Shenmuwei is located in the area of Cochin and Lang Son, and almost all of the post stations have strongholds, which are not only responsible for liaising with the nearby Shenmuwei spies, but also for collecting information on business travel.

Even Hou Haozheng of Luzhou, every time he meets a person, he can understand the details of the other party in advance, which is actually the credit of Shenwuwei, someone pays homage, as long as he leaves, or is still on the way, there is a list to send, and the details of this person are in the list.

When Hao Fenglou entered this room, the three scribes who were responsible for collecting, sorting, and summarizing the documents and the wrestlers on duty were overjoyed, and at the same time they were a little cramped, and they bowed, and then a document was delivered to Hao Fenglou's hands.

Since Hao Fenglou is asking what news there is, he is naturally not concerned about trivial matters, and this document is all about some major events that have happened in Jiaozhi recently, and after sorting it out, it was transcribed and presented to Hao Fenglou.

There is a lot of news in it, including the new transfer envoy Zhou Daren and the commander of the capital are not harmonious, the contradiction between the two sides is mainly focused on the competition of interests in the establishment of cards, the transfer envoy in the Song Dynasty, in charge of local finances, can verify the amount of loss, but also to inspect the reserves, audit the accounts, all the officials and the people, can even be all the above, and the matter of assassinating officials. Everything along the way, everything. In the Ming Dynasty, although the responsibilities of the transshipment envoy were smaller, he was responsible for the taxes of a place.

And the commander is in charge of the Jiaozhi guards, the garrison passes, one is to guard the passes, the other is to collect taxes, the passes will inevitably have to find some names to ask for money, and the tax collectors set up cards everywhere, and the contradictions will naturally come out.

Then there was the popular uprising. There have been many popular uprisings in various parts of Annam, but the scale is not large, and the language used above is to immediately suppress it.

It seems to be a bit of a famous place here. The so-called 'popular rebellion', which can be suppressed immediately by the local parent officials only needs a few errand servants, is a bit too much, and most of them are just a few people making trouble, and the local officials will take the people from the beginning on the grounds of the civil rebellion and go directly to repay the merits.

This kind of thing can't happen anywhere else, after all, you are a parent in a place, and there is a civil uprising. This is a failure of your education. But Cochin is different, Cochin is a 'wild' place, just naturalized. Therefore, if there is a bit of 'civil change', the parents are not responsible, and it is merit to suppress it.

The other news was lacking, but there was one news that attracted Hao Fenglou's attention.

Hai Phong City Ship Division transmitted. A large food merchant ship docked at Haiphong. Originally, he brought goods to communicate with Annan, but who knew that he suddenly received a 'warning signal', and he suddenly sailed away, and it was rumored that he went to the southeast coast of Daming, and the goods that were originally going to be sold refused to be unloaded, and they were supplied with grain and fresh water.

Hao Fenglou frowned, in fact, he often reads Di newspapers. As soon as he heard the news of the Great Eclipse, he could figure out something, and the imperial court had just allowed the Great Eclipse to pay tribute. And the big food merchant Jia in this neighborhood originally came to Annam, Quanzhou, Luzon and other places to do business, and sent the goods, but he didn't sell them, Hao Fenglou can even be sure that this must be the big food merchant Jia wants to gather in Quanzhou, planning to gather together to pay tribute.

Hao Fenglou's heart moved, and he couldn't help asking: "Is there any news about this big food?" ”

After listening to Hao Fenglou's words, the scribe hurriedly said: "Save some, please take a look." ”

After that, the scribe searched out a few documents and presented them to Hao Fenglou.

It is full of some information about the big food merchants, but the language is unknown, and there are even some places, Hao Fenglou can clearly see the mistakes and omissions, such as what big food is the country of the West, such as the big cannibal living on a boat.

Of course, this kind of mistake can be understood, the news that Shenwuwei heard is mostly rumors, and only if he feels that the matter is important will he send personnel to confirm it, and the big food is really dispensable for Shenwuwei, so naturally there is no need to confirm it.

However, there is some news that arouses the interest of Hao Fenglou, the captain of the big food merchant is more than 30 zhang, can accommodate 500 people, and the big food merchant is mostly a giant, among which there is a giant Jia Hu is the most famous in Quanzhou, he changed his name to Hu Lu, often settled in Quanzhou, and did a lot of business, his fleet, it is said that there are hundreds of large and small ships, sailors and guards are entrenched in the open sea, built a warehouse warehouse, raised a lot of manpower, and intersected with the city ship, Quanzhou is more affected by his dots, and the big food merchant Jia Duo is looking forward to his horse, This time the tribute is only afraid that this person will take the lead.

Hao Fenglou read some news seriously, then put down the paperwork and said with a smile: "Okay, it's hard work for you." ”

A few people naturally said that it was not hard. Hao Fenglou smiled, and the people of this post station arranged to live on the third floor, rest for the night, wake up the next morning, and order some refreshments with the guards on the first floor, which is overcrowded at all times.

Hao Fenglou sat down inconspicuously, and several businessmen next door seemed to have just met, and they were greeting each other with a smile.

Hao Fenglou was naturally silent, and the guards around him were also silent, everyone was just eating tea and using pastries, but the few businessmen in the next seat were all dancing with their eyebrows.

One of them, a businessman surnamed Liu, was obviously a little cramped when he first arrived in the local area, and several other businessmen asked him: "I don't know what kind of goods Brother Tai is betting this time, but are you going to Langshan?" ”

The surnamed Liu said: "I bet on some porcelain, and I went to Langshan." ”

As soon as they heard the porcelain, several other merchants looked at each other, and one of them sighed: "Porcelain...... Where did it come from? Ay...... Let's tell the truth, here in Langshan, although the price of silk and tea is still high, but the real money is still this porcelain, silk and tea are shipped when they are lucky, it is nothing, be careful, seal it with oil paper. But this porcelain is different, porcelain is fragile, the road is bumpy, thousands of miles, there may be a mistake at any time, so as long as it can be delivered safely, there is no fear that it will not be sold at a good price, even if it is ten times or twenty times the price, it is also a common thing. Like us, most of us send some tea, and the gentry and nobles of the Annan people and Zhenla love to drink tea and are willing to spend money, but after all, everyone can send tea, and it is good to have a profit of three or five times. ”

Another humanitarian: "In fact, if you go to Langshan with porcelain, if you go to Haiphong, Langshan is a gathering of businessmen from all over the world, sometimes there are no less than 3,000 businessmen gathered, but the merchants of Zhenla, Zhancheng, and Annam are all stingy, to be honest, at the beginning, what price we sell, they are willing to ask, and they are eager to do it, but now they are raised, and people have now seen the world, and they know the market of these things, and the price is killed, which is ruthless enough." ”

"Brother Tai told the truth, if you want to make a lot of money on porcelain, you have to go to Haiphong, do you know Haiphong? In the land of Haiphong Hou, there are also many merchants, some big food, some Javanese, all come by boat, they are refreshing, but at the moment the official roads of Lang Son and Haiphong are still being repaired, I am afraid that it will be difficult to walk, but you are careful with this goods. ”

The merchant surnamed Liu couldn't help but say in surprise: "This ...... Maritime ...... Didn't you say that the sea was forbidden? ”

The person who spoke before laughed and said: "Daming is naturally forbidden to the sea, but don't forget, Haiphong is the fief of the Hao family, and the Haiphong City Ship Division is also handled by the Hao family, and the law of my Ming court is that you can't go to sea, but my Daming doesn't have a ship to go to sea......"

The merchant surnamed Liu suddenly understood, in fact, this is a loophole, the rules of the Ming Dynasty are very simple, that is, no one is allowed to go to the sea, even if the maritime merchants of the vassal country come from afar, it must be received by the city shipping division, and the imperial court is also very strict with the city shipping division, not that the ships of various countries can sell the goods to the city shipping division as long as they reach the coast, there are not only many things to eat and take, but also many conditions.

However, as for Haiphong, it is true that the board did not go to the sea, and naturally it is strictly forbidden for ordinary people to go to the sea to engage in business, but the maritime merchants of various countries have come, and the city and ship department of Haiphong are obviously turning a blind eye, even if someone complains, at most it is that the city ship department is not strict in its management and prohibition.

However, this gap is equivalent to countless business opportunities, so it has attracted many businessmen to cross the sea.

The businessman surnamed Liu was naturally interested, and he couldn't help but ask about coastal defense.

Others replied: "This Haiphong is different from Lang Son, Lang Son is a place where goods are distributed, most of the merchants who do business are Champang, Cochin, Zhenla and other places, but Haiphong is doing business by sea, everyone has it, even if it is the Semu people, Kunlun people, occasionally you can see a few, Lang Son is particular about long-term trading, what goods you sell in the future, send a few times a year, and the old customers here are delivered, and then order some things in the workshop in Lang Son to take back, of course, it is a sure profit." And in Haiphong, those maritime merchants and you are doing a hammer deal, after everyone settles, the two are not on credit, he goes to sea, where do you go to find him in the future? So Haiphong makes a lot of money there, but you also have to beware of liars, a few days ago there was an incident, someone deceived a silk merchant with tin silver, more than 1,000 taels, isn't this forcing people to hang themselves? In fact, let's talk about it, if we do business, we can't keep our eyes brighter, as for where Brother Liu goes, we have to think about it ourselves. ”

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This afternoon, because of the previous car accident, I had to go to the traffic police at the place where the accident occurred to deal with some procedures, so I was delayed for some time, and I came back a little late, and I had to finish it a little, and the tiger is also very sorry, but please understand the tiger! Well, really hungry, the tiger went to eat first. (To be continued......)