Chapter 376: Pearl of Southern Xinjiang
Nanning Prefecture, not far from Lang Son, is a large prefecture outside the provincial capital Guilin.
Guilin is located in the northwest of Guangxi, while Nanning is located in the western front. On the surface, it is not conspicuous here, but because it is stationed in the commander-in-chief, it entrenched heavily and is an important business road. It has always been the Dinghai Shenjian for the entire court in Nanchu.
Now, there is a very interesting phenomenon. In the Nanning Mansion, a piece of silk is only 2 taels and 7 qian silver, but a piece of silk is already at a high price of 4 taels and 5 qian silver, while a piece of silk is only 20 qian per pound of pork in Nanning Mansion, but it is as high as 50 qian when it arrives. A porcelain is only 1 taels of silver here, but it is only 3 taels and 4 taels when it arrives there.
As for luxury goods such as wine, calligraphy and painting, or life needs, the price is about twice as much.
The price doubled in just a few days.
At this time, Nanning was shocked, Guilin was shocked, and even the merchants far away in Guangzhou were shocked.
All kinds of news spread like wings, and in this era, there are only two kinds of people who are well-informed, one is a merchant, and the other is a scholar. Scholars must be knowledgeable about the world without going out; and for merchants, news means wealth.
And now, wealth has come.
In fact, merchants from all over the country have heard of Lang Son, but not all merchants are willing to go there to do business. After all, it is a transit center for goods. There are indeed many merchants who transport precious goods such as porcelain, silk, and tea to Lang Son, and then sell them to merchants in Zhen La and other places to make huge profits. Then they transport rhinoceros horns, spices, and cloth, iron and wooden utensils produced in Lang Son. Merchants engaged in this type of goods have indeed made huge profits.
Such merchants are commonly called businessmen. They are not responsible for production and are engaged in high-buying and low-buying.
As for other merchants, they are not interested in going to Lang Son. Although Lang Son has profits, the profit is not as big as everyone takes risks. After all, there have always been rumors. It is not peaceful. Ordinary merchant families have their own business scope. Generally speaking, they feel that some people who have made money are a little envious, but they are just like this.
Now it is very different. This is no longer 10% or 20% of the profit, but twice. Lang Son suddenly became a place full of gold under the vividness of others. As long as you are willing to bend down, you will have a lot of money in your pocket.
At first, people from all prefectures were asking privately that merchants were the most courageous, but at the same time, they were also the most cautious. However, when someone ate the first crab and Chen Ji Mixing from Nanning Mansion ordered people to escort dozens of carts of wine and rice, everyone was in a sensation.
Because more than ten days later, Chen Ji actually directly sealed two shops, claiming that there was no rice to sell for the time being, and immediately purchased ingredients in Nanning Mansion. All the guys went to the countryside to buy them. In a few days, Chen Ji sent another team, with dozens of mules and horses, and a large cart full of dust.
One of the richest men in Nanning Mansion, who had never been hidden in Chen Ji's boss, actually took the goods in person and left anxiously.
Not only that, several shops of the Chen family actually started selling. The Chen family's business in Nanning has always been good, and the business has been well known for several generations, but now they even don't even want the ancestral property and leave directly.
The people in Nanning Mansion were stunned at first, and then countless people flocked to it.
The Chen family is like this, because Lang Son's interests are several times that of Nanning. What are you waiting for now? Waiting for the loss of the opportunity? The Chen family doesn't care. What are we waiting for?
As a result, countless merchants flocked in. This time, merchants no longer mainly traded, and many of them wanted to come to Lang Son to do business.
The reason why the Chen family sold their ancestral property in Nanning was actually to save money to buy land. The purpose of buying land was to build shops, which was to do business in Lang Son. In Nanning, one cent was sold for one cent and two cents, but here, one cent was hired to transport the items from other places. Including the losses along the way, it was only one cent and five cents, but it could be sold for three cents or four cents.
Everything in Lang Son is scarce. The ridiculous thing is that the more people it attracts, the more scarce it is.
At the beginning, there were suddenly a hundred thousand more people, and these 100 thousand people had extremely strong consumption power, which was almost a bottomless pit. Countless people flocked in, soliciting people everywhere with silver and buying land everywhere, opening shops like mushrooms after a rain, and building wineries, brick kilns, wooden yards, and kilns in the countryside. They had not satisfied the 100,000 Annan gentry and gentry, but suddenly found that they had to come here with their friends and their children to have to be fed, clothing, housing and transportation. It was originally a gap of 100,000 people, and you used your energy to satisfy 80,000, but these people who met their needs were also people. Tens of thousands of merchants, men and craftsmen also had to consume, and the gap was still around 100,000.
Prices have stopped when they soared to a point, but the demand is still huge. Some of them are silver and some are wealth, but they require various needs. The demand for everything is huge, and even the demand for manpower is the same.
Due to the rising prices, merchants made a fortune. At the same time, they had to expand the scale of their transactions and recruit a lot of manpower. However, now wages have also risen with the prices. After all, people also need food, clothing, housing and transportation in Lang Son, and work for you. If they can't even afford rice, who is willing to contribute to you?
Not to mention that if you don’t stay here, you will have a stay here. If you don’t give good wages, some people will compete for it. Even a small bartender has become increasingly popular now. Hundreds of restaurants have opened one after another. All the restaurants are in a hot business. The owners of the restaurants are booming, so they don’t care about giving out more money to reward the bartenders. If they are stingy, they might go to work opposite the next day. In this case, Lang Son is like an inflated balloon, with industry prosperous, and countless people gather here like flowing water. Merchants take the opportunity to make a fortune, and ordinary people also get a share of it, and their wages soar.
The more this happens, the more attractive Lang Son is to other places. Jiaozhi has become a chaotic world, while Lang Son and other places in Jiaozhi are like heaven and hell. So many people bring their families and flock to the pass to make a living. Every day, there are crowds of people outside Lang Son Pass. The guards guarding the pass open and close the door early in the morning, and dense crowds of people flock to break in. Then, even when the muskets sounded from the sky, the guards had to shout: "Come one by one, no one is allowed to be arrogant!"
With the shock of the musket, everyone was quieter, and then all the abortion was obediently identified by the guards.
If you put all the people in, Lang San is afraid that you can't stand it. However, the Hou Mansion can only adopt the most realistic method. Those who are over thirty are not allowed to enter the pass. Those who have a skill can also be put in after being screened. Those who can read and write can be gracious. As for others, they can only stop them. Otherwise, if this continues, Lang San is afraid that a county town in Lang San will not be able to bear it.
However, other people may not not let them go in and out. A guard advised: "The other counties in Luzhou's fiefdom can also go. The marquis will try his best to ensure the safety of the fief..."
Every day, the guards of these passes were busy from early morning to night, which lasted six or seven hours, while there were hundreds or thousands of people put into Guanzhong every day. This crazy influx of people made people exhausted, but they could do nothing, especially as the war spread to Qinghua and other places, and the crowds began to storm in Jiaozhou City, and the number of people increased several times.
At the beginning, many people only went to Langshan. Gradually, even the counties of Haiping no longer cared about it. They knew that it was unknown whether other prefectures could save their lives, but their fiefdoms in the Hao family were worthy of trust.
This is true for Lang San Pass, and the same is true for Guangxi. A large number of fugitives rushed over to work and farm in Guangxi. They may not even be able to make a living in food and clothing in a year, but they can have enough food and clothing in Lang San. This makes the people in Guangxi very long for Lang San, because some people who have arrived in Lang San will ask someone to send some broken silver back to their hometown every now and then. When the neighbors saw that they actually sent two taels of silver and two taels of silver every month. Everyone farmed in the village, facing the loess all day long, and they were exhausted and out of breath. They may not be able to get two taels of silver in a year. However, that guy didn't have any skills, and he didn't even speak well, and he couldn't read a basket of big words. He was actually on Lang San. It is said that he was working in a winery, so he could send so much silver every month.
Those who went to Lang Son in those families naturally attracted the envy of their neighbors, so that in some places, women encouraged men to go out. The young people at home were idle, so some elders used this as a guide.
This emotion gradually became common, and later, someone sent some food and clothing to return home, which attracted the envy of countless people. Look at the handicrafts, this material is indeed a success.
So, a situation began to appear in Guangxi, that is, young people in the village formed a gang and tried every means to go to Langshan. However, the yellow book system was strict and the people in the county could not ignore it. But if they really wanted to manage it, you could still kill one or two, but you could still kill the chicken to warn the monkeys, but there were hundreds or thousands of people. Do you really dare to take his family to punish him? In Guangxi, the people's customs are already tough, and if one is not good, it is very likely that something will cause trouble.
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Chapter completed!