Qiubai picked up Xia Shufeng horizontally, and picked up the palmetto fan and the bracelet she had dropped on the chair.

"Farewell." I bowed to the merchants and followed them out of the private room.

Liulan asked, "Are we going home?" ”

Me: "Back." ”

The window of the private room can see the view of the long street, and I can't go back to Huancui Building directly.

Anyway, it wasn't far away, so Qiubai hugged Xia Shufeng all the way and walked back to Xia's house.

Passers-by looked at us one after another, and Xia Shufeng continued to pretend to be drunk without any pressure. Qiubai and Liulan talked and laughed, as if they were holding a big cat in their arms. I followed them, thinking about this grain chamber of commerce.

Subconsciously, I looked back, only to find that the merchants were all looking at us from the window of the private room.

When they saw my gaze, they dodged and wanted to go back to the house, but they didn't feel the need to hide. Under the contradiction between the two, the figure froze there awkwardly.

I smiled and bowed to them.

They returned to their seats as if I had resolved their embarrassment.

After walking around the corner, I said to Xia Shufeng, "Okay, I can't see here, you don't have to pretend to be drunk." ”

"Oh, am I acting too exaggerated?" Xia Shufeng lay in Qiu Bai's arms.

Me: "Hmm. ”

Qiubai: "It's okay, Zhen'er is the best at acting, always deceiving people, we can learn more from him." ”

Liulan: "Feng'er is actually very good at acting, as long as she doesn't mention it." ”

Xia Shufeng: "Don't comfort me. I really want to learn. ”

I mean, "It doesn't matter if it's like it, just keep it a secret." ”

Xia Shufeng: "That's a certainty. ”

What the hell is this grain chamber of commerce?

To put it mildly, it is an alliance of grain merchants, who put all the grains in the hands of a group of people in the same warehouse. As much as they sell in the store, they earn as much as they earn.

It is not complicated to divide the grain accounting of different people, because there are many different goods in the shop, and the bookkeeping is so memorable. It's not that this method is impossible.

But the real beneficiary of this alliance is not Xiajia Rice Shop, but other people besides us.

Because the price is unified, the grains are also placed in the warehouse together, which means that if the Xia family rice shop sells a bucket of rice, the profit will be shared equally with all the rice sellers in the chamber of commerce. As the manager of the warehouse, the chairman can indeed control everyone's capital profits, but with so many people and so much money, it is really a lot of trouble to manage. You can make money, but it's thankless, and if you don't get it right, you have to post money because of poor management.

No matter where the people go, they can buy grains. Of course they won't come to Xiajia Rice Shop again, there are shops close to home, why do they have to walk several streets with rice on their backs? If I don't come to Long Street, how can my other stores drive customer flow?

Xia Shufeng jumped down from Qiu Bai's arms, took the fan handed to her by Liulan, and said, "Actually, I think this is a good idea, there was originally an alliance of craftsmen in Yanju City, and it was the eldest son of the Iron Master who united all the craftsmen. It is because of the union, everyone sets the same price, which can compete in craftsmanship. ”

I thought as I walked.

Indeed, joining forces can indeed control the price of rice in the city. People always have to eat, and if the grain merchants join forces and insist on making the price of rice too high, it is impossible for those people to leave their work and go to other cities and counties to buy rice by themselves. I can't buy much back and forth, but I delay time on the road. Even if a traveling merchant came, they could easily win over the rice seller from outside and demand that he pay the same price as them.

Reading is exciting, reading is wonderful!

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