In addition to wanting to train some elite women to become gynecologists, nurses, fashion designers, artists and scientific researchers, those non-elite women, Marin will also have an arrangement, that is, let them become salesmen!

The profession of salesperson may seem inconspicuous in later generations, but in this era, it is a skilled job! Why? Because the salesperson needs a certain amount of computing ability, at the very least, the account cannot be miscalculated.

This ability, in the era of universal nine-year compulsory education in later generations, as long as the intelligence is not too bad, can basically be competent. But in this era of extremely low literacy rate, it is a job with a certain technical content. Because, the vast majority of people are illiterate and can't count.

Fortunately, the European economy is now backward, the degree of commercial circulation is very low, and there is a need for fewer salespeople. But because of Marin's various measures in Beihai Kingdom, ordinary people can not only eat enough, but also have some spare money. Therefore, commercial circulation is more developed than in other countries. Although it is not the extremely prosperous circulation of later generations, it can at least reach the level of unified sales and purchase before the reform of Huaxia in later generations. That is, in each town, there are some official shops, selling essential goods such as oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and needlework cloth to the common people.

Because the shops are open in the town, it is much easier for people to live. In the past, many necessities were often available in the city. However, Europe is vast and sparsely populated, and the density of cities is very low, and it is often necessary to walk hundreds of miles to have a city. Unlike the Ming Dynasty, there was a prosperous town dozens of miles away. Therefore, this is very inconvenient for ordinary people. After all, if you walk, you can walk hundreds of miles for more than a day.

Now, Ma Lin has opened the stores of the "Beihai Chamber of Commerce" under his name to various towns, and the unified transfer of goods and complete varieties have greatly facilitated people's lives. This kind of shop is very similar to the style of the state-run store before the reopening of Huaxia in later generations. Of course, Marin repeatedly resigned five orders, requiring the salesperson to have a correct service attitude and not to annoy customers.

But now, there is something that makes Marin very depressed, and that is - the store is in dire need of salespeople!

A salesperson who can read and write, and can settle accounts, in this era, is generally cultivated through a "seven-year apprenticeship". Like other artisans, the illiterate teenagers signed apprenticeships with established salesmen or shopkeepers, and then, for seven years, worked unpaid for the shopkeepers. The veteran salesman or shopkeeper who took him was obliged to teach him to distinguish goods and to settle accounts within seven years.

In fact, this kind of simple accounting and bookkeeping is enough for the mathematics level of the second and third grades of primary school. However, in order to learn this hand, the apprentice needs to work for the master for seven years...... In seven years, the primary school culture has long been able to learn and learn, and there is still one more year......

But in this day and age, knowledge is so valuable! If you want to learn a simple accounting and bookkeeping, you have to work for 7 years! Moreover, there are not many such opportunities, and they need to be grabbed!

Just like Kohler, the first person under Marin who could settle accounts, he was originally pestering a Jewish merchant who often went to the countryside to do business, and he secretly learned to settle accounts and became a "talent" in this era. Otherwise, with Kohler's thin stature, Marin might not have wanted him to be a follower.

In this "sweater knitting workshop" held by Marin, the little girls will be taught by the assigned nuns to memorize words, memorize the Bible, and do simple calculations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. If you perform well, but are not good enough to be selected for further training in a girls' school, then you can consider sending them to the Beihai store to work as a salesperson.

As for the original male salesmen, Marin will transfer them to warehousing, logistics and handling. Although it is harder, but Marin can't help it, there is too little labor in Beihai Country, and it is definitely a huge waste for men to work as idle salesmen. So, men either farmed and became soldiers, or they became craftsmen. Want to sit behind the counter and be a relaxed salesperson? I'm sorry, Ma Ye didn't agree......

An easy occupation like a salesperson should be done by women. In this way, a lot of male labor can be freed up to do a lot of heavy work that women can't do......

It is conceivable that if there are dozens of salesmen in one town, hundreds of towns in the entire Beihai Kingdom can be replaced by women, and tens of thousands or even more male laborers can be liberated. Whether they are craftsmen or logistics handling, it is better than living behind the counter. After all, there are only three or four hundred thousand men in the entire Beihai Kingdom now, and one or two thousand men are freed up at once, and there are too many things that can be done.

Marin plans to train all the vacant male salesmen into logistics and distribution personnel. They are all "professionals" who can calculate accounts and keep accounts, and it is very suitable to form a logistics and distribution group.

In addition, now Marin is vigorously building cement pavements in the territory of Beihai State. Once the traffic is fully rolled out, these former male salesmen who can settle accounts will be able to quickly take advantage of the well-developed road system to easily transport goods to various towns and villages, making people's lives easier.

Don't underestimate logistics and distribution, in the future, because of the emergence of a large number of express companies such as SF, it is not too convenient for people to shop. Don't look at Ma Yun so well, without the support of a strong logistics system, the so-called online shopping is just a joke.

Of course, Marin did not expect the people of Beihai to enjoy the fast logistics system of online shopping in later generations. After all, socio-economic development has not yet reached that level. Moreover, the technical conditions cannot be done.

However, it is still possible to develop the logistics system to the state-run store system that it was before the reopening. Although there were no convenient means of communication such as the telegraph and telephone in the twentieth century, the Beihai Kingdom itself was originally small and did not need such advanced means of communication. Moreover, Beihai has a well-developed post station system, which can quickly deliver messages. When the scale of the post station system increases, Marin also plans to open a postal system to the common people.

In this way, coupled with the cement pavement extending in all directions, it is simple and fast to transport all kinds of goods to various towns and villages.

In fact, Marin feels that the credit for the electric tricycle is definitely very large in the express delivery system that has been developed in later generations. Don't look at the express mail is transported by car centrally. However, the specific distribution is absolutely inseparable from the electric tricycle. And the takeaway system is also inseparable from the support of electric bicycles. If the takeaway guy has no electric bicycle...... You can ride a motorcycle, but it's not cost-effective. After all, the price of oil is so high......

Therefore, the developed logistics system in later generations, in the distribution and home delivery links, the popularization of electric tricycles and electric bicycles, is absolutely very important.

Of course, with current technology, electric vehicles are not possible. However, two-wheeled bicycles and human-powered tricycles pedaled by human-powered pedals can be made.

Needless to say, bicycles make it convenient for people to travel. Once cement pavements became widespread throughout the country, it would be convenient to travel between places by bicycle.

Human-powered tricycles are also very important for the transportation of small quantities of goods. For example, if you want to send a few boxes of goods to a small town dozens of miles away, it is not cost-effective to use a four-wheeled carriage. After all, as soon as the carriage moves, the horse has to be refrigerated. And the food consumed by horses in a day is four or five people, and the cost is very high.

If there is a human-powered tricycle, it will play a huge role in the transportation of small quantities of goods in the short and medium distances. Moreover, the consumption is also low. After all, even if a person pedals three wheels, at most one or two bowls of rice will be eaten, which is much more cost-effective than raising a horse-drawn cart. Of course, if it is a long-distance and large-scale transportation, it is still necessary to use a four-wheeled carriage. For the transportation of small quantities of goods within and between towns and towns over short distances, human-powered tricycles will have incomparable huge advantages.

Marin clearly remembers that before the advent of electric tricycles, those small traders who set up stalls and rushed to the market basically had a rickshaw for everyone. Moreover, before the popularity of taxis, there were also a lot of rickshaws soliciting customers in the county.

So, Marin gave the order to develop a human-powered tricycle. As long as the research and development is successful, it can greatly promote the circulation of social goods. And it was not the mechanical department that took this task out, but the watchmakers......