Geng shrewdly walked on the streets of Xinning County, the latest legend in the business community of the Ming Dynasty, who was also famous in Xinning County of Chu State. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In the past, Xinning County was only a remote city of Chu State, and its wealth and influence on politics were very small to Chu State, but as Izumo County became a territory of the Ming Dynasty, the status of Xinning County suddenly became important.

First of all, Ming Province is committed to building Izumo-gun into a node city connecting the hubs of Shikoku, and the county has been working hard for two years ahead, and now it has begun to bear fruit, and Izumo-gun has become a commodity distribution center for Shikoku's land trade. A large number of merchants flocked to Izumo-gun and became permanent merchants here.

Geng Qiancheng's trick to create Yunjun, a commodity distribution center, is actually very simple to say, that is, light taxes. In other places, when goods from one country enter another country, the tariffs alone are enough for merchants to drink a pot, and even if it is the Ming Dynasty, the tax revenue for goods imported from other countries is much higher than that of the country. But in Izumo County, Geng has more than doubled those taxes. This is not a big impact on some small merchants, but for large merchants, it is a great thing, just these reduced taxes and fees, can be worth their profits, calculated, a trip to the goods, the income is more than double the previous one.

Businessmen are pursuing profits, and with such great benefits, they naturally flock to it.

After the end of the Qin campaign, a large number of merchants from Chu Qi poured into Izumo County, for the simple reason that the Ming State forced the Qin State to sign an unequal treaty, and the Ming merchants entered the Qin State to do business, and the commercial tax was the same as the domestic commercial tax of the Qin State.

In the past, the Qin state imposed heavy taxes on the goods of merchants from other countries, which not only protected the interests of the local merchants in the Qin state, who were already weak, but also an important source of revenue for the national treasury. But now because of this treaty, the merchants of Qi and Chu only need to enter Izumo County, and they will make their goods into Ming's, and then enter Qin's, which makes profits greatly increase, although they have to pay a tax to Ming, but the tax in Izumo County is surprisingly low, for them, it is not worth mentioning.

All of the above makes the border city of Chu more and more important, and it has become one of the most important cities for Chu's foreign exports, because of the Qi-Chu War, Chu's commodity exports to Qi have almost come to a standstill, and only here, through Izumo County, can the two sides be connected to the trade.

No matter how bad the two countries are, for businessmen, the business that should be done still has to be done.

Izumo County has developed rapidly, and Xinning County has also developed rapidly with this tailwind.

Wu Teng, the county guard of Xinning County, is one of the beneficiaries of this trend.

Because it is a border city, so Wu Teng, the county guard, is on the horse to manage the army, get off the horse to manage the people, the out-and-out Chu State is the soil emperor here, he was not treated well before, but now he has become the sweetheart of the Chu State, if you want to come here to make a fortune, without his nod, no matter who you are, it will not be smooth.

All of a sudden, the county guard's mansion, which used to be cold and sparse in Kurama, became a city. Ordinary people want to see Wu Teng, so they have to make an appointment a few days in advance, and it depends on Wu Teng's mood.

Of course, Geng is an exception.

Because he already has the money to tie Wu Teng firmly to himself. Geng Jingming specializes in the silk of the Chu State, from the very beginning, he used his identity as the son of Izumo County to take the thread of Wu Teng, and then made Wu Teng a shareholder of his embroidery workshop, of course, Wu Teng took the dry shares.

Now, Geng Jingming is even more controlled by Chu State Silk into the Ming State, Qin State, Qi State all the trade routes and pricing power, Geng Jingming quickly flew into the Ming Dynasty of the new generation of gentry, and with Geng Jingming, Wu Teng is now a huge net worth.

Geng Jingming, who was dressed ordinarily and only brought a guard, arrived outside the gate of the county guard's mansion, and swaggered in in the strange eyes of those who were waiting in line outside for Wu Teng to summon him, because the doormen at the gate all knew this big guy, and their county guards had personally sent this person outside the gate. If others dare to stop him, who will stop him!

Entering the gate of the county guard's mansion, he went to the small living room on the side, and before he finished drinking a cup of tea, Wu Teng had already rushed over with a smile on his face.

"Shrewd, slack, slack, there are a lot of business today!" Wu Teng said with a smile.

Geng Jingming stood up and arched his hand: "County Prince, of course, it is important to take official affairs first, when I came in, I could see that there was a long queue of people outside who asked to see the County Lord!" ”

Wu Teng shook his hand disdainfully, "Which people, don't pay attention to them, let them wait first." The shrewdness comes, who has time to pay attention to them? ”

Geng shrewdly laughed: "Thank you for your love, Jungong, this is this quarter's dividend, you can take a look." He took out a ticket from his arms and handed it to Wu Teng.

Glancing at the numbers on it, Wu Teng's eyes narrowed with laughter. Don't look at it as just a fluttering piece of paper, but it is a business that Taiping Bank has just launched, Taiping Bank calls it a check, which is only open to large customers, and you don't have a turnover of tens of millions of taels of silver in Taiping Bank, so don't expect to have this service. Today, in Izumo County and Xinning County in Chu State, Taiping Bank has opened branches.

Of course, Taiping Bank was able to open a branch in Xinning County, which naturally benefited from Wu Teng, the county guard. Every time Wu Teng gets dividends, he accepts the check into silver in the Xinning Taiping Branch, and then quietly sends it to China, unknowingly.

"It's only the beginning of September, why is this quarter's dividend already here? And this quarter, isn't business very bad? Why hasn't this dividend been reduced? Wu Teng looked at the other party and asked. Geng Jingming is the most satisfying thing for him is to be informed and interesting, just like this quarter, there are wars everywhere, this business is naturally not easy to do, Geng Jingming must have lost a lot, but the dividends to himself have not decreased.

"If you don't have others, you can't miss yours!" Geng shrewdly grinned, "The stock warrants of our embroidery workshop have fallen by three percent in the past few months. ”

"Sancheng?" Wu Teng was a little surprised.

"Don't worry, adults, I'm buying it back when he is falling sharply, hehe, at that time, I will definitely make a lot of money again!" Geng Jingming's eyes lit up, "My lord, if you still have money to spare, you might as well take this opportunity to collect some." Although it's just a few small dollars for adults, is it good to use it to reward people? ”

"That's right. By the way, shrewd, a few days ago you wrote to say that you want to buy a large number of mulberry mountains, silk collection factories and embroidery workshops in Jiangnan, is it too radical, according to your plan, but you need a lot of cash! Wu Teng asked, "I have already sent someone to inquire, and I will be back in a while." But is there a need for this? ”

"County Lord, now is a good time!" Geng shrewdly leaned forward: "Now it's going to be a war, let's fight with the Qi State, and your Chu State will also fight with the Qi State, once there is a war, the business will be affected, these mulberry mountains, silk factories, and embroidery factories will all fall sharply, just take advantage of this low price to eat, and when the war is over, such a cheap will not be easy to take advantage of!" ”

Hearing Geng Jingming's words, Wu Teng's face was a little strange: "Jingming, where did you hear that our Great Chu is going to fight with the Qi State, as far as I know, the imperial court doesn't have this idea now." ”

Geng shrewdly smiled: "I will definitely fight, and I will fight hard." Such a good opportunity, I don't believe that His Majesty the Emperor of Great Chu will let it go. Gunman, three days ago, our Ming Dynasty's Thunderbolt Battalion stationed in Izumo County has been quietly opened, do you know where the target is? Leye County in Qi State. The Qi people have annoyed our Emperor His Majesty this time, so they are going to fight. Maybe you'll always receive information that we've conquered Leye County. ”

"Is that true?" Wu Tenghuo stood up.

"County Prince, what kind of relationship do we have, I dare to deceive you? When I really started fighting, after I learned the news from my father, I immediately went to the branch of the Taiping Bank in Izumo County and borrowed a million taels of silver, which was going to be used to eat a large amount of Sangshan, embroidery and silk factories. ”

Wu Teng sat down slowly and looked at Geng Jingming: "Shrewd, there are also 5,000 Qi troops in Leye County." ”

"Ho ho, in front of our Ming Dynasty, vulnerable. Look at it, for this battle, Zou Ming Yang Zhi of the Perak Battalion has been holding back for a long time. Geng shrewdly disdainful.

"If they really take Leye County, are they ready to go further?" Wu Teng asked.

Geng Jingming scratched his head, "I didn't pay much attention to this, it seems to mean that after taking Leye County, I will attract reinforcements from the Qi army to come and kill it, by the way, it is Anju County." Isn't there still 3,000 Qi troops stationed in Anju County? ”

Wu Teng's face was a little strange, Izumo County was adjacent to Leye County, and Qi State, Anju County, was a neighbor with him. If these 3,000 Qi troops were attracted to Leye County by the Ming army, then Anju County would be an empty city.

I turned my mind in my heart, but there was no abnormality on my face, "In this way, it is really going to be a big fight, since you Da Ming has decided to make a big fight, our Da Chu will definitely send troops to echo, I know this very well." ”

"Of course, of course, our Da Ming and Da Chu are in-laws? Our queen mother is your Majesty's sister-in-law, our little prince has to call your Majesty's uncle, break the bones and tendons, and beat a big guy like Qi Guo, so naturally everyone has to go together! Geng shrewdly nodded again and again.

Wu Teng nodded with a smile and said yes, how can the state affairs of the heart be so simple, there are many contradictions between your Emperor and Your Majesty alone, above the national interests, family affection is really not a decisive bargaining chip.