Chapter 376: The Pearl of Southern Xinjiang
Nanning Province, not far from Lang Son, is a large government under the provincial capital Guilin.
Guilin is located in the northwest of Guangxi, while Nanning is located in the west, on the surface, here is not conspicuous, but because of the garrison of the command of the yamen, entrenched in heavy troops, and is an important trade route, has always been the entire imperial court in the south hammer of the sea god needle.
And now, there is a very interesting phenomenon. Here in Nanning Mansion, a piece of silk is only two taels of silver, but more than three hundred miles away from Langshan, a piece of silk has reached a high price of four taels or five dollars, a pound of pork in Nanning Mansion is only twenty dollars, and when it reaches Langshan, it is as high as fifty dollars, and a porcelain is only a mere one or two silver, and when it is there, it is three taels or four taels.
As for luxury goods such as wine, calligraphy and painting, or daily necessities, the price is about double.
The price doubles in just a few days.
At this time, Nanning shook, Guilin shook, and even businessmen far away in Guangzhou were also shocked.
All kinds of news spread like crazy with wings, and in this era, there are only two kinds of people who are well-informed, one is a businessman, and the other is a reader. For businessmen, news means wealth.
And now, the riches are coming.
After all, it is a transit center for goods, and there are indeed many merchants who carry goods to Lang Son and then sell them to merchants in Zhenla and other places, so as to make huge profits, and then transport rhino horn, spices, and cloth, ironware, and wooden tools from Lang Son back. Businessmen who engage in this category have indeed made huge profits from it.
And this kind of businessman, commonly known as businessman, is not responsible for production. It is engaged in buying and selling high and selling low.
As for other businessmen, they are not interested in going to Langshan, although Langshan has profits, but the profits are not so big that everyone takes risks, after all, there has always been a false rumor, it is not very peaceful, the general businessmen's homes have their own business scope, and the general situation is also to sigh that some of the guys who have made a windfall. There is a little envy, but it is only so.
Today, it's a big difference, it's no longer a one-size-fits-all profit. But it is twice as much, and this Lang Son suddenly became a place full of gold under the sound and color of others, and as long as you are willing to stoop down, you will have a lot of silver in your pocket.
At first, there were people in each province who inquired in private. Merchants are certainly the most courageous of the people. But at the same time, they were also the most cautious, but when someone ate the first crab, Chen Jimi of Nanning Mansion ordered dozens of truckloads of wine and rice to pass, everyone was in a sensation.
Because more than ten days later, Chen Ji actually directly closed two shops, claiming that there was no rice sales for the time being. Immediately in Nanning Mansion to buy ingredients, all the guys went to the countryside. After a few days, Chen Ji sent another team, dozens of mules and horses, and a cart of dust.
Chen Ji's proprietor, one of the richest men in Nanning Mansion, who had always been hidden, actually personally escorted the goods and went in a hurry.
Not only that, but several shops of the Chen family actually began to peddle, the Chen family's business in Nanning has always been good, several generations of business, everyone knows, but now they don't even want the ancestral business, just leave.
The people of Nanning Mansion were stunned at first, and then countless people flocked to it.
The Chen family is like this, it is nothing more than that the interests of Langshan are several times that of Nanning, and now, what are you waiting for? Waiting to lose the opportunity? The Chen family doesn't care, what are I waiting for?
As a result, countless businessmen poured in, and this time the businessmen were no longer business-oriented, and many of them wanted to come to Lang Son to do business.
The reason why the Chen family sold their ancestral business in Nanning was actually to save money to buy land, and the purpose of buying land was to build a shop, that is, to do business in Langshan. In Nanning, things change hands and sell them for two cents, but here, the things for one dollar are shipped from other places, and counting the loss along the way, at most they are only five cents for one dollar, but they can be sold for three or four dollars.
The whole Lang Son is in short supply, and the most ridiculous thing is that the more people it attracts, the more it is in short supply.
At the beginning, there were suddenly more than 100,000 people, and these 100,000 people had extremely strong spending power, almost a bottomless pit, and countless people poured in, soliciting people everywhere with silver, buying land everywhere, and opening shops like mushrooms after a rain, and building wineries, brick kilns, wood yards, and kilns in the suburbs, and did not satisfy the 100,000 Annam wealthy families and gentry, but suddenly found that he came here with his men and children to have food, clothing, shelter and transportation, which was originally a gap of 100,000 people, and you used your strength to eat milk to meet 80,000, But these people who meet their needs are also people, and the entry of tens of thousands of merchants, men, and craftsmen also has to be consumed, and the gap is still around 100,000 after the worst.
Prices have skyrocketed to a point where they have stopped, but the demand is still huge, there is silver, there is wealth, but there is a need for all kinds of needs, and the demand for everything is great, even the demand for manpower.
Due to the high prices, the merchants made a windfall, and at the same time, they had to expand the scale of trading and recruit a large number of manpower, but now the wages have also risen with the prices, after all, people in Lang Son also need food, clothing, housing and transportation, work for you, if you can't even afford to eat rice, who will help you?
Not to mention that there is no place to keep the master here, and no good wages are given, and some people are scrambling. Even a small bartender, now has become tight, all at once opened hundreds of wineries, all of them are hot, which winery is short of manpower, and the owner of the winestore is prosperous, and does not care about taking out a little more silver to reward the bartender, if it is stingy, people may not go to work on the opposite side the next day, in this case, Lang Son is like an inflated balloon, all industries are prosperous, countless people gather here like flowing water, businessmen take the opportunity to make a fortune, And ordinary people also got a piece of the pie, and their wages skyrocketed.
The more this is the case, the greater the attraction of Lang Son to other places, Jiaozhi has become a troubled time, and this Lang Son and other places in Jiaozhi are like heaven and hell, so many people with their families, flocking to the pass to beg for a living, every day outside Lang Son Pass are crowds of people, guarding the pass of the Hou Mansion guards, early in the morning opened the gate, there are dense crowds of people swarming, want to break in, and then the fire gun sounded from the sky, the guards had to shout: "Come one by one, no one is allowed to be presumptuous!" ”
With the deterrence of the firecracker, everyone was quieter, and then all the people flowed obediently by the guards.
If all the people are put in, Langshan is only afraid that it will not be able to bear it, but the Hou Mansion can only take the most realistic method, those who are over thirty years old are not allowed to enter the customs, and those who have a skill can also be put in after screening, and those who can read and write can also raise their noble hands, as for others, they can only stop it, otherwise it will go down like this, and Langshan is only afraid that a county town will not be able to bear it.
However, other people may not let them in and out, and some guards advised: "Other counties in the Luzhou fiefdom can also go, and the Hou Ye will try his best to ensure the safety of the fiefdom......"
Every day, the guards of these passes are busy from early morning to night, for six or seven hours, and there are hundreds of people who are put into the pass every day, this crazy population inflow is exhausting, but there is no way, especially as the war spreads to Qinghua and other places, and Jiaozhou City also begins to rumor, this flow of people is several times higher.
At the beginning, many people only went to Langshan, and gradually, even the counties of Haiphong no longer cared, they knew that it was unknown whether other prefectures and counties could leave their lives, but in the fiefdom of the Hao family, it was worth trusting.
Langshan Pass is like this, Guangxi is also the same, a large number of fugitives are almost lifeless rushing, in Guangxi to do work and farming, may not even be able to mix food and clothing for a year, but in Langshan can be a family to eat, which makes the people in Guangxi over there to Langshan extremely longing, because some people who have arrived in Langshan will send some broken silver back to their hometowns every three or five times, neighbors see, actually send two taels of silver every month, two taels of silver, everyone in the township farming, all day long facing the loess with their backs to the sky, tired and panting, In a year, he may not be able to have two taels of silver, but that guy usually doesn't have any ability, usually he can't even speak, he can't even speak, he can't read a basket of big characters, and he is actually on the side of Langshan, it is said that he is working in a winery, and this can send so much silver every month.
Those who went to Lang Son attracted the envy of their neighbors, so much so that in some places, the women encouraged the men to go out, and the young people of the family were idle, and some elders took this to teach.
This kind of mood gradually became common, so that later, someone sent some food and clothes back to their hometown, which attracted the envy of countless people.
As a result, a situation began to emerge in Guangxi, that is, the young people in the township formed a gang together and tried their best to go to Langshan, but the yellow book system was strict, and the people in the county could not ignore it, but how could they really manage it, one or two, you could still kill chickens and monkeys, but people were hundreds or thousands, and you really dared to take his family members to punish the crime? Here in Guangxi, the folk customs are already strong, and if one is not good, it is very likely to cause chaos.
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The second chapter is delivered, begging for a monthly pass. I just looked at the monthly ticket list, and Dick Si ranked tenth, and Tiger had to ask everyone for more support! (To be continued......)