Chapter 500 Lantern Festival
The Shangyuan Festival in the seventh year of Tianbao is probably the most lively and happy Shangyuan Festival for ordinary people in Wuwei City. Originally, as the important town of the Hexi Jiedushi, although Wuwei City is the most important trade transfer station on the Silk Road, its essence is a military fortress.
Therefore, festival activities such as holding lantern festivals on the Lantern Festival were never dreams that the people of Wuwei City had never been extravagant, but Chen Guang convinced Wang Zhongsi and obtained permission from the court. Jingdong Mall came forward to organize this unprecedented lantern festival instead of the government.
When the Hexi knights in Wuwei City rushed to Liangzhou to announce the news, the powerful and wealthy families near Wuwei almost chose their children, and then brought their large lanterns to Wuwei City to attend the lantern festival.
Standing on the bustling street, Li Bai sighed with emotion that because of the lantern festival, Wuwei City has been pouring in more than ten days ago. Fortunately, as a military fortress, Wuwei City is enough to accommodate nearly 100,000 people when necessary. Those who can come to Wuwei City to participate in the lantern festival in Shangyuan are all powerful and rich households, or those gangsters in the martial arts world.
"It is forbidden to fight with weapons in the city, lose and go to jail."
The money gang members in yellow robbers shouted loudly in the West Market and on the streets from time to time, so that those rangers who are prone to anger and fighting will be more clear.
Since half a month ago, with the continuous influx of powerful and wealthy families and rangers from all over the city, these young people with strong spirits are brave and fierce. In addition, in the severe cold winter, it is easier to get drunk after a few sips of wine. It is almost like, "What are you looking at? Look at you! Try it! Just try it, be afraid of what you do!" The standard fight process even wields a sword in the end.
The yamen in Wuwei City alone naturally could not control so many fights. It was too much to let the soldiers wear armor and knives on the street during the New Year holiday. In the end, Chen Guang asked the money gang to take care of the security of the Shangyuan Lantern Festival.
Of course, we have to persuade those Hexi knights or Liangzhou rangers who are strong in nature. Just shouting slogans may not be of great use. However, the Money Gang used the method to deal with the guards and thugs under Hu Shang in the West City. "As long as there is a discount coupon, anyone can be a child of the Money Gang."
So when the drunken gossip and the playboys appeared on the street, the little leaders of the Money Gang didn't need to speak later, and there were brave men who helped them subdue the guys who were making trouble and fighting, and then happily took discount coupons from Jingdong Mall to go shopping.
This trend of receiving coupons quickly swept across the city, and even those rascals were hard to avoid. They were spending a lot of money and money came and went quickly. Since the same wine can be bought with only 60% off for 30% off, who would still be willing to buy wine for the original price? Isn’t it a waste of money to drink less for no reason?
So, the security issue that was originally considered a big trouble was solved by Li Bai and Li Mi. After Shen Guangguang issued a discount coupon, the rangers in the city have learned their lessons. Even if they encounter someone's provocation, they will be half a street even if they insult each other, so as not to be brave enough by the people around them to show their justice.
Only those newcomers who have just arrived in remote areas will be treated as fat sheep and try to grab discount coupons, which also makes Li Bai sigh, "The world is getting worse and worse, but people's hearts are not old!"
"Changyuan, how could those companions in a certain young age be so fond of face for this 50% discount coupon?"
Seeing that the dozen or so powerful men from Shazhou had just arrived in the city, they were ridiculed by the crowd, "Rural Boy!" Then they drew their swords in anger, and then the rangers rushed out of the surroundings to unload their swords and handed them to the Jinqian Gang to exchange for discount coupons, Li Bai couldn't help but sigh.
"Brother Li, this is not very good. After they learned this lesson, they dared not cause trouble after they moved into the city."
Li Mi looked indifferent. He was a ruler and learned the art of Shenshang. He never liked the so-called raiders who did not do anything to produce and make trouble. As the saying goes, "Confucianism uses literature to disrupt the law, and heroes use martial arts to violate the ban!" In his opinion, it is already a good idea to just teach the raiders some lessons.
"These thieves are not good at being a rogue, not a rogue!"
After the dozen or so Shazhou knights understood this sudden miserable experience from the gang members of the Money Gang, they blushed and cursed there, and then they lie in the passage beside the city gate.
Then Li Bai saw with his own eyes that these Shazhou knights quickly cheated the fellow villagers who were half an hour later than them, and then happily took the discount coupon to the West Market to buy wine.
"Brother Li, this is the heart of the people!"
Li Mi sighed to Li Bai. Sometimes he didn't know how this poet wandered around the world when he was young. He really didn't know how he survived. Don't you know that people's hearts are sinister. People will only join in groups when there are foreign enemies or fighting for benefits. Not to mention the 100-mile village, even the two villages across the river have to be beaten to get water and water.
For Li Mi, when he spent Li Bai day and night, he felt like he was an idol disillusioned. In his mind, the poetic immortal was a world-wide wise man who was talented and talented, but he saw a drunkard who loved to brag. Anyway, Li Mi felt that there was no problem in his sword skills to beat two or three Qinglian sword immortals.
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"Sister, isn't your discount coupon a bit harsh?"
Bai Aqiao held a pen and calculated the discount coupons issued these days, frowned. When she was in Yancheng, she was in charge of Shen Yuan's accounts and was quite talented in arithmetic.
Although Wang Yunxiu is a famous tigress in Chang'an City, Bai Aqiao treats this cute little princess as her own sister. After marrying Shen Guang, she simply handed over the Shen family's industrial accounts to Bai Aqiao for management.
"I'll take a look."
Wang Yunxiu naturally didn't have the patience to look at the detailed account. She just took the number of paper that Bai Aqiao finally calculated, but said uneasy, "But only a mere 200,000 guan, but I just made less money, so we didn't lose money!"
Shen Guang made a lot of discount coupons in Wuwei City, and the discount promotion routines were so good that the small and medium-sized Hu merchants who had just joined JD Mall were completely convinced at this time. In the past, the business in winter was not as good as usual. However, this time, with the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, the charity shops that had obtained JD Mall's dog brand certification were almost full every day. Although they had to pay a 20% discount, they could not resist the large number of people, and there were also subsidies to get it.
At present, the so-called guilds have been destroyed in name only. The remaining several Hu merchants who were hung there to fight the corpse did not want to resist and destroy themselves, but Shen Guang deliberately kept them to kill monkeys to warn you.
Killing the chicken to scare the monkey is because the knife is not fast enough, but Chen Guang's knife in his hand is very fast. He does not need the big Hu merchants. What he needs is the small and medium Hu merchants who are closely united under his command and operate and operate under his plan.
"Twenty-hundred thousand guan, that's 200,000 guan!"
Bai Aqiao almost went crazy. In this family, his husband and sister don’t regard money as the main source of money. You must know that the 200,000 yuan was only opened. God knows how many discount coupons there are outside that have not been used. There is no reason why not lose money in the world. It is obvious that making less money is a loss.
As he fiddled with the abacus, he thought that when the Shangyuan Lantern Festival was over, he would earn at least one million yuan less. Bai Aqiao was in a bad mood. You should know that the recent influx of Wuwei City were either the powerful and wealthy households who were not short of money from all over the country, or the rangers who spent money like water. These discount coupons were equivalent to giving away money!
"Look at your promising prospects, the Hu Shangs outside said that his husband is the God of Wealth. Not to mention 200,000 guan, even 2 million guan is worth anything!"
Wang Yunxiu laughed, "Besides, it's not a good thing to say that too much money is not a good thing. I won't say it anymore, the money has to be spent."
Bai Aqiao had nothing to say, and she was the only one in this family who was worried about her own money being less. "Sister said, why don't you just change someone to settle the score in the future. Every time I think that so much money is gone, I feel uncomfortable!"
"That won't work. If someone else comes to take charge of the account, I can't believe it."
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"Is this a lot of loss?"
Wang Zhongsi looked at the account book and felt a little painful. He originally didn't care about Chen Guang's discount coupons, but since Chen Guang demolished Jingdong Mall and the Hexi Jiedushi's Jiedushi's residence accounted for 20%, he no longer could sit still as he used to. He was not a greedy person, but he just thought that it would be better if the money was used to reward and motivate his soldiers.
"Sir, this discount coupon is to stimulate the people to spend money. Besides, when attacking Shibao City, in addition to rewarding a lot of money, discount coupons can also be issued to let the soldiers spend money, instead of just thinking about buying land or hiding the money in the cellar."
Chen Guang explained to his father-in-law that there are many powerful and wealthy households in Liangzhou, and the scale of Wuweixi City is second only to Chang'an and Luoyang. However, after looking through the city office's previous books, he found that although the amount of trade in Wuweixi City is astonishing, it only plays a transit role, and the local consumption power has not been discovered at all.
After An Chongzhang joined his command, he asked carefully and found out that the powerful and wealthy families in Hexi all had the bad habit of hiding gold and silver in the cellar, and the money they spent was pitifully less than the wealth they had.
"I understand what Chen Lang said, but now the powerful and wealthy families who can come to Hexi are almost here. Don't send this discount coupon again?"
Wang Zhongsi asked in a controversial tone, but Chen Guang shook his head and said, "Sir, it's not that the son-in-law doesn't want to. It's really a great opportunity to promote the shopping mall, and at the same time cultivate the shopping desire of these powerful and wealthy families. The battle in Shibao City requires amazing expenses. We cannot expect the court to find a way to make money by ourselves."
"But aren't you losing money?"
Wang Zhongsi was anxious. Of course, he knew how much the consumption of nearly 200,000 troops in the four towns was, and why he supported his son-in-law so much.
"Sir, the account is not calculated like this. If you don't send discount coupons, how are the powerful and rich households and the people willing to go to the mall to buy things? If they don't go, we won't even make a profit."
Looking at his stubborn son-in-law, Wang Zhongsi had no choice but to give up. He closed the account book and said helplessly, "Don't take the account book to me in the future, I feel sorry for you!"
"Sir, this is not possible. You are the governor of Hexi. According to the rules, you must pass this account personally. If you have any questions..."
Chen Guang said seriously, and it was quite similar to what his wife said, "By the way, sir, I have prepared almost the same thing as the Alibaba business group. I will invite sir to attend the dinner another day so that those Hu merchants can know that they join the business group, not only making money for themselves, but also serving for the Tang Dynasty."
"It's up to you!"
Chapter completed!