Chapter 67: Four Seas Firm 4
The reason why Zhu Youxiao is so eager and wants to build a Sihai Commercial Bank is actually closely related to his future ideas. It can be said that the growth of the Four Seas Commercial Bank and its future reform of the Ming Dynasty will play a decisive role.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao was also very cautious about this matter, and in order to settle the matter as soon as possible, he specially took out 200,000 silver vehicles from the internal money and handed it to Li Fumin.
And Li Fuming did not disappoint himself, and bought a large number of supplies in just three days. And these are also a kind of investigation of Li Fumin by Zhu Youxiao, and the most important thing for a shop is to have goods.
In fact, about the materials, Zhu Youxiao can buy a large number of materials from the future world to enrich the newborn Four Seas Commercial Bank.
Three days later, a shop called Sihai Commercial Bank landed in the West Fourth Archway. No one knew that this small trading house would eventually become the first trading house in the Ming Empire.
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the city was mainly concentrated in the four gates of the imperial city, the east four archways, the west four archways, the bell and drum towers, as well as Chaoyang, Anding, Xizhi, Fucheng, Xuanwu Gate nearby. Because in the early Ming Dynasty, in order to attract investment, private houses and shops were built near the above-mentioned city gates, called "corridor houses".
From the distribution of the corridors, it can be seen that the commercial market area is mainly in the western part of the city. With the development of social economy, the number of market areas has increased, and the regional distribution has also changed. The most important ones are Zhengyangmen, Qipan Street, Lamp Market, Chenghuangmiao Market, Inner Market and Chongwenmen Place, where the markets are very prosperous. Daming Gate (the south gate of the imperial city, the Qing Dynasty changed to the Daqing Gate) in front of the chessboard street, "department stores gathered", due to the "left and right of the government department on the street", "the world's soldiers and migrant workers Jia each to the grass, gathered in Si, shoulder rubbing hub, the day is noisy", a lively scene. This is obviously a central location, close to the imperial city, the palace city, and the government army and government offices, with many people coming and going, and commerce is naturally prosperous.
Li Fumin stood in front of the door of the Sihai Commercial Bank, looking at the crowd in front of the door, a sense of pride arose spontaneously in his heart, and he worshiped Zhu Youxiao's magic tripod even more, and all this was also due to Zhu Youxiao's sales plan that would be used by later generations to rot the street.
Some people passing by in front of the shops in other places looked at the crowd and asked the people next to them with some confusion.
"Why is this brother's platform so crowded here?"
The man questioned looked back, then immediately turned his head and squeezed into the crowd, speaking out of his mouth as he spoke.
"If you buy 10 catties of rice, you can get one catty of rice for free, and you can get a ...... of cloth for free if you buy three pieces of cloth over there."
How could the people of the Ming Dynasty see such sales techniques in later generations, and they were dumbfounded. For the people of the Ming Dynasty, who is a fool who is unwilling to buy something that can get a pound for nothing.
In this way, the whole city of Beijing was turned upside down. Everyone knows that there is this shop, and they are rushing here one by one.
"Child, the grain and cloth in the shop are sold separately, you take the money and go to the cloth to buy it first, and I and the second baby go to buy grain and salt."
The middle-aged man looked at the crowded crowd as if he was not at ease.
"After I bought it, wait for me at the door of Ergouzi's house, don't go far."
The same thing happened in different families, and because the number of people was getting bigger and bigger, even fifty percent of the soldiers and horses were alarmed, and hurriedly sent officers and soldiers over to disperse the people. It's just that due to the large number of people, this group of officers and soldiers was sweating profusely at this time, but they found that they could not disperse this group of fanatical crowds at all.
And Li Fuming, who was standing on the side, also saw this situation and hurriedly walked to the leading officer.
"This military master, the small one is the big housekeeper of the shops in the four seas."
The officer who led the team, a hundred households with a beard on his face, saw the chubby man without a trace of beard on his face in front of him, claiming to be the big shopkeeper of the Four Seas Commercial Bank, and directly grabbed him.
"If you dare to gather a crowd to make trouble, if there is a trampling, you can't afford to be guilty. Hurry up and ask your people to close the door of the shop, or I'll have to pick your skin."
Although Li Fumin was angry in his heart, he knew that this matter could not be done lightly, so he could only smile.
"This military master, this is the small shop that has just opened, if it closes, the blow to the small shop will be too great."
When the officer leading the team heard Li Fuming's words, his eyes suddenly widened like a light bulb, and he just wanted to get angry.
"Thank you for coming here to maintain order, the shop has no high hope but to send some tea, please accept it."
After speaking, Li Fumin took out two silver tickets from his arms, each of which had 100 taels written on it.
The officer leading the team couldn't help but shrink his pupils, and quietly took it away, and his face became good-looking. Several soldiers standing next to the officer also saw it, smiling on their faces.
The chief eats meat, and we also have some soup to drink.
"If there is such a thing in the future, you must tell us in advance, it must be at the feet of the Son of Heaven, if there is a human life, I am sorry."
Seeing that the tone of the officer leading the team had softened, Li Fumin apologized again and again.
"What this military master said is right, what this military master said is right, my little shop is not well considered."
The officer who was going to lead the team away felt that he had received money from others, and if he left now, he didn't feel too embarrassed, so he directly ordered the group of subordinates below to maintain order, and he followed a few guards into the store under the leadership of Li Fuming.
Seeing that the commander who led the team had left, the group of soldiers began to talk to each other.
"Li San, come here."
One soldier beckoned to the other, and then said mysteriously.
"You hurry back now and tell your mother-in-law about this matter, and my mother-in-law also tells them to come over quickly, is it a fool not to take anything for nothing?" I'll help you watch it here, I can't get out of it after a while."
The rest of the officers and soldiers around him also spoke one by one.
"Brother Zhang called my mother-in-law too,
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This continued throughout the day and did not end until the sun went down.
Dangdangdang, a young man from the Four Seas Trading House struck a gong vigorously, and the sound of the gong finally overshadowed the noisy crowd.
"Folks, the shop is closed today, please come back tomorrow."
After speaking, he didn't care about the reaction of the people, and hurriedly closed the door, for fear that he would be rushed open by the people if he was one step later.
When the people heard the young man say that the store was closed, they were anxious, and then they heard that there would be such an event tomorrow, so they were relieved, chatting with each other one by one, and their own harvest today was slowly dispersed with satisfaction.
And the group of officers and soldiers also gathered together in twos and threes to chat with each other, and from time to time let out a loud laugh.
"San'er, your family has made money today, I can see that your mother-in-law bought things at least twice."
The officer and soldier who was called San'er could only smile helplessly and arch his hand towards everyone.
"Ladies and gentlemen, you have worked hard for you today, and the small shop has specially prepared some things, but it is a little inconvenient at this time. The shopkeeper of my house said that you should go to the back of the store, and your Liu Baihu is also waiting for you there."
A young man ran to the group of officers and soldiers with a respectful face, nodded to the officers and soldiers, and said.