After bowing goodbye to Qin Bai, Xia Jinhong looked at the long queue at the door of the match shop and couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly. This has become a scene in Jingjiazhuang after the New Year. It sells ten boxes of stock at noon every day, and only receives locals in Jingjiazhuang, and each household is limited to purchase one letter.

Since it is not sold to the public at all, many merchants have found business opportunities and sent people to go around the streets and buy them at 200 to 250 yuan per case, and then transported them to other places for sale. This has allowed residents of Jingjiazhuang to find a sum of extra money. There are more than 1,000 households here, and they are on average, and they will be reduced every month. The family's income can be more than half to 2 taels.

Qin Bai turned a blind eye to such a public act of robbing money. He only made two rules public: one is to buy it in turn so that every household can guarantee it. It is absolutely impossible to do it on average, but at least there are more or less. The other is to not bully the market, and the acquisition must be voluntarily. After all, this is the benefit to the villagers. Of course, there are also those who do not believe in evil, but those who do not believe in evil should all go to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish.

Therefore, on these days, Qin Bai's reputation in Jingjiazhuang is very good. In addition, in the three days when Dakai Mountain Gate, he accepted more than a thousand old and young people, women, children and other "waste people", and he really raised them all, without any ambiguity at all. Although most people were secretly laughing at Qin Baisha, he also deeply admired them. How many people can truly achieve the word "faithfulness" in the world?

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Back at his Xia Ji, Manager Wu quickly walked forward and asked with concern: "Master Jinhong, how much is that Bai Er willing to give?"

"The 1,000 boxes that promised to exchange for 50,000 shi of sulfur per ship, 800 boxes of other boxes per month." At this point, Xia Jinhong laughed in anger, "The silly girl is nai! All the people in Nanjing are pigs! When they asked them for people, they said no, but now they don't need it anymore and are in a hurry to send it? I don't know what I need most now is not a knife, but a thin horse that can give gifts!"

The main business of the Xia family is to run to sea, so there are not many businesses located in various places, basically not in the north, and the general account in the south is located in Nanjing. In addition to selling some maritime goods, the general account in Nanjing is mainly to run for official relations, especially to inquire about the news from the Ministry of War.

The Ming Dynasty court was divided into two groups, north and south, with six ministries in Nanjing. Although most of them were elderly care yamen and could not control much power, the Ministry of War could directly order the southern provinces. After all, it was too far to travel to Beijing. Therefore, among the civil servants in Nanjing, the Minister of War in Nanjing ranked first.

In the Nanjing General Account of Xia Ji, there is also a Xia family member like Xia Jinhong host, and his ranking in the family is higher than Xia Jinhong. Therefore, the relationship between the two is more subtle.

Therefore, at that time, Xia Jinhong sent someone to the Nanjing General Office to deliver the letter. He did not rush back to Jingjiazhuang, and wanted to wait until the good men sent from Nanjing met together, and then suddenly gave Qin Bai a "surprise".

However, what I waited for in the end was to refuse. And he also said some trash words such as "insufficient manpower" and "fussy". In desperation, Xia Jinhong had to return empty-handed and returned to Jingjiazhuang before the Chinese New Year.

However, after returning to Jingjiazhuang, Xia Jinhong heard a lot of news about Qin Bai. Not only did he kill that night, but he later said that he killed Pingdu, killing the horse, scaring away the Shen family?

As a result, Xia Jinhong felt a little lucky, as if he had escaped this disaster. But at this moment, a quick message suddenly came from the Nanjing General Account - more than fifty people had been sent, so he must grab the match!

Xia Jinhong didn't know that after receiving the matches sent by the Nanjing General Office, he did not send them to Zhangzhou's home. He arranged for sea boats to go to sea, but he just sold them at a casual and half-given gift in Nanjing. After all, there were not many matches and the amount was not very large, so he was basically used as a fresh gift.

However, what happened later was exactly the same as in Beijing, and it was immediately popular among the top powerful families. The only better thing was that they thought the match was from overseas. After all, Xia Ji had been selling overseas goods. Therefore, they were not so anxious and were waiting for the next ship of the Xia family. The Nanjing General Office immediately dispatched people to Jingjiazhuang.

At this time, Xia Jinhong already knew that taking action was a delusion. Even if he had more than a few times of his manpower, he would not be able to do anything to Qin Bai now. Unless he really sent a few pirates on a few ships, there would be no chance of success at all.

Therefore, Xia Jinhong was going to negotiate as an ordinary business and ignored the orders of the Nanjing General Account. However, the embarrassing thing happened again, and Qin Bai didn't take out at all. It was because of the previous agreement to replace matches with sulfur, and finally reluctantly agreed to 800 boxes per month.

After hearing Xia Jinhong's complaint, Manager Wu could only smile and comfort: "It's good to have 800 boxes, but people outside can't get it."

Xia Jinhong sighed: "Hey! Uncle Wu, that's all!"

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After seeing off Xia Jinhong, Qin Bai turned around and returned to his yard. At this time, Dongerfang and Nansanfang were already full of people, and a large part of them were diverted to Shanglin Village and Xiaohongling.

In fact, after those three days, the total number of people who were finally counted as high as 3,100, which was far beyond the outside world's estimates and far exceeded Jing Jian's original expectations. He did not expect that so many people would come, especially those refugees who used labor for relief could still have food in Laizhou City, but those who did not have strong labor at home could not survive, so many of them took advantage of this to run.

Therefore, the proportion of elderly people, women and children is particularly high. These people actually account for almost three-quarters of the total number. The remaining more than 800 people, as well as all children and women who can work, have been sent to Shanglin Village. They will be selected from them in the future and supplemented to Xiaohongling Village.

Therefore, Qin Bai's finances became nervous again and did not dare to sell matches openly. Now the quota he sold every month, except for the 300 boxes from Jingjiazhuang, 250 boxes from Laizhou City monks, and the 150 boxes from Pingdu Li Shuli who came to congratulate him on the day he came to congratulate him, the remaining ones were the 1500 boxes from the source number and the 1000 boxes from Cui Xinxiao.

Of course, Qin Bai still held the balance of 3,500 boxes in his hand. For example, those with good reputation in Jingjiazhuang will never come to queue up, right? There must be other favors outside. Therefore, these 3,500 boxes are used here.

Qin Bai refused all other business trips. He claimed to the public: "You can only make so many!" and he still maintained a "low price" of more than five taels per box, just to not attract attention.
Chapter completed!