Rebels who steal things are common, but rebels who do business are really rare. [No pop-ups]

The business of bandits and bandits is called "buying and selling without capital", but it is not called in vain. They sacrificed their lives to rebel, with the aim of making a business without capital. High-risk "undertakings" can bring extraordinary "dividends" to the rebels. If it is for the normal business of "seeking profit", who will rebel.

From this point of view, the Baath Party first broke through the county seat, captured the officials in the county government, and then arrested the richest and most powerful old men in the city. This is outright rebellion.

However, after the Baath Party occupied the city, it did not conscript troops and food, nor plundered and lascivious pleasures, but instead did something to severely crack down on all kinds of criminals after being stationed in the county office, and either hanged or shot those scoundrels and gangsters on the streets of Qixia County.

These things should have been done by the yamen, but these "thieves" of the Baath Party did what they did. Now the people of the Baath Party are doing business more directly in Qixia County. This made Zhou Litao, a medium-sized cloth merchant in Qixia County, unable to understand how he thought about it.

"I couldn't help but go in and out, I was exempted from the gate tax, and the streets were cleared. This Baath Party is not a bit like a thief, but like it wants to sit in the world. Looking at it this way, the Ba'ath Party's statement that it occupies both Dengzhou and Laizhou is somewhat credible. Shopkeeper Wang, do you see that there are many people buying things in that shop of the Ba'ath Party? ”

Zhou Litao is a person who pays attention to business. The Baath Party exempted the city gate tax and opened up the traffic, making it clear that the Baath Party people were preparing to stay in Qixia County. For national affairs, a medium-sized businessman like Zhou Litao is not concerned. On the contrary, the Baath Party's business and their own business have competed, and Zhou Litao can't help but pay attention to this matter.

"It's strange to say. This Baath Party's business is not the same as ours. Ordinary people can't buy things in Ba'ath shops. They did not accept ordinary copper coins or silver in their shops. If you want to buy something at the supply and marketing cooperative, you can exchange the silver and copper coins for the Baath Party in the bank where you get it. Yesterday I sent my second son to take a tael of silver to the bank of the Ba'ath Party and try it out. Sure enough, one tael of silver was exchanged for a Baath dollar. That's it, shopkeeper, take a look. ”

As he spoke, Wang Fusheng handed Zhou Litao a silver dollar issued by the Baath Party.

Checking the silver dollar in hand, Zhou Litao said to Wang Fusheng very firmly:

"This silver dollar certainly doesn't weigh one or two, and at most it's about seven dollars. Judging by the color, even in these seven coins, it is not necessarily all silver. ”

has been in business for half a lifetime, and both Zhou Litao and Wang Fusheng are masters of identifying the fineness of silver. Although the Baathistists were beautifully crafted, they were more concerned with the purity and weight of silver than its finesse in the days when silver was the currency in circulation.

After listening to Zhou Litao's words, Wang Fusheng nodded and said:

"The owner is right, I used a silver scale to measure it, and this silver dollar is just seven dollars and two cents."

Zhou Litao fiddled with the silver dollar back and forth in his hand, frowned and said to Wang Fusheng:

"That's weird to say. You said that the people of the Baath Party obviously occupied Qixia County, they really directly robbed our silver, do we dare not give it? They don't rob or rob it, but they play such clever tricks on silver. Could it be that the leader of the Ba'ath Party is a businessman? ”

Wang Fusheng is also quite strange about this, but he has already seen even stranger things. He said to Zhou Litao:

"It makes sense for the owner to think so. But I went out and inquired with people myself, and in the Ba'ath shop, I could really buy something for one or two silver dollars with this silver dollar. The cloth merchant in Liujiahe Town, the master knows. He used that dollar to buy thirty pieces of cloth from the Baath shop. That old thing is a thief. When I invited him to tea, he told me that the Baath Party's cloth was of quite good quality and quantity, and that buying Ba'ath Party cloth with Ba'ath Party money would be forty or fifty copper coins cheaper than buying cloth with silver from other shops. ”

"What? In this way, isn't the cloth that the old guy got from the Baath Party more than twenty copper coins cheaper than the goods we bought from Dengzhou?"

The so-called true character of a businessman, as soon as he heard that someone took advantage of it and made money, Zhou Litao immediately became calm. He no longer wondered if the Baath Party was playing some clever tricks and doing some shady tricks. He immediately said to Wang Fusheng:

"The Baath Party's cloth is sold so cheaply, how is the shop dealing? Do people go to their banks to exchange money and buy things? ”

Wang Fusheng shook his head and replied to Zhou Litao:

"The old man thinks too much. Businessmen like us are afraid that the Baath Party is a bandit, and ordinary people are even more afraid of the Baath Party. The owner didn't see it a few days ago. Good guys, in the entire Qixia County, all the gangsters who had a little reputation were beaten to death by the soldiers of the Baath Party with firearms. More than 100 people, even if it was a petty theft, they were directly beaten to death. The corpse was placed in the area at the entrance of Dongjie for a whole day. It is only in the past few days that people dare to go out on the streets. Two days ago, if it weren't for the fact that there was really no food at home, no one dared to show up on the street. ”

"So, isn't there a single person who goes to the Ba'ath Party shop to buy anything? Except for the old guy from Liu Jiahe, no one will go to the shop of the Baxing Party? ”

Wang Fusheng shook his head again when he heard this. He said:

"Not really. There are quite a few people who go to the Ba'ath Party shop to buy things, but those people are all Liba from the county. The Baath Party spent money to hire a lot of people in our county to build roads. Wages are paid on a daily basis. It is the steel plates of the Baath Party that are distributed every day. The gang took the wages and immediately went to the Baath Party's shop to buy food and things. But other people, who don't work for the Ba'ath Party, usually come to old shops like ours to buy things. ”

Zhou Libo listened to Wang Fusheng's words and was silent for a while. In the end, he gritted his teeth and said to Wang Fusheng:

"I don't care if the Baath people are bored or not. Anyway, we exchanged silver for Baath Party silver dollars, and we didn't lose money when we bought things. Let's take a risk this time. This time, the goods will not be delivered from Dengzhou. It's not clear what is going on over there. Let's exchange all the money for this time into Baath Party silver dollars, and take the goods directly from the Baath Party's shop. ”

Touching the beard on his chin, Zhou Litao said to Wang Fusheng with some concern:

"I see, if this Baath Party can stay in our county forever, it will be difficult for us to do this business. If you think about it, the Ba'ath Party's things were cheaper, but if the whole city went to the Ba'ath Party to buy things, what would we do with it? This time, I personally went out to talk to the owner of the Ba'ath Party shop to see if the bulk purchase could be cheaper. ”

Wang Fusheng has thought about this question for a long time. As soon as he heard about the price of Baath Goods, his first thought was to order more goods from Baath Party. But on the one hand, he was a little scared of the Baath Party, and on the other hand, he couldn't do anything in the store. That's why he waited for Zhou Litao to come before discussing with him.

Of course, Wang Fusheng and Zhou Litao did not know that the Baath Party's goods themselves were much cheaper because they were industrialized and mass-produced products. It may seem that Baath's goods are cheap, but in reality, because the cost is very low, the Baath Party can make a lot of money even if it sells its goods at half the market price.

More importantly, the Renaissance Bank, which was established with the advent of various products of the Ba'ath Army and the Ba'ath Party, was able to earn a large amount of interest in the exchange of copper and silver in the process of this commodity trade. Once the Ba'ath Party's currency is popularized in the region, the economy of the entire region will be controlled by the Ba'ath Party