Xiao Qian learned these words exactly to her husband and son. Zhou Dalang was still looking at the cloth on the table. Zhou Lizhong had already said: "I know, my second sister and second brother and I have said in private that although we make a lot of money from business,
, but it’s also difficult.”
"Anyone who is running a business outside can make some achievements either because he is extremely smart and has a rich family, or because he has a backer, otherwise he will not be able to go far at all." He said: "To be honest, apart from my sister-in-law, there are no other people in our family.
There is no one who is particularly smart, just the third brother. He is better at reading than us brothers and sisters, but he often needs to light a lamp at night to read to compare with others. Therefore, unless my sister-in-law is the head of the family, our family will not be able to do it purely based on ability.
How big."
"Then we can only find a backer." Speaking of these secrets, Zhou Lizhong lowered his voice slightly and said: "The fourth uncle has always wanted to cooperate with Princess Changyu in business. It's not that he has great ambitions or wants to make the business big, but he just wants to
I don’t get bullied much when I want to go out.”
When Zhou Dalang heard this, he immediately asked: "Are you being bullied outside?"
Zhou Lizhong said: "It is impossible to accept any grievance. When I first went out with my fourth uncle, we were invited by the caravan to their village as guests on the grassland. At that time, although my fourth uncle and I were invited
'We went, but there wasn't even a seat. The person in front talking was a caravan steward who was walking with us..."
Even when they were robbed, Zhou Lang and the others did not have the dignity to walk in front of the robbers, which shows how insignificant they are.
Later, they were able to come out because the Bald Ministry who took them into the grassland found that they couldn't reason with the caravan, so they simply took the two bags of tea given by Zhou Lang in private and invited people from nearby tribes to come forward. They met again on the grassland.
Xiang Mingxue, who had some methods, came out safely and only lost some money.
At first, he and his fourth uncle were still aggrieved, thinking that they must talk to his sister-in-law when they went back. But after entering the grassland and walking together with Xiang Mingxue, they realized that the grievances they were suffering now were not at all.
What kind of.
Compared with Xiang Mingxue, their journey was smoother. In the past, Xiang Mingxue did business in the grasslands with his head in his belt.
It's just that he was bent on revenge at the time, killing Buddha when Buddha stood in his way, and killing God when God stood in his way. Plus, he was smart, so he ended up carving a bloody path.
After going back and forth twice, Zhou Lizhong and his fourth uncle vaguely knew something. While they admired Xiang Mingxue even more, they also wanted to find someone to rely on.
He said: "Now when our family goes in and out of the grassland, we encounter some villages and caravans. We only need to give some things to pass. That is because we have friendship with the tribes on the grassland and have a good relationship with Brother Xiang.
.”
"But in fact, these two relationships are not reliable. The Bald Tribe has milk and mother. We are good now because we want to buy medicinal materials and cattle from them, and we will sell silks, satins and tea to them. We can do it later.
If there is a merchant who offers a higher price, or a merchant who sells tea and silk cheaper, they will kick us away."
"Brother Xiang is also not stable. He has no capital now, and our two families have a special relationship, so he is willing to cooperate with us. But in fact, our family takes advantage of this cooperation."
Xiang Mingxue has no capital, but it is not difficult for him to get capital. Even if the source of the capital may not be innocent, he can have it.
But connections and routes cannot be obtained with money.
It was much smoother to enter the grassland last year, just because Xiang Mingxue followed, and even the profits increased a bit.
Zhou Lizhong said: "It's okay to do this kind of thing once or twice. If it happens too often, there will be resentment. Moreover, my fourth uncle also said that relying on feelings is never more reliable than profit. Let's talk it out first and second.
It’s better than holding on to the old relationship.”
"So we all want to do business with Princess Changyu. If she joins our family's business, we will make money for her, and then we can do things in her name openly and openly when we go out." Zhou Lizhong said: "Many have no foundation.
Most people who want to do business are like this. There is nothing we can do about it, let alone officials and powerful people. We just pass by a place with our goods. If the squires in that place are stronger, they really want to buy and sell with us. We
You have to swallow that breath with blood in your mouth, wasn't that the case with the Luo family in Gu County, Liangzhou back then?"
Both Zhou Dalang and Xiao Qian had heard about the incident when Zhou Dalang and his four siblings were forcibly bought while walking through Gu County, and their children and wife almost had an accident.
"My sister-in-law was already very famous at that time. Even so, the county magistrate of Gu County did not give her fourth uncle the decision. Even if he was willing, he might not be able to. In some places, the squires were more influential than the county magistrates and were not afraid of the county government at all.
"Zhou Lizhong said: "Not only the local squires, but also the people in the caravan doing business together will compare each other and have a private ranking. For a family like ours, although the business is not big, the foundation is
It’s shallow, but it’s also above average.”
In fact, it wasn't that good at first, but in the past two years, my sister-in-law's reputation has become more and more popular, and she has become more and more favored in the palace. After the prince wins a boy, it will be more effective for them to go out and claim my sister-in-law's name.
Especially this time when Zhou Lijun went out with them, they carefully inquired about the details of each caravan and learned some little secrets.
"These caravans, excluding the caravans of the top few merchant houses, are the ones that the aristocratic families and powerful people cannot offend the most, such as the Cui family, the Lu family, the Wang family... My uncle's Bai family is also among them, but they are only involved.
Under the guidance of the Bai family, no one from these aristocratic families would bother them unless necessary; what is more, the Guanlong nobles such as Zhao Guogong and Su Guogong should not be offended, and they usually avoid doing business with them; and then there are some people in the family who
It’s a family that works as an official in the imperial court, and because our sister-in-law is here, we can barely count it among them.”
"But this is because my sister-in-law is getting more and more famous now, and my uncle's name has also spread. Everyone knows that my sister-in-law will marry the Bai family in Longzhou in the future, and my uncle is a good student at school. Now he is still studying with the prince. He will definitely be there in the future.
The future is worry-free." Zhou Lizhong said: "In our family, the third and fourth brothers are all studying. Although they haven't achieved anything famous yet, it seems that they are going to take the examination for the examiner. Outsiders are watching.
I don’t dare to bully our family, after all, no one knows what will happen to our family in the future.”
"So our family must have land, and if we have land, and if someone is studying, we can change from being a farmer to a farmer, which is much better than being a businessman. Sometimes we rely on our power and reputation to go out and travel."
Or do people like to talk big when doing business?
Because speaking big words not only makes people afraid, but also makes it easy to get things done.
Zhou Lizhong said all this in a crackling voice. Zhou Dalang and Xiao Qian finally understood. They immediately said: "Then buy! Buy the land!"