He couldn't tell which generation of mites Man Chong was after Man Gypsophila claimed to be the famous general of the Three Kingdoms.
It is said that the Manchu family tree was placed in Jinyang, Shanxi. When Li Xianzhong rebelled in the former Ming Dynasty, the Manchu family tree was wiped out along with Gypsophila's third entry into the mansion.
As an outlier among the Shanxi merchants, as early as the Wanli period of the pre-Ming Dynasty, Mangyixing had devoted its main energy to North Korea, instead of joining the eight Shanxi merchant families in the business of Jiubian Military Town. Compared with the eight major families, the Manjia family was The business is not big, but it is precisely for this reason that Man's Gypsophila was not affected much during the reign of Qi Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, and most of Man's family's business in North Korea was preserved.
In the first year of Wuding, Li Zhu betrayed Da Qi and invaded Liaodong. There was a huge shortage of food and grass supplies for the Korean army. Mangyixing bribed Li Shunyi with a large amount of money and obtained the right to purchase supplies for the Korean army. Li Zhu's rebellion ultimately ended in failure. However, this A Shanxi merchant made a lot of money and became the number one merchant in North Korea.
On the occasion of Emperor Wuding's eastern expedition, Gypsophila was negotiating trade with Japan in Gyeonggi Province. Based on the unique political sense of Shanxi merchants, he quickly realized the business opportunities that the Qi army's eastern expedition might bring. He took his silver servants with him overnight and rushed to Ping'an. He went to Pyongyang and purchased grain and cloth like crazy, preparing to make a lot of money after the war.
Unfortunately, before Shopkeeper Man had time to develop his ambitions, he and several Anhui merchants who had the same idea were tightly surrounded in Pyongyang. Together with tens of thousands of stones, grain, grass and cloth, they were trapped in North Korea.
After the fall of Pyongyang, the goods of Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants were immediately regarded as counterproductive by the Zhenfu soldiers, and they were seized and registered. Fortunately, the main business of Gypsophila was in Ganghwa-do, Gyeonggi Province, so the loss was not very big.
"It's not that the little people can't trust Da Qi. The little people have heard about the things your country did in Shandong and Huguang. If you don't admit it when the time comes, let's talk about these big deals of millions or tens of millions, which have never been done before. Yes, or else..."
Man Tianxing has been in the business field for many years, relying on the art of concealing things from the outside. He is shrewd and knows that when a pie falls from the sky and someone asks you to pick it up, it is basically a trap.
How can there be such a good thing in the world if you don't do business worth millions of taels and want to fulfill yourself, an outsider who is beyond your reach?
"Thank you, sir. I think you should wait a little longer. When the emperor returns to North Korea, I will unite Shanxi merchants and Anhui merchants from North Korea to confirm with the emperor."
Xie Yang patted his chest and said:
"Hahaha, shopkeeper Man is worrying too much, worrying too much! Shandong is Shandong, Huguang is Huguang, and North Korea is North Korea. They are not the same thing! North Korea is not as good as Guan Nei. How can the Supreme Emperor be so wise and powerful that he can kill them all? If he really kills them all, Do you want to do business in the future? Besides, the army will attack the Japanese country soon. If the Japanese pirates know that the Qi army is so virtuous, who will dare to do business with us? The principle of a thousand pieces of gold and a piece of bone, the Supreme Emperor knows it, but shopkeeper Man will not Don’t you know?”
"I just ask the shopkeepers to help Da Qi absorb the money. I don't need your money or your guarantee. Shopkeeper Man doesn't care about the two hundred thousand taels of deposit, does he? Old man, you are thinking too much!"
Xie Guangkun spit on Xing Xing, and a few spit nails landed on Man Tianxing's face.
Shopkeeper Man could only smile bitterly. He was in Pyongyang and had just left the city gate. He couldn't help but have money.
He wanted to explain again, but Liu Xingzuo, who was standing next to him, became angry. The spy leader stood up and pointed at his nose and cursed:
"Master Xie is the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. He is in charge of the money and food of more than a dozen provinces. In Daqi, one person can be said to be less than ten thousand people. With such a good thing, the first thing that Master Xie thinks of is you. You I don’t know how to be grateful, I don’t know the heart of a good person, and I am afraid of wolves before and tigers behind! To tell you the truth, the Supreme Emperor returned to Liaodong a few days ago and handed over all the affairs of Korea to Mr. Xie. Xie Shangshu is now the emperor of Korea, and he cannot make the decision. , who can make the decision?!"
Liu Xingzuo banged his sword on the table and pointed at the contract written on the table:
"Sign, no one can leave without signing!"
The Stars and Stars looked at each other, murmured, and said hesitantly:
"You guys just discussed it. We don't want to make more money. We just want to serve the Emperor, help get things done, and return to us the grain and grass goods that were seized a few days ago."
Xie Yang waved his hand and said nonchalantly: "That's natural, don't worry."
Seeing that a group of Shanxi merchants reluctantly agreed, Xie Guangkun struck while the iron was hot: "The Supreme Emperor has decreed that the entry of wealthy households on Ping'an Road and Xianjing Road must take place in two months. You can use this time to send people back to Shanxi to let relatives My friends join together and set up a temporary bank in North Korea. If we have money, we need to make money together. Once the matter is done, your little food and goods are just a drop in the bucket, and the Emperor will reward you heavily."
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Emperor Zhenwu once said that if you are born as a human being and land in the world, it will be difficult to die unless you suffer enough sins.
Shanxi.
The Fan family of Baweitang in Jinyang Fucheng has been one of the richest people in Jinyang for hundreds of years. There are countless members of the family who have passed scientific examinations and served as officials, and have governed counties and counties.
The ancestral motto of the Fan family is that filial piety and brotherhood come first, loyalty and trust are the foundation, only farming and reading, and benevolent to the descendants.
The ancestors of the past generations donated their money to help countless children from poor families who had nothing to do with the school to enroll in the library.
In the late Ming Dynasty, when the world was about to be in chaos, the Fan family promptly adjusted their strategies and abandoned their official positions to engage in business. Not only did they not suffer losses, but they also benefited from the country's difficulties and seized huge wealth.
In the middle and late Wanli period, the Ming Dynasty was tired of the situation in Liaodong, and its demand for war necessities such as arms and horses increased sharply.
The Fan family set their sights on Liaodong. Although Houjin had a population of 700,000 at that time, because Emperor Wu Ding imposed an economic blockade on Houjin, the people of Houjin almost had to exchange their children for food. The price of rice was once as high as eighty taels per stone, and the price of cloth was Also need twenty-two horses.
Shanxi merchants headed by the Fan family took a fancy to this and used Zhangjiakou as their base to collect goods from all over the country, and then traveled back and forth inside and outside the customs to engage in trading activities and deliver large quantities of basic living supplies such as food, clothing, and cooking utensils to the Houjin regime.
Houjin exchanged valuables such as ginseng, deer antlers, and animal skins, and the two parties established a good win-win relationship.
After Nurhaci died in the battle, Huang Taiji deliberately concealed his strength while secretly trading with Shanxi merchants. All the gunpowder, 80% of the grain and more than 60% of the metals needed by the Houjin Eight Banners came from Shanxi merchants who were "honest".
Under this win-win relationship, Hetuala was proud to be able to turn looted property, antiques, gold and silver into food to feed the hundreds of thousands of captive Mongolian, Jurchen, and Han people.
In the three years after the bloody battle of Hunhe, food prices in Houjin plummeted, the population continued to expand, and it entered a golden period of development.
The Shanxi Merchants Group, with the Fan family as its core, made a profit of five million silver in the second year of Tianqi alone. With the full support of Houjin, Shanxi Merchants almost monopolized the trade in the outer Northeast, and even extended its tentacles to Siberia, Moscow, Petersburg... Starting from Osaka, Kobe, Nagasaki, and Incheon in the east to Talbachatai, Ili, and Kashgar in the west, the footprints of Shanxi merchants have all been left.
If this rate is maintained, it will not be a dream for the Fan family to enter the European market and compete with the Jewish shopping malls.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. Before Huang Taiji entered the pass, Hetuala was captured by Liu Zhaosun, the Eight Banners of Jianzhou were completely destroyed, and the commercial system developed by Shanxi merchants in Liaodong collapsed.
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In the fourth year of Taichu, on the third day of the first lunar month of the lunar calendar, when Fan Yongdao was triumphantly walking around Yingliu Lake along the veranda and following the stone steps lined with seven ancient pines to step onto the grassy lawn, he suddenly heard a burst of laughter from a girl in the apricot forest with chaotic lawns. Voice.
"Ahem."
Fan Yongdao coughed loudly twice, and the two graceful little maids in the apricot forest immediately fled in a hurry. Seeing that the master was here, they quickly went away with blushing faces.
"Xiao Nizi is dishonest! She spent a lot of money!"
Fan Yongdao cursed twice, remembering that he spent fifty taels on a Huaiyang businessman last year, and suddenly felt that it was not worth it.
In Baweitang Bajin Garden Mansion, there are inscriptions, plaques and couplets everywhere. Among them, Fan Yongdao's favorite couplet is the one in front of him.
This couplet was inscribed by him himself a few years ago. At that time, the Fan family's business was at its peak. It could be said that the flowers were blooming and the fire was cooking oil. Fan Yongdao lived and drank every day. During the New Year and festivals, Fan's house was full of Kunqu opera troupes. When the Master of the Fan family celebrated his birthday, the surrounding streets were crowded with horse-drawn carriages, and even the governor of Jinyang came to congratulate him in person...
It's a pity that everything is over.
Fan Yongdao lifted the blue satin cotton curtain and walked into the side room, feeling a blast of warm air.
In the corner of the wing, a cloud-patterned bronze Boshan stove on an ebony table is emitting a hint of refreshing sandalwood.
Mr. Fan put a cup of hot Biluochun on the table and just touched his lips when he suddenly heard someone shouting outside:
"Menglong."
Menglong is Fan Yongdao's character.
The voice sounds like Accountant Zhao. Accountant Zhao was a member of the imperial family in the former Ming Dynasty. Because he supported Zhang Chun's rebellion, he was deprived of his official title. Out of hatred for Da Qi, he became the accountant of the Fan family and served as master.
Fan Yongdao valued this down-and-out scholar very much, and the two had similar interests. Master Zhao was older, and although Fan Yongdao was his boss, he respected him as his brother. Therefore, Master Zhao became more conscientious and meticulous in his work.
"Come in."
Accountant Zhao stood at the door with an abacus in his hand.
"Menglong, shopkeeper Man sent someone to deliver a letter."
"Which Man shopkeeper?"
"Gypsophila, the fur shop closed down a few years ago, and he fled to North Korea with his sister-in-law,"
"His job as a shopkeeper was very comfortable. He owed a lot of debt, so he went to North Korea with his sister-in-law. I heard that she was a beauty. Why did he write to me?"
"Menglong, I think he is not well-meaning."
Fan Yongdao opened the envelope and read it hastily under the west window.
"What? Go to North Korea and save money for the people. You can only make a profit without losing anything. You can make a million profits? You can save a thousand taels and give ten taels, you're such a profiteer!"
"Menglong, I told you not to get angry with that profiteer. He must have lost money in North Korea, or had Liu Zhaosun's people withhold it, and wanted to trick us into coming too."
"Eight-cent idiot! He Mantianxing actually thinks I'm a fool!"
"Menglong,"
Master Zhao said cautiously: "There is a saying that I don't know whether to say or not. Our Baweitang originally relied on Hou Jin, and had Huang Taiji Nurhachi as our backer. We lived a very energetic life, but now in this world, black and white are reversed, and the city When the king's flag is changed, Liu Zhaosun, a servant, can also be the emperor. These days, can't you see clearly? If you have a knife, you are a master. At present, Shaanxi and Shanxi are all under the control of Daxi grass bandits. Although Zhang Zicheng has not touched our Fan family for the time being. , if we can’t guarantee it, he is just raising us like fat pigs, and he will take action on us whenever he wants.”
"In the end, we still have to deal with Qi State."
Shopkeeper Fan didn't know what Master Zhao said.
Shanxi has not been peaceful in recent years. First, Li Xianzhong came over, then Deng Changxiong came back, and now Zhang Zicheng came. Every time there was a military disturbance, the Fan family had to be asked for money and food.
The world is deteriorating, and people’s hearts are not as old as they used to be!
A well-behaved smuggling trade like the Fan family leaks information to the Mongols and Jianzhou people from time to time. He doesn't kill people or set fires, but he just wants to make more money. What can he do wrong?
"All right,"
Although he knew that Liu Zhaosun might be behind this incident, Shopkeeper Fan decided to deal with the overlord.
"Ask the second shopkeeper to take some money to North Korea and see the limelight first."
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