After Boss Liu told Yi Cheng, he asked his son and nephew to put the only ten jars of bream and velvet on the table.
As for the tasting food that Mrs. Xu left without asking for money, Mr. Liu sent a pound to the inn diagonally opposite this morning, and now he only has less than a pound left in his hand. This sample product, which is less than a kilogram, will only be brought out by a businessman he is familiar with.
And this expensive food like velvet flowers was bought for forty taels of silver just last night. Today, Boss Liu sincerely invited Yi Cheng to talk and gave it up. This action means that regardless of the future business, these ten altars are given away for free.
Understanding worldly affairs is all knowledge, and understanding human feelings is all writing.
Although Mr. Liu is still unable to write fully in these years and can only simply write common words such as documents, IOUs, menus, etc., he and his partner who also climbed up from the bottom know how to cooperate with people in the officialdom to buy and sell, no matter what the thing is. No matter how difficult or how good it is, if you want officials and family members to pay the capital first to cooperate and share the risk of losing money with you, that is called being ignorant.
Fortunately, his business was small, and once he identified something that he thought would be easy to sell, such as the velvet this time, he could still afford it as a free gift of forty taels to the other party.
Boss Liu is very open-minded. He believes that his partner brother will be more open-minded when he finds out later. Only by giving it away first will the possibility of making more money increase.
Especially the Yi Cheng in front of him is easier to use than the few traveling traders he knows so far. If everything goes well, he will be selling velvet to his opponent.
Why do you say that?
Yi Cheng, a ninth-grade sesame official, has a very small salary, it is said that it is only a few months of silver.
However, the position is very special. The post chiefs in various places are appointed by the imperial officials and are not under the local control. They belong directly to the imperial court. The post offices in various places are directly managed by the Ministry of War.
Each post station is responsible for delivering orders and official documents by post. It must cover a distance of more than three thousand miles, two to three hundred miles a day, and it will arrive within fifteen days. Every time you pass a post station, the post manager must sign and stamp it. If there is any delay at any post station, you will be directly held accountable by the Ministry of War.
As for the post station, whether it is an official residence or a private residence, it is still mainly for accommodation. The post office is responsible for receiving the accommodation of passing officials, changing horses and ships, and assisting in the transportation of goods and official grain from north to south.
Boss Liu learned all of the above through his acquaintance with Yi Cheng.
Regarding selling cashmere, the above is naturally not the focus.
The focus is on direct jurisdiction. Every two years, the Yi Chengs distributed in various places will go to Beijing in batches to report and hand over the documents they have passed through the Yi Stations in the past two years.
While drinking with Yi Cheng, Boss Liu took note of it. It is said that even if he comes to Beijing in batches, he can encounter more than ten Yi Cheng at a time. If he stays in Beijing for a few more days, he can meet more people.
There are many post masters just as far as Lingcheng from them, and the one in front of me gets along well with several of them and often communicates with each other.
Boss Liu did some mental arithmetic again. The Hu Yichen in front of him is going to Beijing again this year. He has nothing to give to his friends and Yicheng. It just so happens that he has cash here, so he can send gifts to his heart. Isn't this okay? Have you spread the "exclusive craftsmanship"?
We are not fools. If we can really sell it to other places so that the faraway Yicheng can also earn some hard money, Hu Yicheng's popularity will be even better.
Boss Liu grew up as a country boy. He knows very well that cats have their own ways and mice have their own ways. Don't underestimate anyone's way of making money. No Yicheng would live on just the few taels of silver on his face. Otherwise, what would Hu Yicheng give to his sister's cloth shop in Fucheng? His hometown's land is also very rich. On the surface, it is said that his sister subsidized the purchase for her parents' family, but in fact they all understand.
What's more, even if Hu Yicheng didn't use other Yicheng methods to sell it, Boss Liu guessed that Hu Yicheng would send the cashmere to the courtyards of nobles around the city, or to the shops opened by nobles.
Historically, official post stations only delivered orders and official documents to the government. People who wanted to send messages had to rely on bicycles or escorts, which took a long time. When a big family has something urgent to do, especially the Gaomen Courtyard, they have special methods. The one who can rely on Yi Cheng to get things done without pursuing the matter is the Yi Cheng.
Because only the official post station has water horsemen, transfer horses, and errands to support about a hundred people. It is faster to deliver messages by horseback or punting by water.
Boss Liu knew that all the high-ranking officials in various prefectures were familiar with Hu Yichen.
It would be easy for Hu Yicheng to make money easily if he wanted to do so.
In short, his ten jars were given away for free. No matter which way Hu Yicheng finally took out the food, if he pushed it carefully, the quantity would always increase.
After careful consideration, he decided to take the plunge. What he wanted was never the one hundred and eighty taels that he could earn for a piece of cake. That would be too vain to use the word "exclusive secret recipe". The Xu family didn't understand the value of exclusivity, but he knew it, so he wanted to work hard to maximize the value and win-win with the Xu family.
Not to mention that it can be used as an exclusive side dish when placed in an official post. The older the official, the more important he is about his status. He will not take advantage of a small post official. If he really eats well, the steward around him will reward him casually. How can he make money? The method is not up to him.
Boss Liu only gave Hu Yicheng some reassurance at the end: "My relatives paid their lives for the secret recipe, and the cooking method is extremely complicated, so they earned really hard money. Fortunately, my relatives prepared it two years in advance. I have accumulated some surplus goods little by little. I have made an agreement with her that we can send another batch of goods in the fifteenth day at the latest, and I asked him to send more."
Let Hu Yicheng have an idea in his mind and feel free to arrange the ten jars.
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At the same time, Mrs. Xu and Xu Tianxin, who were on the road, were walking and walking to the background music of the live broadcast room - Journey to the West, while learning to drive cattle and mules.
People have come here to learn ancient driving techniques.
This is very painful for those traveling along the Erdao River.
Liu Laozhu sat in Xu Tianxin's car and shouted, "Please spare grandpa."
The tuft of hair on the back of his head was floating.
The children of the Xu family are driving the car. They only press the pits if there are any pits, but they press the stones when there are no pits.
