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Fa Zhao Tianjin Wei's old man said. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Lan at the end of the month. The river and the sea can be opened. The water can rise in March, and the sea ships can enter Tianjin, and everyone under Wang Tong is busy with this matter.

Since the implementation of Ping An money, Tianjin Wei has been very strict, the shops and businesses inside and outside the city seek peace, and they do not account for this money, and there are people on the left and right who come to get the money is not as good as Tianjin Jinyi Wei Qianhu to take so rules.

The businessmen get up early and are greedy for darkness, and they are always calculating. You have to record guys to make some profits. A small sign is hung there, and no one will be willing to sit on the ground and leave with a tongue.

Not to mention the scolding openly and secretly at the beginning, the private conspiracy, and even the public resistance, their minds have been instigated by people with intentions several times. However, although Wang Tong is old, he is a ruthless character, and you have come and gone a few times. Everyone paid honestly. If you are unwilling, you can only hide it in your stomach.

However, in February of the seventh year of Wanli, the grievances of the merchants inside and outside the city about Ping An Qian dissipated, because their gratitude to Wang Tong was completely suppressed.

The inns inside and outside the Tianjin Acropolis were completely full, and the households with spare rooms at home rented out their houses according to the price of the inn, which was still in short supply.

Every day, the streets are more than twice as many people as usual, strolling in the shops, not to mention the canals and rivers outside the city. It's very lively.

Merchants from Xianghe County and Jinghai County around Tianjin Wei rushed over, merchants from various counties of Hejian Prefecture rushed over, merchants from Yongping Mansion and Shuntian Mansion rushed over, merchants from Baoding Mansion, Zhending Mansion and Xuanfu Town rushed over, and merchants from various prefectures and counties in Beizhili rushed over. Merchants from Jinan and Dongchang in Shandong, and merchants from Weihui, Guide, and Kaifeng in Henan also rushed over, and even merchants from Liaozhen and Shanxi came from farther afield.

For more than half a year last year, Tianjin Wei opened the sea. The news that goods were legal as long as they paid a 20% tax was brought to various places by merchants who came and went through this transportation hub.

It is not necessary to carry the freight expensive, but also strictly check the entrainment of the transport, but the transport volume is large, the freight is cheap, and the sea freight can carry more types of goods, and there are more foreign goods that can not be said.

And the people who come are not only those Nanzhili businessmen on Caoyun, Fujian and Guangdong Haoqiang, Xijiang rich businessmen, but also all kinds of foreign businessmen who dare not say their identities, these people have money in their hands, and they must buy goods and go, what kind of business opportunities is this.

Anyone who has ever done business understands what that means. The weather in Beizhili has not completely warmed, and the waterways of various prefectures and counties are inconvenient, but there are not a few goods brought by oxen and horse carts.

In the past, the camp was surrounded by wasteland, and the places where granite and sand were piled up were now rented out, because the warehouses and storage yards inside and outside the city were all divided into empty places, and everywhere was full of goods.

Many businessmen are here to see the scenery, but the merchants from all over the place gathered, communicating with each other, naturally there are many more business opportunities than usual, and before those merchants from the sea come, everyone has done a lot of business.

After the business is completed and the goods are delivered, they arrange their own subordinates to hurry back to stock up and transport the goods again, the business here is too good to do, and this kind of financial opportunity must not be missed.

Everyone thought that the sea would open in March, but according to the rumors heard in previous years, the ships coming from the Haihe River would be almost late April, and they would have to wait for a while, but they never thought that in late February, a large number of southern merchants would actually rush over by land.

This is really unpredictable, Wang Tong also specially arranged for his own Sanjiang Commercial Bank to inquire, only then did he know that the sea ship had arrived in Shandong.

However, Tianjin could only enter the sea ships in early March, and everyone was anxious, and they all understood that they would come early to do a business, and if they came late, they would do less, and many southern businessmen came to Tianjin for the first time, and they always did not fall to the bottom of their hearts, and they did not know who had the idea, and the people who stayed on the boats all made small boats and came down and docked somewhere in Shandong. All the way to the fast horse and cart, first come to Tianjin Wei to have a look.

The influx of merchants from the south made the entire Tianjin Wei boil all at once, and many people did not have stock in their hands, and the goods could not arrive until half a month or a month later.

But the business opportunities are unlimited, the merchants of the north and south in the teahouse, in the inn, in various places to communicate with each other, first reached a number of intentions, many people calculated that although they have not seen the cash, but this time has not come in vain, it must be wealth.

Many of the shipping shops along the canal were supposed to open at the end of March, but now they are opening early, and the merchants in the vicinity are hurrying to book their goods for their boats, so as not to be unable to leave.

There are many shops on the side of the canal, which can be said to be crowded, and many wealthy merchants who come to Tianjin Acropolis for the first time see that Tianjin Wei is like a sea of gold and silver, and they are interested in opening shops here.

Needless to say, the canal side has long been cleaned by the merchants of the city and the Jingshi Shunshu Shu, so the shops on the side of the Haihe River are even more crazy From the geographical point of view, the two banks of the Haihe River connecting the sea and the canal are even more golden treasures, and what is even more rare is that the shops on the bank are abnormally tidy, and there are people who pave smooth roads, and there are warehouses and storage yards that have been prepared for a long time, and even the coolies for loading and unloading have long been prepared. What's even more convenient is that the shops and storefronts here can be rented without having to buy them all at once. After all, it is the first time for everyone to come to test the waters, many things are still uncertain, a heavy investment is too risky, this rental is just and the mind, but the good positions have been rented, and the rest is more monks and less porridge, and the rent of the back rows of shops has been shouted to sky-high prices, not to mention.

Not to mention the "futures." Many businessmen from other places saw that there were many people, so they simply started selling and retailing on the spot, which added a lot of popularity.

Nowadays, even the people of the surrounding prefectures and counties know that if they want to buy cheap and good goods, they must go to the Tianjin Acropolis, which has everything.

This is not counting, such a lively, so many business opportunities, naturally need a large number of manpower, Xuanfu, Ji's Xiaojing Division, plus the rest of the Beizhili, there are Weisu military towns, military households Tuntian is limited, a large number of wealthy military households Yu Ding has no whereabouts. Tianjin Wei is so prosperous, naturally attracting a large number of laborers.

The flow of people, logistics, gold and silver gathered in Tianjinwei, so that there was suddenly an explosion of prosperity here. Tianjin Weiben is the place where the grain is stationed, and there is no shortage of food, but this wine, meat, vegetables and vegetables are limited after all.

Fortunately in the middle of February, in the second half of February, the prices of piglets, sheep, chickens and ducks soared, and the prices of fish, shrimp and seafood also soared.

Guests want to stay in the hotel to eat, Tianjin Wei's big inn and restaurant restaurant, and even the street vendors are full of guests, and there are also many warehouses in Tianjin Acropolis, which are reserved for spot, and "futures" trading have been done, not to mention this spot.

Merchants from all walks of life with money are buying left and right. This spot is a specialty of the Northland, so it's okay to buy it first and put it away, as long as it's a businessman, you can see it, what's the matter. The momentum continues, and the goods will not be available in a month, and they will not be able to buy until the northern waterways begin to run ships.

Before February, the goods stored in the entire trading house of Tianjin Wei had been bought, and those northern merchants sent their men to stock up at home, and the news spread again, and many people who were watching and waiting at home, and even more distant places were rushing to this side. ”。

Such an explosive prosperity really caught Wang Tong off guard, and he thought he had done enough to deal with it. But the extent of this prosperity is really not estimated.

This era was the most prosperous time in the Ming Dynasty or the entire history of China, but it has been carried out in unofficial channels, and Wang Tong's opening of the sea is equivalent to giving these private capital and commodities a channel of communication and giving them a right to do so in broad daylight.

Or rather, a reservoir full of dams. was opened by Wang Tong for a small opening, and then countless riches gushed out from that small opening.

It is difficult for Wang Tong to arrange the time for military training now. Every day, thousands of people in their hands take turns patrolling inside and outside the city to maintain law and order, and even the security team of more than 500 people in the bow of the ship, the anti-smuggling team led by Cannon Danwen and Hang Daqiao are all used, but there are still not enough manpower.

Since February, more than 100 beggars, more than 200 thieves and swindlers, more than 60 people who pretend to be monks and Taoists, and some miscellaneous people have been arrested, and all of them have been thrown to the Haihe River to work as coolies.

At first, the people from the north and south watched a large number of soldiers patrolling the road in full armor. Everyone was a little scared, and after seeing the performance of maintaining law and order, not extorting money indiscriminately, they were a little more confident in the future.

It's easy to say that this person is not enough, but what really makes Wang Tong feel distressed is that he doesn't even have enough people to collect money, and the business of these merchants is small because it involves maritime trade, so they are afraid that they will not be insured.

I'd rather pay taxes and fees to the government than be fined and confiscated because of incomplete procedures, let alone the new stores that have been opened. The business of the shop skyrocketed, the goods in and out of Tianjin Wei, no matter what the same had to be drawn from the prescribed money, how was the original person enough, and the gentleman who knew how to read and settle accounts was also different from the coolie, saying that he could find it, and now the salary has tripled, but one person is used as four people, and the shaft is turning, and the hard work is abnormal.

Wang Tong's Sanjiang Commercial Bank prepared a large number of goods in advance, and a large amount of wasteland was circled outside the Tianjin Acropolis. ，