By the time they left the house, the soldiers felt that they were still unsatisfied. Everyone had so many large and small packages that they could hardly carry them. In the end, each person carried a large sack provided by the store and went out.
Fortunately, the sack also had the logo of Qianqi Department Store printed on it, and he came out from the main entrance, otherwise he would have been caught as a thief.
Originally, many of the people in the group came to the store just to watch the excitement, but after entering, they were completely attracted by the dazzling array of products.
I couldn't bear the warm greetings of the shopping guides. I was deceived and confused, and I couldn't help but pay for it in a half-asleep state.
This is the feeling of being a superior "uncle", cheerfully taking the initiative to spend money without saying anything, as if taking advantage of the other party, and feeling that one's own taste has been greatly improved...
In comparison, when I had no money in the past, I had to rely on the store's attitude to buy something. I felt so aggrieved, but now I finally feel like I'm at home shopping.
From now on, as long as you can buy similar products here, even if you spend ten silver coins in the prince's shop, you will never give another copper coin to other shops, so that they can't get even a hair out of their contemptuous products.
No wonder the rich people in the city are trying to get in as if sending money here. The Prince's shop is great, not only the items are good, but the female shop assistants are also pretty.
If the military men didn't all know that the owner of the money here is the prince, they would be locked up in a small dark room if they were looking for trouble. They not only wanted to look at it, but also wanted to reach out and touch the shopping guide ladies who were close at hand. They are.
In order to save face, those guys who only had a few silver dollars in their pockets spent "half of their belongings". Those who entered the "Top 100 List" were even more willing to spend money. There were many people who spent seventy or eighty silver dollars.
If the sofa in the hall on the first floor was not too expensive, with a price tag of fifty silver dollars, and it took a month to arrive, they would all want to buy this extremely comfortable thing and put it at home.
The soldiers saw many novel things here that they had never seen in the army. Whether it was food or use, they were all unparalleled in the world.
And judging from the surprised expressions on the faces of the rich gentry, they had never seen these items before. It can be said that the items sold in the Prince's shop are unique in the world.
Today everyone's eyes are opened. The people are not in vain, and the money is not in vain. Seeing it will give you something to talk about in the future, and eating it will make you convinced.
There is also a woman on each floor who is responsible for singing fairy songs. It is said that this is specially arranged by the prince to please the customers who come to shop.
While browsing the products, you can also hear beautiful and elegant singing, which is naturally refreshing. This is also a novel experience that all customers who enter the store have never had before.
This kind of enjoyment can only be enjoyed in teahouses, restaurants, and playhouses. Unexpectedly, Qianqi Department Store also provides such services, and the singing voice is unprecedented.
Many people even neglected shopping and just stood not far from the singing woman, fanning themselves and closing their eyes to listen to the music.
When a song is finished, they don’t forget to praise a few words. Many people instinctively pay for rewards, but this is prohibited because the singing fee has long been included in the selling price of the product...
Since there is no tape recorder or gramophone, the singing can only be performed by a living person to further enhance the shopping experience, but this trick also makes the customers in the store very happy.
Some people actually come here specifically to listen to music. After listening to it for one day, they want to listen to it again, and then they want to come every day. Of course, it is embarrassing to just listen to it, and they have to buy some products to cover it up.
Although all kinds of goods are expensive, it still costs money to go to the teahouse to listen. What's more, there are many teahouses in the city, but there is only one store selling novel items.
The shopping guides said that Taizi wants Qianqi Department Store to provide a one-stop shopping experience for customers entering the store. In other words, as long as they enter the store, there is basically no need to go to other stores to buy things.
The store has sofas, soft beds, soap, toothpaste, pencils, oil lamps, glass, mirrors, clocks, toys and other supplies, as well as pastries, rice, wine, cooked food, candies and other food and drink.
If you are too lazy to go shopping and still have money in your pocket, you can even order the "Jingshi Daily", briquettes, small stoves, and rickshaws in the store, and you can enjoy free door-to-door delivery within the city.
Since the area of the store is not too large, it cannot currently accommodate restaurants. A certain prince wants to put a ramen shop, hot pot restaurant, and skewers shop inside, which will also increase the number of customers.
Some businessmen who cling to a certain prince's chicken thighs can also open counters in Qianqi Department Store to sell their products, such as cigarettes, wine, porcelain, tea, and silk, which the certain prince has no time to deal with in marketing.
The retail prices are the same as elsewhere, with no premium at all. However, a certain amount of counter rental fees still need to be paid. But even so, all the counters on the three floors have already been rented out by smart merchants from all walks of life.
A large counter is one foot long, and the annual rent is 500 taels. The small counter is five feet long, and the annual rent is 200 taels. The day after the newspaper published an advertisement for the rental counters of Qianqi Department Store, they were sold out by merchants. .
From the rent alone, Qianqi Department Store earned more than 20,000 taels of silver. It recovered all the decoration and labor costs paid for in the early stage, and there was still a lot of surplus.
Since it is a high-end shopping place, even if the merchants cannot increase prices without authorization and the counter rent is high, they can still make good profits.
Because most of the people who patronize this place are wealthy people and are not very sensitive to the price of goods, merchants only need to provide high-quality goods with larger profit margins.
Especially after the imperial court significantly increased official salaries, many honest officials were no longer as impoverished as before and had enough spare money for consumption.
Even if you can't afford antiques and calligraphy by famous artists, it's still perfectly okay to drink some good tea, eat some delicious food, and buy new clothes for your wife and concubine. This will definitely not violate any rules or laws.
More importantly, the Crown Prince generously rewarded the factory guards who were responsible for removing the moths from the property, benefiting no less than ten thousand people. As the Crown Prince's hawks, they would not dare to spend the money even if they had it in their hands. of.
In addition, the imperial court's decree to transfer vassals has been issued, and each vassal king needs to bring his family members and princes from the vassal state to the capital for an audience. These are all wealthy people with millions of dollars.
Even if the life of the vassal king is much worse than before, it is still far higher than that of ordinary gentry. Even a random prince is worth more than ten thousand taels.
The prince only confiscated the vassal prince's property and did not affect the county princes. Many county princes still had huge wallets, and their purchasing power was not affected at all.
All the princes knew that their stay in the capital was limited, so they were sending people to buy all kinds of supplies needed for the feudal lord. For the merchants, the time to make money had already arrived.
King Dai, King Jin, King Zhou, and King Chong had sent people to buy a lot of things before. Recently, after knowing that they were the first passengers to board the ship, they personally went to Qianqi Department Store to purchase a large amount of goods.
Not to mention anything else, the shopping guide who is responsible for selling sofas alone has received orders for no less than two hundred sofas. This new type of furniture, which is expensive for ordinary people, has been greatly welcomed by the lords and princes.
Nothing can make them feel more physically and mentally happy than this kind of soft and comfortable seat. When they arrive in the feudal state, they will cover the sofa with a good white bear skin or tiger skin. That is power and status. symbol.
It may seem a bit unnoticed and inconsistent with the status of the Ming Dynasty clan, but in the cold "Northland", comfortable and warm things are the best things.
Even a piece of gorgeous brocade embroidered with a nine-clawed golden dragon is far less warm than a piece of fur. This is the testimony of the northern lords who have lived in the country for a long time.
When we get there, we first drive away the braids along the coast, then immediately send people to build camps, and then quickly build wooden houses for the feudal princes and princes. It would be better if they can build brick and stone houses.
The most important thing is that there must be a fire pit inside the house. Otherwise, in winter, the cold wind outside will be biting, and the indoors will not be any better than the outdoors.
A certain prince has distributed thermometers to every county king, and told them that they must make various preparations to keep out the cold in advance. The cold in "Northland" is not comparable to that in the north of the Ming Dynasty, and is much colder than Liaodong. .
If they don’t even have wooden houses, in winter, these people will turn into living ice sculptures in less than three days, which can be compared with the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of the First Emperor. This is the "Ice Horse Warriors" of the Ming Dynasty!
It is no exaggeration to say that when you go to the toilet outdoors at minus 30 to 40 degrees Celsius, you have to hit it with a stick after you are done, or you have to break it with your hands. Otherwise, it is 100% "time and space performance art"...
It sounds very shocking and disgusting, but this is actually the case. Although there are many braided natives over there, the level of civilization is not that of ordinary underground people.
The days when the Ming Dynasty feudal lords brought up their families were no different than pioneering in a barren land. Except for the items purchased locally, everything else had to be started from scratch, especially the place to live.
In this way, the feudal kings believed that the money for raising soldiers must not be touched, and most of the remaining money was intended to be used to purchase as many commodities as possible.
From the current point of view, there may be a lot of fat people among the vassal kings who arrive in the capital, but none of them are fools. They have also found a way to make money, and that is to open shops in new fiefdoms.
When the goods purchased locally arrive at your own fiefdom, you have the final say on the price. The boss of the sky, the second boss of the land, and the third boss can sell them however they want, and even the court has no control over them.
King Zhou bought three thousand kilograms of tea alone, including high-grade, medium-grade and low-grade tea. When he arrived in the fiefdom, drinking tea could not only warm up the body, but also relieve greasiness.
Living in the "Northland", you must eat enough meat in winter, otherwise you will not be able to withstand the cold and long winter. Drinking tea is a way to get rid of the meat and fish smell. In fact, it is the same as many Mumin's methods of living outside the Great Wall.
There was nothing that could be done about it, but Zhou Wang Zhu Gongzhen also told the princes and family members that the new fiefdom covered thousands of miles, and there was no threat from the Tatar army. There was no need to worry about the plague, and there were gold mines and fishing grounds. It seemed desolate. In fact, it is rich.
The Zhou Kingdom's fiefdom area is the largest among many vassal states. As long as it is expanded properly, the territory will be no less than the size of the native Shaanxi, and almost every prince can have his own corner of the land.
Zhu Gongzhen planned to take root in the coastal areas first, and after leading them through the cold winter, he asked many county princes to advance inland with their troops and horses. A hundred miles from the coast to the west were directly under the vassal kings, and further west they could be left to their own devices. Went to seize it.
From a geographical point of view, the closer to the coast, the safer and more convenient it is. In the event of an emergency, it is also easier to get timely support from the vassal king's troops or the court's troops.
The Zhou Kingdom is the largest, most populous, and most resource-rich vassal state among the "Northland" vassal states. The giant gold mine is within its territory, and the northeast is the northern Kamchatka Peninsula, allowing people to collect sulfur through Come and have plenty of food and clothing.
Therefore, Zhu Gongzhen felt that the comprehensive national strength of Zhou State was second to none among the many vassal states in the North. It was more reasonable for him to engage in import and export trade, which was also a great thing for the people of the vassal state.
In this way, the silver handed over to the prince will slowly flow back to his own hands. In the future, the Zhou State will be able to dominate one side, equivalent to the Qin State during the Warring States Period.
There are exactly seven vassal states in the "Northland". Jin State and Dai State are on Kuwu Island, and the remaining five are all located on the west coast.
Although Zhou State is located in the north and is very cold, the benefits are obvious.
That is to stay away from the Donglu's sphere of influence and be able to develop as they wish.
There are thirty-seven county princes under Zhu Gongzhen, and each family sends one hundred troops, which is 3,700 people. In the vast and sparsely populated "Northland", they are almost invincible.
The first batch of people to board the ship were the family members of the vassal and county princes and their servants. As long as they arrived in the new fiefdom, they could quickly seize the land and build camps.
During this period, the total expenditure of the many princes and princes of Zhou alone was more than one hundred thousand taels. The total number of princes and princes in all the vassal states was as many as hundreds. Their spending power was even more extraordinary. The money they spread could The merchants were so happy that they couldn't sleep at night.
In the past, the lords and princes might have sent people to various shops in the city to purchase goods, but now they don't have to worry about that. After the opening of Qianqi Department Store, most of the goods can be purchased here at once. .
Since there are not many high-rise floors in this era, and the area of each floor is also limited, a certain prince plans to open several more stores in the capital, at least two in the inner city and one in the outer city. After the new city is built, he will also open Two families.
Then we will open one store in Baoding and Tianjin, and after the dumpster cleans up the mess in Nandu, we will open branches in Nandu, Yangtze, Jiangsu, and Hangzhou.
One branch earns fifty thousand taels of silver a year, and twenty branches earn one million taels of silver. This is almost equivalent to one-fifteenth of the previous annual income of the imperial court, and it is a sure thing.
Because when the Ming Dynasty fell, people were singing and dancing all over the south. On the day when the scapegoat father hanged himself, the talented and beautiful people in the south of the Yangtze River were playing with poems and songs, and they showed no concern for the country and the people.
When the Qing army marched southward and the four towns in the north of the Yangtze River either surrendered or were destroyed, a group of "daringly loyal" courtiers in the Hongguang court were still busy playing tricks, and they were not as reliable as Liu Rushi...
In a place like this, a certain prince kept them just to extract money!
Other than that, there is no other use!
