Number of People

  Chapter 54 A character scroll to make a living, win over

There are only two people in the inner hall. The old house of the Feng family looks a little plain. Although the official hat chair and tea table are made of huanghuali, the screens and lighting are a bit out of date. All seasons need to be replaced.

The Xue family is also a big family, pearls are like earth and gold is like iron, even if it was brilliant decades ago, but the emaciated camels are bigger than horses, and the weather pattern is still there, naturally it can be seen that the Feng family really didn't manage this place much Yes, this makes Xue Jun feel a little pity. With the influence of the Feng family here, if he wants to do some business, the income should be quite considerable.

Although he came to Linqing for two days and encountered such a big event, Xue Jun still had a chance to visit Linqing. Although businessmen from all over the country gather here, and all walks of life are quite developed, if it weren't for the tax supervisor Influenced, the business will be prosperous by a few percent.

   "Uncle Xue, you don't have to be polite, you are all from your own family." Feng Ziying smiled and said, "I heard that my uncle intends to make a living in the north. How do you feel about Linqing?"

  The drama is coming, Xue Jun said in his heart, but his face was calm.

"Brother Keng, uncle, I have been traveling all over the world for more than ten years. It turned out that I was mainly in the south of the Yangtze River. However, the business has not been doing well in the past few years. Some businesses run by the Xue family are not doing well, and there is also a lot of competition outside. , that’s why I came up with the idea of ​​going to the north to take a look. I visited Xuzhou, Jining and Dongchang, and then arrived in Linqing. It should be said that these places are good, but they are relatively fixed. If you want to get involved in any business , are more difficult.”

   Xue Jun is telling the truth. The business along the canal has basically formed a relatively stable market. If there are no new changes or industries appearing, you will definitely be under a lot of pressure to get involved.

"Then what are your plans, Uncle?" Feng Ziying also chatted with Xue Jun a few times in the past few days, and felt that Xue Jun was generally considered to be a relatively enlightened businessman in this era. He felt that the Xue family might be sitting on nothing if it went on like this. He could not control the branch of the long house, but he still wanted to get rid of the declining situation of the branch of the second house.

"Brother Keng, to be honest, I didn't think about it." Xue Jun didn't hide anything, "The Xue family could do everything in the past, but you may also know that after my brother passed away, the situation of the Xue family was not satisfactory Well, that nephew of mine caused a lot of trouble, and my sister-in-law couldn't control it, so she lost a lot of money and a lot of business has stopped. When my brother was alive, our eldest and second families had already divided up the business. After I got home, um, some properties in Jingzhong and Jinling City belonged to my sister-in-law, and my second house also lost some business in Suzhou and Yangzhou, but generally speaking, it was not very good, such as gold and silver shops, Jewelry store, silk and satin shop, etc.”

   "Oh, the Xue family also operates a gold and silver jewelry business?" Feng Ziying was slightly surprised.

Jewelry business is not easy. Firstly, it requires heavy inventory and high investment. Secondly, it has high requirements for word-of-mouth, that is, high technology and reputation. Thirdly, it must have a stable source of high-end customers. These points also determine the needs of this industry and The government has a very close relationship.

   If you don’t have a strong official background, if a little bit of stolen sewage is poured on you, you can be shut down or even imprisoned.

However, everyone knows that the jewelry industry is highly profitable. The south of the Yangtze River is rich and rich, and the family members of the scholar-bureaucrats like luxury, and their spending power is better than that in the capital. Therefore, it has always been the head of the jewelry industry. The Xue family is quite famous in Jinling, so it is reasonable to run this business. .

   Like gold and silver shops, jewelry stores, pawns and ticket numbers are basically connected together, and can also form a relatively stable transaction chain between precious metals and currencies.

Feng Ziying is not yet clear about the current status of bank accounts and bank development in the Great Zhou Dynasty, but judging from the situation in Linqing, there are at least some initial sprouts, that is to say, this type of business has already appeared, but it is not very popular yet. , maybe this future will be an opportunity.

  Now I can't support this job with my little arms and legs.

"Well, Fengrunxiang of the Xue family has some history. It has been in business since the ninth year of Tianping, and it has been fifty years." Xue Jun was a little surprised that Feng Ziying was interested in the jewelry business: "The Jiangnan side Female family members have high requirements for jewelry, whether it is material or workmanship, they are very picky, and it is not easy for the Xue family to maintain this trip."

   "Then uncle, has he ever considered going to the Northland to run this business?" Feng Ziying pointed out.

In the past two days, he has also learned about the jewelry business through some channels. In Shandong, Jining, Linqing, Dongchangfu plus Dezhou and Jinan, these port cities are mainly along the canal. As commerce became more and more prosperous, a large number of merchants gathered in these port cities, and some local gentry also migrated to live in the cities, which made these cities more prosperous and brought about an increase in consumption.

However, the level and level of consumption in the North has always lagged behind Jiangnan, especially such high-end consumption is much behind Jiangnan, whether it is in terms of fashion popularity or exquisite craftsmanship, it is inferior to Jiangnan such as Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, and Jinling. There is a big difference between the cities. In Feng Ziying's view, this is an opportunity.

Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants are now focusing more on the operation of bulk goods, and such consumer businesses have not really been involved. However, there are considerable business opportunities in the land.

  Xue Jun got up seriously, and after thinking for a while, he said slowly: "Brother Keng, do you mean that I can move Feng Runxiang to Shandong?"

"In terms of the degree of prosperity of the city, apart from the capital, there is no one in the north that can compare with Jiangnan. However, as my uncle said, there is not only Fengrunxiang in Jiangnan, it is even comparable to Fengrunxiang in strength, and even higher than Fengrun. There are quite a lot of Xiang, and my uncle also said that the situation of the Xue family is not very good. These days, people dislike the poor and love the rich, and they tend to follow the trend. There must be a big difference between the cities, but the demand for this in this city is still in its infancy, and the people here are also very admiring of these fancy gold and silver jewelry in the south of the Yangtze River. In this case, Why doesn't uncle make use of his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, and settle here?"

Feng Ziying is not just talking nonsense, he has thought about it seriously before, and even chatted with some people in the Shanshan Guild Hall. Now Shanshan merchants and Huizhou merchants are not small. If the Xue family wants to operate here, start At this stage, you can only avoid it a little bit, so you have to think about it.

Xue Jun's mention of the jewelry store reminded him that even his mother liked the Jiangnan-style jewelry, and sometimes even asked someone to make a few pairs of jewelry at some famous shops in Jiangnan after a long distance. How popular fashion is in Northland.

Xue Jun nodded: "I heard from Brother Keng that the Feng family also intends to run some business here in Linqing? Is this what your father meant? Then why did the Feng family keep guarding such a treasured place of geomantic omen before moving on?" Woolen cloth?"

"Uncle Xue, I won't hide it from you. This is my own idea. I haven't been here much before. My mother is generally inquiring about things here. You also know that my father has been in Datong, so I inquire here. Not many, this time I come back, I think Linqing is indeed a good place, and I also think that Uncle Xue has some experience and manpower in this area, so I came up with this idea..."

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