.The drizzle in Jinling City is drizzling with the mist. Mochou Lake is sitting in the elegant seat of the tea house by the lake, savoring the green and elegant tea. The soft words of the guests downstairs to the teakeepers came from his ears: "Tea is leisurely, singing songs are like a place for bliss on the human world. There are few pleasure boats on the pier." The boats of all sizes have already been rippling on the Qinhuai Ten miles away. The spring night is worth a thousand gold, who would miss a minute?
But there is also a lonely double-decker painting boat leaning there, with no other ships around it, making it look huge. It is also very wide inside, and can accommodate thirty or fifty people. This boat is almost the most luxurious on the Qinhuai River. The furniture inside is all mahogany, and the table and chair backs are all embedded with cold jade surfaces. The panes of the pear wood are carved in fine carvings, and each one is expensive. The panes are not Goryeo paper, but Western glass in red and blue. The lights look through the glass, and from the outside, it looks like a dream, like a fairy boat in the Yao Pool, coming to the Qinhuai River.
At this moment, there were more than twenty people sitting in the cabin, all dressed in exquisite clothes and extraordinary temperament. Obviously not ordinary people... If anyone knew them, he would definitely exclaim that this must be the most valuable boatman in the world. The head of a round table on the left of the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce Wang Yao, the president of the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce. This old man is the father of the three-time governor Wang Chonggu, and the uncle of the leader Wang Chongyi. He himself is one of the top salt merchants in Yangzhou City. He builds bridges and paves roads and donates money to support education. Over the past few decades, more than hundreds of students who have been granted the imperial examination, and sixty or seventy have passed the imperial examination. This investment not only brought him endless help in the officialdom, but also accumulated a noble reputation for him. He is also the one who is the only one among the Yangzhou merchants.
Aside Wang Yao, there was an old man with a slightly rich appearance and white hair and hair sitting. Ruan Bi, the president of the Wezhou Chamber of Commerce. In recent years, WeChat businesses monopolize papermaking, printing and dyeing industries and have made great efforts to enter the construction industry. All of them are inseparable from the long-term vision of this old man. Among Huizhou merchants, he is very respected and respected. Now he is getting older and has rarely been in the face of his face in recent years.
The rest of the other people on this table were not inferior, including Qi Yuanhua from Longyou, Shen Mingyi from Ningbo, Xue Zhijing from Dongting, etc., all of them were the leaders of the local business gang... Because of the strong commercial atmosphere in these areas, their children were all inferior and were ashamed of. Because of their business gang leaders, most of them were the most famous local people. The commercial competition in the southeast is becoming increasingly fierce, and the role of the merchant gang is huge. It is no exaggeration to say that they are talking about the local area.
But compared to the middle table, it is a big witch. There is no need to introduce the several people sitting around the round table. Just click on their surnames in a single order, namely Wu, Yan, Wang, Zheng, Lu, Zhou, Xie, Feng, Zhao. "They are from the nine masters in the southeast. These nine families have been in the past century, and prime ministers have emerged one after another. His disciples and former officials are everywhere. In terms of the strength and depth of political power, even the Shanxi merchants are incomparable.
Its economic strength is also strong. They controlled more than half of the three most profitable businesses in the Ming Dynasty, silk, tea and porcelain. Whether it is upstream material suppliers or downstream buyers, they all need to rely on their breath.
Therefore, the impression given by these nine families is always high. Even on multiple occasions, at most one or two leading figures from the families will attend. If the heads of the nine families gather together like this, I am afraid that even the emperor's face for the southern tour will not be invited.
The guests on the table on the right are relatively low-key because they are from Fujian and Guangdong. Their hometown is too far from Nanjing, so the heads of the family cannot arrive in time, so they can only let the juniors in Nanjing Hanxuan participate... The specifications are one level short of the specifications, so they naturally have to be very low-key.
But no one dared to underestimate them. With the lifting of the sea ban in the Ming Dynasty, the Fujian-Guang maritime merchants rose rapidly. In less than ten years, they became the main force of maritime trade. Moreover, their iron smelting and shipbuilding industries were also the best in the country... In the eyes of Southeast merchants, there has been a long consensus that whoever can dominate the maritime business path will be the next strongest business gang. Obviously, the Fujian-Guang maritime merchants are likely to become the next one.
Chapter completed!