After the rain, the sky is clear, and Huangzhou has complete water conservancy facilities. Although the prefecture Xiyang City is surrounded by the skyrocketing river water and river water, it is safe and sound. Although the rainy season is not over yet, people will no longer worry about being flooded.

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6 shops that were delayed by heavy rain continued to open business, and the streets of Xiyang became lively again, and the shops recruiting workers in various workshops began to attract people on the streets.

With the development of the economy, more and more workshops have emerged in the Huangzhou area like mushrooms after a rain. The strong demand has made the workshop owners unlimited business opportunities, and the newly opened escort businesses have made the business move further and further.

The cloth and books in Huangzhou have been selling well for several years, and now there are two more things that are about to be sold, namely white porcelain and tea. The sudden appearance of these two things has once again quoted the shortage of labor.

It takes time and a lot of manpower to operate a tea garden. Under the strong stimulation of the new tea sale and sale in early summer, many new tea gardens have opened, recruiting people to cultivate barren mountains to plant tea trees.

The milky white porcelain that has never been used to be fired by several large porcelain kilns in the suburbs of Xiyang City. One batch will be sold after one batch is fired. The purchasers line up, which stimulates the owners of these porcelain kilns to expand production.

Coupled with the textile industry and paper industry, which had already been in high demand, the huge labor demand attracted people who had no land everywhere in Shannan to come to Xiyang to find a living to support their families.

In the north city of Xiyang, a new escort business was set off in the neighborhood. Today, it started its first escort business to Yecheng. More than 20 four-wheeled carriages, loaded with heavy porcelain, were about to set off under the escort of the escort.

"Dear fellow villagers! This is the first time I went to the capital city thousands of miles away, and passed through the prefectures and counties along the way. If you have relatives and friends settled in the following prefectures and counties, you can entrust the prefectures to help deliver the letter, and the price will be better!"

The huge signs of the escort were written with big words, and the above were all the prefectures and counties that were going to go out for this escort. When the escort businessmen shouted, those illiterate people came to their interest: "Did you pass by Gwangju?"

"Of course I've passed. From Xiyang to Yecheng, I'll cross the Dabie Mountains all the way north. After crossing the mountain, Isn't it Guangzhou?"

"You can't live with Yuzhou?"

"Of course, I'm not doing it, there is a semicolon in Xuanhu!"

"Where do you cross the Yellow River?"

"Bianzhou!"

"Is it going to Shijijin or Baimajin?"

"Brother, where are you going to send a letter to Bianzhou?"

"Dongjun skating platform, how about it?"

"Cross! I'm walking across the Yellow River and walking on Baimajin, right northeast of Watai, right?"

"The business opening today is 10% off! Please send a letter faster, and the escort team has a small... It will take half an hour to leave!"

More and more people were asking questions. The "receiver" that the escort business had already been ready was instantly filled with people. People had expected the escort business in advance, and the guys who were squeezed out of their feet shouted at the top of their lungs:

"Line! Line up! Come one by one!"

"Who is suffering from plague and touches my crotch!"

The ban on violence that maintained order on the side, saw this and blew the bamboo whistle and led his men to come over: "Line! Line up! Whoever dares to make trouble will catch him and go to the yamen!"

Kong Yingda, who was standing beside him, silently retreated when he saw this, took the promotional paper from the escort shop, and moved into the tea shop next to him with a few classmates, chose a private room to sit down, called a pot of tea and started talking.

"My God, I'm so crowded, I'm so lucky I didn't plan to send a letter today."

"How could they be so arrogant? The doors of the escort business that opened the day before yesterday were squeezed out. There is not enough manpower to maintain order today."

"The escort business that opened the day before yesterday was to go to Chang'an. Maybe this one thought it would be okay..."

The promotional paper in my hand, let alone the content, the printing quality is very exquisite. Kong Yingda saw that many people had just bought the cooked cakes, and thought it was a pity. However, this is in Xiyang, so there is nothing strange about it.

Paper in Huangzhou is very cheap, and prints are not as expensive as expected. There are already small vendors using paper to wrap cooked cakes and other foods, allowing customers to "pack" and take them away. Although it was a bit wasteful, the publicity effect was still good.

The paper has patterns printed on it. People who are illiterate are impressed by it and think it is good after eating. Next time, they will take the paper and follow the pattern on it to buy things at the stall.

Now the promotional paper of this escort business is designed with such intention, with the group case representing the escort business, and the introduction of its own "business" in easy-to-understand words.

To put it bluntly, it is armed escort, transporting people and items from Xiyang to Yecheng, and taking over the delivery and receiving business. This is what Kong Yingda and his classmates are most concerned about.

They were all northerners. When they learned that Liu Shiyuan, one of the two Lius, started a school in Xiyang City, Huangzhou, on the Yangtze River, was taught, so they traveled thousands of miles to study in Xiyang, so they could only solve the problem of contact with their families by letters.

From Yecheng to Xiyang, the journey is nearly 1,500 miles, and it takes nearly a month to walk one way. Although there are stations along the way, this is for the government. If ordinary people have nothing to do with it, it is really difficult to send letters to their homes.

There are very few people like Kong Yingda who can send people to deliver letters, not to mention that Kong Yingda cannot afford the monthly expenses of sending people to deliver letters, so many people can only rely on relatives and friends to bring letters back, and they can't encounter them a few times a year.

If someone in his family dies or something like that, they are in Huangzhou and they may not receive the news until half a year later, and even if they are anxious and want to go home, they dare not set off easily.

These days, long-distance travel risks are very high. Even if a few people travel together, they may not be heard from now on. Therefore, Kong Yingda and others came to Huangzhou to study thousands of miles away, which was actually a big risk.

Fortunately, the State School cooperates with the caravan to ensure that every student who is in another place can go home at least once a year. If there is an urgent matter, try to arrange to follow the caravan, but this is always inconvenient.

It’s different now. The escort business has a business giving away people!

"On the 15th day of every month and at the end of the month, there are escort teams to and from Yecheng and Xiyang regularly..." One person was reciting the contents of the promotional paper, "As long as the government proves that he is not a wanted criminal or an illegal person, he can entrust relevant matters in the bank, and there is no need to submit letters like this..."

"Three batches per month? How many escorts do you need... Escorts from the escorts? Are they not afraid of losing money when doing this business?"

"Loss? People are responsible for placing goods, and sending letters to others is just a waste of money."

"The door, Huangzhou's cloth books, caravans transport them to the north every day. The business of this escort business is to protect those caravans... The number of bodyguards is definitely indispensable. What's the difficulty of sending letters to people by the way?"

"And that white porcelain, Hebei's white porcelain has never seen such a color. How did the porcelain kilns in Huangzhou come up with?"

"You ask me? Who will I ask? Last month I went to the porcelain kiln to work to subsidize the household income. I was so tired that my waist was almost broken. I didn't see anything strange. Could it be that the soil here is different from other places?"

"Maybe...Is it tiring to work in a porcelain kiln?"

"I'm tired! I'm making patterns on clay tires every night, and I can't even care about drinking water. The porcelain kiln has basically never stopped for a month. I sold out a batch of porcelain and sold out a batch of porcelain. The owner kept clamoring to recruit people all day long. Do you think you're tired?"

Kong Yingda listened quietly. His family is from a good place, so he doesn't need to "work and study", but many of the cash-strapped state students have had the experience of "working" and earning tuition and living expenses by working hard on their own.

Is scholars very good at doing this kind of thing?

He didn't know, but he knew that there were many students in the world who wanted to study but couldn't afford it. Now in Huangzhou, students can do some work that does not violate the law and earn tuition and support themselves. What's wrong with this?

In Huangzhou, Jiangbei, which has never been known for its literary style, there are now free libraries for provincial education taught by famous artists, and countless opportunities for "work-study" and are now a holy place in the minds of many students.

It is conceivable that if the business of the escort business is really smooth, more people will be determined to go to Huangzhou to study without fear of difficulties. If even the so-called escort business can promote the Huangzhou Provincial School Exhibition, it really makes people wonder how to evaluate which one’s idea.

It is really surprising to use the idea of ​​doing business to do research.

With a lot of thoughts, Kong Yingda couldn't help but think of the instigation of his friend Yu Wenli: "How about it, do you have any relatives and friends who want to come to Huangzhou to study? There are discounts!"

"Langjun, your tea is here."

The tea boy walked in with a tea set to prepare tea for the young people present. Of course, the tea leaves used at this time are the most fashionable loose tea nowadays, and the method of preparing tea is to "making tea".

After two years in Huangzhou, Kong Yingda and other northerners have become accustomed to drinking tea. Now this "making tea" method has made them more obsessed with drinking tea.

"It smells so good, man, the tea in your Sili is good."

"Do you have another pot? This store has a discount, and the second pot is half price."

"Then let's have another pot!"
Chapter completed!