Chapter 174: The Way of the Merchant
The palatial Ma family mansion, with many guests staggered, seems to be very lively.
Ma Rong's eyes stared straight at a lotus pond in the garden not far away, many lotus flowers were set off by a large area of green lotus leaves, which looked very bright and moving, just like Chang'e dancing under the backdrop of many fairies.
"Are you really going to become a monk?" Ma Rong asked, "Those old monks, who don't do anything all day long, are very powerful in cheating, and it's not a good thing to be with these people, Dad, you have to think clearly."
Runzhi was sitting in the most luxurious living room of the Ma family's mansion at this moment, sitting with this powerful person in Zhejiang, these people naturally knew the prefect, and they wanted to kneel on the ground, but they would have been blocked by Runzhi's inadvertent gestures.
These people who are not rich or noble, by the side of the prefect, are naturally holding their breath, on the surface they are still pleasant, smiling and listening to Runzhi's words, in fact, their hearts are worried at the beginning, this situation began to change with the content of Runzhi's conversation, everyone gradually relaxed, and almost forgot that Runzhi is the prefect.
I only heard Runzhi He everyone say:
"It's rare to get together here today, everyone has seen it before, you are all big businessmen in Zhejiang, in fact, the official is also a businessman, the largest textile workshop in Kyushu, that is, the Luoyang textile workshop is opened by the official, and the businessman is also very important, although we still think that the business is the lowest, but we businessmen are rich, the so-called money can make the ghost grind, we can live a chic life, what is not good, no matter what status he does not have, can make money, happy, Do you say yes or no? ”
The crowd hurriedly said in unison:
"What your lord says is very true!"
Among the people at this table, there is one person who stands out from the rest, this person's name is Zhang Qiangjun, this person is different from other people in the industry, this person is engaged in the production and sale of gunpowder, firearms, and artillery.
The reason why this person was able to become a first-class rich and noble person in Zhejiang was because when Runzhi sent troops to the subject state of Annan to help him drive away the pirates, he purchased a special artillery and other types of firearms and gunpowder invented by him in large quantities, so that his profit reached tens of thousands of taels of silver.
So this person is actually very grateful to Runzhi in private.
This Zhang Qiang Jun heard Runzhi finish speaking, so he said:
"We and other villains in this place to meet adults, just like a long drought and nectar, other places to meet the old acquaintance, if it was not for the adult's support, how can there be the villain's wonderful today, now the villain's everything is the grace of the adult, your great grace, how can I be a cow and a horse can be exchanged, now under the rule of the adult, we feel more honored, if it is useful to us and so on, we must do everything we will not hesitate to do it"
When many people heard this, they all nodded in agreement.
Runzhi listened, and while gently fanning the wind with a feather fan, he said in an approachable manner: Dog
"Qiang Jun has won the award, this is just your own credit, like me and other businessmen, which will easily try to stick to others, but just take what they need, adults are all people on the scene, and the characters who have seen must be thousands, a few people have seen our big businessmen can do business indiscriminately to prosper for a long time, this businessman has to pay the most attention to the quality of his goods, the quality of goods is extremely good, followed by its price must be significantly better than others, this is the basic way for businessmen to win."
Zhang Qiangjun listened and nodded secretly in agreement, and at the same time was thinking about the meaning of this.
For these people who are not rich or noble, in fact, the most important thing is to figure out people's work.
After all, this is not something that ordinary people can learn.
"What the adults say is very true, but we and other people who do business, and to achieve the quality of the goods, and be sure to be significantly better than others in price, we must consider a variety of factors, especially to drive the workshop people to work hard for us, these people are very lowly, give more money, but do not say anything, once the money is given less, just talk nonsense, and even during the workshop work can be mixed day is a day, negative work, but it makes people feel very helpless, headache ah, You must know that if you give more money to the people in the workshop, then the price of the goods will inevitably rise, so it seems that it is very difficult to get the best of both worlds."
When this Runzhi heard this, he said slowly:
"Of course, the official knows everyone's difficulties, after all, the official himself is also doing this business, but the official can tell everyone that in order to make the least amount of money and produce the best products, it is necessary to continuously increase the number of outstanding talents in the workshop, actively adopt and deal with the opinions, suggestions, complaints and accusations from many people within the workshop, and actively find and improve the shortcomings in the workshop."
Runzhi continued:
"Let the best and most popular people act as managers, and then let a part of the best people act as the inventors of many things, so that these people can invent more new and practical production technologies or new products and immediately pilot them, and if feasible, immediately promote their use. The so-called way of businessmen, survival of the fittest. Our workshops still need to keep their workshops alive so that we can produce many of the best quality and lowest price items."
This Zhang Qiangjun listened, gave Runzhi a thumbs up, and said:
"The adult is really smart, such a high strategy, if our workshop adopts the way of the adult's businessman as soon as possible, the wealth of everyone in ancient and modern times will be more than a few times, but I don't know how the adult's workshop deals with the remuneration of the person who makes the workshop, these people are simply insatiable, no matter how much our workshop gives them, some of them still feel very dissatisfied."
Qiang Jun continued:
After all, with the increase in the remuneration of workers, the price of goods will have to rise, and there will be fewer people to buy after the price increase, and our things have been backlogged, especially the daily gunpowder of many people of the villain, which must be a backlog, it is a great danger, especially when the weather is hot, once the temperature is too high, it is easy to spontaneously combust, and then produce a huge destructive effect, so that it is very expensive and distressed for this. I was always very worried about this in the next workshop."
After listening to this Qiang Jun's words, Runzhi naturally knew that there were indeed many problems in these people's workshops.
But Runzhi naturally understands that it seems very simple and easy to solve these problems, but in fact, it can get a lot of new costs, which invisibly increases the price, but it is even more cost-effective.