Section 136 Trip to Foshan (2)

This practice is extremely attractive to some firms with relatively large capital flows, especially those who want to purchase goods in Guangzhou, so as to avoid the danger of sending people to travel with large amounts of cash.

Liu San was fortunate to be the first user of the Long Bank draft in the Crossing Group.

Early the next morning, Liu San met Huang Tianyu, a representative of the Workers' Energy Committee, who was also wearing Ming clothes, a wig bun, and a scarf. It just looks awkward, not natural at all.

They were served by two boys of thirteen or fourteen years old - it was hard to imagine that these two children were future intelligence officers. One of them is a senior brother.

The intelligence network organized by Gao Di in Guangzhou, with the children of the Gao family as the main members, has become less and less effective as the situation in Guangzhou has become bigger and bigger. His advantages, that is, being familiar with the descendants of the Gao Ju family and being familiar with the street environment of Haopan, have slowly ceased to exist. Gao Di's activities were too active, which made Gao Ju and some others wary of him, and the intelligence network became less and less effective.

At this time, Guo Yi's own intelligence system gradually took shape, and from the perspective of intelligence work, the value of the senior brother was no longer great. Guo Yi felt that although the senior brother was smart and clever, and his work was quite reliable, after all, he had not received the brainwashing education of the crossing group, and his professional level was also low. If he continues to allow him to continue to operate in Guangzhou, it will be difficult to predict the future situation.

Plus his dad who has never been very reliable. Guo Yi simply reported to the executive committee: all the family moved to Lingao, the husband and wife were placed in Bairen Commune to work, and Gao-Lu-Jie was assigned to Wang Luobin as a "secretary". After attending literacy education, the elder brother joined the intelligence work study class and became a cadet.

Yang Shixiang also brought two family members here, Liu San introduced him to Huang Tianyu around him, saying that he was a friend of his own, who was engaged in ceramic trading, and this time he also went to Foshan, and wanted to take a companion along the way. It is said that there are more people on the road, which is not only lively but also safer. Yang Shixiang readily agreed.

The group got on the Guangding. The ships of Gao Guang Ship are all cargo ships, there are no cabins or anything like that, and the passengers who take the ship have bunks in the cargo hold below deck. The air is turbid and stuffy, and you have to take care of the bags around you. Yang Shixiang is a person who is used to going out, but he doesn't think it's bitter. On the contrary, Liu San and Huang Tianyu felt a little unbearable.

There was nothing to do all the way, and Yang Shixiang talked to Liu San about the many thresholds in the sale of this medicine-shop.

Chinese medicine - this industry used to be extremely profitable. Although there are many types of Chinese medicine, except for a few rare medicinal materials, most of them are crude goods bought by catties, and then sold after being processed by medicine shops. The gross interest rate is huge. The general decoction piece, the gross interest rate will not be less than 60%, ginseng, deer antler velvet, these tonics, medicines, the more expensive the more profitable, the gross profit is more than 200%. Therefore, unless it is a bad business, it is easy to make a fortune.

However, there is a great demand for principal in the business-drug-shop, which is due to the industry that eats the capital. A pharmacy shop, with a standing herb of between 800 and 1,000 species, is mainly based on the "Compendium of Materia Medica" - this book was already very popular at this time - no matter how small the raw - medicine - shop is also necessary to prepare more than 300 kinds of commonly used - medicine - -

After the procurement of medicinal materials, different processing needs to be carried out according to the requirements, which consumes a lot of labor. Some - medicine - materials can not be used in the year, must be stored for a period of time, less than a few months, more than a few years - medicine - shop is not better than other industries, lack of a few pieces of goods - color - irrelevant, the most particular - medicine - materials are complete, so some strength - medicine - shop to go - medicine - the city directly purchased, a hundred commonly used varieties enough to use one or two years of goods. The large pharmacy also has a huge warehouse to store all kinds of medicinal materials, and some even have to store enough goods for several years. A large number of medicinal materials inventory occupies a large amount of capital, so even if you open a small pharmacy, the capital must be two or three hundred taels enough.

"In this way, it is not easy to open a pharmacy."

"It's easy to say, the ancestors have a good foundation, as long as you do this business - touch - do things with your conscience, do not encounter any natural disasters**, there is no one who does not make money." Yang Shixiang sighed and said, "Don't look at me as an inconspicuous Runshitang, cold and lonely, and ghosts don't come to the door, if it weren't for the pirates who robbed a boatload of medicine-materials, it would have hurt my vitality a lot, and it wouldn't have been to the point where I had to ask for advice with some musk and borneol." ”

Liu San saw that he had opened the chatterbox, so he took the opportunity to ask him about "Liaodong goods".

Yang Shixiang said: There are roughly five kinds of Liaodong goods handled by the medicine shop: pine nuts, ginseng, deer antlers, amber, and honey.

Ginseng, deer antler, amber not to mention, Liaodong sea pine nuts - that is, the modern red pine nuts, in Chinese medicine - is a very haode nourishing - medicine - product; Honey is used in medicine-shops-honey-medicine-pills--the honey of Liaodong is known for its pure taste. Originally, most of the pine nuts and honey used by the pharmacists came from Liaodong, and some came from Korea, but since the withdrawal of Quang Ninh, not only the source of Liaodong has been cut off, but even the goods from North Korea have very few people.

"Now that there is a shortage of soldiers outside the customs, the imperial court has stopped the mutual market, the merchants can't go out, and the Tartar medicine and material goods can't come in, so these things are used a little less. Korean ginseng is more expensive than gold. I heard that there has been no Liaodong ginseng in Qizhou-Yao-Market for a long time. ”

The price is more intriguing than gold. Even Huang Tianyu, who had nothing to do with trade, moved his eyelids. If you do business with Jiannu, won't you have a lot of dividends to earn? It can also exploit North Korea along the way.

The group bragged and chatted and played leaf cards to kill time, and arrived in Guangzhou in four or five days.

The ship to the wharf of Gao Guang Ship Company is also the industry of Qiwei. This game is now well-known in Guangzhou and the surrounding area. In addition to the bodyguard, the business tentacles have been widely extended to the four major industries of "car, boat, shop, and foot". In ancient times, it was extremely difficult to go out to do business, not only was it tiring to travel and travel, and it was inconvenient to eat and stay, but also the merchants who dealt with it were mostly known for extortion and abduction of tourists, and the so-called "cars, boats, shops, feet, and teeth should be killed if they are not guilty." Qiwei started from here, reformed the old and made the new, removed the bad rules, and the ways and means of operation also transferred a lot of modern practices, and tourists and pedestrians have praised convenience.

Among them, the figure of the traverser is everywhere: Guangzhou Station not only gives a lot of financial support; In terms of operation, it is even more direct-involved. In order to solve the interference of the various city fox societies in the city that originally occupied these businesses for profit. For the first time, the Guangzhou station made extensive use of the gentry's network established in business activities such as jewelry trade and deposit absorption, and used the gentry's shili to escort it. At the same time, he made several of the most energetic opponents who jumped up and down disappear without a trace. The word "Qiwei" is already "thunderous" in the city of Guangzhou.

Although the wharf was noisy, it was orderly, and passengers, carts, porters, and cattle formed their own ranks and did not interfere with each other. Originally, there were inns on the dock to welcome guests, and when the guests got off the boat, they would flock to each other, and you would fight for me, and even directly force the passengers' luggage. Now, the solicitors of these inns are gathered in a row of shops along the street, with their own numbers hanging at the door, and the young men in clean green cloth coats on the counter are always smiling.

Liu San walked over with the people, browsing one by one - he naturally wanted to live in Qiwei's inn and support his own industry. Next to the inn service is the foot agency office, a group of porters are sitting or standing waiting for customers, wearing a uniform style vest, a black on the front chest - the word "foot" - - on the chest, and a large Chinese number on the back. There is a special bookkeeper to contact the handling matters, the counter pays the money and takes the chips, and the porter takes back the chips after the porter, and then checks out the account at the counter to get the value. Everything is in order. On the opposite side of the shop house is a large vacant lot and warehouse, which is piled with all kinds of goods. Here is the consignment of goods. Handle the consignment business of goods in Guangdong Province. There is a big sign hanging at the door of the cabinet room, densely indicating the arrival location, arrival days, and pricing method...... It looks self-explanatory.

As for all kinds of other service facilities, even the latrines are very large, and they are conspicuously marked with signs. There are many Ding Zhuang with short sticks on their waists patrolling the entire dock to maintain order. Not only did Yang Shixiang see it fresh, but even Liu San and Huang Tianyu thought this clone version of Daming was quite interesting.

Liu San directly found the cabinet room of the Qiwei Inn and asked to stay in the hotel.

"You're so discerning! Choose our Qiwei Inn, you don't regret it," the guy who greeted the guests smiled, "Dare to ask a few masters, do you live in the city or outside the city?" ”

"What, your inn still has a semicolon?" Yang Shixiang asked.

"Yes, there are eight inns in and out of the city," the man was very proud, "you want to live in whichever area, the small ones can be arranged here!" ”

Liu San thought that the purpose of his trip was to go to Foshan, and it didn't matter if he entered the city or not, so he said: "You don't need to go to the city, we will leave for Foshan tomorrow morning, is there a nearby road?" ”

"Hao Lak," the guy took a book-gross-edge paper ledger from the shelf and flipped through it, "Tongjinanqiao store is just right." There are six masters and servants, dare to ask how to live? ”

"Three upper rooms." Liu San said.

The guy wrote the list, tore off one, and immediately called the young man who was waiting on the side: "Find three sedan chairs and send the old man to the Tongji Bridge store." In addition, find a porter to help the old man carry his luggage! ”

The Tongjiqiao store of Qiwei Inn is located not far from the wharf, very close to the official road to Foshan. As soon as you enter, you will feel that this place is different, very different from the courtyard-centric layout of traditional inns, but similar to modern hostels.