In Changping City, it was almost a day of shock.

Many gentry received the news as soon as possible. Within one or two days, after the news, a large number of officials and gentry began to take their whole family and leave the city.

When Shi Congbin came out of the inn, he saw that the Ximen was blocking, and there were crowds of people. Not only were there gentry or wealthy businessmen who fled with big carts, but there were also quite a few civilians who were pushing unicycles or carrying shoulder poles.

It is really a chaotic person at the gate of the city. Ordinary people take their homes as much as possible. Even the gentry and wealthy families should take their wealth with them as much as possible. In addition, the servants, servants, maids and other servants, who usually don’t go out, are also crowded with ordinary people at the gate of the city. They sweat and scream in surprise. Many big belly, wearing long gowns, and turbans and hats, squeezed into the crowd. They have horses or carts, but at the gate of the city

They could only get down and squeeze. Their white faces were covered with sweat and panic. Because of their poor physical fitness, they were mostly panting and panting. They had to think about protecting their own women. However, those dark or yellow-faced, looking at the thin common people, women holding children, men pushing cars, and walking calmly and powerfully, not too panic. Even the white-haired elderly people or children with horns and shaved heads were much more flexible than those of the rich.

"Three brothers, three brothers, I'm here."

Shi Congbin looked at the situation at the city gate with a calm face, not careful not to be wary of someone calling him at the city gate. He struggled to look over the crowd and realized that it was a distant brother from his family whom he brought out this time, and somehow he was squeezed into the crowd.

Shi Congbin had to go to the crowd and ask a few Cong people to help pull his cousin out.

At this time, I couldn't help but hear a lot of conversations, all of whom were communicating information. Everyone had speculations on the overall situation, but no one knew the exact news.

Someone said: "Did the Governor leave the city?"

"It seems that I went out this morning and the city gate opened for a moment."

"Are you going to Panjiakou?"

"That's right, it's true. A servant was left to do odd jobs in the Governor's office. He saw the Governor Yiwei surrounded the Governor and rode out of the city."

"In this weather, riding a horse is a hard task, but it must be an emergency, otherwise the Governor would have been in a sedan chair."

"That's right. As soon as I heard about it, I immediately ordered my family to prepare, and I must leave the city today. Changping is not far from the capital. I think I must enter the capital before the gate of the capital is closed tonight."

"Yes, yes! It will be safe when you enter the city."

"Ah, the Northern Barbarians are so vicious that there are still rumors everywhere during the Jiajing period that the Northern Barbarians plundered everywhere, burned and killed raped. The lustful people who are well-read should avoid it early and handed over this place to those martial artists."

"We can't just hand it over to the martial arts. We must have civil officials like the Governor, or they will not know the general trend and strategy."

"I'm speechless, I'd better leave the city as soon as possible."

"Yes, it's better to leave quickly... When the Northern Territory defeated Panjiakou and plundered all cities. When I was young, the incident was vivid in my mind. Therefore, I must take my family before the Northern Territory defeat. Even if it was a false alarm, it would be just a waste of time."

Everyone was talking about the captive love this time. No one knew the strength of the Northern Barbarians, nor did anyone angry at the arrogance of the Northern Barbarians and the invasion and harassment of the original tribes. In the Ming Dynasty, the gentry had privileges, but no one would turn this privilege into a service to the family, country and nation. Until more than ten years later, the world collapsed, and the bandits and the Eastern Barbarians threatened farther places from time to time. The gentry there was no big city like the capital that could hide, and even the family was destroyed and the country was destroyed. At that time, many gentry had set up to train troops and organized their servants and families into groups to train, but by then it was too late.

The decay of the scholar is full of examples.

Not to mention the Han Dynasty, which is famous for its martial arts, the good families and gentry in the border counties can beat thousands of northern barbarians to the ground for their teeth. Even the Han landlords in the Wei and Jin Dynasties would never have been like this panic-fighting scene in the end of the world...

"Forget it, it's very stuffy here." Shi Congbin was upset and left with Chengren's city gate.

Recently, the Xiangfu Shi family has been unfavorable. Of course, it is not that the career path is not smooth or that some people are in trouble in the local area. With Shi Kefa, a juren, and a powerful support like Zuo Guangdou, and the family of officials and gentry who have studied for generations, even local officials have to rely on some points and will never dare to make things difficult for the family of great gentry like the Shi family.

The disadvantage of Shi Congbin's passing years was mainly business matters... Like the ordinary officials and gentry families at that time, as the social atmosphere turned to extravagant after Chenghua, the cost of local gentry families increased greatly. In addition, the atmosphere was no longer as repulsive and suppressed as the Guochu, and the number of officials and gentry families doing business gradually increased. After the opening of the sea in Longwan, there were few gentry families who did not do business.

The rule is to do various businesses, and the strongest one is to put money from usury, and the strength is to open silver shops, shops and other businesses that are stable and profitable. Although the Shi family is quite powerful, they only do some grocery businesses. Some very common shops such as oil pressing workshops and grain stores are the most profitable ones are the cloth shops managed by Shi Congbin.

Since the first run last time, Shi Congbin has been on the blacklist of the Beijing Business Company. Not only did He Yusheng no longer transfer the silver deposit for him, nor did he sell flags to him, but of course it was impossible to cooperate in logistics. In this way, the cost has increased greatly... During the Tianqi period, due to the increase in commercial tax and land tax, the people were actually very difficult... Although Chongzhen's early simplified corvee service had an ideal side, it was mainly because during the Tianqi period, Wei Zhongxian's plundering was too much during the period of adhering to the national government, and the people were too difficult, and it also felt like he was rectifying the chaos and resting with the people.

In the example, the court collected three points, and the local government added seven points, and the burden was doubled. The people's hardship was a significant example. The number of refugees gradually increased. Although the large-scale uprising was the second year of Chongzhen, there were many records of mutinies and famous bandits in the late Wanli period. The wind rose at the end of Qingping. At this time, Henan and Shandong were actually a powder barrel. Shandong had many loud horses, while Henan had many bandits and strong bandits.

The convoy of the Shi family, under the banner of He Yusheng, not only does not have to worry about tax cards and clerks along the way, nor does it have to worry about the small group of bandits and strong men. Those people also know that He Yusheng is not easy to mess with, so they can rob others and do not have to solve He Yusheng's tiger beard.

The Shi family originally used to be the banner of He Yusheng, but the cost was not much. They were no longer available recently. They were blackmailed several times in a row. They also needed to hire more people to follow the convoy to prevent being robbed... The cost would be more than doubled, but they dared not to use it.

It's fine. When I arrived in Beijing, I realized that the major trading banks I originally cooperated with no longer cooperated with Shi Congbin. Of course, they would not be so direct and rude. They just raised the price by several% and did not repurchase the goods brought by Shi Congbin. After the goods were put in twice, Shi Congbin took several times to take them off. Calculate the cost, not only did they not make money, but they lost a lot.

The Shi family's goods had to stop going out of the capital and detoured through Linqing. The competition in Linqing became more intense, with high capital and low profits. Moreover, Shandong was making a big fuss, making the road even more unsafe.

This time, I came to Changping to see if I could sell the local goods brought by Xiangfu around the capital. I would go along with the Changping area to inquire about the cloth market... Now Shi Congbin can't buy cheap cloth in Beijing, and his inventory is about to be empty. The weather is getting colder, and the most shipment of cloth is winter. In summer and autumn, people can wear thinner and broken, as long as they can cover the body, it can be kept. In autumn and winter, it will be difficult to hold on if they don't make jackets. No matter how frugal people are, once the jackets are damaged and cannot be repaired, they can only buy cloth to measure clothes. In addition, children grow up every year, and old clothes may not be suitable. As long as life goes on, winter is approaching, they have to make new clothes. In addition, cotton production has increased in recent years, and winter is getting colder and colder, and the demand for cotton and cotton has increased significantly.

Shi Congbin knew that the cloth business was getting better and better, but he had no choice but to lack supply. There was cloth in Linqing, but the price was higher than that of the capital. The capital absorbed a lot, and it was all bulk transactions, and the competition was fierce. The price was much lower than that of the transit cities like Linqing, and much lower than that of Kaifeng Xiangfu. Therefore, even if the journey was difficult and the cost increased, Shi Congbin wanted to find a stable supply of goods. Even if it made less money, it would be much better than having no goods to sell.

Unfortunately, in Changping, I went to many large businesses for a few days, but it was unsuccessful. Perhaps Changping was too close to the capital, and the ban on Xiangfu Shi family by Yusheng has also been spread here... Since the last incident, Shi Congbin is very accepting of such a result. Since he did such a thing, it is normal to be countered...

"Third brother, is this He Yusheng's semicolon?"

Shi Congbin's helper cousin Shi Congde was quite stupid. After all, he had the identity of Tongsheng. After the county and government tests, he could not live or die. He wasted his time and was still poor and could only learn business with Shi Congbin. At least he could get dozens of taels of silver home in a year. It was difficult to get a school as Tongsheng. Even if he could be a tutor, he was still a rural tutor. If he had a red envelope of six taels a year, he would be a good future.

"That's right." Shi Congbin was very worried. The source of goods for purchases was not found and it was difficult to ship them. If he struggled twice, he could only give up completely. In the future, he could only do some small transactions in Henan and Beijing in the future. How could the profit be compared with before? It's a pity that he was weak and he was not in line with his nephew Shi Kefa's persuasion. He appeared in a difficult position with He Yusheng, but forgot that although merchants had to rely on their family, they had to deal with the government. However, when doing business, destroying the reputation of other businesses would be equivalent to destroying their reputation. From a big cloth merchant with the best auspicious talisman to the current land, he actually couldn't blame himself.

However, the semicolon of He Yusheng in front of him was quite lively. There were many gentry and businessmen who were planning to leave the city gathered in front of He Yusheng's semicolon, listening to the shopkeeper of the semicolon saying something loudly...
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