Chapter 2538
Chapter 2538
Chapter 2538
It is not uncommon for two generations to play for Haihan like the Wanjia father and son.People with such family heritage have a relatively high degree of loyalty to Haihan, and they are often more trusted by the authorities.This is amply demonstrated by the appointment of Wan Yanneng as the head of the Ministry of Commerce in Hangzhou to oversee business activities in this important region.
As the political and economic center of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions for a long time, Hangzhou has flourished in commerce and trade, and the relocation of the capital of Haihan to Hangzhou in the future will inevitably drive more commercial institutions and capital into this region.For example, Qiong Lianfa, a commercial giant with a keen sense of smell, has already begun to deploy around Hangzhou.
But this time is the period of dynasties. Although the power transfer in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is relatively peaceful, it is inevitable that there will be people with various thoughts who want to use this troubled world to achieve their goals. Wan Yan's mission in Hangzhou One of them is to supervise business activities, discover and resolve those business activities that are unfavorable to Haihan.
This is a blind spot for Tao Hongfang, who has been working in Sanya for a long time. His past work mainly focused on sorting out and counting various economic data, most of which were desk work.Although there are times when I go out for investigation, I almost never go out to Hainan Island, and the negative cases I can encounter are naturally limited.How to supervise business activities and distinguish between normal and harmful business methods is really the first time for Tao Hongfang to come into contact with such work.
The two chatted and chatted, and the topic slowly turned to work.
Wan Yan said in a deep voice: "Since Master Tao came to Jiangsu and Zhejiang for the first time, he probably doesn't know much about local business activities. The situation here is indeed a bit complicated, and it's not as easy to supervise as Sanya's own place. Once it's dealt with If it’s not done properly, it’s easy to get into trouble.”
Tao Hongfang responded humbly: "Director Lao Wan will explain one or two."
Wan Yan said: "The local groups engaged in commercial activities, aside from small businesses and hawkers, can be roughly divided into three categories. Let me explain to Master Tao one by one."
The first category is local merchants whose roots are in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, such as the well-known Yangzhou salt merchants and Hangzhou silk merchants.These businessmen are often aristocratic families engaged in a certain industry, and have formed a near-monopoly advantage in the industry in the long-term business activities, so that they can obtain huge profits, and their financial resources are also extremely strong, and thus they have local authority. Considerable influence.
The second category is the comprador merchants who have been fully supported by Haihan in the past 20 years. This emerging group mostly acts as an agent for the sales rights of Haihan’s products in this area, or purchases some raw materials from Daming on Haihan’s behalf. Commodities, thus gaining the opportunity to make a fortune.Behind these people are not only the commercial resources provided by Haihan, but also often supported by local officials, so they also get a lot of convenience in the mall.
Among the more representative figures, such as He Li, an aide of Qu Yutong, the former prefect of Ningbo, the He's firm run by him was on board the big ship of Haihan, and the business activities he was engaged in were essentially In fact, it was just serving as a white glove for Qu Yutong.
There is also a class of powerful merchants who belong to foreign crossing river dragons. In addition to strong economic strength, this kind of merchants often have a very deep official background. Behind them may be the weaving eunuchs sent by the palace to the south of the Yangtze River. It may also be a certain prince, minister, or relative of the emperor, who walks sideways when he arrives in the local area. Ordinary local officials generally do not dare to provoke these people.
Most of the powerful merchants that can be called famous in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions today belong to these three types.There is both confrontation and cooperation between these businesses.And the industrial channels and interest relationship networks of these businesses will often affect the whole body, and even affect the stability of the region.
Tao Hongfang interjected when he heard this, and asked, "Then the ones who will be hostile to our country should be the front and the back, right?"
Wan Yan replied: "Yes, but not entirely. Even if some merchants are dissatisfied with our country's replacement of Daming, they will choose to cooperate with us out of consideration of their own interests. For example, Yangzhou salt merchants, 20 years ago Because of business issues, there is a lot of conflict with our country, but now in order to survive, they will take the initiative to attach to us."
Tao Hongfang had read the grievances with Yangzhou salt merchants in the internal files, and he knew a little about it. He understood when Wan Yan took Yangzhou salt merchants as an example.
Yangzhou salt merchants tried their best to resist the entry of high-quality and cheap Haihan salt into the Jiangsu and Zhejiang markets in order to avoid the impact on their business. They even organized private armed forces to attack the salt caravan.Such measures naturally drew Haihan's revenge. In 1638, elite armed forces were even dispatched to sneak into Yangzhou and attack the most radical Shanshan salt merchants.Later, Haihan teamed up with local Huizhou salt merchants to gradually clear up the local hostile salt merchant forces.
After that, the supplier of salt merchants in Yangzhou gradually changed from the official salt farm to Haihan. By the time Haihan took over the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions in 1654, more than [-]% of the salt supplied in the local market had come from Haihan opened saltworks in Xiangshan, Ningbo and other places.And the Yangzhou salt merchants who used to be invincible in the past can only rely on Haihan to provide the supply of goods to maintain their business. No matter how rich they are, Zuo Zuo is just a channel distributor, so naturally they dare not make mistakes easily.
Tao Hongfang then asked: "Then where is the most likely problem?"
Wan Yan replied: "Although our country has already surrendered to Ming Dynasty, not everyone is willing to become our country's subjects. There are still many people who hope to take advantage of our country's unstable foothold in most areas, through war or other means. , to overthrow the rule of our country, and re-establish the Zhu Dynasty, which they regard as orthodox."
Tao Hongfang shook his head when he heard this, and said: "The Zhu dynasty is exhausted, even if someone supports it, it is impossible to take back the world!"
Wan Yan smiled and said: "This is just our unilateral idea. Those who are hostile to our country don't think so. But to start a war, a huge amount of funds and materials must be needed. The Zhu Dynasty has been unable to pass taxes. To increase income quickly, some people try to engage in trade activities, and then use the profits earned to prepare for war.”
Tao Hongfang said: "Then what effective regulatory measures are there at the moment?"
Wan Yan replied: "To be honest, it is very difficult to supervise. It will inevitably involve a lot of investigation work, and the total number of people in our yamen is only a few dozen people, and most of them are internal staff. How can we have the ability to investigate the market? The details of so many merchant firms."
(End of this chapter)
It is not uncommon for two generations to play for Haihan like the Wanjia father and son.People with such family heritage have a relatively high degree of loyalty to Haihan, and they are often more trusted by the authorities.This is amply demonstrated by the appointment of Wan Yanneng as the head of the Ministry of Commerce in Hangzhou to oversee business activities in this important region.
As the political and economic center of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions for a long time, Hangzhou has flourished in commerce and trade, and the relocation of the capital of Haihan to Hangzhou in the future will inevitably drive more commercial institutions and capital into this region.For example, Qiong Lianfa, a commercial giant with a keen sense of smell, has already begun to deploy around Hangzhou.
But this time is the period of dynasties. Although the power transfer in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is relatively peaceful, it is inevitable that there will be people with various thoughts who want to use this troubled world to achieve their goals. Wan Yan's mission in Hangzhou One of them is to supervise business activities, discover and resolve those business activities that are unfavorable to Haihan.
This is a blind spot for Tao Hongfang, who has been working in Sanya for a long time. His past work mainly focused on sorting out and counting various economic data, most of which were desk work.Although there are times when I go out for investigation, I almost never go out to Hainan Island, and the negative cases I can encounter are naturally limited.How to supervise business activities and distinguish between normal and harmful business methods is really the first time for Tao Hongfang to come into contact with such work.
The two chatted and chatted, and the topic slowly turned to work.
Wan Yan said in a deep voice: "Since Master Tao came to Jiangsu and Zhejiang for the first time, he probably doesn't know much about local business activities. The situation here is indeed a bit complicated, and it's not as easy to supervise as Sanya's own place. Once it's dealt with If it’s not done properly, it’s easy to get into trouble.”
Tao Hongfang responded humbly: "Director Lao Wan will explain one or two."
Wan Yan said: "The local groups engaged in commercial activities, aside from small businesses and hawkers, can be roughly divided into three categories. Let me explain to Master Tao one by one."
The first category is local merchants whose roots are in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, such as the well-known Yangzhou salt merchants and Hangzhou silk merchants.These businessmen are often aristocratic families engaged in a certain industry, and have formed a near-monopoly advantage in the industry in the long-term business activities, so that they can obtain huge profits, and their financial resources are also extremely strong, and thus they have local authority. Considerable influence.
The second category is the comprador merchants who have been fully supported by Haihan in the past 20 years. This emerging group mostly acts as an agent for the sales rights of Haihan’s products in this area, or purchases some raw materials from Daming on Haihan’s behalf. Commodities, thus gaining the opportunity to make a fortune.Behind these people are not only the commercial resources provided by Haihan, but also often supported by local officials, so they also get a lot of convenience in the mall.
Among the more representative figures, such as He Li, an aide of Qu Yutong, the former prefect of Ningbo, the He's firm run by him was on board the big ship of Haihan, and the business activities he was engaged in were essentially In fact, it was just serving as a white glove for Qu Yutong.
There is also a class of powerful merchants who belong to foreign crossing river dragons. In addition to strong economic strength, this kind of merchants often have a very deep official background. Behind them may be the weaving eunuchs sent by the palace to the south of the Yangtze River. It may also be a certain prince, minister, or relative of the emperor, who walks sideways when he arrives in the local area. Ordinary local officials generally do not dare to provoke these people.
Most of the powerful merchants that can be called famous in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions today belong to these three types.There is both confrontation and cooperation between these businesses.And the industrial channels and interest relationship networks of these businesses will often affect the whole body, and even affect the stability of the region.
Tao Hongfang interjected when he heard this, and asked, "Then the ones who will be hostile to our country should be the front and the back, right?"
Wan Yan replied: "Yes, but not entirely. Even if some merchants are dissatisfied with our country's replacement of Daming, they will choose to cooperate with us out of consideration of their own interests. For example, Yangzhou salt merchants, 20 years ago Because of business issues, there is a lot of conflict with our country, but now in order to survive, they will take the initiative to attach to us."
Tao Hongfang had read the grievances with Yangzhou salt merchants in the internal files, and he knew a little about it. He understood when Wan Yan took Yangzhou salt merchants as an example.
Yangzhou salt merchants tried their best to resist the entry of high-quality and cheap Haihan salt into the Jiangsu and Zhejiang markets in order to avoid the impact on their business. They even organized private armed forces to attack the salt caravan.Such measures naturally drew Haihan's revenge. In 1638, elite armed forces were even dispatched to sneak into Yangzhou and attack the most radical Shanshan salt merchants.Later, Haihan teamed up with local Huizhou salt merchants to gradually clear up the local hostile salt merchant forces.
After that, the supplier of salt merchants in Yangzhou gradually changed from the official salt farm to Haihan. By the time Haihan took over the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions in 1654, more than [-]% of the salt supplied in the local market had come from Haihan opened saltworks in Xiangshan, Ningbo and other places.And the Yangzhou salt merchants who used to be invincible in the past can only rely on Haihan to provide the supply of goods to maintain their business. No matter how rich they are, Zuo Zuo is just a channel distributor, so naturally they dare not make mistakes easily.
Tao Hongfang then asked: "Then where is the most likely problem?"
Wan Yan replied: "Although our country has already surrendered to Ming Dynasty, not everyone is willing to become our country's subjects. There are still many people who hope to take advantage of our country's unstable foothold in most areas, through war or other means. , to overthrow the rule of our country, and re-establish the Zhu Dynasty, which they regard as orthodox."
Tao Hongfang shook his head when he heard this, and said: "The Zhu dynasty is exhausted, even if someone supports it, it is impossible to take back the world!"
Wan Yan smiled and said: "This is just our unilateral idea. Those who are hostile to our country don't think so. But to start a war, a huge amount of funds and materials must be needed. The Zhu Dynasty has been unable to pass taxes. To increase income quickly, some people try to engage in trade activities, and then use the profits earned to prepare for war.”
Tao Hongfang said: "Then what effective regulatory measures are there at the moment?"
Wan Yan replied: "To be honest, it is very difficult to supervise. It will inevitably involve a lot of investigation work, and the total number of people in our yamen is only a few dozen people, and most of them are internal staff. How can we have the ability to investigate the market? The details of so many merchant firms."
(End of this chapter)