If you use a taste to describe the ancient city of Pingyao, it must be the fragrance of heavy vinegar, but if you use a taste to describe the Jin merchants, it is not a copper smell.

The next day, get up and visit the famous Jin merchant ticket number, which is the ancient bank.

When he first heard the name "ticket number", Johnson wondered, why is it called a ticket number? Shouldn't a bank be called a money bank?

And this Rishengchang, who is known as the world's No. 1, was formerly a guy in the paint business, why did he change his career to a bank across the border?

Listen to the tour guide, the original pigment village is located in Pingyao, in the capital Chongwen Gate has a branch, there are always fellow merchants please ask the boss to help carry back and forth the silver two, the silver is deposited in the semicolon of the pigment village, in holding a voucher to the pigment village always good to withdraw cash, and give some commissions as a thank you gift, so that it is not safe to bring a large amount of silver on the road.

After going back and forth, the big shopkeeper Lei Futai was surprised to find that the commission collected in this way was more than the commission he earned by opening a pigment village. In the last years of Jiaqing, the currency circulation between various places increased greatly, and the way of transporting silver at that time was very unsafe, Xiyucheng Pigment Zhuang first tried the exchange method between Beijing and Jin.

During the Daoguang period, the proprietor Li Daquan and the first big treasurer Lei Futai jointly agreed to invest more than 300,000 taels of silver to officially change the name of Xiyucheng Pigment Village to Rishengchang ticket number.

It is said that this name is still a champion to take, in addition to the literal meaning, three words written vertically, just "the sun rises day by day, and the day rises day by day, and the day rises day by day, with the auspicious words of this signboard, the day of the rise of the sun for the Li family in a hundred years to create a dividend of 15 million taels of silver."

After seven big treasurers, in the 180-year prosperous history, there has never been a single incident of false ticket misexchange. There is only one bill of exchange, held by the customer, the use of the exchange system that does not recognize the person, each bill of exchange has a watermark, handwriting, code words and other special encryption means, just the code language, there are more than 400 sets, regularly replaced with use, the process is rigorous, orderly.

The guys in the store are also carefully selected, to the good reputation of the ancestors of three generations before they are qualified to be selected, come in as a three-year free apprentice, and then start a little bit, so a lifetime, no one will jump ship, if you can do the big shopkeeper, if you help choose a good successor before you die, even after death, children and grandchildren can enjoy dividends.

Investment is not operation, operation is not investment, this is the trust relationship between the owner and the shopkeeper back then. In the middle of the hall hangs the word Shendu, and the rites say that the gentleman is cautious. A gentleman cannot have a trace of evil thoughts in the subtleties and when he is alone, he is strict with himself and kills the evil side of human nature in the sprouts.

The most amazing thing is the anti-fake secret charge, the first 30 words represent the 30 days of a month, the back has a representative number, there are also representative units, so it is a complete set of secret custody, the 180-year history of Rishengchang, there are more than 400 sets, only insiders know which set is being used.

The pattern of the ticket numbers is similar, generally the front yard is the office, the back yard is where the owner lives, and the vault is under the back garden.

There is also an important team called the letter room, which is the place where letters come and go, which is the core of the report system with a complete ticket number, just like the company now has to write a daily report to the leader by email every day, informing the day's work progress and trade trends.

The daily reports of each semicolon are completed by letters, and the total number receives more than 100 letters every day, which shows that the task is quite heavy, and the design of the secret detention is also completed by the letter room team.

Mr. Xinfang is a very important position in the ticket number, so he must be a person in Kejia, and his annual income can reach 200 taels of silver, which is much more than the county master's income.

There is a gold well in the back garden, which is equivalent to an ATM machine in ancient times, and the vault is below, and in ancient times, the bill of exchange was delivered with a basket, and after a while, the basket would be filled with silver, and each ticket number had a gold well.

I remember hearing Gao Xiaosong say that the current 200 yuan is one tael of silver in the past, so this one silver ingot is equivalent to 20,000 yuan.

Lei Futai, who invented the bill of exchange, is like the old horse who invented Alipay now, subverting the traditional payment method, which is of epoch-making significance, and deserves to be the richest man.

Just like after e-commerce became popular, the business of the express brother was also booming. The ticket number is so prosperous that the place is naturally inseparable from the protection of the dart board, there is only one dart board in Pingyao City, which is the Tongxing Gong Dart Bureau founded by Wang Zhengqing in the fifth year of Xianfeng, and there are many chain stores in the ancient city of Pingyao.

It's a pity that both prosperity and loss are lost, with the decline of the ticket number, the dart bureau no longer exists, now Pingyao 22 attractions of several dart bureaus, are his family, and the land of these dart bureaus is still left in the hands of the Wang family, I heard that the annual dividends are millions, no matter when, to be a landlord or awesome!

Walking all the way, I saw the first financial street of the Qing Dynasty, the first bank, the flexible business acumen of the shopkeeper, the scientific and standardized management system, and the loyal and stable employment relationship in the glorious era of the Jin Dynasty......

But I haven't really been able to understand the so-called righteous words passed down by the mouth of the Jin merchants, I have heard that honesty is necessary to do business, and I have also heard of profiteers and profiteers, no traitors and no businessmen, what the hell is righteousness?

Isn't it common for people who practice martial arts to talk about righteousness and the like?

The tour guide smiled and took everyone to a large-scale theater, and only one program was performed called Pingyao. The interactive performance of the actors and the audience will take you to wander through the streets and alleys of Pingyao in the late Qing Dynasty, experience a tragic story, experience the bloodline inheritance and endless culture of Jinzhong, and feel the strong Jin business sentiment.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the shopkeeper of the ticket number of the ancient city of Pingyao was brutally killed on the way to run errands, leaving only a boy, who was kidnapped by Tsarist Russia and became a meat ticket. This is the only bloodline of the king's shopkeeper's family, so the owner Zhao Yishuo used all his family property and used 300,000 taels of silver to invite 232 dart masters from the Tongxing Public Dart Bureau to save people.

Seven years later, Zhao Dongjia himself and 232 dart masters all died on the way, and the only one who went home alive was the only seedling of the king's shopkeeper.

They succeeded, and the owner exchanged his own life and the lives of more than 200 dart masters for the bloodline of the Wang family.

At the beginning of the story, a big righteous word hangs high in the middle of the stage in the most eye-catching position, and the dart masters are about to go on the march, but this is a dart of nine deaths.

Before you set off, follow the old rules to take a big shower and pray for good luck and safety along the way. The bathing before this trip is very meaningful, so invite the most festive girls selected in the city to wipe their bodies, and may these men come back alive with the joy of the girls.

The sturdy men jumped into the water tank, and the water splashed suddenly, surrounded by neighbors watching the excitement, blessing these brave dart masters and praying that they would return home alive.

The strong men set off, life returned to normal, time and space turned around, shopping the streets, around the cloth sellers, vinegar sellers, embroiderers, sedan chairs, tricks, dazzling, all wearing ancient clothes, saying things that Johnson did not understand.

Wandering aimlessly on the streets, looking at this, looking at that, seeing everything is fresh, it feels completely different from walking around the ancient city, and it seems familiar, and suddenly I feel as if I am a soul who has traveled back to ancient times.

Seven years have passed, someone shouted that they are back, and all the neighbors rushed to the south gate to greet them.

But there stood a man on the wall, the son of the king's treasurer, whom he had to ransom with a great deal of money, yes, he alone lived. The dart masters turned into ghosts and flew to the city walls, looking at their hometowns from afar, with tears in their eyes, and finally looking at their loved ones.