Courtyard House: Is Xu Damao a childless man? Let me help.

So why are these "export clothes" so cheap? There's a reason for that. Many of these so-called "export clothes" are actually unsold clothing that was stuck in overseas warehouses.

These clothes will likely end up being collected by foreign governments and disposed of as garbage, while those in the foreign trade business will pack them up in bulk and bring them back because they are cheap enough.

And then... that was it. Xu Damao made a fortune quickly by doing this kind of business. Although he had to travel a long way to Guangzhou to buy the goods, the profit from each trip was very considerable.

So, less than two years after this guy sold the house to Ye Jianchuan, he returned to the class of 'rich people', and not just ordinary 'ten-thousand-yuan households'. His assets were probably more than Liu Guangtian's, who had worked hard in the restaurant for nearly ten years.

In the past, Ye Jianchuan probably wouldn't have reacted even if he knew the news, since he wasn't the kind of person who couldn't stand seeing others do well.

But who told Xu Damao to be so inhuman? After selling the house to him, Xu Damao was still somewhat unhappy, so before going to work on his clothing business, he repeatedly found opportunities to annoy Ye Jianchuan.

Although Xu Damao certainly wouldn't dare to do things like murder and arson, he could still manage to manipulate Ye Jianchuan's mentality through some underhanded tactics.

For example, the construction site where he helped deliver food before, later he found out it belonged to Ye Jianchuan, right? So this guy tried to report these construction sites, saying they were shoddy construction projects or something.

At first, the higher-ups didn't take it seriously, but Xu Damao was clever enough to spend a little money and hire a street urchin to go with him to anonymously report him.

If only one or two people said this, the higher-ups wouldn't care too much, since they trusted Ye Jianchuan a lot. But when a whole bunch of people suddenly started saying the same thing, it naturally caught their attention.

Then, naturally, the subordinates would be sent to inspect it. This inspection would inevitably affect Ye Jianchuan's construction site, causing it to stop work, which would be a loss for Ye Jianchuan.

Of course, the final inspection results showed that there would be no problems. Ye Jianchuan was not one of those unscrupulous developers. Moreover, this was his own factory building, not a residential building for sale, so the claim of cutting corners was obviously nonsense.

Although the investigation cleared Ye Jianchuan's name, the higher-ups naturally couldn't bear the losses incurred. Of course, Ye Jianchuan had also suffered considerable losses, so the higher-ups informed him that someone had deliberately made a report, and that there were quite a few reports.

Now Ye Jianchuan knew someone was plotting against him. So... how could he determine who was behind these underhanded actions?

These were not problems for Ye Jianchuan at all. In this situation, so-called anonymous reports could definitely be investigated if someone was determined to do so.

Chapter 353 Stabbing Xu Damao in the back

So Ye Jianchuan thought of a way and used his connections to quickly find out who the thugs who reported him were. Then, through the thugs, he found out that Xu Damao was the one who was deliberately causing trouble.

This annoyed Ye Jianchuan. After Xu Damao sold the house to him, Ye Jianchuan had already decided to pretend that they didn't know each other and keep to themselves from now on.

But now that you're going to do this to me, stabbing me in the back from behind, don't blame me for being ruthless towards you!

Therefore, Ye Jianchuan kept this grudge in his heart. Although it would have been easy for Ye Jianchuan to take revenge on Xu Damao, who had not yet made a comeback, he did not do so.

Stomping on a defenseless ant offers no sense of accomplishment. Ye Jianchuan decided to observe first, and only step on it when Xu Damao could 'succeed' again.

The feeling of going from heaven to hell will be the best punishment for Xu Damao!

Meanwhile, Xu Damao was still gloating over the matter, completely unaware that Ye Jianchuan had thoroughly investigated his clumsy little scheme.

And so, more than a year later, Xu Damao had made a lot of money through his clothing business, and this news naturally did not escape Ye Jianchuan's notice.

Seeing that Xu Damao's life was getting better and better, and he even had time to prepare for 'blind dates', Ye Jianchuan felt that the time was almost right.

So Ye Jianchuan quickly spent some money to hire professional street thugs and went to Xu Damao's clothing store to start causing trouble.

One moment she says she got a skin disease after buying clothes from Xu Damao's store, and the next she says that after buying Xu Damao's clothes, she found that they had been worn by someone else.

While most people aren't too averse to 'second-hand clothes' these days, if they're worn close to the skin, or even involve the risk of spreading skin diseases, it can be quite a shock to other customers.

So Xu Damao's clothing store business soon started to run into problems. Just as Xu Damao was getting tired of dealing with these people who kept coming to cause trouble, Ye Jianchuan began to make preparations for the next step.

Didn't you make a fortune selling clothes in the foreign trade? Well, I'll invest in opening a bigger and cheaper store right next to yours. How will you be able to compete with me then?

Of course, Ye Jianchuan wouldn't be so bored as to abandon his huge business and go and argue with Xu Damao.

So Ye Jianchuan directly handed over the task of opening a clothing store to squeeze out Xu Damao to Shazhu's eldest son.

That's right. Among Sha Zhu's children, the eldest is the oldest, currently seventeen years old. However, because he is the oldest, he experienced the most severe years of that storm.

For this reason, even with Ran Qiuye and his third uncle Yan Bugui as 'tutors', this guy's grades were still not very good.

But that's okay. At this time, there's no such thing as having to go to university to have a future. If he's not good at studying, then we might as well train him in business early!

So after Ye Jianchuan, Sha Zhu, and Ran Qiuye and her husband discussed it briefly, they decided to train the child to go into business.

For this reason, Ye Jianchuan quickly gave the child a considerable amount of 'start-up capital' and then taught him the detailed operating procedures.

He even took the child on a special trip to Guangzhou to "practice" at the so-called "wholesale market." As a result, Sha Zhu's eldest son, Ye Jianchuan's nephew, quickly opened a clothing store next to Xu Damao's, which was twice the size of Xu Damao's.

Since everyone sources their goods from the same place, and the styles and quality of the clothes they sell are basically the same, the only thing that can determine the winner between the two shops is price.

And... wants to engage in a price war with the well-funded Ye Jianchuan? Need I say more about Xu Damao's ultimate fate?

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Moreover, although everyone sources their goods from Guangdong, the actual prices they receive are slightly different, since Ye Jianchuan's nephew sources far more goods than Xu Damao.

In addition, there was an even more crucial issue: transportation costs. Xu Damao would travel to Yuezhou by himself, and then hire a long-distance train and a driver in Yuezhou to help him transport these things back to Beijing.

This is actually the most expensive part of the industry, even more expensive than the cost of the clothes themselves.

But that only applies to Xu Damao. What about Ye Jianchuan? Don't forget, Ye Jianchuan has a lot of business, and a large number of factories of all kinds.

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The goods produced by these factories eventually need to be transported out! So instead of always hiring trucks, why not just set up your own truck fleet?

Therefore, Ye Jianchuan's own freight fleet is fully capable of completing such a task, and it can even be said that such a task is completed 'incidentally'.

Actually, it's not just freight trucks anymore. If Ye Jianchuan wanted, he could even take an even more upscale route, which would be to take the train directly.

Ye Jianchuan could easily charter several freight cars to transport goods, and then bring along some clothes and such. It would be a simple matter.

However, Ye Jianchuan ultimately didn't do that, for the reason... Compared to a whole train car of goods, the clothes his nephew brought in were far too few. They wouldn't even fill half a train car, let alone a full one.

Therefore, Ye Jianchuan should wait until his nephew's business has grown bigger and bigger before considering the matter of using train cars for transportation.

Since Ye Jianchuan and Xu Damao are on completely different levels in terms of transportation costs, even if it's not really a contest of who has more money, Ye Jianchuan's side will still ultimately prevail.

Chapter 354 Xu Damao's Misconceptions

Xu Damao is still unaware of all this. He only knows that the two shops next door have changed owners and are currently under renovation.

The renovation had already had some impact on his shop. After all, the dust and noise from the renovation would indeed affect the purchasing desire of people who originally wanted to come into the store to buy clothes.

In addition, every now and then a person deliberately tries to cause trouble comes to the store, saying that they got a skin disease because they wore the clothes sold here, or that the clothes broke after wearing them for two days.

This gave Xu Damao a real headache. It took him a lot of effort to finally get rid of these troublemakers. But what he didn't expect was that something even more troublesome was waiting for him.

More than two months after the "340" period, the store's renovation work was nearing completion, and the goods were already in place. The next step was naturally the opening ceremony.

Since it was a shop specifically created to target Xu Damao, it was naturally designed to completely overshadow Xu Damao's shop. Therefore, both the decoration and the grandeur of the opening ceremony made all the surrounding businesses pale in comparison.

Of course, if it only looks visually glamorous without being paired with other sales techniques, the final business may not be very good.

After all, the current economic situation in China is still not particularly ideal, so if your store looks particularly glamorous and obviously 'expensive', then fewer people will probably go in to browse.

After all, most people certainly can't afford to spend that much money on a set of clothes, so at this time, we need to use some promotional methods to let everyone know that our store not only looks high-end and classy, ​​but also has very affordable prices.

Then... Xu Damao was truly dumbfounded, because he discovered that the two shops next door actually belonged to the same company, and his own little shabby shop had become a "construction site" sandwiched between two "palaces".

If it were just this one difference, it wouldn't be so bad. After all, the business model it follows is that of a "budget clothing store". Since it's budget-friendly, it's understandable that the decor might be a bit less impressive.

But the fact that his neighbor next door also sold ready-made clothes made Xu Damao feel a bit overwhelmed.

Of course, that's not the most important thing. After all, looking at their luxurious decor, they might be targeting the high-end market. When these high-end shops attract customers, can't we also benefit from that?

However, Xu Damao soon realized that he had been too optimistic. His neighbor was deliberately trying to antagonize him. Not only was the house so luxuriously decorated, but it wasn't even going for the high-end route. Instead, it was going for the same affordable route as his own!

And what's more... they didn't just go for the affordable price route, they went straight for the low-price route. That's right, their initial advertising featured a price even lower than ours.

Now, Xu Damao was really panicking, because under such a strong comparison, his shop really had no advantage at all. Who would be so idle as to come to his shop to make a purchase?

Knowing the matter was hopeless, Xu Damao immediately thought of going next door to investigate what exactly happened. Then... Xu Damao was dumbfounded, because he discovered that the goods in the neighboring store were basically the same quality as those in his own store.

To put it bluntly, this neighbor next door is just a speculative businessman like himself, and the clothes he sells are all 'export goods' imported from Guangdong.

Then... Xu Damao saw the shop owner, and all the questions were answered, because he discovered that the shop owner was actually the eldest son of his old nemesis, Sha Zhu.

This discovery infuriated Xu Damao, who immediately went to teach Sha Zhu's eldest son a lesson, adopting the demeanor of an elder. However, Sha Zhu's eldest son was no pushover either. Although he wasn't the type to act like a street thug, he was, after all, Sha Zhu, and had inherited his father's foolishness...

So before Xu Damao could even say a few words, Sha Zhu's eldest son waved his hand and told the shop assistant to kick him out.

Now Xu Damao finally understood that this was someone else's 'retaliation' coming to his door. But since it was a competition, everyone should just rely on their own abilities!

I can earn about 500 yuan a day now, which is a very considerable income. Since you've lowered your prices, let's have a price war! I don't believe Sha Zhu can really give you that much money to do business!

Xu Damao's idea was good, and in his plan, engaging in a price war wouldn't have a significant impact on him; it would simply mean earning a little less or a little more.

However, Xu Damao forgot a crucial point: could the person behind Sha Zhu's son not actually be Sha Zhu?

Although Sha Zhu did earn much more money than Xu Damao, Sha Zhu's daily expenses were also considerable, including the 'branch' he opened later and all sorts of other things. If Sha Zhu paid for everything, then most of the money he earned before should have been spent.

This is the main reason why Xu Damao believes that Sha Zhu's eldest son doesn't have enough money to wage a price war with him.

However, Xu Damao was unaware of the hidden details. Putting aside everything else, the matter of the "branch" of Sha Zhu's restaurant was not actually arranged by Sha Zhu, but by Ye Jianchuan who provided the funds.

So the money that Sha Zhu saved up was more than enough to crush Xu Damao, that big idiot.

Furthermore... This time, the person who opened this shop behind Sha Zhu's eldest son to squeeze out Xu Damao and make Xu Damao's business fail was not Xu Damao's nemesis Sha Zhu, but Ye Jianchuan, whom Xu Damao had offended once before.

Unfortunately, in Xu Damao's mind, Ye Jianchuan should not know about the matter of him hiring someone to cause trouble for Ye Jianchuan. After all, that matter happened several years ago. If Ye Jianchuan knew, he should have come knocking on his door long ago.

Chapter 355 Xu Damao's Price War

However, he didn't know that Ye Jianchuan was actually aware that he was behind the incident; he simply didn't want to deal with him at that time.

Despite this information gap, Xu Damao calmly began to deal with Sha Zhu's son, who had suddenly appeared and started to belittle him.

So when Sha Zhu's son's clothing store had only been open for less than a week, Xu Damao immediately adjusted the prices, lowering them to a level slightly lower than that of Sha Zhu's eldest son's store.

Well, although it's only a little bit lower, the price is still lower after all. Xu Damao thinks that since his price is already lower than the other party's, the customers who were previously taken away should come back, right?

But... something awkward happened. Did the customers return? It seems a small portion did return, but that small portion consisted entirely of the kind of 'money-grubbers' who wanted to save even a penny or two. 27

So, these kinds of customers can be quite troublesome to serve. They will spend a long time choosing and trying on clothes, and even after deciding what clothes they want to buy, they will still haggle with you over a penny or even a few cents.

If you don't meet his expectations, this kind of guest might even turn around and leave, making all the ten or even tens of minutes you spent entertaining him useless.

Why don't the remaining customers come back? It's simply because the shop next door looks more 'upscale'.