There is an extra maid in the house, Xia Shang always feels weird, it is no longer Li Luo who gets up early in the morning, there is always a lively sound and shadow busy in the courtyard, fetching water, laundry, cooking, and cooking pots...... There doesn't seem to be anything she won't. And this girl is not tired, she always looks happy. Living like an elf, there is a kind of infectious power from within, which makes the people around her a lot easier.

At the beginning of the period, Xia Shang still had some precautions, and he would pay attention to them from time to time, but after three days, Xia Shang's precautions disappeared, and he seemed to be used to the time when there was a little girl scurrying around in the yard. Look at Li Luo again, he got acquainted with Guo Qingqing in three days, although Guo Qingqing did the work of a maid, but on weekdays, the two talked more like good sisters.

Three days later, Xia Shang gradually forgot about Guo Qingqing, and the visit of the eldest grandson Wen and others early in the morning brought a surprise to Xia Shang.

The eldest grandson Wen, Wei Shuxuan, Yang Yuzhi, and Mei Ruheng all brought silver, totaling 10,000 taels, 2,000 taels more than scheduled.

Among them, the eldest grandson Wen has 3,000 taels, Wei Shuxuan and Yang Yuzhi have 2,000 taels each, and Mei Ruheng has 4,000 taels.

It was all white and silver, packed in wooden boxes, one thousand taels per box, a full ten boxes, and when I opened it, I saw that the shining silver ingots inside were neatly arranged. It took a total of more than 20 people to carry it to the door of Xia Shang's house.

With so much silver in front of them, no one could help but be a little nervous.

There was no hidden place in his yard to hide the silver, and in a hurry he could not make a cellar out, so he had to pile it up in the house and lock it with two locks. Even so, it's not particularly reassuring.

The partner's silver has been given, and Xia Shang gave them no one a note, which means "contract", which is to prove how much silver taels they have invested in each of them, how much return they should get in proportion to the future share, etc., and finally negotiate the name, press a handprint, and everything is in order. However, Xia Shang's calligraphy once again became the laughing stock of everyone, making Li Luo blush.

Writing is indeed a problem, Xia Shang feels that there will be more and more opportunities to write in the future, and he has time to get a suitable charcoal pen.

It's a small matter to get charcoal, but now that you have money, if you expand it, it's a big thing. And several sons and brothers are still watching, and after receiving other people's money, they have to make some fame first, otherwise it will not be good for others to think that they are cheating money.

With 10,000 taels as the backing, Xia Shang became confident. I've been thinking about a delicious branch for a long time. Talk to a few sons, don't panic.

In the small courtyard, next to the small stone table where several famous gentlemen in the capital were located, Xia Shang said solemnly: "Now I have 10,000 taels of start-up capital." Let's think about how it works. First of all, according to my plan, we are going to open a branch in the capital. The first question is, how many of these 10,000 taels of silver are enough for us to open? ”

If you want to ask these boys, 10,000 taels of silver is enough to buy a few girls, and they can answer easily and comfortably. But it's hard to say how many stores you can open.

Several people looked at each other, and Mei Ruheng said tentatively: "Open two?" ”

"More than that, right?" Yang Yuzhi pinched his chin and thought seriously, "I think we have to open at least ten." ”

"I was foolish, Brother Xia is doing this, listen to what he says."

"This ten thousand taels of silver cannot be used up at once, and the remaining part must be obtained. For the first investment, we will take out 5,000 taels to open the store, and the remaining 5,000 taels will be used for turnover and the wages of the guys in the store. You don't know how much it costs to open a store, but you can measure it by the store I own now. It's all my own family, so I won't hide it, and it cost me a total of nearly two thousand taels of silver to operate this store. ”

"Two thousand taels?"

Everyone thought about it in a good way, and they didn't feel that there was anything wrong with the price.

"It cost two thousand taels for such a place? It seems that this store is really not simple, and if you change to Suzaku Street, you won't open a store? ”

Xia Shang explained: "It's not as grim as I imagined, because this shop was bought on the same land and renovated again." And our branch can be rented, just pay the rent every month. This can be a big savings. ”

"Rent?" Several sons waved their hands one after another. Mei Ruheng said again: "This is not appropriate. The rent seems to be small, but we have to pay every month, if we buy the house, not only do we not have to pay rent, but we can sell the house in the future! It's better to buy land. ”

It is worthy of being in business for generations, and this can be imagined, Xia Shang has a little admiration.

However, the reality is not so abundant that it is impossible to spend all the money on buying a house. As a result, Xia Shang completely muttered about the brains of a few gentlemen, and as soon as he said that the house was not easy to buy, he began to think about how his family could have idle real estate in Chang'an, or that the houses of relatives and friends were okay, and it was not impossible to dredge up the relationship and buy it cheaper.

A few masters just did what they said, and only asked Xia Shang which area of the house he wanted, and then went to the neighborhood to search for it.

Xia Shang didn't know if the houses in all parts of Chang'an were okay. But he has one of the best places in mind, and that is the house near the West Gate of the Palace, Shunyi Gate, near the West Market. First of all, the West Market is a very lively market in Chang'an, and more importantly, Yu Linwei, who guards the city at Shunyi Gate, is influenced by General Wu Neng and likes to eat delicious and decent fast food. There have been soldiers from the palace to buy food before, and the amount is getting bigger and bigger, and recently a franchisee has been lined up to set up a stall nearby, but the supply exceeds the demand.

Yu Linwei in Shunyi Gate is a big demand collective, and if you come to patronize it every day, not to mention how much you make, at least you won't make the nearby shops lose money.

So Xia Shang said the first place he wanted to open a store - West Market.

The West Market is a crowded bazaar, selling everything, and the houses are generally small. This is a problem for the boys, because the people they know live in big houses, and there are no acquaintances in places with many small houses.

But it doesn't matter, let's go to the West Market first.

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It took half an hour to get from the delicious and good way to Chang'an West City, and after that, it has passed the most dense flow of people in the West Market, the vegetable market has stopped, only some listed stores are still open, and there are a lot of pedestrians, but the streets are typical dirty and messy, and there is no unified management that leads to garbage everywhere, and there are many wild cats and wild dogs.

The West Market is similar to a modern pedestrian street, and there are stalls everywhere, so even if there are no vendors, you can still imagine the crowd of people.

It is obviously impossible to use such an environment to open a store.

However, it is a different scenery outside the West Market, and it is good to place the store outside the West Market.

In fact, the outside of the West Market is indeed favored by people, and the listed ones are some well-known businesses.

For example, Saijia Buzhuang.