Chapter 171: Long Xingxing

It is said that in Xudu Wharf, there are dozens of large and small ships moored, the largest of which has a thousand materials (can load 1,000 stones of grain, about 37,500 kilograms in modern times) (every time you convert weights and measures, it is very hard).

There is a big flag on the bow of this big ship, and the two big characters "Longxing" fluttering on the big flag. Those who know the goods know at a glance that this is the ship of Longxingxing, the largest business in the capital. Long Hing Hong was originally a millet shop, selling rice grains and some beans such as soybeans and mung beans.

But since five years ago, for some unknown reason, this small business house suddenly became a business, the store expanded a lot, and the goods sold also increased, no longer limited to rice and grain, but a wide variety of everything, such as: cloth, needles, threads, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, paper, pen, inkstone, spirits, soap, and even ready-to-wear.

Longxing Commercial Bank suddenly made a fortune, not only selling more types of goods, but also opening more than a dozen branches in Xudu, almost monopolizing the retail industry in Xudu. People who have traveled from south to north also know that not only in Xudu, but in fact, almost every city in Wei has a semicolon of Longxingxing.

Long Hing Hong is not only large-scale, but also has a novel business method, and the store is neatly arranged with rows of shelves, and the shelves are divided into categories to place all kinds of goods. Customers can buy things here instead of traditional businesses, where they have to ask the clerk to pick up everything they want, but they can enter the store by themselves and carry a basket to buy in this row of shelves.

If you buy a lot of things, you can also ask the clerk for a small trolley with a wooden frame, and you can easily go shopping with the cart. It's just that there aren't many of these convenient and easy-to-use trolleys, and only those customers who buy a lot of things can apply for them.

Of course, in this era, there is no video surveillance, no electromagnetic induction technology, no chip anti-theft or anything high-tech gadgets, in order to prevent bad customers from stealing, the store is equipped with a shopping guide for each row of shelves.

These shopping guides are all beautiful girls in the prime of their lives, uniformly dressed in neat uniforms, enthusiastically introducing the characteristics of the goods to each customer who comes to buy the goods, telling them what promotions they have recently, and recommending cheap and easy-to-use products to them. In addition to shopping guides and promotions, these promotional girls are also responsible for monitoring customers and preventing them from stealing goods.

It is very convenient for customers to pick up all the things and then go to the cash office at the door to pay the unified price. As soon as this shopping environment and business practices were introduced, they immediately swept the three countries.

Needless to say, this kind of supermarket-like sales concept was also developed by Liu Hou. The business of the Mi family is all over the world, and it is very good at business, and Shu is with the help of the Mi family's hands, and the special products of Shu are sold to all corners of the three kingdoms.

Five or six years ago, he once talked about the business philosophy of the supermarket to a junior of the Mi family, and the junior went back and told the elders of the family, and the result was that Mi Zhu, who was still alive at the time, was keenly aware that this novel business method was promising, so the supermarket business method was soon popularized in the Mi family business houses all over the three countries.

Long Xingxing was also secretly acquired by the Mi family after that, and the Mi family vigorously sought out and cultivated agents in both Wei and Wu, and they bought some small commercial houses that were sluggish in order to make a backdoor move. The proprietors of these small commercial houses are ostensibly locals of Wei or Wu, but in fact the bosses are Mi families of Shu.

Once Mijia acquires these small commercial houses, they inject huge sums of money, transform them, generally expand their scale, and even open many branches in a short period of time. The goods sold in the store have also increased significantly, and many of the goods sold are specialties of Shu and the "Ministry of Industry".

In the beginning, this form of supermarket was used to operate under the secret control of these Mijia businesses, which grabbed a large number of customers and made a lot of money in a short period of time. However, later other businesses saw that this way of operation was easy to make money, and they also followed suit, which changed the situation of the Mi family's dominance.

However, the Mi family is backed by the Shu Kingdom, and there is a country's resources and the "Ministry of Industry" that produces a variety of unique products as the backing, which is naturally not comparable to other businesses, so the secret business name of the Mi family has always been able to hold the bull's ear of the retail industry in the three countries.

Although the three kingdoms continued to fight, the civil things such as Shu brocade, paper, soap, and spirits produced in Shu were not prohibited from being sold in Wei and Wu, and in the same way, some civilian goods in Wei and Wu could also be exported to Shu for sale unhindered. The three countries were forbidden to trade in strategic materials such as iron tools and grain, and now sulfur and saltpeter have been added.

Longxingxing is a business name that has risen rapidly under the secret cultivation of the Mi family, and in just five years, it has almost monopolized the retail industry of Wei, of course, the process is not smooth sailing, and it has also suffered from the joint resistance of other merchants during the # system, as well as the difficulties and suppression of the Wei official.

However, the Mijia business can be done all over the world, naturally has its own unique business methods, and has a set of methods to deal with all kinds of difficulties, so in the past five years, Longxingxing has not only not fallen, but has become more and more prosperous, becoming the leading retail firm in Xudu and even the entire Wei State.

These merchants of Mijiakong brought great benefits to Shu, not only could they dump Shu's products and amass huge wealth, but also secretly purchased strategic materials from Wei and Wu and smuggled them back to Shu.

For example, when the harvest season comes, the Longxing Commercial Bank will send a large number of people to the townships and villages to purchase grain. Because Longxingxing had a semicolon in almost every city in Wei, and grain was also sold in it, the local officials of Wei did not care, and thought that the grain they purchased was only sold in their own country.

What's more, most of these officials will be targeted by the Longxing Commercial Bank, even if they find out that some of the Longxing Commercial Bank's behaviors are not so beyond, they will turn a blind eye, and they will naturally have no opinion on this kind of grain purchase behavior that seems to be no problem on the surface.

As everyone knows, Longxing Commercial Bank purchased a large number of private rice grains, and most of these rice grains were smuggled back to Shu except for a small part sold in various branches. Because of their secret operation, even though the Wei State has a bumper grain harvest every year, the price of grain has been high, and the government has tried many ways to calm it down.

Because the government did not find out where the root cause of the high grain prices was, those officials did not know that there was a behemoth like the Longxing Commercial Bank that was secretly playing tricks and buying grain on a large scale, making the supply of food that should have been sufficient in Wei State become in short supply.

This makes the measures they have taken to stabilize food prices have never hit the point, which is a bit similar to those "national n" housing price control measures in later generations, which seem to be very lofty and powerful, but in fact they are untargeted, and do not play a role in the root cause of the rise in housing prices, and the result is that the more the housing prices are regulated, the higher the housing prices.