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Midsummer in the eleventh year of Xuanping.
In the early morning, the streets of Shanghai are not as quiet and elegant as other places. Instead, they appear lively and chaotic. On Huangpu Road in the business district, in the middle of the road, many horse-drawn carriages of various styles are driving on the road.
Some were luxurious four-wheeled carriages with lanterns hanging with family names, some were two-wheeled carriages, and some were single-horse, single-seat carriages, while some young people simply rode horses.
Sandwiched among them were several very large public carriages, pulled by four horses, and each public carriage was crowded with people rushing to work.
There are many people walking hurriedly on both sides of the road. Some of them are wearing clean robes, trying to make themselves look more decent, some are gorgeously dressed and swaggering through the city with their servants, and some are wearing rags.
They all have patched clothes, but they all have the same characteristic, that is, they walk in a hurry.
They walked and then entered the office buildings of major companies on both sides of the road.
At this time, it is the peak working period in the business district. At this time, Huangpu Road, where many companies gather, is the most congested. A large number of horse-drawn carriages gather, making the patrol police in charge here extremely busy. Some
Patrol police are directing traffic on the road, arranging for safe and orderly passage of pedestrians, carriages, and horses.
Some patrol officers patrolled both sides of the street, looking at every passing pedestrian with a critical eye.
In the past half month, frequent thefts and even vicious street robberies have occurred in the Huangpu Road area, which has attracted the attention of the Commercial District Patrol Police Branch.
You know, this is not an ordinary place, but a street with the densest concentration of medium and large companies in the whole of Shanghai, and even across the country. If you look left and right, you can see the signs of those big companies, Royal Bank Shanghai Branch
, Zhili Textile Bank Headquarters, Jiangnan Textile Company Headquarters, Third Securities Company Headquarters, Huangpu River Shipyard Headquarters, Susong Silk Reeling Company, etc., are all well-known large-scale enterprises in the country.
Someone once said that the funds that Huangpu Road can gather will definitely exceed 100 million taels!
This is a street filled with gold!
The people who work here are also of all kinds, ranging from low-level cleaners, service staff, etc. to ordinary company employees and middle- and lower-level officials. Of course, there are also senior managers of major companies.
Among these top managers there are also officials from the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises with official titles in government-run enterprises, as well as children of prestigious gentry families.
Because this place has a large flow of people, many of whom are decent people and carry a lot of money with them, it has become the best place to commit crimes for many types of thieves or simply robbers.
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However, the Yamen of the Patrol Police Branch of the Commercial District also attaches great importance to the security of the area and has dispatched a lot of police officers to maintain security. This has always been considered stable. However, I did not expect that in the past half month, frequent thefts and robberies have occurred here.
`The robbery case made the Yamen of the Commercial District Patrol Police Bureau very angry. For this reason, a large number of police forces have been deployed to investigate the case.
It's just that those daring criminals have not been caught yet, so now we can only strengthen the patrol force to avoid such cases from happening again. Otherwise, the pressure on the patrol branch office will be very great.
The patrol officers on the streets were conducting intensive patrols. There were no robberies this morning. However, two carriages collided because they could not avoid them. It was only a minor collision. The owners of the carriages were also decent people and maintained their identities.
Naturally, they would not scold or even take action like those shrews in the street.
They just took a brief look at the situation, asked, and found out that each other's companies were just a building away. They immediately exchanged name cards and agreed to attend a business party in a few days.
This small traffic accident did not require the patrol to deal with it, and it did not block traffic. Therefore, although Huangpu Road was extremely busy with many horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians, it remained smooth.
On the street, a boy about ten years old, short and thin, wearing a patched gray short robe, no shoes, and barefoot was carrying a large cloth bag filled with a large stack of heavy bags.
The Tang Dynasty newspaper was hawking along the street.
These newsboys are also a new profession in the Tang Empire in recent years. Most of these newsboys are children from poor families, even orphans, and they are relatively young. It is difficult to find a job if they want to work. They can only be
There is no technical content in doing some newspaper selling, and it doesn't require much physical work.
In fact, most of the newspaper boys in the Tang Empire today are orphans. In addition to the meager income of children from poor families, it is also related to the deliberate efforts of the newspaper department, because in order to provide some orphans who are too young to find a job
, children from poor families are given a job within their ability, and the Department of Daily News has issued a clear order that when hiring newsboys, orphans and poor children should be given priority in local news offices.
This can be regarded as one of the many poverty alleviation policies in the empire. In addition to these, there are naturally other corresponding poverty alleviation policies and welfare institutions, such as nursing homes, orphanages, etc.
However, among the many poverty alleviation policies of the Tang Empire, there were very few policies such as direct subsidies. Most of them were based on the work-for-relief model. Unless they were people who had completely lost their labor force, otherwise, no matter whether they were the elderly or widowed,
They are still orphans, and the empire's policy is to provide them with a job within their capabilities as much as possible to meet their living needs.
Today, this boy of about ten years old on the street is struggling to carry a large bag of newspapers. This large pile of newspapers is not too heavy for an adult, but for a thin boy like him,
It is said that it is quite laborious to carry it.
However, although this boy wore clothes full of patches and no boots, his tattered clothes were washed very clean and his hands were also washed, because in this way, he did not need to dirty the newspapers!
He shouted what the people from the Chaobao Department taught them when they went to collect the Chaobao today: "Chaobao, Chaobao, the third edition of the Commercial Code is officially issued!"
"The Nanyang barbarians are invading, and the situation in Banten is unstable!"
I heard from the adults in the Chao Press Department that these slogans are specifically aimed at people in the business area, because they are most concerned about business laws and the situation in Nanyang. Needless to say, they care about business laws, but they care about Nanyang because
The situation in Nanyang is directly related to overseas trade, and fluctuations in overseas trade will even be directly reflected in the stock market.
Soon, a man with a servant and a brocade robe walked up to him. The brocade robe man didn't say anything, but the servant on the side stepped forward and said: "Bring me a morning report!"
"Okay!" The boy handed the newspaper over, and then took a copper coin from the servant's hand. This was a copper coin worth five cents, and it was also the unified selling price of the Tang Dynasty newspaper nationwide!
Compared with the selling price of ten cents per copy when it was first released, the current selling price of Datang Chaobao has been reduced by half. This is certainly due to the advancement of printing technology and papermaking technology.
The cost reduction has something to do with it, and it also has something to do with the current smooth development of commercial advertising in Datang Chao Bao.
At present, the advertising revenue of Datang Chao Bao has accounted for most of the revenue of Chao Bao, and the sales price of Chao Bao actually only accounts for a small part. Today's Wuwen, Chao Bao Department feels that it is a bit high.
, and are also preparing to continue to lower prices to achieve wider coverage and promote imperial policies more widely.
If we talk about ordinary merchants, it is certainly impossible for them to keep making money and continue to reduce prices when they are already very cheap. However, the Chao Bao Department is not a commercial organization. It is a serious official organization of the imperial court. The Empire
The mouthpieces that guide public opinion are never for the purpose of profit. They charge advertising fees and newspaper fees just to maintain operations. Otherwise, they would like to directly distribute the morning newspapers for free!
Because the circulation is larger and the coverage is wider, the official voice of the empire can spread to more places, guiding and controlling public opinion.
After taking the newspaper from the servant, Geng Youhua started reading it. He didn't care much about the other contents. He only cared about the third page of Business Law.
Sure enough, the headline on the front page said that the Holy Emperor had officially approved the implementation of the third version of the Commercial Law, and announced to the world that among the many laws of the Tang Empire, the Commercial Law was one of the most important laws, even more important.
It is comparable to criminal law, because this law, and even the general outline of many commercial laws, strictly speaking, today's company law, patent law and other industrial and commercial laws are all structured within the framework of commercial law.
How could Geng Youhua not pay attention to the changes in the general outline of commercial law!
You must know that his family has completely transformed into the industrial and commercial industry many years ago. In the past, the family's fields and other things were all sold off.
Before the Geng family entered industry and commerce, although major industrial zones had appeared throughout the empire, most factories were concentrated in some emerging industries, especially the textile industry, which was a key area of competition for private capital.
However, in the core industry of their Geng family, that is, in the field of porcelain, there were no relatively large-scale professional factories at that time. The porcelain factories that supplied domestic and foreign products were all traditional hand-produced porcelain.
Under the leadership of Geng Youhua, the Geng family sold their land and shops, and finally raised enough funds to customize mechanical equipment specifically for the production of porcelain from Zhaoqing Machinery Company. This complete set of customized equipment cost the Geng family
Almost all the liquidity that can be raised.
But when the equipment was installed and put into production, the entire Geng family was shocked!
Even Geng Youhua, who took the lead in purchasing this set of machinery to make his porcelain production enter the industrial stage, was frightened by the sales volume of this machinery!