The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 5 Think of a business that can be done!
There was a faint sound of horse bells in the distance. The vendors who set up stalls on the streets of Wuying Town, and the shopkeepers and shopkeepers who solicited customers at the entrance of the hotel all changed their spirits instantly.

Song Yingkui, who was wandering on the street, knew that for the businessmen on the street, it meant that big business was coming.

Horse bells are standard equipment for pack teams, but they are not hung on the mules and horses all the time. Only when they are approaching the lodging and resting place or the place where bandits are prone to haunt, the tenants will take out the horse bells and hang them on the mules and horses.This is done to tell the hostels and reception places in front to get ready, or to show strength to the bandits hiding in the dark.

In the current time and space, there are so many bandits, but they usually don't rob caravans.Caravans engaged in long-distance trade are quite large in scale. Ordinary small gangs of bandits can't do anything to the caravans, and large bandits have connections with the caravans, so they won't mess around easily.

After waiting for about one stick of incense, the pack team that rang the bell entered the gate of Wuying Town (Wuying Town is surrounded by a wall of earth, and there are two gates. As a town in a mountainous area, this is a necessary security measure.).From a distance, this pack team is not small, there should be forty or fifty pack horses.

The pack team that entered the street went straight to the long-familiar inn, and the shopkeeper and the waiters greeted the tenants to move the mules and horses to the barn behind the store.The backyards of the hotels in Wuying Town are all equipped with barns. For caravans, mules and horses are no less important than footholds. If the barn is not good or the store is not dedicated to serving the mules and horses, they will not patronize them again.

The hostels in Wuying Town are not large in scale. When encountering a large pack team of 50 people, two or three hostels that are close to each other will usually receive them together.With a caravan of a relatively large size, half of the town's hostel will be busy.

For the caravan entering the store, the store owners will provide them with meals as quickly as possible. Although it is only past noon, for the caravan, their time is very tight.Because in addition to staying in the town, they also have to do business with merchants on the street.The business of the pack team is done on the go, and there are very few pack teams that specialize in direct business.Under normal circumstances, pack teams that do direct business only do business after pre-determining the business.

It is precisely because the pack team will do business with the merchants in the town that the market day in Wuying Town ends relatively late, and most of the time it lasts for a whole day.Merchants and hawkers who set up stalls do business with farmers near the town in the morning, and wait to do business with the pack team in the afternoon.

There are both in and out transactions with the pack team. Vendors buy goods from the footmen, and at the same time they sell their own goods to the footholds.The situation in Wuying Town is a bit special. There are very few products that can be sold locally, and there are not many products that are of interest to long-distance traders.Fortunately, it is very close to Wazhou City, the largest consumer market in the entire Xisu Province. The households can get food from this place and transport it to Wazhou City to exchange money and make money.So the biggest business here is the grain business, which is why there are many fights on the street.

After observing the business outlets on the street for nearly an hour, Song Yingkui saw the tax-paying grandfather taking his two uncles and second brother out of the pavilion. It seemed that they had paid their taxes and hurriedly followed.

"Kui Wa, why are you on the street? Not in your second grandfather's shop?" Seeing his grandson wandering in the street, Song Tianshun couldn't help asking why.

"Second Grandpa grabs people to work for him as soon as he sees them, and I'll be free if I go to the streets to hide." Grandpa also had a problem with Second Grandpa, so Song Yingkui told half the truth.

"Face it! Be rascal, don't be as honest as you are, and you will be caught and tortured everywhere. Let's go to your second grandpa's shop and tell you to go home. Give him a hard time, and when will you go?" Sure enough, grandpa also agreed with whether to work for the second bedroom, and even praised his grandson for his cleverness.

After arriving at Tian Cheng, Song Tianshun greeted his second brother for a while, and then took his children and grandchildren home.He really didn't want to stay longer in this shop, he was originally one of the owners of this shop, now he can feel comfortable as an outsider?Selling the excess grain to Tian Chenghao is also to avoid people talking. Going to other shops to sell grain is easy to be rumored by others, otherwise he would not want to step into Tian Chenghao.

"Oh, your grandfather, I have no ability to keep the shares in the shop. How well do brothers Ying Xiao (Song Yingkui's cousin) from the second room live in the shop? There is still school! My brother Kui Wa can only suffer." On the way home, Song Tianshun couldn't help complaining to his children and grandchildren.He saw his second brother's two grandsons studying in the school in the town, and he felt very uncomfortable.

"Grandpa, don't sigh. Isn't it just a shop? Let's find a way to open one. I think Second Grandpa's Dou Xing business is just that. It's not a money-making business." Seeing that Grandpa and Envy Erfang have a shop, Song Yingkui quickly struck up a conversation, saying that he can't do business without the support of his family, so he should indoctrinate them now.

"Your second grandfather Dou Xing's business is really not very good. There are so many old households on the street, how can he do better than others? A few years ago, the family still paid for it. But it's not easy to open a shop, and no one in our family knows how to do business."

"If you don't know how to do business, you can learn! If you can't open a shop, you can set up a small stall. I see that there are many people setting up stalls on the street. When the winter is free, let's set up a stall on the street."

"Setting up a stall? What do you sell? You can't sell food! Kuiwa, are you thinking of doing business?"

"I took a look around the street today, and I really saw something. I saw a tofu stall on the street, and the business was very good. After we finished making tofu, we sold it on the street." Song Yingkui did see a business that could be started today, which is selling tofu.To be precise, the business he wants to do is selling bean curd sticks.Seeing that Grandpa wanted to talk about doing business, he took advantage of the opportunity to express his thoughts.

Today, there is only one stall selling tofu on the streets of Wuying Town, and the business is still very good. This shows that the skill of making tofu is a rare skill in Wuying Town, and it also shows that the market is OK.But the tofu business has a disadvantage, that is, the shelf life is short, so it can only do local business.And whichever stall sold tofu did not sell dried soy products such as yuba.So Song Yingkui's idea is to sell tofu and yuba together in the early stage, and gradually only do the business of dry soy products such as yuba.

Why is he more optimistic about the yuba business?Naturally, the dried bean curd sticks are resistant to preservation and can be sold to passing pack teams.The local consumer population in Wuying Town is limited, and it is only for local consumers, and the business is not big.But if the way to do business with the pack team is opened, the prospect will be very broad.Bean curd sticks are resistant to storage and easy to transport. In Song Yingkui's opinion, they are good goods for long-distance business!

(End of this chapter)