"Millet and wheat, four coins and one stone, miscellaneous grains, rice and beans, are also given at market prices, and those who come will not refuse." The Fan family was in the branch of Xinpingbao, and Li Mingda looked at the copied note, and his face showed a puzzled look.

He Yusheng began to collect grain at a time like this a year ago, and it was collected at the market price of four coins of silver per stone, and the price of miscellaneous grains and rice beans was also lower, but it was also the same as the market price.

There are at least 100 shops engaged in grain business in the entire North Street, and there are also some large shops with a capital of more than 100,000 yuan, including the branch of a hugely rich commercial house like the Fan family, which is worth more than one million, and Yusheng's capital can only be regarded as medium in a place like Xinpingbao.

Li Mingda was also puzzled.

A few months ago, his distant nephew Li Yuchun also approached him, asking to buy grain from the Fan family at a price lower than the market price, and vaguely expressed the idea of going down to the store to do it himself.

"Give them to them, we still have more than 10,000 stones in the library, give them all."

Although Li Mingda didn't quite understand what He Yusheng thought, but his nephew was also the shopkeeper over there, since he bought it at the market price, he couldn't suffer a loss in this transaction, and he, the branch shopkeeper, could be this family.

There is still more than a month before the next small market opens, and before the fifteenth day of the first month, all the businesses may not be opened, and the market will not be opened until the end of next month.

"I heard they also do mule and horse walking?" Li Mingda smiled at a tent room: "The ambition of the little proprietor of the Zhang family is not small. ”

"Let's toss." The bookkeeper said with disdain: "How can there be such an easy way to do business, I don't know how Lao Zhou and they can follow such a hairy boy to mess around." ”

Li Mingda had a smile on his face, and he also agreed with the statement of this account in his heart, and he also inquired about Yusheng's crisis resolution, and wrote a letter to Fan Yongdou to explain this matter, Fan Dongzhu is very concerned about many news such as changes in commercial houses in various places, before Li Mingda followed the proprietor to a lot of places, sent a lot of silver, the proprietor is very big, but he doesn't know exactly what to do, he vaguely feels that there is some connection with Yusheng and the changes in the market, but for the time being, he can't figure out the specific context. He also wrote in great detail about the actions of the young proprietor of the Zhang family, but Li Mingda felt that this thing could be done by the power of the Zhang family in Puzhou, what can Zhang Han do with a half-grown baby, I am afraid that the specific thing is also running with Liang Hong. However, this is not written in his letter, and the proprietor will have his own judgment, and he, the treasurer, can only convey the news.

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There are still two days before the New Year, many guys and shopkeepers in the field have left Xinping Fort, the whole fort has become deserted, only the two shops of Heyusheng are still very hot, the store is still collecting grain, so far it has been close to 50,000 stones, that is, close to 6 million catties, the amount of grain has been a lot, the amount has been close to a small market all the trade volume is more.

And Yusheng's silver is only more than 10,000 taels, the last time the small market almost took out the goods clean, gathered nearly 10,000 taels of silver in hand, plus Zhang Han took out 10,000 taels from home, according to the silver after the harvest of grain is still a little rich, but the cost of the mule and horse shop is large, the cost of the store is not small, although now do not accept goods such as cloth, silk and rape, the daily pressure is still not small.

"If you don't accept it before the year, you will say that it will be on the counter before the fifteenth day of the first month, and you will talk about it after the new year." In the quiet room, Zhang Han was already sitting in the main seat, Zhou Fengji and others were listening, everyone had no objections, and even Zhou Fengji and Li Yujing felt relieved.

Zhang Han has been teaching the accounting room Li Yujing Longmen accounting, this accounting method is divided into "in", "pay", "deposit", "the" four categories, is a further step of the traditional four-column inventory method, there is the shadow of early double-entry accounting, originally had to take decades before it appeared, Zhang Han is also reading idle books when dabbling in some, compared to the double-entry accounting method of this Longmen account is much simpler, compared to the original four-pillar method and detailed appropriately, the four methods correspond to the day's "all income", "all expenditures", "all assets", "all capital and liabilities" and so on, The daily expenses are clear at a glance, there is no market recently, and most of the goods traded last time are also out of the market, and it can be said that they can only go in and out every day.

The important thing is that the grain bought at the market price has been piled up like a mountain, and Yusheng's original warehouse is not enough to install at all, but fortunately, there are many empty houses in the mule and horse shop, and most of them are placed over there after cleaning, and they also find a few neighboring trading houses to borrow empty houses to place, and they are full of piles everywhere.

Zhang Han is also extremely satisfied with this number, changing to a place outside Xinpingbao, it is impossible to receive so much grain in such a short time, the small market trade is mainly grain, supplemented by cloth groceries, so the main commodity of many commercial houses is grain, not to mention that the grain is enough.

As for the market price to close, it is not to sell at the market price.

Whether it is a big city or a small city, it can only barely meet the needs of some Mongolians, and I don't see the right-wing Mongolia, that is, the barbarian department and the Karaqin Mongolia, that is, the Duoyan Sanwei of the year, still fight grass valleys on the border every year?

Is it really necessary to solve the problem of feeding millions of Mongols by trade, and these people are still making a fuss?

Now not only the Mongols, but also the Jurchens have secretly joined the trade camp, and the Liaodong horse market will soon be unable to sustain itself, and where will the materials needed for the hundreds of thousands of Jurchens and the territory they have grabbed come from?

This smuggling business is a huge profit, and the demand is huge, what is the current grain collection?

"Young proprietor, the mule and horse shop is here for business." Liang Xing didn't see Zhang Han on the counter, so he simply called in the store, fortunately, there are no customers in the store now, but there is nothing to do, Liang Xing's face is full of joy, and the evil spirit on his face is swept away, and then Zhang Han realized that this guy is actually quite handsome.

Zhang Han's mule and horse walk is actually a four-way street.

It is said to be a mule and horse shop, but it does not rent mules and horses, but has porters to help carry goods and collect fees.

In the Ming Dynasty, the transportation industry has been very developed, there are ships in the south and horses in the north, and all parts of the north are dominated by mules and horses, and there are foot lines in various cities, with a large number of porters, the short-distance purely with manpower to push, the foot force to contribute, the long-distance with mules and horses, the porter also acts as a muleman, helping to drive the mules and horses and load and unload the goods.

In those years, the level of the legal system was 100 streets worse than that of later generations, the local officials were insufficient, the three classes of officials in the yamen plus the idle were not enough, and the main work was only used to collect taxes, and most of the usual law and order were done by the clans themselves, and the cities were much more chaotic than the countryside, because the clans were not strong, and most of them were scattered.

Most of the men who walked on the foot were homeless people composed of bankrupt peasants, but there were also a small number of urban poor, and most of these people were scum of poor character, and stealing when helping people transport goods was only a trivial matter, blackmail and robbery also occurred from time to time, and even killing the owner of the goods was not uncommon when traveling long distances.

Because the quality of the porter is too poor, later merchants rarely hire the porter directly, but find a reliable footman, contact with the foothead, check the goods and give the foothead a large sum, the porter only develops a small pen, so that the transportation down, the loss is still inevitable, but it is much stronger than the loss of people and money.

At that time, as the saying goes, the car and boat shop should be killed if you are not guilty, but in fact, there is a reason in it.

The mule and horse shop provided food and lodging and mules and horses, and even the cars were also rented out called car owners, and at that time, the short-distance business was chosen, and the long-distance bulk goods must be hired mules and horses and foot walkers.

"There is an endless stream of vendors on the road, and there are dozens of them. The camel that is ridden is a mule if it is not a donkey, the cart is driven by more than ten heads, or five or six heads, and the small cart is either oxen, or two or three donkeys, or a single wheel, and one person pushes it, and it is carried by a horse. ”

The car is also divided into a variety of kinds, the cart has four wheels and two wheels, the four ** car can carry fifty stones, pulled by horses or mules, or twelve, or ten, eight horses and mules, according to Song Yingxing's record: "Where the cart itinerary, the river also stops, the mountain also stops, and the winding path also stops." ”

Ordinary two-wheeled vehicles have lower requirements for road conditions, but the load capacity drops a lot, the kind of large four-wheeled vehicles that carry thousands of pounds, the requirements are high, the transportation direction is difficult, the number of mules and horses used is large, generally only short-distance transportation is useful, the terrain is slightly complicated, you can only use two-wheeled vehicles or small cars, and even use a single horse or people to pick it.

Zhang Han's mule and horse shop is already a collection of foot shops and mule and horse shops plus car households, but not only that, the business bank also provides the service of depositing and withdrawing money, Xinpingbao is the head office, Zhang Han plans to set up a store in Tianchengwei and Zhenyuwei two cities, as well as Yang and Acropolis, which is a radius of about 300 miles, and it is also the limit that Yusheng can reach at present.

Zhang Han plans to go out with Liang Hong to run a few new years, select the address of a few branches, the branch does not need to be too big, there are more than a dozen rooms to raise some horses and mules and donkeys, put a few cars, you can change the manpower, the key is to set up a few solid warehouses, put some tigers and tents to guard, used to collect and distribute goods and money.

This kind of mule and horse shop plus foot shop plus early account bureau money bank practice is one of Zhang Han's two-pronged approach, smuggling is one tube, and this shop is another tube, these two kinds of business are done, and a net worth of more than one million is a small meaning, and tens of millions can be expected.

Who has the world Zhang Han doesn't want to pay attention, whether he smuggles or does mules and horses, the first is to make money, and then to strengthen his own strength, smuggling can make good friends with the Mongols and Jurchens, these guys will win the world after 20 years, and when they have money to do business, they will buy the officials on the Ming side, and no one will dare to touch him in the future, as long as the thieves don't come, they will not be afraid of anything.

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