"You go and tell Deng Fei directly that he will arrange the staff. Zheng Yi and the others alone may not be able to do anything about the tea route. You have to help me explain more." As the wedding date gets closer, Zhao Xin became polite to Chen Jingdan in his words, which made Boss Shen very satisfied.

Chen Jingdan held his beard and said, "Don't worry, I met two tea merchants when I was in Guangzhou... Hey, I just came back, are you leaving again?"

Zhao Xin nodded and said, "Yes, go and continue talking with the Qing Dynasty."

He paused for a moment, hesitated for a moment before saying, "Do you know who the Qing Dynasty sent this time?"

Chen Jingdan said seriously: "I heard about it in Guangzhou, it was Liu Chongru."

"Yes, the Xu brothers and A Quan's big enemy."

In fact, Zhao Xin didn't care whether to negotiate or not. He was really curious about Liu Yong and wanted to take this opportunity to meet this famous minister who is very famous in history and the people.

Since the Qing army prisoners in Ningguta began to transform labor, the road from Furdan City to Ningguta has been widened a lot. Cao Peng, a blasting engineer from the power plant, has now come here again, bringing a few apprentices from the technical school who came to open the mountain and explode the stones.

On the mountain road from Dongning to Ningguta, there were deafening roars almost every few days. A group of Qing army prisoners often saw a small hill covered with bombs and soaring into the sky, then turning into gravel all over the mountains and valleys.

After the whistle that represents peace sounded, the prisoners tied together in groups of five people with ropes will be sent to clean up gravel, widen the road surface, and dig roadbeds and drainage ditches.

As mentioned before, since this area is full of frozen soil, the excavation of the roadbed is very difficult. The road surface must first be dug to 1.5 to 2 meters deep, and then backfilled with gravel soil. This is to ensure that the road will not collapse due to the resurrection of frozen soil in the future.

When Zhao Xin brought a battalion transferred from the training base to the road construction site, Cao Peng was scolding several apprentices.

"How many times have you said it? What should you pay attention to whenever you punch the eyes and bury the blasting point?!"

"You can't take medicine while taking the eye..."

"Then why can't you remember it! Also, what did I say about the water connection pipe? When the hose is connected to the steel pipe, you must use double-stranded eight-wire knots to prevent the broken pipe from hurting people! It's all pig's brain!"

An apprentice said tremblingly: "Master, it's too cold, we just want to hurry up."

Cao Peng said angrily, "Leng? If you can't do it, go back! If something happens to you, why would I explain to your parents?!"

After he scolded his apprentice and knocked out several boys of sixteen or seventeen, the curtain swayed and Zhao Xin walked in.

Cao Peng said in surprise: "Hey, why are you here? Just arrived?"

Zhao Xin laughed and said, "Go to Ningguta. I just heard you scolding people, isn't it inconvenient for me to disturb me?"

Cao Peng said: "Why are you going to Ningguta in this cold weather? I heard that you are going to get married at the end of the year?"

Zhao Xin waved his hand and said, "It's time. Qianlong sent Liu Yong here as the official envoy of negotiations. I plan to meet this Liu Luoguo."

Cao Peng has been in Beihai Town for a year, and I have heard of the old story of Dongtai. At this moment, I heard that I was going to meet Liu Yong, so I hurriedly said, "Fang Bu Convenient to bring me with me? I have been here for so long, except for the prisoners outside, I have never seen a celebrity of this era."

Zhao Xin said: "Can you leave? I just heard that you are so angry that you will be able to leave after you leave?"

Cao Peng said: "You wait for me one more day. I will just be able to finish the bomb holes and blow up a few big stones."

While waiting for Cao Peng, Zhao Xin checked the food and accommodation of the Qing army prisoners. Although Beihai Town used these people harshly, they did not treat them badly. The cornmeal and steamed buns were full, and they could eat white flour and steamed buns every week. They were treated for any injuries and illnesses, which made the prisoners feel grateful.

There are two roads built with Ninggu Tower as the starting point, one leads to Sanxing City and the other is here. Although the weather outside the northeast in October is cold and the ground is frozen and hard, you can set up firewood to burn it and it can still be dug after softening. The Civil Affairs plan is to stop work in November, and let the prisoners do some manual work and continue until March next year.

Five days later, Cao Peng followed Zhao Xin's team to Ningguta. Because when Naqitai retreated, the people in the city were in the back team to stop the pursuit of the Northern Navy, so the residents of Ningguta did not escape many times, and most of them were brought back by the Northern Navy.

But since then, the commercial roads in Ningguta, Hunchun, Jilin and even Shengjing have been cut off. At present, except for a few pawn shops and a newly opened Beihai business company, other shops have not been opened.

On the second day after Zhao Xin arrived at Ningguta, there was a pawnshop called "Hengfengdang" in the southeast corner of the outer city cross street.

Wu Zhenzhou, the pawnshop owner sitting behind the counter, suddenly heard the creaking sound of the door and quickly leaned over to check it. A guy wearing a ragged hat and a face covering looked into the door. When his eyes swept to him, he turned around and looked out, then walked in and closed the door casually.

When the man took off the scarf covered on his face, Wu Zhenzhou was shocked. He knew this man.

"Oh~~ Mr. Chang! Why are you back?" Wu Zhenzhou said as he hurriedly walked out of the counter, welcomed the other party to the main hall behind, and then prepared a cup of tea for the other party.

"Shopkeeper Wu, the court is going to negotiate with Zhao Ni. Liu Chongru and Lord Liu will go to the Guijiao Station in a few days. I am following the armored soldiers who fought in front of the battle."

This person is named Chang Wu, known as Chang Wuye, and is a relative of the concubine of Naqitai, the former deputy governor of Ningguta. "Hengfengdang" is a joint transaction between Naqitai and Wu Zhenzhou, but to the outside world it is the partnership between Chang Wu and Wu Zhenzhou.

Speaking of the Three Feudal Rebellion, because the Qing court transferred all the soldiers from Ningguta to the south, the Han people began to enter the city to live, and the urban economy began to rise. There were 95 merchants in Ningguta City, including 12 pawn shops.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, no matter what the shop is doing at this time, it is basically open with the government; even if foreign merchants want to do business locally, they must combine shares with the government.

For example, the Guanglai cloth shop in Xiguan is opened by Yin's family in the Deputy Chief Government Office, while the grocery store on North Street is opened by the Wang family, which specializes in the bidding and consigned price. In addition, there are blacksmith shops, millshops, candle shops, noodles shops, grocery shops, restaurant shops, etc., every family is like this.

Wu Zhenzhou said: "Where are you here?"

Chang Wu said: "Please count the money on the cabinet, I want to take it away together."

Wu Zhen heard this on Monday and said anxiously: "Fifth Master, you can't do it! If all the money on the cabinet is taken away, how can you do this business?"

Chang Wu sneered: "Even if it's over, you can't leave it to someone named Zhao!"

Wu Zhenzhou said: "Fifth Master, listen to me. Since the Northern Hair Army entered the city, everyone has been worried and scared. Many merchants are anxious to go back to the south. The city's pawning business is the best time, why don't you wait for a few more days?"

After the North Navy implemented military control over Ningguta, it did not deliberately make it difficult for local Manchu residents and various officials and businessmen to join the Eight Banners. First, most of the Manchus in Ningguta were incorporated into the Eight Banners by Hezhe and Kurkaqi people, and belonged to the "Yicha Manchu", which is the New Manchu. Not to mention slaughtering the Han people, many of them had never even been to Shanhaiguan and still lived a primitive and simple life. Second, if they attacked these shops at the beginning, it would cause unstable markets and panic.

But even so, some merchants who share the shares with the government and open shops were still uneasy. They sold valuable goods and prepared to go back to the south when the snow stopped. What Wu Zhenzhou said about good business is also due to this.

Chang Wu shook his head and said, "No! Before I came, the lord told me that the stock money must be brought back! Let me tell you the truth, the Ningguta court can't get it back."

When the North Navy and Mingliang were fighting, Wu Zhenzhou was in the city. He saw the smoke of gunpowder on the Ningguta Camp with his own eyes and knew that what Chang Wu said was true.

He thought about it and said with some embarrassment: "Now the money on the counter is only seventy or eighty thousand yuan, and the silver is only a few dozen taels..."

Chang Wuyi looked surprised, and he stared at Wu Zhenzhou blankly and asked, "Why is that so?"

"Fifth Master, where do you want to go? If I, Wu Zhenzhou, are such a person, it will be struck by lightning!"

Wu Zhenzhou then explained to Chang Wu. Among the items he has collected recently, there are the most fur and ginseng. They are all used by those who have taken advantage of the recent chaos to poach and poach ginseng.

"The trade route to the south is now broken, and these fur and ginseng have fallen into radish prices." Wu Zhenzhou hesitated for a moment and said, "Why don't that be like that. Fifth Master, you might as well take the fur and ginseng away. This thing can be exchanged for money when it reaches Ula, Jilin. If I get into the gate, I guess there will be 5,000 taels of silver. I will continue to collect it. By then, I will wait for the money on the cabinet to be almost spent, and I will also lock the shop back to the south."

Chang Wu thought for a while and felt that he had to do so. After all, even if he brought all the money on the counter back, he couldn't explain it to Qitai.

He was about to speak when someone outside the door said, "Shopkeeper, the short-haired official is here!"

"Official officer?" Chang Wu was startled and whispered: "It's broken! Is this here to catch me?"

Wu Zhenzhou opened the door and asked the guy: "How many people are coming? Are you carrying muskets?"

"Three, no muskets. Two have been here before, and the other has never seen them."

Wu Zhenzhou felt relieved after hearing this, and turned to Chang Wu and said, "Did Master Wu hear this? This is not a person arrest. The short-haired government has many rules and always comes to check the door and asks what it is to understand the situation. Our shop has been open for a long time, so we often ask about the situation of other shops."

Since Liu Sheng led his troops north and left a battalion in Ningguta to implement the implementation, Chen Qingsong sent a team of twenty civil affairs cadres here, and transferred fifty security police to cooperate with military control.

After the Civil Affairs Bureau came, it first posted a notice of peace and security, and then it was busy measuring the official village and private fields outside the south gate. It was then that it began to investigate the shops in the city and investigate the situation of the miserable people.

According to the measurement results and combined with the Manchu archives in the yamen, the arable land in Ningguta is divided into two types: Eight Banners Guanzhuang and private land; the sixteen official villages have a total of more than 420,000 acres of arable land, mainly distributed in the south of the city. There are also more than 54,000 acres of private land, which are cultivated by refugees from the pass.

Since the Yongzheng Dynasty, as refugees in the pass continued to pour into the Northeast for survival, privately reclaiming officials and developing wastelands with bannermen has become more and more common. The Qing Dynasty practice was to regularly clear the meter. Those who were reclaimed by bannermen will return to the bannermen, and those who were reclaimed by the people will only pay grain on time.

After the autumn harvest this year, the grain harvested by the local governments was forcibly confiscated by the Northern Navy. In addition, the grain stored in the former deputy governor's yamen can basically meet the supply of staple food for the winter. You can adjust the grain from Furdan City after the spring.

At present, Ningguta implements a grain distribution system, which is twice a day and can be collected by card. Through this, Beihai Town has been able to understand the local population situation. According to statistics from the Civil Affairs Bureau, there are 792 local households, 2,952 fixed population, and 87 businessmen who come here to do business.

After hearing this, Chang Wu's expression calmed down and said to Wu Zhenzhou: "Then I'll go to the wing room first, go and go back quickly. Alas, please let me show the inventory list."

Wu Zhenzhou quickly agreed after hearing this, but when he turned around and went out, a look of disdain appeared on his face.

Chang Wu is a fool. In the past, he just came to collect money, and the amount was set long ago. Fortunately, he was prepared and made two stock accounts, so he asked the friend to show him the fake one!

This year, merchants usually use their relatives as partners when they start business, mainly because they know the truth and trustworthy. There were originally two "Hengfeng Dian" friends, and the one sent by Chang Wu ran away before, and the remaining one was Wu Zhenzhou's nephew.

After ordering the client to go to the account book, Wu Zhenzhou walked out from behind and saw three guys wearing thick black cotton coats standing outside the tall counter. One of them was tall and had a smile on his face when he spoke. Because the other party did not have a beard, he looked like he was only in his twenties.

The man was standing next to the counter at this time, looking at the wooden sign hanging on the wall. The sign was an ordinary pine board with a brush on it from top to bottom, from right to left: the god robe and play clothes are improper, the flag, gong, umbrella and fan are improper, and the low-temperature handpieces are improper.

"Interesting." This is the first time Zhao Xin has been to a pawnshop, and he has seen it in film and television dramas before.

Wu Zhenzhou hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, "The villain Wu Zhenzhou greeted all the officials."

"Zun Jia is the shopkeeper of Wu, right? I have heard of the famous name for a long time." Zhao Xin bowed with a smile.

Wu Zhen saw that the two short-haired official servants who had been here before were standing behind each other on Monday, and guessed that this person must have a bigger position. However, he had not yet figured out the official rank within Beihai Town, so he clasped his fists and said, "I dare not, don't you, sir, who is?"

Zhao Xin said: "Oh, my surname is Zhao. I came from Furdan City with the troops yesterday. Today I want to know something about it."

Wu Zhenzhou smiled and said, "You are so polite, please sit in the back hall."

After a few people sat down, the guy got on tea. Zhao Xin then said, "I heard that Manager Wu has done a lot of business with ginseng and fur in the past few months."

Wu Zhenzhou's heart was shocked and he bowed quickly and said, "We'll help you in a small business."

"Don't worry, I'm not here to check you." Zhao Xin explained with a smile and continued: "You are an old local merchant. I would like to ask Manager Wu, how many local gangs are there that are privately poaching ginseng?"

"This..." Wu Zhenzhou suddenly felt a sudden slap in his heart and hesitated and replied: "I can't say this, but it is said that there are two groups of people, all of which are around a hundred."

Zhao Xin smiled slightly and stopped talking. A civil affairs cadre next to him suddenly said, "Shopkeeper Wu, don't have any worries. According to our understanding, just last month, you collected a large number of ginseng from Xu Mazi, Yu Deshui, Lu Qi and Chen Er. Why are these two groups of people?!"
Chapter completed!