Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 365

At this time, Huang Luzhuang was busy teaching the old eunuch Li Zhongjie how to light cigarettes.

So, not for a while.

Several ministers followed Huang Luzhuang's example. First, they put a cigarette wrapped in white paper that was as long as the index finger and as thin as the little finger. Then they cut the match and lit the other end of the cigarette. It looked like it sucked up.

Zhu Kezang himself did not smoke. After all, he asked Daming to make cigarettes to make money, not to ruin his body.

Zhu Kezang didn't want to be addicted to cigarettes. He didn't have a cigarette addiction in his previous life, and it's even more impossible in this life.

"Cough cough!"

At this time, Huang Zongxi and other ministers coughed.

Obviously not used to the taste of cigarettes that only appeared in modern times.

Coughing like a smoker for the first time, it seems that you have lost your dignity.

Huang Zongxi and other ministers had no choice but to plead guilty to Zhu Kezang, thinking that this cigarette was nothing to smoke, and for a while they doubted the role of this cigarette in increasing the revenue of the national treasury.

At this time, Huangluzhuang has already sucked it up freely, like a fairy, swallowing clouds and fog.

Seeing this, Huang Zongxi and other ministers subconsciously continued to twitch.

After taking a few puffs, I also started to like the feeling.

"Smoking is prohibited here in the future, and today is a special case. In addition, smoking is harmful to your health. Dear friends, try not to smoke in the future! Lao Huang, you should also remember to tell them to write 'smoking is harmful to your health' on the cigarette packs. If necessary, we should remind the common people.”

Zhu Kezang stood up at this time, walked straight to the door, and said something to a group of ministers behind him.

He didn't want to sit in there and inhale second-hand smoke, it stinks.

Huang Luzhuang stood up and replied: "I obey the order!"

Then, seeing that Zhu Kezang was about to run away, Huang Luzhuang hurriedly asked again: "Your Majesty, the opium (opium) is more addictive than cigarettes. I have let the Japanese war criminals try it. Do you think it will be sold?"

Zhu Kezang glared at Huang Luzhuang: "I have already issued a strict order that those who are addicted to tobacco, including this product, are not allowed to sell in the country! Anyone who violates it will be killed! Have you forgotten my decree? If I know the territory of Daming This thing is showing up and you smuggled it, I will never not kill you just because you are an official of Ming Dynasty!"

Huang Luzhuang was so frightened that he couldn't help but tremble: "Yes, I must remember! I only let him speak."

Hearing his words, Zhu Kezang walked to the harem without looking back. After get off work, it was time to visit his wife and children.

In July 1686, led by the Ministry of Industry, Daming prepared to hold the first National Commodities Fair.

And soon.

For the smooth holding of this expo, both the Jinyiwei and the Guards sent their personnel to carry out high-intensity patrols at the venue - Pingshi Street in the south of the city.

Pingshi Street, at first glance, I thought it was the place of ancient storytelling?wrong!

This has to be traced back to the Yuan Dynasty hundreds of years ago.

On the east side of Pingshi Street—Fuxi Street and Zhonghua Road, it became the administrative office of Jiankang Road, the official office of Xuanwei Division of Jiangdong Road in the Yuan Dynasty, and became the political center of Nanjing.

As a result, a large number of Mongolian officials lived here, and brought the living habits of the grassland - eating beef and mutton, wearing leather clothes.

Correspondingly, there are more and more leather workshops here, and this large leather goods trading market is bustling with traffic every day, just like Xinjiekou in later generations, it is the absolute center of the city.

In the early Ming Dynasty, there was a saying in Nanjing that there were "nine cities and eighteen squares", and "Pi Shi" was one of them, so it was called "Pi Shi Street", and it was gradually falsely called Pingshi Street.

The address of this expo is Zhanyun Building on Pingshi Street.

Among them, this exposition is divided into internal and external exhibition areas, presided over by Huang Lvzhuang, who specially received various princes and princes, high-ranking officials, foreign friends, and diplomatic missions from vassal states.

The inner exhibition area was presided over by Zhu Kezang's cousin and court teacher, Carolina, who is of mixed Portuguese and Ming origin, and specially received those noble ladies.

By the way, due to her outstanding appearance and rich knowledge, Carolina was conferred the title of imperial concubine by Zhu Kezang!

In addition to the unique industrial products of the Daming industrial base, such as Tibetan fairy wine, soap, soap, matches, glass silver mirrors, various glass products and cigarettes, new cotton cloth, silk, and white sugar, the exhibits of this expo also include other special products of Daming, such as New porcelain from Jingdezhen, new pens from Huzhou, etc.

After seeing the exhibits at the exposition, these dignitaries and foreigners were all amazed.

Especially for Daming glass silver mirrors and cigarettes.

Among them, the former is especially loved by women, and the latter is especially loved by men.

On the same day, Huang Luzhuang reached an agency agreement with many wealthy businessmen controlled by high-ranking officials, which made the loan business of the Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty once again attract a hot stage.

On the day after the opening of the expo.

There was a long queue at the location of the Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty, and many wealthy businessmen brought various materials and began to come here to handle loan procedures.

Of course, because department store supermarkets are also engaged in wholesale, according to Zhu Kezang's idea, the main business of department store supermarkets will also be wholesale in the future.

Moreover, what the main products of the Ming Dynasty Manufacturing Bureau need most is to carry out market promotion, so as to obtain more benefits.

Rather than monopoly benefits.

For the Ming officials who control all kinds of emerging and high-end handicrafts in the upstream, it is a good idea to take advantage of the rich private businessmen who have a better understanding of the grassroots and people who have more knowledge of the local grassroots, so as to open up the market and obtain more profits. A win-win approach for mutual benefit.

In addition, during the period when the expo was just held.

The business of the Royal Department Store, which also operates retail, is also extremely hot.

In addition, department stores and supermarkets have gained a good reputation in the hearts of the people because they did not follow those private stores to raise prices.

So, now, major department stores are crowded with shoppers almost every day.

"Shopkeeper, do you still have this Xuan Hemen smoke?"

"Out of stock again?"

"If it's out of stock, hurry up and make it up. My master only likes to smoke your Xuanhemen cigarettes."

"My daughter is going to get married tomorrow, and I agreed to give her a glass and silver mirror as a dowry. Why are you out of stock again?"

"Shopkeeper, don't go. I'm waiting for the dowry. There's no glass or silver mirror here. My aunt doesn't want to marry my cousin to me. Is your department store really out of stock? Brother, I'll pay more, I'll pay more Can't you?"

For a while, various customers in major department stores and supermarkets kept urging to buy goods. Zhu Kezang did not use hunger marketing, it was purely that the speed of product production could not keep up with the speed of people's purchases!
People held silver dollars one by one and kept smashing the counters of department stores and supermarkets.

Some grumpy ones smashed several glass countertops in department stores and supermarkets.

In the end, Jin Yiwei had to come forward to solve the problem.

Soap, cigarettes, and glass and silver mirrors are easy to become new handicrafts that people need in their daily lives, and they have greatly stimulated domestic demand in the Jiangnan area.

Many country gentry and landowners couldn't bear the temptation of cigarettes and had to take out the silver ingots hidden in the cellar and exchange them for silver dollars.

And whether it is a rich lady or a rich woman, she also took out the silver dollars at the bottom of the box to buy glass and silver mirrors.

Cheng Ting, a wealthy businessman, looked at this scene and was very desperate: "I thought that after the increase in business tax, all industries would be in depression, but I didn't expect that when the expo opened, not only did it not have a depression, but it also made the market more prosperous. It's a pity that the prosperity has benefited It has nothing to do with me and other Jiangnan gentry."

While Cheng Ting was grieving, he thought about it, if he couldn't beat him, he would join and follow the market!
(End of this chapter)