The days always have to pass day by day, although the opening ceremony of Desheng Building has let the officials and businessmen of Jinan Mansion see the foreign backers of the standard machinery factory, but it is just a little exclamation of the people after dinner. Afterwards, when the white gang leader collected the protection fees from other businesses, he mentioned that I invited him to watch the ceremony, and he talked very happily with Master Qian and the British foreign lord, so I think his silver was not spent in vain, at least the silence of the party is the proof that the knife handle gang hugged the thick legs of the foreign lord. As for the coerced Master Liu and Master Han also resolutely abandoned the secret and surrendered to the light, and Lao Wu privately agreed that after the Zhenwei Bao raw materials entered the factory safely, Shun'an Bao products were successfully shipped, not called dart silver, just called security fees, not much, three hundred taels of flat silver a year, saving a little use, enough to raise a dozen dart masters, and there is no need to go far, just go around between the factories of Xiaoqinghe Wharf, Jiaoji Line North Freight Yard and Luokou, and even the tricycles for transportation are provided by the factory, of course, in addition to the standard factory, there is no place to buy. As for Master Chen, who left Jinan from Alfred and returned to his hometown in the countryside, it was almost at the end of the year that someone saw Master Chen and a few apprentices eating breakfast together at the morning market in Ping'an Town, Changqing, but there were no fried fruits on the table, only a few steamed buns and tofu brains.

Two months have passed, and the calm of Jinan Mansion makes people feel depressed. However, I have gained a lot in the past two months, and in the afternoon I have stolen half a day of leisure, took out my diary, and simply flipped through it and wrote down the recent gains as follows:

1, and the Miao brothers, Meng Luochuan, Le Jingyu, Wang Guangzu and other thirteen big dealers in Jinan bought the island in the middle of Daming Lake, the establishment of the "Ming Lake Club", a party every three days, to this day has gathered as many as eight times, these thirteen traders are covering the business leaders of Jinan Province, once drank too much and Miao Xingcun, Le Jingyu three people estimated that this club can actually account for seventy percent of the transaction volume of Jinan Mansion, I and Miao Xingcun were shocked into a cold sweat, Le Jingyu seems to have expected, I was strongly encouraged to expand the membership of the club, preferably more than ninety percent. As soon as I heard it, it was a layman, don't look at the amount of these two percent, but the membership has to be ranked from a dozen to a hundred, even if the diamonds are all over the ground, it is a sloppy glass ballast, so this kind of irresponsible proposal is vetoed, anyway, it is a one-vote veto system, and it has to be overthrown at the plenary meeting, or to give Leda a face, if you annoy him, everyone has to be careful when they go to Tongrentang to get medicine.

2. Samoset did not break his promise, and handed over thirteen thousand taels of silver and a gold watch and two gramophones (it is said that his wife could not bear to return to England and not hear such beautiful music, so he planned to install it in Peking and at Beaufort's house), and it took only five days for guns and cannons and a boatload full of bullets and shells to arrive at the gate of my dock, arrogant and boundless. Of course, the mystery was later solved by Alfred for me, it turned out that it was ordered by Nie Shicheng's Wu Yijun, who had arrived at Qingdao Port at that time and was ready to be re-exported to Tianjin to unload, but I heard that Yuan Shikai's new army was all German equipment, and after reporting to the Minister of Beiyang, Li Hongzhang, he also planned to switch to a German 1888 commission rifle. It just so happens that this batch is a batch of tail goods, if it is dealt with by me, the counselor can not only make a small profit from the difference, but also get a liquidated damages from Wu Yijun, which is worthy of being a talent engaged in international business. Now the workers and dart masters in the factory have one more entertainment -- gun training. When Ju Xiaoxia's two arms were swollen and she couldn't wear overalls, I finally allowed all female workers to train in half. Miao Laosi recruited for me Huantai's nursing home and the idle short-term workers in the Zhangqiu area, handed over to Du Niang for training, after the two strong men were kicked by Du Niang and stepped on the back and couldn't turn over, these 100 people were very obedient to stand in the military posture to practice the queue, Master Liu Master Han also contributed several of his apprentices to assist Du Niang in management, and by the way taught the basic kung fu and knife skills. Miao Laosi also invited me to go to Diao Town tomorrow and then recruit some nursing homes.

3. I took that piece of land, and compared the map to know that it was basically the location of the later Daguanyuan shopping mall. It seems that the Grand View Garden shopping mall will be my first step into business, and I am not willing to be just an industrialist, after all, the name of an industrial and commercial tycoon is more impulsive. At night, I have to check the information and copy the papers, so I can't take the standard Song Ti of laser printing to discuss the joint venture between the Miao family and the Meng family, and some of them are busy at night.

4. It is the sales situation of the factory, so far the three young men of the sales department are still apprentices in the flour mill of the Miao family, and they are actually not needed to sell, because our goods have been ordered a long time ago, and the deposit has been received enough to be busy for the whole year next year. Just sent to Shanghai 500 standard brand bicycles in the store overnight, the next day was robbed by the little K people in Shanghai, who is still sitting in a Yanmar carriage will be called an uncle, and still riding a large and small wheeled bicycle has now become synonymous with clowns, only standard bicycles gallop in the streets and alleys and villas, suits or cardigan gowns of bodyguards follow the young masters behind the car trotting, very much the Anti-Japanese War Occupied Area two devil detective team went to the countryside to grab food, but now it belongs to the fashion style. Another 500 have already been loaded onto England, and it is believed that in three months London will also make the gentlemen give up their ridiculously large and small wheel toys. As for the sewing machine did not spread to the alleys of Shanghai as I expected, but became an industrial product, Zhu Zhiyao, who left after visiting my factory, left a suggestion, the price of sewing machines is destined to be not suitable for the current family, but some workshops need to buy in bulk, so that textile factories and dyeing factories can try to expand to downstream industries, and even some small tailors may use this kind of machinery without additional power to expand into garment factories. And Meng Luochuan Meng big shopkeeper in the opening of the factory to visit, immediately ordered 100 sewing machines, now Ruifuxiang garment factory has been built in the second road to build a plant, it is estimated that the end of the year will be able to produce, and the first batch of 30 sewing machines are not idle, are in Ruifuxiang several stores occupy a place, guests buy cloth can ask the sewing master to cut and process on the spot, basically one day can take the clothes. Watches and phonographs are high-end goods, although limited by precision processing workers, but the first batch of 20 little girls have been taught by Du Niang and Wang Guangzu to be able to skillfully assemble under the magnifying glass, anyway, the core components - the magnetic head and the watch core are brought by me from the later generations, even Wang Guangzu has seen it and marveled at its precision, Alfred said after reading it that the best Swiss brand can not mass-produce my kind of watch movement, can reach the point of less than 3 seconds of error per month, As for the head, they still don't understand the scientific and technological content of it, and when the European copycat products are developed, they will find that no matter how sophisticated they imitate, they can't reflect the sound quality of the secret channel disk. Now the sales have reached 37,000 taels of pingyin, and the variable cost is only 11,200 taels, mainly imported from Shanghai and produced by Hanyang Iron Works cast iron pipes and other plates, German imported Messerschmidt bearings, Italian metallic paints and French chemical products, and of course refined coal transported from Zaozhuang via the Xiaoqing River. If you don't consider the low and amazing labor costs, the profit margin of the factory can reach 300%, which makes Miao Xingcun, who drank together tonight, very sad, after drying a bottle of Jingzhi Baigan, grabbed my hand and said that the profit of the flour mill reached half of the profit, so that the Miao family brother was heartbroken, I even the sales staff in another apprentice's factory actually played and earned more than half of the factory back after it was put into production for less than half a year, if it weren't for the old Wu Zhigen, and yesterday Uncle Zhang took the dividends back to the account, He must think that I am blowing the air, thinking that in a year Alfred, this foreign miscellaneous hair, will be from his forty percent and I don't know how much to poach, so he can't stop complaining about me, but he can't wait for the family to send money, and now it is more than 40,000 taels of silver to find the ticket number in Shanxi.

"Brother Xian, you said there is still this opportunity to make money?" I didn't let go of my arm, Miao Xingcun is a very stable person, if he hadn't seen my ability to make money, he wouldn't have lost his temper. I put the "Daguanyuan Shopping Mall Formation Plan" copied by the editor for half a night on his desk, saying that this opportunity can be done well to have a double and a half profits, and if you do it in general, you can make half a profit, and the most important thing is that in addition to fixed asset investment, there is almost no investment in the later stage.

"It's still our two investments," Miao Hainan leaned over with a shy face.

"I think it's beautiful, this time it's too much movement, I plan to put it forward at the Minghu Club and make a public offering." I said, "This will take advantage of everyone's strengths and basically take care of the interests of all parties involved." This is not a factory, you can produce it yourself behind closed doors, and you won't have to worry about it if you have a market. If the shopping mall wants to enter thousands of goods at home and abroad, it is not a unique business to open the door to welcome and send thousands of customers. ”

"Fourth, I think what Brother Chen Xuan said makes sense, without the face of Meng Luochuan and the government and the British, do you think the Tiger Banner Chen family and the Bai family can accept this softness? The mall is a sitting business, with a lot of people coming and going, if you don't have a solid and extensive background, you don't know that you will trip over the stone. After all, Miao Xingcun was calm, and after weighing the pros and cons, he quickly made a decision.

Autumn water of Ming Lake, scenery of Queqiao.

"Brother Wu, you are really doing big things quietly" Wang Guangzu has always helped me with the matter of buying land, so he knows everything about my land purchase. "I don't know if Brother Wu plans to build a factory or open a store?"

"Of course, such a good location is to open a store, where is it not possible to build a factory, this land plans to build a few stores, but our Tongrentang plans to expand it, and give some discounts when the time comes" Le Jingyu has always had donkey ears, and this whisper can't hide it from him.

"Let's open a store, but I'm only going to open one."

Le Jingyu's face suddenly turned into a dumbfounded smile: "One hundred and twenty acres of land!" Just build a shop! God, does your shop sell ships? ”

"Oh, you can sell almost everything from embroidery needles to ships."

Everyone in the hall had a question mark on their faces.