Xiaoqian learned these words to her husband and son, Zhou Dalang was still looking at the cloth on the table, Zhou Lizhong said: "I know, my second sister and younger brother and I have said in private that although the business makes a lot of money , but also difficult."
"Those who run a business outside, as long as they can make some achievements, it is not because they are extremely smart and have a rich family background, but because they have a backer behind them, otherwise they will not be able to go far at all." He said: "To be honest, apart from my sister-in-law There is no one who is particularly smart, but the third brother. He is better at reading than our brothers and sisters, but he often needs to light up lights at night to read books to be comparable to others. Therefore, unless my sister-in-law is the head of the house, our family cannot do it purely on its own. How big."
"Then we can only find a backer," Zhou Lizhong said in a slightly lowered voice when talking about these secrets, "Fourth Uncle has always wanted to do business with Princess Changyu, but it's not that he has too much ambition. He wants to make the business bigger. Not too bullied when going out."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Dalang immediately asked, "You were bullied outside."
Zhou Lizhong said: "It is impossible not to be wronged at all. When I went out with my fourth uncle for the first time, I was invited by the caravan to visit their village on the grassland. At that time, although my fourth uncle and I were invited 'Going, but there is not even a seat, and the one who speaks in the front is a caravan steward who is going with us... "
Even if they were robbed, Zhou Zhoulang and the others didn't have the face to go in front of the robbers, which shows how small they are.
Later, they were able to come out because the bald hair department who brought them into the grassland found that they couldn't reason with the caravan, so they simply took the two bags of tea leaves privately given by Zhou Lang and invited people from nearby tribes to come forward, and they met again on the grassland. If you learn some ways from Ming, you will come out safely, but you will only lose some money.
At the beginning, he and his fourth uncle were very wronged, thinking that they must talk to my sister-in-law when they went back, but after entering the grassland, and walking with Xiang Mingxue's team, only then did they realize that the little grievance they are suffering now is not at all. What kind of.
Compared with Xiang Mingxue, they went smoothly. Xiang Mingxue used to do grassland business with his head pinned to his belt.
It's just that he was focused on revenge at the time, the Buddha blocked and killed the Buddha, and the god blocked and killed the god. In addition, he was smart, so he killed a bloody path.
And back and forth twice, Zhou Lizhong and Fourth Uncle vaguely knew something, and while they admired Xiang Mingxue even more, they also wanted to find a backer to rely on.
He said: "Now when our family goes in and out of the grassland, we meet some villages and caravans. We only need to give some things to go there. That's because we have friendship with the tribes on the grassland and we have a good relationship with brother Xiang. .”
"But in fact, these two relationships are not solid. The bald-haired tribe has milk and is a mother. We are good now because we want to buy medicinal materials and cattle with them. We will sell silk and tea to them. If there were merchants who offered higher prices, or who sold tea and silks cheaper, they kicked us out."
"Brother Xiang is also unstable. He has no capital now, and our two families have some special friendship, so they are willing to cooperate with us, but in fact, our family is taking advantage of this cooperation."
Xiang Mingxue has no capital, but it is not difficult for him to get capital, even if the source of capital may not be innocent, but he can have it.
But contacts, routes, etc., are not something that can be obtained with money.
It was much smoother to enter the grassland last year, because Xiang Mingxue followed, and the profit increased a little bit.
Zhou Lizhong said: "It's okay to take advantage of this kind of thing once or twice. If the number of times is too many, there will be rifts, and the fourth uncle also said that relying on feelings is not as reliable as profit. Everyone talks about it first and second. It's better than holding on to an old relationship."
"So we all want to do business with Princess Changyu. If she participates in our family's business, we will earn money for her, and we can work in her name when I go out in the future." Zhou Lizhong said: "Many have no foundation. Most of the people who want to do business are like this, there is no way, let alone officials and dignitaries, that is, we pass through a place with goods, and the gentry in that place is stronger, and if they really want to buy and sell with us, we You have to swallow that breath with blood in your mouth, isn't that what happened to the Luo family in Gu County, Liangzhou back then?"
Both Zhou Dalang and Xiaoqian had heard that Zhou Zhoulang was forcibly bought when he walked through Gu County with his four younger siblings, and the children and daughter-in-law almost had accidents.
"My aunt was already very famous at that time, even so, the magistrate of Gu County didn't let the fourth uncle make the decision. He was willing, but he couldn't. In some places, the squires are more powerful than the county magistrates, and they are not afraid of the county government at all. "Zhou Lizhong said: "Not only the local gentry, but also the people in the caravan traveling together, they will compare each other, and there is a ranking in private. In the case of our family, although the business is not big, the foundation It’s shallow, but it’s still above average.”
In fact, it wasn't that good at the beginning, but in the past two years, the sister-in-law's reputation has grown, and she has become more and more favored in the palace. After the prince has won a man in one fell swoop, it will be much more effective for them to go out and claim the name of sister-in-law.
Especially this time when Zhou Lijun went out together, they carefully inquired about the details of various caravans and learned some little secrets.
"These caravans, excluding the caravans of the top few merchants, are the families and dignitaries that cannot be offended the most, such as the Cui family, the Lu family, the Wang family... my uncle's Bai family is also among them, but they are only touched by them." Bai's light, these aristocratic families, unless necessary, no one will trouble them; let alone the Guanlong nobles such as Zhao Guogong and Su Guogong, they usually avoid doing business with them; People who are officials in the court, because our family has a sister-in-law, it can barely be counted in it."
"But it's because my sister-in-law is getting more and more famous now, and my uncle's name has also spread. Everyone knows that my sister-in-law will marry into the Bai family in Longzhou in the future, and my uncle is a good student. Now he is still studying with the prince. In the future, I will definitely The future is worry-free." Zhou Li said again: "In our family, the third and fourth younger brothers are all studying, although they haven't learned anything well yet, but it seems that they are going to let the nephews in the family take the exam for the examiner. Don’t dare to bully our family, after all, no one knows what will happen to our family in the future.”
"So our family has to have land. If we have land, and if there are people who study, then we can change from a farmer to a farmer. It sounds much better than a businessman. Sometimes, going out and walking depends on a reputation."
Or do people like to talk big when doing business
Because speaking big words can not only make people jealous, but also easy to get things done.
Zhou Lizhong said so much, Zhou Dalang and Xiaoqian finally understood, and they immediately said: "Then buy it! Buy land!"