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Throughout the ages, people have often said that money is very difficult to earn, and they work hard all day long for the few taels of silver they can live on.
As everyone knows, if you can make money, then money will come easily.
How do you know how to make money?
?Then first you need to know what attitude you need to use towards what you want to do.
?Then, you have to see ways and opportunities to make money from places that others can¡¯t see.
Yang Ming, who runs the side tea business, is a very smart businessman.
Yang Ming, who is thirty years old this year, is a native of Dijing Prefecture. He was born in poverty. He started working out on his own at the age of twelve and has been busy until now. Finally, his tea business has reached a certain scale.
His shop is not very big. The annual sales volume to the northwest border area is only tens of thousands of kilograms, plus various expenses for "tea imports", "border imports", operation, losses, etc., and various other expenses. In total, he only earns two to three thousand taels of silver from his social activities.
If you are a big Bian Tea businessman, 58,000 taels of silver in a year will be nothing.
Of course, two to three thousand taels of silver has surpassed most people in the Gyeonggi area.
¡°It¡¯s just that when people go to higher places, water flows to lower places. Since Yang Ming is doing business, of course he wants to become a leader in the industry.
So over the years, Yang Ming has been working hard.
¡°However, his own foundation is shallow and he doesn¡¯t have any connections at home that can help, so his progress is not great.
Today, Yang Ming invited two petty officials from the Ministry of Personnel to have a casual meal. It was not that they wanted to do anything specifically, it was just a daily emotional contact.
"Thanks to Yang Ming's willingness to spend money over the years, these small officials who handled specific tasks did not cause him any trouble, and overall the operation was normal.
Miaoweilou is the place Yang Ming chooses to treat guests on a daily basis. The dishes here are delicious, the ingredients are practical, and there will be no troubles. It is very suitable for leisurely drinking, eating and chatting.
When Yang Ming stepped into the Miaowei Building, he was also surprised by the effectiveness of soap in washing hands.
Similarly, he was frightened by the sky-high price of soap and did not dare to buy it.
But when Yang Ming sat in the private room, he began to think about it.
A moment later, Yang Ming ran out of the private room and rushed to Tian Rong.
"Sir, if I want to buy 10,000 yuan, can you give me a preferential price?" Yang Ming said urgently.
Tian Rong: "!?"
Although he was surprised by his first business deal, the amount of 10,000 yuan sounded like a joke.
He simply handed over the matter to his subordinates and pulled Yang Ming to the side, "Boss, why did you buy so much?"
Yang Ming said: "I am going to take it to the northwest and sell it to the Uighurs and Xiqiang people."
Tian Rong thought about it, "Aren't they all very poor? Where can they have the money to buy it?"
"Although their herdsmen are poor, those nobles are rich. Many things on the grassland are much more valuable than silver." Yang Ming said without concealment: "Hundreds of small tribesmen, plus Among the great nobles, who doesn¡¯t live in herds of cattle and sheep? They eat all beef and mutton on weekdays, and their bodies are greasy all day long. If they get thissoap, why don¡¯t they use it every day?"
Yang Ming made it so clear, not because he had no scheming intentions.
Since the founding of the Kang Dynasty eighty years ago, the clan¡¯s descendants have been doing business, but they have almost never been involved in border trade and maritime trade.
Because the power and preferential treatment of these clan members cannot be used outside the territory, those grassland tribes and overseas barbarian countries will not give them preferential treatment because of their status.
So these extremely high-risk transactions were ignored by them intentionally or unintentionally.
In fact, border trade and maritime trade are indeed very risky.
Many big businessmen in border trade were robbed by horse thieves. Some lost all their money. Some even did business but could not receive payment at all. Hundreds of thousands of their property was wiped out in an instant.
But compared to sea trade, they are quite lucky.
Accidents in maritime trade are even more tragic. There is no need to encounter human factors. Usually when a typhoon arrives, the entire fleet is wiped out.
The families of merchants not only have to endure the grief of losing their loved ones, but also have to bear the loss of all goods and ships, and they also have to compensate all the people who accompanied them for their life-saving money, which usually results in bankruptcy.
So even if there is this soap business, Yang Ming is sure that Prince Yu¡¯s Mansion will definitely not go there by himself.??Bar of soap.
This made Butler Tian feel that this boy knew how to be a good person.
¡°As everyone knows, Yang Ming didn¡¯t waste it. During the meal, he took two pieces of soap to the two junior officials from the Ministry of Personnel who were entertaining him.
But he was very frugal and did not give out the remaining three yuan at once. He planned to give it to six other minor officials for the next treat.
This is how Yang Ming does business. He can give out what should be given, such as to Tian Rong, with forty taels of silver without blinking an eye.
But if he can save something, such as these five bars of soap, he can give two, but not three.
Only those who do business like this can achieve a great career!
But Yang Ming never thought that he was the only person who bought soap that day.
??This means that the sales volume of the soap that Liu Mingqi had high hopes on the first day was 5 yuan, and the income was 50 taels of silver.
There are not as many tributes as those received by Manager Tian Da.
On the other hand, things in the world are also very strange.
What Yang Ming didn¡¯t expect was that something even more ridiculous would happen.
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Note: Some gentlemen may think that the chief steward of Prince Yu's palace is too humble, and that a small businessman is too ignorant of the sky and the earth, but the setting of this book is exactly like this, and it is also consistent with the facts of some dynasties in history.
??For example, in the Ming Dynasty, the restrictions on clans were extremely extreme. Although Prince Ning and Prince Fu were extremely powerful, many clans were actually extremely poor.
"Records of King Sejong" records that in the 40th year of Jiajing's reign, Zhu Congjin, the general of Zhenguo (second grade), wrote: "I am bound to the city, and my movements are prohibited. I have no property to earn, and no one to rely on. In the past few days, there has not been a single incident." Food Some are over thirty but cannot get married, some have been exposed for ten years but cannot be buried, some are begging in the market, some are begging among the people, some have migrated to other places, and some have died of starvation on the road. Although they are named members of the clan, they suffer so much that the poor people bow to the ground and look up to the sky. , no way to accuse."
A few decades later, in the 23rd year of Wanli, there were 157,000 people in the clan, but only 96,600 could actually be found. More than 60,000 people had fled. They were still members of the royal family, not the banner members of the Qing Dynasty in the future.
It was even worse in the year when the Ming Dynasty fell. 337,425 people were registered, only 207,651 could be found, and 130,000 people fled. Of course, not all of them may have escaped. Maybe, as Zhu Congjin said, there were some who begged, moved to other places, and died of starvation. (At the same time, this also proves that there is no such thing as "a million clans in the Ming Dynasty")
Therefore, the clan does not necessarily have to bully others. Like the Kang Dynasty, the clan is a group of people with almost no official power. They cannot oppress people when doing business, and others are not afraid of them. Naturally, they are not so arrogant, and ordinary people can follow suit. Face them calmly.
This setting is a bit taken for granted, but it is also a way for scholars to explore and improve the clan system. You are welcome to correct me.
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