Guangzhou City, the weather is good in the autumn these days, there are seven or eight boats in the early morning Pearl River estuary all the way to Guangzhou City, but it is a pity that there are only two or three of them in the port, the rest of the boats are taking advantage of the early morning south wind to hurry up the river, although the length of the Pearl River is nothing in China, but the water flow is in the forefront.

From the upstream, there are also a few boats coming from the upstream in the morning, but more often, all kinds of boats from Guangzhou City are heading upstream.

Different from previous years, there have been great changes in the business of Guangzhou this year, although there are more ships coming and going than in the previous two years, but those who are interested will find that since last year, some commodity transactions in Guangzhou have changed, and the amount of rice exported from Guangxi has decreased significantly by more than 10%, and this year it has decreased by more than 60% all at once; In addition, Guangxi's main export material, wood, has also decreased by more than 60%.

There is only one reason for such a large reduction in the export of materials, that is, in the summer of this year, Guangxi's Huapi suddenly launched an attack in several places, not only expanding the territory under its control, but also controlling the Xunjiang River.

It is said that after clearing the original military fort in the area of Datengxia, Huapi stationed a water battalion on the original site of the most dangerous Bitan Fort, the number of people is not very large, only four or five hundred people, and there are only a dozen boats used to patrol the river, but no one dares to despise this bit of people and horses of Huapi, there are not many boats in Huapi, but there are a few boats that make a sudden sound and no wind automatic fast boats, there are such fast boats that can run fast whether they are downstream or countercurrent, unless they use many ships to carry out dragnet blocking, Otherwise, you wouldn't have been able to get close to this kind of clipper.

Although the clipper ship is small and does not carry many people, the firepower is extremely powerful, the kind of thunder hitting the wooden ship is a hole in the explosion, and those flower skin thunder is extremely accurate, the big ship is directly hit on the waterline, if a hole is blown up on the waterline...... Hehe, this ship is basically about to be scrapped, if you blow up two holes...... Basically, the sailors jumped into the river with their things and fled for their lives.

And if you don't like the flowers, you can't figure it out on the river and want to try to copy the flowers from the shore...... Hehe, then congratulations even more, the Tusi of the Guixi Cen clan, who originally controlled this area, was unwilling to lose the interests of this bridgehead that controlled the Xunjiang River, and organized three thousand native soldiers and even fierce wolf soldiers to attack, but the results that could be obtained were ......

Originally, Bitan Fort was already easy to defend and difficult to attack under the operation and construction of Cen Tusi for many years, and Huapi had large and small caliber artillery and fast guns, more than 3,000 people seemed to be a lot, but the team could not spread and it was difficult to give full play to the advantage of numbers, so they could only squeeze on a few trails like live targets, and were unconcealed by the defenders of Huapi to gather fire; And the artillery that Tusi finally got with great effort was far inferior to the thunder-like artillery of the flower skin in terms of range, power and accuracy, and the three cannons that he got were turned into a pile of scrap iron under the repeated bombardment of the flower skin artillery before they could be pushed into the firing range......

The defeat of the Cen clan Tusi has set up a model of the best case for all those who still have the intention of attacking Huapi by force, and anyone who has to weigh whether they can afford such a big loss before attacking has not even touched the fortress wall of Huapi......

The foot-standing skins naturally took over and controlled the water affairs along the Xunjiang Datengxia to Wuzhou section, so that the skins controlled more than half of the golden waterways of the Xunjiang River, from Liuzhou, Nanning, and even Baise, Hechi and Guizhou Yunnan ships must be subject to the control of the skins, and the first thing the skins did after taking over the Xunjiang River was to announce that all passing ships must report to them, and the ships that were not reported and allowed to pass would be sunk mercilessly!

Although this practice of the flower skins seems to be very domineering, in fact, the boatmen who run boats on this river are not disgusted, and are even willing to accept such a rule, because the flower skins only charge a toll, unlike before, they need to pay layers of money and be exploited. The procedure for reporting is actually very simple, that is, to declare the type and quantity of goods on the ship to the person with the skin at the specified place.

For these goods trafficked abroad, if the flower skin is not needed or cannot be valued, they will directly release you to go wherever you want; However, if it is for example, grain, timber, minerals and other materials are shipped abroad, the flower skins will let the shippers transfer them to a place in Liuzhou and buy them directly according to their prices, which is usually a little lower than the market price, but it is not unprofitable.

As a result, after the rice, grain and wood mines in the area of Liuzhou Mansion were no longer trafficked abroad, and now the materials transported to Guangdong in Nanning, Longzhou, Baise and even Yunnan have also been greatly reduced, so the upstream cut-off has made the downstream sellers in Guangzhou City suddenly have a gap in the supply of goods.

Such a material gap for the big chamber of commerce is not a big impact, after all, the big chamber of commerce or commercial banks have their own purchase and shipment channels, and although these chambers of commerce can not be trafficked out of Guangxi, but directly sell to those flower skins can also earn some, and the settlement of flower skins is very real and fair, and the payment of silver is also fast, which is convenient for the rolling turnover of funds.

Then there are these people who have the ability to have the principal to run Guangxi Huapi to do business, and they can also purchase various products and objects produced by Huapi through these material transactions to be sold to the outside world, and the quality of the products produced by Huapi is good and practical, and the reputation is excellent, and a boatload of strange and worthless stones or even white sand outside can be exchanged for some harvest, and then the products of Huapi are brought out for sale...... The business of Guangzhou City has pulled up a lot of transactions in the sales of these high-end products, and the whole market still looks so prosperous.

But everything has two faces, for the big traders to block the river to intercept the practice of the practice does not have much impact, but for small merchants, especially the merchants who rely on upstream materials in Guangzhou to disperse sales and processing, there is some bitterness, the reduction of the supply of goods means that the amount of goods they can operate is reduced, and the lack of shipments does not raise the price without raising the price also means a decrease in income. At the same time, the coolies who made a living by moving goods in Guangzhou and the shipyards that processed timber and shipbuilding were also reduced, and the many porters who did not have enough goods reduced the jobs they needed to survive, and the timber workshops and shipyards had to stop working because of the shortage of wood......

Such a change is difficult for many people in Guangzhou to accept. It's just that they are weak, and they want to find the trouble of the main flower skin? They don't have the courage or the ability, so let them find the Governor of Liangguang to settle these pesky skins...... Make the silver ask the government for help, dear, are you too rich to burn your brain, the governor of Liangguang and the governor of Guangxi would have done it long ago if they could get these flower skins......

There's really no way, I don't know who gave some information, the people of the East Guangdong Chamber of Commerce and Huapi seem to have a good relationship, see if you can find these people and say, let Huapi put more materials down so that everyone can live...... So, these people found a few people who could speak well and had a little bit of face to go to the **oss of the Yuedong Chamber of Commerce and told Zeng **oss about the following people's requests......

After sending these people away, Zeng **oss pondered for a long time in his study, after so many years of business, he couldn't understand the impact of changes in the composition of these industrial chains and one of them, but what made him speechless was that people pinned their hopes on him, but he seemed to be powerless about it......

In the eyes of the outside world, the relationship between the Guangdong East Chamber of Commerce and Guangxi Flower Peel is quite good, and any of the latest products can be distributed as soon as possible. However, few people know that the relationship between the Guangdong East Chamber of Commerce and Huapi is indeed good, but it is limited to the Liuzhou branch of Guangxi, and as for other local branches of the Yuedong Chamber of Commerce, the relationship with Huapi is basically not much different from the Guangdong Hall of the century-old rival!

Since last year, the Guangdong Association has also begun to cooperate with the flower skins to share a lot of product shares, this time is the time period when Zeng **oss sent his daughter to negotiate cooperation, how can Zeng **oss not see that this is a warning from the mountain village to himself......

However, in the face of the signal transmitted by the mountain village at that time, Zeng **oss didn't care much at first, in his eyes, what could a mountain barbarian rebel who only controlled the size of two counties have, and after the Ming Dynasty's political axe settled the affairs in the north, it must be them who came down to clean up; The ordinary distribution agreement reached by his daughter Zeng Ruoyi is also exactly as he wants, not only blocking the mouths of the people below with product shares and profits, but also clearing up his relationship when the government pulls the list.

But it turns out that not even a year has passed, and the development of this sudden change seems to be completely beyond Zeng **oss's imagination; First of all, the Battle of Songjin in the North ended in the defeat of the Ming Dynasty, and then the Forbidden City and Huapi seemed to have reached a deal, and Huapi actually sold a lot of the fast guns he relied on to the Ming Dynasty...... What is the rhythm of this? Could it be that the man surnamed Deng wants to show favor to Yanjing in this way? And then ready to accept Zhao'an?

But just when everyone was speculating about the direction of the matter, what was even more unexpected was that the flower skins suddenly fought again without warning, but the most unexpected thing was that the people in Yanjing City actually endured it...... Not only endured it, but also continued to pinch his nose and trade with the skin, and the twists and turns that happened in this are difficult to understand......

For the first time, Zeng **oss felt that his brain was a little insufficient, and he couldn't understand the behavior of the flower skins and the reaction of Yanjing City, what happened this year changed too quickly, so fast that he and many people misjudged, and this misjudgment, many people lost the best opportunity and a lot of silver interests, and now some of the voices in the Chamber of Commerce that were just suppressed last year have appeared again......

Just when Zeng **oss felt a little headache, a familiar voice came from the door:

"Dad, are you looking for me? ......" (To be continued.) )