The four rivers in Hangzhou City flow through the city from north to south in the shape of dragon's claws. Because of this, Hangzhou City has a unique natural location. The canal outside the North Gate is connected to several rivers in the city. The Houchao Gate in the south is connected to the city.
The Qiantang River is connected and leads directly to the sea. All this forms a developed water transportation network.
In this era when land transportation is extremely inconvenient, having such developed water transportation is one of the important reasons why Hangzhou is the most prosperous city in the world.
For merchants in Hangzhou, the convenience of waterways has given rise to the circulation of goods and the development of all walks of life. But opening a store and doing business only makes small profits. In Hangzhou, who can control the dock shipping and who can be in the freight industry?
If you get the best, it will be like a torrent that cannot be stopped.
After the founding of the Zhou Dynasty, as soon as the war subsided, shipping companies sprung up in Hangzhou. Every savvy merchant wanted to get a share of the shipping industry. At its peak, large and small ships in Hangzhou city
There are more than 80 boat shops. Of course, this situation cannot last long. The fighting in the shopping mall is sometimes more cruel than the real battle against the enemy. The competition among the boat shops and docks in Hangzhou City is also due to too many people.
I want to get a piece of the pie and it’s particularly cruel.
Over the past few decades, countless old businesses have gone bankrupt due to rising newcomers, and the fierce competition in the business world has been horrifying. Some were squeezed out of business due to lack of strength, and some secretly plotted against their opponents to bring them down. In short, in order to pursue profits,
In order to dominate this lucrative industry, the big merchants experienced rounds of alliances, divisions, strife and cooperation. In the end, the shipbuilding and wharf industry gradually became the possession of several powerful big merchants.
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Don’t look at the fact that the Hangzhou Lin family is now one of the top merchants in the Hangzhou shipping and dock industry, but once upon a time, they were just novices in this industry. The Lin family’s previous industry relied on traditional grain, oil, cloth shops and dozens of handicraft workshops, although they also had financial resources.
A wealthy family, but compared with these big shipping companies, it can only be regarded as a child's play.
When the previous generation of the Lin family decided to get involved in the shipbuilding and wharf industry, the Lin family was just a small group of people eating leftovers from the big shipyards, looking up to and watching people. At the beginning, they only owned a small wharf, which could only be used for docking.
He built a small wooden boat two feet long and ran a small freight business. Although he worked hard and got help from marriages with several merchants, he finally established a firm foothold, but he was still far from being the leader in the industry.
All this finally changed more than ten years ago. After the Hu family and his son, the leaders of the shipping terminal industry, drowned in the West Lake more than ten years ago, the Lin family took advantage of the situation and teamed up with other shipping companies to annex a large number of the Hu family's ships and terminals. Since then, everything has changed
Those who have business conflicts with the Lin family either have ship accidents or have family deaths. In short, no family is going smoothly. However, the Lin family has had a smooth journey. Today, the Lin family is one of the three major shipping companies in Hangzhou. In a certain
To a certain extent, the Lin family can be said to be the boss of Hangzhou's shipping and terminal industry.
The other two families are the Dongmen Qian family. The head of the family is Qian Zhongze, who is also a shrewd man. The Qian family's current situation is not unrelated to the Lin family. This Qian Zhongze started his career by hoarding and was a wealthy man in Hangzhou.
He is a famous old fox in the business world. But the relationship between the Qian family and the Lin family is very close. When the Lin family swallowed up other people's assets, they teamed up with Qian Zhongze, and both families benefited greatly. The reason why the two families can cooperate
, that's also because the eldest daughter of the Qian family married Lin Quan, the third-bedroom son of the Lin family. Last summer, Lin Boyong was furious because he led someone to catch an adulterer on the street, and finally allowed Lin Quan to give him a divorce letter and go home.
The Qian family.
Because of that incident, the two families had actually turned against each other. Qian Zhongze vowed to avenge this huge humiliation, and the Lin family had actually already planned to part ways with the Qian family. After all, they had united to deal with more powerful opponents before, and
Now that both companies have become industry giants, it is only a matter of time before they fall out. Lin Boyong has already been very angry about Qian Zhongze's greed and secret coveting of the Lin family's industry, otherwise he would not have let him fall because of such a thing.
Lin Quan divorced the Qian family, which was actually a public declaration of war.
When Lin Ke was still alive, it was not that he never thought of asking Hai Dongqing and the others to help Qian Zhongze. But Qian Zhongze was an out-and-out old fox. He seemed to have smelled some signs during his many years of cooperation with the Lin family, and guarded around him.
Being strict and reclusive, Hai Dongqing's people had no good chance at all. In addition, there were already rumors about the cases he had done before, and he even almost got exposed once when he made a mistake, which scared Lin Ke. So Lin Ke had to give up.
Over the past year, the battle between Lin and Qian's family in the shipping business has intensified. Qian Zhongze lowered prices significantly in order to grab business, and the Lin family lost a lot of freight business. However, the Lin family has already been able to rely on water transportation alone.
It has become the unstoppable mountain of the Qian family.
In addition to the Qian family, the Sun family in Nancheng is also one of the shipping giants, but this Sun family is extremely low-key. Unlike the Lin family and the Qian family's strategy of focusing on long-distance voyages, the Sun family is engaged in the business of short-distance boats. In terms of operation, it is
The Lin and Qian families are not in conflict. On the contrary, they are indeed business partners of the Lin family and the Qian family. Sometimes they become partners for cooperation. Therefore, there is no major business conflict with the low-key Sun family, and the relationship is pretty good.
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As for the rest of the shipbuilding merchants, there is no need to say more. They are all small shipbuilding companies that scrape the scraps from the three shipbuilding companies. They exist dependent on the three shipbuilding companies and struggle to survive.
The Lin Family Pier No. 1 in the middle section of the Shiyao River was born out of the first small terminal owned by the Lin family. After purchasing several surrounding terminals and merging them into one, the scale here is no longer the original two-foot-long terminal.
It is a wharf for long wooden boats. The nearly two-mile-wide wharf has eight berths that can accommodate ships dozens of feet long. On the shore, there are large yards and dozens of huge warehouses for cargo storage.
It is already the largest wharf in Hangzhou. Every day, there are dozens of ships coming in and out of this wharf alone, and there are four to five hundred coolies carrying people on and off the ships. It is densely packed and busy.
Lulu demonstrates the prosperity of the Lin family's business.
The Lin family not only has warehouses and storage yards on this pier, but also built houses, shops and shipping offices. This is actually the hub of the Lin family's business. Lin Boyong and Lin Ke spend a lot of time here.
In the large yard of the shipyard south of the yard of No. 1 Pier, orders were given to deal with business matters. All the Lin family members also knew where to go to find the head of the family and the eldest son when encountering problems, and this was the Pier.
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The early morning mist has not yet dissipated, but a busy day on the river has begun. Because of Lin Ke's sudden death, the Lin family's business has been suspended for several days. The goods on the dock are piled up. More than a dozen large ships have docked.
Waiting for loading and unloading at the dock. At dawn, hundreds of coolies have already begun to get busy. While the children of wealthy families are still sleeping soundly because of the coolness of the morning, these people are already sweating and covered in dust.
In a grand and large courtyard to the south of Pier 1, the spacious hall was still lit with a few candles. After all, it was just dawn, and under the cover of more than a dozen tall trees in the yard, there was still some light in the hall.
dim.
Lin Jue sat quietly at the desk. A large stack of account books and books were piled on the desk. An account book was spread out on Lin Jue's lap. The small characters on it were densely packed like tadpoles. There were several people standing beside the desk.
, the leader is an old man in a black robe, followed by several middle-aged men in long robes. These are all bookkeepers of the Lin family shipyard. The leader is surnamed Tang, known as Master Tang. He is the business manager of the Lin family.
An old man who has been working for the Lin family for more than 20 years.
Lin Jue had already arrived here before he arrived. Now that he had accepted this errand, Lin Jue didn't want to make a fool of himself. Although he was troubled by these accounts and business transactions, he still forced himself to get a general idea. Lin Jue was right
His request is that at least within this month, no mistakes will be made and no damage will be caused to the Lin family's business. As for the rest, Lin Jue has not thought much about it for the time being. He neither wants to make any changes nor make any tricks.
I just want to spend this month peacefully.
While Lin Jue was looking through the account books, he asked Master Tang some basic business questions. Master Tang was a little contemptuous of the new manager at first. He also witnessed it in the front hall of the Lin family last night.
When the head of the family announced Lin Jue's succession as chief steward, he was a little worried. How could a young master who had no contact with the family business be qualified for such an important and complicated task? As the chief master, he was the only one who knew how huge the Lin family's business was.
, the things that needed to be dealt with were so trivial and complicated, so he was extremely worried about it.
However, just over an hour after Lin Jue arrived here in the early morning, Master Tang almost changed his opinion. Lin Jue didn't ask many words, but he was short and to the point, without any nonsense.
In terms of business, Lin Jue didn't ask about the detailed operation process. He didn't even bother talking about costs and profits. The focus of his questions was on manpower and how to manage thousands of people in the Lin family. The most frequently asked questions
Those people are the backbone and capable people in the Lin family's business. Mr. Tang judged from his many years of experience that this new chief steward is different from the previous eldest son.
I'm afraid that I only focus on personnel matters and not on specific matters.
In fact, Master Tang's judgment was correct. Lin Jue knew his weaknesses, and he also understood the complexity of the affairs of the Lin family's huge business empire. He didn't want to get stuck in it, or even make mistakes because of his ignorance.
Lin Jue felt that he should catch the main people and let them use their abilities. He only needed to manage them well, and they would naturally manage the business. Lin Jue did not have any experience in business. In that life on earth,
, he worked as a manager in a large company for a period of time. He cannot be said to be well versed in management, but he also knows the importance of management talents giving full play to their abilities. Because of this, Lin Jue did not interfere at all in the management of Jiangnan Grand Theater.
Because he can control everything through Xie Danhong. Xie Danhong is the one who does the specific things. Facts have proved that this is a successful method.
