Finally, a deal was concluded, and Chen Chang was very happy. He picked up Yan Qianshi, who was still waiting outside, and left.
Although Yan Qianshi didn't know how Chen Chang and his wife negotiated just now, judging from Chen Chang's expression, they must have succeeded. He immediately put a smile on his fat face: "Brother, how about it? I'll give it to you for my brother's sake."
Is the store you found good?" "Not bad!" Chen Chang nodded.
"Really!" Yan Qianshi exclaimed, with a happy face, "That's really great. I thought you thought the rent of this store was too expensive. Now that we have reached an agreement with my wife, shall we start tomorrow?
Have you started recruiting more students?"
Chen Chang shook his head and said: "Let's not rush this. Let me ask you, what is the biggest basis for us to be able to open the school?"
Yan Qianshi thought seriously for a while and said: "The venue and the teacher! Without these two, our school would not be able to continue at all."
Chen Chang shook his head.
"Student?" Yan Qianshi asked again.
Chen Chang still shook his head.
Yan Qianshi frowned and said, "Is it a book?"
books?
Do you think you can open a school if you want?
Chen Chang glared at him and said: "We want to open this school. The most important thing and the most urgent thing at the moment is money! As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning. If you ask me, I have to add another sentence, it is called everything is difficult at the beginning.
Money is the hardest thing!”
The most important thing for doing business is to have a start-up capital in hand.
"Money?" Yan Qianshi wondered.
Chen Chang explained: "To put it simply, opening a school for us is a losing business. So many children have to spend money on food and housing. It is unrealistic for you to expect their families to take this money. We have to find a way ourselves."
.”
"Oh. I understand that." Yan Qianshi nodded hurriedly, "I will give them some subsidies from my own private money!"
Chen Chang rolled his eyes again, relying on your private money, those students would have starved to death long ago.
Yan Qianshi saw Chen Chang's expression and said quickly: "Maybe Aweng has some more."
You are quite a grown man, it is wrong to chew on your old age!
Chen Chang waved his hands and said seriously: "We can't ask for this money from others, we have to earn it ourselves! I have already promised my wife that I will earn 500 yuan in half a month!"
"What?" Yan Qianshi's jaw dropped in shock, "Five hundred strings? Did I hear that correctly?"
Ever since he was a child, he had never seen what five hundred strings looked like.
Chen Chang's words really shocked him.
"Brother Xian, I know you really want to help Aweng run the school, but we have to do what we can. I've heard that even when Songhe Tower's business is good, it won't be able to survive in just half a year.
You can earn 500 guan in a month. Don’t be angry! In the worst case, we can go back and talk to my wife. Just say that we didn’t think carefully about it just now, and we can discuss this later, and then discuss it again..."
Chen Chang smiled lightly and raised the contract in front of him: "It's clearly written in black and white on the paper. Do you think I can still regret it?"
Yan Qianshi suddenly put on a bitter face and slapped himself: "Brother, this is all my fault. If I hadn't introduced you to this place, you wouldn't be so loyal."
In his opinion, Chen Chang is young and vigorous, has a good face in front of women, and has boasted about it in Haikou, but now he is riding a tiger with difficulty.
"Brother, what are you doing?" Chen Chang was almost amused by him and hurriedly grabbed his arm, "Since I promised Madam, I naturally have my reasons!"
Chen Chang saw the confused expression on Yan Qianshi's face and knew that even if he told the truth now, he wouldn't believe it. He had to let him see the heavy copper coins. He continued: "Anyway, in the future, you
Don't worry about it. I will arrange some tasks for you when the time comes. I believe that with my brother's intelligence, I will be able to handle things beautifully."
Yan Qianshi nodded, then shook his head.
He had no idea at all.
Chen Chang looked at the big sun above his head, which was about to melt people, and asked, "Brother, are you hot?"
Yan Qianshi looked at him with strange eyes. Could it be that he was unconscious due to pressure?
Can the sun not be hot like this?
Yan Qianshi felt that his clothes were wet and then dry, and then dry and wet again.
"Brother, do you want to cool off?"
Yan Qianshi nodded fiercely, of course he had thought about it, even in his dreams. But now besides going to the shade of the trees, he would go to the river.
"Then take me to the grocery store! I want to buy something very important!"
Yan Qianshi couldn't figure out what medicine he was selling in his gourd, but he still led the way.
In just two sticks of incense, the two found a grocery store. According to Yan Qianshi, this was the largest grocery store in Jiangling with a complete range of goods.
The grocery store is located next to a small river, close to the dock, and you can see several new cargo ships rising and falling with the waves.
The grocery store is a three-bay shop along the street. A flagpole is erected high in front of the store, and a black-edged red flag flag flutters in the wind, with the words "Lou Ji Grocery Store" written on it.
When Chen Chang and Yan Qianshi entered the store, they saw three stores connected from left to right. The shelves along the walls were filled with all kinds of goods, from bottles and cans to hoes and rakes, to needles, thread, and children's toys.
Two customers were picking out flower pots, and they were haggling with the waiter so loudly that they almost lifted the roof.
Chen Chang saw that the guys were busy, so he started looking for it himself, but after searching several times, he found that there was everything here, but he didn't see what he wanted.
Yan Qianshi followed him, running here and there, covered in sweat, and asked in confusion: "Brother Xian, what do you want?"
At this time, the gauze curtain at the back door was lifted, and a middle-aged man who looked like a shopkeeper walked out. The businessman, with his eyes and ears in all directions, stepped forward with a smile and asked: "What do you two guests want to find?"
Our Lou’s grocery store has the most complete stockings in Jiangling, if you name it, we will definitely have it here!”
Lou family?
Chen Chang suddenly remembered that the owner of this grocery store was probably the Fatty Lou whom he and Ling'er met in the small restaurant. Although he saw the big Chinese flag banner at the gate just now, he didn't think much about it at all.
However, the grudge between him and Fatty Lou was not a big deal. He was in a hurry to stock up, so he said: "Shopkeeper, I want to buy some saltpeter. I wonder if you have this here?"
"Saltpeter?" The shopkeeper was also startled, then shook his head, "Sir, you don't know something. Although our Louji grocery store is known as the grocery store with the most complete range of goods in Jiangling, it only sells the necessities of our guests.
Things, such as the saltpeter you mentioned, I have never heard of anyone buying this thing! Therefore, the store has not carried this thing! I am really sorry!"
Fatty Lou is annoying, but his shopkeeper is very strict and polite in his business dealings.
Chen Chang still refused to give up: "Shopkeeper, are you sure you have never had saltpeter?"
"Indeed!"
"Sorry for bothering you! Then I'll go to another store and check it out."
But the shopkeeper smiled and said: "Sir, you can't buy it in my store, and you can't buy it in other stores either."
Chen Chang turned his head: "Why is this?"
"To be honest, there are about thirty or forty grocery stores in the city, and the seven relatively large ones are all opened by my young man. The goods they buy are all the same. I concluded that there must be no saltpeter. Also, old man
Since I own a grocery store, I must be aware of all the grocery stores in Gangneung. I dare say that if I don’t have one here, I won’t have one in other places either.”
After the shopkeeper said this, he showed a proud expression on his face.
Chen Chang saw in him the style of a regional manager of a supermarket chain.
With unified purchasing and unified sales, these seven grocery stores have taken the initial shape of the chain supermarkets of later generations.
Perhaps the shopkeeper and his boss didn't have any idea about this, but Chen Chong who came later was most familiar with this model.
However, with the current situation in the world in turmoil, this model can only be implemented in one city and one region, and cannot be rolled out on a large scale.
"Good brother, good brother..."
Yan Qianshi, who was confused, saw that Chen Chang was slightly absent-minded, and quickly reminded him, he really didn't know what to do with saltpeter?
Chen Chang suddenly came back to his senses, smiled apologetically, and said to the shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper, may I ask where I can buy saltpeter?"
Saltpeter was the key material for him to make his first pot of gold, so he had to get it.
Seeing that he was dressed in an extraordinary way, the shopkeeper didn't dare to neglect him. He thought for a while and said, "Sir, if you want to buy saltpeter now, you may have to go into the mountains. I can buy it for you, but at this price..."
“The price is negotiable!”
As the saying goes, rare things are more valuable. In order to make the first pot of gold as soon as possible, be more expensive!
Chen Chang was overjoyed: "It doesn't matter if the price is higher, but when will the goods be available?"
The shopkeeper pondered for a moment and said: "Recent rains have been frequent and the roads in the mountains are muddy and very difficult. It will probably take ten days at the earliest. But don't worry, sir, within ten days, I will definitely have enough goods.
If not, I will not only return the deposit, but also be willing to pay you another 50% of the deposit, what do you think?"
This business is going well, but Chen Chang can't wait for ten days. He still has fifteen days to earn five hundred guan, and he can't wait to find the saltpeter today and start work immediately.
Hearing the shopkeeper's words, Chen Chang suddenly felt dejected. He was simply too naive. He even imagined that he would earn 500 yuan in fifteen days. He had no idea that the industrial chain in this era was very weak, or that there was no such thing.
exist.
Moreover, information is not flowing smoothly, so you have to find whatever goods you want on your own.
If you're lucky, you'll find it; if you're not, you'll just stare.
Yan Qianshi saw Chen Chang's gloomy expression. Although he didn't know what he was going to do specifically, he also knew the importance of saltpeter to Chen Chang and was really worried for him.
The two of them walked out of the grocery store with downcast faces.
It’s easy to think of ways to make money, but without raw materials, it’s difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.
While walking on the street, Yan Qianshi suddenly pulled up Chen Chang's sleeve: "Xiandi, look quickly!"
Chen Chang looked in the direction of his finger and suddenly spotted a figure that was very familiar but didn't want to see him. He said to Yan Qianshi, "Brother, let's go another way!"
The two of them were about to change directions as if they were thieves, but suddenly they heard the man shouting: "Stop!"
This chapter has been completed!