Chapter 341: The Welfare of the Army
Now fortunately, as soon as Liu Wan became the president, he changed Daniel Zhang's arrogance, saved them a sum of money, and also made their business not rise again in the next few years, at least during Liu Wan's tenure as president.
For everyone, this is an unexpected surprise and a pie that falls from the sky.
"Shopkeeper Liu, you will always be our president in the future, right?"
Everyone said.
Even if I had some ideas in my heart and was not convinced, I was convinced when I heard the news.
They are men, yes, they also have a bit of face, but they are not big enough to allow Daniel Zhang to save everyone protection money.
When you are the president, you naturally want to benefit everyone, otherwise who will support you?
Liu Wan smiled: "Okay, as long as you support me, I will keep doing it." ”
Everyone clapped their hands enthusiastically.
After the preparatory meeting was dispersed, Liu Wan worked with Zhang Ji and Chen Ji to formulate the articles of association of the Pastry Chamber of Commerce.
Liu Wan's proposed charter is also very popular, such as:
It stipulates that disorderly competition is not allowed in the same industry, and it is not allowed to reduce prices and prices arbitrarily, and vicious competition, if there are those who participate in vicious competition, they will be banned in the Pastry Association.
Liu Wan found that when an industry began to know how to hold together, this organization still had some effect.
Take the ban as an example, as a chamber of commerce with little power, is the ban effective?
Of course!
That is, the consisseur can notify all flour shops to stop supplying flour to the banned shops.
If it weren't for the Chamber of Commerce, but just the exclusive store, it would be a joke for the flour shop.
But the Chamber of Commerce requires this, and the flour shop must pay attention to it!
Because if it doesn't do what the Chamber of Commerce requires, the Chamber of Commerce will demand that all pastry shops not buy from it.
In this way, the ban of the Chamber of Commerce is really powerful, and the charter is not false, let alone just used to scare people.
After these charters were formulated, everyone felt that there was a degree of relaxation, rewards and punishments, and the key was that rewards and punishments could be put in place, which was interesting.
No one expected that Liu Wan would also know how to make good use of the power of the collective, and for a while, her status in the Chamber of Commerce rose to a new height.
Two days later, the official meeting was held, the charter they had formulated was adopted, and the Taniguchi Town Pastry Chamber of Commerce was officially established.
Liu Wan is also respected by everyone as President Liu.
Liu Wan's reputation is growing.
Loved by everyone, Liu Wan was embarrassed not to act, she wondered if she should also add some benefits to members, so that everyone could feel that joining the Chamber of Commerce was just paying membership dues, and there was no benefit.
Liu Wan put a lot of thought into it, and finally she decided to contribute a recipe called: compressed biscuits.
Compressed biscuits are shelf-stable, small in size, easy to carry, and are very suitable for inconvenient transportation scenes.
Liu Wan held the first general meeting after becoming the president and made the practice of compressing biscuits public.
The owners of the pastry shops say that the compressed biscuits should be promising.
Compressed biscuits are small in size, do not take up space in the suitcase, and now people who go out eat and sleep in the open, and if they go long distances, they may not be able to stay in the hotel just right every time.
If you are sleeping in the wild, it is very convenient to bring compressed biscuits, break two pieces and cook a pot, and make do with a meal.
Everyone also discussed that the target groups of compressed biscuits are mainly foot merchants, talents who enter Beijing to take the exam, and even the military.
If the army can carry this convenient ration on the march, it can carry a lot less food supplies, which is conducive to the army's flexible movement.
When it comes to the military, everyone is excited, because the army is large and feels that the future of compressed cookies is very bright.
Liu Wan meant that in the name of the Chamber of Commerce, she tried to contact the people in the barracks.
At that time, Liu Wan will give everyone the share of compressed biscuit production according to the production capacity of each shop, and wait for everyone to do a good job and sell it in a unified and centralized manner.
A number of stores agreed.
The taste of compressed biscuits is actually average, which is the strong satiety brought by high sugar and high oil, but nowadays, compressed biscuits are indeed a good recipe.
Liu Wan has no connections in the military.
Liu Wan thought of Daniel Zhang and wondered if he would have connections in this area.
Daniel Zhang had a stronghold at the Taohuaxi Wharf, and Liu Wan asked Wang Xiao to invite Daniel Zhang to drink tea at the barbecue restaurant.
As soon as Daniel Zhang arrived, Liu Wan quickly invited him to the backyard for a detailed discussion.
In the backyard, Liu Wan set up a tea room for entertaining guests.
After drinking Liu Wan's Longjing good tea for a while, Daniel Zhang saw that there were a few round and square snacks on the side of the dim sum plate, which were unremarkable, but there were no other dim sums, Daniel Zhang drank tea, a little drunk with tea, so he took a piece and ate it casually.
"Yo, what kind of new dim sum is this? Why is it so hard? It's chewy, but it doesn't taste as good as the ones you used to make in your store. Daniel Zhang asked suspiciously, "Did other stores send you food?" ”
Liu Wan was happy and said, "These cakes are exactly the purpose of me coming here this time." ”
"Oh?" Daniel Zhang was puzzled.
Liu Wan made her intentions clear.
Daniel Zhang learned that the cake he ate was called compressed biscuits, and although the taste was ordinary, it was very useful.
Daniel Zhang's connections were really wide, so he agreed.
Liu Wan said that if she could negotiate, she would give Daniel Zhang a five-point commission.
Within 10 days, Daniel Zhang came to tell Liu Wan that the first batch of garrison wanted 5,000 pounds of compressed biscuits, presumably to see the meaning of the sample.
A pound of compressed biscuits, because flour, a large amount of peanut oil, milk, dried fruits, usually shelled peanuts, etc., so the cost is about 50 yuan, Liu Wan sold a pound to 150 yuan, 5000 pounds is 750 taels of silver.
Daniel Zhang said this is just the beginning, and if the trial is satisfactory, the army will order more.
Liu Wan broke down the work of compressing 5,000 catties of biscuits and handed them over to the pastry shops in the town, with a minimum of 100 catties and a maximum of 300 to 500 catties in each shop.
Everyone didn't expect Liu Wan to really succeed, found a big customer, and was very excited, although the number of orders from the army is not much, but as long as this thing is used, maybe more will be ordered in the future.
Because it is supplied to the army, everyone naturally does not dare to slack off, and uses the best raw materials and delivers them on time.
Under the commission of five points paid to the other party, Liu Wan also got an income of 700 taels of silver, which was distributed proportionally to the store that provided compressed biscuits.
The military camp of the Great Zhou Dynasty stationed at the border pass, and the annual military order to raid the hinterland of the Hu people fell on the Hump Battalion.
The Hump Battalion sent a team of 200 men to harass the Hu people.
This is a routine tradition between the two countries, and it has become a tradition for so many years to find an opportunity to harass each other and not let the other side live in peace.
It's just that this kind of harassment is irregular, when the army will start, when it will set off, and which troops will raid the Hu people, it will only be known by a military order from the commander above.