Chapter 65 Business boom

[65] Business is booming

"I'm going to Daming Lake tomorrow. I'm going to bring the umbrella given by Brother Yao." Li Jingxuan said happily.

"Umbrella? It's about to start autumn, but now there is little rain in the north. What's the use of taking an umbrella? Ding Tite often asks puzzledly.

So Li Jingxuan praised the umbrella sent by Yao Fan. Ding Ting often listened and quickly asked someone to take out the umbrellas sent by Yao Fan. Li Jingshu proudly came to show off and opened these folding umbrellas one by one.

"It turns out that this umbrella has a mechanism inside, which can be folded and contracted! Wonderful! Wonderful! This umbrella is also really beautiful! The color is very good! Brother Yao, these umbrellas made by your family are really interesting! I thought before that I would ask you what these are at night, but it turned out to be an umbrella!" Ding Ting often admires it.

Li Jingxuan said, "With this thing to shade, one person will be afraid of the sun when swimming in the lake tomorrow."

"This umbrella has a silver-white reflective coating, which can really prevent ultraviolet rays." Yao Fandao.

"What is ultraviolet light?" Ding Ting often asks.

"The white light in our eyes is actually a mixture of seven colors of red, orange, red, green, blue and purple, which can only be seen clearly after decomposition with a prism. The purple light in this is ultraviolet light, which can tan people's skin, so using an umbrella to shade the sun is to cover the purple light and not teach it to tan the skin. Yao Fan explained briefly.

Li Jingxuan heard this and thought to himself, "I must take this precious silver umbrella to shade the sun in the future!"

"So that's it! Brother Yao is really talented! So proficient in foreign studies!" Li Jingfang also heard this truth for the first time, because he did not doubt it from Yao Fan's mouth.

"When I bring a book about optics next time, everyone will know that this is not profound knowledge. In Western primary schools, even children understand this truth." Yao Fan knew that it was 23 years before the translation of Optics by the Translation Hall of Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau in 1898. Before that, the Qing Dynasty had no concept of optics.

Then everyone had another happy drink. After they were full of wine and food, they dispersed.

After Ding Baozhen left the table that night, the more he thought about it in the back house, the more he felt that Yao Fan would be very useful in the future, so he made up his mind to protect the "golden boy" in his eyes.

The next morning, Ding Baozhen came to the government office and saw the political envoy and inspection envoy who also served as both the two positions of Pantai and Jiantai. Although Huzhen was a master of the two stations, he was the deputy of Ding Baozhen. Seeing that Ding Baozhen actually condescened and came to him in person, he naturally did not dare to neglect him and hurriedly welcome him.

When Ding Baozhen said that he decided to protect Yao Fan in an all-round way, he naturally dared not say anything.

Ding Baozhen, the governor and admiral of Shandong, is equivalent to the modern governor and commander of the provincial military region, and also has the highest decision-making power over all judicial, administrative and organizational departments in the province! For Ding Baozhen, the platform is just a deputy in administration and justice. Although the two Taiwan can usually do their own affairs in administration and justice, they can't bypass the governor's government. Ding Baozhen has the final decision on all affairs in the province.

To put it bluntly, Ding Baozhen, the governor and admiral, is in Shandong and is inseparable from the emperor. Of course, Lao Ding is not a domineering person, otherwise he just needs to find someone to inform him, and he doesn't have to go there by himself.

Hu Zhen felt that Ding Baozhen's special visit once was meaningful. He also heard Ding Baozhen say that this matter was difficult for Yao Fan, so after sending Ding Baozhen away, he immediately scolded Guo Weizhong for making trouble for himself, and specially repaired a letter to his subordinates of the Taoist government of Denglaiqing Road. They informed that in case of encountering the urity of Yao Fan and the Guo family in the future, please remember that Yao Fan is protected by Ding Baozhen, and no one will cause trouble for me.

Yao Fan is also clever. He knows that Ding Baozhen is an alien in the officialdom of the late Qing Dynasty. Although he also receives gifts, he also spends a lot of money and often takes out money for charity. By the time he dies, he still owes more than 20,000 taels of silver. However, Yao Fan knew that Lao Ding's sons had been separated, and each room was accounted for each room. Therefore, Lao Ding died as a clean official and owed debts, which does not mean that the five sons in his family are so poor.

So the next day when he visited Daming Lake, Yao Fan brought 100,000 silver tickets and secretly stuffed them to Ding Sportsang. The beautiful name is the cost of helping to write a signboard for Ding Baozhen. Ten thousand words per word for eight words, helping to come up with the name of Yuchun, which is also 10,000 words.

Of course, Ding often knows that Laozi's words are indeed worth so much money, which is equivalent to giving Yao Fan the opportunity to pull the tiger's skin to make a big flag, and others can't ask for it. However, Ding often knows that he must not tell the pedantic old man about this matter, otherwise it will be very easy to get water.

Yao Fan also told him: "Brother Ding, don't tell the old man, otherwise as soon as he returned the money, I can't put it on my face. Besides, Brother Ding, you will go to Shanxi as an alternate magistrate next year. What kind of follower and book service don't cost money along the way? When you get to the place, you have to socialize, and you have to spend money everywhere. And I will also go to Shanxi to open a subcolon, and then Brother Ding will take more care of me.

Ding Tite often listened to Yao Fan's words, so he held the silver ticket that had been stuffed into the sleeve pocket more firmly through his sleeve.

"Brother Yao, the jade Buddha, Yu Ruyi and all kinds of foreign jade pendants you sent yesterday have been quite expensive, and I'm really embarrassed to charge you again." Ding's face often turned slightly red.

Yao Fanxin thought that Ding Ticang was indeed a young man who had not been an official in the Qing Dynasty, and there was an alternative old man, and his conscience was not dark. However, the jade I gave me are all imitation jade materials, that is, imitation jade resin called amber polyurethane, which are all chemically synthesized. You can buy a big jade cabbage for a thousand yuan. Fortunately, no one can understand it these days. Yao Fan can be said to be Western jade, otherwise the Ding family would really scold the mother.

Therefore, Yao Fan blushed as Ding Tite often said, and repeatedly said, "Small meaning, small meaning."

After a day of visiting the lake, Yao Fan returned to the store and got a message from Ding Ting's warmly sent by his family. He told Yao Fan that he had gone to Huzhen to help him say hello, and that he had also personally wrote to the Laizhou government station, asking him to take care of his good friend Yao Fan, so he wanted to He put 120 heart and don't be afraid of a small landlord like the Guo family. The words are full of love for Yao Fan and conceit for his own strength.

Yao Fan was overjoyed and immediately prepared a 10,000 taels of silver ticket that night. The next morning, he secretly sent it to the governor's office, so Hu Zhen was also quite satisfied with Yao Fan and felt that this person had a look.

In fact, Yao Fan is just afraid that Ding Baozhen will have cold tea next year, so he will make some points in advance for the future.

In these days, the Ding family and Li family have been wearing folding umbrellas to shade and enter and exit Jinan Prefecture, which has caused a sensation. Yao Fan brought the paradise umbrella to Jinan Prefecture and suddenly sold well. Local urban landlords, rich businessmen and gentry rushed to buy them, and the reputation of this paradise umbrella suddenly spread all over Jinan. However, ordinary people call this umbrella a foreign umbrella, which obviously thinks it is an imported product.

Seeing that Yao Fan brought 60 boxes of 3,000 paradise umbrellas brought to Jinan Prefecture and sold more than 2,000 umbrellas in five days! Even the soap in the store is sold out.

Early this morning, the door of the Zaofan business was full of guys and people watching the lively.

A thousand crackling firecrackers were released. Yao Fan smiled and arched his hand to the onlookers and said, "Thank you, folks, for your love. After opening, 200 guests in their heads, each of them will give a gift worth one or two silver. I will never break my promise!"

As soon as he said this, everyone shouted loudly.

"I wish Yao Dong's business a prosperous business!"

"Bodhisattva bless Yao Dong's family!"

Yao Fan said, "Today is the day of Zaofan's business name. After Lord Ding's name, Zaofan's business name was officially changed to Yuchun's business name! Please give my fellow villagers more patronage in the future!"

Then there was another cheer.

So Yao Fan happily asked the guys to replace the newly engraved plaque. This new plaque was made by the best wood store in Jinan City. It cost Yao Fan 120 taels of silver. It is made with excellent materials and exquisite production. The big characters are crushed with gold foil and brushed with mixed tung oil. After drying, it was brushed three times of transparent varnish. It looked golden and majestic.

After seeing the plaque of Yuchun's business name hanging, there was another cheer around.

Next, people go in to buy goods and receive gifts under the maintenance of order. Those gifts are all kinds of miscellaneous goods purchased by He Wanyou before, and now they have been packaged by Yao Fan as gifts. Yao Fan has stipulated that in the future, Yuchun merchants will only sell their own goods.

"My boss, there are so many rich people in Jinan! Thirty taels of silver and an umbrella are also bought by many people!" Zhou Shi sighed to Yao Fan in the inner hall.

"The goods are good, and the Ding family takes the lead in using it, so naturally some people will follow suit. Fourth, you should know that people who can live in a big city like Jinan are not poor except for small craftsmen, small traders and so on. Yao Fan said in the chair.

"What the owner said is that there are 120,000 households and more than 500,000 people in Jinan. Naturally, there is no shortage of rich people. It's just that I think that ordinary good oil-paper umbrellas are only sold for one taels of silver, and the beautiful painted umbrellas made by high-class painters are only sold for twelve or three taels. We sell them so expensive, and so many people want them! The host's selection of goods is really good!" Zhou Fourth took the opportunity to flatter.

"Is the oil paper of the oil paper umbrella as beautiful as my cloth? The bamboo umbrella bone of the oil paper umbrella is so bulky. Is my light steel umbrella bone convenient? Although the oil paper umbrella fan is thick, can it protect against ultraviolet rays? The oil paper umbrella is as thick as a big bamboo tube. Can it be folded and stuffed into the sleeves like me? We are not afraid of not knowing the goods, but afraid of the comparison of goods. We have so many benefits of folding umbrellas. We are not blind, and naturally sell them well. Yao Fandao.