Win the Ding 1617

A thin piece of paper, typesetting with movable lead type, was printed with ink, and was sent to various states and counties at a frequency of publishing every five days.

This is Nanzhong Business Daily.

In addition to promoting various agricultural technologies, most of the articles published in the Nanzhong Commercial Daily are various official documents and announcements, and publicize various policies and measures of the Nanzhong Army, which inadvertently and subtly completed the education of the people and enlightenment.

In the third issue of Nanzhong Commercial Daily in May of the fifth year of Chongzhen, in addition to publishing the price of summer grain collection, it also published the so-called industrial coupons.

This inconspicuous newspaper quickly caused an upsurge in various parts of the South China Army.

Wu Yonghai, a farmer carrying Xingu, was sweating profusely and rushed to the nearest grain purchase point, while yelling and cursing at his son and a few local hired laborers.

"Damn Yi Niang! You're still dawdling there! Didn't you have enough to eat in the morning?!"

The eldest son of the Wu family muttered something, and had no choice but to wipe the sweat off his brow, and walked a few steps to keep up with his father, not forgetting to urge a few native hired workers, "Go faster! Don't wait until you are eating!" One is worth two, and two are no match for one when working!"

Seven or eight people carried their burdens and drove two ox carts to the grain purchase point which was relatively close to several villages. There was a post hanging high on this purchase point, "This account is authorized by the General's Mansion , responsible for the purchase of summer grain! Collect grain and oil at three times the market price!"

A few guys from the grain store also ran around the door, serving hot tea to the farmers who were waiting in line to sell rice. "If you come from a long way, we have some snacks and rice noodles inside. If you don't think it's too short, you can go in and use some."

Several grain households came out of the shed made of bamboo, wood, and straw, carrying a bag full of money, chatting and laughing with the staff of the grain business.

Those who knew Wu Yonghai came over to say hello.

"Old Wu! Come to sell rice too!"

"That's right! You came early!"

"What's the matter! It's only half sold. The family is short of staff and can't transport so much food. There are still a lot of rapeseed at home. I plan to buy them together and build a new house!"

While greeting Wu Yonghai.On the one hand, there is a good thing to open the basket full of rice.Looking at the golden rice in the basket.

"Old Wu, your rice is not bad. According to the official quality standards, it is at least second-class rice!"

"What quality standard?" Wu Yonghai was a little strange.Rice in the past.It just depends on whether it is full.Whether it is dry or not, others don't seem to care so much.

"Old Liang, tell me about the new regulations?"

Old Liang is also refreshing.Putting down the few grains of rice in his hand, "Old Wu, you and I plant the same indica rice. Both rice grains have larger white belly and less horny grains."

As he said in his mouth, he kept stepping, and pulled Wu Yonghai to a bulletin board in front of the thatched shed, where a notice was pasted, and a long table was placed under the notice with several plates filled with This year's new rice.

"Here, this is the standard sample of new rice for this year, and the above provisions are the detailed regulations for the quality standard of new rice."

Compared with the rice purchases in previous years, there is nothing new about this year's rice, but in terms of rice quality standards, in addition to the yield of brown rice, the indicator of the percentage of polished rice has been added.The so-called whole polished rice means that when the brown rice is processed and ground into polished rice again, the rice grains are broken, and the length of the rice grains still reaches more than three-quarters of the average length of the intact polished rice grains. Require.The unified regulation is that indica rice should not be less than half, and japonica rice should not be less than [-]%.

In addition, the moisture and quality requirements are unified.Although it is still classified according to the five types of early and late indica rice, japonica rice, indica glutinous rice, and japonica glutinous rice, different moisture and quality indicators are no longer formulated according to early and late planting seasons and southern and northern regions.Indica rice, which occupies the largest proportion of planting, implements unified moisture and quality indicators in the Nanzhongjun area, and japonica rice also implements unified moisture and quality indicators.Generally speaking, it is stricter than the original standard.

"All kinds of rice are determined by the roughness rate, and grade 3 is medium. The rate of first-class rice is [-]%, the rate of second-class rice is [-]%, and the rate of third-class is [-]%. Indica rice is divided into five grades. According to the calculation standard of the polished rice rate, among them, the polished rice rate of the first-grade indica rice is [-]%, that of the second-grade rice is [-]%, that of the third-grade rice is [-]%, and that of the fourth-grade rice is [-]%.

Wu Yonghai's second son stammered and read the notice once. After reading it, he turned his eyes to his father, hoping that his father could give some instructions.

"Old Wu. I think your rice is good, at least the standard of second-grade indica rice!" Lao Liang gave Wu Yonghai strong support and encouraged his confidence.

"That's right! Our food is carefully prepared! Can we still judge bad?!"

Sure enough, when it was the turn of Wu's father and son to sell grain, the staff of the grain store used a long sampling trough (made of wrought iron, similar to a three-edged bayonet, but the inside was empty, so it was convenient for sampling grain and rice. ) into the burlap grain bag, gently pull out the sampling tank, and hand over the grain and rice samples inside to the master in charge of grading review.

The people in the grain store have checked the moisture content or dryness of the rice, and gave a good evaluation of the grade of the rice, "It is between the first grade and the second grade. If you screen it a few more times when you are at home , it is definitely a first-class rice!"

Hearing the regrettable tone of the grain shop assistant, although Wu Yonghai felt so regretful that his intestines were turning green, he still had a calm face on the surface, "It's nothing, isn't this the first year, and it's the autumn when the rice comes down. You have experience!"

"I want you to know that the purchase price of ordinary rice merchants on the market today is the wharf price of one-third of a load. You must know their price. Although it is not high, it does not depend on indicators such as water content. Your more than 100 shi of rice , mostly between the first grade and the second grade. The purchase price of the first grade rice is three times the market price according to the announcement of the General’s Mansion, that is, within one penny, and the second grade rice is less than the first grade rice. The smaller one is lower, eight cents of silver per stone. Your millet. Several of us discussed it, and I think I will give you eight cents and two cents, what do you think?"

Eight cents and two cents of silver, one hundred and seven shi of rice, that is more than eight taels of silver and industrial certificates, it is a good deal no matter what.

Wu Yonghai slapped his thigh decisively, "Okay! It's sold!"

The clerk of the food store still brought Wu Yonghai to the accountant's desk with a smile on his face, and handed it to the accountant Mr. who was busy counting silver dollars and industrial coupons there.

"Sir, check out."

Wu Yonghai and his two sons handed over several documents including the grain sales receipt and grade appraisal results, and Mr. Na looked down.He raised his head again and asked Wu Yonghai. "How much food did you sell?"

"Sir, my family sold one hundred and seven shi."

"Okay. According to the regulations above, half will be paid in cash and half will be paid in industrial certificates. Your family's food should be paid to you eight taels, seven cents, four cents and industrial certificates."

The accountant fiddled with the abacus nimbly.Then he reported the amount of food that should be paid to the Wu family.this number.On the way just now, Wu Yonghai had checked with his elder son twice, and it was not wrong at all.

The accountant counted out four silver dollars, just as he was about to count copper coins.Wu Yonghai held down Mr.'s hand.

"Sir, can we discuss it?"

The accountant glanced at Wu Yonghai vigilantly, and carefully sized up the farmer with a slightly cunning face in front of him. Although he didn't look like something that could be associated with words such as simple and honest, he was not considered a villain.

"whats the matter?"

The accountant calmly pulled out the hands that were held by Wu Yonghai, and quietly stretched them under the table. There was a rope for alarm hidden under it, which was connected to the big copper bell hanging in the shed next door. If something happens, pull this rope, and in a blink of an eye, several big men will rush over and push the perpetrator to the ground.

"We'll take the silver dollars, so let's forget about the Tong Bao? Can you give them all industrial vouchers? I need some things at home soon, and I need these things for the boss to beg for marriage."

The accountant quietly wiped a cold sweat in his heart, damn it!so close!Almost took the three of them as villains trying to rob the food store!

Cursing in my heart, the work in my hand did not stop at all, I put the wooden dip pen in my hand into the ink bottle, dipped some ink, and began to copy the numbers on the grain sales receipt of Wu Yonghai's family in the ledger, for future reference. Future inspection,

The dip pen originally used a wooden handle and a copper movable tip, which can be replaced. Although it is said that the ink cannot be stored because there is no pen bag, it can only save a drop or two of ink through the convex and concave pieces of the pen tip. You have to dip it to write a few words Some ink.It often happens that when writing a character with a lot of strokes, I have to dip some ink into the bottle for half a word, and then continue to write.However, compared with the writing brush, the requirements for the writing environment and conditions are not so high, and the strokes written are thick and thin, thick and light, smooth, and have the strokes of the brush, which looks unique.

The boss of the Wu family is also a veteran of using this kind of dip pen. He glanced at the few lines written by the husband on the account book, "Here is Wu Yonghai in Qihai Village who sells grain for [-] shi, and the grain payment is [-] cents and [-] cents. .I propose to charge four silver dollars, and the balance will be paid entirely in industrial certificates." I couldn't help but exclaimed, "Good word, sir!"

"Hi! Say something good, this pen writes fast, and it can be used anytime and anywhere. But I have to change the nib every time I don't write much!"

"That's right! However, the teacher in my school also said that untapped sugar cane is not as sweet as both ends!"

The two exchanged a few words of courtesy, and the accountant gave the Wu family father and son a handful of industrial coupons with denominations ranging from [-], [-], and [-].

Holding a handful of industrial coupons with a converted face value of nearly five taels in their hands, the father and son walked out of the food store excitedly.

Before he had gone more than thirty steps, he suddenly heard someone calling behind him.

"Dude, please stay! Dude, please stay!"

Wu Yonghai stopped and followed the sound and looked back, only to see a person walking quickly behind him, wearing an oxtail scarf, a fine cloth straight gown, a bag around his waist, and a money strap on his shoulder.Blue and white skin, a pair of thin eyebrows, two fox eyes.I can't remember where I have dealt with this person.

"Yes, we haven't dealt with each other before, but don't we start to deal with each other now?"

The visitor chatted with Wu Yonghai with a smile.

But the original purpose was only for the industrial coupon in Wu Yonghai's hand.

"Brother, I know you just sold the grain, and you plan to use it to buy something for your child to propose a marriage to. That's it. I happen to have a friend who asked me to redeem some industrial coupons for him. The price from the government is 110 Wen industrial The voucher can be used as a price of 120 Wen. In this way, I can’t bully you, an honest man. My friend gave me a price of 110 Wen. The industrial coupon can be paid for [-] Wen. How about the price of [-] and [-] Wen ?”

The industry that the people who come here are engaged in is collectively called scalpers in later generations, but there are also unique titles that conform to the customs of each place, such as the piling model in Shanghai.What they are engaged in is nothing more than the acquisition of various securities, and then resell them to increase the price of those who need them more, and obtain profits from them.

"110 five essays? Isn't it 120 essays?" Wu Yonghai has always been sensitive to money issues.Not to mention the serious problem of a five-cent price difference when exchanging [-]-cent industrial certificates.

"Hey! Dude, you're not good enough! It's a hot day. I'm here in the grain store, and there's a lot of people and horses. The sun is basking in the sun above, and the heat is steaming under my feet. I don't even earn five cents out of a hundred cents." That's a lot!"

"140 mosquitos! I won't sell anything less!"

"Hey! Dude. Take a look too. Is this where you bargain?" The scalpers couldn't help but become a little annoyed when they saw that Wu Yonghai started to bargain, and the price he offered was almost the same as the price given to him by the boss behind him.Exit was about to threaten a few words, but unexpectedly, two big hands behind him pushed him down to the ground.

The one who came here was responsible for patrolling near the food bank, in case someone tried to make money for the food.Unexpectedly, after a few days, no one who dared to ask for food money appeared, but a few of this kind of petty thieves and scalpers were caught.

"A hidden dagger. There are less than ten pieces of Nanzhong Tongbao, 21 silver dollars, and [-] industrial certificates."

The two inspectors tied the scalper with a rope like a rice dumpling, and found a lot of things from his body and wallet.

It seems that this generation's method is to use force and threat when necessary, apart from rhetoric and lure.

Seeing this, Wu Yonghai secretly called a fluke!

Similar incidents happened at the grain sales outlets of major grain stores, and the situation was reported to Bao Zhongchen, the inspection department after being summarized by the inspections of various places, which also made this descendant known as Bao Gong worry.

How to convict?

If the victim was threatened with a knife, it would be easy to handle, and he could be convicted of robbery with a knife; if the victim found that there was a shortage of money exchanged, he could be convicted of fraud. Yes, how to deal with it?

Whether this is a phenomenon in public security or a phenomenon in commercial activities, the joint inspection department and the household department sent a joint report to Shou Han, who immediately made Shou Han squirt hot tea everywhere.

"Damn it! Scalpers, all the ticket dealers are out!?"

Shouhan held Erya in one hand, took the pen on the table with the other, dipped it into the ink bottle, and in the report on the summer grain purchase process, there was a post on the purchase of industrial coupons at a high price: "This kind of person, It can be called a scalper, a ticket dealer, who uses the price difference to carry out buying and selling activities, which is different from normal business transactions. It is purely disrupting the market. After the trial, the mastermind behind the scenes was dug out, and all the scalpers were sent to mines, forest farms, plantations, and docks around the world. Waiting for the construction site to work."

The inspection department, who got the advice, immediately launched activities to crack down on scalpers and protect the interests of farmers with great enthusiasm. At the same time, they began to interrogate the scalpers who had been detained.

Our ancestors left a saying, "Under the three trees, what can you ask for?" Under torture, these scalpers, composed of idlers from various villages, prefectures and counties, soon confessed the behind-the-scenes instructions and the source of funds.

"There are a group of Guangdong businessmen, and more than a dozen businessmen from Fujian. They speak with an accent from Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, and they seem to be related to Zheng Zhilong's men."

Many of these people, especially the Cantonese businessmen, had contacts with the remnants of the Zheng family, and they provided a lot of funds.I plan to make a big profit in this year's grain purchase.Seeing that the purchase price proposed by the Nanzhong Army was unacceptable to him, he quickly changed his business goals, no longer targeting grain, but targeting the industrial vouchers used to pay for grain.

"Wait and see what happens, watch closely, and crack down on smuggling."

Shou Han made the above comments on the illegal behavior of Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian merchants.

Annan Offshore.Faint Yan Island.

Thirty or forty lucky boats of all sizes gather here.

A group of well-bellied or well-dressed wealthy businessmen checked and checked all kinds of goods brought in by small boats in the form of ants moving in their respective boats.

"It's cheap to buy things with industrial certificates!" A potbellied businessman chatted with his partners.

"Iron pots and agricultural tools are all made of wrought iron. Cotton cloth and white sugar can be sold as soon as they are transported to Haojingao!"

Looking at the sea through the cockpit window of Fuchuan, there are still many small boats coming here one after another. The businessman with a big stomach turned his head and asked his partner and accountant: "How many goods do we have that have not been boarded?" ?”

"My lord, there are one hundred bundles of cloth, ten bolts each. Two thousand iron pots of various colors, and 110 wrought iron plowshares."

"Let them hurry up! Be sure to lift the anchor before the sun goes west. There are too many ships gathered here, and accidents are easy to happen!"

He glanced worriedly at the nearby fleet, many of which came from Zhangzhou.It seems to have something to do with Zheng Zhilong who just accepted the recruitment.These pirates!The usual audacity is used to it!I don't know the sky is high and the earth is thick!

It is better to complete the shipment of your own goods as soon as possible.Hurry up and get out of this place, and make a fortune in silence!The goods on board are transported back to Guangzhou, not counting the vegetable oil and soybean oil.Just those cotton cloths and ironware.Selling to the Portuguese in Haojingao can make a lot of money.If it is further away and sold to Fusang, at least the profit will be several times.

"Brother Nian. How much capital and boatmen's money have we invested in going south this time?"

"Don't worry, your fourteen thousand silver can at least be doubled!"

The businessman with a big belly was about to ask his accountant to declare the accounts in detail, when he suddenly saw the shadows of the sails in the distance becoming chaotic, and there was a burst of noise on the nearby small boats that were transporting goods to his own boat. The sailor looked flustered and looked around, as if trying to figure out where to escape.

"what happened?"

The businessman was shocked and angry. If he had known this, he wouldn't have mixed up with those Fujian businessmen!It is estimated that there is some trouble on their boat.

In the blink of an eye, there was an answer.

Four rocket boats and two brigantines, under the command of a big ship, drew a big circle from a distance, enclosing Sunyan Island and the ships carrying cargo around the island.

"Damn it! It's that guy again!"

The boss of the ship stood on the mast and looked into the distance. On the head of the big ship, there was a tiger head made of gold inlaid with silver.

It was Zhang Xiaohu, the commander of the left wing of the Navy of the South China Army. At this moment, this uncle was holding a binoculars at his command position, looking at the dozens of large and small lucky boats in the distance.

"Throw it away! It's okay to buy things with industrial coupons. Anyway, the master has so many things to sell, but it's wrong if you don't pay taxes!"

"Surround up! Order them, lower the sails, drop the anchor, and those who dare to defy will be greeted by rockets and Kron guns!"

Under the threat of the notorious Zhang Xiaohu, who traversed the South China Sea, all the ships had to lower their sails and drop anchor, and the few Dafu boats trying to escape in the chaos were controlled by several small boats carrying cargo nearby.

"Report to Commander Zhang, we are from the investigation room, and we have been monitoring these unscrupulous businessmen for a long time!"

"I have met Commander Zhang, we are from the business affairs department. This time we are here to cooperate with the Navy's operations!"

Obediently!For a mere crackdown on smuggling, two major spy agencies were dispatched, which made Zhang Xiaohu secretly click his tongue.

Zhang Dagou, a trainee sailor on the rocket ship, jumped onto the big blessing ship just now along with a few veterans.

A few flying claws are attached with long ropes. With the help of the two ships passing by, the sailors jumped up, kicked a few times, jumped up, and their feet landed on the deck of the blessing boat. .

Looking at the posture of boarding the ship, the sailors who originally planned to fight hand-to-hand with the sailors who came up, and after being captured, opened a waterway and escaped, immediately became more honest than the big girl who didn't leave the door and didn't walk. " It really is a long-standing old water thief!"

The pregnant Cantonese businessman immediately changed his face, and walked out of the cabin with a smile. Seeing the group of sailors in front of him, all of them were wearing fat jackets in the style of Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers, he immediately decided, "To deal with this group of Qiuba, it's good!" It’s nothing more than spending some money on wine and meat. Forgive them for not daring to kill people for money.”

On June 43th of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xiaohu, the commander of the left wing of the Navy, was ordered to inspect and seize smuggling in the sea area of ​​Hunyan Island. He seized [-] smuggled ships and various goods, and captured more than [-] illegal businessmen. (to be continued..)

ps: Please help to name a son and a daughter of Zhujiao.The son was born to Li Muhua, and the daughter was born to the Siamese princess.The family tree ranking of their generation is Chinese characters, thank you everyone!