"This is?"

Xu Jie looked curious.

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

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

"The shop opened by Zhi? Is that what Mr. Shen meant?"

"yes."

"This is a strange thing."

Xu Jie did not expect that this young Shen Jun also knew about merchants. You must know that no matter before or now, policies in various places are mainly anti-business policies. Merchants do not produce but control a lot of money. They have always been criticized by those in power.

fear.

Small merchants are just that, they just do some small business to support their families, and those big merchants all have the shadow of a powerful family behind them. They usually have a group of private soldiers in their hands, and when they do business, they line up with carriages and horses.

Heyday.

Otherwise, how to protect the safety of valuable goods?

The bigger the merchants are, the stronger their private armed forces are, which in itself is a fearful and destabilizing factor.

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

Merchants were not in the upper echelons, and their status was at the bottom. Even the Xu family behind Xu Jie rarely did business in person, leaving everything to servants, relatives or distant relatives to take care of it. The county governor of a place personally handled the business.

, very few.

It’s actually quite shameful to say it out loud.

However, Xu Jie, as the head of the Xu family, naturally would not think so. The Xu family cannot survive today without the basic industries of the family. Without these, how can the children of the family rely on food, clothing and food? No matter how tall a person grows, his legs still have to touch the ground.

of.

He followed Gu Chi and walked into "Fu Gu Department Store" chatting and laughing. 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 it was a bamboo basket made of bamboo.

We even know that there is a bamboo forest near Fu Gu.

But why hand him a bamboo basket?

Gu Chi also asked the "shopping guide" for a bamboo basket and hung it on his forearm: "The Lord calls it the 'shopping basket', which is used to carry the goods in the grocery store. Note, if you want something on the shelf, just call it

Someone can come over and open it for you to take it off."

Over time, the variety of goods in department stores has increased, and they are no longer as shabby as they were at the beginning. The shelves have been rebuilt and small bamboo doors have been added.

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

This is also done for safety reasons.

Shen Tang is not stingy about using the worst side of human nature. After all, Fugu is a poor place, and unruly people are born in poor mountains and rivers. Open shelves are prone to frequent thefts. It is unrealistic to send people to keep an eye on every customer, so just click on the shelves.

Door.

The customer enters the store and selects the goods, and then has someone pick them up.

Of course, some of the more expensive goods are not placed on the shelves. They only have one sample and have to be picked up from the warehouse.

Then just go to the counter to pay.

Xu Jie was fascinated by what he heard and murmured: "Can it still be like this?

The department store area is much larger than before.

Two people can easily stand between the shelves.

Xu Jie also noticed bamboo pieces hanging under the products on the shelves.

This kind of bamboo slices are usually used to mark prices, and he also knew that, but the novelty was that instead of familiar words on the bamboo slices, there were some strange patterns on them. He asked: "This is it?"

Gu Chi said: "Price. Shen Jun felt that it was difficult for ordinary people to understand complex numbers, so he took a few simpler patterns to replace different numbers. The first line of the sign outside the store wrote numbers from zero to nine.

It’s easy for ordinary people to remember. If you remember the numbers corresponding to each pattern, you no longer need to ask for prices frequently when entering a store, you can just look at the price tag.”

Xu Jie listened carefully and memorized it carefully.

"I see, it's really novel." The characters and numbers are also simple, but it is still difficult for ordinary people to remember.

Under normal circumstances, a store as large as Fugu Department Store requires a lot of people to take care of it, but customers can read the prices and select the goods themselves, which virtually reduces the cost of the store and makes it more convenient to manage.

In Xu Jie's opinion, these can be regarded as "business secrets", but Gu Chi had no intention of hiding it. He was surprisingly frank and straightforward. Not only did he show it to him generously, but he also explained it to him carefully. He was so hospitable that Xu Jie

Xie was flattered. It even made Xu Jie a little suspicious - the frail-looking young man in front of him was really... a literary scholar?

This style of painting is not quite right.

He didn't buy anything when he went shopping. Xu Jie couldn't bear to lose face, so he just bought something expensive, and it was regarded as a "shu repair".

From the point of view of the head of the Xu family, the goods in the shop are not of high quality. After thinking about it, I can understand. After all, it is a shop for the common people, and people cannot afford the goods if they are too good.

Accompanied by Gu Chi, Xu Jie looked at each shelf and found some interesting patterns.

For example, goods will be classified according to how they are used, which can greatly save the time of staying in the store and looking for goods, and the purpose will be clearer; for example, more commonly used goods will be placed where they can be easily reached, and if they are too high or too low,

Place objects that will not be used too frequently...

Xu Jie thought this through.

Said: "Jun Shen's move is not for profit."

Gu Chi asked what he meant.

Xu Jie smiled and raised his hand to point to the shelves around him: "If you are a merchant, you must try to make the customers who enter the store stay longer, so that they can buy more, and then put the expensive and high-profit items in the most convenient locations...

But looking at the layout of the shop, it is completely contrary to this, so Mr. Shen’s intention is not good."

Gu Chi: "..."

Good guy!!!

As expected of the eldest son of the Xu family in Tianhai, this guy is really a profiteer! I had just been thinking about this for a while after entering the store!!!

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

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

Gu Chi adjusted his micro-expression so as not to reveal his secrets.

At this time, Xu Jie also invited a "shopping guide" to ask for a few jars of wine.

The "shopping guide" is a tall and rough man.

He used to be a bandit.

Later, he was taken under Shen Tang's banner. Because he was sensitive to numbers, had good arithmetic skills, and was relatively friendly to the people, he was transferred here to work. He glanced at Gu Chi, with a troubled expression on his face: "This daily limited supply, in order to Wine sticks' in exchange for..."

Xu Jie was stunned for a moment.

What is "limited supply"?

What is "in exchange for wine bars"?

Another unfamiliar and novel vocabulary.

Just ask Gu Chi these questions, and Gu Chi's eyes indicated that he would elaborate later. He turned to the "shopping guide" and said: "Wen Zhu is Mr. Shen's distinguished guest, different from others. Just go and get it. If someone When asked, he said it was what I meant."

"But this is against the rules..."

"Shopping guide" is becoming more and more difficult.

Xu Jie was wondering what this meant when he heard a strong male voice coming from his ear, with some inexplicable ridicule: "What do you think this is? The rules are the rules. How can you ignore the rules just because you are looking at the tide?" "

Xu Jie looked at the sound and his eyes lit up.

Without him, this person would be extraordinary at first glance.

Gu Chi smiled bitterly: "Mr. Yang."

He turned sideways to reveal Xu Jie behind him.

Captain Yang knew with just a glance that this was really a "distinguished guest". His whole body exuded a "noble" aura, and he gave up the thought of watching Gu Chi's excitement. He waved to the "shopping guide" and ordered: "You go to the general manager's place in the back. Get some jars, hurry up."

After saying that, he said to Gu Chi: "You can bring out the wine bar."

Gu Chi said funny: "Okay, okay, I won't break the rules."

After a while, all the jars of wine were brought in.

At the counter, Captain Yang asked Xu Jie to check if there were any problems with each item, and then said to Gu Chi: "Check out."

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

Just ordinary wood chips.

It looks like something like a deed.
To be continued...