Jiankang City in the early morning is already very lively.
As the commercial hub of Jiangnan, Jiankang Prefecture has no real day and night.
The entire city is busy with the movement of countless goods twelve hours a day, from morning to night.
Li Xingchen was sitting in a teahouse on the bank of Qinhuai River, watching the countless boats coming and going on the river.
A ledger was placed in front of Li Xingchen's desk, and Xu Su was flipping through it quickly.
If you want to know the economic development of a region and the flow of money and goods, you can't tell it with the naked eye by looking at the outside scene. You just need to glance at the account books and you will know something in your mind.
Li Xingchen walked along the Qinhuai River and directly found a teahouse to do it. He asked the frightened shopkeeper to bring up the account books. Naturally, Xu Su led people from the inner government to check the accounting.
First, Li Xingchen can use this to understand the current economic development on the Qinhuai River.
This teahouse is a typical business on both sides of the Qinhuai River. Downstairs there are storytellers and tea and food are provided, while upstairs there are private rooms and accommodation. In addition, there is a painting boat outside the building on the side near Qinhuai. Needless to say, the painting boat
, above is the place where men go to drink when they feel bored with tea. The wine is of course flower wine.
This is a small teahouse, although it is small, it has all the internal organs.
This also reminds Li Xingchen that since the development of Jiankang Mansion, both the economic development model and the folk entertainment forms have been diversified. However, it is obvious that people have not yet explored which form of entertainment is more profitable, so they
You can only mix up such monsters. Anyway, our one store here can meet all your needs.
However, Li Xingchen had to say that if he really wanted to make money and show his own brand, this would definitely not work.
There are specialties in the art. If a teahouse wants to attract customers, it must not be because there is accommodation here, because the customers who come to taste tea are either elegant people who come for a cup of tea, or business people who come to listen to storytelling.
Common people, their interest is obviously not in living here, and many of them can hardly afford the high consumption on the boat.
When the teahouse's attention is taken away by accommodation, catering and boating, unless the teahouse is large enough and has enough staff, it will be difficult to invest too much even in the signature aspects of tea drinking and storytelling.
With manpower and material resources, naturally there is no way to build one's own reputation.
This is what later generations call "inaccurate industrial positioning."
Nowadays, regardless of whether every household is doing good business, that's because almost every household is like this, so customers have no choice.
When one or two companies realize that they are good in a certain aspect and start to focus on promoting these selling points, they will naturally reduce investment in other aspects, completely turning teahouses into teahouses and restaurants into restaurants again.
And those who still imagine that they can "suffer equally" will naturally be eliminated because they cannot compare with others in every aspect, or they will start to look for a direction that suits them like others and strive to develop.
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As for when this will happen, Li Xingchen doesn't know. Li Xingchen will not interfere too much in the development of the entire society.
Li Xingchen is only responsible for pointing out one general direction. Every remaining step and every step requires countless like-minded people in the world to find their own way forward.
Only a society that develops in a positive way can be a healthy and progressive society.
Li Xingchen's guidance may be like enlightenment, enlightening people and suddenly thinking about how to take the future, but it may also have the opposite effect...
When everyone and every move in all walks of life requires His Majesty's approval, and all of our ideas can only rely on His Majesty's views, this society loses the possibility of moving forward and becomes Li Xinchen's drag.
They walked forward.
In Li Xingchen's view, this is one of the reasons why feudal society always evolves into a stagnant society. The emperor sticks to his word, and the emperor does not want to change the status quo. Naturally, the people below can only listen to it and believe it. No one wants to
, and no one has the guts to make a different sound.
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the germination of capitalism had emerged, and some far-sighted people put forward some views on the future development of society, or the concept of family, country and nation.
It's a pity that after rounds of literal incarceration, even thoughtful people can only turn themselves into numb puppets.
Therefore, Li Xingchen simply let it go, so as to avoid interfering too much and exaggerating the situation.
As for what is the independent development of society, in Li Xingchen's view, it should be that there is a group of people in society who have their own ideas and ideas, and dare to put such ideas and ideas on paper and make them public, so that everyone can refer to them and discuss them together.
The road to the future is decided and chosen by the elite group in society together with the general public.
Therefore, society will move forward in accordance with everyone's ideas. It is gratifying to succeed, but everyone will only regret it if it fails, but there is no blame. You can't blame the Emperor for not asking, right?
What's more, with Li Xingchen in charge behind the scenes, the possibility of overturning is unlikely.
Li Xingchen just hopes that people in this era can form some ideas that are in line with the development of the times, and of course he will not watch the emergence of crooked ways.
Just like Sun Monkey, he will never be able to uncover the Five Fingers Mountain of Tathagata Buddha.
"Sun Monkey..." Li Xingchen gently stroked his beard, thoughtfully.
It seems that I can find a way to bring the "Four Great Classics" to the table to stimulate the development of entertainment in this era. The storytelling and the like mentioned in teahouses nowadays are still short stories similar to Tang Dynasty Legends. One article said
After that, the next article is a new story, and naturally it will be difficult to create enough long-term attraction for customers.
"Your Majesty, the accounts are clear and there are no errors." Xu Su called out.
Ever since he went upstairs, Li Xingchen had been staring through the window, sometimes smiling, sometimes frowning. Everyone knew that His Majesty was thinking, so naturally they did not disturb him.
Therefore, Xu Su completed all the work silently before reporting to Li Xinchen.
"As long as it's correct." Li Xingchen stood up, "Let's go, let's find another shop."
Xu Su looked at Li Xinchen strangely.
"What's wrong?"
"I just feel that as your majesty is a noble person, it would be a bit awkward to go from shop to shop like this..." Xu Su said helplessly.
"Making a fuss out of a molehill." Yu Chizhen, who was following Li Xinchen and yawning profusely, added directly at this time, seriously.
"Ah!" Then, the little girl covered her head.
Your Majesty's head is not comfortable.
Xu Su walked over helplessly and gently stroked Yu Chizhen's forehead.