Wu Cheng couldn't help but be stunned for a moment after hearing Liu Hai's words. In this way, the 100 households named Liu are really quite capable. If those fraudulent businessmen are dealt with by Jin Yiwei, it will at least have some deterrent effect.
The waiter smiled and continued: "In addition to Liu Baihu, there are actually two other bosses. These two are the Queen's half-brothers, Shouning Hou and Jianchang Bo."
Wu Cheng and Liu Hai couldn't help but gasped again. There is only one empress in the Hongzhi Dynasty today, and the empress's only relatives are these two biological brothers. It is said that the holy family is in great prosperity. With these two people here, it is no wonder that treasures are gathered.
The building can be so big.
The two of them were completely relieved, so they followed the guy back to the Silk Hall. There were already many merchants gathered in the Silk Hall, some they knew and some they didn't know. They were all asking about becoming a member, and some people had already brought them.
With pen and ink, I started to write the application form for this membership. In fact, the people who can get in here are all merchants with some wealth. After all, not everyone can afford the entry fee of ten taels of silver. These people usually do business and sell goods, and their vision is not small.
, Needless to say, I have such a sharp eye. After listening to these guys’ tireless introductions, my heart was already pounding. I knew that the benefits of becoming a member are far greater than the membership fee. I’m afraid that in a few hours, this news will spread.
It has spread all over the capital and will spread to the world within a few months. In the future, the threshold for membership will only get higher and higher, so people are rushing to apply for membership.
Naturally, Wu Cheng and Liu Hai were not to be outdone. They each thought about their own net worth and felt that it would not be a problem to become an ordinary member, so they also asked for paper and pen, and began to write the application under the guidance of the clerk.
These applications will be sent to various prefectures and counties according to their place of origin, and the teahouse clerks will visit the local areas. One is to confirm the owners of these properties, and the other is to conduct valuations. If they are qualified, they will naturally return these applications.
Jubaolou will issue members’ seals and brands.
It is said that in order to prevent forgery, each brand will have a number on it. When you come in, you have to sign your name and match the name with the number. The corresponding number also has the characteristics of the person. Only if they all match can you be released.
Although this is cumbersome, it gives everyone reassurance. Whatever merchants lack, they can find it in this Treasure Building.
Although there was a lot of attention to this teahouse at the beginning, not many people were actually willing to spend money to come in. However, after someone submitted an application, the news spread, and then many merchants started anxiously.
People are coming from all over the place. At this time, everyone knows that this kind of thing requires a head start. If you can get a membership, doing business will be many times easier than before. As long as you can go in to drink tea, go to that hall first.
Just sit there and mark the goods you want to sell and buy, and then you can find buyers. The sellers can go to the private room to drink tea and sign a contract. The most important thing is that in this process, fraud is almost eliminated, and
It provides great convenience and saves a lot of time, and the investment every year is only a few hundred taels of silver, which is really not much.
Even some big businessmen originally didn't bother to pay attention to this teahouse, but they couldn't sit still. The reason is very simple. Others go there to discuss business. If you want to do business in the future, if you don't join this membership, who will trust you in the future?
?What you need to show in doing business is integrity. In the past, there was no standard of integrity, and everything was based on illusory reputation. But how much is reputation worth? Once you have the certification of Jubaolou and various protective measures, you can imagine that in the future
All business will be negotiated in the Jubao Building, and merchants who have not obtained membership will be eliminated because you do not have a membership card and cannot enter the Jubao Building to sign a contract under the supervision of a lawyer. Who dares to believe you? Even if you do not
No matter how big your family is, it is still better to be a businessman with the guarantee of Jubaolou.
As soon as the big businessmen made a move, not to mention the small businessmen, they naturally followed in droves, and then all kinds of news came out.
"The rice merchants in the east of the city were in Jubaolou today. After sitting around for an hour, they negotiated two big deals. Both were purchased by merchants from Xi'an, and they shipped hundreds of tons of white rice at a time."
"Shopkeeper Xiao from a tea house in the inner west city collected more than a dozen loads of fine Wuyi tea just for one stick of incense."
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The flow of goods is ten times or a hundred times faster than before. It is just a teahouse, but it makes all businessmen feel that they have entered a new era, with fast shipments and fast purchases, without any cumbersome procedures in the middle.
The worry about having a headache suddenly disappeared.
Not only that, it is said that Jubaolou also operates a business similar to a bank. It is very inconvenient for some foreign merchants to bring large sums of silver to Beijing for transactions, so Jubaolou has set up strongholds in various provinces. If they enter Beijing, they can first exchange large sums of money and silver into
As long as you bring the note from Jubao Tower to the capital, you can exchange it for the full amount of silver. This step is just a one-thousandth fee.
However, this business is still under preparation. However, with the popularity of Jubao Tower, tens of millions of merchants will gather in the future, and with their credit and strength, it will be really easy to start it. After all, it is very inconvenient to carry a large amount of money, so it is better to
It is safer to exchange it into a note similar to Jiaozi and hide it close to your body.
Countless people have gathered at the entrance of the Treasure Building. They are no longer like those in the early morning. There are more people looking and fewer people entering. Everyone is rushing forward, just to get into the Treasure Building as soon as possible and fill in the room as soon as possible.
Apply.
Who in business doesn't know the truth that if you fall behind others, you will fall behind everywhere? As for some big businessmen who maintain their own identity, they also put down their arrogance at this time, blended into the crowd, and struggled to squeeze through the pushing and shoving.
The Jubao Building was already overcrowded. Hundreds of waiters were constantly waiting for the guests who came in. So there was not enough manpower, so they simply waited for three, four, five people per person. That's it. There were still many people who were left out.
, these people don't mind, many people gather together, or stop at the blackboard to look at the latest commodity prices, and some are watching outside the tea room, as for the Silk Hall, Grain and Rice Hall, etc.
, there was no place to step on for a long time, and the blackboard in the hall was constantly marked. The people watching had an idea and went to find the seat of the person who was buying or shipping goods. Only when they found the person did they know that they were here.
Got a lot of people interested in doing business.
These businessmen were really excited. In the past, when they wanted to find a buyer or seller, they really had to ask around, not only to understand the other party's intentions, but also to inquire about the other party's strength, and to figure out whether the other party had the ability to eat their goods.
Is he a liar? But now, all the procedures have been simplified. Just mark your goods and someone will come looking for him in a short time, so he will lead them directly to the tea room for a detailed discussion.
At this time, the role of the tearoom became prominent. Originally, the tearoom was very empty, and there were only a few people there, so I didn’t think it was a problem. But now, it is overcrowded and the number of people is increasing. It is like a securities company hall in later generations, noisy and noisy.
When you come here, you can only connect the connector. If you really want to negotiate the price and details, you have to go to the private room.
Just like the Silk Hall, almost every time a new mark is added, a clerk will bang the gong a few times. Two short blasts are to tell someone that someone wants to buy silk, and three short blasts are to tell someone that they want to sell raw silk.
The four and five tones have their own meanings, but because the number of these signs is increasing faster and faster, many people may not be eager to purchase goods or ship goods at this time, but they always want to give it a try, and the sound of the gong is endless.
As for those who were trying to ship or restock goods, they didn't even have to wait for a moment before someone found their seat.
This speed is so frustrating that almost everyone has only one thought: "So this is how business can be done."
There are some shrewd people who think more deeply. With Jubao Tower here, I am afraid that in time, this place will become the center of merchants in the world, and the members of Jubao Tower will also become the standard for measuring the strength of merchants. I heard that there are still Jubao Tower now.
Many ideas are being perfected, such as a credit system for merchants. After each member negotiates a deal and the business is completely settled, both parties can go to Jubao Tower to evaluate the other party. This evaluation is about the quality of the other party's goods and good conduct.
If you have bad credit ratings, Jubaolou will classify and keep these ratings in a book. The next time someone talks to you about business, you can spend one or two silver to call up your credit rating and view it before making a transaction.
The result of this is that there will only be one honest and trustworthy merchant with high-quality goods, and the business will get better and better, while those shoddy merchants will inevitably be marginalized.
Everyone is a businessman, and those who do business will feel a little precarious, especially in this Ming Dynasty, there are many cases of big businessmen bullying small businessmen, but now, business no longer needs to be measured by size, everyone
Can use credit evaluation to measure each other.
"Crazy... crazy..." Wu Cheng had already submitted the application, and when he saw the huge crowd of people, he couldn't help but murmured.
He really didn't expect that the treasure gathering building would become so popular in just one day. I'm afraid that by this time, all the merchants in the capital, whether local merchants or merchants, would have taken notice.
Wu Cheng couldn't help but feel a little lucky at this time. Fortunately, he came early today. If he had crowded with these people, he might not have been able to submit the application form until dark. Things in this world would be really strange. If it weren't for him
Seeing it with my own eyes, who would have thought that a teahouse could be so popular?
The tea here may not be worth a pot of tea for an ordinary person in a year. To become a member here, many people may not be able to earn money in their lifetime. But in front of this membership, almost everyone has no money.