Volume 1 Family Chapter 19 Ye Qiu's Business Empire
After Ye Qiu and Ye Jinwen communicated, all things would be arranged by Ye Jinwen, and Ye Qiu became an idler. The operation of the vibranium vein was an important step for Ye Qiu after his rebirth, and now the entire Ye family was preparing for the vibranium vein, but Ye Qiu began to be idle. Because the vibranium vein is very important, everything must be done by the Ye family's descendants, so it may take a long time, and the time spent is not worth mentioning compared to the energy and vibranium vein.
As for Ye Qiu's vibranium vein, in addition to providing information and advice, he didn't have the resources to help with other specific things, but Ye Qiu was also happy to be idle. Ye Qiu was ready to develop his own personal power during this time, and it happened that Guo Jie's master and apprentice had also come to Pingyang City for a while, and Ye Qiu was ready to start implementing his new plan.
The first step of Ye Qiu's new plan is about wealth, no matter what era wealth is very important, don't look at Ye Qiu's civil and military paths in the previous life, but Ye Qiu has a unique talent in business. Ye Qiu was very interested in business in the previous life, but because he was weaker than the politicians and military merchants in Yanbei, the entire local family in Yanbei did not attach so much importance to business, and the Ye family did not attach much importance to business, so Ye Qiu did not have too good opportunities to show his talent.
In fact, although the Ye family is a family that has been inherited for more than 3,000 years, its comprehensive strength is not as good as some of the families that have been inherited for thousands of years in the central and southern provinces of Jizhou. In Yanbei Province, the local magnates who have a certain inheritance time are actually not necessarily stronger than the new foreign magnates. Because the magnates in Yanbei consider loyalty more when weighing the pros and cons, while the foreign magnates consider more interests, which is why the local magnates in Yanbei are xenophobic, and there are often contradictions between the two different values.
The comprehensive strength of the Ye family should be at the bottom of the first-class forces in Jizhou, in addition to the small number of family members, there is also a very important point that it is poor. A big family is just a large amount of expenses for the food, clothing, housing and transportation of a large family, and the expenses of subordinates, and the Ye family and even the old magnates of the entire Yanbei are not good at making money. The main source is to rely on the imperial court and some industries and real estate rents, etc., and there is no particularly large industry, except for the daily expenses of maintaining the family, the annual balance is not much, but the Ye family doesn't care, this may be related to the humanistic atmosphere of Yanbei. Therefore, there are not many Ye family worshippers and family guards in the family, most of them are soldiers who have retired from the Yanbei Army and people who practice martial arts in Yanbei. On the other hand, in addition to the flourishing heirs of the family, the other families in Jizhou are all wealthy, and the family worship and family care are far more than the Ye family.
For the wealth, in addition to the fact that the Ye family is due to the atmosphere of the entire Yanbei, there is also a second reason that there are indeed people in the clan who have no business talents. Since Ye Qiu lived again, he had no chance to do business in his previous life, and this time Ye Qiu secretly vowed to seize the opportunity to change the situation of the Ye family and even the entire Yanbei, so that the Ye family was not limited to Yanbei, but became the king of the entire northern realm.
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Because of the bad relationship with the Yang family, even in Pingyang City, Uncle Zhong followed Ye Qiu out at any time for fear of accidents. On the second day after Ye Jinwen finished talking, Ye Qiu took Uncle Zhong to the Ming Mansion, Ye Qiu didn't have anything now, so Ye Qiu was going to borrow chickens and eggs first, so he was going to have a good chat with Ming Chen. The Ming family was originally a merchant family with ready-made channel resources, and the Ming family's chamber of commerce is also one of the best businessmen in Jizhou, the Ming family is mainly engaged in trade and manufacturing, and has a perfect trade network in the entire Jizhou. And Ye Qiu's brother-in-law Ming Chen's status in the Ming family is not low, is the biggest hit of the next head of the Ming family, for Ye Qiu, with the help of Ming Chen, he can quickly develop his business model, for Ming Chen, cooperation with Ye Qiu can quickly accumulate wealth, for the two of them is a win-win cooperation.
Under the guidance of the people of the Ming Mansion, Ye Qiu came to a side hall and waited for Ming Chen, and as soon as Ye Qiu sat down, he heard the voice of Mingyue coming from far and near. Mingyue had already told the people in the house that if Ye Qiu came, she would be notified as soon as possible, Mingyue rushed to the side hall and greeted Ye Qiu warmly, and then her little head explored everywhere as if she was looking for something.
Mingyue sat down next to Ye Qiu and asked, "Why are you and Uncle Zhong? Guo Xie didn't come with you?"
Ye Qiu shook his head, Mingyue took a breath of talk, and muttered in a low voice: "Hey, I'm worried! When will I hear the story of the bully in Yangliu Town! This Ye Qiu is really what to do with his loyal uncle, how majestic it is to go out with Senior Mo, like Senior Mo, an old man who has traveled through the two states is not as good as a loyal uncle like a bookkeeper! It seems that Ye Qiu is still not as visionary as me in terms of pomp and circumstance." ”
Ye Qiu's six senses also became more sensitive because of the cultivation of the soul cultivation technique, and Ye Qiu was drinking water when Mingyue was talking, and he almost didn't choke. Ye Qiu glanced at Uncle Zhong, and saw the corners of Uncle Zhong's eyes twitching, pretending not to hear. Mingyue's thoughts came and went quickly, since Guo Xie didn't come and the two didn't come, they didn't think about it, and began to twitter to Ye Qiu about how she publicized her chivalrous deeds in Jingrong Town to the Ming Mansion, and asked Ye Qiu to help him testify on the platform and other things. In Mingyue's gag, after a while, Mingchen came to the side hall. As soon as Mingyue saw Mingchen coming, she instantly quieted down, and sat quietly on the chair as if I was a good child. Mingchen told Mingyue that the old master was still waiting for her, and asked her to go back and apologize to the old master, otherwise she wouldn't want to go out this month, Mingyue shrugged her head and walked out of the door uninvited, and walked outside the door and turned back to give Ye Qiu a look, meaning to come and play with me quickly.
After Mingyue left, Ye Qiu concisely stated his intention and said: "Uncle, I came today to discuss business matters with you, and I want to start a series of cooperation with the Ming family in the future." ”
Ming Chen also became interested after hearing Ye Qiu's intention, Ye Qiu's talent in cultivation and mind can be called a demon, which he knows, but it does not mean that he will have a talent for business. Mingchen also wanted to hear what good thoughts this nephew had. At the same time, Mingchen thought that he would listen to it first, and later he could guide and guide this nephew who would be extraordinary in the future, and he was a little happy in his heart.
Ming Chen made a state of listening, and Ye Qiu began his speech: "Uncle, my business plan is a little different from the current business model, many chambers of commerce basically do the ultimate in one industry, the depth of the industry is enough, but the breadth is not enough. I want to build a diversified business empire, a business empire that integrates trade, manufacturing, entertainment services, finance, real estate, and newspapers. My uncle believes that you must have a lot of experience in trade, so I will first tell you some new ideas about trade. We all know that trade makes money because of the unequal exchange of goods, and the main reason for this unequal exchange is because of geography, we can sell things from the south to the north for three or five times the price in an instant. At present, the trade is basically transported by caravans, and the items that are easy to store are basically stocked in the larger stores, but to buy some goods that are not easy to store for a long time, you need to wait for the transportation to come, right?" Ming Chen nodded, smiled and didn't speak, and continued to listen to Ye Qiu.
Ye Qiu continued: "And the trade model I want to do is to directly establish warehouses in various cities, rather than buying goods according to the order, so that the customer's buying experience can be enhanced. We can first subscribe to the goods by ourselves, and then collect the goods from all over the world and store them in the warehouse, and then set up our sales store. Because of the warehouse, the goods in our store can be complete, and the most powerful thing is that no matter what goods we can deliver on the same day, I believe that the competitiveness of our stores will be much ahead of other stores. Let's talk about the warehouse, the warehouse is mainly divided into two types: an ordinary warehouse and a special warehouse made of star stone, which uses the easy-to-save characteristics of star stone to store goods that are not easy to store for a long time. When we have achieved a certain scale and launched our business name, we can even let the seller of the goods ship to us first to sell it in our store, and we will extract the intermediate platform fee. For example, the unique sea buckthorn fruit in the north can be sold for 50 copper coins a pound in the south, but the purchase price of other chambers of commerce in the north is only 10 copper coins, but the seller can increase their income by selling 20 copper coins on our platform, for us, our same goods are more affordable in our stores, help us increase sales, and we do not need to bear the financial pressure of inventory payments, so that our money can flow faster. This is my general idea of trade, but there are many more details that I won't go into into detail. ”
Ye Qiu heard the sound of swallowing saliva from the direction of Ming Chen when he was speaking, Ye Qiu looked up at Ming Chen, Ming Chen's face became solemn, Ming Chen's right hand clenched into a fist, his left hand wrapped his palm and his right hand rubbed up and down. Ye Qiu looked at Ming Chen quietly and didn't speak, and after waiting for a while, Ming Chen looked up at Ye Qiu and said, "Qiu'er, do you have anything else to say besides this?" Do you want to buy some homes?"
Ye Qiu smiled and said, "Uncle, I don't want to buy a house about real estate, I want to build some residences, commercial streets, entertainment venues, etc., and then sell them." Don't you think that all houses nowadays are basically lacking in novelty? For example, except for the powerful who have their own mansions, the vast majority of the people do not have them, and they have very poor privacy in their residences. And I want to fence off a piece of land and build a house so that only those who own a house can enter the area. When a large number of people live in this place, I am building a shopping street nearby for the people to eat, drink and have fun, and the shops on the street are all ours, and we can rent them out or sell them at a high price. Maybe it costs me 200,000 copper coins to build a shop, but I can sell it for 2 million copper coins. ”
After Ye Qiu briefly finished talking about the two items, seeing Ming Chen rubbing his hands and looking thoughtful, Ye Qiu didn't speak, waiting for Ming Chen to see how he answered. Suddenly, Ming Chen got up and went to get paper and pen, and then Ming Chen said to Ye Qiu: "Qiu'er has some details, I still want to discuss them with you." ”
Ye Qiu nodded, and Ming Chen cut directly to the topic and said, "Qiu'er, I have to praise you, your thinking direction for business is very creative and highly implementable. Let me talk about the trade model you said, I think it is indeed promising, but there is a very important question about your business model, as long as there is a powerful chamber of commerce, you can copy it in the past, even if we are the pioneer of this model, but it is not necessarily possible to laugh Finally, the first problem is how to deal with the replication of peers? Finally, how to let customers choose us, to know that powerful customers do not care about the price, how to let customers choose us? These are three questions about trade. ”
After Ming Chen finished speaking, he looked at Ye Qiu directly, as if he wanted to see Ye Qiu's panic, but Ming Chen was disappointed Ye Qiu's complexion did not change in the slightest, Ye Qiu smiled gently and said to Ming Chen: "Brother-in-law, in addition to trade, do you have any questions about the real estate industry, if so, I will answer them with you." ”
Ming Chen looked at Ye Qiu's attitude of being in danger, nodded with satisfaction and continued: "The way you said about real estate can be described as a precedent, but have you thought about where to build? Buying land from the imperial court is not something that anyone can buy casually, even if you can buy it, there is nothing for you to buy in Pingyang City now, if you only build one or two places, it doesn't make much sense, and if you build it and sell it outside the city, it is even more problematic, maybe you can't even get back to the capital." Qiu'er, it's a good thing that you have this kind of wild idea, don't be discouraged, even if you think of a hundred ideas, ninety-nine of them are not feasible, but as long as one is feasible, it is a victory, I think the trade model is very feasible as you said. You are doing very well, your uncle-in-law was still stupidly studying when he was so old with you, you are much better than your uncle-in-law at that time, if you really have the heart to do business, you will definitely surpass your uncle-in-law in time. ”
Ye Qiu looked at Ming Chen with a comforting look and smiled helplessly, and said directly to Ming Chen: "Brother-in-law, who said that I don't have any land to build the real estate industry." There are quite a few old street houses in Pingyang City, especially in Beicheng, and the residents of these houses don't want to live in big houses? Don't they want to live in new houses? Uncle, you have fallen into a misunderstanding, why do I have to buy land from the imperial court? Why can't I just demolish these old houses, guarantee each of them a new house, and give them a sum of money, which is not cheaper than buying land from the imperial court?"
Ming Chen's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he didn't know what was written on the paper, and after Ming Chen stopped writing, Ye Qiu continued: "Uncle, I have ways to deal with the questions you said, and I will answer them one by one later." Before I do that, I want to ask you what you think of the newspaper industry.
Ming Chen thought for a moment and said: "As far as I know, apart from the official, almost no chamber of commerce will invest in the newspaper industry. The threshold for the newspaper industry is extremely high, and it requires that information should be transmitted quickly and accurately, and almost no one except the official can do it, but the profits of the newspaper industry are indeed extremely low, and they may all be loss-making! If Qiu'er invests in the newspaper industry, I do not recommend it. ”
Ye Qiu shook his head after hearing this, Ming Chen saw Ye Qiu shaking his head, and his heart tightened, thinking that this kid wouldn't even have a say for a money-losing business like the newspaper industry!
Ye Qiu did not disappoint Ming Chen, and after shaking his head, he said: "Uncle, you underestimate the importance of information transmission, the official newspaper is just operating in the wrong way. The official newspaper has such a readership, and if I were to do it, I would have made it a money-absorbing weapon a long time ago. Uncle, think about how many users there are in the newspaper industry? Why be conservative and estimate that there must be one out of ten people on average, and such a large number of users can be used casually for money. To put it simply, if you put out a column in tomorrow's newspaper to publicize the Ming Family's Chamber of Commerce, or a product under the Ming Family's Chamber of Commerce, think about how much impact it will have, and how much money the Ming family is willing to pay for this matter? This is only one of them, and I believe that it is not difficult for the newspaper industry to turn losses into profits, right? There are many ways for the newspaper industry to make money, and I will not repeat them one by one. In fact, what I value most is the public opinion orientation of the newspaper industry. ”
Can it be like this? Ming Chen was stunned for a moment, and then goosebumps appeared on his arms, and then Ming Chen began to write hard again.
Then the conversation between Ming Chen and Ye Qiu lasted from morning to evening, and even lunch was dealt with casually. In the middle of Ye Qiu's communication with Ming Chen, Mingyue rushed to find Ye Qiu to go to see her two little princesses, but as soon as Mingyue entered the house and saw Ming Chen writing hard there, Mingyue's face changed greatly, and instantly turned into a bitter melon face, and Mingchen was so frightened that Mingyue fled until the evening, and Mingyue didn't dare to appear in the side hall in the evening. Ming Chen wrote more words today than he wrote in a year, Ming Chen's hands were soft, and for a moment Ming Chen seemed to understand a little bit why Mingyue didn't like to copy books.
After Ye Qiu left in the evening, there was an extra piece of paper about an inch high on Ming Chen's desk, which was the result of his hard work for a day, Ming Chen looked at these golden jade words sitting on the chair with his legs crossed, shaking his head with satisfaction, and casually took out a smile on his face and nodded rhythmically. Mingchen's posture frightened Mingyue, who had just plucked up the courage to come to the door, staggered, and hurriedly ran back to his house before Mingchen found out, Mingyue scolded in a low voice while running: "This dead Ye Qiu is really hateful, and Ye Qiu is my lifelong enemy immediately." Ye Qiu, this is what you asked for, don't blame me for not speaking of benevolence and righteousness. Mingyue ran halfway to the rockery in the backyard, Mingyue came to the rockery in the backyard and grabbed two little kings, and then went to her residence. Back at the residence, Mingyue asked the maid to bring a square box with a lid, and then put the two kings in it, and then said, "Hmph, you two still use the old name, and take care of your two little black house tonight." After doing this, Mingyue's heart also eased up, and then she saw Mingyue smirking there.