Chapter 45 The Son of Heaven
Some of these silvers are used to purchase raw materials to produce sofas, which occupy about 2,000 taels of silver. Qin Zhao stored all the remaining 1,000 taels of silver on the silo. Last month, Qin Zhao organized masons to build a batch of solid warehouses on the silo peak, specifically for silo silver.
The demand for sofas in Guangzhou is still in a stage of supply shortage.
According to historian Cao Shuji's estimate, Guangzhou City had a population of 300,000 in this era. These 300,000 people were engaged in industrial, commercial production or service industries, and there were many wealthy families. Suppose that one of the rich families bought Qin Zhao's sofas, and each family bought two, Qin Zhao could also sell 6,000 sofas.
You should know that in later generations, sofas are a must-have furniture for every family.
Now Qin Zhao sells four hundred sofas, which can only be said to be open. Qin Zhaoyun has already made 200 sofas for Zheng Chenggong to sell them, and he values his relationship with Zheng Chenggong.
The relationship with Zheng Chenggong is very important. When the Guangzhou urban market is approaching saturation and demand declines, Qin Zhao will rely solely on the Zheng family's sales network to sell sofas.
Qin Zhao asked Han’s favourites: “Why is the shopkeeper Han wearing white clothes?”
Han Fenli asked in surprise: "Don't Boss Qin know yet?"
"What?"
Han Fenli said with a bitter face and said, "Boss Han doesn't know, the thief Li Zicheng has already broken through the Forbidden City on March 19th. The emperor..." Speaking of this, Han Fenli stuttered a little and said sadly: "The emperor is unwilling to make peace with the thief, and a white slutty hangs it on Jingshan."
Qin Zhao was also shocked when he heard this.
The Chongzhen Dynasty ended.
According to the historian's algorithm, the Ming Dynasty was considered dead.
The last emperor of the Han people hanged himself to sacrifice his country.
As he spoke, Han Fenli became more and more sad, and finally he couldn't help but shed two turbid tears.
"Now there is no emperor and the thieves are so rampant. How can you live in the future?" After a pause, he said: "Fortunately, the Zheng family is in Fujian for many years. The troops in Fujian Province are very arrogant. There are no thieves. You can still make a long-term plan."
Qin Zhao felt mixed feelings when he heard this news.
Beside him, Qin Youli suddenly felt weak, and he knelt on the ground with a thunderous sound and started crying loudly.
"Son of the Emperor! My Ming Dynasty's Emperor died in his country! How can I live my life in the future?"
"The Ming Dynasty has been raising scholars for three hundred years, and we only regretted that there was no way to serve the country. How could we suddenly lose the emperor in this day? How can we live our days in the future? We are really ashamed to stand in the world!"
In the Ming Dynasty, scholars ruled the world with scholars, and there was no courtesy to scholars in history. Civil officials even often clamored that the world was governed by the emperor and scholars. In the Ming Dynasty, as long as they were students and passed the rank of students, the country would pay food every month to raise the officials and not kneel down when they saw the officials. After being a juren, they would be able to openly exempt taxes and attract countless envoys to the people.
It would be even more amazing if you pass the Jinshi.
The Ming Dynasty raised scholars for three hundred years and raised countless families with the fragrance of books. These families often became prominent families in the place, had fame and fame from generation to generation, and became the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty.
Qin Youli's situation is not actually a scholar. When he was a child, he was poor because his patriarch loved to study in a private school in the town. Later, because he was aware of the words, the people of Qinjia Village regarded him as a person of conversation because he was aware of his words. However, Qin Youli was a very grateful personality. He read the books of sages and had sex with the gentry in various villages. He subconsciously regarded himself as a scholar and counted on the side of the scholar.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty, which had been raising scholars for three hundred years, was destroyed. He was so sad and tears were everywhere on his face.
Qin Youli and Qin Zhao said, "Master, today is not a good day, and I heard such a bolt from the blue! Master, when I go back this time, I have to change into plain clothes and mourn the emperor for several months."
In the Ming Dynasty, it took three years to mourn for his parents. Qin Youli was grateful to the Ming Dynasty for treating scholars well, so he made his own decisions and wanted to mourn the emperor for several months.
Han Fenli praised: "Old Qin accountant Gao Yi! My fourth master is a student and a student, and he only said that he would be a servant for the emperor for ten days. The old accountant has no fame, but is much more loyal than the literati with fame in this world!"
Qin Youli wiped the tears, bowed to Han and said, "Shopkeeper Han's words are ruined!"
Qin Zhao felt a little funny when he saw Qin Youli's appearance.
With a sigh, Qin Zhao said, "This is the momentum and cannot be changed by human resources. Our dynasty has a capital of Nanjing. I think officials who come to Nanjing will elect the new emperor to ascend the throne. Don't be too sad about the account."
When Qin Zhao heard Qin Zhao say about the Nanjing Chudu, Qin Youli and Han Fenli were both excited.
Our dynasty still has Nanjing! With Nanjing in it, the Ming Dynasty did not perish, but the Shenjing was lost.
Qin Youli and Han Fenli looked at each other, and suddenly they had strength again and their sadness faded a little.
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On this day, Qin Zhao was taking care of business in a shop in Hongliu Street, Guangzhou.
Spring soft chairs are still popular, and it is hard to find a chair in Guangzhou. There are more than ten customers in the store looking at the goods at any time, but they can only look at the samples. If ordering, the order has been scheduled to be shipped in half a month.
This is the result of the release of woodworking lathes and the production capacity of Qin Zhao has greatly improved. In the past, Qin Zhao's Qinjia Village factory could only produce twenty sofas a day. Now with woodworking lathes, Qin Zhao's factory can produce forty sofas a day. After Qin Zhao delivered 200 sofas to Zheng Chenggong, he suspended the supply to the Zheng family and made every effort to provide spot stock for shops in Guangzhou City.
However, there are too many rich merchants and wealthy gentry in Guangzhou. There are not only businessmen in Guangzhou, but also many rural gentry buy industries in the city. Those gentry often have hundreds of acres of fertile land, and the annual rent is often thousands of taels of silver, or even thousands of taels of silver. It is really no problem to buy a few spring soft chairs.
Qin's spring soft chairs are always in short supply.
Qin Zhao was watching the customer place an order there, and Qin Wuji, the second cousin next to him, came up and said, "Do you know the boss? Someone opened a store in Xiguan and sold spring soft chairs, each with only six taels of silver."
"What?"
Qin Zhao was stunned.
The spring soft chair has only been released for a month, and someone has imitated it so quickly? The first imitator has opened a store to operate it?
Qin Wuji said: "Really, the boss. The first few customers who seemed to have no money walked around me and said they went to Xiguan to buy it, which was half the cheaper there."
It seems that the imitator has really appeared, Qin Zhao took a deep breath.
“Do you know where his store is?”
"Know!"
"Let's go, I'll go and have a look."
Qin Zhao asked Qin Wuji to lead the way, cross the streets and alleys, and soon found the imitator.
Chapter completed!