Chapter 251: Building a Northern Military Port
The head office made friends with many wealthy families in the north through business, and Lu Su found that the situation in the north was more chaotic, and the north was the place where he could earn more gold and silver!
Because Yuan Shao in the north has gradually unified the northern land after several years of hard work. But at this time, there were still princes in the north, Gongsun Zhan, but Gongsun Zhan had been defeated by Yuan Shao and had retreated to Yijing.
Gongsun Chan hoarded food in Yijing that he couldn't eat for several years, and then prepared to defend Yijing. And at this time, Gongsun Chan asked the ethnic minorities in the north to come and help rescue Yi Jing. Zhang Yan, the Montenegrin army in Hebei, which had nearly 100,000 people, also led the army to rescue Yi Jing.
Because Zhang Yan knew that once Yuan Shao broke through Yi Jing, then the next person he would deal with would be himself, which could be described as a cold mouth.
In order to make Yuan Shao have no time to go south, Tao Ying watched him end the war in the north from a short distance, so Tao Ying asked Lu Su to sell the second-generation artillery to the Montenegrin army. The Montenegrin Army also sold the second-generation artillery to Gongsun Zhan, who was stationed in Yijing.
Gongsun Chan is worried that he has no sharp weapons to defend the city, and with artillery, he is so happy that Gongsun Chan is so happy! He hoarded gold, silver and jewelry in Yijing that he could not spend all his life, so he bought artillery to defend the city.
Moreover, Tao Ying allowed the grain and grass of Xuzhou to be sold to the Montenegrin Army through cargo ships, as well as the sharp weapons that Tao Ying owned. These were sold to the unstable elements in the north at a very high price, and with the new weapon of artillery, the power of the Montenegrin army and Gongsun Chan was quickly increased.
In order to develop more steadily, Lu Su promised to continue to sell them grain, grass and weapons. So it was more difficult for Yuan Shao to exterminate them, and with threats such as artillery, Gongsun Zan united with the Montenegrin army, not only to keep Yi Jing, but also to start a little counterattack against Yuan Shao.
Now, with the business of Xuzhou Commercial Bank to the land of Liaodong, Youzhou and Sanqin, to the south, Xuzhou Commercial Bank has opened in Jingzhou and Yizhou. Now transportation has become more and more a major obstacle for Tao Ying to sell things.
Now that water transportation is developed, heavy weapons can only be transported by water. Xuzhou General Commercial Bank only opened a commercial bank in Dacheng, and then ~ wholesale sales, those local families can order weapons here in Xuzhou General Commercial Bank, and then sell them to other counties and other places. Therefore, this time, the Xuzhou General Commercial Bank was tied to the local gate valve forces, and one glory was honored, and one defeat was lost.
Many of the local political forces are supported by the family, so the Xuzhou General Commercial Bank has begun to slowly control the power in some areas.
After defeating Lu Bu, Lu Bu's forces were frustrated, and he could only live in Langya and did not dare to come out. The north settled down, and at this time, because of Yuan Shao in the north, Cao Cao did not dare to go south to attack Nanyang again, so the north entered the peace period again.
In the south, the war between Yuan Shao and Sun Ce in Danyang has not stopped, and the war has been consuming the strength of Yuan Shu and Sun Ce, but it has made Yuzhang more and more stable under the leadership of Sun Shao.
When the autumn of 198 came, Pengcheng's economy was growing very fast, and the treasury was becoming more and more gold and silver, so Tao Ying was ready to develop more profitable things.
This time, Tao Ying set his sights on daily necessities and the improvement of daily necessities. For example, Tao Ying invented toilet paper, and the paper in Xuzhou must have been several times cheaper than the paper invented by Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty. But people still can't use paper to go to the toilet.
Tao Ying continued to research and improve paper, produced the first batch of toilet paper, and then conducted sales experiments in Xuzhou through Xuzhou Commercial Bank. During the month-long experiment, many wealthy families rushed to buy it as a symbol of their wealth.
Therefore, cheap toilet paper quickly ran out of stock, and the families living in Xuzhou were very rich. Most of the wealthy families of the Eastern Han Dynasty lived in Xuzhou, and they made a lot of money by reselling the goods of the trading houses to places where there were no shopping malls.
After his success in Xuzhou, Tao Ying opened a factory to produce the paper, which was advertised in the Pengcheng monthly newspaper. Now the Pengcheng monthly newspaper has spread to every state, although it is relatively late, but the literati and ordinary people of the family love to read the Pengcheng monthly newspaper.
Even many teahouse storytellers would buy a copy of Pengcheng's monthly newspaper to read to tea dealers and others. The business of teahouses and restaurants with newspapers is often on fire.
Now the Pengcheng monthly newspaper is also sold through the head office, and the people of Pengcheng can see it first, and after arriving in Yizhou, it will be half a year later.
After inventing toilet paper, Tao Yingbian developed shampoo for shampooing, underwear and sanitary napkins for women, and so on. Even Tao Ying invented the toothbrush, and then sold these daily necessities in Pengcheng through the head office.
Once the sales in Pengcheng were very popular, Tao Ying bombarded the states with advertisements in the Pengcheng monthly newspaper, and then produced more products to sell to them. Every time the product is made, Tao Ying has detonated the market of the Han Dynasty again and again. So much so that in order to supply a steady stream of orders, Tao Ying turned the entire Pengchengguo into a processing plant.
Peng Chengguo's fertile fields were pushed to build factories, shampoo factory, toilet paper factory, sanitary napkin factory, toothpaste factory, toothbrush factory, shampoo factory, mosquito repellent flower water factory, etc., and a large number of workers were needed in each factory, so many people were recruited to work in the factory. The income from the factory was much higher than from farming, but the people and families were reluctant to do business because the merchant status was underground.
But Pengcheng is different, in Xuzhou, merchants can wear silk brocade. Moreover, the status of merchants is the same as that of ordinary people, and in order to encourage trade, Tao Ying has improved the status of merchants. Businessmen have social status and money, they can buy real estate in Pengcheng, and their children and grandchildren can be admitted to Pengcheng's school, serve Xuzhou, and glorify their ancestors, so there are more and more businessmen, and Pengcheng is becoming more and more prosperous.
Xuzhou Commercial Bank transported goods to all parts of the country by ship, and when they returned, they brought back to Xuzhou various ores or specialties that were abundant in various places. The ore is used to smelt various metals such as steel and copper. Those special products, such as Shu brocade and other items, can be placed in the Xuzhou commercial bank set up in Xuzhou to resell to the people of Xuzhou.
Because by working in the factory, the people gradually had money and were able to spend. Therefore, in the Pengcheng generation, merchants from all over the country gathered, and there were also many wealthy people from various counties who came to buy things, and they could buy the specialties of the land of Sanqin without going to other places here, which was simply envious of others.
As there were more and more factories and the towns became more and more large, with money, Tao Ying focused on building Pengchengguo. After seeing the reinforcement of the Pengcheng city wall, the construction of Pengcheng roads began and more streets were built. Now the land in Pengcheng is every inch of land, so Tao Ying demolished the commercial street again, and then built a neat five- or six-story wooden building as high.
Everywhere is being demolished and rebuilt, and in the newly built commercial street avenue, the original magnificent palace complex looks ordinary. Looking at the renovated streets, five or six storey wooden buildings are lined up one after another, and even Luoyang City is also the same at the time of prosperity!
Moreover, in order to ensure the environment of Pengcheng, Tao Ying proposed to build Pengcheng into a tourism, commercial, scientific and technological, and cultural capital, and transferred all polluting enterprises to other cities in Pengchengguo. Tao Ying is not ready to learn the method of pollution first and then treatment in later generations, and the environment is very poor, and Pengcheng, which has green mountains and beautiful waters, has become a dirty land, and the haze is everywhere, that is the pit father!