The security army did not leave Dayu and began to build a city on the main road to the ferry, which made the merchants of Henan dumbfounded. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The merchants inquired about the situation of other ferries and found that the security forces occupied all the Yellow River crossings on the Shanxi side, and even the Fenglingdu outside Tongguan in Shaanxi Province was also occupied by the security forces.

In this way, the direct passage from Shanxi to Henan was completely blocked. The merchants felt that the time had come for disaster, and many of them made a profit by selling salt from Yuncheng through ferries, and some by selling cotton and cotton cloth to the Nine Border Areas, and both of these financial routes were cut off at once. A few days later, bad news came, saying that the salt lake in Yuncheng had been occupied by thieves, and all the salt merchants had been arrested. Their first reaction was to stop selling their salt and salt, they knew that Yuncheng was occupied by thieves, and the next time must be when the price of salt rose sharply.

For a time, the whole Henan people were panicked, from the common people to the officials and nobles were rushing to buy salt, and this panic also had a tendency to spread to the Jiangnan region.

Zheng Bao, the shopkeeper of the Yuji Commercial Bank in Lingbao County, sat behind the counter of the commercial bank and looked lonely, thinking that his life in his thirties was so unsmooth.

The head office of Yu Ji Commercial Bank is located in Zhengzhou, and Yu Chunguang, the chief treasurer, is one of the few wealthy merchants in Henan Province, and his business is carried out in various prefectures and counties of the Ming Dynasty. There is a branch of the commercial bank in the capital of Nanjing, Jiangsu. A small county like Bian Lingbao has also set up a commercial bank.

Zheng Bao has been an apprentice in Zhengzhou since he was a child, and finally graduated from the school after years of hard work, but after that, there was no chance of promotion, and he was just an errand boy in his thirties. Zheng Bao was very unwilling to do this, and finally the head office wanted to send a shopkeeper to Lingbao's semicolon, because he wanted to leave Zhengzhou, other people were unwilling to go, at this time Zheng Bao stood up and took over this errand, anyway, he is also a shopkeeper, if he does a good job, he will definitely have a bright future.

When Zheng Bao arrived in Lingbao County, he put some thought into studying what things could be too rich, and he soon found that the price of the two years had risen sharply for some reason, as long as he could avoid the thieves on the road, he could make considerable profits, and as long as he succeeded in one or two trips to the trading house, he would make a fortune, and if he had good results, he would not worry about being transferred to a larger store to be the shopkeeper.

So Zheng Bao decided to take a gamble, and he bought cotton with all the funds of the trading house, and prepared to transport it to the north of the Yellow River to sell it himself.

Unexpectedly, fate played a joke with him, what is the thief of the security army occupying the ferry on the Yellow River, the north-south traffic is cut off, the whole Henan people are panicking, everyone cares about food and salt, as for cotton, no one even asks. Zheng Bao's money was exchanged for cotton, watching the price of grain and salt rise three times a day, but he had no money to buy it, and the cotton piled up in the warehouse could not be eaten. If the thieves come that day, and the goods are robbed or the thieves set a fire, then it is called the heavens and the earth.

Zheng Bao secretly hated why he took such an errand in the first place, and why he bought so much cotton with the heart of money.

Zheng Baozheng walked into a person from outside the trading house in a trance, this person looked like he was in his forties, his clothes were very elegant, his body was slightly fat, his face was full of smiles as soon as he entered the door, and he dragged the Shanxi dialect to Zheng Bao and said: "Zheng shopkeeper, I am so idle, I have a good time these days."

Zheng Bao recognized this person, the name of the person was Wang Yongwang, a Shanxi businessman, a shopkeeper under Wang Jijie, a wealthy businessman in Shanxi, who traveled back and forth between Shanxi and Henan, and he and Zheng Bao were also old acquaintances. Although Zheng Bao heard the ridicule in Wang Yongwang's words, Wang Yongwang's strength was much stronger than him, and he had to be taken care of in business, so such a person could not be offended. I had to laugh at myself and said: "Boss Wang said that he laughed, the businessman is willing to be idle by himself, isn't there no way for me." ”

"You are really a natural hard worker, this is what you said you don't want to be idle, and you can't complain in the future." Wang Yongwang put away his smile and said very seriously.

"What do you want to say about Boss Wang?" Zheng Bao was a little unhappy in his heart, I have reached this step in the field, and you still make fun of me.

"You have a batch of cotton in your hand." Wang Yongwang went straight to the point.

"You want to buy it, at what price?" Hearing that Wang Yongwang was going to buy cotton, Zheng Bao came to the spirit.

"The original price of your purchase."

"Can you have more?"

"I can't."

"Good deal." Zheng Bao agreed, he knew that Wang Yongwang was willing to buy his cotton at the original price to save himself, this difficulty was over, but he did a big job, and his dream of performing well was shattered.

"What are you going to do with the money you have when you sell your cotton?" Wang Yongwang knew that the price of this cotton would definitely be lower, but he didn't want to push Zheng Bao too hard, because the two sides would have to cooperate in the future. After deciding on the cotton deal in a few words, Wang Yongwang was not in a hurry to leave, but sat opposite Zheng Bao and asked how to spend people's silver.

"What else can I do, go back to Zhengzhou with the silver, now the salt and grain will definitely not be available, and the thieves who buy other things will wait to be robbed." Now there is no second businessman like Boss Wang who dares to buy in large quantities. Zheng Bao told the truth, he knew that Wang Yongwang dared to buy such cotton at this time, and he must have held something.

"Who said you can't buy salt, if Boss Zheng wants to buy it, I can sell salt to you, and the price is fair." Wang Yongwang said unhurriedly.

"Is it true? The salt you got from there. Zheng Bao was suddenly excited, and at this time, whoever had salt in his hand had silver.

"Of course it's true, Yanyun City has it."

"But the thieves have occupied the ferry, and the salt of Yuncheng cannot be transported."

"How do you think I got here from Shanxi?"

"You're from Shanxi? You really have a way. Zheng Bao kind of understood.

"Of course, I'm here to relieve you this time, and by the way, it's a trivial matter to give you some salt to make a small fortune, and the big business is not something you and I can do, which still needs our owner to do it, let me tell you, my boss Wang Jijie Wang has arrived in Ruicheng, and now the sale of salt in Yuncheng has been contracted by our boss, and I can't buy salt from others." You can send a letter to your big boss Yu Chunguang, if you are interested in making this fortune, the two of us can cooperate, we will transport the salt to the south of Dayu Ferry, and you will receive the goods there. The cotton and other materials you helped us purchase are also traded there, which is safe and risk-free for you, and all the dangers are borne by us, and we also have many urgently needed commodities in the Jiangnan area to provide you, and the profits here are quite considerable. If you make this happen, your boss Zheng's credit is great. Wang Yongwang painted a bright future for Zheng Bao.

"Is this all true?" Zheng Bao didn't believe that his luck could be so good, not only sold the cotton in his hand, but also made a fortune by selling salt, and made a big deal for the big boss. The Wang family monopolized the salt in Yuncheng and Boss Wang agreed to sell the salt to the Yuji Trading Company, so the profits were tempting. This argument doesn't feel real. (To be continued.) )