Chapter Eighty-One: A Natural Disaster Is Imminent
Shen Anyan didn't know what day Shen Qiyuan went to confess to Guishuang, she was really busy, busy beating those who had forgotten their duties during the day, and busy reading accounts and thinking about strategies at night.
Fortunately, the effect is also very obvious, and her shops are basically properly cooked.
The director should be changed, the rules should be set, the directors of the shops and manors already know that the three girls who are in charge are not easy to mess with. If you don't make trouble on weekdays, it will naturally be inexhaustible, but if you dare to deceive your superiors and subordinates and make a hindrance from them, you will definitely not tolerate it.
Shen Anyan finished rectifying these, and the price of charcoal in Beijing also quietly rose, only a little at first. Everyone didn't pay much attention to it, but they just felt that it was normal for the price of carbon to fluctuate, and the weather was getting colder and colder.
Anyway, most of the people who can afford good charcoal fire are not short of these taels of silver. And people who can't afford to buy this charcoal fire naturally don't care about how much it costs.
However, they soon discover that this is not as simple as they thought.
As the winter approached, the temperature plummeted, and the beggars on the roadside had no place to live, and they were short of food and clothing all year round, so they naturally could not raise a healthy body, and finally froze to death on the street one after another, causing the visitors to frown again and again.
Although Shen Anyan and Shen Qiyuan discussed preparing some charcoal together, she still had some silver money in her own hands. It is used in the preparation of cotton velvet cloth in advance, this year's cold, people who can't afford to use charcoal fire want to keep out the cold, they can only buy cotton clothes and quilts to keep warm.
Shen Anyan's cloth village and ready-to-wear shop have just undergone rectification, and they ushered in this trend of buying cotton clothes.
But there is no way, and Shen Anyan can't be seen.
"Say hello to the three girls, recently there has been a wave of robbing cotton clothes in Kyoto, and the prices of cotton clothes and quilts in other shops have doubled, I don't know when the three girls are going to raise the price?"
Shen Anyan stopped his slender jade hand that dialed the abacus, thought for a moment and said: "The refined cotton jackets and velvet furs in our shop have tripled, and the ordinary cotton jackets and quilts have increased by half of the original price." ”
After a little thought, the principal knew the beauty of his sister.
With such a price, those families who have more money can afford to buy warm and good-looking cotton clothes, so that the shop can earn twice as much as it does on weekdays for every transaction. The ordinary quilt jacket only rises by half, which can attract more people to buy clothes in the shop.
After they have bought ordinary cotton clothes, they may also take a look at the exquisite ones, and so many people come, there is always one person who wants to buy another one.
At that time, the price of this cotton clothing seems to be cheaper than others', but in fact it is already very profitable.
However, Shen Anyan thought more deeply, and added: "That ordinary cotton clothes, when the time comes, only one person can buy one at a time, and no one can coax them." ”
What she is most afraid of now is that someone is hoarding, having no conscience in the face of disaster, and seeing that the cotton clothes in her shop are cheap, she is hoarding goods from here and reselling. The main reason for her pricing is that she hopes that more ordinary people can afford cotton clothes to keep out the cold.
Shen Anyan saw that the steward should come down, so he rewarded him with some silver and asked him to go to work, and if there was any problem, he would come to her again.
Shen Anyan just told the director of the garment shop here, and the director of the charcoal village soon came here, and I heard that there were still other Zhuangzi stewards waiting outside, and this Bibo Courtyard was also very lively for a while.
When Shen Qiyuan came, he saw such a scene. He only knew that Shen Anyan had begun to take care of the affairs of Zhuangzi's shop, but he didn't know that in just a few days, it had been rectified so well.
Shen Qiyuan opened the curtain and came in, just as Shen Anyan and the steward were chatting about things, and when he saw him come in, he only nodded and smiled slightly.
The second master in charge of the house saluted, Shen Qiyuan took the tea handed over by Qingling, sat in the warm room and said with a smile: "No courtesy, don't pay attention to me, you are busy with you, I just sit here." ”
Although Shen Qiyuan said so, he also invisibly expressed his position, he supported Shen Anyan.
For a while, the steward reported more cautiously, and he was still thinking in his heart that he must not offend the third girl in the future, but it was the second master who was staring at him.
Shen Anyan knew that Shen Qiyuan was helping her to establish her authority, and she was naturally grateful in her heart, and soon after listening to the steward's report on important matters, she said to Bian Niang: "Mother Bian, it's too late today, inform the people behind you and tell them to come back tomorrow if there is anything, see them in advance." ”
Bian Niang bowed her head and complied, and Shen Anyan looked at Shen Qiyuan: "Uncle came to me with a red face, but what good things do you want to tell me?" ”
Shen Qiyuan nodded: "It doesn't matter what a good thing is, I just have already talked to Guishuang, and I should be able to avoid Guishuang's entanglement for a while." ”
In fact, they don't pay much attention to Guishuang's affairs, the most important thing is that the two of them have shifted their attention to things that are more important than love and love, so they have taken Guishuang very lightly.
Shen Anyan smiled; "It's not a bad thing after all. Then I'll tell my uncle something good. ”
Shen Qiyuan guessed first: "The shop has made money again?" ”
Shen Anyan knew that he couldn't hide it from him: "A lot of money, more can fill my treasury." ”
Shen Qiyuan laughed at her, but his face was full of pampering: "Then I have to blame you for the fact that the treasury is too small, I have to find you a bigger room as a warehouse, so that the silver earned by the third girl will not be released." ”
Shen Qiyuan made Shen Anyan's heart warm, as if the sun was shining in Qinghu Lake, which could be warm all the way to the bottom of the water.
However, after laughing, he was still worried: "Does my uncle know that the imperial court has any measures for this year's frost disaster?" I'm worried that if the protection is not good, this will become uncontrollable. At that time, even if you make a lot of money, you will feel uneasy in your heart. ”
What Shen Anyan was worried about in his heart was exactly what Shen Qiyuan had thought, although they had foreseen and prepared in advance in this freezing disaster, they were not violated. But there are always many people who don't know about it at all, and there are too many panic riots.
Shen Qiyuan nodded: "There are measures in the DPRK, but they are just relief. However, the first two years of the campaign have made the treasury weak, and if it is given at this time, I am afraid it will be a drop in the bucket. ”
This kind of thing, the king sometimes has a weak heart, and natural disasters are coming, and the best effort that the court can do is to try not to add man-made disasters to this natural disaster.