Hangzhou West Lake is the place where the southeast beauty is bell, the Lingyin Temple is deep and far-reaching, the small Tianzhu is elegant and pleasant, the Leifeng Tower is simple and solemn, from the Qiantang Gate of Hangzhou City to the Su Causeway, there are countless pavilions and pavilions along the way, here is the gold powder building of the dignitaries, there is the bamboo fence thatched house where the chickens and dogs smell each other, the restaurant is tall with the apricot yellow flag, the mud stove of the teahouse burns the red charcoal fire, the people help the old and the young, come and go like weaving, a faction of the leveling weather.

Today, Hangzhou is empty, the city soldiers and people are exhausted, not to the West Lake to see the selection of the Oiran lady, nor the Lingyin Temple to do Buddhist things, but the annual business event, in the third day after the end of the tide festival, the curtain was unveiled next to the West Lake.

The grand event not only had merchants from the city, Zajia, and Yayu participate, but also merchants from all over the world, Miao Yao and Tusi of various ethnic groups came, and even Dongying, Franc Jiren pretended to be Chinese to participate, Chinese silk porcelain tea, Persian cat's eye, Tianzhu's sandalwood, Western glass beads, and various spices from the South Seas...... The abundance of commodities can be said to be everything, in addition to meeting the needs of people's daily life, but also to satisfy all the curiosity of the common people.

Different from the mentality of ordinary people who watch the excitement and take the opportunity to buy some rare things, those guests who come from Huzhou to sell raw silk, merchants who transport porcelain from Jingdezhen, and merchants from Huguang, Sichuan, and Shanxi who come to buy goods have more urgent expectations

――Compared with previous years' trade events, only the Sea Shark Club was the only one, and this year, with the addition of Wufeng Maritime Merchants as a competitor, the Sea Shark Club can no longer wantonly squeeze merchants from all over the world, right?

Outside the Qiantang Gate, on the edge of the West Lake, the scene is more lively than the New Year, this year the imperial court has announced the opening of Hangzhou's sea ban, overseas visitors no longer have to hide it, the Indians have strong liquor in their mouths, spray the torches, suddenly the flames are blazing, people dance their traditional dances, dance the long braids like windmills, merchants take the opportunity to peddle all kinds of gadgets, attract customers to buy.

Sichuan embroidery, Hunan copperware, Jingdezhen fine porcelain, Shangdang ginseng, Hunan fine cloth, goods from all over the country in the franchise stores piled up, all cheaper than usual, but the budget-conscious housewives are still bargaining with Xiao Er, can save a little is a little.

The toothymen beckoned to the businessmen who looked like outsiders in their clothes compared to the locals of Hangzhou, first looked at the goods, and then put their fingers in their sleeves, and pulled their fingers with the buyers and sellers to negotiate the price, and they were very busy.

However, neither the people of Hangzhou nor the small and medium-sized merchants from all over the country are the real protagonists of this trade event.

The real bulk trade depends on the powerful Sea Shark Club and the Wufeng Maritime Merchant.

Just in front of the temple in a large open space, face to face set up two large color sheds, the pillars are painted with gold, the beams are tied with colored satin, the lion dances in front of the shed, and the gongs and drums are noisy.

In front of the shed, there are big men in black who stand in front of the shed, all of them with horizontal eyebrows and look like they want to eat people - maybe others want to ask if this is a business or a robbery, so they are not afraid to scare away the merchants? As everyone knows, the Sea Shark Club has been like this for many years, perhaps in this way to remind merchants of certain information that needs to be paid special attention to.

The color shed on the east side belongs to the five peaks of the maritime merchants, the style is diametrically opposed to the west, seven or eight young women in front of the door, wearing robes, Japanese kimonos, and the skirts of the Franc machine women that tighten the waist, the fragrance of the warbler and the swallow swallow is blowing in the nose, and the direct teaching is dizzying.

There are indeed a lot of foreign merchants coming to the trade event, but there are very few people with their families, Wufeng maritime merchants immediately attracted popularity when they made this move, especially the merchants from the mainland, they were curious to come around to see the excitement, and felt eye-opening.

In contrast, the Sea Shark Club is sparsely populated.

Chen Baisha sat on the Taishi chair in the shed, several henchmen served tea and poured water for him, and glanced at Jin Yingji, who was surrounded by maids in the color shed opposite, and he sneered: "Hmph, you want to fight with me, you are still a little tender!" Businessmen are very profitable, and relying on women can attract attention, but they can't attract silver! ”

Led by Zhao Haima, several henchmen of the Sea Shark Club laughed.

They were not in a hurry, because although the popularity of the Wufeng Maritime Merchants was strong, they were much more lively, and few merchants walked into the colorful shed to conduct business negotiations, on the contrary, there were many people who looked back anxiously and looked at the movement of the Sea Shark Club. ,

The sea shark will be ruthless, and there are government forces to support it from behind, but it is not easy to provoke!

The year before last, an unbelieving maritime merchant did not buy the high-priced porcelain of the Sea Shark Society, so he bought a batch from Jingdezhen and loaded it on a ship to sea, but he encountered "pirates" and the whole ship was killed.

Last year, there were merchants from Sichuan who came to sell Shu brocade, and they did not take the sea shark society seriously because of their fame, and sold a large number of Shu brocade to Wufeng maritime merchants, and this time the ship of Wufeng maritime merchants did not have an accident, but the merchants did not go to Zhenjiang before they were robbed by "bandits", not only the silver obtained from the sale of goods was looted, but people were also cut into seventeen or eighteen pieces.

Such things are widely circulated among merchants, and definitely more than once or twice.

No matter how much money you have, you have to save your life to spend it, and businessmen will not do stupid things that are empty of people and money.

Although it is said that Huang Gonggong, the new eunuch of Admiral City, and Foreman Huo of Dongchang, who was stationed in Hangzhou, were both Wufeng maritime merchants, and they were greatly embarrassed by the white shark, the head of the Sea Shark Society, on the street, but what was going on, people still had to weigh it in their hearts......

In the colorful shed of the Wufeng Maritime Merchant, the shopkeeper who was responsible for purchasing and wholesale bulk goods was set up in front, and Jin Yingji and Qin Lin sat side by side on the two chairs in the back.

Qin Lin didn't care much about whether he was applauded or not, he slowly tasted tea while enjoying the girls' performances from behind, and hummed a little song from time to time.

"Chief Qin is very leisurely!" Jin Yingji rolled her eyes in disgust, and teased: "What you said about beauty promotions and eyeball economy, it seems that it has no effect." ”

Qin Lin crossed Erlang's legs, reached out and patted the back of the beauty's delicate and fair hand gently: "Don't be impatient." Hehe, it seems that the sea shark will accumulate a lot of power, and it has not been able to dispel the doubts of merchants from all walks of life just by humiliating them on the street, let's wait a little longer, we will surprise them. ”

Surprise is coming!

Gongs and drums, the sound of horses' hooves, the brocade Wei Ti riding wearing a flying fish suit, waist embroidered spring knife, riding a high-headed horse in a procession, two sedan chairs followed, and there are more than a dozen pointed hats, brown shirts and white leather boots of Dongchang fans surrounded before and after, it is really majestic, murderous.

At a glance, it was known that it was the extremely powerful eunuch and the celebrity of the East Factory who had arrived, and the businessmen who were watching the singing and dancing of overseas beauties were taken aback, and they all lowered their heads and let go of the way, but their eyes went straight to the two sedan chairs, and they kept thinking: Could it be that the eunuch of the Admiral City and the foreman of the East Factory came in person? This face is inevitably too big!

Sure enough, getting out of the sedan chair was the Admiral Bohuang Gonggong who was wearing the scarlet robe of a senior eunuch, as well as Huo Chonglou, the head of the Dongchang Factory, who was wearing a round hat, foundation soap boots, and a brown straight body.

The first action after the two of them got off the sedan chair was to look at the colorful shed of the West Sea Shark Club, and snorted heavily in their noses, and then turned around to look at the colorful shed of the five peaks of the maritime merchants in the east. Suddenly he became smiling.

"Is this what you call a surprise?" Jin Yingji was overjoyed, and the eunuch of the Admiral City and the foreman of the East Factory came to the platform to cheer her up, which was enough, and she immediately got up and prepared to go out.

Qin Lin pulled her by the hand and said with a smile: "Slow down." Surprise, it's not even a surprise, it's just an appetizer. ”

Lao Huang and Lao Huo's two plates of appetizers were about to walk to the door, and Qin Lincai and Jin Yingji greeted them unhurriedly.

"Congratulations to Chief Kim, congratulations to Chief Kim! The financial resources are wide and open to the four seas, and the business is prosperous and reaches the three rivers! Grandpa Huang's old face smiled like a chrysanthemum, and he talked to Jin Yingji in his mouth, but his eyes were looking at Qin Lin.

Huo Chonglou also hugged his fists and said: "Two chiefs, Huo has seen the salute!" ”

Jin Yingji also saluted: "Overseas people are hard, doing some business is also to support their families, and the two laborers are here, it is really brilliant!" ”

"Okay, it's all your own people, what's polite?" Qin Lin smiled and pushed Huang Gonggong and Huo Chonglou towards the color shed: "Come on, come on, let's sit down and talk first, Chief Jin has the coffee and cocoa brought by the Franco machine from abroad - they are all tea produced in the West, and the two of them must have not tasted it yet." ”

"Disturb, disturb," Huang Gonggong and Huo Chonglou walked into the color shed with Qin Lin with a smile, and the brocade-clothed Wei Tiqi and Dongchang Fanzi stood in a large area of black pressure outside, and immediately suppressed the majesty of the group of black-clothed men of the Sea Shark Club opposite.

Those businessmen who were attracted to watch the performance of overseas beauties never expected to see a scene ten times more exciting than the performance of beautiful women, and everyone was excited or looking forward to it for a while, and the excitement was inexplicable.

Although there is a civil official envoy from the five-rank city shipping department, the real power is in the hands of the eunuch of the city of the governor, which is equivalent to the customs chief of later generations - but the Ming Dynasty only opened two treaty ports of Yuegang and Hangzhou, and Hangzhou is more open than Yuegang, and the city is much more prosperous, Huang Zhixiao, the eunuch of the city of the admiral, is almost equivalent to the chief of the national customs.

Whether the merchants buy Dongzhu, ginseng, Japanese lacquerware, ivory carving, and even all kinds of goods such as Franc machine, Tianzhu, and Dashi, or export the silk cloth and porcelain produced in the mainland, they all have to go through the city ship, and now the eunuch of the city ship has come to the Wufeng maritime merchants in person, and the information expressed is very clear.

Not to mention that there is also a foreman of the East Factory, the sea shark will be black, can it be as black as the factory guard eagle dog?

Immediately, many merchants poured into the colorful shed of Wufeng Maritime Merchants and began to negotiate with the shopkeepers.

On the side of the Sea Shark Club in the west, there was immediately some panic, and the eunuch of the Admiral City not only completely fell to the Wufeng Maritime Merchant, but also personally went out to support the platform, which was a fatal blow to the Sea Shark Club!

Chen Baisha was not in a hurry, and sat upright with confidence, because he also bowed his back hand.

In less than a stick of incense, the hustle and bustle of the gong opening the way sounded again.

"Hahaha, you have a backer, Lao Tzu has no backstage?" Chen Baixia laughed and stood up and went out from afar.