After a fine breakfast, Wang Yue proposed to travel to the county seat of Shanghai, which was called to observe the people's feelings.

In fact, it is tourism, as a travel enthusiast, come to this original ancient city in the south of the Yangtze River, of course, you have to travel. This is not a tourist attraction in later generations, this is the real living environment of the ancients, and the county seat of Shanghai has basically disappeared in later generations.

Wang Yue only took the confidential secretary Li Xuezhu and a few people from the trading company to travel together under the protection of four soldiers of the guard company, and Mao Fusheng, a small servant sent by the Pan family, served as a guide.

Mao Fusheng first took Wang Yue to visit the places where literati must go, Shanghai County School, Kuixing Pavilion, Jingye Academy and Confucian Temple. He thought that this governor must have been from a two-rank jinshi, and such a place must be a place to see.

In fact, Wang Yue purely looked at this huge building complex as a monument, and after seeing the cultural landscape, Mao Fusheng took Wang Yue to visit the main streets of Shanghai County.

Wang Yue and his entourage's strange costumes caused people on both sides of the street to point fingers, but Wang Yue disagreed and swaggered through the market. Although the group was dressed in strange clothes, they were brightly dressed and ruddy, and they looked like idlers, so no one dared to come forward to watch.

After all, the county seat of Shanghai is only a county seat, and it is a county seat in the south of the Yangtze River, so the streets are not wide.

When passing by Qiaotou Road, Wang Yue noticed that there were many people in tattered clothes gathered in Qiaotou and teahouses, all of them had dishes, but they didn't seem to be beggars and homeless, so he asked Mao Fusheng.

"Lord Qiqi, these are weavers, as well as dyers and calenders." Mao Fusheng said that there are more than 3,000 craftsmen in the county who "eat cotton cloth rice," and most of them are casual laborers who are paid daily.

Mao Fusheng said: "Recently, the cotton cloth market has been bad, and the machine owners themselves are almost unable to open the pot, who else hires craftsmen." ”

Wang Yue asked, "Cotton cloth doesn't sell well?" ”

"Since last year, the cotton market has been very poor. "Cloth can't afford to sell at a price," Mao Fusheng said, "not only the machine owners and machine workers are unlucky, but even the villagers who grow cotton in the countryside are not having a good time -- if the cloth can't be sold, the cotton can't be sold at a price." ”

Wang Yue felt that the cotton textile industry in the south of the Yangtze River was withering, which reflected the economic problems of the Ming Dynasty. In fact, he knew but didn't want to admit that these people were actually victims of a large amount of dumping of modern cloth in the starting point city, but because of the short time, the impact was not big now.

The group walked to a big mansion in Taiqingfang in the county town - commonly known as the "Nine Rooms", Mao Fusheng whispered that this is Xu Guangqi's old house.

Xu Guangqi died four years ago, and Wang Yue still admires Wang Yue very much as one of the few people in China who "opened his eyes to the world" in this era.

Mao Fusheng told Wang Yue that in Shanghai County's cross-sea gate, that is, in Kangqu outside the south gate, there is the Xu family's "double garden", which is the ancestral industry of the Xu family, and now it is the Xu family's vegetable garden and mulberry garden.

There is a peach orchard outside the north gate, where many peach trees are planted, and the harvest is very good. There are also 50 acres of sweet potato and vegetable fields next to the peach orchard, which were requisitioned to the county as the garrison of the Songjiang General Military Office.

Sweet potatoes were introduced to the south of the Yangtze River from Fujian and Guangzhou, and Xu Guangqi was the first to successfully plant them there.

The Xu family also has a farm villa in Fahua Town, called "Houle Hall", which is the location of the Xu family's ancestors.

With so many Xu family's industries, Wang Yue couldn't help but think that the place name "Xujiahui" might come from this.

At noon, he dined in the best restaurant in the county, of course Mao Fusheng could not sit with the governor, and several staff members of the trading company were at the same table.

"Zhang Zhong, your work must be carried out as soon as possible."

Waiting for the dishes, Wang Yue said to Zhang Zhong, the current manager of the Shanghai Trade Branch.

This Zhang Zhong, at the age of twenty-one, turned out to be a little girl who was married by Zhang Ziyun, and he was the son of the British government. After Zhang Zhong came to Wang's house, Wang Yue also changed his identity and personal dependence, which became a contract system.

Zhang Zhong grew up in the British government since he was a child, and thought that Wang Yue's behavior was to drive him out of the house, so he cried a lot. Not only Zhang Zhong alone, but also many of the maids and servants who came to marry couldn't turn around, so Wang Yue did a lot of ideological work.

Zhang Zhong used to be a guy in a British public shop, dealing in the goods of the starting city, so Wang Yue asked him to work in a trading company. This Zhang Zhong is clever, has a certain foundation, and gets started quickly. Because Zhang Zhong was familiar with Jingshi, Li Maochang gradually handed over all the business of Jingshi to him.

This time, Wang Yue carried out the Jiangnan business, and Li Maochang recommended him.

"Uncle, the little one was walking on the street just now, and he was already thinking about it." Zhang Zhong used to call Wang Yue like this, his parents were still on errand in the British government, and this was the case for most of the slaves who came to marry. However, now that he is sitting at the same table with Wang Yue, Zhang Zhong is still a little restrained.

Wang Yue encouraged: "Tell me what you think." ”

"The goods in our starting point city do not worry about buyers." Speaking of this, Zhang Zhongcai showed a confident look: "If you want to spread the goods as soon as possible, you must borrow the existing channels of local large merchants, which is the agent that my uncle said." Just now, the little one looked at the street, and there were already people selling the goods in our starting point city, but the amount was not large, and it should have been trafficked from the north. ”

"The small one thinks that relying only on other people's channels is not a long-term solution, and we must also establish our own channels. Especially in big cities like Songjiang, Suzhou, Nanjing, and Hangzhou, we all have to build commercial banks, and those small places such as county towns are run by them. ”

Wang Yue couldn't help nodding when he listened: "Very good, just do it according to your ideas, but the headquarters of Jiangnan is located in Shanghai County." ”

Wang Yue attaches so much importance to Shanghai, which makes Wang Zhong a little inexplicable, the political and cultural center of Jiangnan is in Nanjing. But what Wang Yue decided, where did he dare to refute it?

"Dachang, your bank should also follow up in time!" Wang Yue was humane to a middle-aged man with a mustache present.

Feng Dachang is a fellow villager of Wang Yue, who used to be a bookkeeper and now works in Wang Pengyuan's finance department, from which the bank was separated. Feng Dachang is the General Manager of Jiangnan Branch of Qiqi City Bank.

In Feng Dachang's opinion, isn't this bank similar to a money bank, since Wang Yue is called a bank, then a bank.

"Okay, Lord Wang!" Feng Dachang responded.

Another function of the bank is to supervise finance, and the accounts of the Jiangnan Trade Branch have to go from the bank, so the bank has the function of cashier. There is no way, now it is a grass creation, the structure of the branch is not perfect, in fact, the bank is the same, it can only slowly move on the right track.

Banks are also subject to supervision, and that is the job of the audit department.

(Thanks to taco1965 for the tip)