At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, in order to ensure the long-term stability of the Daming River, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang established a strict household registration system to restrict the movement of ordinary people.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, this strict control policy was indeed well implemented, for example, there are historical records, there was a farmer, because his grandmother went out to seek medical treatment, because his grandmother was too rushed, even the county opened the road to forget at home, the result was seized by the Changzhou Lucheng Inspection Department, ready to send the law department to discuss the crime.This incident alarmed the Ming Taizu, and finally the Ming Taizu law outside the grace, the farmers are free from the crime, it can be seen that the control of population movement in the early Ming Dynasty is quite tight, the common people basically do not have the freedom of movement, want to go out to business or work are quite troublesome.

So under the control of such a strict household registration system, why did the business activities of the Ming Dynasty flourish?

In fact, this is mainly due to another system implemented at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the opening of the middle system.

The so-called open Chinese system, simply put, that is, the merchant at his own expense to the mainland's food, cloth, tea, beans, wheat and other living materials shipped to the border, sold to the local garrison, and then the official government with salt to compensate, how much materials, how much salt to give, and then take this salt to the salt farm to receive salt, to sell, so that the merchant earns the difference in salt.

The origin of the open system stems from the problem of logistics supply on the nine sides of the city.

During the Ming Dynasty Hongwu period, in order to defend the corrugated and Tatar attacks on the Central Plains, nine sides were set up to defend the nine sides, because the nine sides were far away from the imperial ruling center and the logistics supply was difficult, in order to reduce this burden, Ming Taizu and Shanxi merchants reached an agreement with Shanxi merchants to deliver grain to several border fortresses such as Datong and Yongguan.

In this way, the court reduced the burden of nine-sided supply, and Shanxi merchants obtained the qualification to legally sell "official salt", which is the origin of the opening system.

It can be said that the implementation of the Kaizhong system provided strong support for the military operations in the Ming Dynasty, and the eight northern marches of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, the five northern marches of Zhu Di, which consumed countless military grain and horse grass, but it did not cause the extreme people's grievances boiling during the Hanwu Emperor's period.

The Great Ming Dynasty court tasted the sweetness of the open middle system, so it slowly promoted the opening and Chinese system, and in the back, wherever there was a garrison to defend, merchants could transport grain and grass and other materials in exchange for salt.

In this way, it provides an opportunity for the development of Da Ming's commercial activities, because the merchants do not necessarily send materials such as grain and grass to the border, and after they get salt, it is not only salt that sells everywhere.

With the promotion of the opening of the Chinese system, the business activities of Da Ming gradually flourished, and merchants from all over the world also developed and developed, such as the promotion of the first benefit, and it is recorded that "Pingyang, Ze, Luo, Hao Shang Jia, not hundreds of thousands of people are not called rich!"

Of course, with the development of the Kaizhong system not only the promotion of merchants, that is, the Shanxi business gang, as well as the Shandong business gang, the Huizhou business gang, the Jiang right business gang, the Fujian business gang, the Guangdong business gang and so on.

As a former imperial capital of Jinling and Daming water and land transfer center, the development is even more rapid, the "Jiangning Province of the Great Ming Dynasty" records that there are 104 kinds of commercial shops in Jinling, and each industry is more than one, of which "sugar shop has about 30", the prosperity of Jinling trade can be imagined.

Zhang Bin's third brother Zhang San and fourth brother Zhang Jun are the two treasurers of the famous "East Shengtang" in the Fujian Merchants Gang, which was originally unique to the Funingzhou Huang, mainly engaged in overseas trade with Dongyi, in Fujian's monthly port and Guangdong's Macao have a denominator, the scale is not small, but it can not be regarded as large, in the Fujian business gang can only belong to the small role of beating the drum.

However, since the secret participation of Zhang Chengde, Zheng Zhiyuan and others in the big gold house, the development of Dongshengtang can be described as a thousand miles a day, and now, it has become one of the many large business companies in the Fujian business gang.

Zhang Bin already knew that his mother Huang's family was doing business, and his third brother and fourth brother were also doing business, but he did not know what his brother and fourth brother were doing, and he did not know that the scale of Dongshengtang's business had been so scary.

After all, at this time, business is a low-hanging industry, compared with the official is simply not worth mentioning, who has nothing to show in front of him how big his business is doing, that is not a disease!

However, Zhang Bin does not discriminate in business, on the contrary, he still attaches great importance to doing business, because he knows that it is unrealistic to rely on farmland taxes to save Da Ming, must be open source, that is, increase other sources of income, and business, especially overseas trade, is the focus of open source.

No, his fourth brother Zhang Jun came, he immediately used the pretext of closing his house, and he had to follow Zhang Jun to find a house.

This kind of thing, when the officials are usually arranged for relatives or cronies to do, a five-pin staff, even ran to find a house, he is also a wonderful.

Zhang Bin's fourth brother Zhang Jun should be said to be the five brothers inside the most similar, equally handsome, the same quality, the same quality, the two people stand together, absolutely no one doubts that they are brothers, unlike his big brother and second brother, the two muscle men stand with him, simply like the eagle to catch the chicken.

However, Zhang Jun's culture and Zhang Bin's culture are still different, as long as the two people open their mouths, others can immediately see the difference.

Because Zhang Bin's literary spirit is educated from the four books and five scriptures, an opening is the official language of the text, which can be described as an export chapter; while Zhang Jun's literary spirit is cultivated from the account dealer's business, and an opening is to argue about two, bargaining, which can be described as full of copper odor.

Zhang Jun is therefore a little self-sad, in front of his fifth brother even do not dare to talk, Zhang Bin on his fourth brother is quite appreciated, for the future generations, this is the business elite!

This is not, from the matter of looking for a house, it can be seen that Zhang Jun has rich business experience.

If Zhang Bin is allowed to find a house, it can only be a clueless about the whole city, but Zhang Jun is not the same, he is not in a hurry to turn around, but let his people first go to inquire about the commercial layout of the whole Jinling, almost after the inquiry, he immediately locked the inner city Zhengyang outside the door, the bustling land of the Qinhuai River.

The choice of this place is exquisite, because entering the Zhengyang Gate is not far from the six gates, first of all, Zhang Bin to the gate to do things convenient.

In addition, he himself is more convenient to buy, because the left side of the Zhengyang Gate and the Sanshan Gate, Moxiu Lake, is the famous Ning silk source, and the right side of the Zhengyang Gate Chaoyang Gate, Xiaolingwei area, is the famous Weiwei out of the place, and Ning silk and Weiwei is the main goods he wants to purchase in Jinling.

After the general orientation was determined, Zhang Bin set out in a carriage in a civilian dress with his fourth brother Zhang Jun.

Once out of the Zhengyang Gate, a prosperous commercial market will be in the eye, shop ratio, street cross-strait, pedestrians, horses, shoulder-to-shoulder, a wide range of large signs hanging everywhere, what "northwest two mouthfuls of leather cargo pick-up", "Chongguang Guang groceries", "Fuguanghai taste", "Church Guangguisen" and so on, so on.

Zhang Bin was really startled by the pomp in front of him, this bustling scene, where to see a little about the call of the dying country!

During this time, he was basically familiar with the affairs of the military department, and at the same time sent people to find the residence of Cao Huaxuan, Bi Miaokang and Qijiajun generals, and he really did not come out to walk in this street.

However, this time he did not come to go shopping, but to see the house, so although he was shocked by the prosperity in front of him, he did not have time to consider why Jinling was so prosperous here.

Zhang Jun is indeed experienced, he has long found the seller of the house, waiting outside the Zhengyang Gate, this way, as long as the carriage followed the dealer slowly on the line.

Zhang Bin was still a headache, buy a big house, if you buy a small house, this family will live together on the crowd can not, if the purchase is big, and beyond the scope of his table, it will inevitably cause others to doubt, bring trouble.

This is not Pingyang, in Pingyang he can take charge, no one will doubt how his money came, in Jinling, if you take a month of more than two dozen or two yuan to suddenly buy a few hundred or two houses, not to be suspected of being strange.

However, after watching a few times, Zhang Bin's doubts were gone, because his fourth brother Zhang Jun had already considered this, and he took him to choose the kind of multi-family house.

The so-called piece of multi-family housing is a connected house, the interior is connected, but do not share a portal, if you look at a single portal, it does not look big, if the whole, it is very scary.

How can there be such a person in Jinling, and the built house is like a custom-made for Zhang Bin.

In fact, this has nothing to do with Zhang Bin, the reason why there is such a residence, mainly because of the ban of the court at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it is strictly forbidden to have more than three rooms for civilians, even if it is rich and rich, although there are dozens of houses, adjacent to more than dozens of acres, but the number of rooms in each hall is not afraid to exceed three.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, although the ban is not very strict, but the private housing is still not too overworked, the general rich and expensive home single portal up to eight or nine rooms, basically built several households, in the middle of the self-connection.

That is to say, this is not specifically customized for Zhang Bin, but because of a construction custom formed by the ban of the court.

Finally, Zhang Bin and Zhang Jun discussed a little, bought a field-shaped mansion, looks like four, in fact, one, covers a total of dozens of acres, all sides of the door, each house is three into eight nine large rooms.

If this kind of mansion is in the inner city of Jinling, a single portal will be five or six hundred and two, which is not Zhang Bin's current salary, but this kind of residence in the outer city is not very expensive, four households add up to eight hundred and two, that is to say, a single family of only two hundred, plus gray income, Zhang Bin can buy it is not surprising.

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