It is said that during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a man named Zhao Cheng outside the north gate of Wuxi City, who was quite talented in business, and when he was sixteen years old, he gave up his pen to engage in business, borrowed some money to open a cotton village, used cotton to buy cotton, and then sold cotton to earn the difference. This Zhao Cheng is different from the businessman we generally understand, he never lacks two pounds short to shoddy, every time he buys cotton cloth, the size is always wide, and when weighing cotton, he is given enough weight, and slowly more and more people come to him, and in just a few years the business is getting bigger and bigger.
To the south of the cotton village is a small courtyard, and the owner of the courtyard is an official outside, so he gives this courtyard to the management of the family, and the family rents out the house. Among the tenants, there is a mother and daughter, the mother is blind, the daughter is thirteen or fourteen years old this year, and her appearance is very cute. The mother and daughter fled the wilderness to join their relatives here, because the relatives had already left their hometowns, and the two of them had to live here and make a living by weaving.
The woman's name is Xianglan, and she is also the old patron of Zhao Cheng's shop, Zhao Cheng knows the experience of mother and daughter, in addition to giving them some care in business, she also receives some money from time to time.
At the age of twenty, Zhao Cheng married a local woman. Careers are thriving, families are harmonious, and this may be the happy life in people's eyes. Just when people thought that Zhao Cheng's future was bright, a disaster fell on his head.
Things are still triggered by business, it turns out, because Zhao Cheng is generous, not careful, like to deal with him more and more people, his business is getting bigger and bigger, annoying a lot of local counterparts, so these peers united to Zhao Cheng to make a set, Zhao Cheng's youth and vigor plus experience after all, after all, he slipped into the trap, resulting in a business plummeting, and finally it was difficult to continue. Seeing that he could not get back to life, his wife also left him, so Zhao Cheng had to close the shop and came to the capital alone.
After coming to the capital, Zhao Cheng worked as a coolie and a buddy, but every job could not be done for long, so he was hungry and full, and Zhao Cheng mixed in the capital for five or six years.
On this day, Zhao Cheng was walking aimlessly on the street, when suddenly a sign of a cotton village not far away attracted him. The shop is located in the center of this street, and there are many people coming and going, and the people who come and go to this cotton village are either rich or expensive. There was a sign at the entrance of the cotton village, which read: "Recruitment guys" four big words. After living in the capital for such a long time, Zhao Cheng was still the first time to see the mianzhuang recruiters, he quickly patted the soil on his body and walked towards the mianzhuang.
As soon as he reached the door, a guy stopped him, and the guy looked at him, smiled, and said, "Hanako, is this where you entered?" Hearing the guy call him Hanako, Zhao Cheng was both angry and funny, but he looked down at his own clothes, and hanako was almost the same, so he said with a smiley face: "This big brother, I'm not called Hanako, I saw the recruitment guy at the door and came." "This person who looks like Hanako is here to apply?" Dude looked puzzled.
Seeing that the guy didn't believe it, Zhao Cheng quickly said: "I really came to apply, trouble big brother to give a convenience." The guy looked at him earnestly and didn't look like he was joking, so he turned and went inside. Soon after, a man in his early fifties with a sharp-billed monkey's cheek appeared. The guy pointed at Zhao Cheng and said to the man: "Treasurer Liu, just this person, he said he came to apply, you see?" Listening to the guy call the man Liu Treasurer, Zhao Cheng quickly saluted the Liu Treasurer.
Treasurer Liu looked at Zhao Cheng obliquely, pointed at Zhao Cheng and asked the guy, "Is this the person you are talking about?" Hearing that Liu Treasurer's voice was not right, Zhao Cheng quickly explained: "Liu Treasurer, I did come to apply, I used to open a cotton village in my hometown, and I am also quite familiar with this line." After listening to Zhao Cheng's speech, Liu Cheng showed an unbelievable expression on his face, and then said: "Do you know whose shop this is?" This is the property of the nine admirals of today, not that whoever comes can come. ”
Zhao Cheng said, "Well, I'm here for a few days now, if you think I'm okay, just leave me, and if you can't, then I don't need you to drive myself away, how do you see?" Listening to Zhao Cheng's words, Treasurer Liu said, "Well, come tomorrow, but remember to change your clothes." After saying that, he turned around and went back to the store.
With this errand, Zhao Cheng naturally felt cherished, and quickly went back to find someone he knew to borrow clothes, and the next day he came to the cotton village as promised. Doing this line of buddies, Zhao Cheng is naturally hand to hand, plus he is particularly familiar with this industry, and soon got the approval of Liu Treasurer, after a few days of work, without waiting for Qian Kun to open his mouth, Liu Cheng took the initiative to keep him. In this way, after five years of wandering, Zhao Cheng finally found a place to live.
Half a year has passed in the blink of an eye, and in this half year, Zhao Cheng has done a very good job.
One night half a year later, Zhao Cheng was about to go home, but Liu suddenly stopped him. Followed Treasurer Liu to the backyard, and after entering the house, Mr. Accounting Was also there. After Liu sat down, he asked Zhao Cheng with an angry face: "The main reason I brought you here today is that I want to ask you about something." In the six months since you came, Mr. Bookkeeper told me that the number of accounts that passed through your hands was wrong. Upon hearing that there was a problem with the accounts, Zhao Cheng became alert, and he quickly said: "This is impossible, since I came, I have collected cloth every day and then changed it to cotton, so it is impossible to have problems with such a simple life." Is it a miscalculation? ”
Treasurer Liu nodded toward Mr. Accounting Room, and Mr. Accounting Room interface said: "According to the rules in our shop, I calculated that the cloth you changed and the cotton you changed in obviously did not match, the cotton was changed out more, and the cloth that could be exchanged was less, what was going on?" When Zhao Cheng heard this, he was immediately frightened, and quickly said: "No, you listen to my explanation, I used to do business every time I collected cloth, I would give people a little more money, and when I changed cotton, I would also give people more cotton, wasn't I also for the good of our shop?" Liu Cheng's manager listened to Zhao Cheng's explanation and immediately became angry: "Give me less nonsense, quickly explain, how much money did you buy privately?" ”
Do you know why Treasurer Liu is angry? It turned out that when Zhao Cheng did not come, Liu Cheng and Mr. Accounting Room colluded well: first when collecting the cloth, the good ones said that they were poor, and the poor ones were said to be worthless, and then they made some articles on the size; when changing cotton, they bought some inferior cotton from outside and put them in the store, and then replaced these cottons with cloth, not to mention that they were good cottons that they hid, that is, the cloth was exchanged for cotton, so that one in and one out, the two of them privately swallowed a lot of money in a year. However, since Qian Kun came, he did another job, and he cut off their financial road in a raw way, so the two of them decided to give Qian Kun a total of money.
Qian Kun also had to explain, but Liu did not listen at all, and summoned a few trusted subordinates to beat Zhao Cheng and drive him out of the cotton village.
Zhao Cheng was inexplicably beaten, the original business could not continue because of this, this time was beaten or because of this, should business should not be honest? He couldn't figure it out.
Zhao Cheng did not sleep all night after being beaten, and learned from Boss Liu that the owner of this shop was the housekeeper of the Nine Gate Admiral. After inquiring about the housekeeper's residence, he decided to go to the door to seek justice.
Early the next morning, Zhao Cheng came to the butler's door early, and soon after, a woman came out of the door, carrying a basket, looking like she was going to the street to buy something. When Zhao Cheng saw someone coming out, he quickly stepped forward to stop the woman and said, "This eldest sister, this is the palace of the Nine Gate Admiral Butler?" The woman looked at him and said, "Yes." What's the matter with you? After saying this, the woman actually stared at Zhao Cheng carefully, and soon after, she asked, "Are you from Wuxi?" Zhao Cheng listened, but also looked puzzled: "Yes." The woman then smiled and said, "Brother Qian, don't you know me?" I am Pandan. ”
This woman was no one else, it was the woman that Qian Kun had helped, and she learned from the woman's mouth that since the collapse of Zhao Cheng's cotton village, the mother and daughter had no source of livelihood, so they wandered all the way to the capital, and later found a job in the housekeeper's house. Because Pandan was beautiful and smart, she made the housekeeper's wife a personal maid.
Subsequently, Zhao Cheng told Xianglan what happened yesterday and asked her to tell the housekeeper's wife. When the housekeeper's wife learned of this, she was very angry, so she asked someone to check all the accounts of Liu Treasurer over the years, and the problem was far greater than imagined. Subsequently, the housekeeper's wife sent Liu Cheng to the official palace, and then let Zhao Cheng take over the position of Liu Treasurer, since Zhao Cheng took charge of the business, the business of The Cotton Village has become bigger and bigger, and Zhao Cheng has also taken root in the capital by marrying and having children.