"If you don't have a habit, you can do it. went out to ask for a fire companion, and went home to say goodbye to his father and brother.

Seek pearls to drive the sea, and pick jade on Jing Heng. Buy party horses in the north, and capture Tibetan parrots in the west.

Yanzhou cloth fire raccoon, Shu brocade weaving. The more fat and smooth, the more childish and clear.

The cost of food and clothing is calculated, regardless of the distance and distance. After traveling all over the world, he arrived in Chang'an City. ”

Excerpt from Yuan Zhen's "Estimating Kele":

- I'm the dividing line -

The Taiping army was of course extremely harsh to the gentry and large families who occupied large tracts of land, but it was also very harsh to those merchants and households who operated goods and colonies between cities and towns; But it is much more tolerant and preferential.

As long as the city tax and customs fee are paid in full at one time in the city, there will be no more troubles and restrictions. If you want to operate a certain property for a long time or transshipment between specific areas, you can also apply for a license as a basis for customs clearance.

Moreover, as long as you do not deliberately violate the rules and laws designated by the Taiping Army; They can even cross Dongting from the Yangtze River without restrictions, sail all the way to Lingling in Xiangshui, or go deep into the Lingqu waterway and enter Guizhou in Lingxi.

Therefore, under the temptation of profits, even if the war is raging and the places along the way are turbulent, there is still a constant stream of ship-traveling merchants who venture to trade, and even do not hesitate to travel along the Yangtze River to come all the way.

Because of the policy of encouraging goods and colonization by being kind to business travelers, the Taiping Army was once regarded as a contemptible person who was full of copper and mercenary by those eunuchs, wealthy surnames, and county lords who were born in large landowners.

Especially since the Yangtze River waterway from Guizhou to Yangzhou, it has been rampant by the Taiping Navy and has begun to patrol regularly; This kind of exchange is more frequent and intensive.

After all, compared with the land routes where bandits are rampant and people are constantly displaced, the relative safety and carrying capacity of the Yangtze River waterway are invaluable. Therefore, even in the nominally hostile coastal areas of Jiangdong and Zhejiang, or in Huaiyang, on the other side of Runzhou, there are still many people who come and go privately.

Just as Wang Renshou and the others were thinking, a huge ship from the northern waterway also staggered past it, and on the bow of the ship stood a banner with a big "king" written on it.

This couldn't help but make Wang Renshou a little surprised, could it be that the Jinyang Wang clan had already started the layout one step in advance. And behind the curtain in this big cabin, Wang Poxian, a big businessman from Guannai, was also looking at the market along the way and slowly thinking in his heart.

Nowadays, he is no longer limited to the business of large tea leaves; In fact, when the imperial court's financial plans were desperate and the people's livelihood in the capital was also declining, most of his livelihood in the East Market, which was mainly a tea shop, had been abandoned.

On the contrary, the arrangements that were originally used to buy a house in the south as a retreat and a turning point have shown a prosperous situation with the revival of water and land commerce in Hunan; And because of the gradual growth of the Taiping thief, there is a certain stable prospect.

Therefore, in the future, he simply changed the industries in the capital one by one, dredged many joints on the road and gradually migrated the clansmen; They began to expand their operations in the areas controlled by this army of thieves.

It was only later that the news of civil strife in the south also came, and he did not regret it after the roads and news were cut off; But then the imperial court was defeated like a mountain, and the thief army led by Huang Chao broke through all the way to the Lintong Pass.

He could only quickly leave behind the property and burdens that he couldn't take away, so he took his family to take refuge in Shangzhou in the south. After all, he didn't know anything about the Huang Rebellion army that killed people in the mouth of the imperial court, but he had seen the rule of the Taiping thieves with his own eyes, and he could only choose the lesser of two evils.

As for the plan to enter Shu to avoid trouble, which most people in the East City care about, he didn't think so; even took the initiative to advise the people around him with interests, etc.,

You must know that Tian Da Gelding, who is good at scraping the ground in the capital to serve the middle palace; has already taken the first step to install his brothers and henchmen in the important positions of Sanchuan Festival Town; At this time, I brought my wealth and relatives over, but I was afraid that I was going to send sheep into the tiger's mouth.

As a result, when he hastily walked halfway, he encountered and sent several waves of routs, and also lost many of his clansmen and the soft queen; I heard that those Taiping thieves not only did not weaken or split and collapse in the civil strife, but also beat down the Shannan Dongdao Jiedu envoys;

He also really made up his mind, risked the risk and fame given from it, and officially started his career again in the south. Because it is a familiar guild person, there is a place to pave and echo in the early stage.

Nowadays, in Jingzhou, Tanzhou, Yuezhou and Hongzhou, which are the most popular tea producing areas, he sent his people to open shops and trading company branches. And his nephew Wang Yingyuan is a small official in the Jiangling Planning Bureau, which can be regarded as a unique and unexpected joy in a sense.

But he is no longer satisfied with the traditional tea shop that he is best at. Especially because of the war, the entire northern market from the Central Plains to the Kanto region was lost, and the trade routes in the Western Regions were also cut off; And the way to win the sea from Guangfu to sell outside the territory is controlled by the exclusive department of the Taiping Army.

As for the ancient tea horse road outside the southwest, it is still prosperous, but it is really difficult for him, a northern tea merchant who specializes in the northwest road-Qiangtang Road, to pass through the Qianzhong Road, which is full of barbarians and remnants of the official army, and to compete with the tea merchants from Shuzhong for the interests on this ancient road.

Therefore, while constantly soliciting those who also fled to Chang'an to avoid trouble, and scattered in the territory of Shannan and Nanlu, he has also been looking for a way to make a living for himself as a businessman who fled to the north.

So in the process of buying and observing the local market along the way, he finally had a new experience, touch, and discovery. It's just that the cause is not so unbeautiful, but it came into being when one of his old and collaborators came to ask for help.

This old man had prepared well before leaving Beijing, and most of his net worth outside the family house had become a voucher for the various cabinets, mansions, and shops related to the entrance to the house in the southeast province. However, when he sent people to various parts of the southeast to prepare for "coupons to withdraw money", he found that something seriously went wrong.

First, the navy and Xuanshe town in Jiangdong (western Zhejiang) were trapped by thieves; And the remaining Zhedong observation envoys are also caught in the leaderless local chaos, and there is no longer an official government that can be accepted.

Then there are Yang, Chu and other places where Huainan Province is located, although they have been repeatedly attacked by thieves; But the city of Yangzhou Prefecture, where it is located, is still intact; It's just that the world-famous Gao Linggong had an awkward quarrel with the imperial court; For a time, even the basic acceptance business in Beijing was unlimitedly stagnant and postponed.

And he wanted to send it to continue to try to deal with and negotiate, thinking that the several batches of people before and after the stop loss had also evaporated in the local area. As a result, now that the old man has worked so hard to bring it out, all the flying money and bills at the bottom of the box have become penniless waste paper;

I can only beg my former partners to make a living to support the family. This also made Wang Po give birth to a vague miss first.

Nowadays, under the rule of the Taiping Army, there are many restrictions on the operation of cash cabinets, mansions, and quality shops for storing and exchanging property; In addition to the Nanhai (Fei) Qian Union (He), only a few specific families from outside the Lingnan are currently allowed to exist with the background of the Guangfu Haishang family.

However, he is confident that with his connections and origins, those wealthy merchants from the north who were pulled out of the Guannei can make up a large amount of advance money as a guarantee out of thin air, and then reopen the situation here.

However, the first thing he wanted to do now was to make his name appear in the sights and hearings of the Lord of the Taiping Army; Then you can let Xu Rantu, who likes it.

It's just that this Dadu governor, who is said to be from Buddhism, has not tasted too abstinence; It can be said that in addition to collecting special food and cooking skills from all over the world, there are very few people around to serve them.

Therefore, he can only attract the attention of the other party in a different way from these aspects; Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered that he had traveled with him, from the largest gold and silver business in the West City, and had a relationship with the remnants of the Hexi Guiyi Army, and there seemed to be a suitable person for him.

- I'm the dividing line -

Hundreds of miles away.

Responsible for leading a group of soldiers and horses north to Shangzhou, opening up the Wuguan - Lantian Road's new special lieutenant Wang Xingkong, is riding a horse in the wilderness of the Jinshang Ancient Road.

And beside him, in addition to Gao Yu, the plenipotentiary commercial representative who was preparing to enter the customs, it was Liu Tang, the transfer envoy who came to announce this time. At this moment, he was still chattering and persuading Wang to go to the empty road.

"I've heard about your affairs, and the children of the Huang family are too inauthentic to do these things. I only hate that I'm running outside.,Can't ease your cheeks and argue for you in time.。。 ”

"It's just that the Yellow King is still wise and wise, and severely punished the relevant people afterwards; It's because you actually have a chance to turn back. ”

"You are also an old man who followed the world in the early years, and King Huang also missed your situation in private."

"If you have a chance to enter the pass this time, don't you want to go and see the world-famous Xijing City."

This time, the first task of Liu Tang's envoy can only be said to be unsatisfactory, although the monk Zhou sent people to entertain him, but he avoided talking about the reward of the Yellow King or avoided the important and took care of him; Afterwards, he set up a metropolitan governor's office on his own, thinking that he was faintly alienated.

But in private, he generously agreed to another task he undertook. Therefore, he has to think of some ways to find some opportunities and breakthroughs from other places, so as to serve as an explanation and bargaining chip for magnetic return.

"What the envoy said is very true,"

However, when Wang Xingkong, who was fully clothed, heard it, he only smiled at him undeniably.

If it had been at the beginning, he might have felt happy and resentful under righteous indignation; But after experiencing and seeing these things in the Taiping Army, he slowly let go and diluted the so-called desire to take revenge.

Because he has clearly felt the differences between the Taiping Army and the Yellow King's main formation in various means of action and rules, and there are many distances in organization, discipline and ideology.

At least in the case where most people are shouting lofty moral and righteous slogans, but most of what they do is to make profits for their own small groups, I am afraid that even the Yellow King alone may not be able to reverse and change anything.

Therefore, even if the past is not bridged without the rescue of what happened at the beginning, there will still be more rights and wrongs and conflicts in the future, which will erupt again under new names and excuses. Therefore, he chose to leave the newspaper in time, although there was some regret and guilt, but it was not a good opportunity to start over.

The smoke and dust that rolled up in the distance once again interrupted his thoughts and thoughts on horseback; According to the signal reflected in the distance, it was a reconnaissance team traveling over the mountain, and at the undulating turn of the old road ahead, it accidentally encountered and discovered the ambush of the officers and soldiers.