Huang Shen smiled and said: "In Kanto Prefecture, and even in Jinling, many things can not be bought with money, and no matter how rich you are, you don't dare to show your wealth. Hollowing out his mind, running around and working hard, he finally saved some family business, and he was like a thief. On the market in Chang'an, as small as gold beads and literary plays, silk and satin famous tea, as large as good horses and beautiful women, and mansions, as long as you have money, you can buy them, wear clothes at will, and are not troubled. I was forced to buy a property in Chang'an. ”

What he didn't say was that profiteers like Qiu Darui colluded with the eunuchs and gentry to recruit landless homeless people to become artisans and weavers, and to control the guilds. The price of rice, grain, silk and hemp is lowered below, and the artisan and weavers are knocked out in the middle, and dissidents are excluded from the market, and the high price is profitable. even colluded with the government and did a lot of things that hurt nature and reason, and the huge profits obtained were also very amazing. A businessman like him, who had a slight conscience and was unwilling to go along with it, had to gradually transfer most of his industry to the Xia Kingdom. Who knew that people like Qiu Darui, after occupying the local market, actually followed the front and back feet to open a workshop in Chang'an. These people used all kinds of methods, not only to make the merchants of Xia Kingdom rejected, but also to the Kanto merchants who came to Xia Kingdom first, and all of them gritted their teeth and scolded them as "scum and traitors".

"That's just as well." Kang Wendu smacked his lips, he approached Huang Shenwei and joked, "That's why we came to Chang'an to plague us." ”

When several businessmen sighed, Li Yong and Zhao Xingde also talked very speculatively, and he gushed to Zhao Xingde to introduce what he had seen in the hinterland of green clothes and food in the south.

"Across the Great Sand Sea, the sun is scorching all year round, and the skin of the local Yi people is all blackened, even the chiefs and officials are not spared. There are ivory, rhino horn, gold, and precious stones everywhere, and as long as the goods of the Central Plains are transported over and exchanged for these and then shipped back, they can earn dozens of times more in one trip. Li Yong poured a sip of wine into his stomach, as if he was in a desert with a blazing sun, "Although these tribes are close to the sea, they don't dry salt, and a piece of salt cake can be exchanged for the same weight of gold." ”

"There really is such a thing," Zhao Xingdeqi said, and sighed, "This is really too backward." ”

"No, no," Li Yong shook his head and said, "The ruler is short, and the inch is long." These great cannibals are beyond my reach in Middle-earth. The tombs of the ancient holy kings and the temples in the desert were all built magnificently, and there were all kinds of secret means, which will be slowly elaborated in the future. He paused, returned to the matter of opening up trade routes, and said with flying eyebrows, "The opportunity must not be lost, the time will not come again, taking advantage of the current chaos between the princes of Dashi, it is a good time to open up the southward trade route." ”

"I know a colleague surnamed Jin, and I am also very interested in the southbound trade route." Zhao Xingde nodded.

"What about Brother Zhao? Don't you want to buy a share? Li Yong invited quite sincerely. Very few merchants of the Xia Kingdom went deep into the green clothes and food by land, and most of them felt that the stable business could not be done, so why take any more risks. Zhao Junenvoy not only agreed with his plan, but also seemed to have been there himself. Li Yong said secretly, today can be regarded as meeting a bosom friend. If it weren't for the officer's revered status in the Xia Kingdom, he would have almost persuaded him to retire and come out with him to open up this ivory and golden trade route.

Zhao Xingde was stunned for a moment, and before he could answer, Du Fujiao suddenly interjected: "Li Gongzi, can I wait for a share?" He kept his ears pricked up beside him, and when Li Yong said that a trip back and forth would be dozens of times the income, he was excited and bloody, and he was worried that he would not have a chance to join the gang, and he was even more reluctant to let go at this time. Beside Du Fujiao, Chen Yongqi and other three or four ten-captain commanders were all looking at this side, obviously very interested in the southbound trade route.

Li Yong's face was a little embarrassed, he was able to invite Zhao De to take a stake in the development of the trade route to the south, which did not mean that he could accept Du Chuijiao and others. "Lao Du, although the business of this southbound trade route is profitable, it is more risky, and if you are not careful, you will lose all your money." Zhao Xingde was busy with Li Yong's round road.

"Zhao Dutou, I'm not a person who can't afford to lose." Du Chuijiao said with some grievances, "Besides, I only have two hundred shares, and I don't have a big share, and I will never interfere with the business of the caravan," Seeing that Li Yong still didn't let go, he gritted his teeth and said, "Even if it is all lost, I will admit it." "Two hundred guan is what he has accumulated in the past two years, he secretly thought, even if he loses his capital, he will be regarded as having done it in vain in the past two years, if it is a thing, not to mention dozens of times the income, there will be at least two thousand guan. He looked at Zhao Xingde with a wry smile on his face, worried that it would not work for a person to beg for help, and said to Chen Yongqi, Hu Tangzuo, Bai Minqiu and other ten masters beside him: "Do you also want to buy shares?" ”

Hu Tangzuo and others said yes one after another, and even Chen Yongqi looked at Zhao Xingde quite excitedly. The movement here attracted the attention of the businessmen next to him, and Tan Shiyong said in a low voice: "They are all risking their lives for the future, so they are naturally not afraid of taking risks." Huang Shen sighed slightly and said: "The more the business is done, the less courageous it becomes, the old man's biggest hope is that the ancestral tea business will continue to flourish, and my Huang family's name, just don't fall down." "They all said that this southern trade route is the forbidden territory of the green-clothed and big food princes, and they can't tolerate the merchants of the Xia Kingdom, and they often have the worry of killing people and seizing goods, this Li Yong can be seen as a strange person if he can be around there for several years, but whether he has such good luck next time, only God knows.

Zhao Xingde was groaning, Li Yong opened his mouth and said: "That's it, if Zhao Jun is willing to come forward, I have nothing to do here." It's just that the money you put together is considered to be the shares of Zhao Jun's envoys, and I will only listen to Zhao Jun's envoys in the future when talking about things in the commercial bank. The firm itself has nothing to do with you, you are only looking for Zhao June. In this era, the entry of ordinary commercial houses is not as good as that of later generations, and businessmen must trust each other, and Li Yong will never accept a group of people who do not understand the dangers of the southern trade routes in any way. He didn't want to offend Du Chuijiao and others too much, so he pushed this hot taro to Zhao De, if Zhao Deken came forward to take this risk, everyone signed a contract in black and white, and let Du Chuijiao and others' money come in for rentier. Anyway, there are countless tribes in the south of the green clothes and big food, and no matter how much goods you have, you can eat it. These sergeants lost all their money, and they could only go to Zhao De to talk.

Chen Xizhai looked at the scene with a slight smile, dozens of sergeants wanted to join forces to follow the trend to expand trade routes, which was a rare thing. Xia Guo also practiced agriculture and animal husbandry-based, and prospered the country with industry and commerce. In addition to merchants, the royal family also held a lot of shares in large trading houses. The Prime Minister's Office authorized certain large commercial houses to sell bonds to the people, and the state treasury hid them as a guarantee for the repayment of 70% of the principal. The officials and sergeants could not buy land if they had spare money, and most of them would buy some bonds of large commercial banks to eat interest.

Zhao Xingde pondered for a moment, and finally said: "It is extremely risky to expand trade routes, you wait and go back and think about it for a few days, and let me think about it for a few days, okay?" ”

Du Fujiao saw that his tone was a little loose, and said with a happy face: "Just listen to Zhao Jun's envoy," paused, and said to Li Yong, "Let me think about it later, do you think about it?" ”

Li Yong nodded, and said in a deep voice: "What Envoy Zhao said is that expanding trade routes is extremely risky, and you must think carefully. I'm here, as long as Zhao Jun is willing to take a stake. Come, I'll give you a glass first. Raise your glass and salute Zhao De and Du Fujiao and others. He secretly planned that the trade route situation in the south of the Great Sand Sea was complicated, and even if he was careful, he would inevitably clash with bandits and even princes along the way, and after these sergeants retired, they might even become the support of the trading houses.

After everyone drank enough, Li Yong said to Zhao Xingde: "I have a small gathering in five days, and I ask Zhao Junenvoy to appreciate it." Zhao Xingde nodded and agreed.

After the banquet, Zhao Xingde bid farewell to Chen Xizhai and the merchants of the Xia Kingdom, and returned to the camp of the Praetorian Guard with Du Fujiao and other ten commanders. As soon as he and Kim Chang-tae talked about it, Kim Chang-tae immediately took the case and said: "Of course I want to join the gang, I will pay 2,000 yuan." Seeing that Zhao Xingde did not react, he said hurriedly, "This matter of expanding the southern trade route is a once-in-a-lifetime event, it is rare to have someone who is familiar with the road and takes the lead in doing things, and it is even more rare that this person is willing to let you join the gang." He patted Zhao Xingde on the shoulder and said, "Although it has always been a cannibal ban over there." But when you think about the benefits, it's worth the risk. After a pause, he said, "Okay, if this thing is done, you and I will be able to pat our chests and talk even among the rich businessmen in Lumei." He also told how the southern trade routes he had heard were as profitable as they were, and in the end, even Zhao Xingde was a little dizzy, and he couldn't figure out which ones he had originally remembered, and which ones he had heard from the mouths of Li Yong and Jin Changtai.

Just returned from Jin Changtai, Du Chuijiao and Chen Yongqi came to Zhao Xingde again, presented a piece of paper, and said respectfully: "Zhao Tou, the brothers have made it together, and the total number of people who can join the gang is 13,700 yuan." "What?" Zhao Xingde took a closer look, almost all the sergeants of Ming Hongdu were on that list, except for Du Fujiao's 200 guan, Chen Yongqi actually also had 200 guan, and the other sergeants were not at least less than 50 guan.

"The risk of opening up trade routes is very large," Zhao Xingde said in a deep voice, "As long as you are targeted by a prince along the way, you may lose all your people and goods, and there will be no chamber of commerce to share the risk." ”

"Why don't you give it a try," Du Blowhorn said with a smile, "How can you win without betting." Zhao Xingde couldn't believe that Du Chuijiao, who was thrifty and frugal, hated the vices of eating, drinking, playing with money, and other vices that affected his savings plan, could actually say such a thing. He turned his gaze to Chen Yongqi, the captain of the pro-soldiers, Chen Yongqi rubbed his hands, quite embarrassed, his face turned red, and said: "Brothers, this is also the meaning, try your luck, what if God makes us rich?" ”

"Then what if God leaves us with nothing?" Zhao Xingde said coldly.

"Then the bento is that the brothers don't have this financial luck," Chen Yongqi's face darkened slightly, and then raised his head again, and said in a low voice, "If you don't gamble, how do you know, my lord, we don't want to regret this opportunity to make a fortune in this life." His face seemed to glow with excitement, and his eyes were full of anticipation, as if he knew that Zhao Xingde would definitely agree to take them into the gang.

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