Four rivers in the city of Hangzhou flow through the city from north to south in the form of dragon claws. Because of this, the city of Hangzhou has a unique natural geographical advantage, and the canal outside the Beiguan Gate is connected with several rivers in the city. In the south, Hou Chaomen is connected with the Qiantang River and leads directly to the sea. All this forms a well-developed network of water transport.

In this era when land transportation is extremely inconvenient, having such a developed waterway transportation is one of the important reasons why Hangzhou is rich in the world.

For the merchants of Hangzhou, the convenience of waterways has given birth to the circulation of goods and the development of all walks of life. But opening a store to do business is only a small profit, in Hangzhou, who can master the dock shipping, who can get the best in the freight industry, that convenience is like a torrent rolling, can not be stopped.

After the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, as soon as the war subsided, the boats in Hangzhou sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Savvy businessmen don't want a piece of the shipping pie. At its peak, there were more than 80 large and small boat shops in Hangzhou. Of course, this situation will not last long. Fighting in the mall is sometimes more brutal than the actual killing of the enemy. The competition between Hangzhou City Boat Lines and Terminals is also particularly fierce because too many people want a piece of the pie.

In the past few decades, there have been countless old households that have collapsed, and the competition in the business field is terrifying. In short, in order to monopolize this lucrative industry, the big businessmen have experienced rounds of joint division and cooperation. In the end, the waves swept the sand, and the ship dock gradually fell into the pocket of several powerful businessmen.

Don't look at the Hangzhou Lin family is now one of the top businessmen in the Hangzhou shipping terminal industry, but once upon a time, they were just novices in this industry. The Lin family's previous industry relied on traditional grain, oil and cloth shops and dozens of handicraft workshops, although it was also a family with strong financial resources, but compared with these boat dealers, it could only be regarded as a pediatric.

When the previous generation of Lin family owners decided to set foot in the dock industry of the boat industry, the Lin family was just a small minions who followed the big boat company to eat leftovers, snorting and looking at people's eyes everywhere. In the beginning, it was only a small wharf, which could only dock small wooden boats two feet long and do some small freight business. Although he worked hard all the way after that, and finally gained a firm foothold through marriages with several merchants, he was still far from the industry leader.

That changed more than a decade ago. More than ten years ago, after the Hu family's father and son, who were leaders in the shipping terminal industry, drowned in the West Lake, the Lin family took advantage of the situation and teamed up with other shipping companies to annex a large number of Hu family's ships and docks. After that, if there was a business conflict with the Lin family, either the ship had an accident or someone died in the family, in short, none of them were smooth. However, the Lin family had a smooth journey, and now the Lin family is one of the three major shipping companies in Hangzhou. To a certain extent, the Lin family can be said to be the boss of the Hangzhou shipbuilding dock industry.

The other two, one is the Qian family in the east gate, and the head of the family is called Qian Zhongze, who is also a shrewd person. The Qian family can have today's weather, but it has nothing to do with the Lin family. This Qian Zhongze started by hoarding Juqi, and he is a well-known old fox in Hangzhou's business circles. But the relationship between the Qian family and the Lin family is very close, when the Lin family devoured other people's assets, they joined forces with Qian Zhongze, and both families got huge benefits. The reason why the two families can cooperate is also because the daughter of the Qian family married Lin Quan from the third room of the Lin family, and it was Lin Boyong who was angry last summer because he led someone to catch rape on the street, and finally allowed Lin Quan to leave his letter of resignation and go home.

Because of that incident, the two families have actually turned against each other. Qian Zhongze vowed to take revenge for this huge humiliation, and the Lin family actually had long planned to part ways with the Qian family. After all, in the past, they joined forces to deal with stronger opponents, but now that the two have become industry predators, it is only a matter of time before they turn their faces. For Qian Zhongze's insatiable greed and several secret covetousness of the Lin family's industry, Lin Boyong was already quite angry, otherwise he would not have let Lin Quanquan leave the Qian family because of such a thing, in fact, it was a blatant declaration of war.

When Lin Ke was alive, he didn't think about letting Hai Dongqing and them help make Qian Zhongze. But Qian Zhongze is an out-and-out old fox, and he seems to have smelled some signs in his years of cooperation with the Lin family. In addition, there were already rumors about the cases he had done before, and there was even a time when he missed and almost fell into the trap, which scared Lin Ke a lot. So Lin Ke had no choice but to give up. In the past year, the battle between the two families in the shipping business has intensified. Qian Zhongze greatly lowered the price in order to grab business, and the Lin family lost a lot of freight business. But the Lin family is supported by Cao Yun, and it has already become an unstoppable mountain for the Qian family.

In addition to the Qian family, the Sun family in Nancheng is also one of the shipping giants, but this Sun family is extremely low-key, and the Lin family's Qian family's strategy of focusing on large ships and sailing away is different, and the Sun family is in the business of short-distance small boats. In terms of operation, it does not contradict the Lin and Qian families, on the contrary, it is indeed the business partners of the Lin family and the Qian family. Sometimes, it becomes a partner for cooperation. Therefore, there is no major business conflict with this low-key Sun family, and the relationship is not bad.

As for the rest of the shippers, there is no need to say more. They are all small boat companies that pick up leftovers from under the chin of the three boat companies, and they are dependent on the three boat companies to exist, and they are just struggling to survive.

The No. 1 large wharf of the Lin family in the middle of the Shijiao River was born from the first small wharf owned by the Lin family before. After buying several surrounding docks and merging them into one, the scale of this place is no longer the original dock that could only dock small wooden boats two feet long. The wharf, which is nearly two miles wide, has eight berths that can dock ships tens of zhang long. On the shore, there are large storage yards and dozens of huge warehouses for cargo storage and transshipment, which is already the largest wharf in Hangzhou. Every day, there are dozens of ships entering and leaving this pier alone, and there are as many as four or five hundred coolies carrying and disembarking on the ship, which is densely packed and busy, showing the prosperity of the Lin family's business.

The Lin family not only has warehouses and yards at this pier, but also has built houses, shops and shipping offices, which is actually the hub of the Lin family's business. Lin Boyong and Lin Ke have been in the big yard of the ship dealer south of this pier yard for many times to give orders to deal with business matters, and all the Lin family members also know where to find the head of the family and the eldest son when they encounter something, so they came to this pier.

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The morning mist has not yet lifted, but a busy day on the river has begun. Because of Lin Ke's sudden death, the Lin family's business came to a halt for several days, and the goods on the dock were piled up. More than a dozen large ships are already docked at the dockside waiting to be loaded and unloaded. As dawn began, hundreds of coolies were already busy. When the children of rich and noble families were still asleep because of the coolness of the morning, these people were already sweating and covered with dust.

In a large and imposing courtyard on the south side of Pier 1, a few candles are lit in the spacious hall. After all, it was just dawn, and under the cover of a dozen tall trees in the courtyard, the light in the hall was still a little dim.

Lin Jue sat quietly beside the table, a large stack of account books and booklets were piled up on the table, and Lin Jue's knees spread out an account book, on which the dense small characters were like beating tadpoles. There were several people standing beside the table, led by an old man in a black robe, followed by several middle-aged people in long robes. These are all bookkeepers of the Lin family's shipping company, and the one in the lead is surnamed Tang, known as Master Tang. He is an old man in the Lin family's business and has been working for the Lin family for more than 20 years.

Lin Juemao had already come here before the time came, and since he had taken this errand, Lin Jue didn't want to make a joke. Although he had a headache with these accounts, he still forced himself to get an idea. Lin Jue's request to himself is that at least in this month's time, don't make mistakes, don't cause damage to the Lin family's business, as for the rest, Lin Jue didn't think much about it for the time being. He didn't want to make any changes, nor did he want to make any tricks, he just wanted to spend this month in peace.

Lin Jue flipped through the account books and asked Master Tang some basic business questions. Master Tang was a little contemptuous of the new chief steward at first. Last night, he also witnessed the process of the head of the family announcing Lin Jue's succession as the chief steward in the front hall of the Lin family, and he was very worried at that time. How can a young man who has no contact with the family business be able to take on such an important and complicated task? As the chief master, only he knew how huge the Lin family's business was and how trivial and complicated the things that needed to be dealt with were, so he was extremely worried about it.

However, in just over an hour after Lin Jue arrived here in the early morning, Master Tang was almost about to change his opinion. Lin Jue didn't ask much, but it was short and to the point, and there was no nonsense. In terms of business, Lin Jue didn't ask about the detailed operation process, he didn't even bother with the cost and profit, the focus of his question was manpower and how to manage the Lin family's thousands of people before. The most asked was that those people were the pillars and capable people of the Lin family's business. Master Tang judged from his years of experience that this new chief steward was different from the previous grand prince, the eldest prince was thorough in everything, and the new chief steward was afraid that he only focused on personnel and not specific affairs.

In fact, Master Tang's judgment was correct. Lin Jue knew his weaknesses, and he also understood the complexity of the affairs of the Lin family's huge business empire. He didn't want to get caught up in it, and even pointed fingers because of his ignorance, and instead messed things up. Lin Jue felt that he should catch the main characters and let them give full play to their abilities. You only need to manage them well, and they will naturally manage the business. Lin Jue was not completely inexperienced in business, he had worked as a manager in a large company for a period of time in his lifetime on Earth. I can't say that I know how to do business, but I also know the importance of managing people to give full play to their abilities. Because of this, Lin Jue, the operator of the Jiangnan Grand Theater, did not interfere at all, because he only needed to control everything through Xie Danhong. Xie Danhong is the one who does specific things. This proved to be a successful approach.