Sun Jianbao quickly brought people in, and there was a steward among them, who also participated in building a generator with Li Wei at that time, but Li Wei didn't let this steward go with him, and the ambassador of the Ordnance Bureau was only the ninth grade, and this steward was from the seventh grade to the Ordnance Bureau, even if he was made an ambassador, it would be a demotion.

From the grade, it can also be seen that the status of the Military Bureau is much higher than that of the Weapons Bureau, after all, this is in the imperial city, and the secrecy and security are much higher than that of the Weapons Bureau outside.

Li Wei left the War Bureau with these craftsmen, went straight to the Weapons Bureau, handed over the craftsmen to Luti, and asked them to build a new generator according to their previous methods, and at the same time make a voltage regulator.

The voltage regulator is very simple, the principle is the same as the transformer, the difference is that the voltage regulator adds a copper sheet that can be adjusted by sliding at the outlet end, while the transformer is fixed.

This is done to make magnets later, which are very magnetic and can be used to make more powerful generators and motors.

Now that the work has been arranged, we are waiting for the coke oven steelmaking furnace to be completed and the steel production will begin.

After arranging the affairs of the Ordnance Bureau, Li Wei left in a hurry and went to the headquarters of the Minghuang Chamber of Commerce.

He hasn't been here for many days, and this time he came to arrange to send him the liquor and perfume that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted, and if he didn't send it, he was afraid that his ass would be offended again.

The other is to gather everyone to have a meeting to understand the specific situation of the Chamber of Commerce, recently he has been busy with the affairs of the Ministry of Industry, although every night when he goes back to Laifu and Abu will briefly report to him about the situation under his hands, but Shen Jing's affairs here cannot be relaxed.

Li Wei asked Shen Jing and Wu Qi to be found, and Laifu, Abu, and the stewards of the workshops under Shen Jing also came over, and everyone held a meeting together.

Li Wei is the president, sitting at the top, Wu Qi and Shen Jing are on the left and right, and those who manage and Abu have no choice but to stand and report.

Li Wei looked at the group of people standing, and thought to himself that in the future, he would have to prepare a conference room, make a big conference table, and it would be more convenient to hold a meeting.

Everyone took their seats, first saluted Li Wei and the others, and then began the formal work report.

Laifu first said: "President, our chamber of commerce has been going very smoothly recently, basically covering more than half of the shops in the city, and the types of goods cover firewood, rice, oil and salt, daily necessities, cloth, rouge gouache and so on.

Our self-produced soaps, perfumes, liquors, honeycomb coals, etc. are quite popular, and many stores are actively looking for our products, and these are also our main profit parts.

Other furniture, fruits and vegetables and other things have not been involved for the time being, furniture is large, not easy to distribute, and most of the furniture stores are self-produced and sold, do not need us, you can consider supplying them with wood.

As for the fruits and vegetables, they are all picked into the city by the people outside the city to sell them, and we don't need to ......."

As the general manager of the outer cabinet, Laifu is equivalent to the marketing director, and he has the best understanding of the sales situation of the Chamber of Commerce.

"Stop, stop, if there is any bad news, problems that need to be solved, let's discuss it when we say it, don't just pick up good things."

Li Wei frowned and interrupted, this blessing has the ability, but it is a little slippery, and it is good news but not bad news.

The report was interrupted, and Laifu smiled awkwardly: "Some have, one is that the sales of our own products seem to have reached a bottleneck, and the growth has been slow in the past few days."

"There is also the problem of arrears in the payment of the shops, which still weighs on a lot of our silver money, but I follow the wise guidance of the president, strictly control the payment cycle and the distribution volume of each shop, and there is the profit support of our own goods, so there is no problem for the time being."

"In addition, I also found that there are some business houses in the city that imitate us, but they are not in the climate for the time being."

Li Wei nodded after hearing this and said, "Well, you should keep an eye on the matter of returning the money, and you must strictly control it according to the rules I set, this is very important!" In addition, you talk to the supplier, in addition to lowering the price of the goods in the future, we must also suppress their payment, and we will try not to bear the cost. ”

Li Wei emphasized the problem of payment collection, as a dealer, it is also a common thing to be dragged down by arrears, and this matter must be taken seriously.

However, with the expansion of the Chamber of Commerce, after monopolizing the shops in the city, you can reverse the payment of suppliers, and then the Minghuang Chamber of Commerce will be a middleman, only making the difference and not taking any risks.

As for the sales of his own goods, he has no choice, even if these things are the cheapest briquettes and soap, the price is much higher than that of other similar products, only slightly richer families will use them, and the real poor can only burn firewood and use soapcorns.

It's not that Li Wei's heart is black, it's really the cost here, there are so many raw materials, the output will not be too high, and he can't supply it if he really takes the civilian route.

At present, the main profit of the Chamber of Commerce is still these own goods, accounting for more than half.

However, as the scale of the chamber of commerce grows larger and larger, it has mastered both ends of the supplier and the store, and the profits will be there!

When the time comes, it doesn't matter if you let go of your own goods and hand them over to others, you have to take the goods from him anyway, and you have to let him take a bite.

All the major platforms in later generations have done this.

"What's going on with those comptoirs?" Li Wei asked again.

Lai Fu Wenyan did not answer directly, but looked at Shen Jing, and Li Wei followed his gaze and looked at Shen Jing suspiciously.

Shen Jing smiled embarrassedly: "There are three or four of these commercial houses, some of them don't want us to take advantage, so they shop their own goods, and some of them see that we are doing well and follow the learning, but most of them are not in the climate." ”

"Only ...... cough, only my uncle Shen Bin snatched some stores from us by means of higher commissions, longer payment periods and arrears, but because of our own goods, most of the shops still chose to continue to cooperate with us. ”

Li Wei listened for a moment and understood, the second uncle of the Shen Jing family is going to rely on his wealth to rob business!

But it doesn't matter, Li Wei had expected this kind of thing, this is a matter of time or time, he also has a plan, the payment cycle, the amount of distribution are all big pits, and if you are not careful, you will lose the bottom, and when your chamber of commerce grows, you will find an opportunity to dig a pit for him and bury it.

As for other firms that distribute their own goods, unless a single product is like these things he does, the profit is super high, otherwise the profit cannot cover the arrears, that is, looking for death, and many stores do not only sell a single product.

Without the blessing of the Internet and high-speed logistics, it is not possible to engage in direct sales.

In fact, before the rise of the Internet, every big dealer can be regarded as a platform, but these people have solidified their thinking and failed to keep pace with the times, so that the new "Internet dealers" have been replaced.

What Li Wei is doing now is actually the B2B model of logistics and platform, which sounds lofty, but it is actually a replacement of the human model by the technology model, and there is no business innovation.

Now Li Wei is doing the opposite, replacing technology with manpower, returning to the traditional distribution model, and the goods led by Laifu pass information back and forth to form a platform to reach a transaction intention, and the delivery workers led by Abu complete the logistics link and reach a deal.

Of course, Li Wei's engagement in this stuff has increased a lot of labor costs, but it is supported by his high-profit goods in the early stage, and it will be even more problematic when it becomes large-scale in the later stage.

And in the future, he also plans to directly build a large-scale comprehensive supermarket, that is, B2C, and then he will not have to go from store to store everywhere to deliver goods, and directly rob these stores of their jobs.

Damn, isn't it too dark?

While listening to Shen Jing's report, Li Wei was thinking about the future development ideas, and he couldn't help but feel a little weak when he thought of the back.

But this can't be blamed on him, this is all learned from those platforms in later generations, shopping malls are like battlefields, and he can only follow the blackening.

Well, just blame them, Li Wei kept comforting his conscience.

"These people don't have to worry about him for now, I have my own arrangements in the future." Li Wei waited for Shen Jing to finish speaking.

"Well, Abu, how are you doing?"

"Back to the old man, our delivery volume has increased greatly recently, and the people below have worked a lot harder, and they are a little too busy."

Abu said truthfully.

Li Wei told him and Laifu that they don't need to be called the president outside, let alone call themselves slaves, after all, now that both of them are in charge, the status of slaves is very unfavorable to their management work.

However, Abu insisted on calling him master, but fortunately he didn't call himself a slave or anything, so Li Wei didn't care about him anymore.

"Well, don't use the trolley in the future, use the cart all, count the orders of each store in advance, use the cart to receive the goods in a centralized manner, and deliver them in a unified manner, which can save a lot of manpower."

Li Wei thought for a while.

In the early stage, because the shops and supply workshops were relatively scattered, and the goods were relatively small, only people could run more cars, but there were more goods in the back, and the centralized use of large cars was a necessary adjustment.

In addition to the various workshops near the capital, the current source of goods is the merchants from other places, and the goods of the merchants are stored in the official stores and collapsed houses, and the collapsed houses do not refer to the collapsed houses, but to the houses that are specially used by the merchants to collapse.

These two places provided accommodation and warehouses for merchants and collected taxes by the way, and were under the management of the Ministry of Households, which was called the Xuanjiao Division in the capital and the Tongjiao Division in other places.

Abu and Laifu are the main backbone of the Chamber of Commerce, in charge of the platform and logistics of the Chamber of Commerce, which is the main body of the Chamber of Commerce.

Not to mention Wu Qi, a soy sauce player is actually one of the cameras arranged by Lao Zhu.

Li Wei finished asking Abu Laifu and the two before turning his gaze to the others.

The workshop managers under Shen Jing reported the situation of the workshops one by one, on the whole, it is very stable, and the output can keep up with the current sales, the Shen family is wealthy, even if Shen Jing only gets a small half of the property, it is easy to get these workshops, and even many of the raw materials used in the workshops are produced by him now.