Chapter 114 - Capture the ship
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"The imperial court has never tolerated us businessmen, there are many big businessmen who were raided and exterminated during the Wude period, Brother Lu doesn't think that the current emperor will be weaker than the emperor!" Gong Moru experienced two complete dynasties of the Sui and Tang dynasties, although Li Tang followed the political system of the Sui Dynasty, but there are still many differences, such as killing large households, which is something that has not been done in the most difficult period of the Sui Dynasty, and it is precisely in this way that led to the end of the Sui Dynasty, when the local forces were strong, Li Yuan had a lot of restrictions and regulations on large merchants after taking office, although Li Er overthrew Li Yuan's regime, but in this regard he was more than Li Yuan, as can be seen from the various decrees of the imperial court, He didn't give any face to the big family, and the big family should be a commoner in his eyes.
"Hehe, President Gong said that the younger brother does not dare to agree, the emperor's martial arts are naturally far better than the emperor, but Wenzhi is even better, from the perspective of his accession to the throne in the past two years, its water conservancy, heavy business and trade, each piece is a big deal, I and other businessmen in this world will be more and more important, since the beginning of the year since the sale of goods, only more than five months have created a transaction volume of nearly 20 million, President Gong do not question this number, this is my Lu family's friends in the court revealed, there will be no fake, According to the tax rate of 30 taxes and 1 of the imperial court, the commercial tax of the top ten factories in the east and west alone will exceed 1.5 million guan a year, which is only a few hundred thousand guan less than the Tianfu in the world, what does this mean? The wealth created by our very small number of merchants for the imperial court is about to reach the people who farm all over the world, or the president thinks that it will be a little dangerous for us to knock on the bamboo poles of the imperial court, but I can tell you that the imperial court now has money, and one or two million yuan to buy the peace of the country is a very cost-effective deal, and they have no reason not to accept it. β
Lu Bingchang said the first thing, and the other merchants in the hall also nodded. Speaking with a number of jΓΉ, it is a skill that only a Jiangnan clan like him who has some power in the court can have, not to mention, if you want to say that there are relatively qualified businessmen in this world, Lu Bingchang can really be regarded as one, there is no anti-monopoly law at all in the Tang Dynasty, and it is the nature of businessmen to hoard and settle strangers, even if the emperor wants to force him to intervene to solve it, he will also bear a notoriety.
"The old man has been in business all his life and can have this status today. With the insight into the danger, it has been several days since the imperial court's merchant ships arrived in Yangzhou, but the goods have not been sold for a long time, and they have never invited us and other merchants to talk about the establishment of a supermarket like other states. Gong Moru frowned and said worried, and many businessmen who had worked with him for many years also began to frown and ponder, indeed. It is said that the imperial court is in urgent need of food, so it will definitely contact them as soon as possible, these big merchants with grain, rice and thousands of stones, is it possible that the imperial court has already solved the food dilemma?
Lu Bingchang thought about all the places where food could be produced, and he didn't come up with a place that could solve this situation, and the imperial court seemed to have only one choice, Huainan. He added: "Although the president's worries are not unreasonable, as long as the iron fact that the imperial court is short of grain is here, we will be invincible, and the grain will not be bad for a year and a half anyway." If the court doesn't talk to us today, maybe it will talk to us tomorrow, we just need to be patient. Isn't the imperial court's merchandising meeting going to be held tonight? Let's see what they have to say! β
The controversy will always end in the absence of a solution, because no one dares to say that tomorrow's flowers will be red, at dusk the wharf begins to become very lively, the permanent population in Yangzhou is almost the same as Chang'an, more than 600,000, but the floating population is better than Chang'an, the surrounding dense states and counties determine the status of his heart.
The summer night in Yangzhou City was originally the most lively, with the art troupe so noisy, the good men and women who were trapped in the house all day by the sun all gathered at the wharf, people by people, the scene of crowding people is a rare and strange scene in this bustling city, among which there is a group of people with hats, their eyes have been focused on the big ship docked near the wharf.
The minister did not die on Hongze Lake, not even injured, his subordinates still have twenty or thirty second- and third-rate martial arts masters, who have been hiding in the shadows to pay attention to the movements of the imperial court's water steamers, after the outbreak of the Hongze Lake water war, Li Er ordered for the first time to rush to the envoys of the Japanese State who have always expressed deference to the Tang Dynasty, they dare to openly move against the imperial court's fleet, it proves that their hypocritical face hides the rebellious flesh and blood, Li Er is so controllative, in the eyes of people with a strong desire to control them, if it were not for the persuasion of Wenchen, They don't just get deported.
The minister wanted to join the expelled envoys and return to the state together, and before leaving, he wanted to make one last attempt, but he did not believe that the imperial fleet could defend against thieves for a thousand days, and put all the ships under strict protection.
The fanaticism of the people of Yangzhou City for new things was unexpected by Li Chengqian and Gao Shilian, but fortunately, Gao Shilian had a few brushes, and the highest-level feudal official of the Tang Dynasty immediately mobilized the government soldiers to maintain the order, and used the government to lead the government soldiers and effectively maintain the order by controlling the area.
Gao Shilian has the talent of the prime minister, it will not take a few years to return to the center to take over, with him Zhang Luo, Yanglin rest assured, the only more tense position is the commodity stalls on both sides of the stage, now is not the time in Chang'an, you can pull in Wangjiacun and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty to help, more than 3,000 crew members plus the escort team are all on the battlefield and are still too busy, want to sell hundreds of thousands of goods by retail, the salesman doesn't know how long to count the money, not to mention that there are some gold and silver currencies that need to be weighed, looking at the chaotic trading scene, Yang Lin felt that it was necessary for Datang to implement a unified currency to facilitate transactions.
"Turn on the lights, light up the scene, and pay attention to prevent stampedes." In fact, Yanglin's worries are superfluous, there are many cases of this kind of scene in Yangzhou, a large juggling troupe can attract spectators who block a street, not to mention this kind of scene of the prosperity of the whole city, the big girl and the little daughter-in-law have no taboos for men and women at all, and they are all consciously squeezed forward into a ball, stretching their necks out, but let the thieves and pickpockets in Yangzhou City make a small fortune.
"The wind comes from Chang'an, blows your heart, does not change my feelings, this flower is like the sea, I come from Chang'an, warm your heart."
The song and dance performance is in full swing, the new style of music and dance will be the whole scene in an instant, the reputation has long been spread from Chang'an to Yangzhou Datang Art Troupe today finally full of blood on the stage, many songs and dances that have not been sung in Chang'an are unveiled one by one, Xiliang, Ling Yuhan and other names in Yangzhou City in just one or two hours.
"The Heavenly Grant Horse is really a wonderful person in the world, I heard that these beautiful musical instruments are made by him, and such a large-scale song and dance rehearsal is more complicated than the formation of thousands of troops and horses, and it is not good for ordinary people to choreograph, but I don't know how he can solve the food shortage in Chang'an City."
In the crowd, Lu Bingchang walked with several big merchants of the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce, guarding the door and squeezing the passage for them with difficulty, and the transactions of the shops in the imperial fleet were not even clear to them themselves, not to mention Lu Bingchang, who was just looking at it with his eyes, so he simply gave up this lowest-level statistical information technique, and looked at the stage, as the top rich people in Chang'an City, the wind and snow were their daily life, and the fellow businessmen immediately discovered several big flower boats not far from the stage.
Gu Qingqing followed the fleet to the south of the Yangtze River mainly has two tasks, in addition to merging and integrating the prostitution industry in Yangzhou and Suzhou, and opening a branch of the heavenly and earthly nightclubs in these two first-tier cities of the Tang Dynasty, he also has to attract money all the way and earn a huge amount of decoration funds for the headquarters of Chang'an Heaven and Earth, I heard that the building is really going to be built to the sky now, there are already fifty-eight floors, more than two hundred meters high, as long as there is a little rain and fog in Chang'an City, people on the top of the few floors can not see with their eyes. The huge real estate that can occupy a square of land also needs a huge investment to decorate, and it will cost millions of dollars to build a building, and the decoration is at least several times that of building a building, and the money must be earned in this two years of construction period, of course, the majority of the head is still owned by the largest shareholder Yang Lin.
Painting the kiln sisters in new costumes did not solicit business on the street like those girls in Chunhualou in Yangzhou City, one by one the foundation was very neat, like shelled eggs under the swaying lights, now is not the best time to solicit business, only wait for the night to be deeper, when the devil song and dance of the Xiliang everyone starts, in order to make the prostitutes in Yangzhou City lose their square inches, let the old mother shout the price.
On the green wave of the canal, two teams of Japanese warriors slowly dived from the water to a remote cargo ship docked, the cargo of the cargo ship had already been emptied, it was a light hull shaking violently, the two groups of samurai were divided into two echelons in front and back slowly climbed onto the deck of the cargo ship, and touched the cabin.
A few high-rollers suddenly came to the flower boat of the Drunken Immortal Building, it was Lu Bingchang and his party, Gu Qingqing, who didn't want to do business in advance, didn't open his mouth to speak, he received two gold ingots head-on, and he didn't need to weigh it to know that there were three or two weights, and he could exchange them for dozens of copper coins, Gu Qingqing, a high-roller of this level, naturally would not refuse, and beckoned the girls to set up a table for them in a good position on the deck for them to watch the song and dance.
Tonight, except for a guard responsible for guarding the power system of the water steamer, all the crew members went ashore to help, of course, there are also the kiln sisters waiting to pick up the guests on the drunken fairy building flower boat, the dock docked at the water boat set up a water village along the water, guarded by the Yangzhou government soldiers, the water village is built by the fence piles in the water, every tens of meters set up a high watchtower, there are two Yangzhou soldiers on duty on the tower, needless to say, their eyes are looking at the stage on the shore in the distance at this time, Their ears were also listening to the sound of drums coming from time to time in the wind, so that several samurai dressed in black and with light movements climbed the tower from the water without realizing it. (To be continued......)