As soon as my eyes were closed, a new day began, and just after breakfast, the ship stopped at a pier. Taking advantage of the fact that his feet were more stable, Liu looked at the mountain and went to the deck to breathe the wind. Staring at this wharf, which was still a barren beach when he came last time, Liu Guanshan was full of confidence in the imperial court.

"Hey!" Liu Guanshan's shoulder was patted.

Without looking, Liu Kanshan knew who he had encountered. "Brother Wang! Let's meet again! ”

Two pairs of arms, one white and one black, were tightly crossed and hugged together, facing this old friend, Liu Kanshan asked bluntly: "Is my brother coming and going to ask for money?"

"Ah, yes, yes. Say no, no. Wang Qinian smiled.

"My brother went to Ava for two months, and he also learned to hang a book bag? Say it! ”

"Okay, don't sell it." Wang Qinian touched his head, "I plan to go to Ava to borrow money." ”

"Borrow-money? Who to look for? ”

"Borrow money from the big merchants of Ava."

"The treasury and the Ministry of Internal Affairs don't have this money, can the businessmen have it?"

Although Liu Kanshan was born in a merchant family, he had never seen the kind of big businessman who was rich enough to rival the country, and he had seen the profligacy of local officials, and he subconsciously felt that the government was the richest.

"Ah, is my brother joking?" Wang Qinian glared in disbelief, "Not to mention that those in Ava City are imperial merchants, even if they are not imperial merchants, there are also those who have opened a textile workshop with one or two hundred people." Thousands of taels of silver a month go out, isn't there a lot of money? ”

"I saw all of this in the training class held by His Majesty himself."

"But... If they don't borrow, we can't force it, right? ”

Wang Qinian patted Liu Guanshan's shoulder seriously: "Brother, do you know how Tuweizi dealt with the soldiers?"

The first time Liu Kanshan saw the soldiers crossing the border, or did the Ming army bombard Zhongxing City with artillery, how do you know how to deal with Tuweizi? "Brother, you say."

"When marching and fighting, although most of the food is supplied from the back, we also have to save some on the spot. If you want to fight, you have to beat these landlords and old wealth, obedient soil enclosures, put dozens of stones of grain, one or two pigs, and a few cans of wine, and we will generally let them go. If any of them are not interesting, let's fight them down and take everything that should be taken! ”

"Brother, you are the governor of Zhongxing Prefecture, right?"

Liu Guanshan nodded.

"I, a small county town with a blast furnace, have shops in Ava City, and sometimes I borrow money from the bank that has their shares, and I asked them, and they said that they couldn't get seven or eight thousand taels of silver. I just went to Ava. ”

"That Zhongxing Prefecture of yours, but the territory under the rule of the imperial court is second only to Ava, how can there be any reason why you can't get money?"

After getting off the boat, the two went separately to find the merchant to fight the autumn breeze, and after a day, both of them returned to the room with satisfied expressions. Whether it was to save face to the local yamen, to burn incense everywhere, or to be attracted by the interest promised by the IOU, every merchant who came to the door lent a few hundred or a few thousand taels of silver.

"Brother, how much money did you borrow today?"

Wang Qinian showed a satisfied expression on his face: "Seven thousand two hundred taels, I ran three families, which is basically enough."

"I ran two families, twelve thousand taels."

"I said, brother, you, the official hat of Zhongxing Zhizhou, are more effective than us."

Two days later, the news of the two magistrates "going to Beijing" quickly spread throughout the wealthy families of Ava City. In the past, they went to every house to come to the door with the official seal to fight the autumn breeze, but now it is a group of businessmen who have heard the news and begged to send their money. The hands of the two of them writing IOUs in the post station were sore, and the hands of counting the silver tickets were cramping.

Another day passed, and when the two were about to continue to "absorb gold", an internal official came to the post: "Your Majesty said that he wanted to see you." ”

And this sight is almost a whole day, and no one knows what the emperor said to them; What can be known is that the next afternoon, the two of them were each sent back to the post station by the palace with a box of beautifully printed bonds. The bonds were divided into denominations of 10 taels, 50 taels and 100 taels, and unlike the previous IOUs, the bonds themselves were printed with the words "Buy, Sell and Transfer".

In front of the post house, several sheds were erected, and the wooden sign of "Ava Stock Exchange" was hung, and there was no word for securities at this time, but when I saw two young men in official uniforms sitting inside, everyone knew what it was for.

While most of the people were surrounding Wang Qinian and Liu Kanshan to subscribe for bonds, the anonymity who came to see the bustle noticed another small table in the corner, behind which sat a student who appeared to be a crash course, engrossed in reading a booklet.

When he saw the sign of "Listing Registry" on the table, he was keenly aware of something, so he asked the servant to ask what it was for.

The bored student who was sitting there saw that someone finally came over, and replied enthusiastically: "Do you see the sign of the stock exchange outside, this is required to be hung in the palace, and after these two are gone, other officials and businessmen, as long as they meet the qualifications, can also come here to sell stocks, bonds, and futures." "Jiangnan in the late Ming Dynasty already had the concept of futures, and stocks and bonds themselves were easy to understand, so this student who was crammed could barely explain it clearly.

"But if you want to come to us to issue bonds... Securities, I want the palace to send someone to check the accounts... Ah, I'm just a little student, anyway, the standard is set by the palace. The student found that he did not understand, so he simply handed over the pamphlet he was reading.

As the second largest businessman in Ava, the servants around him are not like the local tyrants who don't know a single word, and the servants understand the meaning and go back to their lives under the rough explanation of the students.

"Let's go." Anonymous nodded after hearing this, thinking that after he went back, he would send a steward to register, whether it was a political response to the affairs of the palace, or the dividends brought by the market earlier, it made Anonymous feel that it was better to do it sooner rather than later.

While Anonymous was sitting in a carriage meditating, the first batch of distilled spirits was transported to Lin'an. A bottle of wine was accidentally broken, and the strong aroma of wine immediately reached the noses of the soldiers.

The new army sent a platoon to watch the stalls, and several staff officers to keep accounts---- the leader of which was Chang Kaishen, a logistics staff officer who proposed this plan.

In order to save materials, and in order to allow the local soldiers who have no concept of saving to save tickets for a while, the liquor sold is in large jars. A dime of the military ticket corresponds to a dime of wine, and a large jar contains a five-cornered wine. And the military tickets issued to them are a little more than that.

In addition to the liquor stalls, there are also all kinds of novelties or common things: canned luncheon meat made of tinplate, long shiny sewing needles, sweet and greasy sweets, scissors made entirely of iron... These are great temptations for the native soldiers who have been engaged in unequal exchange by Han Chinese traders for a long time. If I hadn't seen the rifle salvo of the New Army, I was afraid that some people would have come up and robbed it in a frenzy.