In the morning of opening, I always woke up too early. It is not an exaggeration to say that there is no difference between morning and night!

In the morning, the street stalls are always overcrowded, and the shouts of various crowds come and go. The eyes swept there are overcrowded, teahouses, inns, cloth villages, hotels, casinos, vegetable markets, docks, entrances to the city, and so on.

Various transportation routes cover every corner of the capital like a spider web, and the busyness of the entire capital is not much weaker than that of the new Chinese capital in the 21st century.

Ahead, a bustling rainbow-shaped bridge. The bridge is crowded with people, tourists and pedestrians are weaving, only to see many small stalls on both sides of the bridge, there are all kinds of groceries and small dried fruits, as well as fortune tellers, and tea sellers... The promenade in the middle of the bridge is bustling with people.

A number of canal branches flow through the entire city of Kaifeng, looking down from the bridge, Zhu Zilong looked at the boats in the river in the carriage, thousands of sails racing, hundreds of boats competing for the current. Standing at the head of the bridge, the spring breeze is blowing, so comfortable.

A large grain ship was about to sail through the bridge hole, and the boatmen on the big ship were very busy. Some of them stand on the top of the canopy and lower the sails neatly, some stand on the side of the ship and hold the penny vigorously, and some are vigorously using the penny to push against the roof of the bridge hole, so that the big ship can pass through the bridge with the water potential.

Zhu Zilong looked at the lively scenery along the way, with interest.

Speaking of which, it has been about a year since I traveled to the Song Dynasty. But because I'm so busy every day, so if I think about it, it seems that Yagen hasn't played a few times, right?

Come to think of it, one day when the great cause can be expected. If you can have a leisurely play, it will be quite interesting!

Just as Zhu Zilong was thinking, Jin Zheng, who was following the strange car, suddenly said, "Young master, the Tokyo Building has arrived." ”

Jin is the eldest son of Steward Jin, and he is also the youngest of Zhu Zilong's identity, and he is loyal. When there are no people, Jin Zheng is used to calling Young Master Zhu Zilong, or even Brother Erlang, not Wang Ye.

Zhu Zilong got down from the carriage, shook his clothes, and sighed a little: "Ah Zheng, today's weather seems to be a little abnormal." Obviously, the result of the weather forecast is cloudy, but this part is hot due to topography. That's it, ***! ”

In ancient times, Kaifeng was called Laoqiu, Daliang, Chenliu, Tokyo, Bianjing, Bianliang, etc., referred to as Bian. Locals and outsiders have different names for it, but Zhu Zilong still likes to call it his original name, Kaifeng.

However, Tokyo is too hot, and it will always make a traverser like him think of a plan and can't help but laugh. Hehe!

The Tokyo building in front of me is quite lively today, and there are no less than dozens or hundreds of carriages and sedan chairs parked around. The accompanying subordinates filled the road with them, but if they asked carefully, they could learn that these people were merchants from all over the world.

And it was Zhu Zilong who asked them to come.

These merchants were either powerful merchants in the capital, or representatives of Hui merchants and Jin merchants. These people have a lot of energy in their hands, and the amount of silver they can use is often more than 100,000 taels.

Later generations only knew that during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the prestige of the Hui merchants and Jin merchants was incomparable. But I didn't know that in fact, as far back as the Song Dynasty, their energy was also extraordinary!

For example, Huizhou merchants, also known as Huizhou merchants and Xin'an merchants, commonly known as "Hui Gang", the general name of the merchants of the old Huizhou government.

Hui merchants came from Huizhou Prefecture in southern Anhui Province, including She, Xiuning, Wuyuan, Qimen, Yi, and Jixi counties, that is, the ancient Xin'an County. Among the six counties, the merchants of Shehe Xiuning are particularly famous. The Hui merchants were active as early as the Song dynasty, and their heyday was from the late Ming to the early Qing dynasty.

Guangdong merchants, Hui merchants, Jin merchants, Zhejiang merchants, and Suzhou merchants are collectively known as the "Five Great Merchant Gangs" in history.

Some people even say that the Huizhou merchants engaged in the salt industry in Yangzhou have a capital of 40 million taels of silver, which is comparable to a small treasury. Of course, the nature of its organization and merchants also knows that it is necessary to be unkind.

Although there are treacherous predecessors, there are also many businessmen among them, whose business philosophy is "morality, integrity", "integrity-based, righteousness and profit", and has achieved a good reputation in the market.

Among them, those who return to their hometowns after making profits and become rich, and set up social welfare undertakings and charities, also abound.

In the case of the flood a few months ago, Huizhou merchants donated a total of 6-90,000 stone of rice and 10 million taels of silver. Although the messy halfway deduction was deducted, when they arrived in the capital, only about fifty percent remained. But it also made Emperor Zhao Ji feel very relieved and ordered a good award. And gifted many children of merchant families as officials who have no real power, but are not too low-level.

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Seeing Zhu Zilong coming, many businessmen who had already arrived upstairs came downstairs together. The onlookers watched respectfully, although they were crowded in one place, they were not impatient at all, and their liveliness almost blocked the entrance.

Zhu Zilong was very satisfied with this picture, nodded again and again with a smile on his face, and was polite to these people for a long time before going upstairs to lead the team.

Of course, Zhu Zilong didn't blindly think that it was because he was too famous and capable that people were so polite. Isn't the reason because of the word profit?

The reason why these people are so attentive and respectful is more because of the bait they have dropped. It was too tempting for them to come!

Of course, the patriotism of such businessmen in the early days was much stronger than that of the Ming and Qing dynasties. They generally started from a small capital and ventured into the business world. The waves of the Shang Sea are turbulent and dangerous, and if you are not careful, you will run aground or even sink.

We are well aware that without the stability and reunification of the country, there will be no prosperity and development of one's personal undertakings. "The rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband"!

When they went up to the third floor, they sat down in their places. But there were people who couldn't hold their breath, and stepped forward from time to time to hand over the invitation to Jin Zheng, hoping to transfer it to Zhu Zilong on his behalf.

"Wang Zheng'an of Jin'an Commercial Bank, I've seen the prince!"

"Lord, Yangzhou Qian Firm's greetings to you, although the chief shopkeeper of my family is far away, he has always admired you...... This time I specially arranged to come here! ”

The noisy greetings, one after another, were not until Zhu Zilong raised his hand and pressed down, and everyone realized that they had lost their manners.

Seeing that the merchants finally quieted down, Zhu Zilong smiled and said: "Thank you for giving face to this king, you were invited to come here, and this king will naturally not let you down!" ”

When the businessmen heard this, they all fell silent and looked at Zhu Zilong with expectant eyes.

Zhu Zilong couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the magic power of benefiting people's hearts was so great, and he stood up and said: "The intention of this king to invite you to this banquet today, I think you already knew most of it before you came. Some time ago, this king read ancient books, dreamed of immortals, and got the help of Taoism, tested the ancient method, and obtained a variety of wonderful things. For a while, its effect is in Kaifeng and the surrounding area, and I believe everyone has a consensus. Now this king has the emperor's permission, and wants to promote it to the Quartet with the support of the emperor. Thanks to the trust of the officials, these matters have been fully entrusted to the king. ”

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