Chapter 220

This is the second time Shao Qing has called Song Jiyun "Boss Song".

The corners of Yuan Yunzhong's mouth curved almost imperceptibly, and he listened to Shao Qing dancing and saying: "Ordinary people don't have to rent a shop to sell goods. But Boss Song doesn't! She went to the Silver House. You know she went there What did Yinlou do? She directly took a pair of plum vases that were more than a foot high and asked the storekeeper of Yinlou how much the Yinlou would give her if she mortgaged the pair of plum vases. At that time, the storekeeper of Yinlou was stunned.

“He didn’t even dare to negotiate the price with Boss Song, so he directly called their boss over.

"The owner is willing to pay a thousand taels.

"Boss Song doesn't answer at all.

"As a result, that night, when the Qinhuai River was at its busiest, there was a scene in the street where 'the prodigal stole and sold the family heirloom to support the brothel girl, and the pretty daughter-in-law defeated the family's son to steal the treasure in the street'."

Yuan Yunzhong was stunned and sat up straight.

When Shao Qing saw it, he laughed and said, "You didn't think about it, did you?"

He looked so proud, as if he had done it.

Yuan Yunzhong sneered and said, "What contribution did you make to this matter?"

Shao Qing suddenly felt like he had been stabbed.

When it comes to being cool, their young master dares to claim the second place, and no one dares to claim the first place.

"The next day, everyone in Nanjing was talking about this matter. They knew that the plum vase passed down by the prodigal family was worth two thousand taels of silver." Shao Qing said, getting excited again, "In just two days, There was another rumor that the pretty daughter-in-law secretly pawned the plum vase for five hundred taels of silver and ran away with her lover.

"Someone asked, didn't you say that the plum vase was worth two thousand taels? Why was it only worth five hundred taels?"

"The most famous pawnshop in Nanjing City, Chaofeng, came out and said that if they were a pair, they would be worth two thousand taels, but if there was only one, then it would only be worth eight hundred taels.

"When he said this, everyone became more curious and asked what was unique about this plum vase.

"The emperor will tell you about one, two, three, four and five.

"Now everyone knows that there is such a plum vase from the Songjia Kiln Factory in Jingdezhen.

"The Chaofeng even jokingly said that if anyone could find another one, of course he would be willing to pay 800 silver for it.

“Everyone laughed and said the pawn shop was evil.

"But there are also some crooked people. After hearing about this, they thought of ways to take the plum vase and pawn it in a pawn shop.

“They were all deemed fake by the pawnshop.

"Who knew that this trend would get worse and worse? The pawnshop was so annoyed that they simply took a glass cover and put the plum vase in the middle of the pawnshop lobby to show everyone, so that everyone would know that this ordinary plum vase is different from Jingdezhen What are the differences between plum vases from Songjia Kiln Factory?

"As soon as the lady on the flower boat on the Qinhuai River told this story, more people came to see the plum vase."

Having said this, he looked at Yuan Yunzhong expectantly and said, "Tell me, what happened next?"

Yuan Yunzhong sneered at him and said, "The boss of Yinlou is here!"

Shao Qing looked at him blankly, and then said after a while: "How did you know?"

Yuan Yunzhong disliked him even more and said, "Didn't you mention Yinlou from the beginning?"

Then he knocked on the big desk to remind him to continue.

Shao Qing couldn't help but regret it, and said, "What if I didn't mention Yinlou in the first place?"

But if we don’t mention Yinlou at the beginning, how can we tell this story clearly?

Besides, banks and pawn shops are essentially about making money. However, the pawn shop is a business for ordinary people, and the mortgages are daily necessities; the bank is a business for wealthy people, and the mortgages are large amounts of mountains, forests, fields, shops and houses, etc. It’s just that ordinary people don’t know.

Yuan Yunzhong didn't bother to remind him and knocked on the table again.

Shao Qing said "Oh" and said a little unmotivated: "The owner of the silver house is also a ruthless character. He directly paid a heavy gift to visit Boss Song. He said that Boss Song was a powerful person and asked Boss Song how to sell those porcelains?

“Boss Song didn’t negotiate the price at first and took him to the warehouse.

"The warehouse was neatly tidied up by Zhou Zheng and the others at some point, and was arranged in an orderly manner. At a glance, one would think that those porcelains are very expensive.

"The owner of the silver building was stunned when he saw it.

"Then Boss Song made an offer!"

He sighed: "All the porcelain, package it and sell it, the price is 500,000 taels!

"Also, if she wasn't in a hurry for money, she would just squat in Nanjing and sell it slowly. She could have sold it for one million taels, let alone 500,000 taels.

"The owner of the silver building immediately stopped talking and paid a deposit of 100,000 taels of silver on the spot. He paid the balance in full that night and carefully sent away a room full of porcelain."

When he said this, he slumped down on the Taishi chair opposite Yuan Yunzhong, looked at Chengchen and murmured: "My annual salary is only one thousand three hundred and eleven taels, which is not as good as Boss Song's pair of plum vases.

"When I look at Boss Song now, he is no longer Boss Song, but a golden man!

"Tell me, why didn't she sell them separately? This way, she lost five hundred thousand taels of income.

"Boss Song is really resourceful!"

As he spoke, he became energetic and said to Yuan Yunzhong with bright eyes: "So, Master, Boss Song said that he will give you one hundred thousand taels of silver when you leave, is it true?!"

The corners of Yuan Yunzhong's mouth twitched and he didn't want to talk to him at all.

Isn’t time a cost?

Isn’t the expense in Nanjing a cost?

If you can package and sell it in one go, why not package it and sell it in one go?

Yinlou knows who are the real rich people in Nanjing, and may even cooperate with Song Jiyun for a long time. Song Jiuyun didn't have to go to Nanjing, he could sell his goods directly to Nanjing. He saved the cost of traveling and carriage, and he didn't have to worry about the porcelain being damaged. What's wrong with that?

"When you go to Nanjing, will anyone make things difficult for Miss Song?" Yuan Yunzhong said.

Shao Qing was immediately diverted.

He patted his chest and said, "With me here, no one dares to embarrass Boss Song!"

He also told Yuan Yunzhong a joke: "When I accompanied Boss Song to find the owner of the pawn shop, the owner recognized me and thought it was our family that wanted to pawn something. He told me tactfully that if I was short of money, , you can carry an empty box with a seal over it, and you can pawn as much silver as you need. Then you can just take the pawn ticket and redeem the empty box. There is no need to borrow their family's tribute."

He said proudly: "He is really blind. Is our family short of money? If nothing else, let's just say that when the old man was in Yunnan and Guizhou..."

Yuan Yunzhong glanced at him coldly.

Shao Qing hurriedly covered his mouth.

*

After returning to his yard, Song Jiyun washed his hair comfortably and took a hot bath, and then he felt alive.

Although she received a lot of care from Shao Qing along the way, she still felt a little tired after all, sailing and traveling was a physically strenuous job and she had to keep up with it.

After combing her hair and changing her clothes, she and Song Jiuxue, who had been waiting outside her bathroom, went to Qian's place.

Only then did Qian know that she was back.

Naturally, tears filled his eyes when he saw her. He held her hand and wanted to know everything in detail.

Song Jiyun picked up some important things and told her. When she learned that the porcelain brought by Song Jiyun arrived in Nanjing safely, none of it was damaged, and all of them were sold in such a short period of time, she happily recited "Amitabha", but then she looked embarrassed and asked her cautiously: " You, you know that I have given you a younger sister, right?"

I found some information that the salary of a sixth-grade official in the Ming Dynasty was about 1,310 taels, which is equivalent to 250,000 today... I feel that they are not as much as modern civil servants^O^