Let’s go back to Zhaoji Department Store first and then go to the Yamen!”

Under the gaze of the little beggar, Zhao Xiong and his gang walked up the ninety-nine steps to Canal Street in Hanzhuang Town, walked straight along the bluestone road, and turned around to the most prosperous Fuzi Street in Hanzhuang Town.

Up.

Fuzi Street is a bluestone road more than three meters wide, with a length of three to four hundred meters running through the entire Hanzhuang Town.

The two tallest buildings in Hanzhuang Town are Zhaoji Department Store and Dafeng Restaurant!

They are all on the same street, one at the beginning of the road and one at the end of the road.

Zhao Ji Department Store was bought by Zhao Xiong with a small amount of money in the past two years. The real boss behind the scenes is Zhao Xiong, and his second uncle Wang Liangcheng is only the boss on the surface.

Among the officials of past dynasties, the Kang Dynasty was the most stringent. The "Law" clearly stipulates that officials of fourth grade or above are prohibited from doing business, and those who are corrupt will have their skin exposed to the public.

However, the prosperous business and family wealth of officials in the past 3,000 years from ancient times to the present, and the Kang Dynasty is the most prosperous. First, the population increased by nearly 30 million, and second, maritime trade developed.

Especially during the Yongping period, this trend became unstoppable. It is said that "from princes to lords, bureaucrats and scholar-bureaucrats were all engaged in business.

Moreover, the bigger the official, the more and bigger the business. This phenomenon has never happened in the past.

Especially in the past two years, it has become more and more intense.

After a while, everyone arrived at Zhaoji Department Store. Zhao Xiong stood in front of Zhaoji Department Store for the first time. He felt that Zhaoji Department Store had a sense of history and was old.

Gray tiles and gray walls, cornices and brackets, a red-lacquered door open to the inside, and four large gilt characters written in block letters on the two-foot-high lintel: Zhaoji Department Store.

The door is paved with bluestone slabs. Zhao Xiong has seen the drawings. The front building is more than 200 square meters, and the backyard is full of warehouses, connected by three water streets.

On the Water Street Dam behind Zhaoji Department Store, Hanzhuang Yongping Free Warehouse is neatly lined up as far as the eye can see.

Hanzhuang Yongping Free Warehouse is said to be a free warehouse for Hanzhuang people, but in fact most of the inventory is occupied by Lao Zhaotong and grain merchants.

However, after the death of Lao Zhao Tong, the Zhao family gradually withdrew from the food industry.

Zhaoji Department Store used to be the largest silk and satin store in Hanzhuang Town.

He bought this place two years ago and used it as a department store. He also restored the layout of the supply and marketing cooperative. Then he took out a lot of goods in the space and brought them from Zhaozhuang's warehouse to sell them here.

Now Zhao Xiong can only enter the Zhongshan Port warehouse in space once a day, and the things he takes out are equal to his body weight, which is about 150 kilograms.

Of course he can't take some rice oil and the like, which take up a lot of weight but can't be sold for much money. During this period, he mainly focused on glassware, and his income was decent.

There were more than ten taels of silver every day, and the highest one was more than 100 taels of silver sold in one day. He was quite satisfied after reading the report. After all, he did not have to pay for the goods, and he earned one order for each sale.

At this moment, a fat man with a bloated body quickly ran from the inner hall to the main door, shouting at the same time: "I know Master Jiu will be back this afternoon!"

This fat man was too fat and ran faster, his body bumped and rolled like a big wheel on the ground, which was very funny.

Wang Donghai is the old lady’s nephew. He is as old as Zhao Xiong and is very proficient in arithmetic.

Recently, the old lady sent him to learn business from the big shopkeeper. In fact, he is supervising Zhao Ji and is also Zhao Xiong's right-hand man.

There were three accounting clerks behind the fat man, who were very afraid that the fat man would fall.

It was so cold that the fat man was sweating profusely, but he was young and agile after all, so he rushed to Zhao Xiong's side in a few steps.

His face was as excited as a flower in full bloom, and he whispered into Zhao Xiong's ear.

"Sir, it's been paid. The fifty thousand shi of grain that Li Hai shipped to the Yongping warehouse last night has not been signed for and has become ownerless. The big shopkeeper doesn't dare to make a decision, so he will wait for me to come back and make up his mind!"
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"What, Le Hai is dead!"

"Yes, the news came in the morning. Li Hai was beaten to death by rioting refugees in Zaozhuang!"

"Really or not?" Liu Tongxun on the side asked with a frown.

"Of course it's true. I received the news and went to Sansanli Zaozhuang to have a look."

Zuo Liangyu sneered and asked: "Fat Wang, you are so cowardly that you actually went there in person. Aren't you afraid that those rioting refugees will eat people?"

Fatty Wang looked at Zuo Liangyu with contempt and said: "I'm not stupid, I just took the telescope given to me by Master Jiu and looked on the boat before it docked. Li Hai's body was hanging on the flagpole of the dock.

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There is only one with that round belly in Yixian County, it’s really Li Hai!”

Zhao Xiong seemed fine on the surface, but he was very shocked inside.

His biggest enemy died inexplicably on the day he took office. Although he was beaten to death by the refugees, no one saw it.

Zhao Xiong found that everything about this incident was strange.

However, if Le Hai dies, he will die. Even if Le Hai does not die, he will not pose any threat to him as an official.

But the food left by Le Hai was really painful!

"Fifty thousand shi of rice!"

Zhao Xiong suddenly thought about how much one stone of rice should weigh.

Zhao Xiong vaguely remembered that one stone of rice in the Dakang Dynasty weighed more than 150 kilograms.

This pound is not the current pound of 500 grams, but the pound of about 600 grams. That one stone of rice is about 92-94KG.

Fifty thousand stones, probably, five thousand tons!

Zhao Xiong took a breath, what a huge amount!

With the large-scale planting of sweet potatoes, of course, the population has increased by more than 20 million people over more than 100 years since the day of the founding of the Dynasty.

But ordinary people don’t have enough food in their stomachs, so they must eat more than they can chew.

Zhao Xiong did a quick calculation and found that 50,000 dan was enough to feed more than 10,000 people for a year.

Fatty Wang next to him continued to whisper:

"The 200,000 shi shipped from Xuzhou Guangyun warehouse were transported to Hanzhuang a few days ago. Li Hai did have enough to float 80,000 shi directly.

A few days ago, Li Hai transported 30,000 shi to Guangshou warehouse in Zaozhuang, and the remaining 50,000 shi were placed nearby at Yongping warehouse in Hanzhuang, but they had not yet signed for shipment.

Moreover, Guangshou Warehouse was looted and burned out by Zaozhuang Town last night. The refugees nearby looted the huge Guangshou Warehouse and it was a mess!

Master, should we... take these 50,000 stones and sell them immediately!"

Xuzhou Guangyun warehouse arrived at Hanzhuang Town, which was not far away. 200,000 yuan was lost and 80,000 yuan was lost. What a bunch of worms digging into the country!

"Drifting" refers to the loss caused by the goods being transported being swept away by wind and waves or the ship sinking during transportation.

Jiuye uses the word "piaomei" very well. I like it!

It’s a peaceful time now, but not in the future!

In the past three years, there have been floods, droughts, earthquakes, and displaced people. This year, the number of beggars and refugees arriving in Yixian County has been several times greater than in previous years.

I don’t know which day there will be chaos. If it comes to war and chaos, who can control who!
Chapter completed!