When Emperor Chongzhen and his party went out, it was already a little late.
At this time, Nanxun Town was bustling with people leaving the houses and entering the streets.
Chen Youming was just two steps in front of Emperor Chongzhen and Concubine Tian.
He introduced the situation of Nanxun Town sideways, acting very responsible.
"Sir, we have more than 11,300 households in Nanxun Town.
The town is just like what you saw," Chen Youming said while pointing to the shops on both sides.
"Most of them make lake silk or something related to it."
Business.
Most of the shops in the front are Husi tooth shops, which are filled with samples.
Husi also has a warehouse. " When talking about this, he said quite proudly: "Our raw silk in Ming Dynasty is dominated by Hu silk, and at least 70% of the Hu silk business is transacted in our Nanxun town.
Customers who come here to buy Hu silk every year , they are all big-money, a single transaction can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars.”
After hearing what he said, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but feel moved.
Wang Chengen, the admiral of the East Factory who left Beijing first, reported to him that based on the clues currently available, those who intended to sabotage the opening of the sea in the Ming Dynasty were probably people who secretly sold goods overseas.
Because the Ming Dynasty prohibited the sea, at least the goods were not allowed to go out, which allowed those people to maximize the profits of each bow of the ship that went to sea.
Once the sea opens and a large number of merchants go out, prices will inevitably fall, which will harm their interests.
Thinking like this, he asked Chen Youming: "Where do people come from to buy so many Hu silk in Nanxun Town?"
As a local, Chen Youming naturally understood these things, and immediately replied: "There are them all over the country, including those in the capital, and some in Nanjing, but more of them are from Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, among which the Fujian and Guangdong are the best.
Young Master doesn’t know that those visitors from Fujian and Guangdong are really doing big business.
As long as the quality of Hu silk is good, they will hardly negotiate the price and are very generous.”
After finishing speaking, he suddenly pointed to a group of people in front of him, and there were seven or eight people escorting one person to a tooth shop.
At the same time, he said: "Sir, this one must be from Fujian and Guangdong."
After finishing speaking, Chen Youming smiled and said: "If it weren't for the fact that the young master and his party all have northern accents, others would think you are also wealthy businessmen from Fujian and Guangdong."
Liu Xingzuo, who was following Emperor Chongzhen, felt something in his heart when he heard this.
Looking at the emperor's back, he suddenly became thoughtful.
Sure enough, Emperor Chongzhen was seen walking slowly, watching the group of people entering the door, and then asked with great interest: "Why did they buy so much?"
When Chen Youming heard this, he hesitated for a while and quickly replied: "What else can you do?
Hu silk is the same as cotton, silk, and ceramics.
You can only make a lot of money by selling it overseas.
Look, sir."
At this point, he pointed to the people coming and going on the street and said: "Last year, the court announced the opening of the sea.
No, this year there are many more people coming to Nanxun Town than before, and many of them came early. , I’m afraid I won’t receive enough if I arrive late.”
"Oh, it seems that the imperial court did not allow sea trade before last year, right?
The business in Nanxun Town must not have been very good," Emperor Chongzhen asked with a smile on his face.
It was unclear what he was thinking, as if he was chatting.
After hearing this, Chen Youming realized that it had already begun anyway, so he didn't care anymore, so he replied: "If the court doesn't allow it, it means it won't, but it can't hold back the profits involved."
At this point, he remembered that he still had unanswered questions, so he immediately added: "Although it was like this year in the past, the scale was not small.
Otherwise, how could our Nanxun Town be so big?"
Emperor Chongzhen heard this and was about to say something else when he heard Concubine Tian's surprised voice: "There is a silk shop here.
The facade looks okay.
Let's go in and have a look."
When she came here just now, there were one Hu silk and tooth shop one after another.
Concubine Tian had no interest in it.
Suddenly she saw one selling silk and she felt itchy.
When Emperor Chongzhen was in later generations, he also went shopping with women.
Knowing that this was a woman's nature, he nodded and said casually: "Okay, let's go in and have a look."
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Although the silk shop they wanted to enter was relatively large, it could not accommodate all of them, so there were only five or six Jinyiwei plainclothes following the shop.
The clerks in the store were all busy.
When they saw someone else coming in with their entourage, someone immediately came over to serve them.
They just apologized and informed: "There are people in the private rooms in our store now.
If you don't mind, you can go here."
You can also inspect the goods, and I guarantee there won’t be much impact.”
The positioning of this store is obviously relatively high-end.
There are many products, and the quality is very good at first glance.
The silks and satins of various colors and patterns are arranged regularly, which can be clearly seen by people entering the store.
The counters are all divided into grids so that customers looking at the samples do not interfere with each other.
Many of them even have curtains so that no one can see who is inside.
"Even the private rooms are full, it seems business is good."
Emperor Chongzhen stood in the lobby and couldn't help but sigh, and then said to Concubine Tian: "If you are interested, take a look here."
He was not in the habit of insisting on asking the store owner to free up a private room.
Concubine Tian naturally did not dare to violate Emperor Chongzhen's words.
Moreover, her eyes were already full of those silks and satins, so she agreed and went to the cubicle to look at the samples.
The waiter offered tea, but Emperor Chongzhen didn't ask for it.
It wasn't that he wanted to show off as an emperor, but it was a habit from later generations that didn't make him feel uncomfortable.
Just stand in the corner of the lobby, look around the store, and pay attention to the movement over the counter.
He found that it seemed that the customers in this store were not stingy people.
Almost everyone would buy some, no matter how much.
Seeing the waiters coming and going as they were busy getting silk and satin, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but say: "Every day makes money."
"Sir, these don't really matter.
Those in the private rooms are the ones who come here."
Chen Youming knew this, so he introduced.
Emperor Chongzhen nodded after hearing this, and asked smoothly: "These shops should pay a lot of taxes, right?"
"Our Ming Dynasty's regulations are thirty taxes per one," Chen Youming immediately replied, "but we don't have a government office in the countryside.
Most of them are just symbolic payments from the principal."
After hearing what he said, Emperor Chongzhen frowned and asked, "Do you know how much the annual commercial tax of Nanxun Town is?"
"I don't know," Chen Youming shook his head simply, "Who cares about that.
But I guess it's about a thousand taels." "" Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help being speechless when he heard this.
Nanxun Town is the largest lake silk trading center in the Ming Dynasty.
The annual commercial tax is only about one thousand taels, which is really ridiculous.
He suddenly remembered that Wen Tiren had mentioned before that the tea tax was only 17 taels in Yunnan and about 6 taels in Zhejiang.
Comparing this, the taxes paid in Nanxun Town are quite high: