I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

Xuzhou, a fleet from Suzhou docked.

When a large number of good goods appeared in Nanzhili, not only merchants from other places went to Nanzhili to purchase goods, but also merchants from Nanzhili sent the goods to various places to sell.

After the fleet was anchored, the coolies on the dock immediately approached and asked if they needed to move the cargo.

"My ship is all high-grade and exquisite glass, as well as perfume soap. You must be very careful when unloading the goods. You can't afford to break a piece. What did you do?"

Guan Fangling asked.

"Don't worry, shopkeeper, we are all top-notch experts. I specially arranged for you a group of veterans who have worked for more than five years. There is absolutely no problem."

The leading foreman patted his chest and assured.

"Okay, move these goods down, 50 taels."

In fact, there are not many choices for the management of the house. The business on the dock is monopolized by two or three gangs. In order not to be bullied, these porters spontaneously formed gangs.

Some gangs are so powerful that even the local government has to give some face.

People who have not joined the gang can't do it without permission, they will be beaten by the gang members. When they joined the gang, most of the hard-earned money they earned had to be turned over.

"Heh, shopkeeper, you are really bullying the young and ignorant. The perfumes in this city are all in short supply, and all the shops are sold out. You can earn a dozen taels per bottle. Such a profitable business, you You only gave us fifty taels of fortunate hardship, which is too unreasonable."

The gang leader is not a rude person with no brains and no knowledge. How can he be brainless if he can sit in this position. He knew the market conditions of various goods better than those merchants.

"Hey, you are well-informed, so why don't you know that when I bought goods in Suzhou, the price was too expensive? I also made some hard money, and the money was made by the evil manufacturers. At most, I will give it to you. Add 10 taels, no more. You can't earn 60 taels from the rice you move a day. If you don't do it, I'll find someone else."

The management age of the house was added by 12 taels, and the bargaining was done. This is a common process in the whole country.

After some wrangling, the two parties finally set the price at sixty-five taels.

Finally, the helper went to greet people with a wide-eyed smile.

As Guan Fangling said, their group of people kept carrying rice from morning to night, and they could not earn less than sixty-five taels a day. Moreover, carrying rice is a physical labor, which is quite fortunate.

And handling these perfumes, soaps and glass is easy work, just be careful not to break the glass mirror.

Like this kind of work, among all their businesses, it is the best, and all the gangs will rush to do it. This time, they were lucky, and they were closer to the fleet in charge of the house age, and they would not be stupid enough to give this good job to other gangs.

The goods are disembarked one by one and moved into the warehouse.

Just then, a group of officers and soldiers came over.

"Seize these things, these are prohibited goods."

The leader pointed to the goods that were being transported, and said something that made Guan Fangling bewildered.

He couldn't understand how these products of his own became prohibited commodities.

This was actually a personal order of some officials in the Qing court, mainly from the hands of some generals in the army.

Some Qing officers believed that it was a big mistake to continue to allow luxury goods from the south to be sold to the north. This will allow the South to earn a lot of money, manufacture more advanced weapons, recruit more soldiers and horses, and hoard more food.

At that time, these powerful armies will come to fight. Therefore, this kind of business behavior is to capitalize on the enemy and must be prohibited.

Of course, there is some truth to this view, but the high-level Manchu officials did not agree to such a ban.

Very simple, they have to use these things too.

A large part of the perfumes, soaps and mirrors shipped to the north flowed into the palace and the residences of many officials.

These things that can make those people's lives more comfortable, they can't lack for a moment now.

Therefore, prohibiting the sale of these commodities to the north will offend the interests of many big people, and it will not work.

However, in the face of the loss of wealth to the south, some die-hards who were very loyal to the Qing Dynasty acted privately and issued an order to seize the luxury goods in the south.

No, Guan Fangling unfortunately caught up with the first wave.

"Stop, why do you say it's a contraband, but there are official documents from the imperial court?"

Guan Fangling is not an honest farmer, and a soldier believes whatever he says. Without official documents from the imperial court, he would not have believed in such a ban.

"I say these are contraband or contraband."

The leader of the army said.

"It's a big tone, then I'll go to Governor Liu's house and ask, whether it is Mr. Liu who has the final say in Xuzhou, or you."

Guan Fangling dared to be so arrogant, naturally not because he was simply bold, he also had connections. In Xuzhou, he and the governor knew each other.

In Suzhou, there are even more officials who have friendship with him.

Collusion between officials and businessmen, collusion between officials and businessmen, businessmen have no personal connections these days, so they can only do small business. No connections are involved in this kind of bulk trade, which is to deliver meat to other people's mouths.

Hearing the name of Governor Liu, the soldiers in this team were a little nervous.

However, the leader was still tough, and he insisted on confiscation of the shipment.

"Folks, these soldiers don't allow us to do business, this is going to ruin your jobs. Without us

These business people, how can you still have goods to move in the future? "

Guan Fangling saw that the boss actually did it, and he was so angry that he could only incite those dock workers.

This move was really effective. Hundreds of coolies gathered on the wharf and surrounded the thirty soldiers, preventing them from collecting the goods.

Naturally, these dock gangs did not want to help the housekeeper because of their conscience, but the actions of those soldiers really harmed their interests.

They don't care how much silver these commercial activities will lead to the south and what changes the situation will lead to, they only care about their income.

If these soldiers confiscated the goods of those merchants indiscriminately, then there will be no merchants who dare to stay here in the future, and they will not have any work to do.

They are professional porters, and they are counting on this to live.

The collection of these soldiers is to cut off their rations.

"Don't accept it, don't accept it."

Hundreds of people waved poles and wooden sticks and shouted loudly, making the Qing army very helpless.

The two sides were at a stalemate. Not long after, the Xu family, a big local businessman in Xuzhou, also sent people to negotiate. They were the buyers of this batch of goods.

Therefore, they also strongly demanded those soldiers to put down this batch of goods, and at the same time said that they would report to the governor and sue them for favoritism.

There were many Manchu officials and generals who wanted to prevent the inflow of goods from the South, but in the actual implementation process, there were always many problems that could not be solved.

As a result, almost no officials have succeeded.