56. Mrs. Li asked Ah Mao to make clothes

Zhao Da asked Xianghai: "Does my brother want to change careers to do car dealership business?" Xianghai said: "Don't change careers." The liquor store business is good, and it is inseparable from rickshaws, without rickshaws, there will be no flow of people, it is inconvenient for people to go out and do errands, and no one will come from Yangshupu to eat his home-brewed rice liquor. Just now, Smith said that now that the curfew has been lifted, the ban on Huayang has also been lifted, and the situation is stable, and it is a good time to make money. If you open a car dealership, you are not afraid of running out of money. ”

Zhao Da said that Xianghai had a bright brain, and he decided that he was right to listen to him from the time when he boiled salt in the bitter sea, but now the house price is ridiculously expensive, and he went to see the pavilion he rented a few years ago, and now the rent is a "small yellow croaker". Xianghai said: "There is no need to rent a house, there is a ready-made façade next door, and I will take it back to drive the store, and I can make money by guarding the phone. First, ten cars were added, five black cars, and five yellow cars were added, and telephone car calls and monthly car rental services were provided. Zhao Da interrupted Xianghai's words and asked: "There are still yellow cars and black cars in rickshaws?" When I came just now, I stopped a black car and refused to sit down. Xianghai explained: "The black car is a private chartered car, and it is not allowed to pick up passengers on the road, and the yellow car is a bus, so that it can stop and solicit customers on the street at any time, otherwise the 'red-headed Ah San' will catch one by one." The two talked for a night, and then decided to drive.

The next day, Xianghai took back the rental house next door in compensation, and then went to the police station to apply for a note. Within a month, the tenants moved out, the dealership was renovated, and ten brand-new local rickshaws were in place, with solid rubber on the wheels, which were fast and labor-saving, comfortable to sit on, and cheap. The coachman also invited, selected the auspicious day of the zodiac, after a firecracker, the car shop was officially opened, and the name of the car shop was Zhao Daxiang. There are three auspicious in Shanghai, Bao Daxiang, Xieda Xiang, Xin Daxiang, Zhao Daxiang car dealership leans on Sanxiang, and it is catchy.

Zhao Da finally walked out of the shadow of the pain of bereavement, looked at the brand-new rickshaw and was happy, and he must personally pull Xianghai to walk around the street. Xianghai refused, and asked people to insert the brand of Zhao Daxiang's car dealership in every car, and the name, phone number, and address of the car dealer were written on the sign. Zhao Da took the lead, and the coachmen pulled the cars closely behind, and went to the Ministry of Industry Bureau, nailed the enamel license plate in the Ministry of Industry Bureau, and then walked along the Huangpu Beach and walked across the Waibaidu Bridge before turning back. Passers-by saw a long snake array of new cars, quite novel, all gathered around to see, knowing that Zhao Daxiang car dealership was newly opened, which was equivalent to making an event advertisement for the car dealership. Zhao Da pulled slowly, slowly and leisurely, and did not pull the car back to the car until the afternoon. Lao Cai, the driver of the coach, told him that the rickshaw was swaying on the street, and he had received several calls asking for a car, all of which were recorded in the telephone record book.

Zhao Da grabbed the phone, dialed back one by one, and sent the work to the coachman one by one, just after he was busy, he stretched out his head to see a guest in the store, it turned out to be Smith, Zhao Da hurriedly went downstairs, Smith was here to congratulate. Zhao Da instructed the coachman, Lao Cai, to take Smith and go around the old city. Whenever acquaintances and friends come, they must be invited to take a rickshaw to the old city for sightseeing, this is the rule set by Xianghai, Smith hurriedly declined, saying that there is something to find Xianghai. At this time, the phone for the car kept ringing, and Zhao Da beckoned Smith to sit in the back room while answering the phone. Smith took his leave and walked past the liquor store to find Xianghai, in fact, he came to observe the car dealership business. Before Zhao Da came to Shanghai, Smith had repeatedly persuaded Xianghai to do real estate business with him, but Xianghai did not listen to him, but partnered with Zhao Da to open a car dealership, and Smith was unwilling. Today, I saw that the car dealership was booming, and when I saw Xianghai, I shut up about real estate, talked about it, drank a glass of wine, and left.

Smith's father, Smith Sr., was a translator for the British consul that year, and came to Shanghai on a British warship that year to help the consul establish a concession in Shanghai and began to do business in the concession. By the time Smith was born, Smith Sr. was already a wealthy real estate businessman in Shanghai, and he had hoarded a lot of land resources under his name. But the Smiths had a family disease, and men did not live to be fifty years old. When Smith Sr. was in college, a wizard who knew about his family's illness advised him that if he wanted to change the fate of his family's illness, he should go as far as possible, and not return to England before the age of fifty, so after graduating from college, Smith Sr. went to Shanghai on the other side of the Atlantic. However, at the age of fifty, he forgot the advice of the wizard and returned to England to inherit the inheritance, but died suddenly due to a family illness, and never returned to Shanghai.

Smith inherited his father's legacy, but he didn't want to do business like the elder Smith, he paid more attention to the brokerage business, and did the money broker business. He used the old Smith's connections to make easy profits with his fluent bilingualism in Chinese and English and his sociable eloquence. On the day Zhao Da came to Shanghai, Smith had come to Xianghai for the third time and persuaded Xianghai to rent his land to build a house, and there would be a lot of money to be made. Smith helped Xianghai rent two storefronts, but Xianghai subleased one to others to earn the interest difference, Smith complained a lot, and said that he wanted to take it back and open his own brokerage company. Regarding Smith's proposal to rent his land to build a house, Xianghai refused because of his face, and when Zhao Da came, he and Zhao Da partnered to open a car dealership, which was equivalent to rejecting Smith. Now, seeing that the car dealership was doing a good business, Smith had to swallow the words that came to his lips.