The sun is good today. Yantai's small store is filled with residents who come to shop. ※% As the only store in Yantai that sells southern goods, it is not surprising that this newly opened store has a good business. The store was opened by descendants of Sun Chunyang, a wealthy businessman from Ningbo, specializing in selling tea, silk cloth, cotton cloth, dried bamboo shoots, mushrooms, toon buds, melon seeds and secret Sun Chunyang tea legs produced in Ningbo Prefecture in the south.

Sun Chunyang was a Ningbo Confucian scholar. After failing the exam many times during the Wanli period, he abandoned Confucianism and went to Suzhou to open a Nan goods store, named Sun Chunyang Nan goods store, known for its quality, low price, honesty and trustworthiness. After the Qing army went south, the Sun family, who was in charge of the store at that time, sent some of their nephews back to their hometown in Ningbo to avoid the risk of military disasters. But who knew that within a few years, Ningbo fell into the hands of a yellow-clad thief, and looked at his style and seemed to be entrenched. This made the Sun family, who was very speculative, see a possibility. So, seven months after Ningbo "stricken" by "stricken thieves", the Sun family seized the opportunity and decisively defected to Wei Boqiu, who was in charge of economic construction in Ningbo. Not only donated a large sum of silver to respect him, but also requested to open a store in Shandong and Heishui to prosper local businesses, which was praised by Wei Boqiu.

Since we received the approval of Deputy Commander Wei, things would be much easier. In mid-March, several young people sent by the Sun family came to Yantai on a ship transporting immigrants on the east coast and opened their first store, "Sun Ji Nan Cargo Store". The reason why they did not use the old sign of "Sun Chunyang Nan Cargo Store" was mainly because they were afraid of causing trouble to the tribe members who were still in the Qing Dynasty, and what if they were framed as a thief?

After the preparation of the southern cargo shop in Yantai was completed, at the end of April, a lucky ship full of cargo from Dinghai Port. After a long voyage, it arrived at Yantai Port. At this point, tea, silk, local cloth, bamboo utensils, rattan chairs and some specialty foods from the south entered the Shandong market. The trade contacts between the two places, which had been interrupted for ten years since the end of Chongzhen, were once again connected.

The government of the Heishui Development Team of Sun Ji Nan's Goods Store accounts for 40% of the shares and is the largest shareholder; Shao Shude, Wei Boqiu and other well-known officials of Heishui account for 20% of the shares, and the Sun family owns 40% of the shares. Currently, the business is still based on the method of the South Goods Store in Sun Chunyang, Suzhou, namely the method of operating the warehouse - the shop is divided into six rooms: the South Goods Store, the seaside room, the pickled wax room, the sauced goods room, the candied house and the candle room. After the customer selects the goods and is optimistic about the marked prices, he will pay the money in front of the unified cashier cabinet. Then the cashier will give the customer a ticket, and the customer can pick up the goods from each cargo room with this ticket.

This method of separation of silver and goods greatly reduces the number of salesmen, reduces costs, improves sales efficiency, and also reduces the embezzlement of clerks and enhances financial security. It can be said that it can be said that it will kill multiple shots in one fell swoop. In addition, Sun Chunyang South Goods Store adopts "one pen" financial management, one summary per day and one settlement per year, with clear accounts, standardized settlement, and company profits and losses. It can be seen at a glance on the same day. It has already had the prototype of modern supermarket management.

In the late Ming Dynasty, merchants in Jiangnan used inferior products as good ones, and many cheated and cheated, and their business ethics were extremely bad. However, the Sun family has always been known for their honesty and trustworthiness. All the goods sold in their stores were specially selected and specially designed. For decades, they insisted on selecting professionals (sometimes even inspected in person) to keep the quality clear, and this is also the secret of the store's continued prosperity in business.

Zamparini was wearing a 41-year-old steel bayonet on her waist and was wearing a faded military uniform. At this time, he was holding a can of tea and watching carefully. The tea was a chubby produced in Fenghua, and it was priced at 40 cents per kilogram, and this large can was one kilogram. Although Zamparini was not very good at tasting tea, as a senior non-commissioned officer of the East Coast Army, he might be promoted to a second lieutenant after returning to China, and felt that he should do some decent things, such as drinking tea.

Nowadays, which of the decent people in the middle school - or the middle class - is not tea-loving? No matter whether you really like it or fake, the people who have some spare money are flocking to it. Zamparini thinks that after returning home, he is qualified to call someone "Mr." - the more than 1,300 yuan in the Northwest Reclamation Bank Certificate in his pocket is his confidence - so he needs to buy some very popular tea among decent people and bring it back, not to mention that the prices of these teas are surprisingly low.

"I will give me five to every kind of tea... no, ten cans! Yes, this, this, and this, all ten cans!" Zamparini stood in the southern cargo room and pointed to the tea on the counter and said.

Sun Chengren, a descendant of the Sun family who acted as a clerk, was slightly surprised to see this and thought that these Qiu Bas are really rich. The total of 40 cans of these four kinds of tea leaves cost thirteen or fourteen silver dollars, and they even bought them without blinking. However, he was just slightly surprised because Qiu Bas who came to his store to shop in the past two days ago, many of them spent dozens of yuan, which was much more purchasing power than those who were dressed by ordinary people.

"Is this yellow-clad army shave three feet into Shandong, and Qiu Ba, who is not even a boss, has so much money?" Sun Chengren secretly complained to himself, taking out the tea leaves one by one and putting them aside, and then signaling Zanpalini to go to the cash counter to pay the money.

"The silver cakes made by people from the East Coast are very exquisite." Sun Chengren's cousin, Sun Chengyi, who also harvested in the South Goods Room, stood aside, took out a silver coin with a denomination of 50 cents from his pocket, and said in an admiration: "The quality is good, the weight is sufficient, the value of each piece is clear at a glance, which is very convenient for commercial affairs."

Sun Chengren glanced at his cousin and nodded, but thought in his heart that the Yellow-clad Army in the East Coast must not be defeated, otherwise their business would not be easy. After all, they were too involved with the dignitaries on the East Coast, and it was difficult to get out. I heard that the main force of the Qing army had already entered Qingzhou Prefecture at this time. Jiaozhou Fort (2,000 people in the fourth brigade of the stand-up team, and some artillery soldiers and 2,000 soldiers) also appeared outside the Tartar Cavalry. The situation was extremely critical. I don’t know what would happen later. I hope the Tartars can retreat. The road from Qingzhou to Denglai has been destroyed in a bad way, and there are no people in the countryside, and there are no supplies. If more than 100,000 horses come suddenly, this person would not be able to drag them to death by eating horses.

Furthermore, Sun Chengren had read one or two military books, knowing that if the Tatar army entered Dengzhou, the supply line would be unbearable. The Yellow Army had thousands of horses. If it landed in large numbers behind it, cut off the food route. Wouldn't the whole army collapse if the Tatars were unable to take care of the head and tail? In this season when the food route was broken, the wilderness had nowhere to be plundered. What else could he do except wait for death? Therefore, he believed that the possibility of the Tatar army attacking Dengzhou was not very high. If he had to die, he sent the vanguard horse team to Laizhou to show off his power and show off his power, and then there would be no other play to sing.

The biggest possibility of the Tatars was that the main force was to station in Qingzhou Prefecture. Then they repaired the fortress and organized large-scale group training to prevent the Yellow-clad army from advancing west from the land. There was no other way. Maybe some troops would be sent to besiege Jiaozhou Fort, but they should retreat after a long period of time. However, in this way, the more than 100,000 elite troops of the Tatars would definitely be dragged here and do nothing. However, this was the trouble of the Tartars' court, so Sun Chengren was too lazy to deal with this matter.

Instead of worrying about this, he might as well go to the seacoast room to help. In the past two days, some excellent sable fur, green fox fur, squirrel, bear skin, deer skin and other fur goods were bought. The uncle in charge of purchasing goods couldn't hold his mouth until he could not even see fur goods of such good quality for many years. Since the rise of Jiannu in Liaodong, the fur business has been monopolized by Shanxi merchants. It is rare to see such high-quality things in the south. I didn't expect that such good fur goods could be sold in Dabo County, so I thought it would be as much as I could. Then I took it back to Ningbo and contacted some old relationships and almost sold out.

In addition, the sea vegetables, crab meat, oysters, sea cucumbers, dried salted fish, etc. are rare fine products in the south. If they are shipped back to Ningbo, Shaoxing, Hangzhou, Wenzhou, Taizhou, Songjiang and other neighboring governments, they will definitely make a lot of profit. Alas, it seems that you have to open another store in Yin County, specializing in selling northern goods, and at the same time, purchasing rice and selling it to the north, it will definitely make a lot of money!

Just as Sun Chengren was imagining, Zanpalini paid the money and came to pick up the goods. Sun Chengren carefully checked the tickets, and then handed the bundle of tea to Zanpalini. Zanpalini didn't say much, nodded with Sun Chengren, and walked towards the wharf outside the city with the tea, preparing to send the tea back to his hometown through the Yantai Postal Bureau.

The full steam-powered ship "Tahiti" that had arrived in Yantai Port for several days was about to carry a batch of immigrants and silver (600,000 taels, most of the spoils obtained by Ningbo Prefecture last year) to Australia. According to regulations, every east coast ship returning to the country must undertake certain mailing tasks. Therefore, many soldiers chose to mail some of their luggage back to China through the "Tahiti". This is the case with the tea sent by Zampalini, which is only 40 kilograms, and it has not exceeded the limit yet!

In the barracks next to the dock, 240 new Army 2nd Company were undergoing routine training. They replaced Zamparini's old army. Zamparini's 104th Company, Zamparini himself was asked by his superiors to serve for two more years to help some of the minion troops who had just completed the "slimming" to carry out training.

Looking at these main forces wearing dark blue military uniforms, Zampalini, who could only wear yellow reserve uniforms, could only deeply envy them. He vaguely heard that this elite company was about to go south with the newly arrived Fourth Infantry Battalion of the Black Eight Banners, temporarily joining the battle sequence of the Southern War Zone, and conquering Ninghai County, Xiangshan County, Changguowei and other places that were still controlled by the Qing court, and then establish a stability maintenance meeting in the local area to control it to the East Coast people.

In addition, they will also determine whether they will support the Shaoxing battlefield depending on the situation. At present, Commander Liu of the Navy is fighting well in Shaoxing Prefecture. He has defeated more than 10,000 troops under the command of Tian Xiong, the admiral of Zhejiang, Qing Dynasty, and Zhejiang, and occupied Yuyao, Shangyu, Shanyin, Shengxian, Xinchang, Linshanwei and other places. The remaining Qing army soldiers have retreated to Xiaoshan County; and more than 20,000 people led by Zhang Mingzhen are also making a big fuss at the junction of Songjiang Prefecture and Jiaxing Prefecture. Zhang Cunren, who was trapped in Hangzhou, was so anxious that he could only quickly transfer Chen Tai's troops from Fujian to head north, otherwise Hangzhou would be in danger.

The people on the east coast made such a fuss in the southern war zone, which once again completely disrupted the strategic deployment of the Qing court. Originally, the 15,000 elite troops led by Chen Tai had already moved south from Fujian and attacked the Chaoshan area in northeastern Guangdong. The already-reformed Ming army surrendered again under the pressure of the Qing army. Li Chengdong was in a hurry to resist and the situation was once in danger. Now, with Chen Tai's troops transferring north, Li Chengdong saved his life and was able to continue to survive.

The situation in Guangdong is like this, and Jiangxi is very similar. The more than 10,000 Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners led by Jiergalang were fighting hard in Jiangxi for many days. Although there were not as many cannon fodder green camps as in history, they still exhausted some efforts to destroy Jin Shenghuan, who was defending Nanchang. The remaining troops of Jin retreated to the central and southern Jiangxi region and merged with Wang Deren's troops who guarded Ganzhou. However, the more than 100,000 troops after the two families merged were still no match for Jiergalang's troops, and they were beaten to flee. Many prefectures and counties also rebeled again under the Qing army's move, and the situation was extremely critical.

However, since the yellow-clad thief made a big fuss in northern Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu at the end of last year, and occupied Ningbo Prefecture for a long time, the Qing court weighed the pros and cons and ordered Jiergalang to lead the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia to retreat northward and then support the Zhejiang battlefield. As for the battlefield in Jiangxi, it was maintained by the newly incorporated traitor green camp. Geng Zhongming and Shen Zhixiang were old people from Liaodong, which was still worth fighting. With them in Jiangxi, if they took a defensive position, the local situation should not be completely collapsed in a short period of time. However, the area that the Qing court could control may only be half of Jiangxi, and there was no way to do so.

In this way, unexpectedly, the people in the East Coast made such a fuss in Zhejiang and Nanzhili Prefectures actually affected the situation in several southern provinces, which made the Qing army feel helpless and cares about their heads and butts. At the same time, the southern war zone stationed in Ningbo Prefecture also maintained close ties with Shandong. The troops between the two places frequently and quickly maneuvered - sailing ships from Ningbo to Shandong from Ningbo to sea. If they walked by sea, it might only take more than a week, and such a short time would not be enough for the Qing army to go from Qingzhou to Laizhou.

Under such a joint operation between the two war zones in the north and south, a large number of elite troops of the Qing army were tightly restrained and could not free up their hands to wipe out the resurrected anti-Qing armed forces such as Chuang Ni and Xian Ni. This is undoubtedly an extremely bad thing. If it is dragged on for a long time, it will inevitably have a great impact on the prestige of the Qing court. Haven’t you seen that the Chuang Ni team have attacked Xiangyang again? If Xiangyang is broken, the Henan plain without a single soldier will be completely exposed to them; and the troops of Zhang Xianzhong from Sichuan are also working hard to capture the Qing court's prefectures and counties in northern Sichuan. Local local officials are in a row, but at this time, the "bandits" in Shaanxi are also very serious. If they can’t withdraw troops to go south to reinforce, they can only let them go.
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