The affairs of the imperial court were done quickly, because there was no distance limit, and after Shen Shixing and Gao Shishi reached an agreement, it would take at most a day to notify the officials of their faction to know, and then the court push would be held step by step.

In contrast, the business of the shopping mall is not so fast, because the main battlefield of this business war is far away in Jiangnan.

Shen Shixing obviously didn't know that a family named Rothschild made his fortune later because of the speed of information, so although he sent someone to Jiangnan to deliver the letter the day after the meeting with Gao Shishi, he did not pay much attention to the speed of delivering the news, so that his messenger chose to take the convenience post road.

The convenience post road is the product of the reform of the post station promoted by the imperial court after the high pragmatism of the early years of the "Shu Yi Lu Shu", which was carried out by Guo Pu at that time, and was divided into two stages, and it took a total of eight years to complete it.

The "convenient post road" is the focus of the reform in the latter stage. The core of this convenient post road reform was to semi-commercialize the post stations that originally belonged to the imperial court.

It would be too much to explain this matter in detail, so it would be good to talk about it in general. To put it simply, after this reform, the post station became a highway service area with the function of a guest house.

Imperial court officials, correspondence and military information reports, etc., were still in accordance with the previous standard (the standard after the first stage of reform), and the imperial court and the relevant yamen were each responsible for their own parts.

At the same time, the post station has also begun to be open to the public, and people from the private sector can use the post station and enjoy related services as long as they show the relevant documents (mainly road guides) - including but not limited to accommodation, carriages, meals, etc.

As for the price, it is a little higher than the price that can be reimbursed at public expense, but it will still be cheaper than rushing and hitting the tip on your own, and the safety is more secure - because the charge of the post station is in accordance with the high and pragmatic requirements of the real price and can be reported at any time.

However, this reform caused some controversy at the beginning, and many officials said that the semi-commercialization squeezed their existing services, and there were often situations such as the occupation of post houses and the shortage of carriages and horses. Some officials also thought that it was inappropriate for the government and the people to sleep together, and that it was simply "unseemly."

But they apparently underestimated the self-regulating ability of post-commercial post stations, many of which were later expanded on their own, often to the civilian sector, which greatly reduced the pressure on the new post station system to be attacked within the bureaucracy, and was finally settled.

Speaking of which, this reform is still a major achievement of Gao Gong, Guo Pu and Gao Pragmatic, because the current post station system costs very little money to the imperial court every year, especially the post stations on several main roads, and even part of the surplus can be handed over to the imperial court every year.

If it weren't for the underdevelopment of the civil system of some border post stations - such as Gansu and other regions would still be losing money - it would be difficult for the entire post station system to be self-sufficient now.

However, Gao pragmatic believes that with the continuous advancement of reform, the commercial activity of Daming has gradually improved, and this new post station system will be able to make a profit sooner or later, but the specific time is not accurate, and even he can't count it.

It was normal for Shen Shixing's messengers to choose the convenience post road, because the vast majority of people would choose this way, but he underestimated the importance of Gao Pragmatism to information transmission.

There are two information transmission chains on land and sea, needless to say, the sea route must be very fast, but the sea route sometimes has restrictions, such as only sending to coastal areas, such as the need for wind direction, etc. (hard sailing ships can go in the wrong direction, but the speed will decrease). On land, the advantage of high pragmatism is also very great.

Because there is no shortage of horses for high pragmatism.

As the reincarnation of King Shunyi's Anda of Hannaji and the third Ming King of the right-wing Mongolia, Gao Shishi has long been the number one middleman in the Mongolian horse trade, although he himself rarely asks about these affairs, but Cao Gan, the leader of the horse bandits of the year, took care of these border trade transactions very well, and Jinghua did not lack good horses at all.

Jinghua, who is not short of horses, will of course leave good horses for the transmission of information that Gao Shishi attaches great importance to, especially the letters sent from Beijing to various places, although Jinghua's messengers also go to the post station, but they all use their own horses, which are generally more than twice the speed of ordinary travelers, which is equivalent to the six hundred miles of the imperial court.

In this way, when the news sent by Gao Shishi had already reached the ports of Shanghai and Ningbo, Shen Shixing's messenger had just passed through Shandong and entered the territory of Xuzhou, which was almost half as slow.

At this time, Jinghua was in Songjiang was Shuai Jiamo, the co-manager of Jinghua Port and the director of Shanghai Private Port, who was the mathematical talent who was pulled over by Gao Shishi during the Huizhou silk case.

Because Shuai Jiamo is a southerner, he was sent to Songjiang to preside over the construction and development of Shanghai Port after training in Tianjin Port for many years, and not long ago he was promoted by Gao Shipra, and added the post of "port management", that is, all Jinghua's seaports in Daming, he has the right to meddle.

There are also directors of Jinghua Port, but they are only in name - Gao Shijian's fourth brother Gao Wujian is the director of Jinghua Port, but he actually stays in Jingshi and doesn't care about anything. Gao Pragmatic is sending someone to slowly explain to him all kinds of affairs in the seaport, and plans to let him go to Tianjin to take up his post in a year or two.

Shuai Jiamo, who received Gao Pragmatic's urgent secret letter, was very excited, this action was what he had been looking forward to for a long time, and Gao Pragmatic was also very relieved to him, and asked him to preside over the "shopping mall's business" action.

Although after Gao Wujian became the director of the harbor, Shuai Jiamo estimated that his position in Jinghua could not be improved, but he also had to think about the future: there are many younger brothers of the master, and I heard that the lady seems to be pregnant, so the sixth room of the owner will definitely become larger in the future. If you don't show enough ability, won't you have to be replaced sooner or later?

Shuai Jiamo is the general person in charge of this time, and there is a deputy under him, who is also an acquaintance - Wu Xun, the son of Wu Dui, who was the same manager of Ningbo Port at the time.

The two of them are the main and deputy who want to set off this wave of business for Jinghua.

If it is in the commercialization era of later generations, Jinghua, as the number one overlord in the Daming shopping mall, will have many ways to choose, such as the simplest and crudest one: the competition is too troublesome, then I will buy you.

But this method is not very easy to use in the Ming Dynasty, because people at this time attach great importance to the "ancestral property", and they are absolutely unwilling to sell the ancestral property unless they have to, and you want to buy his family's ancestral property, to some extent, it is similar to digging his family's ancestral grave.

So the acquisition is not a good idea, you have to find another way.

Originally, Shuai Jiamo had several plans, but due to the temporary order from Gao Shipra, he was not allowed to stab things to the government level, resulting in some of the plans being directly stillborn, and now there are only a few plans that can be implemented by purely commercial means.

Fortunately, after thinking about it, Shuai Jiamo felt that it should be enough for the other party to drink a pot by commercial means.

After notifying Wu Xun of Ningbo Port by sea ship express, he took the lead in making a move.

On 21 September, the Jinghua Shanghai Port suddenly announced that due to the tense situation in Burma, Siam and other places, the Jinghua and Yangyang fleets needed to mobilize a large number of ships to escort the ship. Therefore, the escort fleet of the local ports of Daming will be reduced at the same time, and the escort business of ships from non-Jinghua ports will no longer be accepted, and all merchant ships from non-Jinghua ports will no longer be escorted by the Jinghua and Ocean Fleet.

At the same time, for the same reason, Jinghua will withdraw the "book and sword flags" that were previously issued, and all merchant ships that do not sail from Jinghua's private ports will no longer be allowed to fly the "book and sword" flags - this means that Jinghua will no longer provide them with protection, nor will it provide services such as recovering looted goods.

As a result, Jinghua's marine insurance business was also suspended at the same time, and the merchant ships that had already purchased the insurance period retained the remaining insurance period, but suspended their services "until the situation improves".

When the news came out, businesses on the southeast coast were in an uproar for a while.

Over the years, they have long been accustomed to Jinghua's escort business, and now they have suddenly lost Jinghua's escort, and it feels like the house collapsed when they took a shower, and everyone panicked, and there was a feeling that there was nowhere to hide.

The owners of private ports in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, including the Xujia private port, hurriedly contacted Shuai Jiamo, Wu Xun and others to ask what happened in Nanyang, why did Jinghua suddenly come to such a hand?

Shuai Jiamo and Wu Xun's answer, of course, was: "I'm really sorry, it's a matter of confidentiality, and I have nothing to say." ”

Of course, the sea merchants were not satisfied with such an answer, and asked how they could know the inside story, and the two tacitly told them that they needed to consult Jingshi directly.

In other words, this has to ask the owner, we two workers are just acting on orders, where do we know the details?

Of course, the two of them are not in a hurry, but the sea merchants cannot help but be in a hurry. It doesn't matter if the goods are hoarded here, but if they are not sold, there will be no purchase, not to mention, it is said that hoarding here itself is also costly, and every day of delay is equivalent to flowing silver out, who can stand this?

So everyone quickly reached a unanimous opinion, and immediately sent someone to Beijing to quickly whip up, directly ask Gao Gongbao about the situation, and urge him to solve the problem as soon as possible and resume the escort.

There are even some maritime businessmen who have privately discussed, thinking that now the pirates in the open sea have been almost wiped out by Jinghua in the past few years, and now Jinghua has just announced the cessation of escort, and the pirates must not get the news, otherwise we will gamble and go to sea directly without Jinghua's escort.

Most of the maritime merchants are not very optimistic about this proposal, because although the large number of pirates in the open sea has been cleaned up by Jinghua, many of them have been temporarily dispersed by Jinghua, and now they have divided into small groups of pirates.

Although the small group of pirates is not as fierce as the previous large group of pirates, and they dare to eat the entire fleet in one bite when they rob, they still have a lot of success in taking down two or three sea ships at a time.

Although it is not a big problem for the seafarers to lose two or three boats at a time if they go to sea in a group, this is not the case.

Although they claim to be an alliance, they are not a whole like Jinghua, whose loss of these two or three ships is counted? Is it to count the losses of the entire alliance and bear them together, or to lose whoever loses them, even if they are unlucky?

If you count the losses of the entire alliance, not to mention whether everyone agrees or not, at least the cargo on board must be announced in advance, right?

Who wants to make it public?

You must know that since the imperial court only levied tariffs on the size of the ships, regardless of the number of goods, everyone quietly engaged in all kinds of small actions, which obviously can only be known by themselves, and it is impossible to "share" even within the alliance.

If this is publicized, you smuggled pig iron, he smuggled saltpeter, how can everyone happily call himself a gentleman? In the future, if there is a conflict within the alliance, or if there is a traitor within the alliance and report it to the government, how will it end?

So you can't do that.

Since we can't bear it together, we have to take care of each other, but there are problems with each taking care of each other. Some maritime merchants who have ships on hand for a long time to build and run slower at sea are strongly opposed - in case you encounter pirates, you will run away with the new boats, leaving Lao Tzu's people into the sea to feed the fish?

So the two sides quarreled for a while and then broke up unhappily, and the matter discussed was gone.

Everyone didn't say anything, so they had to quiet down and wait for the reply from the Jinghua headquarters.

But before they could reply, the second wave of Jinghua's offensive arrived. Jinghua suddenly announced that because of the relationship between Myanmar and the treaty, there are now a large number of Yunnan trade orders that need to be disposed of urgently, so the logistics system in Jinghua's inland will tilt its focus to the southwest.

The tilt to the southwest seems to be none of the business of these maritime merchants, but what they didn't expect was that Jinghua's tilt really had an impact on them - because Jinghua wanted to complete the "list" of the southeast in advance, so it accelerated the delivery of the goods agreed before, and even sent the goods that should have been delivered to Jiangnan in the middle of next year in advance, and it is expected that it will only take another month or two to send them all to Jiangnan.

It's going to be a dead man!

Originally, when the merchants placed orders, they were placed according to the general delivery speed, but in this era, they are basically only worried about the delivery too slowly, and no one has considered what the consequences of the other party's delivery too fast will be, and the result is that now they are counting on their fingers - bad, the goods that arrived more than half a year earlier will cause huge pressure on their own storage, and because the current goods cannot go to sea, this pressure will be doubled!

your grandma, it's really a dog, and it's going to kill you if you have too much goods! So many goods have been delivered, where is Lao Tzu going to pile up?

Everyone was so anxious that their tongues became sore, and they inquired about each other and found that they were all difficult brothers.

Finally, someone remembered one thing: Jinghua's port has built a large-scale "standard warehouse", and now Jinghua's own ships can still go to sea, won't their warehouse have a surplus? If we can't do it, let's rent their warehouse, at least get through this difficult hurdle first!

So everyone had to go to Shuai Jiamo and Wu Xun again, whether it was Songjiang or Ningbo, the sea merchants almost surrounded the two of them.

However, Shuai Jiamo and Wu Xun politely rejected their request, the reason being that "because Jinghua is rapidly building Siam Dingnan City in accordance with the requirements of the contract, the warehouse has already been filled with cement and other materials that Jinghua Infrastructure wants to transfer to Siam, and now I have no spare strength to help you, I am really sorry." ”

The maritime businessmen of Jiangsu and Zhejiang gasped and said in their hearts: This is broken, why is it so coincidental?

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