In the afternoon of that day, Zhang Yuan, Yang Shixiang, Lu Tao, and Hong Daotai signed a contract to purchase shares of Hanshe Bookstore. Twelve shareholders each held one coupon. The bookstore was temporarily managed by Yang Shixiang, Lu Tao, and Hong Daotai. In case of trouble, the three of them agreed to hire
The person who handles the Longmen account and the four-legged account at Jingtong is responsible for accounting the money in and out of Hanshe Bookstore, and regularly compiles the "payment form" and "deposit form". Every year, the major shareholders gather together for review. Hanshe Bookstore is not a small business.
The small bookstore in Nao must have a long-term development perspective, and the monthly and annual meetings must be rigorous——
Yang Shixiang has been running a bookstore for many years and thinks he knows how to be a businessman. However, when he contacted Zhang Yuan, he found that Zhang Yuan was far more knowledgeable about business than him. Yang Shixiang's family bookstore only had one entry and exit account, a "payment form" and
He had heard of "depositing the form". This was a skill only possessed by old officials who managed money and food and accountants hired by big merchants. It was a new accounting method that had only appeared since Wanli. He did not expect that Zhang Yuan could also speak so clearly.
, Zhang Yuan explained that this is to register both the "incoming account" and the "outgoing account" for each account to reflect the ins and outs of the same account. In this way, the bookstore's income and expenditure, profit and loss, are clear at a glance——
Yang Shixiang thought to himself: "The so-called heaven allows talents to be unpredictable, it refers to people like Zhang Jiezi. I, Yang Shixiang, have only seen such a genius in my life. Seeing that he established a literary society and a bookstore, he has great ambitions and can write eight-legged essays.
Well, he's very humane and sophisticated, how long will it take for such a person to not rise to prominence!"
On the same day, Lu Tao reported to his father Lu Zhaoshen that he and Shanyin Zhang would jointly establish "Shengmei Trading Company" to deal in cotton, silk, weaving and embroidery. They would open branches in Huating, Shanghai, Suzhou, Nanjing and Hangzhou. Lu Zhaoshen said:
"You. It updates super fast) It's great to partner with Zhang. Zhang is a big backer."
If you want to do business or make a fortune, it is impossible to have no one in the court. Big businessmen hire famous teachers to teach their children to study. They hope that someone in their family will pass the imperial examination and become an official. They also use large sums of money to win over high-ranking officials in the court. At critical moments, there are
A letter from a high-ranking official can support us through the crisis. Otherwise, no matter how much money we have, it will be a sheep for slaughter. Therefore, some big businessmen with billions of dollars in wealth have spokespersons in the court. Lu Zhaoshen originally thought that he had
I could barely hold on to the fame of being a civil servant, but I didn't expect that I would be bullied by the Dong family and almost lose my family. This is a bloody lesson. So when my son Lu Tao said that he wanted to jointly open a cloth shop with the Shanyin Zhang family, of course he agreed -
Zhang E now also knows that Zhang Yuan made a fortune from Dong's shipwreck. Although Zhang E is outspoken, he is not a fool and knows the stakes of this matter. Of course, he will not talk about it in front of outsiders. Zhang Yuan invested in Hanshe Bookstore and
The Shengmei Hao was all published in the name of his three brothers. This made Zhang E very satisfied. Jiezi still cared about brotherhood -
On May 28, the joint stock contract of "Shengmei Company" was also concluded. Zhang Yuan handed over 10,000 taels of silver to his sister Zhang Ruoxi. The money will be used to purchase silk, purchase looms, and recruit weavers. According to Zhang Yuan's
This means that the Shengmei store also needs to design a logo, that is, a trademark. There must be an eye-catching logo in front of the store mén. This trademark must also be printed on the head of each piece of cloth sold. Of course, the trademark in front of the store mén must be large and the head of the cloth must be printed.
The printed trademark can be the size of a melon seed. Don’t worry if you can’t decide on this trademark at the moment. Design a few more and then make a decision. It should be remembered by people after seeing it. Once it is decided, it cannot be changed. Don’t try again after two years.
It would be stupid to change the logo -
The collection of works at that time has also been selected and reviewed, and is just waiting to be published and printed. This will be the first book printed by Hanshe Bookstore. The incident in Songjiang is basically over. Zhang Yuan, his eldest brother Zhang Dai, and his third brother Zhang E are going to Nanjing. They set off from Shanyin after the Dragon Boat Festival. It was already the end of May and they would be delayed for a few days in Suzhou, so they had to get on their way quickly. Zong Yishan went to Nanjing with Zhang Yuan, who was studying in Nanjing. Then he went to help Jiao Taishi sort out his collection of books. Zong Yishan's parents stayed in Qingpu temporarily. When Zhang Yuan returned to Shaoxing at the end of the year, Zong Yishan took his parents back. Qingpu was too close to Huating, so Zong Yishan was worried. , I still want my parents to settle down in Shanyin——
Zhang Yuan rewarded Liu Jingting with fifty taels of silver, but Liu Jingting only wanted twenty taels. He thought it was Zhang Yuan who asked him to tell stories these days, and he was paid one tael of silver every day. Zhang Yuan gave up and sent Liu Jingting to him early on the morning of the 28th. I boarded the boat back to Hangzhou with my accompanying boy, and we made an appointment to see you next time in Hangzhou——
In the evening, the three brothers Zhang Yuan packed their bags and prepared to leave early tomorrow morning. Zhang Dai asked Zhang Yuan: "Jiezi, do you want to send someone to Dongshe Mountain to inform Duke Chen Meigong that we will set off tomorrow? Wang Weigu, a disciple of Ruomei Gong, is going to meet him." How about we go together and come to Qingpu early tomorrow morning?"
Zhang E hurriedly asked: "What female disciple?"
Zhang Dai said with a smile: "It's the fox-like, ghost-like and fairy-like woman that I met last time on the moonlit night at West Lake, but she is the disciple of Chen Meigong——"
Zhang E jumped up and shouted: "Okay, Zhang Zongzi, Zhang Jiezi, you two have been hiding it from me so hard. How can we be brothers? It's so bad!"
Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "Who are you complaining about? It's because you yourself refused to go with us to visit Chen Meigong——"
Zhang E said: "Then you should tell me immediately as soon as you come back. It's annoying that you kept it secret until now! It's hateful!"
Zhang Dai said: "Aren't you going to Huating immediately? Who has the patience to tell you this right there?"
Zhang E rolled his eyes and said to the sky: "Well, brothers are also unreliable, and they forget their loyalty -" He complained for a while, but then said: "Brother, please tell me in detail what happened that day, how could you have such an encounter?" , What a coincidence. That day I chased King Yue’s tomb and fell. When I got up and looked, he had disappeared. I really thought it was a ghost. "
Zhang Dai then told the story of the day when he went to Dongshe Mountain to visit Duke Chen Meigong, where Jiezi played chess with Chen Meigong and Wang Weigu respectively. Zhang E kept shouting: "Wonderful, wonderful, it turns out that the woman is not from a good family, so she is just in good company." He sighed with emotion again. : "The beautiful women in this world are all hidden in deep houses and courtyards. It is difficult for us to even take a look at them. The Heavenly Sect has such a beautiful woman, who is both beautiful and talented, which can comfort the loneliness of our talented men."
Zhang Dai shook his head and smiled: "Ke Yan, you are so boastful that you dare to call yourself a talented person."
Zhang E said: "Does it mean that someone who can write some bad stereotypes and crooked poems is a talented person? I can play the land and fight cards, shoot arrows and move the horse, sing Lao drums and sing music, and play Ruan and throw pots. I can do it all. How can I not be called a dandy talented person? By the way, then There are two poems by the lady of the West Lake Fox Fairy, "How much do men know these days? If you reach the highest official position, you will be an immortal." Isn't this a secret compliment to me? , I only want to become famous through the imperial examination."
Zhang Yuan and Zhang Dai looked at each other and were speechless.
Zhang He said enthusiastically: "I will go to Dongshe Mountain to inform Wang Weigu and invite her to set off with us tomorrow." After that, he let Lu Dayou lead the way, and rushed off happily with Neng Zhu and Feng Hu.
Zhang Dai said helplessly: "Jiezi, look at Yan Ke's hunger and thirst. Don't scare the nanny. I'm afraid the nanny won't be willing to be in the same boat with us."
Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "Third brother is still very measured. He may seem vulgar but has real energy. Yes, I am innocent."
Zhang Dai also laughed.
It was more than thirty miles from Lufu in Qingpu to Meigong Mountain Residence in Dongshe Mountain. Zhang E was in a hurry and didn't bother to call the cane sedan chair. He set off at the beginning of the evening and came back at the end of Xu Shi. When he saw Zhang Dai and Zhang Yuan, he shouted
He said: "The tui is almost broken, the tui is almost broken." Sitting down on the drunkard's chair, Fu'er hurried over to beat the third young master's tui, while Lu's servant served tea.
Zhang Dai smiled and asked: "Yanke, how are you? Have you seen the fox fairy lady?"
Zhang E took a few sips of tea and said: "Unlucky, I didn't see a beautiful woman, and I spent a long time talking nonsense with a sour Confucian and a bald donkey, talking about the fusion of Confucianism and Buddhism."
Zhang Yuan and Zhang Dai laughed loudly and asked where the monk came from? Zhang E said: "It was said to be a monk from Baohua Temple. I heard that monk talk endlessly about Buddhism. I was impatient, so I asked the monk if he knew Chen Binzhu, and that
The monk said he didn't know him, and asked me who Chen Binzhu was. Chen Meigong was unhappy and told me to come back as soon as it was dark. This sour scholar didn't care about the friendship between my father and him at all, so he didn't leave me alone.
overnight."
Zhang Dai held back his laughter and asked, "So your trip was in vain. I knew that bad things would happen if you went, and now the fox fairy lady will not go with us."
Zhang E was also very depressed. He ran back and forth for more than 30 miles. He had never experienced such hardship since he was a child. He angrily cursed the bald donkey and the sour scholar, and went to bathe and sleep. He was really tired today.
Zhang Ruoxi came over and asked: "Who is he calling Yan Ke, what a bald donkey, what a beautiful woman?"
Zhang Yuan and Zhang Dai looked at each other. They suppressed their laughter and said in unison: "Yan Ke always talks nonsense. Sister, please don't listen to him."
Zhang Ruoxi sat in her brother Zhang Yuan's room for a while, watching her brother write a letter to his mother. Thinking that his brother and his party would leave Qingpu early tomorrow morning, Zhang Ruoxi felt very reluctant to leave. After Zhang Yuan finished writing the letter, she took it over and read it.
He smiled and said: "The matter of Huating's overthrow of Dong is so understated. If you are so bold, you should let your mother scold you." He smiled and said: "I wonder if my father has returned to his hometown from Kaifeng. You have to ask for it when you arrive in Nanjing.
Pay attention and ask around, if my father comes back he will definitely pass through Nanjing."
Zhang Yuandao: "I know. After I arrived in Nanjing, I sent a letter to Prince Zhou's Mansion by post to ask if my father had left."
The two siblings talked for a while. When Zhang Ruoxi saw that it was already late at night and that her younger brother would be on the road tomorrow morning, she told her younger brother to rest early and got up to leave.
At the beginning of the morning on May 29th, Zhang Yuan and his 20 people arrived at the Dahuangpu Pier in the south of Qingpu City, preparing to take a boat upstream to Xuedian Lake, and then transfer to the Grand Canal to Suzhou——
There were dozens of people from Qingpu who came to the pier to see off Zhang Yuan and his three brothers. It took some time to say goodbye one by one. Zhang Yuan was bowing to each other when he suddenly saw a boy with disheveled hair among the people. He was about ten years old.
When he was 18 years old, he had a red mole on his left eyebrow. When Zhang Yuan saw him, he stepped forward and crossed his hands and said, "Mr. Zhang, my daughter-in-law has arrived, and she is under the toon tree over there."