Chapter 1: Foreigners live in the capital division
Zong Yicheng likes life in Jingshi, likes the winter here, likes the spring here, likes the summer here, and also likes the autumn now. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
For the largest metropolis in the world, I am afraid that no one will refuse the attraction of putting down roots here. For example, the barrenness of Tsushima Island, the prosperity of Kyoshi is too tempting.
Not only the quality of life such as clothing, food, housing and transportation, Zong Yicheng has also found the true meaning of his life: business. Tsushima prospered in large part because it was responsible for trade between North Korea and Japan. For Zong Yicheng, the word commercial trade can be said to be a pursuit carved into the bones.
However, despite the policy facilitation, the development of trade between Japan and North Korea was very uncomfortable. As an official trade, it is naturally affected by many policy factors.
This has also allowed Tsushima's trade to stagnate at the scale of two or three ships per year. Even, if the situation is not good, it will not even be able to maintain this scale.
It's just that in today's Ming Dynasty, Zong Yicheng discovered the New World.
In this place where the industry and commerce are the last business, I actually feel the tolerance for business.
The business of Daming is very developed, and it is already the beginning of the year to suppress commercial development. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the industry and commerce of the Ming Dynasty were very developed, so that the germ of capitalism expressed in textbooks appeared.
What Zhu Cihong did was nothing more than to remove the suppression from administrative forces and social consciousness. China has always been a country of upward and downward effects. Under the centralized power of the empire, the will of the emperor can change the country to the greatest extent.
Since His Majesty the Emperor has shown goodwill to industry and commerce, and even himself is the behind-the-scenes owner of Hengxin Commercial Bank, the original trend of commerce being the last has gradually reversed. As for the administrative directives such as the dress of merchants, they were naturally quietly abolished.
There is no administrative suppression, no discrimination against business, and even behemoths such as Hengxin Commercial Bank will get rid of the blockages that will be encountered along the way.
Zong Yicheng found more and more surprising existences in Jingshi.
The country is quietly changing, and the pace of change is getting faster and faster.
And everything made Zong Yicheng feel like a fish in water. After some thought, he opened the headquarters of the trading house on Tsushima Island directly to Jingshi, and focused on trade with the Ming Dynasty.
At this time, the dual identity of Tsushima broke through the trade blockade of the Ming Dynasty against Japan. Originally, Zong Yicheng was worried that the Ming government would ban Zong Yicheng's Japanese background, but when Zong Yicheng registered in the Shuntian Mansion, he found that the road was smooth, and he repeatedly emphasized the requirement to pay taxes according to the regulations.
Of course, not that everything is good.
First of all, the house price in Jingshi, which was originally only a small single-family courtyard house of 500 yuan, when I looked back and heard about it, the price had risen to 800 yuan. And only half a year has passed.
This naturally gave Zong Yicheng a headache. With the expansion of Zongyi Commercial Bank, the accommodation problem of employees began to become more and more expensive, so that Zong Yicheng had to use part of the profits to buy a few plots of land, and now two tube buildings are being built to try to solve the problem of employee accommodation.
Thinking of this, Zong Yicheng had to sigh at the power of the Ming people. When buying land in Daming, the ownership cannot be bought, only the right to use. And the right to use it is not permanent, it was only bought for seventy years. Even for the newly built houses, the title deeds were only 70 years old.
"It's been since I arrived in Beijing...... I didn't expect half a year to have passed. Zong Yicheng sighed at the quiet silence of the passage of time.
It was not so troublesome to buy land and buy a house in Beijing at the beginning, all of which were only now things after His Majesty the Emperor ascended the throne.
Leaving aside these topics, Zong Yicheng inevitably began to recall the past.
As a Japanese envoy who was smuggled to Kyoto that year, he arrived in Kyoto with Abe Tadaaki.
Now, Abe Tadaaki has successfully completed his mission. After finding out the situation in the Ming Dynasty, he went back to Japan. But Zong Yicheng chose to stay.
He loved it and was fascinated by the charm of the city, the empire.
Although, he is a unique presence on Tsushima.
However, no matter how good Tsushima is, it is only a small village. The charm of the cosmopolitan city was just a slight swing that made Zong Yicheng make a choice.
Zong Yicheng habitually got up early in the morning, and then fell in love with a leisure that the people of Beijing liked: bird walking.
Naturally, there are places to go for bird walking, such as the Kaixiao Tea House on the side of the street.
The tea house is a typical Ming style, with the door wide open and tables and chairs set up everywhere. Xiao Er is holding a dinner plate, and the steaming steamer buns on it exude an attractive fragrance, accompanied by Xiao Er's shouting, which has a unique flavor.
Zong Yicheng entered the teahouse and greeted the familiar people present.
"Second Master Song, I haven't seen you for a while. Where do you get rich? ”
"Yo, isn't this the third brother of Bao, look at this spirit, but the official fortune of the ministry is prosperous?"
"Hey, shopkeeper, why haven't you seen Dr. Liu today? I haven't listened to the book review for a few days, but I miss it so much. ”
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shouted out a neat Beijing film, not knowing the roots, and never thought that the person in front of him was from Tsushima Island, Japan.
Even Zong Yicheng himself, without mentioning his origin, it is becoming more and more difficult to remember that he is still a Japanese.
He didn't even hide his real name, and walked directly in the name of Zong Yicheng.
China is vast, there are all kinds of rare surnames, and there are also surnames of clans. The famous Zongze is.
"It turned out to be Cheng Ye."
"Brother Cheng, I haven't seen you for a while."
"It seems that there is a job to make a fortune."
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When everyone saw Zong Yicheng, they all greeted him, and the shopkeeper also smiled and said, "Master Cheng, your place is reserved for you." What's new? I heard that you bought another cuckoo, and that sound was full of color in the tea house next door. Today, are you going to show off your style here? ”
"Play casually, play casually, San'er, carry it." After Zong Yicheng finished greeting, he sat down in his place according to the shopkeeper's instructions, handed the birdcage to the scholar who was waiting beside him, and began to chatter.
Most of the time, Zong Yicheng didn't talk much, but listened to the gossip of the people present.
The name of the tea house is simple, and the guests who come and go are all kinds of people.
War is cruel for most people, but in a way, it is also the luck of some. The war gave the already solidified class an opportunity for drastic mobility.
The once poor seized the opportunity to get rich in business. The unkind rich man was looted by bandits in the war, and his wife and children felt the fall of their family. They are mixed together, and they are rarely angry, but they feel the difficulty of peace. Many people are familiar with each other, talking about the news they have heard recently, which is the channel through which Zong Yicheng usually inquires about the news.