Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 957 Fame and benefits are like floating clouds

When    came, Chen Xin was already extremely excited.

   It can be seen that at the moment when Liu Wenshan was seen, all the suppressed emotions flooded out at this moment, breaking down the dam in his heart.

  Merchants in this era are a group of people who have mastered huge wealth and are humble at the same time.

  The discrimination they suffered is unimaginable.

  In The Wealth of Nations, for the first time, Mr. Liu raised their status to a position involving the national economy and people's livelihood, and even the prosperity of the country.

   This already gave Chen Xin a strange feeling in his heart.

It's like a person, when he was young, others told him that he was a slut, but since he was a child, he lived a good life, went in and out of cars and horses, and was well-clothed, but at the same time, he was stared at by countless people .

  Chen Xin is such a freak.

  Thus, he is both arrogant and extremely inferior, because everyone tells him that they are shameful, no matter how gorgeous their clothes are, how much wealth they have...

  The Wealth of Nations...completely solved the problem of Chen Xin's identification.

  And... this time, opening up the market almost opened a new door for Chen Xin.

  It turns out that...before doing business by yourself, you only relied on your connections, because in this era, the risks borne by transactions between strangers are enough to make anyone dispel the idea of ​​greed.

  He was very excited. This is the real way of doing business. A theory is enough to make legitimate profits of tens of thousands of taels of silver.

  He prostrated himself at Liu Wenshan's feet.

   Liu Wenshan looked at him in surprise.

As if this is not enough to express Chen Xin's heart of worship, he has been doing business all his life, and suddenly discovered that... the experience of several generations was completely overthrown by a Confucian scholar. It will subvert the current business activities.

   "Mr. Liu, Mr. Liu... the villain is just a humble businessman, willing to stand on the saddle for Mr. Liu, and always be instructed by him. The villain... the villain..."

  Chen Xin is not a fool.

  Mr. Liu is a cornucopia.

  "The villain is willing to serve Mr., and listen to Mr.'s truth at any time. Please don't give up..."

   Liu Wenshan frowned slightly.

  Is this...apprenticeship?

   Merchants are also popular apprenticeship?

   This seems to be contrary to the current ethos.

   See Liu Wenshan hesitated.

  Chen Xin almost hugged Liu Wenshan's thigh: "Please don't give up, sir, the villain is humble, but...but..."

   "This..." Liu Wenshan was very happy.

   In the past, under the mentor's door, he was like a husky among wolves, one of the weakest...

Even the students in the academy, those who admire talent, bowed to Tang Yin's sect one after another, and those who worshiped under Wang Shouren's sect, even if it was the crucian carp that crossed the river, even senior brother Ouyang, who was originally the chief senior senior brother, his extraordinary demeanor , has already convinced countless people.

  Only myself...Although everyone calls me Shishu, there are very few real disciples.

  Actually, I can’t blame others for this, because...it’s really hard to have any shining points in myself.

  Now, there is a slight feeling of being valued.

  He thought for a while: "I need to ask my mentor."

  …

  Fang Jifan was very excited when he shot the case.

  He looked at Liu Wenshan, who seemed very unconfident.

  Others accept the proud son of heaven as their disciple, but I...have let a merchant worship under my sect. What to study? Study the Wealth of Nations, study business?

  If the mentor knows that he has accepted a merchant, he must feel that he has insulted the family.

  So Fang Jifan took the case, patter...

  Liu Wenshan's body trembled, and he seemed even more emboldened. He hurriedly bowed down: "The student will die, and the student will be discredited by the teacher."

  Wang Ao Wang's master book on the side remained silent.

  Fang Jifan raised his eyebrows: "It's a good thing, accept it, I like young people like this, the so-called teaching without discrimination, why don't you accept such students?"

   "This..." Liu Wenshan looked surprised: "Master, this person is probably over forty, maybe not a young man."

"It's good to be old, to be older, to know how to love others." Fang Jifan's eyebrows were beaming. It's not easy. Those disciples and grandchildren are too poor. I Fang Jifan loves the people like a son, and hates seeing poor people. He said excitedly: "Old and sensible, Good birth..."

   "..."

Fang Jifan said: "When will the apprenticeship ceremony be held, let people come to worship me as the master first, haha... Remember to bring a gift of cultivation, such a person who is over forty years old and still so eager to learn is no longer seen, cherish it .”

   Liu Wenshan was overjoyed, and his mentor agreed.

  Chen Xin is a person, although he only met a few times, but looking at it, he is quite kind.

   No matter what, I wrote The Wealth of Nations anyway, and I am not afraid of others' words.

  But... why is the teacher rubbing his hands excitedly? It's like Chinese New Year.

   "Then, the student will lead him to meet the master."

  …

   Liu Wenshan left.

  Wang Ao frowned.

   He was very disgusted with Fang Jifan.

   But as Fang Jifan's chief bookkeeper, he is always inseparable. To put it bluntly, even a dog or an ant has feelings after getting along for a long time.

   "Fang Duwei, this merchant..."

   "Don't be afraid." Fang Jifan said seriously: "It is because merchants value profit and despise righteousness that I want to educate them. Confucius has three thousand disciples. Is there no merchant? Confucius can accept him, why can't I?"

   "..." Wang Ao looked at this shameless thing, and he didn't dare to speak. Now this guy has compared himself with Confucius, so if he continues, he will be Duke of Zhou?

  Don't care about Wang Ao's shit, I'm really confused and stupid!

  Chen Xin's excited heart was about to jump out of his throat.

   Hearing that he was going to pay homage to Shigong first, he was even more excited. He thought about it, he should prepare the ceremony of confinement, but... like a scholar, it is obviously not good to go with bacon and longan.

  He is a person with low self-esteem, but he dare not pretend to be a scholar.

  After much deliberation, he couldn't find any ceremony for apprenticeship, so he asked Liu Wenshan first, and Liu Wenshan said: "Master...is an upright person."

  Frank... Straightforward...Really...

  Old people really understand things and know how to love others.

  He just took a small box, painted it with gold paint, and it was shining like gold. He joined Mr. Liu's family. Do I, Chen Xin, seem to be short of money?

  Master is so advanced, so it’s unreasonable to send less.

  …

  Master sat firmly in the hall, looking extraordinarily dignified.

  Although he is young, he is full of power. From a distance, he has a sacrosanct halo.

  Chen Xin slammed down on his knees: "The student has met the master..."

   As he spoke, he bowed to his teacher.

  Fang Jifan only looked at him casually.

   Afterwards, send the gift of repairing.

  Fang Jifan looked at the gleaming golden box, subconsciously, looked down at the golden belt around his waist, and the next moment, he thought of his old Mount Tai, His Majesty the current emperor.

Once he was bitten by a snake for ten years and was afraid of well ropes, Fang Jifan had experienced a painful lesson, he touched the box hurriedly, and said: "Ah, what is this, it looks very interesting, it contains, but Master Favorite bacon and longan? Shigong come and see."

  Opening the box face to face, Fang Jifan closed it immediately, squinting his eyes, flashing a trace of ecstasy, what the hell, gold bars...

This ecstasy was suddenly replaced by an indifference that regards money as dung. Fang Jifan coughed: "I recruit all the talents from all over the world and put them into my bag. I want to teach the truth for the well-being of the people in the world. I look forward to the future. Share your worries. This bunch of rituals for cultivation is really a waste of chaff. Teaching people knowledge is the right thing to do, and even accepting gifts from others. Is such a person still a human being? However, Master thinks of your sincerity. If you don’t accept it, you will feel cold It broke your heart, eh... wait... I can only let out a long sigh..."

  Chen Xin was busy praying three times before getting up.

  Fang Jifan ordered Liu Wenshan: "Teach your disciples well, don't lose face as a teacher."

  Liu Wenshan bowed down: "Students respect the teacher's teachings."

Fang Jifan said indifferently: "Chen Xin is an entry-level student. What he studies must be business studies. In this case, Xishan Academy will open a business school, and you will handle it. However, since the business school accepts merchants, I'm afraid they may not be free at ordinary times. Then it might as well, hold a class every three days, and let them run their own business for the rest of the time."

   "The teacher said so."

  Fang Jifan even wished he could do a correspondence course.

  He glanced at Liu Wenshan appreciatively, this disciple is actually not bad, he did not love you for nothing as a teacher.

  …

  The trading market is already boiling.

At first, most of the merchants attracted were trading with Xishan, but when Chen Xin ate the first crab, he did not hesitate to renew the lease at Jiajia for another ten years. Tens of thousands of people, when many merchants realize that here can quickly communicate with each other, more people can't sit still.

  The seller is satisfied, and the buyer is also very satisfied. Many merchants from other places are most worried about coming to the capital, unfamiliar with the place, and finally being cheated.

  Besides... if you don't know the local people well, if you want to buy goods, you have no clue, you don't even know who to look for.

  In the past, merchants relied entirely on so-called acquaintances or family friends to conduct trade. Merchants in Shandong were often in Beijing, and they would have a few friends they had known since their ancestors.

  But with this model, the shipment is slow, and if you want to buy something, you may not be able to find what you want.

  The only advantage is to rely on your goodwill among acquaintances to find a safe place.

   But here... it's completely different.

Fast delivery is the most important thing for merchants. If a batch of goods is in their hands, the funds cannot be returned, and a large amount of storage and labor costs are required. The longer the time is delayed, the more it makes people sleepless at night and unwilling to eat. Well, I don't know how many merchants were eventually dragged to death by this backlog of goods.

   And now...

  Chen Xin's new product is already on the market.

  His samples are placed in his shop one by one.

   Not only that, he also kept urging his friends in Jiangnan to come to Beijing with a pledge, and even wrote a letter to the children of the clan, trying his best to buy goods in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

  (end of this chapter)