Chapter 324

"Escort Guo, how is the business of the escort agency now?"

"Thanks to the king, it's OK."

Qin Huan didn't have the slightest airs, and Guo Biao relaxed a lot from being cramped at the beginning.

"Well, what goods did you charge this time? From where? "

Qin Huan nodded and asked with a smile.

When he was in Nanzhang, he wanted to have a good talk with this guy. Who had thought about a lot and forgot it? He happened to meet him today, so he called him over.

"Back to the king, most of them are some cloth, cotton and a small amount of salt, which were brought from Wuchang. According to the villain, most of these salt were temporarily hoarded in Xiangyang City by those businessmen and not sold."

Guo Biao said that and looked at Qin Huan carefully.

"Oh, what trouble did you encounter on the way? Where is the businessman who entrusted you? "

Qin Huan was surprised. He thought this guy was escorting from Yicheng, but he didn't think it was from Wuchang. He didn't care about the businessmen secretly transporting salt.

"Back to the king, although officers and soldiers set up cards everywhere to intercept and forbid goods from being transported to Xiangyang, they will turn a blind eye as long as they give some silver. The same is true of the mountain bandits and bandits along the way. This time, the owner is the Xiao family, a big family in Wuchang."

Guo Biao naturally understood Qin Huan's meaning, so he didn't hide it.

Although Lu Xiangsheng has long ordered merchants not to transport goods to Xiangyang for sale, in fact, this order is in vain. No one will seriously implement it. I'm afraid even Lu Xiangsheng won't take it seriously.

"Xiao family?"

Qin Huan immediately became interested and hurriedly asked about the Xiao family. Guo Biao naturally said everything he knew.

Qin Huan finally knew that the Xiao family was very powerful in Wuchang. It was far from what he thought before. It was just an ordinary big family.

"Escort Guo, you can't earn much money if you work so hard for others. Now you can see that the people under the king have a lot of silver in their hands. This year is only Xiangyang. After the summer harvest in Nanyang next year, the demand for all kinds of goods will only be greater. Didn't you think about buying goods from Jiangnan and transporting them to sell?"

"Ah! The king doesn't know. The villain still has some contacts in Wuchang, but if he comes from Jiangnan to escort goods, I'm afraid it will be difficult to move. Besides, the villain doesn't have enough capital to buy those goods. "

Guo Biao sighed and explained.

He never thought of doing it alone. After all, helping others escort is not only a small profit, but also a big risk. Don't say he doesn't have money. Even if he has money, he can't do it.

"Lead escort Guo, don't worry. One day, I will let your escort agency's goods go smoothly all over the world."

Qin Huan waved aggressively. He was still optimistic and attached great importance to this ancient express company, so he decided to give strong support, but would not interfere with the affairs of the escort agency.

He plans to ask the bank to lend Guo Biao 200000 liang of silver, and then ask the logistics department to sell some weapons, even firearms, so that he can expand the scale of the escort agency and directly buy goods from all over the south of the Yangtze River and transport them to Xiangyang.

Officials can smash it with silver, while bandits and mountain bandits are unable to deal with it. Although this will greatly increase the cost, it is always cheaper than those unscrupulous second-class profiteers.

At the same time, let him help him buy some corn, sweet potatoes and brown sugar in the south, and even go to Macao to contact the Portuguese to get a batch of rubber.

Sweet potato and corn were introduced into Daming as early as Xuanhua years. For example, many people in Guangdong and Fujian are planting them, but they have been unable to promote them on a large scale.

It's not that the people don't want to plant, nor that they are acclimatized, and the yield is not high, but that the landlords don't let them grow, so the people can only plant some in the fields or in front of and behind their houses.

After hearing this, Guo Biao trembled with excitement. He thought that Qin Huan wanted to find himself. Most of the time, he asked him to buy some items, such as sulfur.

But he never expected that Qin Huan would lend him so much money and sell weapons and firearms. The key is not to send someone to supervise.

However, he immediately calmed down. Thinking of the mortgage of his daughter to the stronghold in the past, he hesitated a little and said, "king, the little girl has always admired the bodyguards of the king. She has mentioned to the villain that she wants to join more than once. Just because she doesn't have a chance, please give the little girl a chance."

"Well, I've seen thousands of gold martial arts. Unexpectedly, let's be a crack soldier first!"

Qin Huan nodded. He was still satisfied with this guy's consciousness. He didn't speak, so he knew to take out his daughter for mortgage.

After all, this guy has a criminal record and no mortgage. Who knows if he will abscond with the money again?

………

It was not until the sun went down in the afternoon that the number of people leaving the city gradually decreased. Qin Huan got into the city in a carriage, and the motorcade on the side finally lined up and slowly followed him into the city.

After entering the city, Qin Huan finally understood why so many people crowded into the city.

Although the shops along the street didn't close and the prices of goods didn't rise, the shopkeeper and waiter were slow and had to wait for half a day to sell something.

Qin Huan was also the guys who secretly scolded the chamber of Commerce. They were so cunning that they could think of a way to work hard.

However, he was not angry and did not intend to force them, because he knew and could not blame these people. After all, they also took real gold and silver at high prices and goods purchased by two merchants. If they were sold in large quantities according to the price of Daqin firm, they would have to lose everything.

So even if the sun goes down, there are still long lines at the door of each store, and the people don't want to leave.

Obviously, I have heard that the goods of several Daqin firms in the city are about to be sold out, and once the goods of several firms are sold out, the prices of other shops will rise.

As for the gates of several Daqin firms, there were a long blocked sea of people. If there were no soldiers to maintain order, there would be great trouble.

Qin Huan also knew that there was a big reason for this scene and everyone's fear of treasure bills. They all wanted to spend the treasure bills as soon as possible. If they were changed into silver, the people would not be so anxious.

Sure enough, when Qin Huan came to the door of the bank, there was a long line of people who exchanged silver.

One by one, they looked anxious, as if there would be no silver in the bank when it was late, but the people who came out looked relieved.

Qin Huan was also secretly frightened. He went to several other branches and regretted that the situation was similar. He sold so many treasure bills at once.

However, I'm not very worried that the bank will have no silver to exchange.

Although there are no other commodities in the firm, as long as the people hold the treasure money, they can buy sufficient food and salt in the firm, and the treasure money will still be strong.

Therefore, after returning to the palace, he immediately ordered to transport all the salt and iron stored in Nanyang immediately.