As soon as the brand of the Daming Royal Trading House was hung, Niu Jinxing, the shopkeeper, was completely begiving, this Niu Jinxing was extremely smart, and Zhu Youxiao gave him three million taels of silver as capital, and this Niu Jinxing was completely bullish. There was a shortage of manpower, so he fooled more than 20 talents who came to Beijing this time to help, and they were all looking for people who were doing business at home; Lack of experience, it doesn't matter, Niu Jinxing began to dig talents in his peers in the capital, and the businessmen in the capital who only dug saw Niu Jinxing coming over and hurriedly patted the fart, saying that there was really no capable person here, so let's leave food for us.

Niu Jinxing used two million taels of silver to bring in goods from the firearms factory, glass factory, and ironworks, and then went south along the Grand Canal and went straight to Yanghuai. Now Yangzhou is a commodity trade center near Yanghuai, with edible salt as the main trade commodity, gathering nearly half of the country's official and private salt transaction amount. At the same time, a large amount of private salt also flowed from here to all parts of the country, which also caused a large amount of salt tax loss. Zhu Youxiao asked Niu Jinxing to choose Yangzhou for the first stop, and also had the plan to set up a dark spot for Jinyiwei, and after thoroughly understanding the sales of edible salt in the country, and after finding out the details of the collusion between officials and businessmen, he would take another action to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle and completely eliminate the activities of selling illicit salt.

Niu Jinxing's second place of residence is Nanjing, Nanjing is the second political center of the Ming Dynasty, where there is a yamen, here is all, the reason why he chose here is because Zhu Youxiao felt that there was a large flow of people here, and he could quickly promote new types of goods. In this way, with the application of new tools, the economy of the Ming Dynasty will have a great development.

As for the third and fourth locations, that is, Suzhou and Hangzhou, in the Ming Dynasty until the Republic of China, the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou region has always been the economic center of the country, except for the Shanxi people in the north who started by accumulating capital, the private capital in the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou region is very developed. Zhu Youxiao's intention to set up a point here is more obvious, that is, to rectify the tax here, reorganize the capital, vigorously develop the handicraft industry, and use it to impact the economic foundation of foreign countries in the future, and then control the world with the advantage of capital, just like the United States in later generations, with the coinage to run rampant in the world.

The fifth location is chosen in Guangzhou, the purpose is very simple, the people here are very open-minded, and the outside world has a lot of contact, here you can contact some foreigners, such as the English, Dutch, Portuguese, and Arabs who sell goods, through the interaction with these people, but also let the people of the Ming Dynasty know that the outside world is very exciting, arouse their intention to go out for a circle, and lay a good foundation for future immigration to North America, South America, and Australia. Lest they be like Genghis Khan, although they are called "*", in fact, the Han nation has gained nothing, but in the end they have been brutally retaliated against by Westerners, this time they must obtain practical benefits and establish China's central position in Asia and in the world.

Although Zhu Youxiao thought very beautifully, he had trouble at the first foothold, the trouble was not found by himself, it was deliberately provoked by others, as the saying goes, it was to find trouble, and to slander people.

It turned out that after Niu Jinxing arranged people and goods in Yangzhou, he went straight to Nanjing according to Zhu Youxiao's intentions, and the guy who stayed in Yangzhou was a guy who came from the capital, and now this guy is the shopkeeper of the Yangzhou branch of the Ming Royal Trading Bank. The shopkeeper's surname is Li, his name is Li Shoucai, and there are more than a dozen young men below.

This Li Shoucai is very dedicated, and immediately started to act after sending Niu Venus away, arranging for people to buy a yard near the ferry on the most prosperous Canal Street, designing it into the traditional pattern of the warehouse behind the front shop, and putting out the soap, soap, iron nails, needles and other goods he brought, and did not buy them for the first three days, only let people visit, and sent people to distribute some trial products on the street. Overnight, the goods of the Daming Royal Trading Company became popular in Yangzhou, because these things are really good-looking and useful, and the people who came here to watch it the next day were endless, Li Shoucai was very happy in his heart, it seems that this business is going to be hot! Immediately let the guys prepare the goods, and immediately implement the plan explained by Niu Jinxing, all those who are ready to sell the goods of the Ming Royal Trading House must be signed in accordance with the agreement to establish a complete account book of the "loan accounting method", and the result is that the merchants who came to see it in the morning saw a lot, and signed the agreement very little.

In the afternoon, Li Shoucai received a very decent customer, only to see this gorgeously dressed guy with more than 20 entourage, swaggering into the firm, Li Shoucai looked at the person, so he hurried to say hello.

"Hello, guest officer. Please sit inside, the contemptible people are new to your place, please take care of it, in Xia Li Shoucai, is the shopkeeper of this firm. Li Shoucai greeted him with a smile on his face.

"Hehe, you're welcome, you're welcome. I, Huang Shiyi, am also a little famous in Yangzhou City, and I have opened ten large and small shops in Yangzhou City, and I see that Mr.'s goods are good, and I plan to cooperate with Mr. In the morning, the housekeeper went back and said the rules of your store, I don't understand, so I came to ask for advice. Huang Shiyi said with a smile,

"Huh. It's Mr. Huang, yes, this is the rule set by the shopkeeper of the contemptuous firm, and he just does things according to the meaning of the shopkeeper, and he doesn't understand why he does this, and he just implements the rules set by the shopkeeper. Li Shoucai really didn't understand why Niu Jinxing stipulated that these agreements must be signed before the goods could be sold.

"Hehe, what if I don't want to sign an agreement, I want to sell these goods as an agent?" Huang Shiyi's face changed.

"I'm afraid it won't work, this is the rule set by our shopkeeper, I don't dare to break it casually, or I won't be able to eat this mouthful." Li Shoucai was not in a hurry or impatient, and still replied politely.

"Hmph. Shopkeeper Li, don't toast, don't eat, eat and drink. Tell you, I'm going to make a decision on your goods, and the agreement won't be signed, if you are interested, hurry up and prepare the goods, otherwise you may not get a penny ......, hum, you may not get a penny. The water in the canal is very cool, I wonder if you want to take a bath? This Huang Shiyi's face was a little fierce.

"Is Your Excellency a little excessive, and buying and selling is not benevolent, so why do you have to force you to buy and sell?" At this time, three people walked in from outside, the leader was an old man in his fifties, followed by two young men, both in their twenties, and their voices were a little faint.

"Fuck, whose crotch broke to make you out, who are you?" Huang Shiyi scolded when he opened his mouth.

"Oh, this guy has bad breath," said the old man, "and clean him up, don't smoke the shopkeeper." San'er, wash his mouth. ”

"Yes, head." San'er responded.

I only heard the four crisp sounds of "pop, pop, pop, pop", and "poof", Huang Shiyi spit out two molars. What followed was a big chaos, "crackling" and "sparse", Huang Shiyi's entourage fell to the ground, squeaking and screaming on the ground one by one.

The old man said "get out" and then took the two of them away.

Li Shoucai was also dumbfounded, and wondered where these three people came from, how could they leave after the fight, and if they couldn't figure it out, they simply didn't want to receive the next customer.

Three days later, the Ming Royal Trading Company was overcrowded, everything that was purchased in small quantities was sold, and everything that wanted to be wholesaled in large quantities, sorry, after signing the agreement, it was strictly reviewed and then purchased. There are also smart people in the middle, and there are three or five people who see that the sales of goods here are so good, so they will do it according to the way they do, and after paying taxes, they still earn more than before, why? The sales are huge! Where there is no one to sell the goods of the Ming Royal Trading Company, who wants to buy one thing and run three shops.

Half a month later, suddenly three officials came to the door, with torture tools, and as soon as they entered the door, they asked: "Who is the shopkeeper of this upper bunk?" ”

Li Shoucai hurriedly said: "The contemptible person is Li Shoucai, the shopkeeper of this shop, is there something wrong with the adults?" ”

"Nonsense, it's okay who came out to run, this hot day. Someone reported that you fraudulently used the word 'royal' without permission, bullied the market in Yangzhou City, and deliberately monopolized the goods, so come with us. The headcatcher said with a big grin.

"Nothing. My lord, the contemptible trading house is a branch of the Daming Royal Trading Company in Beijing, as for the fraudulent use of the word 'royal', it is definitely impossible, and it is not possible to bully the market, but we dare not change the rules set by the contemptible shopkeeper in private. Li Shoucai said steadily.

"Without further ado, the shops here were sealed and the goods confiscated. Let's go, you all go to the yamen for me to reply. The head catcher didn't say a word, and took Li Shoucai away with a string of ropes.