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Chapter 98
This inn is cheap, but the service attitude is really not flattering.

Lin Ling opened her voice and shouted, "Shopkeeper, why hasn't the hot water I asked for been delivered yet?"

The shopkeeper didn't lift his head: "The water is boiling, wait."

Lin Ling: "How long will it take?"

Shopkeeper: "I don't know."

Lin Ling was so angry that he almost wanted to hit someone. After paying the money, is this the attitude?It's not that Lin Ling is hypocritical, it's because these few days are her menstrual period, and she can't take cold water, which should be paid attention to.

The business of this store is good, the most important thing is that it is cheap, there are too many customers, and the shopkeeper is so stubborn, he only invited two waiters, and the waiters are very busy, but the shopkeeper just wants to calculate the score, how can I care about you customers It is dead or alive.

Lin Ling slammed the door, and was about to go to the back kitchen to fetch water by herself. It is better to rely on others than on oneself.

Zhang Zhongping had already brought two buckets of hot water over: "Lin Ling, are the two buckets of water enough?"

Both of them are in the logistics company, and they have been on missions together for a long time. Lin Ling has long been used to Zhang Zhongping's care, but this girl is careless and doesn't take it seriously.

Zhang Zhongping also seemed to be used to Lin Ling's buddy-like attitude towards him, neither expressing his opinion nor avoiding suspicion, Li Mo looked anxious.

Look at Liu Ming, the two parties are so active, they have reached the point of discussing marriage, these two are still a fool.

That night, except for eating, everyone never left the gate of the inn again. After so many days of driving, everyone was exhausted physically and mentally.

No matter which state or county, which industry or industry, there are strengths and weaknesses.

When you come to Huaiyang City, you must first understand the market, the second is to understand the purchasing power of the people, and the third is to understand whether there are so-called wealthy families.

Normal sales operations are not afraid of falling, but they are afraid that these wealthy families will crowd out foreigners.

They don't care if your business is not good when you first opened. If your business is booming and you steal their market, you are digging their ancestral graves.

When the shopkeeper was a little free, Li Mo approached the shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper, your business is very good."

The shopkeeper has gotten used to it, and while planning to order, he said: "It's not bad."

Li Mo frowned and looked at his abacus hands, aren't you tired? How much do you charge for just such a few guests? Do you need to count from morning to night?

After handing over a piece of broken silver, the shopkeeper finally raised his noble head: "Guest officer, what do you mean?"

Li Mo: "It's okay, I just asked you something."

The shopkeeper looked at the silver on the table: "Your silver doesn't seem to be enough."

Li Mo: "You don't even know what I'm asking you, so how do you know the portion is not enough?"

The shopkeeper lowered his head and continued to calculate his account: "Ask first, see if it is enough."

Lin Ling felt that her fiery temper was really going to explode. Who is this? People in Songjiang County are so arrogant, and they don't need to pay for anything.

Lin Ling grabbed the money on the table: "My lord, let's not ask him anymore, it's too disgusting."

When going out, everyone called Li Mo the son, not the county magistrate.

Li Mo smiled and said, "Okay."

It's not that I have to ask the shopkeeper, but Li Mo thinks that the shopkeeper is a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Don't look at him, but he is not weak in his hands and feet. Bucket of water, without frowning, carried it directly to the second floor.

The 21 people acted separately and divided into five groups. Lin Ling and Li Mo were in a group with the other three yamen servants.

In the evening, the information obtained will be summarized, and then Li Mo will decide whether to open a branch here.

Huaiyang City is not comparable to Yunning City. It is bigger and more prosperous than Yunning City, and it is not comparable to Songjiang County. No wonder you have to pay a ten-cent entry fee to enter each city.

Walking casually on the busy street, there is lightness under your feet.

The brilliant sunshine is sprinkled among the green tiles and red walls everywhere, the abrupt cornices, the high-flying store signboards and flags, the sparkling horses and carriages, and the endless stream of pedestrians, all of which make this place stand out. of prosperity.

There are only shops on the main street, and there are no stalls. It looks neat and orderly.

Li Mo sighed: Songjiang County really can't compare with others.

However, everyone still likes Songjiang County the most, because it is kind.

In the evening, everyone came back.

After communication, I found that there are still business opportunities here.

The shop basically sells fabrics, and rarely sells ready-made clothes. There is an embroiderer in the cloth store. After buying the fabric, you can pay for the manual work, but the manual fee is not cheap. The embroiderer will help make clothes, but the speed is slow Not very fast.

There are also rouge and gouache shops, which are similar to the ones you usually see, not delicate enough, and not as many types of cosmetics as Songjiang County.

There is no soap, but they sell soap.

I didn't see preserved eggs either, but there are quite a few egg sellers.

The most important thing is that Huaiyang City is equivalent to a big hub, it is very convenient to go anywhere, it is equivalent to the modern Wuhan City, no matter where you go, you have to make turnover there.

If you set up a trading company in Huaiyang City to serve more than a dozen surrounding cities, there should be no problem.

Zhang Zhongping said dissatisfiedly: "My lord, I have inquired that the tax collected by the yamen here is not low, and they will often come to the door, charging this fee and that fee with various excuses."

Lin Ling: "It's so dark."

Songjiang County is still better, there are no exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the newly opened shops are exempted from taxes for three months.

Liu Ming: "I went to a lot of shops. The things they sell here are much more expensive in our Songjiang County."

"There is also the rent of the shop here, which is really not cheap."

"The most important thing is that there are no shops in the prosperous areas for rent."

Everyone wants to grab the bustling location, and it's normal to not be able to rent it.

Take Shanghai for example, where every inch of land is very expensive. Everyone knows that the consumption there is very expensive, but many people want to squeeze their heads into this city.

Everyone is worried about whether opening a trading company here can survive. The rent is high, there are all kinds of exorbitant taxes, and the government servants beat the wind from time to time.

Although it is said that their products from Songjiang County are not sold in the market in Huaiyang City, will they be squeezed out and suppressed by the locals?

They also found out that the largest cloth merchant in Huaiyang City is Ouyang's family, the largest rouge gouache shop is Xiao's family, and the largest grain merchant is Tang's family.

These are all well-established old business names. The most important thing is that there are people behind them. The so-called people behind them generally refer to the government.

Like Li Mo and the others, they don't have any background and are unfamiliar with the place. They suddenly open a shop here, and the business is not good. Fortunately, if the business is booming, they may directly come to make trouble.

Unlike those towns around Songjiang County, which are very close, you can rush there in a day and a half if you have anything to do, this Huaiyang City is too far away, and it takes more than ten days to report a letter back and forth. It's hard to take care of any problems.

The problems that arise here are still the same in other towns.

If you don't open a store because of such a problem?Do not continue to develop?
Then Songjiang County will never develop, relying on Mr. Bai?Boss Fang?Or rely on the surrounding towns?
No, this is not what Li Mo wants.

Lin Ling: "Master, do we really want to open a trading company in Huaiyang City?"

Li Mo: "Not bad."

Zhang Zhongping: "But the rent here is very expensive."

Li Mo: "The rent in the bustling area is too high, we can't afford it for the time being, and it's hard to find shops in the bustling area, unless we can afford a big price and let the original store move out, but it's not necessary."

Lin Ling: "Then what should we do?"

Li Mo: "Let's go to a dentist first."

Yaxing is equivalent to a modern intermediary company. They are registered in the Yamen, and they reasonably buy and sell servants, properties, and livestock transactions. The workers or bosses inside are called guarantors.

You don’t need to ask specifically, the shop of Yaxing is easy to find, just like real estate agencies can be seen everywhere in big cities nowadays.

The next day, I randomly entered a dental shop. The guarantor was surnamed Chen, a man in his early forties. He was the boss and the second child, because he was the only one.

Chen Baoren was very enthusiastic: "Are you buying people or looking at houses?"

Li Mo: "Look at the shop, are there any for rent?"

Chen Baoren: "You are from other places, where are you from? How big a shop do you want to rent?"

It is an affirmative sentence, and if you know the locals, you can tell at a glance that several of them are foreigners.

Li Mo: "How many houses do you have? Let's take a look first."

Chen Baoren was used to seeing all kinds of people, and he didn't look down on them just because they were foreigners.

It's just that he hasn't opened for several days, and he is still idle when he is idle, so he simply takes a few people around, maybe a business will be closed.

I have been looking at more than a dozen shops, but everyone is not satisfied, or the location is too remote, and there are no people around.

Either the pavement is too small to fit.

Chen Baoren took Li Mo and the others around for so long, but he didn't take a fancy to any shop, so he thought for a while: "Guest officer, I still have a shop here, but it's a bit expensive."

This shop is on the other side of the busiest street. The road in front is wide enough to park a lot of vehicles.

In front is the pavement, which is larger than the surrounding pavements. People can live in the backyard, and there are wells and kitchens inside.

But the rent is not cheap, 40 taels of silver a month.

Lin Ling's eyes widened: "So expensive?"

Chen Baoren smiled: "Girl, this is not expensive anymore. Take a look at the bustling street in front of you. The minimum price for a shop is 50 taels of silver."

Isn't this a money grab?How many things do you have to sell to earn back 40 taels of silver.

Lin Ling: "Young master, why don't we go and see the others?"

Li Mo: "20 taels of silver, how about it?"

Chen Baoren was dumbfounded: "Guest officer, are you joking?"

20 taels, you really dare to ask for a price, besides, bargaining is not like this, how can anyone cut off half of it directly.

Li Mo: "Do you think I'm joking?"

"Sigh." Chen Baoren sighed: "Okay, I'll give you the bottom line directly. The surrounding area has this price. The shops in the good location have been rented out by others. Although this street is not as prosperous as the one next to it, but They are also very close together. Even if you change a hundred guarantors, you can only rent the shops just now."

"Guest officer, you also know that it's really difficult to be in our line of business. You see, I took you around for a long time today. At least give me some money for tea."

Li Mo thought for a while: "Let's take a step back each, 21 taels of silver, and it's fine if you don't rent it."

Fuck, it's just a tael of silver, Chen Baoren can't complain.

This is a ruthless person, Chen Baoren said helplessly: "All right, all right."

This is also the price I can accept, but the profit is too little. I gave the landlord 15 taels of silver, and he only earned [-] taels of silver after holding down the shop for two years. He felt like he was about to vomit blood.

In fact, it is very difficult to rent out this shop. Do you do business? It is not in a prosperous area, and you don’t know if you can make money back if you rent it out, so very few people look at this shop.

Do you want to rent it as a residence, because the other street is full of business, and there are many people and cars passing by here, which will make people feel very noisy.

It has become an existence that can't be high enough to be low, like a tasteless existence, and has been suppressed here.

Now that you have decided to rent it, you have to start preparing for the decoration later.

These are contacted by other people to decorate the personnel.

Li Mo decided to visit these three business giants to see if they could negotiate a deal.

Zhang Zhongping couldn't figure it out. It was reasonable to visit the other two. Why did he visit the Tang family? The Tang family was in grain business, and Songjiang County didn't sell grain.

Ouyang Qing, who is in charge of the Ouyang family, is nearly sixty this year. He is always cautious and stubborn.

The steady and steady style also made Ouyang's family behave a little conservatively. If outsiders wanted to cooperate with him, they had to introduce them layer by layer.

It was also because of this that Ouyang Qing, as the person in charge, did not receive a few greeting cards on weekdays, and he was not in the habit of meeting foreigners. Unexpectedly, a greeting card was handed to him today.

"Li Mo, Songjiang County?" Hearing the butler's report, Ouyang Qing frowned: "This kind of people are just dismissed, why bother to report? Which poor place is Songjiang County?"

Where is Songjiang County?He felt he had no impression.

Butler: "Songjiang County belongs to Yunning County." This was what the other party told the butler when he just received the post.

It's no wonder he said that, Songjiang County is not close to Huaiyang City, and he has never heard of the so-called Li Mo.

How could he meet with such a person who came directly to the door regardless of the relationship?Too out of status.

The housekeeper coughed dryly, showing some embarrassment: "Master, the visitor is a little weird, all three are young people, one son, two girls, and they don't look bad..."

As he said that, his eyes couldn't help but glance over, Ouyang smiled angrily: "Why, do you think they are the sons and daughters of the old man?"

He is 58 this year, and his family has wives and concubines. There are more than a dozen grandchildren, and several of them have already married. How could he travel thousands of miles to Songjiang County to provoke women and give birth to several children?
The housekeeper hurriedly said: "Master misunderstood, it's just that the man said that he has admired Master's name for a long time and wanted to do some business with us..."

These words aroused Ouyang Qing's interest. There are countless business people in the world, why do you want to find him?Several young people came to the door, what exactly did they want to talk about?
After thinking for a while, Ouyang Qing finally said: "Then let's meet and take them to the side hall."

Anyway, I don't have anything to do today, so I might as well see you last time, it's also considered a pastime.

Not long after, the butler led the people into the gate.

Ouyang Qing looked intently, his heart skipped a beat, these guys are really young!
All three of them looked less than 20 years old, and his grandchildren were older than them, and one of the girls was carrying a bundle in her hand.

The leading man looked at him with a pair of bright eyes, neither dodging nor dodging, calm and peaceful, like a clear spring, and his aura is not weak.

This is by no means an ordinary people.

Li Mo brought Lin Ling and another female yamen servant here today. This female yamen servant will be the steward of the store in Huaiyang City.

Li Mo bowed his hands: "Li Mo, Songjiang County, met Patriarch Ouyang."

Ouyang Qing: "Mr. Li, don't worry too much, please sit down."

He raised his hand and stroked his beard, and waited for the others to sit down before he said: "This old man is the head of Ouyang's family. I don't know why Mr. Li is here?"

Li Mo: "I came here to cooperate with Patriarch Ouyang. You sell cloth and we sell ready-made clothes. Why don't Patriarch Ouyang buy and sell ready-made clothes from us in the future? I'll give you a very favorable price, [-]% off. Of course, this doesn’t affect your sales of fabrics.”

Ouyang Qing paused first, and then said with a dark face: "Mr. Li came here to let the old man change his career to sell clothes, housekeeper, and see off customers."

The butler knew he was wrong, so he shouldn't have let these people in, just to see how angry the old man would be.

Li Mo was not angry: "Master Ouyang, are you sure you don't want to look at the ready-made clothes?"

Ouyang Qing felt that he had never been so angry in his life for nearly 60 years. He thought it was a cooperation. It turned out that he wanted to buy the clothes they made. If he wanted to change his business to sell your clothes, would you want to buy my fabrics?

In other words, this is a no-cost transaction!However, the man on the opposite side looked calm and showed no sense of shame. This face is a good material for doing business.

He is a good material, but Ouyang Qing quit.

At this time, Ouyang Qing was so angry that his beard curled up: "Housekeeper, see off the guests." He flicked his sleeves, turned and walked to the backyard.

The butler said awkwardly, "Mr. Li, please."

As soon as he left the Ouyang Mansion, Lin Ling couldn't hold back his face anymore, and he pulled the old man: "What kind of people are these people, they have no quality at all, and they drove us away without even looking at them, and he will regret it in the future."

Li Mo didn't care: "It's not so easy to do business, let's go, let's go and see the other two."

The same result, the three of them were also blasted out.

The two girls felt that their self-esteem had been severely hit, and on the way back to the inn, they were so unhappy that they didn't say a word.

Zhang Zhongping and others went to the contact person to decorate the shop, and they just returned.

Seeing the two girls who went back to the room as soon as they returned to the inn, they asked Li Mo: "My lord, what's the matter with them?"

Li Mo: "It's okay, let's take a rest, and they will be fine tomorrow."

Li Mo told about visiting the three big bosses, Zhang Zhongping hesitated for a moment: "My lord, should we still open our shop?"

Li Mobai gave him a look: "Open it, why not open it? Today they look down on us, and tomorrow they will not be able to reach us."

Liu Ming thought for a while: "My lord, since we have already done the courtesy first and then the soldiers, they should have nothing to say when our trading company starts doing business in the future."

Li Mo: "There will definitely be crowding out, so we must be bigger and stronger so that they can't crowd us out."

(End of this chapter)