"If you have no resident, you can do it in your own favor. Go out and ask for a friend, and go to the house to quit your father and brother.
Seek the pearl to drive the sea, pick jade and go to Jingheng. Buy Dangxiang horses in the north and capture Tubo parrots in the west.
Yanzhou cloth Huohuan, Shudi brocade woven. The more fat and slippery the maid, the frowning eyebrows are clear.
The cost of food and clothing is calculated, not far and near. Traveled all over the world, but went to Chang'an City. "
Excerpts from Yuan Zhen's "Estimating Kele":
—I am the dividing line —
The Taiping Army is extremely harsh to those gentry and large households who occupy large tracts of land, but it is relatively tolerant and preferential to those merchants and tenants who trade between cities, towns and towns.
As long as you pay the city tax and customs money once in the city, there will be no more troubles and restrictions. If you want to operate a certain property for a long time or transshipment between specific areas, you can also apply for a license as a basis for customs clearance.
Moreover, as long as they do not deliberately violate the rules and laws specified by the Taiping Army; they can even cross the Dongting from the Yangtze River without restrictions, sail all the way to Lingling on the Xiangshui River, or turn to Lingqu waterway to enter the Guizhou in Lingxi. State territory.
Therefore, under the interest of interest, even if the war is raging and the places along the way are uneasy, there are still a constant stream of boat merchants who venture to trade, and even travel from the coast to the Yangtze River.
Because of the policy of encouraging the colonization of merchants by being kind to business travelers, the Taiping Army was once regarded by the officials, wealthy surnames, and county clans of the big landlords as scumbags who were full of bronze and profit-only.
Especially since the Yangtze River waterway from Guizhou to Yangzhou has been traversed unimpeded by the Taiping naval forces and started to patrol regularly; this kind of exchanges of existence has become more frequent and intensive.
After all, the relative safety and carrying capacity of the Yangtze River waterways are invaluable compared to the land route where bandits and refugees continue to live. Therefore, even in the coastal areas of Jiangdong and Zhejiang, which are nominally hostile, or Huaiyang on the other side of Runzhou, there are still many people coming and going privately.
Just as Wang Renshou and others were thinking about it, a huge ship coming from the northern waterway also crossed with it, and on the bow of the ship stood a flag with a big "king" written on it.
This couldn't help but make Wang Renshou a little surprised, could it be that the Wang Clan of Jinyang had already started the layout one step in advance. And behind the curtain in this big cabin, Wang Poxian, a big businessman from the customs, is also looking at the market along the way and slowly thinking about it in his heart.
Now he is no longer confined to the business of bulk tea; in fact, with the imperial government's financial distress and constant arbitrage, and the people's livelihood in Beijing is also declining, he is mainly engaged in the business of tea in the East City. All have been abandoned.
On the contrary, it is the layout that originally bought a property in the south for the retreat and turnaround, but with the resurgence of land and water commerce in Hunan, it showed a situation of prosperity; and because of the gradual growth of the Taiping thief, it showed a certain situation. This kind of stable prospect comes.
Therefore, in the future, he simply changed the industries in Beijing one by one, dredging the many joints on the road and gradually relocating the tribesmen; each began to expand the business in the areas controlled by this thief army.
Only then came the news of civil unrest in the south, and he did not regret it after the road and news were cut off; but then the court was defeated, and Huang Chao led the thief army to break through and advance to Lintong Pass.
He could only quickly leave behind the industries and burdens he couldn't take away, and took his family to seek refuge in the southern Shangzhou. After all, he didn't know anything about the Huang Ni army, who had murdered in the court's mouth, but he had seen the Taiping thief under his control, and he could only take the lesser of the two evils.
As for the plan to let most people in Dongshi care more about entering Shu to avoid disasters, he did not take it seriously; he even took the initiative to persuade the people around Zhou with his own interests.
You must know that Tian Da-eun, who is good at scraping the ground three feet in the capital to Fengzhong Palace; he has already placed his brothers and party feathers in the office of Sanchuan Jie Town first; this time, he brought his wealth and relatives over. I'm afraid it's going to send the sheep to the tiger's mouth.
As a result, when he walked halfway in a hurry, he encountered and sent several waves of defeated soldiers, and also lost a lot of tribesmen and soldiers; only then did he hear that the peaceful thieves not only did not weaken or split or collapse during the civil strife, but also brought Shannan The host Jidu envoys were all beaten down;
He therefore really made up his mind, risking the risk and name given from it, and formally restarting his business in the south. Because it is a guild member who knows well, there is a place to pave the way and echo.
Nowadays, most of the tea production areas in Jingzhou, Tanzhou, Yuezhou, and Hongzhou are all shops and trading company branches opened by his tribesmen. And his nephew, Wang Yingyuan, is a young official who has made a famous plan in the Jiangling Planning Office, which can be regarded as a strange and unexpected joy in a certain sense.
But he is no longer satisfied with the traditional tea shop he is best at. Especially because the war lost the entire Northland market from the Central Plains to the Kanto region, the Western Regions trade route was also cut off; and the way to sell from the Canton to the outside of the region was controlled by the exclusive department of the Taiping Army.
As for the ancient tea-horse road outside Nantong Tong, it is still prosperous, but it has to pass through Qianzhong Road, which is full of barbarians and remnants of the official army, and compete with tea merchants from central Shu for the interests of this ancient road. For the northern tea merchants on the Northwest Road-Qiangtang Road, it is really difficult.
Therefore, while constantly attracting those two cities that also fled to Chang'an to avoid disasters, but were scattered across the borders of Shannan Two Roads, he has also been looking for a kind of business that can flee Northland businessmen on his own and work together to form a foothold.
So in the journey of buying and observing the local market along the way, he finally had a new experience, touch, and discovery. It's just that the cause is not so bad, but one of his old and cooperative partners came into being when he came to ask for it.
This old man had prepared well before he left Beijing, and turned most of his wealth outside his home into vouchers for entering the courtyard-related cabinets, mansions, and banquets in various places in the southeast. However, when he sent people to various parts of the southeast to prepare for a "coupon withdrawal", he discovered that something went wrong.
First, the navy of Jiangdong (Western Zhejiang) town and Xuanshe town were trapped by thieves; while the remaining Zhedong Observation Envoys were also caught in chaos in a place where there was no leader, and there was no official government to accept.
Then, although Huainan Road is located in Yang, Chu and other places, although it has been repeatedly attacked by thieves; but Yangzhou Zhoucheng, where Li is located, is still well preserved; but the famous Gao Linggong is awkward with the court. ; For a while, even the basic acceptance business in Beijing was unrestrictedly stagnated and postponed.
And he wanted to send to continue to try to manage and negotiate, and the few batches of manpower before and after the damage were all evaporated in the local area. As a result, now that the old man brought out with all his hardships, all of the flying money and bills at the bottom of the box have all become obscure waste paper;
I can only ask the former partners to ask for a livelihood to support the family. This also gave birth to a vague yearning for Wang Po.
Nowadays, under the rule of the Taiping Army, there are a lot of restrictions on the operation of cash drawers, mansion stores, and quality shops for storing and remittance of property. In addition to the Nanhai (Fei) Qianlian (Held), only a few companies from Lingwai are currently allowed The existence of the background of the Dahai Shang family in Guangfu.
However, he is confident that with his personal connections and connections, the wealthy merchants from the Northland who pulled out of Guannei will collect a large sum of money as a guarantee, and then reopen the situation here.
However, the first thing he wanted to achieve this intention at the moment was to let his name appear in the experience of the Taiping Army master; only then could Xu Ran figure it out.
It’s just that this chief governor, who is said to be from Buddhism, is not too abstinent; it can be said that besides collecting all the special foods and cooking skills from various places, there are very few people around him who serve.
Therefore, he can only draw the attention of the other party from these aspects; thinking of this, he suddenly remembered to walk with him, from the largest gold and silver shop in Xishi, and has a connection with the remnants of the returned army in Hexi. There seemed to be a suitable target for the millet merchant, Haroha.
—I am the dividing line —
Hundreds of miles away.
Wang Xingkong, the newly appointed Captain Wang Xingkong, who was responsible for leading a team of soldiers to Shangzhou and clearing Wuguan-Lantian Road, is riding a horse in the wilderness of the Jinshang Ancient Road.
Besides Gao Yu, the all-powerful commercial representative who was preparing to enter the customs, beside him, it was Liu Tang who was here to announce the call. At this moment, he was still persuading Wang Xingkong to talk endlessly.
"I've heard about your affairs, and the Huang family's children are also doing these things too badly... I only hate that I am running outside, and I can't calm down and argue for you in time..."
"It's just that Huang Wang is still wise and wise, and he severely punished the relevant people afterwards; so you actually have a chance to turn around..."
"Well, you were the old man who followed the world in your early years. Huang Wang also missed you privately..."
"If you have a chance to enter the pass this time, don't you want to visit the world-famous Xijing city..."
This time, Liu Tang’s first mission can only be said to be unsatisfactory. The monk Zhou, of course, sent people to treat him graciously, but he did not talk about Huang Wang’s rewards or avoided the most important things. The establishment of a metropolitan government has a faintly alienated attitude.
But in private, he generously agreed to another task he was on. Therefore, he has to think of some ways to find some opportunities and breakthroughs from other places, so that he can be used as an explanation and bargaining chip for the magnetic return.
"The ambassador said so much,"
However, when Wang Xingkong, who was fully clothed, heard it, he couldn't deny it and smiled slightly at him.
If it were at the beginning, he might feel filled with righteous indignation and grievances; but after experiencing and seeing these things in the Taiping Army, he slowly let go and dilute the so-called thoughts of taking revenge on the vengeance.
Because he has clearly felt the difference between the Taiping Army and the Huangwang headquarters in various ways and rules, and the many distances in organization, discipline, and thinking.
At least when most people are chanting lofty morality and Guangzheng slogans, but mostly doing profit for their own small groups, I am afraid that even Huang Wang alone may not be able to reverse and change anything.
Therefore, even if the original thing is not rescued, there will still be more disputes and conflicts in the future, which will break out again under new names and excuses. Therefore, he chose to leave the report in time. Although he felt a little regretful and guilty, it might not be a good opportunity to start again.
The smoke and dust that rolled up in the distance interrupted his thoughts and thoughts on horseback again; according to the signal reflected in the distance, it was the detective team walking up the mountain, and the old road in front of it was ups and downs. Turning around, unexpectedly encountered and discovered the ambush of the officer and army. (End of this chapter)