No matter how good things are, as long as there are still people to execute them, there is a possibility of messing up. Things like what Liao Li is doing now seem simple, but how to make them relatively fair is the core.
After all, Liu Bei was not the county magistrate back then and didn't know anything. He was used to many things in the world. There were too many things that were easy to do but difficult to do.
"Why would Chen Hou follow us?" Liu Tong turned to look at Chen Xi and asked suspiciously, "Aren't you supposed to be dealing with and investigating something? Why do I feel that you are following us, and you haven't seen me yet? What do you buy?"
"You are buying things, I am investigating, and there is no connection." Chen Xi rolled his eyes and said, "I am following you mainly because the stores you go to are relatively high-end, and the goods I want to observe are also in these stores, so It’s normal to be on the same road.”
"Okay, what you said makes sense." Liu Tong said that although he didn't understand what Chen Xi said, but for the sake of making sense, I didn't say anything and just pretended that there was a wallet behind him. , just pretend you have no money for a while.
"The things Chen Hou is looking at seem to be products produced in Southeast Asia and even Africa." Wu Yuan explained casually, "Is Chen Hou very interested in these things?"
"I'm not interested at all." Chen Xi looked at Wu Yuan's shining eyes and refused decisively. As long as he dared to say that he was interested, the next store would dare to give him free gifts without charging him any money.
"I thought Marquis Chen was interested. There are a lot of things produced here from the south and the west. We also spent a lot of effort to open up trade routes." Wu Yuan had a smile on her face, and Chen Xi kept talking while listening. Scratching your head.
Can you tell me how you managed to get the rhino horns from African rhinos? I would like to ask how you managed to get your ship to Africa.
This is a very incredible situation. Chen Xi previously thought that the trading city in Jiangling sold more goods from Southeast Asia. But after the result came, Chen Xi discovered that there actually sold more specialties from Africa, the Middle East, and Rome. Chen Xi was now curious. Yes, how did you transport it here? How did you do it?
To be honest, this is unscientific. One-fifth of the things purchased in Jiangling City come from Africa, the Middle East, and Rome. How did you transport them here? Aren't the sea routes still blocked?
Seeing that Chen Xi was silent, several people stopped asking questions. Then Zhen Mi slowly waited for Chen Xi to come over and grabbed Chen Xi's sleeve. Chen Xi smiled when he heard the words, nodded and led Chen Xi to the next shop.
As soon as Liu Tong and Wu Yuan entered, the shopkeeper took the waiter away and came to greet them personally. People who open luxury stores these days have a good mentality. In fact, they have always been good.
When I saw Liu Tong, Wu Yuan, and the somewhat silly Si Niang, I knew that these three were wives from wealthy families.
Although the leader did not bring too many accessories and did not ride in the car, the shopkeeper knew what was going on with that set of clothes. The same was generally true for Wu Yuan. The few accessories on her body, although the whole could not be seen, could be seen. You can tell a lot just by the workmanship.
As for the silly and cute Si Niang who is eating cakes, the shopkeeper can tell at a glance that this is a noble girl who has a mine in her family and does not know anything about food, rice, oil and salt. A normal person would pay attention to anyone who wears a bead chain, and will never feed cakes to the bead chain. Well, Si Niang not only fed it, but after realizing it, she just remembered to move the bead chain back, and then continued to chew the cake, the golden thread would break, right?
"Please come here, we have a lady from Africa here." The shopkeeper quickly made an invitation gesture, and then sent the waiter to start serving tea.
"Ah, Africa, isn't it far away from us?" Chen Xi asked with a curious expression, "How can I sell that fur?"
"The customer has good eyesight. This is a lion skin we got from Africa. We spent a lot of energy to get a complete skin. If you want it, it's 80,000 yuan." The shopkeeper saw that Chen Xi was interested in the lion skin. Interested, he immediately spoke.
Chen Xi was silent for a moment. It was a bit expensive. These days, African lions are probably about the same size as Africans. Prices in the Han Dynasty have been suppressed by Chen Xi. Five baht is extremely valuable. If I spend 80,000 yuan to build a house, it can be decorated. Okay, buying a skin is a bit much, but this lion skin is really big, and it does look like an African lion.
"If you were alive, I would be somewhat interested. You only want me for so much for a piece of skin, so you slipped away." Chen Xi looked like he wanted to run away, and Zhen Mi couldn't help but snicker when she saw this.
"We also have some alive." Seeing Chen Xi's expression, the shopkeeper confirmed that Chen Xi was really interested and decisively stated that they had some alive.
"I see you are buying treasures at your door, how can you survive?" Chen Xi was stunned.
The shopkeeper turned around and entered the counter, flipped through and took out two access certificates. "We have specially applied for live sales and general commercial sales certificates, so we can also sell live animals."
"Then the leather you hung up must have been raised to death, so it was sold." Chen Xi asked after being silent for a while.
The shopkeeper laughed and said, "That's possible, that's possible. These are all things our people brought back from hunting in Africa. How could they be raised to death?"
Okay, Chen Xi is sure that this is definitely a way to survive. Maybe he first got the qualification certificate to sell beasts, and then opened this store.
"Is it easy to raise?" Chen Xi asked curiously.
"If you want it, I'll give you one hundred thousand dollars." The shopkeeper said very excitedly, because you really can't afford it anymore. This thing only eats meat. Meat is expensive these days. Even if you have a big family, you can't afford it. I can't bear to eat like this, it's too cruel.
Liu Tong and the others looked at each other in confusion. They already had 80,000 yuan for their skin. How could they live on only 100,000 yuan?
"Brother, if you are interested, I will sell it to you for 90,000 yuan." The shopkeeper just held Chen Xi's hand. These days, ligers are really not something ordinary people can afford.
"I'm interested, but I want to know how you got this back. I remember you said it was an African lion." Chen Xi looked at the shopkeeper with a strange look on his face, and looked at Wu Yuan out of the corner of his eye. Your family is so cute. , do you know?
Wu Yuan looked at Chen Xi unclearly. She knew that this was their shop, but it was difficult for Wu Yuan to realize what it meant to bring African gadgets to Jiangling in the second century. The navigation technology involved It's really outrageous.
"It's the African lion. We went to Africa to collect a batch of rare treasures and brought back dozens of boats." The shopkeeper didn't think there was anything bad to say about it. Everyone knew that Africa had goods, but a few of them were brought back. , Our Wu family’s navigation technology is already incredible, right?
Chen Xi turned to look at Wu Yuan. Wu Yuan looked stunned. Wait, who can tell me what is going on with the dozens of ships? Who is trying to trick our Wu family? Our Wu family doesn't have so many ships.
"Uh, is there a live display park? Let's take a look. I'll take any good stuff." Chen Xi was silent for a while. He felt that it was pointless to pay attention to why the Wu family had dozens of boats. He needed Pay attention to other things, such as how you got the African lion back.
"Yes, yes." The shopkeeper nodded, then picked up the tea cup and took a few sips.
"Wrap it in lion skin for me." Chen Xi said very naturally. He was indeed interested in this thing. It was much larger than what he had seen before and was suitable for making a bed.
The shopkeeper is very proud. He likes such cheerful people. If you make a profit from doing a business, you really think that the lion skin is worth 80,000 yuan. It is not worth it, even including the manpower.
After wrapping up the lion skin for Chen Xi, a group of people went to the Wu family's store in Jiangling where various rare treasures are displayed. It is relatively remote. After all, land prices are so ridiculous these days, and living animals are difficult to maintain. , and it has to be open, so it’s terrible.
"Chen Hou, don't listen to the shopkeeper's nonsense. We definitely don't have that many ships." After coming out, Wu Yuan immediately sent a message to Chen Xi. There are dozens of ships, especially those capable of sea navigation. From now on, they are at least sixth-generation ships. , the fighting power of the Wu family has reached the level of destroying a country.
"Don't worry, I know it well." Chen Xi said with a smile. How could he not know what's going on with the Wu family? The Wu family doesn't have this strength, but the Sima family does. The second and fifth son of the Sima family must have hooked up with the Wu family. Of course you There is a high probability that the Wu family and the Sima family are in cahoots.
Otherwise, only ghosts can deliver things from the Indian Ocean to this side. After Sima Zhang hit the street, the Sima family must have acted like our family has done its best, and depending on your performance, my family will engage in other business operations.
Will Vasudeva I stop this behavior? Absolutely not. The way Sima Zhang rushed to the street was too clever. He directly stabbed the Brahmin in the back. This way Vesudeva I could take the route of combining royal power and divine power, and Sima Zhang was equivalent to being heroic in front of Vesudeva I. of.
No matter who Sima Zhang was for, in the eyes of Vesutiva I, the other party had actually helped him. In this case, the Shulac family represented by Sima Zhang withdrew from the political situation and went to engage in smuggling. Does it count?
No matter what, warships are supposed to carry goods. Is it a problem for people to make some money? Of course there is no problem. This is not about turning a blind eye or closing one's eyes. This is the Kushan upper class opening the door to facilitate this. Of course you have to pay taxes. As long as you pay taxes, it is reasonable.
Although Chen Xi didn't know exactly what this process was about, after Sima Zhang's sudden death, Chen Xi guessed that the Sima family probably had new tactics. If it was difficult to manage the country, they could try another way to build the company. Our multinational companies have multinational-level armed forces. Isn’t that normal? Do you think there's a problem? No, no, no, if you think so, there must be something wrong with you!
If you think about it this way, the Wu family might also be playing the game of resurrecting the dead. Unlike the Zhen family, which is a family that has planted the poison of democracy, the Wu family seems to be suffering from continuous brain twitching and is also very lucky, which is sad, but luck is also a skill.
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