"Thanks to the Lord for not giving up, everyone at the Hongyuan Escort Bureau is willing to serve the Lord!" Upon hearing Lu Chen's solicitation, Ye Tong stood up directly and bowed to Lu Chen, saying sincerely.
"Are you so willing to agree? Don't you need to discuss it with the other escorts and agents in the escort agency?" Lu Chen stood up, picked up Ye Tong with both hands, looked at Ye Tong and asked seriously.
"To be honest with you, Lord, shopkeeper Qian has already told this matter to the villain before coming here. The villain has also discussed it with the people in the escort agency. Everyone thinks that there is a future with the Lord!" Ye Tong looked at Lu Lu. Chen chuckled and said, "As the saying goes, if you learn martial arts and sell them to the emperor's family, if we work with the prince, we have half a foot in the prince's family!"
"In that case, I will accept you!" Lu Chen nodded and motioned for Ye Tong to sit down and talk, and Ye Tong sat back on the chair as instructed.
"Is there any contact between your escort agencies?" Lu Chen looked at Ye Tong and asked. This matter is related to the future plan. Lu Chen still needs to inquire clearly. If he expects Hongyuan Escort Agency to develop on its own, then it is estimated that the years Well, if more people can be recruited, then Lu Chen will be sure to accomplish this.
"Some are related, but some are not good!" Ye Tong didn't know why Lu Chen would ask such a thing, but he still answered truthfully.
This is natural, colleagues are enemies! If there are peers, there will be competition. This is inevitable. Lu Chen didn't think it was any surprise.
"Can you bring the chief escorts of the escort bureaus you have good relations with to come to me?" Lu Chen looked at Ye Tong and continued to ask.
"You can give it a try, but some escort agencies are far away from Chang'an. I'm afraid it will take a while!" Ye Tong looked at Lu Chen and replied cautiously.
"No problem! Just find it if you can!" Lu Chen waved his hand and showed no dissatisfaction with Ye Tong's answer. After all, this era is not like that of later generations, with high-speed rail and airplanes. The transportation in this era is convenient. Basically, it all depends on the pace and the time it takes to deliver the letter. This trip will take a month or so. If it is farther away, it will be normal to walk for three to five months.
"Then try your best, little man!" Ye Tong said to Lu Chen, cupping his hands.
"Then there's the escort leader Lao Ye!" Lu Chen nodded and said with a smile, "By the way, all the auction items from those aristocratic families were escorted over?" Lu Chen looked at Ye Tong and asked as if he remembered something.
"The Du family and the Yang family did use our Hongyuan Escort Agency. As for other aristocratic families, they did not hire us!" Ye Tong directly reported the truth.
"Yes!" Lu Chen nodded again. The Du family was a family that bet on Li Shimin, and Du Ruhui worked for Li Shimin's Tiance Mansion. The auction was his own business, and the Du family knew it. , so Lu Chen could understand the fact that he used the Hongyuan Escort Bureau to sell things to him, but the Hongnong Yang family actually used the Hongyuan Escort Bureau, which was a bit confusing to Lu Chen.
The current attitude of the Yang family is still ambiguous. The three heroes of the Yang family are now in high positions, especially Yang Gongren. The military power in Liangzhou can be said to be the most important figure in the military and political affairs. The three heroes of the Yang family have not shown any behavior of betting at present, and the Yang family, where the three heroes of the Yang family belong, will not choose to bet at this time, but not only do they Spending 55,000 yuan to take a picture of the Glazed Tiger, and even hiring the Hongyuan Escort Agency, this made Lu Chen confused as to what the other party was thinking.
However, Lu Chen didn't feel that the Yang family had any evil intentions against him, and what the Yang family did made Lu Chen feel that the other party was showing goodwill to him, rather than trying to make things difficult for him. But was this just a superficial appearance? This was indeed the case. Lu Chen felt that he still needed to observe to be sure.
"Since they hired you, they must do a good job in this deal!" Lu Chen looked at Ye Tong and warned.
"Yes! Don't worry, sir! The reputation of our Hongyuan Escort Bureau can still be trusted!" Ye Tong looked at Lu Chen and responded solemnly.
"That's good!" Lu Chen nodded again, "Little fat man, how was the harvest from this auction?" Lu Chen turned to look at Qian Junnan and asked.
"Go back to the father-in-law! All the income from this auction has been recorded in the book. I would like to ask the father-in-law to take a look at it!" Qian Junnan took out an accounting book from his arms, stood up and presented it to Lu Chen with both hands.
"Well!" Lu Chen took the accounts presented to him by Qian Junnan and looked through them. After looking at them for a while, Lu Chen felt a little headache. The main reason was that the accounting methods of this era gave Lu Chen a headache. Because the account books of this era did not have the clear table divisions of later generations, there was a horizontal line in the middle of the page that separated the upper and lower parts. This kind of thing is called a "support bed". The upper half records income, and the lower half records expenditures. Okay, when there are too many things, it’s easy to get messy.
Therefore, Lu Chen felt a little headache looking at this account book, because he looked at it for a long time and didn't understand it!
"Gou Boy, go and call Lao Du here!" Lu Chen looked at it for a long time and studied it for a long time, and finally decided to let Liu Jing call Du Chengze here. It is estimated that only Du Chengze, who is in charge of Lujiazhuang's accounting, can understand this thing. , after all, he is now using this thing to calculate Lujiazhuang's accounts.
Liu Jing took the order and left the front hall directly, running quickly to find Du Chengze.
Soon, Liu Jing brought Du Chengze to the front hall.
"Master!" Du Chengze saluted Lu Chen.
"Old Du, help me take a look at this account!" Lu Chen directly handed the account book placed on the coffee table to Du Chengze.
"Yes!" Du Chengze respectfully took the account book handed over by Lu Chen and looked through it directly.
The more Du Chengze looked at it, the more surprised he became, because the money figures on the account book really surprised him. The above amount could be said to be the only one he had ever seen in his life so far. Du Chengze couldn't help but take out his calculations and started laying them out on the ground. Obviously It's calculating the numbers on the ledger.
Seeing Du Chengze squatting on the ground playing with the arithmetic chips, Lu Chen suddenly felt a headache, because he had seen Du Chengze calculating accounts before. At that time, Du Chengze was using abacus chips to calculate. It was okay to say that there were not many digits, but Once the number of digits increases, the calculation becomes slow.
The money figures in this auction were all four-digit and five-digit numbers, so looking at Du Chengze's calculations all over the place, Lu Chen couldn't stand it anymore and directly stopped Du Chengze's calculations.
"I said Lao Du, how long will it take for you to calculate this algorithm!" After stopping Du Chengze's calculation, Lu Chen couldn't help but complain to Du Chengze, "Didn't you read the book I gave to Lao Du?" Lu Chen couldn't help but complain. Looking at Du Chengze, he asked, he had given Du Yanliang a book on primary school mathematics. Did Du Yanliang hide it secretly and not show it to his son?
"To be honest with you, I'm a dull man. I haven't learned how to calculate such a large number of digits yet!" Du Chengze looked at Lu Chen with some embarrassment and said.
"Okay! You report the numbers to me, and I will do the calculations!" After hearing Du Chengze's words, Lu Chen could only say helplessly, "That's right, you should also learn to calculate! Give me the pen and paper!" Lu Chen He waved directly to Du Chengze, and Du Chengze embarrassedly handed the charcoal and paper to Lu Chen.
"Tell me!" Lu Chen picked up the charcoal pencil and looked at it. Lu Chen asked the workshop to imitate the pencils of later generations. The thickness must be thicker than the pencils of later generations, but the writing is smoother.
Du Chengze looked through the account books and reported the numbers to Lu Chen. Lu Chen wrote down the numbers one by one on the paper, and then began to calculate. Du Chengze watched from the side, and Qian Junnan, as the owner of the pawn shop, naturally also paid attention to these. Interested, he also came over. Unfortunately, Qian Junnan couldn't understand the numbers Lu Chen wrote on the paper, but Du Chengze read them with great interest.
"Old Du, look, if the numbers here are added up, if it is greater than ten, then carry..." Lu Chen explained to Du Chengze while calculating, while Du Chengze looked at it very seriously and nodded from time to time.
Following Lu Chen's calculations, the final total of the auction price was soon calculated. Seeing the final auction price of nearly six figures, Lu Chen nodded with satisfaction.
"It seems that this auction was quite successful!" Lu Chen looked at the numbers on the paper and smiled proudly. According to the calculation, Lu Chen was able to leave nearly 20,000 yuan in the end. This was a huge sum. Not a small income.
"Old Du, 20% of this place belongs to our Zhuangzi, how about it?" Lu Chen looked at Du Chengze and said with a smile.
"So much?!" Looking at Lu Chen's final calculation, Du Chengze looked at his father-in-law in surprise.
"This is just the share from the first auction. There will be second and third auctions later. You will worry about how to spend money in the future!" Lu Chen patted Du Chengze's shoulder in a good mood and said with a smile. .
"That's good!" Du Chengze also said with a smile.
"The money from this auction is on the carriage outside. Liu Jing, take people to unload all those things and find someone to check them. I'm going to give gifts tomorrow!" Lu Chen ordered directly to Liu Jing.
"Yes!" Liu Jing took the order directly and left the front hall to go to Bei Weiwei to "unload" the goods.
"Little fat man, are you interested in working in the prosperous age?" Lu Chen was quite satisfied with Qian Junnan's work this time, so Lu Chen looked directly at Qian Junnan and asked with a smile.
"Ah? Can the villain go to Shengshi?" Hearing Lu Chen's words, Qian Junnan asked directly, feeling flattered. Even though "Shengshi" has only been open for a short time, the items sold in Shengshi are all unique. , those shops in the prosperous age can simply be described as "making money every day". How many people are jealous of the ability of the "prosperous age" to make money!
