The county seat of Funing County, Yongping Prefecture, is approaching the end of the year, and the whole small county town is also becoming lively, and there are a large number of people who come to the city from the countryside to purchase New Year's goods every day.

Funing County is special, it is a county containing mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, the southern part of Funing County is close to the North China Great Plain, is an endless vast Great Plain.

And the north is the continuous mountains and rivers, which is considered to be a mountainous area, the east side is by the Bohai Sea, and there are lakes in the west, and there are rivers in the territory.

Because of the unique geographical location, the products of Funing County are also extremely rich, and when the year passes, there are hunters from the mountains who bring good skins and a small amount of live prey to sell; There are also fresh fish caught by fishermen by lakes and rivers chiseled into ice, and now there are also their own fish caught by the sea; Wheat from the great plains to the south.

Last year's winter was so snowy that it led to a famine in the first half of this year, but because of last year's heavy snowfall, the insects in the ground froze to death, but in the second half of this year, it ushered in a bumper harvest.

As the so-called sick tree is in front of the ten thousand trees in spring, all things are negative yin and embrace yang, otherwise they seem to be able to say some truth.

A large number of people from the countryside entered the city, with a large number of local products, so that Zhengfuning County became noisy, and the merchants in the city were even more anxious to sell New Year's goods from Tiannan and Haibei.

Zhang's grocery store is a grocery store opened by Zhang Tianhao, located in the most prosperous street, composed of several stores, very large, with a lot of various goods, clothing, food, oil, salt and rice.

There are even a variety of iron products such as hoes, kitchen knives, scissors, and sickles from the Miyun Iron Works, as well as a variety of sun-dried fish from the port of Tianjin.

Of course, in the past, Zhang's grocery store didn't have many goods, and it was not called a grocery store before, but Zhang's salt store, which specialized in selling salt.

Zhang Tianhao sells illegal salt, in fact, most of the illegal salt is sold here in his hometown Funing County, in Funing County, Zhang Tianhao's Zhang family is a sitting tiger, dare to sell salt publicly.

Because he sells smuggled salt, the price is relatively low, and the business was quite good in the past, almost monopolizing the salt in the entire Funing County.

But smuggling is smuggling, in Funing County is a sitting tiger is just a sitting tiger in Funing County, the imperial court worked hard to suppress the smuggling of salt, Zhang's life was very ugly, a few months ago when the salt was arrested, dozens of clansmen were arrested by the government, and they are still locked in prison.

This is also the reason why Zhang Tianhao rushed over immediately after receiving Liu Jin's invitation, on the one hand, he wanted to find a new way to make a fortune, and on the other hand, he also wanted to see if he could ask Liu Jin and let Liu Jin help get dozens of clansmen out.

Smuggling salt from other clansmen is a big crime, Liu Jin is naturally incompetent, of course, it is not powerless, but he will not sell his face for the sake of this relationship with Zhang Tianhao.

As for the new way to make a fortune, Liu Jin pointed it out to him, that is, to open a grocery store.

Liu Jin from later generations knows that building a platform and using other people's money to make money is the smartest way to make money, just like Didi taxi.

The same is true for the business of this department store, Liu Jin thinks that relying on his strong influence, salt and iron have already been involved, and in the future, cloth and other industries will be involved.

So Liu Jin thought about whether he could also set up a department store to specialize in this kind of trading, have his own side to raise all kinds of goods, and then wholesale to the dealers below, and build a platform by himself, and everyone will do business on this platform.

Liu Jin will have such a year, one is because the industrial capacity under his command is large, and a huge market is needed to digest all kinds of goods.

In addition, don't look at the business of this department store does not seem to be profitable, but if the scale is large, it is also a very profitable business, and because it is related to clothing, food, housing and transportation, it is a long-term business.

Moreover, Liu Jin wants to form a control of business through such a way, including more businessmen and industries, and improving his influence in the business field.

The last famine made Liu Jin realize the shortcomings in this regard, he didn't master the grain, and he didn't have the channels to master the grain, so he was very embarrassed.

Liu Jin has a natural advantage in the business of this department store, on the one hand, there will be more and more enterprises under his command, and more and more fields will be involved.

Now there is coal, cement, ironware, glass, fish caught in the port of Tianjin, and clothing in Tianjin, because of the rise of the whaling industry, soap factories have also been set up, not only to meet their own needs, but also to start large-scale foreign sales.

There will be more fields and industries involved in the future, and with such an advantage, if you don't build a department store platform, you are simply sorry for yourself, a traveler from the future.

In addition, Tianjin Port, because of its unique geographical advantages, it is the transportation center of the north, and there are a lot of goods coming from the south to the north.

"I don't know if this will work, groceries, groceries, all kinds of things are sold together."

In Zhang's grocery store, Zhang Tianhao seemed a little worried, because the investment in this grocery store was not small, and these stores alone cost a lot of money, not to mention that there were so many kinds of goods at one time, if he lost money, it would also be a blow to him Zhang.

Opening a department store is something that has never happened before, because everyone does business, generally only one business, like in the past, he specialized in salt business, except for this business, other levels are rarely involved, even if they are involved, it is also a separate store.

Those who sell salt sell salt, and those who sell rice sell rice, and they rarely mix up to do business and buy and sell, and they only do one or several related businesses, rather than mixing everything together to sell as it is now.

So he has no bottom in his heart, this is his first day of opening, and he is worried in his heart, if it weren't for Liu Jin's strong recommendation, he wouldn't have done this.

Wouldn't it be a safe and secure business to take salt from the Changlu Salt Farm and sell it?

Of course, the reason why I am willing to do this business is also because the salt of Changlu Salt Farm is not very profitable, the salt quality of Changlu Salt Farm is good, and the price is cheap, but because the sales price of this salt is subject to the price set by Changlu Salt Farm, it seems a little chicken.

At the door of Zhang's grocery store, several Zhang Tianhao's clansmen are also the second children in the store, and they are crackling and lighting the whip of the start, which is auspicious and festive, and it is also to attract the crowd passing by on the street.

"Zhang's grocery store has opened, Zhang's grocery store has opened, anyone who buys goods in the store will be reduced by five yuan if they buy goods over 100 yuan!"

"Zhang's grocery store opened, complete goods, good quality, cheap price~"

At the door, the shopkeeper took the tin horn where he tore open his throat and kept shouting, this tin horn is also produced by Miyun Iron Factory, it is a gift, with this trumpet, the sound is like a bell, like a tsunami, and suddenly the passing crowd has brushed to see the excitement and generally look over.

"Come, come, fellow villagers, take a look, take a look, it doesn't matter if you don't sell it, you can come in and have a look."

Seeing that a crowd was crowding over, the shopkeeper shouted even harder, signaling everyone to enter the store and look casually, it doesn't matter if you buy it or not.

Hearing the words of the shopkeeper, curious people and people watching the excitement also walked in one after another, which immediately made the whole shop lively.

"Yo~ There are really enough goods here, there are a lot of dazzling, everything."

Uncle Wang, who was the first to come in, took a casual look in the store, and suddenly couldn't help but say.

"Of course, groceries, groceries, how can you call it a grocery store if the goods are not complete."

Next to Uncle Wang, the shopkeeper Zhang San also said with a smile on his face: "This uncle, you can look at it casually, if you can't find anything to look at me, the price of the goods is written on the sign on the side." ”

"I'll take a look~"

Uncle Wang nodded, he is a person from the county seat of Funing County, and there is actually no shortage of things at home, he is the kind who comes over to join in the fun when he is full and has nothing to do.

"Lake Rice ~"

"The Cloth of Suzhou~"

"Tianjin's cement~"

“……”

Uncle Wang walked around very casually in the store, I didn't know if I didn't shop, and I found that there was really what kind of goods there were, all kinds of goods, all kinds of things.

"Changlu Salt Field Snow Salt, only 30 Wen a catty~"

Soon, he came to the sales place of the store's fist product, Changlu Snow Salt, and several large water tanks were filled with snow-white, snow-white salt, and a wooden board was inserted on it, on which such information was written.

"This salt~"

Uncle Wang picked up a handful of snow salt, looked at it carefully, the color was snow-white, the particles were delicate, and when he tasted it lightly, his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Such a high-quality salt is actually sold for thirty wen a catty, and their Zhang family is ready to be a living bodhisattva?"

Uncle Wang was a little incredulous, this kind of salt, it was definitely a high-grade salt, and it was also sold here in Zhang's salt shop before, but it was bought for more than 300 yuan a catty, but now it is only sold for 30 yuan a catty, and he is a little doubtful that he is wrong.

After carefully looking at the words on the sign, he was a little unconvinced, thinking that this Zhang family was not ready to be a living Bodhisattva, such a high-quality salt was only sold for 30 wen a catty, you must know that even if it was the worst salt in the past, he Zhang's here would be sold for 40 wen a catty.