In the shaking cabin, Xia Qianfeng, who had just turned thirty, woke up from his sleep, only to see him shake his head a little swollen, and then stood up helplessly and opened the hatch to take a look, and found that the sky outside was not yet bright, and the heavy snow two days ago still did not melt, adding a touch of snow white to the distant scenery, and the temperature was surprisingly low.

Seeing that it was still dawn, Xia Qianfeng went back to bed and lay down again, but he couldn't fall asleep over and over. Speaking of which, he only slept three nights last night, and now he has slept for two hours at most, but because of something on his mind, he can't sleep anyway.

Xia Qianfeng is a businessman from Nanjing Yingtianfu, this time he shipped a batch of silk from Nanjing to Shuangyu Port, and soon sold it out, but he must not be empty when he goes back, according to the previous plan, he plans to buy a batch of pepper back, and the buyer not only contacted well, and even gave a deposit, as long as the pepper can be shipped back, he can get the rest of the payment immediately.

Originally, Xia Qianfeng thought that he would soon be able to buy the pepper he needed, but no one expected that there would be an accident, originally pepper was a specialty of the Nanyang area, and the trade of Nanyang has always been monopolized by the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, and the pepper has always been provided by the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, but he did not expect that the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce went to sea some time ago, and never came back, as a result, this made Shuangyu Port pepper shortage, he ran in the entire Shuangyu Port for nearly ten days, but still did not find anyone willing to sell pepper.

Seeing that the New Year is coming now, if you don't leave, I'm afraid that not only will you not be able to go back to the New Year, but even more than the transaction time agreed with the buyer, if he has not been able to sell pepper by then, it is a trivial matter to lose money in breach of contract, the key is his own reputation, as the so-called promise of a thousand gold, especially in business, if he is damaged because of this business reputation, then the business at home will definitely be greatly affected in the future, and even the business shrinkage is possible, every time he thinks of this, Xia Qianfeng feels a special headache.

Because the pepper did not land, Xia Qianfeng, who was lying on the bed, was particularly worried, and it was not easy to stay until the sky in the east turned white, at this time he couldn't stay any longer, got dressed and walked off the boat, ate something casually in the breakfast shop in the port, and then hurried to the Beigang Tea House.

Speaking of which, when Xia Qianfeng first arrived at Shuangyu Port, he also stayed in the Beigang teahouse every day, after all, Beigang is the nest of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, so pepper, spices and other goods are generally traded in Beigang. But because of the accident of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, Xia Qianfeng stayed in the Beigang Tea House for four or five days, but he still did not find anyone willing to sell pepper.

In this case, Xia Qianfeng was really a little disappointed in Beigang, and he had the idea of what to expect, so he went to Nangang Teahouse and Xigang Teahouse to try his luck, but unfortunately the miracle did not appear, and after staying in the other two Harbor Teahouses for a few days, he still found nothing, so early this morning, he came to Beigang Teahouse again, hoping to meet people who were willing to sell pepper.

When Xia Qianfeng entered the teahouse, he found that there were already many businessmen sitting and drinking tea in the hall, and he immediately found an empty table to sit down, and then according to the old rules, put a plate of pepper on the table and waited for the seller to come up and talk.

However, not long after Xia Qianfeng sat down, he saw that many businessmen in the teahouse began to stir, and they all looked in the direction of the innermost counter in the teahouse, Xia Qianfeng just turned his back to the counter, so he didn't know what these people were looking at, and he turned his head curiously at the moment, and found that he had not seen it for a few days, but the pattern in the teahouse had changed, and he saw that on the wide wall next to the counter, several areas were painted with red paint, and words were written on each area.

"Silk area, cotton area, porcelain area......" Xia Qianfeng looked at the words written on the wall, and couldn't help but read it out loud, and he also found that several guys in the teahouse were climbing the ladder, holding notes in their hands, and were pasting them on the wall.

Seeing the strange situation that had never appeared in the teahouse, Xia Qianfeng couldn't help but feel very curious, so he stood up and walked under the wall, raised his head and looked at the things posted by the guys in the teahouse.

It turns out that in each area of the wall, there are stickers of corresponding business information, such as the area of cotton cloth, for example, there is a kind of palm-wide, about two feet long paper strip pasted in the area, and on each piece of paper, there is a piece of cotton goods information, such as the origin, price, quantity, etc. of this batch of cloth, and each piece of information has its own number.

There are no more or less pieces of information about goods like this in each area, but there will be no more than thirty at most, after all, the area on the wall is limited, and no more can be posted. And thirty is almost enough, and the number of transactions in many of the less popular areas has not reached thirty at all. At this time, almost all the merchants in the teahouse gathered under this wall, pointing to the goods and discussing the information on it.

Xia Qianfeng looked at the information on the wall, listened to the discussion of the people around him, and suddenly he seemed to understand something, but there were many questions, just at this time, a guy from the teahouse walked past him, and he immediately grabbed the other party and said: "Little brother, what's going on with this wall, why haven't I been here for a few days, and there has been such a big change in the teahouse?" ”

The guys in the teahouse have also been accustomed to such questions from guests these days, so after hearing this, they immediately smiled and pointed to the direction of the door and said: "Guest officer, this wall can not be explained clearly in one sentence or two, but there is a notice on this wall on the screen on the side of the gate, you may not pay attention when you come in, I believe as long as you go to see it, you will understand!" ”

Xia Qianfeng followed the man's finger and looked, and sure enough, he found that there was an extra screen at the place where he had just entered the teahouse, and there seemed to be something pasted on it.

At that moment, after Xia Qianfeng thanked his guy, he quickly walked to the front of the screen and read the content of the notice on it seriously, but only then did he finally understand what the wall was doing.

The original wall is called "Shipping List", according to the type of goods, the information of each merchant selling goods is written on it, if the person who needs to buy the goods sees the information on it and feels good, you can write down the number in front of each message, and then go to the counter to pay a little fee, the tea house will provide the name and address of the owner, and even help them contact each other, and unlike before, even if the seller and the buyer's business is reached, the tea house will not take a cut from it, because the previous owner registered information, And when the buyer asked for the information of the consignor, he had already paid the money, so the draw was waived.

In addition, it was also stated at the end of the notice that there is also a buying list, which will announce the information of some merchants who need to buy goods, but now due to time and manpower limitations, only one shipping list can be announced for the time being, and the buying list will need to wait for two more days.

After figuring out the role of the shipping list, Xia Qianfeng also deliberately looked at the date of the notice, and found that this notice was posted yesterday, that is to say, the shipping list only started yesterday, which made Xia Qianfeng breathe a sigh of relief, although he missed a day yesterday, as long as someone is willing to sell pepper, then he may still be able to meet it.

Thinking of this, Xia Qianfeng immediately ran to the front of the shipping list and carefully searched for information about pepper. Speaking of which, because of the impact of the annihilation of the fleet of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, the goods in the Nanyang are now very tight, and even on the shipping list, there is a special list of "Nanyang District", which lists some information about the goods produced in the Nanyang.

Seeing the goods in Nanyang District, Xia Qianfeng silently recited "Buddha blessed" in his heart, and then looked at them one by one, as the so-called sky pays off, he finally saw a piece of information about the sale of pepper when he was counted to the third, which made him immediately overjoyed, and looked at the price and quantity of pepper, the result was a surprise, happy that this batch of pepper is a lot, enough to meet his needs, but the price is more than two percent higher than before, if it is bought at this price, I am afraid that it will be shipped to Nanjing, He doesn't make much money either.

However, this pepper is related to Xia Qianfeng's reputation, so even if he loses money, he can't let it go, so he immediately wrote down the number in front of this message, and then immediately ran to the counter to hand over a tael of silver to get the information of the owner, and then immediately rushed to find the owner according to the information, because the shopkeeper on the counter just now had told him that there were already two merchants looking for the owner of the goods, although there was no information about the success of the transaction of goods, but with pepper so sought-after situation, No one can guarantee when that batch of pepper will be sold?

Xia Qianfeng's luck was good, when he found the owner of the goods, the other party was bargaining with two merchants who wanted to buy pepper, Xia Qianfeng immediately joined in unceremoniously, and as a result, he bought this batch of pepper at a price three percent higher than the previous one, and the price he shipped back to Nanjing was only this price, if you count the freight, he even lost money. But fortunately, the silk shipped before made a lot of money and kept its reputation, so Xia Qianfeng was still very happy.

There are many businessmen like Xia Qianfeng in Shuangyu Port, and the shipping list launched by Beigang Tea House quickly spread throughout Shuangyu Port with the mouths of these businessmen, which caused an unprecedented sensation!