Seeing the sedan chair get up, the sound of firecrackers immediately sounded at the gate. The smoke was filled, and the "red dragons" kept rolling and shortening, and before long, the ground at the door was dyed red.

Wu Shigong had a smile on his face all the time, because he had been hanging for too long, and he himself felt a little stiff. But on this good day, Wu Shigong still has to maintain his demeanor.

No one knows that Wu Shigong's mind is very chaotic now. He remembered that when he first met Xiao Jie, the little girl who pestered him to listen to the story like a pink carving, but now she married into the Tao family without hesitation, just like Sister Jiang went to the execution ground and never looked back.

Wu Shigong also thought of the apprentice he forced to accept with a knife, but he didn't expect him to steal his treasure's heart. Did you lure the wolf into the house at that time? Grass!

Seeing Wu Shigong in a reluctant daze, Zhao Ruya, who was standing beside her, smiled and comforted: "It's not that my daughter won't come back, let her go back if you want her." In fact, she is reluctant to leave your father. ”

Wu Shigong suddenly remembered that when he entered the sedan chair, Xiao Jie's pretending to cry, and there was a smell of ginger on his face, so Wu Shigong was angry. He lowered his face angrily, shook his sleeves and said, "Fake! ”

Zhao Ruya knew that Wu Shigong's child's temper had been flare-up for a few days, so she didn't care. So Zhao Ruya said again: "I married your apprentice, and I am also my own family." The two of them have been childhood sweethearts since childhood, and they will be happy with their daughter haode. ”

But Wu Shigong seemed to eat all the gunpowder in those firecrackers into his stomach, and he said stiffly: "Xiao Xinzi is okay, but the old witch of the Tao family is difficult to deal with, so I'm afraid that she will bully Xiao Jie!" ”

Although there is also Tao Xin's yard in the camp, and now this courtyard is also used as Xiao Jie's new house, but after Tao Xin became the commander of the regiment. Xiaojie still has to go to live in the old house of Tao Xin of thousands of households and serve her mother-in-law, which is also the reason why Wu Shigong is even more unhappy.

"The in-laws are not so unbearable, right?" Zhao Ruya chuckled. However, she thought that there was no way to explain the truth to Wu Shigong, the pig's head, today, so she was concerned: "Drink less wine later." ”

"Drink to kill your sorrows!" Wu Shigong's words are more and more annoying than the other. Zhao Ruya couldn't hold back any longer, she hid on Wu Shigong's back and ......pinched it fiercely.

Because the assassination incident happened not long ago, Xiaojie's wedding was originally prepared very low-key, and Wu Shigong didn't want to do it in a big way, but just wanted to do it inside the Runing Army. But as soon as the news reached the outside world. The guests rushed to Runing in an endless stream, which made Wu Shigong overwhelmed for a while. However, this wedding was also a bit noisy, and most of those guests came for Wu Shigong.

But Wu Shigong's wedding banquet here could not surpass Tao Xin's family, and it was impossible for those outsiders to move freely in the Runing Army camp, so Wu Shigong set up a restaurant in Fucheng. Let Zhang Xuebin entertain them and wait until the wedding is over. Wu Shigong will select some more important guests to meet with them.

But when it comes to sorting out the gift list. Wu Shigong found an uninvited guest from Jiangnan, and this guest was quite generous, and the gifts he gave were definitely in the top three among all the guests, which aroused Wu Shigong's curiosity.

Wu Shigong called Zhang Xuebin to inquire, and found out that the guest was a businessman from Suzhou Prefecture. His name is Wang Jueqing.

Wang Jueqing's Wang family, like the Ma family, is the leading wealthy family in Jiangnan, and of course, the Wang family's industry also has a lot of overlap with the Ma family. The competition between the two companies was quite fierce, and each had a group of small and medium-sized businessmen attached to them, that is, two business groups were formed.

Originally, these two business groups were like modern Coca-Cola and Pepsi, and no one could help the other, but in recent years, the balance of these two groups has begun to tilt. Especially now, the tilt is getting more and more severe.

Of course, the Wang family must have been staring at their competitors, and as soon as there were signs, they began to look for the reason. At the beginning, the Wang family thought that the rise of the Ma family was due to sea trade.

In fact, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the industry and commerce in Jiangnan had been quite developed, and there had been a certain amount of overproduction, so the decision on the decline of a large business has become who can seize the market more.

Because he befriended Zheng Zhilong through Wu Shigong's relationship, and Wu Shigong himself had six sea vessels, the Ma family's sea trade exports increased greatly. Don't underestimate these sea ships, you must know that the annual number of ships on the golden route from the Ming Dynasty to Japan was more than 100 ships, and a ship Ming Dynasty and Japan ran back and forth for two or three months, so you can see what an amazing proportion the Ma family's sea trade occupied.

Therefore, the Wang family thought that they had found the reason, and they immediately set out to solve the problem. Money can make ghosts grind, and the trust relationship found the Zheng family. And if there is an opportunity to make money at the door, Zheng Zhilong will definitely not refuse. No matter how good the relationship with Wu Shigong is, Zheng Zhilong's Zheng family is also in business.

Besides, after eliminating the great pirate Liu Xiang, the Zheng family has become a dominant force in the Far East Sea, and without the threat of other pirates, the volume of sea trade is also increasing year by year, and the Zheng family also needs some sources of goods to fill the gap.

It seems that the Wang family and the Ma family are back on the same starting line. However, the Wang family was horrified to find that although the Wang family had gradually caught up with the Ma family in terms of the export volume of sea trade, the gap between the two families was getting wider and wider.

As long as you are a discerning person, you will know that the Wang family is looking for the wrong reason, so the Wang family launched all social relations to find the reason for the rise of the Ma family. Soon, Runing's little lieutenant appeared in front of them.

Here, we would like to introduce the industrial and commercial markets of the Ming Dynasty. Is it important to export to sea trade? Of course, it is very important, but the exports are basically luxury goods, and the profits are windfall, and from the total proportion of industry and commerce in the Ming Dynasty, it is not the largest. You must know that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the GDP of the Ming Dynasty accounted for seventy percent of the total GDP of the entire shijie, although the statistical data may have some deviations, but the GDP of the Ming Dynasty accounted for at least half of the total GDP of the whole shijie.

This can be seen how huge the domestic market was at the end of the Ming Dynasty. In the domestic market, the north and south of Beijing and their diffraction areas also occupy half of the country, and it is also the most important market. The rest of the region is a small market.

But the Wang family didn't expect that it was one of these small markets that caused the Ma family to take off. And the person who controls this small market is not a local civil official, nor a local gentry, but a local military attache who has never been taken seriously by the Wang family. (To be continued......)