In the final analysis, we have to talk about the issue of money.
Without money, there is no way to solve substantive problems. Even if merchants from Shanxi and Shaanxi advance money to transport grain to the northwest, they still need to pay money.
However, it successfully aroused her father's ambition and fighting spirit, which made Feng Ziying feel much more at ease.
He was afraid that his father still had the mentality of wanting to watch the fire from the other side. He went to the northwest and only wanted to calm the northwest and complete the instructions given by the court. But in the end, when an accident really happened, he would not be able to get it out in time.
The means of coping.
Silver, silver, throughout the ages, the economic base determines the superstructure. Whether it is the court or the army, only with sufficient financial resources can you solve all problems with ease.
Even before the carriage approached ** Mansion, Feng Ziying could already feel the excitement of the Grand View Tower today.
Jia Qiang has come to report almost every day in the past two days. All twenty-two private room tickets have been sold, not for the first game, but for the entire four games. This one alone
The income alone reached 8,800 taels of silver, which is almost equivalent to the income of Daguan Tower. This does not include the ticket income from the lobby on the first floor.
The ticket revenue price in the lobby on the first floor is much lower. It is one tael per seat. Even this price is three times more expensive than the usual price for going to the theater. If you need to be qualified to hold a placard, you need to pay another five taels.
Silver, this is the price without margin.
In other words, the entire lobby on the first floor can accommodate more than 600 people, but the ticket fee can earn 900 taels. Among these 900 people, most of the guests who are likely to be qualified to bid are arranged in the first four rows around the stage.
There are about 160 guests, and the income is 800 taels. The income from the first floor of each show can reach 1,700 taels.
If the four games can be as popular as the first game, the four games on the first floor can also reach 6,800 taels of silver.
In addition to the 8,800 taels of silver income from private rooms, the 15,600 taels of silver income can almost reach one-third to one-quarter of the annual income.
It can be said that even Feng Ziying did not expect that she could get such a huge profit for Daguan Tower with just an idea. It is no wonder that although Jia Qiang has lost a lot of weight in the past few days, she is tired from running around every day, but that
My mental state is simply more exciting than taking a chicken blood shot.
The sedans and carriages began to separate a few miles away from the Grand View Tower. People from the Zhongcheng Soldiers and Horses Department and the Patrol Battalion had already begun to take action, calling for the carriages to change routes as soon as possible or find another parking place. Small sedans were more convenient.
, you can find a suitable place nearby to stop.
Today's guests are not only male guests, there will inevitably be some female guests in the private room. Some dignitaries and wealthy businessmen have invited famous actors such as Sun Jin and Su Miao to show off, and some have brought their concubines.
Eye-opening.
Among the twenty-two private rooms, except for the few left by Feng Ziying's greeting, this is because wealthy families such as Shanxi Chamber of Commerce, Longyou, Dongting, Huizhou, and Beijing Zhongshun King need to book them in advance, free of charge.
In the end, people were willing to participate to increase their popularity, but you had no place.
For some other private rooms, Feng Ziying also told Jia Qiang not to sell them all at once, but to reserve one or two private rooms in order to meet some unavoidable guests at the last moment, such as Prince Yi Zhong and Prince Beijing.
King of longevity.
King Beijing proposed to reserve a private room only at the last moment. Of course Jia Qiang had to satisfy him. King Shou wanted to reserve a private room earlier, but he was still unable to confirm it and did not express his intention to come until just before the start.
All in all, keep everything that should be kept, but the money must not be less and the rules must not be broken. Even if Feng Ziying pays for them in advance, there is no problem. Of course, if they can keep it until the end, no one will care about the one hundred taels of silver.
After bypassing the ** Mansion, Feng Ziying's carriage entered a slightly secluded alleyway, and then entered through the back door of the Grand View Tower.
As soon as the carriage stopped, Feng Ziying got out of the car and encountered several other carriages arriving one after another. Feng Ziying paused briefly and saw King Zhongshun and several royal family members getting off the carriage. The other guests coming off the carriage farther away were also acquaintances, but
Several prominent figures in the Dongting business gang.
Feng Ziying laughed. It seemed that everyone was very interested in this new thing and wanted to take a look at the differences of this new type of sales.
"Ziying, all of us here are here to beat drums and cheer you up." Wang Zhongshun said cheerfully from a distance: "Do you know these brothers?"
Feng Ziying knew two of the distinguished men following King Zhongshun, and was unfamiliar with a few others.
"How can you not recognize Prince Lian Zhong and his subordinates?" After Feng Ziying and Prince Zhong Shun saw the ceremony, they met with others.
There are a total of eleven male heirs in Emperor Yonglong's generation, but only six of them are truly adults: the eldest, King Yi Zhong, the third, King Zhongxin, the fourth, King Zhongxiao (Emperor Yonglong), the eighth, King Lianzhong, and the ninth, King Zhongshun.
, the old Shi Zhonghui King.
"Feng Keng has met Prince Lian Zhong, this one is..."
"Ziying, Gu will introduce to you, this is Gu's third brother..."
"Oh, please forgive Feng Keng for his poor eyesight. I have met Prince Zhongxin..."
"This one is Gu's tenth brother..."
"Feng Keng has met Prince Zhonghui."
Among the four princes, King Lianzhong and King Zhongxin were not on the same side as King Zhongxiao (Emperor Yonglong), but King Zhongshun and King Zhonghui were on the side of Emperor Yonglong. King Lianzhong and King Zhongxin originally had the intention of seizing the throne.
, but King Yeomchung was the first to give up, while King Chungxin did not give up completely until there was no hope and turned to support Prince Uizhong.
Therefore, under such a situation, as Emperor Yonglong ascended the throne, King Lianzhong always kept a distance from Prince Yi Zhong and had a normal relationship with Emperor Yonglong, while King Zhongxin had an ambiguous relationship with Prince Yi Zhong.
However, the relationship between the two brothers, King Lian Zhong and King Zhongshun, has always been good, and it was only in the past few years that they began to become estranged.
Prince Zhongshun brought three princes here at once, which surprised Feng Ziying.
King Zhonghui is fine. He is from the same group as King Zhongshun and has always been Emperor Yonglong’s best friend. However, King Zhonghui doesn’t like to interfere with current affairs. He likes to play with antiques, appreciate calligraphy and paintings, raise birds, fight cocks and listen to plays. Like King Zhongshun,
He is the major shareholder of Mingyue Tower, but I have never met Feng Ziying. Today is the first time I met him.
Since Emperor Yonglong ascended the throne, King Lian Zhong knew that he had committed a taboo in the past, so he kept a particularly low profile and gradually faded away, getting along well with King Zhongshun.
However, this loyal king actually appeared here, which surprised Feng Ziying.
Why did this man, who had always maintained a relatively close relationship with Prince Ui-tada, suddenly get together with Prince Chung-shun?
Could it be that there were some changes in the situation in the DPRK that made the loyal king aware of something and began to change the court? Isn't it a little late?
But it's not too late to say that. After all, Emperor Yonglong and Prince Zhongshun are the same mother. As long as they turn around, it will be safe. Emperor Yonglong probably won't care too much.
These thoughts passed through Feng Ziying's mind in just an instant. The arrival of these princes today will undoubtedly greatly boost the popularity of this sales conference. It will also be a big selling point in the newspapers tomorrow, and even several princes will come in person.
, participate in the sale, and if you can bid for a few more rounds at the conference, it will definitely be an excellent publicity opportunity.
King Zhongshun has already made an agreement with the other princes, and King Zhonghui is most likely to be the one. He is a lively person by nature, and if the antique calligraphy and painting catches his eye, he will definitely not let it go.
As for how King Zhongxin and King Lianzhong will perform, we can only wait and see.
After meeting the princes, King Zhongshun also saw several other carriages arriving. Knowing that Feng Ziying was going to greet other people, he led the princes in without saying anything.
This time, even Liu Xianglian, who had not been involved in Daguan Tower affairs for a long time, was persuaded by Feng Ziying. It was true that there were too many distinguished guests of all kinds and she needed help to greet them.
It would be inappropriate for Jia Qiang to greet guests like King Zhongshun, so Liu Xianglian took the initiative to take on the important task.
Liu Xianglian is very familiar with King Zhongshun and King Zhonghui, and they are all experts in ticket games, so it is most appropriate to greet them.
"Two gentlemen, haven't we seen each other for two years?" Feng Ziying smiled particularly happily when she saw the Weng brothers, the leaders of the Dongting Business Gang.
"How do you deserve to be called your lord?" The two brothers, Weng Qiming and Weng Qiyang, received a letter from Feng Ziying to recruit them, and they discussed the matter quite a bit.
The current situation in the south of the Yangtze River is somewhat unavoidable. The gentry has great opinions on the imperial court, especially the northern scholars in the imperial court. Many merchants have also been affected and have begun to distance themselves from the northern side. Like what the imperial court did this time
At this sales meeting, people like Jia Jing, Zhen Yingjia and others passed on the message, hoping that Jiangnan merchants would best not attend, and even if they wanted to go, they should try their best to have important figures in their respective families go.
But the Weng brothers thought about it again and again, and still felt that Xiao Feng Xiuzuan's reputation could not be refuted. After all, his strategy of opening up the sea had brought huge benefits to Jiangnan merchants, and Feng Ziying was open-minded and had no discrimination against merchants.
Suzhou can be regarded as half of Xiao Feng's hometown. Firstly, his ancestral home was in Suzhou several generations ago. Secondly, his eldest wife, Shen, was from the famous Shen family in Suzhou. Thirdly,
The Fang Lin family has not yet joined the family, but they are also members of the Lin family, a prominent family in Suzhou. However, the Lin family is now very small and far less prosperous than the Shen family.
So the two brothers came together anyway. Of course, their replies to Jia Jing and Zhen Yingjia were very humble and explained their reasons clearly.
This time going north, the Weng brothers also had the intention of coming to take a look at the situation. Jiangnan was the lifeblood of the imperial court. Without Jiangnan, it would be difficult for the Zhou Dynasty to survive. This is an indisputable fact. Even the royal Zhang family also started from Jiangnan and went north.
, but now that the contradiction between the north and the south is prominent, and the imperial court is squeezing Jiangnan too much, everyone is a little uneasy about what this tense situation will turn into. Therefore, the Weng brothers actually also shouldered the responsibility of businessmen from all sides in Jiangnan to get a glimpse of the reality.