A group of businessmen were afraid of the moody Su You, and they filled in the number and name of the pledge on the donation book, and then left Feng Moxuan like chickens and dogs.

The last remaining guest was a middle-aged man with a white face and beard, and his face was full of caution and apprehension at the moment.

Hearing Su You's banter, the man replied with a sad face, "So that the angel knows that the villain is Wei Yongchang, the owner of Daoxiang Village, and it is not that the villain is unwilling to donate this hundred stone of grain, but it is really small and now he is in debt, and he really can't donate."

Angel? Daoxiang Village? Su You frowned.

The angel in Wei Yongchang's mouth may refer to the messenger sent by the emperor, and there seems to be nothing wrong with using it to refer to his "Southeast Economic Envoy", so the question is, isn't Daoxiang Village the century-old brand known as making moon cakes in later generations? If this is the origin, then there will be a thousand years.

Seeing that Su You was a little dazed, Mai Tiezhu explained in a low voice, "This Daoxiang Village is the largest pastry shop in Yangzhou. ”

Su You nodded, and then asked Wei Yongchang, "I heard you cry poor just now, and the official thought that he had invited the wrong person; Even Mai Yuanjun knows that you open the largest pastry shop in Yangzhou, are you embarrassed to cry poor? ”

Wei Yongchang was asked by Su You, knelt down with a "plop", and sighed while wiping his tears, "The villain does have something unspeakable, and he also asks the angel and the envoy to be the master of the little one." ”

Su You has never seen others cry, let alone a big man like Wei Yongchang?

Wei Yongchang chose to play the drama of crying poor after the other businessmen were gone, which can be regarded as finding the right time; Su You was idle at this time anyway, and he didn't care about listening to more stories.

Su You waved his hand and asked Wei Yongchang to stand up first, and then said with a smile, "Then it also depends on what you are doing, if you want to resist donations, you should weigh yourself first." ”

"Thank you angels, the small ones will never resist donating, they will never resist." Wei Yongchang shook his head like a rattle, there were some old tears on his face, and he was a little surprised after listening to Su You's words at this time.

On his face, he couldn't laugh or cry, but on the whole he was relieved; The emperor lived up to his wishes, and Su You finally gave himself a chance to defend himself.

"Alright, let's get to the point." Su You was obviously also satisfied with his grace and power, and said nonchalantly.

"The villain opened a pastry shop, it has been more than ten years, the craft is unique in Yangzhou, the year before last when His Majesty Xià came here, the little one was fortunate to present his own pastries to His Majesty" Wei Yongchang told his past, with bitterness and pride.

Su You listened to Wei Yongchang's experience, and couldn't help but look sideways, how could he have thought that the fat man in front of him had also made pastries for Yang Guang?

His Majesty ate the villain's pastry, and when he was happy, he rewarded the villain with a pair of ink treasures, and the villain's pastry shop business began to boom from then on. The little one felt strange, so he paid attention to the observation and inquired in many ways, and realized that many people bought my pastries, not for themselves, but as gifts for relatives and friends. ”

"Because His Majesty has made the transaction popular, this advertisement is really good." Su You nodded and said with a smile.

Wei Yongchang usually reads newspapers, so he naturally knows the meaning of advertising, and when he heard Su You's praise at this time, he couldn't help but say with some pride, "The pastries in our Daoxiang Village are beautifully packaged, the materials are exquisite, and the methods are unique, which are really rare products for home travel, festival celebrations, and gifts to friends."

Su You heard him say that he was happy, and quickly stopped, "Okay, do you still have the heart to use advertising words to tease the official?" ”

Wei Yongchang also knew that he had forgotten for a while, so he quickly stopped his mouth, thought about it and said a little embarrassed, "Then I worked the packaging of the pastries, and I will make him four or five catties of two-pound pastries."

"Did you turn yourself in?" Su You looked at the fat man in front of him with a smile and a smile, he really has the potential to be a profiteer, isn't this a living example of buying pearls and returning the money?

Think about the packaging in later generations, whether it is famous wine or famous cigarettes, those packaging boxes are even more expensive than the goods themselves, and those who give gifts choose expensive ones in order to reflect the face of both parties, not the right ones.

It is not uncommon to buy beads.

"The villain is never short of catties and short twos, how much is the pastry, how much is written on the box, and the price is clearly marked; However, the money for the box always has to be collected. Wei Yongchang shook his head and hurriedly argued.

"Okay, the official doesn't want to listen to your business experience, the official doesn't have that much time!"

"After using the packaging box for my pastries, the beauty and grade have gone up, but it is not very convenient to pick up, and some gift-givers also think it is too eye-catching; What's more, after we had one more process of making boxes, the effort to make pastries became longer, and then it became that if you want to buy pastries from my Daoxiang Village, you have to queue up to buy them.

After the queue became longer, the number plate came into being, first those customers used the number plate to avoid the hard work of queuing, and then the villain took the initiative to make the number plate approved by our Daoxiang Village in order to treat the customers in front of the door fairly"

When Wei Yongchang said this, he was afraid that Su You would not understand what he said, so he stopped and looked at Su You.

Su You smiled, how could he not understand this number plate? In later generations, public places such as banks and post offices often used license plates to queue up, and I didn't expect Wei Yongchang to be so forward-looking.

Su You wants to ask him now, did you also cross over?

Mai Tiezhu couldn't imagine that Wei Yongchang's pastries were so popular, so he was also popular, "What's the big deal with the number plate?" Does this have anything to do with the fact that you can't donate food? ”

Wei Yongchang also knew that he had said it in too much detail, so he hurried back to the topic, "Because of the obviousness of this packaging, and because of the birth of this number plate, and then it began to become popular The appearance of the fashion number plate of gift-giving and giving number plates is not only convenient for some gift givers to be afraid of being eye-catching, but also convenient for the recipient's discount,—— of course, this kind of discount is only relative, he can't become money, but the person who receives the gift may not necessarily eat by himself, and everyone has a personal affair." ”

Su You nodded, isn't the number plate in Wei Yongchang's mouth like the kind of membership card issued by various supermarkets and shopping malls in later generations? And those who are afraid of being conspicuous are obviously bribing people for some benefit; Otherwise, who would be afraid of being seen by others in a normal exchange of courtesies?

However, what if those customers who originally bought pastries as gifts became only number plates? Will number plates become a currency? — and this currency will eventually break away from the pastry shop.

This means that the business of the pastry shop will go down with it.

Su You looked at Wei Yongchang with interest, and the latter continued, "After the invention of license plates, there were gradually fewer people in line, but there were not many license plates sold at all."

When Su You heard this, it made sense to think about it carefully, just now he thought that the number plate had become currency, obviously ignoring the problem of people,—— if the number of people is large enough, and the number plate is very small, it is very difficult for the number plate to circulate as currency.

Wei Yongchang can only sell license plates to earn the difference, isn't this an empty glove white wolf?

"Because there were no people in line, the number plate lost its meaning, so I started printing pastry coupons with my personal seal and selling them in the storefront. The benefits of selling pastry coupons are indeed very attractive, as soon as the pastries are not baked, they can be collected in advance, and I no longer have to worry about asking for credit as before; Second, the money from the sale of pastry coupons can also be used for other businesses, and there is no need to pay interest, which is equivalent to others lending money to me for nothing. In addition, some of the pastry coupons in the hands of customers are always lost or damaged, and these pastries that cannot be redeemed are earned in vain."

When Su You heard this, he was already stunned, and he stared at Wei Yongchang hard, wanting to find some traces of future people from him.

Isn't this a stock?

Wei Yongchang saw Su You staring at him intently, so he cowardly wanted to continue, "I"

Su You applauded and said with a smile, "The abacus is indeed shrewd, if you can control the desire of the empty glove white wolf within a certain limit, it can be a genius idea." ”

"yes. But then the development of events greatly exceeded the villain's expectations. Because the face value is not indicated on the pastry coupon, you will pay according to the price at the time of purchase, and you do not need to refund more and make up for less when you pick up the goods. When he said this, Wei Yongchang wiped the sweat from his head, and continued, "Pastries are made of grain, and the price changes with the price of grain. ”

Although Su You understands the principle of this stock, how big is the scope of activities of the ancients? Jiangdu County belongs to the Yangtze River, so there shouldn't be much change in the grain harvest, right?

Is it interesting to speculate on grain stocks? Unless other goods have also been popularized in stock

Although Su You didn't want to know the affirmative answer in his heart, he still couldn't help asking, "After the birth of your pastry coupon, has Yangzhou City set off a trend of issuing various coupons, and it makes no sense that others can't see that you can make money from it, right?" ”

"Angel wise, since we issued pastry coupons in Daoxiang Village, major salt villages, butcher shops, and silk shops have also issued coupons." Wei Yongchang responded flatteringly, as long as the people who live in Yangzhou don't know these things?

Su You is really speechless now, is this world still the original world?

In the original world, Su You still felt that stocks were unattainable for ordinary people, but now in Yangzhou City, all the ordinary people are covered by the whirlpool of stocks.

However, Su You thought about it carefully, and seemed to feel that something was wrong.

The stocks of Yangzhou City are mainly based on grain, but there seems to be no major disaster in the past two years, and the fluctuation of grain prices should not be large.

After Su You came to this era, he invented the money bank that collects protection fees and loans for deposits, but with the increase of money banks, there is no longer a need to pay protection fees for depositing money, not only that, but the money bank will also give a certain amount of interest according to the number of years deposited by depositors.

Are the people of Yangzhou City idle like this?