Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 323, Zhang's Department Store

The county seat of Funing County, Yongping Prefecture is approaching the end of the new year, and the entire small county is becoming lively. Every day, a large number of people come from the countryside to the city to buy new year's goods.

Funing County is quite special. It is a county that includes mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas. The southern part of Funing County is close to the North China Plain, which is an endless and vast plain.

In the north, there are endless mountains and rivers, which can be regarded as mountainous areas. In the east, it is close to the Bohai Sea, in the west, there are lakes, and there are rivers in the territory.

Because of its unique geographical location, Funing County is also extremely rich in products. At the end of the year, some hunters from the mountains brought high-quality leather and a small amount of live prey for sale; The fresh fish that arrived, and now there are also their own fish products caught by the sea; the wheat produced on the southern Great Plains.

The heavy snowfall last winter caused a famine in the first half of this year, but because of the heavy snow last year, the insects in the ground were frozen to death, and the second half of this year ushered in a bumper harvest.

As the so-called ten thousand trees spring in front of the sick tree, all things bear the yin and embrace the yang, whether it is extremely peaceful or not, it seems to be reasonable.

A large number of people from the countryside came to the city, bringing a large number of local products, which made Zhengfuning County become noisy, and the merchants in the city stepped up their time 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 there are many kinds of goods in it, such as clothing, food, oil, salt and rice.

There are even various iron products such as hoes, kitchen knives, scissors, and sickles that came in from Miyun Iron Works, and there are also various sun-dried fish products that came in from Tianjin Port. The goods are complete.

Of course, in the past, Zhang's grocery store didn't have a lot of goods. In the past, it was not called a grocery store, but 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, Funing County. In Funing County, Zhang Tianhao's Zhang family is a sitter, and dares to sell salt openly.

Because he sells smuggled salt, the price is relatively low. In the past, the business was quite good, and he almost monopolized the salt bar in Funing County.

But smugglers are smugglers. In Funing County, they are sitting tigers, and they are only sitting tigers in Funing County. As soon as the court tried their best to suppress salt smuggling, Zhang's life was very ugly. When he smuggled salt a few months ago, he was banned by the government. Dozens of people from the clan were arrested, and they are still locked in the prison.

This is also the reason 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 money, and on the other hand, he also wanted to see if he could ask Liu Jin for help. Get out dozens of tribesmen.

Salt smuggling by other people is a serious crime, Liu Jin is naturally powerless, of course it is not powerless, but he will not sell favors just for the sake of his relationship with Zhang Tianhao.

As for the new way to make money, Liu Jin pointed out to him, that is to open a grocery store.

The department store business is also a business that Liu Jin has recently conceived and prepared. Liu Jin from later generations 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 by relying on his own strong influence, he had already been involved in both salt and iron, and in the future it would also involve cloth and other industries.

So Liu Jin thought about whether he could also set up a department store to do business in this area, collect all kinds of goods on his own side, and then wholesale them to the dealers below, and build a department store by himself. Platform, everyone does business on this platform.

One of the reasons why Liu Jin will have such a year is because the industry under his command 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 make money, it is also a very profitable business if the scale is large, and because it is related to basic necessities of life, it is a long-term business.

Furthermore, Liu Jin wants to use such a method to form commercial control, to include more businessmen and industries, and to increase his influence in the commercial field.

The last famine incident made Liu Jin aware of his shortcomings in this area. He didn't have access to food, and he didn't have access to food, so he looked very embarrassed.

Liu Jin has a natural advantage 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 from Tianjin. Because of the rise of the whaling industry, soap factories have also been set up, not only to meet their own needs, but also to start large-scale production. of foreign sales.

There will be more fields and industries involved in the future. With such an advantage, if you don't set up a department store platform, you will feel sorry for yourself, a future traveler.

In addition, Tianjin port, because of its unique geographical advantages, is the transportation center in the north, and there are a lot of goods traveling from south to north. With such advantages, how can we not make good use of it? It only needs to be in Tianjin, Liu Jin allows people to purchase goods from all over the world on a large scale.

"I don't know if this will work. Groceries, groceries, all kinds of things are sold together."

In Zhang's Grocery Store, Zhang Tianhao seemed a little worried, because the investment in this grocery store is not small. These few stores alone cost a lot of money, not to mention that there are so many kinds of goods bought at one time. Yes, it was also a blow to him, Mrs. Zhang.

Opening a department store is something that has never been done before, because when people do business, they usually only do one business. Like before, he specialized in the salt business. Except for this business, other levels rarely set foot in it. If you set foot in it, it is also separated from one store to another.

Those who sell salt are those who sell salt, and those who sell rice are those who sell rice. They are rarely mixed together for business and trading. They only do one or a few related business transactions, not as they are now. , Everything is mixed together to sell.

So he had no idea in his heart. This was his first day of opening, and he was worried. If it wasn't for Liu Jin's strong recommendation, he wouldn't do it like this.

Wouldn't it be a safe and profitable business to sell salt from the Changlu Salt Field with peace of mind?

Of course, the reason why they are willing to do this business is also because the salt in Changlu Salt Field is not very profitable. The quality of salt in Changlu Salt Field is good and the price is cheap, but because the sales price of this salt has to be determined by Changlu Salt Field. The price, so it seems a bit tasteless.

At the entrance of Zhang's Grocery Store, a few members of Zhang Tianhao's clan were also the waiters in the store, and they crackled and lit the start-of-work firecrackers.

"Zhang's grocery store is open, and Zhang's grocery store is open. Anyone who buys goods in the store will get a discount of [-] yuan!"

"Zhang's Grocery Store has opened, the goods are complete, the quality is good, and the price is cheap~"

At the door, the waiter in the shop opened his voice with a tin horn and yelled continuously. This tin horn was also produced by Miyun Iron Works, and it was a gift. When you use this horn, the sound is like a bell, like a tsunami, and the people passing by immediately The crowd looked over in unison to watch the excitement.

"Come on, come on, folks, take a look at it, take a look at it casually, it doesn't matter if you don't sell it, you can come in and take a look."

Seeing a crowd of people approaching, the waiter in the store yelled hard, telling everyone to come in and look at it casually, it doesn't matter if you buy or not.

Hearing the words of the shop waiter, curious people and people who watched the excitement came in one after another, which immediately made the whole shop lively.

"Yo~ There are really enough goods here. There are so many things in sight."

Uncle Wang, who was the first to come in, took a casual look in the store, and couldn't help but said immediately.

"Of course, groceries, groceries, if the stock is not complete, how can it be called a grocery store?"

Beside Uncle Wang, Zhang San, the shop boy, also said with a smile on his face: "Master, you can look around casually, if you can't find anything, ask me, the price of the goods is written on the sign beside it."

"I'll take a look~"

Uncle Wang nodded. He is from Funing County. In fact, there is no shortage of things at home. He is the kind who comes to join in the fun when he is full and has nothing to do.

"Huguang Rice~"

"Cloth from Suzhou~"

“Cement in Tianjin~”

"..."

Uncle Wang wandered around the store very casually. He didn't know if he didn't walk around, but after a stroll, he realized that there were really all kinds of goods, all kinds, and a complete range.

"Snow salt from Changlu Salt Field, only sells for [-] Wen a catty~"

Soon, he came to the sales office of Changlu Snow Salt, the flagship product in the store. Several large water tanks were filled with snow-white, snow-white salt, and there was a wooden board inserted on it, with such a message written on it.

"This salt~"

Uncle Wang picked up a handful of snow salt and looked at it carefully. The color is snow white and the particles are fine. When he tasted it lightly, his eyes immediately lit up.

"Such high-quality salt sells for thirty yuan a catty. Is their Mrs. Zhang ready to become a living Bodhisattva?"

Uncle Wang is a little unbelievable. This kind of salt is definitely the best quality salt. In the past, Zhang’s Salt Shop also sold it here, but they bought it for more than [-] yuan a catty. Now they only sell it for [-] yuan a catty. I wondered if I was wrong.

After carefully looking at the words on the sign, he couldn't believe it. He wondered if this Mrs. Zhang was going to be a living Bodhisattva. Bad salt, Zhang's here also sells for forty Wen a catty.

　Let's count the tickets~~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)