"After all, the sky is long, the sun is still so high now."

After coming out of Shaozhuyuan, Xu Ping looked up at the sun in the west and whispered.

Li Zhang did not respond. He was still thinking about what Xu Ping said just now. Since Empress Dowager Liu returned to heaven, Li Yonghe's rapid promotion has caused some people to be dissatisfied. The court policy has always been to support the royal relatives with high officials and generous salaries, but they are not sent to those with real power. It is okay for Li Yong and the previous protection of the imperial tombs. Now, from the Imperial City Department to the Group of the Peasants Department, I am afraid that the resistance will not be small. He can only go home and pass on Xu Ping's words. What his father thought was hard to say.

The two turned over Daxiangguo Temple and walked from Yan'an Bridge to Zhou Bridge. From a distance, they saw a lot of people surrounding the shop.

Xu Ping asked strangely: "Tomorrow's Dragon Boat Festival, why are so many people coming to the shop to buy things today?"

"Maybe I'm here to buy holiday items." After saying that, Li Zhang thought about it, but there were not many holiday items sold in Sansi's shop, and he wouldn't come here if he wanted to buy them.

Suddenly he remembered and said to Xu Ping: "Yes, tomorrow's festival, today the palace gave the officials and ministers the holiday rewards to the officials and ministers of the court today. Unlike previous years, this year, the gifts are not tea and incense medicine, but paper coupons issued by the Sansi. I'm afraid many of these are obtained and come to the shop to buy things. Hey, my brother should have them too!"

"I have to let the entourage take it directly at home, and I don't know if there is one."

Li Zhang shook his head helplessly. This is the difference between family background. He never cared about Xu Ping's salary and rewards, and asked Xu Chang and Liu Xiaoyi to take over. Lin Su Niang was in charge of his family. Xu Ping only knew what rewards he had received, which was also to prevent him from talking to his superiors and colleagues.

Since the Eight Great King Zhao Yuanyan took the initiative to go to the Sansi Shop to exchange shopping coupons, many wealthy families in the capital soon discovered this benefit. The number of paper coupons issued has been increasing repeatedly, and it has exceeded 50,000 yuan in a few days. Even the palace exchanged a large amount of tea and fragrant medicine in their hands for shopping coupons, and today's rewards were simply issued directly.

In the past, the Sansi handled these items in various courtyard warehouses. The biggest shipping channel was to pay the salary when the official salary was paid, which made it inconvenient. Now that the salary was changed to real money, this channel no longer worked, and it mainly relied on selling in shops. If these items can become hard currency, they naturally have no worries about sales. However, the market in the capital is limited, and it takes time to cash out the goods that have been accumulated for so many years. Now it mainly relies on product turnover in new markets.

Xu Ping and Li Zhang were curious and turned to the front of the shop. They were catching a group of pavilion officials coming from the side, including Wang Gongchen, Ouyang Xiu and Yin Zhu.

Seeing Xu Ping, Wang Gongchen and others hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

Xu Ping asked Wang Gongchen: "Why are you so many people coming together? It's not a banquet and a drink, the offer time."

Wang Gongchen took out a stack of paper coupons from his sleeve, patted them in his hand, and smiled and said, "This year's Dragon Boat Festival reward, paper coupons were sent out from the palace. This coupon can only be bought from the Sansi Shop. Of course, you have to buy it early and use it early, so how can you keep it idle in your hand?"

Xu Ping looked at the others and nodded together. Once the paper coupons were in the hands of these people, they would be different from those of the wealthy family and would soon flow back to the shop of Sansi, which would speed up the circulation. The only trouble now is that Sansi used the shopping coupons to occupy funds and had to ship them quickly. At this time, it was obvious that the benefits of branching the shops in various prefectures on other roads were that bulk goods were fast, but now they could only let the public officials take them to several nearby roads to purchase raw materials.

Seeing Ouyang Xiu behind the crowd lowering his head and not speaking, Xu Ping remembered the bet he had made with him a few days ago. Of course, the status of the two is too far apart now, so there is no need to argue with him, just shook his head with a smile.

The others knew it well, and also knew that Ouyang Xiu could not hide his face for a while, so they smiled and pulled him into the shop.

Xu Ping said to Li Zhang: "Let's go in, let's go in and have a look. It's time for the holidays, buy some gifts and take them home."

In more than a month, the shop has become much larger in scale, and many of the previously vacant lots have been used. Now the shop not only sells goods produced by new businesses, but also adds many items purchased from other places, and is increasingly moving towards department stores.

Such as lacquerware in Xiangzhou, scissors in Bingzhou, sugar and ramie from Guangnan West Road, silk from Jingdong Road, Shu brocade from Yizhou Road, etc., these famous products from this era are now sold in shops. There are also some gadgets, such as needles, threads, hats, boots, umbrellas and kitchen knives, and shops. They have found fixed sources of purchase, and the goods are more complete and better than outside.

The most important thing is to have a complete department store. No one in the world can compare with Sansi.

However, in the past, the three departments used non-commercial methods to make money, such as selling goods, or even forcing them to buy and sell. When the business was lost, the private one would buy it. If no one would buy it, the person would buy it. Anyway, he never did a loss business. Now that Xu Ping opened a new business and opened a shop, he was considered to have started his business seriously, and the effect seemed to be good.

After walking around the shop, Xu Ping said to Li Zhang: "There are indeed a lot of people today, and I don't think so. At this time, I feel that there are indeed a lot of officials in the capital."

Li Zhang smiled and said, "Brother, don't forget that there are still people like us. The soldiers and generals in the Palace Front Office and the Gunmen are also rewarded, and there are also close people from the Imperial City Office. To be honest, the number of people may not be smaller than that of the officials in the capital."

Xu Ping thought about it and nodded. Anyone around the emperor had some official positions. He would naturally be indispensable to rewarding his ministers with wealth, and they would be more and better.

The first floor is a daily item used by the public, while the second floor is mostly luxury items. Xu Ping and Li Zhang walked around the first floor and walked to the second floor to see what rare things were. Now there are more and more things sold in the shops, and even Xu Ping can't tell the goods inside, especially some local products, which Xu Ping has never heard of.

After going upstairs, I saw the officials gathered together and were picking books around the bookshelf.

The paper shop in Xinchangwu has begun to produce in large quantities, and various papers are being produced continuously. The first thing that benefits is the printing industry. The newly printed book Sansi Printing Company and the Imperial College have generally used movable type and copper plates and used ink. The previous paper is no longer suitable, but the printing paper produced by Sansi must be used. In this way, the printed books are more exquisite, the paper is quite crisp, and the cost is much lower than before, and the variety and printing quantity are also rapidly increasing.

This shop has opened a special place for selling books on the second floor. It is similar to the bookstore in Xu Ping's previous life. Not only is the variety of books unprecedented, but it can also be tried and read, and it quickly became famous in the capital.

In the past, scholars liked to visit the street stalls of Daguoxiang Temple, and might have found out-of-print books that were not available elsewhere, or rare rubbings of stone tablets. A few days ago, Xu Ping sent someone to search for them several times, and organized manpower to print a lot of ancient books, enriching the inventory here. Now, this place specializing in selling books in the shop has become the favorite place for scholars to visit. It is really a surprise for them to buy books by shopping coupons.
Chapter completed!