Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 330 Governor of Lufeng
Just like doing micro-businesses in later generations, what you sell these days is not a commodity, but a personal network. In the past three days, Ruan Dacheng has not left. He accompanied Song Qingshu in Anqing, and Qu Botao arranged business. Now he knows This is the energy of this era.

Although he also came up with the idea of ​​tea and salt, Song Qingshu's most profitable business is the prairie fur goods and cotton clothing in Dai County. In the Dabie Mountains and Anqing City south of the Huaihe River, it is snowy in winter, and there are more large families in the south than in the north, and the market is also large.

But it is not easy to sell high-quality tanned fur coats to these families. Many families have already had tailors who have cooperated for many years. It doesn't matter even if you spend more money, and you won't easily agree with foreign products.

Apart from soap, most of Dai County's light industrial products are in Jiangbei, but in the past two days, with Ruan Dacheng's leadership, Qu Botao signed four or five large orders in one fell swoop, totaling more than 10 taels. The profit is at least half of it, and the ticket number has been spread out. Three shops have been opened in Anqing City in a row. The merchants who come need more loans.

It was Ruan Dacheng who took the lead, and the ticket office also received several 10 taels of deposits for deposits and withdrawals in different places. It is a good start, but the loan speed is still a bit slow.

However, to Song Qingshu's surprise, Ruan Dacheng's unreasonable agreement with him, who doesn't care about his fame but only about his collateral, which is a little bit unreasonable in the eyes of making money in this era, makes Song Qingshu feel a sense of confidant .

In fact, Song Qingshu didn't know that Ruan Dacheng's knowledge was also influenced by the general environment.

The term economic globalization became popular in later generations. In fact, economic globalization began in the Ming Dynasty. China is not a silver-producing country, but silver has gradually replaced copper coins as the main currency. Where did the silver come from?Most of them come from Japan and America through sea trade.

Europeans discovered the New World, and in fact China became one of the biggest beneficiaries. More than half of the silver from the Americas entered China through the silver-silk trade. As a result, the market economy in the south of the Yangtze River was greatly stimulated and developed, and cities and towns sprung up like mushrooms after rain. But because of this, when the world-level economic crisis occurred, even the Ming Dynasty, which was a small-scale peasant economy, could not escape the influence.

Since the end of Wanli, this economic crisis has revealed its clues. Portugal and Spain have monopolized the maritime trade of the New World for nearly a century. They have been challenged by emerging maritime powers such as the United Kingdom. In [-], during the Great Battle between Britain and the West, the Spanish Armada, which dominated the Atlantic Ocean, was almost completely annihilated, which greatly reduced the escort forces on the American route. Pirates ushered in a golden age, and the route was unsafe. The amount of silver plummeted.

With less money bags, Emperor Wanli desperately dispatched mine supervisors to dig out silver reserves, which can be regarded as a rescue move. Unfortunately, China's silver output is really miserable. After more than ten years of tossing, it is only 200 yuan. Ten thousand taels of silver came. When Emperor Chongzhen arrived, due to the shortage of silver, the policy of collecting taxes from the southeast and using them from the northwest was already half bankrupt. Although there were many reasons for the chaos in the world, the economic crisis became one of the main reasons for the subjugation of the Ming Dynasty. one.

This is in a big way, and Song Qingshu, Ruan Dacheng and these businessmen are related to the Great Depression. Ruan Dacheng can see Suhu, Nanjing, and Zhejiang. The house is now only 800 taels, and no one cares about it. Ruan Dacheng knows how big the business risk is, especially in the financial industry. A rich man who is rich today may be poor tomorrow.

So for Song Qingshu's prudent loan policy, Ruan Dacheng agreed with both hands, and he also thought of a way to cooperate with some local banks, with the local banks providing mortgages and Jiaduobao bank providing funds, although the income was a little less , but the risks are all taken by low-level banks, at least they are invincible.

In short, during the past three days, the Qihuo Army and Ruan Dacheng, such eunuchs and profiteers, have really enjoyed cooperation. The spread of business has led to the stability of the Qihuo Army's rule in Anqing.

On the third day, Song Qingshu also went to Qianshan County as promised, to go to Ruan Dacheng's Qianshan appointment.

In order to stop the possible invasion from the north, Qianshan was captured by the Qihuo army a long time ago, and on the main road between Luzhou, the Qihuo army used cement and stones to rush to repair Qianshan Pass, here It's a safe zone.

Qianshan was called Shuzhou in ancient times, and the mat here is a specialty, called Shuxi. Regardless of the Little Ice Age, summer should be hot enough. In Shaanxi, Song Qingshu experienced the situation of being unable to sleep without air conditioning. This thing is not expensive, and most people can afford it. If the production capacity is expanded and sold to the north, it will still be a new source of income. Nowadays, there are new workshops everywhere in Qianshan County, and the workers weaving mats in the middle of the night are still the same. Rustle and bustle non-stop.

Ruan Dacheng's mouth was tight enough. For three days, Song Qingshu couldn't stop thinking about who wanted to see him without telling him a word. He tilted his head and looked at the weaver below.

To say that this guy can show off, Song Qingshu was waiting at the Qianshan Tower around five o'clock in the evening, and he didn't come until after eight o'clock. Ruan Dacheng was so anxious that he couldn't sit still, so he went out to greet him. Xiaojiao, who accompanied Song Qingshu to support the scene, muttered impatiently.

"Come here, Commander, Brother Yaocao, you are late enough, the Commander is waiting in a hurry."

"Hmph, handsome..."

After all, I have used opium. Although I am not very addicted to taking opium, I still have withdrawal symptoms when I quit, and I am prone to drowsiness. Just when Xiaojiao was so sleepy for the fifth time that his eyelids were fighting and complaining, a warm voice came from downstairs. However, it sounded like the guests who came didn't want to see him, but the voice sounded familiar. Out of curiosity, Song Qingshu couldn't help but stood up and greeted him.

"Oh, so it's my lord! Song is really far away!"

He is really an acquaintance, the arrogant horse-faced official who came to persuade the army to surrender two months ago, but I haven’t seen him in the past two months, this guy has also developed, the original fifth-rank official uniform has been replaced by a third-rank official Clothes, the clothes and beasts on the patch were also replaced with peacocks, and the neatly combed and crowned head was even taller.

"Oh? Marshal, brother Yaocao, do you know each other?" Ruan Dacheng was also surprised, but when he heard the horse's face, the official's expression turned ugly, and he didn't speak. Song Qingshu replied cheerfully: "There was a time Fate, a few days ago Master Wu Zhou went north to crusade against my tiny place, this lord came here to persuade me, but it's a pity that Song didn't know good and bad, so he offended me."

Not much to offend, he was a majestic court official who asked Song Qingshu, a local thief, to blackmail him, and he had to keep the warships of the official army navy in exchange for Song Qingshu's promise not to plunder. Looking at Brother Yaocao's face, Ruan Dacheng He also made a rough guess, no wonder he hesitated so much when he proposed to contact Song Qingshu.

But the friendship has been established, Ruan Dacheng hastily laughed and pushed the horse-faced officer forward, and said cheerfully: "Those unpleasant things are in the past, let's talk about the wind and the moon today, once drunk Solve thousands of worries!"

Ruan Dacheng is a character. With his support, Song Qingshu's plan to gain a firm foothold in the south of the Yangtze River can be realized. Therefore, he lowered his figure and stretched out his hand to invite, accompanied by a smiling face. up.

After finally calming down, seeing Brother Yaocao's arrogant appearance, Xiaojiao muttered rather annoyedly: "How much more official, what is it!"

She belongs to the royal family, and in theory, the whole world belongs to her family. Even the Shoufu University scholar works for her family. Seeing that this official is pretending to be thirteen with her husband, she is naturally angry. Ruan Dacheng and that Brother Yaocao was embarrassed again. Seeing Brother Yaocao's ugly face, Ruan Dacheng couldn't help but gesture with his eyes, wanting Song Qingshu to reprimand his concubine, but he brought Chili Pepper here to support the situation, Song Qingshu just took a photo in reproach He patted Pepper on the head, and then sat down.

Naturally, a big man doesn't want to argue with a little girl, so he endured this, and Brother Yaocao also sat down while humming.

"Hehe, who is the commander-in-chief? I guess Brother Yaocao already knows. This is brother Yaocao, Ma Shiying and Ma Yaocao. He is also the new parent officer in Fengyang, Luzhou, Governor of Lufeng."

When Ruan Dacheng said this, Song Qingshu's heart skipped a beat. The governor of Lufeng did not surprise him too much. It would be ugly enough to be digged once in the ancestral grave. Emperor Chongzhen didn't want to come again. Song Qingshu, the governor of Lufeng in the first hand, knew about it a while ago, but Ma Shiying took him by surprise.

This person's background is a bit complicated, and there are mixed reviews in history, but Song Qingshu thinks that this Ma Shiying is a real hero, a man with a real temperament, who supported Emperor Hongguang, worshiped the Nanming cabinet scholar, and when the Qing army went to Nanjing, even Qian Qian Yi is so known as the Qingliu of the country. The Donglin Party Leaders of the Ministry of Rites surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, but Ma Shiying did not surrender. Holding the dilapidated Ming Dynasty, he was in Longwu, and the Shaowu regime refused to accept him. He still fought to the death against the Qing Dynasty. Those who were defeated and killed in the end were much better than those Donglin Party who were full of loyalty and morality.

Moreover, he is very kind and righteous. I really don't know when he became the governor of Lufeng, Song Qingshu, but Song Qingshu, the governor of Lufeng, knows that it is the result of a compromise between Ruan Dacheng, Fushe Zhang Pu, Qian Qianyi and others Taking advantage of Fengyang being breached, Qian Qianyi and other Donglin party members intend to push Zhou Yanru into the cabinet again and overthrow Wen Tiren. In order to reconcile with Donglin, Ruan Dacheng successively paid tens of thousands of taels of silver, but Ruan Dacheng is an eunuch, and Donglin divided the spoils He could not be given an official position, so Ruan Dacheng recommended Ma Shiying to serve as him, and that's why he got the position of Governor of Lufeng.

At this time, Ma Shiying was still an exile who was guilty of crimes. In order to repay Ruan Dacheng's kindness, he also had a bad reputation in Nanming. He became Minister of the Ministry of War of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Seeing Ma Shiying sitting there with a stern face, Song Qingshu's heart couldn't help getting hotter, this man must be friends with him!

(End of this chapter)