Chapter 637: Business is booming
The prince was still not in a hurry to find the emperor, so he waited for this person from the Internal Affairs Office to come to the door to find trouble with Ruiqian. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info the prince has a holy decree given by the emperor in his hand, "no one is allowed to participate in Prince Rui's business affairs for any reason...... even the queen mother does not dare to disobey the holy decree.
After waiting for a few days and not moving, let's let it go first. This kind of thing can only be "covered by water".
But Wang Ye and Tian Liang did not take it lightly, and thought about a way to deal with it together. Since it is the people from the Internal Affairs Office who want to follow suit, it may be related to the Queen Mother. As long as the Queen Mother is involved, small things have to be handled as big things. Because the Queen Mother is not an ordinary nosy and meddling old lady, she is a politician. Many of the problems she thinks about are the dragon chairs of Jiangshan Sheji and her son, and it is very likely that she wants to buckle a big hat for others. Just when the emperor invited the prince to the palace to tell an exotic story, he told the emperor that this person from the Internal Affairs Office wanted to get involved in the business of Yulong Cloth Village. When the emperor heard this, he slapped the table: "Who is this so shameless!" Don't see that plaque? Is it blind or is it so? ”
"The emperor is angry! The minister thinks that this person wants to borrow the light of this plaque. Maybe he really wanted to borrow light, or maybe he was tempting to test the shopkeeper Chen's love of money or not. ”
"What is he and what qualifications does he have?"
"Maybe he saw that the fabrics of the Jade Dragon Cloth Village were all from foreign lands, which were different from those of the Qing Dynasty."
"Ignore him! I suspect that this person is on the orders of the emperor's mother. ”
"The emperor can't think so! The meaning of the minister......"
"I guessed it myself, and it has nothing to do with you. Don't you know, this lady of mine wants to mix with everything. Isn't it good to enjoy some good fortune? ”
"The Queen Mother is also thinking about the Jiangshan Society of the Qing Dynasty."
"In this way, if this person goes to Yulong Buzhuang again and gets tired of it, he will let the soldiers in the house arrest him, and send him directly to the prison of the Criminal Department, so that he can taste the taste of chili water." The emperor spoke, even if he didn't send it to the Criminal Department, he could scare and scare him.
Mrs. Chen's snacks have also reached an excellent level, and all the snack recipes brought back by Yun'er, whether they are noodles or pastries, are not missed. The four-rank civil official who was a patrol Taoist in Kaifeng and Yun'er's uncle came to Beijing to report on his work and visited the prince and Mr. Chen in the house. The gentleman took the opportunity to bring back the recipes for more than 20 kinds of snacks, and asked him to use the surnames of his family members to open a few merchants specializing in snacks, or franchise stores.
Although the Chen family of the century-old Wang clan has a large population, and almost all the men are scholars, there are not many officials in the yamen. Some people still live on rent on a few acres of thin fields inherited from their ancestors, and there are also those who do business, all of which are bookstores, antiques, calligraphy and painting, paper shops, and other places that can only be patronized by literati and ink writers, and there are very few tailor shops, embroidery shops, spice shops, and medicine shops, and there are almost no food.
The women in the Chen family's old mansion are very capable, but they are all restrained by "male protagonist outside, female protagonist inside". Chen Daoyuan saw the cloth village run by his grandson Ruiqian, which was so prosperous, and the snacks made by Mrs. Chen, which made his concept very impacted. The Chen family's financial situation is going downhill, but no one dares to try to save the situation. His nephew, Chen Jing, is an out-and-out Mr. Master, but he pointed out a path to prosperity for him.
The main task of the gentleman is to teach the prince, Gege, and his granddaughter, and the rest of the time is to distribute the profits of several merchants, and sometimes talk to the prince about business. He was a former magistrate of the county, and he had been in contact with the operation of the county's commercial houses, and he was not a 100% layman.
And he has always been very careful in his work, and the views he put forward are all to the point, and now he is unconsciously serving as a senior strategist for the prince.
Tian Liang's position as the general manager is very competent, and he uses the various management methods learned in the foreign land very flexibly. Then he tinkered with his equipment, and now he lives in a compound by himself, and he will come back from Fukula if he has nothing to do. Read the instructions first, and then install and use.
"Hey, I said Brother Ryoko, what are you going to do again? To make a cake get to the kitchen and there is no dust outside? Nalan said.
"When did I say I was going to make a cake? That's the master's project, it's a woman's thing, and I'm not interested. ”
"And what are you doing with eggs?"
"Eggs are cakes? I'm probably going to hatch chicks. ”
Nalan burst into laughter. It's ridiculous to hatch chicks! But when he heard the cry of "chirp" in the annex downstairs twenty-one days later, he couldn't laugh. Tian Liang opened the horizontal drawer of an upright iron box, which was full of reddish-brown, fluffy chicks. Nalan's eyes widened again: "I said, Lord Steward, is your old man a man or a woman?" Are you also good at holding the nest and hatching chickens? ”
"What do you mean by being in action? It's just a trial trial. It's okay, it's all alive. Next time, I'll show you my raw mung bean sprouts. ”
"Can you give birth to mung bean sprouts? Just you? Where was it born? You're two tails, huh? ”
"You're only two tails. I was born with a bean sprout machine, and I was born and played the piano indiscriminately. ”
Nalan's voice was very low: "If you have any other skills, show your brother anything." ”
"Where is my ability, it is all the role of the instrument, I just operate it. If your aunt has free time, how many chicks will she raise? ”
"Of course you want to take it, how about twenty?"
"You don't see outside, one mouth is twenty, stinky and beautiful, and it costs food when you grow up. Give ten. ”
"Okay, okay, ten is not a lot, I'll take a little more when your sprouts come out."
A carriage came from the backyard of Yulong Buzhuang, and the guys unloaded several large rolls from the cart. Under the leadership of the shopkeeper Chen Ruiqian, he sent all the cloth rolls to the store's warehouse, and then handed Ruiqian a notice in black and red:
"Ladies, misses, and gentlemen in the capital, my store has a new quilt with floral cloth, the number is limited, one bed per person is six and a half feet, and it will be sold out."
Rui Qian greeted: "Dazhang, post this notice at the door." ”
"Wow!" Dazhang happily agreed, took out a paste bucket, and posted the notice on the "light box" in front of the door.
The officials' mansions, the subordinates of the wealthy merchants, and the servants who had been "staying" here flocked up to read the notices, and then went to the store to line up.
"Wow! This quilt is so beautiful! The peony on top is like the real thing! ”
"Shopkeeper, how much is a foot?"
"Everyone, it's a whole quilt, five taels of silver."
The crowd cheered.
The cloth is sold at the counter and measured in person. Those left behind are proud of their vision: be patient! Be able to wait!
When the person who got the news arrived the next day, the advertisement said: The supply is limited, and all are sold. Well, it's late, and the daylilies are cold.
As a result, everyone has learned to be obedient, and no matter when, many people are watching and staying here. A lot of the cloth here was not bought this time, and it will not be available again next time. Because of negligence, it will be hated for eternity: who has ever seen such a beautiful, such a wide canvas, such an unfading cloth? The Manchu Qing Dynasty has never been!
Next is a long, square-lattice mattress cloth, red, green, blue, yellow, any color. Especially the blue one, don't mention the water spirit. The purchase is limited to one zhang, and it is sold out in half a day.
The pure cotton cloth purchased by Yun'er is simply thousands of varieties. It is estimated that if it conforms to the aesthetic views of the Qing people, buy more, buy less of other patterns that are pleasing to the eye, and buy those that look weird. Originally, three or four horses were brought in a day, but now it is five horses a day, and it is still a limited supply.
These cotton fabrics can be used for clothing and bedding, and they are also very strong and have a wide face, so they are very popular with the people of the capital. The income is keeping up, but the guys are also becoming more and more labor-intensive. Yun'er found a five-foot-long ruler of measuring cloth bought from a foreign land, many people bought five-foot cloth, and the Qing Dynasty women and Han people also wore gowns that were above their knees. Even if you buy too much, you can also cut a small gown for your child. Measure five feet at a time, and it will be much less effortless.
In order to alleviate the overcrowding situation in Yulong Cloth Village, Tian Liang dispatched ten personal soldiers to form two mobile stall sales trucks to sell fabric. Cloth was sold in a slightly remote part of the capital, in a place with few shops, and was sold exclusively to farmers who did not have time to enter the city.
The peasants of the Qing Dynasty are still very bitter, but no matter how bitter they are, they have to dress, right? All kinds of cloth were delivered to them, and they were still sold at a fraction of the price in the city. So there are still a lot of people who come to buy cloth.
Yulong Cloth Village sells cloth to extend its business hours every day, and after closing, Mr. Chen can go to work, and the abacus is crackling, and the money and silver in the basket can't be lifted. Under the protection of Tian Liang and Nalan, the prince Hong Xuan also came with his grandfather to help his uncle settle accounts.
The guy who counted the money was still very energetic at first, but slowly he became tired and drowsy from counting the money.
"Wake up, everyone, let's have a new way to count money." Xuan Shizi shouted to wake up the guy who counted the money, "You see that each money is the same size and thick, so you count out ten money, stack it, stack it steadily, and then you don't need to count it, it's all stacked so high, just count the stacks, and a hundred stacks are a hanging of money."
Mr. Chen looked at his grandson with satisfaction, and his cleverness was not blown.
All shops are operating normally, and although the profits are not very high, they are still very profitable.
The juice in the Yulong cold drink has become the preserve of the wealthy, and the private rooms here are occupied all day long. It is the fruit ripening season, and the three juicy fruits of watermelon, peaches and grapes, are pulled from the backyard in truckloads, where they are washed, peeled and juiced. Glass by glass juice is sweetened, chilled on top of saltpeter, and then served on a velvet-covered tray in the cold air. A transparent glass spoon scoops up the red, purple, and pink juice, and slowly sends it into the mouth and into the stomach, wow! This taste, this feeling! It's so refreshing!
The waiter with a smile on his face came in with a variety of fluffy pastries, quietly put the pastries next to the juice, said elegantly, "Please use it slowly", and quietly left.
The juice is slowly served in the stomach with the pastries, and the feeling is so refreshing!
The service here is top-notch, the hygiene is top-notch, the quality of the food is top-notch, and the prices are top-notch. But many officials are willing to come here to spend. Because the atmosphere is very nice! Whether it is the decoration of the room or the configuration of cups and plates, it is all high-end.
"Lord An, when did you want to come here to enjoy it?"
Prince Jian, who has always been uninhibited, seems to be a frequent visitor here, teasing his cousin.
"By chance."
"You and the second brother of Prince Rui are Mo Wei, have you heard that there are new snacks and juices in the side Fujin of his house?"
"I haven't heard of it. I'm not like you, it's okay to keep asking people what they do? ”
Prince Jane burst into a hearty laugh: "Fourth brother has always been serious, but you have more women than anyone else. ”
"You just call me a womanizer, just beat around the bush. The woman was sent by the Queen Mother, not what I wanted. ”
"If you don't want to, why did they all have children? You can learn from the second brother of Fuyou, and ignore that stubble at all? ”
"How many heads do I have? The Queen Mother sent me a woman, and I returned it, that was contempt for the imperial power, do you know, the crime of bullying the king! ”
"You are a meritorious prince like Second Brother Fuyou, why don't you go into business? With your connections, you won't be worse than your second brother. It's also an opportunity to make a difference. ”
"I want to have such an opportunity, but am I in business? The second brother has been to a foreign land and learned other people's skills, what do I know? How are you not in business? The brain is so smart. ”
"Swearing without swearing, what is the head that can turn the shaft? Snake or crane? You say I'm not a good bird, right? ”
"Isn't the crane a good bird? The crane on the painting means longevity. ”
"Master Suo! Where are you? ”
"General Ao! Do you also come here for fun? ”
"I have a hundred flowers card, which is 20% off. Did you buy it? ”
"Where are they sold?"
"You can really be closed, sell it in the Yulong cold drink hall every Saturday, and the head Tian and Nalan of the Ruiwang Mansion are in charge, six taels and six dollars a piece."
"But it's not cheap."
"You've always been a model of strategizing, why don't you strategize? This card can be used by you, your family, your relatives and friends, save one dollar at a time, save one or two ten times, and you can use it again next year. ”
"Bargain, bargain! What time is the beginning of the year? ”
"The third year of junior high school, you will buy it immediately on the sixth day of junior high school?" Okay, volunteer propagandist.
Next to Prince An and Prince Jane, there were two middle-aged men who looked like scribes, who were speaking in a low voice. The fat one said to the tall and thin man: "The errand given to us by the Queen Mother is too difficult, we have to find evidence of Prince Rui's rebellion, this is a matter of losing his head, with evidence, Lord Rui will close the house and destroy the door, no evidence is not good for us." But we can't make up a trumped-up charge as evidence, right? ”
"This thing is easy to do, we don't want to lose our conscience and pretend to be deaf and dumb, and the crime of pretending to be deaf and dumb is also a crime of dereliction of duty, right? I'm going to die. Why drive out all the people? Besides, the relationship between the emperor and Prince Rui is quite good, do you think the queen mother can bring him down? Do you think the queen mother has a long life or the emperor's life is long? ”
"Brother Tao's idea is extremely clever. Both the government and the opposition are spreading the legend of the Rui prince last year with one of his side Fujin and a personal guard to follow his Buddhist master out for a year, using a jade stone given by his father-in-law in exchange for the money to travel in that place, in addition to the expenses of a year, but also bought a lot of goods back. There is a Jade Dragon Cloth Village on Qianmen Street, and the hot and cold drinks of this Jade Dragon from our pastime are all the business of Lord Rui, and the cloth village sells the cloth brought back by Lord Rui, with a width of four feet five inches and four feet eight inches, and many people queue up to buy them. I heard that in addition to deducting the capital, half of the money for buying cloth was given to the emperor, and half was for the maids who worked for the house and the people who bought goods for him, and he didn't even want a son. The Queen Mother is still careful of him. "The two of us have to figure it out, don't stand in line. I can't get my head off. (To be continued.) )