Brocade clothing as the country

Chapter 359
According to the old man in Tianjin Wei, at the end of February, the rivers and seas will be open, and the Haihe River will rise in March, and sea ships will be able to enter Tianjin Wei. Everyone under Wang Tong is working on this matter. Be busy.

Since the implementation of the safety money, Tianjin Wei has strictly enforced it. The shopkeepers in and outside the city do not care about the money, and people from left and right come to take the money. It is not as good as Tianjin Jinyiwei Qianhu. rule.

Merchants work from dawn to dusk, calculating all the time, and they have to exploit their buddies to make some profits. A small sign hangs there, and they have to scratch it off when they sit on the ground. No one will be reconciled.

Not to mention the overt and secret scolding at the beginning, the private connection, and even the public resistance to surrender, their thoughts were instigated several times by caring people.

However, Jin Yiwei Qianhu Wang Tong is young, but he is a ruthless character. You came and I went back and forth a few times, and everyone paid the money honestly, and they could only hide it in their stomachs if they were not reconciled.

However, when the seventh year of Wanli came to February, the grievances of merchants in and outside the city towards Ping An Qian dissipated, because their gratitude to Wang Tong was completely overwhelmed.

The inns inside and outside the Acropolis of Tianjin were completely full, and households with spare rooms rented out the rooms at the price of inns, and the supply was still in short supply.

Every day, there are more than twice as many people on the streets as before, wandering in various shops, not to mention the canals outside the city and the Haihe River, bustling and bustling.

Merchants from Xianghe County and Jinghai County around Tianjinwei, merchants from Hejian Prefecture, Yongping Prefecture and Shuntian Prefecture, and Baoding Prefecture, Zhending Prefecture, The merchants from Xuanfu Town rushed over, the merchants from all prefectures and counties in North Zhili rushed over, the merchants from Jinan Prefecture and Dongchang Prefecture in Shandong Province, and the merchants from Weihui, Guide, and Kaifeng Prefectures in Henan Province also rushed over. Come here, even businessmen from Liaozhen and Shanxi came from further afield.

For more than half a year last year, the news that Tianjin Wei Kaihai, as long as you pay [-]% of the tax, is legal goods, was brought to various places by businessmen who came and went through this transportation hub.

It is not necessary to carry out small-volume, expensive freight, and strictly check the entrained water transport, but to use large-volume, low-cost freight, which can carry more types of goods by sea, and even foreign goods that cannot be mentioned.

And the people who come here are not only the merchants from Nanzhili on the water transport, the powerful merchants from Fujian and Guangdong, the rich merchants from Zhejiang, and all kinds of foreign merchants who dare not say their identities. What kind of business opportunity is this.

Anyone who has done business understands what this means. The weather in Beizhili has not completely warmed up, and the waterways in various prefectures and counties are inconvenient, but there are also a few goods brought by oxen and horse carts.

In the past, the training camp was surrounded by wasteland, and the places where stone strips and sand were piled up are now rented out by people, because the warehouses and storage yards inside and outside the city have all been emptied, and piled up everywhere. goods.

Many merchants are here to look at the scenery, but merchants from all over the place gather to communicate with each other, naturally there are many more business opportunities than usual, and before the merchants from the sea come, everyone has already done a lot of business.

After the business is completed and the goods are delivered, they arrange their own servants to hurry back to prepare the goods and then transport them. The business here is very good, and this opportunity to make a fortune must not be missed.

Everyone thought that the sea would open in March. According to the rumors heard in previous years, it would take a while for ships to come to the Haihe River in late April. I never thought that in late February, a large number of southern merchants would rush over from the land. .

This is really unpredictable, Wang Tong even specially arranged for his own Sanjiang Trading Company to inquire about it, and only then did he know that the sea-going ship had already arrived in Shandong.

But Tianjin can only enter seagoing ships at the beginning of March. Everyone is impatient and understands that if you come early, you will make a deal, and if you come late, you will do less. Many southern businessmen come to Tianjin Wei for the first time to traffic, and they are always worried. , I don’t know who came up with the idea. The people staying on the ships all got down in small boats, docked somewhere in Shandong, and rushed all the way to Tianjin Wei to have a look.

The influx of merchants from the south caused the entire Tianjin Wei to boil. Many people did not have the goods in stock, and the goods would not arrive until half a month or a month later.

But the business opportunities are endless. Merchants from the north and the south communicated with each other in teahouses, inns, and in various places, and reached some intentions first. Many people calculated that although they had not seen the cash, this time it was not in vain. It must be Get rich.

Many boat shops along the canal were originally open for business at the end of March, but now they are all open early. The merchants in the vicinity are rushing to book ships for their own goods, so as not to be unable to leave in time.

There are many shops along the canal, which can already be said to be crowded. Many wealthy merchants who came to Tianjin Acropolis for the first time saw that Tianjin Acropolis is like a golden mountain and a sea of ​​silver, and they intend to open shops here.

Needless to say, the canals in the city have been snatched up by local merchants and people from the capital, so the shops by the Haihe River are even more crazy.

Geographically speaking, the two sides of the Haihe River, which connects the sea and the canal, are even more golden treasures. What's even more rare is that the shops on the shore are well-organized, there are people laying smooth roads, and there are warehouses and storage yards that have been prepared long ago. Even the coolies for loading and unloading have been prepared long ago.

What's more convenient is that the shops and facades here can be rented, and there is no need to buy them all at once. After all, it is the first time for everyone to come here to test the waters. Many things are still uncertain, and it would be too risky to invest heavily. This rental is just as well as the intention, but all the good locations have been rented out, and there are too many monks left, and the rents of the shops in the back rows have been called sky-high prices, not to mention.

Not to mention the "futures" business, many businessmen from other places saw a lot of people and simply started selling and retailing on the spot, which added a lot of popularity.

Nowadays, even the people in the surrounding prefectures and counties know that if they want to buy cheap and good goods, they must go to Tianjin Acropolis, where everything is available.

That's not to mention, it's so lively, so many business opportunities, naturally need a lot of manpower, Xuanfu, Jizhen, Jingshi, plus the rest of Beizhili, there are guards and military towns, and military households are limited. A large number of wealthy military households, Yu Ding, had nothing to do with it. Tianjin Wei was so prosperous that it naturally attracted a large number of laborers to go there.

The flow of people, logistics, and gold and silver gathered in Tianjin Wei, which suddenly brought prosperity like an explosion. Tianjin Wei was originally where grain was stationed, and there was no shortage of food, but the wine, meat, and vegetables were limited after all.

Fortunately, in mid-February, in the second half of February, the prices of pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks skyrocketed, as did the prices of fish, shrimp and seafood. As a result, the pig-raising butchers in Baoding Prefecture, which had nothing to do with the prosperity of Tianjin Wei, grazed cattle and sheep in Yongping. The shepherds from all over the world also came one after another, not to mention the fishermen who went out to sea early to fish.

Guests want to stay in restaurants for dinner. The large inns, restaurants and restaurants in Tianjin Wei, and even the vendors on the street are full of customers. There are also many warehouses and businesses in Tianjin Wei City. Not to mention this spot.

Merchants from all walks of life with money are buying from left to right. This spot is a special product of the Northland. It is good to buy it first and put it away. As long as it is a businessman, it will understand. If this momentum continues, it may be a month later. You can't buy them all, you have to wait until the northern waterway starts to use boats.

Before February, the goods stored in the commercial firms in Tianjin Wei had almost been sold out. Those northern merchants sent people to prepare the goods at home, and spread the news. People are coming here.

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Such explosive prosperity really caught Wang Tong by surprise. He thought he had done enough to deal with it, but he really didn't estimate the extent of this prosperity.

This era was the most prosperous time in Ming Dynasty or the entire history of China, but it has been carried out through unofficial channels. Wang Tong opened the sea, which is equivalent to giving these folk capital and commodities a communication channel, giving them A right to do so in broad daylight.

In other words, a small hole was opened by Wang Tong in a reservoir full of dams, and countless wealth spewed out from that small hole.

It is very difficult for Wang Tong to arrange time for military training now. Thousands of people in his hands take turns to patrol inside and outside the city every day to maintain law and order. All the anti-smuggling teams are used, but there are still not enough people.

Since February [-], more than [-] beggars, more than [-] thieves and swindlers, more than [-] people who pretended to be monks, and some miscellaneous people were arrested and thrown into the Haihe River. While working as a coolie.

The people from the north and the south saw a large number of armed soldiers patrolling the road at the beginning, and everyone was a little scared. After seeing the performance of maintaining law and order and not wantonly extorting money, they became more optimistic about the future. confidence.

It's okay to say that this person is not enough, but what really distressed Wang Tong was that he didn't even have enough people to collect money. The business of these merchants was afraid of being unsafe because it involved maritime trade.

I would rather pay taxes and fees to the government, and I don’t want to be fined and confiscated because of incomplete procedures, let alone those new stores that have been opened one after another, the stores that have seen a surge in business, and all kinds of goods entering and leaving Tianjin Wei, no matter what. How could those people have enough money to draw the regular money? Moreover, this gentleman who can read and settle accounts is different from the coolie. He said he could find it if he could find it. Now the wages have tripled, but one person is used as four people. Very hard.

Wang Tong's Sanjiang Commercial Bank has prepared a large number of goods in advance, and has circled a large amount of wasteland outside the Tianjin Acropolis. Now that everyone is getting rich, Sanjiang Commercial Bank has issued a particularly large amount.

(End of this chapter)