Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Seeing the wedding sedan chair get up, firecrackers sounded immediately at the gate.The smoke filled the air, and the "red dragons" rolled and shortened continuously. It didn't take long for the ground at the door to be dyed red.

Wu Shigong had a smile on his face all the time, because he felt a little stiff because he hung on for too long.But on this good day, Wu Shigong still had to maintain his demeanor.

No one knows, Wu Shigong's mind is very "chaos" now.He thought of the little girl who haunted him to listen to stories when he first met Xiaojie, but now she married into the Tao family without hesitation, just like Sister Jiang went to the execution ground and never looked back.

Wu Shigong also thought of the apprentice he forced to accept with a knife, but unexpectedly he stole his precious heart away.Did I lure wolves into the house at that time?Grass!

Seeing Wu Shigong's reluctant and dazed look, Zhao Ruya, who was standing beside her, smiled and comforted her: "It's not that my daughter won't come back, let her go back if she misses her. In fact, she is also reluctant to leave you as a father."

Wu Shigong suddenly remembered that when Xiaojie got into the sedan chair, she was pretending to be crying, and there was a smell of ginger on her face, so Wu Shigong couldn't help but get angry.He frowned angrily, shook his sleeves and said, "Fake!"

Zhao Ruya knew that Wu Shigong's child's temper had been out for a few days, so she didn't care about it.So Zhao Ruya said again: "It is your apprentice who is married, and also my own family. They are childhood sweethearts since they were young, and they will treat their daughter well."

But Wu Shigong seemed to have eaten all the gunpowder in those firecrackers into his stomach, he said flatly, "Xiao Xinzi is fine, but that old hag of Dow is hard to deal with, I'm afraid she will bully Xiaojie! "

Although there is also Tao Xin's yard in Daying, it is now used as Xiaojie's new house.But after Tao Xin became the head of the army, Xiaojie still had to live in Tao Xin's old house in Qianhu and serve her mother-in-law, which was the reason why Wu Shigong was even more upset. [

"The in-laws aren't so miserable!" Zhao Ruya said with a light smile.But she thought again, today there is no way to explain the truth to Wu Shigong, a pighead.So I was concerned: "Drink less wine later."

"Use wine to get rid of your worries!" Wu Shigong's words became more and more irritating.Zhao Ruya couldn't bear it anymore, she secretly pinched Wu Shigong's back...

Because the assassination incident happened not long ago, the preparations for Xiaojie's wedding were very low-key. Wu Shigong didn't want to make a fuss, but just wanted to do it within the Runing Army.But as soon as the news spread to the outside world.The guests rushed to Runing in an endless stream, which made Wu Shigong overwhelmed.However, this wedding was also a bit overwhelming, and most of those guests came for Wu Shigong.

But Wu Shigong's wedding banquet here could not surpass that of Tao Xin's, and it was impossible for those outsiders to move freely in the Runing Army camp, so Wu Shigong set up a restaurant in Fucheng and asked Zhang Xuebin to entertain them.After the wedding is over, Wu Shigong will choose some more important guests to receive.

But when sorting out the gift list, Wu Shigong discovered an uninvited guest from Jiangnan, and this guest was quite generous, and the gifts he gave were definitely ranked among the top three among all the guests, which aroused Wu Shigong's attention. curious.

Wu Shigong called Zhang Xuebin to inquire about it.Only then did I know that the guest was a businessman from Suzhou Prefecture, his name was Wang Jueqing.

Wang Jueqing's Wang family, like the Ma family, is the leading wealthy family in the south of the Yangtze River. Of course, the Wang family's industries also overlap with the Ma family's. The competition between the two is quite fierce, and each has a group of small and medium businessmen attached to the two Around the home, that is to say, two business groups were formed.

Originally, these two business groups were like the modern Coca-Cola and Pepsi, and no one could do anything to the other.But in recent years, the balance of these two groups has begun to tilt.Especially now, the degree of inclination is getting stronger and stronger.

Of course, the Wang family must have been staring at their competitors all the time, and there are just signs of it.They start looking for the reason.At first, the Wang family believed that the rise of the Ma family was due to maritime trade.

In fact, at this time in the late Ming Dynasty, the industry and commerce in the south of the Yangtze River were already quite developed, and there was already a certain amount of overproduction. Therefore, the decision of the decline of a large business has become who can seize the market.

Because Zheng Zhilong was befriended through Wu Shigong's relationship, and Wu Shigong himself has six sea-going ships, the Ma family's sea trade exports have greatly increased.Don't underestimate these ships. You must know that at that time, the golden route from the Ming Dynasty to Japan had a little over a hundred ships per year, and it took two or three months for a ship to go back and forth between Ming Dynasty and Japan. You can see what an astonishing proportion the Ma family's sea trade occupies.

Therefore, the Wang family thought they had found the reason, and they immediately started to solve the problem.Money can make ghosts grind, so they found the Zheng family through their connections.And Zheng Zhilong would definitely not refuse the opportunity to make money by delivering it to his door.No matter how good the relationship with Wu Shigong is, Zheng Zhilong's Zheng family is also talking about business.

Besides, after eliminating the great pirate Liu Xiang, the Zheng family has become the dominant force in the Far East Sea. Without the threat of other pirates, the sea trade volume is also increasing year by year, and the Zheng family just needs some sources of goods to fill the gap.

It seems that the Wang family and the Ma family are back on the same starting line.However, the Wang family was horrified to find that although the Wang family had gradually caught up with the Ma family in terms of the export volume of Haimao, the gap between the two was getting wider and wider.

Anyone with a discerning eye would know that the Wang family had found the wrong reason, so the Wang family mobilized all social relations to find the reason for the rise of the Ma family.Soon, the little lieutenant of Runing appeared in front of them. [

Here, we will introduce the industrial and commercial market of the Ming Dynasty.Is export sea trade important?Of course it is very important, but what is exported is basically luxury goods, and what is earned is huge profits, but in terms of the total proportion of industry and commerce in the Ming Dynasty, it is not the largest.You must know that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the gp of the Ming Dynasty accounted for [-]% of the total gp in the world. Although there may be some deviations in the statistical data, the gp of the Ming Dynasty accounted for at least half of the gp in the world.

This shows how huge the domestic market was in the late Ming Dynasty.In the domestic market, the northern and southern Beijing and their diffraction areas also account for half of the country and are also the most important markets.The rest of the area is a small market.

But the Wang family never expected that it was one of these small markets that caused the Ma family to take off.The person who controlled this small market was neither a local civil servant nor a local gentry, but a local military officer who had never been looked down upon by the Wang family. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote and monthly pass. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to m to read.)

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