Chapter 10: The Bird Flies (Part II)
Across the street, it looks like the eyes have become smaller.
When I came to the front of me, I realized that the scale of the store is not small, up to 10 meters wide and about 20 meters long, and the shelves are full of cloth from all over the country.
Only the cloth has Luo, silk, cotton, yarn, silk, silk, silk, miscellaneous folds, silk thread, brocade, Ge cloth, hemp, hemp, and a kind of yellow grass that is a special product of Wuxing area, the color is white and fine, almost Luo Luo, and even a few horses from Fuzhou specialty, mixed with the banana fiber red banana flower cloth with red banana flowers, but the output is small, and as a tribute, the price is very expensive. Unless you are rich, you can't afford it. The other is cotton, which comes from Lingnan, and there are very few pure cotton cloths, and many raw silk are mixed and weaved, called Li Mu.
The variety is very complete.
The shopkeeper Liu in the store saw that the little master was coming, and hurriedly greeted him, saying, "Da Lang, why do you have time to come today?" ”
Laughing at Mimi's attitude, I can't see his thoughts.
flipped through his memory, he had a good relationship with Zheng Lang before, and secretly transferred money for Zheng Lang three times for Zheng Lang.
"Uncle Liu, I'll come and take a look."
"Okay, but the New Year is approaching, and I'm busy, so I don't have much time to accompany me."
"Well, on the contrary, today I'm afraid you'll have to take a little time out to spend with me no matter what."
"This kid is talking childishly." Shopkeeper Liu said to Song Bo amiably.
"Wrong, I'm not talking childishly, I am the only man in the Zheng family, although I am younger, I have the most right to speak." Zheng Lang's attitude is cuter than him, and he also laughs at Mimi, but his tone is very sharp.
"Yes." Shopkeeper Liu is helpless, the little master wants to spread the master's prestige, what should I do?
"Come to the inner room." With that, Zheng Lang stepped into the inner room, but let Song Bo and Si'er stay outside.
Shopkeeper Liu spread his hands at Uncle Song and walked in helplessly.
Sitting down with each other, Zheng Lang asked, "Is my family one of the leaders?" ”
This head of the line does not refer to the outstanding among the women, but to the outstanding economic ability of all walks of life, which form various regiments. After obtaining all kinds of goods, several major leaders entertained guests, suppressed the purchase price, and then sat down to negotiate the selling price, and obtained the monopoly of the market price, so as to prevent evil surname competition and make profits with high profits. In this process, the head of the line took a big advantage, and the small and medium-sized stores suffered a lot. But what is beneficial to them is that this policy has effectively squeezed out the strong entry of foreign merchants. At the same time, the government was dealt with in Koso, and the tax service of the government was levied from the merchants through the regimental line. The workshops and shops united, and they also had the strength to resist, expressing their wishes and ideas to the government, and not letting the government come to China. However, later, under the strong and harsh pressure of the government, the powerful leaders had no choice but to share the harsh taxes to the poor households, resulting in many unjust things.
Shouting a loss, how can there be a reason for a loss. So there is this question.
"It's not." Shopkeeper Liu didn't care about it, he was small, and he was a gentleman, what were you afraid of?
In the Zhengzhou Silk Silk Group, the Zheng family is not the biggest leader, but Xingyang is the nest of the Zheng family, and the Zheng family itself is just a habitual baby of Zheng Lang, but the uncle and cousin, the ancestor, I don't know how many there are in Xingyang. Zheng's father has only been dead for two or three years, and he still has some connections. Although it is not one of the biggest leaders, not many people dare to slack off.
"How many cloth shops have been added to the city?"
"There are more than a dozen, right?"
"Has the imperial court increased taxes?"
"Nope."
"Then why the loss?"
"It's my fault, I bought the wrong goods again and again, resulting in a backlog, and I had to sell at a low price, look at next year, I'll be careful next year, so as not to disappoint a few aunts and Xiaolang."
I'll have to wait until next year, and I'm afraid that this store will have to be sold next year.
Zheng Lang said earnestly: "Uncle Liu, you are the elder of my family, when my father was not an official, this shop was handed over to you to take charge, no matter what happened in the past, fill in the gap this year." Save everyone from being embarrassed by then. ”
"Da Lang, why do you say this?"
"Uncle Song, Si'er, come in."
Song Bo and Si'er walked in and said, "Si'er, take out that bead plate." ”
"Huh," Si'er untied his baggage and took out an abacus and put it on the table.
"Shopkeeper Liu, don't mind if I look at the account books of the past four years."
"Don't mind, look." Shopkeeper Liu still said with a smile, and shouted loudly outside: "The young master is going to check the account book, and move the account book of the past four years in." ”
"Oh," the bookkeeper and the two men grinned as they moved the books.
Even a few guests who were picking up the goods stopped and stretched out their heads to look inside. The good son of the Zheng family, who has courage, is ten years old and uses a knife. Curious!
Hearing the discussion and laughter outside, Zheng Lang looked very calm. I have to get through the current crisis, and the family's job is over.
The four-year account books are all there, not only the four years of account books, but also the first five years and the first six years, which can only be written off one by one after the approval of the master's family, leaving the stubs of the general ledger. A few years ago, Zheng's father was in office, but later died of illness, and no one has been able to take stock of the accounts, dragging it down.
But even the account books of four years are thick, and there are more than 100 books.
The general ledger was opened, and in the second year of the Heavenly Sage, the total profit was 1,812 taels and 16 coins, 74 taels and 3 coins of gold, and 172 taels and 6 coins of silver. In the third year of Tiansheng, that is, the year of his father's death, he made a profit of 1,161 taels and 492 yuan, 62 taels and 9 coins of gold, and 293 taels and 7 coins of silver. has declined partially, and the decline is not large, and this income is enough to make the Zheng family worry about food and clothing.
By the time of last year, it had begun to decline dramatically, becoming 967 taels and 362 coins, 53 taels of gold and 6 coins, and 169 taels of silver. It is this income that can still make the family worry about food and clothing!
This year's income was gloomy, with a loss of 790 taels and 763 cents, and a gain of 37 taels and 6 cents in gold, and 59 taels and 3 cents in silver. Overall it's still a loss!
Of course, there is still a huge amount of principal in the store, with a total of more than 2,000 yuan in working capital, as well as related goods, and more than 5,000 yuan at a discount. Otherwise, a few mothers may not even have the heart to continue chanting mantras.
"Da Lang, there are still a few accounts that have not been recorded, last year you paid 300 yuan as a degree, and this year you have paid two more payments for a total of 500 yuan, and you have done it."
"This is my shop, I pay for some expenses, can't I?"
"Yes, yes," shopkeeper Liu and the fat-headed and big-eared bookkeeper nodded and said.
"Uncle Liu, you go outside and get some paper for me, and pen and ink come in."
"Whoa."
Song Bo asked in a low voice, "Da Lang, are you really checking?" ”
For this account, non-professionals simply do not understand. After learning about it yesterday, he also offered a plan to the eldest master's mother, warning him, otherwise he would ask the government to come and check the accounts. The Great Mistress immediately vetoed. Since they want to be greedy for ink, the accounts must be very tight, and besides, the group of people in the government have a long hand and can't find out, but they may waste more money in lawsuits. The son has become a laughing stock, and if it spreads out, he will not have the face to meet people in the future.
I must take care of it, there are still people in the mother's family, several cousins of the Zheng family, some of whom have very good family backgrounds, and I also invited Mr. Bookkeeper. However, it may not be effective, since they dare to be greedy for ink, this account is not so easy to find.
"Well, I'm here to check the accounts, why don't you check it?"
"But ......"
"No need, Uncle Song, go outside and buy a few meals for me, this account can't be checked in a day or two."
"Yes......" Looking at these account books, I can't check them in a day or two, ten days or eight days. However, he saw that his little master actually did it.
The simplest accounting affairs are still understood, which are nothing more than the incoming and outgoing accounts, the incoming accounts are the sales volume, the outgoing accounts are the accounts of the purchases, the accounts of the government levying taxes, and the salaries of the workers in the store. The houses were all bought by themselves, and the simple rent expenses were gone.
If you want to stretch out your hand, it is impossible to do it at the selling price and the buying price, in that case, there are more than a dozen guys in the store, as well as a dozen weaver girls, and some other employees, a total of more than 30 people, and they can't hide it if they want to. The only thing is to do it in the books, but the accounts will be done very secretly.
I don't have the ability to use calculations, but as a person who has traveled through the future and is highly educated, it is not too easy to check the current accounts.
After sorting it out, the ridicule outside became louder, to the point of unscrupulousness.
ps: Coso is a disguised tax on households and merchants, forcibly buying goods from merchants at a parity price, and even making white slips.
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