Originally, in Ning Yi's plan, the plan to go south to Muyuan County to bring back his wife should take a few days to set off. However, Chen Fan's sudden arrival and the news he brought disrupted the original arrangement. The next day, on the seventh day of the second lunar month, became a busy day.
Since the beginning of the morning, the matter of going south has been dealt with in advance. The arrangement of the compound outside the city is the most important point. After all, many of Ning Yi's innovative developments are placed here. Out of the friendship of the landlord and the consideration of not letting Chen Fan stay in the city, Ning Yi also showed him around and tried the freshly squeezed juice and salt water quail eggs in exquisite porcelain bottles. When asked about his thoughts, he naturally nodded to indicate that it was delicious, but his eyes were filled with doubts: You are doing this after you arrived in the capital!
Ning Yi's requirements in life are not low. Even if he is caught in the chaos of Hangzhou, he will try his best to eat something good when he has the conditions. Chen Fan is also quite clear about this kind of thing. In fact, fruit juice and quail eggs are naturally not without these years. Ning Yi made the packaging beautifully. Quail eggs are still specially tested for anti-corrosion effect, and they may be sold in Zhuji. It may make a profit. If we talk about innovation, it is obvious. It looks a little messy. On the contrary, Ning Yi was enjoying himself, and when he left, everyone brought a bottle of juice out.
In addition to the courtyard outside the city, there is also a part of the Su family cloth in the capital that needs to pass. Among them, there are a few people who were arranged by Ning Yi to study. They originally planned to let them go south together in a few days. At this time, they had already advanced. They had already given notice last night. Today, they came to ask about their preparations.
Chen Fan sat on the steps in the backyard of the Su Family Clothing Store, twitching the corners of his mouth as he watched Ning Yi's review of the five men.
"Are you ready!?"
"Ready!"
"Are you confident!?"
"Have confidence!"
"How are you!?"
"we are the best!"
"Okay. That's it... go and pack up, this time is different from what you guys are selling in the store. Get ready, it's up to you."
Saying such shameful words so loudly does not meet the standard of a modest gentleman in this age. Chen Fan has a keen eye for observation. Except for Ning Yi's exhortation, when the other party answered, these people showed a very calm and confident feeling. I don't know who they were before. Not long after, the two were sitting on the stone bench by the river outside the warehouse drinking juice, and Chen Fan asked the question in his heart.
"Let's take these five people south, are they the masters you trained?"
"No, they sell cloth."
"what?"
There were people coming and going along the road, and the spring sun was shining from the shade of the trees. Ning Yi looked back at the Sujia Cloth Shop that had not yet opened. He raised the porcelain bottle containing the juice and gestured.
"After our family went north, the Su family's cloth line business, which was in charge of my wife, also came up. But the woman in charge of the house seemed to hurt someone in the Zuo family, and the cloth line side didn't give much face. There was some resistance. In fact, it is possible to open it now, but in order not to cause too much backlash over there, it has been extended until now. Because of this, I have trained a few people and prepared them to go to big households to sell it. "
Ning Yi took a sip of juice. Laughing: "Among the five people, two are former cloth shop clerks. One is a young shopkeeper, and the other two are transferred from Zhuji. If the cloth shop needs it, just follow it first. For the cloth line, this time we go south, we plan to let them develop a business near Muyuan County and visit some wealthy people’s homes.”
Chen Fan understood and frowned: "What kind of money do you make from the business of traveling merchants?"
"That's not what it says."
Ning Yi smiled and shook his head.
At this time, in the world of Wu Dynasty, sales are nothing more than two kinds of raw and cooked. Traveling businessmen in the rivers and lakes, carry a small burden to walk around. Most of these people are wretched and slick, and they are heavy in the rivers and lakes. They are similar to the foot ya of a car and boat shop. They should be killed if they are innocent. It is not easy for them to do big business. For example, wealthy people are usually regular customers of some fixed stores. Similar to Jiangning, when some wealthy households want to make clothes, they will go to Su's to call familiar shopkeepers and masters, or if Su's new products are launched, also There will be a long-sleeved shopkeeper who is good at dancing to come to the door and ask the other party if they need it.
Between these two methods, businessman is a kind of cheap business after all. Even if a shopkeeper has long sleeves and good dance, he will be vaguely inferior in his speech and temperament.
In fact, speaking and temperament are very telling things at this time. In the pre-Qin period, the Zongheng family could coax people into circles with one or two reasonable words. Can determine whether a person is worth reuse, or immediately make people decide to become brothers with different surnames. In the final analysis, it is still a relationship between knowledge and the popularity of culture. In a place where most people can’t travel a hundred miles in their entire lives, people who can grasp the general trend of a place, or make some reliable inferences about the general trend of the world, are Logic skills are mostly good.
In the Wu Dynasty, although the style of writing was prosperous, after all, the proportion of scholars in the total population was not large. Among them, some idiots who were stupid in reading and reading were excluded, and those who could have an extraordinary manner of conversation basically had to go to the upper classes of society. Go into the basics. Moreover, this type of speech, temperament, and self-confidence must be based on knowledge and social identity. In the strict Confucian society, there are not many opportunities to take advantage of this aspect, but this aspect happens to be Ning Yi's strength.
Incitement-style education, the sales concept of later generations, what Ning Yi did first was to quickly change the way these people deal with others. These people may not have much knowledge, but as long as their IQ and logical ability are enough, Ning Yi is enough to set a set of ways for them to express confidence, be kind and professional. After that, every time you go to a place, put on a "I'm from the capital" style, visit the local rich and wealthy, first find the place that is a little more closed, a little bit more local, and a little more vain, and tell the other party to the outside world. Development, the capital is popular, and then start to sell things. The most important thing is to try to establish a long-term trade relationship. In the future, if there is any good thing in the capital, you can try to send it to the other side as much as possible.
During this period, wait until the salesmen are more professional. The flickering ability is stronger, and then go to eat those enlightened gentry. Take it slow with the countryside surrounding the city. At this time, the gap between the rich and the poor is large, and there are many landlords who have surplus wealth but haven’t used it or can’t find where to use it. .
Of course, the training of these five people is actually not long enough, not to mention the actual situation of one place and one place, how to make a sales framework according to the current situation. It can only mature slowly. But anyway, there is not much investment. Even if they fail, these five people will at least have the talent to be shopkeepers. Ning Yi is not worried about this. After all, people are resources that can be recycled.
Of course, these things couldn't be explained to Chen Fan for a while, but it was not necessary. Divert the topic for a while. Ning Yi said, "After your master's affairs are over, what are you going to do?"
Chen Fan thought for a while and took a sip of juice: "What else can I do? My life has already been sold to Liu Xigua. After the city of Hangzhou is broken, it has been broken. It should be time to go to Miaojiang to see what is there. You can do it. Maybe the time is right, and we will fight with her to rebel against you."
"You still want to rebel..." Ning Yi shook his head and laughed.
Chen Fan sighed: "I don't care. I used to follow Master, and there was nothing else to do except rebel, but in fact. I don't know what to do after rebellion. I followed Master when I was young, and I met many people who could kill. It's hard to calm my resentment if I don't kill them, but after I killed them, I found out that killing people can't solve the problem, especially when the murderers at the beginning have gradually become people who can be killed, and I have no interest."
Since meeting Chen Fan in Hangzhou, Ning Yi has actually admired him quite a bit. He is young and strong in martial arts. Although he seems reckless at times, he is actually very clear about many things. At that time, he was not in a high position among the rebels. Although as a disciple of Fang Qifo, he was the only one among the younger generation who could stop Liu Xigua from going mad, but other than that, to be honest, he did not have many real power tasks.
At that time, on Fang Qifo's side, it was vaguely rumored that the Buddhist commander cherished his disciples and hoped that he would come out to do great things after training. In fact, Ning Yi could see that all of this was actually due to Chen Fan's negative attitude. When fighting, he can take the lead and be a fierce general, and he can also serve when no one is there, but as long as someone takes over, he will immediately give up, and he looks like he can just get by. The reasons for all this can be seen more clearly when he assassinated Bao Daoyi for a group of academy students.
He was helpless when he was young, and after following the master, he ran for the cause of the master's side. By this time, the Yongle Dynasty was over, and Fang Qifo was arrested again. While he was busy, he was actually quite at a loss. When Shi Ningyi asked, he replied like that, paused for a while and then laughed again: "On the watermelon side, I don't know what she is busy with, she has an idea, I hope I can find a reason to rebel after I go there. "This is just his casual remarks, but he doesn't have much confidence. Think about it, "What about you, Liheng, what are your plans in the future?"
"I'm relatively simple." Ning Yi sat there and spread out his hands, "As I said before, the Jin people are powerful, and the Wu Dynasty is weak. After destroying the Liao Dynasty, they will send their troops south. I probably do something..."
"It's... this?" Chen Fan raised the porcelain bottle and gestured.
Ning Yi laughed: "That's it... To do things, you have to have influence, you have to have influence, you have to have someone, you have to have someone, and you have to have money to support them. It's like this everywhere."
"It's enough to have power, what about just having money?"
"It's the same, any official, there will be a group of people around to eat, from the prime minister to the official, down to the seventh-rank petty officials, who really have no one to flatter, or are absolutely honest, can't do anything. In the final analysis, the country No matter whether it is gangs or cronies, they are all combined for the sake of interests, and the interests are both metaphysical and practical. An organization without metaphysical pursuit cannot truly grow, and an organization without actual interests cannot even have a foundation. No."
After a while, Chen Fan nodded: "But I don't think this can make much money."
"That's my specialty."
"Then... not to mention whether the golden man will go south. If you stop this, then what?"
"Then... Be a rich man, stay safe with his wife and children, build a village and find a group of peasants to manage... I teach or something, that's probably the case."
Chen Fan was stunned for a while, then frowned, and drank the juice from the porcelain bottle in one gulp: "Ha."
Ning Yi shrugged. The two sat by the riverside road where the tree shade fell, and each had their own ideas, but after a while, Chen Fan remembered it again, and said, "Watermelon will not accompany you to seclusion."
Ning Yi nodded: "This is the problem..."
It was noon, and the two chatted for a while. Regarding the matter of going south, Ning Yi will not directly participate in the rescue of Fang Qifo. The two have reached a consensus on this. After all, in Ning Yi's current capacity, if he really appears in front of Fang Baihua and others, Not only many people in the imperial court can kill him, but even Fang Baihua's attitude may not be good. Because of this, he just wrote a letter for Chen Fan to bring to Liu Xigua. As for him, on the surface, he first went to Kihara to find his wife, and then went south to Jiangning to talk about business, and the rest was adaptable.
Since Ning Yi didn't meet Liu Xigua in person, Chen Fan, whose time was precious, didn't have to wait until the next day to join him on the road. He planned to leave immediately after noon. The two had lunch in a nearby restaurant. Halfway through the meal, Su Yanping hurriedly came over: "Brother-in-law, I heard something."
When he saw Chen Fan sitting across from the dining table, he attached to Ning Yi's ear and said softly, "I heard that there was something going on in Gao Yanei this morning. They found some famous martial artists in Bianliang. Said to be looking for trouble with your brother-in-law, including Chen Yuanwang, the local character coach of the Yuquan Gym, Ma Jinfu of the Thousand Mile Escort, Peng Xianyu of the Shenquan Sect…”
Su Yanping's voice was low, but who is Chen Fan? Among the people who are familiar with Ning Yi, apart from Lu Hongti, he is probably the highest in martial arts, and even Liu Xigua is probably inferior. After Su Yanping finished speaking, Ning Yi nodded to show that he knew: "Have you eaten, and if you haven't eaten, sit down."
"After eating, I have something to do over there. Brother-in-law, you just need to know about this matter... Brother Chen, my younger brother is leaving."
Chen Fan stood up and cupped his hands, and when Su Yanping left, his eyes were bright: "The capital of the capital, Gao Yanei? Gao Qiu's son? Liheng, or I'll help you..."
Ning Yi quickly cupped his hands and smiled bitterly: "Brother, I'm afraid you can do it, don't mess around."
"Hahahaha." Chen Fan laughed happily.
It stands to reason that the two are already on different positions at this time. If Chen Fan really wants to do something and run over to kill Gao Muen, Ning Yi really can't wash it out by jumping into the Yellow River. But Chen Fan is bright and upright after all, thinking of this, he directly said it as a joke. After eating, he got up and said goodbye.
"I don't know what you're going to do, and I won't say more. It's going to happen in the future. I hope we can have a drink together."
"No hurry." Ning Yi waved his hand, "Before leaving the city, come to my house."
"Um?"
"Meet my son. If there is a chance in the future, I hope he can worship you as a master and learn something from you."
Chen Fan tilted his head and looked at him. After a while, he slowly patted Ning Yi's shoulder and said with a smile, "Then what are you waiting for, let's go."