From the fall of the Niu family in Zhenguo to the marriage of Xiren to an actress, time passed very quickly, half a year passed in the blink of an eye.

In the past six months, Jinmen eliminated internal enemies, Chen Zhao reorganized government affairs, rebuilt Jinmen officialdom, and successfully promoted the opening of Jinmen as a port.

Jinmen's geographical location determines its convenient transportation.

Especially sea transportation is extremely convenient.

You must know that the freight for transporting goods by sea is more than 70% cheaper than water transport, and it is much faster.

Therefore, maritime transportation has been vigorously promoted since the Yuan Dynasty.

Even though there was a no-sea policy in the Ming Dynasty, in fact there were many wealthy families who relied on the sea to make a living, but they just hid it from the emperor in the Forbidden City.

But having said that, the risk of going to sea is really too great. If ten ships go to sea, it is good to have six return safe and sound. Pirates at sea are even more harmful.

Although Jiangnan has the best fertile fields in the world, the population is more prosperous, with less land and more people. Many people go to cities to work. Industry and commerce are the most developed places in the world, producing a large amount of goods, but these goods cannot be produced locally in Jiangnan.

To be completely digested, it must be sold elsewhere.

There are only a few places that are the most prosperous and prosperous in the world. The south is naturally Jiangnan and Huguang, and the north is around the capital. Shanxi Shanxi Shanxi and Xi'an Prefecture are indeed rich, but they are too far away from the waterway, and they are either limited in scale or extremely scattered.

Goods from the south are sold to the north. The share of sales to the capital and Zhili prefectures accounts for almost 60% to 70% of the total quantity. To sell to the capital and surrounding areas, you must go to Jinmen. The node of Jinmen is to the capital.

It is the most convenient location in all prefectures and counties of Beizhili.

The emperor guarded the border city, and the capital was in the north of the Zhou Dynasty, so transportation was quite inconvenient. However, Jinmen, where the three prefectures met and where water and land converged, became the best commercial city in Zhili territory. Goods were transported to Jinmen and transported to the capital by waterway.

It is distributed locally in Hejian Prefecture in Baoding Prefecture, Yongping Prefecture, and Ji Town. You can also go to Liaodong and North Korea by sea and land. You can also go to the grassland, Shanxi, and Henan by land through Saikou.

It is possible in several prefectures in the north, including Shaanxi.

In order to completely control the shops and businesses in Jinmen City, Chen Zhao implemented the brocade clothing tax in each store. Each store paid the tax according to the size of the shop. This brocade clothing tax was much less than the previous exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes. It could also maintain local security. Those ruffians

The hooligans and cult gangsters have all been eliminated, no one dares to cause trouble, and the Jin Yiwei is also very well-behaved, and everyone accepts it.

After all, businessmen work from dawn to dusk, make calculations all the time, and exploit workers to make some profits. No one would be willing to accept a small brocade tax sign hanging there and scratch it off as soon as they sit down.

Not to mention the overt and covert scoldings, private connections, and even public resistance to payment at the beginning. Their thoughts were incited several times by thoughtful people.

However, although Chen Zhao, the left governor of Jinyiwei, was young, he was a ruthless character. He came and went with me several times, and everyone paid the money honestly. They could only hide it in their stomachs if they were unwilling to do so.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Zhao used the money to purchase all the excellent geographical locations on both sides of the canal and Haihe River, which were now wasteland, and reported it to the Qing Army Tongzhi and the prefect's yamen. This land will belong to Jinyiwei forever.

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Jinyiwei hired craftsmen to make the ground smooth and clean, then built a shop in the front and a warehouse in the back, and quickly built a large-area commodity distribution market.

And an advertisement was posted from the beginning: "Business on both sides of the Taiwan Strait is booming, rents are favorable, and the first three years of renting are only 30% off the regular rent."

It is signed by Duke Cheng of the Great Zhou Dynasty and Chen Zhao, the left commander of Jin Yiwei.

Everyone knew that Chen Zhao was the emperor's philanthropic boy, and also knew that he had founded the three major trading companies, so they all believed in his business methods, so they flocked to it, and soon thousands of stores and warehouses were sold out.

At the same time, it contributed to the early prosperity of business.

So by the seventh year of Xiaode, all the resentment of the storefront merchants in and outside the city towards Ping An Qian had dissipated, because they were completely overwhelmed by their gratitude to Chen Zhao.

Due to Chen Zhao's various policies, countless businessmen came here every day. The inns inside and outside the city were completely full. Households who had spare rooms at home rented out the rooms at the inn's price. The supply was still in short supply.

Every day, there were more than double the number of people on the streets than before, hanging out in various shops. Not to mention the canal and Haihe River outside the city, it was bustling and lively.

Businessmen from Xianghe County and Jinghai County around Jinmenwei came over, businessmen from Hejian Prefecture counties came over, businessmen from Yongping Prefecture, Shuntian Prefecture came over, and Baoding Prefecture and Zhending Prefecture further away,

Businessmen from Xuanfu Town came over, businessmen from various prefectures and counties in Northern Zhili came over, businessmen from Jinan Prefecture and Dongchang Prefecture in Shandong Province, and merchants from Weihui, Guide, and Kaifeng Prefectures in Henan Province also came over.

Come here, and even businessmen from further afield such as Liaodong and Shanxi come.

For more than a year last year, the news that Jinmenwei opened a port and that as long as a 20% tax was paid would be legal goods, the news spread to various places through merchants passing through this transportation hub.

It is not necessary to transport a small volume of goods, the freight is expensive, and strictly check the entrained water transport, but the transport volume is large, the freight is cheap, and it can carry a wider variety of goods by sea, and even unspeakable overseas goods.

Moreover, the people who came were not only those merchants from Nanzhili who were transported by water, powerful people from Fujian and Guangdong, and wealthy businessmen from Zhejiang, but also various foreign businessmen who dared to say but dare not reveal their identities. These people have money in their hands. When they come to transport goods, they must buy the goods.

What kind of business opportunity is this?

Anyone who has done business knows what this means. The weather in Beizhili has not yet completely warmed up, and the waterways in various prefectures and counties are inconvenient, but there are still a lot of goods brought by oxen and horse carts.

Many businessmen come here to check out the scenery, but businessmen from all over the place gather to exchange information. Naturally, there are many more business opportunities than usual. Before those merchants from the sea come, everyone has already done a lot of business.

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After completing the business and delivering the goods, they arranged for their servants to rush back to prepare the goods and then transport them. The business here is so good that you must not miss this opportunity to make a fortune.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After all, there are three major trading companies at the core, which control the operation of business routes and earn endless wealth. However, they use the purest commercial methods, although they also use a lot of heresy.

, but it is also to deal with heresy.

Since the three major trading companies were based in Yangzhou, they developed rapidly in Jiangnan. Especially after Chen Zhao cleaned up the public security in Jiangnan, no one dared to have any ill intentions towards the people of the three major trading companies.

Therefore, driven by the three major trading companies, the large influx of big businessmen from the north and the south made the entire Jinmen guard boil. Many people did not have the goods in hand, and the goods would not arrive until half a month or a month later.

But business opportunities are endless. Businessmen from the north and south communicated with each other in teahouses, inns, and various places, and reached a number of intentions. Many people calculated that although they had not seen the cash yet, this time was not in vain. It was definitely

Got rich.

Many boat shops along the canal were not supposed to open until the end of March, but now they are opening early. Businessmen nearby are rushing to reserve boats for their goods to avoid being unable to leave.

There are many shops along the canal, which can be said to be crowded. Many wealthy businessmen who came to Jinmen Guards for the first time saw that Jinmen Guards was like a mountain of gold and a sea of ​​gold, and they were interested in opening shops here.

Needless to say, the shops on the canal side in the city have long been robbed by local merchants and people from the capital, so the shops on the Haihe River side are even more crazy.

From a geographical point of view, both sides of the Haihe River, which connects the sea and the canal, are even more golden treasures. What is even more rare is that the shops on the shore are extremely neat, and there are paved roads, and there are warehouses and storage yards that have been prepared long ago.

Even the coolies for loading and unloading have been prepared in advance.

And what makes people feel even more convenient is that the shops and storefronts here can be rented, and there is no need to buy them all at once. After all, it is the first time for everyone to come here to test the waters, and many things are not sure yet. It would be too risky to invest heavily at once.

This rental was done with the best intentions in mind, and all the good locations were rented out, leaving a lot of money left. The rents for the shops in the back rows were sky-high, not to mention the sky-high rents.

So the Great Zhou version of futures began, and Tianjin became more prosperous.
Chapter completed!