"Shen Shiming, can you speak? If you can't speak, shut your mouth, no one will treat you as dumb! Chen Ding looked at his partner beside him angrily, the flames in his heart could make him breathe fire, and then burn the guy next to him into a pile of ashes.

He is now leading a squad to patrol along Sekijo Avenue. Shen Shiming, who was talking beside him, was one of the members of his class, but he was one of the most annoying people in the entire team, even if it was Chen Zifeng, he was better than this guy, Chen Zifeng at least had eyes. No wonder people say that the Shen family's intelligence is all grown in Shen Shiying, except for one Shen Shiying, the Shen family is already the top big family in the entire Zhejiang Province, but the successor is weak, and there is no successor. Because of this, Shen Guozhen is now eager to filter all the distant branches of the Shen family to the side, so as to select a few talents.

This is how Shen Shiming got it.

He and Shen Guozhen are only related to each other for four generations, and they are going to be out of five suits. The name was not called Shen Shiming at the beginning, it was Shen Shiming and his father saw that the Shen family suddenly turned over, so he hurriedly renewed his son's generation, and then he had the name Shen Shiming.

As a talent selected by Shen Guozhen from many distant disciples, this Shen Shiming's brain is very smart, he has never scored ninety-five points in mathematics, and he has performed well in sports, and his overall results are among the best in the entire Chengjun Public School, but this guy's emotional intelligence is problematic. Because his vision is too high, he looks down on people with a lower 'family' background than him, and the lack of arrogance and contempt in his speech can offend people to death. Chen Ding was very suspicious that even if this Shen Shiming had the support of Shen Guozhen in the future, where would he be able to go in the future?

However, Chen Ding would not force Shen Shiming to make amends to that Tibetan, although that Tibetan seems to be a small nobleman, but what are they? Don't mention anything else, but they are a scout and wearing a military uniform, so they can't take the initiative to apologize to a fan. Chen Ding pinned his hopes on that person who couldn't understand Shen Shiming's ridicule......

Things passed very uneventfully. Dunzhu didn't shout, and even there was a luster of surprise in his eyes, when he looked at Chen Ding and his party. Dorjee Tashi also kept silent, and Chen Ding even felt from the change in Dorjee Tashi's eyes that he understood, but they didn't speak.

When the back of Chen Ding and his party walked away, a self-deprecating smile appeared on Dunzhu's face, "Hillbilly, are we the hillbillies from Yushu?" Dorjee Tashi, you have to take me around and let me, a hillbilly, have a good eye-opener. ”

"The young master is wise, those baby soldiers are not ordinary child soldiers, they should be nobles from Nanjing." Dunzhu didn't have the youthful vigor to talk to the other party, isn't it a sign of wisdom, for Dorjee Tashi.

As long as people are not blind, they can see the difference between Chen Ding and ordinary boy soldiers, it is a difference in temperament. On the one hand, he is a master in the ring, and on the other hand, he is a warrior on the battlefield, Chen Ding has less of a fierce taste on them, but more of a politeness, so the identity is obvious. Dunzhu and they continued to walk around Huangshengguan under the leadership of Dorjee Tashi, looking around with a pair of curious eyes, even the old people who had already been here couldn't help but take a good look at the prosperity of Huangshengguan under Chen Han's rule.

Usually this kind of 'hillbilly' appearance will attract ridicule from others. But this time, no one laughed at the surrounding small merchants and hawkers, the shadow of war had not completely dissipated in Huangshengguan, and there was a faint sense of crisis hidden under the peaceful atmosphere.

The battle of the Pine Domain Castle was not very long, but the damage to the Song Domain was relatively serious, especially in the west of the city, which was invaded by the rebels, whether it was the street or the storage warehouse, all of them suffered heavy losses under the fire of the soldiers. This made the merchants and merchants of all sizes in Huangshengguan nervous, if suddenly someone made trouble in Huangshengguan, they didn't need to do anything, as long as they put a few fires, it would make them miserable.

Shen Shiming was honest for a while after being reprimanded by Chen Ding, but soon the old state recurred, and his biggest problem was that he looked down on people.

This may be a norm for Chinese in this era, Rotony once summed up a passage about the citizens of Nanjing, which was published in foreign newspapers, and even many Chinese themselves have heard of it:

"This is a proud people, they are strong and rich, Nanking is the capital of this country, the people here live a life of far better quality than the citizens of Paris and London, and when it comes to holidays, the beautiful parks, theaters, and hotels are overcrowded, and even the most ordinary low-class civilians are willing to pay the price of a Spanish eagle to buy meat and wine in order to spend their leisure time."

"Every day there are merchant ships from all over the country and the whole world that bring a steady stream of goods and goods to the city to meet the happy and abundant life of the people here, who pay millions of pounds a year in excise tax. And that number is growing rapidly! ”

"In the eyes of the citizens of Nanjing, the world is composed of a Nanjing, a Lushan, several oceans, continents, hundreds of thousands, millions of towns, and villages. Even Guangzhou! ”

"From Europe to Asia, there are hundreds of cities and millions, tens of millions of people who directly or indirectly serve the city. There is the best rice and wheat in the world, the finest silk and porcelain in the world, and the best things are always brought to the city by the Chinese. In Europe, Jingdezhen high-grade white porcelain, which was regarded as a treasure by the king, can be seen everywhere here, and there is no shortage of more precious thin porcelain and exquisite porcelain. As the capital of China, the wealth of any community here is probably higher than the treasury income of a small European country......"

This is a passage from Rotony's own diary, with his understanding of the East and the West, he can know that the average living standard of Nanjing citizens is really much more than that of London and Paris in Europe, but he understands more the arrogance of Nanjing people.

There is a sentence in this passage that can best summarize Shen Shiming's mentality - in the eyes of Nanjing citizens, the world is composed of a Nanjing, several oceans, continents, hundreds of thousands, millions of towns and villages, and people everywhere are hillbillies except them. Even Guangzhou!

In the case of Shen Shiming, that is, in his eyes, except for the Shen family and the family whose status is still above the Shen family, everyone else in this world is not worthy of being treated seriously. This thought has long seeped into his bone marrow.

In today's China, those outsiders who do not live in Nanjing, but for some reason suddenly added to Nanjing after Chen Han made Nanjing the capital, the mentality of flaunting themselves as higher than others seems to be stronger than the few old residents in Nanjing. This phenomenon is not so similar to the great demon in Chen Ming's previous life!

Shen Shiming is one of the representatives of this 'thought', he only moved his family to Nanjing two years ago, and then entered Chengjun Public School, relying on his excellent academic performance to successfully get Shen Guozhen's recognition. The arrogance that swelled as violently as his identity change made him bow down and be docile to Chen Ding, and at the same time, he looked down on the ordinary soldiers of the boy boy camp, as well as the hillbillies like Dunzhu who walked out of his hometown for the first time.

Chen Ding looked at Shen Shiming, who picked open a wooden box with a bayonet, with a proud face, and had already drawn a big × for him in his heart. This Shen Shiming's emotional intelligence is really a little worrying, although he is only fourteen years old, but he is older at three years old, and older at seven years old, Shen Shiming's emotional intelligence is no longer ordinarily low.

That is to say, the horse gangs that came here to trade are all teams with no background backing - there is no backstage in Nanjing City, and Huang Shengguan is still shrouded in the shadow of war, and the deterrence of dozens of heads outside the gate is not in vain, so the horse gang will be patient for the time being. If this were a different time, Chen Ding would bet that something would definitely break out.

"The insight of the world is knowledge, and the practice of human feelings is the article." That's true. Some people are so strange, Chen Ding himself is amiable, and Shen Shiming is not unaware of it, but he always can't help but be arrogant when facing the horse gang. He is no longer a child, and it is not even that no one has advised him, and he can still act like this, which can only be said to be personal reasons.

Chen Ding would rather go to entrap Chen Zifeng than recruit Shen Shiming, the top student of Chengjun Public School.

Dundrup followed Dorjee Tashi into the trading house, a small building that, although he was three stories high, had only one floor of the public office.

Dorjee Tashi beckoned several servants to carry the chest full of gold and silver into the hall, and he took Dunzhu with him to exchange the gold and silver he carried into stacks of banknotes in one fell swoop. These gold and silver belong not only to the Dunzhu family, but also to several other families, who entrust the gold and silver to the horse gang of the Dunzhu family, and part of it belongs to the income of the horse gang, and after they transport the goods to Yushu, they will collect the other part of the balance according to the agreement.

Some of these families also followed the caravan.

In fact, many of the caravans on this trade route were just convoys, and the goods were sold by other owners, rather than the caravans themselves. Acting purely as a transport team and bodyguard for others is the main livelihood of the horse gang.

The Dunzhu family also had some money in their own hands, so they also started their own business by the way.

The caravans worked hard, and in order to profit from the trade, the caravans risked almost their lives. In areas where the commercial society is far from mature, the laws are not only imperfect, but in many areas they are simply non-existent, and every business that the caravan wants to do has a great risk, and the extremely unstable political situation has increased this risk. Some people have made a fortune because of the caravan trade, but many more have worked for a lifetime or even several lifetimes and still have nothing. In such a place, bandits and robbers do not know how many times, they are even the nearest tribe on the road, out of the bandits, into the people, the death of the horse gang and the loss of goods from time to time, not to mention how many horse drivers and horse pot heads abandoned their bodies in the wilderness, died in a foreign land, sometimes there is not even a person to collect the body.

But in the entire southwest, there are still so many people who have come to enter the circle of the horse gang, and it is obvious what they are.

Just like Dorjee Tashi is reluctant to lead his children into this industry, it is also because he belongs to some of the people who have made money in the horse pot, so of course he doesn't want his children to earn money with their heads on the waistband of their pants like himself.

It is also in order to earn more profits, and every long-term operating caravan must have a trustworthy reputation.

Just like now, these economic people who followed the caravan together dispersed as soon as they got a stack of paper tickets in exchange for gold and silver. They have to buy their goods from the merchants quickly, and only in this way can they have the mind to relax and relax in the next days of rest.

Dunzhu thought that Dorjee Tashi would be like those others, carrying the banknotes issued by Chen Han to buy east and west, but Dorjee Tashi did not do this, but carried the money bag to another window of the trade house and directly exchanged a small book.

"Young master, this is a check launched by the Han people. Cheques can also be used for transactions in the same way as money. And it's more secure! ”

"The bills don't say who their owners are, but the cheques must be signed and stamped by us."

"It also prevents merchants from evading taxes. My points are only a little short of being promoted to Level 2 Broker. I don't want to evade taxes, and if I am caught, I will be disqualified as a first-class economic person. ”

Compared with ordinary economists, the convenience of a first-level economist is that he can directly list on the hall of the trading house, and mark the reference price that he can accept behind all his goods, and then the address where he settles, if anyone is interested in the goods of the Dunzhu caravan, he can directly come to them to trade.

And if he can be promoted to the second level of economic man, he can mark the goods and prices he needs in the tea and horse trading house, which will be more convenient.

As for the third-level economists, they have a certain amount of face in front of the government, and they can find the official endorsement of the trade house and make a certain amount of credit in the market. This is a major breakthrough in the tea and horse trade, because of the great risk of the caravan, resulting in the phenomenon of credit in the tea and horse trade. Especially between unfamiliar trading partners.

When it comes to the fourth-level economist on the next level, the amount of credit that can be owed is even greater, and the top fifth-level economist can also enjoy the preferential treatment of a certain amount of tax reduction.

It's just that in the trading house here in Huang Shengguan, the highest seems to be a second-level broker. The fifth-level economic man is still far away. The most people in the market are ordinary economic people, who have no rights at all.

The only rigid requirement for economic persons at all levels is not to evade taxes, otherwise the qualifications of high-level economic persons will be cancelled all at once.

"This thin piece of paper can be used as 10,000 yuan?" Dundrup had heard the word check from his father and Dorjee Tashi, but he had never seen it himself. When he discovers that the check is actually a piece of thin paper, his brain is filled with amazement. No wonder Dorjee Tashi said to him that the cheque is equivalent to the silver ticket of the past, a large amount of silver bill.

"Huang Shengguan is also not stable, there will be no robbers with knives and guns here, but I don't know how many hateful thieves. Large bills are still exchanged for check insurance. ”

……

And just when Dunzhu arrived at Huangsheng Pass, a news had been flown to Shen Shiying in Chengdu through carrier pigeons, and as one of the staff officers of the upcoming pinch attack on Burma, Shen Shiying would soon rush to Yunnan through Sichuan. Now that the season is the dry season in Burma, Chen Ming has the intention of gathering a mountain army to attack Burma from the north to cooperate with the Siamese army's Battle of Rangoon.

But this did not delay Shen Shiying from knowing Shen Shiming's performance in the boy camp one step earlier through the relationship. "Alas!" My dad is looking at the wrong person again.