At this time, Zhou Zhihui had already returned with eight strong men, walked up to Yun Xi and said: "Official, it has been said that the goods will be loaded into the car from the wharf, transported to the city, and then unloaded, twenty-three yuan per person, a total of one hundred and ninety-four yuan." ”

Zhou Zhihui didn't cheat them. Yun Xi and the others are relatives of the chief steward in his mind, if the chief steward knows that he is cheating on his relatives, he will not want to be the shopkeeper in the store. The price of 23 wen per person was suppressed by him after talking for a while.

However, "Twenty-three texts per person should not be one hundred and eighty-four texts, how can one hundred and ninety-four texts?" Yun Xi said after the calculation.

"Official, you are a foreigner and don't know. These porters also had a guild, and they had to collect money from those who joined the guild, no matter how many people they hired, for ten cents a trip. Zhou Zhihui explained.

"Why are there still people willing to join the club after receiving money?"

"These people, their wives and children, are all in their hometowns in the countryside, and if they are sick, there is no one to take care of them; After joining the guild, they were taken care of when they were sick, and they were given medicine and a bowl of porridge to drink, and if someone hired them, they didn't give money to help them recover it, so they all joined this guild. ”

Although it is still called a guild, isn't it equivalent to a union for those who work hard? Yun Xi's heart brightened: "It turns out that there is an organization equivalent to a trade union at this time." ’

However, Yun Xi didn't say anything about this, but nodded and said to a few guards: "You accompany the young grandmother and young lady around the city, and the sixth brother and I will go to transport the goods." ”

A few guards agreed, escorting Miaojin and Yunzhi to go shopping.

"Official, these guards of your family are not ordinary," Zhou Zhihui said: "I don't think the guards of the palace are necessarily comparable to them." At the same time, he also had some doubts in his heart.

"Hey, there's no better place than the guards of the palace. The guards of the palace are all masters, and these people of mine are just shelves, which look good on the surface, but in fact they are far behind. Yun Xi smiled. Then beckoned to go to the dock outside the city.

The doubts in Zhou Zhihui's heart were slightly relieved, and he took eight porters to follow the carriage and horses brought by Yunxi.

"Shopkeeper Zhou, you can also come up and sit, you don't have to follow." Yun Xi sat on a pallet truck that pulled goods, covered his head tightly with his hat, and said to Zhou Zhihui, who was walking behind.

Zhou Zhihui didn't want to go to the dock, so he sat down with a humble word.

"Shopkeeper Zhou, I see that you are very skilled in negotiating the price with them just now, could it be that you often hire them to load and unload goods?" Yoon-hee asked.

"Official, I am the shopkeeper of the timber store, and now there are not many big logs in Henan, they are all transported from outside, and they only come once every three or four months. Because of the scarcity of wood, they only delivered it to the wharf, not to the store, and we had to bring it in from the wharf ourselves, but for the sake of raising a lot of men three or four times a year, we hired these porters. ”

"Aren't you all shops in King Zhou's mansion, can you borrow a few guys from other shops in the city?"

"It's not easy to borrow." Zhou Zhihui thought more and more that although they were from the eldest young master, he still replied seriously: "Although they are all about making money for His Royal Highness King Zhou, we can't control each other, why should other stores lend us guys?" If you want to use it, you can do it, and ask for two things to do. But the second steward is not in vain, and he spends more money than hiring a porter. ”

"Can I make a suggestion? The shops in Zhou Wangfu are not all timber shops, and each store may need a lot of people to load and unload things at different times every year. ”

"Success is success, but how can the people below us mention such a thing? I only hope that someone from above can think of it. If it does, the money from hiring porters can be saved for other purposes. Zhou Zhihui said while looking at Yun Xi.

Yun Xi was a little curious as to why he kept looking at him, but then he reacted: "He wants me to go and talk to the chief steward." And hinted at a willingness to give bribes. ’

Yun Xi didn't answer his words, and asked about something else. Zhou Zhihui was a little disappointed in his heart, but he didn't dare to offend Yun Xi, as long as Yun Xi's questions did not involve confidentiality, he would answer them seriously.

"Shopkeeper Zhou, I think even if you don't work in the timber shop in the palace, you can make money by opening a timber shop by yourself." Yun Xi smiled.

"I'm not boasting, if I run the store myself, it will definitely be no worse." Zhou Zhihui spoke very approachably because of Yunxi, and there was almost no frame of a young master from a rich family, so he spoke casually: "But you don't have to worry about the business of the palace, you don't have to deal with the poor people of the yamen, oh, now call the police." These policemen are worse than before, but don't ordinary businessmen have to be more respectful to them? If they deliberately look for trouble, they won't be able to do it. The business of the palace is different, and the police dare not blow up the stab. ”

"But the police always have some rules, and what is more difficult is to fight. When the people who work in the industry see that someone has a good deal and no background, they will ask you to give money, otherwise you will not be able to do business. But although they tossed the people to the point of unrest, they really wanted to go to court, one evidence was difficult to find, and the other was not enough to cut off the head, and not enough to sentence, and beat the board. That scoundrel can use shady tricks to make you uneasy every day, so those who do business can only swallow their anger. ”

"So I'm still willing to be a shopkeeper in the shop in the palace, although I earn less but I don't have to worry."

"What is a hit?" Yun Xi was a little puzzled. After listening to this person's explanation, I immediately understood: Isn't this equivalent to the underworld! Now there is an underworld so rampant?

Yun Xi secretly thought about talking to Zhu Hu after going back, but he didn't say anything about it at this time.

As they spoke, the carriage had reached the docks. Yun Xi hurriedly jumped out of the car and pointed to a boat. Zhou Zhihui immediately ordered the porters to start loading. These porters are also familiar with the road, and they load the goods very quickly under the command of Yun Xi's people.

"Fifth brother, where did you get these things?" Zhu Youstew came over and asked curiously. Yun Xi is not really doing business, where do these goods come from?

"These are not goods, they are all booty looted from the army of Samarkand by the soldiers who escorted me back to Beijing, and they are unwilling to sell to merchants to bring back to Beijing. When this toss is over, they have to be transported out of the city and returned to them. Yun Xi smiled. The soldiers of the Shangzhiwei were more lucratively paid than the local soldiers, and they had a lower desire to sell the booty, and the spoils of war stolen from the army of Samarkand this time were very novel, and most of the people of the Shangzhiwei returned to Beijing with more than half of the booty.

"My brother is also very curious to see some of these things, give my brother some?" Zhu Youstew said with a smile.

"Okay, go and tell the commander, 'What is this?' But you can't give it for nothing, it costs money. Yun Xi also said with a smile.