Chapter 1553 Official Businessmen and Imperial Businessmen

As the saying goes, there is no first in literature and no second in martial arts, but there are at least certain comparison standards in those two fields. However, medical diagnosis and treatment are different. Even famous doctors with outstanding reputations do not dare to ensure that every patient they treat

Both medicines can cure the disease. Moreover, everyone has different diagnosis and treatment methods and judgment of the disease. Although the prescriptions prescribed are similar, the dosage of medicine is obviously different. The doctors who were invited here for consultation

They are all famous doctors with outstanding medical skills in their respective places. Naturally, they will not easily agree with other people's opinions on diagnosis and treatment. They have to fight over how much each medicinal material should cost and how to mix it.

Shi Diwen said to his heart that fortunately, I was just overtired, and I would just rest for a day or two and be fine. If I really had any serious illness, I would wait for the doctors to hold a meeting to discuss and come up with an answer. I'm afraid it would be time to prepare for the funeral.

.So having more people may not make things easier. Although each family hired so many doctors out of good intentions, the effect was not what they expected. In fact, of course Shi Diwen also had knowledgeable doctors accompanying him.

He was only given two doses of medicine to calm the fire and calm the nerves. After drinking it two or three times, his physical condition improved significantly. As for the various tonics sent by various companies, Shi Diwen did not touch them for the time being. His physical condition was worse than at this time.

The vast majority of people are fine, and there is no need to take supplements for physical discomfort caused by fatigue.

This short-lived emergency did not affect the enthusiasm of Zhejiang businessmen to seek cooperation. Haihan's outstanding strength and business reputation in international trade, as well as its shipping capabilities in the southern waters of Ming Dynasty and Southeast Asia, can be said to be the best of any businessman.

Even in the two days when Shi Diwen claimed to be ill and recuperating, although few people were able to visit him, businessmen from all over Zhejiang were still pouring into Ningbo City, trying to find a partner with Haihan senior officials.

opportunity to meet.

In addition to the shortage of tonics in pharmacies in Ningbo city in a short period of time, high-end restaurants and inns were suddenly overcrowded due to the influx of business people. Some businessmen who arrived late could not find a place to live, and even rented private houses at high prices.

As a result, the accommodation in Ningbo city soon ushered in a second wave of climax. Seeing the profits, many people in the city simply vacated one or two rooms in their houses and rented them to these foreign businessmen for temporary residence.

Within a few days, even those with the least information knew that the reason why Ningbo city had become so lively was because a high-ranking Haihan official in the city was holding talks with Ming Dynasty on trade matters. And the large number of outsiders who poured into Ningbo,

Many of them are businessmen who hope to take this opportunity to establish a relationship with Haihan.

Of course, it is not just businessmen who want to have a relationship with Haihan. In fact, if we divide it by occupation, there are people from all walks of life who come to Ningbo with this idea. For example, those who consulted with Shi Diwen at his station

Among those doctors, there are also some who want to take this opportunity to earn some performance and gain more capital for joining Haihan in the future.

In this bustle, there are as many scholars as businessmen. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Haihan was very concerned about recruiting educated immigrants, and even set up a special resettlement subsidy for scholars with a good reputation.

, not only can you immediately obtain Haihan nationality, but the resettlement and naturalization issues of your family can also be solved at the same time. The new immigrants who received this treatment under Haihan were probably only those who took the military route and exchanged for naturalization by enlisting in the army.

, but the treatment is still far inferior to that of the recruited scholars.

This is not because Haihan values ​​literature over martial arts, but rather because of helplessness. The rapid development of the country will inevitably require a large number of high-quality talents to enter the officialdom to support the bureaucracy. However, Haihan’s own educational system has relatively limited training capabilities.

Cultivating high-level intellectuals is not something that can be accomplished overnight. And time waits for no one. The large number of job vacancies in many departments forced Haihan to face up to this situation. At that time, Haihan did not have the strength he has today. To attract people

Scholars from Ming Dynasty or other countries can only use high salary and excellent benefits as conditions to join Haihan.

As time passed, most scholars in the coastal provinces of the Ming Dynasty had heard of Haihan's special recruitment. Some down-and-out scholars felt that the imperial examination was hopeless, so they simply went to Haihan and were quickly appointed to various positions. Some even

He was soon promoted to a formal official. After such an example appeared, scholars in the southern part of the Ming Dynasty began to realize that this was indeed a feasible way, so more and more Ming scholars who were disillusioned with the imperial examination began to

Haihan has become a new place to go.

Most of those who voluntarily left their homes and joined Haihan were poor scholars who lived in relatively poor conditions and could not survive unless they found a new home. However, those scholars who had a certain degree of real talent and academic status and court fame tended to cherish their feathers more.

, it is unlikely that he would take the initiative to go to Haihan to find a job. Of course, these people who cherish feathers may not be very loyal to the Ming Dynasty. Many of them are also waiting for a price, hoping to get it at the right time.

It's just a relatively good quote.

If you go directly to the Immigration Bureau to apply for naturalization at the site occupied by Haihan, and get a recommendation letter after interviewing with senior officials of Haihan before applying for naturalization, there will definitely be a gap in the final treatment. So when the news of Shi Diwen's personal visit to Ningbo came to light, the two countries had established ties with each other.

After the news about Shang came out, many scholars with keen sense of smell realized that this was a rare opportunity. Businessmen are good at talking, and scholars are certainly good at talking. If they can meet Shi Diwen, they can show it to this high-ranking Haihan official.

Your knowledge reserve and conversational skills might be noticed by the other party, and you could be directly hired back to be a county magistrate or something like that. Wouldn't it be great? Of course, there are also many people who come here just to try their luck.

, just hoping to ride on this wind to the sky.

There are quite a few scholars with this kind of mentality. Fifty-six out of ten scholars who come to Ningbo have this mentality. Seeing the fierce competition, some people have other ideas and try to find local connections and try to directly

was introduced to Shi Diwen. This gave rise to new business, and the guys from the local tooth shop took action one after another to explore various ways to enter Shi Diwen's residence.

As the intermediary structure of this era, it is not too difficult for Yaxing to send a few people to work in the house where Shi Diwen settled. But the problem is that the house where Shi Diwen lives this time has been fully occupied by Haihan.

All the staff here are Haihan nationals, and outsiders who want to sneak in will definitely be exposed.

But even if this approach doesn't work, Yaxing has also thought of another solution for its customers, which is to first pretend to be a businessman to get the qualification to meet, and then rely on personal performance to win Shi Diwen's favor.

If you just pretend to be an ordinary businessman, you can probably do the same as everyone else, first go to the concierge to submit a greeting card, and then slowly wait in line for a day or two, and in the end you may not even see a hair. And when you propose this

The recommended dental shop has already taken this into consideration for its customers and suggested that they pretend to be businessmen with official backgrounds. The choice of this official background should preferably be one that the Haihan people cannot verify in a short period of time, such as

Somewhere far away from Ningbo. This way the parties involved can pretend to discuss business first, and then wait for opportunities to promote themselves.

Of course, there is a certain risk in doing this. Once it is exposed, you will definitely not want to join Haihan, and you may have to suffer some hardships. But if you can get a good job for yourself, the risk may be worth it.

Risk. And the dental shop that came up with such an idea is naturally keen on money. As long as the customers can afford the price, they are willing to provide a comprehensive package and pretend that these dissatisfied scholars are officials and businessmen from a certain inland state. As for the

The script can only be compiled and performed by these scholars themselves.

Driven by interests, there are really brave people who don't take the ordinary path and choose this seemingly unfeasible path. With the help of an unscrupulous dental shop, a scholar disguised himself as

A businessman from Jinhua Mansion. This scholar also has some wealth. When he came to Ningbo, he brought five or six servants with him and rented a house. Otherwise, he would not dare to pretend to be an official or businessman.

Yaxing identified him, prepared a new greeting card, and sent it to Shi Diwen's residence early in the morning. The concierge here had long been replaced by someone from the Ministry of Commerce, and all greeting cards delivered here were

The post will be filtered by him first, and then the valuable objects will be selected from them, and then the specific meeting time will be notified. Even if someone wants to stuff the concierge with money, it will be useless, because the businessman Shi Diwen wants to meet must have a certain commercial value.

Or a special status. This has certain rigid standards, such as the scale of business, the location of the business premises, whether it has a government background, whether it has trade relations with Haihan in the past, etc. If the concierge dares to let go of this check, he will definitely be punished afterwards.

Being discovered by Shi Diwen would be equivalent to destroying his own job.

This scholar named Zhang Qu pretended to be the nephew of the prefect of Jinhua Prefecture in his invitation. He came here to discuss with Haihan about jointly opening a silk workshop in Jinhua Prefecture. The gift list he prepared was also quite generous, and the person in charge of the review was

After seeing it, the concierge did not doubt that he was there, so he informed the other party to come over in the afternoon and wait for Shi Diwen to receive him.

Zhang Qu was naturally overjoyed after hearing the servant's reward, knowing that getting an interview was half the battle. He himself was not bad in knowledge, and his family also had assets, but he had no official backer, so he had always been a bit high and low. He wanted to

If you can rely on Haihan as a backer, you can at least get an official position with your own abilities. Even if you are not an official, it would be good to cooperate with Haihan to do some business. Of course, the silk workshop mentioned in the invitation is not very good.

It's possible. His family's property is just a few hundred acres of farmland. To engage in such a high-end industry as a silk workshop, it is impossible without a government background. It is difficult to get through the joints of the Hangzhou Weaving Bureau alone.

Zhang Qu had lunch early and rushed to the place where Shi Diwen was staying. Outside the gate, there were several other groups of businessmen waiting to meet him in the afternoon, including people riding horses and sedan chairs. Zhang Qu believed that he was an official and businessman, so he immediately took the initiative

He kept a distance from these people and only said hello with a distant cup of his hand.

However, Zhang Qu was not as arrogant as he appeared on the surface. Although he did not take the initiative to approach other businessmen, he was still listening to their conversations with sharp ears, hoping to obtain some valuable information. Soon he discovered that these groups

The businessmen had special respect for a middle-aged man named Cao sitting among them, and they all nodded and bowed and called him Master Cao.

Zhang Qu looked at Master Cao from a distance. He looked about forty years old, with fair complexion and no beard on his face. He looked like he was a well-off man. But as soon as Master Cao opened his mouth, Zhang Qu

Now he knows why these businessmen treat him so lowly.

This Master Cao's voice was very sharp, like a woman's, and he was holding a brocade handkerchief in his hand. His posture made Zhang Qu get goosebumps when he saw it. Needless to say, this Master Cao must be a eunuch, but I don't know

Where does it come from?

Zhang Qu became curious and continued to listen to what Mr. Cao said. After a while, he got a rough idea. Mr. Cao came from Nanjing. From his tone, he should be working under a certain prince, and he came to Ningbo this time.

, he probably had some business to discuss with the Haihan people. However, two days ago, he encountered Shi Diwen claiming to be ill. Even if the King of Heaven came, he would not see him. He could only wait patiently in Ningbo. Now that Shi Diwen has recovered from his illness, he has started to work.

, Mr. Cao hurried over to wait, hoping to meet Shi Diwen earlier and settle the formalities in advance.

It was normal for the royal family members of the Ming Dynasty to run some industries privately. Zhang Qu didn't have any opinions on this. However, it was the first time for him to meet such a eunuch who went out to do business, so he couldn't help but be a little curious. This eunuch talked to the Haihan people.

Business, what will it be like?

Not long after, the afternoon reception time began, and the first person called by the concierge was indeed the eunuch named Cao: "Mr. Cao Lu, you can come in."

Cao Lu stood up, nodded to everyone, and walked into the courtyard with square steps. Zhang Qu saw that after Cao Lu left, the groups of businessmen who had just been with him looked relieved.

With an expression on his face, he immediately asked them: "Are you here with Mr. Cao?"

"I'd like to, but I can't get into this relationship!" The person closest to Zhang Qu responded: "This Mr. Cao came from Nanjing and is a serious imperial businessman. Compared with me and others who rely on the government to make a living, he is not so good.

It’s much more powerful. I don’t know how big the deal he went to discuss with the Haihan people is, but we will definitely not be able to eat it.”

Zhang Qu thought that the title of Emperor Merchant sounded really powerful, but he didn’t know if this person named Cao knew how to do business. It would be interesting if he relied on his extraordinary status and failed to negotiate terms with the Haihan people. Then he asked more questions.

He said, Cao Lu came to Shi Diwen to discuss some business.

"I heard it's salt." The man lowered his voice and said with a mysterious face: "The Haihan people built a new salt farm in Xiangshan County. Before the construction was completed, the big households from Nanjing came to visit. Maybe the salt farm is just for them.

What I am doing is just using Haihan’s name as a cover.”
Chapter completed!