Chen Zhengtai waved his hand, squinted at Li Xiao slightly, and said: "The business is not doing well, it is nothing more than people floating around, and there are goods in the store, there are no characteristics, these groceries sold in the Chen family's shop, everyone is selling them in this street, isn't it?"

Li Xiao was stunned.

He has been in business for many years, has been helping the Chen family to take care of the shop, and he can be regarded as well-informed, this little son of the Chen family, it seems that he is just a teenager, young, in charge of the family business, he thought in his heart that this young man is just here to play prestige.

Unexpectedly, Gongzi actually pointed out the biggest drawback of the Chen family's shop at once.

Li Xiao's chick pecked at the rice and nodded: "Yes, yes, exactly." Childe is really insightful. ”

Chen Zhengtai put his hands behind his back: "The so-called change is common, and if it doesn't change, it will die, and if it goes on like this, the Chen family has such a good shop, but there is no way to bring financial resources, and sooner or later it will fall." You're also a businessman, so I'm here to ask you how you can make this shop look new. ”

"This ......" Li Xiao looked at Chen Zhengtai, a little empty in his heart, and couldn't help muttering, if I knew, wouldn't it be a lot of money? In this world, where is there such good money, how can you think of it with a tap on your head.

He couldn't figure out a solution after thinking about it for a long time, Chen Zhengtai saw that he couldn't think of it, so he said lightly: "I can see that this shop will change its operation, and as for what to sell in the future, I still have to think about it." But for now, we have to solve this person's superfluous matter first. It's better to do this, from today on, the salary up and down the shop is linked to the profit of the shop, and the shop earns less, so don't think about having a salary, eat the soil. If the profit of the shop is amazing, and everyone pays dividends according to their performance, how about it?"

Like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, countless thunderbolts rang in Li Xiao's head, and he suddenly felt that the sky was spinning.

...... by performance

According to the current performance of this shop, isn't it true that everyone up and down has worked in vain, and the big guy still has to support his family.

Inside and outside Chang'an City, there has never been such a way to feed a guy.

There are old ones on you and young ones on your own, which ...... Isn't this about driving people to death?

Li Xiao immediately said excitedly: "Childe...... This must not be done......"

Chen Zhengtai felt sympathy for these guys in his heart, and he also knew that many people had difficulty supporting their families, but the Chen family could not continue like this, and the family's accounts had been completely empty.

Now Li Xiao's opposition must be the loudest, after all, in the past, it was drought and flood to ensure harvest, but now there is a danger of starvation at any time.

Chen Zhengtai immediately lowered his face, he had to suppress them: "What must not be, this Chen family, now it is me Chen Zhengtai who has the final say, or you have the final say."

Li Xiao was dumbfounded.

This Chen Gongzi ...... Really...... I'm afraid that the world will not be chaotic, such a method, I am afraid that in less than three days, the Chen family's shop will be finished.

Chen Zhengtai didn't have time to listen to Li Xiao and others complain, and took Chen Fuyang away.

Li Xiao looked sad, gathered all the guys, and announced the latest news of the Chen family's son.

All of a sudden, the guys buzzed and shouted as if they had been poked in a hornet's nest.

"Shopkeeper Li, in this way, isn't it that we want to drink the northwest wind in the future?"

"This can't be done, I won't stay here, there are children at home."

"We can't go hungry."

Li Xiao smiled bitterly, but persuaded him with good words: "Everyone, everyone, we have followed the Chen family for so many years, they have not treated us badly, and now the Chen family is in trouble, and we need everyone to help each other." Chen Gongzi has just taken charge of the family business, and he doesn't understand many things, but slowly, he will be able to understand our difficulties. ”

He took a breath: "Everyone looks at my Li's thin noodles, so I will stay for the time being, and I will ...... I will definitely go to the prince to talk about everyone's difficulties, if everyone leaves at this time, this business will be dispersed, I will wait for the king's luck, how can I not worry about the king?"

After a period of bitter talk, the originally noisy guys barely quieted down.

However, Li Xiao knew very well in his heart that this situation would not last long, and after all, it would be difficult to do business, perhaps...... This Chen family is really going to collapse.

This couldn't help but remind him that when he was still an apprentice, he entered the Chen family, and it was still decades ago, and how prosperous the Chen family was at that time.

It's a pity that the masters of the Chen family, one generation is not as good as the next, but I am afraid that it will really be over.

............

The Chen family has shops, granges, and many industries, and after some inspections, Chen Zhengtai has a rough idea. The family is big and the business is big, but in fact it is an empty shelf, like a giant with feet of clay.

In the evening, he led Chen Fu back to his home, and after walking outside for a day, his whole body was hot, Chen Zhengtai asked Chen Fu to boil water to prepare for bathing and changing.

saw Chen's father sitting in the hall drinking tea in anger.

"Your Excellency." When Chen Zhengtai saw Chen's father, his mood was a little complicated.

How can I say it, anyway, as long as I look up at him, I feel that there seems to be black gas on his head, and a decay word in capital letters.

Chen's father took a sip of tea and looked worried: "Something's wrong, Zhengtai, something is going to happen."

"What?" Chen Zhengtai looked at Chen's father: "What's wrong?"

Father Chen took a sip of tea, and then said worriedly: "Deficit."

"Deficit?" Chen Zhengtai gasped, it seems that this father is not stupid, he still knows that the Chen family has a serious deficit.

"It's horrible." Father Chen said with palpitations: "You don't know how terrible this deficit is, but you don't know if Li Erlang wants to harm his father, do you know that this salt and iron envoy went to deliver for his father today, and when he checked the accounts, he knew that the Chang'an Salt and Iron Division was an empty shelf at all, and there was not a penny in the accounts, and he owed a lot of credit."

This made Chen Zhengtai excited, and dared to say that he was not talking about the Chen family's deficit.

"The Salt and Iron Division will also run short?"

Chen Zhengtai felt that Chen's father was insulting his intelligence.

Who in the world doesn't know that the most profitable business in the world is salt, and whoever masters salt can enter the gold bucket every day.

"You don't know, Chang'an Salt and Iron Envoy is different from other places, this salt and iron are divided into public salt and private salt, and it follows the Sui system, and most of the salt wells in other states in the world are in the hands of the Salt and Iron Envoy, so the day into Jindou. But when I arrived in Chang'an, I checked the accounts for my father and found that the salt wells in the capital were actually owned by private individuals. Zhengtai, my father couldn't understand why Li Erlang suddenly gave my father this fat shortage, but now I know that it turned out that Li Erlang wanted to harm me. ”

Chen Zhengtai was not interested in Li Erlang's desire to harm the Chen family.

To be fair, his father is a little shameless, the emperor is deliberately trying to harm the Chen family, is the Chen family worthy?

But he suddenly grasped the core of the problem: "The salt of my Datang can still be privately owned."

"When...... Of course......" Chen Zhengtai glared at him, this kid, after all, still lacks experience, and he doesn't even know this: "As long as you pay enough salt tax to the salt and iron envoys, you can be private." It's just ......"

He sighed again: "You don't want to think about it, where is this, this is the foot of the Son of Heaven, it is Chang'an City, which one of the people who can control Yanjing here, which one is not a prince, if they want to conceal it, how dare the salt and iron envoy receive their heads, so this salt and iron envoy of Chang'an, instead of benefiting, may cause great trouble."

When Chen Zhengtai heard this, his eyes lit up all of a sudden: "Salt pond and salt well? My lord, do you make salt from salt ponds and salt wells now?"

"If it is the seaside, it is natural to use the salt pond to dry salt, but here is Chang'an, most of the salt wells take brine, and then dry it to make salt, you, you used to only know how to read, but you don't know ......"

Hearing this, Chen Zhengtai smiled and said excitedly to Chen's father: "I'm going to get rich, the Chen family is going to be rich."

"Crazy again." Father Chen looked at Chen Zhengtai's lively appearance, pretended to be calm and took a sip of tea, not panicking, not panicking. The old man has never seen any strong winds and waves.

"Come, come on, prepare pen and ink, I want to play it in practice, I don't want to carry this pot. Ahem...... People come, people go. ”