Protect Our Patriarch Chapter 38: Shuda Trading Company VS Qian’s Trading Company
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Five guards in the northwest of Longzuo!
With Northwest Guard as the core, the terrain here is vast, but the water resources are very poor. Most of the aristocratic families mainly focus on livestock farming, mining, or growing some drought-tolerant crops.
The famous Northland heavy draft horse is a specialty of the northwest guards. There are many aristocratic families in Longzuo County who will buy and raise some heavy-duty draft horses to increase the family's transportation capacity.
The entire Northwest Five Guards has a total of eleven seventh-grade aristocratic families, and countless eighth- and ninth-grade aristocratic families are scattered among the vast grassland and pastures. Most of the members of the aristocratic families have gone as far as the Northwest Acropolis in their lives.
The Northwest Acropolis stands on the edge of the vast grassland. The city has a majestic outline. The towering and thick city walls can easily withstand the impact of fifth-level ferocious beasts. Groups of garrison soldiers are stationed on the archery towers of the city wall.
The sun rises above the horizon, and the sky and the earth light up.
The heavy city gate slowly opened, and the caravans, people, or some casual cultivators who had been waiting outside entered the acropolis one by one. Humans only occupy a small part of the vast grassland.
Although the grassland's production is not as rich as the resources in the south, it still has many unique products. For example, the famous ordinary straw mushrooms and spiritual straw mushrooms grow randomly in the grassland.
The former is delicious and is a rare delicacy when cooked with grassland beef and mutton. The latter is a rare and precious spiritual food material that also has the effect of elixirs and medicine.
However, both kinds of mushrooms are mainly fresh and tender. They are best eaten two or three days after being kept fresh, and their edible value will decrease sharply with each passing day. Therefore, in areas further away, only dried products can be enjoyed.
Chunyu Andong was born into a low-ranking Xuanwu family in the Northwest Five Guards, and had outstanding aptitude since childhood. However, with the resources and power the family has, it is absolutely impossible to help him break through the Lingtai realm and become a high-ranking Lingtai ancestor.
Thus, Chunyu Andong became a wandering merchant at the age of eighteen, and his footprints were almost all over Longzuo County. Simply speaking, within the scope of Longzuo County, there are many, many such people.
Most of them will eventually die silently in a foreign country. A small number of people will choose a place to settle, forming one family after another. Only a handful of people, due to factors such as luck, opportunity, hard work, etc., have entered the Lingtai realm and broken the solidification of class.
Chunyu Anton is one of the few successful people. After he entered the Lingtai realm, he continued to organize casual cultivators to run businesses and established a small and inconspicuous trading firm. After pursuing profits, he expanded his property and gradually turned his low-born family into a ninth-grade aristocratic family.
And Chunyu Andong also became the ancestor of the ninth-grade family Chunyu Shijia, which can be said to be a perfect achievement.
But when Chunyu Andong was young, he was used to wandering around. He missed the adventurous life in the wilderness with his fellow cultivators when he was in the Zhenze Guard, and he also missed the relationship between the East China Sea Guard and the Hundred Island Guard. The days of running business back and forth to make small profits.
Similarly, he also missed the time when he was young and frivolous and watched the sunrise with a girl from a young family in Izumo Guard. It's a pity that the status of the two parties is very different. In the end, the girl's elders beat her up, which became a lifelong regret.
He wanted to look around again, but now that he is over a hundred years old, his family needs him to guard it, and his descendants cannot do without him as their ancestor. He can no longer spend a lot of time wandering around as he did when he was young.
Chun Yu Anton compromised for the sake of his family. I thought that all those memories and hopes would be buried underground with him.
However, now an opportunity has made Chunyu Andong's originally dead heart come alive again.
Beiwei Baiweiju branch.
Due to Yuwen Shijia's good management, Baiweiju here is also considered one of the top restaurants. Many local high-end banquets and banquets will be held in Baiweiju.
Due to the limitation of ingredients, most of the dishes here are cooked with beef, mutton and spiritual meat. The most famous spiritual meat is a high-end spiritual meat-grade ingredient called Lingxue Sheep, whether it is grilled or shabu-shabu , are all first-class plump and smooth, melting in your mouth.
Several storefronts next to this Baiweiju have been taken over at some point. After some decoration, the sign "Shuda Trading Firm" has been hung on the lintel.
Undoubtedly, this is a new trading firm jointly established by the Wang family and the in-law alliance. It was originally agreed to be called Shouzhe Trading Firm. However, Wang Shouzhe rejected it and finally named it after the character "Shou", which means "Keep your promise and you will achieve it".
The current head shopkeeper of the Northwest Guard Branch of Shouda Trading Company is called Lei Yongbai. He is an elder from the Lingtai Realm clan in the Lei family in Changning. At the age of 150, he was sent to the Northwest Guard as the head shopkeeper. Use the remaining heat for the new business firm of the in-law alliance.
In addition, there are also a group of juniors from various ethnic groups who are arranged in the branch to serve as manpower, learn from them, and have to practice hard.
A branch like this must have at least one Lingtai monk in charge, otherwise it will not meet the standards of a commercial bank and will also be easily questioned. Although each in-law family has a limited number of Lingtai realm monks, and each has its own tasks. But this time the business opened up wasteland, many ancestors stopped their work and went to open up wasteland in various places.
At the same time, each family quickly cultivates the next generation of Lingtai realm monks to gradually expand the scale of personnel turnover.
This day.
It is already the second month since the northwest branch of Shouda Trading Company opened. Because the northwest branch is a remote branch, only one spirit bird flying chariot arrives in the morning every day. Afterwards, the spirit bird master and the flying chariot will take a short rest. In the evening start to go to Longzuo County.
Lei Yongbai, the head shopkeeper of the commercial bank branch, has already started a busy day. Today, he will make an appointment to meet with the heads of three eighth-grade aristocratic families to discuss the price and supply of white jade spiritual rice and fire crystal spiritual rice grains. By the way, he will also discuss the long-term supply contract of fresh spiritual fish and meat, as well as the family spiritual meat industry. consignment agreement!
These family members have been using spirit flesh to replenish their energy and blood for a long time, and they have long been tired of it. Fresh and tender spiritual fish meat is the product they crave most.
The young people under the trading bank also started working with full vigor. Recently, after a trial operation and promotion of the Northwest Branch, business has gradually begun to improve, which has greatly increased their confidence and feels that the future is bright.
Guests entered the business one after another, each with their own needs. I have letters that need to be sent, and I also want to wait to buy some scattered fresh goods!
"Senior Chunyu." A young teller named Gongsun was busy handling the formalities for Chunyu Andong and said, "This is your journey package. You will arrive at the county town tomorrow, and then you can take the county seat on the same day. Take the flying chariot to Izumo Guard and arrive at Izumo Guard the day after tomorrow. After two days of visiting Izumo Guard, you can take the Longzuo Ring Line flying chariot to reach Hyakushima Guard, Changning Guard, and Zhenze Guard. Finally, you can Take the flight from Zhenze to the county seat, and then transfer to the flight from the county city to Northwest Wei."
"This package only costs one hundred gold. Because it is newly opened, we will give you a 10% discount! However, before you board the train, your personal luggage must not exceed ten kilograms, otherwise you will have to purchase an additional luggage ticket."
Only ninety gold? Chunyu Anton was a little dizzy. Apart from the seven days spent commemorating and playing in various places, this series of journeys only took six or seven days.
Within half a month and ninety gold, his long-held dream came true! If we had to take a carriage, we wouldn't be able to get back in less than half a year.
It is indeed a school chariot. Not only is it fast, it also takes the shortest distance.
At this time.
There was a clear sound of cranes chirping in the sky, and a spiritual bird flying chariot pierced the sky, falling quickly at a fixed point at a certain time. Although this was not the first time I saw it, it still attracted a lot of attention.
After the flying chariot stopped.
The first to come down were the passengers, five of them in total. Except for one young man who was in the Qi Refining Realm, there were three others in the Lingtai Realm, and a middle-aged man whose cultivation was unpredictable.
It is very obvious that he is a cultivator in the Heavenly Realm.
Monks in the heavenly realm can levitate and fly in the air for a long time, but they have to consume profound energy with every breath and moment. If you want him to soar in the sky like a starry night and travel two to three thousand miles overnight, you won't be able to kill him.
In fact, even if a powerful cultivator in the heavenly realm can do it, it is not cost-effective, it is too tiring! If you can sit comfortably in a flying car and squint all night, you can reach your destination. Why not?
After all the passengers disembarked, the clerks hired by the branch began to unload the goods. A small ice crystal freezer is installed on the flying chariot, and a small cargo warehouse is towed at the bottom of the car.
The ice crystal freezers are all used to store high-end ingredients, including fresh seafood caught the day before yesterday, giant lobsters weighing more than ten kilograms, abalone as big as a bowl, giant sea urchins that are guaranteed to be yellow, etc.
There are also some more precious ice-cold sea fish, which are cut high-quality parts of a third-level purple gold sea fish, which are an excellent choice for eating sea fish.
According to the agreement between Shouda Trading Company and Yuwen Family, 80% to 90% of these high-quality ingredients are supplied to Northwest Wei Baiweiju, and a small part are reserved by the aristocratic families with whom they have good relations.
Because these ingredients are reasonably priced and extremely fresh, Baiweiju's business is booming.
The small cargo hold hanging below the flying chariot car contains some lightweight supplies. For example, some precious spiritual silks, spiritual materials and other money-making items.
In addition, Huiqisi, the driver of the flying chariot, also has a storage ring on his hand. The high-end clothes customized by Zhou in the county town, the cultivation elixirs purchased on behalf of others, and about dozens of letters and small packages.
After Huiqisi took off his storage ring, he began to have a meal and rest under the reception of the teller. There are also dedicated personnel to take care of the spiritual birds, feed them spiritual food, and rest them.
The tellers and guys are busy.
Some employee riders, carrying letters and packages, began to rush to various places to deliver letters and packages. The guys from Baiweiju also came to pick up the freshest ingredients. Their customers had already made reservations for lunch and dinner, and it seemed that no matter how many ingredients they had, they were in short supply.
At the same time.
In the Northwest Acropolis, there is a Xiong family from the Northwest, who is a local seventh-grade powerful man. There happens to be a legitimate girl in their family who is about to get married. On the first day that Shouda Trading Company opened, he took a flying chariot to the county town and customized a beautiful wedding dress at Zhou's clothing store, worth two to three thousand gold.
The "Shuda Trading Company" is responsible for transporting Zhou's wedding dress back after completing it and sending it to Xiong. Shouda Trading Company didn't make much money from this order, but it opened up a new idea.
I remember that Wang Shouzhe once entrusted Qian to buy wedding clothes from Zhou in the county town. But not only does the cycle take a long time, but there is also no way to choose personally.
So taking this opportunity, Shouda Trading Company and the Zhou family also reached a certain cooperation, specifically promoting the Zhou family's ready-made clothing manual, whether it was driving customers to the Zhou family to customize clothes, or dragging the Zhou family's tailors back and forth to their homes. For services, Shouda Trading Company can take 10% of the profits.
It can also be seen from this that once the Spirit Bird Chariot system is fully built, how many changes will it bring to Longzuo County’s life? I went to the county town today to buy a set of clothes, and after having a hot pot, I went home tomorrow.
If you are in a bad mood, you can also go to Izumoe to watch the sunrise and sunset.
Even when you have free time, you can go fishing in Zhenzewei, or ride horses on the prairie of Northwest Wei for a few days! Of course, you can also go to Hyakushimawei to feed the seagulls and go home the next day to continue your life...
All kinds of conveniences have subverted the living habits of humans in Longzuo County. Of course, what has changed are the top people in Longzuo County and a small number of ordinary people with business minds.
The vast majority of people at the bottom of society still live their lives as they should.
Situations like the Northwest Guard are just the tip of the iceberg. The flying chariot system of each guard has gradually been on the right track, forming big news and big gossip in Longzuo County.
In addition, many "rumors" began to spread in Longzuo County.
The reason why "Shuda Trading Company" was established was due to Qian's Trading Company's suppression and betrayal of its former allies. The owners of Shouda Trading Company were originally close partners of Qian's Trading Company, but Qian's Trading Company suddenly wanted to increase the commission from the cooperation from 20% to 50%.
The partners were forced to find ways to open up channels on their own. And before that, the partners headed by Wang originally wanted to build Shouda Trading Company together with Qian.
This kind of rumors and facts immediately dealt a blow to the reputation of Qian's Trading Company, and more importantly, mocked Qian's stupid strategic layout. It is said that even the ancestor of the Qian family's Zifu was alarmed and got angry in the family once.
At the same time.
In the main hall of the Qian family in Longzuo.
A middle-aged man with a broad face and a majestic expression smashed the vase into pieces and said angrily: "Is that little beast Xuerui back?"
A butler with unfathomable cultivation whispered: "Master, we have already rushed to invite the young master to come back. However, Nanliuwei is far away, so I am afraid it will take some time before we can get home."
"It's far away?" The head of the Qian family trembled and said with an angry smile, "It's far away, why don't you take the Shouda Trading Company's flying chariot? That little beast really fails to succeed and fails to do anything. He can't even figure out the situation. If you know it clearly, you dare to fall out with Mr. Wang and others. This will cause me, Mrs. Qian, to miss this opportunity!"
"Master, please calm down." The housekeeper advised, "Young Master also made such a decision for the sake of the Qian family. And the Wang family obviously didn't follow his good intentions. Maybe he had made a secret plan to get rid of our Qian family. Go it alone."
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