Liangshan Manor used Jin Dajian as a bait to set a trap and successfully caught Qiu Rong, a cunning red-faced catfish. Di Cheng and the housekeeper Zhao Li followed Ruan Xiaoqi's boat and returned to Liangshan that day, while Qiu Cheng stayed at the bottom of the lake to be his red-faced catfish.

Through the interrogation of Zhao Li, the people of Liangshan got a general information. Jeju Tong sentenced Zhong Qun to frame the prefect and changed the performance of his performance to the imperial court, reflecting the illegal opening of the Lijia Daokou Market in Liangshan Manor, and it is not clear how to change Zhao Li, but since the prefect reported that it was unfavorable to Yangsan, the general sentence could not be worse than that. Gu Haotian and the others only instructed Zhao Neng to secretly check again, but they didn't take it to heart.

Two days later, Shi Qian returned from Jeju with the latest news from the Poison Dragon Gang.

Due to a sudden accident on the way to chase down the jade arm craftsman Jin Dajian, Qiu Rong, the leader of the Poison Dragon Gang, Di Cheng, the backbone of the gang, and Zhao Jie, the housekeeper of the Zhao Mansion, all fell into the water and disappeared. When Zhao Bowen heard this, he was furious and immediately organized a large team of people to rush to the wrecked site to search, but he found nothing except a piece of ruin.

A day or two later, there was no news of Qiu Rong, and everyone knew that he had no chance of survival, but the Poison Dragon Gang could not be left without an owner for a day, and finally that Li Li won the support of Zhao Bowen and became the new gang leader, while the older Ba Sanlang became the deputy gang leader instead.

This Li Lixin official took office three times, the first of which was to comprehensively increase the rent of the Jeju wharf warehouse, and he had a rough attitude towards the past merchants, which caused a lot of opinions. And the deputy gang leader Ba Saburo was not convinced by his face, secretly demolished his platform behind his back, and publicized to those merchants through his cronies that there was a Lijia crossing on the waterway in the north, where a large number of warehouses were built, the water and land routes were very convenient, and the rent was very cheap, and secretly encouraged the merchants to go north. Many merchants had already heard the news of the opening of the market in this place on the 10th day of December, so many people had the mentality of trying it and sailed north.

Due to the secret "support" of the Poison Dragon Gang and many other reasons, the Lijiadaokou Market has not yet opened, but it has ushered in many merchants. Of course, Zhao Ding and others will not miss such a good opportunity, so they will take the opportunity to publicize the various preferential and convenient products and trading methods in the market to the extreme. After these people felt it, they immediately tasted the difference between this market and other places, so through their appearance, Lijia Daokou has increasingly attracted the attention of merchants from all over the world.

I don't think it's December, and the number of businessmen who come to Lijiadaokou is gradually increasing. On the main street, which is two or three miles long from east to west, all kinds of shops have been renovated, and the three largest inns are sprinkled with shops, lakeside inns, and delicious restaurants, and many people have lived.

Liangshan Manor has also entered the sprint stage in preparation for the opening of the Lijiadaokou Market. In the private room of the delicious restaurant, Gu Haotian was convening a meeting of relevant personnel. Among those present were Wen Huanzhang, Zhang Jiucheng, Yuan Lang, Shi Qian, Zhang Shun, Zhang Suo, Han Jiangping, Liu Yuan, Pei Xuan and others.

Gu Haotian sat in the middle, he looked around at everyone and said:

"This market seems to have a good momentum at present, but there are still many things to be done to make businesses from all over the world stay in this small place willingly for a long time, from the guarantee of safety to the cleaning of the market. Therefore, the manor decided to set up a market management office, with the Zhao Ding brothers serving as the director, and Han Jiangping, Liu Yuan, and Pei Xuan as the deputy directors. Han Jiangping brothers, as the chief of the bright face, are in charge of financial revenue and expenditure and the head of the money bank, Liu Yuan is in charge of the market security and the head of the dart shop, and Pei Xuan is responsible for the management of market transactions. In addition, the intelligence department should send additional personnel to the Daokou Hotel, and the two battalions of Bu and Shui will be under the direct management of the manor management office. ”

And when they heard this, every man received his commandment. Only Liu Yuan hesitated and said:

"I have just been transferred here from Gujiazhuang, and it is already difficult to be in charge of a dart game, and I am afraid that I am unable to manage the security of the market."

"I forgot to tell you, the business of the dart shop is not for you to do it yourself, you only need to take over the business, and the escort will be arranged by the manor from the escort team, and the Shixiu brothers will be sent to cooperate with you, you can rest assured."

Since turning his face with the imperial court, Gujiazhuang has basically given up, and Gu Haotian transferred Liu Yuan to the Li family crossing. Shi Xiujianghu is experienced, upright and clever, and his martial arts are also good, and there is no suitable place in the manor at present, so he is temporarily used here. As for the selection of the dart master, Gu Haotian originally intended to choose retired veterans, but before there was no suitable candidate, he temporarily used the escort team and used it as a training force.

It's just that because Liu Yuan took office in a hurry, Gu Haotian hadn't told him about it yet, so naturally there was nothing to say at this time.

After the formal establishment of the market management office, the new officials took office, each performing his own duties, and the market appearance was a little more beautiful. Merchants from all over the country continue to discover some novel phenomena, such as the management personnel wearing green shirts and long sleeves serving everywhere, the old people wearing yellow coats sweeping the floor everywhere, the Zhuang Ding wearing dark uniforms on duty on the street, and even the trucks and carriages have a unified number.

The early arrivals walked down the street in twos and threes, feeling the difference of this market, and these people eventually converged in the lobby of the management center. There is a market consultation office there, and I saw that the walls on both sides of the building are full of relevant rules for market transactions, as well as descriptions of the functions of the main institutions in the market, such as: management center, trading center, auction building, Tongda Dart Shop, Ruyi Bank, etc. More than ten young people in green shirts politely answered various questions to every merchant, and all the merchants in and out felt at home.

The most asked question is naturally the commission of the transaction, which is called the market management fee in this market, but it is only a very low 200 draw, that is, the transaction is successfully 200 taels and 1 tael. As everyone knows, the people of Liangshan didn't plan to make money on it at the beginning, their income was all hidden in those inconspicuous but fresh services, and the low commission was just an attractive gimmick.

He said that there were many merchants in front of the "introduction column of the trading center", and only one young man was explaining: In this building, all the supply and demand items of the merchants will be hung every day for the merchants to trade freely. For example, if a Hebei merchant needs 100 pieces of cloth today, we will list the goods, building quantity, quality, price and other information required by the merchant on the card, and mark the number and hang it on the right wall; If there are 200 pieces of cloth sold by Jiangnan merchants, we will list the relevant information on the card and mark the number on the left wall, and then you both feel that it is suitable, just report it to the service desk, and we will arrange for two people to go upstairs to the private room for a separate meeting. If the transaction is completed, the center only takes 1/1000 of the commission, and if it is not successful, it will be none. It's just that the young man in the green shirt didn't say that the service of the private room was charged, and those big businessmen probably wouldn't mind spending more than ten taels of tea money when they were talking about transactions of thousands or tens of thousands of taels.

However, the merchants were very surprised when they heard it, thinking that in the past, when the goods were shipped to the land, the seller could not find the buyer, and the buyer could not find the seller, it was clear at a glance, and it was not difficult at all.

As for the functions of auctions, money banks, and dart shops, everyone already knows, but here they are different, such as money savings with interest, dart shops can pay on delivery, and so on. In short, everything I see and hear reveals the vitality and potential of this market, so some discerning people have been quietly exploring the prices of local shops.

Soon it was the tenth day of the new year. I saw that the whole street was full of lights, gongs and drums, and it was very lively. At the beginning of the morning, the field in front of the management center building was crowded, and on the temporary viewing platform, dozens of specially invited wealthy businessmen from all over the world sat with great spirits. Han Jiangping, a member of Lijia Daokou, and Bo, the Guan of Yuncheng County, came to the front of the building together, tore off a piece of red ribbon covering the wall, and a plaque that read "Lijia Daokou Market Management Office" was revealed, so in the warm applause of everyone, the long-brewing market was officially opened, and then the shops on the street opened one after another in the deafening sound of firecrackers.

The psychology of trading naturally ushered in the patronage of the most people. I saw several rows of chairs placed between the halls, and on the middle wall, there were two huge floor-to-ceiling wooden plaques, writing offerings on one side and asking for them on the other, and on them were hung with various delicate small wooden signs according to the types of items, on which the information of the supply and demand items was written. This novel way of trading provides great convenience for businessmen, and the trading center has made dozens of transactions in half a day, with an amount of more than 100,000 taels.

In the afternoon of the same day, the auction building was also opened, and the market management office held an auction here, and the first batch of shops in the auction market, totaling fifty, each with one floor and two floors, started at three hundred taels of silver.

Three hundred taels of a shop is not expensive in a big city like Jeju, but in an emerging market like Lijiadaokou, people are not sure how to eat, so although there are many people participating in the auction, most of them are watching the excitement, but as soon as the auction starts, many people are shocked, and 50 shops are quickly sold out, and there is a JAC merchant who even shoots five by himself.

What's going on! This made many merchants who didn't start blind, but they were more than surprised.

In the next few days of trading, the merchants who have shops show their advantages, the same items, prices, because they have stores here, people often trust a few points, and it is relatively convenient to see and negotiate, and the success rate of the transaction is greatly improved. However, the benefits do not stop there, the trading center stipulates that where there is a shop in the market, the commission is halved. What's more, in the later fairy drunk auction meeting, the owner actually announced that all merchants who have shops in the city can buy a box of cheap fairy drunk every month, and this alone has a profit of hundreds of taels a year, and people are immediately crazy. But in the next two days, some people secretly heard even more shocking news, those merchants who owned shops were invited to participate in a secret auction, and it was said that they were sold for a lot of rare goods, and even refined salt, and some powerful merchants could not calm down for a while.

Then the price of the shop changed from day to day, and on the third day of the auction of the shop, a merchant from Jingji Road bought two from the Huainan merchant for 600 taels each. In the days that followed, the price of the shops continued to rise, and from time to time new trading prices came out, which made those merchants who did not make a move that day regretted it.

Five days later, that is, on December 15, the Lijiadaokou Market Management Center held the second batch of 100 shops. The competition immediately became fierce and unusual, and finally all the transactions were sold at an average price of 1,000 taels per room.

Delicious Restaurant, a branch of this Liangshan Restaurant, has been full of customers these days, and Bian personally sits here, commanding a group of elite soldiers and strong generals, who are busy and making a lot of money.

Merchants from all over the world were intoxicated by the delicious food that suddenly emerged from this remote place, and it was difficult to find a table of delicious restaurants for a while.

At noon on the 15th, the big merchant in Huainan who bought five shops was surrounded by a group of old friends into a private room of the delicious restaurant, and then the details of the secret auction were inadvertently revealed.