My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 197: Just an Ordinary Small Market

But aren't many lords forced to take the throne by circumstances like this?

Looking back, what probably caused Weidong to mess up was that he summoned his brother-in-law, Editor-in-Chief Feng, to appeal for his help.

As a result, this guy turned the roadside snacks into a full banquet.

But think about it, Yu Songhai can also come up with tricks like readers' letters. You journalists really can't trust it!

I didn't dare go out for a drive with Dong Xueying at night to relax. With all these reporters wandering around, who knows if they would set their eyes on this particularly outstanding double-row seat car.

Rang Weidong even had to take on the task of driving these people to the city's guesthouse and arrange to return to Jiangzhou at noon tomorrow.

I then went to the post office and made a long-distance call to Shen Cuiyue in the middle of the night, asking her to resume assembly of the sanitary napkin machine.

He finally returned to the empty warehouse that he had borrowed from the hemp spinning factory, and all his subordinates were gathered here.

More than fifty sanitary napkin machines and mountains of raw material "tire rolls" were transported by cargo ships today and unloaded directly at the small dock under the hemp spinning factory.

Seventy or eighty production backbones, team leaders, and workshop managers who came from their hometowns arrived with the cargo barge and were debugging and testing equipment.

Dong Xueying brought people here to make arrangements, while Li Erfeng went back to the countryside to recruit people.

By absorbing a large number of laborers from the hemp spinning factory, match factory and Shangzhou locals, the production situation here should be able to be supported.

Seeing him come back with a sad face, she quickly stuffed the baby into his hands and said, "Old You and the others are eager to get involved in high-ranking officials and big situations, but you are the only one who works hard and doesn't engage in these empty talk. But you are not that dangerous, right?"

Weidong was thinking, "Can't we have a home in Shangzhou? We can't even have a normal married life!"

Dong Xueying blushed: "I thought you were worried about work!"

Jiang Weidong's thinking was more simple: "As long as the couple's life is good, everything else is nothing. I need to figure this out. I just sent the reporters to the municipal government guesthouse, and the conditions there are indeed a bit poor. The old leader looked at me and probably meant to build a better hotel. You see, Yuezhou is opening up, Pingjing is carrying out reforms, and they also built better hotels first."

Dong Xueying panicked: "I just heard that you're going to build a building in Jiangzhou, and you're going to sell the match factory to build a factory, and you're even going to start that health product factory. Don't spread your business too wide!"

Weidong was surprisingly knowledgeable. "Why build a new one? The match factory has two warehouses and offices by the river. We can just convert them into a B&B. But I'm not that skilled. I'll ask the reporters from Pingjing tomorrow. If they don't have the talent, I'll go to Jiangzhou and ask."

Listening to the man's explanation of what a B&B was, and how it was something advanced she'd seen from Yuezhou, Dong Xueying frowned, puzzled. "Isn't this the crazy Taoist priest? The one selling calligraphy and paintings on the hill in the park in Shangzhou City loves to tinker with these things. His Taoist temple is what you're talking about, right?"

Okay, it made Weidong vaguely remember that there was such a person in Shangzhou.

Looking at the neatly arranged machines again, he really did intend to scare Jiangzhou by relocating the sanitary napkin factory.

Because of this theft and counterfeiting incident, he was increasingly reluctant to build a branch factory outside. Jiangzhou had actually been very cooperative, but this situation was unavoidable.

It is only natural that the female cadres who were so supportive before would not be so enthusiastic after getting the goods.

If we build factories everywhere, won’t we have to establish these relationships everywhere?
That would be exhausting.

Pingjing has the Feiyan workshop, and Yuezhou is too far away. These two places have to be developed as the focus, so we might as well expand them.

A triangular distribution is sufficient.

We only need to locally deal with these three areas, and by shipping large quantities we can seize the opportunity to occupy the domestic market.

There is no need to build a factory in a place like Echang, which is completely separated from the Three Gorges by two or three days of water. It would be better to put it in Shangzhou, and then use downstream shipping to focus on covering the Yangtze River coast.

As long as Echang is dealt with, the supply to the entire hinterland will basically be guaranteed.

In addition to bringing a ready-made large factory to the Beijiaochang Industrial Park, it can also greatly alleviate the production scale of the Jiangzhou factory.

Two factories with daily output of hundreds of thousands of packages are enough to create jobs for thousands of people, and they can also adjust to each other within a short distance.

This is the underlying intention behind having Weidong relocate and evacuate the factory.

Who knew Lao Feng would make it so big!

I promise you that the Jiangzhou factory will be set up as soon as possible. You can work here or in Jiangzhou if you want.

We also asked for opinions on whether we prefer to live in the factory or in a bustling city center.

As a result, everyone said that the most lively place in Shangzhou now is the free market outside the factory gate.

Then let's just make do with it for now, but the dormitory vacated in the hemp spinning factory is not suitable for couples to live in.

So Weidong simply stacked the sacks neatly in the warehouse and let the cat stay overnight.

I talked to a bunch of acquaintances who came from Shangzhou Machinery Factory and asked them to imitate this machine.

Dong Xueying looked at him with affection, and decided to take the female workers back to the dormitory. After all, they were not allowed to be intimate in public.

The next morning it was already bustling at six or seven o'clock.

Before Weidong could drive to the city guesthouse to pick them up, several cars had already gathered in the compound to bring the reporters over.

If the evening is a night market where citizens come to cool off and stroll around to join in the fun, the morning is a shopping mall where farmers come from the countryside to shop.

In just over half a month, the tradition of holding markets on the 2nd, 5th and 8th days of the lunar calendar, which had lasted for many years, was overturned.

The doors are open every day and stalls are set up for free. People with quick minds come here to make money every day. They come early and set up stalls until nine or ten o'clock when the sun is scorching, and then they close the shop and leave. In the afternoon, they go to solicit and collect things to sell, and then come back to set up stalls early the next morning.

It’s not that there are fewer people setting up stalls on market days, but rather that there is less competition, and you might even make more money.

Isn’t this better than digging for food in the fields every day?
There are always people who will break out of the original framework to look for new opportunities.

It is obvious that this is how the gap between the rich and the poor among the rural families around here widened in the next few decades.

But it is certainly not the free-range eggs and freshly picked vegetables that attract city dwellers to the free market in the morning.

Instead, Weidong was asked to allocate and purchase wholesale market goods from Jiangzhou. As a heavy industrial city, Jiangzhou's deep foundation was incomparable to Shangzhou, an agricultural and foreign trade port city.

Just around the dock, Jiangzhou can have a wholesale market with a wide variety of products.

Of course Shen Cuiyue knew everything about it. Didn't she have a small stall hidden in the children's toy market before? When the free market was just being built here, she made a list according to Weidong's requirements and asked Goudan and others to lead the team to purchase in bulk.

Then it was transported downstream by barge, hundreds of tons at a time, which was almost zero when divided into bundles of cloth and wool, and stacks of antimony pots and dishes.

Weren’t those small stores next to the free market previously unoccupied?

Now let’s take a look at the demonstration proofing.

Every morning at eight o'clock, ten rolls of fabric, ten bundles of wool, one hundred shirts, one hundred skirts, one hundred sets of children's clothes, one hundred antimony pots, one hundred sets of tableware, one hundred table lamps, one hundred sets of washbasins...

All kinds of products are spread out in a row of stores, and the super cheap limited supply is sold out before closing down.

But there will be another wave at 12:30 noon.

The cloth that costs 80 cents a foot in the department store is 20 or 30 cents here, the trousers that cost 15 yuan are 8 or 9 yuan here, and the suede shoes... Forget it, there are no competing products in the whole city, so people are scrambling to buy them!

Only those who have been reborn and traveled through time will feel a sense of déjà vu when seeing this. This is the trick of shopping websites!
Isn’t it just the rhythm of selling goods in seconds?

These things don’t have to make money, the purpose is to attract traffic and keep it coming every day.

It also attracts other merchants to sell goods.

Department stores and supply and marketing cooperatives took the lead in renting storefronts to sell unsold goods at a discount.

Manufacturers also rent a storefront to sell various types of inventory.

There are still few private individuals who have channels for selling goods, but those with a business tradition and business awareness like the old You family finally pluck up the courage to find ways to organize some goods to sell.

In the era of supply by ticket, this opportunity to sell cheap goods would easily lead to a huge crowd.

Anyway, when the reporters from Zhuan'ertai got out of the car with their cameras, they saw this super prosperous scene.

An experienced reporter can tell at a glance whether a photo is staged or not.

Farmers trade on the cement platform in the middle, and goods and commodities are traded in the surrounding stores.

In fact, there were already some smart farmers who rushed here early to grab a batch of goods, and then took them to the market town in the countryside to sell them in small quantities. Wasn't it easy to make money?

The situation where people were locked up for selling melon seeds last year will definitely not happen in Shangzhou this year.

This is how the "Shangzhou Free Market Model" was promoted.

Weidong will never appear on camera again. Lao Tian is the director of Beijiaochang Industrial Park. He came to talk to reporters.

In theory, this is also a big risk.

If no matter which level above, they do not recognize this form of free trade and believe that it is overturning the previous practice of "cutting off the capitalist tail",

In a word, if the free market is closed, his future will be completely ruined.

But since he jumped on this boat at that time, and the recognition from his old leader who showed up yesterday, Lao Tian made up his mind to stand in front of the camera.

This is an attempt made by Shangzhou City in the wave of reform and opening up, and it is also the new atmosphere and new look that Shangzhou Municipal Reform Commission hopes to bring to the people.

He is responsible for speaking official language.

Jiang Yong, who has a background in taxation, is the deputy director, and he will mainly explain the entire tax payment mechanism to text reporters.

What regulations meet the tax exemption requirements for small-scale agricultural and sideline products sold by farmers? What sales quota for daily consumer goods in cities and towns is tax-free? These shops are self-operated in the free market, so what is the fixed tax rate? The goal is to encourage more people to participate in commodity trade and the market economy. Only when more people participate, and commodities trickle into every corner of cities, towns, and villages, can the currently rigid market structure become as healthy as capillaries.

The reporters from Brick TV were a little surprised.

In 1978, in Xiaogang Village, a group of farmers put down their red fingerprints and implemented the household contract responsibility system, which marked the beginning of rural reform.

It's a big risk, but of course it pays off handsomely.

There are now various industrial reforms taking place across the country, mainly in Qiao Feng in the north and Murong in the south, and there are also countless market reform leaders, and You Qili's trading company should have been one of them.

Then shell companies and the talent economy are the mainstream at the moment.

But this prefecture-level city free market with an area of ​​several thousand square meters is a mature model!
It can be transplanted and used almost everywhere.

In fact, as long as you have experienced various trading markets in the past 20 or 30 years, you will understand that this is the optimal solution formed after countless changes in trading models.

In later generations, all kinds of building materials, auto parts, textiles, agricultural trade, and industrial materials, regardless of industry or sector, whether they are called trade cities, trading markets or something else, ultimately follow this model.

Those who have storefronts and warehouses on the side are considered big players, while those who trade freely in the middle are retail investors.

Reduce transaction costs to the lowest possible level, and let the market play a service role. This is the only way to achieve a situation where the market can be used to raise fish.

When the fish are fattened, those with foresight will upgrade and expand them, and those who eat the fish will also eat them. That’s a story for another time.

However, this situation has the lowest investment cost, the best effect, and the largest room for future development.

So when we heard that tomorrow was market day, the reporters from Zhuanertai asked Weidong to stay one more day so that we could take a closer look at this new reform situation.

Wei Dong really didn't see that far ahead. He just thought about it at the crossroads and thought it would be natural to do this with a small investment and quick results.

Later farmers' markets did not all follow this model.

What's all the fuss about.

(End of this chapter)