I played as an assistant in ancient times

Chapter 270 Escorting

"Take the Yangyuan_Yunzhou line." Shen Changsui and Lu Guanyouzhi chose it together because it is sixty miles shorter than taking the Yanghe line.

The two borrowed Shen Xiaoye's paper and pen and quickly drew a picture. She could see intuitively which one was closer.

Just as I was lamenting that I didn't have time to go to more cities to sell cloth, my two cousins ​​came back.

Shen Cungeng was a meticulous person and did not have much hope for the house decorated by his fourth uncle, so he bought a lot of hot drinks and meat pies and distributed them to the people carrying the cloth.

She said happily, "It's ordered. The meal will be delivered in half an hour."

But when he heard that they were leaving tomorrow, he immediately exclaimed, "I just had someone order a pair of leather boots, and they will pick it up in three days."

Xiaoye used the fine leather he brought back to find skilled craftsmen in Beijing to make shoes.

"I'll get it for you." Shen Cunhui went with them and knew the place.

Shen Cungeng sighed, "The boots are not important, what is important is Huitong Hall."

"I'll come in again when I have the chance. Now I have to go out and buy some pots, bowls, pans, and spoons." Shen Xiaoye saw that a lot of goods had been unloaded into the east wing, so she decisively took an empty truck to buy household items.

On the way, Shen Cunhui asked, "Will the drivers stay overnight?"

"No, they live in the northern suburbs outside the city." It is said that it is close to Xidaying (Jingying, west of Beixiao), and there are villagers who rent courtyards specifically to soldiers. They have also developed good experience in raising horses, so it is convenient for the caravan to live there.

The three siblings went shopping in various shops in East City, and in the evening, they finally had hot water to wash their faces and feet.

After a good night's sleep, Lu Guan came knocking on the door at daybreak. Shen Xiaoye heard her uncle's voice and sat up, almost pushing the little black cat to the ground.

She got up as quickly as possible and left the city yawning.

Lu Guan was worried that she would fall off the horse, "Shen Xiaoye, how about you get off the horse and walk?"

"It's safer to walk." Shen Cungeng was not much better. When he heard the word "dismount", he subconsciously slid off the saddle and walked along the horse's neck.

Instead, Shen Xiaoye took a big gulp of boiled water and rode his horse steadily.

Shen Changsui sighed, pulled his eldest nephew onto his horse, and escorted him.

But there was a limit to how long he could see them off, so after Shen Xiaoye and the others had moved ten miles with the convoy, he reluctantly stopped seeing them off.

The twenty or so carts were indeed much faster after their loads were halved, but every time they entered the city to collect taxes, they had to argue repeatedly because there were more carts than cloth.

At this time, Shen Cungeng finally understood why his fourth uncle needed two mules to pull a cart weighing more than a thousand pounds, which was to avoid wasting time passing through customs.

Shen Xiaoye also had two mules pull a load weighing one thousand kilograms to see its effect.

However, mules and horses need to rest every forty miles to eat grass and drink water.

Therefore, Shen Xiaoye and her group's speed was not much faster, but she was able to sell cloth to other cloth merchants during her rest time when passing through two cities.

As for the effect, in the first cooperation, we were able to sell 100 horses at the price of 2.9 cents in each city, which was already pretty good, after all, they were very close to the capital.

It is worth mentioning that after walking a few days to Xuanfu, this newly established military town is very popular. A large local cloth shop said that it could handle 3,000 pieces of cloth, but the other party asked for a more favorable price.

“Because this is our first time dealing with you, I will give you a discount of three cents. This is the base price. If you don’t like the cloth, I have a thousand pieces of cloth that are four meters long. You can cut them into two-meter-long pieces and sell them to me.

And they are all printed red cloth." Shen Xiaoye had long discovered that some people in the border town sold cloth that was as short as Jiangnan cloth, only 16 feet long.

If you buy by the piece instead of by the meter, you might end up paying more accidentally. They just cheat the common people and their tricks don't work.

"But it would be best if the price per piece and the price per foot were consistent."

She said: "I believe that no one can offer a lower price than me.

To be honest, if I take this cloth to Deshengkou, I can exchange it for a foal for each horse.

If you still think it's too high, you can wait for other merchants."

Shen Xiaoye stood up and was about to leave without waiting for the cloth shop owner to speak.

Lu Guan and Shen Cungeng, who were accompanying him, followed closely behind him. He asked, "You just give him a bunch of price quotes and then leave?"

Shen Xiaoye: "What else? For a cloth shop like this, cheap is best.

Besides, the cloth I got is not only cheaper, but also better quality than theirs."

As soon as she finished speaking, the shop owner chased after her and said, "Young lady, please stay."

Shen Xiaoye turned around: "Which one have you decided on?"

"I want 1,000 pieces of printed red cloth that is 40 feet long." The shop owner thought that each piece would be 20 feet long and 2 feet 5 inches wide after being cut. It was longer and wider than the cloth he had cut in the past, so it would definitely sell well.

Shen Xiaoye brought out a total of 2,000 pieces of 40-foot-long cloth from home, along with 5,000 pieces of green cloth to sell.

She said, "If you miss out on the three thousand horses, the price won't be the same next time."

Shen Cungeng listened at the side and looked sideways, thinking that selling in bulk at a low price would not be as profitable as taking it to the horse market.

"She wanted to reduce her burden so that the remaining cloth could be delivered faster." Lu Guan told him the reason.

Shen Cungeng then realized that he had unknowingly expressed his thoughts out loud.

The shop owner invited Shen Xiaoye back to the shop and said, "We can't have all red cloth, how about 500 pieces of green cloth?

I don't have much cash here, mostly copper coins.

If you want a total of 520 taels, I will pay you in gold."

"Boss, you really know how to do business, okay? I'll make you my friend.

But we have to follow the market in the future." Shen Xiaoye expressed his opinion with a few impossible things.

The shop owner also cooperated and said, "It should be so, it should be so." He will have another trick for next time.

Both parties achieved their goals and happily handed over the money and goods.

Shen Cungeng pointed at the lane and said, "Six and a half trucks were unloaded at once. Can we continue to follow with the empty trucks?

If we sell the cars to two more companies, there will be even more empty cars. Do we have to send someone to escort the empty cars back?

Can we leave the car here and take the mules and horses with us?"

Lu Guan said: "And then reduce the weight of other cars. The storage fee in the border town is high, so it's cheaper to take it away than to store it."

Shen Cungeng sighed: "It would be much more convenient if there was a friend here."

"Indeed." Shen Xiaoye immediately looked at Lu Guan and asked, "Qi Qige and Bart should be back, right?"

"You can walk home, but they live twenty miles away. If you meet them and come back, the city gate will be closed. Do you want to go too?" The city gate of the border town is closed early. Lu Guan saw that it was already after noon.

Shen Xiaoye pondered for a moment and said, "It's just an empty car worth seven taels. Let's go and rest."

Shen Cungeng: "Aren't you going to look for another cloth shop?"

“Don’t look for it. A bird in the hand is worth more than a hundred in the bush.

Supplying to several companies will easily lead to competition and no profit. We should only find one company in each city to sell the best products. Once they feel that our cloth is easy to sell and can make more money, they will be more willing to sell it. "Shen Xiaoye said clearly.

The words of yesterday are still fresh in my mind, but then I found that there are no cities on the way.