Chapter 43: The Heart of a Villain
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The steward was taken aback and said, "Sick and dead animals, how can you dare to give it to people? My family's canned meat is doing good business in all parts of the Great Song Dynasty, and there are still trade marks, and if such a thing really happens, the government will not spare us!"
Wen Fei was skeptical, and the steward said sadly: "My family's business has been ancestral for a hundred years, and it has always been a child. If anyone eats my family's canned meat and something happens, Father Shang will just kill me!"
The more he talked, the more he said he was sad and angry, thinking about his merchants, who were loyal and courageous, and responded to Shang's father's call to fund the labor army. I worked even harder, escorted these materials, and went deep into Mobei with the baggage of the imperial court, and I don't know how much suffering I suffered along the way.
But he didn't meet Master Wenda, not only was he not grateful, but he wronged them for using sick and dead livestock in their jars of meat.
You must know that their Zheng family has been based on the border for a hundred years, and they have always won with reputation, genuine, and undeceived. Where would you dare to do such a thing?
Mo said that it was their Zheng family, that is, the merchants with heads and faces in the Great Song Dynasty, they did not dare to do such a thing.
Don't say that it's a labor army, even if it's sold to ordinary people, they don't dare to mess around like this. In the Great Song Dynasty, once the reputation of a businessman is ruined, no one dares to buy his own goods. Even the guilds and chambers of commerce are also to be punished directly.
Now that Father Shang has said such words, once it has been passed back. Others don't know, believe what is true. The century-old reputation of the Zheng family will be ruined!
At this time, Zheng Youmeng even had the heart to die.
Seeing that this goods are so strict. Wenda Heavenly Master actually had a feeling of being a little embarrassed. He was really scared by the profiteers of later generations. In later generations, the issue of food safety is simply as strict as it can be.
In the supermarket, there are very few packaged meat that can pass the inspection. He had seen all kinds of processed foods from sick and dead chickens before.
Not to mention all kinds of black-hearted additives. In the past, when he passed by a large-scale meat company that is well-known in the country, he watched their workers unload the goods, and directly dragged the pieces of meat around on the ground......
But think about the time-honored old store at this time, it can survive for so long. I don't think I'd do anything like that.
This kind of century-old store is very different from those companies that only make money and never think about the future.
In fact, this is a little too much for the Heavenly Master of Wen himself, you must know that it is like a world where the credibility of the later generations has collapsed. It is extremely rare in ancient China.
The Great Song Dynasty has been established for more than 100 years, and its commerce has been extremely developed. There are many old stores that can stand on a foothold for 100 years.
Sneaking and playing tricks can be a momentary pleasure. But no matter what. I can't afford to run such an old store with a long heritage.
Just like the end of the Qing Dynasty in later generations, the etiquette collapsed, the Western invasion, and the scene of the end times. However, the credibility and service of the old stores around the merchants. But it is still circulating after modern times.
It's hard to say. The collapse of social moral credibility is entirely the work of the country. The old moral system has been destroyed, but no new system can be built, and the whole society has no moral standards except for money. So much so that even characters like Great Heavenly Master Wen are still suspicious!
It's easy to destroy and it's too hard to build, and things in the world have always been like this!
And now the moral system of this world. It has been passed down for thousands of years. It has long constituted an unbreakable general social norm.
With such social norms. This is not to say that there are no bad examples, but that there is a limit to social behavior.
Without this kind of social moral credit system, it will only be like a dynasty, constantly refreshing the new lower limit......
Thinking about this, Wen Fei bowed solemnly and said, "This is the power of Poor Dao Meng Lang!"
The steward didn't expect that Master Wen would apologize to him, and he was stunned for a while, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses, and he quickly knelt down and returned the salute.
Master Wen smiled slightly, helped him up, and said, "A gentleman values credibility, but it is the heart power of a poor villain!"
The steward was even more moved to tears, and said loudly: "Father Shang, don't worry, there are really such unscrupulous businessmen. Don't say it's the government, even the guild can't let them go!"
Wen Fei's heart moved, remembering the strategy he had drawn up before. In modern times and in later generations, animal husbandry alone will not be able to feed those herders in any way.
Especially in this era of weather, a heavy snowfall can freeze tens of thousands of horses and sheep to death. The ability to resist risks is extremely weak, and it is not as civilized as farming, and can store grain to cope with famine years. Those frozen cattle and sheep had to be discarded except for a part of the pickle.
And with such canned meat, it is a great good thing for the nomadic tribe and the Great Song Dynasty. Just as the Khitan in the future had to resist canned meat, the means of storing materials were much richer. There is no need to rely on looting to make a living.
Moreover, more importantly, such canned meat may still have to be exported to the customs on a large scale. The dependence on the Great Song Dynasty was further deepened. That's a good thing!
But if you want to completely make these nomads like Khitan obedient, you have to put on a halter for them like horses and cattle.
Later Manchus directly divided the pastures into Mongolia, and they were not allowed to move indiscriminately. This strategy is quite good, but more importantly, it is necessary to make their economy completely dependent on the Great Song.
Completely become the shepherd of the Great Song Dynasty, the migrant workers who work for the Great Song Dynasty, not the hungry robbers around the Great Song Dynasty. The most important thing is probably to make a fuss about wool.
Thinking of this, Wen Fei smiled and said, "This gentleman doesn't know what his name is?"
The steward was flattered: "Don't dare to ask Lao Shang's father, Xiaomin is the Zheng family of Hedong Zheng Youmeng." ”
"Okay, I'll give you a big fortune for the Zheng family!" "Master Wen said with a smile: "It's also a slight reparation." ”
Zheng Youmeng listened and was pleasantly surprised: "Thank you, Father Shang." Thank you, Father. Xiaomin and the Zheng clan will definitely not forget the great kindness of Father Shang!"
Wen Fei nodded and smiled: "I'll just give you an idea, and the rest still have to run by yourself." There's nothing to thank you for, maybe you'll figure it out for yourselves!"
Without waiting for Zheng Youmeng to give in, he said: "Do you know that this Heavenly Master ordered the Great Song Dynasty to plant cotton and textile fabrics everywhere?"
Zheng Youmeng nodded again and again, this kind of big deal. Is there anything he doesn't care about? It's just that he was a little puzzled and said, "Father Shang, but those cotton seeds are only suitable for cultivation in the south. It's not easy to survive in the north!"
It seems that the businessman's eyes are still keen, and he has been staring at this piece for a long time. The cultivation of improved seeds in later generations has been improved from generation to generation.
Now the white stack of the Great Song Dynasty is cotton. They all come from the tropics, and they are only grown in some small places in Yunnan and Guangxi in the south. It is the seed of the Western Regions, and the terroir is completely different from that of the Great Song Dynasty, and it cannot be planted in another place.
Wen Fei smiled: "I'll talk about the matter of the white stack later." It's just that the shopkeeper Zheng didn't think that the white stacked flowers could weave cloth, so the wool couldn't weave?"
"Ah......" Zheng Youmeng suddenly opened his mouth and stammered, as if he had been struck by lightning.
Although China has had wool weaving since ancient times. However, it has never been popularized on a large scale, and the reasons are complex.
Even a big businessman like Zheng Youmeng never thought of it.
But I heard Wen Fei say very easily: "Wool and white stacks, even hemp, have fibers. Although this celestial master is a layman, he has also seen some tribes using wool to weave outside the Saiwai. Since Bai Die can be woven with a machine, it is okay to think about wool, it is nothing more than to change the machine or two!"
Zheng Youmeng listened and became excited. Indeed, why such a simple thing, he never thought of it!
"This Heavenly Master pinched his fingers. This thing will definitely work!" Wen Da Tianshi said with a smile.
Of course, this kind of thing can be done, when the textile industry in Europe was rising, didn't all use wool to weave? Where is cotton used in the same way as China?
When Zheng Youmeng heard Wenda Heavenly Master say this, he believed it even more. Thinking about a person like a god like Wen Da Tianshi, he has pinched his fingers. This can definitely happen!
Now that the various tribes on the grassland have been afraid of the Great Song Dynasty, the wool is simply garbage for the nomadic tribes, except for weaving some blankets and the like, and has no effect at all.
You can easily send a caravan out of the fortress and exchange it for wool and other things at a very cheap price. Then the fabric is woven, and it will be a big seller.
Many thoughts flashed through his mind, and the most important thing was that such a unique business could not be sniffed by those guys with sharp noses.
But it doesn't matter, this is a business done by his own family and his father, who dares to come over and compete with him for business?
Zheng Youmeng's thoughts flashed very quickly, knowing that his family would definitely not be able to eat such a big business. Originally, as long as his family's business was done, the other merchants had a keen sense of smell, and maybe they would soon follow the copycat. Stealing people from themselves, stealing learning machines, and even finding ways to imitate ......
But as long as there is the gold-lettered signboard of the Wenda Heavenly Master placed there, no one will dare to eat the courage of the ambitious leopard to imitate it, even if it is red-eyed. is someone who should imitate it, as long as he sues the government, he doesn't believe that the government dares to defend it?
These thoughts flashed through his mind almost instantly. Zheng Youmeng immediately gave up his hand and said: "This kind of business was thought up by Shang's father, so it is naturally Shang's father's business." My Zheng family can be regarded as the shopkeeper for Father Shang!"
Wen Fei shook his head lightly and said, "How can it be done! It's better to do this, you and I are half of the two families in this kind of business." Now that military spending is tight, you have to pay for these businesses!"
Zheng Youmeng was overjoyed, unless a fool would feel that it was too much for Wenda Heavenly Master to account for fifty percent of the shares without a penny. You must know that many people can't ask for such an opportunity.
It's just that Shang's father's gold-lettered signboard is played, and there is more than half of the shares. (To be continued......)