Funing County, Yongping Prefecture, is approaching the New Year's Eve, and the entire small county has become lively. Every day, a large number of people come from the countryside to the city to purchase New Year's goods.
Funing County is quite special. It is a county that contains mountains, rivers, lakes and seas. The southern part of Funing County is close to the North China Plain, which is a vast and endless plain.
In the north, there are endless mountains and rivers, which can be regarded as mountainous areas. To the east, it is close to the Bohai Sea. There are lakes to the west and rivers within the territory. It is considered a unique and beautiful place.
Because of its unique geographical location, Funing County is also extremely rich in products. At the end of the year, hunters from the mountains bring fine skins and a small amount of live prey for sale; there are also fishermen on the lakes and rivers who cut ice to catch fish.
The fresh fish arrived, and now there are also various fisheries caught from the sea; wheat produced on the great plains in the south.
There was so much snow last winter that there was a famine in the first half of this year. However, because last year's snow was so heavy that the insects in the ground froze to death, there was a bumper harvest in the second half of this year.
As the saying goes, there is spring in front of the diseased tree, and everything bears the yin and embraces the yang. Whether it is extremely peaceful or not, it seems that there is some truth to it.
A large number of people from the countryside came to the city, bringing with them a large amount of local specialties, making Funing County a bustling place. Merchants in the city even rushed to sell New Year's goods from all over the world.
Zhang's Grocery Store is a grocery store run by Zhang Tianhao. It is located in the busiest street and consists of several stores. It is very large and contains a lot of various goods, including food, clothing, oil, salt and rice.
There are even various iron products such as hoes, kitchen knives, scissors, sickles, etc. that come in from Miyun Iron Factory, and there are also all kinds of dried fish products that come in from Tianjin Port. It can be said that there are many kinds.
The goods are complete.
Of course, in the past, Zhang's Grocery Store did not have many goods. It was not called a grocery store in the past, but was called Zhang's Salt Store, which specialized in selling salt.
Zhang Tianhao sells private salt. In fact, most of the private salt is sold in his hometown of Funing County. In Funing County, Zhang Tianhao's Zhang family is a coward who dares to sell salt openly.
Because he sells smuggled salt, the price is relatively low. In the past, his business was quite good, and he almost had a monopoly on the salt in Funing County.
But smugglers are smugglers, and those who are smugglers in Funing County are just smugglers in Funing County. As soon as the court worked hard to suppress smuggling of salt, Zhang's life became very ugly. In the past few months, when he was smuggling salt, he was arrested by the government.
The people arrested dozens of clan members and they are still in jail.
This is why Zhang Tianhao rushed over immediately after receiving Liu Jin's invitation. On the one hand, he wanted to find a new way to make a fortune, and on the other hand, he also wanted to see if he could ask Liu Jin for help.
Get dozens of tribesmen out.
Smuggling salt is a serious crime for his tribe, so Liu Jin is naturally incompetent. Of course, it is not that he is powerless, but he will not sell his favor just for the sake of his relationship with Zhang Tianhao.
As for a new way to make a fortune, Liu Jin pointed it out to him, which was to open a grocery store.
The department store business is also a business that Liu Jin has recently been thinking about and preparing. Liu Jin, who comes from a later generation, knows that building a platform and using other people's money and property to make money is the smartest way to make money, just like Didi Taxi.
The same is true for the department store business. Liu Jin thought that relying on his strong influence, he has already been involved in salt and iron, and will also be involved in cloth and other industries in the future.
So Liu Jin thought about whether he could also set up a department store to specialize in this area of business. He could collect various goods by himself, and then wholesale them to the dealers below, and then build a store by himself.
Platform, everyone does business on this platform.
One of the reasons why Liu Jinhui came up with this idea is because his industry has a large production capacity and needs a huge market to digest all kinds of goods.
In addition, although this department store business does not seem to be profitable, if it is large-scale, it is also a very profitable business, and because it is related to food, clothing, housing and transportation, it is a long-term business.
Furthermore, Liu Jin wanted to form business control through such a method, include more businessmen and industries, and increase his influence in the business field.
The last famine incident made Liu Jin realize his shortcomings in this area. He did not have food, and he did not have the channels to control food, so he looked very embarrassed.
Liu Jin has natural advantages in doing this department store business. On the one hand, there will be more and more companies under his command, covering more and more fields.
Now there are coal, cement, ironware, glass, fish from Tianjin port, and clothing manufacturing here in Tianjin. Due to the rise of the whaling industry, soap factories have also been set up. Not only to meet their own needs, they can also start to operate on a large scale.
of external sales.
There will be even more fields and industries involved in the future. With such advantages, if we don’t build a department store platform, we would be sorry for ourselves, a time traveler in future generations.
In addition, Tianjin Port, because of its unique geographical advantages, is the transportation center in the north. There are a lot of goods traveling from south to north. With such an advantage, how can we not make full use of it? As long as we are in Tianjin, Liu
Jin allows people to purchase goods from all over the world on a large scale.
"I don't know if this is possible. Groceries, groceries, all kinds of things are sold together."
Inside Zhang's grocery store, Zhang Tianhao seemed a little worried, because the investment in this grocery store was not small. Just these few stores cost a lot of money, not to mention buying so many types of goods at once. If this was a loss,
, it was also a blow to Mr. Zhang.
Opening a department store has never happened before, because when people do business, they usually only do one business. In the past, he was specialized in the salt business. Apart from this business, he rarely got involved in other businesses, even if it was
If you get involved, the stores are separated one by one.
Those who sell salt are those who sell salt, and those who sell rice are those who sell rice. They rarely mix up business and trading. They only do one or several related businesses, not like now.
, everything is mixed together and sold.
So he had no confidence in his heart. This was his first day of business, and he was worried. If it weren't for Liu Jin's strong recommendation, he would not have done this.
Isn't it a sure profit business to sell salt from Changlu Saltworks with peace of mind?
Of course, the reason why I am willing to do this business is because the salt from Changlu Salt Plant is not very profitable. The salt from Changlu Salt Plant is of good quality and cheap, but the sales price of this salt must be determined by Changlu Salt Plant.
The price, so it seems a bit tasteless.
At the entrance of Zhang's Grocery Store, several members of Zhang Tianhao's clan, who were also waiters in the store, crackled fire to start work, which was auspicious and festive, and at the same time attracted the crowds passing by on the street.
"Zhang's Grocery Store is open. Zhang's Grocery Store is open. Anyone who purchases goods in the store over 100 Wen will receive a discount of 5 Wen!"
"Zhang's grocery store is open for business. The goods are complete, good quality and cheap~"
At the door, the waiter held a tin trumpet and started shouting at the top of his lungs. This tin trumpet was also produced by Miyun Iron Factory. It was a gift. When he used this trumpet to roar, the sound was like a bell and the force of a tsunami. He passed by immediately.
The crowd looked over in unison, as if watching the excitement.
"Come, come, fellow villagers, take a look and have a look. It doesn't matter if you don't want to sell it. You can come in and take a look."
Seeing a crowd of people coming over, the waiter in the store started shouting loudly, signaling everyone to come in and have a look, and it didn't matter whether they wanted to buy or not.
After hearing the waiter's words, curious people and people watching the excitement came in one after another, and the whole shop suddenly became lively.
"Oh~ there are really a lot of goods here, a dazzling array of things, everything is available."
Uncle Wang, who was the first to come in, took a casual look inside the store and couldn't help but say.
"Of course, groceries, groceries, if the goods are not complete, how can it be called a grocery store."
Next to Uncle Wang, the waiter Zhang San also said with a smile on his face: "Uncle, you can take a look and ask me if you can't find anything. The prices of the goods are written on the signs on the side."
"I'll just take a look~"
Uncle Wang nodded. He was from the town of Funing County. There was actually no shortage of things at home. He just came over to join in the fun when he was full and had nothing to do.
“Huguang rice~”
“Suzhou cloth~”
“Tianjin cement~”
"..."
Uncle Wang strolled around the store very casually. He wouldn't know it if he didn't browse, but after strolling around, he discovered that there are really all kinds of goods, all kinds and complete types.
“Snow salt from Changlu Salt Field only costs 30 yuan per pound~”
Soon, he came to the sales area of the store's flagship product, Changlu Snow Salt. Several large water jars were filled with snow-white salt, and there was a wooden board stuck on top with this message written on it.
"This salt~"
Uncle Wang picked up a handful of snow salt and looked at it carefully. The color was snow-white and the particles were fine. He took a little taste and his eyes suddenly lit up.
"Such high-quality salt is sold for thirty cents per catty. Is Zhang going to become a living Bodhisattva?"
Uncle Wang was a little unbelievable. Such salt was definitely the best salt. Zhang's Salt Shop used to sell it here, but it cost more than 300 Wen per catty. Now it only sells for 30 Wen per catty. He
They all doubted whether they had seen it wrong.
He looked at the words on the brand carefully one after another, and he didn't believe it. He thought that this Zhang was preparing to become a living Bodhisattva. Such high-quality salt was only sold for thirty cents per catty. You must know that even the most expensive salt in the past was
The poor salt would be sold at Zhang's place for forty cents per catty.
