Chapter 532: Sensation
Yang Feng, who had seen his figure from the circle of light the size of a football field, let out a long breath, he looked at the objects around him that were piled up as high as a hill with a satisfied expression, these days have really exhausted him, not only physical fatigue, but also psychological exhaustion.
The batch of goods brought by Yang Feng can be described as varied, not to mention oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, and other things such as cloth, farm tools, needles, threads, brains and so on.
Since the opening of the Daming Royal Commercial Bank opened by Yang Feng, in addition to the salt accident, the scope of business is not wide, mainly selling some luxury accessories such as glass, clocks and various exquisite luxury accessories, and earning rich people's silver.
Someone once proposed to Yang Feng that the Daming Royal Commercial Bank should operate some daily necessities, so that the income of the commercial bank would be greatly increased, but this request was rejected by Yang Feng without hesitation.
Because he knew very well that if the almost infinite variety of daily necessities of modern society were allowed to impact the pitiful commodities of this time and space, Da Ming, who was still in the small peasant economy, would not know how many merchants and peasants would go bankrupt.
For example, in the time and space of the Ming Dynasty, a handful of iron pears cost at least one or two pieces of silver, which is equivalent to more than 800 yuan in modern society. In the modern society with developed industry, an ordinary iron pear head is only twenty or thirty yuan at best, and the quality is much better than that of the pear head in the Ming Dynasty.
If Yang Feng didn't care about the three seven twenty-one, and purchased hundreds of thousands of pears, hoes, shovels and other agricultural tools from the modern society to sell them in the Ming Dynasty, once so many cheap and high-quality iron tools flooded the Ming society, how many blacksmiths who specialized in making agricultural tools would go bankrupt.
Think of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in another time and space, when a flood of Western and Japanese goods poured into China, causing the bankruptcy of a large number of yeoman farmers and merchants, and then turning the whole of China into a dumping ground for Western and Japanese goods. Western countries and Japan relied on such means to plunder a large amount of wealth in China, and such consequences were by no means what Yang Feng wanted to see.
Therefore, in order not to have too much impact on the Ming society, Yang Feng has been careful to make a limited input to the Ming Dynasty, at best, to sell some luxury jewelry that will not have too much impact on the society and salt monopolized by black-hearted salt merchants.
However, this time the situation was different, since the six maritime merchants dared to contact those merchants to strike the market collectively, which in turn caused the people of Fujian to not be able to buy goods, which caused people's hearts to be unstable. Yang Feng naturally couldn't let such a thing happen, so he returned to modern society to mobilize a large number of commodities to calm the situation.
Yang Feng raised his head, and the round moon was still hanging in the sky, exuding a soft light. He took a flashlight out of his pocket, and after discerning the direction again, he headed south......
Less than an hour after Yang Feng left, a rumbling sound of horses' hooves sounded, and a team of cavalry with torches came to the beach, led by Yang Daniu, the commander of the first battalion of the cavalry battalion of the Jiangning Army, when they saw the mountain of things on the shore with the help of the firelight, hundreds of cavalry, including Yang Daniu, were all stunned.
"Oh my God...... There are so many things, when will this be moved? A Bai general manager couldn't help but exclaim when he looked at something as tall as a hill.
"Stupid, these things don't let you be like this, what do you have to worry about!" Yang Daniu glared at the Bai president, but although he said this, he himself was obviously frightened, and after taking a deep breath, he turned his head to a cavalryman behind him and ordered: "Gazi, you immediately go and bring those porters and men on standby here, and let them work quickly." β
"Understood!"
The cavalryman answered, and excitedly beat his horse and ran towards the way he came......
By the time dawn, the beach was already full of people, and countless porters and cattle had crowded the wide beach, and under the command of dozens of shopkeepers, the palanquin drivers were shouting to carry boxes and barrels of goods onto the carts, and then the carts carried the goods away quickly.
On the sea not far away, dozens of sea ships are also docked on the sea, dozens of small boats are constantly shuttling between the coast and the sea ships, the mission of these sea ships is to transport goods to Fuzhou, Quanzhou and other places at the fastest speed.
On the beach, a middle-aged man in his forties with a goatee and a slightly blessed face looked at the goods that were still piled up after most of the night's rush and couldn't help but sigh: "Our owner is really powerful, he can raise so many goods in just a few days, and he is really capable of anything!" β
The man who was already busy recording the appearance of the goods in the account next to him also sighed when he heard this: "It's not all, just now the villain secretly flipped through the goods and found that the things in it were all good goods that he hadn't seen before." Let's just take those fabrics, all of them are the only ones that a child has ever seen in his life, they are smooth and strong, no different from silk, and the dyeing is also very good, and many people are stunned. β
The tent man continued with some pride, "Those people don't look at who our owner is?" That's the marquis of the Ming Dynasty, and even the emperor trusts our marquis. Even the name of the business is different, the Daming Royal Commercial House...... Listen, in addition to our owner, who would dare to show this name throughout the Ming Dynasty? β
The shopkeeper with the goatee stroked his beard and smiled: "Okay! Don't talk about it, if you want to pat Hou Ye's ass, I'll talk about it later, now I'll finish counting these things first, and then put them in different categories. With these things, it was a dream that those clowns wanted to use the strike to coerce our hosts, and when we get these things to the city, I want to see what the expressions on those people's faces are! β
mentioned those people, the tent also disdainfully said: "Those people are also naΓ―ve, and they don't inquire about who our Hou Ye is, and they want to use this trick to force our Hou Ye, they are dreaming!" β
While the two were talking, a guy hurriedly ran over and said urgently: "Shopkeeper Qiu, Master Hou has an order, let us speed up the delivery of things, and we must transport all the materials to Xiamen City before noon." β
The shopkeeper Qiu was slightly surprised: "Oh...... What happened? β
"Shopkeeper, it's not a big deal." The man hurriedly explained: "Don't you know, just an hour ago, after our things arrived in the city for sale, the people in the whole city were in a stir. Then the matter spread more and more, and now even the people outside the city know about it, and now more and more people are coming to the city, and the dozens of shops we opened temporarily are no longer able to hold on. β
"What ......"
The treasurer and the tent couldn't help but exclaim at the same time......
The sky has been bright, at this time in the market in the north of Xiamen, dozens of stalls lined up, hundreds of men wearing blue short shirts, the back of the short shirt printed with the words of the Ming Royal Commercial House are busy, and their surroundings have been surrounded by thousands of people in the city who have heard the news.
What is surprising is that most of the onlookers are women, and these women mainly gather in front of some stalls selling soy sauce, vinegar, oil and salt, and judge the goods on the stalls. There were also many women gathered in front of the stalls selling cloth, looking at the colorful cloth on the stalls, and their eyes were shining.
A woman in her thirties, with a somewhat dark complexion and rough skin, stroked a peach-dyed cloth in front of her, feeling the smooth fabric, and her face was full of love that could not be concealed.
After a long time, she said to a shorter middle-aged woman next to her with satisfaction: "Aunt Zhou, this piece of fabric is really good." Not to mention that the color of this eye is dyed well, it is also very smooth, and it is no different from silk, and it will definitely look good if you buy it back and make it into a satin. β
The aunt of the Zhou family next to her pointed to a very sturdy-looking cloth next to her and said, "Sister-in-law of the Wang family, this kind of fabric is good." You see, it's strong and durable, and it can last at least four or five years when you take it back and make clothes. β
"It's really good." The aunt of the Wang family nodded in agreement: "But my family's Dani will be fifteen after the New Year, and it is time to find a mother-in-law, I want to take this opportunity to pull a few feet of cloth for her to make clothes, which can be regarded as a little bit of my mother's heart." β
"That's right!" The aunt of the Zhou family nodded, and then said, "It's just that this kind of cloth is definitely not cheap, right?" β
"I don't know much about that." The aunt of the Wang family hesitated for a moment, grabbed a guy who was walking over and asked, "This little second brother, how can this piece of fabric be sold?" β
The guy glanced at the fabric in the hands of the Wang family's aunt and said casually: "This is a polyester fabric, two dollars of silver per foot." β
"Two coins of silver?"
As soon as the man's words fell, the two middle-aged women let out an exclamation almost at the same time.
"Little second brother, you're not wrong, I'm talking about this kind of peach-colored fabric!" The aunt of the Wang family picked up the fabric in disbelief and leaned hard in front of the guy.
The busy guy glanced at the fabric in her hand again and said helplessly: "Auntie, this kind of fabric is two coins and one foot of silver, how dare I charge more of your silver." β
The aunt of the Wang family covered her mouth in disbelief and glanced at the aunt of the Zhou family. Then the aunt of the Zhou family picked up the fabric she valued and asked, "What about this fabric?" β
The guy glanced at the fabric and said: "This kind of fabric in your hand is called twill, this kind of cloth is the most dirty and wear-resistant, and it will be absolutely no problem to wear it on the ship for four or five years if it is made into clothes, and it only costs one penny of silver per foot." β
"A penny?"
This time it was the turn of the Zhou family aunt to be surprised, in the past, if you bought it in the cloth village, this kind of fabric in the hands of the Wang family aunt is definitely a high-end product, and you can't buy it without one or two taels of silver per foot, and now you only need two coins of silver, which is simply the price of cabbage in comparison. And the thick piece of cloth in the hands of the Zhou family's aunt only sells for one penny per foot, which is not very cheap.
"Bring me five feet!"
"I want six feet!"
The two didn't think much about it, and immediately shouted out in unison.
There are many people like these two great gods, and some of the people who came to hear the news wanted to buy fabrics, some to buy farm tools, and some to buy needles and threads. Although the varieties are different, without exception, the price of these things is unbelievably cheap, and in the words of many people, if you don't snap up today, you are sorry for such a cheap price.
In the face of the crowd that surrounded the entire market after hearing the news, these men and shopkeepers of the Ming Royal Trading House were both painful and happy. There were so many people who came, if it weren't for the hundreds of sergeants and servants of the Jiangning Army who were responsible for maintaining law and order around the bazaar, they would probably have been trampled by those people.
Naturally, such a big thing spread throughout the city at the first time, and around those stalls, in those shops that were originally closed, many pairs of eyes were staring at the stalls in the open space that were surrounded by water.
In a grocery store with a closed door, a shopkeeper in his fifties was secretly observing what was happening outside through the crack in the door, but his face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
"Squeak!"
Just as he looked more and more uncomfortable, the door opened a crack, and a young man squeezed in through the crack.
As soon as the guy entered the door, he said in a panic: "The shopkeeper is not good, the things sold by those people from the Daming Royal Commercial House outside are always cheaper, much cheaper than the things we sell, and those people outside are crazy!" β
The shopkeeper asked with an unhappy face: "How cheap?" β
"It's too cheap." The guy said with a look of disbelief: "For example, their soy sauce only sells for five cents a catty, old wine only buys ten cents a catty, and those mulberry papers cost twenty cents a stack, and many other things, they are sold much cheaper than us." β
"It can't be!" The shopkeeper almost shouted out in a roaring voice, "How can these things be sold so cheaply, could it be that these things are falling from the sky, or are they losing money and making money?" Isn't the Daming Royal Commercial Bank afraid of losing all its money if it does this? β
"Who knows?" The guy was also confused, obviously the scene he saw just now had a big impact on him.
He hesitated for a while before he said anxiously: "Shopkeeper, what should we do now, if it goes on like this, I don't know if those people from the Ming Royal Commercial Bank will lose money." But if they continue to sell like this, the people in our store will have to drink the northwest wind! β
"No, we can't just watch those people sell things right under our noses, I have to go to someone right away to discuss countermeasures, otherwise we will really plant it this time."
Speaking of this, the shopkeeper said to the guy with a solemn expression: "You stay in the store and watch, I will immediately go to the other shopkeepers to discuss and see if there are any countermeasures!" β
Soon, the shopkeeper hurried out......