Guild halls were originally established in the early Ming Dynasty, but the early guild halls were not all set up by merchants, and had a lot to do with the imperial examination system. In the Ming Dynasty, every "year of Dabi", civil and military officials from all over the country would enter the provincial capital or capital to take the exam, while merchants walked around the provincial capital and the capital for many years. The children are limited, and the accommodation fee of the Ming Dynasty hotel is very high, "although it is a house, the rent is not less than dozens of dollars." Most of the people who went to the exam couldn't afford this expense, and even the businessmen felt struggling. Economic reasons and local concepts prompted both the juzi and the merchants to want to have a place to live and take care of each other by virtue of their hometowns, so guild halls with local names appeared, such as the Guangdong guild hall and the Shaanxi guild hall.

Later, it evolved into a merchant building, and the merchant was very commercial, and the merchant could live in the guild hall or store their goods in the guild hall.

In addition to providing shelter and storage services for merchants, these guilds were always receiving scholars, a phenomenon that did not end until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Zhao Yan, his cheap old man, used to be a member of the Shandong Gang. The so-called merchant gang is actually a relatively loose commercial organization, which unites merchants by blood and regional ties to fight against merchants from other regions. In later generations, there was a saying of 'China's top ten merchant gangs', and most of these merchant gangs had formed by the end of the Ming Dynasty.

The scale of the Shandong Hall is large, and as soon as Zhao Yan and his party arrived, someone greeted them, and the group immediately settled down in the hall. The sky gradually darkened, Zhao Yan and Zhao Quan discussed, and waited for Ming to find a buyer, so they went to bed early.

Early the next morning, before dawn, Zhao Yan got up.

There was no entertainment at night in ancient times, and he went to bed early and got up early, and after freshening up, Zhao Yan exercised in the courtyard of the hall.

The body is the capital of the revolution, I played a set of military body boxing in the yard, and I did hundreds of push-ups, this seemingly thin body, you actually contain such a perverted physique, I don't know if it has anything to do with crossing, anyway, Zhao Yan can't find the reason, and he doesn't want to study it.

Zhao Quan walked out of the guest room, saw Zhao Yan who was exercising, and said with a smile: "Son, your body is much better now than before." ”

"Exercise more!" Zhao Yan laughed and asked, "How is the itinerary arranged today?" ”

"The old slave thought carefully, it is better for us to sell mirrors to be hidden, so it is not suitable to contact too many people, and foreign merchants may not be able to get so much silver in Shandong, so it is better to go to those bigwigs of the local merchants." Zhao Quan said.

"Okay." Zhao Yan doesn't have any opinions, after all, there are still a lot of things he doesn't know about this era.

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Zhao Yan sat in the living room of the guild hall and made an appointment with Zheng Shilian, the Shandong gang boss who built this club, the Zheng family is a large landowner in Jinan Mansion, and the capital is very abundant, and the Zhao family has the experience of cooperating with it when they sold illicit salt in the past.

After the two sides finished greetings, they both sat down.

"I wonder what my nephew is looking for me?" Zheng Shilian cut to the chase and asked, looking at Zhao Yan, he had also heard a few days ago that Zhao Gui, a salt dealer in Dengzhou, was killed by the rebellious soldiers of Kong Youde, but he didn't think that a few days after hearing about it, Zhao Gui's son came to the door.

Is it to discuss the matter of private salt? Zheng Shilian thought to himself.

"Don't hide it from Shibo, my little nephew is looking for you because he wants to get rid of a batch of goods." Zhao Yan said unhurriedly.

"Oh! What goods? "Zheng Shilian came to the spirit, is it private salt?

"A batch of dioramas, my father bought them from Fujian before his death, I wanted to sell them in the capital, but I never thought of Kong Youde's misfortune, my father unfortunately died in the chaos, and my little nephew was also disheartened, and I planned to shoot the dioramas directly, so that I could be at home for my father's filial piety, and the first one thought of Shibo." Zhao Yan's expression was gloomy, so that people couldn't tell that it was fake.

"My nephew's day mourns, this military disaster is not something we can fathom." Zheng Shilian said while his heart turned sharply, this diorama is a strange commodity! It must be profitable, so he said, "Can you let me see the diorama first?" ”

Zhao Yan nodded, and Zhao Quan on the side hurriedly took out the mirror and put it on the table in the middle.

Zheng Shilian picked up the glass bronze mirror, but he was a little surprised when he looked closely, he hadn't seen a diorama, but he had never seen it like this.

"This batch of dioramas is different from ordinary dioramas, which are only as big as a palm, but this batch of dioramas in the hands of the little nephew is the same size as a bronze mirror. In addition, these dioramas are made according to the customs of our Han people, and the festive Chinese characters are engraved on the back, and the value is very different from that of ordinary dioramas. Zhao Yan explained the value of this mirror on the side, thinking that he would strive for a favorable momentum when talking about the price, "Westerners and my Ming Dynasty are thousands of miles apart, and there are countless risks on the way to sea trade, and it is not easy to come and go once. ”

Zheng Shilian nodded, continued to look at the mirror in his hand, and looked at the front and back several times, even he loved this mirror very much.

"There are a lot of dignitaries and nobles in the capital, and if Shibo sells these dioramas to the capital, he will definitely make huge profits." Zhao Yan kept pouring yellow soup for Zheng Shilian.

"Having said that, whether or not I can make a huge profit depends on the price at which my nephew sells it to me." Zheng Shilian said quietly, "How many such dioramas are there in the hands of the nephew?" ”

"There are 150 Western bronze mirrors and 60 vanity mirrors. If the nephew dares to say this, he will definitely not let the uncle suffer. Zhao Yan said.

"How much silver does the nephew plan to sell?" Zheng Shilian's heart moved, and he asked Zhao Yan.

"Two thousand taels of silver on one side, and this dresser box on one thousand and five hundred taels on one side." Zhao Yan said.

Zheng Shilian's face was embarrassed, and he sighed: "The nephew doesn't know anything!" My Zheng family's business has not been good these years, and I can't take out so much silver for a while, do you think it can be lower? ”

"How much does Shibo think is appropriate?" Zhao Yan was also not in a hurry or impatient, but after listening to Zheng Shilian's words, he scoffed, where would these rich men not be able to take out the silver.

Most of the merchants in this era were engaged in the business of selling, and rarely put silver into the industry to industrialize their property.

"It's not as good as this kind of bronze mirror, which is only 1,500 taels and 1,000 taels of this dressing box, and Shibo can only take out this silver for a while." Zheng Shilian said in a consultative tone.

"This ......" Zhao Yan pondered for a moment, and then said: "The little nephew's family is short of some food, if Shibo can help buy it......

"This is no problem, if you want food, my Zheng family can still buy it." Zheng Shilian agreed.

"Well, the little nephew will sell this batch of dioramas to Shibo." Zhao Yan showed a faint smile on his face and agreed to the price proposed by Zheng Shilian.

"Okay, happy." Zheng Shilian smiled and clapped his hands and said, knowing that he had picked up a big bargain. However, I vaguely felt that something was wrong in my heart, but I didn't know what was wrong, after all, this diorama was in front of me, and it couldn't be faked. Zheng Shilian believes in his vision, if these dioramas are sold to the capital, they will definitely make a lot of money.

There is nothing wrong with thinking about it, Zheng Shilian has such an idea, but it is because it is too easy to bargain. For Zhao Yan, anyway, there is no need to care about the gains and losses of the mirror, the price of 1,500 taels is already very high.

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