Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 671 The Booming Flower Basket Business

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After hearing what he said, Lu Xiaobei said excitedly: "The shopkeeper Zhuang underestimated me too much. Although I am not in the officialdom, the intrigue among businessmen is no less than in the officialdom. He, I'm still struggling to get by in that dilapidated yard in Lishui County. There are many ways to make money now, how could I make this money knowing that doing so would damage Jinning's reputation?"

Seeing that he understood, Zhuang Yue let out a sigh of relief.

"Actually, when I chose to go into business, firstly, I wanted to win over Sister Ling, so that no one would look down on her, saying that she relied on her natal family to support her husband; secondly, I wanted to help a bunch of Jinning. Who knew that he himself That's so good, not only the imperial examinations are not good all the way, but also the business that doesn't take much time and energy to do so well, it makes me useless at all."

When Lu Xiaobei mentioned this, he was very depressed.

He originally wanted to make more money to support Du Jinning, but if Du Jinning wanted to use the money in the future, he just paid for it.But although Du Jinning has no time to make money, he has helpers.Use personality charm to attract people like Zhuang Yue and Yao Shuqi to help him make money; his brain is different from ordinary people, and thinking about it is a good idea to make money, and the speed of making money is not slower than his Lu Xiaobei at all.

"A while ago, your flower shop made a lot of money, right?" he asked Zhuang Yue.

"Haha, not only some time ago, but now I also make a lot of money every day." When talking about this, Zhuang Yue couldn't hold his mouth from ear to ear.

Because they are both in business, Zhuang Yue and Lu Xiaobei have a common language.

"Although the spring has passed, but the capital is so big and the population is so large, which day will there be few people who marry wives and have children? As long as there are weddings, we need our flower shop." Zhuang Yue said with a smile.

Ever since Du Jinning came up with the idea that you can send flower baskets for weddings, Zhuang Yue has done a lot of sales promotion in the city, and after giving people a few free weddings, there has been a trend in the city where guests send flower baskets to people who are hosting weddings. Habit.When holding a wedding, the more flower baskets at the door, the more prosperous the family is, and the guests who come are all rich.Because this flower basket is not cheap, each flower basket costs at least two taels of silver for the smallest one, and ten taels for the larger one.

When pricing the flower baskets at the beginning, Du Jinning said that he wanted to take the high-end route and show the style, not the bad street.After all, the supply of their flower base is limited, so it is natural to develop in the direction of high precision.

Two taels of silver, ordinary people go to someone's house for a wedding, and the red envelopes in the package are less than two taels of silver. How can they waste this money and leave it at the door just to see the flowers?
So as soon as they made this move, they became a forceful existence.When a wealthy family holds a wedding, the street at the entrance is filled with flower baskets from end to end, all of which are gifts from guests.Once someone does such a face-saving thing, no one else can be compared to him.So it became a trend for wealthy families to show their connections.

Some time ago in the imperial examination, those who passed the imperial examination were admitted to Jinshi, and the innkeeper took the lead in sending flower baskets (this was of course discussed by Zhuang Yue and the bosses), which led to another trend. The flower baskets sent by Jinshi people were placed at the entrance of the inn, which gave the Xinke Jinshi a lot of face, and the innkeeper laughed from ear to ear. It has become a place of auspiciousness.When the next imperial examination is held, people will definitely live in inns with many flower baskets, and business will naturally flourish.

Of course, the yard of the wealthy family is quite large, with many flowers and trees, so it is not difficult to make a few flower baskets by yourself.But the flower basket was for someone else, and the name was written on it with red silk.Once I pretend to be a florist and make a flower basket, and the florist spreads the news, wouldn't it be a loss of face, and people will say that I can't even bear a few taels of silver, and I have to make my own to save money?
Noble and wealthy families value face the most, if they do this kind of thing to save a few taels of silver, then people will definitely suspect that the family is already dilapidated, and even a few taels of silver will be saved.

So even if many people have flowers at home, they still go to flower shops to buy flower baskets as gifts.

Because of this business, the Du family made a lot of money in just a short period of time.

Zhuang Yue has a great sense of accomplishment for this - with a boss who can come up with good ideas, his business is really smooth, too successful, isn't it?
"Because the emperor has just taken the throne, there are a lot of secret fights, you should also pay attention here." Zhuang Yue said, and then told Lu Xiaobei about Shen Langzhong's incident.

This matter, because it involved a family, so they didn't say anything about it except for a few people who knew about it.

But Zhuang Yue felt that if someone really wanted to punish Du Jinning, they might start with his relatives.Both Xu Chengyuan and Fang Shaohua are officials, and they are deeply influenced by Du Jinning, so they will be careful about the methods used in the officialdom.

Lu Xiaobei is different, if someone uses it as a loophole to attack Du Jinning, then Du Jinning will be destroyed by mosquitoes.

So he took the opportunity to remind Lu Xiaobei.

"Don't worry, Shopkeeper Zhuang, I will be very careful." Lu Xiaobei said solemnly.

"Not only you, but also your servants. Mr. Shen and the others were taken advantage of because of their long-term succession." Zhuang Yue reminded again.

Not only Shen Langzhong, Du Jinning also used his servants to trap Zhou Dongping.

Some servants have been serving the master for many years, and the master trusts them very much.Once these servants have a different heart, the master is hard to guard against.

For example, Zhuang Yue and Yao Shuqi, one is in charge of the property under Du Jinning's name, and the other is in charge of all the internal affairs of Du Jinning's house.If they have intentions against Du Jinning, and Du Jinning is undefended and unaware, it is easy to cause big troubles.

This is also the reason why many aristocratic families only use family members to have children and are unwilling to buy people from outside.

"Yes, I will pay attention." Lu Xiaobei's attitude was very good, and he was not at all impatient.

Seeing this, when Zhuang Yue left, he told him what Du Jinning asked him to bring: "Second uncle, if you have spare money, buy more tea grown in the mountains. This is what our young master specially explained."

Lu Xiaobei was stunned for a moment, instead of showing joy, he asked, "Why?"

It turned out that Qi Bokun, Yuan Xiuzhu, and Du Jinning partnered to buy tea gardens near the capital and Anhui, and the roasted green tea they produced was sold at a very high price.In the beginning, Lu Xiaobei went to various places to sell and buy these teas to earn the difference, and also helped Du Jinning to open up the market, so as to prevent Qi Bokun and Yuan Xiuzhu from doing it, so that Du Jinning's business would not be affected when they wanted to get rid of Du Jinning and buy tea from tea gardens alone.

But later Qi Bokun and Yuan Xiuzhu not only had no selfish intentions, but quit the tea business and asked Du Jinning to buy tea gardens to do this exclusive business. Lu Xiaobei's move was useless.Although he is still helping Du Jinning sell tea, but in addition, he also sells silk, porcelain and other things to sell everywhere.

However, with the idea of ​​not competing with Du Jinning for profit, he has never bought tea gardens to grow tea.If you have spare money, you can only buy fields and shops, or spread the channels of vendors wider.

(End of this chapter)