When the "Taobao group" led by Qian Qianyi, Kong Yinzheng, Zhu Zhiyu and others arrived at Lushunkou, a port city at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, this emerging commercial port city was in full swing. Near the port, there are construction sites in progress and brand new houses that have just been completed.

The whole city is not only full of energy, but also shows absolute confidence in safety and security!

It was as if the city was not in the mouth of the Great Qing Kingdom, but in the safest safe.

There are two cities in the north and south of Lushunkou here, all of which are the ancient cities handed down during the Hongwu period, the two cities are more than 100 steps apart, the north city is garrisoned, and the south city is stored. Later, the Qing army, under the leadership of Kong Youde, captured the mouth of Lushun and demolished the northern city, leaving only the southern city garrison. And after the Ming army went north again and captured the Jinzhou Peninsula in Lushunkou, the southern city of Lushunkou was also demolished.

Subsequently, Zhang Huangyan, who was appointed as the prefect of Jinzhou, and Shen Tingyang, the ambassador of Beiyang foreign transportation and commerce who moved to Lushun, began to start the construction of a new city in the coastal plain area of Lushunkou.

The outer walls of the new city are built according to the hills and mountains around the coastal plain of Lushunkou, and the material is wood and earth and stone everywhere near Lushunkou, and it is not very tall, and there is no wall built on the side of the coastline, which is not strong in general, but it is enough to reassure the people living under the protection of this wall.

Because the safety of Lushun Pass is not pinned on this city wall and the Jinzhou Long Wall (located on the Jinzhou Isthmus, about 15 miles long), which is more than 80 miles away, but on a model infantry division of the Ming Army stationed in Jinzhou Mansion and the Beiyang Naval Division based on Lushun Port. A model infantry division relied on two long walls and several fortresses built according to the hilly terrain, which was enough to withstand the 100,000 elites of the Great Qing Kingdom. The sailors who controlled the sea route were able to bring a steady stream of supplies and reinforcements to Lushun.

The safety of Lushunkou has been guaranteed, and the geographical location is located between the Ming, Qing and North Korea, the water and land transportation is extremely convenient, and it is also close to the northeast region of the key development of the Qing Dynasty, so it quickly became popular. Merchants of all nationalities mingled the city. Columns of camels and columns of chariots and horses constantly traveled between the Golden Governor's Wall and the Port of Arthur.

In the bay of Lushunkou, it was full of merchant ships from Korea, the Ming Dynasty and the Tianjin Wei area of the Qing Dynasty. Occasionally, you can see a few Westerner sailing ships, not big ships, but small and medium-sized merchant ships with a load of two or three hundred tons, flying the flags of the Dutch, English, Portuguese and Spaniards.

Qian Qianyi, Kong Yinzheng, Zhu Zhiyu and others who went north to Taobao took a merchant ship belonging to the children of Confucius to cross the sea from Penglai to the north, which was a large seaborne sand ship of 3,000 stone (loaded), which was owned by a member of the Confucian family in Qufu, named Kong Yinxi. This Kong Yinxi, like Kong Yinzheng, is the last descendant of the side branch of the Kong family in Qufu, but he does not have the courage of Kong Yinzheng, so he can't get into the Yan Shenggong, but first the imperial examination, and then business. The career is only a small success, and when he was eighteen years old, he won the show, and then he has been stumbling until he is close to the age of standing. Because Qufu was attacked by the Qing army, Kong Yinxi, who did not set up a dangerous wall, slipped to Dengzhou. did not continue to study, but used the capital brought to open a restaurant in Dengzhou, and invited a few good cooks from Qufu's hometown (Qufu Confucius family has no achievements in Confucianism, but in terms of food, it is refined from generation to generation, so Qufu's chefs are very famous), and they have made a lot of money after a few years.

In the past, the Kong family must have bought land when they made money, but here in Shandong, as long as the land is surnamed Kong, then there is no need to pay any tax assessments, and there is no need to confess to officials and officials. But now the sky has changed, and the signboard of the Kong family is unreliable, so Kong Yinxi, who has money, no longer buys land, but buys ships to invest in shipping. First it ran the Dengzhou-Tianjin route, and now it runs the Dengzhou-Lushun route. He also bought land in Lushunkou City and built a "food street", and the business became more and more prosperous.

And in the summer of the third year of Hongxing, Kong Yinxi found a new way of wealth - Jianbao!

He has always liked to tinker with antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and he has a bit of eyesight, barely enough to reach the professional level, but not to the point where he can give people a palm everywhere.

However, the "treasures" that have recently appeared on the market in Lushunkou are said to be all Ming vessels dug up from Qufu, that is, the treasures of the Confucian family!

The treasure of the Kong family asked Kong Yinxi of the Kong family to palm his eyes, so can there be anything wrong? Even if it's eye-catching, people will take it for real!

So Kong Yinxi's days in the past few months have really not been said, he can make money lying down, and not only made money, but also made a name for himself in the antique circle in Beiyang.

Dengzhou Kong is him at a glance!

Not only the local tyrants here in Denglai are looking for him, but even people from Shanghai, Ningbo, and Quanzhou have come here. And this time, he was pulled into the "Taobao Group" by Kong Yinzheng, the Yansheng Gong who had just been admitted, and went north to Lushun to see the "Most Holy Relic".

That's a big deal!

He has seen a lot of Ming utensils poured out of the tombs of Yansheng Gong in previous dynasties, but most of them are from the current dynasty and the previous dynasty, and the farthest is as far as the Tang and Song dynasties. It's not a little bit worse than the level of the Holy Relic!

Therefore, Kong didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly went back and forth, and also transferred a big sand boat that had just been launched for the Taobao group to use. He also volunteered to fight the front station, and went north first, and met with Jia Bus, the agent of the selling party of the Holy Relic at Lushunkou, one of the nine great imperial merchants of the Qing Dynasty.

On the side of Lushunkou, Jia Le City and Jia Boss Jia are not ordinary cows!

The trading at Lushunkou is theoretically the "Ming and Qing Dynasty Mutual Market", which is the small mutual market located between the Jinzhou Long Wall (near the Isthmus) and the Little Black Mountain Long Wall (the Qing army's fortifications). With this signboard, Lushun's big business can continue. Therefore, the merchants of Lushunkou have to raise a sum of money every year to send it to this mutual market, which is regarded as the tax revenue of the mutual market.

This Ming and Qing Dynasty mutual market is operated by Jabbs, who is affiliated with the Blue Banner!

And after Jabs got the money, he would not immediately send it to Duoduo in Shengjing, but would make a large purchase at Lushunkou - the Qing Dynasty was heavy on agriculture and suppressed commerce, and money was of little use in economic life, but it still needed all kinds of handicrafts, so there were many times to barter.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, I met with Jia Bus, and I also saw a few bamboo slips with a thick layer of grease on the surface. The handwriting on it is very blurred, and one of the bamboo slips is engraved with five large seal characters of "Zi On Gewu Chapter". On the other bamboo slips, in the form of questions and answers, some dialogues using analysis, inference, empirical and other methods are engraved.

Although Kong Yinxi can't see the authenticity of the bamboo slips, he is also a little Confucian, and he doesn't dare to say that the Four Books and Five Classics are like a stream, but he still knows the righteousness, but he has never seen this kind of "Zi Yue" who teaches people how to do things.

Moreover, the content recorded on the bamboo slips looks very philosophical and can give people a sense of sudden enlightenment.

This kind of truth is probably only possible for sages like Confucius and Mencius to put forward, right?

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"Shenggong, Qian Zhongtang, Shi Zhijun, this is the sentence on the bamboo slip transcribed in his later life."

In the middle hall of the yamen of the governor of Liaodong and Shandong in Lushunkou, Kong Yinxi, who hurried back from the Ming and Qing dynasties, handed over a few pieces of white paper with big seal characters written on them to a few officials who came to Liaodong to Taobao sitting in the hall.

Qian Qianyi took one of the blank pieces of paper with words such as "Zi said that trial and error can find the truth" and looked at it again and again, and his brows gradually twisted. He was originally skeptical about the matter of the posthumous article, and he didn't take it too seriously, and always felt that even if it was a posthumous article about Gewu, at most, it was a earnest teaching such as careful observation, and it couldn't be something subversive - Confucianism has been in the case for so many years, and he didn't know anything, could it be that a posthumous article of Confucius can make everyone suddenly enlightened?

But after reading the copy of this posthumous article, Qian Qianyi finally knows how big the knowledge of the "son" is!