At the end of July, the land of Guangnan gradually reached the hottest and scorching summer, and most of the second year of Longwu had passed, and the Guangzhou area, which had not rained for many days, had the most refreshing heavy rain in summer.

After the heavy rain, the fields and cities are exceptionally refreshing and clean, washing away the dust and heat, making people feel cool.

At noon on this day, a group of cavalry came out of Guangzhou City, ran along the Pearl River to the Guangzhou wharf, headed by a scarlet-robed official, wearing Wusha, robes embroidered cranes, and jade belts around their waists, it was Su Guansheng, a scholar of the Longwu Dynasty and a political envoy of Guangdong.

Since Wang Yan smashed the four pirates and formed the Guangdong Naval Division, the Guangdong Sea was purged, and with the destruction of Jiangnan by the war, the share of Jiangnan's foreign trade shifted to Guangnan City, and Guangzhou became the largest trade export, making Guangzhou more prosperous.

On the Pearl River, hundreds of big ships shuttle on the river every day, and the coolies on the wharf have quickly developed to nearly 10,000 people, and the whole Quang Nam is a busy scene.

In the dark corner of the Southern Song Dynasty in the past, it could earn 100 million yuan, and Song Gaozong once said to the minister, "Guangnan City, the profit is very rich, and the promotion of officials should be long in office. Wang Yan and Su Guansheng had already formulated a strategy for opening up maritime trade, even if Wang Yan was in Huguang, the two often exchanged letters to discuss the strategy of developing trade.

Wang Yan organized a large number of caravans in Hunan to transport goods to Guangzhou for trade, which solved the embarrassing situation that Guangzhou had no goods to sell.

He came to the Guangzhou wharf today, in addition to inspecting trade, to see the 100 ships of military rations that the government had just brought in from Khmer and Siam.

On the way from Guangzhou to Shaoguan, a large number of warehouses have been built to store military rations, and such warehouses will be built all the way to Huguang and become the lifeline of the Ming army against the Qing army.

These warehouses can not only store military supplies, but also provide convenience for Hunan merchants, who can also use the warehouses along the road as long as they pay a part of the rent.

After a heavy rain, the water surface of the Pearl River rose by three feet, and on the embankment along the river, a group of people were inspecting the embankment.

Compared with the era of Ding Kuichu, although the Guangdong land under the rule of Wang Yan and Su Guansheng was only half a year, both the gentry and the common people felt the real changes.

Near the wharf, the surface of the Pearl River becomes lively, and hundreds of ships are parked in the river ready to load and unload cargo, most of them from Portugal, Japan and North Korea.

Among them, there are also Daming's own ocean-going trade ships, such as the ships that trafficked rice from Khmer and Siam, which are a newly emerging maritime trading firm recently, and the reason why they were able to take over the trade orders of the government is because this trading house was built by Feng Yingchang, a former Yangzhou salt merchant, and Yangzhou people, of which Wang Yan also contributed 500,000 taels, accounting for 30% of the shares of the commercial bank.

There is this relationship, and among the Guangdong officials, Wang Yan has installed a large number of Yangzhou old ones, He Gang, Zhou Zhiwei, Wang Zhiduan, Wang Zhangjue, Qu Congzhi, Yang Zhenxi, Wu Daozheng and other Yangzhou officials, all of whom have been placed in an important position in Guangdong officialdom, Feng Yingchang's Jingyuan Commercial Bank, which can be said to have developed rapidly, not only in the shipyard in Qiongzhou, has been developed, can receive orders from Guangdong sailors and the government, and the fleet used for maritime trade has also been formed, and there are already 30 Dafu ships for navigation.

Although the development of Jingyuan Commercial Bank came from the collusion between officials and businessmen, it also said that Guangdong's commercial prosperity was famous in another aspect.

At this time, Su Guansheng and his entourage came to the wharf, and saw groups of wharf coolies on the boats moored by the river, carrying goods, either loading onto passenger ships, or unloading items from ships full of goods, so busy.

On the edge of the wharf, there are caravans from Hunan and Guangxi, which are bargaining with the maritime merchants, and laughter, shouting, and shouting make the vicinity of the wharf particularly lively.

In order to promote commerce and trade, Wang Yan abolished the tax in Hunan, and did not set up cards to collect taxes, and Su Guansheng also followed suit, canceling all the checkpoints in Guangdong, stopping the collection of taxes and taxes, and only collecting the residence tax and the tariffs of the municipal shipping department, reducing the tax links and increasing the efficiency of tax collection.

Su Guansheng liked this kind of busy, prosperous scene, this is the prosperity of commerce and trade, but also the wealth of the country, he worked hard to manage, in order to be able to build Guangdong into the imperial court's money warehouse, with the prosperity of Guangnan, to support the empire's increasingly scarce finances.

When Su Guansheng was thirty years old, he only got the county students, and then entered the Guozijian to study, and he did not get the fame of Jinshi in his life, so he was looked down upon by other officials, but Emperor Longwu promoted him to be a scholar of Dongge University.

At this time, by the dock, a noise came from the crowd, "This is a silver ticket, sold by the thirteen commercial houses in Guangzhou, you can take him, you can exchange the same silver from any of the thirteen commercial banks, I am the big shopkeeper of the Yuesheng commercial house, how can I lie to you?" ”

"We Portuguese, as long as real money, don't want a piece of waste paper, if you can't come up with the money, we will sell this batch of spices to others, please don't entangle~"

"Alas~ Why don't you believe it? Well~Ferdinand~ For the sake of the previous deal, you give me a little time and I prove to you that he is not a piece of waste paper. \u000b At this time, there were already many people walking towards the noisy place, Su Guansheng frowned, he turned over and dismounted and walked over. \u000bIn front of hundreds of large wooden boxes, a Ming merchant in a Chinese costume was arguing with a Xiyi in a strange costume, and the people around him were talking a lot, all of them were surprised to discuss the money shopkeeper of Yuesheng Trading House, and the piece of paper in his hand was worth 30,000 taels of silver.

?“ Yuesheng Commercial Bank has always had a good reputation, and the money shopkeeper has always been fair in doing business, so how to defraud its Xiyi today. ”\u000b?“ It is estimated that the spices are too valuable, and the money shopkeeper is also tempted, but a piece of paper says that it is 30,000 taels of silver, which is too outrageous~"\u000b"I don't think so, we Xiangdongsheng, the goods shipped from Hunan, have been trading with Yue, the price has always been fair, and I believe that the money shopkeeper is a person. "\u000b"Letter is the foundation of business, the money shopkeeper dares to say this in front of so many people, it will definitely not be a deception, and that piece of paper reminds me of a thing, Jiaozi of the Song Dynasty, what do you think? ”

When the people who were talking on the side heard this, their eyes immediately lit up.

Su Guansheng listened for a moment, he already knew that the thirteen commercial houses in Guangzhou City had joined forces to make a silver ticket, he didn't care at first, but now he is interested.

After all, a piece of paper can represent tens of thousands of taels of silver, and it can be exchanged at any time, which is not the same as the treasure banknotes of the early Ming Dynasty, which is too shocking for him, and it also makes him a little vigilant.

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