It's not April yet, but the coastal cities have taken on the characteristics of summer, with sticky air and the salty smell of sea water in the wind. The sky was overcast, but it never rained, and the whole city was like a big stuffy can, which made people feel unusually uncomfortable.

In addition to going to Lai's house to drink more and more times these days, Yang Chengzu has been spending his mind on Yang Ji at other times. Ryan and the shops under the name of the Xue family all joined Yang Ji, and Yang Ji suddenly entered the business circle of Ningbo and had a high starting point.

The prosperity of Ningbo, a city that is more prosperous than Nanjing, is a typical port commercial city, and its tolerance is much better than Nanjing. And because Yang Chengzu and his Yang Ji stepped in, they were immediately excluded, the Chamber of Commerce came to worship the dock and promised to help, and the businessmen also came to show goodwill. For example, the silk village where Hao Qingqing went, and many similar shops, all sent invitations to the Yang family, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

Of course, this does not mean that the merchants here in Ningbo are all good men and women, if people with no background and no connections come to grab business, most of them will still lose a mess. However, Yang Ji's own financial strength is not something that these small merchants can handle, and even if they are backers, they can't afford it.

The merchants here, in general, are still the kind of profit model that if you want to get rich quickly, you have to slaughter foreigners, in addition to the tribute envoys, there are also maritime merchants, although this kind of thing is prohibited by law, but at the operational level, everyone has a tacit understanding to pretend to be blind. It is easy to cause disputes in foreign trade, and the slightly crooked butt of the eunuch is thousands or hundreds of silver, which is the benefactor of Elion, and no one is interested in provoking.

The external pressure does not exist, only the internal disposal remains, and if you swallow so many shops at once, you have to rearrange it before you can use it for your own use. Absorption, digestion, internal alignment, these tasks begin in an orderly manner.

With the previous experience of receiving the shops under the names of the nobles of the Beijing Division, I am already familiar with these tasks. It's not that as soon as these shops belong to Yang Ji, those outsiders will become employees of the Yang family, and the two sides are still in a cooperative relationship. It's just that those outside the staff have lost some autonomy, but they have gained a big backer, and on the whole it is still better.

The shopkeepers in these shops don't have any amazing geniuses or hidden masters, but those who can run and sell on the docks are not too stupid. With rules and regulations, reward and punishment mechanism incentives, and some training, you can meet the daily work requirements.

After all, Yang Ji is not a place that requires too much from the ability of the staff, and Yang Chengzu does not want to cultivate his own team, so there is no need to give them a high standard. It is enough to be similar to the practitioners in the same industry in this era.

For those shopkeepers and guys, Yang Ji's treatment is still much better than that of the original owner. After the merger, there was no deliberate embarrassment or attack on old employees, because these people had no opinion on changing the court. He also took the initiative to cooperate with Yang Ji's work, and the run-in went very smoothly.

After receiving these shops and firms, in addition to fixed assets and warehouse inventory, the most important gain is contacts and intelligence.

For example, although Xue Lan, the head of the Xue family, can only be regarded as a second-rate maritime merchant in Ningbo, he has really gone abroad and done foreign trade business. has a certain understanding of the overseas situation, including the surrounding pirates, pirates, and some ways. He also had in his hand a mutilated chart, which was vaguely marked and had a mediocre route, but it was a good thing that it was always made from nothing.

Xue Lan already knew the relationship between his sister and this General Yang, but he was cowardly and more realistic, and it was impossible for him to come out and say anything about guarding women's morals, and he couldn't cover such things at night. On the contrary, he hopes to use this relationship to make the Xue family's business take a step forward and work more diligently.

Even the two broken ships in his hand that can go to sea are willing to hand them over and help Yang Ji engage in sea trade, but his ship was damaged by a storm last year, and it can't go to sea without systematic repairs.

He wasn't very afraid of pirates, who, as he said, weren't that terrible. They occupy a shipping route, collect taxes from passing ships, and as long as they are willing to pay them, they will be fine, and they can ensure that a section of the route is safe. If you think that the force is too strong, you can also not pay, and then everyone fights.

Listening to what he said, Yang Chengzu also had some thoughts in his heart, the maritime merchants did not have to resist paying taxes, but resisting handing over taxes to the imperial court. In the final analysis, it is still the imperial court sailors who can't do it, and there is no way to take those who don't pay taxes, and if you can do it, whoever doesn't pay taxes will sink whom, and the taxes at sea will not be a problem.

This problem can only be done in the future, and it is at most an idea now, and it cannot be implemented. However, the information sent from Kyori in front of him could arouse his interest even more.

Although people have left Beijing, it does not mean that the earplugs are blind, and the situation in Beijing is still sent in a steady stream. Among them, there are not only ships coming and going from the Cao Gang, but also some of his henchmen, as well as the people and horses in the hands of Princess Yongshou.

The letter in front of me is from Princess Yongshou, in order to avoid leaking the news, this letter does not have a beginning and a sign. The first few pages of the content are full of longing, and there are even some bold and explicit love words. It is hard to imagine that a princess with golden branches and jade leaves would write these words in the letter, which made Yang Chengzu enthusiastic for a while, and he couldn't wait to put on his wings and fly back to Beijing.

Another piece of news is the recent changes in Beijing, due to Yang Tinghe's suppression of Jinyiwei and Zhu Chen's powerlessness, the entire Jinyiwei has been laid off more than 170,000 people around the Spring Festival. This includes not only the people of the various guards, but also the children of meritorious heroes, the descendants of ministers, as well as craftsmen and military surpluses under the jurisdiction of the Nanzhen Fusi. For a moment, Jingshi was in an uproar.

Some of these retrenched people never went to the guards on weekdays, and they could not find anyone except for their pay. But if they can't get paid all of a sudden, they will make trouble, and even the Jinyi Yamen will be smashed once. Later, he went to the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion to make trouble, and by the time the letter was sent, someone was already carrying a sharp blade and running next to the guard of honor on the road between Yang Ting and the upper and lower courts.

They may not really have the courage to assassinate, but they can't really be calculated. Jiajing even sent a team of 100 guards to follow Yang Tinghe and the upper and lower dynasties to ensure his safety. However, Yang Chengzu smiled slightly when he saw this: Long live's scheming is getting better and better, this guard faction is to tell all the Jinyi guards who have been laid off that your jobs are broken by Yang Tinghe, and they have nothing to do with me.

He read the letter several times, and then put it next to his nose and smelled it, but unfortunately Yongshou was cautious and did not leave any fragrance. Putting the letter on the table, his fingers tapped lightly on the table, and it was estimated that when he saw the letter, the emperor was ready to restore the brocade guard. In this way, the revolution will be restored, and the heart of Ti Riding will be long lived.