At this time, Zhou Zhihui had returned with eight strong men. He walked up to Yunxi and said, "Officials, we have already agreed to load the goods from the dock onto the car and transport them to the city before unloading them. Twenty-three dollars per person."
Wenqian, a total of one hundred and ninety-four Wen."
Zhou Zhihui did not trick them. In his mind, Yunxi and others were relatives of the big manager. If the big manager knew that he had tricked his relatives, he would not be able to work as a shopkeeper in the store. The price is twenty-three cash per person.
It was only after he talked for a while that he finally suppressed it.
However, "Twenty-three coins per person should not be one hundred and eighty-four coins. How can it be one hundred and ninety-four coins?" Yunxi said after calculating.
"Official, you are a foreigner and don't know. They porters also have a guild, and they have to collect money from people who join the guild. No matter how many people are hired, it costs ten cents for a trip." Zhou Zhihui explained.
"Why would anyone want to join the membership if we are being paid?"
"They, their wives, children, and children all live in their hometowns in the countryside. If they get sick, there is no one around to take care of them. After joining the association, they will be taken care of when they are sick, and they will also give them medicine and bowls of porridge. If someone hires them, they will not be given money to help them recover."
Because of this, everyone joins this guild."
'Although it's still called a guild, isn't it equivalent to a labor union for people like them who work hard?' Yunxi felt clear in his heart: 'It turns out that at this time there was an organization equivalent to a labor union.'
However, Yunxi did not say anything to this. Instead, he nodded and said to several guards: "You accompany the young mistress and the young lady to look around the city, while my sixth brother and I go to transport the goods."
Several guards agreed and escorted Miaojin and Yunzhi as they went shopping.
"Officer, these guards in your family are extraordinary," Zhou Zhihui said, "I think the guards in the palace may not be as good as them." At the same time, he also had some doubts in his heart.
"Hey, nothing can compare to the guards of the palace. The guards of the palace are all masters. These people of mine are just showmen. They look good on the surface, but in fact they are far from good." Yunhe said with a smile and then greeted him.
Go to the dock outside the city.
The doubts in Zhou Zhihui's mind were somewhat relieved, and he led eight porters to follow the carriages and horses brought by Yunxi.
"Shopkeeper Zhou, you come up and sit down, you don't have to follow." Yunxi sat on a cart that was pulling goods, covering his head tightly with his hat, and said to Zhou Zhihui, who was following behind.
Zhou Zhihui didn't want to walk to the pier, so he humbly sat down on it.
"Shopkeeper Zhou, I see that you were very skillful in negotiating prices with them just now. Do you often hire them to load and unload goods?" Yunxi asked.
"Official, I am the shopkeeper of a wood shop. There are not many large logs in Henan now. They are all transported from outside. They only come every three or four months. Because the wood is in short supply, they only deliver it to the wharf.
To deliver it to the store, we have to transport it from the dock ourselves, but it doesn’t count just to have many workers three or four times a year, so we hire these porters.”
"Aren't you all the shops of Prince Zhou's Mansion? Can't you borrow a few clerks from other shops in the city?"
"It's not easy to borrow money." Zhou Zhihui thought more and more that although they were born as young masters, he still replied seriously: "Although we are all making money for His Highness King Zhou, we can't control each other, so why should other stores lend their assistants to them?"
We can use it if we want, so we can ask a second manager to do it. But the second manager is not in vain, it costs more than hiring a porter."
"Can you make some suggestions? The shops in Prince Zhou's Mansion are not all lumber shops. Each shop may need a lot of people to load and unload things at different times every year. Is it possible for the second manager to set up a special transport team to transport the goods for you?
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"It's a success, but how can the people below us mention such a thing? I just hope someone above can think of it. If it succeeds, the money for hiring porters can be saved for other things." Zhou Zhihui looked at it while looking at it.
Holding Yunxi's hand, he said.
Yunxi was a little curious as to why he was always looking at him, but he immediately realized: 'He wants me to talk to the chief manager. He also hinted that he is willing to give a bribe.'
Yunxi didn't answer his question and asked him something else. Zhou Zhihui felt a little disappointed, but he didn't dare to offend Yunxi. As long as Yunxi's questions didn't involve confidentiality, he would answer them seriously.
"Shopkeeper Zhou, I think you can still make money by opening your own lumber store even if you don't work in Wangfu's lumber store." Yunxi said with a smile.
"I'm not boasting. If I could run the store by myself, it would definitely be good." Zhou Zhihui spoke more casually because Yunxi was very approachable and didn't have the airs of a rich young master, so he spoke more casually: "But the person in charge of the palace
Buying and selling is worry-free, and you don’t have to deal with the Yamen’s police. Oh, now we call the police. These police are more decent than the police in the past, but don’t businessmen generally have to be more respectful to them? If they deliberately cause trouble, they won’t be able to do business.
.The business in the palace is different, the police don’t dare to stab you.”
"But the police have some rules, and the more troublesome ones are the gangsters. When the gangsters see a business that is doing well and has no backing, they will come to you and ask you to give money, otherwise they will make it impossible for you to do business. But even though they bother
The people will have no peace, but if you really want to go to court, the evidence will be difficult to find, and it will not be enough to behead you, nor will it be a sentence, or a slap in the face. When that scoundrel comes back, he can make trouble for you with his dirty tricks.
There is no peace in the world, so those who do business have no choice but to swallow their anger."
"So I am still willing to work as a shopkeeper in Wangfu's shop. Although I earn less, it saves me worry."
"What is a gang?" Yunxi was a little confused. After hearing this man's explanation, he immediately understood: Isn't this equivalent to a gang? Is there a gang so rampant now?
Yunxi secretly thought about it and talked to Zhu Zhu when he went back, but he didn't say anything about it at this time.
While they were talking, the carriage had already arrived at the dock. Yunxi hurriedly jumped out of the car and pointed to a boat. Zhou Zhihui immediately ordered the porters to start loading. These porters were already familiar with the road and were very efficient under the command of Yunxi's people.
Loading goods.
"Fifth brother, where did you find these things?" Zhu Youdou came over and asked curiously. Yunxi is not really doing business, so where did these goods come from?
"These are not goods. They are trophies that the soldiers who escorted me back to Beijing snatched from the army of Samarkand. They did not want to sell them to merchants to take back to Beijing. After this trip is over, we have to return from the city.
Transport it out and return it to them." Yunhe said with a smile. The soldiers of the Shang Zhiwei were paid more generously than the local soldiers and were richer. The price for selling the trophies was lower, and this time they stole from the Samarkand army.
The trophies that arrived were all very novel in appearance, and most of the people who went to Zhiwei brought more than half of the trophies back to Beijing.
"My younger brother looks at some of these things and they are very novel. How about giving some to my younger brother?" Zhu Youdun said with a smile.
"Okay, go and tell the commander, what's the point? But it can't be given for free, it will cost money." Yunxi also said with a smile.