Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 185 Trading Hall

The return journey against the current took more than 20 days. When we returned to Nanjing, everyone was exhausted.

The first thing they did when they got back to the barracks was that they all took a hot bath.

Only the next day did I have the energy to look at the situation in the barracks during this time.

Most of the wharf has been repaired. The experienced craftsmen sent by the Ministry of Industry hired many small boats to work in the silted area. They did not adopt the stupid method of digging and digging. The water was muddy, and the sediment was washed away. Just using the power of the river water, more than half of it was cleared in just one month.

In the cleared area, thick logs were exposed. Several rows of logs tied side by side stood in the water like a wall. Most of them were buried deep in the ground, and a small half was in the water, with only a few feet above the water.

A series of such wooden walls separated channels more than ten feet wide by the river. In fact, this was the original appearance of the original pier. Ships entered the channel-like channels and were tied to wooden stakes. The wooden walls can block the wind. , can block water.

At the same time, wooden boards can be laid on the wooden wall to make a channel, which is connected with the protruding river bank, which is convenient for people and goods to go up and down.

Most of these wooden walls have not decayed. It is really lucky. It is also because the silt was deposited too early, and it was buried by the silt before it decayed, so it can be preserved. I don’t know whether to thank the decaying navy or hate them. .

Another embankment with a length of several hundred feet is also being prepared for construction, and hundreds of short-term laborers are temporarily hired to ram the soil.

The banks of the river are floodplains, where only grass grows and silts up frequently, so the ground is very unstable, and compaction is necessary, but it cannot be directly rammed, because as the muddy ground is rammed, water will continue to seep out.

We can only dig a long and deep ditch, at least one foot deep, and then lay dry soil in the ditch, tamp the dry soil, and finally become a solid foundation.

Yang Chao saw that some distance away, the craftsmen ordered the workers to fill in a layer of stones, fill in dry soil, and continue to tamp it down. After repeating this, the foundation must be very solid. In the future, the embankment above it will be strong and durable. Bad.

The craftsman is very experienced, so Yang Chao doesn't need to interfere.

Li Fu's greenhouse in the military camp has been producing vegetables for several months, and it still exclusively supplies Jinchailou, which has made Jinchailou's diet popular recently, but it only lasted for about a month before the seasonal vegetables went on the market.

Yang Chao fulfilled his promise and paid ten times the price for the vegetables. He earned 200 taels of silver per acre of greenhouse vegetables, but it was not worthy of the 2000 taels of investment, although [-]% of the annual income is not bad for future generations , but considering that the service life of the greenhouse may not be ten years, and it is not certain whether the cost can be recovered, Yang Chao's investment may be an inferior investment.

Yang Chao tried his best to Li Fu, saying that the investment in the greenhouse is Yang Chao's until he recovers the cost. At the same time, let him think about how to grow flowers, or plant some melons and fruits this winter. Will be higher than vegetables.

Because all the maids left, Chen Yuanyuan and Dong Xiaowan also left, and it seemed a little deserted for a while. My father wanted to buy some maids, but my mother refused, because I was worried that my father wanted to take concubines, so she found them herself. A few strong and shrewd women, help clean the yard.

My father cleaned it up, and opened a blacksmith shop again. The business of the blacksmith shop was no longer interesting, but it was an ancestral business, and my father was reluctant to leave it behind. After a family background, the father wanted to take a concubine and have another son so that he could inherit the ancestral business in the future, which aroused the jealousy of the mother's boss.

However, when he came back, he found that Yang Chao had been promoted again. The commander of the official guard informed him that he was a member of the third rank. His father felt that the Yang family would turn over in the future. It is a pity to lose the ancestral craftsmanship.

Ever since Chen Yuanyuan and Dong Xiaowan left, my younger sister has also lost interest. She has nothing to do every day, and she is not interested in female celebrities, so she gradually sneaks to Jinchai Tower. She was caught by her mother once, beat her hard, and began to think about what to do. She found someone to marry, but when she thought that Yang Chao's marriage had not yet been decided, she wanted to find a suitable wife for Yang Chao first, thinking about Yang Yue, which made her mother's life very fulfilling during this time , making plans all day long.

The Jinchai Building is completely on the right track. With Chen Yuanyuan and Dong Xiaowan in charge of the building, the grade is guaranteed.

Even the women that the emperor fancy are in Jinchai Building, so how could it be possible to keep the young princes flocking to them, the two perform every three days, and every time the house is full of applause.

Jinchai Tower started to push the ticket system. On the day of the performance, the first-class seats cost 30 taels per seat, the chairs in the first row of celebrities are at this price, the chairs in the second row of scholars are 500 taels, and the third and fourth rows of wealthy businessmen The chairs are only five taels of silver, so the ticket income for each performance is fixed at about [-] taels.

The performance is performed once every three days, and it is a rotation. There is only one person performing each time. On average, two people come to the stage once in six days. One person performs five times a month, and two people perform ten times. The income is also more than 1 taels of silver. The brothel operators have completely shaken off all the brothels.

In terms of commercial information disclosure, He Mingyu still does not plan to cooperate, but Yang Chao's transportation information is updated every three days, but he insists on it. Rich businessmen have already started to find Yang Chao to help transport goods through Jinchai Building.

After the last blow, Wang Xiao also chose to support Yang Chao and released the resources the Wang family had in Nanjing.

At present, the west hall of Jinchai Building has been completely handed over to Wang Xiao. He has set up a large bulletin board there, and it is filled with standard forms. The forms are filled with various transaction information, far and near prices, and shipments and receipts. According to the announcement, someone really started to do business here.

All of this happened during the month when Yang Chao delivered the goods and left. Yang Chao was also a little surprised by the great changes.

So after resting in the barracks for a few days, Yang Chao rushed to Jinchai Tower and went to the West Hall.

In a hall, there is a usual large bulletin board at the front. The bulletin board is one high, and two large rice paper forms can be posted side by side on it, filled with various prices.

A group of businessmen crowded around the table to watch.

"The raw silk is low. A load of 53 taels and a half. I'll take whatever you have from Mr. Wang's family."

A businessman valued the price of raw silk above and shouted loudly at Wang Xiao.

Wang Xiao shouted from the side: "That's not my product, it's Dong Liu's. His family just arrived with a batch of raw silk. I'll contact you if you want it."

Someone else shouted: "The price of your rice is too high, four taels a load, I will supply as much as you want."

"There are also cooked skins..."

Looking at the lively trading scene, although it is different from the exchange Yang Chao imagined, it is also very lively. People in the Ming Dynasty probably like this kind of trading method. Yang Chao does not intend to interfere, let her evolve slowly. Businessmen seek profit, driven by profit, they will find the best business model.

"Boss Wang's business is booming!"

Yang Chao walked up to Wang Xiao and said, there was a table in front of Wang Xiao, which was filled with stacks of small papers, without even raising his head.

"Haha, brother made fun of me."

Wang Xiao was busy looking at the pieces of paper, which recorded all kinds of news from various related shops. While watching these new news, Wang Xiao instructed the servant to rewrite the notice immediately, or Repost a new notice.

Wang Xiao is very busy, because he has to draw a lot of money for every deal he makes. The rules of brokerage houses, which are straight to [-], have become [-] to [-], which is very cheap, so he has recently attracted A large number of wealthy businessmen with medium businesses came.

Yang Chao didn't bother him, and watched quietly from the side, and found that these pieces of paper were ordinary shreds of paper, just one store after another, and the real-time news sent temporarily was actually a bit exaggerated because many Delivered this morning.

Yang Chao already knew that the news was released once a day, but Wang Xiao would only post new ones when the previous ones were purchased or sold out, so he had a backlog of orders.

Yang Chao thought that there was something unreasonable in this. The trading platform should publicize all the most reasonable prices, let the person with the highest bid buy the product first, let the person with the lowest bid sell the product first, and let the most advantageous price Obtaining resources, is this the meaning of the exchange?

After being busy for a while, Wang Xiao finally finished processing the documents that had just been traded, and looked up with a sigh of relief, only to see Yang Chao.

Immediately stood up with a smile: "Brother Yang, why didn't you call me when you came?"

Yang Chao smiled and said, "Aren't you busy?"

Wang Xiao smiled awkwardly.

Then he walked out of the exchange, found a room, and chatted with Yang Chao.

Although he just made up his mind not to interfere, Yang Chao couldn't help but speak out.

Allowing the most advantageous price to obtain resources first, instead of following the first-come-first-served rule, immediately made Wang Xiao a little unacceptable, and he had never done this before.

However, under Yang Chao's more grand description of the future, Wang Xiao couldn't help being tempted, and planned to give it a try.

At the same time, Yang Chao also gave him a business: "I want to buy food!"

Wang Xiao was puzzled: "Buy food? How much?"

Yang Chao said: "1000 people eat food for a year."

Wang Xiao suddenly felt a little nervous: "Brother Yang, is there something inside? Could it be that bandits have invaded Jiangnan?"

Wang Xiao's ability to think of this shows that he is still very quick-witted, but he is limited to the perspective of the times, not as far-sighted as Yang Chao.

In fact, Yang Chao didn't have any inside information, it was just because the Qian Zong camp was repaired and transformed into a large warehouse, Yang Chao decided to keep enough rations for his soldiers for a year just in case.

Yang Chao told Wang Xiao the truth, which made Wang Xiao feel at ease. His business has just started to improve, the grocery store has just overcome the difficulties, and the exchange has only started to flourish. He doesn't want any surprises.

"The rice with the best price, give me a lot of it!"

Yang Chao finally explained that the so-called best price is the price with the lowest bid.

Wang Xiao quickly agreed, but suddenly there was noise outside, Wang Xiao frowned and walked out.

Yang Chao also followed out, looking at Wang Xiao's expression, he seemed to know what happened.

As soon as he walked out, it turned out to be the gate, and a few scoundrels were making trouble, pushing and shoving each other with the thugs from Jinchai Building.

(End of this chapter)