On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the weather was gloomy.

The printing workshop will resume work at four o'clock in the morning, and Hui Niang has no time to take care of it, so she handed over the work to Shen Mingjun and his wife, and she concentrated on preparing the silver horn.

After repeated begging, Zhou finally agreed to Shen Xi to put on thick clothes and go to the printing workshop. According to the customary rules, before the start of work, the shopkeeper should lead the workers to kill chickens and return to God, worship heaven and earth, and bless everything to go smoothly after the resumption of work, business is prosperous, and financial resources are rolling.

In order to prevent the printing workshop from cutting corners when printing comics, Su Shaqi specially sent someone over, ostensibly to supervise, but Shen Xi saw that this person was actually trying to steal technology.

Shen Xi deliberately stepped forward to test two sentences, this person knows a lot about the printing process, but obviously this person is not very guarded, Shen Xi was a little carried away with the two compliments, thinking that Shen Xi was a little kid and began to make a big fuss.

After Shen Xi told Shen Mingjun and Zhou about his discovery, the two sent this person back after a brief discussion, and asked him to send a message to Su Shaqi, and send someone to ship the color comic strip printed today at dusk, so that the quality could naturally be checked or not.

Anyway, the two of them have enough confidence in the quality of the comic books printed in their workshops, and they can save the trouble of warehousing here, and if something happens, it has nothing to do with the workshop.

Shen Xi stayed in the printing workshop for a long time, and after returning home, his condition worsened, his cough kept not to speak, and he had a low-grade fever.

At this time, Shen Xi was completely a symptom of wind cold, and he no longer looked half-dead on the first day of the new year.

Hui Niang asked Shen Xi to go to the printing workshop in the morning, and unexpectedly complained about Zhou's two sentences. Seeing that Hui Niang cared for her son, Zhou didn't talk back, smiled and even revealed the matter.

The two sisters have always been in harmony since they met, and they didn't even have a disagreement, let alone quarrel. Hui Niang and Zhou get along very happily, which is the result of mutual understanding and care. It's not easy to find a girlfriend these days, women are frugal by nature, and they are easy to quarrel and even fight for a little petty profit. But because the pharmacy and printing workshop that the two women worked together were so profitable, they never dreamed of it before, so they were very content.

Hui Niang and Zhou remember each other's goodness, even if there are any differences of opinion. I also know how to be considerate and put the fault on myself first.

"Xiaolang, there is a letter from Ninghua, saying that Ye Xianling thinks that there is a problem with our printing workshop, and he always prints books, New Year's pictures and comic books. There is an injury to education, and we are ordered to print some meaningful books such as the Four Books and the Five Classics...... What do you say we should print? ”

Hui Niang took the letter from Ning Hua's side, and her face was a little ugly.

The letter was received in the morning, although she was in two places, but Hui Niang did not lose control of the Ninghua medicine shop and the printing workshop, and the shopkeeper there would tell him about the business situation in the first half of every month, and all the accounts were clear and clear at a glance. Now Hui Niang is thriving in Fucheng, and as the president of the Chamber of Commerce, she has great authority, and she doesn't dare to deceive her in the slightest. So if there is anything, Hui Niang will always know it as soon as possible.

Shen Xi sighed, what should come is always coming.

No matter what era, the most important thing in doing business is to consider the "policy", once you make a high profit, some people will be jealous, make irresponsible remarks, and even go to the government to complain.

On the side of the prefecture, the prefect is high and does not care about these small transactions of the people, and the prefect has no real power. I don't care much about the ninth-rate businessmen. But Ninghua is different, Ye Mingsu belongs to the local training of the young Zhuang faction in the capital, and he can't be idle on weekdays, and he pays the most attention to the people's feelings and customs. Somehow, the finger was pointed at the printing workshop.

Shen Xi analyzed: "This year, Ninghua is mainly responsible for printing black and white comic books, plus some storybooks, and the labor is relatively surplus, so it is better to print a little childish enlightenment reading materials and send them to the county government, and the government will organize and distribute them to the school or the children on the street." To educate the people. ”

Hui Niang nodded, but Zhou was a little unhappy: "In this way, aren't we spending money in vain?" ”

Hui Niang explained with a smile: "Sister, sometimes spending money is to keep safe, and you can't save it...... Besides, the money was originally earned from the people, and now it is also appropriate to give back to the public with some of it. And in this way, it can not only satisfy Ye Xianling, but also avoid others from gossiping, which is a good thing to kill multiple birds with one stone. I don't know, what should we print? ”

Shen Xi thought about it, since Ye Mingsu admired the book "Kindergarten Qionglin" compiled by him before, then he simply printed some of them, so that Ninghua's children could grow up to learn. Seeing that it is the time of the annual examination again, the Fujian Academic Administration will go to various prefectures and counties to organize examinations, and seeing that the people of Ninghua are simple and well-educated, they will naturally praise Ye Mingsu, and at that time, the Ye family will operate a little, and Ye Mingsu will be able to rise, and the benefits will naturally be indispensable at that time.

When Shen Xi told Hui Niang what he thought, Hui Niang naturally agreed.

Before Lu Xi'er learned "Kindergarten Qionglin", she made great progress in reading and writing, and she herself felt that the book written by Shen Xi had a good educational significance for children, and now it is promoted to make Shen Xi famous.

Hui Niang immediately sent a letter to Ninghua, and at the same time sent the original manuscript of "Kindergarten Qionglin" compiled by Shen Xi, and asked the printing workshop to print it, and the first batch of 2,000 copies was printed and sent to the government, and the Ninghua County Ya sent it to the city middle school or the children in the market for education.

After the matter was arranged, Hui Niang was considered to be a matter of concern, and poured her energy into preparing for the silver number.

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The fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Shangyuan Festival.

Early that morning, Hui Niang took Zhou and Shen Xi to Yinhao to prepare for the opening.

The silver trumpet is scheduled to open on the 16th day of the first lunar month, which coincides with the opening day of the city's shops.

Silver number street, only more than 100 steps away from the main hall of the Chamber of Commerce, the two-story blue brick house is selected as the business place, the lobby is separated by a high counter, according to the meaning of Shen Xi, enter from the main entrance of the silver number, and people who come to redeem or deposit money can not enter and exit the counter casually. If there is a big businessman to talk about business, please go directly to the back hall.

There is a silver vault in the backyard of the silver number, which symbolically stores some silver, and the rest of the silver has to be transferred to the main hall of the chamber of commerce for storage. Now the main hall of the Chamber of Commerce has rented all the courtyards on the left and right, and the site has been expanded more than ten times compared to the beginning, and one of the courtyards has a tunnel for escape. At that time, several underground secret rooms will be built on this tunnel as a place to store money.

Shen Xi arrived at the ground, and the inside was still being cleaned up.

Shen Xi's idea was to initially take the exchange of silver taels and copper coins as his main business, and then gradually increase deposit and lending projects later.

Before the reputation of the silver number has not been started, the slightest bit of wind and grass among the people will cause a run on the frenzy, and maybe the silver number may face the doom of bankruptcy as soon as it opens.

Twenty or thirty shareholders of all sizes who have invested in the silver account have also come to see the venue, after all, they have their own share in the silver number, and they always have to see it with their own eyes to feel at ease.

It was the first time that Hui Niang had publicly introduced the Zhou family to these chambers of commerce.

For the Zhou family and her father-in-law Shen Mingjun, people in the Chamber of Commerce have long heard of it, after all, outsiders know that Hui Niang runs a pharmacy and a printing workshop, all relying on the help of the Shen family, of course, for the reputation of the Shen family, there are good and bad rumors outside. The Zhou family's shrewdness and ability are praised by outsiders, but many people feel that the Shen family is intentionally or unintentionally encroaching on the Lu family's industry, and even suspect that Shen Mingjun has the idea of taking Hui Niang as a concubine.

The rumors outside are not to be believed, Zhou heard it as a deaf ear, and the frequent customers don't need to care about this, as long as the medicine in the pharmacy can cure the disease.

Even if the people in the Chamber of Commerce heard rumors from the outside world, they didn't dare to be disrespectful to the Zhou family in front of them, in the end, the Zhou family and Hui Niang have a deep sisterhood, and offending the Zhou family is equivalent to offending the president of the Chamber of Commerce, and they will not do such an unwise thing.

After reading the venue, Hui Niang introduced the silver number shopkeeper and a group of guys to the big and small shareholders.

These people are innocent, they have no past as traitors, and their families are honest people.

In addition, Hui Niang invited a lot of rough guards, and asked the government to invite some officials from the government to help maintain order. Even Hui Niang even greeted the ruffians and hooligans who had a little power in the city, and sent the silver to worship the mountain, so that they could take more care of the silver number.

Hui Niang has done everything she can think of, and has taken care of almost everything she can think of, so as to avoid that the normal operation of the silver account will not be affected by things outside the business after the opening of the silver number.

Shen Xi followed Hui Niang to take a look, wrote down some of the deficiencies he noticed, and told Hui Niang in detail when he went back.

Since the silver number was just beginning to do the exchange between silver and copper coins, it was the same as the operation method of the money shop, and it did not require much preparation of the capital.

The silver number is backed by the Chamber of Commerce, and the merchants who receive it in the Chamber of Commerce will definitely exchange the copper money they get into silver, so in the business items set by the silver number, it is mainly to exchange the silver and silverware obtained by the people into copper coins to the people, and then the silver and silverware obtained will be exchanged for those merchants who need light silver on the road after melting.

As for the shops in the city, if there is a need to exchange money, they can also come to the silver number, but if the people in the chamber of commerce come to exchange, they can enjoy the discount of the exchange ratio, which can be regarded as a special preferential treatment for the people in the chamber of commerce.

After seeing the venue, the shareholders are very satisfied, Hui Niang has done much better than the man in the preparations, and they can't help but admire it.

After that, Hui Niang informed the specific process of opening the next day, mainly according to Shen Xi's previous mention, the opening of the silver number should first be publicized to the outside world, and on the 16th day of the first month, people will be sent to post notices all over the city, so that people can know the business scope of the silver number.

Many people have silver in hand, but because the vendors in the market only accept copper plates, they can only go to some black market vendors to exchange, one or two very good silver, sometimes can be exchanged for seven or eight hundred yuan, very cost-effective, and with the silver number, the silver number will be given an exchange ratio close to the official price, which will have a lot of convenience for the people's daily life.

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PS: The second update of the guarantee!

On weekends, Tianzi has to pick up his daughter to cram school, and the time is a little rushed, sorry! But rest assured, the outbreak of the Son of Heaven's promise will never waver, and we will continue to watch five more today!

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