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Zhu Youxiao's ship docked at a port belonging to the Royal Commercial Bank outside Yangzhou City. Tianwei had already prepared a cart here, and the five carts of goods were quickly loaded. Only then did Zhu Youxiao and others Shi Ran went to Yangzhou City!
Because Yangzhou is close to the canal, it has been prosperous since the Sui and Tang Dynasties. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, due to the relationship between China and France, a large number of salt merchants gathered in Yangzhou, making Yangzhou a rare and prosperous place in the world!
The salt merchants in Yangzhou were originally mainly merchants from Qin, Shanxi and Huizhou. However, the Shanxi merchants were uprooted by Zhu Youxiao. Even the salt merchants in Yangzhou did not escape this disaster. Therefore, the salt merchants in Yangzhou are now regarded as Qin merchants. Mainly businessmen from Huizhou and Huizhou!
Of course, this is only the situation on the surface. Behind the scenes, there is a force that no one can resist controlling the sale of Ming salt, and that is the Ming Royal Trading Company!
When Zhu Youxiao destroyed the Shanxi merchants, he not only robbed the Shanxi merchants of the wealth they had accumulated for more than a hundred years, but also occupied the Shanxi merchants' trade routes. Facing the power of the royal family, the Huizhou merchants who had long been fighting with the Shanxi merchants shrank across the board. , not only did they not dare to get involved in Shanxi merchants' trade routes, they also took the initiative to give up a lot of benefits!
But Zhu Youxiao was not greedy. He just let the Royal Commercial Bank take over part of the Shanxi merchants' interests, and then started operating as if nothing happened!
With the behemoth of the Royal Trading Company suppressing them, all salt merchants had to do business in a disciplined manner, so that the profits from selling salt were reduced from ten times to about one time. Adding in taxes, the final actual profit was only Fifty to sixty percent!
This is a huge difference from the situation in the past when one cart of salt and one cart of silver was said to be used. Therefore, in less than half a year, all salt merchants in Yangzhou began to switch to sea trade.
Originally, the salt merchants planned to give up this business completely, but the Royal Commercial Bank sent them a message, asking them to operate with peace of mind and not to damage the Daming Salt Service!
After losing the support of the civil servants and nobles of the DPRK and China, the salt merchants had become meat on the chopping board. They were thankful that the emperor Zhu Youxiao did not cut them into pieces. Naturally, they did not dare to withdraw privately, so the salt merchants Merchants are still selling salt to various places in an orderly manner, and at the same time they are shifting their focus to sea trade!
The advantage of this situation is that the price of salt has plummeted in various places in the Ming Dynasty, and ordinary people no longer have to worry about eating salt!
Of course, the money earned from selling salt disappeared like a tide, but it did not affect the prosperity of Yangzhou, because the profits from sea trade were even worse than selling salt.
The money earned by a large number of salt merchants who turned to sea trade was not only enough to support the prosperity of Yangzhou, but also pushed this prosperity to a new climax!
"Walking on the streets of Yangzhou, looking at the rows of buildings and the crowds of pedestrians, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but sigh. Being rich with a hundred thousand taels and riding a crane down to Yangzhou is not just a casual talk!
What interested Zhu Youxiao was that there were many Europeans wearing Confucian shirts on the streets of Yangzhou. Although these people looked different from the Han people, they talked and behaved as if they were studying in the Ming Dynasty, and they walked together with them. There are also people from the Ming Dynasty!
Such scenes almost never happen in Beijing, because although there are many Europeans in Beijing, those Europeans basically do not wear Han clothes, and few Han people are willing to be with those Europeans. This shows that the North and the South The folk customs in the two places are very different and cannot be compared at all!
Zhu Youxiao and his party were riding tall horses, escorting the five carts of goods as they walked slowly on the street. Suddenly, a burst of noise attracted Zhu Youxiao's attention!
I saw a few people running on the street not far away, shouting and yelling. In front of these people was a woman in pink clothes who shuttled through the crowd like a loach. Obviously these people were chasing that woman!
When Qiao Wangjin saw this, he directly made a gesture. The nine Longya guards accompanying Zhu Youxiao immediately urged their horses to drive away the people around them, and surrounded Zhu Youxiao in the middle. The upstairs buildings on both sides of the street were also faintly visible. Someone was standing against the window. Although these people did not show up, the cold light of the weapons was faintly visible!
Not long after, the woman in pink ran to Zhu Youxiao and others, but at this time, Zhu Youxiao and his group had blocked the street, and the woman in pink was naturally blocked!
The woman couldn¡¯t see her anymore and was so anxious that she jumped up and down, but several people behind her were already chasing her!
"Little girl, you run fast. Let's see how Granny Yun will deal with you when we take you back!" One of the men with a fierce look and a strong body, a bearded man, pointed at the woman and cursed out of breath!
"This is really unreasonable. How do you do things in Qingyunju? Such a thing could happen. If this woman runs away, the earl will be angry!" The other one was wearing a Confucian shirt and a square scarf, but he had a tall nose and a deep nose. The target Europeans also caught up and shouted in fairly fluent Chinese!
While the two people were talking, four or five big men had already blocked the woman, and the woman had no way to escape.Under the circumstances, there was a look of determination and grief on his face!
Seeing this European, Zhu Youxiao frowned slightly and said, "Ask clearly!"
Qiao Wangjin immediately led his horse forward, blocked the woman, and asked in a deep voice: "What's going on?"
Although the bearded man looks fierce, he is not a reckless person. Seeing that Zhu Youxiao and his group are well dressed and have a solemn expression, they naturally know that they are not easy to mess with!
So the man with the beard laughed and said, "I don't know what I know. This little girl is our thin horse in Qingyunju. Today was originally the day for her to leave the cabinet, but she didn't know how to praise her and ran out. We The brothers put a lot of effort into chasing her, but if they hadn't blocked the way, they might have let her run away!"
Hearing the bearded man say the word "skinny horse", Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but look at the woman!
The woman's figure was extremely tall, about 1.7 meters according to the standards of later generations. Her complexion was as white as snow and as delicate as porcelain. Her face was also a standard oval face. Her nose and mouth were exquisite, and her big eyes were like autumn water in a cold pond. Clear and moving!
In fact, according to the aesthetics of the Ming Dynasty, this woman is too tall and her appearance is too charming, which does not conform to the morbid beauty of being as pure as a lotus and as soft as boneless, but this cannot cover up the beauty of this woman!
When Zhu Youxiao was looking at the woman, the woman had already grabbed Qiao Wangjin's clothes and begged: "This gentleman must save me. They want to sell me to Westerners. How can I, a great Ming Dynasty woman, Serving Yi Di? If I can¡¯t escape today, I will never surrender even if I die on the spot!¡±
The woman's words caused a burst of applause from the people around her, but the bearded man didn't know what to say for a moment. The Europeans around him didn't dare to yell anymore when they saw this. For a moment, they who came to arrest people seemed to be gone. Confidence!
Qiao Wangjin lowered his head to look at the woman, and couldn't help but be attracted by her beauty, his eyes were a little straight!
Zhu Youxiao could see clearly from behind Qiao Wangjin and said to himself: "This big man is already eighteen or nineteen years old. It's time to marry a wife and live his life. Although this woman has a bad background and cannot be a wife, she is suitable to be a concubine!" "
Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao said in a deep voice: "Wang Jin, these people dare to sell Ming women to Europeans, take them down and hand them over to Yangzhou Prefecture for questioning!"
Hearing this, the bearded man immediately became angry. He didn¡¯t care whether he could afford to offend the person in front of him or not. He jumped on his feet and shouted, ¡°Where are you strong men from? How dare you rob people in the street? Aren¡¯t you afraid of the king¡¯s law?¡±
Qiao Wangjin didn't care about this, he just whipped it, and there was only a crisp sound, and a blood stain was drawn on the head and face of the bearded man!
"Ah!" The bearded man covered his face and rolled to the ground. Blood quickly seeped out from his fingers!
"You damn barbarians, you dare to rob Count Reina's woman, you have to pay the price!" The European cursed and took out a short blazing gun and pointed it in the direction of Zhu Youxiao! (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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