"Brother Lu's business is in Zhongnan Bar." Qin Lei pondered: "The sky is high and the emperor is far away, so it should be better."

"Haha, Brother Qin, if you sneeze in the southeast, it will rain for three days in Central and South China. If the southeast is sad, Zhongnan will be better." Lu Kun smiled and said, "And I am dissatisfied with Brother Qin saying that I will definitely not be able to leave if I go back to the southeast this time."

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"Oh." Qin Lei didn't ask much when he heard that the incident was involved in the family's secrets, but just said: "It's better not to leave, but nowhere can compare to his hometown."

"Brother Qin is such a wonderful person." Lu Kun smiled and said, "I won't talk about me anymore. What are your plans to go back?"

"First rest in Shanghai." Qin Lei said: "Then walk around and take a look."

"That's great." Lu Kun smiled and said, "I will live in Shanghai for a while, so we can get closer."

"The ultimate glory of the foundation."

,One...one...one...one...one...one...one...one...one...three days later, Ningbo slowly sailed into the Huangpu River. The guests bid farewell to each other on the deck, leaving their addresses for contact in the future. Qin Lei had no address, and no one else forced them. There were two worlds on the ship on the land, and people would return from artificial intimacy to their original positions. Even though they were a little charming, but without power, they would naturally no longer be as interested as before.

But a big man like Mr. Lu will not be neglected because of the transformation of space. People still surround him and invite him warmly. Be sure to visit him and ensure that he can be the warmest hospitality.

Qin Lei didn't care, and stood quietly. Nachu was beside him and whispered: "It seems that identity is really important. Without identity, you will become an ordinary person."

Ignoring this gloating guy, he looked at the prosperous scene on both sides of the river, but saw the vast smoke and water, the masts were like forests, and the five-masted sailboats of various countries were densely spread across the river. Looking into the distance, the pavilions on the river bank were majestic, and the misty clouds were beyond the clouds, flying painted buildings, and green pendants. It was many times more prosperous than when he came to Shanghai more than ten years ago.

After the ship stopped steadily on the dock, the gangway slowly fell down. Qin Lei raised his hand to everyone and bowed: "Everyone, there will be a date later." Then he got off the boat and left. The two bodyguards carried their luggage, Nachu carried their backpacks, and followed closely behind.

As soon as he got off the shore, he was called out. He saw that it was Changsui of Lu. Na Sui bowed to Qin Lei and said, "I have met Mr. Qin, a young man named Lu Zhi, who is born and raised in Shanghai.

My master is worried that you are not familiar with the place, so he asked Xiaode to follow you for a while. After you settle down, the young one will take your address back to avoid losing contact. "The domineering care makes people unable to refuse.

The bodyguard looked at Qin Lei, and Qin Lei nodded and said, "I'm sorry, this little brother."

"You should call me Lu Zhi." Lu Zhi's politeness was impeccable, and he had no intention of relying on others. When he heard that the other party was coming to Shanghai for the first time, he introduced enthusiastically and not too attentively: "Shanghai is amazing. During the Jiajing period, it was still a small fishing village. It has only been more than 20 years since it developed into the most famous metropolis in the southeast and even the Ming Dynasty. It is as famous as Nanjing, Suzhou and Hangzhou. It is a miracle. The origin of this miracle is the Bund where we live."

"Bund, what does this name mean?" Nachu asked incited.

"The locals call the upper reaches of the river "Li" and the lower reaches of the river "Wai. The Huangpu River is bounded by Lujiabang, and the upper reaches are called "Lihuangpu" and the lower reaches are called "Waihuangpu". The Bund is the river beach of Waihuangpu." The servants of the big family are indeed different, they speak clearly and tell the story, making people clear. While pointing out, he introduced: "When a villain was a child, this place was originally a barren shallow with a narrow mud road along the beach for boatmen to walk when pulling fibers.

To the west of the beach are farmland, and there are huts everywhere between the Zhenmo ditches. Later, in the 36th year of Jiajing, Shanghai was founded in Shanghai. At that time, Chen Gelao, the prefect of Suzhou, first demarcated the river surface of the Bund as a "lowing area" for ships, so locals say, "There is Waipu Port first, and then the Shanghai City."

Qin Lei looked as he walked and saw that the pier here was twice as big as Manila. So many passengers and cargo were up and down, but they were not as chaotic as Manila. After careful examination, you could see some clues. It turned out that the pier separated the passenger and freight. After the passengers got off the boat, they went straight to paving the bluestone.

The roads bounded by the fences are departing from the port. At the same time, the sailors on the ship and the porters on the dock worked together to move the cargo in the cabin to the unloading deck. He saw that they did not carry their hands on their shoulders, but used some cargo trolleys to complete the cargo transfer efficiently and labor-saving.

The work of moving the cargo from the ship to the shore was completed by a rotating boom crane driven by human and animal power. The people on the ship used a large net bag of explanation and then hung it on the hook. The people on the ground urged ten mules and horses to slowly lift the heavy cargo bag. At the same time, they turned the winch, transferred the cargo bag to the upper end of the cart, and then slowly put it down. The workers held the cargo bag and landed it steadily on the track cart.

Qin Lei then discovered that there were rails on the ground, and the four people were divided into two groups, like sitting on a seesaw, driving the track car to slowly start, and then drove gradually to the stack hundreds of feet away temporarily stored. In each berth, there were two such tracks and two vehicles, which just kept up with the unloading speed of the crane.

This unloading method not only saves manpower, but also greatly improves efficiency. The unloading speed can reach more than five times the original one. In addition, each berth corresponds to a stacked house, and no one can compete with anyone, so it is so orderly, busy but not messy.

Lu Zhi told him that after Shanghai Port was paralyzed for several years, there were too many ships and too many cargoes. If this were not the case, traffic in the river would be paralyzed, and the goods on the shore would be piled up like mountains, and the entire port would be in chaos, and there would be nothing to do and just stop vegetables. Therefore, the development of the commodity economy is the driving force for the innovation of production technology and methods, which is true.

Even the government embraced this high efficiency. If the passenger was not a merchant, even if he carried five or six boxes and many other items with his slaves, the Maritime Bureau, which was responsible for customs taxation, would not open the inspection, let alone tax it. Their taxation target was only one, that is, bulk goods from import and export customs.

Qin Lei saw that there was a Maritime Bureau official wearing official uniform beside each huge crane.

While the crane lifts the goods, it can display its weight through the dial, and completes the most time-consuming process of overweighting in the past. Lu Zhi told him that there is an official in the stack of "houses" who will randomly check the goods according to the books reported by the merchant. If it is true, he will paste a tax form on the package. The owner can pay taxes at the Maritime Bureau outside the dock within one month after picking up the goods. No owner will evade taxes, not only because the Maritime Bureau stipulates that the late payment will be paid after the deadline, but the tax evasion will be divided by a ten-fold fine. It is also because of the credit record of the merchant's survival and death, any commercial illegal acts, including tax evasion, tax evasion, fraud, etc., once the report is verified, it will be announced in major local newspapers. No matter how big the card you had before, as long as you have this time, it will be completely stinky. Not only will the ticket number not give you a loan, others will no longer do business with you, and there is only a dead end to wait for your business.

"So, when the goods arrive at the warehouse, the owner can take them away?" Qin Lei said with great interest.

"As long as you have a bill of lading in your hand, of course it is OK." Lu Zhi replied: "But many times, the purpose of the cargo owners coming to the dock is to sign the bill of lading, and after the tax is paid, the bill of lading becomes a securities.

Those who are reselling or who are in urgent need of money can sell the bill of lading to the buyer or list on the stock exchange. The goods will be delivered directly to the warehouse in the city by carriages, and they will often be picked up after several resales."

"Shanghai's development is indeed not comparable to that of Annan in Luzon." Qin Lei sighed.

"You are telling the truth," Lu Zhi smiled and said, "There is only Shanghai in the country. Other places want to learn, but they always don't learn like it." He asked again, "Master Qin, what are the plans below?"

"Prepare to make plans to live in a house and have a place to settle down."

"Do you think this is OK? You can go to the inn first, and then ask the young master and the young man to go to Yaxing to see the house." Lu Zhi said.

"Okay, but let Hua go with you." Qin Lei pointed at his tall, black and strong bodyguard and said.

So Lu Zhi led his group out of the dock and saw a six-meter-wide stone brick road, divided into two-way driving lanes, extending radially to the west by the Huangpu River, leading to every corner of the city. A row of black carriages parked on the side of the road. As soon as Qin Lei and the others came out, a coachman with various accents came forward to solicit business.

Lu Zhi introduced that these are all carriages that pull customers not only pass through the city, but also go to Suzhou. He called a car and asked the Qin father and son to get on. He and the two bodyguards only put their luggage on the car. He talked about a place in Wu language, and the carriage slowly drove away from the dock and slowly drove on the wide but bustling streets. Lu Zhi and others could keep up even by foot.

Qin Lei was not in a hurry. He opened the car window and looked at the street view outside the window leisurely. He saw that the buildings on the street were generally four or five floors high, and the style was five or eight doors. The walls alone were colorful, with baroque red brick walls: red bricks and white walls and Indian lateral colonnades: walls decorated with reliefs and sky blue dome roofs, but traditional flying corners and double eaves, and pink walls and black tiles were missing. In addition to these distinctive buildings, street lights, signs, guises, and merchants

Commercial outfits such as bidding and advertising are also available, and the street scene is decorated like a stage curtain, Lu Zhi introduced through the car window: "This Jiangnan Street is the first Feng Shui treasure land in Shanghai. Not only is the Maritime Warehouse located here, but the major commercial banks and piaohao also set up headquarters here. Owning a piece of land here is not only a symbol of wealth, but also a symbol of reputation. Although Shanghai City has not been long, most of the buildings here have been rebuilt, and some buildings have even been rebuilt two or three times."

"This is for Mou" Nachu asked curiously.

"After some large consortiums in China have a place, they will definitely build large-scale construction and build a business building.

With so many businesses crowded together, I didn’t care about being implicit, so how could I just suppress others? At first, everyone cleared the flying corners, red eaves, red walls and green tiles, and they were the same, and they couldn’t tell who would be with whom. Later, Huilian hired French craftsmen and built one, you can see that one."

Following the direction he pointed, everyone saw a tall building with a flat roof standing in the Jiangnan border, with a pure European style, but it abandoned the most popular Baroque style in Europe nowadays. It looked upright and majestic. On the outer wall, there were marble statues of figures, with beautiful shapes and lifelike. On the white marble plaque, "Huillian, three magnificent characters shine brightly.

"Huilianhao is known as the "Mother of Ten Thousand Merchants" to adopt such a building style, which will naturally affect other businesses." Lu Zhi introduced: "And this style is indeed dignified, especially because it is made of all stone, and there is no wood outside. It looks indestructible and immortal for a thousand years. As soon as it comes out, it compares other buildings. Therefore, other businesses have followed suit, hoping that their businesses can be as solid as a rock and long-lasting as such buildings."

"You are really a good tour guide." Nachu quipped.

"This is all said by my master." Lu Zhi smiled embarrassedly and said, "1 The villain is just a retelling."

"What else has your master said?" Nachu asked with a smile.

"My master said that the reason why Jiangnan Road is complicated but not chaotic is because of its good rules.

For example, the commercial outfits all over the streets must be placed at the lintel under the eaves, and the distance to pick out the walls is strictly limited. The banners of the business can cross the street, signs and guises allow them to be picked far away, and all the companies strictly implement them, so they will look so pleasing to the eye."

Judging from what he said, Nachu found that it was true that no one would violate the rules.

I couldn't help but exclaim: "Why are these businesses so obedient?"

"These are all the frontiers of major businesses, of course they have to act like abiding by the law." Lu Zhi smiled and said, "Over time, they will also take the whole city's businesses to abide by the rules. Because people say that if they don't even follow these superficial rules, they still expect the merchants to operate with integrity?"

After driving out of the bustling Jiangnan Road, the road surface became much looser and the carriage speeded up. Lu Zhi couldn't speak anymore, and he ran all the way and followed behind. Fortunately, not long after, he arrived at the inn, settled Qin Lei, and beat him up. He went out with the bodyguard to find Yashang to see the house.

In the guest room, Nachu asked Qin Lei, "You are so relieved, aren't you afraid that Lu Kun has any intention?"

"What's wrong with me?" Qin Lei smiled and said, "He treated me like this, just because he did not have any suspicion of my identity. Sending a servant to help me is just a simple task, and it is just a good relationship, and there is no other intention."

"That's right, I can't even recognize you now. I'm really not used to it."

Nachu nodded.

In the afternoon of the same day, Lu Zhi turned back and said that the house had been settled and could be moved there the next day.
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