Chapter 43: The Concern of Empress Changsun
As Wang Dong's business became bigger and bigger, as Wang Dong said, the flour in Wang Mengyao's hand could no longer be satisfied.
In the past two days, Wang Mengyao privately ordered to temporarily withhold the flour that was intended to be distributed to the five old customers to protect the needs of Wang Dong and Jiugong. On the other hand, she quickly repaired the book and the head office, explaining the reason, hoping that the head office could supply a large amount of grain and noodles.
Quan Bo was very worried about Wang Mengyao's approach, because if he offended the five old customers of this grain store for no reason, the losses brought might be far stricter than expected.
Besides, on Wang Dong's side, he cooperated with Jiugong and Qianniang, and the expansion of the booth was very rapid.
On the first day, they had 8 stalls, and on the second day, all the stall owners who heard the news came to report, and after Wang Dong had trained him for a period of time, on the third day, the number of stalls in Jinyang City had reached an astonishing 20.
This is not without the speed of expansion.
The 20 stalls are naturally impossible to concentrate all in the east of the city, so under Wang Dong's arrangement, these 20 stalls are scattered in the streets and alleys of Jinyang City, which makes it more convenient for people to come to the nearest stall within a quarter of an hour as long as they are in Jinyang City.
However, this can exhaust Jiugong and Qianniang.
The stalls are distributed throughout the city, and Jiugong manages the accounts, so he has to run between these stalls every day, and at the end of the day, his leg will be broken.
And the situation of Qianniang is roughly the same. It's Wang Dong, but it's relaxed.
Wang Dong naturally couldn't turn a blind eye to the rush of Jiugong and Qianniang, so the second reform meeting was held.
This time, the solution proposed by Wang Dong helped Jiugong and Qianniang save a lot of effort.
Wang Dong's solution is:
Jiugong, instead of running back and forth at each stall, let those stall owners, after closing every day, go to the wine shop outside the city to meet and reconcile, and then give Jiugong's income for a day to calculate clearly. In doing so, it is equivalent to letting Jiugong share a part of the rights to those stall owners.
Wang Dong is not afraid that these stall owners are hiding their secrets, because the ingredients required for each bucket of flour are fixed, and the fried fritters are roughly the same as long as the quality is guaranteed.
Based on these statistics, Jiugong can easily calculate the daily income of each stall.
In this way, Jiugong can sit at home, drink a little wine, and make accounts.
In terms of Qianniang, Wang Dong's idea is even more unique, he ordered someone to make 20 wooden boxes of the same size, similar to modern mailboxes, but the keys to the wooden boxes are all in Qianniang's hands.
Then, Jiugong wrote "suggestion boxes" on these wooden boxes, and then hung these suggestion boxes on each stall.
Every day, when the stall owner comes to the wine shop to report, he also brings back this suggestion box by the way, so that if there is a problem with the food at any stall, Qianniang can immediately get feedback in these suggestion boxes.
And when she is usually free, Qianniang can also visit each stall secretly, one bright and one dark, both prongedly.
Wang Dong's solution did solve the problem of Jiugong and Qianniang, and it was implemented for two days, and the effect was really good.
Besides, Wang Dong, 20 stalls in Jinyang City are enough, and any more will be a bit of a waste of manpower, so he began to shift his attention to more than ten counties under the state.
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Jinyang City, in the state government, is still the pavilion, and the eldest grandson queen is standing in the pavilion at the moment, and there is a person behind her, who is reporting back to her.
"How's it going to ask you to find out?"
"Back to the queen, after these few days of investigation, the subordinates have found out that the person who invented the fritters is a person named Wang Dong, he was originally a disaster victim, and then was rescued by Wang Mengyao of the palace on the way back to Jinyang, and then sold himself into the Wang family as a slave, some time ago, because he offended the six mothers of the Wang family, he was exiled to the wine shop outside the east of the city."
"And what about the fritters he makes? Is it really as the people say, very cheap? ”
"After a visit by his subordinates, it was found that the fritters sold by Wang Dong were indeed very cheap."
"Why?" Empress Eldest Sun frowned.
"The subordinate investigation found that this Wang Dong reached an agreement with Wang Mengyao of the Wang family grain store in Jinyang City, Wang Mengyao sold the flour to Wang Dong at a low price, and Wang Dong divided most of the money he earned into Wang Mengyao, and himself, two days ago, also handed over the management power to another old slave of the Wang family."
"Oh? If he makes money, he doesn't want it, and he doesn't greed for power, won't he get nothing? ”
"Now it seems, so."
Empress Changsun said: "This is a little interesting, why did he do this? Buy flour at a low price and share the profits? Isn't that redundant? ”
"My subordinates started to think so. This Wang Dong can buy flour from Wang Mengyao at the original price, so that even if his fritters are sold at the current price, he will make a lot of money. ”
"Look, then why did he do this?"
The subordinate believes that he may have done this for two reasons. First, the profit is shared with Wang Mengyao, which can make Wang Mengyao concentrate his efforts and supply the flour to him first; Second, Wang Mengyao saved his life, and now, Wang Mengyao is ostracized in the Wang family, so in order to repay his kindness, he used this method to indirectly help Wang Mengyao. ”
"How can a little slave have such a heart to protect his master?" Empress Eldest Sun had a curious glint in her eyes.
"These are just the guesses of subordinates."
"Got it, you go down."
"Queen, you have been out of the palace for a long time, Your Majesty is deeply concerned, Chang'an is coming to report quickly, Your Majesty asks the Queen to return to the palace as soon as possible."
Empress Changsun pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay, let's go back to Chang'an tomorrow, you go down and prepare." ”
"Command."
On the morning of the second day, Empress Changsun and Princess Li Lizhi of Changle were resting in the mansion, when they suddenly heard a sudden noise outside, and the sound of gongs and drums came from the street, which seemed to be very lively.
Empress Changsun and Princess Changle walked out of the room, and a subordinate immediately walked over.
"What does the queen command?"
Empress Eldest Sun, looking in the direction of the gate, asked, "What's going on outside?" It's so noisy? ”
"I don't know about the little one, but I've already sent someone to investigate."
Sure enough, it didn't take long for a person to come in a hurry.
"What's going on out there?"
"Back to the queen, the fritters sold by Wang Dong are shoddy and deliberately hyped by some people."
"Hype? Who are they? ”
"It should be the stall owners of other stalls in Jinyang City who did it secretly."
"Let's go, come with me."
"But the queen, we are going to leave for Chang'an at noon, so leave such a trivial matter to the officials here."
"It's okay, the departure time has been changed to early afternoon." As she spoke, Empress Eldest Sun had already walked towards the door.
It is said that the tree is a big wind, and this is really true, Wang Dong is also a big deal this time.