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At the Shenglong Inn, only twenty-year-old Meng De woke up from his sleep, only to see him shake his head that was a little swollen, and then stood up from the bed helplessly. It was still dark in the room, and it was clear that it was not yet dawn outside. When I opened the window, the street lamps on both sides of the street outside glowed yellowish. Seeing that it was not yet dawn, Meng De went back to bed and lay down again, but he couldn't fall asleep over and over. Speaking of which, he didn't sleep until the third watch last night, and now he has slept for two hours at most, but because he has something in his heart, he can't sleep anyway.

Meng Decai is a businessman from Fuzhou Mansion, Jiangxi, and the Meng family is engaged in the leather business, and the industry can be regarded as medium in Fuzhou Mansion. Since Fujian built roads on a large scale and repaired the roads between various prefectures and counties, his Meng Decai's family decisively raised funds and began to run business in Fujian. Fuzhou is very close to Fujian, he will transport Jiangxi specialties to Houyu Port, can be sold soon, and then buy back a large number of foreign goods from the port, back and forth, only in these three years, his Meng family has become one of the richest people in Fuzhou. After other businessmen saw that the Meng family had made a fortune and were not reconciled, they ran to Fujian to look for business opportunities. However, the head of the Meng family had a unique vision, and he had a good relationship with the shops in the port more than half a year in advance, taking the lead, and the business was getting bigger and bigger.

The old head of the Meng family is getting older and older, and as the only son in the family, Meng De has to take over the business. However, although Meng Decai is not good at reading, he is really good at business. Since last year. He has always been in charge of the Meng family's business, and over the past year, he has done no worse than his old father, and even surpassed, making all the elders in the family have nothing to say. This time, before he left, the Meng family received a lot of orders, and the deposit was also collected. When it's time to return, take the goods you ordered, and you can make another big profit. After coming to Monkey Island Port. The reborn lacquerware, porcelain panel paintings, and Jiangxi famous fans that were originally shipped from Fuzhou were quickly sold. Next, you only need to buy the goods you need and go back, and then you can wait to get the rest of the payment.

On this side of Houyu Port, there have always been many foreign merchants, not only Westerners. There are also quite a few smugglers from North Korea and other countries. As long as your goods are good. Basically, you don't have to worry about not being able to sell. If these merchants had brought things back. If it is welcomed, they will buy it in large quantities next time. Many handicrafts in Fujian have expanded their sales in this way. The Jiangxi reborn lacquerware, porcelain plate paintings and Jiangxi famous fans shipped by Meng Decai are all famous in Jiangxi for a long time, and the sales here have always been very good. In particular, the famous fan in Jiangxi, with exquisite workmanship, elegant and meaningful patterns, is also very popular in Fujian, and is also a rare boutique for those Koreans and Japanese people and people in the Nanyang area.

People in these countries are deeply influenced by Chinese culture, and they especially like to imitate Chinese literati and ink writers, so they can't put down these fans. The reason why Jiangxi famous fan is famous is that it is made of carefully selected high-quality bamboo, which is finely made, and each fan bone is required to be uniform in size and thickness. And the making and drawing of the fan surface is even more complete. After such careful processing, the fans made are elegant, generous, strong and durable, and of course they are deeply loved. There are also many types of famous fans in Jiangxi, which are divided into oil paper fans, silk fans, black and white paper fans, etc., and each person's preferences are different, so there are several more choices.

During this trip to Fujian, among the orders he received, Meng Decai thought that he would soon be able to buy all the pepper and amber he needed, but there were still two goods of Nanyang spices and ivory that were not found. Originally, he thought it would be smooth sailing, but no one expected an accident. Originally, spices and pepper were the same as the specialties of the Nanyang area, and the trade in the Nanyang has always been dominated by Geng Jingzhong's Fuzhou Ocean Trading Company. However, because Geng Jingzhong has been busy taking Luzon Island in the past few months, and he has begun to emigrate after taking Luzon Island, the inventory in Fuzhou has already been exhausted. It was already a great luck that he could purchase pepper and amber, but the ivory and spices were indeed in short supply, and he ran for more than ten days in the entire Houyu Port, but still did not find the source. No, in the past few days, he has been staying in the Sihai Teahouse waiting for news, but there has been no news. What made him even more depressed was that one day yesterday, Sihai Teahouse was closed for a day, which had never happened before.

Seeing that the established return date is coming, if you don't go, it will exceed the transaction time agreed with the buyer, if he has not been able to buy the ivory and spices set by others, the breach of contract and loss of money is still a trivial matter, the key is their own reputation, as the so-called promise, especially in business, if they are damaged because of the reputation of this business, then the business of the family will definitely be greatly affected in the future, more and more businessmen in Fuzhou began to run this line, the competition is getting bigger and bigger, if this time it is messed up, It is very possible that his own business will shrink, and every time he thinks of this, Meng Decai feels a special headache.

Because the goods did not land, so that Meng De who was lying on the bed was particularly worried, and finally it was not easy to stay until the sky was white in the east, at this time he couldn't stay any longer, got up and put on his clothes and walked downstairs, ate something casually in the breakfast shop at the door of the inn, and then hurried to the Sihai Tea House, he didn't believe that the Sihai Tea House would not be open for two consecutive days! Sihai Tea House has always opened at dawn, and today is no exception, since it was not open yesterday, there were more people coming early this morning than usual. Although Meng Decai came early, it happened to be a short time before the teahouse opened, and when he entered the teahouse, he was ready to find an empty table to sit down at as usual, and then according to the old rules, a box of spices and an ivory were placed on the table waiting for the seller to come up and talk.

But as soon as Meng De stepped into the tea house, he found that the tea house was very different from usual. Many businessmen gathered around the innermost one by one, looking in the direction of the innermost counter of the tea house, because there were too many people in front, Meng Decai didn't know what these people were looking at, and he was curious to walk in at the moment.

It didn't take him a few steps before he noticed the difference. Why are the tables of the past gone? Only rows of chairs remained, but the middle aisle was spacious enough not to look too crowded. Looking further in, I saw that the appearance of the counter had also changed, there was nothing on it, and on the wide wall behind the counter, there was a huge blackboard, on which a clear table was drawn with chalk, divided into several areas, and the outline was clear. Each area has words written on it.

"Shipping area: domestic products: tea area, silk area, cotton area, leather goods area, porcelain area, grain area、......; Foreign goods: leather area, spice area, wood area, metal area......" Many merchants looked at the writing on the wall. I couldn't help but read it out loud. The former servant in the teahouse climbed the ladder with chalk and rags in his hands, and was scribbling on the blackboard. When the merchants in the tea house saw this situation, they all seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood. Quickly run under the wall and look up. Although the crowd was excited. But no one spoke up, which is why everyone was too fascinated.

Meng De was very curious when he couldn't see it, and got closer and closer to the counter. I raised my head and looked at what the little girl in the tea house wrote on the blackboard, but it was okay not to look at it, but I was startled when I saw it. It turns out that in each table area on the wall, there are corresponding business information, such as the table area marked pepper under the foreign goods, for example, each table area is written with a piece of pepper goods information, such as the origin, price, quantity, etc. of this batch of pepper, and each corresponding piece of information has its own number.

There are no more or less information about goods like this in each table area, but there will be no more than forty columns at most, after all, the area on the wall is limited, and no more can be posted. And forty pieces of information is almost enough, and the number of transactions in many less popular areas has not reached forty at all, or even half of them have not been used. The strangest thing is that the large table on the far right of the table area is blank, and there are only three words in the purchase area at the top, and I don't know what to do. At this time, almost all the merchants in the tea house gathered under this wall, and the merchants who reacted pointed to the information on the goods and discussed it.

Meng Decai looked at the information on the wall, listened to the discussion of the people around him, and suddenly he seemed to understand something, but there were many questions, just at this time, a guy from the tea house walked past him, and he immediately grabbed the other party and said: "Little brother, what's going on with this wall, why is it only a day later, there has been such a big change in the Sihai Tea House?" ”

The guy in the tea house that he pulled was just Zhang Dajin, who had just been promoted, and there were no less than twenty people who had asked him this question early in the morning, but he was not bored at all, and the three fires of the new official could not be burned, but he enjoyed this feeling very much. After listening to Meng Decai's question, he then smiled and pointed to the direction of the wall on the right and said: "Guest officer, this wall is not something that can be explained clearly in one or two sentences, but there is a notice on the opposite wall on this side of the wall, and there are already many people looking at it, you may only pay attention to this side, I believe that as long as you go to see it, you will understand!" ”

Meng Decai followed Zhang Dajin's finger and looked, and sure enough, he found something pasted on the opposite wall on the right, more than one, and many businessmen were watching around. At that moment, after Meng Decai thanked Zhang Dajin, he quickly walked to the front of the wall on the right, and carefully read the content of the notice in front of a notice with few people, and only then did he finally understand what the wall was for.

It turns out that the left and right parts marked on the blackboard on the wall are called the "Shipment List" and the other is called the Buying List. According to the type of goods on the shipping list, the information of the goods sold by each merchant is written on it, if the person who needs to buy the goods feels good when he sees the information above, he can write down the number in front of each message, and then pay a little fee at the counter, and the village will provide the name and address of the owner, and even help them contact each other, and unlike before, even if the seller and the buyer's business is reached, the tea house will not take a cut from it, because the previous owner registered the information, and when the buyer asked for the owner's information, The money has already been paid, so the draw is waived.

As for why the purchase list is blank, there is also a statement in the notice, because this method has just been implemented, no one has released the purchase information, so please ask the businessman in need to go to the innermost counter to register, and then soon the class can mark the information on. The buying list is opposite to the shipping list, and the list will announce the information of the goods that some merchants need to buy.

After figuring out the role of the shipping list, Meng Decai immediately ran to the front of the shipping list and carefully searched for information about spices and ivory. He looked directly at the foreign goods area, and then looked down one by one, as the so-called sky pays off, he finally saw a piece of information about the sale of ivory in the middle of the fifteenth, which made him immediately overjoyed, and then looked at the price and quantity of ivory, and the result was great joy, happy that this batch of ivory has a lot of quantity, which fully meets his needs. Then he began to look for information about spices again, and finally he found the target in the last to last table, and the same amount, the quantity was enough to meet his needs, but the price was about thirty percent higher than before, if he bought it at this price, I am afraid that even if it was shipped back to Fuzhou, he would not make any money.

However, this spice is related to the credibility of their Meng family, so even if he loses money, he can't let it go, so he immediately wrote down the number in front of this message, and then immediately ran to the counter to hand over two big silver dollars to get the information of the owner, and then immediately rushed to find the owner according to the information, because the shopkeeper on the counter had already told him that there was already a merchant who went to find the owner of the spice, although there was no information about the success of the transaction of the goods, but in the form of spices that were so sought-after, Who can't guarantee that most of that batch of spices won't be eaten?

Meng Decai's luck was good, when he found the owner of the goods, the other party was bargaining with two merchants who wanted to buy spices, Meng Decai immediately joined in unceremoniously, and as a result, he finally bought this batch of spices at a price one layer higher than the list price, and the price he shipped back to Fuzhou was not as high as this price, if the freight was counted, he would definitely lose money. But fortunately, all kinds of goods shipped before made a lot of money and kept his reputation, so Meng Decai was still very happy. There are still many businessmen like Meng Decai in Houyu Port, and the shipping list launched by Sihai Tea House quickly spread throughout Houyu Port with the mouths of these merchants, which caused an unprecedented sensation! (To be continued......)