The Adventures of the Mad County King on the Domain [Infrastructure]

The shops are ready-made, and so are the people.However, the current situation is that even if someone wants to reopen the shop, there are no other shops in a commercial street, and a lonely shop cannot attract any customers at all.Two, there are still too few customers. Even if [-]% of the residents need to shop, most of them want to barter. From merchants to customers, everyone wants to exchange for emergency food such as rice.With these two prerequisites, no matter what kind of goods are sold, it will only make people less and less willing to open a store.

How to get merchants and guests to come back here voluntarily, and how to get the silver back into circulation, are the biggest problems before Xie Qian.

There are two commercial gathering places in Mi County, which are on East Street and West Street, which are also what most people call East Market and West Market.

The East Market mainly sells grains, oils, vegetables, fruits, and daily groceries, and there are also cosmetic shops and clothing shops; the West Market mostly sells carriages, horses, furniture, labor, farm cattle, pigs and sheep.

Xie Qian compared it with the map in his memory, and asked, "Xiaoer, you checked the old files these two days, do you remember where are the vacant shops in the East Market and West Market?"

Xiaoxiu had already highlighted the important points in advance, so he naturally paid attention to it, and replied: "I remember. The first, twenty-three, and sixty-seven entrances of the East Market are all vacant shops, and there are more shops in the West Market. The ninth to seventeenth, Twenty-six straight to forty, and after □□ are empty."

Xie Qian nodded and said, "Don't worry about the West City, the three shops in the East City will be taken back. Later, you will go to Song's to recruit people, and first clear out the largest shop in the East City. Let’s sell more vegetables, let’s start with ten catties per day. In the past, the average annual price was sold, only cash was accepted, no barter was accepted. In addition, regardless of any commodity, each household is limited to one purchase per day, and reselling is prohibited. It will no longer be sold within ten days."

"This..." Xiaoxiu was stunned, and couldn't help saying, "I see that other stalls in this county charge double or triple the amount of rice noodles for a bowl of noodles. The vegetables we grow are so fresh, we don't exchange for the most expensive rice noodles , but you want to exchange copper coins?? Junwang, you do business like this, won’t you lose money? What’s more, there are no other shops in this West Market, and there is no one at all. Who would come all the way to buy it!!”

Xie Qian smiled mysteriously, and said: "What do you know, you always have to make a loss before you make a profit in business. What's more, Gu is the boss here, how can he lose money in business?! Just do what Gu said, and within three days Within five days, this shop must be opened, and if there is more than can be sold in one day, it will be packed and sent to Xiying the next day!"

Xiaoxiu curled her lips, muttering in her heart, King Xie Jun started giving orders again.So many times in the past, although he was right to make a blind cat meet a dead mouse for a small half, but this is a nonsensical business, but anyone who is not a fool can see that it is [-]% loss-free, and what a fart? !But... the current Xie Qian is no longer the poor Xie Qian of the past, relying on Xiying's support to act recklessly, even if he loses his pants, I'm afraid General He Feiyun is willing to let him do it.

After figuring this out, Xiaoxiu kept slandering her in her heart, but didn't dare to refute it face to face, and reluctantly agreed.The two walked along East Street to West Street, passing by the area where the county residents lived.Sure enough, some people recognized "Lord Sheriff" and stopped to salute and say hello.Xie Qian put on a gentle smile, and used his usual perfect communication skills to ask the county residents about their difficulties in life, and got the expected answers such as "not much food" and "living is inconvenient".

Xie Qian patiently told everyone one by one that in a few days, the West Market will start selling fresh vegetables, and occasionally a little staple food such as rice and noodles, and will only accept cash.

The county residents were skeptical, but Xie Qian didn't explain much. After visiting the places he wanted to see, he put on Xiaotao's sleeves and returned to the West Camp with ease the next day.

Zhang Ergou came back early in the morning before dawn. When Xie Qian passed by near the stove, he was yelling at the top of his voice, vaguely scolding the newly recruited Lemo chef for his mistakes.

Xie Qian listened for a few times, but didn't take it seriously. He wandered to the front of the Chinese military tent, only to find that he hadn't been here for a few days. Out of a place, a new compartment with no exit was built.Although they are all tents, but... Isn't it enough to live in? Why did you build another one?

He wanted to find out what was going on, and remembered the matter of opening a vegetable shop. Before he had time to say hello to Mrs. Sun and the others here, he had to bargain with Gou Yu, who was in charge of the account, and suddenly one head became two. Simply turn around on the spot and start with the most troublesome ones.

So many days passed, Gou Yu was still very unlucky, he didn't have a rest for a long time after returning from Jinyang City, he was busy from morning to night, his eyes were black and blue.As the Chinese New Year approaches, it's time to settle accounts at the end of the year.When Xie Qian passed by, he was instructing two novices in the Flying Eagle Army and a half-skilled hand from Shu County to carry out year-end liquidation.He jumped up and down, came down from one ladder, and went up another ladder to turn over a pile of undisclosed ledgers. When he saw Xie Qian idly blocking the light, the expression on his face immediately became rather ugly.

Xie Qian said coolly: "Why is the talented man so busy that he doesn't even have time to smoke the incense from the bamboo creek?"

Gou Yu pushed the crystal lens that was about to slide down on the bridge of his nose, the resentment all over his body was so strong that it seemed real, and said: "If you have something to say, let it go!"

Financial advisors are not easy to mess with.

Xie Qian secretly sighed, not daring to pluck the hairy dog ​​anymore, and hurriedly told him about his plan to open a vegetable shop to collect funds.

Gou Yu frowned, and stingily gave a two-word evaluation: "Available." He thought for a while, probably thinking that he was not worthy of the super high monthly salary, and added, "But vegetables are no better than rice. "

"That's what you said." Xie Qian sighed and said, "It's a pity that the landlord's family doesn't have much leftover grain. I plan to sell it for the time being and try it out. After a year, I will go to the nearby counties and counties to collect rice grains and then come back. It’s a new rice store. It’s also sold at a low price, and only accepts cash.”

Gou Yu frowned: "Where did you get the funds?"

Xie Qian put his hips on his hips, rubbed his index finger and thumb, and said proudly: "Brother Huang gave me some, not much, maybe a few hundred."

"It's barely enough." Gou Yu patted Xie Qian and said, "It's been so long, you finally started to do personnel work. But only collecting silver taels is not enough to revitalize the market in Shu County. Now the fortifications of Xiying and the county city are about to be completed , you have to start a few costly projects quickly to make it work.”

Xie Qian's eyes lit up, and he said, "Is there any play in water transportation?"

Gou Yu's glasses flashed, and he said: "The Min River connects to Meishan Mountain and goes down to Yibin. Although your idea is good, you can't start with no farts. The next best thing is to change a team of shipbuilders?! Do you have old-fashioned styles in your workshop?"

Obviously not.

Xie Qian sighed regretfully, and said, "Then we have to start with road construction."

Gou Yu nodded: "Then fix it."

One fox and one dog reached a consensus, Gou Yu continued to settle his accounts, Xie Qian went to find Sun's for a meeting, and the workshop master for a meeting, and called Chen Mang, who was addicted to hunting with his elder brother Chen Peng, back for a meeting.By the time he was disgusted by a group of people, it was already the end of the month, and he completely missed dinner time.

He rubbed his gurgling stomach, went to the stove to beg for two pieces of cooking cakes, and took it back to sleep.As soon as the door was opened, a smell of porridge and rice came to the nostrils.

……Um?

Xie Qian looked around and found that it was actually coming from the newly built cubicle.Taking a closer look, the floor of the cubicle was specially paved with half stone slabs, and the other half was leveled, and a small hearth was erected.Half of the floor of this compartment is covered with waterproof stone slabs, and a small hearth is built on the other half of the ground that has been leveled.A chimney is hung on the stove, and a tub is connected to it. There is also a groove for the pot on the fire port, which can obviously not only boil water, but also cook a little food.The aroma of porridge and rice comes from the casserole simmering on the stove.

...The head of a mere battalion, actually used his privileges openly to openly build half a bathroom and a small kitchen in his dormitory? !What kind of earth god's day is this?Even he, the county king, has never lived in such a luxurious house! ! !

He puffed up his cheeks with anger, sat down at the table where the two used to sit opposite each other, knocked on the table and said, "It's time to eat, and where are you! Come and serve the king of this county for dinner!!!"

There was silence in the bedroom, and He Feiyun was nowhere to be found, but Xie Qian had the feeling that he was at home.Sure enough, not long after, when the door of the cubicle opened, He Feiyun, dressed in comfortable casual clothes, came out nonchalantly, turned off the fire, brought two bowls of porridge and two side dishes to the table, and said, "I heard from the guard that you are busy." Haven't had dinner yet? Hurry up while it's hot."

Xie Qian glanced at the small cubicle suspiciously, He Feiyun seldom went there, especially after he lived there, even going to the meeting tent would go around from the outside.But there are many files and books there, so it is understandable to check them in the past... Anyway, after all, this is He Feiyun's territory, so he put aside his doubts, contributed the two cooking cakes he brought back, and said: "In bed You don’t have to worry about suffocating the two of us to death by lighting a fire in the tent. It’s a good story to pass back to Chang’an: the vassal king and the garrison general died like a pair of wild mandarin ducks.”

He Feiyun clicked on him, dumbfounded, took a chopstick of pickled cabbage and put it into Xie Qian's bowl, and said: "You know! I specially ordered it from the workshop master. The chimney is sealed on the stove, and the smoke and fire are discharged into the tent." Go outside. The side facing the outside of the compartment can be opened, and there is a thick wind curtain at the connection with this side. When the fire is used up and you want to sleep, you pull up the wind curtain, the compartment opens, and the smoke spreads out , the bed bill will not be cold. You can rest assured to eat!"

The two had a supper in harmony. He Feiyun made half a pot of faint tea for Xie Qian to digest, but he didn't drink it himself. barrel.

Xie Qian didn't think much about it at first, but seeing that He Feiyun's clothes were flimsy, he lifted up his hem, rolled up his sleeves, revealing his strong forearms, carrying water in and out, he couldn't help but be seduced, and he felt vaguely... A little premonition.

It's...it's late at night, what kind of bath do you take...?

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