Chapter 66: Tiandi and He
As the first vendor who got the silver taels happily left the courtyard, the vendors in line were all looking forward to it, waiting for Zhu Di to be able to reimburse the pawn tickets in their hands.
Like the first hawker, the second hawker also didn't dare to speak, he looked at the fourth prince Zhu Di blankly, clenched the pawn ticket in his hand, and didn't know how to talk to Zhu Di, just as Zhu Di's lips opened slightly to relieve the embarrassment at the moment, I saw the vendor kneeling in front of Zhu Di, his eyes were full of tears, he looked at Zhu Di with affection, and hugged Zhu Di's thighs.
"Fourth Highness, I really have a hard time, there is a younger brother who likes to gamble at home, he squandered the family's money every day, and the family goods were soon squandered for him, and the old mother also ran away from home, I don't know where to go, I have a soft temperament, I don't know how to ask for debts with my younger brother, even my wife and children can't live anymore, and there is not much rice left in the pot at home. Fourth Highness, I have no choice, took the porcelain handed down from the ancestors to the pawnshop, in exchange for thirty taels of silver, but who knows that the pawnshop sits on the ground and starts at a price, and even the interest needs to be returned forty taels of silver, I am forced to be helpless, Fourth Highness, in order to buy your goods, the small one has run all over the legs, and now the price of the goods has dropped, I can't afford to repay the pawnshop pawn ticket! The hawker cried and shouted, his eyes were full of tears, for a while, Zhu Di couldn't help but be a little soft-hearted, he helped the hawker up from the ground, personally led the hawker to the wooden box full of silver dollars, and carefully observed the pawn ticket in the hawker's hand.
Different from the previous hawker's hesitation, this hawker signed the contract on the deed of sale very decisively, did not even look at the content of the deed of sale, pressed his finger on the ink, and very decisively pressed his fingerprint on the deed of sale, showing his trust in Zhu Di, Zhu Di was a little unbearable to let the contract take effect, his heart seemed to be dripping blood, and he felt that what happened to this peddler was really too bad.
Ma Sanbao carefully looked at the hawker who was kneeling on the ground and crying not long ago, and the more he looked, the more he felt that the other party was familiar, he was the vendor who stopped Zhu Di's carriage in the morning, and he was also the vendor who sneered at Ma Sanbao in the breakfast shop before, and Ma Sanbao concluded that this person was not as pitiful as he said, after all, in the breakfast shop, this vendor was a villain who mocked himself in every way.
"There are actors in this Ming Dynasty? The acting skills are not bad, much better than the little fresh meat of our era, this is too decisive when signing the contract, and the acting is not similar enough! Ma Sanbao couldn't help but complain, he admired the acting skills of the hawker in front of him, the hawker's tears were just right, if there were no tears and a vocal and emotional performance, maybe Zhu Di would not personally help select silver dollars and audit, these things are left to the next person to do.
Maybe he was moved by the hawker, even Zhu Di's eyes looked a little ruddy, he looked at the hawker, and couldn't help sighing, "I didn't expect the people's lives to be so poor, Daming still has such helpless people!" Brother Wen and Xian, did we go too far with each other in the morning? ”
Zhu Di was really moved, his ruddy eyes would not deceive, Ma Sanbao saw Zhu Di so virtuous for the first time, he never felt that Zhu Di was a sensual person, but he didn't expect the hawker's performance to touch Zhu Di's steely heart, just this hawker, if it was in his era, he would be a little sorry for the performance just now.
The next hawker was not as exaggerated as the previous hawker, Zhu Di also put away his previous emotion, followed the previous steps, checked the authenticity of the pawn ticket, and then asked the other party to take away the silver taels needed from his wooden box.
"Is it true that you say this man owes a hundred taels of silver?" Just when the team was about to reach the end, a vendor wearing luxurious silk clothes came to Zhu Di, the pawn ticket in his hand was a pawn ticket of one hundred taels of silver, you must know that the pawnshop can issue a pawn ticket of one hundred taels of silver, unless the other party has a little money at home or the other party's mortgaged items are too expensive, at the moment, the man holding the pawn ticket is dressed luxuriously, not like the previous down-and-out hawker, which aroused the suspicion of Zhu Di and Ma Sanbao.
One hundred taels of silver is not much for Zhu Di, but this is his trust in the hawker, he doesn't know whether the hawker in front of him is credible, the person in front of him obviously doesn't seem to be short of money, as far as his silk clothes are concerned, let alone ten taels of silver to get his hands, and as far as this man's performance is concerned, Zhu Di really doesn't think that this man is comparable to the previous hawker, and he doesn't even feel pitiful at all.
"Fourth Highness, do what you say, you said that as long as you go to the pawnshop for the purchase of goods, you will reimburse us, I heard it from my friends, Fourth Highness, I have a lot of goods that you have flowed out of Nanjing City, if you don't reimburse me, it will ruin the reputation of your Fourth Highness." The man in front of him said to Zhu Di with a smile, and he stared at Zhu Di's eyes.
"I suggest you still don't lie to us, I'm the superintendent of the imperial history, don't look at my official position, I can go to your house at any time to find out where the money went." Without waiting for Zhu Di to speak, Ma Sanbao took the lead in speaking, he had seen such a person, in his previous life, there was this kind of person who deceived the insurance, and now in the Ming Dynasty, he actually appeared in front of him alive, he Ma Sanbao didn't think it was strange, after all, people are separated from their stomachs, doing business, no treachery or business, the other party has made his own calculations, and he has to pay back to the other party.
"I'll discuss with His Royal Highness the Fourth, what does it have to do with you little kid? Are you still supervising the imperial history? I'm also the prefect of Beiping, you are a scholar at most, and you are just a fox and a tiger in front of the four highnesses. The man scoffed at Ma Sanbao, and did not trust the eight-year-old child in front of him to be the official of the Imperial Historian.
"Don't believe it, besides, half of the money you want to ask His Royal Highness for reimbursement belongs to me, I see, your identity still has to be reviewed before you can come to us for reimbursement!" Ma Sanbao said, got up from the chair, and revealed the waist card on his waist that supervised the imperial history, which frightened the man's heart to beat faster, and he didn't know what to do for a while.
"If it is found out that you went to the pawnshop to buy goods, I will compensate you twice, if not, how about you work for us for nothing?" Ma Sanbao shook the deed of sale in his hand, so frightened that the man didn't dare to make a sound, and ran out of Zhu Di's mansion in a gloomy manner, becoming the only person who did not take the silver from Zhu Di's mansion.
The figure of the man leaving helplessly made Zhu Di not say anything, but stretched out his hand to give Ma Sanbao a thumbs up, and sent a praising look, he felt very good, he just felt suspicious before, but he didn't expect Ma Sanbao to send the other party away in a few words, if he was asked to test the other party, the other party might still maintain a dead duck's hard mouth.
Since interrogating Wang Guangyang, Zhu Di has almost no doubts about Ma Sanbao's interrogation ability, and the only defeat is on Hu Weiyong, but Hu Weiyong, the old fox, is also dead now, but there is no need for Ma Sanbao to worry about them.
The sun gradually went down, the sky gradually darkened, Ma Sanbao and Zhu Di finally finished dealing with the pawn tickets of those hawkers, Ma Sanbao had expected a little more, and did not need 10,000 taels of silver, Zhu Di just paid a thousand taels of silver, and he received a full 30 deeds of sale, Zhu Di was too late to be happy, it is not easy to let these vendors' grocery stores only sell their own goods, and a thousand taels of silver will make thirty grocery stores his own stores, even if there are bankrupt ones, it doesn't hurt for Zhu Di.
In this regard, Ma Sanbao did not comment too much, he thought that as long as there were ten or so stores, it would be enough, but who knew that Zhu Di would be able to get thirty deeds of sale, and it is not a good thing to have more stores, but fortunately, Beiping City is vast, and the distribution of these hawkers is not dense, if they are concentrated in the same block, then their own stores will have no advantage at all.
In Ma Sanbao's seriousness, the specialty store still has the meaning of raising Gu, many specialty stores, not many can be completed, maybe only one or two specialty stores, but Ma Sanbao overestimated the cost of the early stage, maybe because he was used to the rich and noble days after coming to the Ming Dynasty, and his living standard has been in a well-off situation due to the influence of socialism in his previous life, he never expected that these hawkers could not even take out thirty or forty taels of silver, but this has also achieved a career for himself and Zhu Di, without these debt-owed hawkers, Nor is it possible for them to convert so many grocery stores into their own specialty stores.
"Thirty grocery stores, all converted into specialty stores, should our products also have their own names? Like a trademark? Ma Sanbao said to Zhu Di that so far, their products do not have a name of their own.
"What is a trademark?" Zhu Di asked suspiciously.
"It's equivalent to a name like Drunken Immortal Building, we should also have one." Ma Sanbao explained that in his impression, there were many trademarks with good names in his previous life, such as Chanel, Gucci, Liushen, Shujia and the like, and he also wanted to give his products a name.
"It's called Dihe, what do you think?" Zhu Di patted his thigh, thought of this name, and integrated his name with Ma Sanbao's name, which was the best idea he could think of.
"Your Highness, don't you think this name is a bit ugly? The name of this tavern in Zuixianlou is so elegant, are our products so low-end? I think it's better to call Tiandi people, Di uses the word Di in your name to replace the original land, what do you think? You are the equivalent of the heavens, and I, the people of the earth, are waiting for you to cover them! Ma Sanbao said, which immediately aroused Zhu Di's praise.
"Good name, good name, Tiandi people, this name is good! Wonderful, wonderful, virtuous brother deserves to be my genius! Zhu Di applauded, and praised Ma Sanbao's name.