Zhou Lijun said: "Now the merchants my fourth uncle and I are looking for have all used our ointments and creams before, and know that our products are good, but if we don't have a shop or a workshop registered with the imperial court, they will not use it. Dare to buy on a large scale.”
"I thought, since we are going to do it, we should do it well," she said, "Our ointments and creams are not cheap, and we are dealing with people with modest wealth. Find a place. There is a street selling rouge, gouache and silk on the inner city’s East Square. There are also silver houses and bookstores there. It can be said that the most profitable shop in Dajin is there. The one I chose The shop is actually not expensive, I have asked about more expensive shops, and it may cost 20 million yuan to buy."
Old Zhou Tou felt his heart beating violently, and asked, "How much is 20 million yuan?"
Man Bao said: "It's twenty thousand taels."
Zhou Lijun nodded and said: "Because I said we have silver, I said that this shop will not sell if the copper coins given are less than nine million."
There is still less silver and less gold. The former can still be circulated, while the latter is not in private circulation at all, and only exists in particularly large transactions.
Silver is more convenient to transport, so merchants especially like it, which is one of the reasons why the exchange of copper coins for silver is always high.
And silver can also be used as jewelry, even less.
In fact, the Zhou family also has a lot of copper coins, but more of them are silver. This is thanks to Zhou Lijun. She has always told Zhou Zhoulang that whenever there is a chance to exchange for silver at a low price, he will exchange it.
When doing business, if you can settle with silver, you never need copper coins.
In addition, she is often in the capital, and she can always pay attention to the exchange rate of silver in silver houses, pawnshops and government offices. As long as the price of silver is slightly lower, she will exchange the copper coins at home for silver.
Not only is it easy to store, but now when she needs silver, she can quickly take it out.
Of course, silver was the most distributed to each family through her hands.
Old Zhou Tou was not very good at math. He thought that a shop worth more than 8,000 taels was expensive, but now that it was converted into a shop worth 9 million yuan, he felt that it was even more expensive, so he didn't say anything.
Qian looked at them, "What do you guys mean?"
Zhou Lijun first said: "Sister-in-law has promised that she will give 10% of the share. I mean, all other houses will also give 10% of the share, but except for my sister-in-law, including me, 10% of the share will be 10% Chengsan's money can be regarded as sharing the 20% of the public. Fangzi belongs to my sister-in-law, so she doesn't have to pay the money. "
Everyone has no objection to this, Zhou Liwei raised his hand and asked, "I can only recognize each room, can I recognize it alone?"
"No," Zhou Lijun said seriously, "Even if you don't plan to take the other houses, you have to share them equally among the houses. If there are houses you don't want, then you can divide them again, and you can only divide them one by one."
Zhou Liwei thought about it for a while, and objected to his own sister, "Then how can you subscribe by yourself, you are also our second wife."
Zhou Li coughed lightly, "Are you going to fight with the second sister?"
Zhou Lijun said: "I'm married."
"The aunt..."
Zhou Lijun said: "At least half of the family's business is managed by me. I can't manage it for nothing. I'm not convinced just by asking for wages. I want the right to subscribe."
Man Bao nodded again and again, that's right, I'm doing the work for you for nothing.
Zhou Liwei nodded, "Okay."
Qian remained silent, and when they finished speaking, she looked at her son and daughter-in-law present and asked, "What do you mean?"
After pondering for a moment, Fang said: "The child's father said before he left that if the family wants to buy a shop, we can follow."
Friday Lang and Saturday Lang also have no objection, they knew it when they played with Man Bao and Zhou Lijun when they were young.
The smartest person in the family is Man Bao, and then the fourth brother and Li Jun. Not to mention the fourth brother, he is the most cunning, but Li Jun is the leader in settling accounts. He is more stable than the fourth brother. At least it will be difficult to lose money if you follow her. .
Mrs. Qian nodded, and Zhou Liwei from the second room and Zhou Ligu from the third room also said it was all right, so her eyes fell on Zhou Dalang.
Zhou Dalang said: "I have no objection."
That's it.
Zhou Lijun was refreshed and said, "Since that's the case, each house will pool the money together. I will pay the deposit tomorrow. On the 16th day, I will collect enough money to buy the shop. I will try to open the shop before the Double Ninth Festival."
The crowd dispersed.
Qian called Zhou Dalang to stop and asked him to stay and talk.
After everyone had gone out, she asked him, "How many private houses do you couple have?"
Zhou Dalang scratched his head and said, "More than eight hundred."
Mrs. Qian sighed, "That's still a lot. I have always held the third child's money, and it is only more than 800. I think it took a lot of money to marry a wife before. You should be a lot worse. What is missing What are you going to do with the money?"
Zhou Dalang said: "Man Bao came to look for the child's mother last night, and she said she would lend us the five hundred taels that were missing."
Qian frowned slightly, "Man Bao is about to get married, and she needs to prepare a dowry."
She couldn't help but turned her head and asked Old Zhou, "Do you know how much money Man Bao has?"
Old Zhou shook his head, "I don't know, Li Jun presumably knows."
After pondering for a moment, Qian said: "Forget it, since she wants to lend it to you, then you can take it."
Zhou Dalang nodded and retreated.
After his son left, Qian said to Lao Zhou, "You don't need to save the money, let's buy a dowry for Man Bao."
Old Zhou Tou glanced at her and said, "I've already prepared, you really want to lend them our private house."
Mrs. Qian pinched him and said, "Why are you sour? Why am I not this family? If the bowl of water is not level, this family will be disbanded sooner or later."
She said: "Didn't you hear what the second girl said? This shop is making money. I don't feel it when I get the money now. When I make money in the future, if there is less room, I will definitely feel resentful when I think back to what happened today. Don't worry about it." Is it right or wrong, if there is resentment, it will be easy to quarrel, if there are too many quarrels, it will hurt people's hearts, and if people's hearts are hurt, the family will break up, otherwise, why do you think the second girl won't let her own share?"
"If it can be recognized by individuals, Man Bao can take everything they don't want in one go, and there are Shiro, Lijun, Liwei, even Goro and Liulang. Then the big house and the third house will be weakened. The bigger the business, the bigger the gap will be, not to mention the next generation, I am afraid that this generation will start to quarrel."
So she wants to be equal, at least, as much as the other houses have, the big house and the third house must have as much, especially the big house, they will take care of the family in the future, so they can't be weaker than the younger brothers and sisters below, otherwise If it comes out, it will be regarded as a fart.
Feelings are very important. The brothers of the Zhou family have a good relationship, but they also need to put their interests in order.