Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 90 The Power of the Golden Scroll
The business war seems to be calm, but it is also thrilling and frightening. If you don't pay attention, you will be defeated.

In the first few days, the business of Shi's restaurant improved. Zhao Yuanwai didn't care too much, thinking that Shi Tianfu was trying to attract his relatives to make him popular. Before that, many people from the Shi's hometown party came to the restaurant, which made the restaurant The house is lively and lively every day, but after a few days, it becomes deserted again, so there is no need to worry.

But after seven or eight days, the business of Shijia Restaurant is still very good. Although it cannot be said that it is full every day, there are at least one or two tables a day. ran to the opposite side.

This is not over yet. Apart from the restaurant, the Zhao family's business also includes silk shops, raw medicine shops, etc. The Shi family's business is similar, so the two families have always been rivals. After the Shi family's restaurant improved inexplicably, even these businesses also improved. Originally, the competition between the two families was fierce, and the business always went up and down, and the Zhao family lost a lot all of a sudden.

"What happened?"

Originally, there was only one hundred and ninety-two hundred taels of silver in one month's income, but this month was cut off for half a month, and it was only 200 taels. With a large circle of wrinkles, he wrote a note on the account full of sorrow, then turned his head in doubt, and asked the housekeeper Zhao Fu.

"Old man, you are relatively well-informed in the market. Do you know what kind of enchantment he Shi Tianfu used? Why did he steal so much of our business all at once?"

Butler Zhao was dozing off on the table beside him, but he shivered suddenly when he heard this question.

In fact, he already had a plan in his heart. He met Song Qingshu and went to find Shi Tianfu more than half a month ago, and then his business started to pick up. If Song Qingshu hadn't played tricks, things would have gone wrong, but how dare he say this?The black money that Shi Tianfu gave to buy recipes is still on his body now!
"I don't know the little one, or, I heard that there is an old fairy Xu in the Xingye Temple in the north of the city who has profound Taoism. If it is really impossible, let's invite him to do the practice and break the magic trick he used on Lao Laizi?"

"That's the only way to go!"

With a sigh, Zhao Yuanwai shook his head with difficulty. At this moment, Mr. Zhao, who was wearing the official robe of the Eight-Class Book Zuolv Oriole outside, hurried in again.

"Father, my boy finally invited Mr. Wang to go to Cuiwei Pavilion to drink flowers and wine. Don't miss this opportunity! Get 100 taels of silver for my boy!"

Well, this month's income is not enough, and 20 taels was posted backwards. After taking out the money tremblingly, Zhao Yuanwai simply waved at the back of Zhao Fu's hand anxiously: "You invite the old god Xu to come back and do it now." , the sooner the better!"

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Wearing a yellow-brown Taoist robe, with a pattern of Tai Chi and eight trigrams tattooed on the back of the chest, he claimed to be the seven elders who had returned from learning Taoism in Jingfu Mountain. Eighty-one old men danced swords at the entrance of the shop like a convulsion, burned several pieces of yellow paper, and returned a bucket of black dog blood It was sprayed on the signboard of Zhao's restaurant, and this noisy movement really attracted many idlers to watch.

It's a pity that Yuanwai Zhao, who gave away five taels of silver and sat happily waiting for customers to come to his door, didn't know that Zhang Tianshi of Longhu Mountain couldn't break this demon in him himself!
On the other end, Central Avenue, Song Qingshu Small House.

"Hello, I spent a total of 520 Wen. Welcome to visit next time. This is a coupon given to you by the shopkeeper. It can be used at Shijia Restaurant to be worth [-] Wen!"

Qiao'er is really a store manager now, with a pretty face and a sweet smile, a red cardboard box was sent to two scholars who came to eat, holding the cardboard and looked up and down, the two scholars immediately looked at each other. With a smile on his face, he put the paper shell into his bosom, thanked him, and then packed up his clothes and swaggered away.

"Brother Song, the coupons have been delivered again!"

Now that the business is booming, Qiaoer has gotten a promotion. In the past two days, several female family members of Funiu Mountain bandits have been brought into the city to serve as waiters. The girl immediately ran back bouncing around.

Looking at the headache-inducing "Five Classics of Justice" at the counter, Song Qingshu's nose was bubbling, and without raising his head, he took out two boxes from under the counter and threw them on the Internet. There were hundreds of small red paper shells.

Don't underestimate this thing, this thing is a demon method that helps Shi Tianfu suppress the Zhao family's temper!

Although he graduated from the history department, Song Qingshu also went to work as a salesperson for several months in order to make a living, and in addition to various advertising promotions on weekdays. Compared with those honest businessmen, he is definitely a master!

There is a famous saying in recent years that reflects the business situation at that time, the fragrance of wine is not afraid of deep alleys!However, Song Qingshu's manager once brought him a famous saying when he was working part-time, that the smell of wine is also afraid of deep alleys!

What he talked to Shi Tianfu that day was the business of distributing vouchers and group buying together between the two families.

Logically speaking, Song Qingshu is in the business of catering, and Shi Tianfu is also in the business of catering. The two are competitors. Song Qingshu's advertising for Shi Tianfu is like doing the opponent a favor, but in fact it is not the case. The two people's business is simply not the same concept. !
A restaurant like Song Qingshu’s is a fast food restaurant, essentially the same as the porridge shop and noodle stall on the opposite street. It takes less than half an hour for customers to come in and finish their meal. Regardless of whether Shi Tianfu or Zhao Yuanwai, their business is more similar to that of later generations. The big hotels usually receive large banquets, such as weddings and marriages, banquets for admission to the top spot, official receptions and so on. The consumption is basically between 100 taels and [-] taels. The human ranges do not overlap.

In terms of cooking skills, the Shi family is a big family, and the craftsmanship is actually not inferior to that of the Zhao family. It may be better. The lack is the lack of this popularity. Song Qingshu is very popular. It is also a fast food, squatting at the stall to eat fried noodles and Can eating steak in a western restaurant be a standard?Moreover, Song Qingshu is also covered with a layer of freshness of Western culture, which of course attracts those literati who flock to find newness. Although it seems that it is a bit disadvantageous to reduce fifty and one hundred for a volume, but in this way, Shi The name of the restaurant was announced.

For this reason, Song Qingshu also cameo with a graphic design. This generation of gold scroll itself is somewhat ornamental in this era of lack of images. The background color is specially made a beaming red. On it, Fu Shan painted a landscape, which is also considered familiar. The poems mentioned by Hong Chengchou are printed with dozens of copper coin textures on the back, the plates carved by specially hired engravers, the three-dimensional effect pressed on the hard paper shell, and Shijia Restaurant written in bronzing characters. It was just for this gold roll that Song Qingshu came here to have a meal. In this way, can Shi Tianfu not be popular?
Of course, Song Qingshu did not suffer. On the one hand, he advertised colleagues to Shi Tianfu, and Shi Tianfu also advertised to him. On the other hand, Shi Tianfu's purchase channels and business fields also gave Song Qingshu a big blow. Discount, it's really a big family, but it's different. Using Shi Tianfu's channel, Song Qingshu's cost has dropped by one-third, which can be regarded as a huge profit.

In particular, he cheated the Zhao family. After the hotel got up, Shi Tianfu simply gave Song Qingshu a design fee. The two teamed up to print the advertisements for the silk and satin shop, the medicine store, and the grocery store, although it seemed to be a little less To make a profit, the larger the sales scale, the lower the cost. Shi Tianfu still made money, and even robbed the Zhao family's business by more than half.

Since Song Qingshu's official position has been defrauded, then hand over the money!This is called having both the fish and the bear's paw!Although the Zhao family has a lot of money, it is estimated that they will have to complain about this kind of loss soon!
It was another busy day of business, and this day happened to be the settlement day. Song Qingshu, who was forced by Caiwei to read the Four Books and Five Classics for a day, could change his mind, so he came over to settle the accounts. For the first time, he discovered that mathematics, which he hated before, now It's so cute!
The abacus was fiddled with quickly, this Song Qing book was piled up with scattered silver and reported the account, and Caiwei was concentrating on taking notes, and after the last calculation, Caiwei put down the pen with a happy smile, and said excitedly: "Brother, plus Li Yuanwai , the advertising fee given to us by shopkeeper Zhang has made a total profit of 86 taels this month!"

The official Ximen in "Jin Ping Mei" can only earn more than 300 taels a month. Song Qingshu's small shop is more than [-] taels more than the profit of several stores in his Zhao family. Even if the points are given to the two shareholders, the rest There were quite a few of them, and Song Qingshu, who was listening, immediately smiled, looking at a large pile of shiny broken silver, his eyes almost lost sight of the smile.

But before he could laugh enough, Hongniang Xing rushed in again, and threw a crumpled letter in front of Song Qingshu. When he opened it, Song Qingshu almost cried.

This is a request letter from Scarface. Now September is the autumn harvest time. Although there is a drought this year, the harvest in Shazigou is still quite a lot. Among them, more than 1000 stone corns have been harvested in 5000 acres of corn fields, and more than 4000 stone corns have been harvested in [-] acres of sweet potato fields. There are more than [-] stone sweet potatoes, and there are more than [-] stone potatoes. Other wheat, corn, and some vegetable fields have little harvest, which is better than nothing.

The problem is, the government doesn't recognize this thing!Even if there is a good one, the discount is given, and it is not enough to pay all the wheat and millet as taxes, and there is still a shortfall of 150 taels of silver. Scarface asked if he should sell the grain, or Song Qingshu send some more money!

There are still more than 5000 people in Funiu Mountain who need to be fed!Food is already tight, and it can sell for six!His heart was bleeding, Song Qingshu wrote a veto casually, and then discussed with Xing Hongniang and Caiwei, he hid the 100 taels of silver from Shi Tianfu's private house with a mournful face and hid it from under the pier out.

Watching Bai Wenxuan bring the money out of the street with the messenger brought by Jinyiwei, Song Qingshu also bangs his head against the wall depressed.

"Still thinking about how to spend the money? Why did the young master become a passing God of Wealth in the end?"

(End of this chapter)