On February 18, Gengchen Day, it is advisable to pray for blessings and open the market.

After preparing for a month, Chu Ji's funeral paper workshop finally opened, the workshop followed the model of the paper money workshop in the backyard of the Chu family's old house, Shen Luzhu and several masters of Lin Ji, the paper work was divided into several steps, and the workers recruited were divided into groups, cooperated with each other, and performed their duties.

Each group only learns a part of the paper making process, one is to get started quickly, and the other is to avoid the risk of the craft being passed on as much as possible.

The two stewards sent by Lin Ting have their own strengths, Steward Xu is mainly responsible for the accounts and procurement of the workshop, Lin Steward is responsible for the management of the workshop workers, and several masters of Lin Ji are divided into two ways, one part follows Shen Luzhu to develop a new paper style, and the other part takes the newly recruited workers to grasp the production.

In late February, plus the whole of March, Shen Luzhu was the busiest one in the Chu family, either taking Chu Li in his west courtyard every day, painting on the coffin, or studying new styles of paper in the workshop on West Street.

Before the Qingming Festival, in addition to the drawing coffins full of the West Courtyard, the types of paper tied for Chu Ji funerals have expanded from the very beginning of the grain basin, beckoning trees and cornucopias, to more than ten kinds of attendants and maidservants, cattle and horses, houses, sedan chairs, furniture, etc., to the coffin shop in the West Courtyard, and the flowers and greenery are so lively that they do not look like it.

Qingming Festival, without the Yang family's run, Chu Ji funeral became the only wholesale sale of paper ingots and copper coins burning paper shop in the county, speaking of which, I have to mention that the young couple listened to Lin Ting's suggestion and joined the funeral chamber of commerce.

The practice of burning paper with copper money is not difficult to guess, especially after the Yang family's workshop was made, it is no secret in the county's paper money industry, there was the Yang family there before, and it was not a bear heart leopard gall, who dared to blatantly rob the Yang family to buy and sell, even if they knew the method, no one dared to do it to sell.

But with the fall of the Yang family, some people's minds became lively, what the Yang family sold before the copper coin burned paper, the Chu family sold it, and what could not be sold in their own family.

But before these peers could take action, the Yang family's affairs were followed.

The peers in the county, who didn't know that the Yang family first had a conflict with the Chu family, and then was led by the Sun family and defeated in one fell swoop.

But after the Yang family completely withdrew from the county paper money market, the two deputy directors of the Chu family who had run on the Chu family with the Yang family were expelled from the Chamber of Commerce.

After that, the Chu family not only joined the funeral chamber of commerce, but also bought the Yang family's workshop directly from the government, and opened the current Chu Ji funeral paper workshop.

It's hard not to associate this series of things, the Chu family, a small boss from the village who has just come to the county for less than two years, where can he have such a big ability, unless he ...... Unless the government and the Sun family have become the backers of the Chu family.

That's right, that's right, it turns out that the Sun family and the government are all standing up for the Chu family, no wonder the Chu family has never been afraid of the Yang family's various small actions!

After figuring this out, those raw materials that were originally prepared, and the workers who had been recruited, instantly became a hot potato, where do they dare to continue to do it, is the business has done enough, and they want to follow in the footsteps of the Yang family?

The little couple didn't know that those peers had made up such a big drama behind their backs, although the Sun family had them on the side to help the trouble, and the county magistrate knew about it, and Ding An stabbed it out for them.

But whether it is the Sun family or the Xin County Order, they have their own considerations for doing this, the little couple just thought of the reactions of all parties and took advantage of the situation, if the Sun family and the county government are supporting the Chu family, it is really a big joke in the world.

But no matter what everyone thinks, the result of the matter is very beneficial to the little couple, at least in the short term, no one will grab the business of burning copper money and paper ingots with the Chu family, which can be regarded as gratifying.

Before the Qingming Festival, the little couple put out their newly researched paper ties, and sent Gao Tongshan to buy paper money with Song He, and they stayed in the coffin shop in the west courtyard, just to take advantage of the paper money shop in the east courtyard

When the traffic is high, come to a wave of free publicity to add some fame to your paper.

Sure enough, most of the people who went to the shop in the east courtyard to sell paper money, when they went out and passed by the coffin shop in the west courtyard, they would stop and take a look, and this was the time for Shen Luzhu to show his skills.

"Auntie, uncle wants to come in and see, our family is not the one who doesn't buy it, let's come in and take a look, look at which novelty, I will introduce to you, they are all used for sacrifice on the grave, maybe there will be one that can be used right now, now on the Qingming Festival, there are still activities in our house, maybe you can take one back for free."

As soon as the uncles and aunts heard that there was a cheap advantage, whether they were interested or not, they were bound to go in and take a look.

"You are a man, a cow and a horse, why do you still have a house, and these are burned for the dead?"

Shen Luzhu was afraid that the big guy would just come in and take a look, and then leave, and now that someone was talking, she could say her words along the way, so she said with a smile: "Uncle, you are really good eyesight, these are indeed the same as paper money and grain basins, they are all sacrifices."

"You little couple can really do the work, how can you go to the grave to sacrifice and burn these!"

"Uncle, listen to me, why do we burn paper money when we go to the grave? The first is to send sorrows, miss the ancestors and elders, and the second is to send them some silver money, what is the silver money used for, recruit servants and maids, buy cars, buy horses and buy houses, left and right are doing this, why not buy them first and burn them, just like the longevity clothes burned during the funeral and the Winter Clothes Festival."

The eldest lady on the side nodded thoughtfully: "It seems to make some sense."

Seeing this, Shen Luzhu hurriedly continued to sell: "Burning paper money, burning shrouds, burning grain pots and beckoning trees is the same as burning these paper people and paper horses, it's all our intentions, I see that you seem to have bought a lot of my family's paper money today, so, you pick one of these paper bundles, I'll send you, how about you go back and give it a try?"

As soon as she heard that there were such good things, the eldest lady immediately confirmed with a smile: "Boss, you are serious, you want to give me one, and you can choose whatever you want?"

"Of course it's true, but I still have a small request, my aunt has to help me publicize my family's paper tie when I go back."

The eldest lady thought it was a request, and when she heard that it was so simple, she hurriedly responded: "Of course, your paper money is so easy to use, and this paper is not bad, you can rest assured that I will go back and my neighbors to promote your family."

"Then thank you, Auntie."

Seeing this, others also stepped forward to talk: "Eh, boss lady, you can't favor one over the other, we all bought paper money at your house, do you have to give us one?" Look at the book

"yes, yes, we've bought quite a few of that."

Shen Lu Zhuyuan was going to send out a batch of them for his regular customers to try, but he also deliberately said it in front of the big guys, but at this moment, he still had to pretend to be a little embarrassed and said, "Uncle and aunt, this is really embarrassing for me, I haven't prepared so much paper."

"Eh, don't you have a paper making workshop in your house, lady, it's not fast to do."

"Isn't it, I remember that in the middle of the first month, your workshop was still recruiting workers and apprentices, and they were all doing such a big deal, boss, can you still miss this thing?"

Shen Luzhu looked in a dilemma, sighed and said: "I won't tell you, this paper tie is labor-intensive and time-consuming, and the workshops are all newcomers, so they have only made so much, and now they are all placed in the shop, and they are going to be placed in the shop to promote one or two, if they are sent out today, what else will the shop use to promote their own paper?"

But the aunt just now is right, everyone is a regular customer of my shop, and you can't favor one over the other in trading, how should this be?"

The wife is acting hard in front, Chu Yi is not good at staying in the back, but there is really nothing he can intervene in, and after a little pondering, he will lead the first at the beginning, Shen Luzhu said that he wanted to send the paper tie The lady went to the side to choose the paper tie style.

Seeing this, the people who were still trying to persuade Shen Luzhu were really more eager, and they all said that they could also help with the publicity.

Shen Luzhu quietly

Behind him, he gave Chu Yi a thumbs up, but his face was still a little entangled, and then he said as if he had made up his mind: "Since you are so enthusiastic and willing to help with publicity, then I must give this paper tie, but I really can't give it all out in one breath today, otherwise after you help me publicize, if someone comes to the shop to see, there will be no display of it."

"What do you want to do with the boss?"

Shen Luzhu cleared his throat and said, "I think so, first ask the workshop at home to hurry up and make it, but it will take some time."

"Then won't we be able to get it for a while, and what can we do if your family doesn't admit it then?"

"Yes, there is no voucher, you don't admit it, who are we going to reason."

Shen Luzhu hurriedly reassured when he heard this: "Auntie, my aunt listened to me finish speaking, although the workshop is slow, but it can still be made every day, if the big guy can't believe it, then just start from Ming'er, in the next three days, after the shop opens every day, the first ten who come to the shop can choose a paper tie and take it away, so that you can not only send the paper bundle to everyone, but also do not delay the display in the shop, what do you think?"

Everyone looked left and right, a little puzzled, "We don't have that many people here."

Shen Luzhu explained with a smile: "No, but our family has a lot of regular customers, and it's nothing to have more, and the aunts and uncles can also call relatives and friends at home when they go back, anyway, it's only three days, first come, first served."