The guest sat down, and Qinghe sat next to Bai Minghe as a master.

Even if it can be seen, Qinghe is a woman. These businessmen will not say much out of politeness, since they are wearing men's clothes and doing the work of the master, they are the master of the white crane, it's as simple as that.

Sit down again, and the first merchant to take out the ledger stood up and saluted: "Please allow the contemptible person to re-introduce." Contemptible Ningbo Gang Wang Younian, after Linchuan Gong. ”

Qinghe whispered beside him: "Duke Linchuan is Wang Anshi of the Northern Song Dynasty!" ”

"My surname is Liu, the Liu family on the south bank of Weishui!" Another person stood up and saluted at Bai Minghe: "Liu Zhi, Liu Changshun." After introducing himself, he turned around and saluted the others: "The ten people here, although four of them don't know each other, they know that these ten of us represent the top ten gangs of the Ming Dynasty."

The first time Bai Minghe heard about the Ten Gangs.

This Liu Changshun pointed directly at one of them: "This, Zhang Mingyuan." The Jin Gang is the Shanxi Gang. Although there are many discords between the Shanxi Gang and my Qin Gang, this person is a person who values faith and righteousness. ”

"In business, business naturally has disputes, and Mr. Liu is also a person who values faith and righteousness. Mr. Liu came to Hepu at the earliest, and others didn't dare to say that it was definitely not difficult for Mr. Liu to bypass us and meet Master Bai first. Just one person, Lord Bai's second aunt is from the Liu family's daughter-in-law, Guanzhong Bai is also a member of the Qin Gang, and most of the tea along the way in Hanzhong is run by the Bai clan! ”

Bai Minghe hurriedly got up and made a junior salute to Liu Chang.

"No, today is a business matter, no matter a family matter." Liu Changshun stopped the white crane.

After the introduction of these people, Bai Minghe was once again taught the knowledge of the Ming Dynasty. Daming has ten major merchant gangs. Although there is no obvious ranking, there are some vague similarities within the business gang. Among them, the three gangs of Hui, Jin, and Qin are the upper gangs. The top ten business gangs are: Shanxi Business Gang, Huizhou Business Gang, Shaanxi Business Gang, Ningbo Business Gang, Shandong Business Gang, Guangdong Business Gang, Fujian Business Gang, Dongting Business Gang, Jiangshi Business Gang, and Longyou Business Gang.

Each one has its own unique characteristics.

Like what. The Longyou Gang is mainly engaged in luxury goods such as jewelry and jade.

The Qin Gang can be said to be under the alliance of the four families and the eight small families in Qindi. It monopolized the business of salt, tea, grain, cloth and other important materials in the western part of the Ming Dynasty. Ninety percent of the business on the land Silk Road was in the hands of the Qin Gang.

Like the smaller Ningbo Gang, also known as the Red Gang. They are still in the silk business, and the real monopoly business is garment, and it can be said that more than eighty percent of the garment business in Jiangnan, Guangdong, Shandong, and Huguang is in the hands of the red helpers.

After introducing each other, these people also have a high status among the gangs, and everyone comes to Guangdong for their own purposes, of course, not because of the white crane. And let Shirana Tsuru eat almost all of their goods at once. It was also an accident. But who doesn't like to have money to earn.

"The junior asked, is there any overseas goods in Nanjing?"

The white crane already calls himself a junior.

A few people hesitated, but still replied to Bai Minghe: "Lord Bai is an official, and we are the people." Originally, I didn't dare to answer this question, and Bai Minghe is also a bold person, so I gave Bai an answer. I want to make a seafood. But if you make one order, you can make some money, and if you make ten orders, you will lose money. ”

"Why?"

"Shipments from Nanjing. We can't send it out. There are many bandits in Xiaoliuqiu, and it can be said that eight out of ten ships will be robbed by them. If the goods are shipped to them, although the price is higher than the ordinary market price, the intermediate cost is also large. So it doesn't matter if you do it or not! ”

The people of the Ningbo Gang are one of the merchants who have the most experience in seafood, and they also secretly do some smuggling business.

After communicating with each other between the Ningbo gang and the Fujian and Guangdong gangs, he continued: "Fujian is more dangerous. Dongfannan Port was occupied by the Japanese people, and they could only walk by the coast. Then arrive in Guangzhou. This is no different from the Cantonese Gang. ”

"To the south?" Shira-nae continued to ask.

"The sea ban is not a false text, and it is not impossible to sneak a few boats to travel far away. But the risks are not small. But it's much better than Nanjing. From Qiongzhou to the south, Da Nang can not enter, there to pay tribute to the Japanese people, the goods into the port first deduct three percent to the Japanese people, of course, this must also be able to enter the port, many times the goods do not enter the port will change hands. So it's been almost ten years and no one has gone to Da Nang. ”

Listening to what the people of the Ningbo Merchant Gang said, Bai Minghe thought to himself that he really underestimated the strength of the Japanese people in Da Nang.

He turned his head sideways and said to Qinghe: "Write it down and sue Uncle Fu." Da Nang is the territory of the Japanese people. In the eyes of these businessmen, Bai Minghe wanted to attack Da Nang. Qinghe understood that when Bai Minghe heard Uncle Fu's words, it meant that Da Nang did not need to be alive.

After saying to Qinghe, Bai Minghe asked, "Further south?" ”

"Giadin was originally a good port, but it has been very chaotic in recent years, not only by the Japanese but also by the Siamese people. The Nanzhang Kingdom is also inland, and it is constantly sending troops to the Champa Kingdom, so it is impossible for Ji Adin to do business safely. ”

Several merchants sighed at the same time.

"Further south?"

Bai Minghe still doesn't believe it, is it so difficult for Ming merchants to smuggle?

"Further south, how many people died in the port of Brunei. If Malacca only dares to enter the ship, it is not guaranteed to come out alive. The year before last, there were at most five boats a day that were robbed, and none of the crew members came back alive. ”

The white crane understood, understood it all.

It's not that the merchants can't do it, and it's not the reason for the sea ban.

The real reason is that without strong military support, why does Bai Minghe have the right to speak in Da Nang, because he exterminated the Japanese and killed all the Japanese people. So there is strong strength, there is the qualification to speak, and no one dares to grab their own goods.

But further south, without the protection of the Ming Navy, the Ming Navy has never gone south since the last time the Three Treasure Eunuchs went to the Western Ocean.

I remember that there was a book about Zheng He's voyage to the West in later generations.

Bai Minghe remembered what he said above, Zheng He said it at the end, before he died. The South China Sea is also the territory of the Ming Dynasty, as long as the Ming Dynasty manages it carefully, this will be the inner lake of the Ming Dynasty.

Once the Ming Navy leaves, the Ming will lose the South China Sea forever.

It's only been a few years, and the Europeans haven't come to the South China Sea yet, and the Ming Dynasty has already lost the South China Sea.

It is not that the sea ban has cut off the maritime trade of merchants, but that there is no protection, so that merchants cannot trade safely, and the Ming Dynasty has been surrounded on land by small forces.

Shirana Crane is a person from the modern era, and in that era of information explosion, even if you don't ask about current affairs and don't specialize in history, you still know a little bit.

For example, the Age of Discovery. For example, the New World. For example, the sea ban of the Ming Dynasty.

Bai Minghe believes that his current deep understanding of the Daming Sea Prohibition has surpassed that of ordinary history students in later generations.

"It's painful, it's really painful!" Bai Minghe is really sad, the huge profits of overseas trade have been lost out of thin air, and the losses are really huge.

"Lord Bai, this matter is not something that can be done by one person. We, the small people, don't dare to talk about politics, but if there is no solution to this matter on the court's side, the matter of maritime trade cannot. Fortunately, the coast is still safe, and the transportation is developed. Even like Shaanxi and other places, you can also transport salt back from Guangdong. ”

Bai Minghe waved his hand: "Okay, let's stop these unpleasant topics for a while." ”

"Please speak!" Several businessmen said in unison.

"I have some medicinal herbs in my hands, and there are no people here who are very knowledgeable about medicine, but some Lang Zhong showed them. Like iron maple buckets, wild Ganoderma lucidum, etc., are all of the highest quality. The amount is not much, and the sum of all kinds of medicinal materials is about more than a thousand stones, which of you wants. The price is negotiable. ”

The merchants did not immediately answer. Instead, he asked, "My lord, what else?" If it's convenient, it's better to sue us at once. We can also distribute it according to the goods, and then discount the payment for those goods of the Lord of the Silver Peak. According to what the adults said, if the medicinal materials of more than 1,000 stones are more valuable, the price is naturally extremely high. ”

"yes, I don't know what else the adults want to buy?"

"Another 10,000 loads of silk. How about I pay 700 stone rice a load? It's all high-quality polished rice! ”

Bai Minghe is full of confidence, money is not a problem, and sales are not a problem.

Liu Changshun punched: "Lord Bai, say something disrespectful." Do you know how many meters you can exchange for 10,000 quintals of silk at your price? ”

"There is not enough rice, and there is the rest of the goods, you have the goods, just change them." There are also 20,000 stone of high-quality cane syrup, and speaking of which, I will tell you a joke to your predecessors. Bai Minghe didn't say that he had 10 million stone of rice.

When Bai Minghe talked about syrup, in fact, these people had already thought of the sugar mill that Jinyiwei forcibly occupied.

"I originally wanted to make white sugar myself, so I asked someone to buy a sugar mill, of course, the means were not very glamorous. I sent only 2,000 barrels of syrup, and yesterday the shopkeeper of the sugar mill told me that they would recruit another 100 people and work overnight. It will take more than a year to turn these syrups into white sugar, and the seniors say, is this a joke! ”

It's a joke, and it's a big joke.

In less than a year, those syrups can be stored for half a year, and then half of the raw materials can only be discarded.

"I took this syrup from Fujian, and Lord Bai didn't know what kind of price it was. One sugar mill is not enough, our Fujian Gang has more than 600 sugar mills of different sizes, how can we swallow these goods. ”

Shirana Crane lowered his head and was thinking about what kind of price point was appropriate.

The door was pushed open, Wu Bin rushed in with a pale face, and the moment he saw the white crane, Wu Bin was speechless.

According to common sense, Wu Bin should at least politely say sorry or something, but who would think that Wu Bin didn't care about these businessmen at all, and walked quickly to Bai Minghe and whispered: "Yang Dudu has arrived in Hepu, and he is already at the city gate!" ”

"What's going on?" The white crane was surprised. (To be continued......)