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The midsummer of the eleventh year of Xuanping.

In the early morning, the streets of Shanghai are not as quiet and elegant as other places, but they are lively and chaotic, and on Huangpu Road in the business district, in the middle of the road, many horse-drawn carriages of various styles are driving on the road.

Some are luxurious four-wheeled carriages with family lanterns, some are two-wheeled carriages, some are one-horse single-seater, and some young people simply ride horses.

Sandwiched among them were several oversized public carriages with four horses, each crowded with people rushing to work.

There were many people on both sides of the road hurrying along the road, some of them wearing clean robes and trying to make themselves look more decent, some of them were gorgeously dressed and swaggering through the city with their servants, and some were wearing tattered and patched clothes, but they all had the same characteristic, that is, they were hurrying.

They walked, and then entered the office buildings of major companies on both sides of the road.

At this time, it is the rush hour in the business area, whenever this time, Huangpu Road, which gathers many companies, is the most congested traffic, a large number of horse-drawn carriages gathered, so that the patrol officers in charge of this place are very busy, some patrol officers are directing traffic on the road, arranging pedestrians, carriages, horses to pass in a safe and orderly manner.

Some patrolmen patrol the streets, surveying every passing pedestrian with scrutinizing eyes.

In the past half month, in this area of Huangpu Road, there have been frequent vicious cases of theft and even robbery on the street, which has made the Yamen of the Patrol Police Bureau of the Business Zone pay great attention to it.

You know, this place is not an ordinary place, but the whole Shanghai, and even the country's largest large and medium-sized companies in the most dense street, left and right, you can see the signboards of those large companies casually, the Shanghai branch of the Royal Bank, the headquarters of Zhili Textile Bank, the headquarters of Jiangnan Textile Company, the headquarters of the Third Securities Company, the headquarters of Huangpujiang Shipyard, Su Song Silk Reeling Company, etc., all of which are famous large enterprises in China.

Someone once said that the funds that Huangpu Road can gather are definitely more than 100 million taels!

It's a street with gold!

And the people who work here are also diverse, including the lowest cleaners, service personnel, etc., as well as ordinary employees and middle and lower-level officials of the company, and of course, the top management of major enterprises.

Among these top managers are also officials of state-owned enterprises with official titles in government-run enterprises, as well as children of major prestigious gentry families.

Because of the large number of people and the fact that many of them are decent people and carry a lot of money, this place is also the best place for many thieves of all kinds or simply robbers and other criminals.

However, the Yamen of the Patrol Police Bureau of the Business Zone also attaches great importance to the security of the place, and has sent a lot of police forces to maintain law and order, which has always been considered stable, but I did not expect that in the past half a month, there have been frequent thefts and robberies here, which made the Yamen of the Patrol Police Branch of the Business Zone very angry, and a large number of police forces have been dispatched to investigate the case.

It's just that those bold criminals have not been caught now, so now we can only strengthen the patrol police force to avoid the continuation of this kind of case, otherwise, the pressure on the yamen of the patrol police substation will be very great.

The patrol officers on the streets carried out intensive patrols, and there were no thefts and robberies this morning, but two carriages collided because they couldn't dodge, but it was only a slight collision, and the owners of the carriages were all decent people, and they who held their own identities naturally would not be like those shrews who scolded or even did it on the street.

They only looked at the situation a little, and when they asked, they found that each other's companies were just a building apart, and immediately exchanged name cards with each other, and agreed to attend a business party in a few days.

This small traffic accident did not need to be dealt with by the patrol police, nor did it block the traffic, so although Huangpu Road was extremely busy, with many carriages and pedestrians, it has always remained smooth.

On the side of the street, a boy about ten years old, short and thin, wearing a short gray robe full of patches, no shoes, and directly barefoot, was carrying a large cloth bag, which was filled with a large stack of Tang Dynasty newspapers and selling them along the street.

These newsboys are also a new profession in the Tang Empire in recent years, most of these newsboys are children of poor families, even orphans, and they are relatively young, it is difficult to find a job if they want to work, they can only do some work that sells newspapers without technical content, and does not require much physical strength.

In fact, most of the newsboys in the Tang Empire are orphans and children of poor families, in addition to their meager income, they are also related to the deliberate actions of the Chaobao Division, because in order to let some orphans who are young and difficult to find a job, and the children of poor families get a job within their ability, the Chaobao Department explicitly ordered that when the local newspaper offices hire newsboys, they should give priority to orphans and poor children.

This is one of the many poverty alleviation policies in the empire, in addition to these, there are naturally other corresponding poverty alleviation policies and welfare institutions, such as nursing homes, orphanages, etc.

However, many poverty alleviation policies in the Tang Empire are rarely directly subsidized and the like, and most of them are in the mode of cash-for-work, unless it is a group of people who have completely lost their labor force, otherwise, whether it is a lonely old man or an orphan, the empire's policy is to provide them with a job as much as possible to meet their living needs.

Now, the boy on the street, about ten years old, struggles to carry a large bag of newspapers, this large pile of newspapers is not too heavy for an adult, but for a thin boy, it is quite laborious to carry.

But the boy, though he was dressed in patched clothes and no boots, was very clean in his tattered clothes, and his hands were clean, so that he would not have to stain the newspapers!

He shouted that when he went to pick up the Chaobao today, the people from the Chaobao Division taught them what to say: "Chaobao, Chaobao, the third edition of the commercial law is officially issued!" ”

"The Nanyang barbarians are attacking, and the situation in Banten is unstable!"

These slogans, according to the adults of the Chaobao Division, are all shouted specifically at the people in the trade zone, because they are most concerned about the business law, and they are also concerned about the situation in Nanyang, needless to say, they are concerned about the Nanyang, because the situation in the South China is directly related to overseas trade, and the fluctuations of overseas trade will even be directly reflected in the stock market.

Soon, a man in a brocade robe with a servant walked up to him, and the man in the brocade robe didn't say anything, but the servant on the side stepped forward and said, "A morning newspaper!" ”

"Okay!" The boy handed over the newspaper, and then took a copper coin from the servant's hand, which was a copper coin with a five-cent value, and it was also the uniform price of the Tang Dynasty newspaper nationwide!

Compared with the first issue, the price of ten copies of the price, now the price of the Tang Dynasty newspaper has been less than half, here is of course the progress of printing technology, the progress of papermaking technology, the cost reduction is related, but also with the current Tang Dynasty newspaper commercial advertising development smoothly related.

At present, the advertising revenue of the Tang Dynasty newspaper has accounted for most of the income of the newspaper, and the selling price of the newspaper actually only occupies a small part.

If it is said that ordinary merchants, of course, it is impossible to put money without making money, and continue to reduce prices when it is already very cheap, but the Chaobao Division is not a commercial organization, it is an official institution of the imperial court, and the mouthpiece of the empire to guide public opinion, never for the purpose of profit, they charge advertising fees, collect newspaper fees, it is just to maintain operations, otherwise, they can't wait to directly deliver the newspaper for free!

Because the larger the circulation and the wider the coverage, the official voice of the empire can reach more places, guide and control public opinion.

After taking the newspaper from the servant, Geng Youhua just flipped through it, and he didn't care much about the other contents, he only cared about the third edition of the commercial law.

Sure enough, the headline on the front page means that the Son of Heaven has officially approved the implementation of the third edition of the commercial law, and announced to the world that the commercial law, and even among the many laws of the Tang Empire, the most important law is even comparable to the criminal law, because this law, and even the general outline of many commercial laws, strictly speaking, today's company law, patent law and other industrial and commercial laws are all framed in the framework of commercial law.

How could Geng Youhua not pay attention to the changes in the general outline of the commercial law!

You must know that his family has completely transformed into the industrial and commercial industry many years ago, and the family's fields and everything in the past were all sold off.

Before the Geng family entered the industry and commerce, although major industrial zones had generally appeared in the empire, most of the factories were concentrated in some emerging industries, especially the textile industry, which was a key area for private capital.

However, in the core industry of their Geng family, that is, in the field of porcelain, there were no large-scale professional factories at that time, and the porcelain factories that supplied at home and abroad were all traditional handmade porcelain.

Under the leadership of Geng Youhua, the Geng family sold the world and sold the shops, which finally gathered enough funds to customize the machinery and equipment specially used to produce porcelain to Zhaoqing Machinery Company, and this complete set of customized equipment spent almost all of the working capital that the Geng family could gather.

But when the equipment was installed and put into production, the entire Geng family was stunned!

Even Geng Youhua, who led the purchase of this set of machinery production and made his own porcelain production into industrial production, was also frightened by the sales volume of this machinery production!