"More than 30 years have passed in a blink of an eye, white clouds and dogs, and the world is like smoke!" Director Cai and Xu Ping stood side by side, watching his servants move wine to the car, shaking their heads and sighing. "I think that when Xu Guanren came to the capital to sell wine, every day before dawn they came to our class building to sell wine on credit, and walked the streets and alleys to sell it for a day, and they didn't know how much money they could make. At that time, I was in the class building, and the other guys couldn't be lazy, and most of them were me who measured the wine of Xu Guanren. At that time, who would have thought that there would be today? Now that I am the supervisor of the class building, I want to come to your house to drink on credit, and the so-called vicissitudes of life are nothing more than that. ”

Xu Ping smiled slightly and did not answer.

Director Cai is the director of the class building and has known Xu Zheng more than 30 years ago. More than 30 years ago, the small guy in the restaurant became the supervisor, and the down-and-out offspring who sold wine became an official in the real sense, and the class building, one of the 72 main stores in the capital, also came here to drink on credit, which can't help but make people sigh.

The Xu family obtained the right to sell liquor in the capital, so they built this liquor shop outside the Xinzheng Gate, next to the avenue from the capital to Xinzheng, specializing in wholesale liquor transported from Baisha Town. The daily limit is 1,000 liters, but there are too many customers who come to wholesale, so Xu Ping has set a share for long-term customers, and they must be handed over at the right time. This is a unique business, and he has the confidence to do so.

In order to avoid trouble, Xu Ping decided not to run a retail business in the capital, so the shop was also opened outside the city to avoid competing for business with distributors. Of the 72 main stores in the capital that have the right to make liquor, 18 of them have become long-term customers of the Xu family, and they wholesale liquor here to sell it. According to the habit at this time, the retail households first pick up the goods and sell them before giving money, that is, most of them are sold on credit. No, Xu Zheng, who entered Beijing back then, was a penniless poor bastard, and he could start a wine business at once. Of course, there must be a guarantor to sell on credit, but for the main store, their family is big, so it doesn't matter.

Back then, Xu Zheng sold Banlou's wine, but now that it is reversed, Banlou is the first big store to establish a long-term cooperative relationship with the Xu family. Because of the friendship back then, Director Cai had some face in the Xu family and was in charge of the liquor business in their store. Come early every morning to pull wine, and settle the bill every ten days.

Xu Zheng now has an official body, and he is still a Fenglilang of Taichang Temple who belongs to the Jingguan sequence, and he is actually the same level as Shi Yannian in terms of rank. Originally, after the monopoly of white sugar was implemented, the third division intended to give Xu Zheng a small ministry in charge of sugar affairs in the goods business, Xu Zheng himself was also tempted, and was resolutely pushed away by Xu Ping. He asked his father to just be an official and never take on specific ministry. They have money in their families, as long as they enjoy the treatment of civil officials from the eighth grade, why bother to work hard and do specific things.

Without a specific ministry, Xu Zheng was completely idle. Now that he is wearing a green official robe, it is not good for the businessman to interfere in the affairs of the merchants, so as not to lose the dignity of the court and even leave the family's business behind. Now the wine shops in Baisha Town and the capital are all managed by Xu Ping alone, and when he is not in the capital, the wine shops in the capital are managed by Liu Xiaoyi. For more than a year, Liu Xiaoyi, the little maid who greeted guests in the restaurant, also became the director of this wine shop.

The servant loaded the wine into the ox cart, and Director Cai said goodbye to Xu Ping. While walking, he kept telling about the past and Xu Zheng, sighing at the magic of fate.

A few more were sent away, and when the sun rose, the big customers had basically left, and the rest were all vendors selling liquor with their burdens. Xu Zheng started in the same way, so he was quite good at these vendors, the barrels and flat shoulders for selling wine were provided by the Xu family, and the loss of each barrel of wine was also more generous than the other families.

Don't look at the big shops in the capital that are more luxurious than the other, but the wine makes money but all depends on small profits and quick turnover, and the majority of the profits have been taken by the imperial court, and the restaurants and wine distributors can only make small profits. For the sake of profit, the restaurant is very careful about every detail, and a barrel of wine spares the loss of ten or eight cents for the winemaker, and the sum of many winemakers is not a small number. The profit of the Xu family's liquor is higher, and it can be put more widely.

At this time, due to the monopoly operation of the wine, the sales volume is basically fixed, and the small profits and quick sales or high profits and low sales actually have no impact on the overall profits, but the internal competition of each restaurant. Because of this, the later imperial court implemented a price increase and a reduction in the amount of koji, which did not affect the total amount of liquor tax, but was only regarded as a policy to regulate people's livelihood, and the economic significance was not great.

After saying hello to Liu Xiaoyi, Xu Ping said goodbye and went to his family in the city.

He was going to enter the city today, so he walked with the team that delivered liquor in Baisha Town, and by the way, he saw the sales of liquor. Although it has not yet become a popular drink, in a large city with a population of more than one million, 1,000 liters of wine per day can still be easily sold.

Entering the city from Xinzheng Gate, crossing the Bianhe River, you will arrive at your home in the capital.

Li Zhang was playing with Baofu in the yard when he saw Xu Ping coming in and hurriedly ran over to greet him. Then they followed him, and they couldn't shake it off.

In the living room, Xu Zheng was wearing a brand-new green official uniform, with a red face on his face, chatting with Lin Wensi, Li Yonghe, and Duan Laoyuan. In the inner room, Lin Suniang accompanied Zhang Sanniang to talk, while Su'er and Dou'er were busy going in and out.

Today is the day to celebrate Xu Zheng's official position, and the close relatives of the Xu family are just two families, and they came over early. In the afternoon, there will be a feast and invite the neighbors to eat and drink.

Shi Brown as an official is a great thing in this era, that is, he is well-informed in the capital, and if he is in that small place in Baisha Town, all the leading figures will come to congratulate. Don't look at Xu Zheng's low official position, he is a figure who is about the same level as the magistrate in the locality, and he is really a strong party.

After entering the living room and saluting everyone, Xu Ping stood aside honestly. All of them were his elders, but there was no place for him to sit.

Xu Zheng casually asked a few words about the business situation in Zhuangzili and Baisha Town, and then changed the topic. Now that he is an official, he can no longer care about these trivial things all day long. Xu Ping was very surprised that his father had adapted to his new identity so quickly, and he originally thought that his father would not be interested in anything other than money in his life. But I don't think that Xu Zheng didn't have the opportunity to become an official, and he wouldn't think about this aspect at that time, as soon as he wears an official uniform in this era, he will definitely feel like someone is a man immediately, and the whole person will change.

Leaving Xu Ping aside, Xu Zheng continued to ask his in-law Lin Wensi for experience in dealing with eunuchs. After becoming an official, he could no longer be a shopkeeper in the shop, Xu Zheng always had to find something to do, so he tried his best to collect information about the surrounding officials and eunuchs, and walked around when he had time.

Li Yonghe also has a group of friends who are officials, but they are all lower-level military attachés, and Xu Zheng can't look down on them. You must know that he is a civil official, although he has no specific position, but his identity is there, how can he deal with Xiao Wuchen? Civil officials certainly have the dignity of civil officials.

Xu Ping knew that this was just the fresh enthusiasm of his father's new official, and he didn't bother to care about him.