Chapter 53: On the right track
After returning to Weishi County, Wu Zhi came to the Qinglong Gang, cashed out the pension and medical soup expenses in time, and paid a monthly salary of ten yuan per person in advance at one time, which calmed people's hearts and stabilized their positions.
Then, he worked out the operating regulations, systems and plans of the Caoyun Company overnight, removed the banner of the Qinglong Gang, hung up the brand of "Pan Wuji" Caoyun Company, and appointed Meng Da as the general manager of the company, appointed Li Er, Zhang San and other five people as deputy general managers, and appointed Qian Mancang as the company's financial director, which consists of the transportation department, personnel department, finance department, logistics department and other departments, and the transportation department is divided into various groups, and the leaders of the departments and groups are selected by Meng Da and others.
After the reorganization, he purchased 10 large ships from the Jingshi Shipbuilding Company, and after a slight refit, he engaged in transportation work, and with the help of his power as the number one leader in Weishi County, he first took over some of the work of transporting ships and engaged in some passenger transportation, and then tried to develop slowly. Ten big ships can just arrange all the company's employees to ensure that everyone in the original Qinglong Gang has work to do, and everyone is happy.
When Caoyun's business began to get on the right track, he also hired teachers to teach all the company's employees to carry out literacy eradication, and required each employee to learn to read and write, so as to adapt to the future growth and development.
At the same time as reorganizing the Qinglong Gang into Caoyun Company, Wu Zhi mobilized the whole family to distill more than 250 catties of 95 degrees of alcohol, and blended it in time, concocted 300 catties of "Zhuangyuan alcohol" liquor and nearly 200 catties of "Zhuangyuanlang" liquor, bottled and sealed in time, and labeled, and after five days of mellowing, it was packed into a box, and sent to the capital by Erhu on the ship of Caoyun Company, and handed over to the hands of Qian Mu of Zhuangyuan Lou.
After the first batch of champion liquor was sent out, Wu Zhi changed the cycle of brewing low-alcohol liquor to once every five days, and asked Zhang Gui and his wife to lead their subordinates to brew as much new liquor as possible, store it for alcoholization first, extend the aging period as much as possible, enhance the taste of the liquor, and then use it for distillation. At the same time, Wu Zhi also adjusted the cycle of blending and blending the champion series of liquor to once every five days, so that the cycle is produced.
Wu Zhi needs to stock up on more low-alcohol liquor and increase the inventory of champion series liquor, firstly, to prolong the mellowing period, enhance the mellow taste, and ensure the quality; The second is to be prepared for emergencies.
The 95-degree alcohol obtained by distillation is blended in time, and the "Zhuangyuan Alcohol" and "Zhuangyuan Lang" prepared are also mellowed for a few days before being bottled and sealed, put into the packaging box, and every ten days are sent to the capital by the ship of the "Pan Wu Kee" Caoyun Company, and sold by the Zhuangyuan Building.
When the Caoyun company's ships returned from the capital, they brought the wine bottles fired by the Wujiacai porcelain workshop and the customized packaging boxes of the Tan Ji Wood Workshop (Wu Zhi's orders were increasing, and Tan Si took advantage of the situation to change his own workshop into the Tan Ji Wood Workshop), along with some other materials and tools such as wine jars and beeswax.
At the same time, the payment settled on the first day of each month can also be brought back by Erhu, Meng Da, Chen Shun, Hu Kui and others by the way and handed over to Wu Zhi. Li Er and Zhang San's injuries are almost healed, but they are still inconvenient to move, Wu Zhi forced them to continue to recuperate from their injuries, and they don't have to go to work for the time being.
Wu Zhi was generous and offered a high salary of 30 yuan per month to Meng Da, Qian Mancang and other seven high-level executives, these seven people all have families, and such a high salary makes each of them live a rich and well-fed life! While the monthly salary of others is more than 10 yuan per month, their family's life is suddenly better and more comfortable than before! This moved everyone very much, and since then they have been loyal to Wu Zhi and obedient to their words.
With the strong support of Wuzhi, the county magistrate, and with the unremitting efforts of Meng Da, Qian Mancang and others, the collusion between officials and businessmen finally began to get on the right track and flourished. Wu Zhi's purpose is not to pursue Caoyun Company to make money for him, as long as he can maintain operations, not lose money, and no longer need him to come to blood transfusion!
After the Midyear Festival, the weather in Xiaoqiu is still quite warm, the autumn sun in the sky is like fire, the sun continues to steam and roast the earth, the autumn leaves turn yellow, and the harvest is in sight.
The champion series of liquor brewed by Wu Zhi is also like the autumn sun in the sky, warm and thick, slowly warming and melting the hearts of everyone in Bianliang City, and has become a business card of Bianliang, Tokyo. The mellow taste of these two kinds of champion wines, the good reputation of good value for money, and the reputation of Champion Lang Wu Sik Que (good name and notoriety), under the unremitting publicity of Champion Building, soon became famous throughout Gyeonggi Road and became a household name, making the daily sales soar.
After the second tiger passed the word, Wu Zhi replied to Qian Mu and decided to raise the daily sales limit to 80 bottles: 30 bottles of "Zhuangyuanlang" wine and 50 bottles of "Zhuangyuan alcohol" wine, which barely met the market demand.
The remaining seventy-one large restaurants, such as Alum Building, Ban Lou, Caomen Manwang's Family, and Eight Immortal Buildings in the north of the state, sent people to Weishi County to contact Wu Zhi, all thinking of acting as an agent for a piece of the pie, and gave Wu Zhi the preferential conditions that they would only take three of the seven, which made Wu Zhi quite excited.
But the way of doing business lies in integrity, and Wu Zhi is now cooperating well with Zhuangyuanlou, Wuzhi thought about it again and again, but still gritted his teeth and insisted, did not let go, and only gave Zhuangyuanlou the exclusive agency. Zhongjia restaurant has no choice but to honestly purchase goods from Zhuangyuanlou at the actual price, and then increase the price to sell them after getting them to their own store.
But profiteers are still profiteers after all, and Wu Zhi is also one of them. For the sake of interests, he still taught Erhu face-to-face before Erhu delivered it to Zhuangyuanlou once, and asked Erhu to pretend to leak in front of Qian Mu, and inadvertently mentioned these things.
As the saying goes, the speaker has no intention of the listener, not to mention that the speaker has the intention, then the listener is even more intentional!
Sure enough, when Qian Mu heard the information revealed by Erhu "inadvertently", he was frightened and anxious, what he had been worried about finally came unexpectedly, and now someone is really going to dig his corner!
After Qian Mu heard this situation and quietly inquired about the truth of the source, he began to have a strong sense of crisis in his heart. He considered it again and again, weighed the pros and cons, and then personally took a boat to Weishi County, found Wu Zhi, and took the initiative to ask to reduce the share to 37 open, the champion building accounted for 30 percent, Wu Zhi accounted for 7 percent, and urgently proposed that the champion building should be the exclusive agent, and asked to sign a long-term cooperation agreement with Wu Zhi as the exclusive agent.
The conspiracy succeeded, Wu Zhi was naturally very happy in his heart, but he didn't like it! At the same time, I also admired in my heart that this Qian Mu is indeed very courageous and business-minded. So, Wu Zhi pushed the boat down the river, pretended to be embarrassed and accepted Qian Mu's three-seven sharing plan, and also gave Qian Mu a solemn promise as the exclusive agent of the Zhuangyuan Building and signed a long-term cooperation agreement with him. Qian Mu finally put his mind at ease and left half distressed and half happy.
Yicheng's income was gone in a blink of an eye, Qian Mu was very painful, and his heart was dripping blood, but he was also helpless, after all, in the cooperation between Zhuangyuanlou and Wu Zhi, Wu Zhi was the one who had the advantage to control the right to speak!
The income brought by the champion series of wine to the champion building every day is very amazing, and Qian Mu must firmly tie Wu Zhi, the god of wealth, no matter what!
Sales have soared, and ensuring the normal supply of goods has become the biggest problem at present. Wu Zhi hurriedly found Zhang Gui and his wife to discuss how to expand production.
Zhang Gui is worthy of being an expert in winemaking, he only added two sets of wine-making equipment, increased four people, and added one more wine-making process in the five-day cycle of wine-making, which easily solved this problem, and the output of low-alcohol liquor was doubled at once, thus ensuring the stable supply of goods!
After the new Osmanthus Liquor Workshop was listed, Wu Zhi asked Zhang Gui to go to the liquor office of the government to go through all the licensing procedures for agent liquor making and liquor sales, and define the liquor tax that should be paid.
At that time, the liquor industry was an important source of tax revenue for the Song Dynasty, and the liquor belonged to the government monopoly, and the imperial court had strict control over the operation of liquor. In order to increase fiscal revenue, the Great Song Dynasty court imposed a long-term "ban" on alcohol, that is, it was monopolized by the government. There are three main types of monopolies. The first is the official production and official transportation, that is, the government-run winery brews and sells; Second, the government will resell the production license and sales license to private businessmen, and the powerful store will operate it and generate income for the government; Third, the government buys private production, and then the government sells it to the private sector. Specifically, in Kaifeng, its liquor business is operated by the Rongqu method, and the Duqu Institute implements "ququ" for the liquor households, and the amount of liquor that a regular wine owner can make depends entirely on how much koji quota he can buy from the government. This money for the purchase of koji quotas is called "koji money". All the liquor brewed by the 72 main restaurants (big restaurants) in Kaifeng had to buy their official koji from the government before they could be brewed – only the main stores were allowed to buy liquor quotas from the government, both to facilitate supervision and to reduce the difficulty of taxation.
Without a liquor brewing license issued by the government, it is not allowed to brew and sell sake without permission. If the formalities are not complete, or if the liquor tax that should be paid is not paid, it will be a huge problem. If the government finds the door, and there are jealous people who add fuel to the fire, it will lead to a big incident.
Therefore, in terms of management, Wu Zhi must not leave the slightest loophole and hidden danger in any case, and must complete the procedures, and even if the liquor tax and the amount of "koji money" are heavy, he will pay them in full.
Shopping malls are like battlefields, and it is indeed laborious. In order to build a good relationship between officials and businessmen, from the sale of the Zhuangyuan series of wines, when he was in the capital, Wu Zhi successively visited Zhang Chun, Zeng Bu, An Tao, Xu Jiang, Lin Xi and many other important ministers of the imperial court, and each family sent a bottle of "Zhuangyuan Alcohol" wine and a bottle of "Zhuangyuan Lang" wine to contact feelings. All the ministers joked that the wine of the Zhuangyuanlang family was really as expensive as a jewel and it was difficult to afford to drink. Wu Zhi also sent two bottles of wine to Cai Bian and Cai Jing's families, and the villain was difficult to guard, so he had to show weakness to the enemy first. And at that time, Cai Jing also had the right to send Kaifeng Mansion, and he was the supreme governor of Kaifeng Mansion, and Wu Zhi had to prevent him from finding fault and sabotaging his business plan, so he still had to have a good relationship with the two brothers, and he couldn't tear his face.
As for Emperor Zhao Xu, he didn't dare to send him wine, if Zhao Xu drank something, then he would not have enough to cut off ten heads.
At the same time, Wu Zhi also sent two bottles of wine to his master Zhou Tong, Lin Chong and Wang Jin, respectively, and the three of them were especially happy to receive such valuable wine.
In this way, when he was still in the capital, Wu Zhi gave out thirty bottles of wine just as gifts, and more than 2,000 yuan of money slipped away from his hands, and he was also distressed, a loser!
But he was reluctant to let the child trap the wolf, and his heart was distressed, and Wu Zhi knew the truth of emotional investment better than anyone else, and he was relieved after thinking about it at that time.
Now, after several twists and turns, the business of the champion series of liquor is finally on the right track again, and it has also achieved greater development, and Wu Zhi is also happy in his heart. According to this development momentum, the champion series of wine can bring him more than 3,700 yuan per day in the future, and the annual income can reach more than 1.36 million yuan!
Such a huge income will be the foundation for Wu Zhi's further development and growth, and it will also be the driving force for him to move forward.