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Chapter 359: Jinshan and Yinhai gather in Tianjin

Fazhao, an old man from Tianjin Wei said that at the end of the orchid, the rivers and seas can open. The sea pounds are small and the water will rise in March, and the sea boats can enter Tianjin Wei. Everyone under Wang Tong is busy with this matter.

Since the implementation of Ping An Money, Tianjin Wei has implemented it very strictly. The shops in the city and outside the city will not care about this amount of money. People around the world come to get the money, but they are not as ruling as the Qianhu of Tianjin Jinyiwei.

Merchants get up early and go to bed late, and make plans all the time. They also have to record the guys to make some profits. A small sign is hung there, and you have to sit on the ground and go all out, and no one will be willing to do so.

Not to mention the curses in public and secretly, privately connected, and even publicly resisting the payment at the beginning, their thoughts were incited by those who were interested. However, although the Jinyiwei Qianhu Wang Tong was a ruthless character, he had been back and forth several times. Everyone was honestly paying the money. He was unwilling to accept it and could only hide it in his stomach.

However, in February of the seventh year of Wanli, the resentment of shopkeepers in the city and outside the city dissipated because their gratitude for Wang Tong was completely suppressed.

The inns outside the inner and outer city of Tianjin Acropolis were completely full. The households with spare rooms at home rented out all the houses according to the inn price, and the supply was still in short supply.

Every day, there are more than twice as many people on the streets than before, wandering in various shops, not to mention the canal and sea river outside the city, which is bustling and bustling.

The merchants from Xianghe County and Jinghai County around Tianjin Wei rushed over, the merchants from various counties of Hejian Prefecture rushed over, the merchants from Yongping Prefecture and Shuntian Prefecture rushed over, the merchants from Baoding Prefecture, Zhending Prefecture, Xuanfu Town, and the merchants from various prefectures and counties in northern Zhili rushed over. The merchants from Jinan Prefecture, Shandong Province, Dongchang Prefecture, Henan Province, Weihui, Guide, and Kaifeng Prefecture also rushed over, and even Liao Town and Shanxi Province came.

In more than half a year last year, Tianjin Wei Kaihai was reported as long as it paid 20% of the tax, it was brought to various places through merchants coming and going through this transportation hub.

There is no need to be expensive to get the freight, but it also strictly investigates the canal transport. Instead, it has a large amount of luck and cheap freight. It can carry more types of goods, and there are even foreign goods that cannot be described.

Moreover, the people who came were not only those merchants from the Southern Zhili who were in the canal transportation, powerful men from Fujian and Guangdong, wealthy merchants from Xijiang, and various foreign merchants who dared not say that they were not identifiable. These people had money in their hands and had to buy goods when they came to transport goods. What kind of business opportunity is this?

Anyone who has done business understands what this means. The weather in northern Zhili has not yet completely warmed, and the waterways in various prefectures and counties are inconvenient, but there are quite a few cargoes brought by cattle, horses and carts.

In the past, there were wastelands around the camp, and places where granite strips and sand were piled up, but now they have been rented out, because the warehouses and yards inside and outside the city were all empty, and the goods were piled up everywhere.

Many businessmen are here to check the scenery, but merchants gather everywhere and communicate with each other, so naturally there are many more business opportunities than usual. Before the merchants on the sea come, everyone has already completed a lot of business.

After completing the business and delivering the goods, they arranged for their servants to hurry back and prepare the goods before shipping. The business here is so easy to do, so you must not miss this opportunity for wealth.

Everyone thought that the sea would open in March. According to rumors I heard in previous years, it would take almost late April to get to the sea boats in the Haihe River and would have to wait for a while. Unexpectedly, in late February, a large number of southern merchants actually rushed over by land.

This is really unpredictable. Wang Tong also specially arranged his Sanjiang Trading Company to inquire, and then he realized that the ship had arrived in Shandong.

But it was not until early March that the sea boats in Tianjin. Everyone was anxious and knew that they would do business early and do less when they came late. Many southern merchants came to Tianjin Wei for the first time to trade. They were always unconscious. I don’t know who had an idea. Those who stayed on each ship came down as small boats and docked somewhere in Shandong. They rushed all the way, and came to Tianjin Wei for a look.

The influx of southern merchants made the entire Tianjin Wei suddenly boil. Many people did not have spot stock, and the goods would not arrive in half a month or a month.

But business opportunities are endless. Business people from north and south communicate with each other in teahouses, in inns, and in various places, and first reached several intentions. Many people calculated that although they had not seen the cash, they did not come in vain this time, and they must have been rich.

Many ships on the canal were originally open until the end of March, but now they open early. The merchants nearby were quick to book ships for their own cargo, so as not to be unable to leave.

There are many shops by the canal, which can be said to be crowded. Many wealthy merchants who came to Tianjin Acropolis for the first time saw Tianjin Wei like a sea of ​​gold and silver, and they all wanted to open a shop here.

Needless to say, the city has been cleaned by the merchants and the capital of the Aoshima, and the umbrellas and claws have been cleaned up, so the shops on the Haihe River are even more crazy. From a geographical point of view, the banks of the Haihe River connecting the sea and the canal are even more precious. What is more rare is that the shops on the shore are abnormally well-organized, and some people paved flat roads, and warehouses and yards have been prepared for a long time, and even the loading and unloading coolies have been prepared. And what makes people feel more convenient is that the shops and storefronts here can be rented without having to buy them at once. After all, it was the first time that everyone came to try the waters, and many things are still not sure. It is too risky to invest heavily in one investment. The rent is the right and the wish of renting, but the good locations are rented, and the rest are also too many monks and less porridge. The rents for the next row of shops have been shouted at sky-high prices, not to mention.

Not to mention the "futures. business, many foreign merchants saw that there were many people, so they simply opened retail sales locally, which added a lot of popularity.

Nowadays, even the people of the surrounding prefectures and counties know that to buy cheap goods, you must go to Tianjin Acropolis, which includes everything there.

This is not counting. Such a lively and so many business opportunities naturally require a large amount of manpower. Three places in Xuanfu and Ji's small capital, plus the rest of the northern Zhili, all have military towns. The military households and farms are limited, and a large number of wealthy military households have no place to settle for. Tianjin's arduous harbors are so prosperous that they naturally attract a large number of laborers to go.

The gathering of people, logistics, and gold and silver in Tianjin Wei suddenly made an explosion-like prosperity here. Tianjin Wei was originally the place where grain was stationed in the grain, but there was no shortage of food, but the wine, meat, vegetables and vegetables were limited after all.

Fortunately in mid-February, in the second half of February, the prices of pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks soared, and the prices of fish, shrimps and seafood soared. As a result, pork merchants in Baoding Prefecture, which have nothing to do with the prosperity of Tianjin Wei, and herders who grazed cattle and sheep in Yongping, also came one after another, not to mention those fishermen who went out to sea to fish in advance.

Customers want to stay in a restaurant for dinner. Tianjin Wei’s large inns, restaurants and restaurants, and even street vendors are all full of customers. There are also many warehouses and warehouses in Tianjin Wei’s Acropolis. These are all reserved for spot stocks. "Futures" transactions have been made, not to mention spot stocks.

All merchants with money are all buying. This spot is a specialty of the North, so it is better to buy it first. As long as the businessman understands it, what is this? If the momentum continues, maybe you won’t be able to buy goods in a month. You have to wait until the waterways in the north start to take the boat.

Before February, the goods stored in the entire Tianjin Pacific business were almost bought. The northern merchants sent servants to prepare the goods at home to spread the news. Many people from home waited and even farther away were rushing towards this side."

Such explosive prosperity really caught Wang Tong off guard. He thought he had done enough to deal with it. But he really didn't estimate the extent of this prosperity.

This era was the most prosperous time in the history of the Ming Dynasty or the entire Chinese history, but it has been carried out in unofficial channels. Wang Tong Kaihai was equivalent to giving these private capital and commodities a channel for communication and giving them the right to carry out in broad daylight.

In other words, a reservoir filled with dams was opened by Wang Tong and countless wealth gushed out of that small hole.

It is difficult for Wang Tong to arrange the training time now. Every day, thousands of people in his hands take turns to patrol the city and maintain public order. Even the security team of more than 500 people in Chuan Toutiaoxiang, Pao Danwen and the anti-smuggling team led by Hang Daqiao were used, but the staff were still insufficient.

Since February, more than 100 beggars, thieves and liars have been arrested, and more than 60 fake monks and Taoists have been arrested. Many of them have been arrested, all of which have been thrown into the Haihe River as coolies.

At the beginning, people from all over the country watched a large number of soldiers patrolling the road in full arms. Everyone was a little scared. After seeing the behavior of maintaining public order and not randomly extorting money, they all became more confident in the future.

It’s okay to say that this person is not enough. What really makes Wang Tong feel distressed is that he doesn’t even have enough people to collect money. The business of these merchants is small because they involve maritime trade and are afraid that they are not insured.

I would rather pay taxes and fees to the government than be fined and confiscated because of incomplete procedures, let alone those new stores that have opened soaring. No matter which stores have all the goods that have entered and exited Tianjin Pacific, they have to withdraw regular money. How could those people be enough? Moreover, the gentleman who recognizes the words and settles the accounts is different from the coolie. He said that he can find it. Now his wages have tripled, but one person treats it as four people, and it is extremely hard to do it.
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