Liu Deyuan, 36 years old this year, runs a pastry shop in the south of Chengcheng, Fuzhou, Fujian Province. The Liu family is considered a middle-income family in Fuzhou City.

Liu's pastry shop is not large in scale, but it is an old shop. Liu Deyuan's grandfather set up a stall to sell pastries and saved money to buy a store, which led to today's Liu's pastry shop. Liu Deyuan inherited his grandfather and father's skills in making pastries, allowing Liu's pastry shop to accumulate a group of old customers, and new customers are constantly coming to his house.

Logically speaking, the Liu's pastry shop should be gradually expanded, but the size of the Liu's pastry shop has never expanded. When the Ming Dynasty ruled the Fujian Province, the number of customers of the Liu's pastry shop had increased, but the income had reached a limit, and the income would occasionally decrease.

Liu Deyuan understands very well why this happens to Liu's pastry shop.

Fuzhou City is the provincial capital of Fujian Province. Although the Liu family is considered a middle-income family in Fuzhou City, there are too many powerful and wealthy people in Fuzhou City.

The pastries made by Liu Deyuan are delicious, and there are more and more customers in Liu's pastry shop. Even some powerful officials send people to buy pastries. There are also powerful officials, and the subordinates come to buy pastries.

When powerful officials buy pastries, they will pay for their own identities, but they generally do not come to buy pastries in person, and will send their servants to buy them. The servants are thinking about the money they buy pastries here. They come to Liu's pastry shop to buy pastries, or give less money or dare not pay them directly.

Liu Deyuan is just an ordinary person in Fuzhou City, and the powerful servants are not ordinary people anymore. They are people with backers. Liu Deyuan's father and grandfather have both educated Liu Deyuan. When doing business with such people, they would rather suffer some losses than have conflicts. This is the experience of experienced people.

Even if the gangsters come to buy pastries, Liu Deyuan is tolerant of every step.

After thirty-six years of living in Fuzhou City, Liu Deyuan has seen other people in conflict with powerful people and unlucky people more than once.

So when facing people who give less money and don’t give money, Liu Deyuan will not only not be angry, but will also welcome the other party to come back next time with a smile.

Liu Deyuan's persistent approach made a small number of people feel guilty. In the future, they would pay enough money to buy pastries, but more people still did not give money or paid less.

Under this situation, Liu's pastry shop can still have a certain amount of profits to continue to maintain, which shows how good the Liu's pastry shop's business is.

Liu Deyuan thought his business would continue like this, but he did not expect that he would have ushered in a huge change now. The arrival of the People's Army brought huge changes to the Liu's pastry shop.

Before the People's Army occupied Fuzhou City, Liu Deyuan learned some information about the People's Army from others. At that time, Liu Deyuan believed that the People's Army was a rebel who did evil. Liu Deyuan hoped that the official army would quickly wipe out the People's Army and restore peace to the world.

A few years have passed, and the People's Army has defeated the official army one after another. Liu Deyuan also knew that after the People's Army occupied a place, it would raid the houses of the rich and merchants. The Liu family was barely considered a small merchant, and should also be the target of the house being confiscated, which made Liu Deyuan very scared and worried that the People's Army would attack Fuzhou City.

Before the Battle of Fuzhou City this year, a large number of gentry and merchants fled Fuzhou City. Liu Deyuan originally wanted to escape with his family, but Liu Deyuan couldn't bear to leave his own shop, so he stayed in Fuzhou City.

After the First World War, the government was defeated and fled, and the government fled, and the People's Army occupied Fuzhou City.

After occupying Fuzhou City, the People's Army did start to search the house, and most of the gentry and merchants who stayed in Fuzhou City were searched.

The door of the Liu family was closed, afraid that the People's Army would come to search the house. What surprised Liu Deyuan was that the People's Army did not come to the Liu family and did not come for three days. The People's Army's house search in Fuzhou City had basically stopped.

Even though his house was not confiscated, Liu Deyuan did not dare to continue his business. He stayed at home honestly, thinking about when the government army would come back and drive away the People's Army.

However, as time passed, Liu Deyuan discovered that the People's Army seemed to be better than the official army, and did not harm ordinary people at all, and even distributed land to the lower-level people. This was something that the Ming court officials dared not do.

But at this time, Liu Deyuan still dared not do business and was waiting to see the follow-up situation.

Not long after, the merchants from Guangdong came and they were doing business in Fuzhou City. The merchants who had not been confiscated in Fuzhou City could not sit still when they saw foreign merchants robbing business. They suppressed their fear and worries and started doing business again.

Seeing other stores opening one after another, Liu Deyuan followed the crowd and reopened the Liu's pastry shop. However, the Liu's pastry shop had less than 20% of the business in the past.

The People's Army fought over, and a large number of powerful and wealthy gentry merchants fled in advance. After the People's Army occupied Fuzhou City, it began to search the house. The number of rich and wealthy merchants left in Fuzhou City was not large, which means that many old customers in Liu's pastry shop were gone, and it would be strange if the business did not decline.

In a blink of an eye, it has been half a year since the People's Army occupied Fuzhou City. Under the rule of the People's Army, Liu Deyuan felt the great difference between the People's Army and the Ming Dynasty government and the Ming army.

Some officials from the People's Military Government have already come to Liu's pastry shop to buy pastries. All the People's Military Government officials will give enough money. Even if Liu Deyuan said he didn't want money, the officials would not agree and just keep the money.

Moreover, under the rule of the People's Army, there were no more gangsters. All those who came to Liu's pastry shop to buy pastries gave enough money. No one dared to give less or not. If anyone did not give money, he could solve the problem by going to the People's Military Government.

Liu Deyuan felt that such a People's Army was much better than the Ming court government.

Half a year has passed, and the business of Liu's pastry shop has improved. Although it is still impossible to compare with the Ming Dynasty government, Liu Deyuan is full of expectations for the future.

The People's Army will share the land for the people. The people will become rich one day. It is impossible to come to buy pastries every day. It is enough to come here to buy once a while.

A large number of gentry and merchants were confiscated, and new gentry and merchants would appear in the future. The business of Liu's pastry shop will definitely return to its best time and will develop towards a better situation.

The most important thing is that everyone who comes to buy pastries will give you enough money. In the future, the income of Liu's pastry shop will continue to increase. Grandpa bought this shop, and Liu Deyuan wanted to open a larger pastry shop in the future so that everyone in Fuzhou City would know about Liu's pastry shop.

By the way, Liu Deyuan recently had an idea. Last year, his wife wanted to buy a glass mirror the size of a palm. Liu Deyuan was a little reluctant, and made his wife feel so angry for a long time. Now the glass mirror shipped from Guangdong is very cheap. Liu Deyuan plans to buy a glass mirror for his wife. It is a larger glass mirror that can reflect everyone's faces.

Liu Deyuan had already fantasized about the scene when he gave the glass mirror to his wife.

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