Chapter 473 Friendship
Originally, in Ning Yi's plan, it would take a few days for the plan to pick up his wife in the south to go to Muhara Prefecture to set off. However, Chen Fan's sudden arrival and the news he brought disrupted the original arrangement. The next day, the seventh day of the second month turned into a busy day.
Since the morning, I have been dealing with the matter of going south in advance. The arrangements for the courtyard outside the city are the most important point. After all, many of Ning Yi's innovative developments are placed here. In order to ensure that the landlords are the friendship of the landlords and not allow Chen Fan to stay in the city, Ning Yi also took him to visit and tried freshly squeezed juice and salted quail eggs in exquisite porcelain bottles. When asked about his thoughts, he naturally nodded to show that they were delicious, but his eyes were slowly confused: You guy was doing these things after you arrived in the capital!
Ning Yi has good requirements for life. Even if he is in chaos in Hangzhou, he will try to eat some good things when he has the conditions. Chen Fan is quite clear about this kind of thing. In fact, juice and quail eggs are naturally not missing these days. Ning Yi has made exquisite packaging, and quail eggs are still being specially tested for anti-corrosion effects. If you sell them in the bamboo record, you may make a fortune. If you want to innovate, it is obviously a bit messy. Ning Yi was happy. 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 Bushang in the capital. Among them, several of them were arranged by Ning Yi to study. They were originally planning to let them go south in a few days, but they were already in advance. They had already given notice last night, and today they came to ask about their preparations.
Chen Fan sat on the steps in the backyard of Sujia Buxing warehouse, twitching his mouth to watch Ning Yi’s inspection of the five men.
"Are ready!?"
"It's ready!"
"Do you have confidence!"
“Have confidence!”
"How are you guys!?"
“We are the best!”
"Okay. Just like that... I'll pack up my things. This time it's different from selling things in the store. Be prepared, it's up to you."
Saying such a high degree of shame like this does not meet the standards of a gentleman in the past. Chen Fan was keen to observe. Except for Ning Yi's speech and the other party answered, these people showed a very calm and confident feeling. After turning around, their eyes and temperament were mostly a little nervous and hesitant. They didn't know who they were before. Not long after, the two sat on the stone bench by the river outside the warehouse and drank juice, and Chen Fan asked the questions in his heart.
"When you take these five people south, are they the masters you trained?"
"No, they sell cloth."
"ah?"
People came and went around the road, and the spring sunshine shone down from the shade of the trees. Ning Yi looked back at the Sujia Buxing shop that had not yet opened. He raised the porcelain bottle containing juice and signaled.
"After our family went north, the Su family's cloth store business was under my control and came up. But the woman in charge of the family seemed to have hurt someone from the Zuo family, and the cloth store didn't give much face. She had some resistance. In fact, it was possible to open it now, but in order not to cause too much rebound, it has been extended to this point. Because of this, I trained a few people and prepared to let them sell it to the big players."
Ning Yi took a sip of juice and smiled: "Of the five people, two were former cloth shop clerks. One was a young shopkeeper, and the other two were transferred from Zhuji. If the cloth shop is needed, they should use the cloth shop tightly. This time, I went south and planned to let them develop their business near Muyuan County and visit some wealthy people's homes."
Chen Fan understood and frowned: "What money did the business of the travelers make?"
"That's not what it means."
Ning Yi shook his head with a smile.
At this time, the Wu Dynasty was nothing more than a two-dimensional salesman. When traveling around the world, he carried a small load and walked around. This type of person is mostly slutty and slick, and he is very angry. It is similar to the one that is not guilty. It is not easy for them to do a big business. All rich people are usually regular customers of fixed stores. Similar to Jiangning, when some wealthy families want to make clothes, they will ask Su's familiar shopkeepers and masters to come to Su's house, or if Su's new style is launched, there will also be long-sleeved shopkeepers and dancers to come to ask if the other party needs it.
Between these two methods, businessmen are ultimately a low-key business. No matter how well a shopkeeper is good at dancing, he will be vaguely inferior to others in his conversation and temperament.
In fact, conversation and temperament are a very telling thing at this time. In the pre-Qin period, the Zonghengists could coax people around with one or two words of reasonable words. Among the Three Kingdoms, "watching this person's extraordinary attitude in conversation" can determine whether a person is worthy of reuse, or immediately make people decide to become a brother of a different surname. In the final analysis, it is still a relationship between knowledge and cultural popularity. In a person who can grasp the general trend of a place or tell some reliable inferences about the general trend of the world in his life, his logical ability is mostly good.
When the Wu Dynasty was in the prosperous literary style, the proportion of scholars was not large in the total population. After all, some idiots who were stupid and could have extraordinary attitude towards conversation basically had the foundation to move to the upper class of society. Moreover, this type of conversation, temperament, and confidence must be based on knowledge and social identity. In a 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 education and the sales philosophy of later generations, Ning Yi first did it to quickly change the way these people treat people. These people may not have much knowledge, but as long as their IQ and logical abilities are sufficient, Ning Yi is enough to set them up a way to show confidence, friendly and professionalism. After that, every time he went to a place, he would put on a "I came from the capital" style and visit the rich locals. First, he would find a place with a more closed place, a little rustic, and a stronger vanity, inform the other party of the outside world to develop, and the capital is popular, and then start selling things. The most important thing is to try to establish long-term trade relations. In the future, he could try to transfer anything good to the other party.
During this period, when the salesmen became more professional and had stronger deception skills, they would try to cheat those enlightened gentry and take their time in the way of surrounding the city in the countryside. At this time, there was a big gap between the rich and the poor, and the family had wealth but they didn't use it or could not find any landlords to use it. If you say that "Do you know Amway" in later generations can fool a large number of people, there is no reason not to do so at this time.
Of course, the training of these five people is not long enough now, let alone the actual situation of one place and another. How to make a sales framework according to the current situation. You can only mature slowly. But there is not much investment anyway, even if you fail, these five people can at least be the shopkeeper when they come back. Ning Yi is not worried about this. After all, people are resources that can be recycled and utilized.
Of course, these things were not able to explain clearly to Chen Fan for a while, so there was no need to change the topic. Ning Yi said: "What are you going to do after your master's work is over?"
Chen Fan thought for a while and took a sip of juice: "What else can I do? My life has been sold to Liu Xigua. After the city of Hangzhou was broken, it has not passed, and he has broken his promise. At that time, it should be time to go to Miaojiang to see what there is to do. Maybe the time is up, and I will raise an army with her to create your rebellion."
"You still want to rebel..." Ning Yi shook his head and smiled.
Chen Fan sighed: "It doesn't matter. I used to follow my master, and there was nothing else to do except rebellion, but in fact, I don't know what I can do after rebellion. When I was young, I followed my master and saw many people who could be killed. It was hard to calm my resentment if I didn't kill him, but after I killed him, I found that killing people would not solve the problem. Especially when the murderers who were originally killed gradually became killing people, I was not interested."
Since he met Chen Fan in Hangzhou, Ning Yi has actually admired him quite a lot. He is young and has excellent martial arts skills. Although he seems reckless, he can actually understand many things. At that time, he was not in the rebel army. Although as a disciple of Fang Qifo, he was the only one among the younger generation who could stop Liu Xigua from getting angry, besides that, to be honest, there were not many real power tasks that he had to take on.
At that time, there was a vague rumor between the Buddhist generals and the Buddhist generals cherished their disciples, hoping that after training, he would come out and do something big. In fact, Ning Yi could see that all this actually stems from Chen Fan's negative attitude. He could lead the way and become a powerful general when there was no one, and he could also take over the job. However, as long as someone took over, he would immediately give up and look like he was just living a life. The reasons for all this can be seen more clearly from the time he assassinated Bao Daoyi for a group of academy students.
When he was young, he was helpless and followed his master and ran for his career. At this time, Yongle was over and Fang Qifo was arrested again. He was busy, but in fact he was quite confused. At this time, Ning Yi asked, and he answered that way. After a pause, he laughed again: "It's the one with Xigua, I don't know what she is busy with. She has an idea. I hope that after I have been there, I can find a reason for rebellion." This was just his casual remark. He didn't have much confidence. Think about it, "What about you, Liheng, what are your plans in the future?"
"I'm simpler." Ning Yi sat there and spread his hands, "Just as I said before, the Jin people are powerful and the Wu Dynasty is weak. After destroying the Liao Dynasty, they will rush their troops to the south. I probably do something..."
"It's... this?" Chen Fan raised the porcelain bottle and signaled.
Ning Yi smiled: "It's this... you have to be influential, influence, someone, someone, and money to support people. This is everywhere."
"Just have the right, what can you do if you have money alone?"
"It's the same. Anyone who is an official will have a group of people who follow him to eat. From the Prime Minister and the Seventh-rank minor officials, no one can curry favor with him or are absolutely honest, and they can't do anything. In the final analysis, whether it is the country, the gang, or the clique, they are all combined for the sake of interests. This interest is both metaphysical and practical. Organizations without metaphysical pursuits cannot truly grow, and organizations without actual interests will not even have the foundation."
After a while, Chen Fan nodded: "But I don't think this can earn much."
“That’s my profession.”
"Then... I won't say whether the Jin people will go south. If you stop this, what?"
"Then...become a rich man, be in a place with his wife and children, build a farm and find a group of farmers to manage...I teach and teach, maybe that's the case."
Chen Fan was stunned for a moment, then frowned and drank all the juice in the porcelain bottle in one sip: "Ha."
Ning Yi shrugged. The two of them sat next to the riverside road that fell under the shade of the trees. They each had their own ideas. After a while, Chen Fan remembered again and said, "Xigua will not accompany you to seclusion."
Ning Yi nodded: "This is the problem..."
It was noon, and the two of them chatted a few more times. Ning Yi would not directly participate in the rescue of Fang Qifo. The two had reached a consensus on this. After all, with Ning Yi's current identity, if he really appeared in front of Fang Baihua and others, not only many people in the court could kill him, but even Fang Baihua's attitude might not be good. Therefore, he just wrote a letter for Chen Fan to take to Liu Xigua. As for him, on the surface, he went to Muhara first to find his wife, and then went south to Jiangning to talk about business, and the rest were adaptable.
Since Ning Yi did not go to meet Liu Xigua in person, Chen Fan, who is now precious, doesn't have to wait until the next day to go on the road with him. He planned to leave immediately after noon. The two had lunch in a nearby restaurant. Halfway through, Su Yanping hurriedly came over: "Brother-in-law, I heard something."
Seeing Chen Fan sitting opposite the dining table, he attached himself to Ning Yi's ear and said softly: "I heard that Gao Yanei had made an action this morning. They found many famous martial artists in Bianliang, saying that they were asking for trouble for your brother-in-law. Among them are Chen Yuanwang, the instructor of the Imperial Boxing Gallery, Ma Jinfu from the 'Qianli Escort Agency', and Peng Xianyu from the Shenquan Sect..."
Su Yanping's voice was low, but who was Chen Fan? Among those who were familiar with Ning Yi, except Lu Hongti, he probably had the highest martial arts skills, and even Liu Xigua was probably half inferior. When Su Yanping finished speaking, Ning Yi nodded and said that he knew: "Have you eaten? If you don't eat, sit down."
"I've eaten it, there's something else to do with me. Brother Chen, just know this... Brother Chen, I've said goodbye."
Chen Fan stood up and bowed, and when Su Yanping left, his eyes were shiny: "Gao Yanei, Gao Qiu's son, Liheng, otherwise I will help you..."
Ning Yi quickly bowed and smiled bitterly: "Brother, I'm afraid of you, okay, don't do anything randomly."
"Hahahaha." Chen Fan smiled happily.
Logically speaking, the two of them were already people from different positions at this time. If Chen Fan really wanted to do something and ran over and killed Gao Muen, Ning Yi would really not be able to wash it even if he jumped into the Yellow River. But Chen Fan was open and honest after all, he thought of this and said it as a joke. After dinner, he stood up and said goodbye.
"I don't know what you want to do, and I won't say more. I'll do it in the future. I hope I can have a drink together."
"No hurry." Ning Yi waved his hand, "Before leaving the city, go to my house."
"Um?"
"Meet my son. If you have the chance in the future, I hope he can worship you as a master and learn something from you."
Chen Fan turned his head and looked at him. After a while, he slowly patted Ning Yi on the shoulder and smiled and said, "What are you waiting for? Let's go."
Chapter completed!