Sure enough, there was no news from the Xiangshan County Chenghe master who went to Haojing to deliver the letter, and when the Lotus Stem Gate was officially opened again, Wang Fulin had already placed a detailed list in front of Xiaobei that Bizhu sent back, which was precisely the merchants who had a business name in Haojing and had long-term transactions with the Portuguese, as well as those merchants who did not have a local permanent office, but regularly transported goods to trade.

But whether it is a merchant or a businessman, nine times out of ten are Cantonese merchants and Fujian merchants. The so-called 36 Merchants, in fact, were mainly led by the 15 merchants of the Guangfu Gang, the Chaozhou Gang, and the Fujian Gang, plus the remaining six merchants from Huguang or Zhejiang, who had no local business names, but only came to trade regularly, so naturally they did not have great influence. There were 21 in total, and they almost monopolized all of Macao's trade with Portugal. As for the small and medium-sized merchants, they had to find these self-run merchants who also acted as brokers, and then they could trade with the Portuguese.

After all, there are only a handful of Portuguese who can speak Cantonese, and the Ming people who can speak Portuguese are also rare, and almost all of them are in the pocket of 21 people, except for Huang Tianren who is willing to go astray.

Although with such a piece of information, you can follow the map next, but Wang Fulin immediately thought of another question: "Bizhu, how did Xiaobei solve this problem of language barrier?" It stands to reason that as a foreigner, even if you bring a guide, if you inquire about people like this, others will easily become suspicious. ”

Bizhu's ability to come and go is not inferior to Xiaobei, plus how much defense can the small Xiangshan County Ya have, with Zhao San Mazi responding, he sneaked in lightly and skillfully. However, with a calm face, she heard Wang Fulin's question. There was no calmness at once. At first, there were some periods that Ai Ai refused to say. When Wang Fu Lin came up suspiciously and asked again, she had to explain in a low voice.

"The young lady did not dress as a man this time, but wore a hat, and told people that she had come all the way to find her husband, and that her husband was a businessman who came to Haojing to do business, and he had not returned for several years. So she took a guide who knew Cantonese to inquire about other merchants, and no one was too suspicious. There were also two families who sent their aunts to visit, so ......"

"So did she simply test the waters and do a few businesses in the name of presiding over affairs on behalf of her husband?" What kind of person is his wife, Wang Fulin simply knows it, and seeing that Bizhu avoided his gaze with some weakness, he nodded lightly and told him in a low voice that Ye Qinglong gave Xiaobei his right-hand man in the past few years, Yu Wen, who was also a young man. Yu Wen made a small purchase and confirmed the identity of Xiaobei's businesswoman. He can only smile bitterly that his wife is indeed in place in carrying out his instructions, but the problem is that the methods used always make people sweat.

"But the young lady is measured, and she always wears a veil when she sees people, even when the two aunts come to see her. By the way, I forgot to tell my uncle that when the young lady came out this time, the shopkeeper Ye mobilized all the active silver money, and with the great help of the silver village, the gold we brought was a total of three or four thousand taels. And behind us, there is a genuine Cantonese businessman's son. He is the eldest son of the Pan family, but because his father was unkind at home, he only listened to his stepmother's bewitchment, so he picked a mistake and drove him out of the house, and was forced to leave his hometown. This time, Master Cheng said that since my uncle came to Guangzhou, if such a person can be used well, it will definitely be of great use, so he recommended it to Miss. The young lady inquired that the old lady of the Pan family used to be the leader of the Guangfu merchant gang, but she had been sick for the past few months, and the lady who continued to be the one had been cleaning the old people and appointing new ones. However, this old man Pan was carrying a boatload of silk and a boatload of tea, and it would be a few days later to arrive. ”

Three or four thousand taels of gold, even for many wealthy families, it is a lot of money, and he remembers that the Portuguese side has a large amount of silver because of the American colonies and a large amount of trade with Japan, so it is cheap and expensive, if the gold is exchanged for silver, you can make a smaller profit by looking for the Portuguese, plus a genuine Cantonese businessman's son, Wang Fulin secretly thought that the wedged nail was already very sufficient, and Gu Jing, the Xiangshan County Order, was also a little bit of a good product in his stomach, which could come in handy. Now it can be said that everything is ready, and only the east wind that echoes from the mirror is owed!

There are many sandbanks on the islands under the jurisdiction of Xiangshan County, but the wharf where the boat is moored is in a purse bend. In the past, although there were a lot of boats going back and forth here, after all, those boats that went to Haojing through the Guanfu Gate and did not take the land route but went to Haojing through the sea and land were all entered into the sea through the Pearl River in Guangzhou Prefecture, and then directly arrived at Haojing, that is, Macao, so Xiangshan Wharf usually only stopped those inland river ships from Guangzhou.

However, on this day, the people on the pier found that the river boats that had arrived two days earlier had left the dock first, and then turned around and came back after a while, but the people who had not seen them before got off the boat. All of them are either dressed in brocade clothes, or have shy breasts and bulging bellies, and they are rich and noble. Not only that, but these boats also have retinues to stand at the front station, and the carriages and horses are ready to greet them early, and those on the dock who have the heart to stammer or make a few small bucks are not able to squeeze forward at all.

Of course, most people can guess the origin of these people, and they must have parked the sea boat far away, and then used the river boat to sail over to take the person to the dock. Moreover, because the rumor in the county government has long been spread, it is said that because something went wrong in Haojing, a case is being tried by the county government, and the Guangdong governor who happened to visit Haojing privately sent someone to the imperial history to summon many businessmen who do business there to gather in Xiangshan County to speak. Although it is not that he has not been to Xiangshan County in previous years, it is the first time that he has moved the people in this way, so many people are curious about what Wang Fulin wants to do.

But between the conversations, many idlers also have a bit of a joke.

"The strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, even if this Wang Xun is a strong dragon crossing the river, but those businessmen who have been operating in Haojing for a long time are idle?"

Not necessarily. After all, he is an official of the imperial court, and the ten governors are pressed, and even the governor Ling Zhitai has to be afraid of three points. ”

"I'll bet with you, if this Wang Ye is really going to stab those Cantonese and Fujian businessmen, he won't be an official for long. Don't say that he is a soldier behind him, even if he is a secretary of the military department, it is useless! ”

When the idlers on the dock were talking. They didn't notice. There are people and cats on the docks. secretly wrote down these people who arrived, and then went to the Xiangshan County Ya one by one to report the news. Therefore, before those greetings were sent to the county government, Wang Fulin would be able to know in advance who was coming. As for the county secretary and the chief bookkeeper who came back one step earlier from Haojing, Wang Fulin also politely comforted and praised him, which made the two subordinate officials who had traveled more than 200 miles back and forth in a few days feel a lot more comfortable. However, the calculation time is almost up, and Xiaobei is on the list that he has found. But in the end, there were only nine.

In other words, less than half of the wealthy businessmen who are begging for a living in Haojing!

Regarding this result, Gu Jing was really worried that Wang Fulin would be furious because of the loss of face, however, what he saw was that Wang Fulin calmly wrote a reply, and asked him to send someone to deliver it, and he actually set a decision to invite a group of businessmen to speak in a well-known teahouse in Xiangshan County the next day. Although he didn't understand why he didn't summon people to the yamen to speak, so that he could also use the official authority to do things, how dare he question Wang Fulin's decision, so he had to do as he was told.

However. Just after the morning hall the next morning, when Wang Fulin was about to go out. Today, the noon hall and evening hall were canceled, and he who followed him had not yet left the gate of the county government, but he got a not very good news.

"What? Really not? Seeing Master Cai smiling bitterly and shaking his head, Gu Jing chuckled in his heart, and when he saw Wang Fulin looking back at him, he stepped forward quickly, and whispered next to the other party, "Wang Xun, Master Cai has visited the whole city with people in the past few days, and finally found that the few people in the city who are fluent in Portuguese are all in the Hao Mirror to give the Franc machine...... No, the Portuguese do the interpreters, and no one in the city knows Portuguese anymore. ”

Seeing that Wang Fulin squinted his eyes, he immediately nodded to indicate that he knew, but he was not so surprised and annoyed, Gu Jing breathed a sigh of relief, and made a gesture to Master Cai, letting him sit in the yamen, and then followed Wang Fulin to the back of the sedan chair. When the group swayed to the teahouse, he found that there were some cars and horses parked in front of the door, and it seemed that no one had arrived.

These wealthy businessmen in Guangdong and Fujian are really big, and if they don't take their parents and officials in Xiangshan County in their eyes, they don't even take this imperial history of the patrol equivalent to half a Qincha in their eyes!

Because this is the venue that was chartered a day in advance, around the teahouse, Gu Jing has already sent all the Zhuangban officers out to be vigilant, and the owner and shopkeeper of the teahouse is waiting outside the door with two guys at this time, seeing Wang Fulin and Gu Jing getting off the sedan chair successively, the proprietor in his early forties hurriedly stepped forward, just about to kneel down and kowtow, but he only felt that his hand was being held, and when he looked up and saw that it was Wang Fulin, his lips trembled, and he didn't know how to speak, but after a while, he heard an unbelievable word.

"Today I am a tea guest, you are the owner, just be hospitable and this kowtow will be avoided."

"Yes, yes, Xiaomin will do it, and it will definitely do it." It was easy for the proprietor to come up with such an answer, and when Wang Fulin nodded with a smile and entered the door, he patted his cheeks with his hand and secretly recited Amitabha Buddha many times. But then, he suddenly realized a problem.

Isn't this inspector a foreigner? What I said just now seems to be a local Cantonese dialect, right? It's like a folk, so kind!

This small movement in front of the door, among the merchants who arrived one step earlier on the second floor, only two old men by the window noticed it, and couldn't help but exchange a look with each other. As for the others, it is still self-conscious, of course, it is not official language. It wasn't until I heard the sound of going upstairs that the voices that spoke in Cantonese unscrupulously fell silent. When the young man in front of him climbed to the second floor, everyone upstairs got up to greet him one after another, and signed up to greet him unevenly. It's just that although the number of courtesies is quite respectful, in the eyes of Gu Jing, who is following behind Wang Fulin, those previous behaviors have really been extremely sluggish.

He didn't believe that everyone here had any crowns and official positions, and they all sat here waiting for them to go upstairs, which was so unserious that he didn't take the imperial court officials seriously!

"It seems that the people haven't arrived yet, I'm early." After Wang Fulin returned the salute, he smiled slightly, however, after walking to the main seat in the middle, he did not sit down directly, but said to Gu Jing next to him, "Gu County Order, you are the landlord, you can sit on this main seat." Seeing Gu Jing's eyes widen, but under his clear gaze, the Xiangshan County Commander still hesitated to sit down, at this time, Wang Fulin chose the chair that was originally prepared for Gu Jing on the right side of the main seat, and after sitting down, he flicked the corner of his robe, and raised his hand with a smile to invite everyone to take a seat.

"Although the people haven't come yet, since you came first, you might as well chatter. Speaking of which, the case that is still being tried in Xiangshan County, everyone has probably heard of it, yes, a few days ago, I just went to Haojing. ”

As soon as the words fell, Wang Fulin saw that those businessmen who had just been absent-minded immediately put away their slackness, and their faces were obviously a little different. He didn't beat around the bush, and directly told the cause and effect of what he had experienced, including that he considered the safety of those small businessmen, went to the Church of Our Lady of Hope to ask Bishop Janerou to come forward, and found the real Baron Franco, and then there was the civil unrest on the Lisbon on the dock, and he did not hide it at all - of course, he also said it bluntly, and he had already explained in detail the reason for this matter, Ling Yunyi, the governor of Liangguang, and at the same time played the imperial court.

As for Wang Fulin's passage in Haojing's short half a day, the representatives of the various firms all made a clear inquiry, but when they heard that he not only informed the governor, but also played the imperial court, the people present behaved differently. Some of them are very calm, and some of them have clearly revealed a bit of solemnity. At this time, Wang Fulin suddenly changed his words and said: "I see you for the first time today, and I have a word that I don't vomit or be unhappy. Although the mirror is good, it can be seen from only this one thing, although in the land of my Ming Dynasty, the Francophone people have a tendency to be anti-guest-oriented, I don't know if you think so? ”

"What Wang Ye said is not true."

The first one who couldn't help but speak was the third master of the Fang family in Chaozhou Mansion, Guangdong. However, as soon as the words came out, he saw that the other people next to him were all sneering slightly, and he realized that he was reckless. In these years, for these imperial histories with the constitutional office of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the people below will call a master, although the head of the Fang family has a crown belt, but he does not, there is nothing wrong with calling Wang Fulin a Wang Ye, but these four words are different, they really shouldn't be said, this is obviously the following offense. But it was hard to recover, so he had to bite the bullet and continue.

"Master Wang, it is not a day or two days for Hao Jing to rent to the Franco, and they pay the tax on time every year, although there were riots before, but this is an occasional event, not all the time, for our businessmen, most of them are fair trades, and Tong Su is not bullied." Aware of the eyes around him, many of them were full of undisguised ridicule, Master Fang San knew that people were sarcastic about themselves and put gold on the face of the Franc Machine, but the lifeblood of the Fang family in Chaozhou Mansion was the business route of Haojing, and he could only go all the way to the dark, "If Lord Wang is dissatisfied with the security of Haojing, it is enough to instruct the Franc Robot to rectify the interior." Otherwise, if the market is broken, the loss will be not limited to me and all of you. ”

I think that Zhu Kun cut off one of the biggest financial routes for Zhejiang and Fujian businessmen back then, but the backlash he suffered directly lost his life!

In the ranking list of businessmen that Xiaobei found, the Fang family of Chaozhou Mansion was not ranked in the top three, but it was able to rank in the top five, so Wang Fulin was not surprised that Master Fang San was the first to jump out. It's just that he couldn't afford the consequences of hearing Master Fang San's hint that the commercial market would be cut off and that people would suffer heavy losses, so he laughed and said, "Did this constitution just mention that the commercial market should be cut off?" ”

PS: Just one update (to be continued.) )