Chapter 51: 1866 Germany (3)

Ludwigshafen is the second largest port on the Rhine. Because of its inland location, this port has become a distribution center for goods. Ludwig shoulders the heavy responsibility of importing and exporting materials throughout the Rhineland. As a regional hub, there are many shops and prosperous businesses. Have an ideal immigration market.
Until modern times, ports have always been the means of transportation of bulk goods. The application of hydraulic power has saved countless manpower, and whenever there is a large amount of materials in and out, ships are the main means of transportation. Modern oil tankers can reach 100,000 tons, while the train can only carry 60 tons per car. A thirty-carriage train can not pull more than the ordinary ships of the 19th century. In 1825, when the world ’s first permanent public transportation facility for steam locomotives was officially opened to the Stockton-Darlington railway in the United Kingdom, it was composed of locomotives, coal cars, 32 freight cars and 1 passenger car. The total weight of the travel number of the train is only 90 tons.
Since Huang Xuan got out of the car, there were people passing by in his field of vision. If the dress was different from the environment, it would be a fast-paced port city. In the empty field near the parking yard, there are countless huge logs, medium logs and strange wood. Only here you can understand how many trees the Germans have cut down-the Germans can't figure it out if they want to come.
The Prussian named Fisher disappeared from the car and disappeared into the crowd. Huang Xuan had no choice but to walk out of the cow-horse yard, get rid of the feces on his feet, and walked towards the pier.
Only the coolie in a short shirt will make a long-term attention to Huang Xuan. The gentlemen who pretend to be Juncker will pass by Huang Xuan in a hurry. Occasionally, if there is a lady, they will cover their noses sternly.
Huang Xuan was almost frustrated. When he was at home, who dared to do such a move in front of himself, he could fly up and kick. Now countless people are performing, he still has to swallow his voice, not his own territory or uncomfortable.
Lorraine first identified the position of the grain merchant for Huang Xuan. The chamber of commerce from Hamburg is the most powerful. Although the legendary Hanseatic League has ended for a long time, the economic status of the Hamburg merchants is majestic and unshakable, only from French merchants can compete with one another.
But to be honest, Prussia did not have a good business environment during this period. There were more than 300 princes, and there were more than 6,000 currencies in all parts of the country, from Hamburg to Ludwig. Thirty, and the taxation is different. In the 21st century, Americans shouted that free trade does not require tariffs. In Prussia in the 19th century, people usually pay 30 tariffs and then do business happily.
Therefore, psychological quality is cultivated.
I do n’t know, there are nearly a hundred businesses in the small Ludwigs who are doing grain business, or that there are nearly a hundred businesses that are also doing grain business. This makes Lorraine's search a lot easier.
Speaking of which, Mr. Bismarck also contributed. In the 1850s and 1960s, German industry developed rapidly, the supply of agricultural machinery and fertilizers increased, and the export of grain to foreign countries increased greatly. During the same period, Russia suffered a fiasco in Crimea. , The Polish Revolution, France launched military operations in Mexico, these countries have become Germany's commodity exporter.
In contrast, there are more businesses that buy wood. Ludwig is the only port in the entire city of Falz, and Falz is the largest forest in Germany. If it moves back 200 years, Germany will Become the world's largest timber producer.
A large amount of agricultural products and logs will be shipped in the port, and then transported to Hamburg or London, and then transferred to all parts of the world. French merchants are also wandering in Ludwig, where 2/3 of the German grapes are produced, most of which will be shipped out of the country, becoming the cornerstone of Bismarck's iron-blood policy.
And those gentlemen who counted at the counter, also hundreds of thousands of minutes.
Huang Xuan looked at a gentleman who was still struggling on the paper account book with contempt, and knocked on the table, saying: "Do you receive food?"
"Of course." Needless to say, Lorraine's German is also very standard. The Prussian raised his head excitedly from the account book, but was surprised to find that the person he spoke was not a European, and he was even dirtier than local farmers.
Huang Xuan had no choice. He walked on the road for a day, and then walked in a smelly public carriage for another half day, during which he only stayed overnight in a tattered tavern without even washing with hot water. With Lorraine's stinginess, he would not use energy to help Huang Xuan clean. Maybe when Huang Xuan was kicked out of the door, he would help Huang Xuan clean up.
However, the Prussians did not expel Huang Xuan. Some of the farmers here came from labor. Although Huang Xuan's clothes were more broken and there was more mud on his feet, business was business.
"What are you going to sell?" Mr. Zhang from the foreign country put down his quill pen and looked behind Huang Xuan.
"Do you want wheat? How much?"
"50 thallers per thousand pounds." The Prussian answered very honestly, but his head was not raised again. 150 thallers was probably the average income of the Prussian family at that time, but for most poor farmers , 50 Thale may be a year's income. Now it is not the harvest season, so he probably does not believe that Huang Xuan will have 1,000 pounds of wheat in his hands.
Thaler is a Prussian silver coin. Compared with other small principalities, its currency value is still stable. About three years later, Bismarck will reform the currency value and establish a mark system with the French compensation, but now, the entire Germany uses Probably still four types of currencies, Prussian thale, Austria's southern German "pound", and franc.
The franc mentioned here is not a French currency, but a gold coin based on the value of French currency and circulated in European countries. Later generations will refer to it as the Latin currency union-and this is the basis of the later European Union.
Huang Xuan shrugged and said, "4 thousand pounds is 200 Thalers, right?"
"Of course." Prussia's account room finally raised his head, looked at Huang Xuan carefully, and said, "Do you have 4000 pounds of wheat?"
"Yes. Do you want it?"
"where is it?"
"I put it in the front alley." Of course, Huang Xuan couldn't suddenly drop more than 2 tons of wheat here.
"Kamps, follow him to get the wheat." The account room yelled back ~ EbookFREE.me ~ put his eyes on the account book on the table again. It seemed that 4000 pounds was just a small episode.
Huang Xuan smiled and opened the counter door. A young man with a beard came out from behind and said, "Where is the wheat?"
"Just in front." Huang Xuan pointed at random.
Lorraine put about 4,000 pounds of wheat in the small alley in front, but lacked the packaging, and the pile in the alley was about to rise.
The subsequent Camps was surprised: "You just put the wheat on the ground like this? It will get wet."
Huang Xuan looked at him immediately, and the kid knew he was damp? It's a pity that you don't know that there are still space shuttles in this world.
He shook his head and said: "There is something wrong at home, the car has to rush back, so I have to put it here first."
"I'll ask someone to move." Camps walked back inconceivably and said, "Look here, don't lose it."
Huang Xuanying made a sound and sat obediently on a pile of wheat from 200 years later.