Chapter Ninety-Nine: Supermarkets
Wang Erniu, Zhu Gangguan, and some officials in charge of statistics and taxation reported to Yanglin and Chu Suiliang about the transaction, and in the two days of trading, the caravan sold a total of 37,000 guan of goods, and the goods of the ten major factories in the east and west were restricted from sale, but they also sold 112,000 guan and 5,300 stone of grain exchanged at the same price. Looking at the officials with a happy face, Yang Lin didn't laugh, a first-tier city like Luoyang can only trade about 200,000 guan, so the profit will not exceed 50,000 guan, along the way to the south of the Yangtze River, there are no more than ten such cities, it is impossible to count on these 500,000 guan to feed the people of Chang'an, Yang Lin, who has repeatedly stomped a few steps on the board of the ship, suddenly announced to everyone the decision to suspend the fleet in Luoyang, and the jubilant Tang officials did not know why to explore the reason, After Yanglin compared the profit of 50,000 guan with the more than 2 million mouths in Chang'an City, the officials were silent.
The pre-sale price of more than 200 ships of goods is more than 10 million guan, and it is not known when the 200,000 and 200,000 guan will be sold.
"But do you want to extend the sales time and sell more goods?" Chu Suiliang is a literati, but he does not show his ideological stubbornness, Luoyang City only has 300,000 people, 200,000 yuan of goods is enough for them for a period of time, and most of the goods sold are biased towards ceramics, wine, clothing, and other goods with high recognition, which is not the original intention of the fleet.
"The effect of continuing to sell will not be too big, people's awareness of these goods is still very shallow, it takes time to accept slowly, the fleet is not time to wait for them to accept, I plan to feast on the rich businessmen of Luoyang City to talk, I believe that they have used the goods of the top ten factories in the east and west in the past two days, and should have an understanding of the practicality, I plan to establish a supermarket in Luoyang that sells the goods of the top ten factories for a long time, so that their local people can fund the construction, responsible for sales, and we are responsible for providing the supply of goods on a special line. Give them a part of the profit, so that they will probably be really interested in the goods. ”
What Yanglin is talking about is actually the meaning of subcontracting dealers, manufacturers ship to dealers to sell their own, so that the goods continue to open the local market, it can be expected that there will be more and more people who can not do without these trendy daily necessities, and the goods will definitely not be sold at that time.
Chu Suiliang and other officials who had not turned the corner thought that Yanglin was selling more goods at a low price by killing chickens and eggs, until Yanglin explained the benefits of forming a supermarket to the adults one by one, and then everyone nodded and praised the benefits of this sales model, so General Hou, who was ready to see off the fleet at the dock, was invited to the ship by Yanglin again. After some explanation, Hou Junji patted his chest and promised that tomorrow in Luoyang City, people who can get along with rich characters will definitely come to the boat to attend the banquet.
The happiest thing for the fleet to stay in Luoyang for a while is Li Chengqian, the progress speed of this guy and Hou Ying can be described as fast, of course, Datang has no one who can resist the princess and the woman with those strange goods produced by the top ten factories in the east and west, people send a alabaster today, a soap and perfume tomorrow, and they almost sent sexy underwear and themselves.
Yang Lin and Chu Suiliang actually misestimated the form, and the low awareness of fresh goods was indeed a problem, but how quickly the Tang people accepted it was something they didn't expect. On the third day, when all kinds of goods continued to be displayed on the dock, the sales were actually better than the previous day's singing and dancing performances, which was also due to the rave reviews of the first batch of people who used the products, and the effect of spreading in the streets and alleys.
Hou Junji led a group of rich people from Luoyang City on the boat. Today's huge deck stage has become a banquet venue, and the banquet organized by Yang Lin himself will naturally not be bad, and dozens of businessmen who are a little frightened in their hearts have sat down in several large circles of seats, and have endured the temptation of wine and food to themselves, waiting for the protagonist to enter the world.
Yang Lin had a secret conversation with Hou Junji, the richest man and magnate in Luoyang, in the shipyard, but the content of the discussion was not profound. Anyway, Hou Junji came out of the cabin with a smile, Li Er is so lucky that this little boy really has his reasons, this doll is not very old. The wisdom in his head was not comparable to that of his son-in-law.
"You don't have to be polite, the things are served to eat, and when you are full and drunk, we can talk about things." Yang Lin exempted everyone from seeing the courtesy, and took the lead in holding a glass of wine and toasting Hou Junji, there is something to talk about today, naturally you can't drink more, after drinking a glass, Yang Lin warmly greeted everyone to eat, whether you want to or not, his clear eyes look at you with a smile, don't eat a few words of praise, you can't pass the test.
The special food of Wangjia Village naturally did not spread to Luoyang, and the emperor had to send the imperial chef to learn it if he wanted to eat it every day! Therefore, the eyes of the rich people in Luoyang who ate these dishes made by cooking methods that Datang had never had were bright, and they felt that they had eaten pig food for the first half of their lives!
"Is the food delicious? Is the wine good? Yang Lin saw the expressions of the rich businessmen in his eyes, and suddenly had a bottom in his heart, and asked with a smile.
"It's delicious, it's delicious."
Many jagged voices said, and some greedy ones couldn't stop, responding while chewing.
"Well, very well, do you want to eat such food and drink such good wine every day?" Yang Lin continued to ask.
"I think, of course I think about it, eating and drinking like this every day, that's the day of the gods!" A fat rich businessman with a loud voice took the lead and shouted, and the dishes on his table were almost eaten by him in a short time.
"That's great, I believe that the people of Luoyang City also think so, so this horse has a mention here, and I want to unite the merchants of Luoyang City to open a supermarket, specializing in selling the goods produced by our Datang East and West Factory, such as refined salt, soy sauce, and aged vinegar for cooking these foods, this good Yangjiang Daqu, all the shops under the stage and more novel goods produced by the East and West Ten Factories in the future, what do you think?"
Yang Lin's words instantly made all the merchants present in the same immobility as the immobilization method, in ancient times, there was an exclusive craft that others did not have, and it was a great heirloom to produce a unique kind of goods, and the horse master actually shared and sold all the goods produced by the top ten factories with himself in one go, looking at the endless trading scene on the shore, making money must be a safe thing, but it made them feel a little unreal, and they couldn't believe it, At this time, Toto Hou Junji, who had already greeted Yanglin, was about to come in handy.
"What do you mean, can you elaborate?" Hou Junji asked at the right time.
"You can think about it, the next trip to Jiangnan by the imperial court's fleet will only take a year or two, and you are also a big family in Luoyang City, but you can buy all the daily necessities needed for two years? Even if you want to buy it, I'm afraid that many products don't have such a long shelf life! Those ordinary people don't have the financial resources to buy so much at once, and I estimate that in two or three months at most, they will run out of things. Where will they buy the follow-up goods? That's why I'm going to start a supermarket.
Here may as well give you a thorough explanation, plus today, the fleet has sold more than 300,000 guan, that is to say, more than 300,000 people in Luoyang City, in about three months, will spend 300,000 guan on the daily necessities produced by the ten major factories in the east and west, which is about 1.2 million guan a year, which can probably generate 300,000 guan, the ten major factories in the east and west want to give up the profit of about 300,000 guan every Chinese New Year's Eve to all of you here, on the condition that you provide a fixed place of business, If the supermarket guarantees to only sell the goods produced by the East and West Factories now or in the future, then the East and West Ten Factories also guarantee the exclusive right to operate the supermarkets, and in the same city, the Top Ten Factories do not provide goods to any other merchants. ”
The business model outlined by Yanglin simply made the merchants present feel too good, which was completely equivalent to the top ten factories in the east and west to give their own goods at the lowest price, so that they could sell them exclusively, directly ignoring the need for them to send ships to Chang'an City to purchase this one, I have to say that they are lucky, Datang is now short of money, lack of food, but business talents, they took the express train of the top ten factories in the east and west, and it is certain to make money and make a fortune.
"So for the designated business premises and commodity pricing, etc., don't the top ten factories in the east and west have no requirements?" Hou Junji, this Toto, asked again.
"Of course, there are requirements, the supermarket must be designated by the people of the top ten factories in the east and west, and the daily management of the storage and preservation of various goods and cleaning needs to have professional people to take care of it, so once the supermarket is established, there must be a complete set of service personnel and supporting facilities, the operators are recruited by the merchants themselves, and the talents responsible for technical training are provided by the top ten factories, and the tax department of the imperial court will have professional business tax supervisors, which will be completed in a period of time. The first thing you have to do is to raise money for the construction of the market and the purchase of the first batch of goods, recruit and organize training for the operation, and during the construction period, you can try to sell in the east and west markets of Luoyang.
Yanglin gave these merchants a long lesson, almost all the problems that may arise in the supermarket have been thought of, the nervous system is huge so that Hou Junji and all the merchants sitting here are impressed, so when the banquet is dispersed, each merchant has declared the funds they can mobilize after careful consideration, Yanglin calculated the amount of shares in the supermarket with them according to the funds they provided, and at the same time allocated the number of people they need to recruit according to their quota. The salaries of employees entering the supermarket will be paid by the newly established supermarket management committee, and the members of the management committee will be the merchants with the largest investment, and they will distribute income and manage the import and export of goods in the future, and all shareholders have the power to supervise them.
Counted the merchants' goods list, Yang Lin really smiled this time, the strength of the merchants is too strong, in addition to raising 100,000 yuan for the construction of the supermarket building, but also purchased 800,000 yuan of goods at one time, just wait for tomorrow they pull money to come over to exchange goods, Yang Lin can order the fleet to continue to set off, as for the task of guiding the construction of houses and manpower training, Yang Lin only needs to draw a drawing, write a regulation and hand it over to the two people in Wangjia Village, I believe that when they return, the supermarket has already begun to operate normally. (To be continued......)