5-21 Merlin Canned Fruit
Shanghai Bo Si Ti Chen Ziang is the son of the local sausage shop owner Xiao Gu Chen, which is also the topic he dislikes others to mention the most, after all, the family background of the small trader is not very face-saving, and those bureaucrats and officials of the City Bo Division usually don't even dare to mention the word sausage, and now someone actually asks him in person if he is the son of Xiao Gu Chen, how can this not make the lifting adults angry.
A brief command came from the sedan chair: "Get off the sedan chair." After the green sedan chair landed, the sedan chair man opened the curtain, and a young man in a python robe and jade belt came out of it, only to see that he was wearing a silver-white over-the-shoulder python robe, and the jade belt around his waist was inlaid with a lot of expensive gems.
Chen Tiju got off the sedan chair, and the officials behind him also followed the sedan chair, everyone wanted to see who was so bold and dared to lift the tiger's whiskers of the adult, what they saw was a man wearing a blue cloth shirt and a sallow face, but don't look at people's dresses and inconspicuous words, but they talk in a set.
"Chen Tiju, you are also a trader, why can't you put yourself in the shoes of others, think about doing business, pay attention to a turnover, your city company does not open the door every day, isn't this forcing people to death? If the shopping mall is a battlefield, the delivery market may change if it is one day late, and the goods may be unsalable, do you care? Do you pay or not? Besides, the court gave you money to collect taxes, not to let you hold meetings behind closed doors all day long, are you worthy of the trust of the court and the emperor's grace? Chen Zi shook his hands angrily, what kind of ordinary businessman said was clearly the tone of the court officials reprimanding the subordinates, and the officials of the city department who were used to listening to other people's flattery and pleading were also stunned for a while, where did this world jump out?
Could it be that you can't eat the heart of a bear and the leopard guts? Dare to speak so rampantly. A large number of businessmen were also dumbfounded, the unknown guy said what they wanted to say but didn't dare to say, although they were afraid of the obscenity of the city, everyone didn't dare to applaud, but they all secretly admired this good man who dared to do things, and the businessman who was called the big brother by Liu Ziguang couldn't help but secretly give a thumbs up: This brother is really good!
"What a bold and clever man! Take it for me left and right! Chen Tiju finally burst his weak shoulders, trembling from uncontrollable rage, and the upturned orchid fingers pointed at Liu Ziguang's nose viciously and ordered.
The guards rushed up and wanted to press Liu Ziguang to the ground, but at this time, the fruit merchant who was holding on to the sedan bar suddenly burst out and blocked in front of Liu Ziguang, shouting: "Strong man, go away!" How could the guards be stopped by him, and immediately swung their scabbards and slashed their heads and faces, Liu Ziguang pulled the fruit merchant behind his back, and held the guards' scabbards with one hand, and shouted: "Chen Sausage, who gave you the power to beat the good people?" Aren't you afraid that I will sue you before the Chin Cha beaters? ”
"If it's the other way around, give me the other way around, and kill these two maniacs on the spot!" It seems that Lord Chen is really angry, two angry blushes rose on his pink face, he flicked his python robe, turned around and went back to the sedan chair city, the servants of the Bosi Division and the guards of the adults waved their weapons, and surrounded Liu Ziguang and the fruit merchants, and raised their knives and sticks, and the merchants who were about to beat the two into meat paste did not dare to stop them, so they could only kneel together and beg for mercy: "Please be merciful, spare them this time." Of course Chen Tiju will not buy the face of these people, only seeing the Diao people who dared to offend him being beaten into pulp can ease the anger in his heart, but things are not as smooth as he imagined, only listening to a miserable cry outside the sedan chair, he couldn't help but open the curtain and look, it turned out that under the siege of dozens of messengers, the Diao people were actually unharmed, and they also grabbed a water and fire stick and knocked down a large number of messengers.
The man threw away the water and fire stick in his hand, picked up a steel knife, twisted it into a twisted shape with three strokes and two strokes, and held it up to show it for a week: "Whoever thinks his bones are harder than iron, come and send him to death!" "After all, the officers and guards are not soldiers, this is not a battlefield where you live and die, who wants to die, one by one, they shrank and didn't dare to step forward, Liu Ziguang threw away the twist knife, pointed at Chen Ziang's sedan chair and scolded: "You are a five-grade small official, you dare to sit in a green sedan chair, and dare to wear a python robe, you think that you Chen Sausage is a relative of the emperor, just rely on a Lao Tzu can let you step down, today is not over, let's see." With that, he dragged the fruit merchant and strode away, but dozens of errand soldiers did not dare to stop him, and automatically made way for him to leave.
Liu Ziguang dragged the fruit merchant through the streets and alleys, and only after confirming that no one was following him did he stop and said to the man: "You quickly find a place to hide, I see that the cattle of the city will not give up." The man replied: "Thank you for the rescue of the strong man, in fact, today Li wanted to die in the city, and they didn't give me a public certificate." A boatload of fruit has begun to rot, this is the goods I borrowed from relatives and friends to get the money, and now I can't even give the ship's money, so I might as well die. I didn't expect to attract a strong man to make a move, and you really can't help it. Liu Ziguang pondered for a moment and said: "Boss Li, yes, I'll just be a good person, and sell me your boatload of fruit, I'll find someone to unload the goods, you just collect the cash, don't care about anything else." ”
"How does this work? Without a public certificate in hand, no one dares to buy the goods at the dock, which is a big crime of smuggling. ”
"It's okay, I have my own way, you can come with me." Liu Ziguang took Boss Li to the dock where the Axe Gang was located, and asked Lin Sheng to find a sampan and ride Boss Li to call the cargo ship loaded with fruits.
A boatload of fruits has begun to rot in the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty belongs to the monsoon tropical rainforest, with a high temperature and rainy climate, and the resources of fruits and their products are very rich.
The bananas, coconut, pineapple, mango and other fruits produced are of good quality, the price is very low, now the Ming Dynasty is the late autumn weather, fresh fruits can still be sold at a good price, but because the public certificate can not be opened ashore, moored on the water for a long time, resulting in a boat of fruits, the mangoes have been damaged, the pineapple has been stored for a long time and has not been broken, otherwise it is really a blood loss.
Lin Sheng gave an order, hundreds of coolies were busy carrying the fruits for a while, and boxes of fruits were piled up next to the trestle.
Lin Sheng was born as a fruit seller, so he naturally knew the seasonal fruit price abacus, and after a few fiddles, he estimated the approximate price of this boat of fruits, Liu Ziguang paid the silver in full according to the current price, and gave the silver to Boss Li, after Boss Li received the silver from Bai Huahua, his tears came out, and he knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Liu Ziguang: "Great benefactor, you have saved our whole family." I also asked the benefactor to leave a high surname and a big name, so that we could have a title when we met in the future. ”
"My name is Xu Wenqiang, I eat on the dock, and I don't care about the fact that the ocean business is not easy to do, the risk is unpredictable, and I don't want to make fruit next time, so I will send some Lu Song tobacco leaves to sell, just send them to this dock to find the Lin gang leader." Liu Ziguang comforted Boss Li with kind words and beat him.
"Big brother, what are you doing with so many fruits? These fruits can't be sold for a price. Lin Sheng was a little strange, and said in his heart, Brother Xu was really old-fashioned, and spent money to buy a lot of garbage and came back.
"You ask Merlin to organize the neighbors, sisters-in-law, and aunts to pick out the better fruits, and she knows what to do later." Liu Ziguang smiled confidently.
Shanghai is a metropolis, as long as there is silver, everything can be bought, Liu Ziguang took out a hundred taels of silver, sent someone to buy a lot of wide-mouth glass bottles, and came back to buy a lot of iron pots, salt, sugar and other things, and picked out the fruits to send to the shantytown, those sisters-in-law and aunts set up iron pots, boiled thick salt water and concentrated sugar water, removed the skin of the fruit, cut it into pieces of moderate size, put it into a jar, and then added concentrated sugar water, boiled it, sealed it with wax while it was hot, and made canned fruit.
"How much can this bottle cost?" Liu Ziguang asked Lin Sheng.
"All the costs add up to twenty copper dollars." Lin Sheng calculated for a while and came to such a conclusion.
"Let's sell it to the sailors who sail for fifty yuan, do you think they will buy it?" Liu Ziguang continued to ask.
"It's great to have fruits and vegetables that don't rot for years, and I think they'll buy them even if they're more expensive." Lin Sheng said.
"Then how much do you think you can sell it for if it is transported to the bitter cold land of the north?" Liu Ziguang saw that Lin Sheng was a little on the road, and continued to induce him.
"If you add the freight, it's one hundred and fifty copper coins."
"Hehe, you underestimate the northerners too much, these fruits have never been seen in their lives, I think even if they sell for one or two silver and a bottle, they will be out of stock." Liu Ziguang said with a smile.
"Great, let's just make canned food!" Lin Sheng slapped his thigh and shouted, admiring Brother Xu's intelligence to the extreme.
The finished canned food should be called with our brand
"Merlin brand", go back, you find a few painters to make a plate, print a batch of trademarks, do you know that it is to draw the appearance of the fruit, write the three words of Merlin brand.
These three words can only be used by us, others are strictly prohibited from using, if someone counterfeits our trademark, you can bring someone to the door to dismantle their shop, understand. Liu Ziguang said.