"I won't watch it anymore!" Wu Haogu turned around and said to the people behind him with a smile, "It's still early now, why not go to the dock to take a look? There are important big deals there!"

The important big deal is naturally to transport grain to Baibo, Luoyang! This matter was not handled by Wu Haogu himself, but was contracted to a brother of Su Dalang, a grain merchant named Su Anli. The Su family mainly operates vinegar brewing and also operates grain stores in Kaifeng Prefecture. The rice and grain they handle every year are hundreds of thousands of stones. This is the first time that the transaction of Liao grain with only one million stones is done.

The boss Su went north to Liaoyang with Guangmingjun and Guo Yaoshi last winter. With the help of Guangmingjun, the "buying and selling man" Guangmingjun, he met with Dagong Ding, the leader of the right surname of Bohai, Gao Qingming, and finalized the details of the grain transaction.

At the same time, Ma Zhi was also entrusted by Wu Haogu to clear the joints of the Jian'an Army in Chenzhou.

The Wu family maritime merchants took over the shipping business. After the Wu family merchant ship transported weapons from Haizhou to Goryeo, they went straight to Chenzhou Port in Liaodong, loaded the Liaodong wheat harvested this autumn, and drove to Jiehe Market in the northeast wind.

The grain transported from Liaodong and Haizhou is now piled up in Jiehe Market and is being loaded on the Inner River Basin in batches.

Jiehe Shopping City Wharf.

A large amount of puffs containing grain were carried out from the warehouse made of red bricks by coolie, loaded with a unicycle, and transported to the pier used by the Inner River Basin boat like flowing water. Now the inner (river) and outer (sea) pier of the Zhenhe River has been separated by a pontoon bridge.

When the Border River was frozen last year, Huang Silang presided over the completion of the Border River pontoon bridge project. He used the frozen river surface to drag the small wooden boats used to build the pontoon bridge to the ice surface, arranged neatly, tied iron cables, and paved wooden boards. By the time the river surface thawed this year, a pontoon bridge would be built.

With this floating bridge, the two cities of Jiehe, Henan, and the north and south are integrated into one, making it very convenient to come and go.

At the same time, the inland river ships and the offshore sea ships were also separated, and they could no longer meet each other on the river surface. Not only was the smuggling situation basically eliminated, but it also established the status of sea transport and river transport hub of Jiehe Commercial City.

Now even the Liaodong grain transported to Xijin Prefecture must be transferred in the market. Wu Haogu also took this opportunity to ask Ma Zhi to lobby Xiao Baoxian. The Ma people hoped that the Liao Kingdom would also contract the Liaodong grain transportation business to the Wu family's sea merchants. Instead of letting those Bohai people who could not sail at all transport grain in the situation of corvee, it would be better to spend some grain to hire the Wu family's sea boat!

Although the Liao Kingdom has not yet agreed, the end point for the people in the Bohai Sea to transport grain has become Jiehe Commercial Market.

In this way, in early winter, before the Jiehe River surface was frozen, the shopping mall wharf ushered in the busiest season.

Sujia Grain Store, the manager of Wujia Haishang, Jiehe Municipal Shipping Department, the public officials of Jiehe Commercial Terminal, and the officials of the Nanjing Road Transport Department of the Great Liao Kingdom were all sweating profusely compared with these grains from Liaodong and Haizhou. Which grains should be loaded on grain ships transported south or north? You must not make any mistakes!

In addition, the transfer of these grains is tax-free. However, items on the "smoking boat" must be taxed according to the rules - these are the income of Jiehe Shipin and Jiehe Trading City! Jiehe Trading City will pay dividends to the shareholders of the Chamber of Commerce from next year, that is, the third year of Jianzhong Jingguo. In addition, if the Yuan Dynasty is not changed, the contract tax will be paid to the Song and Liao countries from the fifth year of Jianzhong Jingguo. Now it is tentative to pay 100,000 pieces of silk every year, half a share of each Song and Liao.

Wuhaogu Station took Ximen Qing, Murong Wangyou and Su Anli from Sujia Grain Store to a corner of the wharf. They just walked around casually, and asked someone to open a bun from time to time, taking out the grain inside to check carefully. Most of the wheat was good, with full grains, and no stones and sand were mixed in.

Wu Haogu nodded and smiled at Su Anli with satisfaction: "The wheat on Tokyo Road in Liao Kingdom is good, and it looks better than ours... This is a really good place in Liaodong, and the land must be very fertile. I have to buy more next year, and it is best to get two million stones."

Su Anli and Su Dalang have completely different appearances. Su Dalang is a fat man and has a dough face that congratulates you for your wealth. Su Anli looks like a white-faced scholar. He is under forty years old, with a few strands of beard under his jaw, and looks like he is a civil servant. His tone is also literary, and he has read a lot of books at first glance. He smiled and said, "Xuan Zan is really the humerus of the court. He can actually come up with a way to buy Liao grain to supplement the northwest. If the court knows, it will definitely use Xuan Zan more."

Wu Haogu nodded slightly: "Isn't this the Shibusi Department of My Seoul? How can I not do my best? It's a pity that the canal transport is until Baibo, and further west, it's land transport...2,000 miles, the price is too high."

When Wu Haogu thought about transporting grain to the northwest, he couldn't help but sigh. The delivery rate of 2000 transport was 10%-15% at the highest. If you want to replenish 10 million stones of grain to the northwest front, you have to transport at least 70 million stones to Baibo, Luoyang... Of course, these 70 million stones are not all food, most of them are forage and bean cakes for livestock.

Wu Haogu clapped his hands and said to Su Anli: "How many have you shipped out now? Can you ship them all in 10 days? How much delivery rate can you guarantee?"

"There will be enough for another 10 days," Su Anli smiled, "The delivery rate is not a problem... Since this matter was given to my family's grain store, it will naturally be able to deliver 1 million stones of food safely."

"Okay! Since I've given you this, let's do it well." Wu Haogu said, "When I go back, the official will definitely discuss the merits and I will also guarantee you to be an official." He looked around and Wu Chenglan, his copywriter, walked up quickly: "Xuan Zan, just received a letter from Pan Xuanzan (Pan Xiao'an also had a Xuanzan Pavilion position). The letter said that Zeng Bu and Jian Xuchen sent a memorial to the official family together, proposing to imitate our Jiehe Commercial City and Jiehe Commercial City, and start Jingdong Commercial City and Jingdong Commercial City..."

"JD?" Wu Haogu frowned. This name sounds very powerful!

"It is Jingdong East Road Maritime Warehouse," Wu Chenglan said, "and also want to divide Haizhou into Jingdong East Road, set up Jingdong Maritime Warehouse in Haizhou, and start commercial markets in Haizhou."

"It's getting more and more exciting!" Wu Haogu smiled, "not only Venice, but also Genoa..."

"Wei...s?" Wu Chenglan was stunned and stunned. "Xuanzan, how should he answer Mr. Pan?"

"No need to reply," Wu Haogu smiled, "I will go back to Kaifeng Mansion after a few days. Let's talk to you in person."

Of course Wu Haogu knew that this was Zeng Bu, Jian Xuchen, and Lu Jiawen, and Ji Yi might want to compete with him.

However, he was not worried that Jiehe Market's geographical location was too superior, and it had already formed a scale and had an unshakable advantage.

Moreover... Haizhou has already lost his son, including Yuntai Academy, Tianya Town, Yunwu Mountain Tea, Jiehe Daxiangguo Temple, and won over the Wu family's sea merchants and put half of the Wu family clan over.

Now Zeng Bu, Jian Xuchen, and Lu Jia asked, what can Ji Yi do? Can he bypass the situation he set up in Haizhou?

Haha, let’s play together!

Capitalism is not afraid of competition, even if it is a mess!

"By the way," Wu Haogu had already taken back his thoughts, "Have Hua Manshan and the two Japanese arrived in Kaifeng Prefecture?"

"The letter didn't say it," Wu Chenglan said, "It's probably not here yet.

By the way, Mr. Pan also mentioned one thing. The official wanted to open a construction bureau in Suzhou and Hangzhou to create rare artifacts used in the palace, and to collect ancient calligraphy and paintings that were spread across the Yangtze River."

"Oh." Wu Haogu nodded, thinking, "Who is going to preside over this project?"

"I said it," Wu Chenglan said, "the official wants Mi Fu and Lingzun to preside over the presidency..."

"Ling...my father?" Wu Haogu was stunned and stunned, "How could it be him?"

...

"How could it be me?"

Wu Chengzhi was like Wu Haogu, and he never expected that he would become an official. Although Yin Bu could benefit his father as an official in the Song Dynasty, Wu Haogu never wanted to give the quota of Yin Bu to Old Man Wu. He is now the patriarch of the Wu family in Haizhou, and a large number of followers gathered around him, and there are too many people who need recommendations.

And what other official Wu Chengzhi is? It’s the most important thing to keep a good job in Kaifeng Prefecture... How hard it is to work in the officialdom of the Song Dynasty. One by one, one eats, drinks, and have fun until dawn. Can Old Man Wu survive? Don’t devote yourself to it, and it’s all the time until death!

If he was exhausted from eating, drinking, having fun, Wu Haogu would not only be a sad problem, but he would also have to be a filial son!

But for some reason, Zhao Ji, the official, suddenly thought that Wu Chengzhi, who was still Bai Ding Buyi, wanted to give him an official position, and also had to entrust him with an important task - to be Mi Fu's deputy, go to Jiangnan to collect antique calligraphy and paintings, and supervise the creation of rare artifacts!

This is a big fat man, and many people can't even grab the head. Now it's given to Wu Chengzhi.

These three fathers and sons of the Wu family have to be reused!

"The official said that you are a master of painting and calligraphy, and your purpose is basically impossible to fake."

Wu Haowen said to his father.

"Me?" Wu Chengzhi was amused and crying, "I have misled many things and have been arrested by Kaifeng Prefecture..."

"There will be no problem this time," Wu Haowen smiled, "and Mi Xiangyang, he is a real expert."

Wu Chengzhi touched his beard, looked at his son, and then looked at Feng Erniang, who was smiling so hard that he couldn't close his eyes.

"Official," said Feng Erniang, "Others don't even have the chance to be an official, but you can't even push it now... Second brother, what is the official's official want to be your father this time? Civil or military officer?"

"He is a civil servant," said Wu Haowen. "From the ninth rank general, the official position is in the business of the Suzhou-Hangzhou Construction Bureau."

"This is great," Feng Erniang smiled, "Official, you are so blessed to be old... I think you don't push it out."

Wu Chengzhi frowned, "It's better to wait for Dalang to come back and discuss with him..."
Chapter completed!