If you guide an era, you will also control this era, and the big market is also a truth.

In the Warring States Period, because of the rise of large countries and active commerce, it has gradually broken the small pattern of "chickens and dogs smell each other within ten miles, but they don't get along with each other when they are old and dead"; but after all, they are still subject to the restrictions of the times, and most people and even businessmen are not too sensitive to commodity prices, and there is a lack of a large market that can intuitively respond and affect commodity prices.

Bai Dong thought that since there was no big market, it would be good to build one.

If it were in the future generations, Bai Dong would never go to speculate in stocks and futures, because there are too many people who are smarter than him, not to mention those financial predators on Wall Street, there are countless heroes and traitors in the Chinese stock market, and the result of rash entry is to be swallowed by someone, and there will be no scum left; However, in this era, if you talk about the understanding of the 'big market', he is definitely the first in the world, and he is not even a cheap master Guiguzi.

Of course, it was impossible for the financial markets of later generations to appear in the Warring States Period, but there were also real hard currencies in this era, the first was salt, the second was copper and iron, and gold and silver had to be put behind; In fact, before the opening of the Age of Discovery, gold and silver were really not very important, and it was not until the Qing Dynasty that China really used silver as the main currency, even in the Ming Dynasty, it was still a 'illegal' behavior to trade silver.

What Bai Dong values is salt, there are too many joys in this era, not a joke, Lao Qin has a lot of white-haired women and white-haired men, this is all due to the lack of salt in the body, not to mention ordinary civilians, even the army is difficult to get enough supply of 'refined salt'. What is the bitter salt from the sea? If you don't eat, you will have no strength, and if you eat too much, your stomach will hurt. It will also give birth to many strange hair diseases and skin diseases; To solve this problem. People had to eat vinegar mixed with bitter salt. This kind of sour and salty taste is very strange, normal people will not like it, let alone in order to carry and use the vinegar cloth, use linen cloth to absorb salt and vinegar, dry it and take it on the body, and then put the vinegar cloth in the kettle to boil it when cooking in the wild? There is salt in this way, but the smell of rancid acid is a normal person who will vomit when he smells it, and what is made with this thing can be eaten?

Salt vinegar and vinegar cloth appeared. The reason is the lack of refined salt, so in a certain way, refined salt is actually more important than copper and iron, which is not only related to the combat effectiveness of the army, but also affects the health of a country and even a nation.

The large amount of refined salt produced by Wei State has given the salt market a foundation for formation, and the dozens of salt trade bases established by Bai Dong and Xu Gong are the prototype of the 'salt trading market', and the outstanding students of Zhao Liang and Fengming College have become the first leaders of the trading market. Baizi will use guò as a fulcrum to pry the whole of China.

"Steward Zhao, several salt merchants from Zhao have arrived. Are you going to invite them in now? ”

"Invite them to the trading hall and open a few jars of the Bai family's good wine that I brought from Lao Qin. When the guests come, of course we have to entertain them with care. You tell them that this girl will go after a little bathing. ”

"No."

Hearing the sound of rushing water coming from the gauze tent, the faint fragrance hit the face, and the people who came unconsciously laughed in their hearts. Sure enough, as the legend goes, Miss Zhao Ji is an extremely beautiful woman, she can skip eating every day, but she can't take a bath; It's just that I don't know if this world-famous beauty has any other relationship with our Bai Zuo besides the teacher-student relationship? A stunning beauty like her, if it weren't for our white left, would there be a second man in the world who is qualified to meet?

This salt trade stronghold really looks like a stronghold, not far from Handan City, but it is a very unique manor appearance, the solid prismatic wall is about one zhang high, slightly lower than the standard of the Qing doctor's home city, there is a female wall on the ridge wall, a ladder under the wall, and the inner road is eight feet wide, which can allow two horses to walk side by side, and there are fifty rangers guarding the stronghold alone, and there are also dead soldiers recruited in the name of the Bai family trading company. These dead soldiers are different from rangers, they are treated several times that of rangers, but they have to work hard for the family all their lives, if there is betrayal, they will be despised by the world's scholars from now on, and life will be worse than death.

Thirty-seven Baijia trading companies and thirty-one Xujia trading companies were established in such salt trade strongholds, and most of the sixty-eight strongholds were located in the five kingdoms of Yan, Qi, Wei, Song, and Lu, and the rest were in Chu and Yue in the south, and even Ba and Shu in the west. If it was in the Spring and Autumn Period, this would be a typical overstep, but now it is the first era of commercial exchanges in China, and the big businessmen who have money and can bring benefits to the country are welcomed by all countries, not to mention that the bosses behind these salt trade strongholds are still the world-famous Bai Zi and Xu Gong? Bai Dong was not worried that Wei Guo knew that he was one of the bosses behind the scenes, as he said to Zhao Ji, his plans were always on the table, and even if someone knew, it would be difficult to stop them; What's more, the real trump card has not yet been played, and now in Wei Ying's opinion, the establishment of these salt trade strongholds is only beneficial to Wei State, and there is no harm at all.

After the bath, Zhao Ji chose a set of 100-fold skirts. In the pre-Qin era, there were skirts, but the sleeve-like skirts were worn by both men and women, and there was no unique taste of women at all; Now the Baijia trading company has started a variety of business models, Wenhua supermarket focuses on high-tech products, culture is in charge, and the business of the trading company has begun to go deep into clothing, food, housing and transportation, this kind of new clothing that seems to be a dress in later generations has swept the Qin State and Shandong countries, and today's upper-class aristocratic women have no face to go out to meet people if they don't have a five, six, seven or eight sets. Moreover, this new skirt of the Bai family does not violate the etiquette law, the nobles can wear it, and ordinary civilians can buy it as long as they have money. Foreign exchange', the Bai family is now the vane of the trading companies of various countries, seeing that clothing is an important means of beautifying itself in addition to keeping warm and covering shame, people's imagination has been greatly liberated, I believe that it will not be long before more clothes with both function and appearance appear, which is a very remarkable thing, Bai Zi is quietly changing the world with his own methods.

"Steward Zhao"

The pale green folded skirt, red lips like fire, delicate and fair complexion, and a slender waist that make people worry that it will break at any time, this is the first generous in Zhao State, and the beauty who is famous in troubled times.

Zhao Ji always had a moving smile on her face, and after walking into the trading hall, her eyes flowed, taking care of everyone, and the merchants in the hall seemed to see the beautiful and generous Zhao country again, and couldn't help but swallow it secretly.

But no one dared to take a second look at this beauty, the steward of the salt trade base was the two major trading companies of Bai and Xu, and behind this steward of Zhao stood the young great man of the Qin State, and the stewards of several trading companies quickly stood up, with a smile on their faces, more respectful than the Mrs. Guo who faced the Zhao State.

"Okay, you don't have to be restrained, please continue to drink wine and eat meat, taste refreshments, and listen to the little girl."

"Don't dare, don't dare, in front of Steward Zhao, where is our seat?"

"What's not to dare?"

Zhao Ji sneered: "In our Fengming Academy, there are not so many stinky rules, our Dean Bai once said that the more rules there are, the more rigid people will be, and then they can't do anything." You are all the most famous merchants in Zhao Kingdom, and some of them are old friends of Zhao Ji, what? Could it be that Zhao Ji went to the Qin State for a while, and he would become a big tiger who ate people? Am I not so scary? ”

"Steward Zhao is right, our family is the agent of the Bai family's fine porcelain, isn't it just a family? However, this family also has a high and low division, Steward Zhao is a student of Baizi, and he is a big man in charge of the six salt trade bases of Zhao State, if we don't know how to be respectful, it's not as good as a wild man in the countryside."

"Exactly, Brother Zhao is reasonable, as Zhao Steward, he should be courteous to me!"

The two merchants took the lead, and everyone saluted respectfully, and Zhao Ji just didn't want to bear it.

Zhao Ji said no, but in fact, she enjoyed it very much, giggled and sat down on the main seat: "Okay, you don't have to go around in any circles." This time, the six trading companies in Handan came to see me, and they dared to hoard too much of the refined salt of the Wei Kingdom, and now they regret it, right? ”

"Steward Zhao is right, we are all waiting for you to save your life!"

After listening to Zhao Ji's words, various trading companies immediately complained. (To be continued......)

PS: Ps: Thank you for the monthly pass support of the brothers of 'winkxin', 'full of pits and valleys', 'glass lights', 'silicon steps to thousands of miles', 'swords made of paper', 'purple pillows', 'ample0923', 'Dream Sky Good Dance' brothers :)