"Sell matches!"

"Sell matches!"

"Sell matches!"

On the street of the city, in the corner of a small alley, a stall appeared. This booth is not deliberately dressed up, it is boxy.

At the top of the stall, there is a wooden sign with the words "match" written on it in "imitation Song style".

It is not deliberately sold, if someone comes to ask, it will be introduced, but it is not deliberately soliciting.

Now the business of selling matches is fully represented by Ergouzi, and Mei Xiaohan's minimum price for each box of matches is 100 Wen per box.

The first two days were purely advertisements, the so-called wine fragrance is not afraid of deep alleys, as long as enough people understand that there are such magical things as matches in the world, Mei Xiaohan is not afraid that matches will not be sold. What's more, now that he has a master's hat, he naturally can't lose in the party.

Ergouzi found his relatives to help, and these farmers, who were bitter on weekdays, knelt in front of Mei Xiaohan and thanked him a thousand times.

Every time Ergouzi sells a box of matches, Mei Xiaohan will give him ten cents as a reward, this kind of good thing that is profitable is difficult to encounter once in hundreds of years.

Although on the first, second, and third days, many customers came to the door to buy a large number of matches, but they were all rejected by Ergouzi one by one.

On the fourth day, as soon as the sign selling matches was hung out, the queue began to form in a huge manner. A small "Raozhou City" has become a beautiful talk for a while because of the magic match.

There were scalpers.

Scalpers buy matches for 100 yuan and sell them for two to three times the price. The second dog is also decent in business, and he is quite business-minded.

Only 500 boxes are sold per day, with a limit of three boxes per person. For every 500 boxes of matches sold, Ergouzi can make a net profit of 5,000 Wen.

By evening, the matches were already sold out, but the line was still huge.

"Folks, the matches have been sold out today, come back tomorrow!"

"Let's go, if you want to buy matches, hurry up early tomorrow!"

The crowd was not moved, and remained standing still unwilling to leave. Although the price of matches is not cheap, people are still willing to wait in line, and there are dozens of matches in a box of matches. It is enough to use it for a month, as long as the family is not very poor, they are still very willing to buy this magical commodity, even if they are not for their own use, it is good to give it away.

"Can you sell me a box?" said a weak woman.

It was a ragged woman who spoke, her gaze was a little glazed, and her expression was in a trance.

"But I only have 75 yuan!"

The people at the back of the line blamed the woman, saying: "Since you can't afford it, why bother to be so strong, you have to make a match to make a fire!" ”

The woman said: "My mother suffers from eye disease, and it is not convenient to work and cook on weekdays. ”

The second dog said: "My master has confessed, less than 100 yuan, no one can be sold, I don't want to make a claim, please come back tomorrow, and help you ask!" ”

After the sales of matches opened, Mei Xiaohan was very happy, according to the income of selling 500 boxes of matches every day, there was 50 amounts of silver a day, excluding the 10% commission of the two dogs, and there were 45 taels of silver a day.

45 taels of silver is the entire income of a medium-sized family in a year, which is just one of the businesses that Mei Xiaohan wants to carry out.

When the second dog returned home in the evening, Mei Xiaohan was thinking about how to develop her own market on the desk.

A prosperous business of the Great Song Empire is appearing in front of his eyes, and a business empire of his own is magnificent in his heart.

Ergouzi's words interrupted Mei Xiaohan's train of thought, and he was talking about a girl who wanted to buy matches at a price of 75 Wen.

"Is that really the case?" Mei Xiaohan asked.

The second dog replied: "But there is such a thing! ”

"Why didn't you sell him the matches in the first place!"

The second dog was a little aggrieved and said: "The master said that I have to sell matches at a price lower than 100 wen per box, how dare I violate it easily!" ”

Mei Xiaohan was very happy in her heart, but she didn't show it, and said, "What you did in this matter is right, just doing business!" You have to be flexible when it's time to be flexible! ”

Ergouzi said: "Since the master has spoken, I will sell it to her tomorrow for 75 Wen!" ”

Mei Xiaohan said: "No! Still sold for 100! ”

Ergouzi was stunned for a moment and said, "I don't understand this, what does the master mean?" ”

Mei Xiaohan said: "I will pay 25 wen for the girl, plus her own 75 wen, a total of just 100 wen!" ”

The second dog said: "I already understand the master's words!" ”

On the second day, Ergouzi's booth was open as usual, and the girl who came yesterday also came early to wait.

"Yo!"

"So early today?" Ergouzi asked.

"I'm afraid I'm too late to buy it!"

Ergouzi said: "My owner already knows about you, and is willing to help you pay 25 yuan!" ”

After hearing this, the girl was moved and said, "Is there really such a good thing? ”

The second dog said: "Long-winded! Do you buy it or not? ”

The girl counted seventy-five coins and put them on the table, and said, "Naturally, I want to buy it!" ”

The customers who lined up behind the girl looked at the girl in the distance with envy and said, "I'm really lucky, I can actually get Boss Mei's care!" ”

"Have you ever seen that Boss Mei?"

"It's the Mei family's one?"

"I've heard of it, but I don't know why it has developed so quickly in recent years!"

"Luck!"

"If I master the art of making matches, I will definitely be able to live a beautiful life!"

After the girl bought a box of matches, she was taken away by two officials at the entrance of a small alley in front of her.

The arrest order was issued by the county magistrate Wang Yongji, saying that the magistrate is the biggest official in a county, and there is no problem. But not necessarily with prefectural orders. Because the county order belongs to the ministry official, and before the reform of Yuanfeng in the Northern Song Dynasty, the ministry official was often only a rank official and was not responsible for the actual position, for example, the criminal department Shangshu was a ministry official, but he was not the chief of the criminal department, not responsible for the government affairs of the criminal department, only said that he enjoyed the treatment of the criminal department Shangshu. The chief of the actual penal department is sent by the "Sentencing Department". The same is sometimes the case with a county order: a certain official only uses the name of a county order to indicate that he enjoys the treatment of a county order, but his actual work may have nothing to do with a certain county.

Although the official system of the Song Dynasty was extremely complex, as the supreme governor of a county, he still had the right to supervise what happened in a county.

After all, she was a thin woman, and soon the woman confessed to the unwarranted relationship between herself and Mei Xiaohan, and fabricated some charges out of thin air.

Many people were involved, the relevant personnel of "match sales" were implicated, Wang Yonghe did not have any performance in his tenure for many years, he was worried about no performance, and found a merchant who sold "demon goods", for him, such a God-given opportunity, how could he let it go in vain.

A column of officials was ready to arrest Mei Xiaohan.