Chapter 1693
Business upstart
Chapter 1693 Business upstart
If you want to list the upstarts who rose up in Manila after the war, the two brothers Ran Tianlu and Ran Tiancheng will definitely be among them.Although Ran Tianlu maintained a good relationship with the colonial authorities in Manila before the war, and to a certain extent he received official asylum and support, but there was still a significant gap between the operating scale of Chaosheng Trading Post at that time and the present. At most, it can be regarded as one of the Daming commercial firms with better operating conditions in the local area.
For a long time, since the Ming Dynasty organized immigrants to move across the sea to settle in the Manila area, it has been a lucrative business project for the operators, and the dental business that undertakes this has therefore become a very competitive business.Before the war, there were about four or five Ming business houses operating immigration business, and in normal years, they could send two to three thousand Han immigrants here every year.Some of the Han Chinese will be sent to settle in other colonies in the Philippine Islands, and about half of them will stay in Manila.
However, after the war, among the local immigrant firms, suddenly only Chaosheng Commercial Store was left as the dominant one. The special industry business license squeezed all other peers out of this business.This kind of special treatment given by the government has never appeared in Manila before, and many people have noticed Chaosheng Commercial Store and its operators, the Ran Brothers.
No one knew the reason for the special treatment of Chaosheng Commercial Store, but it was soon discovered that the business items of Chaosheng Commercial Store were not limited to immigration, and almost all businesses involving import and export were covered by this commercial store. There are dabbles, and the transaction volume is far better than that of local counterparts.Some Chinese herbal medicines produced in Daming, as well as matches, soaps, sugarcane wine and other commodities produced in Haihan, Chaosheng Commercial Store even provided local exclusive supplies. God knows how they got in touch with these immediately after the war. supply.
Of course, not everyone will go to the bottom of the source of these short-selling goods. The first thing most people who get the news think of is to cooperate with Chaosheng to make money together.After all, in Manila after the war, those who had the means to get the goods in short supply were the uncles, and having the supply of goods was equivalent to making a lot of money.Chaosheng earns a lot of money, and the next family will also have huge profits.Therefore, after the war, Chaosheng Commercial Store quickly became a major goods distribution center in the south of the city. Bought two yards and transformed them into temporary warehouses.
If Qin Huacheng had been more sensitive to business news, he might have noticed that many of the goods recently unloaded in the Manila port area were shipped to this warehouse in the south of the city.Some of these goods will be distributed to some retailers in the Manila area at the Tide Rise Store, and the rest will be sold by the Tide Rise Store itself. Several shops recently opened in the city have assumed this function.
Of course, even if Qin Huacheng knew this, it would be difficult for him to understand how Chaosheng Commercial Store, in addition to its exclusive source of goods, defeated its local counterparts by virtue of its advantages in logistics efficiency and distribution model, and quickly occupied the local business share after the war.Everyone in the world knows that Haihan is doing a great job in business, but few people can really understand why he is better than his counterparts in other countries.
Qin Huacheng was not in a hurry to enter the Chaosheng Commercial Store to check out, but sat down in a small tea shop across the street, intending to wait and see for a while, and also to see if he could get some additional information from here.The people who come and go here are all businessmen and fellows of chariots and horses. Many people will stop at this tea shop and talk about some business-related matters. Qin Huacheng pricked up his ears to listen to the conversation around him while drinking tea. harvested.
The people sitting at the table on his left are all Han Chinese men in their 40s and 400s. Each of them has a horsewhip for driving a cart, which looks like a handlebar.One of them was talking about what he had seen and heard at the port yesterday: "...I'm afraid there were as many as three or four hundred Han Chinese who arrived in that boat. When they docked and went down to the pier, security police came and surrounded them. Usually this kind of The immigrant boats don’t always pay money to the wharf to allow people to go ashore, but yesterday I saw the steward of the Chaosheng Commercial Warehouse approached the security police and let them go. It is said that this group of people will be resettled to the north bank of the Bashi River , go over there to reclaim wasteland and cultivate fields, and build farms."
Qin Huacheng thought to himself that no immigrant boats appeared in his jurisdiction yesterday, and the incident that the coachman said probably happened in another adjacent jurisdiction.It is said that the detachment leader over there sent a lot of benefits to the Police Headquarters to open up joints, hoping that all immigration ships will dock at the wharf in his area from now on.But according to the coachman, it seems that the local immigrants transported by Chaosheng Trading Post do not need to pay tribute to the security police.Of course, there may be other settlement methods. Just like some rich merchants in Qin Huacheng's jurisdiction, they all send him benefits on a monthly basis, so they don't have to negotiate prices individually every time they deal with each other.
Sure enough, another coachman next to him questioned his statement: "Second Guo, how do you know that you didn't pay? Maybe Chaosheng Trading Post paid the money in advance before the boat landed!"
The coachman named Guo Lao Er shook his head again and again: "I also had this idea before, but later I realized that it was wrong. After the immigrant boat landed and left, the head of the security police kept cursing, saying that it was at the Chaosheng Trading Post. You can’t get any money on your body, and if you have given money, you won’t be able to scold. It seems that the backstage is too hard to provoke for half a year, otherwise if the security police want to embarrass Chaosheng Commercial Store, can they just watch those immigrants leave?”
Qin Hua intentionally thought that it was not a question of whether Chaosheng Commercial Store paid according to the rules, but that the security police dared not accept money from the other party at all.This situation is actually not uncommon. Everyone should be aware that there is a backer behind Chaosheng Commercial Store, but no one knows which high-ranking official this backer is. There are more situations, but I will find time to ask for advice later, and see if I can dig out some news from him.
Another older coachman at the same table also joined the discussion: "Guo Laoer said that this is true. He used to pull goods for Chaosheng store and was interrogated by garrison checkpoints in several places. It has to be inspected car by car, but Chaosheng's goods can pass through without inspection. The shopkeeper Ran of Chaosheng really has a queue!"
"Speaking of which, Chaosheng's price is quite good. I think it's [-]% more than other houses!" A driver who was facing Qin Huacheng noticed the security police uniform on his body, and changed the topic on his own initiative. So as not to provoke unnecessary trouble.
"More than that, you forgot that it rained a few days ago, Chaosheng directly increased the price by [-]%, let us go to Pasay Town to pick up the goods and send them to the north of the city..."
The drivers talking about these topics are nothing more than trying to have fun. What they really care about is whether it is profitable to do business with Chaosheng Trading Post, whether it is convenient to arrange freight transportation, delivery of goods, and freight settlement. As for why Chaosheng Trading Post can get the official Asylum, that is not a question they really want to know the answer to.
Of course, to Qin Huacheng, who was eavesdropping on the conversation, the information had a different meaning.It is not an exaggeration to say that a store run by a Ming merchant can receive so much care from the government in Haihan's colony, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it has privileges. What is Ran Tianlu relying on?There are so many rumors like this that Qin Huacheng no longer has to doubt their authenticity. The biggest doubt in his heart now is why the Haihan government provides so much convenience for Chaosheng Trading Post.
Qin Huacheng looked towards the gate of Chaosheng Commercial Store across the road, and the flow of people coming and going there seemed to have never been interrupted.Obviously, the support provided by the government to Chaosheng Trading Post cannot be free, so what is the reward?Chaosheng Commercial Store's business is so good, how much of the income must be handed over to the government in exchange for such treatment?Is the relationship between Chaosheng Commercial Store and the government really just pure money?
A lot of questions popped up in Qin Huacheng's mind, but he couldn't find a clue to solve them.It's not that he doesn't have enough brains, but that he has too little information to make a more accurate inference.If possible, he would really like to meet Ran Tianlu to see what is special about this person, but he is wearing a uniform right now, so it would be a bit reckless to just ask for a meeting.
At this time, Ran Tianlu didn't know that there was a security policeman across the street who was trying to investigate his details. He was so busy recently that he didn't even have time to do his own work.Since the end of the war, he has almost left security and intelligence work, and most of his energy has been devoted to the operation of the store.
This is not that the Ministry of Security no longer needs him, but that the Temporary Management Committee directly issued an order to him, requiring him to let Chaosheng Trading Post grasp the main local business resources in the shortest possible time, so as to cooperate with the official Cleanup of local business establishments.
After Haihan took over Manila, the local commercial institutions originally run by the Spaniards were almost wiped out. Most of the assets of these institutions were seized and confiscated by the Haihan Army in the name of spoils.This is also Haihan's deliberate method. In addition to collecting money, he also wants to gradually eliminate the influence of the Spaniards in the local area.As for the part of the market share vacated by this, the temporary management committee will naturally support a group of latecomers to fill in it.
Haihan's main support targets are still large domestic commercial organizations. Commercial organizations like Zhan's Shipping Company do not need to worry about their loyalty. Officials are more at ease if they control important industries such as shipping.The second is to support the local pro-Han forces. Whether they are Han, indigenous or Hispanic, at this stage, they all have a certain chance to win official appreciation and support.
However, the situation of Chaosheng Commercial Store is quite special. The official hoped that it could control some key industries related to the local people's livelihood, such as immigration from Daming, the daily necessities of the local people, and so on.Even some industries that cannot achieve monopoly operation must at least occupy a share sufficient to influence the market trend.
To achieve such a goal, it is not just a certain department that provides support to Chaosheng Commercial Inn. Commerce, shipping, civil affairs, public security, and even the garrison troops are all involved in the support.It is precisely because of this kind of comprehensive care that Chaosheng Commercial Store quickly became the largest commercial organization in the local area in just over a month after the war.
The main reason why the Temporary Management Committee chose Chaosheng Commercial Store instead of creating another commercial organization was because of Ran Tianlu's understanding of the local commercial market, and Chaosheng Commercial Store was still a commercial organization affiliated to Daming in name. Even with a lot of support from the government, few people would have thought that this store is actually an extension organization of the Haihan government, just covered in a layer of Ming's skin.
Ran Tianlu originally thought that after the war ended, he would be rewarded for his great achievements during this period, and then he was transferred back to Sanya to become an official.But he never thought that the use of him by the superiors did not end here, and he had to continue to play the role of the Ming businessman.Of course, now that he has official support, Ran Tianlu no longer has to live his life as cautiously as he did during the Western System.Now the official effect is to turn him into a representative of Ming merchants and Han people who are influential in the local area, so they will give him and Chaosheng Trading Post many privileges in a very high-profile manner, so as to package him as a "Manila official merchant" image of.
Ran Tianlu quickly adapted to this new role after a brief period of unhappiness.In fact, he himself knows very well that in terms of personal treatment alone, being a wealthy businessman in Manila who has everything taken care of is far better than going back to Sanya and staying in the cold security department to be an official who deals with piles of documents every day.And now the Ministry of Security's order is to let him temporarily obey the arrangement of the temporary management committee, so now he can only be a rich man here with peace of mind.
Of course, Ran Tianlu didn't have to do anything, in fact, there were many things that he needed to deal with every day.Now that Chaosheng Commercial Store has expanded its business scale, there are many more things that need to be decided by Ran Tianlu.He spends a lot of time every day meeting all kinds of people, listening to their reports and suggestions, and then making the most favorable decision.
Although many businesses have been taken care of by officials, Ran Tianlu still needs to complete the operation process by himself.When he was the busiest, his daily sleep time was even compressed to two hours, and he could not go to bed until midnight, and he was urged to get up again before the rooster crowed and started busy.Fortunately, his net worth has also increased a lot now, and he takes turns serving ginseng tea and various tonics every day. Instead of being tired and thin, he has gained a lot of weight compared to before the war.
(End of this chapter)
If you want to list the upstarts who rose up in Manila after the war, the two brothers Ran Tianlu and Ran Tiancheng will definitely be among them.Although Ran Tianlu maintained a good relationship with the colonial authorities in Manila before the war, and to a certain extent he received official asylum and support, but there was still a significant gap between the operating scale of Chaosheng Trading Post at that time and the present. At most, it can be regarded as one of the Daming commercial firms with better operating conditions in the local area.
For a long time, since the Ming Dynasty organized immigrants to move across the sea to settle in the Manila area, it has been a lucrative business project for the operators, and the dental business that undertakes this has therefore become a very competitive business.Before the war, there were about four or five Ming business houses operating immigration business, and in normal years, they could send two to three thousand Han immigrants here every year.Some of the Han Chinese will be sent to settle in other colonies in the Philippine Islands, and about half of them will stay in Manila.
However, after the war, among the local immigrant firms, suddenly only Chaosheng Commercial Store was left as the dominant one. The special industry business license squeezed all other peers out of this business.This kind of special treatment given by the government has never appeared in Manila before, and many people have noticed Chaosheng Commercial Store and its operators, the Ran Brothers.
No one knew the reason for the special treatment of Chaosheng Commercial Store, but it was soon discovered that the business items of Chaosheng Commercial Store were not limited to immigration, and almost all businesses involving import and export were covered by this commercial store. There are dabbles, and the transaction volume is far better than that of local counterparts.Some Chinese herbal medicines produced in Daming, as well as matches, soaps, sugarcane wine and other commodities produced in Haihan, Chaosheng Commercial Store even provided local exclusive supplies. God knows how they got in touch with these immediately after the war. supply.
Of course, not everyone will go to the bottom of the source of these short-selling goods. The first thing most people who get the news think of is to cooperate with Chaosheng to make money together.After all, in Manila after the war, those who had the means to get the goods in short supply were the uncles, and having the supply of goods was equivalent to making a lot of money.Chaosheng earns a lot of money, and the next family will also have huge profits.Therefore, after the war, Chaosheng Commercial Store quickly became a major goods distribution center in the south of the city. Bought two yards and transformed them into temporary warehouses.
If Qin Huacheng had been more sensitive to business news, he might have noticed that many of the goods recently unloaded in the Manila port area were shipped to this warehouse in the south of the city.Some of these goods will be distributed to some retailers in the Manila area at the Tide Rise Store, and the rest will be sold by the Tide Rise Store itself. Several shops recently opened in the city have assumed this function.
Of course, even if Qin Huacheng knew this, it would be difficult for him to understand how Chaosheng Commercial Store, in addition to its exclusive source of goods, defeated its local counterparts by virtue of its advantages in logistics efficiency and distribution model, and quickly occupied the local business share after the war.Everyone in the world knows that Haihan is doing a great job in business, but few people can really understand why he is better than his counterparts in other countries.
Qin Huacheng was not in a hurry to enter the Chaosheng Commercial Store to check out, but sat down in a small tea shop across the street, intending to wait and see for a while, and also to see if he could get some additional information from here.The people who come and go here are all businessmen and fellows of chariots and horses. Many people will stop at this tea shop and talk about some business-related matters. Qin Huacheng pricked up his ears to listen to the conversation around him while drinking tea. harvested.
The people sitting at the table on his left are all Han Chinese men in their 40s and 400s. Each of them has a horsewhip for driving a cart, which looks like a handlebar.One of them was talking about what he had seen and heard at the port yesterday: "...I'm afraid there were as many as three or four hundred Han Chinese who arrived in that boat. When they docked and went down to the pier, security police came and surrounded them. Usually this kind of The immigrant boats don’t always pay money to the wharf to allow people to go ashore, but yesterday I saw the steward of the Chaosheng Commercial Warehouse approached the security police and let them go. It is said that this group of people will be resettled to the north bank of the Bashi River , go over there to reclaim wasteland and cultivate fields, and build farms."
Qin Huacheng thought to himself that no immigrant boats appeared in his jurisdiction yesterday, and the incident that the coachman said probably happened in another adjacent jurisdiction.It is said that the detachment leader over there sent a lot of benefits to the Police Headquarters to open up joints, hoping that all immigration ships will dock at the wharf in his area from now on.But according to the coachman, it seems that the local immigrants transported by Chaosheng Trading Post do not need to pay tribute to the security police.Of course, there may be other settlement methods. Just like some rich merchants in Qin Huacheng's jurisdiction, they all send him benefits on a monthly basis, so they don't have to negotiate prices individually every time they deal with each other.
Sure enough, another coachman next to him questioned his statement: "Second Guo, how do you know that you didn't pay? Maybe Chaosheng Trading Post paid the money in advance before the boat landed!"
The coachman named Guo Lao Er shook his head again and again: "I also had this idea before, but later I realized that it was wrong. After the immigrant boat landed and left, the head of the security police kept cursing, saying that it was at the Chaosheng Trading Post. You can’t get any money on your body, and if you have given money, you won’t be able to scold. It seems that the backstage is too hard to provoke for half a year, otherwise if the security police want to embarrass Chaosheng Commercial Store, can they just watch those immigrants leave?”
Qin Hua intentionally thought that it was not a question of whether Chaosheng Commercial Store paid according to the rules, but that the security police dared not accept money from the other party at all.This situation is actually not uncommon. Everyone should be aware that there is a backer behind Chaosheng Commercial Store, but no one knows which high-ranking official this backer is. There are more situations, but I will find time to ask for advice later, and see if I can dig out some news from him.
Another older coachman at the same table also joined the discussion: "Guo Laoer said that this is true. He used to pull goods for Chaosheng store and was interrogated by garrison checkpoints in several places. It has to be inspected car by car, but Chaosheng's goods can pass through without inspection. The shopkeeper Ran of Chaosheng really has a queue!"
"Speaking of which, Chaosheng's price is quite good. I think it's [-]% more than other houses!" A driver who was facing Qin Huacheng noticed the security police uniform on his body, and changed the topic on his own initiative. So as not to provoke unnecessary trouble.
"More than that, you forgot that it rained a few days ago, Chaosheng directly increased the price by [-]%, let us go to Pasay Town to pick up the goods and send them to the north of the city..."
The drivers talking about these topics are nothing more than trying to have fun. What they really care about is whether it is profitable to do business with Chaosheng Trading Post, whether it is convenient to arrange freight transportation, delivery of goods, and freight settlement. As for why Chaosheng Trading Post can get the official Asylum, that is not a question they really want to know the answer to.
Of course, to Qin Huacheng, who was eavesdropping on the conversation, the information had a different meaning.It is not an exaggeration to say that a store run by a Ming merchant can receive so much care from the government in Haihan's colony, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it has privileges. What is Ran Tianlu relying on?There are so many rumors like this that Qin Huacheng no longer has to doubt their authenticity. The biggest doubt in his heart now is why the Haihan government provides so much convenience for Chaosheng Trading Post.
Qin Huacheng looked towards the gate of Chaosheng Commercial Store across the road, and the flow of people coming and going there seemed to have never been interrupted.Obviously, the support provided by the government to Chaosheng Trading Post cannot be free, so what is the reward?Chaosheng Commercial Store's business is so good, how much of the income must be handed over to the government in exchange for such treatment?Is the relationship between Chaosheng Commercial Store and the government really just pure money?
A lot of questions popped up in Qin Huacheng's mind, but he couldn't find a clue to solve them.It's not that he doesn't have enough brains, but that he has too little information to make a more accurate inference.If possible, he would really like to meet Ran Tianlu to see what is special about this person, but he is wearing a uniform right now, so it would be a bit reckless to just ask for a meeting.
At this time, Ran Tianlu didn't know that there was a security policeman across the street who was trying to investigate his details. He was so busy recently that he didn't even have time to do his own work.Since the end of the war, he has almost left security and intelligence work, and most of his energy has been devoted to the operation of the store.
This is not that the Ministry of Security no longer needs him, but that the Temporary Management Committee directly issued an order to him, requiring him to let Chaosheng Trading Post grasp the main local business resources in the shortest possible time, so as to cooperate with the official Cleanup of local business establishments.
After Haihan took over Manila, the local commercial institutions originally run by the Spaniards were almost wiped out. Most of the assets of these institutions were seized and confiscated by the Haihan Army in the name of spoils.This is also Haihan's deliberate method. In addition to collecting money, he also wants to gradually eliminate the influence of the Spaniards in the local area.As for the part of the market share vacated by this, the temporary management committee will naturally support a group of latecomers to fill in it.
Haihan's main support targets are still large domestic commercial organizations. Commercial organizations like Zhan's Shipping Company do not need to worry about their loyalty. Officials are more at ease if they control important industries such as shipping.The second is to support the local pro-Han forces. Whether they are Han, indigenous or Hispanic, at this stage, they all have a certain chance to win official appreciation and support.
However, the situation of Chaosheng Commercial Store is quite special. The official hoped that it could control some key industries related to the local people's livelihood, such as immigration from Daming, the daily necessities of the local people, and so on.Even some industries that cannot achieve monopoly operation must at least occupy a share sufficient to influence the market trend.
To achieve such a goal, it is not just a certain department that provides support to Chaosheng Commercial Inn. Commerce, shipping, civil affairs, public security, and even the garrison troops are all involved in the support.It is precisely because of this kind of comprehensive care that Chaosheng Commercial Store quickly became the largest commercial organization in the local area in just over a month after the war.
The main reason why the Temporary Management Committee chose Chaosheng Commercial Store instead of creating another commercial organization was because of Ran Tianlu's understanding of the local commercial market, and Chaosheng Commercial Store was still a commercial organization affiliated to Daming in name. Even with a lot of support from the government, few people would have thought that this store is actually an extension organization of the Haihan government, just covered in a layer of Ming's skin.
Ran Tianlu originally thought that after the war ended, he would be rewarded for his great achievements during this period, and then he was transferred back to Sanya to become an official.But he never thought that the use of him by the superiors did not end here, and he had to continue to play the role of the Ming businessman.Of course, now that he has official support, Ran Tianlu no longer has to live his life as cautiously as he did during the Western System.Now the official effect is to turn him into a representative of Ming merchants and Han people who are influential in the local area, so they will give him and Chaosheng Trading Post many privileges in a very high-profile manner, so as to package him as a "Manila official merchant" image of.
Ran Tianlu quickly adapted to this new role after a brief period of unhappiness.In fact, he himself knows very well that in terms of personal treatment alone, being a wealthy businessman in Manila who has everything taken care of is far better than going back to Sanya and staying in the cold security department to be an official who deals with piles of documents every day.And now the Ministry of Security's order is to let him temporarily obey the arrangement of the temporary management committee, so now he can only be a rich man here with peace of mind.
Of course, Ran Tianlu didn't have to do anything, in fact, there were many things that he needed to deal with every day.Now that Chaosheng Commercial Store has expanded its business scale, there are many more things that need to be decided by Ran Tianlu.He spends a lot of time every day meeting all kinds of people, listening to their reports and suggestions, and then making the most favorable decision.
Although many businesses have been taken care of by officials, Ran Tianlu still needs to complete the operation process by himself.When he was the busiest, his daily sleep time was even compressed to two hours, and he could not go to bed until midnight, and he was urged to get up again before the rooster crowed and started busy.Fortunately, his net worth has also increased a lot now, and he takes turns serving ginseng tea and various tonics every day. Instead of being tired and thin, he has gained a lot of weight compared to before the war.
(End of this chapter)