"Hurry up, hurry up!" Wang Qin lifted the curtain of the sedan chair and urged the sedan chair driver: "If you go late, you will have to wait for a while!"

Hearing this, the four palanquin drivers had to speed up their pace, but fortunately, the road from the east gate was very smooth, and they walked quite briskly. (Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable) out of the east gate and walked forward for about a mile, and you can see the blue-tiled and high-walled mansion in front. After the sedan chair stopped at the gate, Wang Qin hurriedly got out of the sedan chair, and saw that there were several sedan chairs parked outside the door, and a group of sedan chair drivers were sitting under the wall to drink water and chat, knowing that they were still late.

Wang Qin walked to the gate and saw two young men in black shorts standing left and right at the door, so he stepped forward and handed over the post: "Below is the representative of Huizhou Mansion Haifeng, who came to visit your mansion." ”

One of the young men concluded the post: "Please wait. After speaking, he took the prayer note and turned back into the courtyard, and came out after a while, and asked Wang Qin to follow him in.

Wang Qin breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but he still didn't completely put his mind at ease, because he had also come once yesterday, but in the end, he left because it was too late and he was worried that he would not be able to return to the city, and he couldn't see the master here. But today, Wang Qin has already made up his mind, and he will wait until he meets the other party no matter what.

Sure enough, after being taken into the hospital, Wang Qin did not see the main owner immediately, but was taken to a side room to wait, where he saw several familiar faces.

"Boss Gao?" "This is not a shopkeeper, your old man is also here?"

After some pleasantries, everyone sat down again. A servant brought tea and snacks to Wang Qin, and then asked him to wait patiently here.

Wang Qin was not surprised to meet a few colleagues here. Ever since a few months ago, when Haihan goods began to appear on the market in Guangzhou, merchants all over the city were looking for where these delicate goods were trafficked from, and Wang Qin, as the principal of the Haifeng in Guangzhou, was naturally no exception. However, the "Fu Ruifeng" firm, which sells Haihan's goods, has done a very good job of secrecy, and so many people have inquired for a month or two, and they only know that this batch of goods came from the direction of Qiongzhou, but no one can say where it came from.

It wasn't until a few days ago that the "Haihan Bookstore" opened in Guangzhou, and the businessmen knew that the original owner had quietly arrived in Guangzhou, so many people began to take the initiative to visit the Guangzhou Office, seeking to buy those Haihan goods that were very in demand in the market. However, these people's door-to-door purchases do not seem to go well, and the Guangzhou Office said that "Fu Ruifeng" is the only agent of Haihan goods in the local area, and they do not plan to sell the same goods in Guangzhou, but merchants who intend to trade with Haihan can go to a port on Qiongzhou Island to purchase on their own.

Most of the businessmen who heard the news felt that the Haihan people had taken the wrong medicine, and we are now holding the silver to the door to buy it, and if you don't sell it, forget it, and let us go to such a remote place on Qiongzhou Island to buy goods? Who doesn't know that the place on Qiongzhou Island is poor and white, and most of the inhabitants on the island are Li barbarians, how can it be possible to make such fine glassware, and there must be some conspiracy among these Haihan people! Maybe their place is a pirate den, waiting for the merchants of Guangzhou to load a ship full of silver to throw themselves into the net!

Regarding this matter, "Fu Ruifeng", who has always maintained a close relationship with the Haihan people, responded silently and did not express his position on various speculations on the market. On the one hand, they do not want other merchants to become Haihan's distributors to share their current monopoly on the market; on the other hand, they are also very clear that Haihan people will never allow the current situation of one monopoly to continue for a long time, and the distribution strategy of Haihan people is bound to bring prosperity to Shengli Port, and there are actually many benefits for "Furuifeng", otherwise they will not be in a hurry to invest in Shengli Port enclosure.

However, the silence of "Fu Ruifeng" was regarded by the outside world as a kind of weak-heartedness, so except for a few bold companies who decided to go to the South China Sea to find out, the vast majority of commercial houses still maintained a wait-and-see attitude towards the Haihan people's statement, and sat back and waited for the development of the situation. (Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable)

It was not until a few days ago, after the return of these merchant ships from Qiongzhou Island, that the business situation in the Guangzhou market was suddenly detonated. These merchants who organized a group to go south this time have more or less purchased some Haihan goods, known as the "annual out-of-print" limited edition glass stationery set, and its value has directly doubled to a thousand taels at the same time as it appeared. So everyone knew that there was really such an undiscovered treasure on Qiongzhou Island, and those who were hesitant at the beginning beat their chests and regretted that they shouldn't have been so timid, and they missed this wave of market.

Later, these southbound merchants broke the news, claiming that the local port was exempt from a qiē tax, and that the maritime merchants did not need to pay various additional "road money" to obtain the qualification to enter the port.

As soon as this news came out, the sea merchants couldn't sit still. The taxes they pay to the city every year are as little as a few thousand taels and as much as 10,000 taels, and now a port that does not collect taxes suddenly appears, and this kind of ** force is simply difficult to resist. Although this port is a little farther away from Guangzhou, even if the freight is included, it is more cost-effective than paying taxes to the city. What's more, the Haihan people also have a lot of materials to purchase from the mainland, and it is also a very cost-effective business to directly transport the materials they need to sell in the past.

As a result, the Guangzhou Office immediately became the focus of attention of Guangzhou's business circles again, and merchants from all walks of life came to visit, either to inquire about the specific location of Shengli Port, or to join the next fleet to the south, and Wang Qin's "Haifeng" was also one of them.

As a foreign business, it is difficult for merchants like "Haifeng" to grab the sought-after goods in the city at the first time, and the number of Haihan goods on sale has always been extremely limited, and Wang Qin has not even had as many Haihan goods as the "Furuifeng" trading house in the past few months. And several large households in Huizhou have already greeted the "Haifeng": as long as they can get the hot Haihan goods in the Guangzhou market, the price is not a problem.

Of course, Wang Qin also wanted to, but he had been struggling to find the source of goods, and after coming to Guangzhou this time, he happened to hear about the Haihan port, so he felt that this was a good time, so he hurried to visit the door. He heard that this Haihan people have a habit of doing business, and they often only find one merchant as an agent in an area, so they will not even directly sell those "Fu Ruifeng" goods for sale in Guangzhou.

Wang Qin saw that these people here were all local merchants in Guangzhou, and his heart was a little calmer, and he took the initiative to speak: "I thought that I would be able to get to the front of the line when I waited for the city gate to come out this morning, but I didn't expect that your sedan chair drivers were so fast, and they had already arrived early." ”

The high boss said: "I and the shopkeeper Zhang were both in Zhuangzi outside the city last night, and we came over at dawn today, although it was earlier than you, but there were earlier before us." ”

Wang Qin was surprised and said, "Don't you know that you have already come before dawn?" I wonder which shopkeeper is so eager?"

"It's not just one, it's two. Shopkeeper Zhang took over and said: "Have you heard of Chenghai Xing in Chaozhou Mansion? It is said that Liu Da Shopkeeper of Chenghai Xing personally came from Chaozhou, rested here last night, and began to discuss business early this morning. ”

"It turned out to be Chenghai Xing!" Wang Qin nodded silently, this commercial bank is also one of the largest commercial banks in Guangdong Province, based in Chaozhou Mansion, and the scale is comparable to the local "Fu Ruifeng" in Guangzhou.

"Then I don't know what else is?" Wang Qin couldn't help but take the initiative to ask when he saw that Shopkeeper Zhang didn't continue.

"There is another ......" The shopkeeper lowered his voice and said: "It is said that the people from the government are here, and most of them are here to ask for this......

Shopkeeper Zhang said that he pinched the circle with his index finger and thumb, Wang Qin understood that this gesture meant copper coins, and nodded in understanding at the moment and did not continue to ask. With the popularity of Haihan products in the market, the local government will naturally not ignore the storage of the Guangzhou Office. In addition to a bookstore in the local area, the Haihan people have no other direct sales channels, all the goods are handed over to other merchants to sell, and the local government can't even collect taxes from the Haihan people, this phenomenon must be unreasonable Wang Qin suddenly thought that the Haihan people insisted on letting mainland merchants go to their ports to buy goods, could it be that there was also a reason to avoid the tax collection of the local government?

But regardless of whether the Haihan people pay taxes or not, everyone knows that they have money in their pockets, and the only one who can take out money from the Haihan people's pockets without much effort is the local government. Even if there are no taxes, there will be "voluntary" donations under various names, such as repairing bridges and roads, digging rivers and embankments, and suppressing bandits for disaster relief, and the government will always have many reasons for the local gentry to donate money, which is already the norm for merchants. As long as you pledge, then hello, hello, everyone, if anyone doesn't follow, the government will naturally have a hundred ways to slowly repair the thorn.

Wang Qin sat down and drank a cup of tea, and then representatives of three commercial houses came in a row, both from Guangzhou and from other places like Wang Qin. The merchants waited for nothing to do, and then began to exchange business information from various places. Of course, the theme is still the Haihan product that everyone pays the most attention to.

Nowadays, Haihan commodities have a certain name in Guangzhou Province, and glass stationery and silver mirrors have a very small amount of flowing into Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Since the supply of Haihan goods has always been low, the prices of these in-demand goods in other places far exceed those of Guangzhou, and the farther away from Guangzhou, the higher the price. For example, the lowest-grade white glass Haihan brush can be bought in Guangzhou for only one or two to one or two five dollars of silver, but when it comes to the adjacent Huizhou Mansion, the price has doubled, and the Lianzhou Mansion, which is far away from Guangzhou, has been sold for five taels of silver, which is sky-high compared to Guangzhou. As for the lower production of Haihan silver mirrors, the regional price gap is more than stationery, and several merchants who went to Shengli Port to buy silver mirrors did not sell this batch of goods in Guangzhou, but directly transferred them to other state capitals in order to seek a higher price.

It was almost noon until noon, when Wang Qin's stomach was almost filled with tea and snacks, and it was finally time to meet. However, this period of time was not difficult for Wang Qin to mix, not only through the introduction of other businesses in Guò to learn about the business situation in various places, but also to see the "sanitary ware" system that the Haihan people are promoting. I have to say that this set of family items is very much Wang Qin's heart, if it is not too expensive, Wang Qin has the urge to buy a set immediately.

Under the leadership of the servants, Wang Qin came to the meeting room located in the second courtyard, where he finally met Schneider and He Xi, the first and second leaders of the Guangzhou Office.

These two days have been busy enough, and the visitors from all walks of life who have to meet every day have been lined up from dawn to dark, and they don't know how many times they have said that they have dried their mouths. Moreover, these visitors are also varied, and the purpose of coming to the door is all strange, which often makes the two of them cry and laugh. It's easy to do things like the ones sent by the state government to fight the autumn breeze, it's just to buy a quiet place with some silver. For example, those who came to learn glass-making technology, those who came to discuss with them the advantages and disadvantages of Shengli Port and Guangzhou Port, and those who sold them rural fields, and so on. What's more, there was a Taoist priest in disguise yesterday, and when he entered the door, he said that the two of them were black, and there would be disasters in the near future, and before he finished reporting his origin, he was directly kicked out by Yu Yao and Xiao Liang, who happened to come to observe.

According to the early operation mode of the Guangzhou Office, this kind of meeting and negotiation can generally be handled by one person, and when there are many people, Schneider and He Xi can even meet with visitors separately. However, after the arrival of the second echelon, the daily operation of the Guangzhou Office has also begun to be standardized, one of which is that two or more people must be present when meeting visitors, and in principle, individual meetings are not allowed.

The Executive Committee's addition of such a provision to units stationed abroad is also aimed at preventing changes in the morale of units stationed abroad when they are far from their base camps. The resources here in the base camp are under the control of the Executive Committee, and everyone eats as much as they use, and there is a plan, even if someone is corrupt, there is actually no additional benefit that can be enjoyed, even if "Fu Ruifeng" opened in Shengli Port, it is also based on the special bills issued by the Executive Committee to enter the consumption, and it is a dream to prostitute a few more times with the circulation coupons in hand.

Shengli Port can implement a strictly planned economy, but it is certainly not possible for units stationed abroad, especially in the 17th-century flowery world like Guangzhou, which is far away from its base camp and in Guangzhou, and has a large number of interests with various walks of life in the local area, in fact, it is very easy to have an uncontrollable situation. You must know that these traversers are not strong-willed revolutionaries, and under all kinds of external **, I am afraid that a considerable number of people may not be able to maintain their own discipline. Therefore, the Executive Committee has added a number of management regulations to the units stationed abroad to ensure that the possibility of personnel stationed abroad being corrupted and bought by the outside world is minimized.

Although it is cumbersome to enforce, a rule is a rule. Yu Yao and Xiao Liang in the second echelon, in addition to the safety and security mission of the personnel stationed in the Guangzhou Office, also have a part of the internal task, that is, to supervise the implementation of the regulations on the management of units stationed abroad. Those who do not want to do so will certainly not be arrested and sent to the labor camp, but they will certainly be transferred back to the base camp and will be recorded in the executive committee's blacklist booklet. Schneider and He Xi, who knew how powerful they were, also changed their past freedom and looseness, and began to set an example of abiding by the law.

However, as a result, the speed of receiving visitors has been much slower, and as a result, the Guangzhou Office has been bustling with people in recent days. Schneider hurried to take a sip of water and hurriedly started a meeting with Wang Qin.

Although it was the first time for Wang Qin to deal with the Haihan people face-to-face, he had heard a lot of rumors about the Haihan people before, and he also knew that they liked to get straight to the point when discussing things, so he directly explained his intentions: first, he wanted to ask the Guangzhou Office to buy Haihan goods, and second, he wanted to send a ship to Yazhou Shengli Port.

Schneider said: "Boss Wang doesn't know, our Guangzhou Office only talks about business, and does not directly sell goods. If Boss Wang has any goods he wants to buy, he can place an order with us, and then go to Shengli Port to load the ship by himself. ”

Wang Qin hesitated: "But I heard that the quantity of your goods is extremely limited, and I have placed an order here, if there is no goods in Shengli Port, won't it be a delay?"

"You can rest assured that the order we place here is spot, not futures. In other words, there are already real goods in the warehouse at Shengli Port, so you can place an order with us, and we will definitely not sell two goods, and you can complete the delivery and loading procedures within 12 hours of arriving at Shengli Port, and there will be no situation you have concerns. Schneider patiently explained.

Wang Qin was moved by this, and asked, "How will the payment be made to you?"

Schneider smiled: "If you want to pay it off all at once now, it must be impossible." You only need to pay us a deposit of 10% of the total amount of the order, and the rest will be paid when you pick up the goods at Shengli Port. Of course, Boss Wang also knows that our goods are very tight, so the delivery period after paying the deposit is only 30 days, if there is no delivery to the port within 30 days, then we have the right to sell this batch of goods to other merchants. ”

"Then if you can't pick up the goods at the port beyond the delivery period, what will happen to the deposit?" Wang Qin asked a little nervously when he heard this. After all, it is to go to the sea to eat, no one can say whether there will be accidents at sea, if there is a problem with the ship, it may also exceed the delivery period mentioned by the Haihan people.

"If you are willing to continue the order, then the deposit is still valid, if you are not willing to continue the order, the deposit will be refunded half. This is also to prevent malicious orders, and I believe that Boss Wang can also understand our distress. Schneider explained without a leak.