What Cui Hou took out really made Fei Qian startled. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Despite the fact that there are only a few thin sheets of paper, they record the names, ages, and hobbies of the governors and county officials, although they are all a few words, but they seem to outline a network of local officials as a whole.

Cui Hou said: "The person who wrote this book was many years ago, and now the Cui family's business has shrunk slightly, so it is inevitable that there will be some discrepancies, I wonder if it can help the virtuous brother?" ”

Fei Qian looked at it in surprise and said, "Brother Yongyuan, where did this come from?" ”

Cui Hou smiled, seemed to be a little bitter, and said: "It is also forced to be helpless, business dealings, it is inevitable to encounter some difficult things, and the laws and regulations vary from place to place......

Cui Hou didn't finish speaking, but the meaning of his words was already very clear. Since the time when Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was making money, basically all over the country had to learn from each other and try their best to make money, and the best object was businessmen. Therefore, this kind of pamphlet was also prepared among merchants to better understand the preferences and temperaments of the county guards in various places, in case the wrong things were sent when it was necessary to clear the customs road......

Even if the merchants come out of this reason, it is enough to make Fei concentrated, this is like an officialdom talisman in later generations, and this kind of book has some rudiments of intelligence collection, could it be that the tentacles of the merchants of the Eastern Han Dynasty have stretched to this point?

Fei Qian seemed to grasp something in his mind, but he couldn't remember what it was for a while, so he was really a little distressed.

Fei Qian asked, "Does this thing belong to every merchant?" ”

Cui Hou was a little embarrassed and said: "No, for example, the four major merchants must be more thoughtful than me, as for the average businessman, they should not buy this, after all, it is also very valuable." ”

"Oh, this is the guy selling, and he still does this kind of business?"

"Hehe, Brother Xian, this is not a person," Cui Hou smiled and said, "This is sold privately by some scribes in each state and county, don't look at this as a small volume, but it is to be purchased separately in more than a dozen counties......

Fei Qian suddenly realized, no wonder the handwriting between each piece of paper is not the same, it turns out that this is the same as the source of selling personal privacy in later generations, they are all eating public meals and then picking ashes at home, I didn't expect that someone had already done this as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, it seems that our ancestors left a lot of fine traditions......

"By the way, Brother Yongyuan, just now you mentioned the four major merchants, isn't your Cui family still a failure?"

"I'm not afraid of the jokes of the virtuous brothers, my Cui family is medium at best, at most it is a little higher, and it is still a little worse than those top merchants......"

Speaking of things in the business world, Cui Hou was obviously more interested, so he introduced it to Fei Qian in detail.

Fei Qian listened carefully, and then finally matched the information in the business and memory at this time-

There are only four that can be considered top merchants:

First of all, there is the well-known Mi family.

If the Mi family is called second, it is estimated that no one dares to compete for the first, the Xuzhou Mi family and the Hebei Zhen family are basically at the same level, and they can't tell the difference, these two can be said to be the top richest people in the world at present.

The ancestors of the Mizhu group have been business people for generations, and the business has been done like a fish in water, and when it comes to the Mizhu generation, it is already "ten thousand customers, with huge assets", although there is a Chen family in Xuzhou, but it is not at the same level as the Mi family.

It can be said that at least nearly half of Xuzhou is either the Mi family, or has a close relationship with the Mi family, from the civilian goods to the military goods, there is no Mi family opportunity not to sell.

Listed alongside the Mi family is the Zhen family.

The most eye-catching thing about the Zhen family in Hebei is not the family wealth, but the Zhen Mi who was named the goddess of Luoshui by later generations. The Zhen family has also been in business for generations, but unfortunately in this generation, Zhen Mi's father died early, and the family is managed by Zhen Mi's mother Zhang.

These two are basically at the top of the list, indisputable.

But the next two of the four major merchants have some controversy. First of all, the Wu family in Shu, the business of the Wu family basically includes all aspects of Shu, in addition, the special product of Shu brocade is the favorite item of the upper class scholars, it can be said that a horse of Shu brocade is worth a thousand gold, so the amount of accumulated wealth of the Wu family is quite amazing, and it is not too bad to describe it as rich, but the only thing that makes people a little unconvinced is that the Wu family has basically never left the circle in Shu compared to other families, so some people feel that the pattern is not enough to be called the big four.

There is also Chen Liuwei's family.

Chen Liuwei's family started from Wei Qingshi, and continued to accumulate, and today in the Chenliu territory, it is already to the point where it is not a court official who is better than a court official, when Cai Yong chose Cai Yan's husband, he chose the Wei family. However, after all, the Wei family was too close to the imperial court, leading some people to say that it was not a pure merchant and should be excluded from the four major merchants.

But if you talk about money alone, these four are definitely the four richest.

And then down a little bit, it can be regarded as close to the level of the four major merchants, the Ma family in Jingzhou - the one known as the Ma family's five constants; The Lu family in Jiangdong -- the one who burned Liu Bei down later......

Further down, there is the Jiangdong Lu family - which family of the honest man Lu Su in the romance, and the Hongnong Yang family - Taiwei Yang Biao is the Yang family......

As for the Cui family, Cui Yi regretted that if Cui Lie had not fallen, he would have barely been famous, but now it is not as good as before.

Fei Qian saw that Cui Hou's envy was overflowing when he was introduced, and comforted Cui Hou that the Cui family would definitely be able to reach the top again in the future.

Although Cui Hou said that he didn't dare to hope for extravagance, Fei Qian could see that Cui Hou still wanted to realize this wish.

Fei Qian thought about it, after all, Cui Hou was also the first person he met in the Eastern Han Dynasty, although Cui Hou's father had plans to calculate Fei Qian, but later it was not implemented for various reasons, and now, Cui Hou is even more polite to himself because of Liuli Fangzi, of course, there are also part of the factors of his own identity change.

After all things considered, Fei Qian still thinks that Cui Hou's friend is okay, and he can't be completely regarded as a type that can be trusted, but as long as there is not too much difference in identity, he can maintain a relatively good relationship for a long time.

Therefore, Fei Qian deliberately gave Cui Hou more suggestions on some details of the glazed pieces, praised Cui Hou happily, and took out a pen and paper to write it down, after all, after a thousand years, I have seen more of all kinds of shapes, and I will talk about the latest styles in the Eastern Han Dynasty......

After sitting for a while, Fei Qian said goodbye and left Cui's house. Although Cui Hou also sincerely invited Fei Qian to stay for dinner, Fei Qian felt that the old man in Cui Hou's family was sick, and it was always inconvenient for him to stay to eat and drink, so he insisted on going back to the city, and Cui Hou reluctantly agreed.

Cui Hou personally sent almost all the way to Luoyang City, and then reluctantly said goodbye. After Cui Hou returned to the village, when his father Cui Yi reported to him, although Cui Yi was already a little slurred, his mind was still clear, and he said with difficulty: "This son ...... Following...... It will be ...... Daqi ...... You...... Be careful...... And treat them well......"