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The four prefectures and one prefecture in Jiangxi, which border Fujian, have had very close communication with Fujian in recent years. Among them, the most extensive exchange is Guangxin Mansion and Jianchang Mansion, these two places to Fujian road without too many mountains and rivers barrier, especially Guangxin Mansion, leading to Nanping, Fujian has now been built into the same cement road as Fujian. Although this cement road is only four meters wide, barely enough for two horse-drawn carriages to crisscross, and the whole road is only fifty miles, it has greatly promoted the trade of Guangxin Province.

Several major families in Guangxin City jointly rented a store in Houyu Port and opened a store, selling Guangxin specialties and Jiangsu and Zhejiang specialties to various provinces and ports in Fujian, and made a lot of profits every time. The most beneficial of this is the You family in the Upper Ring City, and the You family is now also the leader of the Upper Ring City Chamber of Commerce. Since five years ago, the You family can only be regarded as a second-rate family in the upper city, and there are still five or six families pressing their You family. It is also an accidental event that the eldest son of the You family is about to marry his cousin who moved to Quanzhou more than ten years ago, so You Wenjing, the head of the You family, took his eldest son You Shiming to Quanzhou to welcome his relatives.

After the development of the Monkey Island Port, the goods of various prefectures and counties in Fujian will be continuously transported to the port, and then transported by the Kunpeng caravan and other large and small foreign merchant ships to the Wa Kingdom, North Korea, Nanyang and so on. Although the port of Houyu has just been developed, its trade volume is already not to be underestimated. You Wenjing heard the news in Quanzhou, and with his shrewd vision, he immediately found a business opportunity from it. So after the eldest son You Shiming got married, he rushed to Houyu Port in Fujian non-stop. After several investigations. It was decided to rent two shops in Houyu Port to sell the scarce goods in their area. This step is also one step ahead of other families in Guangxin Mansion. By the time other families in Guangxin Mansion realized the business opportunities here, the shops in Houyu Port had been leased out by the leading Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Western merchants!

His luck is also good, the shops in the Monkey Island Port business district have not been opened to the public, and more than half of them have been rented by local businessmen in Fujian, if Geng Jingzhong hadn't thought about it for the long term, leaving a group of merchants from other provinces and Western merchants to rent, there would have been none here. The first business of the two shops rented by the You family was their business in Shangrao, and one sold Leadshan Lianshi Paper, Maoyuan Longwei Inkstone and Yushan Ribbed Inkstone. Plainly. It is to do pen, ink, paper, and inkstone business. The other is used to sell the famous Wannian tribute rice in Guangxin Mansion, which has been a tribute to the royal family since the Tang Dynasty, with good quality and excellent taste.

Tribute does not mean that all of them have to be paid tribute to the emperor, then Guangxin Mansion has produced 100,000 stone tribute rice a year, millions of catties, all for Kangxi or princes and nobles to eat, which can support them thousands of times! Moreover, there is not only one place here that is listed as tribute rice with good quality, but also two or three Huguang street lights. But even so, it can't hide the quality of this 10,000-year-old tribute rice. Whether it is the pen, ink, paper, inkstone sold by the You family or the 10,000-year-old tribute rice. In this Houyu port, it has been greatly welcomed, especially the pen, ink, paper and inkstone. It is most popular in the Japanese and Korean markets.

In the first year alone, the You family earned the sum of the previous ten years, and the volume of trade continued to increase month by month. Although he originally had thirteen branches in Lishui, Zhejiang, Nanping, Fujian, and their Jiangxi Jianchang Mansion and their own Guangxin Mansion, the pen, ink, paper and inkstone sold each month were quite limited, after all, the market for the surrounding scholars was so big, and they were not the only ones who did this business, even if his goods were sufficient and of good quality, but it was far from enough to achieve a monopoly.

However, this is not the same in this Houyu Port, where they can ship large quantities of goods once a month, and that is, merchant ships traveling between the Japanese and North Korea purchase from them. And every six months, the Kunpeng caravan under the Jingnan Royal Mansion will also place an order with them, and the amount is staggering. Paper is no longer sold with a knife, but a pound is weighed, how much silver is a stone. The two kinds of inkstones are no longer sold sporadically in one or two pieces, but have become the base in units of 100 pieces. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that the income earned in this year is equivalent to the previous ten years.

Because he was the first to cooperate with the Fujian Ocean Trading Company, he has far more say than the heads of several other families who are more than a year later than him, and in the case of his own strength is not much worse, he Yu Wenjing also deservedly became one of the two leaders of the Guangxi Shangrao Mall Association. In fact, although he has now become only one of the two giants in Shangrao, his own background is still a little shallow after all, and his relationship network is still far inferior to the Kong family of the first family in Shangrao.

"Dad, are we going to take this risk?" You Shiming stared at his father You Wenjing and asked.

"I'm hesitating, too! This is a major matter related to the life of the family, and it must be done with caution. One wrong step, it will be a catastrophe, and the extermination of the family is only in the mist. It is still unknown who will win and who will lose in the end between the imperial court and the three feudatories, but judging from the shape in front of him, the king of Pingxi has the upper hand, otherwise the imperial court would not have sent a large army to defend Jiangxi. But our people in Fujian also sent back news that Guangdong is under the control of the prince of Jingnan, which makes it difficult for me to choose! Yu Wenjing frowned and said in confusion, he had been worried about this matter for several days.

On April 2, he received a secret letter from the Fujian Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, which was formerly the Jingnan Palace, inviting him to cooperate with the Mawei Army to take the city of Guangxin Mansion Shangrao. He is now the vice president of the Upper Ring City Chamber of Commerce, with a lot of money, a home-care thug who is raised at home, and dozens of guards from the Chamber of Commerce. What's more, the letter also mentioned that as long as he is willing to cooperate, he can take fifty members of the Mawei Army's forward squad into the city and cooperate with them in action.

You Shiming actually wanted to agree for his father, he had spent most of his time in Fujian in the past few years, and he knew much more about Fujian than his father You Wenjing. "Dad, I don't think there's anything bad about it. In the eyes of the imperial court, the three feudatories are a rebellion, but in the eyes of his son, isn't this a great opportunity to recover the Ming Dynasty? "You Shiming's enlightenment is a person who hates the Qing court very much, so when he taught You Shiming since he was a child, he taught You Shiming to have no good impression of the Qing court.

Moreover, Wu Sangui was like a bamboo, and took the land of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Hunan provinces in one fell swoop, Guangxi and Fujian were also nominally attached to Yunnan, and Guangdong was under the control of Geng Wangye. In this way, the imperial court has lost more than half of its territory, and half of the south of the Yangtze River can be said to have been fully recovered, except for our Jiangxi. As long as Geng Wangye takes Jiangxi in one fell swoop, then the imperial court will also be occupied north of the Yangtze River. No matter how strong the imperial court is, in the worst situation, Prince Geng can retreat to the sea and establish a foothold overseas like Taiwan. Dad, we don't know anything in Fuzhou all these years, although we watch closely from the Mawei side, but from time to time there will be warships sailing through the mouth of the Min River. That guy is a twenty-zhang long giant ship, I have also noticed in the past few years, the largest giant ship in the Mawei Warship is not at all the less than thirty moored in the Mawei Military Port, the Mawei Army has at least sixty or more giant ships, not to mention many second-level and second-level large ships. ”

"Wait, you're saying you've counted the warships of the Mawei Navy?" Yu Wenjing interrupted his son's words in surprise and asked.

"Yes, the Mawei Navy often has to go to sea for training, and there are always so many warships going back and forth, and the number has not changed much, and it is normal for me to count the number of warships. However, on a few occasions, I found that the number of warships entering Mawei Military Port was somewhat different, and the font size on the obvious battleships was also different, and although it was already a little late, I could still tell the difference. Therefore, I conclude that the strength of the Mawei Navy is much more than that. Dad, you also know that when Geng Wang Ye took Guangdong a month ago, he suddenly had more than 20,000 troops, so according to my inference, the Mawei Army must still have hidden troops. ”

"Go on!" Yu Wenjing waved his hand.

"When we first went to Fuzhou, the Mawei Navy had already cracked down on pirates on the sea, and until the first two years, there was no pirate disturbance along the coast, and the sea routes were cleared. Even if there were a few small groups of pirates, they would not dare to rob merchant ships flying the flag of the Fujian Ocean Trading Company. This alone failed to do it during the strongest period of the Ming Dynasty's naval division. Another thing, in the summer of the previous year, a large number of merchant ships came and went to Manila, although it was said that Manila foreigners bought goods in large quantities, but they did not see how many goods were sent out from Houyu Port, but there was a message that a large number of victims from the north were sent to Manila to rent land. And at that time, there were indeed victims from the north who entered Fujian, but then these people disappeared inexplicably, don't you feel strange, Dad? ”

"These victims are not a small number, most of them are gone when they arrive in Fujian, and I have also wondered, if you say that, this can also be explained. But if that's the case, then it can only mean one thing," Yu said quietly.

You Shiming was also shocked and said: "Dad, you mean, Manila, no, Luzon Island has also been taken by Geng Wangye?" This, this seems to be nothing impossible, the Mawei Navy is so powerful, and it is not surprising that the Westerners on Luzon Island are not opponents. If that's the case, Dad, let's actively cooperate with Geng Wangye's actions, Geng Wangye obviously has a way out, even if we fail in the future, we don't have to worry about being wiped out by the fucking family. Don't you know what Prince Geng has done over the years? Although the reputation of the first two generations of the Geng family is very poor, the current Geng prince is a hero in the world, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is eloquent, and the future is limitless."

"That's true, if Geng Wang Ye can make it happen, we, let's" Thinking of this, Yu Wenjing's mood also rippled. (To be continued......)

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