576 Opening of the city (medium)
Recently, I have been very busy, and I am working on several bidding projects at the same time, so I am very nervous and have no energy to take care of writing anymore. What's worse is that this situation will continue for some time. So the update can't be kept stable.,I'm sorry to all readers——
"This idiot, no matter how good the prospects of emerging markets are, they must be promoted to be effective. Potential customers don't even know how such a thing can be sold! ”
When Chen Tao's telegram was sent to Hainan Island and delivered to Julie, the latter only took a few glances to find out what the problem was. In fact, this problem is not complicated, and even people like Qian Qianyi, who does not understand business operations at all, have reminded Chen Tao that the goods he sells in this shop are not used by ordinary people.
There are many reasons for bad eyes, but most of them are due to frequent reading, and in these years, people who can read often to the point of damaging their eyesight are often not ordinary people. This kind of person usually does not go to the street to buy things in person, but is done by servants - in the Ming Dynasty, except for the New Year's temple fair, the common people generally did not have the habit of shopping.
So unless Chen Tao can manage to let those big families know the purpose of glasses and combine it with their own needs, they will consider sending a servant to come and have a look, and if it is good, most likely it will also ask the merchant to come to the door, rather than just shopping and coming in as in modern times - merchants in the Ming Dynasty were regarded as cheap industries, which was reflected in these small places.
"After staying in Beijing for so long, I didn't even understand the rules of local business activities, and I rushed into it...... Nerds are nerds! ”
Julie is a pungent person, and she has always spoken very directly, even in front of Chen Tao, she must be so straightforward and not save face at all. But after all, Julie still gave Chen Tao a very detailed business plan, helped him analyze the success or failure of the case, reminded him of the various points that he needs to pay attention to when doing business in Beijing, and formulated several promotion plans for him...... Don't look at Julie in Hainan, and she has never been to Beijing City in this era, but the plan she formulated is quite practical and effective, so that when this plan was transmitted to Beijing City, Chen Dalei only looked at it with his eyebrows fluttering, and he was amazed again and again.
- That's right, after discovering that he had no talent for management, and that the market in Beijing in the Ming Dynasty was not as easy to open as he imagined, Chen Tao had no choice but to delegate the responsibility of specific management to Chen Dalei - in fact, this is also part of Julie's business strategy for him: an investor does not need to know how to operate, but must know who should be allowed to operate. Since you have a professional around you, but you still have to do everything yourself, it is purely asking for trouble.
Chen Tao is not a genius, but his greatest advantage is that he is good and can listen to the opinions of others. Since Julie said so, he gave up his original idea of wanting to be a big Ming Hu Xueyan, and honestly continued to serve as an investor and behind-the-scenes president.
He signed a contract with Chen Dalei and officially entrusted him to be the general manager of the Beijing region of the Qionghai Trading Company, and to be fully responsible for the trading company's business in this place - even the contract itself was written by Julie and sent by telegram at the same time, and the standard terms were all drawn up in detail, and the Beijing people only needed to sign it.
In the end, the plan and various contracts were thick and heavy, and it took two full days for the telegraph office to be sent, and even Chen Tao himself spent several days translating the code, and after the translation, people were paralyzed.
The telegram was only a part, and along with the telegram was sent a fast sailing boat, which went straight from Hainan Island to Tianjin, and on it was loaded with workers and supplies, drawings and the like, all of which were pointed out to Chen Tao so that he could make a comeback—Julie's style is like this: either you don't care, you can take charge of everything from head to toe, even the smallest details are taken into account.
This is not the end, a few days later, Xie Xi sent an angry telegram to ask the teacher to ask for the guilt - for your little in the capital, I actually made my wife stay up with a big belly for a week, and her spirit has obviously been poor in the past few days. If our son has any trouble in the future, be careful that I will go to the capital to settle accounts with you, it will be useless in the Tibetan Palace!
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After a long period of excitement, Chen Tao's personal business plan has been transformed into a part of the overall layout of the entire trading company in the mainland. Chen Dalei's entrustment contract was not signed with Chen Tao personally, but with the entire Qionghai Trading Company, where Chen Tao was appointed with the title of "President of the Northern Region of Qionghai Trading Company in Greater China", and even Chen Yueer got the name of an assistant, and he had a monthly salary to receive.
Chen Yueer was overjoyed by this, after all, the short-haired salary is notoriously generous, and with this income, she is no longer afraid of being stuck in the money bag when she quarrels with her father. But for Chen Dalei, whether it is the general manager or the president, these new terms do not mean much to him. In the eyes of Chen Dalei, who is already the head of a big family, this entrustment contract that strictly limits personal authority and distinguishes between public and private is a bit like a deed of sale, if the relationship between him and Chen Tao was still mutual cooperation and mutual support, as soon as this contract was signed, he became a part-time job for Chen Tao - or a part-time job for Julie, because Chen Tao was only entrusted by the trading company that Julie was responsible for.
However, Chen Dalei finally signed this agreement, because this business agreement is also an opportunity for him, and it is also an opportunity he has been waiting for a long time - Julie gives the position of "general manager" in the agreement is quite powerful, here in Beijing he only needs to be responsible to Chen Tao alone, and Chen Tao will definitely not care about the specific operation in the future, whether in terms of ability or interest, when the time comes, those from the Tianjin wharf, those varieties and huge quantities of all kinds of novelty goods, but they are all operated by him.
Speaking of which, as the head of the Chen family in Luzon, Chen Dalei left his family's own business alone, but came to work for other families, which seems to be a bit disregardful of the overall situation? But the situation of their Chen family is a bit special - like the old rival Lin family, the older generation of their Luzon Chen family is still alive, but compared to the old man of the Lin family who completely retreated to the second line and handed over the business to his son, Chen Dalei and his father are younger, and his spirit is even more vigorous, although he nominally handed over the position of patriarch to the eldest son, but all kinds of affairs in the family, no matter how big or small, are still firmly in his hands. And what's even worse is that the previous generation of their old Chen family, Ding Xingwang, in addition to his father, Chen Dalei's head, there are many old guys from his uncle's generation, all of whom are quite active...... With so many elders pressing on his head, he Chen Dalei has no place to do it.
Therefore, as the head of a dignified family, he followed Chen Tao all the way to Beijing to develop, just to take a curved route to save the country and prove his ability with the help of external forces - the strength of the family cannot be counted on. Many of the things that Chen Tao did before were pure child's nonsense in his eyes, but he still patiently accompanied him to do it, but it was precisely to get this opportunity today.
So even if the conditions of this agreement are a little more stringent, he will definitely sign it. After signing the agreement and accepting the employment of the trading company, he can officially join the large and rich business empire of the Qionghai trading company, and he has a high degree of decision-making power from the beginning. This stage is much broader than the original little Chen family.
Of course, having said that, what can make Chen Dalei excited is by no means limited to a mere glasses business - if he still only sells glasses, Chen Dalei doesn't know anything about it, and no matter how good the conditions are, he won't sign it. But the business plans developed by Julie this time, and the authority she gave to Chen Tao's northern branch, have expanded the scope of business to all the main products of the trading company.
Considering the transportation cost and the company's positioning in the capital, the trading company sold the largest "three whites" in the southern region - white rice, white salt, white sugar, and later increased cotton cloth and ironware. And mainly make some small quantity and high price, such as glass, chandeliers, mirrors and so on - according to Chen Tao's description, people are very interested in these glass appliances that he uses in large quantities in the decoration of his store, so they sell it. For savvy merchants, "buying and returning pearls" is not a joke, since boxes are better to sell than beads, it is okay to sell boxes specifically. You don't see so many moon cakes and mung bean cakes packed in Nanmu boxes every year in modern society...... Those merchants who make zuò are not fools.
After watching the excitement for a month, the people near Xuanwumen in the south of the city gradually lost interest in the newly opened shop of the southern Yankee and paid little attention to it. The façade of the shop is very magnificent, and the things sold inside look very powerful, but it feels too far away from the daily life of ordinary people like them, and there is no intersection at all.
“…… Only large families can use it, but this street is not a place for large families to gather. ”
“…… If you put it on Qianmen Street, the bell and drum tower, and other lively places, there may be business. Where will you be popular in this kind of alley! ”
“…… After all, these southerners are foreigners, they are not familiar with the place, and they lack vision. ”
The owners of several nearby silver shops are quite concerned about this newly opened shop, most of the silver buildings in this era are old relationships accumulated over many years, and they mainly provide door-to-door service, so you don't have to pay too much attention to the location of the store, and it doesn't matter if it's remote. They often get together so that they can support each other in terms of safety and security. Whatever the time is fresh, the novelty style can also get the news in time, so as not to lag behind the trend.