Chapter 57: Showing Off Your Wealth
At this time, according to the solar terms, it is already a small cold, so the night comes very quickly.
However, Xiangfan City has never had a curfew, but after nightfall, it is extraordinarily brilliantly bright, and from a distance, it even has the nickname of "fire trees and silver flowers never sleep".
Because Li Hu was on duty tonight, and in order to avoid the suspicion of Commander Tian, he only sent someone to greet Lin Fengjin. This person's name is Hu San, he is not a soldier, but a housekeeper, and he knows everything about the three sects and nine streams in Xiangfan City.
At this time, Li Hu was in charge of the armaments column, in charge of the procurement and baggage in the army, and Hu San's main family was also a wealthy businessman, so Li Hu had to nod his head if he wanted to open up the joint, so Li Hu casually mentioned it, and immediately sent his most powerful subordinates to flatter.
Although Lin Fengjin and Lin De were not familiar with each other, they were treated very properly under the smiling face of Hu San, and in the afternoon, they took a carriage directly to the Zhengchang Wharf in the north of Xiangfan City.
Regardless of land and water, it is a transportation fortress, the first prosperous place for the distribution of goods, and the bitter Ha Luha alone is more than nearly 10,000 people who have worked hard here, not to mention the more than 20 docks that provide maintenance and maintenance, not to mention that these people have wives and children, family members, Lin Lin finally counts up, and the people who rely on this Zhengchang Wharf to eat are even more than 100,000, which shows how lively this place is?
The queen mother's birthday gift, naturally, was sent into the palace by the eunuch as soon as it docked to the king, and the rest of the people could only wait respectfully on the boat, until the news from the palace came out, saying that the king was very satisfied. These people were relieved and began to plan for their own pockets, and they rented the lobby of the Xiaoxiang Building next to it, preparing to find some buyers for the private work they brought back.
Of course, it is definitely inconvenient for them to hand over to outsiders, but they are only responsible for opening up the joints of the government and sending posts to invite people. On the bright side, it was the soldiers of Captain Yokoba who escorted the ship out, and the time to start buying was not in the evening, but in the afternoon.
Lin Fengjin came to the Zhengchang Wharf at this time, he had seen a record about this place from a miscellaneous book before, saying that here "the water and land should be rushed, extremely prosperous, and the people who come and go are like clouds, and the sweat is like a stream" Now when he comes, he finds that although it is not so exaggerated, it is also very appropriate.
Hu San next to him is also the kind of person who has been trained out of a big family and specializes in receiving socials, and he feels gentle and elegant when he speaks, neither humble nor arrogant, and wherever he goes, he will tell the local scenic spots and allusions, and there is quite a feeling of handing over with it, like a spring breeze.
After the people entered the Xiaoxiang Building, they came to a place where they should usually listen to the play, and sat down in order. As we all know, in this kind of occasion, even the sitting position is very particular, it is a person's identity, power, and financial strength.
Lin Feng noticed that the position he was sitting in was at the front, and it was not a box, so he probably judged the status of Hu San's main family in Xiangfan, which should belong to the wealthy businessmen who belonged to that kind of place to enter Xiangdu, although the financial resources were strong, but the secret strength was not enough.
In this case, unless it has to be run for several generations, or there is a stunning and glamorous character in the family, it is at least the third grade of the official----- that is, the official in the six departments can be improved.
This Xiaoxianglou is not the first time to undertake this kind of thing, there are many waterways in Nanzheng, so the shipping industry is developed, and the monarch is not a short-sighted king who closes off the country, and there are two or three sales meetings every month, so the shopkeeper is familiar with everything, and he is familiar with it, and he will handle it in accordance with the previous regulations.
Soon, a platter was placed on the red lacquer coffee table in front of Lin Fengjin, which was filled with seasonal dried fruits: hazelnuts, cashew nuts, white melon seeds, sunflower seeds, peanuts, lotus seeds, pine nuts, and chestnuts.
To know that at this time, logistics is far less developed than in later generations, and it is very rare to be able to get such a platter, and it is estimated that the cost of the fruits in such a plate can provide the life of several families for several months. Being able to provide this plate of snacks for free shows that the grade of this shopping meeting is definitely not low.
At this time, there was still a lot of chaos outside, and there were only less than half of the people sitting inside, and the people who sat down were self-conscious, and they rarely talked and laughed loudly, but it was inevitable that there would be bursts of chattering buzzing one after another.
Lin Fengjin was waiting a little impatiently, when suddenly a young man in a green coat and a small hat came over from the corridor next to him, and respectfully handed him a famous thorn.
This thing is an ancient business card, but it is very elegant, and it is subtle, and it is not advisable to directly print the title of a certain chairman on it, but similar to the family coat of arms in medieval Europe, the identity of the owner is revealed in a subtle and low-key way.
For example, if the cover of the worship post is yellow, then the owner must be the royal family who has not run away, and if the cover is purple, then the identity of the owner as a minister of the palace is relatively large. However, the color of the worship post that Lin Fengjin got was ordinary plain green, but there was a big pattern on the worship post.
This pattern is by no means unfamiliar to Lin Fengjin, because it is a vivid pattern of the sun and moon money, and those who dare to use this pattern to do worship are unique in the whole world, that is Xiangfan Qianzhuang!
Hu San was very shrewd, and when he saw that Lin Fengjin, a newcomer, could actually make the people of Xiangfan Qianzhuang take the initiative to worship, he couldn't help but look down on them. As wealthy businessmen who have taken root, of course they know what such a behemoth as Xiangfan Qianzhuang represents.
Lin Fengjin didn't pay attention to the thoughts of others, knowing that it should be his own "fishing" tactics that worked, but in fact, it was mainly Mr. Gu, who was obsessed with the art of the mechanism, who sold the bottom of Xiangfan Qianzhuang cleanly.
In addition, Lin Fengjin even put on a tough attitude of breaking up without saying a word and completely destroying the drawings, so it is natural for people from Xiangfan Qianzhuang to come to him.
Following this little guy, I came to a box upstairs, which is basically the best location, and I can see everything at a glance just from here.
As soon as you walk into the box, a curling tea fragrance wafts in, the decoration inside is a plain and tranquil style, not to mention the rest, the platter on the table alone is a dried fruit plate, a fresh fruit plate, a dim sum plate, a cold platter and so on a whole seven, the method of loading is to row, push, stack, encircle, swing, cover all available. The following specifications were compared at once.
There was only one person in the box, the middle-aged beautiful woman in charge. When she saw Lin Fengjin coming in, she said half-jokingly and half-seriously:
"Lin Gongzi is really difficult to invite, I have to let the slave family come to find you. ”
Lin Fengjin's pupils contracted slightly, he didn't remember that he had said his surname at Xiangfan Qianzhuang, which meant that this woman had begun to investigate her details, but this was fine. The more this woman values herself, the more determined she is to win, and the higher the bargaining chips she can take.
Lin Fengjin also followed the words of the king steward and smiled:
"There's no way, life is at stake, and the rest of the mundane things can be put aside. ”
Steward Wang smiled and said:
"I heard that Lin Gongzi has a great friendship with the new manager Li of Yu Lin Wei, it should be from him that he got the news about the purchasing meeting, right? Although there are indeed a few treasures that can prolong life among the specialties brought back from overseas this time, they have already been booked by several wealthy families, and if Lin Gongzi wants to get a piece of the pie, it is quite difficult. ”
Lin Fengjin glanced at her, first picked up a cup of tea next to him and took a sip of half of it, and praised:
"Good tea!"
Then he said unhurriedly:
"As the saying goes, things are man-made, and I can't wait for death in vain. ”
The two had a verbal battle, but Lin Fengjin refused to give in at all, and the middle-aged beauty finally sighed and said:
"That's it, I won't go around in circles with you anymore, there is a Bodhi fruit in our bank, which is good at nourishing qi and blood, you take out that drawing, plus the two things you took from the money bank yesterday. I'll just change it for you, right?"
Lin Feng laughed and glanced at Lin De. Lin Demu grimaced, reached into his arms, and took out a stack of silver tickets from his arms, the most one was paid at the sight of 10,000 taels, and what was even funnier was that it was the silver ticket of Xiangfan Qianzhuang, looking at the thickness of which was hundreds of thousands of taels! Lin Fengjin sneered beside him:
"I don't know what kind of reservation is not booked, but since the person in charge has opened this buying meeting, it must be in the intention of selling more silver taels! If any bullshit can be ordered, what kind of bullshit will they do? The person who made the reservation would come and pick up the goods. No matter how big the face of a wealthy family is, can it be as big as two or three times the amount of silver? I'm a dying man, and I can still take care of the face of a wealthy family?"
Lin Fengjin's words happened to talk about the middle-aged beauty's greatest worries.
Yes, it is true that some wealthy families have booked overseas treasures for longevity, but these wealthy families are not determined to obtain this thing, at least two of them have to be afraid of Lin Fengjin's Yu Linwei backstage.
And more importantly, Lin Fengjin's character is obviously the kind that is very ruthless, and when it comes to his own life, he is even more desperate, if he is determined to buy it, he will almost definitely be able to get an overseas treasure.
And after Lin Fengjin bought what she needed, the middle-aged beauty knew very well that it would be even more difficult to get the drawing from the little fox's hand, and she would have to pay ten times the price!
But the king's steward didn't know what to say, but only a few of the thick stacks of silver tickets that Linde took out were genuine.........!