The so-called time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle.

In the blink of an eye, the time was already on April 17 of the first year of Maude; More than a month has passed since Hu Biao's initial division of labor.

After passing this time it is more scientific, and there is a reasonable division of labor.

Or to put it another way, after Hu Biao's death on the street and more frantically squeezing a group of netizens, I don't know how much the top of the greasy old man's head has been boiled, everyone's work efficiency has also become higher.

With the passage of time, the situation here in Kaifeng City is still very difficult, but it is getting better day by day......

Location: On the Grand Canal leading to Kaifeng City, one of the Cai River.

Du Baojun, who was in the cabin at the time, suddenly heard the boss of the ship outside the cabin shouting in his throat:

"Shopkeeper Du, in two more hours, we will be able to reach Kaifeng City; By then, it was still early, and it was not completely dark. ”

After hearing such news, he was greatly relieved.

Du Baojun, a thirty-year-old man, looks polite on the outside, more like a scholar than a wonderful person in the market.

In fact, it's not wrong to say that he is a reader.

He himself is from the Huzhou area in the south of the Yangtze River, a descendant of the Du family's big house; Since he was a child, he has entered the family's private school to study, and the teachers of enlightenment are all famous local gentlemen.

Unfortunately, his personal reading talent is limited, and compared with other brothers in the family, it is far from enough.

Seeing that there was no way out by studying, he took over many businesses of the Du family, and he was regarded as a person with the entire Du family's money bag.

Regarding this, in the extremely developed business of the Song Dynasty, it is not new at all.

Counting up, Du Baojun has been here for more than two years and has not come to Kaifeng City.

The reason is very simple, in the past year or so, the Jin people have twice hit Kaifeng City, and it was too dangerous at first.

After the second Jin man left, the wealth of hundreds of years in Kaifeng City was looted.

These businessmen, to put it bluntly, are all people who are unprofitable and cannot afford to be early, and there are people who do the business of killing heads, but absolutely no one does the business of losing money.

Du Baojun drinks and listens to music at home every day, and is much better than coming to the dilapidated Kaifeng City to face those poor ghosts.

The problem is that almost a month ago, there was a striking change.

On that day, the Wu family, who privately controlled the largest salt sales in Huzhou, invited a group of powerful wealthy families in Huzhou to have a banquet in the largest local 'Qingping Building'.

After the banquet was more than halfway through, the head of the Wu family took out a rare thing, which amazed everyone on the spot.

There are all kinds of crystal clear cups, which are simply ingenious treasures; There is also a kind of palm-sized, but it can shine into a tiny mirror.

There is also a pancreatic called soap, which is not only clean and refreshing after washing the hair and skin, but also leaves a floral fragrance that will not last for a long time.

Immediately, the sensitivity of being a businessman.

Almost immediately, Du Baojun realized that the above items had a huge commercial value.

Mirrors and soaps are also dispensable for men, and they will only buy them at any price for those cups and other treasures.

But for a group of female rolls, it's simply a temptation like a heavenly thing.

And it is normal for a man to spend a lot of money for a woman, so all of the above is definitely an excellent business.

This is indeed the case, but he spent 600 hundred yuan that day to buy a palm-sized mirror from the Wu family.

After going back and sending it to his mother, his mother's family has an uncle who is sentenced to Huzhou and is a fierce woman at home on weekdays.

On that night, he was so warm and deliberately welcomed, and he was promised that he could keep a certain outer room outside and put it in the door as a concubine.

In this way, Du Baojun's determination to get this business into his hands became more and more firm.

Then he used some money and means, and finally inquired about the doorway:

It turned out that the Wu family immediately organized 200,000 catties of old grain and transported it to Kaifeng City by means of Cao Yun after hearing about the new court of Empress Maode in Kaifeng City.

At first, it was just a plan to change some salt, and immediately returned from Kaifeng City.

I never thought that after seeing the above ingenious artifacts in the newly established Department of Commerce in the imperial court, the third elder of the Wu family who led the team immediately exchanged all the money and food he had with him for these new utensils.

Sure enough, after coming back, it was only two or three days to sell a clean, and the profit obtained from one trip was not an astonishing hundredfold.

At least fifty or sixty times more, that's definitely there.

Driven by such a huge profit, it is natural to have Du Baojun's trip to Kaifeng City this time.

Even if he came over this time, he didn't prepare a large amount of Chen rice like the Wu family, but he was still full of confidence in this trip.

Because as the leader of the cloth industry in Dujiahuzhou, he brought 200,000 horses of linen cloth and 3,000 horses of fine silk on this trip.

A person's life is nothing more than food, clothing, shelter and transportation.

It is true that Kaifeng City is in ruins and lacks food, but as long as Kaifeng people want to wear clothes, his batch of fabrics is also good......

I can hear the boat boss outside, and the one in his mouth still has two hours, and he can reach the back of Kaifeng City.

Du Baojun immediately couldn't sit still in the cabin, and immediately walked out of the cabin with a great sigh of relief.

The main reason is that Du Baojun, who has been to Kaifeng City five or six times before, has encountered such a busy situation in the canal for the first time.

I saw that in a huge canal, what size of boats and boats were weaving.

It transported various goods such as grain, wine, lacquer, leather, minerals, cloth, and livestock, all for the purpose of Nakaifeng City.

I think there are smart people everywhere, and they also see the huge wealth that Kaifeng City now contains, and now they are all taking action.

Originally, this was nothing, the place of the Great Song Dynasty was so big, and their Du family could only eat Huzhou at present.

However, after the ship was over, the speed of the ship was much slower than before, and it took at least three or five more days to get here.

Fortunately, it was finally coming, and Du Baojun's eagerness gradually relaxed.

Even standing on the bow of the boat, letting the river breeze blow on him, he was also in the mood to look at the scenery on both sides of the Cai River.

It was also in this situation that he suddenly saw a large number of men and women working in the fields not far from the left bank.

There is also a small mound of earth, and there is a huge stone tablet made of white marble on the mound.

Reflecting the golden light in the sunlight, the huge stone monument looked extremely dazzling.

Immediately, Du Baojun couldn't help but ask: "Boss Shen, where is that place?" If I remember correctly, I guess there weren't any of them a few years ago, right? ”

Under such a problem, the boat boss, who always talks on weekdays with a hippie smile and a vegetarian attitude, this man in his forties, suddenly became serious.

After standing up straight, he first looked at the place from a distance, and bowed respectfully.

In the time that followed, it was explained:

"Dare to let the shopkeeper Du know that the last time the golden man entered the court, Her Majesty Empress Maode, as well as Hu Shu's envoy and other ministers, were surrounded on the Cooking Cake Mountain.

Although the Jin soldiers suffered tens of thousands of casualties, they still couldn't attack.

But under the long battle, the soldiers, food, wounded medicine, etc. were all about to be exhausted, but fortunately, the righteous people in Kaifeng City braved the rain of golden arrows and stone cannons, etc., and forcibly swam to support the Cooking Cake Mountain, which was finally defended.

However, under the blockade of the Jin people, the number of righteous people who successfully supported the Cooking Cake Mountain was often not one in ten.

After the Jin people retreated, the soldiers and civilians in Kaifeng City had extra time to come downstream to collect the corpses.

According to the statistics of Ma Xianggong, the eldest brother in the lead, a total of 11,027 volunteers went out of the city to support, but in the end, only 213 people came down the mountain alive.

In addition to the corpses that sank to the bottom of the river and were eaten by the fish, a total of 8,356 corpses were collected.

and some of the clothes and hair of the righteous who did not even have corpses in the capital; These righteous people were buried in the place of the mound.

There is a piece of white marble stone dismantled from the imperial garden, and the boss is made of a stone tablet.

In addition to the 10,814 names engraved on the stele, there is also a line of big characters carried by Hu Yitong's privy envoy: Kaifeng Yimin is immortal.

That is, today is not the first or fifteenth day of the new year, nor is it a New Year's Festival.

Otherwise, you can see that you don't know how many people in the city spontaneously came here to offer incense, and I am afraid that it is slightly more prosperous than the incense in the Daxiangguo Temple. ”

After listening to the above statements, Du Baojun was speechless for a while.

After coming back and forth so many times, he is naturally no stranger to what the people in Kaifeng City originally looked like.

How so? Even if they are peddlers and pawns, they all have the arrogance of being the foot of the Son of Heaven, and the eyes of the people in the capital of the Great Song Dynasty are on the top of their heads.

Because the business here is extremely developed, there is also a strong market atmosphere.

However, there is no such heroic spirit.

"After two Jin people entered the Kou, the people in Kaifeng City are afraid that the changes are amazing."

In the end, with such an idea, Du Baojun also bowed respectfully to the end of the shelter of the righteous people, and his heart was full of indescribable respect.

It is true that he is a profit-seeking businessman, but he has never forgotten that he is also a Song man.

It's just that even if he has made some of the current Kaifeng City at this moment, he has some different preparations from what he once remembered.

But compared with the actual huge changes in Kaifeng City, there are still some far from enough......

******

As the ship boss expected, nearly two hours later, the fleet led by Du Baojun arrived at a wharf outside Kaifeng City.

At this moment, it is already about two minutes in the afternoon.

At most, there is still more than an hour to go, and seeing that the sky is about to get dark, it seems that there is no way to trade today, so I can only talk about it tomorrow morning.

However, Du Baojun has been living on the ship for many days, and he has long been annoyed by the residence, so he wants to go into the city to find a tile house to have a good time.

Unexpectedly, Du Baojun took a family member who acted as a guard to get off the boat, and several people who were all dressed as small officials had already hurried over.

One of the people who took the lead was already shouting loudly from a long distance:

"Where did you come from, what kind of goods did you carry, and in what quantity? Come here and wait for us to register and pay the business tax that should be paid. ”

After hearing such a statement, Du Baojun didn't dare to be careless at all.

Their Du family is a little famous in Huzhou and even in Liangzhejiang Road, but it is nothing here in Kaifeng City; These little officials are not even officials, but they must not be offended at will.

After hurriedly greeting him, he said with a smile:

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Du family business is from Huzhou on the Liangzhejiang Road, and there are 150,000 horses of fine linen and 2,000 horses of silk in the fleet."

As he spoke, the goods were no longer visible, and he took out a small money bag from his pocket.

It contained a total of more than a dozen pieces of broken silver, and it was delivered to the small official headed by the leader, and he whispered in his mouth later:

"Ladies and gentlemen, you have worked hard, and the money will be used for tea, and there will be a return later."

The reason for Du Baojun to do this is actually very simple, but he hopes that after taking care of these people, he can pay less business taxes to Du Ti Si.

In the past, these little officials were also happy to do this, and this kind of operation is just a common thing.

However, this tried and tested method in the past has hit a nail in the face today.

The leader of the little official made a straight face, pushed away the money bag in his hand, and said, "What do you want to do?" As an official of the imperial court, we have our own court to support us, how can we accept your bribes.

You should have arrived in Kaifeng City at the beginning of this year, and this time it's over.

If you want to do this next time, I'll pull you back and give you a board. ”

Hearing the above words, Du Baojun suddenly chuckled in his heart, how can there be any thing in this world that dogs don't eat and cats don't steal.

It's just that these little officials have too much appetite, and they can't look down on the money.

In his heart, he was ready for a heavy hemorrhage.

What he didn't expect was that after some inspection, these little officials didn't feel embarrassed for him at all, and they were ready to leave after issuing a note according to the tax ratio stipulated by the Great Song Dynasty.

But before leaving, the little official at the head spoke:

"Let people pay the above business taxes early tomorrow, and remember that you must not do it again next time.

According to the latest regulations of the imperial court, grain, liquor, cloth, large livestock, ores, etc., are now all monopolized by the imperial court, and they can only be sold to the imperial court, and the price is absolutely quite fair.

Your luck is also good, tomorrow the Department of Commerce just has a new product launch, and there are many new products for sale.

I'll give you a note here, and you can go to the Department of Commerce tomorrow to participate, whether you want to exchange cloth for money or various products. ”

After hearing such a sentence, Du Baojun couldn't even care about the surprise of 'dogs don't eat Xiang, cats don't steal fish' for a while.

Under the repeated thanks in his mouth, there was only one thought in his heart:

This time Kaifeng City itself is the right one, originally those old products are amazingly profitable, if there is a better new product to bring back, then it will be ......

Because I remember the business department tomorrow, what sounds weird new product recommendation meeting.

Du Baojun even thought about Vashe for a long time along the way, and he didn't care about lingering at night.

Seeing that the sky was about to get dark, he immediately prepared to go into the city to find an inn, and after a good rest, he would be refreshed tomorrow.

That's right! It's best to ask what kind of business department this is, and what it is.

What kind of person is in charge of it, and what kind of person he likes these things.

No matter how heavy the price needs to be paid, as long as their Du family gets the right to franchise a product in the Huzhou area in the future, it is definitely worth a thousand things.

Should I say it or not, this Du Baojun is really a qualified businessman.

There is no problem in terms of vision and decision; The problem is that his plan to recharge his batteries and get a good rest tonight was unexpectedly unfulfilled.

First of all, when he entered the city gates, he immediately noticed the difference in the city.

Not only is the city so clean, but there is no clutter to be seen on a huge street.

A merchant who entered the city with him, who looked like an outsider, was caught by an old woman with a red sleeve after spitting out a mouthful of old phlegm.

was fined a penny, not to mention, but also grabbed and reprimanded, what should be paid attention to hygiene, no spitting, urinating and urinating, you can get sick less.

More importantly, Du Baojun can see that the people in the entire Kaifeng City are not military civilians or officials.

Each one of them was in a hurry, and even the steps under his feet were a lot faster, and his face was even more energetic, and he was very high-spirited.

It's not at all like the numb appearance he imagined.

Secondly, in the process of looking for a good inn, a child who was only seven or eight years old rushed to him and said:

"Daguanren, do you want the latest 'Da Song Times'? I also have it here in the past, and it's very complete. ”

After hearing such a sentence, Du Baojun immediately came to his senses.

He was also halfway along the way, and it was also when he went ashore to have fun one night that he learned about the 'Great Song Times', a new thing in Kaifeng City.

The rest of the above content is just that, but one of the scripts called "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" fascinates him.

The problem is that there is only a limit to the content published in each newspaper, and the content that can be bought is not the most up-to-date.

Under Du Baojun's intentional collection, he has only seen the eighth episode of "Wang Situ Qiaoshi's Serial Scheme, Dong Taishi's Havoc in Fengyi Pavilion" here.

Every time I think of the later plot, I really feel uncomfortable like scratching my liver.

Listening to the latest Song Times, he immediately said: "After the fourth episode of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", I will give me a copy of everything." ”

In this way, a total of 450 wen money was spent.

Du Baojun bought the seventeenth serialized "Yuan Highway Rises the Seventh Army, Cao Mengde Meets the Three Generals", a total of nine new newspapers.

Each one costs only 50 yuan, which is not expensive for him at all.

Unexpectedly, the boy did not leave after doing a lot of business, and secretly glanced left and right, and said mysteriously:

"Daguanren, do you still want the two copies of "Golden Vase Plum" and "Roupu Tuan"?

It is also written by the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which is not only the plot is extremely beautiful, but also many illustrations drawn by famous artists.

Although the villain doesn't have it here, he can be sent to you by someone for only ten yuan a copy. ”

Ten yuan is in Huzhou, but it can make the poor family use it for a year.

But after hearing such a sentence, Du Baojun, who was like being beaten with chicken blood, didn't care if he had any money or not, and pointed to an inn not far away and said firmly:

"My surname is Du, I live there tonight, you have someone send it early, I want to ...... both books"

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