Wuyue Town is said to be a town, but in fact, it is just a little smaller. As the location of Hongzhou shipyard, a large number of maritime merchants from the southeast coast gathered here, bringing a large amount of demand for goods, merchants from all over the country smelled business opportunities and gathered here, forming a large scale of market town here, because of the huge demand of maritime merchants, so the trade of Wuyue Town is mainly large-scale transactions.

As the core of the Southeast Maritime Group, whether it is the local wealthy families in Yuzhang or the coastal maritime families, the protection of Wuyue Town can be imagined.

Wuyue Town was originally only a township under the rule of Xinwu County, not even a county seat, so naturally there was no special government army stationed, and the local families did not want too many government forces to invade Wuyue Town, so they did not report the truth of Wuyue Town to the imperial court.

Therefore, in the archives of the Ministry of Households, Wuyue Town can only be regarded as a large township, there is no garrison in the town, but there is a militia group organized by the people spontaneously in the township, which is led by a patrol set up by the government. These so-called militia members seem to be ordinary people, but in fact, they are all domestic slaves of those big families, not only are they highly skilled in martial arts and well-equipped, but there is no need to doubt their loyalty.

In other places, such an inspection is even one level higher than the head catcher in the county yamen, and in Wuyue Town, although the official level of Wuyue Town's inspection is also one level lower than that of the county government in Xinwu County, but the head catcher can't even see this inspection face for a year, because he is not qualified!

In addition to giving the best equipment in terms of personnel, the city defense of Wuyue Town was built by these families like an iron wall. The northern branch of Ganshui runs through the town from southwest to northeast, and the northeast of the town is the confluence of Ganshui and Poyang Lake, which is also the location of the Hongzhou Shipyard.

As the largest and most advanced shipyard in contemporary times, the defense force on the water is naturally the top and most complete in the whole Tang Dynasty, so to speak, even if the sailors of the imperial court attack it, it will not be able to block several rounds of impact from the shipyard's water guard. After all, the remaining sailors of the imperial court in these years are just a transport team with a name, and the Hongzhou shipyard is concerned about the interests of countless people, and it is normal to have such a defensive force, and even in a sense, the water escort team of the Hongzhou shipyard is an imaginary enemy of the imperial court's sailors.

And several other directions of Wuyue Town, but also the part of the town on land, an arc-shaped city wall completely encircles the entire market town, the city wall is more than five zhang high, much higher than the city wall of the general county town! The unpretentious appearance of the city wall is actually hidden mysterious, in addition to the wall above the city wall has the same wall buttress perforation as the ordinary city wall, the arc-like city wall is wide and narrow at the top, like a big belly, and there are naturally many hidden forts and entrances and exits in this thick city wall.

The person who designed this city wall looked like an experienced veteran in defending the city, Wuyue Town was close to the water, and the force on the water was abnormally strong, and there was basically no possibility that the back road would be cut off or besieged. When defending the city, the passive defense is a bit dull, and these hidden pillboxes and entrances can allow the defending side to occupy a more active position when the two armies are fighting, providing great convenience for breaking up the offensive of the besieging side and completely annihilating the invading enemy.

The city gate of Wuyue Town is set up in the southeast in the direction of Yuzhang City, and a wide thoroughfare extends from the city gate to the west gate of Yuzhang City, connecting the two towns closely.

Now, as night fell, Liu Jin took Zhou Kang in disguise and a team of teenagers from the city gate to quickly enter Wuyue Town, Wuyue Town is a market town, in order to promote business exchanges, the families did not set up a checkpoint at the gate of the city to collect taxes. The entire Wuyue Town is the forbidden place of these families, and the income of the shops inside is so high that it is terrifying, and the families naturally do not care about those business taxes.

They have a deep understanding of the affairs of the merchants, they have long discovered that the coercive methods of the government are the main culprits in stifling commerce, once they start to collect taxes, then the officials under them will slowly corrode the policies they set at the beginning, and finally destroy the good situation of Wuyue Town, which is their accumulated experience for hundreds of thousands of years.

And it is precisely because of these experiences that it has created the only market town in the whole Tang Dynasty and even in the whole world that has no commercial taxes at all! This is also an important reason why Wuyue Town can have today's scale!

It's just that the prosperity here only belongs to these big families, and it has nothing to do with the imperial court in Chang'an, and the annual taxes paid by Wuyue Town are still pitiful. For the taxes that must be paid to the imperial court every year, these families in Wuyue Town also have a very interesting method, at the end of each year at the end of the year, the representatives sent by the families gather together to play a few entertaining games, it may be a pot throwing, or it may be Shuanglu, in short, in this kind of leisure after talking, the person who loses is responsible for this year's taxes. It's not much, it's just the money for a meal!

Liu Jin found an inn in the town and lived in, and that night he sent people to the tooth shop in the town to inquire about various goods.

The group of tails that followed Liu Jin's convoy also entered Wuyue Town at this moment. There are no checkpoints at the city gate of Wuyue Town, and there are not even guards guarding the gate, so anyone can enter the market town unimpeded, which also creates a mixed situation of three religions and nine streams of dragons and snakes in the market town.

It's just that anyone who has been here for a while knows that you must not make trouble in the market town! If you make trouble in other towns, you can still run away because of your high kung fu, and even the yamen will not dare to come to you to make trouble, but you come here to make trouble! Yishui's foundation building master and well-trained army immediately surrounded you! With a strong bow and a crossbow facing you, you can't fly out even if you have wings! And legend has it that there are grandmaster-level masters in Wuyue Town!

So as long as the well-informed people in the rivers and lakes enter Wuyue Town, they will involuntarily converge, no matter if you are a dragon or a tiger outside, you have to curl up and lie down when you come here!

And that one-eyed He Laosan, who was full of confidence, even took a lot of effort to build the foundation and barely succeeded, how dare he dare to mess around here?

"Big brother, the idea has entered the inn!What should we do now?" the bald man asked He Laosan.

"What's the hurry! Can they stay in the inn all the time? There will always be a time to come out, don't you know where this is? Is it difficult for you kid to dare to do it here? Let's find a place to stay first!" He Laosan said impatiently.

"Oh......"

Not only them, but the rest of the teams also found a place to stay, not far from the inn where Liu Jin was, so that they could be monitored at any time.

Their thoughts were the same as He Laosan's, and everyone thought that this convoy was just looking for a boat to transport the money away in Wuyue Town! As soon as the convoy left the gate of Wuyue Town, the opportunity to do it was not everywhere?

It's just that I hope this thing is really weird! The more I look forward to it, the more I can't get it......

At dawn the next day, Liu Jin immediately came to the largest tooth shop in the town center of Wuyue Town, and directly hung up the information for purchase, and the people sent out last night had already reported the recent market of various goods in the town. Liu Jin directly raised the price by one percent according to Xu Chen's instructions, and directly set up a big stall in the wide open space in front of the door of the tooth shop, and all kinds of goods purchase information was clearly written on the white cloth in large characters, and a cart of copper coins was specially opened by Liu Jin and stacked directly on the side of the stall.

The merchants who can stay in Wuyue Town are all deaf and clear-sighted, where can Liu Jin hide such a big movement from them, Liu Jin's stall has just been set up not long after a large number of merchants surrounded them, and when they heard that Liu Jin and they actually bought a large number of various goods at a price one percent higher than the market price, the businessmen immediately boiled!

The person who had the goods signed a contract with Liu Jin on the spot, and Liu Jin immediately paid a deposit and directly asked them to pull away the carriage containing copper coins!

Liu Jin's bold approach stimulated the businessmen even more, in the past, when doing business, there was no buyer who was not picky and finally desperately bargained to negotiate, and even if it was negotiated, it would take a lot of effort to receive the payment. I have never seen such a bold guest as Liu Jin!

The copper money that Liu Jin brought was spent very quickly! It was really fast! After all, it was all bulk trade, and the price higher than the market price of 10% was a lot of money! Even the merchants who had just purchased the goods and loaded them on the ship were willing to sell the goods to Liu Jin, and once again they had completed the purchase, they would just wait for two or three more days.

Originally, Liu Jin brought nearly one million copper coins this time, which would inevitably have a big impact on the price of goods in Wuyue Town, and the business of other shops in the town would also be affected within a few days. It stands to reason that Liu Jin will inevitably be squeezed out and suppressed by these people, after all, this is their territory.

It's just that before coming, Xu Chen specially asked the buyers that night for a letter, and as soon as Liu Jin arrived in Wuyue Town, he threw the letter into the chamber of commerce in the town.

In this way, Liu Jinshun carried out a crazy acquisition operation, and the fifty carts of copper coins he brought were pulled away in just one morning! Such a crazy behavior had already stunned the tails who followed all the way!

"Big ...... Big brother! he ...... They're robbing us of our money!" The bald man didn't seem to have recovered from the rapid disappearance of the yellow, orange and orange copper coins in front of his eyes, and said this stupidly.

"You can fucking see it clearly! This is selling! Not robbing!" The one-eyed He Laosan slapped the bald head beside him with all his strength, and even said words to defend others, but these words really seemed to be full of anger.

The bald man was slapped out by He Laosan, and a bright red palm print immediately appeared on a shiny bald head! The bald man carefully touched it with his hand, got up from the ground, and once again approached He Laosan, and said in a daze: "Big ...... Big brother, what should we do now?"

"How does Lao Tzu know? Is it difficult for Lao Tzu to dare to do it here?" He Laosan's words carried a deep sense of helplessness and refusal.

It only took a day and a half for Liu Jin's fifty carts of copper coins to be converted into a fleet of more than a dozen ships with goods. The fleet is docked at the huge wharf in the northeast of Wuyue Town at the moment, although the hulls of more than a dozen ships are painted with different markings, but the shapes are not much different, all of them are double-decker cargo ships produced by Hongzhou Shipyard, which are exactly the same as the official ships that Xu Chen sat on his first voyage, and they are naturally equipped with weapons for water warfare.

From August 1 to September 20, in less than two months, Xu Chen has gone from a teenager who has nothing and needs to rely on the power of the government to the point where he now has more than a dozen big ships.