Chapter 200: The Flag Guard
Of course, in the process of law enforcement, they will be treated differently, and if it is found that there are small people who have been promoted to fight, it is indeed because they have encountered difficulties, and they have no ability to work, so they can only choose to do small business that does not need to make a lot of effort to live.
When a family is counting on selling roasted sweet potatoes to survive, the "Red Flag Army" can recruit them to join the legal roasted sweet potato camp for unified management when enforcing the law.
Zheng Guochang nodded and said: "Good, it's really not too much to handle it like this, the old man is approved, and tomorrow he will write and issue notices to post in the state capitals of Beizhili."
The main general of the 'Red Banner Army' took the lead in selling roasted sweet potatoes, the purpose of which was to allow the small people to sell their output, in order to raise military salaries for their subordinates, and to operate well, which was very good for reputation. ”
The old man really played politics, and his vision was quite keen, reminding Huang Han to use this to make a name for himself, this time it was not a murderous name, but a good name for doing good deeds and accumulating virtue.
Huang Han actually doesn't care about making a name for himself, he wants to make a profit with it, he wants to solve the problem of employment, and he wants to increase a large number of jobs for women who are difficult to find employment.
As long as he gets the approval of the government, he will naturally have a way to monopolize the roasted sweet potato business, because he has the violent machine of the army, and as long as he finds that someone is also setting up a roasted sweet potato stall, he will do it.
In fact, at present, the raw materials for processing roasted sweet potatoes and potato chips are basically exclusively owned by Huang Han, and there is no possibility for others to participate in the competition, which is to prevent problems before they occur.
Huang Han considered that this was originally a labor-intensive and low-profit business, and it would be unprofitable to be subjected to disorderly competition.
Too many people selling roasted sweet potatoes will lead to business diversion, and everyone will have nothing to make but to stay hungry and have to hold on, so that valuable human resources are wasted in internal friction.
Huang Han estimated that the reasonable allocation of booths in the market with the business philosophy of modern people will make the best efficiency of human resources, so as to achieve sustainable development and healthy development.
Now that there are 800 acres of sweet potatoes and potatoes, it can be inferred that the harvest of one mu of sweet potatoes is six times that of wheat, so Huang Han set 10 to 15 percent of the value of a pound of white flour as the price of a pound of sweet potatoes.
Wheat has to be ground into flour to be able to make white flour steamed buns, loss and labor are not decimals, sweet potatoes are simply the existence of raw food, as long as the preservation method of the loss rate is basically not considered.
The cost of raw materials for roasted sweet potatoes is calculated by one pound and a half dollars, and the water loss during processing is converted according to the sales of four pounds and one pound, which means that buying a pound of roasted sweet potatoes will get fourteen taels of physical goods.
Putting away the costs of raw materials, labor, coal, pallet trucks, oven depreciation, etc., you can net a penny by selling a pound of roasted sweet potatoes.
There is no profiteering side, and the business to the public will last for a long time.
In Gyeonggi, a land with a population of several million, it is cheaper than multigrain cakes, and roasted sweet potatoes that cost only a quarter of the price of white flour cakes can be sold for 50 to 1 million catties a day.
Don't look at a pound of baked sweet potatoes only a penny to earn, but it is not easy to add up to a lot, if a day to reach a million pounds of sales means to earn a net profit of 1,000 taels of silver, a year to 300 days to budget is 300,000 taels of snowflake silver.
It is true that small products can make a big market, and the whole Ming Dynasty is short of cheap and high-quality food to get the people out of hunger, and the promotion of sweet potatoes not only makes a profit, but also saves the food rations of the small people in Shengdou, and the market will certainly not be limited to Gyeonggi.
Instead of being pulled on a two-wheeled cart like a baked sweet potato stall, the potato chips are processed in a storefront on Yongping Chenghuang Temple Street, where Gu Zhen and her eldest daughter, who is less than 10 years old, fill a plate with potato chips that are no longer hot for passers-by to taste a few slices.
Such a delicious delicacy suitable for all ages quickly attracted customers, and the fried potato chips were also four yuan, but instead of buying one catty, they bought one or two, that is, fifty-two yuan a catty, and the cost was about ten yuan.
Potato chips can not be characterized as a mass food in this era, this is just a snack, and it is difficult for the small people of Daming to even meet the needs of food and clothing, where can they have spare money to buy snacks?
Therefore, Huang Han characterized potato chips as a luxury product, and in the face of high-end sales, huge profits can be made. The money of wealthy officials and wealthy businessmen must be ruthless.
The small shop of fried potato chips opened well, and the turnover of the day reached more than ten taels of silver, and it is estimated that the net profit will not be less than ten taels of silver.
In the future, Gu Zhen, who is in charge of the potato chips business, will take people to Qinglou, restaurants, tea shops, and gambling houses to seek cooperation, and give up part of the profits to these buildings, halls, and halls, and it will definitely not be a problem to increase sales with such a win-win model.
Demonstrations are being held at the baked sweet potato stalls and potato chips shops in Yong Binh Province, and women who have been selected for jobs selling roasted sweet potatoes or potato chips are constantly coming to learn during this time.
Within a few days, the business of Kaiping Town and Luanzhou also opened one after another, and then developed Hazelnut Town and Fengrun County.
After the sweet potato and potato harvest are completed, there will be 50 small potato chip shops in full bloom in Beizhili, and 1,000 stalls of roasted sweet potatoes will appear in the state capitals and towns.
Not only did this provide more than 2,000 women with well-paid jobs, but it also made the sweet potato and potato crops a household name, and it also had the great benefit of making the tentacles of the 'flag guards' ubiquitous.
Because the Sifang Express led all the migrant workers abroad and provided accommodation and three meals for everyone, and someone was bullied, the Sifang Express would organize force to retaliate in time.
After Huang Sifang was appointed as the chief general of the "Red Banner Guards," he began his work on the same day, and within three days, 67 veterans returned to the team and became the first batch of "Flag Guards."
Many of them are disabled, some of them were injured in battle, fell off their horses, and were trampled on horses and broke their legs, resulting in comminuted fractures, and those who recovered would normally become lame.
But as long as someone helped them to get on the war horses, the combat effectiveness of these former cavalry was not affected at all, and now there are more than 20 such "flag guards" under Huang Sifang.
Soldiers with less arms will directly affect the force value, but the main job of the "flag guard" is not to fight but to collect intelligence, and the most important thing is loyalty, these disabled soldiers who have shed blood for the "Red Banner Army" and share the honor and disgrace with the "Red Banner Army" will of course be loyal.
The business of "Sifang Express" has been grandly opened, and as expected, business is booming.
Huang Sifang has already arranged for more than a dozen inconvenient "flag guards" to buy big houses with faces in several state capitals as footholds and undertake business.
The 300 carriages can no longer meet the needs, and now 70 percent of the seized carriages have been assigned to the "Sifang Express," Huang Sifang has directly managed more than 4,000 coachmen, men, and handymen, and the "Qiwei" has grown to more than 200 people.