Originally, in Ning Yi's plan, the plan to go south to Muyuan County to pick up his wife should be a few days before he set off. But Chen Fan's sudden arrival and the news he brought disrupted the original arrangement, and the next day, the seventh day of the second month, became a busy day.

Since the morning, he has been dealing with the matter of going south in advance, and the arrangement of the compound outside the city is the most important point, after all, many of Ning Yi's innovative developments are placed here. Out of the friendship of the landlord and the consideration of not letting Chen Fan stay in the city, Ning Yi also took him on a tour and tasted freshly squeezed juice and salted quail eggs in exquisite porcelain bottles. When asked what he thought, he naturally nodded to indicate that it was delicious, but his eyes were slowly puzzled: You guys are doing this after they arrive in the capital!

Ning Yi's requirements in life are not low, even if he is caught in the chaos in Hangzhou, when he has the conditions, he will still try to eat some good food. Chen Fan is also quite clear about this kind of thing. In fact, juice and quail eggs are naturally not absent in these years, Ning Yi's packaging is exquisite, quail eggs or something are still deliberately trying to test the antiseptic effect, and they may be able to make a profit when they are sold in Zhuji, if you want to talk about innovation, it is obviously a little messy. Ning Yi was happy, and when he left, each person brought a bottle of juice out of the house.

In addition to the side of the compound outside the city, there is also a part of the Su family cloth store in the capital that needs to be passed. Among them, there are a few people who have been arranged by Ning Yi to study, and they were originally going to let them go south together in a few days, but they have already advanced at this time, and they have been notified last night, and they came over today to ask about their preparations.

Chen Fan sat on the steps in the backyard of the Su family's cloth store, twitching the corners of his mouth to watch Ning Yi's review of the five men.

"Are you ready!?"

"Ready!"

"Is there any faith!?"

"Have faith!"

"How are you doing!?"

"We're the best!"

"Good. That's it...... All go and pack up your things, this time it's different from what you sell in the store, it's up to you to get ready. ”

To say such a disgraceful remark so loudly does not meet the standard of a humble gentleman in these years. Chen Fan was very observant, except for Ning Yi's lecture, when the other party answered, these people showed a very calm and confident feeling, and when they turned around, their eyes and temperament were mostly a little apprehensive and hesitant. I don't know who they were before. Soon after. The two sat on the stone bench by the river outside the warehouse and drank juice, and Chen Fan asked the question in his heart.

"Take these five people south, they are the masters you cultivated?"

"No, they're selling cloth."

"Huh?"

People come and go on the side of the road. The spring sun shines down in the shade of the trees. Ning Yi looked back at the Su family cloth shop that had not yet opened. He gestured as he lifted the porcelain bottle containing the juice.

"After our family went north, the Su family's cloth business was in charge of my wife. It also came up. But the woman is in charge, and it seems that she has hurt someone from the Zuo family, and the cloth shop doesn't give much face, and there is some resistance. In fact, it can be opened now, but in order not to cause too much backlash over there, it has been extended until now. Because of this, I trained a few people and prepared to let them go to the big households to sell it. ”

Ning Yi took a sip of juice and laughed: "Among those five people, two of them are former cloth shop guys, one is a young shopkeeper, and the other two are transferred from Zhuji. The cloth shop needs it here, so it will be used by the cloth shop first, and this time I went south, I planned to let them develop their business near Muyuan County and visit some rich people's homes. ”

Chen Fan understood and frowned: "What kind of money has you made in the business of the traveling merchant." ”

"That's not what I said."

Ning Yi smiled and shook his head.

At this time, the world of the Wu Dynasty, sales promotion was nothing more than two kinds: raw and cooked. Jianghu traveling businessmen, pick a small burden to walk around, most of these people are obscene and slippery, the rivers and lakes are heavy, similar to the foot of the car and boat shop, a kind of innocent should be killed, they are not easy to do big business. For example, rich people are usually regular customers of some fixed stores, similar to in Jiangning, when some rich families want to make clothes, they will go to Su's to call a familiar shopkeeper and master to come to the door, or if Su's has any new style, there will also be a long-sleeved shopkeeper who is good at dancing to come to the door and ask the other party if they need it.

Between these two ways, a businessman is a cheap industry after all, and a shopkeeper is good at dancing with long sleeves, and he will be vaguely inferior in conversation and temperament.

In fact, conversation and temperament at this time is a very problematic thing, in the pre-Qin period, the Zonghengjia with one or two reasonable words can coax people around, in the Three Kingdoms, "look at this person's talk and temperament is extraordinary", you can determine whether a person is worth reusing, or immediately make people decide to marry a brother with a different surname. In the final analysis, it is still the relationship between knowledge and cultural popularity, in a place where most people can't go out of a radius of 100 miles in their lifetime, people who can grasp the general trend of a place, or say some reliable inferences about the general trend of the world, their logical ability is mostly good.

As for the Wu Dynasty, although the style of writing is prosperous, after all, the proportion of scholars is not much in the total population, which removes some nerds who are stupid in reading and reading, and people who can talk and speak extraordinarily, basically have the foundation to go to the upper echelons of society. Moreover, this kind of conversation, temperament, and self-confidence must be based on knowledge and social identity. In the strict Confucian society, there are not many opportunities to be able to trick in this aspect, but this aspect happens to be Ning Yi's strength.

Incitement education, the sales concept of later generations, the first thing Ning Yi did was to quickly change the way these people treat people. These people may not have much knowledge, but as long as their IQ and logical ability are enough, Ning Yi is enough to set a set of ways for them to behave confidently, be kind, and be professional. After that, every time I went to a place, put on a "I am from the capital" style, visit the local rich man, first find the kind of place that is a little closed, a little turtle, a little more vanity, inform the other party of the development of the outside world, the capital is popular, and then start to sell things, and most importantly, try to establish long-term trade relations, in the future, there are good things in the capital, you can try to send them to the other side.

In the meantime, wait until the salesmen are a little more professional. The ability to fool is a little stronger, and then gnaw at the enlightened gentry, and take your time in the way that the countryside surrounds the city. At this time, the gap between the rich and the poor is large, and there are many landlords who have surplus wealth but have not taken it out or cannot find where to use it.

Of course, the training of these five people is not long enough, not to mention the actual situation in one place and one place, how to make a set of sales framework according to the current situation at this time. You can only mature slowly. But it's not much anyway. Even if they fail, these five people can at least be the talents of the shopkeeper when they come back, Ning Yi is not worried about this, after all, people are resources that can be recycled.

Of course. These things couldn't be explained to Chen Fan for a while. There's no need for that. Divert the conversation for a while. Ning Yi said, "After your master's matter is over, what are you going to do?" ”

Chen Fan thought for a while and took a sip of juice: "What else can I do?" My life has been sold to Liu Watermelon. After the city of Hangzhou was broken, there was no past, it was already a broken promise, and when the time came, it should be to go to Miaojiang to see what to do. Maybe the time has come, and then raise an army with her to create a rebellion against you. ”

"You still want to rebel......" Ning Yi shook his head and laughed.

Chen Fan sighed: "I don't care, I used to follow the master, and there was nothing else to do except rebel, but in fact, I don't know what I can do after the rebellion." When I was a child, I followed Master and saw a lot of people who could be killed, and it was difficult to calm my resentment if I didn't kill them, but after I killed them, I realized that killing people couldn't solve the problem, especially when the original murderers slowly became people who could be killed, I didn't have much interest. ”

Since he met Chen Fan in Hangzhou, Ning Yi actually admired him a lot. He is young and strong in martial arts, and although he seems reckless many times, he can actually be clear and clear about many things. At that time, his status in the rebel army was not high, although as a disciple of Fang Qifo, he was the only one among the younger generation who could stop Liu Xigua from going crazy, but in addition, to be honest, there were not many real power tasks for him to undertake.

At that time, on Fang Qifo's side, it was vaguely rumored that the Buddha Shuai cherished his disciple and hoped that he would come out to really do great things after training, but in fact, Ning Yi could see that all this actually stemmed from Chen Fan's own negative attitude. When he fights, he can take the lead as a fierce general, and he can also come out to do things when no one is around, but as long as someone takes over, he will immediately pick and choose, and he looks like he can get by. The reason for all this can be seen more clearly from the time he assassinated Bao Daoyi for a group of college students.

He was helpless when he was young, and after following the master, he ran for the career of the master's side, and at this time the Yongle Dynasty was finished, Fang Qifo was arrested again, he was in a hurry, in fact, he was quite at a loss in his heart, at this time Ning Yi asked, he replied like that, and after a pause, he laughed again: "It's the watermelon side, I don't know what Lu Dao is busy with, she has ideas, I hope I can find a reason to rebel after I go." This is also his casual rhetoric, to say that there is not much faith, think about it, "What about you, Liheng, what are your plans for the future?" ”

"I'm simpler." Ning Yi sat there and spread his hands, "As I said before, the Jin people are powerful, the Wu Dynasty is weak, and after the Liao is destroyed, it will wave the army south, I probably want to do something......"

"That's it...... This one? Chen Fan raised the porcelain vase and gestured.

Ning Yi laughed: "That's it...... To do things, you have to be influential, to be influential, to have someone, to have someone, to have money. It's like this everywhere. ”

"It's enough to have power, but what can you do with money?"

"It's the same, anyone who is an official, there will be a group of people around him to eat, from the prime minister's Shangshu to the seven-grade officials, who really have no one to stammer, or who are absolutely incorruptible, and can't do anything. In the final analysis, whether it is a state, a gang, or a partisan, they are all combined for the sake of interests, which are both metaphysical and practical. Without metaphysical pursuits, there is no way to truly grow, and without actual interests, there is no foundation. ”

After a while, Chen Fan nodded: "But I don't think I can make much money from this." ”

"That's my specialty."

"That'...... Not to mention whether the Jin people will go south. If you stop this, then what? ”

And then ...... Be a rich man, live in a safe corner with his wife and children, build a village and find a group of farmers to manage it...... I teach and stuff, I guess that's it. ”

Chen Fan was stunned, then frowned, and drank the juice in the porcelain bottle in one gulp: "Ha." ”

Ning Yi shrugged. The two of them sat by the riverside road in the shade of the trees, each with their own thoughts, but after a while, Chen Fan remembered it again and said, "Watermelon won't accompany you to seclusion." ”

Ning Yi nodded: "That's the problem......"

It was noon, and the two chatted a few more words. Regarding the matter of going south, Ning Yi will not directly participate in the rescue of Fang Qifo, the two have reached a consensus on this, after all, with Ning Yi's current identity, if he really appears in front of Fang Baihua and the others, not only can many people in the imperial court take his life, but even Fang Baihua's attitude may not be good. Because of this, he just wrote a letter for Chen Fan to take to Liu Watermelon. As for him, on the surface, he went to Muyuan to find his wife first, and then went south to Jiangning to talk about business, and the rest was improvised.

Since Ning Yi didn't go to meet Liu Xigua in person, Chen Fan, who was now precious in time, didn't have to wait until the next day to go on the road with him, he planned to leave immediately after noon. The two had lunch in a nearby restaurant, and when they were halfway through eating, Su Yanping hurriedly came over: "Brother-in-law, I heard something. ”

When he saw Chen Fan sitting across the dining table, he attached himself to Ning Yi's ear and whispered: "I heard that this morning, there was a move on Gao Yanei's side, and they found a number of famous martial artists in Bianliang, saying that they were looking for trouble with your brother-in-law, including Chen Yuanwang, the head of the Imperial Boxing Gym, Ma Jinfu of the 'Thousand Miles Dart Bureau', and Peng Xianyu of the Shenquan Gate......"

Su Yanping's voice was lowered, but who is Chen Fan, among the people who are familiar with Ning Yi, except for Lu Hongti, I am afraid that his martial arts are the highest, and even Liu Watermelon is probably inferior. After Su Yanping finished speaking, Ning Yi nodded and said, "Have you eaten, if you haven't eaten, sit down." ”

"After eating, I still have something to do over there, brother-in-law, you just know about this matter...... Brother Chen, the younger brother has taken his leave. ”

Chen Fan got up and gave up his hand, and waited until Su Yanping left, his eyes were shining: "Jingshi Gao Yanei?" Gao Yu's son? Liheng, or I'll help you ......"

Ning Yi hurriedly smiled bitterly: "Big brother, I'm afraid of you, don't mess around." ”

"Haha Chen Fan laughed happily.

It stands to reason that the two are already people with different positions at this time, if Chen Fan really wants to do something and run over to kill Gao Muen, Ning Yi can't wash it if he really jumps into the Yellow River. But Chen Fan is above board after all, thinking of this, he directly said it as a joke. After eating, he got up and took his leave.

"I don't know what you're going to do, so I won't say much, and I hope we can have a drink together in the future."

"There's no hurry." Ning Yi waved his hand, "Before you go out of the city, go to my house." ”

"Huh?"

"Meet my son, if there is a chance in the future, I hope he can worship you, the master, and learn something from you."

Chen Fan tilted his head to look at him, and after a while, he slowly patted Ning Yi's shoulder and said with a smile: "Then what are you waiting for, let's go." (To be continued......)