Different from staring at the Fan people in Yuezhou, Lei Da and Xianghua stared at the various large ships of the Fan people until they arrived at Ningbo Port.
He looked like he had never seen the world.
Huo Xi was in no hurry to get off the ship. As far as he could see, Ningbo Port was much more prosperous and lively than Songjiang Port.
It is indeed one of the three major foreign trade ports of the Wei Dynasty. I wonder how it compares with Guangzhou Port, the first port in the southeast.
It is said that people from Japan, the Ryukyu Islands, Koryo, and Anguo all like to stop at Yuegang and Ningbo Ports in Zhangzhou. Portuguese people from Luzon Island and Malacca also like to stop at Yuegang and Ningbo Ports.
Huo Xi thought about the sugar and porcelain on her boat. She shouldn't have to worry about selling it, right? She made up her mind.
After stopping the ship, they told the bosses of the two ships and the sailors, and asked Lei Da and other bodyguards to guard the cargo on the ship. Huo Xi and Shen Qianzhong got off the ship with Vanilla.
As soon as they got off the boat, someone approached them.
"Are you the ship owner? Do you need us to help you contact merchants? We are in the Thirty-sixth Industry, and there are people in the industry who are proficient in all kinds of foreign languages, and can help you sell your goods quickly."
Huo Xi already knew about the thirty-six lines and hinted to Shen Qianzhong, but Shen Qianzhong declined.
On the way to find a restaurant for dinner, several people from the thirty-sixth generation came to recruit us. They were all rejected.
I found a small and medium-sized restaurant and went in to eat.
Shen Qianzhong didn't know much about Thirty-Six Lines. Guangfeng Shui only went to Songjiang three times to do sea trade business, and he didn't follow him three times.
While waiting for the food, Huo Xi informed him.
It was also because of her extra lifetime of memory that she had a better understanding of the Thirty-Six Lines. At this time, the Thirty-Six Lines had not yet formed a scale and did not have its own set of systematic rules.
But after the maritime ban was lifted, the Thirty-Six Lines came into being, and now it is half business and half official.
In addition to communicating with internal businessmen and foreign businessmen, acting as a middleman between the two parties, introducing trading partners to the two parties, and drawing commissions, Thirty-Six Bank has now also developed to the stage of selling its own goods.
Everything is sold at the end of the universe.
How much money can you make as a dentist? You can make a lot of money selling goods.
These thirty-six businesses along the coast suppressed smuggling and private traders, and returned the tariffs and profits generated from trade to the imperial court. This gave them a semi-merchant and semi-official character, with an official background and approval from the imperial court.
Once I got official recognition, my courage naturally grew.
A series of unequal conditions have been formulated for domestic and foreign businessmen. For example, goods entering and exiting need to be sold through thirty-six brokers. For example, cargo must be filled in and reported to foreign merchants. It is also stipulated that transactions with foreign merchants are not allowed to be monopoly, and half of the goods must be handed over.
Amortized by thirty-six lines...etc.
Anyone who sells goods doesn’t want to cut out the middlemen?
You can just collect commissions and customs duties normally, but you are also like the Shipping Department, formulating a package of regulations on the purchase and sale of goods. It sounds like you are suppressing private traders for the court, but how can you not have any selfish motives?
Isn’t the end of the universe just for selling your goods?
As long as one family wants to dominate, private traders will stop it.
As soon as smugglers make big profits, they are naturally targeted by water pirates. Water pirates want to get something for nothing along the coast, and there are endless water pirates.
After dinner, it was already dark. The three of them wanted to find an inn at the pier, but they didn't know it was extremely expensive! A middle room cost five taels of silver, and an upper room cost ten taels!
Nima.
Huo Xi was still lucky, so she was pulled back to the ship by Shen Qianzhong and Vanilla.
The boss of the ship laughed when he saw them coming back: "I heard that Ningbo Port is full of sea supplies day and night, and all the entertainment is barbarian property. There are many people on that ship, and there are also many domestic merchants, all of whom are doing business, and they don't have many taels of silver in their wallets. ?If you can kill him, of course you have to kill him with one knife."
Huo Xi stared. It's not that I won't let you kill him, but don't be so cruel. This is not killing blood, but killing bones.
After regaining some luck, I got into the cabin and fell asleep with my head covered. I felt that sleeping in my own cabin was more comfortable.
Early the next morning, after breakfast, Huo Xi and Shen Qianzhong took only Lei Da with them, and the three of them walked to Thirty-Six Street.
Thirty-six Hang Street is where the Thirty-Six Hang Commercial Store is located. The Yi Guan is also located here.
When the Fan ship arrived at Ningbo Port, the Fan people were arranged to rest and recuperate in the Thirty-Six Yi Pavilion, where they were arranged to live and live, or learn Chinese.
Fanshang, who had just entered the Wei Dynasty, was blinded. Knowing that they had official backgrounds, they were willing to be accommodated in the Thirty-six Hang Yi Pavilion, where they could sit together with the merchants in the trading house to discuss the price of goods.
As the three of them walked along, they saw thirty-six rows of streets lined with inns, workshops, and shops. Looking along the way, they saw not only the workshops of palace craftsmen, but also various workshops and shops opened by private craftsmen, where skilled craftsmen gathered.
Such as the glazier, the enamel maker, the painter, the ivory carver, the jade carver, the stone carver, and the rice carver, the three of them were dazzled by Huo Xi.
Huo Xi also bought a lot of good things along the way, but most of them just didn't buy them, or they only bought them in bulk. They were not doing large transactions, and few shops were willing to talk to them.
The three of them were thick-skinned, so they stayed put and pretended to be looking around in the shop, looking for goods to buy and sell. They listened carefully to the shopkeepers and merchants talking about business.
At noon, I simply found a teahouse and sat down in a teahouse on Thirty-Six Street to observe other people going about their business.
"Boss, the commissions charged by these Thirty Six Banks are a bit harsh." Shen Qianzhong couldn't help but clicked his tongue.
Huo Xi clicked her tongue twice: "In the beginning, these Ya people just wanted to make some money to survive. Who knew that as the scale expanded and they got official recognition, their appetite would naturally increase."
From asking others to do business, it has now become large-scale and almost a monopoly. Once you have a monopoly, you will charge as much commission as you want.
The more profits are turned over to the court, the more the court will protect it.
The imperial court was protecting him, so he couldn't just watch others get rich. So Thirty-Six Bank also started selling goods and started its own business.
Once people have selfish motives, of course they will not be satisfied with just making a little money.
Why not make more money if you can?
So the thirty-sixth line also started selling goods. The profit from selling goods was not much, so why not sell smuggled goods? Do you want to sell smuggled goods? Of course I do.
But Shibosi is keeping an eye on it. Should we bring them together? Let’s do private goods together and make a lot of money together?
The greater the profit, the more smuggling, private transport of goods and transactions with foreign merchants will naturally be prohibited again and again.
"Master, what should we do?"
Shen Qianzhong leaned his head over and asked Huo Xi quietly. He also turned to look at Lei Da.
Lei Dayan looked at his nose and heart, pretending he didn't hear or see anything.
Huo Xi also glanced at Lei Da and nodded to Shen Qianzhong, who then breathed a sigh of relief.
With Lei Da following them, they felt at ease when traveling, but the goods on both their ships were a bit shady. Now looking at the owner's intentions, can Lei Da be trusted?
This Shengshui Escort Agency came out of nowhere and I had never heard of it before. The boss asked them to escort him this time. Could it be one of his own?
After sizing up Lei Da, he turned away and quietly discussed with Huo Xi how to sell the goods.
There is no fourth update, Basho wants to be lazy on the weekend~~
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