Lu Ming

Chapter 524 The Daily Life of Shopkeeper Wu ([-])

Travelers first used dumping to destroy the old structure of the salt industry, and then used their own huge force as a guarantee to forcibly establish a new market mechanism.

With regard to the new rules, the one with the strongest enforcement is naturally passing through the city of Guangzhou under the eyes of everyone.As for the counties, due to the short time and blocked traffic information, many places are still in a chaotic state of alternating old and new.

But Zengcheng County is an exception.With the help of a wave of bandit suppression, the local forces capable of interfering with Mr. Cao have been wiped out, and the rest of the people are silent. The county has become peaceful and happy overnight. Therefore, the new business order including the salt industry is very fast. It was successfully executed.

Business needs + safe roads, these two reasons are also the prerequisites for shopkeeper Wu to personally lead the team to Hejiabazi this time.

After the two sides weighed the salt goods in the drying yard in the stockade, Manager He threw down a handful of fine salt in his hand, then stroked his beard with satisfaction, nodded in praise and said, "It's all high-quality goods, and the price is also right. My brother, take care." what!"

"Hehe, this is considered an annual gift, so naturally we have to restrain ourselves a bit." Shopkeeper Wu immediately hit the snake with a stick.

Due to the remote location of Hejiazhaizi, no matter what the news is, it usually lags behind, so the people here must not be very clear about the commercial situation in the county.The experienced shopkeeper Wu will definitely not tell the other party that the price of salt has actually dropped and the supply of goods is sufficient. Now is the era when channels are king.

After inspecting the salt goods, the next step is farm tools.

Before that, due to the reluctance of the Transit regime to destroy the existing traditional handicraft industry with industrial products, the agricultural tools produced in the kiln area were basically used in the island and rarely exported.

However, this situation has been loosened with the new construction of the Guangzhou Special Economic Zone.

Considering that a steel factory will be built locally and a series of metal processing enterprises will be opened soon, Transit is now trying to sell some metal products in Guangzhou, especially farm tools.

The purpose of this is very clear: to build up the reputation of Yizhou metal products among the farmers, and by the way, create life pressure for the traditional manual metal processing industry, and prepare for the next step to recruit these people.

So, with the arrival of shopkeeper Wu, the farmers in Hejiazhai saw steel farm tools for the first time in their lives.

The hoes forged and pressed from high-carbon steel have a gray metallic luster, sharp edges, the same size and thickness, and are quite different from traditional handmade ones in appearance.

In addition, there are a group of high-end agricultural tools such as a steel shovel that is shining with blue light, looks thin, but is extremely tough, and an axe.

After learning that these agricultural tools were Yizhou products made of fine steel, the village immediately conducted an on-site experiment. Needless to say, the effect is that the traditional wrought iron agricultural tools are no match at all.

He Renzhong smiled and nodded again, expressing his willingness to pay for the money, even though the price of this batch of agricultural tools is more expensive than ordinary goods.

After the acceptance of the two most important strategic goods, the rest are some daily necessities.These daily necessities do not need to be purchased uniformly in the stockade, but are released and purchased by each family.

By the time of 1631, the people who traveled through the world had penetrated deeper and deeper into this plane, and the most representative ones were these unique goods produced in the kiln area.

Just like the foreign fire, foreign smoke and foreign iron that were sold all over the Qing Dynasty, the special products such as thermos bottles, oil lamps, lamp oil, and sewing needles produced by the cross-country crowd have been sold by merchants all over the world, even in a remote area of ​​Ming Dynasty. In the stockade in the corner, people are no strangers to these unique and beautiful things.

At this time, the members of the He family who came from the stockade had already filled up the drying area. Every household was picking out the goods from the caravan, and smiles appeared on the rough faces of men and women.

But generally speaking, the consumption power of farmers is still very low.For these farmers, the most popular items are undoubtedly affordable items such as sewing needles, denim and candles.

Needless to say, sewing needles are a commodity that best demonstrates the achievements of industrialization.In addition, denim and khakis spun from cotton in the south of the Yangtze River and India are also one of the favorite goods of farmers.

Due to the craftsmanship, the ancient earthen cloth, including the so-called Songjiang cloth sold all over the world, has a characteristic: bare board.The ancients could not weave the kind of towels with small loops or fluffy linen, underwear and socks that later generations are familiar with.

For the same reason, durable and comfortable denim and khakis were immediately welcomed by Ming people.

However, even for ordinary fabrics, the price is not cheap for the bottom farmers.Therefore, after hesitating for a long time, men and women can only buy enough clothes for the head of the family at most, and can't buy a lot.

The money in the pocket is always limited, even if the life of this year is inexplicably better a little bit, but the farmers still can't consume much. After buying some fabrics and a tube of sewing needles, it's almost the same.

As for oil lamps, thermos bottles and other low-end high-end goods, the ultimate consumers are the high-level Hejiazhai representatives represented by the landlord's family.

Today the owner is not here. As a trusted member of the family, He Renzhong certainly knows the needs of the owner's family, so the owner bought oil lamps, most of the high-quality Yizhou smokeless white wax, a lighter, two thermos bottles, and kerosene.

Seeing that the goods he brought just happened to be consumed by Hejiazhai, the shopkeeper Wu was also very contented: This shows that he has an accurate prediction of the consumption level of Hejiazhai. Such suitable goods cannot be matched.

After selling the goods, the farmers picked out the loads of grain and mountain products from the warehouse.After the caravan received a part according to the transportation limit, the remaining payment was converted into silver, and the settlement was settled by Manager He and shopkeeper Wu.

After completing this set of procedures, the entire afternoon has been spent, and the next step is a relaxed and happy dinner time.

The guys in the caravan got shochu and some meat, while shopkeeper Wu and Guanshi He, the old brothers, went to Guanshi He's home, and Mrs. He's wife prepared a few dishes, and then Guanshi He took out a few dishes from the back room. A small altar of wine.

Not thinking about the next moment, shopkeeper Wu took out two wooden jars of the same size from the bag with a smile on his face: "Brother, try the Yizhou light bar I brought today. , I have a good mouth, but I can’t drink it.”

"Light wine? I've never heard of it, but even if it's from Yizhou, it must be good. Then I'll bother my brother today, hehe."

(End of this chapter)