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Chapter 990: Dish Size (Part 2)

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    Jinling City is drizzled and misty, and Mochou Lake is shrouded in mist. Sitting in the elegant seat of the tea house by the lake, sipping green and elegant tea, the whispers of the guests downstairs to the tea waiter are heard in my ears: "Tea  Put it away, and I will come back to have a pot of water after I finish selling today's vegetables."

    The tea waiter responded again: "Passing by the Yuhua Terrace to help me see the chrysanthemums. I don't have time to go there this year. I must miss the flowering period."

    "I'll tell you when I come back." After the vegetable vendor answered, the downstairs became quiet again.

    Mo Mo not only had a smile on the corner of his mouth, he said in his heart: 'It's true that traffickers and pawns have the smoke and water of the Six Dynasties, it's not bad at all!  ¡¯ A heart became more and more calm, sitting there quietly reading a book, occasionally twisting a piece of soft fragrant cake, putting it in the mouth to taste slowly.

    He enjoyed the rare leisure like this, until Hu Yong's footsteps sounded from the stairs: "Master, he is here."

    "Yeah." Shen Mo nodded and put down the book: "Let him come up."

    After a while, a tall, handsome, well-dressed middle-aged man bowed respectfully to him and said, "Shao Fang, a grassroots man, pays his respects to your lord."

    "There is no need to be too polite." Shen Mo said lightly: "Today I am in casual clothes, you can be casual, sit down."

    Although Shao Fang has an unruly temperament, how could he dare to be presumptuous in front of this ancestor, and he still stood there obediently: "In front of the adults, the villain is like sitting on pins and needles, it is better to stand."

    "I don't want to look up at you." Shen Mo picked up the teacup and took a sip.

    Only then did Shao Fang put his butt on the chair in trepidation, but he still didn't dare to breathe. He is not the kind of crappy guy who can't stand on the stage. Over the years, under the care of Shen Mo, he has also become brothers and sisters with the governor, and he is also in the governor's mansion.  Drank and drank tea, and even occasionally went boating with Wei Guogong on the Qinhuai River, and together whoring.  But he was obviously much more embarrassed than when he first saw Silence. This was because the more he saw the world, the more he knew some secrets that ordinary people could not touch The young man in front of him possessed far more power.  Beyond his old status.  The government, the army, academia, industry and commerce All the important fields in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty all showed his powerful influence. Don't look at those big families who don't buy the court's account, but they all rely on him. Shao Fang even faintly felt that  It means that its influence in the southeast has surpassed that of the Beijing imperial court.

    Of course, this is just a vague feeling of his supernatural sense, there is no evidence, and it may even be an illusion.  But what Shao Fang can be sure of is that his fate depends on his own thoughts.

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    "How's Boss Shao's business going?" Seeing that he was a little embarrassed, he smiled quietly and gently.

    "Thanks to my lord, everything is fine." Shao Fang smiled gratefully.  Nowadays, everyone in the south of the Yangtze River talks about business, and Shao Daxia is naturally unavoidable, but he is the kind of person who can't be restrained, and he didn't follow the trend to open a textile factory that would be labor-intensive.  idea.

    His foresight is indeed good. With the rapid growth of the textile industry, especially after the Suzhou Research Institute invented the twisting device, the demand for raw materials has exploded. However, Jiangnan is densely populated and the land is tight.  Despite planting mulberry cotton', the gap is still only increasing, driving the prices of raw silk and cotton to skyrocket year after year, and the supply is still in short supply.

    Shao Fang jumped out of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, bought mulberry gardens in Sichuan, Jiangxi, and Huguang provinces, reeled silk on the spot, and sold the raw silk back to Jiangnan for sale. After a few years, she has made a lot of money and has become one of the few big mulberry garden owners in the southeast.  up.

    Silence knows that this is "changing rice into mulberry", and it is not an isolated case, but a trend, which will inevitably further aggravate the food problem, which is almost a fatal blow to an agricultural kingdom.  But he does not intend to intervene in this matter, but intends to solve it in another way, and it is not now, but in a certain period in the future.

    This time, Shen Mu came to Shao Fang not to inquire about his business, but just to start a conversation, and both parties knew it well.  Shao Fang took the initiative to ask: "Your Excellency, you are looking for the grassroots, but is it for the supervision of students?"

    "That's right." Shen Mo nodded and said, "I heard that you are the leader of their support team?"

    "My lord was joking" Shao Fangqiang said with a smile: "Some friends in the business field begged me to come here, and we can't just refuse, so we can only reluctantly walk around for them"

    "A hero is a hero, just walk around a little bit," Mo Mo said with a smile on his lips, "You can persuade the six ministers to appear in turn. If you are serious, will the heavenly kings and fathers come down to speak for them?" These days,  Several ministries and halls in Nanjing all paid homage to the mansion, in addition to asking about their health and getting closer, they also expressed concern about the riot?He is one of the largest salt merchants in Yangzhou City. He builds bridges and paves roads, and donates to support education.  Over the past few decades, hundreds of students who have been funded by him have been admitted to Juren, and there are also sixty or seventy Jinshi.  This investment not only brought him a lot of useful official support, but also accumulated a high reputation for him, and he was also the undisputed leader among Yangzhou businessmen.

    Sitting next to Wang Yao is a slightly rich old man with white beard and hair. He is Ruan Bi, the chairman of the Huizhou Chamber of Commerce. Over the years, Huizhou merchants have monopolized papermaking, printing and dyeing industries, and aggressively entered the construction industry.  This old man's foresight.  Among the merchants in Huizhou, he can be said to be a man of high morals and high prestige.  Now that he is getting older, he rarely shows up in recent years.

    The rest of the table are not inferior, Qi Yuanhua from Longyou, Shen Mingyi from Ningbo, Xue Zhijing from Dongting, etc. Seven or eight people are all leaders of local business gangs and because of the strong commercial atmosphere in these areas, their children are all famous.  There is no shame in being a business, so the leaders of its business gangs are mostly the most famous people in the local area.  And the business competition in the southeast is becoming increasingly fierce, and the role of the business gang is huge. It is no exaggeration to say that they have everything they say in the local area.

    But compared to the table in the middle, it pales in comparison.  The several people sitting around the round table do not need to introduce them one by one, just click on their surnames, they are 'Wu, Yan, Wang, Zheng, Lu, Zhou, Xie, Feng, Zhao' in order, they are the members of the nine southeast families,  These nine families have lived for hundreds of years, prime ministers and ministers have emerged one after another, and their disciples and old officials are all over the world. In terms of political power, it is incomparable to even the prosperous Shanxi merchants.

    Its economic strength is also strong. The three most profitable businesses in the Ming Dynasty, silk, tea and porcelain, all control more than half of the shares. Whether it is upstream material suppliers or downstream buyers, they all need to rely on their noses.

    Therefore, the impression given by the Nine Families has always been that they are superior. No matter how important the occasion is, at most one or two prominent figures will be present. If the heads of the Nine Families gather together like this, I am afraid that even the emperor's southern tour face will not be able to invite them.  Bar.

    The guests at the table on the right are relatively low-key, because they are from Fujian and Guangdong, and their hometown is too far away from Nanjing.  Naturally, it should be very low-key.

    But no one dared to underestimate them. With the lifting of the maritime ban by Ming Dynasty, Fujian-Guangzhou maritime merchants rose rapidly. In less than ten years, they became the main force of maritime trade.  Moreover, their iron smelting and shipbuilding industries are second to none in the country In the eyes of the southeast merchants, a consensus has long been formed - whoever can dominate the maritime trade routes will be the next strongest merchant gang.  Obviously Minguang Maritime Merchants is likely to be the next one.

    Within a mere painting boat, the old and new forces in the southeast of Ming Dynasty gathered together.  It was a miracle in itself to be able to get these people together, and what was even more incredible was that, as guests, they had already arrived for half an hour, and the guy who treated them had not yet appeared.  On the faces of these big men, there was no dissatisfaction at all, not even impatience, they just talked softly while keeping three points of attention outside the boat, as if they were afraid of neglecting the slow guy¡ª¡ª

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