The summer rain fell as soon as possible, without any signs, and it poured down. The official road with stones could not hold the rain, and it flowed along the grass on the slope to the drainage ditch on the side of the road, and the roadside soon became muddy.

Sun Erlang covered his head with his hands and ran quickly, but he could not escape the ubiquitous rain and soon became wet.

There is a grass shop on the side of the road. Although the storefront is not big, it looks neat. Sun Erlang walked a few steps quickly, walked to the door of the store, stood under the eaves and stomped his feet hard. Seeing that the rain did not mean to stop, Sun Erlang entered the store.

A servant came up to him, handed over the cloth towel in his hand, and asked diligently: "Do you want to use some wine and meals or stay in a hotel?"

Sun Erlang said: "Give me a bottle of wine and cut a plate of beef. By the way, I don't know if there is a raincoat in your store. I will lend it to you later. I will pay it to you."

"This matter is a small matter, so the guest official waits for a while and I will call the master." The servant said, quickly walking to the back.

Sun Erlang wiped the rainwater from his body with a cloth towel, chose a pair of heads, and sat down to rest.

After a while, a wealthy shopkeeper in his forties and fifties came out from behind with the servant, bowed to Sun Erlang and said, "The servant lobbyist wants to borrow rain gear. I wonder if he borrowed it and returned home or used it temporarily?"

Sun Erlang stood up and returned the greeting: "I borrowed it to my master's house and used it for a while. I have two companions, because I can't do it when I encounter rain on the road. In order to avoid wetting the goods, they found a straw hut in the field waiting there. If there is a raincoat and rain skirt in the store, I will borrow it to use it for the lower part and use it for the upper part. I will pick it up and use it for the first time and I will use it for the first part. I will send it to the store for wine and meals."

"There is rain, but" the owner was a little embarrassed. "There is only this servant in my store to greet him. I really can't get out of here and I can't go with the guest. The guest took the rain gear and went there by himself."

Sun Erlang took out the Sanguan banknote from his arms and said to the owner: "I know. The Sanguan money here is under the power of the owner's house. If it is damaged, the money will be deducted as soon as it is sent. If there is rain cloth, borrow it together to use it."

The shop owner happily received the three guan of money and said, "This is the best. The customer waits for a while and I will get it. It's not that the old man is greedy for money, and his business is not good recently. The price of rain gear is not expensive, so it's not easy to borrow it casually."

Sun Erlang understood and asked the shop owner to just go and get the rain gear and wait here himself.

After a while, the owner of the shop took a pair of raincoats and rain skirts and handed them to Sun Erlang, saying, "You can use them for use. You said you still have a companion just now. There is only this pair of rain gear in my shop. If you are not in a hurry, I will help you borrow two pairs of straw raincoats and hats."

"The master is worried. We have our own hats and straw raincoats, but the goods cannot be wet, so we need rain gear. I will go and pick up my companion. I will come back later and use wine and meat from the master." Sun Erlang said, taking the rain gear and hurried out.

The owner and the servant were sent to the door. Seeing Sun Erlang rushing into the heavy rain, he said to the servant: "In recent years, there have been more travelers and merchants, and these small agents often sell goods for hundreds of miles. When it rains heavily, the goods may disappear, which is really not easy to make. Go and warm the wine, wait for them to come back and get the cold."

The servant agreed and turned around and went to the back to prepare wine and meat. There was no good wine or good meat in the country shop. The wine was the cheapest big wine for ten cents per pound. The meat was the old beef that died of illness in the village next door, and they were all cheap things that people in the city would not eat.

Less than half an hour later, Sun Erlang brought a straw hat, put on a straw raincoat, carried a big bag, and rushed along the official road in the wind and rain. Behind him, two big men carried a load, and they were covered with rain cloth, shaking and swaying.

The owner hurriedly welcomed the three of them into the store, asked them to put the load behind the door and to the table.

The servant brought the wine and meat on the table, took a cloth towel and asked the three of them to wipe it.

Just rub it, a man with a white face and no beard said, "This rain is so fierce. It's okay to put it down. It's okay but not, and there's nowhere to hide! Fortunately, a straw hut next to the road allows us to keep our goods."

While saying that, he handed back the cloth towel and said, "Thank you, my master."

The shop owner said no thanks. After the servant checked the rain gear, he returned the previous three-stall money to Sun Erlang: "The guest laughed."

The straw hat and straw raincoat add less than the same amount, but the raincoat and rain skirt cannot be bought at all. It is normal for people to lend the main deposit to Sun Erlang. Sun Erlang took the money and thanked him all the time.

After being polite for a while, the shop owner asked, "What goods did the customer sell? Did it break when it encounters water?"

Sun Erlang said: "Not that. We went to Luoyang City to buy some clothes made of broken clothes. No one in the city wears them and transported them to the countryside for sale. This is a small business. It was soaked in the rain and washed with slurry. This trip was gone in vain."

There have been many people doing this business recently. The owner is knowledgeable and knows some. The labor in the countryside is cheap, and the wages of washing slurry are not much used. However, after washing, it is easy for the buyer to treat it as old clothes and cannot sell it at the price. The profits of this transaction are not high, and once it is used as old clothes, it is indeed a waste of time.

The servant next to him said, "I have seen a customer who sells cloth clothes before, but the cloth colors are mixed and ugly, so I can't wear them. I wonder which one of the customers sells them from, but they look okay?"

Sun Erlang said: "I have a brother in Luoyang City who I have known since childhood, and there are some ways. After he introduced him, I met Sister Tang, who made clothes in Luoyang City. All the clothes came out of her shop. It was not that I was boasting, no one else had this quality!"

The servant rubbed his hands and said, "The clothes in Sister Tang's shop are good, but they are hard to buy. If you have this way, you will naturally get rich. I just happened to make new clothes. Can you take a look?"

Sun Erlang thanked this shop for helping him, so he opened the bag and took a few pieces of clothes suitable for young people to wear, so that the servants could pick them up. Sister Tang's shop was already big, and many of the ready-made clothes were sold overseas by customers, which was not comparable to ordinary garment shops. Sun Erlang sold clothes made of cut cloth heads in the garment shop. These clothes were equivalent to no fabric money, and were quite cheap. The people in Luoyang City did not wear such clothes, and they were sold by hawkers to the countryside to sell, which was very popular among the country people.

Sister Tang was one of the first major households to develop from Luoyang City's textile industry, and her business was done with a conscientious business. The fabrics used for these cloths were good, they were spliced ​​carefully, and they were not ugly, and they were very good in the countryside. The servant picked a while and chose a blue thin summer clothes. He held them in his hand and smiled and refused to put them down.

The owner said, "In this way, I bought this small clothing store. How much does it cost to calculate the wine together."

Sun Erlang said: "I only charge a capital and travel expenses, even if it is 300 yuan. This price is really not profitable."

The owner knew the market, so he couldn't buy Sister Tang's shop in Luoyang City. I thought that because Sun Erlang was a long-term customer, the price given in the shop was lower. Without thinking, he agreed.

He immediately sifted the wine and placed the meat, so that Sun Erlang and his two companions could eat it to fill their stomachs and remove the cold air.

Sun Erlang took a bottle of wine from the bag and said, "This is the wine given by my old acquaintance in Luoyang City. It is not only strong, but also very easy to talk about. The owner of the shop came to have a drink together."

The owner saw at a glance that it was the liquor sold by Sansi Shop in Luoyang City. This small place was not sold. He couldn't help but shine, and sat down at the table, took a cup and placed it in front of him.

Manager Zheng was doing well in the northwest, and because of his youth, he returned to Luoyang. He was already an adult and worked as a chief in the Sansi Shop, which was considered to be a position and power. According to Manager Zheng, he asked Xiqing to study in Luoyang for a few more years and get married with a wife. If he was not satisfied, he would still go to the northwest to find himself.

Sun Erlang's business and sales club has been in business for so many years, and has accumulated capital and has done a big business. Now the business and sales clubs in their village have been transferred to others. Several families have rich families and have raised money to set up a company to specialize in business. Sun Erlang has experienced many experiences since he was a child. He was recommended by these families as the head of the company and specializes in doing business outside. This is the joint-stock management in later generations. The most common way of business in this era is to separate ownership and management rights. On the contrary, it is to invest and operate it by oneself, which is not common in this era. When a wealthy family does business, they must first find an expert, make a contract, and operate it in partnership.

With the connection between festiveness, Sun Erlang met many businessmen in Luoyang City after he introduced him. The biggest sect now is selling rags and merging them to vendors after returning. It is very easy to sell in the countryside market.

Luoyang has become the center of the world's textile industry, and the related industrial chain is getting longer and longer. Even handling the scraps of normal garments has become a big industry. Henan Prefecture, including the countryside in several surrounding states, mostly wears such rags. Sister Tang hired someone to make such rags and sell them to the surrounding countryside. One is to expand the market and the other has established its own marketing system. The rich people in the countryside want to wear new clothes, as long as they bring these people to Luoyang, make ready-made garments and then take them back to the countryside, saving Sister Tang countless troubles.

The lively liquor sent by the festival was quite expensive. After drinking two glasses of it, Sun Erlang put it away. The few people said they could enter Hong Kong and exchanged it for a large wine worth ten cents per pound, and they drank it while drinking it.

Sun Erlang asked, "Master, I saw that your business is deserted, but it is not as good as in the previous few months, so why?"

The owner sighed: "The customer official doesn't know. Now the court has established new regulations to sell restaurants in the city. It has also been relieved of the ban on wine. Generally, restaurants can only earn taxes and make wine by themselves. In this way, the business of the shops in Gongxian County is good, so I can't do it here."

Sun Erlang nodded repeatedly. In the past, the price of wine in the world was set by the government, and basically every state was the same price according to wine and other wine. The shops in the city had many different regulations and taxes, and it was not easy to operate, but they were not as profitable as those outside the city. Now, after changing, the restaurants in the city came alive, and the wild shops outside the city were no longer able to do it.
Chapter completed!