"This is?"

Xu Jie showed curiosity on his face.

Gu Chi smiled and invited him in to have a look...

While introducing: "This is the shop opened by the governing office."

"The shop opened by the capital? Is it what Shen Jun means?"

"yes."

"This is a strange thing."

Xu Jie did not expect that this young Shen Jun still understood the business of merchants. You should know that whether in the past or now, policies in various places are mostly based on policies to suppress business. Merchants do not work in production but control a lot of money, and have always been afraid of those in power.

It would be fine if small merchants were just doing some small business to support their families, while those big merchants were all without the shadow of powerful families behind them. They usually had a group of private soldiers in their hands. When they were traveling to the business, they lined up and their carriages were in full swing.

Otherwise, how to protect the safety of valuable goods?

The bigger the merchant, the stronger the private armed force in his hands, which is also a fearful and unstable factor.

Therefore, the status of merchants has always been restricted and the establishment of high municipal taxes is also conducive to the stability of people's livelihood under the rule.

Merchants are not in the ordinary and have a low status. Even the Xu family behind Xu Jie rarely gets involved in business, and they are all handed over to their servants, relatives or relatives who have a relatively distant relationship with each other. The county magistrates in the area do business in person, and very few are there.

It actually makes me feel better if I say it.

However, as the head of the Xu family, Xu Jie naturally would not think so. The Xu family can have all the basic industries in the family today. Without these, what should the children in the clan rely on to eat, wear and chew? No matter how tall a person grows, his legs still have to step on the ground.

He followed Gu Chi and walked into the "Fugu Department Store" with a smile, and as soon as he entered, he was stuffed with a small bamboo basket.

"This is?"

Gu Chi said: "It's a bamboo basket."

Of course Xu Jie knew that this was a bamboo basket weaving.

I even knew that there was a bamboo forest near Fugu.

But what to do with him a bamboo basket?

Gu Chi also asked the "shopping guide" for a bamboo basket and fell on his forearm: "The lord called it a 'shopping basket' to hold the goods in the miscellaneous shops. Note: If you want something on the shelf, just call someone over and open it for you to take it down."

After a period of development, there have been more varieties of goods in department stores. Unlike the shabby things at the beginning, the shelves were rebuilt and bamboo doors were added.

When the customer wants to buy it, let the "shopping guide" open the door and take it off.

This is also done for safety reasons.

Shen Tang is not stingy with the worst side to guess human nature. After all, Fu Gu is a poor place, poor mountains and rivers are out of troublemakers, and open shelves are prone to frequent stolen. It is unrealistic for every customer to send someone to stare at them, so he simply presses the door to the shelves.

The customer goes into the store to select the goods and then asks someone to pick them up.

Of course, some more expensive goods are not placed on the shelves, and there is only one type of goods, so you have to go to the warehouse to pick them up.

Then go to the counter door to check out.

Xu Jie was so immersed in his ears that he murmured: “Can you still do this?

The area of ​​department stores is much larger than before.

Two people can be easily stood between the shelves.

Xu Jie noticed that bamboo pieces were hung under the shelf goods.

This kind of bamboo slice is usually used for price tags, and he also knows it, but the novelty is that the bamboo slices are not familiar words, but some strange patterns. I asked: "Is this?"

Gu Chi said: "Price. Shen Jun felt it was difficult for ordinary people to understand complex numbers, so he took a few simple patterns instead of different numbers. The first line of the brand outside the store was written with numbers from zero to nine. The common people remembered it simply and remembered the numbers corresponding to each pattern. When entering the store, there was no need to ask the price frequently. Just look at the price tag directly."

Xu Jie listened carefully while remembering carefully.

"So that's true, it's really novel." The words and numbers are simple, but they are still difficult to remember for the common people.

Under normal circumstances, shops as big as Fugu Department Store require many people to take care of, but customers can check the price and select goods by themselves, which invisibly suppresses the cost of the shop and makes it more convenient to manage.

In Xu Jie's opinion, these are all considered "business secrets", but Gu Chi had no intention of hiding them. He was surprisingly open and straightforward. He not only let him see them openly, but also explained them carefully to him. He was so enthusiastic that he was flattered by Xu Jie. He even made Xu Jie feel a little suspicious - the weak-looking young man in front of him, he was really... a literary scholar?

This style is not right.

After coming in and shopping, Xu Jie couldn't afford to worry about his face, so he wanted to buy some expensive ones, which could be considered as "shu Xiu".

From the perspective of the Xu family's master, the goods in the miscellaneous shops are not of high quality, so I can understand them after thinking about them. After all, they are shops for the common people, and the things are too good, and people can't afford them.

Xu Jie, accompanied by Gu Chi, looked at each shelf, which really made him discover some interesting rules.

For example, goods will be classified according to the usage method, which can greatly save time in miscellaneous shops and find goods, and the purpose will be more clear; for example, more commonly used goods will be placed in places that can be easily reached by hand, and places that are too high or too low to place objects that are not too frequently used...

Xu Jie thought through these things.

He said: "Mr. Shen's move is not about profit."

Gu Chi asked what he meant.

Xu Jie smiled and raised his hand to point at the shelves around him: "If it is a merchant, you must find a way to let customers who enter the store stay in the store for more, and then put the expensive and high-profit ones in the most convenient position... Just looking at the layout of the miscellaneous shops, it is completely contrary to this, so Shen Junyi is not profitable."

Gu Chi: "..."

Good guy!!!

It is worthy of being the eldest son of the Xu family in Tianhai. This guy is really a profiteer! He has only been in the store for a while and thought about it!!!

Oh, now he is still the head of the family.

He is worthy of being a man who can become the head of the family!

Gu Chi adjusts his micro expressions to avoid being exposed.

At this time, Xu Jie also attracted a "shopping guide" and said he wanted a few jars of wine.

"Shopping Guide" is a big and thick man.

I was a bandit before.

Later, he was incorporated by Shen Tang. Because he was sensitive to numbers, good arithmetic ability, and relatively friendly to the people, he was transferred here to work. He glanced at Gu Chi and looked embarrassed: "This is a limited supply every day, and the 'wine bar' is exchanged for..."

Xu Jie was stunned for a moment.

What is "limited supply"?

What is "for wine sticks"?

Another strange and novel word.

Just ask Gu Chi these questions, and Gu Chi gestured to explain them in detail later. He turned to the "shopping guide" and said, "Wennote is Shen Jun's distinguished guest, different from others. Just go and get it. If someone asks, he will say it's what I mean."

"But this is not in line with the rules..."

"Shopping Guide" is becoming increasingly difficult.

Xu Jie was thinking about what this meant, but heard a male voice full of energy coming from his ears, and he was also a bit ridiculous: "What do I think is it? Rules are rules. How could you ignore the rules just because you care about Wangchao?"

Xu Jiexun looked at him and his eyes lit up.

There is nothing else, this person becomes extraordinary at first glance.

Gu Chi smiled bitterly: "Mr. Yang."

He turned sideways to reveal Xu Jie behind him.

Wei Yang only glanced at him and realized that this person was really a "special guest". He was full of "expensive" spirit, and he also gave up his mind to watch Gu Chi's lively. He waved to the "shopping guide" and ordered: "Go and get my jars from behind, hurry up."

After saying that, he said to Gu Chi, "You can come out with the wine stick."

Gu Chi was funny: "Okay, okay, you won't break the rules."

After a while, I received all the jars of wine.

At the counter, Yang Duwei asked Xu Jie to check if there were any problems with each item, and then rushed to Gu Chi and said, "Checkout."

Only then did Xu Jie see the so-called "wine sticks".

Just a very ordinary wood chip.

It looks like a scroll.

Xu Jie asked in confusion: "Can't you settle the bill with money?"

What is this trick?

Yang Duwei recorded the account and said, "Others are OK, but the daily limited supply is not enough. You must settle the bill in the 'wine stick' deed. In the future, the common people are a little rich, and this restriction may be removed."

Xu Jie nodded. When he came to his territory, he should abide by his rules. He didn't have to do something special. He just converted the silver to Gu Chi at the normal price. After all, he had to pay the "shu Xiu", so how could Gu Chi pay?

But I didn't expect that there was such a good wine in this remote countryside. I just checked the goods and found that the clear wine smelled like a little. Judging from his experience, it was definitely a fine wine of excellent quality.

No wonder it needs to be "limited supply".

Should the supply be scarce?

Xu Jie asked and realized that this was not the case.

There is a lot of wine, a lot of it.

Gu Chi began his performance of making a fool of himself with his eyes open - Shen Jun's ancestors run the wine industry, and he inherited many good wine brewing recipes, which can make the highest quality wine with the least amount of consumption.
To be continued...