Technology dominates the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 179 [Pilot: Shop rectification, different business documents]

Today is a special day, Zhou Zhang went to [Drunken Immortal Wine House] in person, he didn't go to check the business status, but he went with a document.

Moreover, he specially hired a skilled craftsman to display this document. It was displayed in a beautiful mahogany frame, just like a rare calligraphy and painting. But in Zhou Zhang's eyes, this document is more meaningful than calligraphy and painting. Also more precious.

Because this is the first business certificate issued by the Ministry of Households-Commercial Department-Commerce Management Bureau.

It has the red seals of the Department of Commerce and the Administration of Commerce on it, clearly.The content of the document is roughly as follows:

business documents
Name: Drunken Immortal Wine House

Type: Wine Brewing, Monopoly
Address: Jiaozhou--Nanhai County--Panyu City--West Street--Zuixian Wine House
Legal representative: Zhou Zhang
Date of Establishment: XXXX
Business period: XXXX
Business scope: wine brewing, sales, existing self-produced liquor - [Drunk Fairy] and a specialty store - [Zui Xian Wine House].
Registration department: (department seal)

Date: XXXX
[Zuixian Wine House] Although the daily liquor is limited, and the supply has been reduced and the price has been raised recently, the business is still booming.

The reason for the reduction was because of Lu Bu's order to prepare enough wine for the soldiers to celebrate and reward after their return.

This kind of baijiu is strong and mellow, I believe the soldiers will also be pleasantly surprised by this reward.

Just yesterday, the plaque of [Drunken Immortal Wine House] was replaced with a new one. The new plaque still had the original characters, because it was signed by General Lu Bu, so I dare not change it, and I am reluctant to change it.

However, there is an exquisitely carved picture on the new plaque. In the picture, an old man is riding a green ox, holding a book in his left hand and a jug of wine in his right hand. There are three words on the jug: Drunken Immortal!

The jug is also a jug specially used to hold the [Drunken Immortal]. The old man looks like Lao Tzu riding a green bull.

It is said that Lao Tzu became a fairy and rode a green bull to the west.Let Lao Tzu, an immortal, hold the [Drunken Immortal], and its meaning is clear at a glance.

"Boss Zhou!"

"Why did Boss Zhou come to the restaurant today?"

"Hey, Boss Zhou, long time no see, let's get rich recently."

"Boss Zhou, you are not kind, why did you reduce the supply of [Drunken Immortal], and even raised the price."

Those who can eat good meat and drink drunken immortals in the drunken fairy wine house are either rich people, the sons of noble families, or people from the official family.

These rich and powerful people came here to taste the drunken fairy, not to give Zhou Zhang face, so there was nothing courteous in their tone.

"Everyone, please forgive me. Isn't this the general's soldiers who won a big victory in Jiaozhi County? The general wanted to celebrate the victory of his soldiers, so he ordered a lot of drunken immortals."

"The reduction is only temporary, and it will recover soon, and Zhou once again promised that he will try his best to increase the supply of Zuijiuxian in the future, and may also provide new products for everyone to taste."

Zhou Zhang was quite polite, even with the generals covering him, he knew that he could not only rely on the generals, but rely more on his own ability.

Zuixian Wine House is a high-end restaurant, most of the people gathered are rich and powerful, Zhou Zhang will not offend easily, but will try his best to establish some relationship with them.

"It turns out that the general has a need, which is a matter of course."

"With Boss Zhou's words, we look forward to drinking more and better Drunken Immortals every day in the future."

"Yes, yes."

Someone also noticed the document Zhou Zhang was holding, thought it was a calligraphy and painting on the table, and asked curiously:

"Boss Zhou, what precious calligraphy and painting are you holding in your hand, can you open our eyes too?"

"The frame of calligraphy and painting is so exquisite, it must be calligraphy and painting made by everyone!"

"Boss Zhou, let us open our eyes."

Jiaozhou is remote and barbaric, and there is a big gap between the cultural level and the Central Plains, but the literati here adore the calligraphy, paintings, songs and Fu of famous Central Plains masters, and if they find one, they will regard it as a treasure.

Zhou Zhang smiled, not because of embarrassment, but because of pride.He stepped forward to a wine table in the center and ordered someone to bring a silk cloth and spread it on the table.

Seeing Zhou Zhang being so cautious, the people around him became more certain: This must be a very precious calligraphy and painting!

However, Zhou Zhang said: "If you expect this to be a precious calligraphy and painting, then you will be greatly disappointed. However, although this is not a precious calligraphy and painting, it is indeed more precious and more meaningful than expensive calligraphy and painting."

As he spoke, Zhou Zhang put the calligraphy and painting frame on the wine table, and then said: "This is not some expensive calligraphy and painting, but a business document."

Taking a closer look around, I found that it was indeed not some expensive calligraphy and painting, and the characters on it were very ordinary.

But they have many doubts in their hearts:

First, I know all the characters on the document, but I can't read them together.Because this is a business document template specially ordered by Lu Bu to make according to his wishes.

The words on the document are from left to right, and they are still horizontal, line by line.The ancient habit of writing from right to left and vertically is completely opposite, so these people can't read clearly.

At that time, Zhou Zhang didn't understand it when he was holding it. After the explanation of the people from the Commercial Management Bureau, he managed to sort out his thoughts, and he probably understood it.

Now that there is paper that can be written on, Lu Bu plans to implement this writing method in various documents.

Second, all the documents are not silk paper, but parchment, and bad people around have discovered this difference.

Third, the format of the document is very strange, and there are many strange symbols in it, which they cannot understand, such as:,. :;. and other symbols.

Although the Han Dynasty has begun to use sentence reading (dou), it is roughly called "sentence" when the semantic meaning is completed and a large pause is called "sentence".

In the Song Dynasty, dots began to be used, using circles (.) where they were equivalent to full stops and dots (,) where they were equivalent to commas.In the Ming Dynasty, ︴ and ‖ appeared again, which were used to represent the names of people and places respectively.These simple symbols can be regarded as our country's traditional punctuation marks; but it is very incomplete and has not been widely used for a long time.

Regarding the doubts of the people around him, Zhou Zhang was a little proud, and said proudly: "Everyone, be quiet and let Zhou answer for you."

"First of all, if you want to understand the words on this document, you need to read them line by line from left to right. You can try this way."

According to what Zhou Zhang said, someone looked at the words on the document and read:

"Business Documents"

"Name: Drunken Immortal Wine House"

"Type: Wine Brewing, Monopoly"

"Address: Jiaozhou--Nanhai County--Panyu City--West Street--Zuixian Wine House"

"Legal representative: Zhou Zhang"

"This way of writing is completely opposite to ours! Why do you want to do this?"

For a while, some literati couldn't accept it, because their current writing method was handed down by saints and cannot be easily desecrated.

(End of this chapter)