Chapter 687: The Meeting of Shangyuan (1)

Although the Wuyi Xie family has no relationship with the Xie family, which was famous in the southeast during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, as a famous family with a history of several hundred years, it has a huge influence in the entire Jiangnan and even the north. Even the princes and princes are a little polite to his family. What's more, now that he has the identity of the imperial prince, as soon as the news of letting his family's servants eat the closed door soup spread, people can't help but discuss, is this Yang Chengzu really fighting, or is there no one in his eyes?

In a metropolis like Nanjing, the arresting of fast officials in the yamen is by no means an ornament, and there are not many people with clever means inside, and not long after the arson incident in the silk warehouse of the Xie family, some people have already found clues. However, after following this clue, he soon found Yang Ji's head, and then he couldn't check it, he didn't dare to check, and finally he could only take the initiative to cut off all these clues.

Yang Chengzu's identity is not mentioned for the time being, just a hereditary replacement, the commander-in-chief of the 49 guards of Nanjing, and even the Duke of Wei who can talk to the military guards in the southeast, is not something that these officials can provoke. Even the Yamen of the Nanjing Criminal Department, or Ying Tianfu, were unwilling to embarrass Wei Guogong for a few public officials or a few cases.

In the end, Ying Tianfu Yamen arrested more than a dozen displaced people who took advantage of the fire to rob during the fire and handed them over to Xie Ji, which was regarded as saving the other party's face, and also reflected the Yamen's zero tolerance for this kind of behavior. However, Ying Tianzhifu still tactfully expressed his personal opinion to Xie Zun: Find an opportunity to talk to Yang Ji, if there is any problem, just talk about it, and everyone will make money in harmony. If you make too much noise in Nanjing, it will be difficult for the lower officials to explain here.

Immediately, another piece of news also spread in Nanjing's business district, Yang Ji's people appeared at Longjiang Shipyard and began to get in touch with the craftsmen here, it is said that they want to order ships.

Longjiang Shipyard originally built treasure ships for Zheng He's voyage to the West, although now there are no drawings and cannot build treasure ships. Many crafts have been lost, and the craftsmen cannot be compared with the Yongle period, but the shipbuilding capacity is still second to none in the Ming Dynasty. Talking about business with this shipyard must be related to sea trade, and sea trade is precisely the main business scope of the Xie family.

The Xie family is in the business community of Nanjing, and they can be regarded as the leading helmsman, and Xie Zun's style in the shopping mall is also quite domineering. If you want to do business in Nanjing, you must first obtain his consent, otherwise it will not be very convenient. Of course, as the head of everyone's family, he is not the leader of the green forest bandits, so he will not take a few younger brothers to the door with big knives to collect money and make trouble.

In fact, he is still relatively easy to speak, as long as your heart arrives and shows enough respect for him, the Xie family will not only approve you to do business in Nanjing, but also provide you with a lot of convenience. For newcomers, this convenience is also of great benefit to their business.

For example, when the Zhang family wanted to buy shops in Nanjing to do business, Xie Zun immediately gave over more than a dozen shops on the side of Confucius Temple, along with a mansion he had here. In exchange, the Zhang family protected the merchants of Nanjing and guaranteed that the four armies would not ask for their salaries.

This kind of behavior is actually a self-sacrificing behavior, and it is also a good story in the business world. But whether it's a shop or a mansion, the Xie family can send it. Through this kind of gift, he not only brushed up his prestige, but also got in touch with the Zhang family, and even gave his son the opportunity to be the owner, and these gifts can be regarded as investments. Like the establishment of Yang Ji and his involvement in the Xie family's business field, this is a bit related to the bottom line.

Maritime trade is the foundation of the Xie family's fortune, and it is also an important source of wealth for the Xie family. On the other hand, Yang Kee's business commodities also include grain, which is also an exclusive project of the Xie family and cannot be touched.

Grain is the foundation, whether it is gold, silver or pearl and jade, it must eventually be exchanged for grain to be valuable, and food security is also the foundation of the imperial court. In particular, the transportation of grain from the south to the north and the transportation of nine sides, this kind of commodity with serious integrity, has always been an important bargaining chip when the Xie family negotiated with the imperial court. As long as the Xie family monopolizes the grain sales channel in Nanjing, even if it is the government, they have to be polite to them. All the grain stores in Nanjing City are the property of the Xie family, Xie Zun is known as the king of rice in the southeast, and all those who come to Nanjing to do business also abide by the rule of not touching the grain.

But Yang Ji not only wants to open a restaurant, but also a grain store below, which is completely ignoring the majesty of the Xie family and not taking the king of rice in his eyes. If you want to talk about opening up the market, fair competition, and so on, it is purely not waking up. Let's not talk about whether the people of this era accept this concept, and how can it be fair to talk about fair competition?

The nobles of Nanjing City owned a large area of land, and also controlled the warehouses and grain storage of the imperial court, whether it was the source of goods, warehousing or even logistics, they all had great convenience. Even in terms of manpower, you can directly use the soldiers as workers to pick rice, and say that this is part of the training, what kind of competition?

Since ancient times, the people did not fight with officials, but Xie Zun was not only a successful businessman, but also a famous Confucian in the Ming Dynasty, and could not be regarded as an ordinary person. In addition, Princess Yongchun's Geng Tie is still in the Xie family, he is at least still the imperial family, Yang Chengzu is the brocade official who was driven out of Beijing, and now there are not two or three cats and dogs left even in Nanjing's brocade guards, and this official does not have much advantage over the Xie family.

Doing business is not about being a thief, it is not about whoever has a big fist and who can fight, and whose business can do well. Yang Ji was established, not to come to the Xie family to worship the pier first, but to set fire to a warehouse of the Xie family, and let the Xie family's subordinates dry in the gatehouse for more than an hour, which is the next war book. Cutting down big trees with firewood, the best way for a rising star on the rivers and lakes to become famous is to defeat a predecessor who has been famous for many years. Yang Chengzu crossed the river dragon and wanted to challenge the local rice king in Nanjing.

No matter how good Xie Zun is, a person known as the King of Rice, is inevitably a bit domineering. Under the infection of this kind of domineering spirit, his family members, or his subordinate family members, are inevitably a little domineering in their actions. Bumps in the mall are inevitable, other businessmen are more or less have suffered from the Xie family, this time the dragon and tiger fight, no matter who loses or wins, everyone will have a lively look.

The eyeball effect caused by this propaganda method is even better than that of the Oiran on the Faculty Division. Although Xie Zun is a veteran in the business world, he is limited by the times after all, but he didn't expect that he inadvertently helped Yang Ji make an advertisement.

There is only one thing he thinks about now: at the meeting of the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, he must teach Yang Ji a lesson, let the other party know that he is the master of the business world in Nanjing, and the Yang family can do business if he wants to, but what business he gives him, what business he does, not what he wants to do, just do what he wants. Whether it is grain or sea trade, it is the foundation of the Xie family, and there is no way back on these issues.