83 After two fights in the gambling house, the people brought by Zhou Dao and the new recruits, there are now nearly fifty men in the state city. There are more talents who will have enough deterrent, but there is only one gambling house in the state city at present, which cannot carry so many people, so there must be other businesses.

Then open the grain number, which I had thought about before, and after a year of business dealings, I basically figured out the bottom, and the backer behind the largest grain number rice collection in the state city is Lord Sun of Zhizhou. Hesheng Grain Store has always provided grain to them, if they open a grain account directly in the state city, they will definitely become competitors with Jidao Bank, and the original cooperative relationship will also be broken, and it is more realistic that he can't afford to provoke them, and he can't make too many enemies. In this world, it is not about free competition and survival of the fittest, but there will be more or less the shadow of the government behind all the business that has become a climate.

Thinking about it, this was normal in ancient times, but it can be described as a poor business environment and a lack of fair competition in the market environment. However, the little people have no power to change the rules, they can only adapt, survive in the cracks, and at the same time develop. Lao Zhang listened to Zhou Dao's assertion, was a little surprised and disagreed, "What else do you want?" This is Da Song! You go and look elsewhere. Zhou Dao had no choice but to nod yes. Just because the grain can't be opened doesn't mean that others can't be opened. Zhou Dao and Lao Zhang, Xu Wei analyzed, that the dart line should be a good choice, there are a large, two small and three dart shops in the state city, the big one is called Hengtai Dart Bureau, the background is basically clear, a large part of the industry of the Wang family in the east of the city. The current head of the family, Wang Lian, his father, who has been dead for many years, once served as a household pusher, and the Wang family is an official eunuch, with property and land, but the glory of the past has long passed.

After all, the state city is the state city, and the business of the dart bureau is much larger than that of the county, and they sometimes take the dart from the county to the state city by water, and it is also good to be able to pick up some darts returning to the west. Another point is that driving the dart game to the state city not only shares the labor cost, but also the key is to have force in a clear and straightforward manner. When you show a certain strength, the opponent who is very different will not challenge you, the so-called newcomer, and others will also secretly weigh it, whether it has to be hard, whether it can be beaten or not, whether it is cost-effective or not, you have to take care of it, but it saves a lot of trouble.

So at the beginning of May, their dart bureau in the state city was also opened, and Zhou Dao insisted on changing the name of the original county dart bureau to Changfeng, and the county and the state dart bureau were called Changfeng dart bureau. The dart board is open next to the land and water pier outside the city, which is in line with the consistent style of Zhou Dao, and it is easy to enter and exit. Others thought that it was safe to be protected by a city wall, but Zhou Dao thought that he would not be able to escape if he was surrounded by a city wall, and in his subconscious thought that the danger might come from the government. So, he usually chooses to live outside the city.

The display of strength seems to have had an effect, it is now the middle of June, and the dart game has been open and has been operating smoothly for a month, during which several orders of escort business have been received, both on land and water. Generally speaking, the cost of taking land is significantly higher than that of land and water, and the risk is also greater, but the profit will also be more lucrative, and the so-called risk is directly proportional to the benefit. The price of their orders is slightly cheaper than that of Hengtai, and it is not much, and Zhou Dao does not want to stimulate other dart games. Hengtai is a time-honored brand in the state city, and it is common sense that it has a reputation and is slightly more expensive. So they did their own business, although they took away some customers, but they were still passable, and time passed in this kind of turmoil.

It was also in the middle of June, one morning, Xiaoman entered the house from the backyard of the dart board, her complexion was a little bad, this period of time is often like this, she approached Zhou Dao, who was having breakfast, a little embarrassed, "Xianggong, I think, I think..." "What's wrong? Huh...? Zhou Dao asked with a smile. Xiaoman seemed to stop talking, and his face flushed, "I think, you're going to be a father." ”