Liu Chunshi cautiously reminded: "Heaven and Earth Chamber of Commerce Statistics Bureau, this name is good, it's just, isn't it too big?" If outsiders know about it, is it easy to criticize? ”

"What's that? There will be criticism about anything big, just a title, be careful, and keep a low profile. Besides, even if the Statistical Office is established in the future, only a very small number of people will know that the advantage of spies is that they are secretive, not only externally, but also internally, just like the wind, invisible and intangible. Now that everyone knows, where else can they go to find out the secrets? Now if we have our own spies in the Yongping Mansion, our own spies in the Wu family, and our own spies in the major yamen, wouldn't it be much more convenient to do things? Wei Bao looked at Liu Chunshi with a smile. Although the current situation is very critical, Wei Bao is not panicked, because he already has a group of followers with a lot of force value, and the strength of the rebellion is definitely not enough, and the strength of going up the mountain to fight guerrillas is still about the same, so let's make a lock together.

Wei Bao said, thinking of the development plan after being rich and powerful in the future, he couldn't help but laugh complacently.

People are often worried about getting something, mainly because they are afraid of losing it.

Wei Bao is good at this, Wei Bao has gained some more things, increased his strength a little more, what he is worried about is not losing, but he feels that it provides an opportunity for him to change his form, and if one path does not work, he will change the way.

Liu Chunshi saw that Wei Bao was not worried, he still had the heart to talk and laugh, and secretly admired, he would no longer see Wei Bao as a little brother he grew up watching, in the hearts of Liu Chunshi, Fan Datou and Luo Sanzi, Wei Bao was born with a 'head', it was really Wenqu Xing, and they were completely convinced of Wei Bao.

On the second day, Wei Bao and his entourage left Yongping Mansion and prepared to continue their journey, and when they went to Hejian Mansion, Zu Chun, who had already prepared, came to deliver it in person.

Zu Chuncai was originally going to come to talk to Wei Bao last night, but he was afraid that Zu Guangyao would have a backsliding character, and he was afraid that Zu Guangyao would have something wrong with him, so it wasn't until Wei Bao left that he came over to 'sell credit', and roughly told Wei Bao about Zu Guangyao's contact with the Wu family and the Yang family behind his back.

Wei Bao was moved: "Thank you brother for your help, if there is no brother to thread the needle from it, I will be in danger this time!" ”

Zu Chuncai smiled: "Without me threading the needle, Brother Wei's trip will not be dangerous, at most, it will be delayed in Yongping Mansion for a few more days, with the road guide issued by the Yang family, no one will dare to kill Wei Gongzi without permission, otherwise Wu Dagongzi will definitely send someone to Yongping Mansion to get people in person." ”

Wei Bao smiled: "Brother is too modest, I am using silver now, the money is not in my hands, and I will come to Yongping Mansion next time, I will be grateful." ”

What Zu Chun wanted was Wei Bao's words, so he came to sell the good ones, and immediately smiled: "Brother Wei is polite, then brother wishes you a smooth trip and a prosperous business." ”

"Thank you, big brother." Wei Bao smiled slightly: "Big brother, take care." ”

"Brother Wei, take care." Zu Chuncai also said goodbye, and said softly: "In the future, Brother Wei must be more careful, I am afraid that Grand Prince Wu will not give up." ”

"Well, thank you big brother for reminding me, take care." Wei Bao solemnly agreed, with an expression that was difficult to give up and unwilling to part with Zu Chuncai, this was a half-truth, not a pretense. Wei Bao has such a character, whether he is with a man or a woman, he can play together, and he can get along for a very short time to inseparable feelings.

Zu Chuncai was amused by Wei Bao's appearance: "Brother Wei, last time you said that you hadn't been to Guannei before, I'm afraid that it will take a lot of effort to do business in Guannai, I'm not familiar with the situation in Guannai, so I can't help much." The water inside the pass is very deep, we are outside the gate is the world of the Liaodong family in Liaoxi, and it is impossible to say which family is the world in the pass, feng shui takes turns, everything should be seen more. ”

"The eldest brother allowed me to leave Yongping Mansion smoothly, and I was already very helpful, if it weren't for the eldest brother, I might still be squatting in the Yongping Mansion Prison." Wei Bao smiled: "Thank you big brother for reminding me, I must be careful." ”

"Brother to be ashamed of my brother? Don't talk about the last time. Zu Chuncai smiled: "Okay, don't delay my brother's journey." ”

Wei Bao also smiled, acquaintance is a bad thing, and getting together is a good thing, and both of them feel the wonder of fate.

The two chatted for a while before parting.

"Childe, the secretary of the prefect of Yongping Mansion seems to be a good person, and he came to see him off." Seeing that Gongzi and Nazu Shuban looked inseparable, Fan couldn't help but laugh.

Wei Bao smiled slightly, secretly thinking that the other party was not willing to make friends because he saw that he had a future, but he would not say this to Fan's head, and it would inevitably appear that he was narrow-minded when he said it.

Wei Bao can play with anyone, but it is difficult to hand over his sincerity, he seems to be cheerful, but in fact he is introverted and lonely, and he is very defensive of anyone. Wei Bao's management experience is: he is too close to his subordinates, there is no benefit, his subordinates are used to help solve problems, used to do specific things, as for his inner thoughts, he does not need to let his subordinates be clear, otherwise they will figure out their own meaning in the future, and they will lose their sense of mystery. Mystery is the first way to restrain your subordinates!

Now Wei Bao is worried about the two problems that Zu Chuncai reminded just now, one is that it is not easy to do business in the Guannai; and Wu Sanfeng's next revenge, it must be a dead hand, and he must be more careful.

However, Wei Bao believes that out of the territory of Yongping Mansion, at least there is no need to worry about Wu Sanfeng for now, at least there is no need to worry about Wu Sanfeng using the influence of the Wu family, and then sending people in the official face to directly get himself.

From Lulongcheng to Hejian Mansion, including the area that crosses the boundary of Shuntianfu, although the security situation is better than that of Yongping Mansion, and there are also many small strands, but Wei Bao is a large number of people, and there are Hou San, Lin Wenbiao and other 'experts' accompanying him, but he has not encountered any more trouble.

Within two days, Wei Bao and others successfully arrived at Tianjin Wei, Hejian Prefecture.

The government of Hejian Mansion is located in Hejian County, and in the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Hejian Road was changed to Hejian Mansion, which belongs to the newly established Henan Province. In March of the second year, Hejian Province belonged to the Northern Parallel Province. On the first day of the first month of the nineteenth year of Yongle, it belongs to the Beijing Division.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Hejian Prefecture governed Hejian County and led ten counties: Hejian, Xian, Fucheng, Suning, Renqiu, Jiaohe, Qing, Xingji, Jinghai, Ningjin; State 2: Jing (Lingwuqiao, Dongguang, Gucheng County), Cang (Lingqingyun, Nanpi, Yanshan County).

Tianjin, as it was known to later generations, was very different at this time.

More than 4,000 years ago, the seabed was slowly exposed under the action of the sediment of the Yellow River, forming an alluvial plain.

The ancient Yellow River has been diverted three times, entering the sea near Tianjin, 3,000 years ago near Ninghe County, the Western Han Dynasty near Huanghua County, and the Northern Song Dynasty in the southern suburbs of Tianjin.

During the Jin Dynasty, the Yellow River moved southward and seized the Huai into the sea, and the coastline of Tianjin was fixed.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up salt officials in Wuqing.

After the Sui Dynasty built the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, at the intersection of the South Canal and the North Canal (now the Sancha estuary of Jingang Bridge), known as Sanhui Haikou in history, was the earliest birthplace of Tianjin.

The Tang Dynasty opened up a salt field in Lutai and set up a salt warehouse in Baodi.

The Liao Dynasty set up the "Yan Yan Yuan" in Wuqing to manage salt affairs.

In the second year of the Southern Song Dynasty, Jin Guozhenyou set up a Zhigu village at the three forks. This is the earliest name of Tianjin.

In the Yuan Dynasty, Zhigu Village was changed to Haijin Town, which became the transshipment center of grain transportation. Set up the Dazhigu Salt Transportation Department to manage the production and marketing of salt.

In the second year of Jianwen in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, crossed the Grand Canal and went south to compete for the throne. After Zhu Di became the emperor, in order to commemorate the "Battle of Jingyan", on November 21, the second year of Yongle, this place was renamed Tianjin, that is, the meaning of the ferry through which the Son of Heaven passed.

As a military important place, in the small Zhigu area southwest of the Sancha River estuary, Tianjin began to build a city and set up a guard, called Tianjin Wei, which opened a new page in Tianjin's urban development. Later, Tianjin Left Guard and Tianjin Right Guard were added.

At this time, Tianjin Wei, although the business was not as prosperous as in later generations, but the economic center of Hejian Mansion was already in Tianjin Wei, Wei Bao said that he was to Hejian Mansion, and he had sent Fan Datou and others to explore the road before to sell leather goods, so he had to go to Tianjin Wei.

Because Wei Bao was in a hurry, when he arrived in Tianjin Wei, he didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly dispatched his subordinates to contact the buyer.

Wei Bao himself also learned about the market in Tianjin Wei.

At this time, the situation of the Beijing-Tianjin business community, and even the entire Zhili business community, was quickly understood by Wei Bao, Jin Shang is the boss, accounting for more than half of the market share, the low-end market accounts for the majority, and the high-end market is almost monopolized. The rest is the Zhili Merchant Gang and the Jiangnan Merchant Gang, which together cannot catch up with the market share occupied by the Jin Merchants.

Moreover, the Jin merchants are united and regional, and most of the other merchants are temporarily combined, which cannot form the climate, unlike the Jin merchants, who have formed the climate layer by layer.

The rise of the Jin merchants originated from the implementation of the Ming Dynasty's policy of opening up the middle system, which provided an opportunity for the development of the Jin merchants. Pingyang, Ze, Lu, wealthy businessmen are the best in the world, and they are not rich if they are not hundreds of thousands. The huge rich with assets of more than one million taels of silver have grabbed a lot of them.

Knowing these circumstances, Wei Bao's backward appearance of the Ming Dynasty has changed greatly, the Ming Dynasty is really not without money, but the money has been gathered by a very small number of upper-class society! There is no money in the whole society, and the money cannot come down! If the royal family can control business, internal and external troubles will be a piece of cake.

The rise of the Jin merchants also came from the rich mineral resources of Shanxi, and the handicraft industry and processing and manufacturing industry had begun to take shape at that time, which provided a material foundation for the development of the Jin merchants and made the Jin merchants gradually move towards glory; In addition, due to the narrow and densely populated area in the southern part of Jin, going out to do business has become a means of livelihood for people, and the merchants in Jinzhong have spread all over the country at that time, and there is a popular saying: Jingshi Dajia counts the Jin people.

With the increasingly fierce business competition, in order to strengthen their own strength and safeguard their own interests, the business organizations of Jin merchants have begun to appear at this time.

At first, the local local merchants were hired by businessmen with strong capital, and they became a loose group of businessmen by operating together and making profits together, and later developed into the East Partnership System, similar to the joint-stock system, which was a major initiative of the Jin Merchants and an important reason why the Jin Merchants could endure for a long time.

Wei Bao walked around a lot, and then he knew how strong the strength of Jin Shang was!

There are shops that have the strength to sell fur, which are all big stores in this era, fur is definitely a high-end commodity, and a cheap one has to be a few taels of silver, at least the people of the right level can afford to wear it, and the rich families in the township of the first long level are not necessarily willing to wear it.

The whole Tianjin Wei, everywhere is the signboard of the word Shanxi, the food, even the noodle restaurant, the hanging is the Shanxi signboard, if you don't know, I think I went to Shanxi.

An important symbol of this is the establishment of the clan.

The clan was originally built to connect with fellow villagers, but later developed into an organization to protect the interests of peers or fellow villagers.

After Wei Bao learned about these situations, he knew that if he wanted to sell a large number of high-grade leather goods in his hands at the due price, he could only rely on Jin merchants! Because the high-end market was monopolized by Jin merchants.

If it is sold to some small Zhili merchants in Tianjin Wei, or sold to the black market at a reduced price, so many high-grade leather goods can only be sold at the price of second-class leather goods, or even third-class leather goods, and they are not even first-class leather goods, because those merchants are doing the low-end market, and there is no high-end customer base at all.

Therefore, on the second day after arriving in Tianjin Wei, Wei Bao took Liu Chunshi and Fan Datou to visit the Jin Chamber of Commerce in person.

Jin merchants are not limited to Shanxi people, and there are also merchants who cooperate with Jin merchants, which can also be counted in the scope of Jin merchants, Wei Bao learned from the bosses of several leather goods stores before, and the high-quality leather goods outside the customs are provided by the Wu family to the Jin merchants in Zhili for a long time, so the Wu family can also be counted as a part of the Jin merchants in the business world. Because the power cannot reach the Guannei, no one will regard the Wu family as a merchant gang in western Liaoning, and there is no such statement.

Wei Bao felt that the goods were good, and they were originally robbed from the Wu family, so they would not be any different from the goods shipped by the Wu family in the past.

Since they can cooperate with the Wu family, there is no reason for the Jin merchants not to cooperate with them.

But who knows, Wei Bao hit a big nail in the Jin Chamber of Commerce in Tianjin, and people didn't accept his goods. If you want to collect it, you can only collect it according to the price of third-grade fur at most.

"The quality of my batch, you take a look, several shopkeepers are experts, I think there is an urgent need for this kind of high-quality goods on the market?" Wei Bao asked puzzled, although he had expected that this would happen, after all, the Wu family is a long-term supplier of these people, but if he is willing to reduce some prices appropriately, there is no reason for the other party to only recognize people and not goods, right? He had already hinted in his words just now that he could lower the price a little.

"Master Wei, you didn't understand what we just said." An old man from Jin Shang said with a smile: "We are a foreign city, and there are not many rich people in Tianjin, your batch of goods is indeed good goods, and if you want to collect them in Tianjin, you can only collect them at the price of the third-grade goods, otherwise you go to the black market to see, it is still at this price, there is no way." ”

"According to the amount you said, your batch of goods will be at most two hundred taels of silver!" After another Jin merchant finished speaking, he took a sip of tea calmly.

Two hundred taels of silver? The goods of labor and management are worth tens of thousands of taels of silver!

Wei Bao secretly rose into a nameless rage, deeply feeling the importance of the platform! He knows that the Wu family gets the goods from outside the customs, and it is a big wholesaler, but no matter how big the wholesaler is, it still depends on the face of the distributor, unlike the modern, manufacturer, wholesale, one-stop service, powerful merchants even have sales outlets in the whole country and the world, and no one's face needs to be seen, but the ancient regional concept is too strong, even if it is a large wholesaler like the Wu family, it may not be able to bargain much in the hands of these people, let alone the person who suddenly appeared.

"I'm sorry everyone, farewell." Wei Bao stood up proudly, feeling that it was useless to talk nonsense with these people.

Several people did not show the shocked expression that Wei Bao thought, and still looked calm, just like Wei Bao's attitude towards Wei Bao when he came just now, and now when Wei Bao left, they also seemed to watch a gust of wind drift in, completely treating Wei Bao as air, but they were all quite polite, knowing that they stood up and sent each other, but they didn't send it out of the living room, and they didn't say extra nonsense. It was as if Wei Bao was not a big merchant with a large number of fine furs, but just an ordinary small vendor who opened a small restaurant or a small grocery store on the street.

Seeing this situation, Fan Datou and Liu Chunshi, who were behind Wei Bao, also held their breath and followed Wei Bao away quickly.

Out of the Jin Chamber of Commerce, Fan said angrily: "These people look down on people too much!" ”

"Yes, we have such good goods, and Childe has already hinted that the price can be appropriately reduced, and he actually wants us to sell it at the price of the third-grade goods, and the Lizheng in Jinshan will not wear the fur of the third-grade goods!" Liu Chunshi followed.

Wei Bao raised his hand, "It's useless to say this now, they feel like they're going to eat us!" The high-end market is all in the hands of Jin merchants. ”

"So what now? Do you want to find other big merchants in Zhili? It's not just Jin merchants who sell leather goods. Fan asked.

"Go to Jingshi!" Wei Bao said decisively.

Liu Chunshi and Fan were taken aback by Wei Bao's words, and asked in unison, "Go to Jingshi?" ”

"That's right, go to Jingshi!" Wei Bao affirmed: "Only Jingshi has the opportunity to sell so many high-end leather goods. Although the business of these Jin merchants in Tianjin is not small, most of them are transit, and the south can't use such high-end furs, so they can only go to the capital to try their luck. Opportunities must always be grasped by yourself, and you can't hand over the initiative to others! ”

"Yes, in Tianjin, even if it is sold to the black market, it can only be sold at the price of three grades of fur and four grades of fur, if it is placed in the capital, so many people with status and wealth, we just use the method of selling fish at the beginning, one by one to sell, it can always be sold out, at least it will be sold for a lot of money." Fan said with a big head.

"To the capital is also to find a good store to sell, just rely on door-to-door sales is not enough, buy these high-end fur guests, either rich or expensive, no one is short of silver, can not be equated with the method of selling fish! Anyway, let's hit the road today! Wei Bao suppressed the irritability in his heart and got on the horse.

Fan Datou and Liu Chunshi hurriedly followed, and the three of them returned to the inn where they temporarily settled down, and when the other Suihu who went to various shops came back, they rushed to the capital with a group of people.

"Why is Childe in such a hurry?" Lin Wenbiao asked Fan in confusion.

Fan said a rough idea of what happened today.

Lin Wenbiao nodded: "Gongzi is the son, if I encounter such a big difficulty, I will definitely turn a blind eye and sell it, going to the capital is not similar to the situation of Tianjin Wei, isn't it the way that Jin merchants control those rich families." ”

"So you can't be a son." Hou San smiled, "The situation in the capital is similar to that of Tianjin Wei, but I believe that Gongzi can always find a way." ”

Although everyone rushed all the way from Jinshan to Tianjin Wei, they didn't have much rest, and now they rushed to Jingshi overnight, but they didn't complain, they were just afraid of these goods, so don't pull them back to Jinshan from Jingshi.

Even Wei Bao, who has been riding a horse silently, has such worries in his heart.

Fortunately, there were few checkpoints on the way from Tianjin to Beijing, and everyone hurried for two days in a row, and entered the Yongding Gate of the capital on the morning of the third day.

Yongding Gate is the main gate of the outer city wall of Beijing in the Ming and Qing dynasties, located on the central axis of Beijing, in the middle of Zuo'anmen and You'anmen, it is the largest one in the outer city gate of Beijing, and it is also the thoroughfare that enters and exits the capital from the south. Yongding Gate was built in the 32nd year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, meaning "eternal stability".

The shape of the city tower is the same as the inner city, the heavy eaves rest the mountain three drops of water pavilion type building, the ash tube tile green glazed tile cut edge top, the face is five rooms wide, and the width is 24 meters; There are three rooms deep, 10.50 meters deep, and 26 meters high.

Wei Bao is the first time to the capital, and he has wanted to travel many times in his previous life, but he has no money and time, so he has not been able to make the trip.

"Childe, the capital is the capital, what a magnificent! Those who served as soldiers also looked more magnificent than the soldiers of Shanhaiwei. The people on the road are all magnificent. Fan said softly with a happy head.

Wei Bao smiled slightly.

Liu Chunshi answered: "The poor are still poor, the rich are still rich, you are also magnificent like this, you are also magnificent like that, there are more flowers in the capital than Shanhaiguan, those flowers are magnificent?" ”

"Aren't you raising the bar? It's all magnificent, there are many flowers, this is magnificent, Shanhaiguan has more than 18,000 flowers, and the flowers of Jingshi have less than 100,000, and there are flowers everywhere, isn't it magnificent? Fan said with a big head and a grinning mouth.

Under the supervision of Hou San and Lin Wenbiao, all of them pretended not to speak, but now they couldn't help laughing out loud when they heard what Fan said funny.

Wei Bao shook his head with a smile, and while leading the horse away, he persuaded softly: "Don't talk a little, this place is not as good as Yongping Mansion, if something happens, there is no place to find someone." ”

Fan didn't dare to speak anymore, and quickly nodded, indeed, when he arrived in Jingshi, everyone had the feeling that people from the countryside had entered the city. Even the entourages transformed from a bunch of locks don't need to be supervised, they are all honest, they don't dare to speak loudly, and they don't dare to walk like before, walking one by one, taking figure-eight steps, raising their hands high, and grinning a lot.

Wei Bao and the others first found a big inn near Fahua Temple to stay, and hurriedly had lunch, Wei Bao didn't care about resting, and hurriedly sent everyone out to understand the market information, and personally took Liu Chunshi, Fan Datou, Hou Sanlin Wenbiao and others to dispatch.

"Now that I think about it, it was too wrongful to let people go to Tianjin to explore the way first, and I still have to run by Gongzi himself." Fan said with a big head.

"It's not completely useless, without the news you knew before, we have to stay in Tianjin for one more day, time is life, we can save a day's effort, and this will have an effect." Wei Bao said: "Moreover, if you don't go on that trip, how do you know the situation along the way?" Even if nothing happens, if you don't go through it, how do you know what happened when nothing happened? ”

"It's still childe who can talk." Fan smiled with a big head.

"If you are not afraid of doing something wrong, you are afraid of doing nothing, and being wrong is also an experience." Wei Bao sighed faintly, saying this, it was more like cheering for himself.

Ran a few big businesses, most of them are controlled by Jin merchants, Wei Bao chatted with the relevant masters, in the big shops, there are shopkeepers in front of them, and there are heads of guys, generally called Tangtou, big shops and big restaurants, wine shops, all those who need to receive guests will set up a hall head.

Wei Bao soon learned the information of the business community in the capital, which was indeed similar to what Tianjin Wei Shi had imagined, and the business community in the capital was also controlled by Jin merchants.

"I'll go to the Jin Chamber of Commerce later." Wei Bao Road.

"Are you still going to the Jin Chamber of Commerce? Didn't we already try it when we were in Tianjin? Those who look down on people one by one. Fan said with a big head.

"This is the capital, different from Tianjin, how big is the capital? How big is Tianjin? Liu Chunshi said: "Besides, if you go, at most you will hit the wall one more time, if you don't go, how do you know if there is a chance for the Jin Chamber of Commerce in the capital?" Maybe there will be big buyers. ”

Wei Bao glanced at Liu Chunshi appreciatively, and secretly thought that he was right to choose someone in the first place, Liu Chunshi is indeed more suitable for a high position than Fan's big head, and a leader must have an indomitable character, which is more important than anything else, no matter how smart a person is, he will have a time when he hits a wall, and he will retreat when he hits a wall, what can he do?

"I didn't say I wouldn't go." Fan's head was a little dissatisfied, and he slanted Liu Chunshi like him, and secretly blamed Liu Chunshi for being too good at sycophants now.

Liu Chunshi was really wronged by Fan's head, because Liu Chunshi's personality is the same as Wei Bao's, so he can always think of a piece, and he really doesn't mean to be a sycophant. This point, Hou San, Lin Wenbiao and others who were watching will see it much more clearly.

Time is indeed the medicine that changes everything, Wei Bao did not transform a group of people who came over with a bunch of dreadlocks along the way, but after a few days of hard work, a group of people have become more and more like the other entourages around Wei Bao, they are gradually returning to normal life, and slowly changing some of the habits they used to have when they were dreadlocks.

The Jin Chamber of Commerce in the capital is located in Shiwangfu Street, which is known as Wangfujing Street in later generations, and the original name of Wangfujing Street is "Shiwangfu Street", also known as "Wangfu Street".

It was named after the fact that there were 10 palaces and 3 princess mansions on this street in the Ming Dynasty.

The most famous commercial street in old Beijing is Wangfujing, and when I first hear this name, I often feel a little strange: which Wangfujing is so famous? In the 31st year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, the place name was re-determined, because there was a sweet water well at the south end of the street, so it was called together with the Wangfu and renamed "Wangfujing".

In 1624, where Wei Bao is now located, it is still called Shiwangfu Street.

When he arrived at the Jin Chamber of Commerce on Shiwangfu Street, Wei Bao hesitated at the door of the Jin Chamber of Commerce, afraid that it would be a trivial matter to hit the wall again, and Wei Bao was mainly thinking about whether to keep it secret?

Wei Bao now has a plan, in addition to the Jin merchants, is to find the big business of the Zhili business gang, the business world in this era is small, and the peers know the roots, if they find the Jin merchants, all the merchants who have the strength to sell fur are estimated to get the news immediately, which is not much good for themselves.

Wei Bao thought about it for a few minutes, but decided to find Jin Shang first! Because the high-end market of fur is controlled by Jin merchants, it is a last resort to find other big merchants in the Zhili business. If you find the big business name of the Zhili Shang Gang first, it is equivalent to completely blocking the road of Jin Shang in advance!

Wei Bao deeply understands the power of monopoly, since the Jin merchants can achieve monopoly, they must have many ears and eyes, not to mention the strength, he never thought of fighting with the powerful Jin merchants, and he can sell the special fur in his hand as first-class fur or second-class fur, he is already satisfied, anyway, he didn't spend the money to get it. But if it was sold as third-class fur, or even as fourth-class fur, why did he come all the way to the capital? Wouldn't it be over if you sell it directly in Tianjin Wei, or sell it directly in Yongping Mansion?

If that's the case, it's even better to return to the Wu family for free in the first place, and he offended the Wu family again, and spent so much effort, is it just to send a big gift package to the Jin merchants in the gate?

Moreover, even if they give a big gift package to Jin Shang for nothing, people will never think of their own benefits, but will treat themselves as fools.

Entering the Jin Chamber of Commerce with a nervous mood, after the report, what made Wei Bao a little happy was that he was able to meet Qiao Dongsheng, the son of Qiao Guangjin, the leader of the Jin merchants in this era!

Wei Bao didn't know if this family surnamed Qiao was the Qiao family in the later TV series "Qiao's Courtyard", anyway, he knew that it was the most powerful family in the Jin Dynasty, so he didn't dare to slack off, and gave the Qiao eldest son a salute in a proper manner: "Qiao eldest son is good." ”

The reason why Qiao Dongsheng, the son of Qiao Guangjin, would deign to see a little-known merchant from western Liaoning, was because of the lack of high-quality fur on the market, which was about to make him anxious, and the fur business accounted for about 20% of the Qiao family's business, which was already a large proportion for the Qiao family, and almost the entire rich and powerful people in the capital bought furs to wear from the shops under their business names.

If it is out of stock, isn't it going to affect business and reputation? Many people book in advance.

Originally, the Wu family's goods were transported to the Guannei and transported to the Qiao family from Tianjin Wei.

Qiao Dongsheng was about thirty years old, about forty years old, pampered and fat, and said slowly: "Your name is Wei Bao?" Have a large collection of fine furs to sell? ”

"Yes." Wei Bao didn't like this kind of tone a little, and felt that this Qiao Dongsheng was more infiltrating than when he first met Yang Hongyi and Yang Dagongzi, you are a son-in-law of a businessman's family, and I feel that it is bigger than the son-in-law of the Zhengsanpin family. Whether the Qiao family is the richest man in the world, Wei Bao doesn't know, anyway, in his impression, the Ming Dynasty was heavy on agriculture and light on business, and the children of the official family had a much higher status than the children of the merchant family, and he felt that this Qiao Dongsheng was a bit too good.