Chapter 648: Goods Leave Beijing
"Lord Changshi, there is a gentleman from Linqing outside the gate, surnamed Huo, who claims to be your disciple, can you see it?" The eunuch Xu Gonggong on duty at the gate of the house came to pass the word. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Please, please!" Mr. Xu followed Gonggong Xu to pick it up in person.
"Students give a gift to their teacher!" The gentleman surnamed Huo knelt in front of Mr. on the spot and solemnly kowtowed to Mr. three times.
"Changming, no courtesy, hurry up, let's go into the house to talk."
Looking at the soldiers standing guard with guns at the door, this Mr. Huo Changming was a little hesitant. Look at the plaque on the door of the mansion, "Prince Rui's Mansion", and suddenly feel afraid. This is the palace, how can a Confucian merchant like himself get involved?
"Come in, I'm here, don't be afraid." The gentleman affectionately pulled the Huo disciple into the door. The red and yellow nail door slowly closed, and Huo Changming became more and more nervous:
"Master Teacher, the disciple has never entered such a high threshold......
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, no matter how high the threshold is, there are promising teachers, what are you afraid of?"
"This is the palace, the rules must be very big, and the disciple is afraid that the prince will blame."
"The prince is the son-in-law of the teacher, and he will not embarrass you."
Huo Changming was led into the "Changshi Mansion" by Mr. and Mr. Chen to greet Mr. Chen and Mrs. Chen again, and then Mrs. Chen went to Zhang Luo to bathe, change clothes and receive a banquet. But Mr. said that after bathing, you must ask the prince to say goodbye, this is a courtesy, and when you arrive at the palace, you don't ask the prince to say goodbye, how does your father-in-law teach his disciples?
Huo Changming can't embarrass his teacher no matter how timid he is, right? I can only follow my teacher to Yiran Tower to say goodbye after bathing and changing clothes. On the way, Mr. made a mend for the disciple to sharpen the spear in battle, and then went directly to the prince's bedroom, and asked the eunuch Wang Gonggong to pass it on.
"Grass people Huo Changming see the prince, the prince is a thousand years old, a thousand years old, a thousand years old!"
"Excuse me, excuse me, Mr. Huo, please get up."
Huo Changming always thought that the people who were the princes were all cross-eyed and murderous, and when he peeked at the prince in front of him, his face was honest, simple, and amiable. Dengshi was not so scared. After answering the prince's questions about whether the road can be safe, food and lodging can be satisfied, etc., he went to the topic: "Did the grass people receive a letter from their teacher and come to the capital ......" This is the first time to come to the house to contact the goods.
The prince briefly talked to him about the sale of goods: "A small part of the goods was brought back by the king when he was traveling, and there were handicrafts and fabrics made by the girls and grandmothers in the house, and the style was also brought back from outside. We have not been established for a long time in the Qing Dynasty, and we are not very rich, and this king is doing business just to add some silver to the treasury. However, if Mr. is willing to help the king sell on his behalf, he will get 10% of the profit as a reward, I don't know what Mr. thinks? ”
"The grass people are terrified! The prince is so high-spirited, for the sake of the country, where can the grass people ask for any reward? ”
"This is a bad word, although the king does not want to be paid, the capital must also be deducted, and it is difficult to make profits without capital, in order to produce and reprocess in the future. Sir, don't pay this king, how can you trouble sir? Besides, in business, it is just a profit for Mr. Yicheng, and Mr. works hard, how can he not be paid? As for what Mr. took away and how to operate it, let's discuss it with Chen Changshi. At that time, there will be Chu Dart Master and others from the Zhenyuan Dart Bureau to help send the goods to Mr. Linqing through the canal and waterway. ”
"Thank you Lord for taking care of the grass people's business."
"Eh, it's the government that has caused trouble for Mr."
The conversation was very simple and clear, Huo Changming is also a person who has been in business for many years, so he understands this. He stayed in Mr.'s "Changshi Mansion", waited for the government to prepare goods for him, and then sent them to Tongzhou Wharf to load the ship south. The gentleman told the tall foot that he had brought him cloth, handicrafts, etc. Of course, after Yun'er and Tian Liang co-ordinated, they were transported from the underground secret room. The goods were also shown to Mr. Huo, how could he not even let people see them? There is also a price list against the goods, you can't even have a price, right? At the beginning, this shopkeeper Huo didn't know much about the "consignment sale" that his master said, thinking that it was because the goods sold by the prince Chitose were oversold and could not be sold, and he wanted to "discharge the flood" through several disciples of the master who lived along the canal. But when he saw the goods he was about to sell, he almost screamed: this is a product he has never seen before! For example, he is a cloth businessman, and like Ruiqian's Yulong Cloth Village, he mainly deals in cotton cloth and satin. They are all cotton cloth and silk produced in the Qing Dynasty, pure cotton and pure silk are certain, but the format is generally very narrow, how can the cloth that the prince asked him to sell is wide? The silk cloth is more than 2 feet 5 inches to 4 feet 8 inches, and the widest cotton cloth is 7 feet 4 inches! And the color, printing and dyeing and firmness are not comparable to the fabrics of the Qing Dynasty. No need to try, definitely make money!
Mr. also introduced Tian Liang and Huo Changming to each other, and told him that this was his newly found long-lost son, who was the head of the mansion and also participated in the prince's business affairs, and the specific situation was discussed by him and Huo Changming.
Seeing Tian Liang's appearance similar to his wife, Huo Changming was happy for his teacher from the bottom of his heart. Tian Liang also gave a few pieces of fabric with chemical fiber components to the shopkeeper Huo, and focused on telling him the details of how such fabrics are afraid of high temperatures. Huo Changming is already in his early thirties, so he calls Tian Liang his junior brother, so he is also closer. Tian Liang naturally agreed.
There were twenty pieces of cloth taken away for the first time, all of which were double-width cloth rolls of 100 meters. In addition to the cloth is the cloth can sell goods, such as cloth sachets, purses, handbags, cloth tigers, embroidered fabric pendants, all kinds of coasters, charms, fluffy animals, school bags, decorative flowers, silk screen flowers, ribbon embroidery, cross-stitch embroidery, lavender amulets, three-dimensional fabric imitation butterflies, women's leisure bags, colored bead necklaces, bracelets, alloy jewelry, titanium jewelry, fabric baskets, jewelry boxes, cloth handmade flowers, hairpins, hairpins, puppets, tablecloths, patchwork sheets, bridal string flowers, resin crafts, Glass crafts, wedding flower baskets......
These items loaded a full ten rubber-tired wagons. They were all sent to Linqing by the carriages of the house. There were also large boats on the canal, capable of loading a horse-drawn carriage.
Huo Changming, who had seen these goods, never closed his mouth. How did I know that my teacher's son-in-law, Lord Rui, had these good things in his hands! He swore that he would sell the materials at the price his mentor had said.
Tian Liang invited Chu Dart Head of the Zhenyuan Dart Bureau to lead five other dart masters to bet on this dart. From Jingshi to Linqing, it is a distance of 760 miles, which is not very far, and the goods are not as noble as gold and silver treasures, and it is relatively safe to take the waterway.
Huo Changming had just left for two days when another disciple, Chang Qingshu, whose home was in Tianjin, came to the palace. This disciple is dealing in antiques and jewelry, and it is the first time he has come to the teacher. He is still very famous in the antique and jewelry industry in Tianjin Wei, and belongs to a wealthy businessman with a lot of money, but he is respectful in front of his teacher. When he was young, this "evergreen tree" was very stubborn, his family was rich, and the gentlemen his father invited him were all relatively well-known Confucians. None of these great Confucians could teach for a month, and they were all angry. But in the hands of Mr. Chen, who is not well-known, he became a smart and obedient good boy in a month. His playful teaching method attracted him and made him interested in learning. Although he has not entered the business, he is also the kind of businessman who abides by the law. Because he is very close to the capital, he often visits his teacher when he enters Beijing, and his relationship with Mr. Chen is much closer than that of other disciples. The reason why he didn't come until now was that he went to the Western Regions to buy jewelry.
Evergain goes south and north, sees a lot, and often travels between Beijing and Tianjin, and has long heard that Rui Wang Ye is the emperor's business, of course, he also knows that the teacher is Rui Wang Ye's father-in-law. I wanted to borrow the power of Lord Rui very early, but I was afraid of causing trouble to my teacher. After receiving the letter from my teacher, I pondered for several days, and then I thought about it, it is to sell on behalf of others, and it is not my responsibility to sell if I can sell it, and it is not my responsibility for no one to buy it. I feel that the items sold on behalf of the Lord Rui are likely to be too many gifts that Lord Rui usually receives, and it is not good to sell them in the shops in the capital, so they can only be sold in other places through the relationship of the teacher. He has seen a lot of antique jewelry, how expensive and beautiful it is. With the attitude of following his nature, when he came to the palace, he saw the teacher and the prince.
What the prince said to him was similar to what Huo Changming said, and the wealthy Tianjin Wei antique and jewelry businessman smiled and said, "What's the reward? Do you need to be paid for helping the prince and helping the teacher sell something? ”
Mr. said: "My prince is a Buddhist person, although he is in the world, he is not the same as the world, and he will never take advantage of others." You don't have to help, but if you do, you'll get paid. ”
"It's serious, it's serious, the disciple can take it, you are more serious than the disciple's father, the disciple is afraid of you."
But when he saw the exotic ornaments and jewelry of various materials in front of him, he was immediately stupid. Rao is an evergreen tree that even Shang Yi and Zhou Ding have seen before the big antique dealers, and they have to admire the prince who is under one person and above ten thousand people. Let's talk about those glass ornaments, he walked from Fujian, Zhejiang, Suzhou, Anhui to Yunnan, Shu, Xianggui, and every province in the Qing Dynasty, and even the evergreens where the Western Regions and Fusang had been were also amazed by the fact that his eyes were twice as wide as before. His home is a glass window, which is already very surprising in Tianjin Wei, but it is embarrassing to compare it with the glass of the Ruiwang Mansion! Let's not talk about how beautiful it is, just talk about the purity of the glass itself, which is as clear and transparent as a pool of water, and there are no impurities at all!
Tian Liang showed him the price list. The loud voice immediately shouted: "What? What? So will it be this price? It's too low, no! Good things can't be sold cheaply, ruining the reputation of the prince! In this way, if the disciple wants to sell the things on his behalf, then the disciple has to set the price. I don't care how much you spent to buy it, this will not be produced by our Daqing, it must have come from afar, the cost of storage on the road, and the characteristics of the glass itself that are afraid of breaking, it is good to be able to bring them back intact, in this way, you give me the things I often take, not to mention the benefits, I will give the teacher 10,000 taels, and we will clear the money with one hand and the goods with one hand. As for how much I sell, you don't care. ”
Tian Liang felt that his head was full of black lines, and of course the capital could not be revealed, but it was too out of line, right? Even if the price of glass handicrafts is relatively high, but it does not exceed 1,000 yuan a piece, the silver of the Qing Dynasty is only 10 or 20 taels at most. He took fifty pieces, and together they were two thousand taels. Where is the value of the exotic jewelry bought? The most valuable is the titanium material, and the cost is only ten or eight taels, and those trinkets are cheaper. But the big shopkeeper simply carried forward the good quality of the stubborn and scoundrel when he was a child, and he didn't negotiate with you at all, and said to Mrs. Chen: "Master, help the disciple, the teacher and the junior brother are bullying the disciple, you quickly find someone to tie up these things for the disciple, and then give the three-foot-high and three-foot-wide cardboard box to the disciple, and the disciple is going home!" ”
At the banquet, Mr. Hetian Liang and the evergreen tree talked in detail about the purpose of the prince's business and the method of profit sharing.
Evergreen only then understood the way the prince did business. is completely different from himself, the more he earns, the better, the prince is in moderation, he wants to make money and can't ask for a price.
Evergain really served, served the character of the prince, and served the character of the teacher.
The jewelry is all small things, and only two boxes were packed in total, and they were sent back to Tianjin by the car on the house, and there was no dart master. The two handlebar styles of the delivery are both kung fu pro-soldiers, and they are used as dart masters.
This big boss, who has always ridden horses and rode in a car, is now sitting in a corner of the cart, and he never imagined that there would be such a great fortune waiting for him, so he felt that the road of 240 miles was the same as 2,400 miles, and he could not walk at the end.
To say that this is a profiteer, he has really wronged him, his heart is not bad, he is bold, and he is informal. He never cares about customers, and he deals with antiques not to make more money but for his hobby, he likes antiques, and the level of appreciating antiques is still taught by his teacher. It may be that the luck brought by fate is money, and it is not to operate it seriously, but it is to make money.
Then the other four disciples who entered Beijing for the first time rushed to the capital from Hangzhou, Suzhou, Huzhou, and Yangzhou respectively. Because of the long time of separation, the husband did not know what business they were doing, and when he arrived at the house, he learned that one of the disciples was specialized in silk, one was in tea, another was in groceries, and the other was in medicinal herbs. The tea in Yun'er's hand is exotic, and those who can afford to drink tea will naturally taste tea, and I don't know if I can drink exotic tea, so I can only try it first. There are no medicinal materials, and the medicinal materials bought for Ling Juan are for her to open a clinic and cannot be sold. But it would not be good if he was allowed to go back empty-handed, so he gave some recipes for medicinal food and herbal tea to this disciple of the gentleman. Who knew that this person was even happier than having a medicinal herb! He still has a lot of medicinal materials in the warehouse, and he is worried about whether the medicinal materials that his teacher asked him to sell are the same as the ones in his hand, and if they are the same, it will be troublesome. Because medicinal materials are temporal, after a long time, not only the efficacy is not good, but also may become moldy and become poison due to poor storage.
Yun'er gave her father an idea and said, "Our tea may not be in line with your disciple's taste, so give him a little less the first time, but Yun'er has learned the skills of tea ceremony, making iced tea, milk tea, and smoked tea, and he can open a tea house, a tea house, and make refreshments......
This disciple was even happier than bringing the goods, and the senior sister personally taught him all kinds of tea-related skills, and even told him how to make tea eggs. The power of knowledge cannot be underestimated!
In addition, he naturally brought back a lot of brocade, which included woven brocade, silk brocade, and nylon brocade. There is also a certain amount of yarn and silk.
This is the first time to pull goods, and the quantity is not too much. These three of them found someone from the local dart bureau to escort the dart. (To be continued.) )