The layout of Jiangnan's economy is to take the unique commodities of the starting point city as the forerunner, and the bank will follow suit.

Controlling the right to issue currency is equivalent to controlling the economy, and it is difficult for the Ming people to see this.

The goods of the starting city will be settled in the currency of the starting city, which is mandatory, otherwise the merchants will not be able to purchase the goods of the starting city.

This policy has been implemented in the starting point city and Tianjin port, and merchants must first exchange the silver taels for the silver round rolls in the starting point city, and then use the silver round rolls to buy goods, on the grounds that the silver taels are not the same color.

The exchange of silver for silver round scrolls requires a deduction of five percent of the fire consumption, although it is a bit of a cheat, but the goods in the starting point city are profitable, and they are invisibly five percent more expensive, which is really not a thing.

The unused silver round scroll can be exchanged for silver taels, but the five percent can be gone, and it can also be exchanged for starting city silver coins. However, large transactions can only use silver dollar rolls, and the exchange of silver coins for silver round rolls will lose two percent of the fire consumption, and how to choose is the merchant's business.

The starting point city has set up specialty stores in major cities, and only recognizes silver round roll transactions, and the salary paid to employees is also silver round roll. The 5 percent of the fire consumption lost by the merchant is likely to be recovered from the buyer in the future, and the goods sold are welcome to use silver round rolls. By that time, will it be far from the popularity of silver round scrolls?

Wang Yue will also promote this process, he has to recruit a large number of workers, because there are a large number of factories to be built, and the construction workers here in Shanghai County alone are a huge base.

After traveling to the county seat of Shanghai, as soon as Wang Yue returned to Pan Garden, Pan Shiren, the head of the Pan family, came to ask for a meeting.

When Wang Yue came to Pan Garden, this Pan Shiren had also met, and he only greeted him politely.

"The old man has seen Lord Wang." Pan Shiren saluted Wang Yue.

Wang Yue said: "I don't know what happened to Pan Yuanwai? ”

Now the Pan family is mainly engaged in cotton fields, and the Pan family is only a landlord's family, and there has been no official for many years.

"Lord Wang doesn't know." Pan Shiren said respectfully, "After you went out this morning, many admiring people came to visit, and the old man didn't dare to make the decision, so he came to ask my lord." ”

The governor was able to stay in their Pan family, and Pan Shiren was indeed honored.

"Oh, who are they?" Wang Yue said curiously.

"Huating Xu family, Shanghai Xu family, Shanghai Gu family, Chongming Shen family ......!" Pan Shiren reported the name of the dish as if he had reported the name of the dish, and then took out a bunch of worship posts and said, "Lord Wang, this is their worship post." ”

Wang Yue took the post, looked at the name on it, almost didn't know it, only Xu Ji, the head of the Xu family in Shanghai, Wang Yue guessed that it should be Xu Guangqi's only son.

After inquiring with Pan Shiren, Wang Yue learned that the Huating Xu family was Zhang Juzheng's teacher Xu Jie, the one who had been the first assistant. Today, the Xu family is still a big family, accounting for half of the silk and cotton cloth in Songjiang Mansion.

That Xu Ji is the son of Xu Guangqi, and the Xu family mainly deals in farmland.

The Gu family in Shanghai is the richest man in Shanghai, and the head of the family, Gu Changzuo, is known as "Gu Bancheng", who is rich and powerful in Shanghai County, and his daughter is married to Xu Ji's son Xu Erjue, so they are in-laws.

The Shen family in Chongming County is a wealthy maritime family, and Chongming Island is due to the geographical environment. The shipbuilding and shipping industries are well developed. Especially the Yangtze River and coastal shipping industry, so the Shen family has a large number of ships, and there are also shipyards.

Jiangnan is known as the water town Zeguo, not only lakes and ponds are everywhere, rivers are crisscrossed and crisscrossed, and there are also a large number of paddy fields during the period. Except for the county seats, most villages and towns do not have dry roads, and have to use waterways. Even between the prefectures and counties, although there are official roads, the transportation is convenient by water. Inland waterway shipping is very developed, and the Shen family is engaged in water transportation.

The others are all local Jin gentry and the like, and the new governor came to Shanghai County, and these people are all familiar with each other. In fact, they also came to Wang Yue's other identity, that is, the commodities of the starting point city.

Officials and businessmen have always been separated, and all of these families who came here were qualified to meet Wang Yue, the governor.

These people are not far from Shanghai County, or they are local to Shanghai County, and Wang Yue's arrival is very big, so they have heard the news. There are many waterways in the south of the Yangtze River, so they have arrived one after another in half a day.

The Ming Dynasty has a saying that the imperial power does not go to the countryside, and these people are actually the managers of the grassroots political power.

Usually, local officials are also quite fond of them, so Wang Yue is also as good as a stream. Since you're here, let's meet.

None of these people had more weight in the local area than Pan Shiren, so he invited them to Pan Yuan to be warmly entertained.

Pan Yuan was big and spacious enough, Wang Yue met them in Pan Garden, and the first person he saw was Xu Kun, the current eldest son of the Huating Xu family.

Xu Kun, who is twenty-seven or eighteen years old, greeted Wang Yue very politely, and gave him a gift list, and sat down after Wang Yue took it.

"Mr. Xu, I heard that your Xu family is now running a cotton cloth and silk business, and the scale is quite large." Wang Yue went straight to the point. This Xu Kun once won the lift, although he didn't go further, Wang Yue still called him Mr.

"What Lord Wang said is true, these are the main business of my Xu family." The Xu family's industry is not a secret, and now the Xu family has millions of acres of cotton fields and thousands of weavers.

Wang Yue said: "This official intends to find a suitable partner in Jiangnan to develop the textile industry, can Mr. Xu have this intention?" ”

The industrial revolution was driven by the development of the textile industry, and to build a textile factory in Shanghai, it needed raw materials --- cotton. Most of the cotton fields in Jiangnan are controlled by big families, so Wang Yue is interested in finding a partner.

Huating Xujia occupies half of the textile industry in Songjiang Province and is a target partner. The Xu family not only has millions of acres of cotton fields and mulberry fields, but also has sound sales channels and a huge group of weavers.

Although Wang Yue is strong, it is impossible to snatch other people's property for no reason. If the landlords are overthrown, new landlords will be created, and when the capitalists are overthrown, new capitalists will be created.

He preferred to convert these big landowners into capitalists.

Xu Kun pondered for a while and said: "Don't hide it from Lord Wang, although my Xu family's property is now taken care of by me, in fact, there are many contradictions between the rooms, I'm afraid it will be difficult to do what Lord Wang wants." ”

"Oh, since that's the case, let's just take it as if the official didn't say it." Although it was said tactfully, it was actually a refusal, of course Wang Yue heard the sound outside the strings, but he didn't care.

This fully shows that those with vested interests are conservative and conservative, and this is quite normal.

"My Xu family is really inconvenient, but with the ability of Lord Wang, I will definitely be able to find a suitable person to cooperate." Xu Kun said apologetically: "However, Lord Wang's starting point city has many strange goods, and my Xu family can cooperate with Lord Wang a lot in this regard." ”

Wang Yue said happily: "This is very good, this business can be discussed with Zhang Zhongzhang, the shopkeeper of my starting city." ”