Chapter 103

When others were thinking about getting some recipes, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were preparing for the New Year at home, this was the first time that the two of them had celebrated the New Year outside, and the one in Huayuan County was not counted, after all, it was not far from Sanshui County.

The customs of the Tang New Year are a little different in various places, but the difference is not too big, and some are slowly evolved later, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan want to make a large stage, and let more than 30,000 people celebrate the New Year together.

I can take this opportunity to make the local people support Zhang Zhong more, then this money can only be made by Zhang and Wang, to be precise, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan are two people, not a small amount of money, but also some red envelopes to be given.

"Xiaobao, where do you say it's good to arrange this New Year's event together, should it be in a place where several counties are not far away? So that the people of several counties can go over, and it will take a few days to walk, after all, it is not like when they worked together, just organize it.

Now there are a lot of stalls, there are people in various places doing things, you can't let them walk for half a month during the New Year, from the farthest place to the other side, if you only walk with your feet, no matter how fast it will take half a month, it will not be the New Year, but a crime, but unfortunately there is no TV now, otherwise, no matter how far away you can see the program. ”

Wang Juan followed next to Zhang Xiaobao, and the two of them walked around the courtyard, thinking about how they should come this year.

Zhang Xiaobao also pondered, it would be nice if it was like before, everyone was working in the same place, just recruit them, those individuals will come over, now there are houses, and the situation in each family is different, if you want to continue to learn the way to go up the mountain at that time, it will not work.

After walking a few more steps, Zhang Xiaobao stood up and said to Wang Juan: "You can't gather all the people together for the New Year, then each has its own life, take the county as a unit, and each county must organize a New Year's event, let's tell them some methods, let them find someone to learn those cross talk or sketches."

In terms of singing and dancing, use some local ones, let's come up with a few more, the main thing is to have a lively scene, make some small games or something, let everyone participate, firecrackers and dumplings and other things, as well as new clothes, we will also take care of it, my father will stay here then, you and I will go to one place, let your father go to one place, and then find people from the inner courtyard to go to other places. ”

Zhang Xiaobao actually wants to celebrate the New Year with his family, but looking at the current situation, this idea cannot be realized, so he can only disperse people and let the people here feel the goodwill of the government.

After Wang Juan heard this, he shook his head, "If I don't leave, I will be with my family, aren't there still so many people in the inner courtyard?" Let them go and represent it, I'm here in Wulei County, and I'll celebrate the New Year with the people here. ”

"That's fine, it's just that the people in the inner courtyard can't achieve the original purpose, after all, if we go to a place in person, our identities will be different." Zhang Xiaobao saw that Wang Juan disagreed, but fortunately he had the same idea, so he agreed.

"How can it be bad, the people don't think so much, as long as they give those clothes or something, where do they care who is in the past, send someone to represent the government, these things, while there is still time, let your father go from place to place, you don't have to send everything to the hands of the people, your father went, and still brought things, then the local people will know what it means."

Now those officials are honest, and there is no need to worry that someone will be greedy for ink when distributing things, and when the time comes, give the officials more things, and they will happily do things well. ”

Wang Juan has always been very unfamiliar with this place, this strangeness is spiritual, even if she has been able to arrange the people here very well, but she always feels that it is not a place of people, and if the relatives who leave during the New Year will feel very lonely.

"Then let's do it, when the time comes, remember to sort out the things you send, send less spiritual things, the main thing is to be able to help in life, go, go back and pull a list, and see what you need."

Zhang Xiaobao followed and said, and pulled Wang Juan into the house to write a list, don't look at the many things that will be taken out at home during the Chinese New Year this year, but these things are worth it for Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, and the people in other surrounding states will also know about this matter at that time.

Maybe there will be some individuals, so that there will be more people in Luzhou, in this era when the means of production are not so developed, people are the best productive forces, waiting to leave here, the people here can provide a lot of money to the Zhang and Wang families every year.

This does not mean that the people give directly, but that the chambers of commerce operate, and the more people there are, the richer they are, and the higher the output value of the chamber of commerce.

The two of them were busy with the New Year's Eve things, and the other people were also thinking about it, especially those places that had been affected by the disaster, don't look at the things that have been obtained from the imperial court now, but the speed of recovery is compared to Luzhou, which is a heaven and an underground.

The officials of these states are not stupid, they know that if they can win the hearts of the people during the New Year and let the people have a good New Year, it will be good for the future, Zhang Zhong's affairs They have already known from their respective channels, that is, they used to spend the New Year with the people, and the Zhang family paid to buy some New Year's goods for the people.

They thought this method was good, but they couldn't come up with so much money, and in the end, they all thought of a way, that is, let the local merchants pay this money, buy New Year's goods to the people, and they can still leave a part of the money.

Those businessmen didn't know that the old men in the state had already hit their minds, and they were still doing business with Luzhou, and at the same time applying to join the Luzhou Chamber of Commerce, which needed to be negotiated.

They want to join directly, without taking any money, and without being subject to the strict management of the chamber of commerce, that is to say, these businessmen from individual states want to reach a certain unrestricted cooperation with the chambers of commerce in Luzhou.

Zhang Xiaobao originally knew about this matter, of course he didn't do it, this is clearly a threat made by those chambers of commerce relying on being able to control the trade activities around Luzhou, the original meaning of the words is that if they cooperate, then they will have to give them a part of the goods transported from Luzhou, or the kind with a relatively low price.

At the same time, the chamber of commerce in Luzhou itself is not allowed to buy and sell things casually on their side, and if you want to buy and sell, you have to go through them first, if you don't agree, they will *** Luzhou to buy and sell to various places, so that Luzhou's goods can't be sold.

This *** is not just blocking the road, they don't dare to do this, it is aimed at Luzhou, they will unite, do not sell any goods here, and do not buy anything from this side, they feel that they and others have the ability to do this, as long as they are united, it will be difficult for Luzhou to buy and sell.

For example, if there are good goods to buy, they can raise the price of such goods in the local area one step by one, but they are all alliances, and they will not lose money to each other, even if the things in the hands of the people want to sell to Luzhou, they must also consider whether they still want to buy things from the hands of these merchants in the future.

Their plan is good, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan are also willing to cooperate, but it is definitely not this kind of weak cooperation, the two of them proposed a new method, that is, outside businessmen are willing to join the Chamber of Commerce, but the price of goods needs to be unified according to the price given by the Chamber of Commerce.

It is not allowed to increase the price arbitrarily or reduce the price arbitrarily, and if there is any need, you can apply to the Chamber of Commerce separately, and you cannot decide privately when you have not applied.

Another point is that these businessmen need to pay two pieces of money to join in, one is the entrance fee, this money is fixed, according to the scale of each businessman to collect, pay more, when the proportion of goods distributed from other places is also large, the least need to pay 100 yuan, less than 100 yuan means that the scale is not good, the Zhang family does not cooperate.

This hundred or more money can't be taken back, that is, the Zhang family's chamber of commerce got it, and there is a sum of money as a deposit, in order to prevent some people from not listening to the regulations, privately colluding or raising and lowering the price, they need to take out a deposit, and if they do not comply with the regulations, then they will not return the deposit.

The same is according to their respective scales, in addition to this, but also let the outside businessmen make an additional guarantee, that is, in terms of sales volume, it is impossible to give you as many goods as you want to take, what if you can't sell them? What if you deliberately collect everything, then press the goods, and finally impact the Chamber of Commerce in Luzhou?

The benefit given by the Zhangjia Chamber of Commerce is to help them advertise, including their local advertising, the money is paid by the Chamber of Commerce, without them taking it themselves, of course, if they want to increase sales, they can also advertise themselves, sell more goods, or buy more goods needed by the Chamber of Commerce, and there will be additional rewards at that time.

The businessmen also have to admit that this method is very good for controlling the people who join, but they just don't want to be so ***, so they are still negotiating with the Chamber of Commerce in Luzhou.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan also thought of some ways for this matter, that is, each broke through, as long as they loosened their mouths, it was a good way, this method was very easy to use, find some businessmen who were not very strong, let them get the benefits first, tear open the gap over there, and other businessmen had to compromise.

Then they naturally won't get the same benefits as the previous merchants, when Zhang Xiaobao was about to make a move, he was stopped by Wang Juan, Wang Juan felt that he should wait a little longer, if he used such a means now, it would make those businessmen turn against each other, in case of vicious competition between them, not only would they cause losses to themselves, but even the local economy would be affected.

Of course, this kind of vicious competition can benefit the people, as well as the various chambers of commerce of the Zhang family, but it will have a bad effect on the development of the entire region in the future.

Zhang Xiaobao stopped at this time, otherwise with his means, he would be able to take a big advantage after messing up here.

But at this time, the officials of the surrounding state capitals helped, and they wanted to learn from Zhang Zhong to win the hearts of the people, but they couldn't come up with so much money, so they reached out to these local businessmen.

The local merchants have only recently recovered, and they all rely on the goods transported from the land state, and they buy them not to sell them locally, but to sell them to the next state that has not been affected by the disaster, so that they can make some money, after all, the land side sells to them itself is expensive.

Fortunately, Luzhou didn't do anything about it, otherwise, after selling them the goods, they would sell the goods at a lower price to the place they want to sell, and they would smash the goods in their hands, even if it was the same price, they couldn't bear it, they would have to add a freight to it.

The local area was affected by the disaster, and their business was also greatly affected, and now they finally made some money, and just after the crisis, they were found by the officials of the government to eat.

The governor of Lianzhou, the Chinese Assassin Shi, personally came to accompany these businessmen, if it was changed to normal times, or when there was no disaster, the people in the official government would find these businessmen, they would be very happy, even if they gave the officials some money, and there might be benefits waiting for them at that time.

But now that the area is still recovering, what good is there? It's almost the New Year, and as soon as the businessmen heard about it, they were scared when they received the invitation, and it was estimated that it was nothing good, otherwise how could an official as big as a state assassin send them an invitation?

Some people who are still relatively strong are nothing if they take an invitation, this post looks more beautiful, and the price of production will not be low, the problem is that these small businessmen who usually do business have also received invitations, what does this mean?

Small businessmen can't come up with too much money to do things with the government, so why do they say hello? The merchants couldn't figure it out, and they didn't dare not go over, so they could only tell their families to go there in person.

When they arrived at the place, this should be the place at the door of the most expensive restaurant, Fang Tingshi actually stood there in person to greet him, and such a generous treatment made the merchants even more worried.

With the arrival of merchants one by one, Fang Thorn Shi let the number count, and after there was no shortage, he also came upstairs, in order to facilitate everyone to be together, more than a hundred merchants were arranged to the adjacent houses, there were screens to remove the screens, and there were walls to block, and these wooden walls had to be demolished.

The place became big all of a sudden, and more than a hundred businessmen sat there worriedly, waiting for Fang Thorn Shi's arrangement, they had already thought about it, if Fang Thorn Shi asked for money, then the family would take less, and when the time came, they would directly give Fang Thorn Shi and let Fang Thorn Shi have a good year.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this official is fortunate to get together with you today, oops, this time is too little, it seems to be the first time since this official took office, it doesn't matter, it would be good to get together more in the future, there is always a first time, you don't care about the distance, you can come to give this official this face, this official first toasts you."

Seeing that everyone was together, Fang Tingshi put down the shelf, picked up his wine glass and said the opening words first, and everyone immediately followed suit, saying that everyone should respect Fang Tingshi before saying this, and a glass of wine was drunk like this.

Everyone continued to wait for what happened next, they didn't believe it, Master Fang Tingshi, who usually wanted to meet a difficult face, didn't have any requirements from them at this time.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the flood in the past few months really made the local people suffer, and I think you also have a deep understanding, the people, it is fundamental, without those people, it will not be good for you to come and trade, isn't this the truth?"

Fang Tingshi didn't wait for others to eat a few bites of food, so he stood up with his wine glass and said, seeing everyone nodding, he continued: "Here, this official wants to thank you, it is because you have worked hard to buy and sell things from outside, and it is also you who have sold local things, so that this place has gradually recovered, at this time, this official will toast you again, without you, there will be no prosperity in Lianzhou." ”

As he spoke, Fang Tingshi also dried this cup in one gulp, of course the other businessmen didn't dare not drink it, listening to Fang Tingshi's praise, one by one they were even more afraid, if the officials could say such things, what kind of price would they need to pay?

After Fang Tingshi finished drinking, he sat down again, ready to eat two mouthfuls of food, and the businessmen who had an organic spirit immediately stood up, also holding the wine, and said to Fang Tingshi: "Lord Fang, in fact, Lianzhou was able to survive, it is all the credit of the adults, without the adults in the center to arrange the scheduling, how do those people know how to do it, and those of us who do a little business will not make some money again."

The money I made these days, I don't know about others, I am good to get back to the capital, to make up for the money lost some time ago, this is still thanks to adults, waiting for a few more months, I have earned more, I will definitely return to adults. ”

What this means is that I don't have any money now, I just made a book, and I want money to talk about it in two months, and other businessmen have also learned to say it, and the main thing is to praise the history of the assassination, and mention the lack of money a little.

Fang Tingshi can sit in this position, how can he not know the minds of the merchants? Seeing that someone took the lead in crying poor, he put his eyes on this person, just looked at it, and didn't speak, until he kept sweating when he saw it, and then said with a smile:

"Zhang Dongjia, right? I heard that what you are doing over there is a grain business, and you got a lot of good grain from Luzhou, and then sold these good grains to other places, and bought some bad grain for the local people to eat, you do this well, otherwise there may be people starving to death, your credit is not small, and the official must praise it.

Well, well, who said that merchants don't care about the life or death of the people? I don't think so, at least Zhang Dongjia can think about the people when they are affected by the disaster, how rare, the people will definitely remember you, and a few people are the same, the official will write a notice and post it after a while, so that the people can understand who is behind them to help them.

Rest assured, the official knows that your money is big, and the official will not ask for your money, yes, don't want this money to seek benefits for yourself, although the official's family is not too rich, but you can still take out more than 100 yuan of money, and today the official brought 100 yuan.

It's not for you, this money, the official wants to use it for the people to celebrate the New Year, it's been a year, and it's been a disaster, and it's not easy for the people, don't you say? Now it would be difficult to expect the people to live a good year by their own skills, so the official thought about it, thought about it, and wanted to know what the official was thinking? ”

Fang Tingshi didn't say anything as he spoke, and asked people to bring the hundred yuan of money over first, put it next to him, and looked at these businessmen and asked.

"I don't know what you're thinking, sir? Do you want us to do a little business to help transport some goods, adults, you can rest assured, even if there are no local goods, as long as the people need it, we will also help adults buy it back, the price, it can't be expensive, if it doesn't work, you can collect a capital. ”

Zhang Dongjia had to come out at this time, who let him say what he said just now, seeing that Fang Tingshi put his eyes on himself again, and immediately spoke.

"No, no, you only think of one aspect, indeed, this time you need to transport things over, especially some goods that are not available locally, you all have to help transport them, what the official thinks is that since you can help the people survive, you will definitely let the people have a good year."

The official knows that a hundred guan is actually a lot, but if this money is used for the people to celebrate the New Year, it is far from enough, do you know the history of Zhang Thorn in Luzhou? There were many merchants on his side who were united and were willing to spend money to buy New Year's goods for the people.

The official was worried about this matter originally, but now he is not worried, because the official found that everyone here is more benevolent than the businessmen in Luzhou, and they can all join forces to pay for it now, thinking that you will do better than them, this is the people's heart, you are all good people, and you should be loved by the people.

That's the case, the official knows, you have been thinking about finding an opportunity to do more things for the people, but you haven't found it, thanks to Luzhou, otherwise the official can't think of such a good way, which can not only fulfill your wish to do good things for the people, but also help the people have a good year.

Come, for this year, let's have another drink, let the people be happy, let you and the official rest assured, drink, drink this glass of wine, everyone can say how much money they are willing to take, look at the official who does not do business, the net worth is not good, can only take out a hundred, ashamed, ashamed. ”

As soon as the words fell, Fang Tingshi drank the wine, and the other merchants were so stupid, they didn't say anything yet, why did they have to take the money? No wonder the adults said he didn't want money, I thought it was really not necessary to pay for it this time, but now I realized that it was not that I didn't have to pay for it, but that I had to pay more, and I had to take out at least a hundred yuan, and if it was less, it would not be as good as an adult without money.

Black, this black, a hundred times for one person, then the sum of these individuals is more than ten thousand.