In this way, Liu Bowen was not so wary of Zhu Bai.
After all, they all now feel that Zhu Bai is just a piece of shit who cannot stand up to the wall. He is just a little smart and cannot be put to great use, let alone threaten Zhu Biao.
Zhu Bai took advantage of these few days of rest to quickly deal with the affairs of Guanya Bureau and Yinzhuang.
He ordered the Military and Horse Department of the Five Cities to post notices all over the city announcing the opening of the Guanya Bureau. He also stated that if there was fraud or unfairness in transactions that were not conducted at the Guanya Bureau, the court would not care.
In a teahouse in the city, two people were discussing in a low voice.
"Hey, what exactly is this official tooth bureau you're talking about?"
"Hey, the emperor has been cracking down on dental shops because he doesn't want them to exploit merchants. The business will be fair and the people will spend less money. As a result, the traitor set up a dental shop privately and was discovered by the emperor. The emperor saw that since
I couldn't help myself, so I simply set up an official tooth. With the court as a guarantee, naturally no one dared to raise the price, pass it off as a good one, and get deceived. The handling fees for key official teeth are clearly marked. The buyer and seller discuss it before going to find it.
Official teeth."
"Guan Ya is fine, but what about the Yin Village?"
"Let buyers deposit their money. Firstly, they want to test the fineness of the silver, so as to prevent anyone from using fake silver that is not of sufficient fineness or that they have taken out of their hearts to deceive people. Secondly, it is to prevent buyers from having no money but wanting goods. Listen.
He said that he would open branches all over the Ming Dynasty in the future. You can deposit your money in Beiping, and then come to Yingtian to withdraw the money with the banknote, which saves you the risk of carrying cash on the road, right?"
"This is good. But no one dares to put money in it for no reason."
The other man turned around and looked around, and said in a low voice: "You don't know. The emperor used the treasury as a guarantee, and the pro-military Duwei Mansion was responsible for guarding this official bank, and he was the richest man in the dynasty.
The King of Xian, King Xiang, is in charge. King Xiang has many properties in Yingtian City, and money flows into his pocket every day. I am afraid that he will rely on you for your one hundred and eighty taels. Even if he wants to, the emperor will not let him. Listen.
If you promise to deposit it and not withdraw it for a month, not only will there be no handling fees, but there will also be interest. The longer you deposit, the more interest you will get.”
"Oh, I heard what you said, so I quickly put the money in. I have to stay in Yingtian for a few months, and it's not convenient to carry the money with me. It's not safe to deposit it in the bank. I can take it out when I leave.
Money makes money.”
The two people said that and hurriedly checked out and left.
Nine out of ten people drinking tea and chatting in restaurants and teahouses are businessmen.
Judging from the rich clothes of these two people, they are probably merchants.
At this moment, everyone felt itchy in their hearts when they listened to these two people talking. As soon as they left, many people paid their bills and went to Guanya Bureau and Yinzhuang to watch the fun.
The people working in the Guan Ya Bureau are not called people but "agents". There is also a foreman for every ten "agents".
There are three foremen in total, leading thirty "brokers", who are responsible for welcoming people to and from them, resolving disputes, making connections, and providing advice.
On ordinary days, one shift is on duty every day and the other two shifts are off.
If there is a peak season, there will be two shifts a day, two days on and one day off.
In addition to the "broker", the Guanya Bureau also has a fixed accountant, a boy who cleans and serves tea and water, and a bodyguard who is responsible for defense.
The Guanya Bureau is well organized, and a large plaque with gold letters and black background reads "Emperor to Create the Guanya Bureau" is hung on the door.
The brokers all wore uniform silver-gray black-edged robes, and were neat and handsome. They were completely different from the sneaky and sneaky people in the market in the past who looked like they were not good people.
Everyone looked solemn and surprised, and couldn't help but trust this official.
The two people who spoke went to the bank to deposit money, then came out and went to a restaurant in Beicheng. They sat down to eat and repeated what they had just said.
In fact, there were four or five pairs of these people wandering around in various teahouses and restaurants in the city at the same time, and they mostly said the same thing.
They are all stooges sent by Zhu Bai.
Although the number of people depositing money may not necessarily increase, the entrances of Guanya Bureau and Yinzhuang are obviously much busier.
This is what Zhu Bai wants.
Early on the next morning, a strong and strong man asked people to carry five boxes of silver, enough to store ten thousand taels in the bank.
Some people recognized it as Lan Yu, a first-rank official in the imperial court.
Then Xu Da, Li Wenzhong and other founding fathers each brought money to deposit, and one after another they added up to one hundred thousand taels.
When everyone looks at it, the first-grade officials have saved so much money. This is a guarantee.
Then Zhu Bai asked someone to make a large basin weighing a hundred pounds of gold and put it in the display cabinet of the bank for everyone to see.
As expected, many more merchants came to deposit money.
If the bank's counter checks that the silver is OK, it will stamp Zhu Bai's unique monogram on the silver and deposit it immediately into the bank at the back.
The entrance to the bank was guarded by people who were close to the military captain. It was easy to carry the money in, but if you wanted to carry it out, you needed silver notes.
Although some people are still worried that money deposited in "Da Ming Bank" will not be withdrawn.
However, in order to be able to trade in the tooth shop, I had no choice but to grit my teeth and deposit the money.
The number of transactions at the bank was also significantly higher, with the bank charging one hundred taels for tooth money, and the bank’s handling fees also charging dozens of taels.
Zhu Bai sighed: Sure enough, we still need to hire someone to enhance the atmosphere and advertise.
After the seller delivers the goods, he can't wait to take out the money.
The bank did not delay at all and only deducted some handling fees as agreed.
At the end of the first month, Zhu Bai paid Lao Zhu 5,000 taels of silver profit from both Yin Zhuang and Ya Xing.
Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy.
Zhu Bai was also very happy, because after excluding labor costs, his net profit from various expenses was more than 4,000 taels.
More than four thousand taels of snowflake silver.
A large box with bright white flowers that dazzles the eyes.
Zhu Bai sighed: No wonder Gu Cheng wants to start this dental business, no wonder Gu Cheng has to build a special house to store money even if he risks everything.
Sitting like this, it feels so good to have all the money flowing into your home!!
That slippery, shiny silver can be seen and touched, which is much more satisfying than hearing how much money a certain treasure has received.
And this is just the beginning.
As long as there is no trouble in the Ming Dynasty, the dental shop business will get better and better.
I, Zhu Bai, finally embraced the cornucopia!
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Erhu found out that the man who delivered the ruler to the palace gate turned out to be a clerk in Zhu Bai's shop.
The clerk said that a customer claimed to be from Li Xiyan's family and said that Mr. Li Xiyan's ruler was missing, so he had to buy one temporarily and send it to him.
The items in Zhu Bai's store are expensive, and they are not weapons or poisons, so they provide door-to-door delivery service.
The clerk did not suspect it at the time, but now he said that if he had known earlier that this ruler was actually used to beat Zhu Bai, he would not have dared to sell it for any amount of money, let alone help deliver it.
In the end, it fell on Zhu Bai himself, and it was really seamless.
