Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 179 Accident
Yang Chao has been staying in the barracks.

The four hundred newly recruited soldiers also integrated into the barracks, trained to eat, read, read and sleep in an orderly manner. The barracks seemed like a factory, turning every young man who entered into standardized parts and machines.

But Yang Chao still felt that there was a fly in the ointment, that is, Marshal Qi Jiguang's mandarin duck formation could not be practiced by himself, and the complicated formation changes always made these soldiers confused.

Even the longest-trained personal army is difficult to master, but they are very used to the simple wall formation, and they charge with great momentum.

However, Yang Chao felt that since the mandarin duck formation had been tested in actual combat, it meant it was suitable for the battlefield, while his own wall formation was found out from fighting Jiang bandits on a boat, and it hadn't been tested much at all. Wei is not sure yet.

Yang Chao couldn't figure out what the problem was. Is it because the soldiers have poor comprehension?Or is there a problem with your own training method?

I didn’t return to Nanjing until May!

Dong Xiaowan came back from Hangzhou, and this time she brought her mother to Nanjing, and bought the river house next to the Jinchai Tower, and let her mother live in it.

Dong Xiaowan redeemed himself with the money he was allocated last time, and spent 5000 taels of it.

The bustard in the brothel asked for 5000 taels, Dong Xiaowan didn't say a word, just took a ticket and went over, took the deed of prostitution dangling in the bustard's hand and walked away gracefully.Then she took her mother to Nanjing and planned to settle down in Nanjing.

Dong Xiaowan also brought her mother to visit the Yang family, and presented Zhao Lan and Yang Yue with a set of exquisite jewelry made by an old silver shop in Gusu.

At this time Yang Chao came to Jinchai Tower, he was not here to see Dong Xiaowan or Aunt Dong, but to see Wang Xiao, because something happened to Wang Xiao.

The cargo ship of Wang's grocery store was looted on the Yangtze River, and a bookkeeper died.

Fortunately, Wang Xiao was not on the ship at the time, but the loss was huge. The goods worth tens of thousands of taels of silver were looted. All the funds were put on it, and more than 3000 taels were owed on credit.

When Yang Chao arrived at the Jinchai Tower, Wang Xiao was with Kang Hui, drinking a lot of wine.

Yang Chao drank three cups with him.

Then began to comfort: "How much is the discount?"

Wang Xiao was silent.

Yang Chao said: "I still have 2 taels with you, and I will lend you the money. There are no difficulties for men."

Wang Xiao raised her head, her eyes filled with tears: "It's not about money, Brother Yang, tell me I can't do great things."

Yang Chao said with a smile: "The Ruan family gathered to help Zhang Tianru exchange a huge sum of 10 taels. Which one is not a big deal, and which one did you fail to do?"

Wang Xiao sighed: "But when it comes to my own business, I will deal with it one by one, I—"

As he spoke, he finally burst into tears. A man would not flick his tears easily, but Wang Xiao was actually only under 17 years old, so he could not be considered a man.

Yang Chao asked: "How did the goods get robbed?"

Wang Xiao shook her head, knowing nothing.

Yang Chao said: "Why don't you let me help you transport it? If it's such an important item, you should hire me. Are you afraid that I will charge you the insurance premium?"

Wang Xiao couldn't help but smiled wryly: "Brother Yang, stop joking. It's all my selfishness. I don't want you to help me. I want to make it myself. I didn't expect—"

As he spoke, he buried his head and sobbed again.

Yang Chao patted him on the shoulder: "I'll lend you the capital, and I've got the goods ready, and I'll help you transport them!"

Wang Xiao looked up at Yang Chao, then shook her head again.

"Why don't you worry about me?"

Yang Chao asked.

Wang Xiao said: "No, it's just that there is a problem with this batch of goods, and I'm afraid you won't want to."

Yang Chao said, "What? Private salt?"

Yang Chao felt that apart from private salt, there was basically nothing wrong with it.

Wang Xiao bit her lip, and said tentatively, "The goods from Tonghai."

Yang Chao paused: "Have you been doing sea trade?"

Wang Xiao nodded: "Actually, it's not considered a sea trade. It's just a supply to a few heroes who are connected to the sea. They pay three times the price. That's why I risked all the money for the goods. If it's done, I'll make a fortune." gone."

The smuggling of maritime trade has been repeatedly banned these years. In the past few years, Zhang Guowei also captured a large number of maritime merchants, as well as a large number of officers and soldiers of the Jinshanwei and Su Song Navy who colluded with the maritime merchants, but they were still repeatedly prohibited.

Because the profits of sea trade are too great, a ship of raw silk shipped to Japan can earn ten times the profit, so many desperadoes venture out of Haiboli.

However, due to the retrogression of shipping technology, the risk of sea trade is also extremely high. According to the records of the Japanese in later generations, in the late Ming Dynasty, there were sometimes one or two ships from the Jiangnan area going to Japan every year, and sometimes there were no ships for several years.

The records of the Japanese are reliable, because the Japanese have been nervous since the war with the Ming Dynasty. The Tokugawa shogunate set up a special agency to collect information on China. Every sea ship will investigate and ask the crew about the situation in China. It records the situation of China's maritime trade.

Compared with the Jiangnan region, Fujian's Zheng Zhilong Group can send nearly ten large ships to Japan every year, and it is said that the annual profit reaches 200 million taels of silver.

Although it is not as good as Fujian, the smuggling in the Jiangnan area has been repeatedly prohibited. Some wealthy families even colluded with maritime merchants to prepare goods for them. Not all maritime merchants went to Japan. Some directly went south to supply goods to Zheng Zhilong, and some to the Dutch. , Some went to Vietnam, the Philippines and other places, and the profits were not bad.

Because the risks were too great, and the people of the Ming Dynasty were more cautious than the Westerners, not many people were willing to take the risk of long voyages, so the number of smuggled sea merchants was relatively small, so it was very important to open up the channels of these people, almost like opening up a silver mine.

So Wang Xiao tried every means to get such a way, and for this reason, he did not hesitate to sell a batch of his shares to others.

Maritime merchants in the Ming Dynasty were synonymous with pirates, and Yang Chao didn't doubt that it was a set up when Wang Xiao's goods were robbed.

"Brother Wang, is your relationship reliable?"

Wang Xiao understood what Yang Chao was talking about, which meant that the sea merchants lured Wang Xiao to send a huge amount of goods at high prices, but they refused to pay and robbed them directly.

But Wang Xiao firmly believed: "That man is a well-known broker in Nanjing, with a wide network, he will come back later, I have to ask him. But there should be no problem, otherwise it will lose face, and who will dare to follow him in the future?" He deals."

Brokers rely on their connections for a living. They are prominent figures in the dental practice. They usually do not do business on their own, but act as middlemen, that is, brokers. They rely on their connections and reputation. If their reputation fails, it will be over.

Sure enough, less than a quarter of an hour later, a middle-aged man in green clothes and Confucianism came to Jinchai Tower in a hurry, looking for Wang Xiao urgently.

"Prince, what's going on?"

The visitor asked as soon as he walked in the door, completely ignoring Yang Chao and Kang Hui, and it was obvious that he was also very anxious.

(End of this chapter)