Chapter 65: Specialty Stores
Ma Sanbao himself can't understand why Xu Da attaches so much importance to the army, he is used to the importance of many generals and high-ranking officials, at least he has a lot of backstage, although there is not much intersection and feelings, but it is good to say that these big people will shelter themselves at some point, which is also a good reliance.
"Take a look, it's a good thing, it's sold at a lower price than other grocery stores!" There is a declining grocery store on the corner of the street, the grocery store is full of miscellaneous goods, the store seems to be too lazy to tidy up, all the goods are piled up in a pile, these items Ma Sanbao looks familiar, even this shouting Xiao Er He feels that he seems to have seen it somewhere, after a few thoughts, a hawker who sneered at himself in the breakfast shop appeared in his mind.
For this hawker, Ma Sanbao did not have the idea of falling into the well, the previous hawker was disrespectful to himself, and even ridiculed, in the end, it was this hawker who was down, obviously, he went forward first out of high prices, and even found someone to borrow, and now he ended up in such a field completely because of the speculator's own fault.
"The fact that this store can't sell a single one of our products is really ruining our reputation." Zhu Di said helplessly, he also recognized the goods in the grocery store, but they were all from the industrial park of him and Ma Sanbao. At first, Zhu Di was a little sympathetic to this down-and-out hawker who couldn't sell the goods, but when Ma Sanbao told Zhu Di how the vendor mocked him before, Zhu Di couldn't help but sneer at the vendor, and even wanted to come forward to mock him.
"Forget it, settle the matter, I warned him before, he didn't listen to persuasion, and now it's too late for him to regret it, but he is not the only one, it is estimated that there will be many shops like him in the entire Beiping." Ma Sanbao said with a smile, he still remembered the faces of the hawkers who mocked him at the beginning, and now the time for revenge is coming, and after the industrial park is put into use, these hawkers will regret their previous ridicule and disobedience.
Just as Zhu Di and Ma Sanbao found a teahouse and were about to sit down, several vendors surrounded Zhu Di's carriage, and just as they were about to introduce their intentions, they saw Ma Sanbao in the car, and their eyes immediately widened.
"Hey, it's not that I deliberately target you, it's that you don't listen to persuasion, what did I say that day? You didn't listen to the told you to act as soon as possible, and now the goods are rotten in your hands, right? Ma Sanbao put on an innocent face, angry these hawkers stomped their feet, these hawkers hated Ma Sanbao, if it weren't for Ma Sanbao, these hawkers would have been able to make a lot of money, and now, the goods in the industrial park are circulated in Beiping City, and the value of the goods in their hands has dropped a lot.
I don't know if it's because of the evil anger in his heart, Ma Sanbao suddenly had a burst of happiness, at first Ma Sanbao didn't have the idea of falling into the well, but the pleasure still came spontaneously, looking at the frustrated faces of those vendors and the previous smug look, he couldn't help but have some bad thoughts in his heart.
"Don't you have some channels? We can help you make up for the deficit and pay off the debt, but you will have to serve me and the Fourth Highness Zhu Di in the future. Ma Sanbao opened his mouth, and Zhu Di, who was beside him, was a little at a loss, and he didn't know what Ma Sanbao meant this time.
"In Beiping, they know the market better than us, and we need people like them to do promotion, sign a deed of sale for them, and let them work for us for many years, wouldn't it be better to be based on the market in Beiping? It won't be preempted yet. Ma Sanbao said in Zhu Di's ear, he has an idea, want to monopolize the market, monopolize the market must let all the grocery stores sell only one, since the invention of soap, I don't know who leaked the formula, some defective soap also flowed into the market, defective products to Ma Sanbao's products also produced competition, Ma Sanbao's move is to curb the appearance of defective products in the grocery store, to cause competition for their own products.
"Makes sense!" Zhu Di suddenly realized, and praised Ma Sanbao's intelligence, and Ma Sanbao's words also made the eyes of the vendors who were around the car flash brightly, "I can help you introduce all the grocery store merchants in the entire Beiping, they have more or less borrowed a lot of silver taels from the pawnshop for this commodity." ”
Seeing that someone can help pay off the debt, they don't need to waste too much time on repaying the debt, you must know that many of them can't afford to eat now in order to repay the debt, and the pawnshop is urgent, and they don't redeem the items they originally lost, and it is very likely that the pawnshop will take it away.
"You guys who open grocery stores and borrow money at a loss, and then they will all go to the mansion of the Four Highnesses, and report how many silver taels they have taken one by one, and then the Four Highnesses will find out, and once there is a lie, there will be no forgiveness!" Ma Sanbao opened his mouth and said, his purpose is obvious, that is, to use these grocery stores to promote his own products, which is equivalent to a specialty store, and there are only his products in the grocery store, and there are no other products, forming a monopoly trend on the market.
Ma Sanbao's ambition made Zhu Di very happy, once according to Ma Sanbao's plan, most of the grocery stores in Peking will promote their own products, no matter how big or small, the neighborhood can see their own affordable products wherever they go, why not? And these products will no longer be a luxury for officials in Beiping, so that the people can also experience that in the future, Beiping will be the same as Nanjing City, providing Ma Sanbao and Zhu Di with a large amount of silver and two funds.
"Be prepared for tens of thousands of taels, this is a profitable deal, and the contract must be done, if they sign it, it will be a deed of sale!" Ma Sanbao said to Zhu Di with a smile, as soon as he heard that there was money to be made, Zhu Di naturally became interested, even if it required an investment of tens of thousands of taels, it was worth it, Ma Sanbao's plan for this store made Zhu Di very strange, after all, there was no such thing as a store in the Ming Dynasty.
As Zhu Di's information spread, several previous vendors also found their own brothers who opened a grocery store, as long as the grocery store was in debt because of the three products developed by Ma Sanbao, they could find Zhu Di for reimbursement, for a while, the entire Beiping grocery store was brightly seen, of course, Zhu Di is not brainless reimbursement, it is necessary for the other party to carry the pawn ticket of the original pawnshop, if it is still a long time, Zhu Di may not be reimbursed.
There are joys and sorrows, those who have not borrowed money in Beiping grocery stores also want to climb the relationship between the four highnesses, after all, the identity of the four highnesses Zhu Di in Beiping City is the general of Zhenbei, and the future career can be imagined, this is the news that has spread throughout the city of Beiping, these hawkers are naturally the owners of the grapevine, and they are all waiting for Zhu Di, the backer, to shield them from the rain and wind and ensure their good life in Beiping.
At noon, the sun was shining, the afternoon sun was sprinkled on Zhu Di's face, Zhu Di was basking in the sun leisurely, humming a little song, the snow around his chair had been swept away, he and Ma Sanbao enjoyed the warmth of the winter sun, and now the affairs of the political world have been dealt with, just waiting for the good news from the business world.
Soon, the first hawker came to ask to see, under the arrangement of the guards, the hawker saw Zhu Di lazily leaning on the chair, he was a little nervous, he didn't know how to speak, holding a contract in his hand, it was the voucher that the pawnshop left for him, he stood in front of Zhu Di and Ma Sanbao, and couldn't hold back a word for a long time.
"If there is any difficulty, just say, have you seen that box of silver?" Ma San Bao Nunu mouth, not far away placed a box full of silver taels, the box has been wide open, the white silver taels inside make the hawker red-eyed, he has never seen so many silver taels in his life, Zhu Di is also ruthless, prepared a full 20,000 taels of silver, he will do business this time, and promised that whenever the store comes to him to buy, he will sell the other party's products at a lower price.
"Your Royal Highness, I need to repay the loan with fifty taels of silver, the villain was deceived by the traitor, saying that he could get high profits, so he borrowed so many silver taels from the pawnshop, I wanted to redeem the title deed left by my deceased father for me, if I didn't redeem it, I would be ashamed of my dead father, my wife and children!" The peddler plucked up the courage to say, he lowered his head and handed the pawn ticket in front of him to Zhu Di, who turned it over to the attendant in charge.
"Fifty taels of silver, help him prepare!" Zhu Di opened his mouth, he squinted his eyes, fifty taels of silver was not much for him Zhu Di, but for an ordinary family, it was completely all the belongings, and even many people might not even be able to take out fifty taels of silver. "By the way, there is a contract here, you can read it, if you are satisfied, sign it, be my Zhu Di's subordinate, the future is easy to discuss, eat and drink and think of you as soon as possible."
Looking at the contract in black and white, the hawker hesitated, he looked at the content of the contract seriously, and the hand that signed the sign didn't know whether to mention it or not, after all, this is equivalent to a deed of sale, although there is a guarantee in the follow-up, it is equivalent to putting his future business into Zhu Di's hands. He hesitated, and involuntarily remembered the brutal and strict debt collection of the pawnshop in his mind, and finally with a ruthless heart and gritted his teeth, he pressed his finger on the ink, pressed the fingerprint on the contract, and signed his honorific name.
"You're really atmospheric, who knows if the store can really bring benefits!" Ma Sanbao muttered quietly, it was the first time he had seen Zhu Di so magnanimous, especially for these strangers, but since Zhu Di was full of enthusiasm, it was not good for him to tell Zhu Di about the risk, after all, doing business itself is risky, not every store can bring profit to Zhu Di, not to mention that this is the Ming Dynasty, Ma Sanbao can't guarantee whether the future business model can be applied to this dynasty, but you have to try, after all, the wine of Zuixianlou is an example, which is placed in front of them.
The vendor who collected the silver taels became excited, he carried the silver taels into the prepared pocket, and ran out of Zhu Di's mansion happily.
Outside Zhu Di's mansion, there was a long queue, and there were thirty hawkers waiting for Zhu Di.