Volume 1: Traitors Disturb State Administration Chapter 155: Raising Prices(1/2)
"Come!"
"Look, look! Fresh roasted chicken legs!"
A shout attracted Xia Siqing, who was shopping on the street.
"Husband, let's go over there and have a look."
After shouting and pulling, the eldest young master Su Runchen was pulled to a roast chicken stall.
"Are you hungry?" Xia Siqing looked at her husband, Su Runchen, with watery eyes.
Runchen shook his head on the surface, but when he heard the smell of roasted chicken legs, he felt a little moved.
"Boss, how many are there?" Xia Siqing asked.
The boss raised his index finger: "One or two."
"One tael?" Su Runchen was shocked.
With such an expensive price, I can only afford dozens of them with my monthly salary.
The boss nodded.
Looking at the boss's appearance and thinking about the price of the chicken legs, Xia Siqing couldn't believe it: "Why is it so expensive? I can buy as much rice with just one tael of silver."
"Girl, my chicken drumsticks are made from a secret recipe passed down from our ancestors. Most people can't make it taste like this."
"You have a black heart," Xia Siqing complained.
When the boss heard this, he looked like he was smiling on the surface, but that was not the case in his heart. He hated such words the most.
"I say girl, if you can't afford it, go look elsewhere and choose a cheaper one," the boss said.
Good guy, when Su Runchen heard this, how could her husband accept it? She scolded the boss: "How did you talk?! What's the big deal with just one or two? I can even afford the roast duck at your stall.
Can’t you afford one?”
After saying this, Su Runchen took out a few taels of silver from his pocket, put it on the table, and looked at his wife Xia Siqing beside him: "Just pick which one you want, just pick two, and the extra money will be his."
Begging fee.”
Good guy, although the literature in this brain is not as high as other readers, it is really good to provoke people.
The boss is also a person who is relatively afraid of getting into trouble. Seeing that they don't seem to be short of money, his attitude immediately becomes more favorable.
"May I ask, are you...?"
"I am the uncle of the country, the son of the Prime Minister of the Left Dynasty, and the younger brother of the Queen. What? You don't accept it?"
As soon as his identity was revealed, the boss looked shocked and immediately apologized: "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm too young to recognize Taishan. I hope you can forgive me."
Seeing that his wife Xia Siqing had picked out the chicken legs, Su Runchen glanced at the boss and left.
Today is the Qiao Qiao Festival, and many merchants want to make a fortune from the goods. Therefore, the prices of many goods in Yanyang City have increased tonight. The one with the most severe price increase is the cloth shop in Yanyang City.
The Liu family, a large merchant.
The Liu family has been the leader of cloth shops in the capital for decades. It can almost be said that anyone who runs a cloth shop must show some respect to them, otherwise none of the cloth in their hands will be sold.
Because of this, once the price of Liu's Cloth House increases, the prices of other cloth houses will also increase, but the price cannot be higher than that of Liu's Cloth House.
This also makes Liu's cloth shop's revenue always rank first among all cloth shops in the capital.
The lights outside were bright, and Liu's cloth shop was full of wealthy guests.
In days like this, only wealthy people could buy cloth at Liu's Cloth Shop. After all, only the rich could afford such prices.
Usually an ordinary robe only costs one or two taels of silver, but today's one was sold for more than ten taels. If it was better or even better, it could be sold for thirty or forty taels of silver.
As for the cloth, usually one square meter would sell for several hundred taels of silver, but today it was sold for three to four taels of silver, the medium-sized ones were sold for more than ten taels to more than thirty taels of silver, and the best ones were sold for five or sixty taels of silver.
"My guest, please go slowly."
"Ms. sir, the cloth is so expensive today. It's not worth spending so much money on me."
"It's okay, money is something external to me, but my heart for you is not something external. It's just money, I don't care so much about what I do. As long as you are happy."
A couple walked out of Liu's Clothing Walk, holding hands and walking together with smiles on their faces.
"Thirteen!"
A word rang out in the middle of the cloth line and reached the ears of the cashier.
"Eh!"
It turns out that Thirteen is the name of the shopkeeper.
I saw that the shopkeeper raised his head, glanced at the person who was walking in a hurry, and continued to put away the money.
Although the prices have been raised, there are still many couples and couples coming to the cloth store to buy goods.
After collecting a guest's money, he saw the person shouting getting closer and closer.
"Shopkeeper, I'll send you a message."
Upon hearing this, shopkeeper Thirteen put down what he was doing, looked at the smiling businessman, and smiled: "Is that what you called Thirteen?"
"come over."
"You collect the money for me first, and I'll go there."
Afterwards, the shopkeeper Thirteen came out, and the man who shouted took over the shopkeeper's work with a smile. Seeing the long line of people waiting for the payer behind him, the man suddenly became more energetic in his work.
Shopkeeper Thirteen hurried to Master Liu's seat. At this moment, Master Liu was having a small meeting with a few people in the lobby.
"Master." Shopkeeper Thirteen called out.
The master nodded, and Butler Thirteen found an empty seat and sat down.
Several of the people sitting here are famous cloth masters in the capital, including Zhang Yongwang from Zhang's cloth shop, Ding Feihong from Ding's cloth shop, Wang Youtian from Wang's cloth shop, Ruan Ze from Ruan's cloth shop...
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There are about a dozen business owners gathered here today.
Mr. Liu, the largest cloth shop, was sitting on the big mahogany chair at the top. Standing next to him was Liu Zhiyong, Mr. Liu's son, the heir to the Liu family cloth shop.
Speaking of which, she is the only heir to the Liu family, and he is the only male in the Liu family.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Mr. Liu started to speak: "I have gathered you all here today because I have something to say."
"Everyone should know what holiday it is today."
"Today, I sent people to the streets to inquire about various possible prices. I found that the chicken that could have been bought for forty cents today was sold for five hundred cents. How many times has this increased? Also, the chicken that originally cost two cents
An egg worth ten cents today was sold for ten cents each."
"Remember, I, the Liu family, said when I became the leader of your cloth distribution, we will make money together, and we will come up with solutions together when we have difficulties, and we will help if we can."
"Perhaps you should have seen it when you came here just now. In response to the increase in prices in the capital, our Liu family cloth shop has raised the price together. Most of the people who came here are from wealthy families."
Listening to Master Liu's words, and looking at Master Liu's wrinkled face and a pair of old eyes that he could barely open, Zhang Yongwang, the second largest cloth shop in Yanyang City, was afraid that Master Liu would say he would die.
He started talking: "Mr. Liu, there is no need to go through this trouble. If you have anything, just say it and we will help if we can. You say it and we will do it."
After speaking, Zhang Yongwang, Zhang's cloth shop, looked at the several cloth shops around him and saw them nodding their heads and looking at Mr. Liu who was sitting on top.
After hearing this, Mr. Liu just kept his story short and cleared his throat.
"After you go back, you can increase the price appropriately to avoid losing money." Mr. Liu said.
Listening to these words, it seems a bit unreasonable, but the Liu family cloth business can become so big, isn't it all thanks to Mr. Liu? Thinking of these, it seems that Mr. Liu's words are not unreasonable.
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"Thirteen." Mr. Liu shouted.
Listening to the master's call, the shopkeeper hurriedly responded: "Hey"
"Are there many guests today?"
"Sir, business is as usual, but today is the Qiao Qiao Festival, so there are more customers buying cloth and clothes than before."
Hearing what the shopkeeper of the Liu family said, there is no cloth shop owner sitting here who would not be envious.
"Okay, I invite you all to come. I just want you to increase the price of cloth. Don't sell your own cloth at a very low price but cannot afford to buy an egg sold on the street."
"Thank you, Mr. Liu, for reminding me," Zhang said.
As soon as Zhang's cloth shop said this, the other cloth shops started to say: "Thank you, Mr. Liu, for reminding me."
Seeing that it was getting late, Master Zhang's cloth dealer stood up. Seeing Master Zhang's actions, he knew that it was time to say goodbye, and the other cloth dealers stood up together.
"It's getting late, so I won't disturb Mr. Liu. I'll take my leave."
"Okay, okay. Let's go slowly." After saying this, Mr. Liu ordered his butler to come: "Hesheng!"
"master."
"Send a few of you."
"Hey, okay."
After watching them walk away, his son Liu Zhiyong asked his elderly father: "Dad, aren't you afraid that you won't be able to sell the cloth in the future?"
To be continued...