Just a few days later, Shi Kefa stayed awake late at night every day, and he couldn't figure it out even if he had gray hair.

Near Qingjiangpu in Huai'an, it is in full swing!

There are endless warehouses of the household department and the Ministry of Industry, and the stored grain and rice have been checked by the quartermaster department under the generalissimo's mansion, and even the current generalissimo's office is seriously insufficient of subordinate officials, but for some reasons that Zhu Cihong himself knows, his generalissimo's mansion no longer intends to use the Jiangnan gentry.

Fortunately, there are a large number of northbound refugees in Huai, and some talented students are selected from them, and they are trained while working, which is probably enough to be of great use.

In the center of these warehouses, a huge barracks like a city is desperately rushing to meet the deadline.

There are more than 10,000 masters recruited, and the houses have been built here, and the wharf is still being piled and built in the place near the river, and the foreman desperately shouted: "Do you dare to go into the water?" Can you hold your breath? Good boy, look at you and understand the surname Shui, eat four meals a day, and add 500 copper coins, do you want to do it? ”

Here is a water ghost who is called to go into the water to drive piles, but there is a man who wants to be able to carry a job: "Have you ever done a job?" Carry three bags and a chip, and change the three chips for a string of small money, and at the end of the day, remove the food money, and two thousand big dollars will be in the bag. Now the money is expensive and the silver is cheap, that is, it can be so easy to make money in the past few days, and there is no such store in this village! ”

The shouts are one after another, high and low, and the place where the wharf and storage on the bank of the Qingjiang River are close to the original ten miles has become a super-large construction site, and all kinds of military and people's livelihood facilities are throwing money to rush the work, and even the original few narrow sections of the river are also sent to send people to rush the construction of the dredging period.

With so many people, Qingjiangpu, which was already very prosperous, became even more prosperous and lively.

Originally, there were more than 100,000 residents, and now there are tens of thousands of masters, small merchants and hawkers are even more countless, walking along the river, Shandong's steamed buns and green onion pancakes are fragrant along the river, the meat sandwich buns from Shaanxi, the wonton picks in the Jiangnan area, and the local snacks in the Qingjiang area.

Just the accent shouting of the provinces is already a very eye-catching scenery!

When there are more people, there will be more chaos. Friends in the rivers and lakes are also where to rush to catch up, and now it is a troubled time, I don't know how many good people are forced to become bandits.

Those who have the power and are not dragged down by the family business, either go up the mountain to be a pole, or become a thief, which is really useless, that is, the eight immortals cross the sea, and each shows his magical powers.

Huai'an Qingjiang has suddenly become so lively, outsiders from all over the world don't know how many, among which "gold, skin, color, hanging" friends in the rivers and lakes are really more.

Among the crowd, there are also a lot of merchants who come and go from the south to the north, and now no one dares to go to the area of Beijing, the situation is unknown, and you can't make this money with your head, but Qingjiang is the thoroughfare between the north and the south, and there are still many businessmen going to Henan and Shandong. After all, although it is also chaotic, there is no army to pass, the transit of one government and one state, inquire clearly, transport goods past, and the benefits of turning over are much more than before.

There are a few businessmen in Wuxi who are doing this kind of business. The silk goods and cloth were collected in the Changzhou area, and the ship was transported north, and then the local soil was brought back to Shandong.

The more troubled the times, the easier it is to make money from such freight.

In the past, they would have earned this kind of money, which was a little hard money. The big deal in Shandong is in the hands of the princes and governors, and the local officials will have a limited income.

In Jiangnan, it is the gentry who have been controlling, or recovering or returning, and it has always been the famous gentry of various states and counties who have joined forces to do it, including the price of goods and the cost of shipping, which are all discussed by the gentry with each other.

Today's situation is not quite the same, in the Jiangbei area, from Zhenjiang to Yangzhou, several ferries are all guarded by officers and soldiers stationed at several ferries, the officers and men of the small team are strictly guarded, the cavalry patrols in all directions, and there are military officers and ships on the river...... The guards are so tight, one is to check the pedestrians to see if there are any thieves or thieves, and the other is to draw points!

It is to draw according to the number of goods, the value, and the size of the entire caravan, one stone of rice to draw one hundred Wen, one piece of cloth to draw two hundred Wen, or according to the total price of the goods, one hundred to draw five, Tong Su is not deceitful.

The small caravan did not have many goods, and it had to draw a few taels of silver after a card, and if it was a large fleet of gentry, dozens of ships would go north together, of course, this draw would be remarkable.

Because of this, even if the bulk trade between the north and the south has been temporarily cut off, I heard that the gentry in Jiangnan are active in the DPRK and China, and the crown prince must cancel this practice of exhorting the donation bureau, otherwise it may provoke a popular uprising.

Huaishang here, but he didn't let it go at all.

Set up cards to persuade donations, and the small people will not draw them, and they will not draw the land harvest, but they will draw the caravans and take their small profits to help the military and the country...... The truth is said to be mountainous, who can dismiss this reason?

No matter how noisy Jiangnan is, this side is also ignored, on land and on the river, anyway, the card is tightly guarded, and love can't come!

The big fleet does not come, the south and the north are transported, and the profits are skyrocketing, this group of small businessmen, is to calculate this point, several partnerships, transported some Suzhou silk, Songjiang cloth and other soil goods, loaded five or six ships, when the card is passed, 1510 calculated clearly, the principal of 4,000 taels, the persuasion is exactly 200 taels!

"Look, look." A thin businessman held up a list of centijin donations, looked at the big seal of the Generalissimo's Quartermaster Department's Lijin Donation Bureau, and looked at his peers, and sighed with emotion: "Rank, just such a rice paper list, scraped us two hundred taels raw...... Why? Find someone to say this! ”

"Little brother of the Lin family, you have to be careful," a middle-aged businessman looked old, seeing his companion's arrogant appearance, he was very blind, and he was also holding a copper cigarette pot bag in his hand, which was holding it in his mouth, smoking green smoke...... This is also very rare in the Jiangnan and Jiangbei areas.

I couldn't see it, so I had to take down the cigarette pouch and persuade: "It's good to put it away, this thing has no name or anything, and if you lose it, you lose the silver!" I waited for the profit of the capital, and came back to Tai'an Mansion with my head, and I could earn a thousand handfuls of two silvers, but I have already removed two hundred ...... This is also due to the fact that TOEFL does not have big merchants going north and the price of goods is rising. If you throw away the paper of persuasion, you have to earn another 200 less, so why bother! ”

"Aren't I distressed too?"

How did the young businessman surnamed Lin not know this reason? It's just that I wasn't angry for a while, so I deliberately shouted in the public.

This man reluctantly obeyed, stuffed the paper that had been persuaded to donate into his sleeve, and said, "This money is really painful." Never heard of a money to walk across a bridge? The crown prince is not a pole......"

"Alas, alas!"

The small businessman is so unstable and old, the rest of the people are shaking their heads, the silver is given, and people have not come to your house to rob it, the card has been set up in advance, and the rules are set properly, according to the total price of the goods and luggage to persuade donations, five out of 100, one card is donated, and the rest of the cards are based on the card, and no longer drawn.

Jiangnan businessmen are all shrewd and capable, and they are very good at calculating small accounts. This time, the smaller the small businessman, the more ingenious it is. If you have a few dozen taels of goods in your arms, that is, you will take a few cents of silver, and you will earn it back wherever you are. I don't know how many big businessmen have scraped together hundreds of thousands of millions of silver taels, and when you want to finish paying taxes on grain and need to use silver, they will especially lower the price, and as soon as the tax is collected, the people will sell the grain at a low price, and then the price of grain will rise again.

At present, although the south grows a lot of cash crops and has less and less grain, it is still 100 times stronger than the north. Collect grain now, sit on the ground and make profits, and in the future, the idea will be transported to the north, and as soon as it is handed over, it will be several times the germination!

This is the case with grain, raw silk, salt, cloth, and most of the goods necessary for people's livelihood.

These officials and gentry and big businessmen collude with each other and have a close relationship with the government, and even many of them were originally people in the government, so in Jiangnan, they are almost involved in the whole body, and these people's goods are often a fleet, pumping their cents, which is called very happy!

Now pinching the land and waterways is to draw the donations of these big men and match each other, and they are small businessmen who will pursue their profits and take risks to go north and transport the south up.

It's still too much to say that a thousand or two, in this case, at this time, the goods are up, and half of the gross profit is possible.

This kid surnamed Lin said that there was no reason, and everyone just smiled from their nostrils...... To make so much money, when the country uses troops now, it is unreasonable for a businessman to have no land and no food, and then he does not pay a penny.

This truth, everyone has been confused in their hearts before, and they have not thought about it carefully. When Shicai drew donations at the checkpoint, the quartermaster of the Generalissimo's Mansion who was guarding the pass had already made it clear, so the reason was clear and clear, but in fact, there was nothing to say.

The boy surnamed Lin yelled for a while, and when he saw that everyone was just smoking and ignoring him, he had to sit down honestly. He was rough and frizzy, and he didn't see if it was proper to collect things, and when he made such a fuss, everyone's hearts were also confused, but he never looked at whether there were any obstructive characters around.

A few sneaky-looking men dressed in short clothes had already come up, but someone deliberately smiled at the middle-aged businessman who was smoking and asked, "This uncle, what is this rare thing with smoke coming out of his mouth?" It's really scary to look at. ”

"Oh," when he was out of the house, he was most afraid of offending people, and when people asked, the merchant nodded politely and smiled: "This is tobacco, and I don't know where it came from?" The old father of the family ran to the country of Wa more than 20 years ago, and the tobacco seeds were brought back by Ben. I planted and smoked it, which was choking my mouth before, but now the more I smoke it, the more energetic it becomes, refreshing. ”

"It's a refreshment, people who choke can't sleep well in the middle of the night." The small businessman surnamed Lin is really going out for the first time, and the problems that are used to at home are not small, and he can't help but interject at this time, complaining that the taste of tobacco is too choking.

(To be continued)