Originally, Ning Yi's plan to go south to Muyuan County to pick up his wife was supposed to take a few days before setting off. However, Chen Fan's sudden arrival and the news he brought disrupted the original arrangement.
The next day, the seventh day of February, turned out to be a busy day.
Since the morning, we have been dealing with the matter of going south in advance. The arrangement of the compound outside the city is the most important point. After all, many of Ning Yi’s innovative developments are placed here. Out of loyalty to the landlord and not to let Chen Fan
Not thinking about staying in the city and wandering around, Ning Yi also took him to visit and taste the freshly squeezed juice and salted quail eggs in exquisite porcelain bottles. When asked what he thought, he naturally nodded and said it was delicious, and looked at him.
But Zhong gradually became confused: This is what you have been doing since you arrived in the capital!
Ning Yi's requirements in life are not low. Even if he is caught in the chaos in Hangzhou, he will still try his best to eat good food when possible. Chen Fan is also quite aware of this kind of thing. In fact, fruit juice and quail eggs are the most popular thing in the world.
Of course, there are none. Ning Yi’s packaging is exquisite, and he is also deliberately testing the antiseptic effect of quail eggs. Selling them in Bamboo Notes may make a profit. When it comes to innovation, it is obviously a bit random. But Ning Yi is proud of it.
Fortunately, when leaving, each person also took a bottle of juice with them.
In addition to the side of the compound outside the city, there is also a part of the Su family's business in the capital that needs to be passed. Among them are several people who have been arranged by Ning Yi to study. They were originally planned to go south together in a few days.
The time has been advanced, and the notice was given last night, and today I came to inquire about their preparations.
Chen Fan sat on the steps in the backyard of the Sujia Clothing Store Warehouse, twitching his lips as he watched Ning Yi review the five men.
"Are you ready!?"
"Ready!"
"Do you have confidence!?"
"Have confidence!"
"How are you!?"
"we are the best!"
"Okay. That's it...go pack up your things. This time it's different from selling things in the store. It's up to you to be prepared."
Saying such shameful words so loudly does not meet the standards of a modest gentleman in this era. Chen Fan has keen observation. Except when Ning Yi lectures and the other party answers, these people show a very calm and confident feeling.
After they turned around, their eyes and temperament were probably still a little uneasy and hesitant. I didn't know who they were before. Soon after, the two of them were sitting on a stone bench by the river outside the warehouse drinking juice, and Chen Fan asked the questions in his mind.
"Take these five people south. Are they the masters you trained?"
"No, they sell cloth."
"ah?"
People were coming and going along the road, and the spring sunshine shone from the shade of the trees. Ning Yi turned around and looked at the Sujia Cloth Shop over there, which had not yet opened. He raised the porcelain bottle of juice and gestured.
"After our family moved north, my wife took charge of the Su family's cloth business, and she also came up. But the woman in charge seemed to have hurt someone in the Zuo family, and the cloth shop didn't give much face. There was some resistance.
In fact, it can be opened now, but in order not to cause too much backlash there, it has been extended until now. Because of this matter, I trained a few people and prepared to let them go to big customers to promote it."
Ning Yi took a sip of juice and laughed: "Of those five people, two are former cloth shop clerks. One is a young shopkeeper, and the other two were transferred from Zhuji.
If necessary, I will first use the cloth line. This time when I go south, I plan to let them develop business near Kihara County and visit some wealthy people's homes."
Chen Fan understood and frowned: "How much money did you make from the traveling merchant business?"
"That's not what they said."
Ning Yi smiled and shook his head.
In the world of the Wu Dynasty at this time, sales were nothing more than raw and mature sales. Traveling merchants carried a small load and walked around. Most of these people were sleazy and slippery, and had a strong sense of charlatanism. They were similar to car and boat shops and were innocent.
It is also a type that deserves to be killed. It is not easy for them to do business with large households. All wealthy people are usually regular customers of some fixed stores. Similar to Jiangning, when some wealthy households want to make clothes, they will go to Su's to call someone they know.
When shopkeepers and chefs come to visit, or when Su's has a new model, there will also be shopkeepers with long sleeves and good dancing who come to ask if they need it.
Between these two methods, businessmanship is a lowly profession after all. No matter how good a shopkeeper is, his conversation and temperament will still be vaguely inferior to others.
In fact, conversation and temperament are very telling things at this time. In the pre-Qin period, politicians could coax people into turning around with just one or two reasonable words.
It can determine whether a person is worthy of reuse, or whether someone can immediately make up his mind to become a brother with a different surname. In the final analysis, it is still a matter of knowledge and cultural popularity. In a place where most people will not be able to travel beyond a hundred miles in their lifetime.
, people who can grasp the general trend of a place, or make some reliable inferences about the general trend of the world, most of them have good logical ability.
In the Wu Dynasty, although the literary style was flourishing, after all, the proportion of scholars in the total population was not large. Excluding some idiots who were stupid in reading, those who could speak with extraordinary demeanor would basically go to the upper class of society.
You have already entered the basics. Moreover, this kind of conversation, temperament, and self-confidence must be based on knowledge and social identity. In the strict Confucian society, there are not many opportunities to make tricks in this aspect. However, it happens that this aspect
This is Ning Yi's strength.
Inciting education, the sales concept of later generations, the first thing Ning Yi did was to quickly change the way these people treat others. These people may not have much knowledge, but as long as their IQ and logical ability are sufficient, Ning Yi is enough to give them
They set up a set of ways to express themselves confidently, cordially and professionally. From then on, wherever they went, they acted like "I'm from the capital city" and visited local wealthy people. They first looked for places that were a little more secluded.
, those who are more local, and those who are more vain, inform the other party about the developments in the outside world and the popularity in the capital, and then start to sell things. The most important thing is to try to establish a long-term trade relationship. In the future, if there are any good things in the capital, you can try to go to them.
Send it to the other party.
During this period, wait until the salesmen become more professional and more capable of deceiving, then start to prey on those enlightened gentry. Take your time by surrounding the cities with the countryside. At this time, the gap between the rich and the poor is huge, and the family has more money than they can afford.
There are many landowners who use it or simply can’t find where to use it. If future generations can fool a large number of people by saying “Do you know Amway?”, there is no reason why it can’t be done now.
Of course, the training time for these five people is not long enough, not to mention the actual situation of one place and one place. How to make a sales framework according to the current situation. It can only mature slowly. But anyway, the investment is not enough.
Not much. Even if they fail, these five people will at least have the talent to be shopkeepers when they come back. Ning Yi is not worried about this. After all, people are resources that can be recycled.
Of course, there was no way to explain these things clearly to Chen Fan at the moment, but there was no need. He changed the topic for a while. Ning Yi said: "After your master's matter is over, what are you going to do?"
Chen Fan thought for a while and took a sip of juice: "What else can I do? My life has been sold to Liu Xigua. After the city of Hangzhou was destroyed, I would have broken my promise if I did not go there. I should go to Miao territory to see what is there.
You can do it. Maybe when the time comes, you can raise an army with her to start your rebellion."
"You still want to rebel..." Ning Yi shook his head and laughed.
Chen Fan sighed: "I don't care. I used to follow Master and there was nothing else to do except rebel. But in fact, I don't know what I can do after rebelling. I followed Master when I was young and saw many murderable people.
.It is difficult to calm down the resentment in my heart without killing, but after killing, I realized that killing people would not solve the problem, especially when the original murderers gradually became killable people, so I had no interest in it."
Since meeting Chen Fan in Hangzhou, Ning Yi has actually admired him quite a lot. He is young and has strong martial arts skills. Although he may seem reckless at times, he is actually very clear about many things. At that time, his status in the rebel army was not high.
Although as a disciple of Fang Qifu, he is the only one among the younger generation who can stop Liu Xigua from going crazy, but other than that, to be honest, he does not have many real power tasks.
At that time, there were vague rumors at Fang Qifu's side that the commander-in-chief cherished his disciples and hoped that he would come out to do great things after being tempered. In fact, Ning Yi could see that all this was actually due to Chen Fan's own negative attitude.
During the war, he can take the lead as a strong general, and he can also come out to do things when no one is around. But as soon as someone takes over, he will immediately give up his job and look like he is just getting along. The reason for all this starts from the fact that he assassinated Bao Bao for a group of academy students.
When you say Y, you can see more clearly.
He was helpless when he was young, and after following his master, he worked hard for his career. By this time, the Yongle Dynasty was over, and Fang Qifu was arrested again. While he was running around, he was actually quite confused.
When Ning Yi asked, he replied like that, and then laughed again after a pause: "I don't know what Xigua is busy with, but she has ideas. I hope that after I go there, I can find a reason to rebel.
"This is just what he said casually, but he doesn't have much confidence. Think about it, "What about you, Li Heng, what are your future plans?"
"I'm relatively simple." Ning Yi sat there and spread his hands, "As I said before, the Jin people are powerful and the Wu Dynasty is weak. After destroying the Liao Dynasty, they will send their troops south. I probably want to do something...
"
"Is it...this?" Chen Fan raised the porcelain bottle and gestured.
Ning Yi laughed: "That's it... To do something, you have to be influential, you have to be influential, you have to have people, you have to have people, and you have to have money to support people. It's like this everywhere."
“It’s enough to have power, but what can I do if I just have money?”
"It's the same thing. Anyone who is an official will have a group of people around him to eat with him. From the prime minister to the seventh-rank petty official, those who are really unpopular or absolutely incorruptible will not be able to do anything. In the final analysis, the country
Whether they are gangs or cliques, they all combine for interests. These interests are both metaphysical and practical. An organization without metaphysical pursuits cannot truly grow. An organization without practical interests cannot even have a foundation.
No."
After a while, Chen Fan nodded: "But I don't think I can make much money from this."
"That's my specialty."
"Then... let's not say whether the Jin people will go south. If you stop this, what will happen next?"
"Then...become a rich man, live in a corner with your wife and children, build a farm and find a group of farmers to take care of it...I will teach or something, that's about it."
Chen Fan was stunned for a moment, then frowned and drank all the juice in the porcelain bottle: "Ha."
Ning Yi shrugged. The two of them sat by the riverside road under the shade of trees, each with his own thoughts. But after a while, Chen Fan thought of it again and said, "Xigua will not accompany you to live in seclusion, right?"
Ning Yi nodded: "That's the problem..."
It was noon, and the two chatted a few more words. Regarding the matter of going south, Ning Yi would not directly participate in the rescue of Fang Qifu. The two had reached a consensus on this. After all, Ning Yi's current situation
identity, if he really appeared in front of Fang Baihua and others, not only many people in the court could kill him, but even Fang Baihua's attitude might not be good. For this reason, he just wrote a letter to let Chen
Fan took it to Liu Xigua. As for him, ostensibly he went to Kiyuan first to look for his wife, and then went south to Jiangning to discuss business. The rest was just improvised.
Since Ning Yi did not go to meet Liu Xigua in person, Chen Fan, whose time was precious now, did not have to wait until the next day to go on the road with him. He planned to leave immediately after noon. The two ate in a nearby restaurant.
Halfway through lunch, Su Yanping came over in a hurry: "Brother-in-law, I heard something."
When he saw Chen Fan sitting across the dining table, he whispered in Ning Yi's ear: "I heard that this morning, there was something going on in Gao Yanei. They found many famous martial arts masters in Bianliang.
They say they want to cause trouble for you, brother-in-law. Among them are Chen Yuanwang, the Dizi instructor from Yuquan Hall, Ma Jinfu from Qianli Escort Bureau, and Peng Xianyu from Shenquan Sect..."
Su Yanping lowered his voice, but who is Chen Fan? Among the people who are familiar with Ning Yi, apart from Lu Hongti, he is probably the best in martial arts, and even Liu Xigua is probably not even half as good. When Su Yanping finished speaking,
Ning Yi nodded and said he understood: "Have you eaten yet? If not, let's sit down together."
"After eating, I still have something to do over there. Brother-in-law, you just need to know this...Brother Chen, I'm leaving."
Chen Fan stood up and held up his hands. When Su Yanping left, his eyes were bright: "Gao Yanei, the capital of the capital? Gao Qiu's son? Li Heng, or I will help you..."
Ning Yi quickly raised his hands and smiled bitterly: "Brother, I'm afraid of you. Just don't mess around."
"Hahahaha." Chen Fan laughed happily.
It stands to reason that the two of them are on different sides at this time. If Chen Fan really wanted to do something, he would run over and kill Gao Mu'en. Even if Ning Yi jumped into the Yellow River, he wouldn't be able to clean it up. But Chen Fan is an aboveboard person after all.
, thinking of this, he immediately said it as a joke. After eating, he stood up and left.
"I don't know what you want to do, so I won't say more. It's about the future. I hope we can have a drink together."
"No rush." Ning Yi waved his hand, "Before leaving the city, come to my house."
"Um?"
"Meet my son. If there is a chance in the future, I hope he can become your master and learn something from you."
Chen Fan tilted his head and looked at him. After a moment, he patted Ning Yi's shoulder slowly and said with a smile: "Then what are you waiting for? Let's go." (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome
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