In this spring that should be picturesque, the city of Yangzhou is feeling precarious.
There is no doubt that what caused all this was the shopping mall war started by Xiao Han in order to retaliate against Yangzhou Buhang.
Nowadays, although the business war has passed, many people can still be seen on the streets, either carrying daggers on their backs or driving in cars.
These people, no matter what kind of transportation they use, have one thing in common, and that is the bulging pockets on their cars or on their backs.
What was in the pockets was all heavy copper coins.
"Today? Have you redeemed it?"
This sentence has become the beginning of Yangzhou people's greetings to each other.
In contrast, if you ask "Have you eaten today?" no one will pay attention to you.
The people who were still queuing up outside several shops waiting to exchange money were worried, but those who had already exchanged money did not see much joy on their faces.
The light silver notes turned into heavy copper coins again. This has little impact on ordinary people.
After all, their entire property only amounts to a few dozen guan. Anyone who has more than a hundred guan is considered a wealthy family.
These people are not very keen on traveling and using money. There is actually no change in silver notes or copper coins, they are just money that can be spent.
However, this change will undoubtedly be a heavy blow to merchants in Yangzhou, especially those medium and large merchants!
It is said that it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.
In the same way, go from complex to simple, and from simple to complex!
In the past, it was enough to put a few banknotes in your pocket.
Now, it's back to the point where counting copper coins one by one and doing a slightly larger deal will make my wrists hurt!
The smell of copper, the smell of copper!
It took a lot of effort to use the banknote, and it was stained with some ink fragrance. In an instant, it was re-printed into the prototype.
"Hey, Boss Ma, tell me, what do you mean by this? I got the copper coins back, but I still have to set aside a special room to store them! And you can save them as long as you want. You'll be here all day long. We still have to worry about thieves!”
Today, on a boat in Slender West Lake, a few familiar faces sighed and drank together. Even the dancing girl had lost her former attraction to them.
Ma Laoliu picked up the wine glass and drank the wine in one gulp.
In the past, the wine here was his favorite!
But since I drank the taste of strong wine that day, the taste of this wine has really become as light as water.
"Pooh!"
He turned his head and spit out all the remaining wine in his mouth into the lake. Ma Laoliu raised his sleeves, wiped his mouth and said angrily:
"Okay, forget it! Yesterday, the landowner from that village came to pay for a cart of money! But he was robbed by thieves on the way back! Tsk, tsk, even the cart and the donkey were robbed. They robbed it, not even a whip was left behind! Fortunately, those thieves only wanted money, not life! No, the landowner and his servants were able to save a small life. "
The person at the same table nodded, and after Ma Laoliu finished speaking, he also said, "I've heard about this too! Those thieves tied the landlord and his servants to trees and froze them all night, and they almost didn't get frozen. Die! He was not discovered until this morning. He was untied and sent home to recuperate! It is said that this incident was so big that even the county magistrate was furious and personally ordered the arrester to catch the culprit. I don’t know if he can catch it. .”
"I wonder if we can catch them?" Ma Laoliu glared and snorted: "Do you even need to ask? Yangzhou is so big, where can we arrest people? Those thieves are all masked. After the robbery, , once you bury the money and take off the mask, even if you stand right in front of the catcher, will the catcher still recognize them?"
"Hey, that's true!" The person who just spoke sighed when he heard this, and cupped his hands and said: "But there is nothing we can do, no one dares to use banknotes now! When we go to the countryside to receive goods, everyone wants them all. With coppers, if a few bosses go out with too much money to do business, it is best to hire a few more people to avoid being worried about by thieves. Hey, I wonder if there will be no more silver notes to use in the future."
With a sigh, everyone was speechless.
Ma Laoliu glanced at the jug on the table and nodded sadly: "No one can say for sure about the banknotes, but it's right for you guys to pay attention! As for hiring people, you still can't save the money you should spend. Damn it! Who would have thought that now everyone is losing money, but the martial arts school alone is making money. In the past few days, the cost of hiring a person has increased by 30%! He is worse than us! Bah!"
Ma Laoliu is the only one who can speak so confidently about his own business.
When the people at the same table heard this, they could only twitch the corners of their mouths and look at each other with bitter smiles.
Under the great trend, no one is unaffected!
Even a martial arts school that seems to be out of reach is implicated, isn't it?
Of course, the fact that the martial arts school is implicated is considered a positive thing! Like other industries, most of them don't have such good luck, and they can only suffer the same misfortune.
Yangzhou cloth line.
As the most affected point this time, I haven’t made a serious transaction in these days!
Now, the crisis of bankruptcies has almost passed, and people's hearts have gradually stabilized.
While the shopkeeper of the cloth shop breathed a sigh of relief, he also hurriedly put the delayed business back on the schedule. After all, even if their family had a big business, they couldn't just sit back and have nothing.
"Now, the time for spring silkworms has arrived! Although business is not easy right now, the court is seeking stability this year, so the situation must be better than last year, so this year's silk..."
In the cloth shop, the chief shopkeeper was sitting upright, assigning tasks to the shopkeepers under him with a serious expression. Unexpectedly, after he had just spoken a few words, he heard a burst of footsteps outside, disrupting what he wanted to say.
"Big shopkeeper!"
The footsteps stopped outside the door, and soon, a steward hurriedly opened the door and entered without even bothering to say hello!
When the big shopkeeper of Buhang, who was sitting at the top of several people, saw this, he frowned, suppressed his anger and shouted at him: "What! Are there any rules? What happened that made you not even make an announcement?"
The steward who had just entered the door was shaken by the big shopkeeper's shout. He replied with fear in his eyes: "Yes...I'm sorry, big shopkeeper! But something big happened outside!"
"Ah?" The big shopkeeper of Buhang was obviously startled by these words. He stood up suddenly and said sternly: "What's the matter! Is there someone else coming to cash in?"
"no!"
The steward hurriedly waved his hand in denial, and then, before waiting for the chief shopkeeper of the cloth shop to relax, he continued: "It's the silk on the market that has been bought up first!"
"Have they all been acquired?" The shopkeeper of Buhang was stunned for a moment when he heard the news, and then he glared at the manager and asked, "Who is it?"
The steward raised his head tremblingly and replied in a low voice: "It's the Xiao family, they have all been taken over by the Xiao family!"
