[65] Business is booming

"Tomorrow I will go to Daming Lake to play, and I will bring the umbrella given by Brother Yao." Li Jingxuan said happily.

"Umbrellas? It seems that autumn is about to begin, but now there is little rain in the north, what is the use of bringing an umbrella? Ding Ti often asked puzzled.

So Li Jingxuan praised the umbrellas sent by Yao Fan, and Ding Tichang listened to them, and hurriedly asked someone to take out the umbrellas sent by Yao Fan. Li Jingshu proudly stepped forward and opened these folding umbrellas one by one.

"It turns out that this umbrella has a mechanism inside, which can be folded and retracted! Wonderful! Wonderful! This umbrella is really beautiful, too! The color is very good! Brother Yao, these umbrellas made by your family are really interesting! I was thinking I'd ask you what these are at night, but it's an umbrella! "Ding Ti often admires.

Li Jingxuan said: "With this thing shading, one person will be one tomorrow, and you will not be afraid of the sun when you swim up the lake." ”

"This umbrella has a silvery-white reflective coating on it, which really protects against UV rays." Yao Fandao.

"What is ultraviolet light?" Ding Ti often asked.

"The white light in our eyes is actually a mixture of red, orange, red, green, blue, and purple colors, which can only be seen clearly after being decomposed with a prism. The purple light in this is ultraviolet light, which can tan people's skin, so using an umbrella to shade the sun, in the final analysis, is to block this purple light, and not teach it to tan the skin. Yao Fan explained briefly.

When Li Jingxuan heard this, he thought to himself, "I must bring this precious silver umbrella with me in the future!" ”

"I see! Brother Yao is really talented! So proficient in foreign studies! Li Jingfang also heard this truth for the first time, because from Yao Fan's mouth, he didn't doubt it.

"The next time I bring a book about optics, everyone will know that this is not a profound knowledge, and even children in Western elementary schools understand this truth." Yao Fan knew that at this time, there were still 23 years before the translation of the book "Optics" by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau Translation Hall in 1898, and before that, the Qing Dynasty people had no concept of optics.

Then the crowd drank again, and when they were full of wine and food, they dispersed.

It is said that after Ding Baozhen left the table that night, the more he thought about it in the back house, the more he felt that Yao Fan's usefulness would be very great in the future, so he made up his mind to protect this "golden boy" in his eyes.

Early the next morning, Ding Baozhen drove to the Yamen of the Political Envoy and met with the political envoy and the envoy Hu Zhen, who was also the political envoy of the Ministry of Finance and Taiwan. Although Hu Zhen is a member of the two stations, in terms of rank, he is Ding Baozhen's deputy, seeing that Ding Baozhen actually deigned to come to him in person, he naturally did not dare to slack off, and was busy welcoming him out.

When Ding Baozhen said what he meant by his decision to fully protect Yao Fan, Hu Zhen naturally didn't dare to say anything.

Ding Baozhen, the governor of Shandong and the governor of Shandong, is equivalent to the modern governor and commander of the provincial military district, and also has the highest decision-making power over the judicial, administrative, and organizational departments in the province! For Ding Baozhen, Fan Tai is just an administrative and judicial deputy, although the two can usually do their own administrative and judicial affairs, but everything cannot bypass the governor's yamen, Ding Baozhen has the final decision on the affairs of the province.

To put it bluntly, Ding Baozhen, the governor and admiral, is in Shandong, and he is almost inseparable from the emperor. Of course, Lao Ding is not a domineering person, otherwise he only needs to find someone to notify the earthquake, and he doesn't have to run by himself at all.

Hu Zhen felt that Ding Baozhen came here on purpose to have a deep meaning, and listened to Ding Baozhen say that this matter was Guo Jixiu to embarrass Yao Fan, so after sending Ding Baozhen away, he immediately scolded Guo Weizhong for making trouble for himself, and specially repaired a letter to his subordinates in the Daotai Yamen of Denglai Qingdao, asking them to inform the following, in the future, if they encounter Yao Fan and the Guo family's filthiness, remember that Yao Fan is protected by Ding Baozhen, and no one should make trouble for Lao Tzu.

Yao Fan is also well-behaved, he knows that Ding Baozhen is an outlier in the officialdom of the late Qing Dynasty, although he also receives gifts, but he also spends a lot, often takes money out to do charity, and still owes more than 20,000 taels of silver until his death. However, Yao Fan knew that Lao Ding's sons were all separated, and each room was counted as the account of each room. Therefore, Lao Ding's death as a Qing official and his debts do not mean that the houses of his five sons are so poor.

So the next day to visit Daming Lake, Yao Fan brought 100,000 taels of silver tickets, and found an opportunity to secretly stuff it to Ding Tichang, which was called the cost of helping Ding Baozhen write the signboard, eight words and one word 10,000, and help come up with the name of the word Yuchun, which is also a word 10,000.

Of course, Ding Tichang knew that his Lao Tzu's words were indeed worth so much money, which was tantamount to giving Yao Fan the opportunity to pull the tiger skin to make a banner, and others couldn't ask for it. However, Ding Tichang also knows that this matter must not be told to his pedantic Lao Tzu, otherwise it is very easy to draw water with a bamboo basket.

Yao Fan also instructed him: "Brother Ding, don't tell the old man, otherwise he will return the silver, and my face will not be able to rest." Besides, Brother Ding, you are going to Shanxi to be the alternate prefect next year, what kind of follow-up and scrivener along the way don't cost money? When you get to the place, you have to socialize, and you have to spend money like flowing water everywhere. And I will also go to Shanxi to open a branch in the future, and I will have to take care of me more by Brother Ding when the time comes. ”

Ding Ti often listened to what Yao Fan said, so he put the silver ticket that had been stuffed into his sleeve pocket and held it more firmly through his sleeve.

"Brother Yao, the jade Buddha, jade Ruyi, and all kinds of jade pendants you sent yesterday have been quite expensive, and this is another two of your silver, brother, I am really a little embarrassed." Ding Tichang's face was slightly red.

Yao Fan thought to himself that Ding Tichang, this chick had not yet been an official of the Qing Dynasty, and there was an alternative Lao Tzu, and his conscience was not black. However, the jade I sent are all 2o11 imitation jade materials, that is, imitation jade resin known as amber polyurethane, which are all chemically synthesized things, and you can buy a big jade jade cabbage for a thousand yuan, fortunately, no one can understand it in this year, Yao Fanda can be said to be Western jade, otherwise the Ding family will really scold the mother.

Therefore, Yao Fan was blushed by what Ding Ti often said, and said: "Small meaning, small meaning." ”

After Yao Fan accompanied him to the lake for a day, he returned to the store in the evening, and got a message sent by Ding Tichang's enthusiastic family, telling Yao Fan that he had gone to Huzhen to help him say hello, and said that he himself had personally written to Laizhou Futai, asking to take care of his friend Yao Fan, so he asked him to put one hundred and twenty hearts, not to be afraid of a small landlord like the Guo family. Between the words, it was full of love for Yao Fan and conceit of his own strength.

Yao Fan was overjoyed, and immediately prepared 10,000 taels of silver tickets that night, and secretly sent them to the Yamen of the political envoy early the next morning, so Hu Zhen was also quite satisfied with Yao Fan, and felt that this person had eyes.

In fact, Yao Fan was just afraid that Ding Baozhen would go to tea next year, so he planned for the future in advance.

Because these days, the people of the Li family of the Ding family wear folding umbrellas to shade the sun, in and out of Jinan Mansion, which has caused a sensation, Yao Fan brought the paradise umbrella of Jinan Mansion to sell well at once, and the local urban landlords, wealthy businessmen, and gentry compete to buy it, and the fame of this paradise umbrella has spread all over Jinan at once. It's just that ordinary people call this umbrella an umbrella, apparently thinking that it is a foreign product.

Seeing that the sixty boxes of 3,000 Heavenly Umbrellas that Yao Fan brought to Jinan Mansion sold more than 2,000 in five days! Even the soap in the store was sold out.

Early this morning, the door of the Zaofan Firm was crowded with men and people watching the excitement.

After a thousand crackling firecrackers, Yao Fan smiled and said to the onlookers: "Thank you fathers and fellow villagers for your love, it will open in a while, and there will be 200 guests in the head, each of whom will give a gift worth one or two silver, and will never break his promise!" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone applauded loudly.

"I wish the Yao family a prosperous business!"

"Bodhisattva bless Yao Dongjia!"

Yao Fan said: "Today is the day of great joy for the Zaofan firm, and the name of Lord Ding is given, and the Zaofan firm is officially renamed Yuchun firm!" In the future, please patronize the old folks! ”

Then there was another round of applause.

So Yao Fan happily asked the guys to replace the newly engraved plaque. This new plaque is to find the best wood shop in Jinan City to make zuò, it cost Yao Fan one hundred and twenty taels of silver, with excellent materials, the production of zuò exquisite, the bronzing characters are crushed with gold leaf and mixed with tung oil brushed up, after drying, it was brushed three times transparent varnish, looking at the golden light, and the majestic atmosphere.

After seeing the plaque of Yuchun Merchant hanged, there was another cheer all around.

Next, people went in to buy goods and receive gifts in turn under the maintenance of order by the guys. Those gifts were all kinds of miscellaneous goods purchased by He Wanyou before, and now they were all packaged by Yao Fan and packaged as gifts as gifts. Yao Fan has already stipulated that in the future, Yuchun will only sell its own goods.

"The owner, there are so many rich people in this Jinan Mansion! Thirty taels of silver and an umbrella are also bought by many people! Zhou Si said to Yao Fan in the inner hall.

"The goods are good, and the Ding family is taking the lead in using them, so naturally some people will follow suit. Fourth, you must know that the people who can live in a big city like Jinan are not poor except for small craftsmen, small traders, etc. Yao Fanche said from the chair.

"What the owner said is that there are 120,000 households in Jinan Mansion and more than 5o people, so there is naturally no shortage of rich people. It's just that I think that the ordinary best oil-paper umbrellas are only sold for one or two silver, and the beautiful painted umbrellas made by the best painters are only sold for twelve or three taels. The owner's selection of goods is really good-eyed! Zhou Si took the opportunity to pat himself on the back.

"Is the oil paper of the oil paper umbrella as beautiful as my cloth? The bamboo umbrella bone of the oil-paper umbrella is so bulky, is it flexible with my light steel umbrella bone? Although the fan surface of the oil-paper umbrella is thick, can it protect against ultraviolet rays? The oil-paper umbrella is as clumsy as a big bamboo tube, can it be folded and tucked into the sleeve like me? I'm not afraid of not knowing the goods, I'm afraid of comparing goods, our folding umbrellas have so many benefits, and we are not blind, so we are naturally selling fire. Yao Fan said.

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