Regarding the recruitment of private domestic servants, Li Zhigao felt that Liu Runsheng's words were quite reasonable, and he didn't want to be too special, so he had to do something to de-contract and make him approachable. After all, the times are different, the environment is different, and the situation of those people is different from Liu Runsheng, at most they can only be regarded as lower-level employees, they are not familiar with each other, and they have not given great favors for the time being, there is no need to be too good, the treatment is too good all of a sudden, but it will be difficult to manage with a nose and face.

Now he has money in his hands, and it is not easy to recruit people, but his requirements are also high, for example, men must be over 1.65 meters tall and must not be more than 25 years old, as for women, they must be over 1.55 meters tall and cannot be more than 18 years old.

Li Zhigao's requirements are definitely low in modern society, but in this era in Anhui, it is relatively high, after all, it is not people from those places in northeast Shandong, plus malnutrition and other factors, at this time people in Anhui are generally not tall.

However, today's world is not good, many people can't eat enough at home, so the human trafficking, or the talent market is very hot, selling children and daughters and selling themselves is like a cow's hair, it is a big buyer's market, many people are picky, and there are many qualified, Li Zhigao gives a high enough money to sell his body, and he also includes food and accommodation, even if he wants to sign a deed of sale, it is still very attractive.

Liu Runsheng's brother-in-law Zhang Deping works as a policeman in the county town and is very familiar with human trafficking.

In the end, Zhang Deping found 30 men who were over 1.65 meters tall and no more than 25 years old and no more than 25 years old, plus 30 women under the age of 18 who were over 1.55 meters tall. The price is not expensive, men only need 20 oceans, women are super cheap, 10 oceans over 14 years old, 5 oceans under 14 years old. That's it, it's still calculated according to high standards, if you don't follow the high standards set by Li Zhigao, it will be even lower, don't even sell your body for money, as long as you take care of the food, there are a lot of people who will go with you.

After paying the money and signing the deed of sale seriously, Li Zhigao first let these domestic servants who already belonged to him have a full meal, and then let them all take a "luxury bath" with the soap shampoo and other products he brought, change into clean clothes, and then began to set salaries and rules with them.

In terms of salary, the male family currently gives two oceans of money per month, including food and clothing, and the maid gives one ocean per month, which is also food, shelter and wear, of course, this is the basic treatment, good work, bonus allowance, subsidy, or reward or something.

It's not that Li Zhigao is slamming the door, his original intention was to give these people more money, but Liu Runsheng persuaded him, saying that these people are new to the country, and if they are given too high treatment all of a sudden, they will cause trouble. After listening to Liu Runsheng's words, Li Zhigao paid the monthly salary more in line with the market price, but increased the bonus and allowance, or the amount of reward.

As for the rules, they are also simple, the main thing is to be obedient and not to cause trouble, not to be lazy and slippery, to be specific, that is, Liu Runsheng found a way to formulate it, he is a local, and he must be more familiar with Li Zhigao in this regard.

Although Zhang had never been a housekeeper before, but when he didn't marry in the past, he had also managed a few people in the family, and he knew how to know the world, and after Li Zhigao bought this house, in order to facilitate the treatment of the old lady, he had already taken over the old lady, so that Zhang could be the housekeeper, and it was very convenient for the next person to serve, which was also a variety of conveniences.

In this way, Liu Runsheng's family is equivalent to becoming Li Zhigao's family, and from then on, Liu Runsheng is responsible for Li Zhigao's external affairs, and Liu Runsheng's wife Zhang is responsible for Li Zhigao's inner house. Although it seems to be a bit hidden at this point, after all, the people around Li Zhigao are all Liu Runsheng's family, and they haven't signed any deed of sale, so they can't be regarded as their own house slaves, but at present, Li Zhigao has no other intimate people, so he can only believe in the character of Liu Runsheng's family first, and wait to see the situation later. Anyway, at least for now, Liu Runsheng's family is still relatively reliable, and it is better than just finding someone who is not familiar with him.

After all this was done, Li Zhigao specially cleaned up a secret warehouse, and then designated this place as a forbidden area, stipulating that no one was allowed to enter it except himself, even Liu Runsheng and others. After doing this, I quietly spit out the things in the space in the middle of the night in this vacated large warehouse.

In this way, Li Zhigao finally has a good foothold in this world, although the secret surname is not too good, but it is not satisfactory.

At dawn the next day, Li Zhigao ordered the shop outside to be closed, and then commanded the servants and shop guys to start working to renovate the interior decoration of the shop, of course, it was not so troublesome, the main thing was to empty the original furnishings and make the space of the house vacant.

The thing is very simple, Li Zhigao does not plan to continue to sell silk, he plans to transform the shop into a department store, and then pick out some samples of the products he brought and put them outside, so as to open the door to do business and do business for a long time, but in this way, the original decoration of the silk and satin shop is not suitable, and it has to be arranged separately.

In this way, after a few closed doors and three days, Li Zhigao finally quietly opened his first department store in the county - boutique department store.

On the opening day, firecrackers and lion dances were set off as usual, and various nearby businesses also sent greetings in advance, and everything was in accordance with the rules.

Li Zhigao was looking for rich businessmen to sell goods some time ago, and his goods were all high-quality and high-price foreign goods, so he has recently become a little famous in the business community of Taiping Mansion, so on the opening day, in addition to many local business people came to cheer, some foreigners also came to congratulate. Of course, because it is to open the door to do business, in addition to the people of Daohe, there are also some people who go to the street to see the rarity, and even on the same day, the local prefect and the wife of the prefectural order met to go out shopping, and a large number of people also came to join in the excitement when they encountered this situation, which made the opening scene seem very popular.

At first, the people who came to congratulate or come to see the rarity were just to join in the fun, but when everyone came in, their eyes lit up and they shouted that the trip was worthwhile.

Li Zhigao's boutique department store is not planned according to the supermarket model, but according to the department store model, that is, it is divided into different commodity areas, and then in the commodity area, there are rows of glass counters that Li Zhigao took the time to bring from modern society, and the counters are placed with different goods held in fine flannel, and behind the counters are a young salesperson.

For example, mechanical watches are placed in the glass counter in the watch area, other pens and stainless steel products are placed in the counter of the supplies area, cosmetics are placed in the cosmetics counter, and antibiotics and drugs are placed in the medicine counter.

Because the houses of this era could not be lit, in order to provide better lighting in the store, a kerosene lamp would be hung above the four corners of each glass counter, that is, four kerosene lamps on a glass counter, and these lamps were lit even in broad daylight.

In order to prevent smoke and fire, each kerosene lamp has a special flue that drains directly to the outside of the house, and in order to concentrate the light underneath and prevent the light from glaring, the kerosene lamp is set up with a beautiful conical lampshade.

The inside of the lampshade is a reflector, and there is a layer of arc-shaped lens at the place where the light comes out below, and there is a layer of milky white frosted glass outside the lens, so that the light of the kerosene lamp inside will gather and shine downward, and the light emitted through the lens will be filtered by the frosted glass, so that the light becomes softer while concentrating. These four searchlights all shine light at the glass counter at a certain angle, making the glass counter a spotlight.

Just such an ingenious little arrangement makes the things in the glass case appear clearer, and it looks better than in natural light, and there is a sense of dignity.

Naturally, the lampshade was all brought by Li Zhigao from modern times, and it was originally a soft condenser, but the bulb inside was replaced with a kerosene lamp.

In addition to these ingenious designs, the salespeople here are also very distinctive.

The salesmen are divided into men and women, the men are wearing black leather shoes, black trousers, white shirts, black vests, plus red bow ties and white gloves, their hair is washed cleanly, and they are also milked, looking clean and capable of dressing as foreign waiters; The women's dress is the same, but the hairstyle is different, and the face is grease and powder, but it is more graceful than the male waiter.

Half of these male and female salesmen were originally retained men, and the other half were all domestic servants bought by Li Zhigao, such as waitresses, all of whom came over to act as maids.

Naturally, due to the social atmosphere, male salespeople are still the main ones here, and female salespeople only provide services to customers with female surnames, such as accompanying shopping guides, introducing products, and so on. And for some decent people who don't like to show their heads, you can also choose to go to the big customer room, which is more hidden and will not be disturbed.

The three-storey building facing the street is basically an open sales yard, and those who basically come to buy things can come in casually, but the large guest room behind the shop is specially opened in the front yard of the inner house, but it can not be let in casually, only members who have reached a certain level of consumption or specially invited guests can enter, to put it bluntly, it is deliberately opened up the grade.

There are many modern products, such as a reception room with a modern sofa and a modern craft coffee table, where members and specially invited guests can chat quietly without interruption, whether it is to talk about business, or to play and recite poetry, in short, it is a salon or club form.

On the whole, although the furnishings of the boutique department store are relatively novel, and the waiters are dressed in a more foreign style, these are not the most attractive places, and the most attractive thing is undoubtedly the dazzling array of modern products.

Whether it's pocket watches, watches and pens, stainless steel kitchen utensils and tableware, or perfume and skin balm, all things are unique and have a unique charm!

Not to mention stainless steel products, exquisite, practical and generous, absolutely good things, and those toiletries, such as soap, skin cream, shampoo and the like, look good at the packaging, smell good, and there are many red card girls invited from the academy to demonstrate how to use these things in public, how to use them, and how to use them, which adds more temptation and persuasiveness.

All the customers who came in almost all spent the money on hand and exchanged it for one or a few things inside, and that's not all, they also rushed home to get the money or call friends, and quickly found someone to continue to expand the purchase, plus the merchants who placed large orders on the spot to play wholesale, so that the sales of the day were very hot.

Watches, pocket watches and pens are too expensive, and many people see them, but not many people buy them, but toiletries and stainless steel products are different!

For those novel, exquisite and easy to use, the price is generally several, dozens or hundreds of ocean-like supplies, the locals of Taiping Mansion are still very willing to pay for it, not only rich businessmen, even many well-off families, are also scrambling to buy some small things, in other words, the use of department stores, is to completely ignite the shopping passion of the people of Taiping Mansion, but also completely open up the consumer market here.

As for why this is the case, it is easy to explain.

High-end waterproof mechanical watches or pens, after all, the recognition of locals is relatively low, and it is not a necessity of life, although drugs are good, but the price is too expensive, and it also takes time to verify, in other words, those things are high-end consumer markets, and they are a minority in this era.

But like other stainless steel products and soap and perfume and other supplies are different, these things are most of the well-off homes can be used on the life of the supplies, plus these things Li Zhigao's pricing is more reasonable, but slightly higher than ordinary foreign goods, belongs to the low-end market, but the quality is too much higher than foreign goods, so that the surname price ratio is highlighted, can it not cause up and down crazy robbery?

Although there is no too developed media in this era, and the speed of information dissemination is limited, but for the crazy robbery of bargains, it is enough to rely on word of mouth.

Because there are more and more robbers who come to hear the news, and finally there is a disturbance, for fear of causing greater chaos, the result is that the door has to be closed in advance, but even so, when the door is closed to settle the account, just a moment of effort, light cleaning supplies and stainless steel supplies, sales reached more than 130,000 oceans, Li Zhigao, Liu Runsheng and the remaining bookkeeper were shocked.

This is still less than a day's sales, or the first time to open, many people do not know, to wait for the future, with the news of more and more merchants, this kind of large sales sales activities are estimated to continue to heat up, if there is no accident, said that the sales will be higher and higher, it will not be long, it should be sold what Li Zhigao brought, and the sales will definitely be an astronomical amount.

In a word, the opening was a success, and the situation is very good.

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