Chapter 323 Chapter 323: Beating the Autumn Wind (Part 2) [Please vote]
“This is it?”
Xu Jie looked curious.
Gu Chi smiled and invited him in to take a look.
While introducing: "This is the shop opened by the governor."
"Zhi opened a shop? Is this what Mr. Shen meant?"
"Yes."
"This is a strange thing."
Xu Jie did not expect this The young Shen Jun still understands the affairs of merchants. You must know that no matter in the past or now, policies in various places are mainly policies to suppress business. Merchants do not produce but control a large amount of money, and they have always been feared by those in power.
Small businessmen are just that, they just do some small business to support their families, and those big businessmen all have the shadow of powerful families behind them. They usually keep a group of private soldiers in their hands. When they are doing business, they line up and the horses and chariots are in full swing.
Otherwise, how to protect the safety of valuable goods?
The bigger the merchants are, the stronger their private armed forces are, which in itself is also a fearful and destabilizing factor.
Therefore, the status of merchants has always been restricted and high municipal taxes have been set, which is also conducive to the stability of people's livelihood under the rule.
Merchants are not in the upper class and have a lower status. Even the Xu family behind Xu Jie rarely gets involved in business themselves, leaving everything to their servants, family members, or distant relatives to take care of it. It is rare for a county governor to personally conduct business.
It would actually be a shame to say it out.
However, Xu Jie, as the head of the Xu family, naturally would not think so. The Xu family cannot survive today without the basic industries of the family. Without these, how can the children of the family rely on food, clothing and food? No matter how tall a person grows, his legs still have to touch the ground.
He followed Gu Chi into the "Fugu Department Store" chatting and laughing. As soon as he entered, he was stuffed with a small bamboo basket.
"This is?"
Gu Chi said: "It's a bamboo basket."
Of course Xu Jie knew that it was a woven bamboo basket.
We even know that there is a bamboo forest near Fugu.
But hand him a bamboo basket for what?
Gu Chi also asked the "shopping guide" for a bamboo basket, hanging it on his forearm: "The Lord calls it a 'shopping basket', which is used to carry goods in the grocery store. Note, if you want a shelf All you have to do is ask someone to come over and open it and take it down for you.”
Over time, the variety of goods in department stores has increased, and they are not like the shabby shelves at the beginning. It was also rebuilt and a small bamboo door was added.
When the customer wants to buy, ask the "shopping guide" to open the door and take it down.
This is also done for safety reasons.
Shen Tang is not stingy about using the worst side of human nature. After all, Fugu is a poor place, where unruly people come from poor mountains and rivers, and open shelves are prone to frequent thefts. It is unrealistic to send someone to keep an eye on every customer, so just press a door on the shelf.
The customer enters the store and selects the goods, and then has someone pick them up.
Of course, some of the more expensive goods are not placed on the shelves. There are only one kind of goods, and you have to go to the warehouse to pick them up.
After that, just go to the counter to pay.
Xu Jie listened intently and murmured: "Can it be like this?
The area of the department store is much larger than before.
Two people can easily stand between the shelves.
Xu Jie also noticed the bamboo pieces hanging under the goods on the shelves.
This kind of bamboo pieces are usually used to mark prices. He also knew that, but the novelty was that the bamboo pieces did not have familiar words on them, but instead. There were some strange patterns, and I asked, "This is this?" ”
Gu Chi said: "Price. Shen Jun felt that it was difficult for ordinary people to understand complex numbers, so he took a few simpler patterns to replace different numbers. The first line of the sign outside the store read the numbers from zero to nine. It is easy for ordinary people to remember. If you remember the number corresponding to each pattern, you no longer need to ask for prices frequently when entering the store. You can just look at the price tag. "
Xu Jie listened carefully and memorized it carefully.
“I see, it’s really novel.” The letters and numbers are also simple, but they are still difficult for ordinary people to remember.
Under normal circumstances, a store as big as Fugu Department Store needs a lot of people to manage it, but customers can read the prices and select the goods by themselves, which invisibly reduces the cost of the store and improves management. It’s also more convenient to get up.
In Xu Jie's opinion, these can be regarded as "business secrets", but Gu Chi had no intention of hiding it. He was surprisingly frank and straightforward. He not only let him see it openly, but also explained it to him carefully. , so hospitable that Xu Jie was flattered. It even made Xu Jie a little suspicious - the frail-looking young man in front of him was really... a literary scholar?
This style of painting is not quite right.
He went shopping and didn't buy anything. Xu Jie couldn't bear to lose face, so he just bought something expensive, which was regarded as a "shu repair".
From the perspective of the head of the Xu family, the goods in the shop are not of high quality. After thinking about it, I can understand. After all, it is a shop for the common people, and people cannot afford the goods if they are too good.
Xu Jie, accompanied by Gu Chi, looked at each shelf, and he really discovered some interesting patterns.
For example, goods will be classified according to how they are used, which can greatly save the time of staying in the store and looking for goods, and the purpose will be clearer; for example, more commonly used goods will be placed where they can be easily reached. , place objects that will not be used too frequently at too high or too low a position...
Xu Jie thought this through.
He said: "Shen Jun's move is not for profit."
Gu Chi asked what he meant.
Xu Jie smiled and raised his hand to point to the shelves around him: "If you are a merchant, you must try to make the customers who enter the store stay longer, so that they can buy more, and then put the expensive and high-profit items on The most convenient position... but looking at the layout of the shop, it is completely contrary to this, so Mr. Shen is not in a good position."
Gu Chi: "..."
Good guy! ! !
As expected of the eldest son of the Tianhai Xu family, this guy is really a profiteer! I have been thinking about this for a while after entering the store! ! !
Oh, he is still the head of the family now.
He is indeed a man who can become the head of the family!
Gu Chi adjusted his micro-expression to avoid revealing his secrets.
At this time, Xu Jie also invited a "shopping guide" to ask for a few jars of wine.
The "shopping guide" is a tall and rough man.
Before, he was a bandit.
After that, he was taken under Shen Tang's banner. Because he was sensitive to numbers, had good arithmetic skills, and looked relatively friendly to the people, he was transferred here to work. He glanced at Gu Chi, with a troubled expression on his face: "This is a limited supply every day, in exchange for 'wine bars'..."
Xu Jie was stunned for a moment.
What "limited supply"?
What is "in exchange for wine bars"?
Another strange and novel vocabulary.
Just ask Gu Chi these questions, and Gu Chi’s eyes indicated that he would elaborate later. He turned to the “shopping guide” and said: “Wen Zhu is Shen Jun’s distinguished guest, different from others. You go and get it. Just come, if anyone asks, just say it was my intention."
"But this is against the rules..."
"Shopping guide" is becoming more and more difficult.
Xu Jie was wondering what this meant when he heard a strong male voice coming from his ears, with a bit of inexplicable ridicule: "What do I think this is? The rules are the rules, how can it be because Are you ignoring the rules when you look at Wangchao?"
Xu Jie looked around and his eyes lit up. Without him, this person is extraordinary at first glance.
Gu Chi smiled bitterly: "Mr. Yang."
He turned sideways to reveal Xu Jie behind him.
With just a glance, Captain Yang knew that this was really a "distinguished guest", with an aura of "nobleness" all over his body, and he gave up the idea of watching Gu Chi lively. He waved to the "shopping guide" and ordered: "Go to the back and get my jars, hurry up."
After that, he said to Gu Chi: "You can bring out the wine bars."
< br>Gu Chi said funny: "Okay, okay, you won't break the rules."
After a while, all the jars of wine were brought in.
At the counter, Captain Yang asked Xu Jie to check if there were any problems with each item, and then said to Gu Chi: "Check out."
Only then did Xu Jie see the so-called "wine strips."
Just ordinary wood chips.
It looks like a deed.
Xu Jie asked puzzledly: "Can't you settle the bill with money?"
What kind of doorway is this?
Yang Duwei recorded the account and said: "Others are acceptable, but the daily limited supply is not acceptable. The payment must be settled with a 'wine note' deed. In the future, when the common people become a little richer, this restriction may be removed. "
Xu Jie nodded. When you come to other people's territory, you should abide by their rules. He didn't have to do anything special. He just converted the money to Gu Chi according to the normal price. After all, he had to pay the "Shu Xiu", so how could Gu Chi pay for it?
I just didn’t expect such good wine to be found in this remote place - I just inspected the goods and found that the clear aroma of the wine came to my nose. From his experience, this is definitely a wine of high quality.
No wonder there is a "limited supply".
Maybe the supply is scarce?
Xu Jie asked and found out that this was not the case.
Lots of wine, a lot.
Gu Chi started his performance of making nonsense with his eyes open - Shen Jun's ancestors were in the wine business and passed down many brewing recipes, which can produce the highest quality wine with the least consumption.
Guaranteed that every jar is of similar quality!
The most important thing is——
Gu Chi paused deliberately and gave up.
When Xu Jie looked at him with curiosity and knowledge in his eyes, he continued to compile. These ancestral wine-making recipes in Shen Jun's hands were all inspired by Yan Ling and improved. And it has been refined from generation to generation.
Therefore, these wines also have more magical effects than ordinary wines, and are quite beneficial to literary scholars and courageous warriors.
Xu Jie was shocked when he heard this and asked quickly.
"Are you serious about this?"
"Of course it is true! My Lord regards Mr. Wu as his elder brother, how could he deceive me about such a trivial matter?" Gu Chi seemed to be offended and said, "How can you doubt it?" The pure brother/sister relationship between the two masters, are they really brothers and sisters even if they hide such little secrets?" The expression on his face was so genuine that Xu Jie was confused.
I couldn’t help but beat a drum in my heart.
The relationship between the two of them is so good?
Or——
When Shen Jun was young, he took his lord's brother-in-law seriously, so he didn't hide anything and treated each other with sincerity? Xu Jie felt slightly panicked when this guess came to his mind, as if a shameless liar had deceived an innocent child.
However, Xu Jie is not that easy to coax.
If it is true or false, you will know when you go back and check.
If the wine is so precious and rare, there is no reason to put it on the shelves of grocery stores. Ordinary people can also exchange "wine notes" for it. Xu Jie also saw other different types of notes.
However, there is no need to tell lies that can be easily exposed.
Xu Jie Shao had no choice but to test it out.
What to test?
Try this "touching brotherhood"!
He didn't believe that some people really took it seriously.
Xu Jie pretended to be curious about those "notes".
Gu Chi said: "Those deeds the annotation mentioned? Isn't it because although the lord has food and property confiscated by Fugu local snakes, he doesn't have enough copper coins. However, privately minting coins is illegal and indisciplined! Common people's transactions are multi-purpose. Copper coins. In desperation, I exchanged the money and food in my hands for these deeds to temporarily replace the copper coins, so I can survive this period..."
He had a clear reason for what he said.
At least it makes perfect sense logically.
"Tiaozi" represents copper coins.
Represents the money in Shen Tang’s hands.
But it didn’t reveal the real purpose of the “notes”! Not to mention that Shen Tang uses these "slips" to recycle limited resources. These "slips" can be used as money! And on the premise of not breaking down, she can do as much as she wants.
Gu Chi warmly entertained Xu Jie.
Take him to visit every corner of Fu Gu.
Let Xu Jie see Fu Gu's poverty, and also see Fu Gu's vitality and potential vitality, and tell her heart to heart, which makes Xu Jie's defense against others seem like a villain.
Two hours have passed since I finished the tour and explanation.
Gu Chi looked at the sky and smiled brightly: "At this hour, Dayi should have returned from outside the city. I heard from my lord that Wenzhu and Dayi are close friends and have a close personal relationship?"
The corner of Xu Jie's mouth Slightly twitching: "..."
I wonder if there is something wrong with Shen Tang's tent.
Three points of politeness can be exaggerated by ten points.
One point of friendship can be regarded as twelve points of truth.
He and Zhao Feng had some personal relationships, but the two families only had normal friendships. Xu Jie also had a good relationship with the other five generals under Wu Xian. After all, there was no benefit in offending these powerful generals.
If you can make friends, make friends. If you can't make friends, don't offend.
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