Ma Chaowen smiled when he heard this: "I asked Xiao Fan to invite you over, is it to design or entertain you?" and Yusheng's family business forces, people in the capital may not understand, don't we know? I'm just lard and I won't think about the idea of beating Lord Zhang, to put it mildly, can we stack them together and Yusheng a cold hair? Even if the merchants in the city are combined, they are not a single person at all. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Ma Chaowen's words were indeed hard to hear, but the more unpleasant they were, Wang Datong was relieved, sat down at the moment, and said calmly: "Then what do you want your brother to do, quickly explain it, draw the next line, if you can do it, my brother will definitely follow." ”

"We have a cooperative relationship with Yusheng, and we make a fortune together." Ma Chaowen said in a low voice: "But the main business is medicinal herbs and cloth, you are the main groceries, I have heard the wind recently, and Yusheng is afraid that he will have to reduce the share of purchases from us." ”

Wang Datong nodded and said, "I have also heard about this......

This matter and Yusheng did not deliberately conceal this, originally most of the goods of these Zhangjiakou merchants were traded with the Beijiakou, and later the Beijiakou handicap called Zhang Han to stir up a mess, and the Ming Dynasty closed the official horse market, which was a disaster for the Jin merchants in Zhangjiakou. Later, fortunately, it was the traffic of Dongyu, everyone's goods are still exported to Liaodong in large quantities, and the profits are also very high, at the beginning, Wang Datong and Ma Chaowen and others followed the eight Jin merchants to challenge and Yusheng, although they did not play shirtless, but their hearts may not want the eight Jin merchants to win...... If you really win, it is equivalent to the businessmen of Zhangjiakou grabbing this smuggling route, which is much more comfortable than eating on the back in other people's mouths.

Helplessly, the eight Jin merchants failed miserably, but fortunately, he Yusheng was not too much, and still received goods from the merchants in Zhangjiakou, maintaining the old situation, not to mention, everyone's shipments and profits increased.

But the Dongyu has cut off most of the trade, mainly because Nuerhachi and his son are unwilling to rely on people's nose, and in addition to food, cloth and medicinal materials are not important, the Jurchens before entering the Fushun Pass, many people in the Eight Banners can not wear clothes, and they have not seen much freezing to death in the ice and snow of the white mountains and black waters, and there is no cloth, groceries, it doesn't matter at all.

For Nurhachi, there were only three things that could not be missing: food and salt and iron!

Dongyu cut off trade, and Yusheng of course to cut the amount of purchases, Beiyu has not recovered yet, purchasing power is far from being compared with a few years ago, if you want Zhangjiakou to return to the prosperity of the past, it will take at least three years or so, which is really bad news for Wang Datong and Ma Chaowen and others.

"I heard that He Yusheng is building a trading city near Hanhai in the north." Wang Datong's news is much better, he said to Ma Chaowen: "The road and the city are repaired, connecting Mobei, there are endless business travels along the way, and there are Russians to trade in the trading city, I am afraid that by then the business of our waiting will be much better." ”

"That won't be for us." Ma Chaowen also knows this, he has no doubts about He Yusheng's strength and Zhang Han's ability, and he wants to get a piece of the pie in this matter, but after thinking about it, this trade channel is completely controlled by He Yusheng, unlike the trade with Beiyu, many merchants in Zhangjiakou have done business with Beiyu for several generations, and they are familiar with the connections, and they don't necessarily need the help of Yusheng, the trade with the Russians, from the road to the trade location and the object of the trade are all handled by Yusheng, Ma Chaowen is not worried that He Yusheng will hack him, But he feels very bad about it, he wants to join and Yusheng, but now and Yusheng is no longer the situation when the Chamber of Commerce was established, it is necessary to include solid merchants and powerful gentry from all over the country to join in, and point profits to attract people into the shares, and now the basic handicap of Yusheng has been determined, and there is basically no possibility for ordinary businessmen to join in, to put it bluntly, after the restructuring of the conference held by Zhang Han on the grassland last year, the door has been closed.

"I also understand......" Wang Da channel: "It is estimated that taxes will be levied, but I don't know how much will be levied, and I don't know what the situation of our business over there is, and I don't know how to do business in my heart." ”

Several businessmen looked at each other, their minds were very simple, no matter what the imperial court thought, they had already surrendered to He Yusheng and Zhang Han to the core, and they wanted to climb into He Yusheng's system.

"Brother Ma, let's just say it." Wang Datong didn't want to be confused, and stared at Ma Chaowen silently.

"Now that he has sat down, Heyusheng has been short of money recently." Ma Chaowen said with a smile: "Why don't we donate some silver and buy a director's hat to wear on my head?" Even if you are not a serious director, just like the imperial court donates prisoners, we also donate a director, so that it can be regarded as Yusheng's own person, this identity can be used urgently. ”

Wang Datong's eyes lit up and said with a smile: "It's really a good plan!" ”

The big merchants of Zhangjiakou have already discussed that they plan to go to Mobei in the spring or early summer of next year...... Doing business in Zhangjiakou is the money of the Beiyu, and dealing with the magnates of the Beiyu is not once or twice, they are neither strangers nor afraid of the grassland, and it is nothing more than walking for more than a month to Mobei, and there is nothing to worry about. But Wang Datong and Ma Chaowen, including other businessmen, are afraid of a black eye, no "relationship", that is, there is no tough backstage.

At the moment, this matter is really a big opportunity, although I don't know how serious the silver shortage with Yusheng is, but at this time, the effect of offering silver must be much better than usual.

"Go!" Wang Datong patted his leg and said with a smile: "Brother Ma is a character, this matter is counted next." ”

"Let's talk about the silver first." Ma Chaowen was praised by Wang Datong like this, his face lit up with joy, and he said: "Let's count 30,000 taels, what?" ”

"That's a good number." Wang Datong originally planned to give 20,000 yuan, but after thinking about it, he Yusheng has at least a few million profits a year, 120,000 yuan, a fart? Of course, there are many people with great power, he and Ma Chaowen take the lead, and follow up a batch below, it is estimated that hundreds of thousands can be made up, in this way, the initiative must be in hand, and there is no need to care about ten thousand two silvers at this moment, such as Wang Datong, a net worth businessman, a year less than fifty or sixty thousand, more than seventy or eighty thousand taels of net profit, in the Ming Dynasty anywhere is a super rich businessman, an acre of land a year of production is only two handfuls of silver, with 10,000 acres of land a year only 10,000 silver into the account, or even only a few thousand taels, this account is so calculated, I know how rich and powerful these two businessmen are, and how great their determination is this time.

Ma Chaowen's suggestion is also not without reason.

There is a season of tomorrow, there have always been eunuchs and donations for officials, but they have not formed a scale, not like the Qing season, from the early days there are donors to the official shift, after the middle is the flood of donations, not only donate money to buy, officials, but also to buy until the top of the four products, and even by chance, the red-top businessman is not a problem, not only can donate officials, but also from the miscellaneous small officials to donate to the county, state, government, and even directly donate the platform, and the shift can also add money, as long as the money is in place, you can directly buy a real lack of platform. Like in the Guangxu period, a salt method in charge of salt, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver can be bought, and the work will return to the original in one year.

Daming only donated more during the Chongzhen years, and it was mainly based on donating to prisoners or civil officials, and generally could only donate less than seven products, even if Chongzhen was poor to be pants, he did not take out the name of the country and sell it. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the two were stronger than the Ming Dynasty, and they were successful in continuing their lives for decades, one was to donate and sell officials, and a large number of rich gentry and businessmen were brought to the side of the court.

The other is to open up group training and let go of their hands and feet to let the Han gentry train and fight.

The Ming Dynasty also had a group training at this time, otherwise Zhang Han had no way to start, but the group training was limited to a lot, and the scale was not large, and the imperial court would not take the group training as a usable division of the economic system, unlike Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and other Han ministers in the Qing Dynasty, training into soldiers to fight, the court used it as a life-saving straw, although the Han people's training led to a deviation of the center of gravity, top-heavy, strong and weak, but after all, it was a continuation of the national fortune, the Manchu Qing Dynasty survived for more than half a century, and the death of the Ming Dynasty was due to many reasons, but it was the sale of officials and sitting back and watching the local centrifugation These two did not let go, It's really deplorable.

"That's it." Ma Chaowen said excitedly: "My brother is in the marching division, I think this matter should be sooner rather than later, this silver is late, it has no effect, and it blinds our hearts." ”

"I'm afraid that the two of us will be known about the silver, and everyone will rush to redeem it, which is not good."

Ma Chaowen's eyes were blazing, and he nodded vigorously: "What this is saying is that the current market of Yusheng is not comparable to the original, let's not say anything else here in Zhangjiakou, there are always dozens of wealthy businessmen with a net worth of hundreds of thousands, and everyone flocks to exchange silver together, but it doesn't show us." Not only does this have to be fast, but it also has to be kept secret! ”

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When Zhang Han received the news, he was also on his way from Lingqiu to Lizhuang, and when he received this kind of news halfway, his mood was not greatly affected, he shook his hand, and handed the Tang newspaper to Sun Jingting to read.

"It's terrible." Sun Jingting was not as calm as Zhang Han, and his face changed at that time.

"Unexpected, but reasonable." Zhang Han smiled and said: "We have been moving back and forth, and there is no one who does not have an accident if the accounts are turned up like this." ”