Qi Jingtong said: "According to what you say, the income of fishermen is several times higher than in the past, so haven't fishermen become rich?" ”

"It's not enough for them to be rich," Lu Bing said: "When they are rich, they will drive consumption in the market, and business will get better and better, and everyone will be rich, which is called making some people rich first and driving others to do so." When the fishermen have money, they want to do a bigger business, because they have a high income, they have a certain ability to repay, and they have a foundation in their hearts, and they dare to borrow, so that I can lend them money to eat interest. Although it is not a money to put in print, but there are many people who can't stand the borrowing, and the profits are getting bigger and bigger, and the small profits are the same as the quick turnover. I think that next year, the appropriate increase in land rent, so that I can earn more. In addition, I have other industries in the city, and because of the gradual prosperity of the overall economy, I advocate starting in all directions, not being afraid of money. By the way, there's another guy who's going crazy, guess who? ”

Qi Jingtong said: "I can't guess this, you can talk about it quickly." ”

"It's Sun Xiao." Lu Bing replied.

Qi Jingtong was stunned for a moment and then asked, "You said that Sun Xiao, the prefect of Dengzhou Mansion?" ”

"Who else could there be, naturally it was him. Don't you know, this year's Dengzhou capital's taxes are extremely high. According to the law of Daming, we collect taxes twice a year, and the fishery has not yet opened in the last half year, and the business drive is not obvious. This half a year is different, as I said, the tax, Sun Xiao can not only be greedy a lot, but also get a reward for reporting to the imperial court, which is a great political achievement. We did not raise taxes because the people became rich, and we still continued to pay taxes at one out of thirty. But even so, the tax revenue of our Dengzhou Mansion in half a year can be the tax revenue of the entire Shandong Province for a year. You talk about it. Waiting for Sun Xiao, where is it not only to make a fortune, but also to be promoted. Lu Bing explained.

"It seems that you have a good relationship with Sun Xiao, I heard that this person has harmed the people a lot during my absence." Qi Jingtong said with a little unhappiness that his relationship with Lu Bing was a lifelong friendship, so he never hid his words. Qi Jingtong is upright, but it doesn't mean that he can't be an official, and such dissatisfaction and complaints can only be expressed so frankly and easily by Lu Bing.

Lu Bing replied: "It's just using each other." It's much better now, except for his righteous son Sun Rong, no one has harmed the people anymore, and even Sun Rong has restrained a lot. Now the people are so rich. Not to mention Sun Xiao's group of moths, they are even more fat, how can they have the leisure to squeeze money from the people if they can't finish eating. Of course, people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants, and he also had this thought, but I told him some reasoning, saying that water can carry boats and can overturn boats, and if the people are annoyed and no one can work, his financial route will be broken. He'll listen to me. Because most of his money is bribed by me, although I hate this kind of bribery most in my life. But I think it's worth it to be able to make myself rich and let the people live a good life in such a peaceful way. ”

Qi Jingtong nodded: "That's the same, but then again, if Sun Xiao is promoted and a new prefect comes, what if he doesn't recognize you, start over, what if people don't cooperate and block you again?" So how do you deal with the fact that you just had a good time going to waste? I think it's not a good thing to make Sun Xiao's promotion to an official and make a fortune. ”

"Brother Shixian, do you think that the officials in the world are like our brothers, they don't have to worry about anything, and the idle eggs hurt. Nine out of ten officials are dirty, and there are few who don't want to make money when they enter the officialdom, if they are really a clean official, they will support me, if they are a corrupt official, it is easy to do, I will give money as usual, the taxes are high, the political performance is high, the fame is also profitable, and there is money to earn and be promoted, how can they bear to offend me. Three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver, that's all. I'm afraid that in the future, our Dengzhou Mansion will become a good place, and the officials will definitely break their heads in order to be transferred here. Lu Bing said.

"That's really possible," Qi Jingtong said with a smile: "What are you doing on that beach over there?" ”

Lu Bing looked at it and said, "Over there, I got some starfish, pebbles, small corals and shells to make all kinds of jewelry and gifts." We don't have a fine beach here, and many of the stones are still very beautiful, so you can use them. If you look further west, there is kelp and sea vegetables, and if you get it, you can transport it inland in batches, and the price can be copied to seven or eight times. ”

Lu Bing said: "In addition, you can also weigh all kinds of seafood snacks, then the price is higher, although the price is very civilian, but after all, the amount is large, or that sentence is small profits and quick turnover, I expect that after our batch of goods is made, not only in Shandong Zhudi sales, the capital will also have to take a walk, then it will cause another round of crazy robbery." Anyway, in Jinan and other places, not only the people like it, but also the children of everyone. At first, as long as we do the effect and reputation, there will be smart businessmen to resell in the later stage, which saves us things, businessmen are profitable, and after they speculate the price, I will definitely use my eyeliner to know the way, and then we will send another batch of goods, sell at a lower price, not only can make money, but also maintain the market, crack down on profiteers and shape the brand image. After slowly getting bigger, we will set up general agents around the country, which are more mature modern marketing models, agent direct sales and distribution can be, this is negotiable. ”

"Wenfu, don't be an official, being an official is too aggrieved, you are a profiteer's material, I think you will have to compete with the Shen family one day sooner or later." Qi Jingtong laughed.

"Don't provoke me, it's hard to say." Lu Bing waved his fist in the air and said: "I have more profiteers to do, no, no, this can't be called profiteers, this should be called innovative businessmen, it seems that capitalism is about to start sprouting from me." You see, further west, there are two processing workshops, which specialize in making corals and other things, and sell them to corrupt officials in various places. Corrupt officials love to play coral, I frantically speculate and sell coral from all over the country, and constantly falsely raise prices, resulting in a situation where there is no market for price, and ordinary people will not buy such high-priced corals, so they are harmless to the people. If you say that they take this money from the people, I will say that even if they don't have it, they will still be greedy, and it is better to earn the money. Pit them for a pen. Nine times out of ten, rich people are not good people, good people can't make a fortune if they don't put their minds to it, and those who are really good people are less than playing with these things. Either eating fasting and reciting Buddha enlightenment are all things outside the body, or they are focusing on other things. The rest of the people who play with these corals and other things are all greedy and perverted the law, and making their money can be regarded as taking ill-gotten gains, right? ”

"I found that there is nothing from you that I can't find a reason." Qi Jingtong said: "Brother Xia, why don't you speak? ”

"I was hungry, I didn't have the strength to speak, and I didn't eat much at noon. I just bit my tongue out. I'm bleeding a lot right now. Xia Dade said with a sad face.

"Second brother, you haven't eaten much, you use a basin for dinner. At noon, I ate three pots of rice alone, and didn't you eat all the dishes on that table? Lu Bing shook his head helplessly: "Okay, then let's do this first, and then we will go to the market and set up a table for the second brother." I'll eat with you. Let Brother Shixian go around by himself, I won't just explain it to you, so that I am the same as the tour guide, plus it is my business, which is quite like the meaning of Wang Po selling melons and boasting. ”

"What is a tour guide?" Qi Jingtong said strangely.

"Ahem, ahem, it's nothing, it's nothing, you didn't say it." Lu Bing coughed lightly and sloppily eyes, really too lazy to explain the relationship between tourism and tour guides. Without convenient transportation, the industry would not be established, and Lu Bing didn't think about buying and selling in this area at all.

Just like when you came. Everyone returned the same way and soon arrived at the market, but this time it was not a detour, but entered the market, Qi Jingtong found that the people in the market did not give private guidance, or paid special attention to Lu Bing, only a few horse merchants looked at the horses of the three of them and whispered.

This shows two problems, the first is that there are many foreign businessmen in the market, and no one knows Lu Bing and himself, if most of the locals are familiar with himself and Lu Bing, and the second is that Lu Bing is very low-key, as the owner of the market, he is not doing it himself, nor is he ostentatious through the market, but making a fortune quietly. In this way, it is even more impossible to bully the market and run rampant in the township, Qi Jingtong nodded with satisfaction, wealth and nobility cannot be lewd, Lu Bing did it, he was not disturbed by his mind, he was still him.

Lu Bing said: "Brother Shixian, I'll take the second brother to eat first, you see his face is hungry and green, I'm afraid that if it goes on like this, we can just dig a pit and bury him." What, you go around, let's go first, the most famous restaurant in this market is Ruyifang, which is also our own industry, we will wait for you there. ”

"Okay, I'll see for myself and I'll see you later." Qi Jingtong said, Lu Bing took Xia Dade away, and Qi Jingtong walked carefully.

Qi Jingtong has been in this market for more than half an hour, the market is far bigger than he imagined, people come and go, traffic is busy, trading back and forth, as if all the world's businessmen are gathered here. Qi Jingtong kept pinching his hands, he suspected that he was dreaming, where is the village market, it is even more lively than the market in the capital, if it weren't for the fact that he didn't find the brothel at the end of the market, Qi Jingtong really had the illusion of returning to the prosperous capital metropolis in the future.

The wonder is far more than that, Qi Jingtong saw the novelty of the merchants who came to buy and sell, and also saw the method of transporting fish that Lu Bing said, first of all, it was a very large car, with more than a dozen small wheels on one side, and the wheels were connected by a wide cow belt, and the outer and inner sides of the belt were interlocked with iron armor, and the iron armor was tightly connected by small iron pillars. This bag is so exquisitely made that the wheels are fixed to the car, and the surface of the wheels is not as smooth as ordinary wheels, but has a protrusion, like an axle, and the wheels are in line with the special bag, and no one can make such a thing unless it is for the skilled blacksmith and carpenter and the master of leather goods.

Others told Qi Jingtong that this thing is called a track, which was invented by Master Lu, and Master Lu also gave this kind of car a name, called an armored car. The cart was so large that it required eight horses to pull it, and on top of it was a large tank, which was square, full of seawater and fish. The fishmonger said that this is a shortcut, although it is slower but not bumpy, and there is less damage, the car walks very smoothly, and the wheels will not sink into the ground when encountering some difficult sections. Of course, in order to pay attention to efficiency in long-distance transportation, ordinary horse-drawn carriages are still used, and the type and scale of water tanks on the vehicles are much smaller than those on this "armored car".

Qi Jingtong asked, why these fish can live in the tank for so long, although Qi Jingtong has a good background and has a hereditary official position in his family, but after all, he has been down for a while, so he also knows the common sense that poor fishermen should have. Qi Jingtong understood that even if these sea fish were stored in seawater, they would still not live long in the water, so Qi Jingtong wanted to see the mystery in the fish tank. As a result, he was stopped by the guy before he got to the side of the tank, saying what kind of trade secret, anyway, Qi Jingtong didn't understand a word in his mouth, and when he heard it, he knew that this was Lu Bing's business, and only he could say these strange words.

Qi Jingtong also found something, there was something that the guys were sprinkling in the water, and he knew that it was useless to ask any more, so he pressed the question in his heart, and waited to ask Lu Bing after he went back to get the answer. (To be continued......)