Chapter Fifty-Six: Lin Gongzi Enters the Port
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Businessmen tend to have a better sense of smell than dogs.
Long before the opening of the port of Tianjin, the merchants of Quanzhou and Mingzhou had already suspected that the Ouyang family was paying too much attention to the dynamics of the northern part of the East China Sea, and then knew through various channels that new business opportunities would arise in the north, and those who were full of adventurous spirit set sail to the north without hesitation.
When the port of Jinmen opened in the sixth year of Zhenghe, the merchants in the south were still tentative, and came to this new port at the end of the monsoon current in the East China Sea. They also brought some goods, such as tea, silk, ceramics, etc., although the goods in this warehouse and a half warehouse were popular, but compared to the Khitan and Bohai merchants led by Zhao Guan and Liu Cong, and the Goryeo merchants led by Li Xianglong, the quantity of these goods could not meet the terrible ** of the northern market. Moreover, because they did not have enough goods as capital, let alone carry a large amount of Song money, the amount of goods that these Great Song merchants could buy back was also extremely limited - they could only sigh in the face of the beautiful glazed products of the Han Dynasty, the high-quality and cheap ginseng of Goryeo, and the herds of grassland war horses on the outskirts of Jinmen, resenting that they did not dare to make greater determination and capital in the first place.
Among the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty, the Ouyang family and the Huang family who made the biggest profits in Zhenghe in the past six years were the Ouyang family. The Ouyang family came prepared, while the Huang family had Yang Yingqi to open Chrysostom and secretly take away a large number of glass products and two hundred horses on credit. After the two of them returned to Fujian, a considerable tide of business was set off in the local area, and the limelight was so prosperous that it overshadowed the Chen and Lin families for a while.
This ability to spread profiteering success is terrifying. In the spring of the seventh year of Zhenghe, the legend of "once you arrive at Jinmen, the gold and silver are full" spread throughout half of the Great Song Dynasty: as far south as Liangguang, north as Jianghuai, and even as far west as Sichuan!
In the winter and spring of this year, how many merchants were preparing the goods of the ships heading north? The management ability is not very strong, and there is no way to count the Dasong City Bosi at all.
In Quanzhou and Mingzhou, merchants who had ships but no ships were trying to bribe the officials of the city's shipping department, and they were thinking about how to smuggle if they couldn't get the ships, and the small merchants who didn't even have ships were trying their best to consign their goods on other ships. In short, all the ships that were about to go north in the seventh year of Zhenghe were fully booked before the arrival of summer.
Yang Yingqi once told Lu Kezhong that he underestimated the belly of the sea, and Lu Kezhong disagreed with this sentence at the time. However, the thriving situation of Jinmen's six years in government also made him quite proud that he could be so prosperous under his rule.
However, after May of the seventh year of Zhenghe, Lu Kezhong found that if you compare last year's Jinmen with this year, then last year's port that he regarded as "prosperous" can be described as desolate!
The merchant ships from the south came to Jinmen almost at the same time as the monsoon! The number and size of ships coming from the north were completely beyond Lu Kezhong's imagination! Since the middle of May, the entire Jinmen has prospered to the point of near chaos. Ouyang Shi took care of smuggling at sea, and he was no longer able to take care of the security on the shore. Lu Kezhong had no choice but to ask Yang Kaiyuan to transfer a thousand sappers over to maintain the situation.
Fortunately, these merchants from the north seem to be very peaceful and orderly. Lu Kezhong inquired and learned that the "Jinmen Shangjia Law Ban" issued by Yang Yingqi to the Ouyang family and the Huang family last year had been widely circulated in the Jiangnan area as early as February and March. The Huang family hyped up under Yang Yingqi's instructions, saying that if they didn't read through the book, they wouldn't be able to go to Tianjin to do business. Within a few days, all the bookstores in Jiangnan started to print wildly, and almost all the merchants who came to Tianjin had a copy in their hands.
The booklet consists of five parts: the first part outlines the spirit of a businessman; The second part is the basic indicators of various tariffs in Tianjin; The third part is a guide to the food, accommodation, trading places and trading rules of Jinmen; The fourth part is the thirty-six legal prohibitions related to merchants; The fifth part is miscellaneous. It can be said that this booklet contains all the information needed to get to Jinmen, and its rapid popularity is not only due to the Huang family's vigorous publicity.
After Yang Yingqi's booklet was completed, Lu Kezhong also read it, and he didn't think about it at the time, but when he re-read it, he couldn't help but sigh at the foresight of the seven generals. He read those codes one by one, thinking of the situation in Jinmen in the past few days, and realized that every legal prohibition has a deep meaning, and it was not until this moment that Lu Kezhong knew why Yang Pu admired Yang Yingqi so much.
With the increasing number of merchant ships coming from the south to the north, various problems in Jinmen have been exposed one by one. The first thing that erupted was the issue of accommodation. Although many houses, both official and private, have been built in the six years of Zhenghe, these houses are a drop in the bucket compared to the demand. Seeing this, Yang Yingqi borrowed hundreds of large tents from Xiao Tienu and set them up outside Jinmen, which barely solved the problem of housing.
Then there's the issue of diet. The merchant ships were accompanied not only by merchants, but also by a wide variety of people, such as homeless people, day laborers, family members, and boatmen, and this new influx of people was undoubtedly a terrible burden on the food supply of Jinmen. Because Yang Yingqi strictly restricted the supply of grain and did not allow the grain stored in the armament warehouse and the deserted warehouse to flow into the market indefinitely, the grain price in the entire Tianjin Gate soared sharply after the grain brought by the merchant ships bottomed out.
After the high grain prices in Jinmen, they quickly affected the departments of Kaizhou, Chenzhou, and Huosuguan, and even the grain prices in Liaoyang Prefecture began to show signs of imbalance. Hu Shimen resold a lot of grain under Yang Yingqi's hint, which made the Hosu Pavilion make a lot of money, and the family celebrated. This is not the first time that this kind of similar benefit has been taken by Yang Yingqi to the south, and he has repeatedly used various means to show goodwill to the people of the Hosu Pavilion, such as giving away a large number of books, coal stoves, and other things, which has greatly improved the people's livelihood and folk customs of the Hosu Pavilion.
However, there was not much surplus grain that could flow into the market in the Liaohe area this year, and some of it was controlled by Yang Yingqi in various ways, and the grain stores in Jinmen were quickly sold out again. Many businessmen began to use bribery, intercession and other means to fight the idea of spare grain, but one by one they hit a big nail! Although the aborigines have some grain reserves, they also tightened their rice jars when they saw this sudden food shortage. Just when the outsiders of Jinmen saw that they were about to run out of food, two large ships of thousands of materials sailed into Jinmen.
At first, no one paid attention to the arrival of these two large sea ships - there were so many ships coming to Jinmen in the past month or so. However, not long after, someone came to Ben to tell that the goods on these two ships were so strange that they attracted the attention of the entire Tianjin merchants in a short period of time!
What kind of strange cargo is it? The vendors who come here can be said to be well-informed, even the proboscis elephants of the South Seas, the stunning beauties of the Western Regions, and the thousand-year-old ginseng of Goryeo may not be able to make them excited! But now they are looking at the warehouse where the two big ships are unloaded, and they are all red-eyed!
"I've seen it! Really seen it! When unloading on the dock, a bag hook broke, and inside, it was full of ......"
What are they? It's not silk ceramics, it's not jade pearls, it's bags and warehouses of rice!
"Oh—" Many shrewd merchants heard this, and sighed not at the fact that there was finally food, but at the shrewdness of the ship's owner! The delivery of rice at this juncture almost controlled the price trend of the entire Jinmen to a certain extent - unless the Seventh General was willing to open the spare warehouse, all outsiders in the Tianjin Gate would have to accept the exploitation of this very discerning shipowner.
"Alas...... It's amazing! The current price of rice, I am afraid that a bag of rice can exchange us for a bag of good tea! ”
"Yes! Who is it that has such a handicraft and such a vision? ”
"Don't you know? That's our famous family in Fujian! ”
"A famous family? Could it be ......?"
"Lin family!"
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