Chapter 129: The Age of Advertising
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After a clear slap sounded, followed by a slightly domineering scolding. γRan Library (7764)γ
"Blind your dog's eye! See what's on the table! Invitation! My senior official is the new branch president of your Chamber of Commerce, why can't he enter your tea shop?! β
It wasn't Wu Zhi who slapped and scolded that guy, but Zhang Tong beside him!
Wu Zhi looked at Zhang Tong with incredible eyes, how could this good old man suddenly be so sharp? But...... This slap is crisp and beautiful!
Zhang Tong smiled at Wu Zhi, he was inspired by Wu Zhi to figure it out, since Wu Zhi smashed Huang Zhi's shop and it was nothing, then he now smoked this doorman who looked down on people, naturally there was no!
Dare to look down on your own big boss, who will you smoke if you don't smoke him?
The guy who was slapped covered his face, and looked at Wu Zhi and Zhang Tong with hatred and anger, although he was a guy, but he was Huang Zhi's subordinate, who dared to bully him in Qingzhou? It was very difficult for him to accept the sudden slap at the moment, but he could only stare dryly, because no matter whose subordinate he was, he was still a fellow after all.
"It's... This post is true,...... Martial officials can come and go here at will......" The other guy carefully checked the post and whispered.
Wu Zhi had come to register, and after seeing that the guy was soft, he lightly swept the table of people inside, turned around and wanted to leave.
"Hmph, take the chicken feathers as an arrow."
As soon as Wu Zhi turned around, a piercing voice came from behind him, with a thick sarcasm.
"I said Boss Liu, do you have to intervene in this troubled water?" Seeing that Wu Zhi froze, Zhang Tong questioned one of the people inside, his tone was a little polite, obviously, the Boss Liu who spoke inside, Zhang Tong knew.
"Muddy waters? Hehe, someone is against Mr. Huang, this is also worthy of being called muddy water? Boss Liu inside smiled contemptuously and said to Zhang Daodao: "I said Lao Zhang, we are all from Qingzhou, even if you want to behave well in front of the new master, you don't need to do this, right?" If you offend your fellow villagers, when someone rolls with their tails between their legs, it won't be easy for you to be alone in Qingzhou! β
After saying that, all the people sitting inside laughed together.
Zhang Tong's face was flushed by these words, and he was a little flustered for a while: "Don't... Underestimate us...... Top banana! β
"Haha......"
Boss Liu and the others laughed again: "Look down? What does he have to make us look high? Speaking of this, he directly pointed his finger at Wu Zhi, who was standing motionless in front of the door, and said unceremoniously: "Don't you know that he is about to be ruined now?" Now all the people in Qingzhou are poking his backbone, he actually has the face to go out, tsk, this face is really not ordinarily thick! It's just a food seller, if it weren't for Mr. Huang to take pity on you and give you a place, you really wouldn't be able to enter this door today. β
Hearing these words, Wu Zhi, who was still angry, suddenly became extremely calm, he slowly turned around, and raised his eyes to look at the so-called Boss Liu who was sitting there.
"Who are you?" Wu Zhi asked lightly, his eyes still looking at him flatly.
The boss surnamed Liu was chilled by Wu Zhi's back, but it was only an instant that he reacted, staring at everyone and laughing.
"After all, it's not us from Qingzhou, I don't even know me, but you don't need to know who I am!"
"Why?"
"Because you're not qualified."
Wu Zhi didn't get angry, just smiled faintly: "What kind of immortal are you, even I am not qualified to know who you are?" β
"I'm not an immortal, it's just that I don't need to tell my identity to a person who is about to get out of Qingzhou."
After hearing this, Zhang Tong immediately pointed angrily at the boss surnamed Liu and said, "Liu An, you are presumptuous!" β
"Hehe, it turns out that you are Liu An." Wu Zhi was still not angry, but smiled meaningfully, and said: "If you leave Qingzhou or not, no one will say this, you won't know until then, Boss Liu shouldn't say too much now, so as not to be embarrassed at that time." β
After hearing Liu An's name, Wu Zhi suddenly had an impression, so he looked at Liu An's eyes with a bit of playfulness. Not because of anything else, but because this Liu An is the largest paper merchant in Qingzhou!
In this era, paper merchants are still a very profitable industry, not only printing to use paper, in the Song Dynasty, a dynasty of flourishing culture and education, whether it is official or civil, and even ordinary people, almost everywhere can not do without paper. Letters, writing, drawing, and note-taking...... Even the thatched house is indispensable for paper.
It was precisely because of the great demand for paper used by Wu Zhi that he indirectly learned Liu An's name precisely because he bought the printing shop.
Salt is controlled by the government at all levels, and it is still in a monopoly position, so it is naturally the seller who dominates the market, which is also the reason why Wu Zhi was calculated by Huang Zhi last time.
But paper, it's different!
The Song Dynasty developed industry and commerce, in addition to a few industries controlled by the government, any other profitable industry, the competition is very fierce, the same is true of the paper industry, although Liu An is the largest paper merchant in Qingzhou, but there are still many paper merchants in Qingzhou, where the amount of paper is large, these paper merchants will go to burn incense and worship the Buddha to ask people to buy their own paper.
Like the promotion of later generations, for those large customers who use a large amount of paper, paper merchants are also accustomed to supplying, Wu Zhi bought the printing house, using Liu An's paper, it is said that every year during the New Year's holiday, Liu An will send people to the printing house to send rich holiday gifts, in order to consolidate the relationship.
Only Xiao let a few of them know about Wu Zhi's purchase of the printing house, but Zhang Tong didn't know, and once the printing house officially publishes the newspaper, then the amount of paper used in hundreds of thousands of copies per day is absolutely terrifying for any merchant who sells paper!
It can be said that in the future, as long as that paper merchant gets the Wuzhi printing field, as long as more than half of the paper orders are made, it will not be long before Liu An will replace Liu An to become the largest paper merchant in Qingzhou!
Now that Liu An is talking to Wu Zhi so ruthlessly, it has seriously hurt Wu Zhi's fragile and young heart, so Wu Zhi plans to ...... In the future, even if Liu An kneels down and apologizes, he will not place an order for Liu An, the big villain......
"Hehe, embarrassing?" Liu An saw that Wu Zhi was so "humble" and thought that he had softened, so he continued to say unceremoniously: "You think too much about the martial arts officials, if you leave Qingzhou, maybe others say it doesn't count, but what Huang Zongshang said must be counted!" β
Wu Zhi is engaged in catering, and he can't fight with the paper industry, Liu An is unscrupulous at all: "Don't think that if you become the branch president of the Chamber of Commerce, you will be our Qingzhou businessmen, you might as well remind you first, this branch president is not so easy to be, because our Qingzhou businessmen don't recognize you at all, if you are kicked out by the Chamber of Commerce in the future, it will be even more embarrassing!" β
ββ¦β¦ So I advise you, while your face is not lost now, go home and pack your bags and get out of here. β
Speaking of which, Liu An was too lazy to look at Wu Zhi, he and the other members of the table were laughing and muttering, not wanting to continue wasting time and nonsense with Wu Zhi at all.
For Liu An's rude words, Wu Zhi just sneered, Liu An is also the position of branch president in the Chamber of Commerce, this is the place of the Chamber of Commerce, beating people here is tantamount to going against the merchants of Qingzhou, Wu Zhi can't do anything, there is no need to teach him a lesson now, there will be a time for him to cry soon.
has also been officially registered, Wu Zhi's name as the branch president is confirmed, Wu Zhi knows that Huang Zhi must have more vicious tricks waiting for him later, but Wu Zhi will not give Huang Zhi another chance. Considering that Huang Zhi was smashed, the shop was likely to retaliate with the same means, Wu Zhi glanced deeply at Liu An's group and left here.
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"Hey, it's a pity for the little ladies in his family, especially the wine lady and the cook lady, tsk! I've tasted that craftsmanship and golden wine before, so I don't have to say it! β
"It's all to blame for our Huang Zongshang being too merciful, if we ruthlessly bankrupt that Wu Zhi, then we can buy it home for a few taels of silver! Gee! β
"It's okay to buy a wine lady and be a concubine at home, buy a cook? Aren't you afraid of making a name for yourself too? β
"Phew! I'm not stupid! Buy it home and circle it up as a slave! β
"Hahaha......"
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In the tea shop, Liu An and the others continued to be obscene, and Wu Zhi, who was walking on the road here, was already asking Zhang Tongyi for information about everyone except Liu An just now.
In this great Song Dynasty, where commerce is so prosperous, the significance of newspapers is not only to control public opinion, but also to have a very important and core function......
That's commercials!
In this era, the competition in every industry is so fierce, the same quality, whoever advertises well, who can win in the end, the power of advertising can not be underestimated, and the advertising in the period before and after the news broadcast in later generations is at least tens of millions of starting prices...... It doesn't matter at all, you can't get it at all.
These businessmen today want to report and advertise when the time comes...... Hum!
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Huangfu, back garden.
Huang Zhi was fiddling with and wiping a piece of blue ink strange stone in the gazebo, the strange stone has a smooth color and a strange shape, only the size of a kitten, just enough to be able to play with it in his hand.
Nowadays, although the Zhao official family is extravagant and mediocre, there is no way to govern the country, but the attainments in aesthetic taste and artistic pursuit are quite high, not only created a "thin gold body" calligraphy that has been sought after by later generations for thousands of years, but also is extremely proficient in Chinese painting, and opened a painting institute to greatly promote the development of ink painting of flowers, birds, fish and insects, and the official family is a surprising love for strange stones, in order to collect strange stones from all over the country, he does not know how many people have been tired, how much money has been injured.
The first time Yang Zhi, the blue-faced beast in the Water Margin, committed a crime, it was because he lost the granite stone to Song Hui Zongyun.
Among the many strange stones, the Lingbi strange stone is the best, known as "the first stone in the world", also praised the Lingbi stone, its shape is thin, leaky, transparent, wrinkled, beautiful, black, sound, ugly, hanging nine beautiful and famous all over the world, the power of the Quartet, the highest and highest taste, won the love of Song Huizong.
The so-called good at the top must be followed by the bottom. Huang Zhi is playing with the Lingbi Stone that he bought with a lot of money, this kind of stone is a naturally formed independent individual, the texture is cool, the sound is like bronze and the color is like black jade, its shape is full of charm, and it is fun to play.
"Master, master, it's not good!" Huang Zhi was immersed in it, and the butler suddenly ran over in a panic and said eagerly.
Huang Zhi carefully placed the Lingbi Stone in the mahogany base and glanced at the housekeeper lightly.
"What a fuss, what's wrong?"
"Let's be at the salt shop on West Main Street...... was smashed by Wu Zhi! β
The strange thing is that Huang Zhi didn't react much after hearing the news, but smiled coldly: "Hmph, this martial arts is really not as simple as it seems!" β
The housekeeper was stunned, and he wondered, "Master? That Wu Zhi thief is bold enough to smash our shop, should we go and smash his proud building?! Huang Zhi was not angry, which made the housekeeper very strange.
"No need, do you think someone will be defenseless if they smash your shop?"
"That'...... So that's it?! The housekeeper was unconvinced, "Why don't you report to the official and arrest Wu Zhi for punishment!" β
"Hehe, what kind of sin can be cured? The crime of smashing a store? Huang Zhiyin smiled and said, "We also beat his shopkeeper, and this is a tie, but of course we can't just settle it with him!" β
"Then the master plans to ......?"
"Don't worry, the process still has to go through, you go to the prefect to report to the official and ask for compensation."
Huang Zhi paused and continued: "Since he smashed my shop, then he should have entered the Chamber of Commerce at this time, hum!" β
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