Chapter 70: Poetry Society
At the same time of preferential treatment, Yang Guang did not forget all kinds of publicity methods, he turned the content related to his business into a smooth mouth, such as fair trading, never short of catties and shortages, etc., and hired people to walk the streets and alleys and shout everywhere. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Yang Guang asked Fang Shan to prepare more than a dozen carriages to transport Chen rice back and forth in Yangliufang, deliberately not sealing the carriage, so that people could see the rice inside clearly, and others would point out that Yang Guang's Zhao Ji Warehouse exchanged Chen rice for fabric.
Yang Guang also hired an opera troupe to sing and juggle in front of the trading door, which attracted a large number of idlers to watch every day, and even stirred up the popularity of his own business.
In short, during this period of time, as long as you walk in Yangliufang, Yangzhou City, you can see leaflets about Zhao Ji Warehouse everywhere, hear the propaganda words about Zhao Ji Warehouse, and the people around you can always say a few words about Zhao Ji Warehouse.
In 10 days, the obscure Zhao Ji Warehouse became famous in Yangzhou City, and Yang Guang found that he had also received fabrics from other embroidery girls.
The residents of Yangliufang here are relatively poor, and there is no big business to open a shop here, no matter how Yang Guang tosses, it will not harm the interests of other wealthy businessmen, if the business is opened in other places where the business is prosperous, it may attract the suspicion of the same industry, and there will be many incidents.
Therefore, Yang Guang rejected Fang Shan's suggestion to strike while the iron was hot and open branches in other shops, but only acquiesced to Fang Shan's wife and others secretly buying some goods delivered to the door.
Yang Guang's source of profit lies in the difference in the labor cost of the two planes, it is meaningless to break out a business war with other wealthy businessmen in Yangzhou in the Ming Dynasty, even if it defeats the business of other businessmen in the same industry to dominate this industry, I am afraid that the profit will not be much more than now, so why bother with thankless tossing?
After the operation of Zhao Ji's warehouse was on the right track little by little, Yang Guang entrusted this business to Fang Shan's wife and the other two women with the greatest reputation and the highest prestige, after all, the people who sell and receive the goods here are all women, although they are basically dozens of years old, but it is not appropriate for Yang Guang to be a big man always dangling here.
The carpentry business of Zhao Ji Wood Store is also carried out in an orderly manner, although the monthly profit is only a dozen taels of silver, but it is barely self-sufficient, and there is basically no need for Yang Guang to transfuse blood into it.
Yang Guang didn't have to worry about these two things, he was naturally happy and quiet, he got up after sleeping enough every day, went to the wooden shop to go around, brushed the sense of existence in the hearts of the guys and carpenters, and then went home in the afternoon to read books behind closed doors, in fact, he copied a few magic scrolls, and read and learned some content about the production of magic equipment.
"Young master, let's go out of the city together today!" In the morning, when Yang Guang was sitting on a chair and eating breakfast peacefully, Zhao Wu suddenly spoke.
This was the first time Zhao Wu had instigated Yang Guang to play, Yang Guang was a little strange and asked him why, and soon understood the ins and outs. It turned out that the water conservancy project outside the city was officially completed today, and the prefect decided to hold a poetry meeting, leaving the best poems to be engraved on the inscription as a commemoration, and also engraved the names of all the rich people who donated money for disaster relief, so as to praise such righteous deeds to future generations.
For Zhao Wu, this matter has a double meaning, he is one of the merchants who donated silver, although he uses Yang Guang's pseudonym "Zhao Yu", but it is still very happy to see the name of the young master appear on this kind of inscription that praises virtue.
Moreover, Zhao Wu was also one of the victims, and now the victims are about to return to their hometowns and start their lives again, which can be regarded as making up for the regrets in his heart. At the same time, there is also a little expectation in my heart, in case my father does not die, maybe the father and son will have a chance to reunite.
There are many such things in modern time and space, and any shopping mall can invite all kinds of stars to help, although there is no poetry, but isn't there still a song, or a lap dance or something, I'm tired of watching it for a long time.
It's just that Yang Guang saw that Zhao Wu was full of interest, and he felt that he had saved his two brothers, as if he was either arranging study or doing things, and rarely took them to play and relax, so he simply took advantage of today's opportunity to go out of the city for a walk.
shouted Zhao Wen, who was about to go to Muhang, and the three of them went out of the city together and came to the scene, where there were crowds of people, one after another, and it was very lively, and there were many small businesses who rushed over early in the morning, directly turning this place into a temple fair.
A large group of literati stood on the newly built water conservancy dam and passed the wine glass down to the sound of the drum, and when the drum stopped, the wine glass was in the hand, and naturally recited a poem related to the theme of today's event, water conservancy projects, relief to the victims, and so on.
The first few literati said that the poems were decent, and they were nothing more than praising Emperor Jiajing and praising the prefect of Yangzhou.
When the fifth time the cup was passed began, the drum sounded for a long time and did not stop, even if a young literati held the wine glass in his hand and made a gesture that you will not stop and I will not let go, the drum continued to ring until the onlookers saw that something was wrong and began to coax, and the young literati reluctantly threw the wine glass out under the persuasion of others.
The glass was passed downwards when it was grabbed by a man dressed in shabby clothes with three strands of beard on his chin, and the drumming stopped, apparently for this man.
The man took a few steps forward with a wine glass and shouted loudly in the direction of the prefect: "Lord Prefect, the student has something unclear, and he wants to ask for advice in front of the old folks in Yangzhou!" ”
This sentence was obviously a little wrong, and someone next to him hurriedly reached out to pull the man, but was hit by the man's sleeve casually, and staggered back several steps and fell out.
The man said that he wanted to ask for advice, but without waiting for the prefect to make any response, he continued to speak loudly: "I heard that the rich people of Yangzhou donated a total of 179,823 taels of silver this time. But why is it that only 83,328 taels are used to build water conservancy and provide relief to the victims? Also, why is the purchased timber 5% higher than the market price? Why ......"
The man spoke faster and faster, but the words became clearer and clearer, and gradually even the people watching the excitement from afar could hear it clearly.
When Yang Guang saw this man for the first time, he felt that he was a little familiar, but he was too far away to see the other party's appearance clearly, but he just had a little inexplicable feeling.
When the man spoke with his own "amplification" function, Yang Guang did not associate it from his appearance, but thought of this person's identity from the sound of his voice, and he was shocked in his heart and clenched Zhao Wen and Zhao Wu's palm.