Cai Yuanjie whispered a few words in the ears of several accompanying shopkeepers and men, and everyone went shopping separately.

After a while, several people gathered again to exchange information.

Cai Yuanjie returned to Zhu Youning's side and said with admiration: "Long knowledge, long knowledge, this time it is really a great insight." ”

"What did you find?" Zhu Youning asked with interest.

Cai Yuanjie said with a smile, "If I don't follow the owner out this time, I don't know that I have become a frog at the bottom of the well, it turns out that after the gold and silver are not allowed to circulate, the merchants around here have already thought of a way to deal with it, don't look at everything is always a treasure banknote, but if you don't give a reward for real money in private, the shopkeepers in those stores will use a sentence of 'sorry, we are a sample of the display, not for sale' to send away." ”

"Bounty?" Zhu Youning was surprised.

"Yes! When I asked them if the reward was not gold or silver, they said, 'The Son of Heaven also uses gold and silver to reward meritorious heroes, and what is wrong with everyone following the example of the Son of Heaven?' ’”

"This is really a policy at the top, and a countermeasure at the bottom." Zhu Youning couldn't help but smack his tongue.

Since she came to ancient times, she never dared to underestimate the wisdom of the ancients, and after living for so many years, she still has a feeling of surprise all the time.

"Looks like they're much smarter than we are." Zhu Youning clasped his hands and smiled: "Then let's buy something casually, and then see how much the reward is." Let's take a look at the prices here. ”

"Yes."

Shopkeeper Cai listened to the order and immediately took the people to go separately.

As a result, when everyone returned, several of them bought the same things in different shops, and the prices were the same in the same banknotes, but the silver rewards were different.

Zhu Youning and everyone returned to the inn, carefully checked the quality of similar and identical goods in the room, and found that some of the rewards were less, but the quality was better. And judging from the amount of rewards, the prices here are much more expensive than those along Fuyang, Hangzhou, and Jinling, and even much more expensive than the capital.

"It seems that blindly using this method has given many guys and shopkeepers room to make a fortune." Zhu Youning shook his head with a smile and put a box of inferior rouge on the table.

"Prices are invisibly raised, each reward is different, the store from the guy to the shopkeeper have to see a little profit, the sale is mixed with corruption, bribery, personal debts and all kinds of relationships, this kind of business environment, destroys the market environment, and is not advisable." Zhu Youning disagreed.

The eighth master of the Buddha said with a smile: "If such a situation occurred in Fuyang, the girl would have come forward to balance the market a long time ago." Look at Zhu's money village is not an example? ”

Cai Yuanjie and several shopkeepers nodded with deep feelings, Zhu Family Money Village took out loans indiscriminately, disrupted the market for the small profits in front of them, and ruined the image of the money village in the minds of the people, Zhu Youning put a long line to catch big fish, and finally annexed the Zhu Family Money Village, Chang'an Money Village gained fame and fortune, and became famous in Hangzhou.

Cai Yuanjie is sure that if Zhu Youning is in the local area, he will definitely come forward to balance the market when he encounters such a scene.

Zhu Youning smiled, it seemed that these people around her were about to blindly trust her.

Fuyang's matter made her worry so much that she couldn't sleep all night, and if she had another incident, she was afraid that her hair would fall out?

"After a trip, there is still a windfall. In the future, we are getting closer and closer to Kaifeng Mansion, and we are getting closer and closer to the fiefdom under the jurisdiction of Renyibo, so we would rather be slower along the way, carefully observe the situation and prices in the shopping mall, and we should be prepared when we get to the ground. ”

"Yes."

Everyone looked upright and saluted.

The group set off again, and as Zhu Youning said, they only needed to stop along the way. People would get out of the car and go to the shops and shops to buy something.

Zhu Youning found that all the way from Suzhou to the northwest, it was the kind of "consistent treasure money" plus reward business model, which led to uneven prices in the entire Henan region, and the shadow of black-hearted businessmen everywhere.

For the sake of profit, didn't these businessmen tear off their faces and throw them on the ground?

It is strange that the world looks down on businessmen, and the "Holy Ancestors' Teachings" left a sentence "Merchants seek profit and are unjust, and they should be ridiculed." "The civil official group even treats businessmen as beasts, but if a businessman is born, although there is no explicit provision that the imperial examination is not allowed, where is there a businessman in the court?

Thinking of this, Zhu Youning inevitably thought of Zhu Huating's scientific research fraud, which was a contest between the noble class and the businessman, and his father was just a speck of dust in it.

Because of Zhu Youning's investigation along the way, the journey was a little slower, and when he arrived at the boundary of Kaifeng Prefecture, it was already mid-March, and Zhu Youning had already put away his big sweater and changed into thick spring clothes.

The eighth master of the Buddha urged the horse to get closer to the carriage: "Girl, about half a day's journey is Shangshui County, where Uncle Yan locks the territory far away from the disaster area, and the shopkeeper of Dong Da should have rented the first shop here." Shall we go and see? Or go straight to Mengzhen? ”

Zhu Youning thought for a while and said, "Let's go and take a look." Thinking about what I told Dong Da to do, he had already done it. ”

"Yes."

The eighth master of the Buddha gave orders on behalf of Zhu Youning.

The team turned around at the fork in the road ahead and headed straight for Shangshui County.

At the same time, the same major event occurred in all the cities and towns of the fiefdom under the jurisdiction of Yan Sui.

A shop dealing in all kinds of groceries, rice, flour, grain and oil, daily necessities, farming tools, etc., opened at the same time in each town.

The names of the shops are also very special, they are all called "a shop".

There are a wide variety of goods in the shop, high, medium and low-end, but everything you want is available in this shop.

The most shocking thing for the local people is that the price of the goods in the "shop" is clearly marked, and the price is more than twice as cheap as the kind of treasure money plus rewards.

As soon as the news spread ten, ten or hundred, the people of several county towns and towns were shocked.

You know, because of the construction of embankments and water conservancy along the Yellow River, there are big people who employ 100,000 laborers here. These laborers all came with their families, and the economy of these coastal towns and towns was also stimulated.

In terms of food alone, a meal here is two or three times more expensive than it used to be.

Now that there is a sudden appearance of a cheap shop like "a shop", and the goods are readily available, how can the people not be excited? After inquiring, they rushed to the door, and also told the fast-legged boys at home to tell their relatives and neighbors to hurry up and buy them.

Even a few large local households and the rest of the merchants were alarmed.

There are still cheap sales in these years? Where did this come from? Could it be that they are here to do good deeds? Not to mention anything else, that is, they buy goods here, which are much cheaper than those transported from long distances, saving labor and freight, and ensuring safety!

The local households, merchants, and people were excited, and crowded in front of the door of "one shop".

On the street outside the door of "a shop head office" in Shangshui County, you can only see a black head in the distance, and the people holding dustpans, rice bags, wooden basins and other things are crowded and queuing, waiting for the store to open.

At the corner of the street, Yan Sui was tall and graceful, looking at the prosperous scene of "a shop" with a smile.

The Yan steward who followed him, Yan Fei and Hongxi, all had angry faces on their faces.

"Excessive! It's too much!! Uncle treated her sincerely, but she didn't return the uncle's silver, and we didn't let us take the goods when they arrived, so she actually ran here to do business and open a store! Isn't this bullying! Hongxi was anxious, and his eyes were red.

Although Steward Yan is angry, he is a person who is close to the age of sixtieth year, and he is more stable in the end. He has seen a lot of the ugliness of human nature. In his impression, Zhu Youning is an extremely shrewd businessman, and if he does such a mercenary thing, it actually makes sense.

It's just a waste of his master's heart.

He knew that when his uncle was in prison in the capital, Zhu Youning did not stay alone, but disregarded his reputation in front of the court, and even led to the 400,000 taels of silver that he had to go to the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce to raise for disaster relief.

It is precisely because of this incident that the uncle trusts her wholeheartedly.

But who might be the way Zhu Youning will plan and deceive trust? Maybe she didn't care about fame in the first place?

Poor uncle really paid wrongly......

"Uncle, let's go back." Steward Yan said softly.

Yan Sui smiled at the moon and the breeze, "Look again." She has been laying out the bureau for so long, and she has inquired about the situation in my fiefdom, there is no reason to open an evaluation shop to do business, she must have a purpose. ”

Steward Yan was stunned for a moment, and his mind that Zhu Youning was a liar was shaken.

Yes, the prices here are so high, if you want to make money, so many goods are shipped over as long as they are sold at local prices, it is blood to earn, and there is no reason to open a cheap shop.

At this moment, the door of the store, which only hung a wooden sign on the price but refused to open for business, finally slowly opened.

Dong Ze, the shopkeeper who had lost a lot of weight along the Yellow River, copied his hands and stood in front of the gate with a smile like a Maitreya Buddha.

"Don't crowd the big guys, don't be in a hurry, listen to me."

The tumultuous crowd fell silent.

Dong Zelang laughed and said: "Everyone has also seen that the goods operated by one of our shops are complete in style, good quality and low price, and I believe everyone is also excited." Before I open my business, I would like to make one point. 'A shop' does not accept treasure money, gold or silver, barter, or rewards. ”

"Huh? Don't do any of this, then what kind of business are you doing when you open the door! ”

"That's it, aren't you a pit man!"

The people who had been crowded for a long time were in a hurry.

Dong Ze raised his hand and pressed it, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, those who have been to nearby towns should know that our 'one shop' does not have the head office of Shangshui County, and there are branches in various places, if we don't open the door to do business, what are we doing when we open a store?" Tell the big guys, we sell things here, and we only accept voucher transactions. ”

"Vouchers? What's that? The people were all stunned.

Yan Sui, who was behind the crowd, also raised his sword eyebrows.

Who knew that Dong Ze didn't explain, just smiled and saluted, and said, "Come back when the big guy has a voucher." Then he turned around and hung up the sign that the business was closed, and the door was closed.

The people all had a feeling of being tricked, and they stood in front of a shop and scolded the street.

But there are also people who wonder what a voucher is.

Yan Suixing's eyes narrowed slightly, the essence flashed in her eyes, and the corners of her lips playfully provoked.

Steward Yan, Yan Fei and Hongxi looked at each other.

"What's going on?"

"But no matter what the coupon is, Uncle should be more careful in the future."

"That's it, Uncle also has to think about how serious the things he is doing, you haven't paid the labor for a month, Miss Zhu also cheated you of your silver, isn't this bullying you affectionately, even if the hero is sad about the beauty, the uncle has to think about himself!"

Yan Fei and Hongxi chased after Yan Sui and spoke bitterly.

Yan Sui was amused by them, and nodded back at their foreheads, "Full of nonsense, still don't shut up?" ”

Obviously made the seed of infatuation, and they didn't let people say it, and they refused to listen to opinions, and blindly went their own way, they were also very tired!

"Uncle." At this moment, a man dressed in a short fight galloped over on a fast horse and dismounted, "Uncle, Miss Zhu and her party have arrived outside Shangshui County, and they will arrive in about two hours." ”

"Spring has arrived, and people have finally arrived. Prepare the horse, you go with me to meet Miss Zhu. ”

"Uncle......

"Listen to me, Uncle Yan."

Steward Yan's words to persuade were interrupted by Yan Sui, so he had no choice but to respond and take someone to prepare the horse.

The warm afternoon sun warmed up the slightly cold spring breeze, and the convoy drove along the official road, Zhu Youning pushed the window open, and looked at the new green scenery along the way with one hand.

The spring breeze blows on the face with warmth and the aroma of grassy vegetation, and the few strands of broken hair that hang down beside the pink cheeks are gently swayed with the carriage, and the satin-like ink hair hanging down the back of the head reflects a gentle matte light.

Bai Ling smiled and unfolded a light blue cloud shoulder and draped it on Zhu Youning's shoulder, "Girl, the wind is still a little cold, be careful about the cold." ”

"It's okay, I don't feel cold," Zhu Youning sighed, "You look at the great scenery outside, you think that the rest of the counties and towns under the jurisdiction of Yan Lanqing also have such beautiful scenery, right?" It's a pity that the flood is ruthless, if the spring flood can't be prevented, the beautiful scenery can't be saved. ”

The eighth master of the Buddha rode a horse to the side, and said with a smile: "If the flood is raging, the uncle should evacuate the people first, the people living here are in a hurry to sow seeds, and the rest is all up to God, if there is no water, the big guys can eat, and live for a year, if there is a big flood, then everyone can only survive as refugees." ”

The thrush smacked his tongue.

Dou Wanwan shook her head and said: "Living like this, it's not peaceful at all, and the people here are too bitter." ”

Zhu Youning sighed: "This is fate. Born here, nourished by the water and soil here, but also by the water and soil here. It's good to have a chance to escape the famine, if you catch up with the Tartars in the north to threshk the grass, or if the South China Sea along the real and fake Japanese come ashore, then the chance to escape is gone. ”

Hearing this, the eighth master of the Buddha also sighed.

At this moment, the eighth master of the Buddha suddenly raised his hand and stopped the team.

Zhu Youning looked at him questioningly.

The Buddha listened attentively for a moment, "Someone is coming." ”

As the eighth master of the Buddha said, not long after, Zhu Youning saw a few horses galloping towards him on the official road, and a piece of smoke and dust rolled up on the dirt road.

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