A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 466

Proceed to Sanyuan via Jingyang.

Pass by Yingdong Station again.

Wu Huaiyu's two dogs were the most excited along the way, having a carnival, chasing after each other all the way, extremely energetic.

Sometimes they catch a rabbit and come back after catching a bird. Every time they catch a prey, they run back to show off to Huaiyu, and Huaiyu cooks it for them.

The two dogs were also very good at hunting when they were in Zhongnan Mountain before. They have been raised in Chang'an for a long time, and they have grown fat and are almost useless.

"Let's stay overnight at the inn outside Yingdong Station today."

Seeing that the sky was getting dark and the sun was setting to the west, Wu Huaiyu decided to rest for the night. It was 130 miles from Chang'an to Sanyuan. With such a large group of people, the speed was not fast even though there were carriages and horses, especially with children.

"When I saw this station, I remembered the past when I met my brother-in-law here."

Ma Zhou and his elder sister who had just got off the carriage couldn't help laughing when they heard this, especially Ma Zhou's nose was a little sore when he thought of his down and out and embarrassment at the time, and when he thought of him reciting homesick poems to the Jing River.

"Fortunately, I met Erlang."

"Brother-in-law, I said at that time that golden scales are not a thing in a pond, they can transform into dragons when encountering storms, and now it has come true."

"Without you, Erlang, I'm afraid I would have sunk to the bottom of the Jing River."

"The old dragon king of Jinghe dare not accept you."

Ma Zhou is today because he is talented. Just like when he was in his hometown, Zhao Renben saw his talent at a glance and persuaded him to come to Beijing to pay him back. Although he was insulted by the Qinghe Cui family on the way, and after arriving in Beijing because of the Cui family's interference, he had nowhere to visit him.

If there is no Wu Huaiyu in history, there will still be Chang He, and there will be Emperor Taizong.

"I don't know if the manager of the inn is still there?" Huaiyu laughed.

Ma Zhou also said, "I want to know too."

"Look and see?"

Uncle Lang went to the inn together.

In the setting sun, many passing merchants and travelers stopped ahead of time, or entered the city, or lodged or camped next to the post station, and no one was on the road at night.

Yingdong Inn is even more grand now.

It has even expanded a lot and became a mansion shop. It not only operates an inn, provides food and accommodation, but also stacks goods.

It's booming now.

The shopkeeper from back then is still there now, he has gained weight and become more handsome, and that guy has even become the third shopkeeper.

Huaiyu and Ma Zhou came in. They didn't recognize Ma Zhou at first, but they recognized Wu Huaiyu.

"Don't you know the shopkeeper?"

"This is Ma Zhou," the shopkeeper blurted out, and immediately slapped himself, "Look at my bad mouth, it turns out to be Ma Zhongcheng."

Huaiyu looked around and asked with a smile, "Your business is very prosperous now."

I thought that these people had humiliated Ma Zhou before, but now that Ma Zhou is well-developed, they might trade land for fear of being counted.

The fat shopkeeper smiled flatteringly, "It's all thanks to my husband."

"very?"

"Our Yingdong Mansion store relies on Wu's signboard to be so prosperous."

"What?" Wu Huaiyu was a little stunned.

The fat shopkeeper was also puzzled, but he explained patiently, saying that our mansion has long been owned by the Wu family, so now the business is getting better and better, especially since this is originally located in Weibei, Gyeonggi, and on the post road. Now this post road, business is booming, especially since last year, a large number of Turkic cattle, sheep, horses, even furs, frozen mutton, etc. have been continuously shipped in from the north.

Yingdongdi store has also become one of the "sheep shops". The so-called sheep shops are merchants on the southward route of these sheep trades, which are designated to receive transactions.

With these regular big customers, it’s hard to imagine that the business will not be prosperous. It’s just that after becoming a sheep shop, you can get cattle, sheep, horses, fur, frozen meat, and dried mushrooms at a preferential price and sell them locally, and you can make a lot of money.

The Yingdong Mansion store can have this qualification, of course, because it is the Wu family's store.

"When did it become the Wu family's shop?"

The shopkeeper couldn't help being stunned, he has been working for the Wu family for more than a year, how come the owner doesn't know?

It was Lao Wu's arrival that resolved the misunderstanding.

It turned out that the owner of this store was worried because he had offended Ma Zhou more than a year ago, especially after Wu Huaiyu and Ma Zhou's status had risen, he became more worried. The owner was just a nearby landlord, a powerful county-level power.

So later he took the shopkeeper to Chang'an to visit, and wanted to apologize to Wu Huaiyu and Ma Zhou, but they were not in Beijing at the time, and the shopkeeper met Wu Shike.

After some conversation, it turned out that the owner simply gave the store half sold and half to Lao Wu.

Lao Wu still has the mentality of a small farmer, so he can’t take advantage of the cheap delivery. He just has some money, and the inn is not expensive. He thinks that he will live in Chang’an in the future, and occasionally go back to his hometown in Sanyuan.

But Lao Wu also forgot to tell Huaiyu later.

The owner has changed, but the shopkeeper's guys are still the same people. The shopkeeper is quite capable, and he has embraced the Wu family's thigh. He has also played his own skills well. The business is also expanding rapidly, pulling the Wu family's banner, and it is always against the odds.

Even if he puts a mud tire in the store as the shopkeeper, with the Wu family's current status, he will not lose money.

In fact, Lao Wu didn't take much care of this shop, and let the shopkeeper completely let it go, but he followed Huaiyu's management of Qianjintang and others, and also distributed dividends to several shopkeepers and big guys. This move stimulated the fat shopkeeper and them even more.

Anyway, now Yingdongdi Store can be called a well-known big store in Jingyang County. If merchants passing by Jingyang County take a rest, or want to stock up to find a buyer, or come to purchase, they will usually look for the fat shopkeeper, Yingdongdi Store, a big store with credibility.

They even began to run some other businesses concurrently, such as Jingyang common merchants and small landlords, who have spare money can put it in his shop and give some interest.The fat shopkeeper put the money stored in the store, and then lent it to the merchants to collect interest, earning interest for nothing.

He does not lend money to ordinary people, especially poor farmers, but mainly to business people for temporary turnover, with a short cycle and high interest rates.

It looks like an ordinary mansion shop from the outside, but in fact this shop has a wide range of operations and is very profitable.

Warehouses, inns, restaurants, car shops, money shops, etc.

They have made a lot of money in a year, and the fat shopkeepers are full of motivation because they have stock dividends, but of course the owner, Wu Shike, is the one who makes the most money.

"Is there such a money?"

After listening to the fat shopkeeper's report, Lao Wu casually flipped through the account book and exclaimed. He didn't expect that at the beginning, he just thought that he would not take advantage of the advantages, so he took out a half-buy and half-free to get it. He didn't pay much attention to it and didn't invest any more money.

Wu Huaiyu, who understood the situation, didn't react too much.

He just focused on asking if he had used the banner of the Wu family to do something to bully the market. As long as he followed the rules, even if he took advantage of some unspoken rules, there was nothing to say.

As for this property that is quite good now, since it was bought by the father, it is naturally still his.

After a long time, this has become my own business.

Cheng Zi's family member of the fat shopkeeper called Ma Zhou uncle. Ma Zhou didn't think of saying that he would come to teach the shopkeeper and the guys a lesson, but he still wanted to thank them.

If it weren't for their scolding at the beginning, maybe he Ma Zhou was still drunk, and he would never meet Wu Huaiyu, let alone today.

Lao Wu looked at Ma Zhou, then at his eldest daughter, "I will give this mansion to Yu'e, and treat it as the rouge money that Aye gave you."

Ma Zhou declined again and again.

"Then take it as an early birthday gift to my nephew."

Ma Zhou refused again and again.

The mansion shop is very lively, like a large service area, with the dining area in the front, the guest room area on both sides, the warehouse area, and the intermediary area in the back.

In addition to stacking goods, there are also intermediary transactions here, and there is even a department store sales area, and local medicinal materials are also purchased.

The wine sold in the inn is no longer the old floating wine mixed with water, but all kinds of wine from the Bingyutang of the Wu family. Barley wine, rice wine, fruit wine, shochu, white wine, etc. are all good things from Chang'an, and they are very popular with guests.

The food here is also good.

Generally, inns on the road only provide accommodation services but no catering, and some only provide tipping, that is, provide a kitchen, and you can cook what you want to eat. Generally, you can heat pancakes or cook a bowl of noodle soup for a fee.Even many small roadside shops don't even have top-notch services.

This store is really equivalent to a famous restaurant in Chang'an City.

"Our Jingyang is now the first stop on the north side of the Weihe River. There are a lot of people and goods, especially now that we are a famous medicinal material processing and distribution center. Since our martial arts Qianjintang has built a medicinal material processing workshop here, we have also planted a lot of medicinal materials here. Now more and more medicinal material processing workshops and drug dealers settle here, which also drives a large number of people to grow medicinal materials."

To do business, you have to get together. If you have an industrial scale, you will have a greater gathering effect.

Jingyang has a superior geographical location, close to Chang'an, and is also the main road in Weibei. The Wu family grows medicinal materials, processes medicinal materials, and wholesales medicinal materials here, which drives many people in Jingyang to grow medicinal materials, and also drives many drug dealers to build warehouses and workshops here.

Medicinal materials, fur, food, cattle and horses, these are enough to make this county prosperous.

And the Wu family's mansion outside the city is just at the gate of the city, with enough traffic, coupled with the Wu family's reputation, the business is also extremely hot.

I have to say that in fact, opening a pharmacy and doing the business of medicinal materials is a high-end and profitable industry in this era, but the threshold is relatively high.

The Wu family has unique advantages. Wu Huaiyu's alchemy skills, coupled with Qianjintang's reputation in the past two years, have advantages whether it is building a medicine garden for medicinal materials, or purchasing medicinal materials for processing and wholesale.

In particular, the Wu family has many exclusive Chinese patent medicines, which are not only sold by themselves, but also sold to other pharmacies. The sales volume is huge, which drives the pharmaceutical processing industry of the Wu family's Chinese patent medicine workshops.

"Bring a jug of good wine. My brother-in-law and I will have a good drink later."

"I've been sober for a long time."

"At this moment, let's have a drink or two."

While speaking, the tabby and chow chow in the outfield finally came back after spending enough time, and brought back their prey.

The tabby brought back a rabbit, and the chow caught a badger.

Huaiyu patted the heads of the two dogs and praised them.

As a result, the tabby raised its paws and shook it, then turned its head and barked at the back, and another dog came out, its whole body was pitch black, a pure black Guanzhong fine dog, its pitch black hair was so many and long, and it was holding a pheasant with beautiful feathers in its mouth.

The black dog put the pheasant in front of Huaiyu, and then squatted down with the tiger, and the tiger stepped forward to lick it affectionately.

A bitch.

"Ban Jinbiao, you're promising, can you get a daughter-in-law back in a while?" Huaiyu said with a smile.

At this time, a boy's voice came from outside, "Master, Wu Chuan is here!"

(End of this chapter)