In the past, if a businessman brought a batch of goods to a certain city, he first had to rent a warehouse to load the goods, and then find an inn to arrange for the accompanying people to stay, and then he could go to the tooth man to help him find a buyer!

But the tooth people may not be able to grasp all the buying and selling information, and sometimes they even have to get the news from other people, and the time will drag on longer! Sometimes it's common for a deal to drag on for ten days and half a month, and you have to give the tooth man a rake! Then add in the rent of the warehouse, the price of people eating horse feed, the cost is quite high!

Nowadays, there is this model of proud teahouse, people who want to sell goods only need to hang up the water card, and the people who buy the goods can trade directly under the water card when they see it, eliminating the pumping of the tooth people, not to mention, but also greatly speeding up the speed of the transaction!

The goods that used to be delivered in a month may now have found a buyer before they get off the ship, which saves a lot of time and money! In this way, even if a small business is sold at a reduced price, the profit is higher than the original!

As for purchasing, it's even simpler! If you have the goods, you can find someone to trade, and if you don't have the goods, you can also find someone to make a contract and deliver the goods at the agreed time. In this way, the person who wants to buy not only guarantees the supply and delivery time, but also the person who sells the goods guarantees the profit and time, which can be said to be a great joy!

Thinking of this, the excited shopkeeper asked, "Do you really don't charge anything here except for the tea money?"

The guy affirmed, "Don't worry, we really don't take anything here! All you have to do is keep an eye on the water sign!"

Shopkeeper Hu nodded excitedly when he heard this, and directly grabbed a few pieces of broken silver from his purse and stuffed them into the man's hand, asking him to arrange a good position! The guy didn't care, and directly arranged him to a position in the middle of the hall.

The man took the money, and then brought tea and snacks. After sniffing vigorously at the teapot, the shopkeeper Hu said, "It's actually the tip of the hair!"

Look at the dim sum is also an ordinary color, but it is relatively clean, seeing here he thinks the guy is not bad, sure enough, the things here are very ordinary, the only thing that is not ordinary is the price! He knew that he had almost given his fellow a tael of silver, but it turned out that all he had brought was these ordinary goods!

Then he sat down and looked around, and saw that there were one or two people sitting at each table, and their tables were unusually large, larger than a normal square table, and filled with samples of various things. It seems that this is a trading center completely!

Shopkeeper Hu took a rough look around, and found that the goods on the table around him were very complete! There are no less than a dozen kinds of silk of various colors alone, such as silk, Luo, silk, satin, crepe, silk, velvet and so on! There are also porcelain of different sizes and even lacquerware on the table! And just from the appearance of these goods, you know that they are all very good products!

Seeing such a complete sample, Shopkeeper Hu wanted to go around! However, he had no intention of shopping outside this time, so he could only sit down so as not to cause trouble to the other merchants.

After looking around, Shopkeeper Hu looked further away. He found that the entire teahouse was a hollow-shaped structure, but one of the walls was left out separately and became a place to hang water signs. And the middle patio is huge, so there are not many people who can sit on the second floor, so I think it should be for high rollers.

At this time, he suddenly thought that the teahouse was obviously a three-story building, but why he only saw two floors. Thinking of this, he called the man over and asked, "Man, I saw from the outside that this teahouse has three floors, but now I only see two floors, what is the third floor for?"

The man said, "Part of it is the office of the stewards of the fiefdom at all levels. Another part is the tax office. After the merchants complete the transaction below, they can go directly to the third floor to pay taxes."

Shopkeeper Hu nodded and said, "Then does Master Hou leave a place for himself here?"

The guy said, "Of course there is! But Master Hou has a lot of things to do, so he doesn't come here often."

Speaking of this, the guy said proudly: "Actually, many people who come here have the intention of seeing Hou Ye, but it is really difficult to see Hou Ye! He has to train soldiers outside every day, and he has to deal with local security, which is very hard!"

Speaking of which, Shopkeeper Hu simply took out a few more pieces

Silver came out and said, "Little brother, why don't you tell me more about the rules here?" It's my first time here, and I'm not familiar with a lot of things, and if the rules are broken, it's not beautiful!"

The guy looked around and found that there was peace in the teahouse, and there was nothing special, so he was naturally happy to take this reward, so he accompanied the shopkeeper Hu to talk. He told him the rules here in detail, and also told a lot of anecdotes about Wu Ninghou.

Just when the two of them had been talking for about a quarter of an hour, they heard a commotion outside the door, and two people walked in with their burdens on their backs. When the man saw this, he smiled and said, "Looks like another caravan has arrived!"

The shopkeeper said, "How can you be sure that it's a caravan and not a ship?"

The guy said, "If it's a boat, how can there be only so many people with samples! Seeing that they only brought three packages, they could only be caravan people!"

At this time, another guy led the two people to sit down and communicated with them in detail. Later, after seeing that the guy had collected the tea money, the liaison person prepared the water card, and the caravan people opened the baggage and spread it on the table. It's just that the shopkeeper is a little far away from them, and he can't see what it is, but he can only vaguely see that it seems to be leather goods!

So Shopkeeper Hu turned his attention to the water pai, ready to see what goods they were taking? After a while, the first water card was hung up, and it was written, "Fifteen purple lambskins!"

Shopkeeper Hu was surprised and stood up directly! It wasn't a black sheepskin, it was a purple lambskin! This is a rare and precious fur!

Then a second water card was hung up, which read, "Two hundred bunches of ponytails!"

Seeing this, the shopkeeper shook his head and sat down. After he went to Shanxi to run errands this time, he also made a special trip to Lanzhou, and he only got six purple lamb skins with all his efforts, which was barely enough to make a leather coat for his old lady! However, there are fifteen purple lambskins in front of him, which can only show that after the opening of the sea in Tianjin, all businessmen from all over the world have been attracted here! In the future, business here will definitely flourish!

Thinking of this, Shopkeeper Hu and the people around him got up and leaned over to the new table, but they all knew the rules and didn't go too far ahead. Let the first merchant near the table sit down. I get up with the master of the table politely.