Daming talker

Chapter 236 Night talk about Yangzhou
Although the distance from Suzhou to Yangzhou is not very far, the transportation is also very convenient, and it can be reached in six or seven days.However, the cost of mobilizing 500 people to Yangzhou is still not small.

According to Mr. Lin's estimate, the cost of the action is at least about a thousand taels of silver, and the money must be borne by the society.

If Mr. Lin was willing to spend the money, he would have bought Bai Mei, the oiran of Suzhou.

But the nature of the event is different from the long-term benefits. As the leader of the society, Daguan Lin would rather spend 1000 taels of silver to send 500 people to Yangzhou than spend 1000 taels on the oiran.

Because long-distance training and going to other places to fight away games are rare and all-round training opportunities for club members, which can significantly improve the organizational skills of club members and have great benefits in the long run.

So 1000 taels can be used to train club members, but it is not worth wasting on women. This is the basic quality of a successful club leader.

At night, Gao Changjiang and Yu Gongjing, the chief and deputy leaders of the 500-member group, sat on the bank of Zhengtu, drinking some wine and chatting about the future.

After a few glasses of wine, Gao Changjiang said thoughtfully: "Do you think that if you sit in the hall, you have the intention of opening a branch in Yangzhou?"

Yu Gongjing had never thought about this before, and asked in surprise: "No way? We are not a government office, how can we build a branch church in a foreign country?"

After all, this era was generally a rural society, and the grassroots power in most places was closely linked to the countryside, forming a semi-closed small "plane".

Organizations like associations are different from business gangs. They need to seize the power of the grassroots villages, so if you think about it a little bit, you can understand that it is difficult for associations to take root in other villages.

Gao Changjiang said: "Before I set off, I studied the customs of Yangzhou, and Yangzhou is different from other places.

In the early years of the Guo Dynasty, Yangzhou was dilapidated, with few household registrations and a declining population. It was not as prosperous as it was in the previous dynasty and today.

Later, Emperor Taizu Gao moved a large number of Suzhou people to enrich Jiangbei, so many people in Yangzhou prefectures and counties were originally from Suzhou.

Later, the salt industry implemented the open-China method, and only by transporting grain to border towns in exchange for salt imports, and a large number of people from Shanxi and Shaanxi came to Yangzhou to buy salt nearby.

Later, with the rise of Huizhou merchants, many Huizhou people moved to Yangzhou, a transportation hub, to do business.

Today, the population of Yangzhou City comes from diverse sources, frequent migration, and the salt industry and commerce are extremely developed, but the agriculture that is closely related to the countryside is almost meaningless.

So in today's Yangzhou City, the customs are really different from other places, and the local consciousness is much weaker than other places.

To put it more intuitively, there is no obvious distinction between locals and outsiders in Yangzhou.It can even be said that the people in the city have gone up several generations, and they are all foreigners.

After thinking about it this way, do you also feel that it is not impossible to establish a branch church in Yangzhou City? "

Yu Gongjing was taken aback, and subconsciously asked: "Sit in the hall and dispatch 500 people to travel for [-] miles, do you really have this idea?"

Gao Changjiang replied: "It's hard to say, even if it's just a test this time, since I have hundreds of people who know about Yangzhou City in my hands, anything will happen in the future."

Yu Gongjing can only say: "If this is the case, the layout of the hall is really big, and they want to expand to other places to open branch halls."

Gao Changjiang sighed: "I'm afraid you and I can't even imagine how big the layout of the sitting hall is."

Yangzhou City is the northern gateway of the Jiangnan region, the throat of the Grand Canal, a geographically unique transportation hub, and a commercial metropolis where wealth gathers.

If Lin Zuoguan really wanted to plant a flag here, it would be tantamount to locking Jiangzuo's throat and economic lifeline.

Gao Changjiang was born as a storyteller and is familiar with historical jokes.

If placed in the setting of a Sui and Tang Dynasty romance, I feel that Lin Zuoguan must be at least an eighteen-way anti-king character.

Not against the king, who would think about training 500 people to fight hundreds of miles away?
To be honest, if there were really [-] core soldiers who could run for hundreds of miles without breaking up, together with a group of blind people, it would not be a big problem to separate Jiangnan in troubled times.

On the same night, Mr. Lin and his new local friends Lu Junbi and Zhu Naxia took a boat and wandered on the city river in Yangzhou.

Although the city river is not yet called the Little Qinhuai River at this time, the preliminary scenery has been formed.

The biggest feature of this scenic line is that there are many bridges. Walking on the water for a while, you can see a bridge of different styles, which also fits the name of "24 Bridges".

From a functional point of view, it would be impossible not to build so many bridges. The "Little Qinhuai River" runs directly through the whole city from the middle. In order to ensure smooth east-west traffic, a large number of bridges must be built.

But Mr. Lin is not interested in the scenery on the bridge, nor in the lights of thousands of houses on both sides, let alone the singer beside him.

Instead, he kept talking to Lu Junbi, inquiring about various anecdotes, such as asking: "Who are the people talking on the streets of Yangzhou City?"

Lu Junbi asked in confusion, "How can the person explain the matter?"

Mr. Lin explained in a simple and clear way: "Who will lead the organization when there is a disaster and need relief or need to build bridges and pave roads?"

Lu Junbi suddenly realized it and replied without thinking: "Those who do such things in Yangzhou are all salt merchants!
There are more than 100 salt merchants large and small in the city. If there is anything to do on the street, the salt merchants will come forward to organize it. "

Lin Tailai sighed subconsciously: "It's a bit tricky."

Lu Junbi didn't understand, "What's the trouble?"

Mr. Lin laughed, and then said: "Speaking of Jiangzuo's most commercially developed towns, Suzhou, Nanjing, and Yangzhou are the most famous, but these three are different from each other.

The characteristic of Nanjing City is that the government is the dominant force, Suzhou City is dominated by various industry offices that are semi-official and semi-private, and Yangzhou City is dominated by completely private salt merchants. "

The Lianghuai salt production accounts for half of the world's total, with an annual output of 4000 million jins according to official figures.Among them, 4000 million jins are in Huaibei and [-] million jins are in Huainan, which contains millions of profits.

Yangzhou City was re-prospered because of the salt industry, and the main commercial activities in the city were basically carried out around these more than 100 salt merchants.

Each salt merchant does not just refer to a merchant, but a group.Each group includes the business of acquisition, transportation, and sales, as well as affiliated pawn, escort, house and other industries.

Of course, under the current system, the core asset of each group is the "woben", which can be understood as the "salt industry purchase and sales qualification certificate".

Without a nest book, you don’t even have the qualifications to pay for Yanyin, and the nest book can be hereditary from generation to generation.

If you want to obtain the qualification to enter the market, that is, the nest, you must first pay a huge amount of silver taels to the government, commonly known as "occupying the nest".

For example, if you want to obtain a "purchase and sales qualification certificate" for a thousand taels of salt per year, you can't even think about it without spending tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Therefore, the salt industry is also a capital-intensive industry. Without sufficient capital, it is impossible to even obtain entry qualifications, let alone maintain the operation of the group.

Thinking of this, Mr. Lin shook his head and said casually: "The influence of various families in Yangzhou City is scattered and they are not exclusive, so it is easy to grab a share of the territory in Yangzhou City.

But it is difficult to become a hegemon, at least it is impossible at present, because the foundation of the salt merchants cannot be shaken, and no one has the strength to influence the salt industry system. "

Lu Junbi: "."

Grab the site?overlord?

My friend Wang, what did you come to Yangzhou City for?Don't you call yourself a study tour and visit a great master?
Mr. Lin had no choice but to explain: "My family has always been half Confucian and half businessman. I am an adult and self-reliant, and I also want to make a living while studying.

I found that Yangzhou City is very suitable for doing business and wanted to develop in Yangzhou, so I thought more about it. "

Half Confucian and half businessman?Wang family?Lu Junbi suddenly thought of something and exclaimed: "Could it be that you are a descendant of the Wang family in Dongshan, Suzhou?"

The most famous half-Confucian and half-business family in Suzhou City is of course the famous Dongshan Wang family.

Even Lu Junbi, who was far away in Yangzhou, had heard about this wealthy and noble family who had been an official for three generations after Enyin.

It can be said that all businessmen want to live like Dongshan Wang's family.

No wonder this friend Wang is sure to come to Yangzhou to make connections, and he really has confidence.

Lin Daguan then responded: "Friend Lu, don't ask! I have accomplished nothing now, and I won't tell anyone about my family to avoid bringing shame to my family."

Lu Junbi smiled and said, "I understand, I understand. My friend Wang wants to keep a low profile."

Then he immediately said: "If my friend Wang wants to do business and establish a business in Yangzhou, I have an easy way."

Although Lin Daguan didn't need anyone's guidance, he still asked out of curiosity: "What's the way?"

Lu Junbi whispered: "I know a big salt merchant named Wang who has no children but an only daughter.

Friends Wang should not be married yet. If you can marry Wang, why not start a business in Yangzhou? "

Lin Tailai: "."

For a moment, my heart fluttered, but I pressed it again.

His marriage ambition is to be the eldest daughter of an official family, how could he be tempted by a rich man.

Lu Junbi added: "Even if the Wang family's financial resources are compared with Zheng Zhiyan's, they are not far behind."

Lin Tailai resisted the urge to agree and said in denial: "Forget it, forget it, it's up to a man to settle down and live his life, how can he rely on the woman?"

Lu Junbi persuaded: "Friend Wang, why is it so pedantic, if I didn't think it's appropriate, I wouldn't bring it up.

I can tell you that the financial resources of the Wang family will never disgrace your identity, friend Wang.

And I sincerely think that this is a good thing that has the best of both worlds, and the Wang family will readily agree. "

If they can marry the famous Dongshan Wang family, the salt merchant Wang family has no reason not to agree.

All salt merchants who have made a lot of money, without exception, are working hard to develop their career, literary world, reputation and other aspects.

Otherwise, why did Zheng Zhiyan spend so much effort rebuilding the Pingshan Hall and then engage in poetry campaigns?
Lin Tailai didn't expect that such a thing would happen if he casually made friends.

Shi moved and refused and said: "The Wang family has a family business, since there is only one daughter, it is best to find a son-in-law.

Just like Master Taishi of our Xu family in Huqiu, Suzhou, recruited a scholar named Fan Yunlin as his son-in-law.

And I, Wang Yusheng, have no intention of being a son-in-law, so it is not suitable. "

Lu Junbi didn't continue to persuade, but he kept calculating in his heart.

He is quite familiar with the Wang family, and they have some kind of kinship relationship.

After sending this friend of Wang Yusheng back to his residence in a while, he will hurry to visit Wang's house overnight.

If the Wang family is really interested in getting married, they should make a move as soon as possible. It doesn't matter if they use some tricks!
The unmarried young children of Dongshan Wang's family, and they are also high-quality stocks of quasi-talented talents, most likely belong to Wang Jia's branch, which is rare!

Even if you spend a few thousand taels in exchange for a marriage with the Wang family in Dongshan, Suzhou, it is still a good profit.

(End of this chapter)