A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 153

Li Shimin repelled the arrogance of the Turks with a wonderful night attack, and inspired the hearts of officials and people in Chang'an with a ceremony of parading prisoners in the Taimiao.

There are three more days until the crown prince ascends the throne.

Most of the tense and depressing atmosphere was swept away. It turned out that the Turkic cubs were nothing more than that, and they came all the way to die as slaves.

The next day, Jieli Khan led his men and horses from Wugong to Jincheng, and sent a team to the north bank of the Xiwei Bridge for a circle.On the same day, Jieli Khan sent Zhi Shisili into Chang'an to wait and see what happened, and led his troops to the northeast of Liquan and Jingyang, not even daring to approach the edge of Xianyang City.

A large group of Turkic cavalry headed for Gaoling in the northeast of Chang'an, with the intention of crossing the Yellow River east and returning to Saibei through Hedong.

When Huaiyu heard the news, she was in casual clothes at Qianjin Hall in Dongshi. Fan Xuanfu was going out in women's clothing today, but he might have a lover, so he was like many ladies from a famous family, wearing a dark fence on his head and a big bamboo hat Like a hat, a large piece of gauze hangs down, covering the head and almost the whole body.

Qianjintang officially opened for business, but it was not too grand. After all, the industry is special. In the industry of selling medicine and treating diseases, you can't write that the business is booming. You have to consider the feelings of patients.

Huaiyu specially wrote a couplet for him, which was written on a peach wood board and hung on the gate of Qianjin Hall.

"I hope there will be no suffering in the world, and I would rather put medicine on the shelf to make dust!"

There was no such habit of posting couplets in the Tang Dynasty. Qianjintang’s posting of the mahogany couplets attracted many people to watch. These two sentences showed Qianjintang’s mind and character very well, and attracted passers-by to admire them.

The words "Qianjintang" were written by Huaiyu specially looking for Ouyang Xun, a man from Bohai County, a prince rate Gengling, and a bachelor of Hongwenguan. He gave the old man a generous gift, Baoyu salt bricks, beautiful jade soap, Qianjin elixir, etc. Although the old man He is seventy years old, but his calligraphy was in the early Tang Dynasty. He is the most respected and unique master. He even wrote the four characters on Kaiyuan Tongbao.

Although the official is not very big, there are countless people who want to ask him to write a plaque or epitaph, and it is difficult to buy a pen with money.

"I think the two lines you wrote, Erlang, are good and better. They are much better than old man Ouyang. There are such good things as white flowers." Fan Xuanfu sees beauty in the eyes of lovers, and everyone thinks Huaiyu is good.

Zhao Yi, the shopkeeper, was also extraordinarily energetic today, wearing a brand-new robe, and the soft toe on his head was also extraordinarily stylish against the backdrop of the scarf.

"I also think our Erlang's characters are more energetic."

Ouyang Xun's regular script is known as the European style, and it is dangerous in the middle of the plain. Basically, everyone who learns calligraphy has practiced his calligraphy, but in the end no one has been writing the European style, because no matter how good the European style is, it is difficult for me to have something on it. Breakthrough development, the European body has no room for change.

Huaiyu's couplet uses Yan style, and Yan Jinliu style is not a nonsense. Its structure is square and dense, the strokes are light and vertical, the strokes are strong, round and thick, and the momentum is solemn and majestic.

Yan style has a strong personal style, which is completely different from that of European style. After all, although Huaiyu is not as good as Yan Zhenqing, the founder of the later generations, the writing is also very tasteful.

"It's opening today, are you ready?"

"Erlang, rest assured, everyone has been preparing for these days, and there will be no mistakes."

Huaiyu smiled, "Call everyone over here, it's a happy opening, and I'll give you a red envelope first."

"What is a red envelope?"

"I'll know in a while."

Qianjin Hall was completed very quickly from construction to decoration. The wooden structure of Datang is indeed convenient for construction. As long as there are materials and wages are in place, there is no doubt about the efficiency and professional ethics of the craftsmen.

There are shops in the front, workshops in the middle, and houses in the back.

There is also a side hall in front of the store. It is located at the intersection of Dongshi Medicine Store. The long row of stores is nine feet wide, which is the width of ordinary nine small stores. The front is built so that the storefront is also deep enough.

Rows of medicine racks were also custom-made in Dongshi's woodware shop. They were made of high-quality wood, painted with lacquer, and filled with various medicinal materials.

Qianjintang now has a lot of high-profile products, not only various elixirs for healing and detoxification, but also many supplements for nourishing qi and blood. In addition, there are cleansing and skin care products such as fragrant soap and soap, as well as salt bricks and snow salt , caustic soda, flour soda, tea, spices, etc.

There are still a lot of products, not only selling medicinal supplements, but also seeing and treating diseases, and also selling cleaning products, spices, salt tea, etc.

Before the opening, Qianjintang's reputation had already been established, and the treasure pill wound medicine became famous, and later, as Wu Huaiyu cured Qin Qiong's illness, Qianjintang's elixir was already very good.

Even though Huaiyu has not been in Chang'an for a long time, her reputation is still growing, which drives many other new products to be very popular.

When he came back from Longyou, Qianjintang sent some samples of the newly made soap to old customers, and immediately got many orders.

Now there are over two hundred people in Qianjintang. This is not only a medicine shop, but also a rather large workshop.

After a while, everyone came over.

Today, everyone in Qianjintang, from the shopkeeper to the doctor, the pharmacist, and the apprentice clerk, is wearing new clothes, which Huaiyu paid for and ordered in advance from the market cloth shop.

Everyone put on new clothes at the opening, which is not only the dignity of Qianjintang, but also a reward for everyone's hard work recently.

"I also know that everyone has been working very hard recently. Today, our Qianjintang officially opened, and it may be even busier in the future,"

"My boss also thanks everyone for their hard work, here is a small red envelope for everyone,"

Apprentices received ten coins, clerks twenty, senior clerks thirty, and pharmacists, doctors, and shopkeepers received fifty, sixty, and eighty red envelopes.

Not too much, but not too little either.

Especially for the apprentices, they now belong to the apprenticeship stage where they only provide board and lodging and a set of clothes for a season.

"Everyone, do a good job. During the New Year's Day, there is still a thank you."

In addition to this red envelope, Huaiyu also prepared some food for everyone. Food is the most scarce thing in Chang'an right now. Last time, everyone already borrowed some food from him.

Opening today, in addition to red envelopes, there are food.Apprentices get ten coins, plus one catty of millet, two catties for the assistant, three catties for the big guy, and eight catties for the shopkeeper.

This unexpected joy made everyone extremely happy.

"Okay, everyone cheer up and open for business,"

"If you have any difficulties in life in the future, you can talk to the shopkeeper. If the shopkeeper can't solve it, you will tell me."

"Everyone do a good job, I will never treat you badly."

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On the first day of Qianjintang's official opening, there was no ribbon-cutting, cannonballing, blowing, etc., and even no friends were invited, but as soon as the card was hung and the door was opened, many people were still attracted.

Zhao Yi and the others had already informed some old customers in advance that it will officially open today, and there will be discounts at that time. Huaiyu shamelessly taught Zhao Yi a marketing method, registering and opening a card as a member.

Some in-demand items are only sold to members.

Members also have member days, with discounts...

The depth of the wine is not afraid of the depth of the alley. Qianjintang occupies a very good prime location. There are many exclusive hot-selling products at the intersection.

"I didn't expect the business of the pharmacy to be so good."

"This is not just a pharmacy, look at our new soap, how popular it is."

Qianjintang's soaps are beautifully packaged, with various fragrances, beautifully packaged, and even printed with poems for advertisements. Honored noble family.

Fatty Wu, who came from Qujiang, was very happy to see this heated scene.

"Erlang, our Qianjintang has been making a lot of profits recently, should we pay dividends again?"

Huaiyu is not in a hurry to pay dividends, and he is not very short of money now.

"Why don't we go to West Market to buy another piece of land and build another Qianjintang branch?"

"Chang'an is so big, it's okay to open a semicolon," Fatty Wu now trusts Huaiyu as his partner very much, and following Wu Huaiyu, his brother, is just lying around and making money.

"I think we have to buy two more houses in the workshops on the edge of the east and west cities for workshops and warehouses, or we can buy vacant land and build them ourselves." Qianjintang's signboard has been launched, and there are so many blockbuster products, it must be Expand production capacity.

"I will follow Erlang's arrangement, I have no objection." Fatty grinned from ear to ear, this business is too good.

"Then recruit some more apprentices, let's expand the workshop."

The fat man hesitated, "Nowadays, the price of food in Chang'an is getting higher and higher. Now that more people are recruited, the food costs a lot. Moreover, if people are recruited, they not only need to eat and drink, but we may have to borrow food for them." their family,"

As soon as Huaiyu came back two days ago, he borrowed food from the folks in Qianjintang. Although Fatty didn't object to this, even if he borrowed one and paid back, at the current price of food, it would be a loss-making business.

Their grain was not so expensive when they bought it. At that time, it was generally bought for a bucket of rice and silk, which was equivalent to 360 yuan a bucket. Now, a bucket of rice in the black market is sold for a thousand yuan, and corn is sold for [-] yuan, which has increased. three times faster.

If they directly sell the grain they have on the black market, they can earn six hundred and forty-four per bushel, but if they lend it to the guys, they will not be able to repay it until next spring.

With the current situation, food is still rising.

"Food prices in Chang'an will not keep rising. As long as the Turks retreat, the price of food may fall back to the price in summer,"

Now the price of food in Chang'an has risen sharply, but in fact, those nobles, nobles, officials and big households are not short of food. They have already stored food, and many of them are even landlords.

The imperial court has always been in control, but the Turkic soldiers came to the city, causing panic, food grabbing, and hoarding to spread, which exacerbated the rise in food prices, and there was no real shortage of food to that extent.

"Are you sure the Turks will retreat soon, and the food price will fall back to summer?" the fat man asked.

"Basically certain."

Fatty's eyes sparkled and he became excited.

Seeing this, Huaiyu quickly reminded him, "Be careful, the price of food in Chang'an has aroused the dissatisfaction of the crown prince and the court. If you intervene at this time and want to speculate in it, you may be arrested at that time. "

"Everyone does this, I just follow behind to drink some soup, if you want to catch me, you won't catch me."

"It's better not to earn this kind of money. If we have food on hand, wouldn't it be better if we lend it to our own people to tide over the difficulties? If you want to make money, there are many ways and means, there is no need to work hard on it. Listen to me, no Wrong." Huaiyu persuaded the fat man.

(End of this chapter)