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In the next few days, Xianyang entered carnival mode.
After the Shangsi Festival, the commodity trade fair officially begins.
Tens of thousands of merchants from all over the country and caravans from the Liang Dynasty, Liaoxi and other countries were attracted by this trade fair. Coupled with hundreds of thousands of Xianyang people and tourists from other counties and counties, the entire Cuju Commercial Plaza was bustling and lively. It was extraordinary. Everyone was lingering in front of hundreds of stalls to admire and observe. The exhibitors also vigorously promoted and distributed leaflets among the crowd, and all booths were overcrowded.
Since the official start of the trade fair, large-scale transaction contracts have been signed continuously. These orders and contracts with a transaction value of more than 100,000 yuan will be written by the organizing committee on a five-foot-long strip of curtain hanging from the top floor of the Cuju field for everyone to see. People watch.
"Congratulations to Jiangxi Porcelain for signing a porcelain purchase and sale contract worth 200,000 yuan with Liao Guodongsheng Trading Company!"
¡°Congratulations to Handan Taigu Axle Factory and Dongjun Chicheng Carriage Factory for signing an axle purchase and sale contract worth 300,000 yuan!¡±
"Congratulations to Xianyang Machinery Factory and Hedong Commercial Alliance for signing a lathe contract worth 700,000 yuan!"
"Congratulations to Jiangxi Tea House and the Liang Kingdom Mission for signing a tea contract worth 100,000 yuan!"
¡°Congratulations to Daiguo Sheep Fur Products for signing a wool purchase and sales contract worth 450,000 yuan with Yunzhong Evergreen Woolen Mill!¡±
"Congratulations on the signing between Liaodong Sanjiu Pharmaceutical and the Third Pharmaceutical Factory of Daqin Health Center"
With the sound of drums and noisy shouts, one after another, just like the congratulatory banners hung on the opening of the later generations, continued to hang down from the roof of Cuju Square amidst people's exclamations and noise, pushing the atmosphere of the trade fair to a climax. .
With the development of the trade fair, those contract banners worth 100,000 and 200,000 yuan have no longer aroused much interest among people. What everyone is interested in is when the lathe purchase and sale contract with a transaction volume of more than 700,000 yuan will be broken. .
Amidst the incomparable hustle and bustle, a group of envoys and businessmen from Dawan, together with some Hu merchants from the Western Regions who were already familiar with Xianyang, lingered in this grand and lively trade fair, carefully observing the dazzling array of products in the hundreds of exhibition booths. exhibits, and at the same time, I was in a trance stimulated by this huge exhibition.
The population of the market in front of them, with crowds of people and noisy gongs and drums, was already more than the people of their entire Dawan country. However, the Hu merchants from the Western Regions who accompanied them to the trade fair did not even bother to attack these bumpkins, dancing and shouting all the way. : "You have waited so long and you have never seen it. Last year's autumn market was really lively. There were more than ten thousand merchants participating in the exhibition, and the stalls stretched for more than ten miles. The entire riverside garden on the south bank was full of goods. Come and get enough. There are at least more than a million people buying games. Good guy, that¡¯s a huge crowd. Dozens of countries in our Western Region combined don¡¯t even have this much stuff"
"Then why are there only a few hundred this time?" Dawan's envoy couldn't help but ask.
"Marquis Qinghe thought there were too many people and it was too noisy and he didn't like it, so he changed it to a commodity trade fair. Didn't you see those banners" Hu Shang pointed to the dozens of banners hanging from the top floor of the five-story Cuju Commercial Building. Long said, "Every transaction on this page is worth more than 100,000 yuan, and only transactions worth more than 200 taels of gold can be listed!"
"Two hundred taels of gold is not much, isn't it?" a Dawan businessman couldn't help but mutter.
"Hey, there are not many of them, but you see how many businessmen there are here. Even if each of the 500 booths only signs a contract of 100,000 yuan, the total value will be more than 50 million, which would be 120,000 taels if converted into gold ¡¡±
"This has just started for an hour, and the transaction amount has already exceeded five million yuan. After the ten-day exhibition, the total value of the purchase and sales contract has exceeded at least 100 million, and the total value has exceeded 250,000 taels of gold"
"I'm not trying to hurt you, you guys in Dawan don't have that much money in total. Although the Dawan horse is indeed a splendid horse, how many people can really afford it? What's more, how much is a horse worth in the local area? Just wait for yourself. Clearly, one hundred gold coins can buy several horses"
A group of Dawan people were all shocked and turned blue and white, but they had to admit that what Hu Shang said was indeed the truth.
Compared with Da Qin, Dawan is a scumbag.
Not only that, Da Qin is more than a hundred times more prosperous and prosperous than other countries such as Da Xia and Shendu Anxi. Just porcelain, silk, glass, fine wine, steel utensils, four-wheeled carriages, etc. were unheard of before. If it weren¡¯t for these Western Region merchants, they would have never seen it in their lifetime. None of them knew that Great Qin in the East would be so prosperous and prosperous. Compared with the country they lived in, Great Qin seemed to be in another world.
If nothing else, just the huge and weird Cuju Commercial Plaza in front of them is enough to shock the world. They have never seen such a majestic and tall building.After moving to the area, he opened a factory nearby to purchase tallow seeds for tree wax extraction, and then selected a location to build a soap factory.
Moreover, with the rapid development of the navigation industry, China's economic center will quickly move to the coast. By then, countless industries such as silk, textiles, chemicals, tea, and porcelain will develop rapidly in the south and north of the Yangtze River. Central Plains cities such as Xianyang and Luoyang will soon will be surpassed, the status of the political center will be more important, but the status of the economic center will be significantly reduced.
This process has begun to take shape, driven intentionally or unintentionally by Chen Xu. Today, one Jiangxi porcelain factory has led to the rapid development of the porcelain industry south of the Yangtze River. Seven or eight porcelain factories have appeared, and a large number of porcelain merchants travel between the north and south of the Yangtze River. Boats, carriages and horses There was an endless flow of people all year round, which led to the rapid development of Jingdezhen in later generations, the Xiang River from Poyang Lake to the south of Wuling, and the Yangtze River shipping trade to Wuzhong. The Yangtze River, which used to be mainly used as a food and salt channel, has become very prosperous. , ordinary boats and even large and small sailing boats on the river are constantly coming and going, and there is already a somewhat lively scene of Yellow River shipping.
In addition to porcelain, the areas south of the Yangtze River are rich in tea. Several tea merchants such as Shuishi Tea House and Jiangdong Tea House have built teahouses in many counties in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River to collect tea, make tea and even grow tea. The places south of the Yangtze River have a huge output of mulberries. , more than a dozen wineries have appeared one after another in recent years, turning the formerly useless mulberries into agricultural products that can be sold for money. Now large-scale silk factories are being built in Suzhou and Hangzhou, so as to turn the huge Promote the development of silkworm breeding and silk industry along the Yangtze River. Due to the warm and humid climate in the south, the output of grain and linen textiles is also constantly doubling. In a few years, a large number of linen textile factories will appear, relying on the densely populated Yangtze River Basin. Thanks to the waterway shipping, a large number of commodities can be transported conveniently and quickly to the coast, and then radiated to the entire southeastern coast through sea-going ships.
This is an overall linked economic development system.
From planting and breeding to factory production to shipping and logistics, they are all indispensable and closely linked.
After so many years of layout and development, the land of Jingchu, Wuyue, which has always been regarded as barbarian by the Central Plains Dynasty, will soon flourish. If Chen Xu's cane sugar is produced, Minyue and the Pearl River Basin will also be swarmed. After the carving up by merchants, sugarcane planting and cane sugar refining will become a pillar industry in the south. Not only will it provide sufficient economic resources for the soldiers stationed in Lingnan, but it will also soon integrate Baiyue.
The fastest integration of human civilization, apart from war, is commercial exchanges. In ancient times, tribes came into contact with each other through these two methods.
And this principle applies to the entire earth civilization.
Military invasion and commercial expansion will be the two fists used by the Qin Dynasty to conquer the world in the future, and through these two methods, Eastern culture will also spread widely to every corner of the earth. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com