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Wang Xingping's heart moved when he heard this, and remembered what Lai Daoxing of Anzhi County said that his relatives made candy, but his face was silent, and he saw that the guy was serving food quickly, but his mouth did not stop.

"Nowadays, there are almost forty percent of the sugarcane planted in the fields of Guangdong, from Leizhou to Jieyang, and the ugly wharf is dedicated to the sugar store."

"When you say that, these dock workers really look like ants moving their nests." Wang Xingping smiled faintly when he heard this, "But how do I remember that the sugar squeezing season is around the winter solstice?" Why do you come to collect sugar now? ”

Sugarcane ripening is generally in November, plus the time of harvesting, acquisition and virginization, and so on to officially start squeezing sugar refining has been around the winter solstice, Wang Xingping's family in Guiyang is also considered to enjoy a good taste, naturally know that in the past, it is necessary to have fresh Sichuan sugar in the season after the winter solstice every year, and Guangzhou sugar will not be seen on the market in Guiyang until the year ago.

The guy in the shop seemed to be used to seeing it, and said with a smile: "The guest officer doesn't know anything, now that the hyacinth has just started, I am afraid that most of these shipowners have come from the north, and those sugar goods are thought to have been settled a few years ago, and now the loading time is just right." ”

Wang Xingping became interested when he heard this, and immediately took out more than a dozen copper coins as a reward and handed them to the guy, and asked: "I am also here to do business in Guangzhou, and I still don't understand the matter, and I hope that this little brother will tell us the secret." ”

The guy saw that the downstairs was not very busy, and he got a reward, so he was naturally willing to say, "Actually, it doesn't matter much, these are mostly merchants from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, in fact, the sugar has been collected at the beginning of the year, but now the hyacinth is going north, and when the hyacinth changes at the end of the year, they will transport Subu or cotton to Guangdong again." ”

"But even so, there have been many months from the past year to the present, so wouldn't it be a lot less money to delay time?

"It seems that the guest officer is really the first time to come to Guangdong to do business, this businessman in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is doing big business, where will he suffer, most of these sugar goods are still loaned, compared to the market price is only low, and the storage should not be broken by yourself."

"Is there such a thing?" Wang Xingping was also a little surprised when he heard this, just a few simple words can know that there are a lot of business methods, compared to Guiyang, it is indeed a lot more complicated, it seems that there are still a lot of things to pay attention to when opening a branch here.

"Who says no, the merchants in Jiangnan are much more treacherous than our people in Guangli." The guy spoke in a strange tone when he talked about it.

So Wang Xingping listened to the guys talk for a while, and gradually understood the maritime trade routes in Guangdong.

It turns out that at this time the Guangdong trade route is about three in the country, one traces the Beijiang River and goes up into Huguang, this is the time to see a lot on the road, from Lianzhou all the way to the waterway to supervise the transport of the gate and tax card a lot. There is also a way to go the Xijiang River into Guangxi, after crossing the Ling Canal into the southwestern provinces, although Wang Xing came to the road in parallel with the Xijiang River, but he heard Ye shopkeeper mention, and the Xijiang waterway is the main channel for Guangxi timber to come to the east, many Guangdong businessmen who moved to Guangxi bought timber along the Xijiang River, and tied it into a row down the river, and Wang Xingping, a timber merchant in Sanshui County, also saw a lot. As for the third one, it is naturally from Guangzhou and Jieyang to the sea, directly north to Wuyue Beijing and Tianjin, which is also the main channel of Guangdong's maritime trade route today, as for the Nanyang is a small head.

Among the above three trade routes, although the first two are countercurrent, there are official and private porters along the way, but there is no limit to the season, and it is only a little depressed when the farming is busy every year, but only the sea is light, but it is necessary to wait for the wind letters.

Those merchants from Jiangsu and Zhejiang are waiting for the hyacinth to load the goods to the north, but as the guy said, those merchants are also doing profit-making, so naturally they have to delay some time.

The sugar industry in Guangdong today in the Ming Dynasty has a very fine division of labor, and most of the farmers have agreed to make a contract with the sugar liao and sugar from the beginning of planting cane, and the sugar merchants lend money to the sugar liao to collect sugar and make sugar, not only to earn sugar profits but also to rely on loans to earn interest. The sugar house and the cane farmers also have a contract, the whole family livelihood during the annual cane planting period depends on the sugar squatter supply, and then calculate the profit and loss after the sugar is squeezed to give the cane farmers an income, on the surface it seems to make the sugar cane farmers' lives more stable, sugar supply is more durable, but because of the heavy profits, in fact, the burden of cane farmers is not light, in fact, the profits in the sugar industry are divided by most of the layers, but it is much better than growing grain.

Of course, Wang Xingping doesn't care whether he is exploited or not, at least the current supply of sugar on the market does not show how big a problem there is in this system, and the burden on farmers is not something he can handle, at least the farmers here are much better than Guizhou.

Many of those Jiangnan merchants are the wealthy behind the big sugar merchants, and the ordinary sugar liao has no resistance in front of them, so they can only choose to accept extremely harsh conditions. It's just that this makes the small sugar farmers suffer, because if it is not helpless, the ordinary sugar liao is not very willing to cooperate with Jiangnan businessmen, of course, simple trading is another matter, and the local market in Guangdong is not small.

Every family here in Guangdong is fond of sugar, just like walking through the market, what cocoon candy, blowing sugar, show sugar, ringing sugar, as well as such as sugar tong, sugar melon, even Ding Yi, a 'veteran' who has been in battle for a long time, was amazed when he saw it, Wang Xingping bought a lot of points on the road and shared them with everyone, making them all happy. These buddies are only about seventeen or eighteen years old, and even if they have seen sugar sold from Suining County in central Sichuan in Guizhou in the past, they are also very valuable, and Guangdong sugar is also not cheap, so they dare not buy it at will, and the local sugar products in Guizhou are both inferior and rare. And the ground in Guangdong is not only full of sugar in the market and the price is not high, plus it is a young master's treat, so there is naturally no pressure to enjoy it.

The topic turned, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang merchants to and from Guangdong to sell a lot of goods, the capital of their own ships, the cost of small is four or five households or dozens of households to rent a boat, from Guangdong to the north in addition to timber and all kinds of overseas curiosities sugar is the largest case, even far away in Beijing Normal University also has a lot of sweet goods from Guangdong, but porcelain tea Jiangnan is local, naturally will not fake hands in other provinces.

There are many places in the world where sugar is produced, and Guangdong is the only province that operates this industry, and the local sugarcane farmers mostly pile mud outside the pond to grow sugarcane, not only sugarcane is better than elsewhere, but also the profit of fish, and the guy also answered a big question about Wang Xingping in the past.

In the past, when he was in Guiyang, he had heard that most of the fish in cages in the south were fed on duck egg yolks, and there were double-decker boats for raising ducks in the fish ponds, so he naturally knew that duck eggs came from him, but he had been puzzled about how to deal with so many egg whites just by eating egg yolks, and finally knew the answer from this guy's mouth. It turns out that the sugar at this time also has a variety of colors, and the later generations of the unique brown sugar and the like, at this time the sugar, which is the lower grade of brown sugar, black sugar, and the law of making white sugar is from the Jiajing period, the original Quanzhou a sugar liao soil wall collapsed into the mud into the sugar, so that the sugar is made of its own white, and later into the law to make white sugar in layers of yellow mud, extended to customize.

Egg whites are used to solidify sugar crystals, which is a necessary thing for making rock sugar, so Guangdong's sugar industry and fishery can be regarded as complementing each other.

This meal has been eaten for a long time because of the topic, and when he came out of the restaurant in the afternoon, Wang Xingping had a general understanding of the current shopping malls in Guangdong, and there were many new things compared to what Ye Yiwei said.

The so-called 36 lines of business in the Guangdong government are all in business, and the official power of the commercial banks is very great, and even to a certain extent, it can be regarded as taking over the commercial tax of the city, which also makes the merchants with the background of the government have a more convenient and relaxed business environment. Thirty-six lines are not strictly distinguished from business, and even strictly speaking, it is only a general reference, in fact, there are only ten lines to say that guy, and the business model is relatively simple in Wang Xingping's view, nothing more than intermediaries and tax agents.

Wang Xingping felt that if he wanted to gain a foothold in his business, he needed goods with monopoly potential, and this monopoly thing salt and iron were actually counted, but Sichuan was too close to salt to do, and the scale of iron in Guizhou was actually low in production capacity, but this sugar industry made him have some ideas in his heart. It seems that it is not possible to grow sugarcane in Guizhou, but in the memory of the previous life, there is not only sugarcane that is suitable for sugar extraction, but also sugar beet.

However, there are many kinds of sugar beet, and the real sugar varieties were not introduced to China until the end of the Qing Dynasty, and now it seems that there is really little hope of finding them, but the origin of this beet is Europe Wang Xingping still remembers, I don't know if he can find traces from the fan ship in Guangzhou, but when he has this idea, he suddenly has a wry smile, it turns out that he doesn't even know how the beet looks.

After temporarily putting down his thoughts on the sugar industry, he returned to reality, and now he still wants to visit the same year of the uncle, thinking of this, he once again instructed Xiao Liu, first found an inn outside the city to stay, and left Ding Yi and a few guys to guard the door, and then asked Wang Xiaoliu and Ye Xianlian all the way to the court to press the yamen.

After waiting for a while, Wang Xingping finally met his uncle's elder of the same age.

After a round of salutes, Tian Shengjin didn't see much outside, wearing a casual robe at home, now that the weather is getting hotter, it is not a particularly formal occasion, and the officials will not wear formal clothes, but he obviously did not see the guests like this. Tian Shengjin, a young talent who saw Wang Xingping, also liked it, but he did not immediately agree to help him prepare for the establishment of the Guangzhou branch.

Seeing Wang Xing's puzzled face, Tian Shengjin explained with a smile: "The virtuous nephew doesn't need to be careful, in fact, the official's dispatch has come down, and he will go to Beijing to take up his post in a few days. ”

"Wang Press?" When Wang Xingping heard this, a feeling of surprise rose in his heart, but he held back and didn't say much.

Tian Shengjin saw Wang Xingping's expression and said with a smile: "The matter of the virtuous nephew has been mentioned by the shopkeeper of your name Ye before, and your uncle has also mentioned you in the letter, although I have now been sentenced to the Taifu Temple, but the new press is also the same year as my uncle, and the name is only one word different, but it is also fate, and I will naturally introduce you to this matter." ”

"Oh? Is there such a thing? I don't know which senior? ”

"Secretive Xuan, his previous term was Xinhui County, Zhiben Province, and now it is appropriate to patrol Guangdong."

"In this way, the court is also about to go to Beijing?" Wang Xingping then remembered that Fang Cai Tian Shengjin said that he had set the Taifu Temple, so he had to work with Wang Zunde again.

Tian Shengjin didn't answer, but asked Wang Xingping rhetorically, "What's the matter, the virtuous nephew also wants to go to Beijing?" ”

"To tell you the truth, my little nephew really wants to go to Beijing to see it, and it just so happens that one of my senior brothers is going to take Mingke's palace exam."

"Participating in the temple exam? Your senior brother is already from a tribute family? I don't know what it's called. ”

"Ma Shiying, Wanli will try the top three in the forty-fourth year."

"Forty-four years of Wanli? It was the same year as my brother Shengzhi. ”

"How could it be so coincidental?" Wang Xingping was overjoyed when he heard this, and the relationship was brought closer to each other.

"He is now in Gu'an County, if you enter Beijing with me, you will have the fate to meet him."

"I'm afraid that my little nephew will be abrupt." But after thinking about it, he still asked about the topic he cared about, "I don't know what kind of person that Wang Jiyuan is." ”

Tian Shengjin smiled and said: "Speaking of which, this Wang Junheng is somewhat similar to you, and he likes military affairs. ”

"Soldiers?"

"Who says it's not, this has not yet arrived in office, and there has been a recital of Liao's affairs."

"Liao?" Wang Xingping's heart moved when he heard this.

Tian Shengjin continued to talk about the gossip of the same year while drinking tea with a kind face, "Exactly, do you think that his new Guangdong Governor said that the war was all about Liaodong, could he still be a happy soldier?" ”