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Five-two-six-two Chen's business plan

Chen Tao and Chen Dalei both want to do business in the capital, but the two have different concepts of "doing business". To read the latest chapters, please lock in Aishang Novel Network biquge.info Chen Tao is a typical modern thought, always thinking of using their unique modern technical advantages and novel goods to open up a new market in Beijing. After some preliminary investigation, he has already decided what business to do - open an optical store! There are many civil officials in the capital, there are many scholars, and there are more myopia and presbyopia, so it will definitely be good to open an optical store.

In addition, a few days ago, Qian Qianyi discussed with them, hoping that the wireless telegraph technology of the Qiong Navy could be officially opened to the Ming Dynasty - at present, the telegraph network of the Qiong Navy has basically run through the north and south, although there is only one line by the sea, but it is connecting the most important eastern region of the Ming Empire. From Hainan to Beijing, the internal transmission of information from the short hair was delivered in a day, and what this communication speed means for a regime can be understood by any politician with a little knowledge.

With the in-depth understanding of shorthair by the officials of the Ming Empire, their magical technological advantages gradually changed from initial surprise and envy to recognition and acceptance. At the same time, of course, when conditions permit, it is inevitable to want to take advantage of it - some time ago, Luzon and other places were attacked, and Wang Pu's urgent documents sent to Beijing were sent with the help of Qiong's naval wireless telegraphy. This allowed Beijing to grasp first-hand information about Hainan Qiongzhou and even Luzon Prefecture.

But the Ming cabinet was not very interested in the news of Luzon, anyway, those places were all in charge of the short hair, and winning or losing had little to do with the imperial court. What they care about is the special significance of this telegram itself—even the news of the Qiongzhou capital can be delivered within a day, so the important places such as Liangguang, Fujian, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Jinling, the southern capital, which are closer to Qiongzhou, can not also be sent to the capital in the same time?

So someone in the court soon mentioned yì, asking Short Mao to dedicate the method of thousands of miles of communication to the imperial court. The people who mentioned yì apparently did not understand the actual relationship between the imperial court and the shorthairs, and regarded the Qiong navy as an object that could be taken and taken away. However, because of the entry of Qian Qianyi, the current Ming cabinet is more familiar and familiar with the "affair", of course, it is impossible to be so arrogant.

After discussing with several elders, it was decided that the elders of the Qian Pavilion would come forward and discuss with the shorthair side to see if they could borrow their technology. If the other party is willing to teach this technique to Da Ming, of course, it is the best. Even if it can't, at least allow local governments to use it first. They had also heard of the price of shorthair's message to outsiders - each word cost five cents of silver, which was a bit more expensive, but as long as it was fast and could transmit information from all over the world to the center in time, they didn't mind spending a little more.

After Chen Tao came into contact with Lao Qian, he quickly understood the other party's request - the Ming Dynasty wanted to open telegraph offices in various places. This request is not big, but it is not small -- for the places where their navy has already arrived, it is nothing more than to change the original telegraph system from dark to light, openly hang up the signboard of the telegraph office, and open it to the public.

It's just that for the location that Shorthair has not yet set foot in, the Ming Dynasty also wants to connect the information to Guò, and how to meet this requirement needs to be weighed by the Qiong Navy - either they will send someone to open a branch and solve all the troubles caused by themselves. Or simply train people for the Ming Dynasty – at the risk of technology proliferation. How to weigh these trade-offs will be judged by the Hainan Island Committee and even by convening a plenary meeting.

However, on Chen Tao's side, there is no objection to opening a telegraph office in Beijing, and there is no technical difficulty. It's going to be open to the public anyway. It's just to open an extra door next to the glasses shop he expected, and he can get the official support of the Ming Empire because of this, why not?

——Glasses shop, telegraph office, this is Chen Tao's business idea of opening a store in the capital, which is very "high-precision" technical flow style. However, in the eyes of old businessmen like Chen Dalei, although Chen Tao's idea cannot be said to be bad, it is too sunny and snowy, and it is still impossible to get rid of the scholarly ideas who are ignorant of the world.

- The telegraph and glass glasses are both very good things, the profits must be high, and the technology is only in the hands of you shorthairs, so you don't have to worry about competition. However, Chen Dalei is not good at technology at all, so he doesn't think it's special. In his opinion, although this kind of bells and whistles is good, it is too far away from the lives of ordinary people after all, and the court and rich and noble families use it as icing on the cake, and it is not bad to decorate the façade, who will spend this spare money on civilians who really live at home?

To do business, it is better to do those things that are related to the daily life of ordinary people. Shirt, food in the mouth...... These necessities related to food, clothing, housing and transportation are the objects favored by merchants. Of course, you can't "must" go too far - for example, grain and salt, since ancient times, grain and salt merchants never have to worry about losing money, and they can sell their stocks at any time. If it is a famine year or a famine season, such as the present, it can be said that it is more in control of the life and death of others, as far as Chen Dalei has seen in the past few days when he has visited and contacted the capital, the grain merchants are full of arrogance.

But can ordinary people who have no background and no power meddle in this kind of business? The first few large-scale grain merchants and salt merchants in the Beijing Division were either relatives of the emperor or eunuchs in the palace, and if others dared to enter rashly, it would probably take a few days to be buttoned up by a profiteer hat of "hoarding and juqi", and then the people were sent to prison, and the goods were confiscated......

So Chen Dalei thinks it's better to make some winter out-of-season vegetables, fresh southern fruits...... This sort of stuff is good. It is easy to create gimmicks, attract attention, and make friends with officials and nobles, but it is not an indispensable thing, and it is not easy to be suppressed by the government and the powerful. Even if there is really any trouble, at least with his current identity, he can hold it down.

——In the eyes of others, he can be regarded as a backstage outsider at the moment. I often walk together with Mr. Xiao Chen of Qiong Haijun every day, and even buy a house together, and the relationship must be very good. Maybe it's still some kind of relative—both of them have the surname Chen. And with Chen Tao's relationship, he can also say a few words with Qian Ge Lao, who is new to today's future, and he has received an imperial business license in the household department, and he can also rank among the names in the business community in the capital.

Only Chen Dalei himself knows that he doesn't have a close connection with Chen Tao or even the Qiong Navy behind him, it's just that everyone came here from the south and took care of each other. Chen Tao is not very good at dealing with outsiders, and he is lacking in interpersonal communication, so he will rely on them to deal with many things. If he had replaced those mature and quick-witted members of the Qiong Navy, his fox and tiger might not be used at all.

Of course, Chen Dalei also had the intention to further his relationship with Shorthair, so he did not prevent his daughter from showing up and contacting Chen Tao. It's a pity that both Chen Yueer and Chen Tao are too dull in this regard. Although the two usually have a lot of contact, and sometimes they play around together, they are just joking, and they don't seem to have any further meaning. Chen Dalei is also helpless about this, and he doesn't necessarily have to take the initiative to send his baby girl to others?

Think about their old rival in Luzon, the Lin family, Lin Chengcheng, who is much younger than Chen Yue'er, can seize the opportunity to settle a family affair after only meeting once, and directly recruited a short-haired son-in-law or a general in the opponent's army.

It is precisely because of these considerations that he decided to take the middle-level route, and Chen Dalei had a good conversation with the merchants in front of him. In his opinion, whether his family can gain a firm foothold in Beijing in the future and open up the situation, the relationship between the top will naturally be good, but these businesses in front of him are the foundation and must not be neglected.

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Chen Dalei and Chen Yue'er each took care of a yard of people, and Chen Tao, as the head of the household, was of course not idle. The guests he received were the most valuable in terms of identity, so precious that Chen Dalei, a businessman, was not qualified to come forward to receive them, so he had to be accompanied by Chen Tao, who had a great reputation.

This distinguished guest is none other than Xu Guangqi, a member of the current cabinet and a scholar of Dongge University with the title of Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites.

It stands to reason that with Xu Guangqi's status, it is impossible for this kind of folk invitation to invite him personally, and at most it is a big face to send Zhang He to post it - for example, Qian Qianyi, who also received the invitation, only let people send gifts and congratulatory stickers, and he never showed up. This is not arrogance, but the rules at that time were like this - even if Qian Qianyi was asking Chen Tao right now, he couldn't rashly go to Chen Tao's house to eat.

And because Xu Guangqi is not in good health, he rarely socializes on weekdays, and even rarely responds to invitations from relatives and friends. But this time, he was dressed in green clothes, wearing a small hat, and a cross on his chest, and only brought an old servant to come over, which scared Chen Tao and them a lot, and hurriedly invited them into the main hall to sit.

During the conversation, Mr. Xu himself was very polite, saying that he only came to congratulate him as a Jesuit. However, after two or three sentences, his old man revealed his intention - he pulled Chen Tao to constantly ask about astronomy, which made Chen Tao's head tremble.

Speaking of which, Chen Tao was able to get a job in Qintianjian thanks to Xu Guangqi's recommendation, and the reason why Xu Guangqi came forward to recommend him to do this was because Chen Tao accompanied Chen Yue'er to the Catholic Church to pray, and met the German John Tong, and the two inadvertently talked about astronomy. Chen Tao pointed out that the geocentric theory currently preached by the Jesuits is completely wrong, and even the most fashionable Copernican heliocentric theory is incorrect. This aroused Tang Ruowang's interest and spread to Xu Guangqi's ears...... RO！ ~！

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