Chapter 353: The Bottom
Ming Yi went to the door of the private room, asked Hu Ji for another pot of Western Regions wine, and poured a glass for Bo Yan: "You should drink something delicious and delicious." β
Boyan glanced at Ming Yi, his eyes were rippling, his emotions were at a high place, and his earlobes were red when he took a dry mouth.
At the beginning of the time, he drank two sips: "There are some words, you can just tell us." β
Boyan seems to have been holding back for a long time, so he doesn't need to say more, 1510 will make it clear.
After Xia Huanfeng took over the business of the gang, the private salt business became the most important business of the rice noodle shop, and Chu Niangzi knew that this was a U-turn business, so she didn't dare to take it lightly. She has a tacit understanding with Xia Huanfeng, and how to manage business is up to her.
Chu Niangzi's principle is to only cooperate with salt makers who are familiar with each other, never increase the amount of purchases easily, and only give the salt made to a few trusted salt sellers. The three passes of salt making, salt collection, and salt selling are connected only to her, and she will never be handed over to others.
Xia Huanfeng had no other requirements, just a little, gradually increasing the amount of salt collected, leaving fifty percent to be transported to various places by the Junling Dart Bureau. Chu Niangzi understands that this is an inevitable change, the scale of the Shangguan gang is expanding rapidly, the expenses are no longer the same, and how many mouths are waiting for the profits brought by the private salt business.
The price of salt taken by Junling Dart Bureau from Chu Niangzi is extremely low, which is enough to cover the storage fee of the goods and the cost of store manpower. This price was negotiated between Chu Niangzi and Ma Chengling under the auspices of Xia Huanfeng. Xia Huanfeng was clever and clever, and Chu Niangzi also knew that what he said was the truth.
The Junling Dart Bureau needed the difference in the price of the salt to maintain the cost of a large number of manpower, which filled the faΓ§ade and power of the Shangguan gang. The way of the dart game is wider, and the amount of private salt needed has increased, and for Chu Niangzi, although each profit is small, it is always advantageous to accumulate a lot. What's more, part of the money earned by the dart game will also be raised to the gang, which is also everyone's profit.
The Chu Niangzi had no choice, so she could only respond, and the condition was that she could not take out the account book. The account book is her life, it is all her capital and wealth, if it is handed over, it will be cut off by someone on behalf of her, and at worst, someone will obstruct her life from it.
Ming Yi only realized at this point, yes, especially after Shi Ruoshan became the helper, Chu Niangzi was originally very suspicious and defensive about him, how could he hand over the account book, wouldn't it be in vain?
Mingyi said: "I understand the dilemma of Chu Niangzi, in the future, I will act as a helper, everything will be as usual, I will not ask for account books, and I will not interfere with your aunt's business." β
Chu Boyan was not as grateful as she thought, and her sadness continued: "I don't know if Ming Niang will believe that over the years, A-Niang and I have lived more poorly than ordinary people." I often hate myself for being incompetent and unable to relieve my mother's worries. β
Ming Yi was shocked: "Since the rice noodle shop is the biggest business of the gang, and your aunt manages her own accounts and does not need to make it public, how can this be?" β
Boyan sighed deeply: "My aunt is an extremely strong person. β
It was the other three elders who pressed on the prince.
The first is Ma Chengling's Junling dart game, just collect her salt at a low price, and make less money. The trouble is that the Junling Dart Bureau has always been on credit, taking the goods first, and then sending the money back after a dart is finished. And the lady who saved the salt was all cash. This is at least one or two months, and at most half a year, and there may be three or four dart teams outside at the same time, which brings great pressure to the circulation of Chu Niangzi. Stores often struggle to make ends meet.
The second is Hanako-hyun's martial arts hall. The disciples of the martial arts hall are the manpower used by the Shangguan gang to maintain local law and order, collecting the tuition fees of the disciples and also collecting the safety money of the merchants to support the martial arts hall. In order to keep the Yangzhou base camp of the Shangguan gang, the martial arts hall is indispensable. For rice noodle shops, the protection of martial arts halls is particularly important.
Orphans and widows in the rice noodle shop, every day the shop welcomes customers, and all kinds of people will be met. Although there is the name of the Shangguan gang, it is inevitable that there will be fleeing Jiang Yang thieves, sleepy people who don't want to die, and drunken disciples who come to make trouble. Hua Zixian told the disciples of the martial arts hall to take more care of Chu Niangzi, mother and son, but he is also a divine dragon, and the people below are not so honest.
Chu Niangzi had to spend money often to deal with the disciples of the martial arts hall, and after spending money, there would be a period of peace, if it was less, there would be more troublemakers with strange origins during that time. Chu Niangzi knew in her heart that this was a big trick made by the martial arts hall people themselves, and they didn't expose it, even if they were exhausted, they still tried their best to save food and clothing for those martial arts hall disciples to fight the autumn wind.
Chu Boyan couldn't figure it out, so he went to Hua Zixian to complain. The next day, Hua Zixian personally brought a few disciples to the rice noodle shop to apologize. On that day, a group of black-clothed martial arts hall disciples lined up and bowed and apologized outside the rice noodle shop, attracting onlookers from the neighborhood. Chu Boyan held his head high and was extremely relieved, but when he looked at his aunt's face, it was gloomy.
At the beginning of the time, you said: "Your aunt is right, the gentleman protects you for a while, and the villain harms you for a lifetime." β
Boyan nodded and said, "Yes, I was not sensible at that time, and I didn't understand what A-Niang said." After that day, our days were even more difficult. The disciples of the martial arts hall took turns holding knives and shouting outside the rice noodle shop every day, not only did no one dare to come to buy rice and noodles, but even the salt sellers did not dare to come to the door, and they almost missed the big event. I also wanted to go to Brother Hua again, but I was severely reprimanded by my mother, took out my jewelry, pawned it and distributed it to several martial arts hall disciples, and invited a table and a head of wine, so it was over. β
Ming Yi couldn't say something, so he had to say: "The people in the martial arts hall originally came from mixed backgrounds, and they came here to be able to eat and drink enough. They won't know what the actual situation of your shop is, and they will inevitably feel jealous when they only see the superficial scenery. β
Boyan responded: "Yes, my aunt also means this, let me not fight with them, they are just to support their wives and children." Don't embarrass Brother Hua anymore. β
Mingyi secretly said in his heart, could your big brother really not know? It's just that turning a blind eye to it, and supporting his own martial arts brothers is much more important than the inheritance of another elder.
And the last one that is pressed on Chu Niangzi is the quality shop.
The money of the dart board will be delayed for several months, how can the rice noodle shop be maintained? It all depends on the turnover of the quality shop. The largest and easiest to pledge money in Yangzhou is the Xiao couple's Pingtianxia quality shop. The princess had to hide her face, went secretly, and pledged the silver with the dowry gold, and turned around for a while.
In three months, the principal and interest of the pledge will almost double. The hard-earned silver in the months was given to the quality shop. The mother and son of the Chu Niangzi barely survived on that little gang salary.
The property of the three elders was stripped of a layer on the Chu Niangzi, and the result turned out to be the most wealthy Chu Niang, and the most destitute. This is something that Ming Yi and Shi Chu never expected.
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