Chapter 1553
Officials and Imperial Merchants
Chapter 1553 Officials and Imperial Merchants
As the saying goes, there is no first thing in literature, and there is no second in martial arts, but at least there are certain standards for comparison in those two fields, but the diagnosis and treatment of doctors are different. Even famous doctors with outstanding reputation cannot guarantee that every patient they treat Can be cured by medicine.Moreover, each person learns different methods of diagnosis and treatment and judges the disease. Although the prescriptions prescribed are similar, there are obvious differences in the dosage of the medicine.The doctors invited here for consultation are all famous doctors with outstanding medical skills in their respective places. Naturally, they will not easily agree with other people's opinions on diagnosis and treatment. How much each medicinal material should cost and how to match it must be contended for. a fight.
Shi Diwen said in his heart that it's just that I'm just overtired, and I'll be fine after a day or two of rest. If there is any serious illness, I'm afraid it's time to prepare for the funeral after waiting for the doctors to hold a meeting to discuss it. .Therefore, a large number of people may not make things easy to do. Although each family hired so many doctors out of good intentions, the effect was not what they wanted.In fact, Shi Diwen's subordinates were of course accompanied by a knowledgeable doctor, and he was only given two doses of fire-relief and calming medicine. After drinking it two or three times, his physical condition improved significantly.As for the various tonics sent by various families, Shi Diwen didn't move for the time being. His physical condition is better than most people in this era. This kind of physical discomfort caused by fatigue does not need to take tonics at all.
This short-term sudden situation did not affect the enthusiasm of Zhejiang businessmen to seek cooperation. Haihan's outstanding strength and business reputation in international trade, as well as its shipping capabilities in the southern waters of Daming and Southeast Asia, can be said to be the best for any businessman. A dream partner.Even during the two days when Shi Diwen said he was recuperating from illness, although very few people were able to visit him, businessmen from all over Zhejiang continued to pour into Ningbo City, trying to find a chance to meet with high-ranking Haihan officials.
In addition to the short-term shortage of tonics in pharmacies in Ningbo, high-end restaurants and inns were suddenly overcrowded due to the influx of business people.Some businessmen who came late could not find a place to live, and even rented houses at high prices.As a result, the accommodation in Ningbo City soon ushered in a second wave of upsurge. Seeing that it was profitable, many people in the city simply vacated one or two rooms of their houses and rented them out to these foreign businessmen to live temporarily.
Within a few days, even the most uninformed people knew that the reason why Ningbo City became so lively was because a high-ranking Haihan official in the city was having talks with Daming on trade matters.Many of the foreigners who flocked to Ningbo were businessmen who hoped to take advantage of this opportunity to establish a relationship with Haihan.
Of course, businessmen are not the only ones who want to have a relationship with Haihan. In fact, if we divide it by occupation, there are people from all walks of life who come to Ningbo with this idea.For example, among the doctors who consulted Shi Diwen at his residence, some of them wanted to take this opportunity to earn some performance and earn more capital for later joining Haihan.
In this excitement, the number of merchants is comparable to that of scholars.Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Haihan was very concerned about recruiting educated immigrants, and even set up a special resettlement subsidy for scholars with high reputations. Not only can Haihan nationality be obtained immediately, but also the resettlement and naturalization of family members can be solved. Solved together.Under Haihan's rule, the only new immigrants who received such treatment were those who took the route of joining the army and exchanged their naturalization for naturalization, but the treatment was still far inferior to the recruited scholars.
It's not that Haihan values literature over martial arts. It's because of helplessness. The rapid development of the country will inevitably require a large number of high-quality talents to enter the officialdom to support the bureaucratic system. However, the training capacity of Haihan's own education system is relatively limited. Cultivating high-level intellectuals is not something that can be accomplished overnight.And time waits for no one, the large number of vacancies in many departments makes Haihan have to face up to this situation.At that time, Haihan did not have the strength it has today. To attract scholars from Ming Dynasty or other countries to join Haihan, they had to use high salaries and excellent benefits as conditions.
Over time, most of the scholars in the coastal provinces of Ming Dynasty have heard of this special recruitment of Haihan. Some down-and-out scholars felt that the imperial examination was hopeless, so they simply voted for Haihan, and were quickly appointed to various positions. Soon he was promoted to official official.After such an example appeared, scholars in the south of the Ming Dynasty began to realize that this is really a feasible way, so more and more scholars of Daming who were discouraged by the imperial examinations took Haihan as a new place to go.
Most of those who voluntarily left their hometowns to join Haihan were poor scholars who lived in poverty and could not survive without finding a new home.However, those scholars with certain real talents and court fame tend to cherish feathers more, and are less likely to take the initiative to go to Haihan to find errands.Of course, these people who cherish feathers may not be so loyal to Daming, and many of them are also waiting for a price, just wanting to get a better offer at the right time.
Go directly to the territory occupied by Haihan to apply for naturalization at the Immigration Bureau, and get a letter of recommendation after interviewing with senior officials of Haihan, and then go for naturalization. There must be a gap in the final treatment.Therefore, when the news of Shi Diwen's visit to Ningbo and the news of the construction and transportation business between the two countries spread, many scholars with keen sense of smell realized that this is a rare opportunity.Businessmen can talk, and scholars can talk even more. If you can meet Shi Diwen and show off your knowledge and conversation skills to this high-ranking Haihan official, you might be attracted by the other party and hire him back to be a county magistrate. And so on, wouldn't that be flattering.Of course, there are also many people who come here purely with the idea of trying their luck, hoping to take advantage of this wind.
There are quite a few scholars who hold this kind of mind. Among the scholars who come to Ningbo, five or six out of ten have this mentality.Seeing the fierce competition, some people had other thoughts and tried to find local contacts and try to introduce Shi Diwen directly.So this gave birth to a new business, and the folks of the local dental shop took action one after another, looking for various ways to enter Shi Diwen's residence.
As the intermediary structure of this era, Yaxing is not too difficult to send a few people to work in Shi Diwen's house.But the problem is that the house where Shi Diwen lives this time has been completely taken over by Haihan, and all the staff in the house are Haihan citizens, and outsiders who want to sneak in will definitely be exposed.
But even if this way doesn't work, Yaxing also thought of another solution for customers, that is to pretend to be a businessman to get the qualification to meet, and then rely on personal performance to win Shi Diwen's favor.
If you just pretend to be an ordinary businessman, then you probably can only do the same as other people, first go to the concierge to hand in the greeting card, and then slowly queue up for a day or two, in the end you may not even see a hair.However, the dental firm that made this suggestion has already considered this for the customers, suggesting that they pretend to be businessmen with an official background, and the choice of this official background should be the one that the Haihan people cannot verify in a short time , For example, somewhere far away from Ningbo.In this way, the parties can pretend to talk about business first, and then wait for an opportunity to sell themselves.
Of course, there is a certain degree of risk in doing so. Once it is exposed, then you will definitely not want to seek refuge with Haihan, and you may even suffer some hardships.But it might be worth the risk if you can get yourself a good job.And the dental shop that can come up with such an idea is naturally open to money. As long as the customers can afford the price, they are willing to provide comprehensive packaging and pretend that these unhappy scholars are government officials from a certain inland state.As for the script, it can only be compiled and played by these scholars themselves.
Driven by interests, there are really daring people who do not take the usual path and choose this seemingly unfeasible path.With the help of an unscrupulous tooth shop, a scholar disguised himself as a businessman from Jinhua Mansion.This scholar can be regarded as having some family property. When he came to Ningbo, he brought five or six servants and rented a house. If not, he would not dare to pretend to be an official businessman.
Yaxing made an identity for him, prepared a new greeting card, and sent it to Shi Diwen's residence early in the morning.The concierge here has long been replaced by a person from the Ministry of Commerce. All the invitations delivered here will be filtered first, and then valuable objects will be selected from them, and then the specific meeting time will be notified.It is useless even if someone wants to plug money into the concierge, because the businessman Shi Diwen wants to meet must have certain commercial value or special status. Whether there was a trade relationship with Haihan in the past, etc.If the concierge dared to release water during this checkpoint, Shi Diwen would definitely find out afterwards, which would be equivalent to smashing his own job.
This scholar named Zhang Qu pretended to be the nephew of the prefect of Jinhua Prefecture in the greeting card. He came here to discuss with Haihan about jointly opening a silk workshop in Jinhua Prefecture. The gift list he prepared was also quite generous. After seeing it, the concierge did not suspect him, so he informed the other party to come over in the afternoon and wait for Shi Diwen's interview.
Zhang Qu was naturally overjoyed when he heard the servant's reward, knowing that the chance of being interviewed was half the battle.He himself is not bad in education, and he has assets in his family, but he has no official backing, so he has always been a little bit out of reach.He thought that if he could rely on Haihan as his backer, he could at least get a job as an official with his own ability. Even if he was not an official, it would be good to cooperate with Haihan to do some business.Of course, the silk workshop mentioned in the post is unlikely. His family’s property is only hundreds of acres of farmland. If you want to play such a high-end industry as a silk workshop, you can’t do it without a government background. It’s just the Hangzhou Weaving Bureau. The joints are difficult to open.
Zhang Qu had lunch early and rushed to the place where Shi Diwen was staying ahead of time.Outside the gate there were several other businessmen waiting to meet in the afternoon, all on horseback and in sedan chairs. Zhang Qu believed that he was an official and businessman, so he took the initiative to keep a distance from these people, and only waved his hands away as a greeting.
However, Zhang Qu's heart was not as arrogant as it appeared on the surface. Although he didn't take the initiative to approach other businessmen, he was still listening to the conversations of these people with sharp ears, hoping to get some valuable information from them.Soon he discovered that these groups of businessmen had a special respect for a middle-aged man surnamed Cao sitting among them, and they all nodded and bowed and called him Master Cao.
Zhang Qu looked at this Master Cao from a distance. He looked about forty years old, with fair complexion and no beard on his face. He seemed to be a pampered person.But as soon as Master Cao opened his mouth, Zhang Qu knew why these businessmen were so submissive to him.
This Master Cao's voice was very sharp, like a woman, and he was holding a brocade handkerchief in his hand. His posture made Zhang Qu feel goosebumps all over his body.Needless to say, this Master Cao must be an eunuch, but I don't know where his origin is.
Zhang Qu became curious, so he continued to listen to Master Cao, and after a while he had some clues.This Master Cao came from Nanjing. Judging from his tone, he should be working under the command of a certain prince. And this time he came to Ningbo, he probably had some business to discuss with the Haihan people.However, two days ago, when Shi Diwen complained of illness, he could only wait patiently in Ningbo even if Lao Tzu, the Heavenly King, came.Now that Shi Diwen recovered from his illness and started to work, Master Cao hurried over to wait, hoping to meet Shi Diwen earlier to make arrangements in advance.
It's normal for Daming's royal family to run some businesses in private, but Zhang Qu doesn't think much about it.However, it was the first time for him to meet this kind of eunuch who went out to do business, so he couldn't help being a little curious, what kind of scene would it be like for this eunuch to discuss business with the Haihan people.
Not long after, the meeting time in the afternoon began, and the first eunuch called by the concierge was indeed the eunuch Cao: "Mr. Cao Lucao, you can go in."
Cao Lu stood up, nodded to everyone, and walked into the courtyard without haste.Zhang Qu saw that after Cao Lu left, the businessmen who were with him just now looked relieved, and immediately asked them: "Are you here with Master Cao?"
"I really want to, but I can't get into this relationship!" The person closest to Zhang Qu responded: "This Master Cao came from Nanjing, and he is a serious imperial merchant. It's much more powerful. I don't know how big the deal he went to negotiate with the Haihan people, anyway, I definitely won't be able to eat it."
Zhang Qu thought that the title of Emperor Merchant sounded really powerful, but he didn't know if this man surnamed Cao knew how to do business. If he relied on his extraordinary status and failed to negotiate terms with the Haihan people, it would be interesting.Immediately, he asked another question, what kind of business did Cao Lu come to see Shi Diwen for.
"I heard it's salt." The man lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "The Haihan people built a new salt field in Xiangshan County, and before the completion of the construction, the big households in Nanjing came to the door. Maybe this salt field is for them. It’s just a cover for Hai Han’s name.”
(End of this chapter)
As the saying goes, there is no first thing in literature, and there is no second in martial arts, but at least there are certain standards for comparison in those two fields, but the diagnosis and treatment of doctors are different. Even famous doctors with outstanding reputation cannot guarantee that every patient they treat Can be cured by medicine.Moreover, each person learns different methods of diagnosis and treatment and judges the disease. Although the prescriptions prescribed are similar, there are obvious differences in the dosage of the medicine.The doctors invited here for consultation are all famous doctors with outstanding medical skills in their respective places. Naturally, they will not easily agree with other people's opinions on diagnosis and treatment. How much each medicinal material should cost and how to match it must be contended for. a fight.
Shi Diwen said in his heart that it's just that I'm just overtired, and I'll be fine after a day or two of rest. If there is any serious illness, I'm afraid it's time to prepare for the funeral after waiting for the doctors to hold a meeting to discuss it. .Therefore, a large number of people may not make things easy to do. Although each family hired so many doctors out of good intentions, the effect was not what they wanted.In fact, Shi Diwen's subordinates were of course accompanied by a knowledgeable doctor, and he was only given two doses of fire-relief and calming medicine. After drinking it two or three times, his physical condition improved significantly.As for the various tonics sent by various families, Shi Diwen didn't move for the time being. His physical condition is better than most people in this era. This kind of physical discomfort caused by fatigue does not need to take tonics at all.
This short-term sudden situation did not affect the enthusiasm of Zhejiang businessmen to seek cooperation. Haihan's outstanding strength and business reputation in international trade, as well as its shipping capabilities in the southern waters of Daming and Southeast Asia, can be said to be the best for any businessman. A dream partner.Even during the two days when Shi Diwen said he was recuperating from illness, although very few people were able to visit him, businessmen from all over Zhejiang continued to pour into Ningbo City, trying to find a chance to meet with high-ranking Haihan officials.
In addition to the short-term shortage of tonics in pharmacies in Ningbo, high-end restaurants and inns were suddenly overcrowded due to the influx of business people.Some businessmen who came late could not find a place to live, and even rented houses at high prices.As a result, the accommodation in Ningbo City soon ushered in a second wave of upsurge. Seeing that it was profitable, many people in the city simply vacated one or two rooms of their houses and rented them out to these foreign businessmen to live temporarily.
Within a few days, even the most uninformed people knew that the reason why Ningbo City became so lively was because a high-ranking Haihan official in the city was having talks with Daming on trade matters.Many of the foreigners who flocked to Ningbo were businessmen who hoped to take advantage of this opportunity to establish a relationship with Haihan.
Of course, businessmen are not the only ones who want to have a relationship with Haihan. In fact, if we divide it by occupation, there are people from all walks of life who come to Ningbo with this idea.For example, among the doctors who consulted Shi Diwen at his residence, some of them wanted to take this opportunity to earn some performance and earn more capital for later joining Haihan.
In this excitement, the number of merchants is comparable to that of scholars.Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Haihan was very concerned about recruiting educated immigrants, and even set up a special resettlement subsidy for scholars with high reputations. Not only can Haihan nationality be obtained immediately, but also the resettlement and naturalization of family members can be solved. Solved together.Under Haihan's rule, the only new immigrants who received such treatment were those who took the route of joining the army and exchanged their naturalization for naturalization, but the treatment was still far inferior to the recruited scholars.
It's not that Haihan values literature over martial arts. It's because of helplessness. The rapid development of the country will inevitably require a large number of high-quality talents to enter the officialdom to support the bureaucratic system. However, the training capacity of Haihan's own education system is relatively limited. Cultivating high-level intellectuals is not something that can be accomplished overnight.And time waits for no one, the large number of vacancies in many departments makes Haihan have to face up to this situation.At that time, Haihan did not have the strength it has today. To attract scholars from Ming Dynasty or other countries to join Haihan, they had to use high salaries and excellent benefits as conditions.
Over time, most of the scholars in the coastal provinces of Ming Dynasty have heard of this special recruitment of Haihan. Some down-and-out scholars felt that the imperial examination was hopeless, so they simply voted for Haihan, and were quickly appointed to various positions. Soon he was promoted to official official.After such an example appeared, scholars in the south of the Ming Dynasty began to realize that this is really a feasible way, so more and more scholars of Daming who were discouraged by the imperial examinations took Haihan as a new place to go.
Most of those who voluntarily left their hometowns to join Haihan were poor scholars who lived in poverty and could not survive without finding a new home.However, those scholars with certain real talents and court fame tend to cherish feathers more, and are less likely to take the initiative to go to Haihan to find errands.Of course, these people who cherish feathers may not be so loyal to Daming, and many of them are also waiting for a price, just wanting to get a better offer at the right time.
Go directly to the territory occupied by Haihan to apply for naturalization at the Immigration Bureau, and get a letter of recommendation after interviewing with senior officials of Haihan, and then go for naturalization. There must be a gap in the final treatment.Therefore, when the news of Shi Diwen's visit to Ningbo and the news of the construction and transportation business between the two countries spread, many scholars with keen sense of smell realized that this is a rare opportunity.Businessmen can talk, and scholars can talk even more. If you can meet Shi Diwen and show off your knowledge and conversation skills to this high-ranking Haihan official, you might be attracted by the other party and hire him back to be a county magistrate. And so on, wouldn't that be flattering.Of course, there are also many people who come here purely with the idea of trying their luck, hoping to take advantage of this wind.
There are quite a few scholars who hold this kind of mind. Among the scholars who come to Ningbo, five or six out of ten have this mentality.Seeing the fierce competition, some people had other thoughts and tried to find local contacts and try to introduce Shi Diwen directly.So this gave birth to a new business, and the folks of the local dental shop took action one after another, looking for various ways to enter Shi Diwen's residence.
As the intermediary structure of this era, Yaxing is not too difficult to send a few people to work in Shi Diwen's house.But the problem is that the house where Shi Diwen lives this time has been completely taken over by Haihan, and all the staff in the house are Haihan citizens, and outsiders who want to sneak in will definitely be exposed.
But even if this way doesn't work, Yaxing also thought of another solution for customers, that is to pretend to be a businessman to get the qualification to meet, and then rely on personal performance to win Shi Diwen's favor.
If you just pretend to be an ordinary businessman, then you probably can only do the same as other people, first go to the concierge to hand in the greeting card, and then slowly queue up for a day or two, in the end you may not even see a hair.However, the dental firm that made this suggestion has already considered this for the customers, suggesting that they pretend to be businessmen with an official background, and the choice of this official background should be the one that the Haihan people cannot verify in a short time , For example, somewhere far away from Ningbo.In this way, the parties can pretend to talk about business first, and then wait for an opportunity to sell themselves.
Of course, there is a certain degree of risk in doing so. Once it is exposed, then you will definitely not want to seek refuge with Haihan, and you may even suffer some hardships.But it might be worth the risk if you can get yourself a good job.And the dental shop that can come up with such an idea is naturally open to money. As long as the customers can afford the price, they are willing to provide comprehensive packaging and pretend that these unhappy scholars are government officials from a certain inland state.As for the script, it can only be compiled and played by these scholars themselves.
Driven by interests, there are really daring people who do not take the usual path and choose this seemingly unfeasible path.With the help of an unscrupulous tooth shop, a scholar disguised himself as a businessman from Jinhua Mansion.This scholar can be regarded as having some family property. When he came to Ningbo, he brought five or six servants and rented a house. If not, he would not dare to pretend to be an official businessman.
Yaxing made an identity for him, prepared a new greeting card, and sent it to Shi Diwen's residence early in the morning.The concierge here has long been replaced by a person from the Ministry of Commerce. All the invitations delivered here will be filtered first, and then valuable objects will be selected from them, and then the specific meeting time will be notified.It is useless even if someone wants to plug money into the concierge, because the businessman Shi Diwen wants to meet must have certain commercial value or special status. Whether there was a trade relationship with Haihan in the past, etc.If the concierge dared to release water during this checkpoint, Shi Diwen would definitely find out afterwards, which would be equivalent to smashing his own job.
This scholar named Zhang Qu pretended to be the nephew of the prefect of Jinhua Prefecture in the greeting card. He came here to discuss with Haihan about jointly opening a silk workshop in Jinhua Prefecture. The gift list he prepared was also quite generous. After seeing it, the concierge did not suspect him, so he informed the other party to come over in the afternoon and wait for Shi Diwen's interview.
Zhang Qu was naturally overjoyed when he heard the servant's reward, knowing that the chance of being interviewed was half the battle.He himself is not bad in education, and he has assets in his family, but he has no official backing, so he has always been a little bit out of reach.He thought that if he could rely on Haihan as his backer, he could at least get a job as an official with his own ability. Even if he was not an official, it would be good to cooperate with Haihan to do some business.Of course, the silk workshop mentioned in the post is unlikely. His family’s property is only hundreds of acres of farmland. If you want to play such a high-end industry as a silk workshop, you can’t do it without a government background. It’s just the Hangzhou Weaving Bureau. The joints are difficult to open.
Zhang Qu had lunch early and rushed to the place where Shi Diwen was staying ahead of time.Outside the gate there were several other businessmen waiting to meet in the afternoon, all on horseback and in sedan chairs. Zhang Qu believed that he was an official and businessman, so he took the initiative to keep a distance from these people, and only waved his hands away as a greeting.
However, Zhang Qu's heart was not as arrogant as it appeared on the surface. Although he didn't take the initiative to approach other businessmen, he was still listening to the conversations of these people with sharp ears, hoping to get some valuable information from them.Soon he discovered that these groups of businessmen had a special respect for a middle-aged man surnamed Cao sitting among them, and they all nodded and bowed and called him Master Cao.
Zhang Qu looked at this Master Cao from a distance. He looked about forty years old, with fair complexion and no beard on his face. He seemed to be a pampered person.But as soon as Master Cao opened his mouth, Zhang Qu knew why these businessmen were so submissive to him.
This Master Cao's voice was very sharp, like a woman, and he was holding a brocade handkerchief in his hand. His posture made Zhang Qu feel goosebumps all over his body.Needless to say, this Master Cao must be an eunuch, but I don't know where his origin is.
Zhang Qu became curious, so he continued to listen to Master Cao, and after a while he had some clues.This Master Cao came from Nanjing. Judging from his tone, he should be working under the command of a certain prince. And this time he came to Ningbo, he probably had some business to discuss with the Haihan people.However, two days ago, when Shi Diwen complained of illness, he could only wait patiently in Ningbo even if Lao Tzu, the Heavenly King, came.Now that Shi Diwen recovered from his illness and started to work, Master Cao hurried over to wait, hoping to meet Shi Diwen earlier to make arrangements in advance.
It's normal for Daming's royal family to run some businesses in private, but Zhang Qu doesn't think much about it.However, it was the first time for him to meet this kind of eunuch who went out to do business, so he couldn't help being a little curious, what kind of scene would it be like for this eunuch to discuss business with the Haihan people.
Not long after, the meeting time in the afternoon began, and the first eunuch called by the concierge was indeed the eunuch Cao: "Mr. Cao Lucao, you can go in."
Cao Lu stood up, nodded to everyone, and walked into the courtyard without haste.Zhang Qu saw that after Cao Lu left, the businessmen who were with him just now looked relieved, and immediately asked them: "Are you here with Master Cao?"
"I really want to, but I can't get into this relationship!" The person closest to Zhang Qu responded: "This Master Cao came from Nanjing, and he is a serious imperial merchant. It's much more powerful. I don't know how big the deal he went to negotiate with the Haihan people, anyway, I definitely won't be able to eat it."
Zhang Qu thought that the title of Emperor Merchant sounded really powerful, but he didn't know if this man surnamed Cao knew how to do business. If he relied on his extraordinary status and failed to negotiate terms with the Haihan people, it would be interesting.Immediately, he asked another question, what kind of business did Cao Lu come to see Shi Diwen for.
"I heard it's salt." The man lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "The Haihan people built a new salt field in Xiangshan County, and before the completion of the construction, the big households in Nanjing came to the door. Maybe this salt field is for them. It’s just a cover for Hai Han’s name.”
(End of this chapter)