On the twenty-fifth day of the lunar calendar, almost all factories, workshops, and businesses in the Beijing-Tianjin area have gone on holiday, which makes almost every place in the Beijing-Tianjin area extremely noisy and lively.
After a busy year, everyone finally has time to take a good rest, buy some New Year's goods, some cloth or clothes, and prepare to go home for the New Year.
Therefore, in the major commercial streets in the Beijing-Tianjin area, there are almost a sea of people, and various shops are also crowded with a large number of people buying goods.
Zhuque Street has always been the most expensive place in the Ming Dynasty. It has always been synonymous with the powerful and wealthy people in the capital.
There are a large number of high-end and expensive shops gathered here, such as jewelry stores, gold and silver jewelry stores, rouge and gouache stores, the First Bank of Ming Dynasty, antique calligraphy and painting shops, pawn shops, top restaurants, teahouses, luxury Chinese medicine stores, high-end clothing stores, etc.
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These shops are for wealthy people, and the things they sell are very expensive.
With the New Year approaching, Zhuque Street has become even more lively. Ladies who rarely appear in public will come here to buy their favorite rouge, gouache, gold and silver jewelry, jade and jade, accompanied by maids and others.
There are gentlemen who are pretending to be literary young people waving fans, and they are in small groups, shaking their heads. There are also gentlemen who are usually very busy, but at the end of the year they can finally take a few days off to accompany their wives to go shopping and so on.
At the entrance of the Time Store, which specializes in selling watches, before 8 o'clock, a large number of people have already gathered here, all anxiously waiting for the Time Store to open.
Most of these people who were waiting anxiously were servants from various high-ranking families, who brought their banknotes and were ordered to buy watches. But there were also many young men and three or five friends who came with fans in the winter.
, prepare to buy a watch to install the fork.
"Dang~dang~"
Soon, the time came to eight o'clock, and with the ringing of bells, the Time Store finally opened its doors.
"Everyone, everyone~"
"Thank you very much for your support of the store. There are many people today and the store's reception capacity is limited, so please queue up. This will facilitate our work and provide better services to everyone."
When the manager of Time Store opened the door, he was startled when he saw the dark crowd outside. Seeing that everyone was about to rush in, he quickly stopped him and said loudly.
After hearing the store manager's words, everyone helplessly started to line up, and soon it turned into a long queue winding down Zhuque Street. There were too many people who wanted to buy the watch.
There are too many rich people in the Beijing-Tianjin area, and everyone wants to buy a watch to wear, so that it is more in line with their identity and can keep up with the trend of the times.
In the Time Clock Shop, the customer at the front hurriedly walked in.
"I want to buy this watch from Jade Junzi. Here is the banknote~"
Someone took out a large stack of banknotes and immediately bought a Jade Gentleman watch without blinking an eye.
"Okay~"
When the waiter in the store saw it, he immediately shouted with joy, quickly counted the banknotes, and ordered someone to get a packaged Jade Gentleman watch.
"Give me a national peerless watch~"
The person next to him had his eyebrows twitching slightly, and he calmly took out a stack of banknotes.
"I want five Jade Gentleman watches~"
Someone was very angry and threw out a few stacks of banknotes and shouted.
"I'm sorry, the store has just opened today, so each person can only buy one watch at a time. And this Jade Junzi watch is a limited-edition watch, so you can only buy one at a time."
When the waiter heard this, he quickly explained,
"What's the rule? You can only buy one watch at a time. Are you afraid that I won't have money, or what?"
When the other party heard this, he immediately became very unhappy.
"Master, we have no other intentions."
"It's just to allow more people to buy watches. If you are allowed to buy multiple watches, the people behind you may not be able to buy watches at all."
The waiter in the store also quickly explained and even said nice things, so the other party had to accept this, bought a Jade Junzi watch and went out cursing.
The watch store is very popular because it has already placed an advertisement in the Tomorrow Morning Post in advance, introducing several products in detail.
When customers come to buy goods, the waiter does not need to introduce anything. Many of these customers have prepared their banknotes in advance. When they come in, they directly call out the watch they want to buy, pay the banknote and leave with the watch.
People, it only takes a few minutes before and after.
"Haha, I'm getting rich, I'm getting rich!"
In the back hall of the watch shop, Zhu Hou was looking after a box of banknotes, and his little eyes began to shine.
This money came so quickly and so easily.
It’s just a piece of hand. Although it is very labor-intensive to make, there are many parts, and these parts need to be very precise. The craftsmen who make the watch need to undergo strict training and training.
But in the final analysis, these watches are mechanical products and their own value is very limited.
Now the prices are astronomical. Even the cheapest Xuefu Wucheng is sold for 88 taels of silver. It’s a huge profit, and it’s faster than robbing money.
Look at the boxes full of banknotes in the back hall, and look at the front hall. The sales of watches are still very strong.
Every customer who comes in to buy a watch is obviously prepared. If they want to buy a watch, they just tell them directly, then pay, take the goods and leave.
The banknotes poured in like snow.
“Jade Gentleman is sold out!”
In less than half an hour, the Yujunzi watches priced at 8,888 taels were sold out, and the store manager came to the back hall to report to Zhu Houzhao and Liu Jinhui with a smile on his face.
"Just sold out?"
"This 8888 two-piece watch, if I remember correctly, this store seems to have allocated 40 yuan to it. Is it sold out now?"
When Liu Jin heard this, he was slightly dumbfounded, thought for a while and said.
"It's all sold out. Do you want to go to other stores to order some goods?"
The store manager nodded and confirmed again.
"It seems that our price is indeed too cheap. These watches worth more than 8,000 taels each were sold for 40 yuan in less than half of them disappeared."
"There are so many rich people!"
Liu Jin couldn't help but sigh.
I originally thought that the watch shop here on Zhuque Street would allocate 40 Yujunzi watches to the richest group in the Ming Dynasty, but who would have thought that they were sold out within half an hour.
Here in the front hall.
"What?"
"Jade Junzi's watches are sold out?"
A customer wanted to buy a Jade Junzi watch. When he heard that the watch was sold out, he immediately started shouting with dissatisfaction.
"I'm really sorry~"
"This Yujunzi watch is a limited-edition watch, only 99 pieces. The 40 Yujunzi watches allocated to our store have really been sold out and are gone."
"Otherwise, take a look at this Guo Shi Wushuang watch. It is also a limited edition. There are still some available. If we wait a little longer, I am afraid that this Guo Shi Wushuang watch will also be sold out by then."
The waiter also replied in a very apologetic tone.
"Can this unparalleled national scholar be compared with Yu Junzi?"
When the guest heard this, he immediately asked angrily.
"Yes, yes, the guest is right, there is no way to compare."
The child's attitude was also very good, nodding his head in agreement.
"Guo Shi Wushuang, Guo Shi Wushuang~"
There are ways to buy. Jade Gentleman is sold out, so we can only settle for the next best thing. Guo Shi Wushuang’s watches are also very good.
But within half an hour, Guo Shi Wushuang's watches were also sold out.
"Everyone, everyone~"
"I'm very sorry, our store's two watches, Jade Junzi and Guoshi Wushuang, have been sold out. If you want to buy these two watches, please pay attention to our store. If there are new watches on the market, we will inform you in time.
Everyone."
"Now we only have two watches left in our store: Fu Jia Tian Xia and Xue Fu Wuche. These two watches are not limited edition watches. Our store still has some inventory, but it is not much anymore. If you want to buy it, please
hurry up."
The sales of watches are very strong and very fast.
Once the two watches, Jade Gentleman and Guoshi Wushuang, were sold out, the store manager had to come out and explain to everyone.
The result naturally caused a period of dissatisfaction. Many people came here based on these two watches. Who knew that in the blink of an eye, these two watches had been sold out before it was their turn.
There is no way. Although these two watches, Xuefu Wuche and Fujia Tianxia, are not on the market, they are watches after all. They can only be bought back, worn first, and replaced later.
Sales continue to be booming.
The watches on the counter disappeared at a terrifying speed, and even the inventory in the warehouse was the same. At 11 o'clock in the morning, there was still a long queue outside, but all the watches in the store had been sold out.
"Everyone, everyone~"
"I'm really sorry~ All the watches in our store have been sold out, so please don't wait in line anymore. All the watches in our store are sold out."
The store manager came outside, looked at the long queue, and said helplessly.
"Just sold out?"
"Didn't I just say that there is still some stock?"
"That's right, that's right, we queued here for two or three hours in this winter, and now you tell me it's sold out, aren't you bullying me?"
"No, no matter what, we are selling watches to us today. If we don't get the watches, we won't be able to leave."
"Yes, yes, it's not a fool's errand to hold on and not leave. We don't have enough goods prepared. What kind of store do you want to open?"
"..."
The store manager's words ushered in a burst of dissatisfaction and complaints. The store manager could only smile and explain to everyone again and again that it was indeed out of stock and he would inform everyone immediately when it was available.
In the back hall of the clock shop, Zhu Houzhao is counting the banknotes.
"Old Liu, you can make ten thousand gold every day, you can make ten thousand gold every day!"
"In less than one morning, this store alone sold forty Yujunzi watches, with a total price of more than thirty-five taels of silver."
"We also sold 500 pieces of Guoshi's unparalleled watches, with a total price of more than 1.7 million taels of silver. These two watches alone were sold for almost 2 million taels of silver!"