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So the problem of the chef in the private room on the second floor was basically solved. Not only was the problem of the original store and the branch solved, Ye Jianchuan also made a big move and found He Daqing a job as a 'teacher'.

They got this old guy to set up a chef training class and arranged for him to train dozens of fifteen or sixteen-year-old kids, starting as apprentices.

These children will become the head chefs of the other branches of Sha Zhu's restaurant in the future, so the restaurant can be considered to have achieved 'sustainable development'.

Aside from the restaurant, which was an investment by Ye Jianchuan but not his personal property, there was another place that was also an investment project of his: helping Master Ye defeat Tongyi's Shuangru ham sausage during the instant noodle war.

Okay, actually, it was a company similar to a meat processing plant that Ye Jianchuan funded for Qin Huairu and Qin Jingru to set up. Naturally, it didn't just produce sausages; it also produced things like canned luncheon meat.

Chapter 342 The Convenience Store That's Too Deeply Rooted

However, because both major instant noodle manufacturers used Shuangru ham sausage as a 'discount' tactic in the instant noodle war, Shuangru ham sausage is naturally more famous than their other products.

Of course, this is also a good thing for Qin Huairu and Qin Jingru, because in this way, the two of them can save a lot of advertising costs.

Moreover, due to the instant noodle war, Shuangru immediately launched a ham sausage called "Instant Noodle Companion," which received unanimous praise from people who had gotten used to this flavor of ham sausage during the previous instant noodle war.

Well, this was actually Ye Jianchuan's idea. Besides this idea, Ye Jianchuan also helped come up with many other types of products, including corn hot dogs, Taiwanese grilled sausages, chicken-flavored ham sausages, and starch products specifically for deep-frying and grilling.

The wide variety of ham sausages caters to people with diverse tastes, which is why the Shuangru brand has grown rapidly after the instant noodle wars, easily capturing more than 60% of the domestic ham sausage market.

The reason why it couldn't 'monopolize' the entire instant noodle market like Master Ye was actually due to some official influence.

Because after the reform and opening up, many state-owned meat processing plants transformed themselves. Some of these plants were integrated, and their business naturally shifted to products they were already familiar with, such as ham sausages and luncheon meat.

Although these factories were gradually privatized after the transformation, they still contain some state-owned assets. Therefore, the local government would not allow such factories to go bankrupt. As a result, many public institutions still choose these factories when distributing benefits.

If it weren't for this reason, given the relatively inefficient production and marketing methods of these manufacturers, Shuangru would have at least captured 90% of the market, if not the entire market.

However, since Ye Jianchuan only provided general direction for Shuangru's business and didn't help steer it behind the scenes, the two Qin sisters are already very satisfied with the current level of the factory's operation.

Besides these two industries, there are actually some 'hidden' assets, which are those industries that others don't know (blank) 698925850 was invested in by Ye Jianchuan, but in fact Ye Jianchuan also has a share in them.

These are the industries that Ye Jianchuan isn't currently paying much attention to, but which may prove very useful in the future.

One of the most important industries is the legendary "small shops" that are found everywhere. Well, at present, most of these small shops are still family-run.

Moreover, this situation will continue until the early 21st century, when the emergence of supermarkets will squeeze the survival space of convenience stores, and only then will convenience stores gradually disappear from the stage of history.

However, in reality, convenience stores have existed in other places for a long time, and they are still able to exist for a very long time to come. Their form of existence is called a convenience store.

What Ye Jianchuan is currently working on is a convenience store 'project'.

Compared to a small shop, where anyone living on the ground floor of an apartment building can simply open a storefront, using only four or five square meters of space to set up a few counters and sell snacks, Ye Jianchuan felt it was better to directly introduce the convenience store model.

On the one hand, it's because the instability of small shops makes it inconvenient to intervene and manage them systematically and on a large scale.

On the other hand, the items sold in the convenience store are rather random. Although its existence has indeed provided convenience to many people, the effect would be even better if convenience stores were promoted more widely.

Unfortunately, Ye Jianchuan's idea was shelved right away because he realized that the current business model for convenience stores was simply not viable.

As mentioned before, although the convenience store makes a lot of profit, it mainly comes from snacks and the like, which happen to be exactly what Ye Jianchuan's chef Ye is looking for.

However, in reality, shops that only sell snacks and treats cannot last long, because these small shops sell more of the more affordable but stable-volume and high-demand items such as rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and tea.

Moreover, most people choose to buy these things nearby, and convenience stores might be located right downstairs from their apartment, or even on the first floor of the same building.

This inherent advantage is something Ye Jianchuan cannot match with others at this stage. Therefore, it is obviously unrealistic to directly squeeze out the production space of small shops and fully promote the convenience store model at this stage.

So, left with no other choice, Ye Jianchuan could only start with a larger project, namely a supermarket.

Of course, opening a supermarket isn't something you can just do on a whim and expect to make money; there are quite a few 'tricks' involved.

For example, the prices of items sold in supermarkets are naturally slightly cheaper than those sold in small shops or other similar places.

That's how you attract people to come and shop. Otherwise, as mentioned before, if you have no advantages, people will just buy from the convenience store downstairs in their own neighborhood. Why would they bother going all the way to your supermarket?

Price is of course only one aspect. Another important feature of supermarkets is their wide variety of products; you could say they sell almost anything you want to buy.

To meet these conditions, Ye Jianchuan's "connections" would be a significant challenge. If he wanted to obtain various products at prices lower than retail prices while ensuring sufficient profit margins, it would be impossible to do so without directly contacting manufacturers.

Even finding manufacturers isn't always enough. After all, the profit margins for things like rice and flour are already very low. Trying to lower prices further while still breaking even is quite difficult.

Chapter 343 The idea is good, but the timing is a bit off.

Therefore, when faced with such a situation, you may need to negotiate with the manufacturers of these goods, such as trying to lower their ex-factory price.

Of course, people aren't stupid. You need to offer enough benefits to get them to agree to such conditions. Therefore, huge demand and stable orders naturally become necessary conditions.

Anyway, figuring out a supermarket properly is no easy task, but fortunately, Ye Jianchuan has no intention of doing it himself.

Instead, they arranged for Xiao Dang, who used to work for Master Ye, to partner with an "old acquaintance" to prepare for the supermarket.

And this old acquaintance was none other than Liang Ladi, with whom she had a good relationship before.

Well, Liang Ladi hasn't appeared in a long time, but the red thread between her and Nan Yi is just so strong!

Unlike the original drama, Nan Yi was directly put to work at a food factory by Ye Jianchuan, and stayed there for more than ten years.

As for Liang Ladi, she had always worked at the machine repair shop. Logically speaking, their relationship should have ended there.

But who knows where these two got the audacity to secretly start an affair over those ten years? In 1972, still within those ten years, despite going through countless hardships, they finally got together.

Later, the environment changed. After Ye Jianchuan brought Nan Yi out to open a restaurant, Liang Ladi, being stubborn, still longed for her "professional title" at the machine repair shop. So she persisted in working at the machine repair shop for another five years.

It wasn't until last year, when the wages at the machine repair shop became ridiculously low, that Liang Ladi couldn't take it anymore and ran away.

However, it must be said that although Liang Ladi is a bit stubborn, she is actually quite efficient in getting things done as long as someone can point her in the right direction.

So Ye Jianchuan handed over the supermarket matter to Liang Ladi. Of course, although these things were handed over to Liang Ladi, Ye Jianchuan ultimately took the lion's share.

However, Ye Jianchuan did not put this business under his own name, but under Xiao Dang's name. Although they are not his own flesh and blood, Qin Huairu has been with him for so many years, and the two girls have been very well-behaved since they were young, so he should take care of them.

However, the idea of ​​a supermarket was just something Ye Jianchuan came up with on a whim. After telling Xiao Dang and Liang Ladi about the idea, Ye Jianchuan became a hands-off manager. So, after several months, the framework of the supermarket still hadn't been established.

Fortunately, Ye Jianchuan's investment in the supermarket business did not cause him serious harm, even though the investment was large and there was no return in the short term.

But for Ye Jianchuan, weren't these initial 'investments' also a form of investment? Because the land for the supermarket itself... was also purchased by Ye Jianchuan through connections.

Whether or not the supermarket is built in the future, with this land, Ye Jianchuan will definitely not have to worry about losing money.

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Aside from supermarkets, which is an area Ye Jianchuan is particularly interested in getting involved in, there is another crucial thing he also wants to try: the legendary 'logistics'.

However, this idea is even more unrealistic than the convenience store idea, because at this stage, even the internet is not yet widespread, let alone things like home computers, mobile networks, and online shopping.

No, it's actually a bit too early to say these things. In fact, not only is the internet not widespread yet, but even things like telephones are not yet common in China.

Although this thing existed as early as the 19th century, and even Empress Dowager Cixi knew about the telephone, it still hasn't been installed in every household to this day.

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Moreover, even when telephones become more widespread, it is unrealistic to expect to make shopping as convenient as online shopping over the phone.

As telephones became widespread, another 'industry' also rapidly emerged: the infamous 'telecom fraud'.

The 'rise' of this industry has essentially eliminated the possibility of conducting large-scale remote sales via telephone.

So instead of focusing on logistics in this day and age, we should be thinking about how to acquire computers, the internet, and other high-tech technologies.

Then we will strive to independently develop some things that will not be held back by others, and even surpass Microsoft to become the leader in the computer system industry!

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However, while it's unlikely that logistics can be established right now, buying land across the country and building warehouses is still something worth considering.

These warehouses and similar facilities serve two purposes. First, they allow customers in areas far from the factory to receive their orders more quickly after placing them. Second, like the supermarkets before them, they are preparations made by Ye Jianchuan in anticipation of future increases in housing and land prices.

By then, he would have dozens or even hundreds of plots of land, each worth billions or tens of billions. Even if his other businesses started to decline due to poor management, Ye Jianchuan wouldn't have to worry about going bankrupt in the future just by having these plots of land.

Of course, aside from these rather 'out-of-the-box' industries, Ye Jianchuan also considered venturing into some more 'stable' industries, such as... animal husbandry.

After all, as someone who has experienced more than one dramatic increase in pork prices, Ye Jianchuan knows exactly how exaggerated the demand for pork is among the Chinese people.

So, does raising pigs guarantee money? The answer is definitely no, because Ye Jianchuan knows that in less than ten years, societal attitudes will gradually change.

Chapter 344 Ye Jianchuan's 'Western Fast Food'

There will be a slogan that goes something like, "Serve down chicken, duck, fish and meat, and bring up turtles and tortoises."

From that time on, dishes like turtle soup and soft-shelled turtle soup became must-order items at dinner tables.

During that period, pork prices remained quite stable, so it wasn't easy to reap the benefits of rising pork prices.

So... since there's this step of serving turtles and tortoises, wouldn't it be possible to make a fortune by raising turtles and tortoises now?

Ye Jianchuan had actually thought about this, but ultimately gave up the idea because turtle farming requires too much skill. If you don't master it even slightly, you'll lose everything!

So Ye Jianchuan eventually gave up the idea of ​​raising turtles. However, he still decided to dabble in the aquaculture industry, and soon he found a target.

Ye Jianchuan is planning to try opening a fast food restaurant in China! That's right, the kind that sells fried chicken, hamburgers, fries, and the like.

Restaurants like McDonald's and KFC have been around in many countries for a long time, but such restaurants have not yet appeared in China.

Since that's the case, Ye Jianchuan felt he could give it a try, and maybe he could make some money in this industry.

Such fast food restaurants naturally have an extremely high demand for chicken, so let's just start raising chickens!

And so, Ye Jianchuan soon began his 'exploration' of the new industry again. Of course, he couldn't wait until his chicken farm had mature chickens ready for market before opening a shop.

So Ye Jianchuan simply decided to try opening a fast food restaurant first, and as for the chickens, he would just find nearby farmers to buy them.

Although most chicken farmers nowadays are actually small families in rural areas, raising a few dozen chickens each, they kill a couple of chickens to eat when there is a happy occasion, which is considered a celebration.

However, there are large-scale chicken farmers, but the term "large-scale" is only relative, which is why Ye Jianchuan chose to open his own farm.

Of course, it doesn't matter if these large-scale chicken farmers aren't big enough, since we don't always need their chickens; we just need enough for now.

So Ye Jianchuan's fast food restaurant quickly opened not far from Sha Zhu's restaurant. As for the name, it was rather 'casual', directly copying McDonald's and Kaifeng cuisine, and named it McDonald's Chicken.

In any case, the name is not really important for fast food restaurants. After all, the names of fast food restaurants in later generations don't really have any real meaning. The quality of the product is what matters most.

However, to Ye Jianchuan's disappointment, although he used the same frying techniques and recipes from the system for the legendary and most popular "Original Recipe Chicken," he just couldn't attract a large number of customers, which left Ye Jianchuan feeling quite helpless.

However, Ye Jianchuan quickly realized the crux of the problem: your store is so novel, and the goods inside don't look cheap. People without some confidence wouldn't dare to come in and order food.