Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 283 Business Adjustment
In addition to the affairs in the officialdom, Yang Chao has been integrating other things, such as the management of Jinchai Tower, the shipping business on the Yangtze River, and so on.

The Jinchai House continued to flourish, and there was nothing to worry about with an expert like Kang Xiaobao taking care of it. Moreover, the Jinchai House had finally become the benchmark of Nanjing's brothel industry as it wished.

By August of this year, Jinchai Building had already earned 10 taels of profit, but this is the limit. In Nanjing City, the scale of the high-end entertainment industry is only so large, and 15 taels of silver was spent a year. There is basically not much room to expand.

However, this kind of industry can also be regarded as an eyeball industry, and it eats fame.

This reminded Yang Chao of the business model of some celebrities in later generations, and told Kang Xiaobao to let him find a way to expand the surrounding area. For the entertainment industry of later generations, celebrities are just a means of gaining attention and attracting popularity. Some peripheral industries, such as souvenirs and the like.

Jinchai Building can also develop souvenirs. Of course, it can’t develop indiscriminately. It must closely follow its own core industry, otherwise it will not be called expansion, it will be called nonsense.

The first batch of products that Yang Chao suggested to Kang Xiaobao were fans, which can be regarded as cultural items. Which scholar would not use a fan to support the scene.

Of course, Jinchailou does not only make fans. Jinchailou is a brand, a brand with great popularity and popularity. It is not necessary to make products by itself, it can be an OEM, and it is enough for people to put their own logo on it.

However, Yang Chao told Kang Xiaobao that he must find the best craftsmen and make the best products, and don't care about the cost. Compared with the cost, maintaining the brand image of Jinchai Building is the most important thing. The logo of the hairpin building, the products sold in the golden hairpin building must be worthy of the name of the golden hairpin building.

If the fan is ready, then you can make fashions. The clothes of the Ming Dynasty people are all the same. The men are Confucian shirts and cloth jackets, etc., and the women are like Jiaru skirts, etc. But the same clothes can also be made in different poses. Tightening the length and changing the length slightly, it is a new type of clothing, just like the clothes of later generations, it looks like a lot of tricks, but it is actually a small innovation.

Even the patterns on the top are different in design and design, and they are all different styles. Those painted with autumn chrysanthemums, those painted with orchids, and those painted with bamboo leaves.

Clothing and other things are very aesthetically pleasing, but there is no shortage of people who understand aesthetics in Jinchai Building. People like Chen Yuanyuan grew up in this environment. They are the most poisonous experts in the eyes of the world. As long as they It looks good, it is definitely a compound aesthetic thing.

Therefore, Yang Chao asked Kang Xiaobao to make all the things that were checked before they could be sold, otherwise they had to be destroyed, even if the cost was high, and none of them could flow into the market.

In addition to the main business of Jinchai Building, there is another industry that is not suitable, and that is the trading hall.

After more than a year of operation, the trading hall of Jinchai Building has indeed been welcomed by a large number of businessmen because of the new trading method and highly transparent trading rules, especially those foreign merchants who are not familiar with the local place. Building is the first choice.

In the past, foreigners who wanted to enter the local market had to work silently for many years. For example, the Wang family’s grocery store, in terms of strength and size, was considered to be a big name, but it kept losing money. The Wang family’s big business let it lose money. It is to open up the Nanjing market and occupy a place in Nanjing.

Either go directly to the local dental shop and do business through the introduction of a middleman, but this era is full of various clan relationships, and there is a phenomenon of local people deceiving students everywhere. For the same goods, the price that acquaintances can sell is much higher than that of strangers. There are many, so often strange businessmen become the blood-sucking objects of dental firms, and instead become part-time workers for local dental firms.

It's like He Mingyu's family is a broker, and they have eaten to the extent that others beg them for help in business.

But Jinchai Building broke this stereotype. The transactions in the trading hall are all open and transparent, and the price is clearly marked. Whoever sells more money, and whoever wants less money buys him.

This kind of trading method that broke the rules of the tooth shop was welcomed by a large group of businessmen, and was also hated by the tooth shop. It was tantamount to smashing their jobs. Gritting his teeth, he thought about making trouble secretly.

The result was a loss for both sides. The trading hall of Jinchai Building is very popular, but the merchants who come here to operate are always made things difficult or even threatened. In addition, there is no one in charge of Wang Xiao's departure, and the commissions drawn by the accountants in Jinchai Building alone are only ten thousand taels of silver in a year.

This made Yang Chao a little dissatisfied.

After understanding the reasons in detail, Yang Chao didn't go directly to those dental shops to settle accounts. During the transformation of the new and old production methods and management methods, there will always be old-fashioned ones that will be eliminated, and some people will be affected and lose their jobs. This is the so-called pain of transformation.

But despite the twists and turns, advanced things always eliminate backward food, and the pain will pass the most.

Yang Chao is very clear about this, and he doesn't want to use force. Besides, it is not so easy to use force in Nanjing. Nanjing City is a city with a special status. Although it is not the capital city, many places enjoy the power of the capital city. Here There are no less dignitaries in Beijing than in Beijing, and those who can eat their teeth and make a living are all guys with complex networks and extensive connections. These people can affect the whole body, and it is not easy to offend them, let alone catch them all in one go.

So Yang Chao thought of the brokerage model of later generations. There are brokers in all trading houses. Not everyone can join casually. For example, the New York Stock Exchange has a membership system and the number of places is limited. You have to be qualified, and you have to be qualified to operate in it.

In the end, Yang Chao introduced this model. First, he invited He Mingyu, the most famous broker in Nanjing, and invited him to be the trading hall of Jinchai Building, and gave him a membership. Please come together, tell them that there is money to make together, and invite these people to be the trading brokers of Jinchai Building.

These people have connections and various business relationships. If they can bring their network into Jinchai Building, it will be beneficial for both parties. Open up to them in exchange for their non-disruption and their professional knowledge.

You must know that these people who come to operate the trading hall of Jinchai Building are definitely more experienced than Jinchai Building's own half-baked accountants.

As for the fact that they are holding on to their own private clients and not bringing them into the Jinchai Building, Yang Chao does not believe that they can control them forever. The Jinchai Building relies on openness, transparency, and efficiency. To obtain resources at an optimal price, for the buyer, the lowest cost can be paid, and for the seller, the maximum profit can be obtained. This kind of competitiveness is definitely not comparable to a network of two dental firms.

Those dental firms actually have no choice. If they insist on controlling their network, then their private clients will definitely not want it for a long time. After all, doing business with these people in private will always lose money. The relationship network introduced Jinchailou, and their relationship should be broken up by themselves.

So this is a matter of mutual benefit. Sure enough, in just one month, the trading situation of Jinchai Building began to change. At the beginning, there were indeed some conservatives, but with the first one, everyone else soon They scrambled to introduce their clients to Jinchai Tower.

In the competition between trading platforms and personal intermediaries, the platform wins!
After the matter of Jinchai Building is settled, there will be shipping business in Xinjiangkou.

In fact, it's basically the same thing. Now Yang Chao's shipping business is connected through the Jinchai Tower. When the Jinchai Tower is straightened out, the shipping will also be smooth.

The only thing that shipping should pay attention to is its own competitiveness.

Ever since Yang Chao left Nanjing, some imitators began to appear on the river, some of them were escort agencies. In the past, the agency used to bet on darts according to the practice of drawing three out of a hundred, but they were oppressed by Yang Chao's pioneering escort fees. Reduce the rake, even if it becomes worth [-] taels, but for those big deals that cost thousands of taels, it is still not worthwhile to ask them to bet on darts.

As a result, the escort company can only pick up some low-value goods, but if the value is too low, they are not worth it, not to mention the owner of the goods is not too willing to hire someone. After all, the value of the goods is low, even if they are robbed, they don't feel bad.

In the end, the bodyguard company found that it could only imitate Yang Chao's escort mode and adopt the method of small profits but quick turnover. This is another impact of the new business mode on the old business mode. The old mode will either change or die.

The imitation of the escort company is not bad, after all, they act according to the market rules, at most they have a little bit of quack habits.

The really bad imitators are those sailors. Near Nanjing, apart from Xinjiangkou, there are large-scale water camps in Yanziji, Caishi and other places.

As a result, these people saw that Yang Chao made a fortune by using shipping and providing escort services to cargo owners, so they started to imitate one by one.

Imitation is imitation, at worst everyone can compete freely, but these people don't do that.

They used various despicable means, such as threatening the owner of the cargo to be escorted, otherwise they would rob, which greatly affected Zhang Dawei's business. After Yang Chao left, the shipping market was up and down, and his profits were greatly affected.

As a result, I only earned more than 3 taels of silver in half a year. Not only did it not increase, but it was not even half of what it used to be.

Zhang Dawei couldn't do anything about it, Yang Chao took all the soldiers away, and there was no one in his hands who could not control the scene.

But now that Yang Chao is back, this kind of chaotic situation cannot be allowed to happen.

Yang Chao told Zhang Dawei that with the group of recruits recruited from Haizhou, he can take tough measures and fight if he refuses to accept it. Yang Chao's business was made by fighting, because he was not afraid of Jiang bandits, so he dared to help escort. It came out, but a group of people came to snatch the food, and even dared to threaten Yang Chao with despicable tricks.

Zhang Dawei asked what would happen if the water battalions in Yanziji and other places intercepted their ships, but Yang Chao still wanted to fight. Not only did he want to fight, but he also arrested those who dared to stop his warships, and went directly to the Ministry of War to file a lawsuit.

Up to now, Yang Chao still has the task of patrolling the river, and he can legally appear in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, but these water battalions don't have them. They are tantamount to mobilizing troops without authorization. Yang Chao arrests them directly, and it is reasonable to file a lawsuit.

As a result, the river was full of chaos for a while, and the prices in Nanjing began to fluctuate, which had a great impact.

But Yang Chao didn't have time to pay attention, he still had a lot of things to deal with.

(End of this chapter)