The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

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Tang San watched this fluttering, his face was blue and white, and finally couldn't help but said: "Su Shaodong, we are all colleagues in business. In Luzhou City, we look down and see each other. It's not you who do things like us merchants. Do it like a pie."

Su Jin sneered and said, "That's what you guys do? If you have something to discuss, you can go to my house to discuss it. What's that? I'm doing my own business well. Are you here to spoil my reputation?"

Tang San said: "Su Shaodong, you sell high-end clothes at such a low price, isn't it going to cut off our livelihood? If you said something wrong, it's because you, Su Ji, made a mistake first."

Su Jin said: "I am self-serving to benefit the people, what do I have to do with you? You are also cheaper than me, cotton and linen clothes are not monopolized by you, how have I, Su Ji, ever intervened in this business?"

Tang San's chubby face was convulsed, and he frowned tightly and said: "If you want to follow Su Shaodong's statement, you will set prices without rules and rules, and hit and squeeze each other, right?"

Su Jin thought to himself, this matter is unreasonable, and the line spacing is an extremely important thing in the business field. Even in the highly developed business of later generations, every line of business has some customary bottom lines. Merchants, unless the background is strong enough, they must be jointly suppressed. I don’t know if there were strict guilds or tooth shops in the Song Dynasty.

Seeing Su Jin groaning silently, all the shopkeepers thought they had caught his sore spot, and started attacking him one by one.

An old voice suddenly resounded in the crowd: "Tang San, do you deserve to talk about the rules?" The crowd turned to the source of the voice, only to see old shopkeeper Zhang walking quickly with a young boy, his face angry Chong Chong, the crowd made way for Zhang Rongqin to come in, Tang San saw Zhang Rongqin's face changed slightly, but immediately returned to normal, stepped forward and saluted: "Old man, you are here."

Zhang Rongqin snorted, didn't even look at him, and came to Su Jin to salute, Su Jin hurriedly ordered to sit down and watch tea.

Zhang Rongqin cupped his hands to the crowd and said, "Fathers and folks, I would like to share a story with you today. If it weren't for the persecution by the shopkeepers of the major cloth shops and garment shops in Luzhou today, I would not want to tell this story. Come out, after all, it was already ten years ago."

Seeing that the situation was getting more and more exciting, the common people were eager to see what happened, and shouted one after another: "The old shopkeeper, tell me quickly."

"Don't be so angry, the old shopkeeper, speak slowly."

Zhang Rongqin said slowly: "Ten years ago, I was the shopkeeper of Suji cloth shop, and assisted the old owner of Suji, Moran Weng, to take care of the chores on the cabinet. The cotton area in the south was plagued by migratory locusts the year before, so the price of cotton cloth soared." At that time, I, Su Ji, bought a large amount of cotton cloth from Shandong at a high price, preparing to stabilize the price of cloth and meet the needs of the people in Luzhou for winter clothes and summer clothes; One hundred coins, when I Su Ji sold it for only four pens and five hundred coins, it can be said to be a cheap sale."

"Moran Gongshi is a model of merchants, and they never take risks. It is precisely because of this that the officials of Dajiameng in Eastern Zhejiang are willing to sell the [-] cotton cloths in stock at a price of three to five. Gather all the cash and go to buy it, this is the one who was sent at that time." Zhang Rongqin stretched out his hand and pointed at Tang San.

Tang San blushed and said in a low voice: "Master, why do you bring up the old things again?"

Su Jin's mind turned sharply, looking at the posture, Tang San and Su Ji had a relationship, he called Zhang Rongqin his master, could it be that he had been an apprentice of Zhang Rongqin?

Zhang Rongqin scolded angrily: "Don't call me master, this old man has done his duty all his life, how could he misunderstand something like you. You are humiliating me by calling me master."

Tang San's face was ashen when he was trained, but he didn't dare to attack at all. In the Song Dynasty, teachers were respected, and all walks of life respected teachers very much. How could others not know in private, if they did so openly in public, they would be denounced If you are unworthy, your character will be despised by others, so although Tang San is angry, he can only endure it by himself.

"What happened next?" the villagers urged eagerly to hear the following.

Zhang Rongqin nodded and continued: "This Tang Dynasty official contacted several big households in our Luzhou City in private, disclosed the news to them, and then deliberately delayed on the way, while the other few came from the Luzhou Cloth Chamber of Commerce. I pretended to be Mr. Mo Ran and bought all the cotton cloth first. After transporting them back to Luzhou, all the high-priced cotton cloth that I Su Ji bought from Shandong were unsalable due to the low price. Until that autumn, the price of new cotton fell all the way. After negotiating with the old man, he had to return the money at a low price, otherwise it would be impossible to operate, this business suffered a huge loss of [-] guan, the business of the Su family plummeted, and it was difficult."

When Su Jin heard this, his lungs were about to explode. It turned out that Tang San was a traitor of the Su family. Although he didn't seem to have much to do with him, at that time he was still a follower who followed his female classmates all day long. But now with my identity, I can be said to be a direct victim. If it weren't for this Tang San, the Su family might not be so rich, and I don't have to use my brain to find a way to make Su Ji prosperous again.

The reaction of the crowd was also filled with righteous indignation. Everyone knew that this Tang San was an apprentice next to old shopkeeper Zhang, and was kicked out of Su Ji for some reason. Some people even expressed sympathy for Tang San. When there was a quarrel, everyone only thought that he was abandoned by Su Ji because he was not angry, and he did it to vent his anger. Therefore, the public opinion was more tolerant towards him, and did not criticize him badly; unexpectedly, this person turned out to be a A person who betrays his master.

Someone in the crowd began to curse: "This white-eyed wolf."

"Ingratis dog thing."

"This kind of person should be paraded around the streets with chicken feathers."

"I said to soak it in a cesspit for three days instead."

"..."

All kinds of vicious curses came and went.

Su Jin heard profusely that the people of the Song Dynasty were so vicious, and many methods were unheard of. <Passed away due to illness, everyone commented, can the character of this great shopkeeper of Tang San be trusted?Can the so-called Chamber of Commerce in Luzhou City be trusted?Today, there are still people who say shamelessly that they follow the rules, even if such a chamber of commerce doesn't follow the rules. "

Tang San couldn't bear everyone's contemptuous gazes, and protested: "Business battles, there are a lot of tricks and tricks, Su Ji's big loss is your own business, Su Ji, what to do with others? What's more, each is the master, I entered Su Ji to inquire about the internal situation of Su Ji, what's wrong?"

Everyone present was astonished, they didn't expect that there was such a secret in it, that Tang San was actually sent to Suji as a spy back then, as for who the person was sent, you can guess just by looking at him as the big shopkeeper in Tangjiabuzhuang. The old days are inseparable.

Su Jin gritted his teeth and said, "So that's the case. I didn't expect Master Tang to have such abilities. I thought you were just rebellious, or like a wolf in Zhongshan, but I didn't expect that you deliberately destroyed our Su family. The young master has written down this account for you, the Song Dynasty can't rule you, but the young master has plenty of ways to rule you."

Tang San was frightened by Su Jin's distorted face and stepped back a few steps, and shouted without confidence: "How are you doing?"

Su Jin calmed down, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face: "Don't be afraid, the young master is not so stupid as to give people an excuse in broad daylight. You also said just now that fighting in the mall is full of tricks." Everyone has come up with strange tricks and has nothing to do with others, so it is unreasonable for you to meddle in my Su Ji's affairs today, my father has already quit that deceitful chamber of commerce of yours, so why don't you let me go!"

"Go away! You Zhongshan wolf."

"Venomous snake, get out!"

Tang San stared viciously at the crowd, his eyes were full of resentment, before he could say a few harsh words, he was immediately drowned out by the thunderous roars of the people.

At this moment, several people dressed as clerks rushed to the troubled shopkeepers, they didn't know what to report, someone whispered something in Tang San's ear, Tang San's complexion changed drastically, and he stomped viciously at Su Jin Yi cupped his hands and said, "You are ruthless, let's wait and see."

After finishing speaking, he waved his hand and left with all the shopkeepers in a panic.

Su Jin laughed and cupped his hands and shouted: "Everyone, go slowly, I won't see you off soon."

Zhang Rongqin looked at Su Jin in bewilderment and asked, "What method did the Shaodong family use to make these guys leave in a hurry?"

Su Jin chuckled and said, "All the distinguished guests come to their shop, how can they not receive them as shopkeepers?"

Shopkeeper Zhang was still puzzled and asked further questions, only to see that Su Jin had already waved his hand and said: "Continue, register and make a reservation, and there will be a lucky draw later."

Everyone stepped forward to line up to get their numbers, measure their bodies and pay deposits, and it was in full swing for a while.

At the same time, apart from Su Ji, in Luzhou, there were beggars in ragged clothes standing in front of the door of every cloth shop and clothing shop like guards. Knocking on the bamboo board, he sang: "Master and wife are doing well, the poor family can't get enough to eat, donate money and silver to accumulate merit, ten pens and eight pens are not too much, ten pennies are not too little..."

The coming and going crowd covered their noses and walked away, let alone went to buy things in the cloth Zhuang clothing store.

Su Jin stood in the background and listened to Yang Xiaosi's report, and laughed so hard that he twitched all over his body: "Are you the only ones who will make trouble? The young master will too! Give more rewards and tell the beggars to go every day. If the government comes Dodge, the yamen servants will stick to us as soon as they leave, and we must be careful not to let the beggars know our identities."

Yang Xiaosi said with a smile: "It's easy for a villain."