Chapter 2 Acquisition of Spotted Poisonous Spiders
The Jiang family has a total of six industries in Qiancheng, including a medicinal herb shop, a restaurant, a green house, a rice shop, a cloth shop, and a gambling house....... Clothing, food, housing and transportation basically include all major industries.
Among them, the medicinal herb store is the most profitable. Stopping bleeding and bruising is in short supply every day.
On the streets, you can see people fighting everywhere, ranging from blood to death. Pills and plasters are the top priority for people in the martial arts, and the Jiang family's medicinal material branches in various places attach great importance to it.
After Jiang Ming was sent to Qiancheng, the business of the medicinal herb store was much colder, and it was almost bankrupt.
Out of Jiang's house, Jiang Ming took Ah Xiang to walk with medicinal herbs in the south of the city.
He looked around, and on both sides of the street were teahouses, taverns, pawnshops, and workshops. There are also many small vendors with large umbrellas in the open spaces on both sides of the street. The streets stretch east and west to the quieter suburbs outside the city, but the streets are still full of pedestrians: some are carrying burdens, some are driving ox carts to deliver goods, some are driving donkeys to pull trucks, and some are stopping to enjoy the scenery of the Zhangjiang River. With the tall castle tower as the center, the houses on both sides are lined up, and there are tea houses, wine shops, foot shops, butcher shops, temples, public houses, and so on.
The Jiang family medicinal herb store is engaged in the wholesale business of medicinal materials, supplying medicinal materials to pharmacies in eighteen towns and villages in Qiancheng. It can be said that the demand for medicinal materials is still very large, and the profit of medicinal materials is more than fifty percent, as long as the relationship between all the pharmacies in the eighteen townships and towns is dredged, the business of Guan is medicinal herb store can bring a very considerable income to the Jiang family.
With such a big market, the original Jiang Ming didn't know how to grasp it well, so it's no wonder that he was killed by a traitor.
Poor people must have something to hate, and there is still some truth to it.
Jiang Ming suddenly visited the herb shop, which made the butler's surprised eyes about to fall out. The fourth young master has been in Qiancheng for a few months, and he has never taken care of the Jiang family's business, and every day he either walks his dog and watches birds, or fools around in the room with his maidservant Ah Xiang.
The person in charge of the medicinal herb shop is called Zheng Li, a shrewd and capable middle-aged man.
Zheng Li thought that Jiang Ming was short of silver, so he hurriedly ran over to greet him, although the four young masters were useless, but he also had to serve with a good voice, who made the family the master, he was the servant. Today's class hierarchy is strict, and the subordinate is always a subordinate, and nothing has ever dared to argue with the master.
"Steward Zheng, take a look at last month's account book. Jiang Ming glanced at the errand runners of the medicinal herb shop, all of them were sitting on the side yawning idly, and he could imagine how cold the business was.
"Huh?"
Zheng Lileng was stunned, then reacted, and hurriedly instructed the guy to go to the account room to take out the account book of the previous month.
"Fourth Young Master, you look first. ”
Zheng Li took the account book from his buddy and handed it to Jiang Ming, and did not report last month's profits, but just let Jiang Ming read it himself. He thought in his heart that the fourth young master was just a whim, and he couldn't understand so many business things to tell him. The account book can actually reflect a person's business mind very well, if Jiang Ming can't even read the account book, he can just prevaricate in the past.
"It's fine. ”
Jiang Ming quickly browsed through the previous month's income and expenditure, closed the account book, and smiled encouragingly at Zheng Li.
"This ......." Zheng Li sighed in his heart, the fourth young master was really a rice bucket that did not enter the stream, and last month was so bleak, he actually said that it was okay. Since the young master was happy, what else could he say, and he echoed with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay." ”
"How many pharmacies are there in Qiancheng?" Jiang Ming changed his words.
"There are two hundred and sixty-two, large and small. Zheng Li's mind turned extremely fast, and he said it almost subconsciously.
"How many herb shops are there?" Jiang Ming asked again.
"There are only three. One is Zhong Ji medicinal materials, the second is Li's medicinal materials, and finally, the worst is our Jiang family's medicinal herb shop. ”
Jiang Ming breathed a sigh of relief, the Jiang family's competition in the Qiancheng medicinal materials industry is actually not big, there are only two Zhong Ji and Li family, but there are more than two hundred pharmacies in the market, even if the cake is scraped, their Jiang family will not even occupy one-tenth of the entire market.
The reason why he said it was okay was because the market was still there, and as long as the market was there, he was not afraid that there would be no business to do.
"In a month, there will only be a Jiang family's medicinal herb shop in Qiancheng, I said. Jiang Ming smiled kindly at Zheng Li, who was shocked, and ordered: "Steward Zheng, in the past few days, you have set out to buy a batch of colorful poisonous spiders for me, the larger the better." ”
"Fourth Young Master, the colorful poisonous spider is a highly poisonous thing, and it can't be used as a medicinal herb......." Zheng Li didn't understand what Jiang Ming was thinking, but after the conversation just now, his impression of Jiang Ming changed a lot. Seeing that he was in a mess now, he couldn't help but remind him loudly.
"I'm useful, just do what I tell you, and don't ask anything else. Jiang Ming restrained his smile and said to Zheng Li in an unquestioning tone.
As a superior person, you must establish your authority in front of your subordinates, some people rely on coercion and inducement, and some rely on good inducements, and you have to use different means for each different person.
In the eyes of Zheng Li and the others, Jiang Ming was looked down upon by them before, but now, he wants to break their original established ideas, the most direct way is to be tough, and in the back, he naturally has a way to convince them.
Ah Xiang looked much more dignified.
Witnessing Jiang Ming's performance before and after, in addition to being secretly frightened, she was more of a fear of the superior from her heart, just like that person............
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A few days later, Zheng Li sent someone to deliver the news that more than 100 colorful poisonous spiders had been acquired.
"Steward Zheng asked me to tell the young master that the flower spider is extremely poisonous and extremely difficult to catch, so let you tolerate him for a few more days. After the errand runner put down the dozens of wooden boxes, he retreated.
Ah Xiang has restrained a lot in the past few days, and she is also respectful in front of Jiang Ming, and it seems that she has returned to the position of the maid.
Jiang Ming is not in a hurry, he just wants to keep an eye and ears by his side and let her pass the news out, his fourth young master of the Jiang family is not a persimmon that is easy to pinch.
After moving all the flower spiders to the room and ordering everyone not to come in.
Jiang Ming began to practice for the first time the technique he had obtained from the Ten Thousand Evil Mall—Thousand Spiders and Ten Thousand Poisonous Hands.
Then he opened a wooden box, and a colorful poisonous spider came into view. It lies quietly in it, a pale black color, with round eyes in front of a pincer-like mouth, ready to attack the food in front of it.
"Come on, enjoy your last good meal. Jiang Ming grinned miserably, stretched out his slender finger like jade and put it in front of the flower spider.
A bloodthirsty pain came from between his fingers, and he only felt his heart twitching, and the blood in his body seemed to be about to coagulate.
The flower spider sucked up the blood and left Jiang Ming's fingers with satisfaction.