Guangdong has a big advantage.

Guangdong is the biggest beneficiary of the rise of maritime trade, although Shanghai County is very strong, after all, it is only a county.

In the past few years, Foshan, an excellent iron-smelting area, has achieved great development, and the number of iron-smelting workers has exceeded 10,000.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were no less than 20,000 or 30,000 workers in Foshan's iron smelting industry, and more than 170 kinds of manufacturing industries were developed.

The Jin merchants in the north sold a large amount of goods to the steppes and flowed to Nuergan and various parts of Central Asia.

Cantonese merchants in the south also sold a large number of goods all over the world through sea trade, including iron pots.

Japan also has iron pots, but Japan's iron smelting technology is backward, iron pots are expensive, and the quality is not as good as Foshan iron pots.

Foshan iron pot has become one of the major commodities purchased in Japan.

From the Yongle period, Zheng He went to the West, and it has become a national gift from the Ming Dynasty to East Asian countries.

Even during the Opium War of the Qing Dynasty, Guangguo has always been an important trade commodity.

However, Foshan does not produce iron, which proves that Guangdong has formed a set of industrial chains, and the division of labor in each line is deep.

The goods of the Ming Dynasty's foreign trade were far more than silk porcelain.

During the years that Yan Yu was in charge of Guangdong, he had a high degree of awareness of Guangdong's potential, and he was very suspicious that with the layout ability of the saints, they were the followers of the saints.

The sage mastered the resources of the whole country and could resist Beiping, and when the industrialization of Guangdong developed, he could defeat Beiping.

Of course.

These are just Yan Yu's speculations, and with the stabilization of the situation in the capital, there is no way to prove his speculations.

"If you help King Yue, the greater the harm to King Yue, the worse King Yue will live in Panyu, and the more comfortable King Yue will be."

Yan Dut's political consciousness is higher than that of Lian Zining, who is a former squire of the Ministry of Industry and a hard-working official.

The two have a clear division of labor.

Yan Blunt governs the general direction, Lian Zining is responsible for Guangdong's industry, and with tacit understanding, there is today's Guangdong.

Including the cooperation of the two people, they strongly invited the Ministry of Railway Engineering to tilt resources and concentrate on the construction of railways in Guangdong.

Yan Yu mobilized 100,000 people in Guangdong to assist the Ministry of Railway Engineering, including the occupation of land and other trivial matters.

It can be said that Guangdong Province is the area where the Ministry of Railway Engineering has received the greatest support outside the northern parallel provinces.

Otherwise, the opening of the Guangdong Railway will not be so fast, probably the same as Guangxi, only one-third of the construction will be done.

It can be seen the importance of leadership.

Hearing Yan Yu's reminder, Lian Zining suddenly realized, and then gave up the idea of helping King Yue.

He was a little unbearable in his heart, but he didn't want to hurt King Yue.

"The situation in our Guangdong is a bit delicate."

"Private commercial banks are developing rapidly, but the impact of China's heavy industry system is minimal, plus ......."

Yan Yu hesitated for a moment before whispering: "The capital has purged the ministers of the former emperor's grandson's family. ”

"You and I, as well as a lot of officials, are not in the liquidation because they support the development of industrialization."

"No one knows what the saint's plan was before, but now the general trend has been decided, and the saint's mind has changed."

"So, there are some things, we still have to introspect ourselves, don't cause trouble, otherwise it will be bad for you and me, and it will not be good for Guangdong."

Lian Zining left silently.

"Cheong Fun."

"Eat cheong fun."

On the bamboo sedan chair, Lian Zining heard the sound of selling on the side of the road.

The streets of Panyu are bustling.

Different from Beiping, the streets of Panyu are also full of shops and restaurants, but they seem to be tight and crowded.

"The development of private commercial banks does not have the unified layout of China Heavy Industry." Lian Zining withdrew his gaze.

Street corner.

The vendor skillfully pulled out the steamer, kept his hands, and a bowl of rice rolls was made.

"Uncle."

"Didn't you say that Peking is very good at business, why did you come back again?"

The nephew, who learned to make rice rolls with his uncle, finally couldn't help but ask curiously.

People said that his uncle couldn't get along in Beiping, and he saw that his hometown was getting better, so he came back.

"It's too cold in Beiping."

The vendor laughed.

"How cold is it?"

"It's colder than we have here."

"Huh."

"Beiping is getting colder and colder every year, anyway, I can't stay still, my hands and feet are frostbitten, and I can't be cured by rubbing medicine."

But he still couldn't help but show off.

"You haven't seen the comprehensive field in Beiping, the scale of 100,000 people, tsk." The vendor exclaimed, "Go and see the market someday." ”

"Peking is so far away."

"Isn't there a train now, so I'm afraid of going out. Uncle told you that the primary school students in Peking will go far away. ”

"Just stay at home, your eyes are only this piece of heaven, it's not that you have to do anything, but if you see more knowledge, you won't lose anything in your life."

"Yo."

"You also did business in Beiping, and you are disrespectful."

Among the guests, two of them heard the words of the vendor and smiled and stepped forward to talk.

"Don't dare to be."

"It's just a matter of making ends meet, and it's not a business." The vendor said with a smile.

In the past few years selling rice rolls in Beiping, he has accumulated a lot of money.

originally planned to buy a new house in Beiping, but he, a southerner, really couldn't stand the cold in Beiping.

The locals can adapt, but it is he who has frostbite on his hands and feet.

Last year, when I went back to my hometown to worship my ancestors, I found that Guangdong had changed and had more vitality, so I tried to come to the city to set up a stall after the year.

Although the business was not as good as in Beiping, he was able to support his family, and with his savings, he bought a room in the city.

Life is stable, life is calm, the vendors are very talkative, and the two sides have a good chat.

"You want to go to sea to do business in the vassal kingdom?"

"There's definitely something dry about the spice trade."

"As long as our Daming continues to have this momentum, I tell you, don't look at a lot of the restaurant industry in Panyu, but if you can catch up with Beiping, the scale of this restaurant will more than triple."

Although the vendor did not dare to take the risk himself, he couldn't help but give advice.

The newspapers in Peiping, as well as the changes he had seen with his own eyes, were all his experiences, and the two guests were amazed.

"The newspapers in Peking call these industries the tertiary industry."

"The development of the primary and secondary industries will inevitably lead to the tertiary industry."

"What is the tertiary sector?"

"The tertiary industry is all the trades except the primary and secondary industries." As the customers asked more detailed questions, the vendors gradually became unable to answer.

"You have such talent, how can you be wronged by this, why don't you go to sea with us."

"It's true."

"We have silver in our hands, but unfortunately we can't find a business way, the domestic competition is too fierce, we can't grab it."

"But the vassal kingdom is different, the vassal country is a blank market, we are one step ahead, just like the merchants who went to Beiping at the beginning."

"Everyone was the same back then, they just had an opportunity, and now the vassal kingdom is our opportunity."

The vendor was stunned.

He didn't expect to be invited.

"We have a joint venture of five hundred taels of silver, you have such knowledge, so let's do it, as long as you are willing to work together, you will pay fifty taels, accounting for twenty percent of the shares, and the three of us will break through, and this life will be worth it."

The vendor hesitated.

His nephew's eyes also lit up, he didn't want to be like his uncle, guarding the stall for the rest of his life, and the things that his uncle told about Beiping had made this descendant unwilling to be realistic.

The demand for spices in various parts of Beiping, the northern provincial capital, and even the capital, Xincheng District, Jianghuai region, etc., has always made the growth of this trade in short supply.

Guangdong has a well-developed business model and a meticulous division of labor.

The ship owner provided the ship, the ship boss and the sailor were responsible for navigation, and the cargo owner handed over the goods to the trading house.

Five hundred taels of silver can join the sea trade.

This is unthinkable in the mainland.

The Pearl River flows into the sea.

There are many excellent islands in the Pearl River Estuary, and with the prosperity of maritime trade, there are gradually wharves to provide supplies for merchant ships.

The best is Hong Kong on the left and Macao on the right.

Macau belonged to Nanhai County in the Qin Dynasty, and the ancients called it Haojingao.

Because there were many berths here at that time, people called it "Ao", which refers to the bay or port.

Oysters are abundant in Macao and its vicinity, and the inner walls of the oyster shells are as bright as mirrors, so they are also called oyster mirrors. Later, however, the name was changed to the more elegant "Ho Kagami".

Supporting maritime trade is a new thing for Daming.

Yan Yu has been in charge of the Northern Parallel Province for many years, adapting measures to local conditions, and knows that he does not have such a sharp weapon as China Heavy Industries, nor does he have such great strength.

Therefore, they chose to relax all restrictions and encourage private heroes, but they did not dare to open up too much.

Ho Keng O has become the most densely circulated area.

With the Ming merchants going to sea, they brought Western merchants to come to Daming, and finally traded in Ho Jing Ao.

"Threesome."

A newly opened commercial house, a shabby shop, was listed in the sound of firecrackers, and there was no lion dance, and people were accustomed to it.

There are large and small commercial houses opening every day in Ho Jing O.

There are people from Fujian, people from Guangxi, people from Guangdong, and even many people in the Jianghuai region, and there is no shortage of Huizhou businessmen.

"Yan Ji, you guard the shop, we will leave tomorrow by boat in the port."

"Don't worry."

The vendor said with a glorified face as his nephew swept the floor.

There was nothing in the shop.

"Although there are no goods, as long as the guests come to inquire, I will not let go of any of them, and when you bring back the spices, I guarantee that they will be sold out on the dock."

Their capital is too small, and they can only do business on the ground.

The bulk of the profits will still be taken by mainland merchants, who come to Ho Jing Ao to purchase spices and transport them back.

Ho Ho King O.

There are no idle people on the docks.

Everybody is talking about business.

From porcelain to silk, from tea to cotton, from pangapot to spices, from cotton to paper fans, from inkstones to brushes, from jewelry to coral.

There are a variety of shops where you can purchase all the bulk goods you want.

Relying on the meticulous division of labor model, low cost, rich benefits, large and small businessmen can participate, the developed business in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, with the recovery of national strength, flourished in advance.

"Uncle."

"Why don't I feel tired?"

The young man smirked innocently, he had just returned from the dock, dancing excitedly, this place was completely different from the mainland.

"Silly boy."

Yan Ji sighed.

If the prosperity of Beiping is magnificent, then the prosperity here is more like a fire in the prairie fire.

Yan Ji suddenly understood.

When he was in Beiping, he often heard businessmen discuss business opportunities and opportunities, but Yan Ji never imagined that he was no longer selling rice rolls, but had changed from a street vendor to a businessman.

Isn't this an opportunity and a business opportunity?

The rise of the spice trade is a business opportunity.

When he met two partners who invited him, it was an opportunity.

Anyway, even if he fails, it's a big deal for him to go back to his old business and continue to sell rice rolls.

I also want to taste what it is like to be a big businessman.

(End of chapter)