The next day.
The sun is very good.
Zhao Ergou and Zhao Dawang got up early, piled all the remaining cloth on the cart and took them out.
They rented a small stall in the busiest downtown and shouted at the top of their lungs.
The price they sold was slightly lower than the market price by two cents, and the business was pretty good. However, they had not sold a few pieces of cloth when a group of people suddenly surrounded them with a fierce look.
"Where did this stranger come from? He dared to sell cloth at the entrance of our Zhangji Cloth Shop. Are you tired of living?"
The leading man held a thick stick in his hand and had a fierce look on his face.
He waved his hand, and several men behind him gathered around him step by step.
"Smash this stall to me!"
Zhao Dawang turned pale with fright and rushed over, protecting the cloth in his arms.
He was no match for four strong men on his own, so he was picked up like a little chicken.
"Brothers, please talk to me if you have something to say!" Although Zhao Ergou was angry, he still put on a smile. He took out a handful of coins from his pocket and handed them over, "Brothers, please calm down. This is all a misunderstanding, don’t do anything.”
A handful of copper coins actually contains less than a hundred coins, but looking at the many coins makes people look satisfied, and most importantly, they appear to be very interesting.
The leading brother waved his hand, and Zhao Dawang was let go.
Zhao Ergou walked over and said with an apologetic smile: "This is my first time coming to Nanyang. I don't know the rules of Nanyang Street. It is indeed our fault that I have offended Zhangji Buzhuang. It is understandable that you want to smash the stall. But if you smash the stall, it is our fault." Regarding stalls, everyone will only say that Zhang Ji bullies others. There are so many cloth shops in the city, and everyone is definitely not willing to go to a shop with a bad reputation. Instead of ruining the reputation of his own shop, it is better to cooperate and everyone can make some money."
He speaks clearly and clearly, neither being humble nor arrogant, and most importantly, he has the temptation of benefits.
The leading brother is Zhang Ji's shopkeeper. Zhang Ji's cloth prices are market prices and business has always been good. But today, because of this small stall, all the business was taken away, so he brought a group of younger brothers to look for trouble.
"I brought this batch of goods from the next city. The linen cloth costs nine cents, and the fine linen cloth costs sixteen cents. How about I sell them all to you Zhang Ji at the price of one cent per square foot of cloth?" Zhao Ergou said, "You have to go further to purchase goods. Whether it is land or water, the cost on the road is high. I have delivered this batch of goods to your door. Even if you only make a foot of cloth, For one penny, you can earn about fifteen taels of silver."
The shopkeeper quickly figured it out in his heart.
He could sell linen cloth for twelve taels of silver and fine linen cloth for 20 taels of silver. Calculated casually, he could earn at least thirty taels of silver.
This deal is a great deal.
The most important thing is that there is no risk of long-distance purchase.
Harvests everywhere have dropped sharply this year, and there are refugees in many places, which has led to bandits running rampant. The biggest fear when buying goods from other places is encountering bandits.
There is no reason not to accept the goods delivered to your door.
He immediately laughed: "Young man, you still know how to do business, okay, let's do it like this, someone will come and help move the goods."
Four strong men behind him immediately stepped forward and moved all the cloth on the cart to Zhang Jili.
Zhao Dawang's heart was bleeding. He pulled Zhao Ergou and asked, "Are they so cheap?"
"What else?" Zhao Ergou looked very calm, "A strong dragon cannot suppress a local snake. We can only bow our heads in other people's territory. Besides, my purchase price is actually very low, linen only costs three cents... In short, You can also make a lot of money, and when you go out, safety is the most important thing and you don’t get into trouble.”
He kept his elder brother's words in mind, he must not cause trouble outside, and he would solve it properly if he could solve it himself, and he could not let his mother free up her energy to worry.
After the cloth was moved, the total settlement price was one hundred and sixty taels. Including yesterday's entry, the total was three hundred and twelve taels of silver.
The purchase price of this batch of goods was eighty-nine taels. After being unsalable for many days, I finally made back my capital with profits.
Although the profit from flipping was huge, Zhao Ergou didn't dare to do it again. The risk was too great, otherwise why wouldn't others make money by flipping the cloth?
Satisfied, he returned to the inn.
When he pushed the door open and went in, he saw Cheng Wanwan tossing a piece of fine linen that had been left behind.
The fine linen cloth was cut into square pieces, part of it was stained with oil, part of it was stained with some blood stains from unknown sources, and some of it was covered with mud...
"Ergou Dawang, you guys came back just in time, come and help." Cheng Wanwan said, "Think of ways to make these pieces of cloth as dirty as possible."
Zhao Dawang picked up a piece of cloth stained with oil: "Auntie, I'll just take these pieces of cloth to the inn's kitchen to wipe the stove. They will definitely be dirty."
"You're so smart, go ahead." Cheng Wanwan thought for a while and said, "Ergou, spend some money and go to the kitchen to buy a pot of leftover oil."
Zhao Ergou already understood what Cheng Wanwan wanted to do, nodded and went to do it immediately.
He hurried downstairs with the basin in hand. A drunken middle-aged man suddenly came upstairs and bumped into him. He was immediately dizzy from the bump.
According to his previous personality, he would definitely question him, but now that he was out of town and could not act in a public manner, he endured it.
He looked up at the man in front of him. He felt familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen him before.
The man was really drunk. He staggered and almost rolled down the stairs.
Zhao Ergou hurriedly gave him a hand.
This man was really heavy and round, and all his weight fell on Zhao Ergou, almost crushing him to death.
"Uncle, which room do you live in? I'll help you go back."
"Live...live over there!"
The man casually pointed to the back of the first floor.
The first floor is a lower-class room, which costs half a tael a night. The people who live here are ordinary people.
The clothes this man was wearing were obviously silk and satin. Zhao Ergou asked again: "Are you sure you live behind here?"
The man burped and nodded: "Right, right there."
Zhao Ergou was a good man and helped him walk to the back. However, the man did not stop at the door of the room, but continued to point back, and finally walked to the warehouse rented by the inn.
The man took out a key from his neck and threw it into Zhao Ergou's hand: "Open the warehouse."
Zhao Ergou was confused, but he still did as he was told.
When he opened the warehouse, he was shocked. It was filled with cloth, which was piled up to the roof.
And it didn't seem to be an ordinary fabric. He took a closer look, and it looked like yarn. This was an extremely expensive piece of cloth!
When he was stunned, there was a fire in his arms.
The man said drunkenly: "It's all burned."
Zhao Ergou was so frightened that he let go of his hands and dropped the fire folding piece to the ground. He had been reading the fire prevention regulations of the soap workshop every day recently, and for fear of causing a fire, he quickly picked it up and threw it into the yard outside.
"Uncle, malicious arson is a capital crime!" He hurriedly pulled the man out, "Lock it up quickly. I can pretend I never saw it."
"Go away!" The man suddenly burst into tears as he held open the door of the warehouse. "My tens of thousands of taels of silver, all my tens of thousands of taels of silver, were all thrown inside..."
Tears streamed down his chubby face.
Zhao Ergou didn't know why, and comforted him: "The price of a piece of Luosha is as high as ten taels of silver. The cloth in this warehouse can be sold for at least five to sixty thousand taels, so you won't lose money..."
He has been in the cloth business, so he knows a lot about it.
Luosha is a luxurious fabric woven from silk, exclusively for nobles.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Thirty thousand taels, and there were other people who jointly invested 20,000 taels, and they all lost..."
Zhao Ergou took one look and was speechless.
Luosha is made from silk that is woven into cloth and then dyed. It comes in various colors. This piece of cloth was supposed to be light cyan, but instead it turned into a large or small group of dark cyan or dark green. This gauze cloth is all stained. If a piece of cloth can be sold for a hundred coins, it is considered a high price!
