kvmb Chapter 270 The Royal Carriage
Chapter 270 The Royal Carriage
When Wang Jinyi saw Sister Feng follow into the carriage, she felt that she could rest assured on the journey.
What a blind robber you are, robbing a team like ours that has no power, no influence and no money. Wang Jinyi leaned against the car and lay down lazily.
The carriage moved briskly, brushing shoulders with pedestrians and vehicles on the street.
Chen Sanlang in the crowd was looking at a bodyguard convoy with five carriages, and more than a dozen guards around them, including two women. Hmm, it was probably a young lady from an official family traveling!
He followed the pedestrians to the side of the road, and the escort and the team leader who were leading the way clasped their fists on their horses to thank everyone who made way, and the carriage headed towards the north gate.
Chen Sanlang originally wanted to go to the bookstore to find out more about the stars in the night sky while waiting for the results to be announced.
But Huo Ying said that he must visit all the wooden shops and also check out the East Market and the West Market.
One was to familiarize themselves with the wood market in the city, and the other was that Huo Ying and Chen Sanlang had a plan in mind to open a wood shop in the city.
Huo Ying saw Chen Sanlang staring at the carriage convoy going away, and he was indignant and confused:
"Humph! These young ladies from official families just love to put on airs!"
Chen Sanlang pointed at the carriage going away and asked, "Brother Huo, did you see it? The family emblem on the carriage seems to have the word 'king' written on it?"
"Who cares if it's Wang or Li? What do these housekeepers have to do with us? Come on, come on. There are many people who have asked you to do design work these days. There are also two restaurants that need to be renovated. You need to go and take a look. You can't put it off any longer. If you put it off, there will be no more work!"
Seeing that Chen Sanlang was still not leaving and was staring at the receding carriage, thinking about something, Huo Ying became anxious and simply grabbed Chen Sanlang and dragged him a few steps. Chen Sanlang shook off his hand, and the two of them hurried towards the West Market.
Chen Sanlang has been on scientific expeditions these days, while Huo Ying is focusing on running the wood business.
If Huo Ying hadn't been watching Chen Sanlang over the past few years and realized how much he loved reading, and would rather force himself to go to the gambling house at night to look at the street lights than give up studying, he would have wanted to persuade Chen Sanlang to stop studying and stop taking the exam.
Now the four brothers' wood shop not only makes money, but they also have a small store in Xunnan County. They no longer have to worry about food. After following Chen Sanlang to the provincial capital, they found that it is easier to make money in the provincial capital. They have only been here for more than a month, and they have earned more than before!
The more Huo Ying interacted with people, the more he realized his own limited abilities. He never expected that Chen Sanlang, a country boy who had never been out of the house, had such vision, ability, and was able to read and write. Reading a deed and writing something were no problem for him.
Huo Ying had advised Chen Sanlang many times not to bother taking the imperial examination and instead to concentrate on running a woodworking shop. Chen Sanlang designed all kinds of wooden furniture with strange patterns, and had two carpenters at home lead the people in making them while he went to various markets himself.
This combination is so perfect, but Chen Sanlang rejected it with just one word.
"Do not."
"I can choose not to join the woodworking shop, but I must insist on studying and taking the imperial examinations. Brother Huo, this is the last time you mention this to me. If you mention it again, I will quit the Four Brothers Woodworking Shop."
Huo Ying looked at this stubborn young man and swallowed back the curse that was about to come out of his mouth. Now the store could be short of anyone except Chen Sanlang. Without him, no one could draw the furniture he wanted, and no one could think of multiple ways to cooperate with others.
Even those merchants who came to us couldn’t give the correct answers.
Maybe what Sanlang Chen said is right. People still need to study. If you don't study, forget about negotiating contracts with others or doing design.
You can only earn hard labor money, and never think about making money easily like you do now!
While waiting for the results to be announced, Huo Ying used all kinds of tricks to get Chen Sanlang out of his job of copying books in the bookshop.
"As long as you complete the design part, I'll help you with the rest of the work, and you can just take the money and continue your studies and imperial examinations, isn't that enough?"
Today, the two reached a consensus to go to Xishi to look for a store to cooperate with, or submit Chen Sanlang's designs.
As for how to negotiate cooperation with others, that was Chen Sanlang's business. Huo Ying didn't think about anything. He knew that it would be right to let Chen Sanlang think about such thinking and listen to his ideas.
West Market is one of the two major markets in Xunyang Prefecture. West Market is not as famous as East Market. West Market is known as the "Silver Market". It is a market for daily necessities and miscellaneous goods. There are thousands of stalls here with a wide variety of products, but compared with East Market, the scale of the merchants is not large.
There is an interesting story about the West Market. It is said that originally there was only one East Market in Xunyang Prefecture, and the West Market was originally a tidal flat.
Later, a businessman named Xie came from the capital. When he passed by here, he saw that the surrounding area was full of small snack vendors.
I was sitting by a snack stall looking at the tidal flat and heard the vendor say during a chat that Xunyang Prefecture had issued an announcement that whoever could manage the tidal flat in the prefecture and invest in leveling it would be sold the land at 5% off the market price.
The Xie family was originally a noble family, so they sent people to negotiate with the Xunyang Prefecture, and the Xie family invested in repairing the tidal flat within half a year.
The land here was sold to the Xie family at 70% off the market price.
Xunyang Prefecture was originally troubled by the management of this tidal flat, but when it heard that the Xie family was willing to undertake the renovation of the tidal flat, it stipulated that the tidal flat must be leveled within 6 months and could be sold to the Xie family at % of the land price. If the deadline was exceeded, the land would still be sold at % off.
A businessman named Xie asked someone to drive a wooden stake in the mudflats, and recruited vendors selling various snacks around it, and asked beggars to advertise along the street. Xie received a copper coin and could throw 20 mud balls at the stake. If a mud ball hit the stake, it could be exchanged for a bun, a fried cake, two steamed buns, or other food nearby.
Within three days, the whole city was in an uproar, and people started making various mud balls to throw at the wooden stakes in order to win the surrounding delicacies.
This game with low investment and high returns spread like wildfire across all the surrounding counties, and everyone who knew about it came to try their luck.
As a result, with the help of everyone, it took the Xie family only more than two months to fill up the mudflat with the mud contributed by everyone.
Later, the Xie family renovated and planned this mudflat into a market, and the small vendors who initially contributed to the Xie family's mud ball game became the original market operators.
The market on this mudflat was originally called Xie Shi, which means Xie Family Market, but later it became vulgar and was called Xi Shi.
"Now, there are a lot of small vendors gathered in the West Market. This land belongs to the Xie family, and the management of the market belongs to Xunyang Prefecture."
As Huo Ying talked, he led Chen Sanlang through the bustling food area and small commodity area, and followed the signs to the wood shop.
After looking around, they both found that in the capital city, the more meaningless the furniture looked, the better it sold, the higher the price and the more money they made.
Like tea tables, flower stands, table screens, inkstone screens, etc. Even the furniture is added with relief and openwork to make the furniture more enjoyable.
Chen Sanlang observed carefully and tried hard to remember, preparing to use it in designing furniture for wealthy families.