Chapter 67: The First Arrival in a Foreign Land (5)
After lunch, Yun'er rushed to wash dishes and clean up the kitchen with Lan Lan. It's quick and refreshing, and within half a day of coming here, Yun'er's popularity index has risen dramatically. Don't be the eldest sister and Lan Lan, even Mr. Zhong and Li Rui have a very good impression of Yun'er.
After resting for a while, Li Rui still had an operation to do, so he left, and Lan Lan also went back together. The eldest sister and Mr. Zhong invited Wang Ye, Yun'er and Tian Liang to her living room to discuss the future.
The eldest sister summoned everyone to sit down in the living room and told the prince in more detail what they were going to do this time. The big aspect is two, learning the craft and buying the goods. But what to learn and what to buy, the three of them have no goal. Eldest sister:
"There are more than 200 years of time and space here from your time, and there will always be some changes in the time of more than 200 years. For example, the current situation of the Qing Dynasty is very different from that of the Ming Dynasty 200 years ago, and it is completely different social forms. Whether it is people's thoughts, clothing styles, and living habits. Moreover, the population here is more than ten times larger than that of the Qing Dynasty, and the knowledge structure is also very different. It's not that you're not good there, but that, in comparison, your economic situation and various daily necessities are very different from here. It can not be as developed as here. Many varieties and materials of goods are not as complete as the variety of colors here, in essence, if the real quality we are not as good as yours here, you have no pollution, are green products, is a natural material, and we have a lot of chemical synthesis here. What you have to learn is related to your personal hobbies and experiences, for example, when Mr. Fang Fu was a monk, in addition to practicing martial arts in the temple, he was growing vegetables, so you learned agricultural techniques, planting vegetables, planting flowers, planting crops, cultivating mushrooms, grafting fruit trees, raising flowers and fish, etc., and he was also responsible for military supplies when purchasing goods. Yunyun is a talented woman, she likes calligraphy and painting, handicrafts, etc., so she learns the different painting methods here, the method of making handicrafts, and the practice of Western and cold drinks. I also want to replace Mr. Fu and stay in the house, the lady who stayed in the house to learn some cooking methods and clothing design and processing methods that are different from those of the Qing Dynasty, and later open restaurants and sell clothes. Tian will learn the business management and simple machinery use and maintenance here, and go back to manage your restaurants and workshops. The goods you buy are divided into disposable and processable. One-time means that the Qing Dynasty could not produce it, buy it back and sell it directly, and what can be processed is to buy materials here, and then go back to make it yourself, which can not only reduce the cost, but also increase the income of the people in the house. The items you will be buying are generally all kinds of cloth, handicrafts, stationery, books, paints, paper, all kinds of seeds, type of equipment, and some food and other items. It is necessary to buy in large quantities, and to spend all the money in exchange for cultural relics. Remember, the goods you are buying are the ones you need but not necessarily the most expensive or even cheap ones here. It's expensive to look good, but it's hard to make money when you go back, isn't it? You can buy a sample here and go back and do it. Look at it this way, you really have to go through the threshold of 'letting go of your son'. You are high-level people in society, and letting you buy cheap items to process and make money is also a conceptual impact on you. ”
"You come here as a special trip, and you must be prepared to endure hardships. Mr. Fu was to become the first prince merchant of the Qing Dynasty. It is now the fifteenth year of Shunzhi, and the emperor will be changed in the eighteenth year of Shunzhi. The new monarch that the eldest sister wants is a good emperor of civil governance and martial arts, and will leave a glorious history for the Chinese nation. It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help him, and it is also an opportunity for you to build merit. It's not a thing, not everyone has this opportunity. You have to pay a lot of hard work just like Sun Wukong, who assisted Tang Seng in learning scriptures from the West. You have never been in business, and the Qing Dynasty law prohibits officials from doing business. But you must also walk this strange and difficult path. Don't worry, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, and there will be this opportunity at that time. Now, your task is to learn as many skills as you can attain, to buy goods that are acceptable to your people and to sell, and to give the money you earn to the new king. 'The heavens have sent a great responsibility to the people, and they will work hard for their muscles and bones,' so you are likely to encounter many difficulties and setbacks in your affairs. To be able to go over is to build your merits, complete your mission, go through hardships like Tang Seng, and achieve positive results. ”
The prince fully understood the purpose of this cloud trip. To the eldest sister: "Fu is confident, life is only a few decades, whether it is wealth and glory, poverty or poverty, it always passes quickly, everything is not brought by life and death, only by returning to the place where I came from is the return of happiness, so I think I must do my best to complete this mission, and it is not in vain the master's teaching and the help of the eldest sister." ”
"Good. You also have to be mentally prepared, that is, the things you want to learn and come into contact with are not necessarily difficult but very unfamiliar, and the other is that the social form you want to come into contact with may be contrary to your ideological concepts. There is a wide variety of goods here, but there are also bad things. The crowd is mixed, many of them are knowledgeable, sophisticated, and have a sense of justice, and some are unscrupulous for money and personal desires, so you must be doubly vigilant and don't go on any business trips. What you are going to buy, what you are going to buy is what you need for the skill you are learning. In other words, after you have mastered the skill you have learned, you can estimate whether you can make money when you go back based on this skill, and then decide how much goods to buy. As for what to buy or not, it depends on your learning results, and then it depends on how much money you can exchange for the cultural relics you bring here, and then decide. ”
Yun'er was busy: "Eldest sister, can Yun'er remember it?" ”
The eldest sister smiled: "No need, you listen first." Because you don't understand the eldest sister, it's not easy to record. If you know a rough idea, you will have an impression in your mind, and you will naturally understand it when you actually contact it in the future. Don't be afraid of difficulties, from strange to familiar is a gradual process. ”
Eldest sister: "If Tian can accept and learn to use the electrical appliances here, you can buy one back." For example, household appliances, generators, food processing equipment, agricultural machinery, etc., are equipment that can participate in your fabric processing or agricultural product processing, which can save a lot of time and manpower. If Tian is not interested in electricity and does not want to learn, then he will not be able to bring back even anything related to electricity when he goes back. The eldest sister didn't mean that Tian was stupid and couldn't learn. Even not everyone here can master the knowledge of electricity, which is a deep knowledge. Take the eldest sister, known as an intellectual and a professor, she has an instinctive fear of electricity, and she didn't dare to change the light bulb when it was broken, for fear of electric shock. If you are electrocuted, you will be numb if you are light, you will be disabled if you are heavy, and you will die on the spot if you are heavy. If you don't have the common sense of electricity, your life will be in danger or cause trouble. Considering that the paper lantern with the candle is too dangerous when you are rummaging through the goods, if you accidentally fall down, it will cause a fire. It is allowed to buy a flashlight with a dry battery. ”
"Weapons and ammunition must not be brought back, the lethality of our weapons here is quite large, we are disciples of Buddhism, we cannot kill, let alone use the weapons here to participate in the war there you; You can't buy big machinery, such as cars, ships, excavators, etc. If you buy these things back, they will definitely be used in a public place, and it will cause confusion in the minds of the people there. If your emperor asks you to imitate the next decree, and you don't have the equipment, materials, and technology there, let alone the people who have mastered these techniques, don't you have to resist the decree? What was the result of the rebellion? Isn't that tantamount to asking for trouble for yourself? But so the eldest sister can buy a few types of electrical equipment and go back and quietly use them to process products in the house. For example, sewing machines, eyepunching machines, and silk flower machines should never be sold as commodities; If Tian can learn to use electricity freely, he can buy a few engines and oil and diesel, but not too much, because this thing pollutes the environment. You can buy a few refrigerators and freezers and store a cold drink for sale in the summer. Compared with you, the air and water there are relatively clean, including the products you go back to process must not pollute the environment; However, tools such as lighters that are involved in the making of handicrafts are still possible. Today's lighters are all one-time use, and when the fuel is gone, it is useless, and it cannot cause pollution; Then there is the medical equipment here, and most of the medicines here are Western medicines, which have an expiration date, and they will become invalid or deteriorate after a long time. And there are fake medicines stored here, and it's a hassle to bring them back. However, medicines such as band-aids, quick-acting heart pills and Yunnan Baiyao are also OK, and books on traditional Chinese medicine can be brought, which is not limited. The books on Chinese medicine here may be more complete than yours; Vehicles such as tricycles, bicycles and strollers, or electric four-wheelers are OK and can be used to make deliveries. You can buy some rubber tires for horse-drawn carriages here, including axles, and go back to rebuild your wood-wheeled vehicles, one can absorb shocks, and the other can pull more goods; Then there is the clothing, which mainly refers to the outer garment, and the clothing of a dynasty has a special. For example, the costumes of the Qing Dynasty are very different from those of the Ming Dynasty. The clothing of the Ming Dynasty was tower-shaped from top to bottom, that is, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, while the clothing of the Qing Dynasty was rectangular with uprightness. But it's okay to buy underwear, underwear, and warm pants here. If you wear it inside, no one will see it, so it won't make any difference; Then there are coins and drugs, fakes, and other things. You may not be able to touch these things, and the eldest sister will help you grasp them. Again, what you buy back must be acceptable to the people of the Qing Dynasty and will not mess up your thinking. Novelty may be novel, but acceptable. You'd better buy more cloth here, I mainly mean cotton and silk here, although there are some chemical fiber components in it, but there are still good quality cotton cloths. The strength of the cotton cloth here is that there are many varieties of colors and wide widths, and it will definitely be welcomed in the Qing Dynasty. Of course, other kinds of cloth can also be bought, and the content of your purchase, cloth should account for a large proportion, because clothing, food, housing and transportation are still very important. ”
"The new monarch ascends the throne, it is not enough to have the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, and it is not enough to rely on a few auxiliary ministers who compete for power and profit, intrigue, and have to have down-to-earth doers to establish a solid economic foundation, otherwise the future 'Emperor of the Ages' is also very dangerous. This burden fell on the three gentlemen and everyone in the house. You may have a glorious period of life, or you may work hard and without success, do you understand? ”
Wang Ye: "It's completely understandable. The eldest sister made her words so clear, and if we don't do a good job, we will be too disappointed by the eldest sister and the master. ”
"Thank you, sir, for your understanding. Others can be thought of at any time and tell you at any time. In the future, you will be very tired and busy, and the eldest sister will give you some guidance, so as not to waste time by taking detours. In addition, before you arrived, the eldest sister began to plan what you were going to do, look for purchase channels, and also found several manufacturers, it is much cheaper to buy goods directly from the manufacturers than in the mall, because there are wholesalers and retailers in the middle. But you have to go to buy things yourself, and you have to walk around and shop around. Don't rush to buy things first, there are too many varieties of goods here, and new products are coming out at any time, so you will know what to buy during the learning process. Some can buy some samples and raw materials, go back to process them themselves, and the saved processing fees will be given to your processors as a reward, you can't let people do it for nothing, right? One tael of silver can be exchanged for about 200 yuan of coins here, the eldest sister is one tael here, we have ten taels of one catty here, and one catty of you is sixteen taels, if you count it according to sixteen taels, one tael of silver will not be exchanged for two hundred yuan, about one hundred and fifty yuan. You can get the money here by selling the cultural relics you brought, so Master Gan Lin doesn't let you bring silver, one is not easy to take, and it is troublesome to exchange it, and the goods you want to buy are not a few hundred taels of silver and a few thousand taels of silver can be solved. Mr. Gan Lin Master Fu was a quartermaster, we call it logistics here, and after a battle, it is not tens of thousands of taels of silver, is it? ”
Wang Ye: "Eldest sister, you are really amazing, you even know so much about war. ”
The eldest sister smiled, "I also know a little bit about Qing history." ”
Wang Ye: "That's the case, after a battle, it's not surprising that hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of taels of silver are worth a lot, and the cost of a protracted war is even greater." ”
"Therefore, you buy a lot of things, and you don't solve any problems at all, and Mr. Fu's appointment as a quartermaster has also laid the foundation for today's generous spending. This is also the arrangement of the gods. In fact, before you came to this world, what you want to do in your life has been arranged, your origin, hobbies, personality and even appearance are all arranged, including Tian, you don't think of yourself as an outsider, everything depends on Mr., why can you come and other guards can't come? One qiē and one qiē are all fixed. It is also God's arrangement for you to come to the eldest sister's house, we have fate. ”
"Eldest sister, thank you very much, we are completely unfamiliar here, and we have to ask the eldest sister to worry about it."
"It should be, it should be! Master Gan Lin has entrusted you to the eldest sister, and the eldest sister will definitely do her best to help you, including the whole family of the eldest sister. ”
"Thank you! Thank you, big sister! The three of them expressed their gratitude to the eldest sister together, and this gratitude was completely from the heart.