Chapter 352: Believe it or not, it’s up to you

Chapter 352: Believe it or not, it’s up to you

When discussing the matter of the exchange, Shi Chuan suddenly remembered something and turned to Shi Kui and asked, "Dalang, is there a navy in your father's Tongzhou army?"

Tongzhou, where Shi Junjian is located, is located on the north bank of the Yangtze River Estuary, and is called Nantong in modern times, and the official name of "Tongzhou" was given to a place north of Beijing.

When talking about business just now, Shi Kui couldn't get into it. He felt that he was looking for Shi's family's industry in Shidian, and he really found the right person. His implementation of the industry in Haizhou has basically become an empty shell. The promising private salt and the fleet were held in Shi Yanei's hands. There were only seven or eight shops left, and he was backed by Shi Junjian to trade north and south.

At this moment, Shi Chuan asked, and Shi Kui quickly replied: "The Tongzhou army was originally a naval army, but Tongzhou was located in the crossroads of the north and south, and there were a lot of defense on the land. Therefore, Tongzhou also had some infantry and horse army-the defense line north of the Yangtze River, and the sea-side part, all of them were in Tongzhou. Tongzhou had a total of 40,000 naval and land horse army, a total of three military governors, six commanders, eleven generals, and twenty-five deputy generals, preparing generals..."

"Stop—" Shi Chuan cut off Shi Kui's words and asked: "Your father is a military supervisor. What kind of official is this? Can you control the Tongzhou army?"

Shi Kui grinned... After smuggling with you for so long, the marriage was decided, and then you asked about my father's official position. You are so confused.

"My father's current official title is: Zhenjiang Army Jiedushi (a idle official, remote leader, no need to take office), the power to lead the deputy envoy of Liangzhe Road Transport, the chief supervisor of the Tongzhou Army, and the affairs of Tongzhou Supervisor (the chief of the local armed forces in the prefectures and counties under the name) - do you think my father can command the Tongzhou Army?"

"Maintain," Shi Chuan replied with a smacked her lips: "What a great official... But I really don't know what this official can do?"

"Ahem," Dong Xuan interrupted: "I have passed by Tongzhou, and Lord Shi is so majestic in Tongzhou."

Shi Yanei and Shi Chuanshi have been following Shi Chuanshi. Knowing this common sense thing, Shi Chuanshi is the most likely to get confused. He quickly explained: "My father was promoted to the fourth rank last year. Now he can be regarded as the highest commander of the Tongzhou army. In Tongzhou...ah... Let's put it this way: Since we "dry salt privately", the money my father brought to the Tongzhou army is like water. First, the "main generals" of the navy army gained great benefits with the fleet. Later, the three armies of the horse and the water have benefited a lot. Finally, the local officials of Tongzhou also gained a lot of benefits. So...ah.

Last year, I listened to you and asked my father to take on the work of making saltpeter from the Privy Council. He sent a fleet to Xiaoliuqiu and went to Tianzhu to purchase saltpeter. I didn't expect that there was such a thing in some places. My father completed his errands well and restored Shangcai Gongsuke, so he was promoted to several official positions along the way. In addition, the newly sent Tongzhou judge was from Cai Gongsuke. Now my father is talking about it in Tongzhou..."

"That's good," Shi Chuan cut off Shi Yanei's nagging again: "Yane, can your father's Tongzhou navy help train outsiders... Forget it, since your father is the only one in Tongzhou, just ask your father to contact a group of navy men in private. Well, those old, those who are not very useful in China, and those young and strong can still work for how many years?

I am going to allocate three hundred sluts from the dock and ask your father to train them in the water fighting skills. Of course, it is not to ask your father to follow the original training methods in the army. I have my own training outline. I hope your father will train sailors for me according to this training outline. I will pay as much money as I spend."

In ancient society, private training of military training was a rebellion. You can train team training in time, but you can only train according to the usual methods of team training. If there are any improvements and changes, you must beware of others reporting it. But formal officers are different. They can blatantly train their servants in the camp. The boss knows that as long as the number of these servants is not outrageous, they will only praise the officials for their hard work.

Shi Yanei couldn't make any decision in this way. He looked at Shi Kui. Shi Kui thought about it and asked carefully: "Brother Changqing trained these 300 people, what are you going to do?"

Shi Chuan was prepared for this issue: "This price turmoil is only the first step of the plan. The second step of the plan is that I am going to contact all major maritime merchants, organize the ship guild and sailor guild with those lost maritime merchants, and form a fleet to prepare to go south. If the mountain does not come to me, we will go to the mountain. If there are fewer Hu merchants, we will deliver the goods to Hu merchants.

Such a huge fleet traveled to the Southeast Ocean, and it would not be possible to have no corresponding guards on the ship. However, I can't do it in Haizhou. I'd just leave it to your father. I borrow your father's field to train two hundred slingers to be familiar with water fighting skills..."

Shi Kui thought for a while and whispered: "The water confrontation is all about bows and crossbows, but the court has regulations that heavy weapons such as crossbows are prohibited from being loaded on the ship."

Shi Yanei helped him in time: "Brother, we don't install crossbows. We plan to install 'fish cannons'. In the past three years, my whaling fleet has gradually become accustomed to the control of fish cannons and has reserved more than a thousand fish cannons. Shi Dalang also cooperated with me to produce various models suitable for loading fish cannons on board. Years ago, we had officially selected standard-specific fish cannons and formulated a complete set of operating procedures. So, for long-range weapons on the ship, we plan to install ten fish cannons per ship. As for melee combat, we plan to use the Ling family of Mizhou Firearms to support our Tianlei bombardment formula."

It seems that Shi Yanei did not tell his secrets to his family. Shi Yanei continued: "After repeated trials, we decided to use fish and cannons and sky thunder in the future, and use swords and guns to fight in close combat. In this way, we are not afraid of rampant pirates.

In addition, Dalang and I also discussed that in the future, our two fleets were marching together to sail together - a small boat was weak and robbed, and they didn't know that they were organized into a fleet of ten ships. Small pirates could not afford us. If there was anything wrong, one of them would come back to report the news."

Shi Kui suddenly felt excited: "It's... the Ling family in Mizhou, I heard that the officials had issued three edicts to transfer Ling's people to Beijing to preside over the Firearms Bureau, but the Ling family finally sent only two side branches of the tribe, Shangjing. I also heard that after Zhang Shuye, the governor of Haizhou, also wanted to transfer the Mizhou team trained by Ling's family to assist in the suppression of bandits. It is said that Ling Peng, the head of Ling's family, had no feelings for him and brought more than ten disciples and the Thunder to Qingzhou."

Shi Kui said this to lead to Shi Chuan's confession. He stayed in Haizhou for a long time, and Haizhou's secrets could not be hidden from him. However, when Shi Yanei spoke just now, he had a strong sense of accomplices who colluded with Shi Chuan and had a shared secret. Shi Chuan didn't know that he didn't care about the new changes in his father's status, which made Shi Kui very uncomfortable.

Sure enough, after Shi Yanei got Shi Chuan's wink, he pointed at Shi Chuan and confessed calmly: "Brother, Ling Fei, the second son of the Ling family, is his apprentice. Let me tell you that the new version of the gunpowder formula includes part of the contribution of our brother-in-law Hai, as well as Shi Changqing's efforts. Therefore, this new gunpowder formula not only belongs to the Ling family in Mizhou, Shi family, and Shi family. However, for this matter, the personnel involved in the development of the three families swear to each other and never reveal the inside story to outsiders."

Shi Kui's eyes shining: "As it happens, Dalang sent him to train, so I, the Shi family, also sent some servants to participate. How about it?"

Shi Chuan kept smiling and whispering: "Dalang, this kind of thing cannot be put on paper - I need a lot of sailors, the more the better. I hope Uncle Shi can mobilize the children of Tongzhou Army to participate. Of course, if we can use this to eliminate the old and the weak and let the uncle replace the new blood, wouldn't it be great?"

Shi Kui focused heavily: "I will send someone immediately - no, such a major matter, I should go to see my father and tell him personally."

Shi Chuan smiled and nodded: "That's right... Dalang, you might as well bring Shi Yu with you on your trip this time. My family has begun to take over your store. Now Brother Shi Yu is about to appear... In addition, my father-in-law bought two tea mountains and needed some tea-growing personnel. Please pay attention to me in Tongzhou."

Shi Kui saw that it was getting late, so he quickly stood up and said goodbye: "Dalang, I will go back to Tongzhou now and wait for March 3rd to come to the door to marry directly. At that time, the personnel you want and the personnel you need to send will simply come to Tongzhou in the name of welcoming and sending brides?"

"Very good", Shi Chuan bowed his hand and sent Shi Kui out of the Jinxiu Association and greeted everyone to accompany him. When he walked out of the Jinxiu Association, Shi Yanei took the lead and went down the stairs first, turned his head and looked at Shi Chuan with a smile, and said, "Everyone said Shi Dalang was irritable and irritable, and his mind was stupid, but why did I find out that you have become more and more sinister recently."

Shi Chuan widened his eyes and retorted: "What are you saying, you did the bad things. What kind of person is our family?"

Shi Yanei laughed: "Pretend, just keep pretending."

The next two days are the trading market performance time and the two most difficult days for the Jinshi of Tamarind Kyoto.

Among them, after the first day, the price of Shujin fell unilaterally on the second day. On the morning of the third day, it seemed to have stabilized and began to rise slowly. At this time, the phenomenon of cargo owners being reluctant to sell occurred, and there was a situation of price but no market in the trading field. Therefore, some merchants who rushed to Beijing began to quickly raise prices for acquisitions. This rebound in prices attracted the cheers of Shujin merchants...

But then, a greater disaster came. After the buyer of the capital left, the price of Shujin suddenly began to fall after a brief silence. A huge amount of goods poured out and quickly fell below yesterday's lowest price. Later, Shi Chuan and Shi Yanei entered the market to protect the market, and the price slowly stabilized. However, at the end of the market, a large number of sellers appeared. Shi Chuan and Shi Yanei could not protect the market when the funds were exhausted. Shujin prices closed at a lower price than yesterday.

Then, the price of Shujin was like a roller coaster, rising and falling. On this day, a smart man absorbed a piece of goods at a low price. Seeing that the price rose, he turned over and placed an order to sell it. As a result, no one left the stool, and the goods made him make a fortune - a considerable amount. The money-making businessman proudly introduced his experience... Later, more merchants entered the market. They were not investing, but speculating.

At this time, in addition to the price of tea, the prices of porcelain, Shu brocade, and iron cloth in the exchange can also be stable. Under the control of speculators, they are rising and falling - but in general, they still fall all the way and always fall below the bottom line of people's hope.

Half a month later, more accurate news came: a merchant fleet returning from Nanyang entered Guangzhou Port with New Year's goods. After repeated verification, they did not see a fleet returning from the West along the way, and they had never heard of similar news. After this news was implemented, all foreign trade goods collapsed immediately, and the merchants who hoarded goods almost lost all their money.

Next, all kinds of speculative methods were introduced in the exchange, and the Jinxiu Club became the early Shanghai Exchange for a time. The unilateral decline of goods continued, and the situation became uncontrollable. Even the most cunning speculators lost all their property due to the price fluctuations, but they dared not not to come to the Jinxiu Club in order to obtain commodity dynamics as soon as possible. As a result, although there were crowds of people in the market, there were almost no transactions, and there were countless commodities listed, and most people were just waiting and watching.

Luo Wangjing finally couldn't stand it on this day. He was worried that the price of Shujin would continue to fall, so he had to throw out the Shujin he had hoarded at one tenth of the original price, and then stumbled all the way home. He only lamented in his heart: It's all over, I regret not being greedy at the beginning... By the way, the guest who rented a house in the front yard, if he hadn't told him about the Western cargo ship, how could he be tempted by him and join the ranks of stocking goods? If he didn't join the ranks of stocking goods, how could he have fallen to such a point?

Once upon a time, when the first batch of goods were sold, the price of Shujin was also good. His assets were more than 1,000 guan. After he bought the second batch of Shujin, for a while, the Shujin he had on hand was worth more than 4,000 guan... If he had sold all of this batch of goods at that time, he would have no worries about food and clothing in the future. But he always thought about Chu Suzhen's dowry, and fantasized that the value of the batch of goods on hand could exceed 10,000 guan. At that time, he was finally comparable to Chu Suzhen's dowry; at that time, he was not afraid of others' ridicule.

Of course, if the batch of goods on hand can be worth more than 20,000 guan, maybe he would go to find Chu Suzhen and discuss returning part of her dowry in order to gain understanding - 20,000 guan. This is actually not a luxury. Didn’t the merchant who rented his house say that the price of goods has increased tenfold, and he has met several times in his life...

Ahhh, it was all my fault for being soft-hearted. I thought of that bitch Chu Suzhen, so I believed the little businessman's nonsense and did not sell out the inventory at 4,000 guan - now, I only have 234 guan left.

A man who once owned 4,000 guan of property suddenly only had more than 200 guan of property. Although these more than 200 guan of property were considered a huge amount of money for a small family, he was a Jinshi. Can the Jinshi be compared with ordinary families?

Of course, when he fell to this point, he would have to blame his ignorant brother for his ignorant brother.

If it weren't for the brother's begging him, he would have softened his heart and transferred most of the land to his younger brother. So far, he only had a broken house and two hundred stagnant coins left? Look at the Huang family, who is also a Jinshi, but he has an official position. The investor households under the Huang family are rushing to count the number of them.

...Of course, my younger brother cannot blame him, because it is a kind of "unkindness" that will damage his reputation - when Lo Wangjing thought of this, he couldn't help but curse again: "Bitch."

It was all blamed for Chu Suzhen. She brought her ten thousand dowry and spent a lot of money to lead her younger brother on the evil path.

Luo Wangjing stumbled back to her house. Luo's mother had already received the news. She stood in the yard, looked at Luo Wangjing worriedly, and asked: "Son, have the goods been sold?"

Luo Wangjing nodded weakly, and Luo's mother quickly changed into a smile, often breathing a sigh of relief: "It's good to sell it, son, that thing cannot be eaten, and thirsty, if it hits it in your hand, our whole family will drink the northwest wind."

Luo Wangjing replied with red eyes: "Mother, I only sold more than 200 coins, only more than 200 coins."

As soon as he finished speaking, someone came to take a look at the door. When Lo Wangjing opened the door, he saw that it was the owner who bought the goods. He bowed to Lo Wangjing: "Luo Jinshi, I have hired him. Is it convenient to move the goods away now?"

Luo Wangjing waved his hand weakly, and turned his face to find that his mother was shaking with her chest covering her body. He quickly stepped forward to support her, and only heard her mother muttering to herself: "More than 200 guan, how could it be? More than 4,000 guan became more than 200 guan in the blink of an eye."

Luo Wangjing supported his mother and comforted her, "Mother, don't panic. I saw that the price of tea has been stable these days. I heard that tea farmers are replanting tea trees. However, last year, the drought and cold weather were severe, and not many tea trees survived, so the price of tea will rise next year. I will go back and stock up on some tea leaves. I have 200 chunks in my hand, and I can always turn over."

The yard gradually incorporated the porter, and people came and went, and the warehouse gradually became empty... At this time, a nearby gangster saw the lively place and felt that it seemed to be cheap, so he came over to say hello: "Luo Jinshi, there will be a literary meeting in Wanghailou tomorrow. All those who participated are Juren Jinshi, but there are only two or three Jinshi masters. With Luo Jinshi's literary talent, he must be the best one after going... Luo Jinshi, are you participating?"

Luo Jinshi nodded: "Since it is a literary event for the juren and Jinshi, I naturally want to participate in such an elegant event."

Helping the idle: "Luo Jinshi, each participant has three stakes. You and me have money. I will tell the organizer... Oh, I heard that the new magistrate will also show up at the meeting to take stock of Haizhou culture and promote the backwards."

A few days ago, Luo Jinshi didn't take the small amount of money from Sanguan seriously. Now he heard that he had to pay the three-guan participant dues, and he felt a lot of pain... But since the new magistrate also wanted to attend the meeting, he had to attend such a meeting.

Then I thought, there were about 500 people who helped me in the three-pin meeting fee? He was a Jinshi in Luo Wangjing. If he walked downstairs of the Wenhui Club with a fan, maybe a friend he knew might invite him upstairs. In this way, he could attend the meeting without spending a penny... Yes, that's it.

Luo Jinshi hummed and was thinking of finding a reason to shirk his tenant, and his face was filled with sadness and joy. Seeing that Luo Jinshi was moving things, he quickly said hello: "Mr. Jinshi, don't rush to sell goods. Just now, several major maritime merchants such as the Huang family, Shi family, Shi family, and Zhang family joined forces to send out signals and prepare to rescue the market and make the rules. Well, any cargo owner worth ten thousand yuan will be invited to the Jinxiu Association for discussion..."

When Luo Jinshi heard this threshold, he looked unhappy - it was the number "10,000 guan". Is it based on the price before the price drop or the price drop? But no matter what price, Luo Jinshi, a master of Jinshi, is not qualified to attend the meeting. At the same time, Fatty Shi, the fool Shi, Shi Changqing, and the fool, actually came into the house, became the guest of honor, and became the rulemaker - both of them were entangled with Chu Suzhen.

Thinking of this made Luo Jinshi very angry. He shook his sleeves and scolded, "I wouldn't have lost this big book if I hadn't listened to you. Your rent and lease will expire in ten days. I'm too lazy to see you, the bad star. In ten days, you will move out with me."

The tenant was stunned for a moment. At this time, the last batch of Shu brocade in Luo Jinshi's warehouse had been moved out. The merchant who bought the goods smiled and bowed: "This is good news. The merchant opposite, let's go, I'll treat you to a glass of wine. Let's talk about it in detail."

So the two men walked away with their arms around each other, leaving Luo Jinshi to spit in the empty courtyard.

After all, it involves thousands of guan. Although Luo Wangjing scolded the tenant, he was still worried when he heard that the price of Shujin might have stabilized. He couldn't sleep that night. The next morning, he was waiting in front of the tenant's door early, but saw the tenant ignore his greetings. The carriage did not stop at all, and hurried to Jinxiu Lane...

At noon, Shi Chuan shook away his usual implicitness in Jinxiu Lane and stood openly in front of everyone for the first time. Behind him were the Shi family and Huang family. Although these two families, as his supporters, did not speak, as long as they stood up, it meant Shi Chuan had at least one million chunks of funds and was fully capable of affecting the price of goods.

This is the Song Dynasty, an era with extremely vigorous creativity. This is a dynasty with three of the four major inventions. This is an era when Zhang Xiaoquan invented scissors, but in the next nine hundred years, the scissors did not look at any innovation or change. In this era, when talking about pioneering and creation, everyone understands it.

The opening remarks of the conference were an incredible innovative idea: the idea of ​​the Navigation Insurance Guild and the Ship Industry Alliance was grandly launched by Shi Chuan.

"In the past few days, the price of commodities has fluctuated very heavily. Everyone is saying that it is necessary to specify trading rules and restrict transactions - this is a consensus. A few days ago, several big merchants privately discussed the trading margin system, trading seats, trading guarantor system, supervisor system, account announcement system, etc. To be honest, when we first started, the debate was serious, but as price fluctuations became more and more fierce, our systems were formulated faster and faster..."

What this means is: At first, everyone wanted to put forward their own opinions and opinions, but then Shizhang took out a set of rules. After thinking about it, the rules among them could just plug the loopholes in the past few days. The merchants of the Song Dynasty were not stupid, and they were prepared for Shizhang, and those rules were carefully, so they simply passed Shizhang all their opinions without discussion. As a result, Shizhang's prestige in the Haizhou business community became higher and higher, and he became the number one person in Haizhou.

"But, have you ever thought about what the cause of this price fluctuation is - a rumor that has not been distinguished from the true or false. If this loophole is not blocked, there will be people who will use fake news to manipulate the trading market in the future, what should I do?... So I suggest that we will go back to the source of the disaster this time - to form the Navigation Industry Guild..."

Chapter 352: Believe it or not, it is up to you,
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