He was persuaded by the prefect of Shuntian to go back."

"These are two different things. Last time there were too many people and too many people. This time I picked some special ones and asked them to prepare some local specialties but were not necessarily valuable, as well as some small gifts that expressed their feelings. It was like visiting elders during the Chinese New Year, and doing their best."

"This..." Cheng Kai was a little hesitant. In the eyes of the censors, Bai Minghe was just seeking fame.

Bai Minghe said again: "Tell them that everyone who comes will make up ten taels of silver, and those who are far away will add five taels. Don't have too many people, and a hundred people are enough, but they must have their own characteristics."

"The censors know, I'm afraid it's another matter!" Cheng Kai was still hesitant.

"Don't worry!" Bai Minghe lowered his voice: "They didn't care. Soon there was a big event that made the censors write the memoirs so hard that their fingers hurt!"

"Okay!" Cheng Kai reluctantly agreed.

After saying goodbye to Cheng Kai and explaining some details, Bai Minghe returned to the study.

When I entered the study, I saw Cheng Jing sitting at the desk in his study, looking through the book on his desk. It was a book of the Analects of Confucius, annotated by the white-famous crane. I dare not say it is profound, but more of it is just my own understanding.

Bai Minghe looked back at the door of the house, looked at Cheng Jing again, and then pointed outside.

Cheng Jing smiled and said, "I'm here, he doesn't know. I'm here to find you, it has nothing to do with him!" Cheng Jing came to Bai Mansion and did not tell Cheng Kai. He did not go to see Cheng Kai.

"I said it was your son, after all."

"I can live a better life if I forget him." Cheng Jing was telling the truth. Regardless of the choice he made before or his identity at this time, people know that Cheng Kai is his son. It will cause endless trouble to Cheng Kai and will also stain his life.

Bai Minghe sighed softly, the bond between father and son is not so easy to cut off.

Sitting in front of Cheng Jing, just as he was about to persuade him for a few more words, Cheng Jing said, "Bai Minghe, do you know that someone around you recorded your affairs and filed them in the East Factory?"

"I know, this is a good thing!" Bai Minghe answered straightforwardly.

"Good thing. You are the only one in the Ming Dynasty who says it is a good thing to be monitored by the East Factory, and it's unique!"

Bai Minghe shrugged: "It's really a good thing. Everything I did, Long Live, can be known soon, and proves that Long Live's trust in me. With this kind of surveillance, it is equivalent to a kind of protection for me. What I do is walk on the beach wearing shoes, and whenever I accidentally wet my shoes. With this protection, I will always pay attention to the sea water. And at critical moments, someone can even pull me so that I won't really step into the water."

Cheng Jing slapped a few times: "A very clever theory has never been thought of."

"But just don't come and listen to the room!" After Bai Minghe emphasized, Cheng Jing smiled cheerfully. I don't know how many years Cheng Jing hasn't smiled like this.

"You really have a good idea."

"Mr. Cheng is here, I'm just asking me to tell me that someone is monitoring me!" Bai Minghe asked.

Cheng Jing shook his head: "No. This kind of small thing is too boring. It's just that many things will happen in the capital recently. The arrangement of people is not to monitor you, but to know how you planned it. It's not that you are worried about failure, but that Master Long Sui is interested in knowing the details of this matter. The feeling of sudden enlightenment, Long Sui has praised you many times!"

"Long live the common sense!" Bai Minghe stood up solemnly and bowed towards the palace.

"There is only one, long live my understanding. Let me ask you!"

"Please speak with General Manager Cheng!"

"You speak for the people of Shaanxi merchants and dare to collect 20 million taels of silver. You know that even if the taxes in Daming are all converted into silver in the next year are far from reaching this amount. The actual silver discount to the national treasury is only about 13 million taels, and more of them have been used up before they are transported to the capital. The treasury's surplus last year was only 190,000 taels of silver and more than one million stones of grain. You speak for 20 million taels. Long live to know, where is your confidence?"

Cheng Jing asked standing up, and his tone was very serious.

He used his tone, but the question was what Zhu Qiyu wanted to know.

Bai Minghe first asked: "Can General Manager Cheng sit down? You put a lot of pressure on me like this. This is not a matter of answering questions, but a very complicated plan."

"Yes!" Cheng Jing is not the kind of person who obeys the rules. He would kneel down when the emperor asked him.

His purpose is to know that it is true.

"First of all, I can't afford 20 million taels of silver. The number I can really take out will not exceed three million taels of silver. These taels include the part that may be saved in the capital at the moment. However, I can eat goods worth 20 million taels of silver."

Cheng Jing signaled Baiminghe to stop, and grind it on Baiminghe's desk to prepare paper.

After seeing Cheng Jing ready, Bai Minghe continued to preach.

"The goods are different from silver. Cheng Zong, please keep the number I said next confidential." Bai Minghe was very serious. Cheng Jing nodded after hearing this: "Long live naturally. It is important to know. Director Jin and Governor Xing cannot hide it. Eunuch Cai will look at your master's meaning. The rest of the people did not nod and could not know."

"Yeah!" Bai Minghexin said that these people could not be hidden.

"The goods I can really eat every year should be about 13 million taels this year. After all, their goods cannot be shipped with tens of millions of taels of silver in a day, and they must be shipped in batches. Then next year, I will be able to eat 30 million taels of silver, and I will have 35 million taels of silver in the third year. If I want to increase it in the fourth year, I need to use some extraordinary means."

"How much profit will be for 35 million taels of silver?" Cheng Jing is worthy of being a well-read poet and asked the point immediately.

The white-famous crane smiled.

Cheng Jing also smiled, and he saw the pride on Bai Minghe's face.

Bai Minghe stretched out three fingers, and Cheng Jing stood up. In his opinion, Bai Minghe meant a profit of 30 million taels. You should know that the merchants of the Ming Dynasty had a very strong profit of 30% of the total cost, with only the salt industry, which can achieve three times the profit, except for salt, and iron and copper.

"Thirty million taels, you dare to say that you can take it, and the family will believe it. Just relying on this number of silver taels, you can step on the grassland and show the might of the Han and Tang dynasties!"

"Mr. Cheng underestimated my white-famous crane. I prefer to use another word to describe it, which is 300%!"

Scores are no longer unfamiliar words in the Ming Dynasty, and those who have read books basically know them. However, the percentage appears later, and Cheng Jing can understand the words of Bai Minghe.

Cheng Jing was also calculating in his heart.

"Give merchants 20% to 30% of the net profit. The transportation costs account for 10% to 20% based on the value of the goods. If you use sea boats to Guangdong sergeants, the cost of grain and repairing ships can account for 20%. If you cooperate with Nanzhang and Siam, they will also want to swallow some profits. Then the net profit in your hand should be close to 70 million taels a year in three years."

Bai Minghe did not respond. He said in his heart that he had three times the net profit, but he couldn't speak all his words.

After Cheng Jing finished speaking, Bai Minghe said: "The profit will become thinner with time, but the total shipment volume is increasing. Therefore, the total profit should not decrease. Silk is a very rare thing in Nanzhang, but when one ship after another, there will be more things, and it will naturally become cheap. Gradually, it will reach a normal price and the profit will also reach a normal value."

"This is reasonable and also has foresight. Then, on the other hand, if the agarwood is very high, the price of natural decline will drop, and it will increase the profit several times over time to normal profit!"

"Yes, the general manager is very interested, this is a process of slowly moving towards normality."

Cheng Jing wrote down the words of Bai Minghe.

"So, what about a few years later?" Cheng Jing asked again.

"It can develop further. At that time, I can only ask for long live and give me some privileges, such as asking me to deal with some disobedient small countries. Under huge profits, there will definitely be someone to get stuck in my neck, such as Sanfoqi in Malacca, Luzon on the east side of the South China Sea, and ambitious Japan!"

Cheng Jing didn't dare to answer this, Bai Minghe was going to start a war.

Bai Minghe would not give up: "Master Cheng, think about it. Longsui is having breakfast. Someone dares to reach out and take away the delicious food on Longsui table, leaving only some ordinary meals for Longsui. How do you think about Longsui? How do you let me do Bai Minghe? Only by cleaning up, dare to stretch your claws, stretch your left claws and chop them up! "

"Long live the matter, I need to decide!"

Bai Minghe believed that this was heard by Emperor Zhu Qiyu of the Ming Dynasty. The young and energetic emperor dared to give him a special order.

Cheng Jing had another worry in his heart. He was not afraid that Bai Minghe would not pay the bank to the inner treasury, but that he was afraid that the merchants, important officials and great clans of the Ming Dynasty had bad intentions about this huge profit.
Chapter completed!