In the early years of Kaiyuan of the Tang Dynasty, a sea-protecting pond was built starting from Yanguan in the south and ending at Wusongjiang River in the north.

The land was also reclaimed and gradually developed into an important grain-producing area.

Since then, the population, counties and towns have gradually increased, and the scale has expanded.

After the mid-Tang Dynasty, Shanghai's economic and cultural ties with home and abroad further expanded. In the tenth year of Tianbao's reign in the Tang Dynasty, Huating County was established from the three counties of Kunshan, Jiaxing and Haiyan, and the Huating Sea in the northeastern part of Huating County.

Qinglong Market Town in the northeast of Huating County was home to numerous ships and fireworks, and was compared to Hangzhou at the time.

At that time, Shanghai, as a new trading port, was already a place where ships and merchants gathered.

In the 14th year of Yuan Dynasty, the Municipal Shipping Department was established in Shanghai Town, and then the Capital Water Transport Wanhu Prefecture was established.

At that time, Shanghai Town had become "a giant town in the northeast of Huating".

In the 28th year of the Yuan Dynasty, five townships in the northeast of Huating County were divided and named Shanghai County.

After Shanghai was established as a county, its economy has developed greatly.

The cotton planting industry is becoming more and more prosperous, and the cotton textile industry is also gradually emerging.

Huang Daopo, a native of Wunijing, Songjiang, brought back advanced textile technology from Hainan and reformed textile tools. The quantity of fabrics was high and the quality was high, which promoted the development of the handmade cotton textile industry.

The Ming Dynasty still uses the name Shanghai County.

“It’s really prosperous.”

Zhu Ying sighed a little.

Compared with other places, the commercial development here in Shanghai County has already had the initial capital-employment relationship due to the rise of the textile industry.

Including the rice fields here, most of them are growing cotton.

The grain and cotton-growing industries are almost at a 50-50 split.

In addition, it is an important water transport port in itself, and ships transporting grain supplies by sea all sail from Shanghai.

This has also led to the fact that there is rarely a shortage of food in Shanghai County.

When the labor force is liberated, the rise of industrialization is inevitable.

The Qunying Chamber of Commerce's influence in Shanghai County is still very strong, mainly due to the previous Snowflake Salt.

There are originally a lot of salt dealers here in Shanghai, especially private salt dealers.

When snowflake salt appeared, it had a huge impact on Shanghai.

It is precisely because of this that in the early days, although Zhu Ying did not come to Shanghai in person, the Qunying Chamber of Commerce could be said to have two levels of profits, almost all of which came from here.

Most of the snow salt produced in other places in the Ming Dynasty was also transshipped from Shanghai.

Seventy percent of the list of salt officials that Zhu Ying reported to the old man were in Shanghai County.

In a restaurant, Zhu Ying took the intelligence list from the head of the branch in Shanghai from Uncle Zhang and began to read it carefully.

The main records in this register are about the current basic situation of each chamber of commerce.

There are also government officials, salt officials, etc.

After reading it, Zhu Ying said with some sigh: "When I came here, I already felt that the status of the merchants here does not seem to be low, but I didn't expect that the water transport merchants can really cover the sky with one hand by helping these people.

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"It's interesting to say that the water transport business gang came together because of the snowflake salt from my place. They raised prices in various ways and sold the goods for several times the profit."

"Uncle Zhang, they are more ruthless than us."

Water transport merchant gang, referred to as water transport gang.

The current composition of the Shanghai Caogang is very different from that in Suzhou.

Perhaps it is because there are more and more mixed merchants here in Shanghai that it is not easy to form a business gang organization, and the main body of the Cao gang here is actually a guard sergeant.

After tracing all the way, all the clues finally pointed to Zhenhaiwei.

It is said that it is an investigation, but in fact the members of the Cao Gang are extremely arrogant and have no intention of keeping it secret. If the slightly powerful chamber of commerce does not obey their instructions, they will directly use the name Zhenhaiwei.

Speaking of which, Zhenhaiwei has some connections with Zhu Ying.

Because the founder of Zhenhaiwei was Zhou Dexing, Marquis of Jiangxia.

The famous founding general of the Ming Dynasty and one of the twenty-four generals of Huaixi, the Marquis of Jiangxia, who was even killed for causing rebellion in the palace.

Later Jiang Xiahou was transferred to the Fujian area, but there are still many of his old subordinates here.

"This Zhenhai Guard is quite powerful. When other guards have problems, it's mostly because the commander exploits the sergeants."

"But now the Zhenhai Guard Commander led his sergeants to exploit merchants. Instead, he established a gang like the Caogang to exercise jurisdiction over all merchants and extract large profits from them."

"I guess many salt officers also follow Zhenhaiwei."

"This guy will probably make a lot of money in a year, which is why the sergeants at the guard station are completely devoted to him."

"Don't think it's me. It won't work even if the old man comes over."

Zhu Ying said with a smile, but there was no smile in his tone.

The Zhenhai Guards who dare to be so arrogant and domineering are definitely not just as simple as Jiang Xiahou's old subordinates.

It is very likely that the Huaixi generals group is also involved.
Chapter completed!