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The two roads in Lingnan have always been regarded as wild places in the north.

Miasma is rampant, snakes and insects are everywhere, and most of them are wilderness, which is not suitable for ordinary people to live.

And this is exactly the case, and it is difficult for any military prefecture in Guangxi and Guangdong to compare with the slightly larger counties in the north in terms of household registration and taxes. Guangzhou is the only exception.

These are the top three ports in the world, and when the trade winds arrive, hundreds of merchant ships enter and leave the port every day. Standing on the pier of the harbor, within a day, you can see ships of different shapes sailing on the Seven Seas: wide ships with tall masts and solid bones, lucky ships with two towering ends and painted sterns, sand boats with flat-bottomed masts, bird boats with pointed bows and a pair of eyes painted on both sides, and ships from the West with triangular sails.

This one after another, full of treasures from all over the world, and full of valuable goods. Every ship leaving and entering the port has goods worth tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands.

However, in the city of Guangzhou, the place where the most wealth is gathered is not the port with many masts, but the Dongmen Street where dozens of gold and silver silk shops gather.

Merchants who traveled from south to north, because of the heavy copper and iron coins, often carried 'light goods' such as gold, silver or colored silk for the convenience of carrying. When they arrived at the land, they had to exchange these light goods in the gold and silver shops for copper coins before they could be used. With the development of the gold and silver exchange business, the principal of many shops became more and more sufficient, and they gradually started to buy and sell money and pawns.

Majestic houses stretched along the heavy bluestone paved streets, and the vast doorways were dark and deep between the high walls, indifferently keeping the poor out. Every crack of the bricks here shimmered with gold, and the heavy carriages grinded into the ruts on the stone road hid the tinkling copper coins.

Every day, hundreds of thousands of yuan of funds flow on Dongmen Street, and a simple transaction is tens of thousands or nearly thousands. In the winter and summer of each year, the trade winds gradually rise, and the maximum number of ships entering and leaving the port in a year will reach the level of millions of pounds.

In addition to the Bianjing City, which is also a place where gold and silver silk transactions gather, people can only look up, even Quanzhou and Hangzhou, two bustling commercial ports with the same or even better quality, the proprietors and shopkeepers of many gold and silver shops on Dongmen Street are all unconvinced, 'those are not the climate!' ’

The restaurant next to Dongmen Street only serves the proprietors, shopkeepers and customers of gold and silver shops, and the price is of course the most expensive, but also the best. Hundreds of thousands of businesses are completed in the cup change, holding a silver cup inlaid with gems for the success of the transaction and clinking glasses, understated spit out the number behind, mostly embellished with 10,000 words.

From the custom of Bianjing, two hot air balloons fly in the sky with signboards. Three-storey buildings will not be ashamed even if they are placed in the capital. On the menu, bamboo rats, turtles, partridge storks, bats, clams, locusts, beehives, as long as they can be eaten, the more rare things are, the more popular they are.

A table was set up for delicacies from the mountains and seas, and there were only two people sitting across from them, one of whom had a mocking tone: "Mi Er, who sold cotton cloth in Beijing two days ago, actually came to me for a loan of 50,000 yuan. This money, in previous years, I borrowed it and borrowed it, and I had a cup of tea. But now who doesn't know that Lu Dao's cotton cloth business has become more and more difficult to do in recent years, and no matter how secret he owes tens of thousands of debts in his hometown, he can't hide from my family's eyes and ears. He had a ship in the harbor before, but what was it onboard...... It turned out to be a cow! ”

"If you want to make money, you can't just put your ears in Guangzhou and Fujian, and Jiaozhou is also a treasure land." Hearing this, the other person behind the screen proudly lowered his voice and showed off to his companions, "Mi Er sells cattle just to catch the line of Guangxi Xiao Han Longtu." A few days ago, the person who was disdainful, but he saw him come out of Li Zhan's door in Haimen-who is Li Zhan's person, Xiao Han Longtu's cousin-opened this road, as long as Xiao Han Longtu said something, he could at least bring a boatload of incense medicine next time he came back from Jiaozhou. Yesterday I lent him 100,000 yuan, five cents of interest! "It's a pity that there are only one or two such deals, and when he has the capital, he won't borrow again." ”

At the risk of a typhoon, Mi Yu arrived at Haimen Port at the end of August.

This time, he specially brought a boat of farm tools from Quanzhou with the ship, and now the barbarians in Jiaozhou are casting soldiers as ploughs, and urgently need a large number of farm tools to maintain production, and as a transfer envoy, Xiao Han Longtu is most concerned about Jiaozhou's agricultural production, Mi Yu saw this, and brought farm tools back, not to make money, but to sell well.

Because of transporting ploughing cattle to sell, Mi Yu was ridiculed, and when he returned to the township, he was forced to pay debts, and even his parents and brothers ignored him. But to be able to take advantage of this to get in touch with Han Gang, no matter how much capital is invested, it will be earned back in a blink of an eye, and returning to his hometown is a matter of a boat.

After half a year of intense construction, Haimen Port has begun to see scale.

Fired simple cement is used everywhere from the dock to the road to the house. There was no time to burn bricks and chisel stones, but the use of a large amount of cement made the main streets of the city look no worse than the roads paved with masonry.

On both sides of the road, the thorn tree is used as the street tree, and when it is in bloom, it will be like Quanzhou, full of bright red flowers. The designers of the roads also designed culverts to drain the water, so that if it is ordinary rainwater, it will not flood the road, and if it is a little larger, it will be quickly diverted into the sea.

In addition, Haimen Port has a special place, that is, the road leading from the wharf to the warehouse area is not an ordinary road for cars and horses, but along the popular track on both sides of the Bianhe River. Hardwood rails stretch all the way to the city's reservoir area.

After the goods are disembarked, they are sent to the trucks on the tracks, and thousands of catties of commercial goods are only pulled by two horses. The goods are unloaded in the corresponding warehouse, and the empty cars are followed by another line and back from the storage area. The circular logistics traffic allows vehicles entering and exiting the two lines to not interfere with each other, forming a stable and fast channel. It can not only transport goods, but also send people, saving a lot of manpower and material resources.

From the time he was still on the ship, until he walked into the port, Mi Yu couldn't close his mouth. Two months ago, it was a construction site, most of the roads were not fully completed, and sludge and dirty water could be seen everywhere, but now he was in front of a clean, well-organized port town.

Although there are not many ships, in Mi Yu's opinion, even if the number is ten times more, this port should be able to accommodate in an orderly manner - from the beginning, the overall design of Haimen is estimated to be aimed at the medium-sized ports of Mingzhou and Taizhou, and at the same time, it also leaves room for expansion, and it is not a problem to reach the scale of Guangzhou and Hangzhou.

Mi Yu was greeted by the shopkeeper specially transferred from Kansai to open up a new situation by SF Express, surnamed Wang, with a single name and a clear character.

Wang Qing's appearance is five big and three thick, his hands are thick and thick, and he looks very powerful, not like a businessman but like a soldier. But this can't be wrong, he did eat military rations originally, and there are tattoos behind his ears. It's just that a few years ago, he reported his illness and withdrew from the army and joined the Han family. Relying on his ability to write and calculate, coupled with some shrewd and capable skills, he has become the shopkeeper in charge of a place in SF Express.

Wang Qing has the boldness of the Kansai military man, but he is by no means shrewd, but when he laughs, he is full of honesty, which makes people not see the slightest cunning. When he came up, the enthusiastic Second Brother Mi and the Second Brother Mi greeted each other shortly, and the two of them only had a few faces.

Wang Qing came to pick up Mi Yu in person, not so much Mi Yu's face, but the face of the goods on the ship - from the prison town responsible for the temporary inspection on the ship, it only took a quarter of an hour to transmit the news to Wang Qing, this speed is really breathtaking.

Wang Qing and Mi Yu got into the carriage together and headed to the city, gossiping interesting and boring along the way.

After a few words of greeting, Mi Yu asked about the current situation of Han Gang and Li Xin.

Wang Qing said with some regret, "Second Brother Mi, you are unlucky, Long Tu has just gone to Qinzhou, this time he will go around from Yongzhou before returning to Jiaozhou, not to mention that it will take twenty days - if there is something in the house to go to Guizhou, it will be two months." As for the jurisdiction, it is in Jiaozhou, but now I go to Hanoi Village to see how the village over there is built. ”

"That's really a coincidence." Mi Yu's heart was full of disappointment, but she tried her best not to show it on her face.

In order to curry favor with Han Gang, he brought heavy and space-consuming agricultural tools on the ship that could not be sold, who would do this in normal maritime trade, this is completely extravagant and wasteful. I thought I could take this opportunity to meet Han Gang, but who knew that Lu Dao was so unfortunate.

"Second Brother Mi, don't worry." Wang Qing patted him on the shoulder affectionately, "Now there are seventy-two families in the north and south of Jiaozhou, and none of them are not short of farm tools, so they sent people to look for them everywhere in Yongzhou, Qinzhou and Lianzhou." If they heard that Second Brother Mi had brought so many farm tools, which one wouldn't please you? After making friends with these seventy-two families, Second Brother Mi, you have a smooth road in Jiaozhou, and you haven't seen Longtu and Zhan Zhi, in fact, it's not a big deal. ”

"The flattery in them is comparable to Long Tu's casual words." Mi Yu shook her head. Flattering words, but in the heart is very happy.

After all, Han Gang and Li Xin will leave, maybe not long after, and the seventy-two clans—this number is actually just a mouthful, but in fact it is seventy-four fetters—will continue to multiply here from generation to generation. Having befriended the barbarian department is beneficial to his business. As a businessman, they are all harmonious and wealthy, the upper route must be opened, and the lower route must also be ensured, and the upper and lower routes must be pleased, so that they can be done for a long time.

"Second Brother Mi, do you know who the ship that entered the port first before you was carrying?" Wang Qing asked suddenly.

"Who is it?"

"It's Zhang Qixiang's younger brother!" Wang Qing said with a smile, "He and Second Brother Mi are both from Quanzhou." ”

Mi Yu's face was a little more surprised, but more indifferent to himself, and asked indifferently: "Ah, is it?" …… I didn't expect it to be the front and back feet. ”