Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 238
Yuhang County is in the west of Hangzhou, beside the Tiaoshui River.

Because of the convenient river transportation and its location on the plains, Yuhang is rich in silkworms. The town is said to have eighteen neighborhoods, 72 lanes, and more than 300 shops.

The four major merchant gangs in Yuhang City, Huizhou, Ningbo, and Shaoxing Hangzhou four merchant gangs. Huizhou merchants control the financial industry and tea. The Ningbo business district is mainly engaged in traditional Chinese medicine, food, and aquatic products. Shaoxing people are engaged in oil extraction and wine making, while local people are mainly engaged in food. and silk weaving.

A small city with a history of more than 2000 years. Although Yuhang City is not conducive to river transportation due to the shallow water of the Tiaoxi River, since the Ming Dynasty, with the excavation of the Xiatang Canal in the east of Hangzhou, Tangqi Town has overtaken and become the first commercial center in the suburbs. Yuhang County is still densely populated and industrially developed.

However, after the Qing army went south to occupy Hangzhou, the Ming army and the Qing army had fought for Yuhang several times, and the war made the city quite bleak.

A fleet sailed into the town along the Tiaoxi River. At the water gate, people from the Yandao Yamen came to clear the customs and let them go. eventful.

Although the grade of Yanfa Daotai is only the fourth grade, it is an important job. The green camp usually takes money from the Yanfa Dao yamen.

What's more, they all know that Mr. Pan of the Yanfa Daotai is highly appreciated by Marshal Boluo. It is said that the senior scholar Feng of the court has a very good relationship with him, and he is also an in-law.Although Boluo left, Governor Zhang and Governor Xiao of Hangzhou also valued Pan Daotai.

"What good stuff, so many cargo?"

A green battalion leader asked with a smile.

The captain of Yanbiao replied, "I don't know. Pan Guerrilla from Yanbiao asked me to pick up the goods. It must be a good thing." Then, he threw a money bag to the team leader, and there was a clanging sound inside, "Here Brothers drink."

The leader of the green battalion was not polite, and after receiving it, he opened it and grabbed it out, "Hey, isn't this Longyin from Eastern Zhejiang?"

"dislike?"

"Then why, this dragon silver is of good quality, and it is very useful on our side." The leader of the green battalion saw ten dragon silvers, his face was very happy, and he didn't have the slightest disgust. China's silver money, but the fineness is nearly [-]%, and the silver does not need to be cut and weighed at all, it can be used directly at the merchant, and it can be used directly at the price of a tael of silver. It is quite popular, because it is said that this thing is in the Zhedong is very trustworthy and easy to use.

Ten taels of silver, to give to Shangguan as a filial piety, and then to share with the brothers, how can I keep two taels for myself, this trip is worth it.

The fleet entered the city.

Came all the way to a pier.

Yandao Pan Yinglou has already been waiting there. Recently, Pan Yinglou has been in close contact with Fang Duanshi, Ruan Dacheng, and Ma Shiying in private, and this private business is also very frequent.

In the beginning, Pan Yinglou took advantage of his position in the salt road to smuggle salt from the salt field to eastern Zhejiang, using his power for personal gain. It was very convenient and profitable to smuggle salt openly.

But soon there was a salt tax reform in eastern Zhejiang, and the price of salt plummeted. Pan Yinglou now sells official salt for five cents per catty, while the salt farms in eastern Zhejiang sell only one cent per catty after tax is collected. The price increase for salt sellers is no more than one and a half cents, which is lower than the two cents and two cents a catty charged by Pan Yinglou and the others.

Fortunately, Fang Duanshi and the others had a way to get salt, so they changed it.Fang Ruan and others bought salt from Ningbo, Shaoxing and other places, and smuggled it to Pan Yinglou for two taels of silver and one stone. Four and a half or even five cents of silver.

Double your earnings.

Even minus the middle joint management and so on, this business is more profitable than the previous one.

Then the business grew bigger and bigger. He also sold Huzhou silk from Huzhou and smuggled it to the east of Zhejiang.

He even started reselling armaments. Driven by money, Pan Yinglou now made friends with many generals of the Green Camp in Zhejiang, and got a lot of armaments eliminated by the Green Camp.

Even many of the equipment were brand new, but the officers of the Green Camp reported the damage to their superiors, and then sold them all to Pan Yinglou.

One guy even got him two General Weiyuan cannons.

Many green battalion soldiers also boldly sold their stuff to Pan Yinglou, and then found some reason to make up for it. Anyway, as long as they gave their boss some money, they would turn a blind eye to this matter.

Especially in Yuhang, because the Ming army was still fighting, so under the arrangement of Pan Yinglou and Fang Duanshi, the two sides fought a few battles in the report, and lost a lot of troops, let alone lost weapons. few.

In fact, the two sides have never met each other. They just pull the soldiers out for a walk from time to time, and when they come back, they report where they met the enemy, how long the fierce battle was, and how much they were killed.

Dozens of hundreds of heads can be sent to Hangzhou every time, so even if there are casualties, ordnance damage, or even consumption of equipment, money and food, it is normal.

But in fact, those heads were nothing more than some bandits, bandits and smugglers in western Zhejiang provided by Pan Yinglou, and even some unlucky rural landlords.

Relying on this hand, Pan Yinglou not only exchanged a lot of ordnance with the officers of the green battalion for silver, but even made a lot of military merits.

In a short period of time, Pan Yinglou made more than 10 taels of silver by reselling salt, grain, copper, iron, grain, and even armaments and horses. getting bigger.

Yuhang has even become Pan Yinglou's smuggling headquarters. The Qing army's Green Battalion soldiers stationed here have long been bribed by him. They usually don't lose much money. Not only do they turn a blind eye to his smuggling business, they even fully participate in it. .

Pan Yinglou stood at the pier, looking at the fleet entering the city today, he felt that there were a lot of them.

"It seems that there are a lot of goods today."

Pan Yinglou didn't even have the slightest doubt. After all, they have cooperated for so long and have earned so much real money. What is there to doubt?

Nowadays, boats come and go every day. Originally, Yuhang was not as good as Qitang, but now it has become the busiest town outside Hangzhou. Countless salt, tea, silk, rice, etc. are gathered here, and it has become the city of eastern Zhejiang. The place where commodities meet in western Zhejiang.

Pan Yinglou made a lot of money.

In fact, the governor Zhang Cunren and the governor Xiao Qiyuan may not be completely ignorant, but Pan Yinglou did not eat alone, this filial piety is not missing, he earned [-] yuan himself, the governor, the governor, the inspector, the admiral, the chief soldier, etc. More than [-], and less than three to five thousand, it was all sent in real money.

"There are so many ships, it should be salt, maybe there are cotton cloth, cotton yarn, cotton thread, cotton, pepper, betel nut, shark's fin and other Nanyang things." Pan Yinglou said, before they smuggled lake silk and other silk to eastern Zhejiang. From the east, a lot of cotton and cotton cloth and other goods from overseas were sent, as well as Nanyang spices and shark fins, etc., all of which were very good sales.

He also told Fang Duanshi last time that he could get more next time, it would be easy to sell and the profit would be high.

talking room.

The boat docked, and people began to get off the boat one after another.

All of them were dressed in short clothes, but they were all strong and strong. At first glance, they were not ordinary migrant workers, and they were probably soldiers from eastern Zhejiang.But Pan Yinglou still looked at the ship leisurely, waiting for someone to give him the manifest.

He saw that these were soldiers from eastern Zhejiang, so what? He smuggled the goods himself, and sent soldiers from Yanbiao and Lvying to escort them as well.

"Pan Gong!"

A strong man came over, and Pan Yinglou felt a little strange, "Well, why didn't Steward Fang come this time?"

"Oh, he didn't come because he felt uncomfortable when he was about to leave. He said that brothers often come too, so he asked me to replace him." The strong man clasped his fists together, "My lord."

"Wang Xiang? It's the same name as the false Zhejiang admiral. I don't know what job you are doing there now?"

Wang Xiang laughed.

"The admiral of Zhejiang that Mr. Pan mentioned is me."

"what?"

Pan Yinglou was stunned. When Wang Chuangzidi fled to Taizhou to work as a guard in Lu Wangfu, he was not well-known. Pan Yinglou, who was still an official in Taizhou at that time, had never seen him, or had no memory of him.

He is still dazed.

As a result, Wang Xiang had already stretched out his hand to grab him and strangled him, "I have wronged Mr. Pan."

Pan Yinglou felt his mind went blank and didn't react at all.

The next moment, those people who got off the boat suddenly drew their knives and began to cut people, and someone on the boat came down with a bow and a gun, and then, some people jumped out of the cabin wearing armor.

There was instant chaos on the pier.

Pan Yinglou's eyes darkened, and she fainted from rage.

When he woke up, the city of Yuhang County had already been captured by Wang Chuangzi.

Wang Chuangzi snatched the vanguard position from Jian Guo, which made Liu Mu and Wang Zhiren very angry. What's more, this guy stayed in Zhoushan and Ninghai for too long, and the Northern Expedition failed to keep up. After a few months of soldiers, they screamed at the drill of their own town.

After finally taking the opportunity to go out to fight, regardless of the dissuasion of his subordinates, he insisted on leading the way, and brought five hundred elites from the town standard battalion and came in in a boat pretending to be a smuggling team.

As he planned, he successfully entered the city and took it easily.

The soldiers captured Yuhang without bloodshed, captured Pan Yinglou alive, and seized a warehouse of various salt, grain, silk cloth and other materials in Yuhang City.

There were originally [-] Green Battalion soldiers stationed in Yuhang, and they were not all trash, but the problem was that these Green Battalion officers colluded with Pan Yinglou to engage in a sideline smuggling business. The head of the team puts up flags to lead the way, and no one will go to troublesome inspections.

After Wang Chuangzi brought people into the city to capture Pan Yinglou and started to attack the city, Liu Mu outside the city, from the leading vanguard to the deputy vanguard, has been scolding his mother there. When he saw the signal, it was nonsense Not to mention holding a big knife and rushing forward.

This guy with a face full of killing words is full of murderous aura.

The green battalion was surrounded by people, and the city gates were not guarded. They watched Liu Dadao lead the troops into the city, and then these green battalion soldiers who had made a lot of extra money recently disarmed and surrendered.

Damn, the money I earned hasn't come to spend yet, so I wouldn't be reconciled if I died.

(End of this chapter)