Today is a special day. Yang Fan’s Xinghe Supermarket opened in Daming.
At present, this land is still wasteland. Only a part of the ground facing the street has been simply leveled and hardened, a cement floor has been laid, and a drainage ditch has been built underneath.
It took about a week for more than 3,000 people from Xinghe Tuanlian in Beijing to complete all the leveling work on this area.
The land is divided into three parts. The front quarter is reserved as a parking lot for parking horses. The middle half is prepared for the construction of a supermarket building. The rear quarter is reserved for warehouses and staff dormitories.
The middle and back parts are covered, and construction is going on inside. Ding-ding sounds can be heard from inside.
It attracted many passers-by to look at it curiously, but it was surrounded by woven cloth and nothing could be seen.
Building materials are mainly stored here, and carpenters make doors, windows and wooden components of houses in advance. Under the guidance of workers transferred from Zunhua, locally recruited workers are trained to learn the construction methods of reinforced concrete and the steel bars are bundled in advance.
It is winter now, which is not a good time to start building houses. Moreover, such a large building will take a long time to complete. It is impossible to wait for the building to be completed before opening.
Yang Fan planned to open the business years ago. Today is the 23rd lunar month of the twelfth lunar month, so he took advantage of the festival to open the business.
At present, only the parking lot has been leveled and hardened and the drainage facilities have been completed, and then it has been opened in the open air. There are open-air stalls one by one. On the site, there are a large area of tables with zigzag tables covered with tablecloths. On the tables are placed
Place the merchandise.
There is a dazzling array of various products. In the food area, everything is available, including rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea. In the supplies area, there are many types of silk, tea, ironware, porcelain, and lacquerware. All the common products on the market are available here. And the prices are slightly lower.
The guys are all recruited locally these days.
The situation in Ming Dynasty has been very bad in the past two years, and the situation in Beijing is not optimistic. Many people have nothing to do. Recruitment is very smooth, and the requirements are not high. As long as there is a guarantor, no criminal record, and under the age of thirty
can.
Yang Fan kept his promise to His Majesty and sold aged grain here at low prices.
A load of rice cost one cent and five cents, and a load in the Ming Dynasty weighed 100 kilograms. However, a kilogram in the Ming Dynasty weighed about 600 grams, so a load of rice weighed 120 kilograms today.
This price is the same as that of millet, which is very cheap. Historically, due to years of famine, in the first year of Chongzhen, that is, after the Spring Festival, the price of rice will soon skyrocket. This price cannot be maintained for much.
In the Wanli era, as long as a bundle of firewood was collected in the morning and sold in the city, it would be enough to buy two days of rice. Those good days will never return, and the Ming Dynasty will enter the apocalyptic mode.
Nowadays, the rice produced back then cost five silver coins per load, which is five cents per catty. If it is old grain, it costs about three coins per load, which is about three cents per catty.
The rice in the supermarket is directly priced at the same price as millet, which is still very attractive.
But this rice is double-cropping rice rotated out of modern warehouses, or milled from three-year-old rice. It tastes very bad, has a bad texture, and basically has no fragrance. However, in terms of nutrition and calories, it is better than the purely natural products of this era.
meters, the difference is not big.
The effect of eating it is similar, but it doesn't taste good.
Three days before the opening, we did a lot of publicity, distributed 10,000 leaflets throughout the city, and posted 500 notices in various streets and alleys.
In other words, there are more literate people in the capital, so if we change places, this method may not be feasible.
In addition, wheat flour and corn grits are also sold in supermarkets.
Yang Fan's wheat and corn are old grains from modern warehouses, and they don't taste good.
However, the flour of later generations was ground more finely, and it looked snow-white in color. Due to technical reasons and unwillingness to lose too much, the grain of this era was ground lighter, and the flour looked yellow.
The appearance is not as good as Yang Fan's flour. The flour is not ground as finely as Yang Fan's flour.
Flour costs one penny per pound, which is cheaper than rice and is only equivalent to one-third of the price of flour in this era. Although the north is a wheat-producing area, the price of flour will not be less than three cents of silver per pound.
As for corn, people in this era have never seen this kind of food.
Corn is extremely cheap, costing one penny or two pounds.
There has never been such cheap food in the entire Ming Dynasty, and even miscellaneous grains are more expensive than this.
In order to facilitate everyone's acceptance of this new food variety, a tasting point was specially set up. A pot platform was built next to the stall, and corn mash and kidney bean porridge were cooked in the large pot.
You can taste it for free, just take a small bowl and try it.
On the table next to you are freshly steamed cornmeal cakes, as well as sweet corn pancakes and cornmeal paste.
There's even a separate large pot for frying popcorn.
The aroma of sugar and cream wafts around the popcorn tasting area.
Today is the first day of opening. Everyone who comes to the market can get a small paper bag of popcorn for free.
The reason why the corn is crushed into small pieces is because firewood is not cheap in this era, and cooking the corn requires fire, which increases the cost.
The little ones are much more mature.
In addition, there are also cooked polenta for sale. If you bring your own basin, you can beat the prepared polenta here and take it home to eat.
Supermarkets use honeycomb briquette stoves to cook porridge in large quantities, which is low-cost and cheaper than cooking it at home.
After finishing the matter of Jin Yiwei, there was nothing major in the past ten days, so Yang Fan focused all his energy on the supermarket.
Yang Fan had a large number of carriages with strong transportation capabilities. According to the Ming Dynasty's habit of buying new year's goods, he sent them all to surrounding places to fully purchase supplies.
When it opens today, there are more than 100 kinds of products. Basically, all the New Year's goods that need to be bought are ready. You can buy everything just by coming here.
Yang Fan used Tuanlian's baggage transport carriages to purchase directly from the production area, eliminating the intermediate links and reducing the cost by half. In this way, it can be distributed at a low price to benefit the people.
At noon, thousands of people who had arrived early had gathered outside the supermarket, including many officials. Yang Fan came out and announced the opening of Xinghe Supermarket.
This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! At this time, the plaque covered with red cloth hanging on the door was pulled open. As the red cloth fell, the four big characters of Xinghe Supermarket shone with golden light.
Appear in front of the people.
The lion dance team began to perform, the gong and drum team immediately played music, and Donkey Dan led people to set off two sets of 10,000-ring firecrackers.
The atmosphere suddenly reached a climax.
Watching the excitement is the favorite of Chinese people, so Yang Fan specially arranged a lion dance performance.
Huang Hao, the head of the Ministry of Personnel, looked at the handwriting on the plaque and felt that it looked familiar. After thinking about it for a while, he was suddenly shocked. This was His Majesty's own handwriting.
He had seen His Majesty's handwriting on the memorial that His Majesty directed to the Ministry of Officials.
Soon the officials gathered in front of the gate started whispering to each other. They all heard that Xinghe Supermarket opened today and came to see the excitement. Now many yamen have closed in advance. Although it will take a few days to seal the seal, it does not affect them.
Went out for a walk with the family.
They were all pointing to the plaque inscribed by His Majesty himself and whispering to their family members.
Recently, a lot of useful daily necessities have been released from the palace. Toothbrushes, toothpaste, towels and even plastic washbasins have been scattered in the capital.
Toothpaste and toothbrushes have been sold on the black market for one tael of silver a set. Towels have already cost five taels of silver a set.
There was no market for it, and without a familiar little father-in-law, there was no way to buy it. These were sold privately by the eunuchs and palace maids who had received supplies for the group training.
After all, there are still many poor people in the palace.
After sharing some good things, I couldn't bear to use them, so I sold them for money.
Many officials and wealthy businessmen can no longer live without these things after using them. One tube of toothpaste is used by the whole family, and it is used up very quickly. After using it, they don’t know where to buy it.
Later, news spread that after using up these items, you can wait for Xinghe Supermarket to open and buy them there.
In the past two days, I got the news about the opening of Xinghe Supermarket. Many officials and wealthy businessmen came to visit with their wives, young ladies and young masters.
After the opening celebration, the door was opened, and crowds of people rushed in. Many rich people went there for daily necessities, while ordinary people went there for cheap food.
This chapter has been completed!