As soon as the notice came out, there was a rush to get enough.
The main store of Xinghe Supermarket on Di'anmen Street in Beicheng. Nancheng branch on the south side of Liangguang Road on the north side of the railway community. Suddenly it was crowded with poor people who came to buy corn.
Now, they have money and rumors are flying.
They all said that although Uncle Dingyuan had a big family and a big business, he couldn't bear the burden of millions of people in Beizhili buying food like this. It is said that if the sale is stopped this time, it will not continue to be sold.
This rumor is serious. Immediately, there was a rush to grab enough.
Not only did they grab enough food, they also grabbed enough supplies that were lower than the market price. Fatty pork, for example, was quickly sold out within ten days. This is still based on meat ticket sales. It turns out that many people are reluctant to eat meat and are saving their meat tickets.
In this era, the fatter the pork, the more expensive it is. Because of lack of oil. If only suet could be sold at the highest price. Because the pot can produce 60% meat oil and 30% oil residue. The fat pork in Xinghe Supermarket is long-term frozen goods purchased from Meiliguo. So the price is super cheap.
Yang Fan has no intention of making money from this. It is true that people in this era are too thin and seriously lack fat. Yang Fan first had to ensure that his soldiers, workers, teachers, and domestic slaves had enough calories and fat intake. The rest are sold in the capital.
Poor people in the capital can buy a pound of fat pork a month, and the price is only 20 cents per pound. There has been no price increase in two years. Nowadays, the price of fatty pork on the market is as high as one penny per pound.
A family of five earns five kilograms of meat coupons a month and sixty kilograms a year.
After the meat was boiled in oil, the meat oil remained in the jar for several years without deteriorating. In panic, they spent all the meat tickets they had accumulated in the past two years.
Yang Fan was just thinking about facing the coming Jiannu invasion. In this invasion, Jiannu will not completely withdraw until next year. During this period, Zunhua was in an occupied state and the northern part of Beizhili was definitely cut off from transportation. Yang Fan hopes that these poor people will prepare supplies as soon as possible.
By then, Xinghe Supermarket in Beijing may not be able to supply supplies. After all, there is a battlefield under the capital, and road transportation has been cut off. Business can only be shut down.
But Yang Fan didn't expect it to cause such a big panic. Even the queen sent people to inquire.
During this period, all the cheap food in Xinghe Supermarket was sold out. Corn, white flour, rice, fatty meat, salt, soybean oil…. The transport team was exhausted. Delivering goods to the city in three shifts, 24 hours a day.
Naturally, Yang Fan couldn't talk about the issue of establishing slaves. All we can say is that there will be a year-long expansion of the supermarket and the building will be enlarged. The business area needs to be increased and renovated. Install heating in the supermarket to facilitate heating in winter. A shopping mall is also planned to be built next to the supermarket.
Therefore, let everyone prepare supplies in advance, then partially close the business and start expansion.
Xinghe Supermarket has already reached a consensus among shareholders that it needs to expand due to too much passenger traffic. The Queen also knew it. Currently, the land that can be expanded is mainly the land where cheap food is sold. Because those who buy cheap food are poor people, there are too many people, and the land is very large.
After all, parking this area will not affect the sales of other products in the building, so the Queen also agreed. The main consumers of Xinghe Supermarket and the soon-to-be-opened shopping mall are wealthy people. Those who do not make money by buying and selling cheap food for the poor are actually losing money. It was Uncle Dingyuan who was filling in the contents.
In fact, according to the Queen's wishes, it would be better to simply stop the business of selling cheap food and supplies, which occupies a large area and requires more than 300 employees to maintain sales. It’s not profitable and the cost is high. Together with security and transportation teams, loading and unloading teams, warehouses and other personnel, more than a thousand people are serving these poor people. These wages and carriage fees are all lost money.
However, she also knew that this was what Uncle Dingyuan promised to His Majesty before he opened the business. She didn't dare to stop. If His Majesty gets angry, she will lose more than she gains.
In the past two years, Concubine Tian and Concubine Yuan have become increasingly difficult to suppress. The friction in the harem is increasing day by day. Queen Zhou's first consideration was the emperor's favor. Making money comes second.
Zheng Sanfazi's family opened a family shoe factory a year and a half ago. Specializing in supplying leather shoes and boots to Xinghe Supermarket. Within half a year, the business grew to fifty shoemakers. Now Zheng Sanfazi is a famous shoemaking king in Beicheng.
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Before the Beijing camp was about to leave for the northwest, an order for 80,000 pairs of leather boots was received. This led to another boom in their shoe factory. However, when he first received the order, he was almost too worried to sleep. Because his shoe factory only has fifty workers.
The Beijing camp stationed at the Nanyuan military camp and placed an order. It is required that 80,000 pairs of leather boots must be made in three months. These leather boots are all measured and given, and they are basically made according to personal measurements. At the same time, more than 20 quilt factories in Beijing that supply Xinghe Supermarket have also received orders for singles and cotton pants.
However, there is only one workshop in the leather shoe factory, Zhengjia Leather Shoe Factory. After all, leather shoes were not popular in this era. Even Zheng Sanfazi and his family decided to work in a leather shoe factory because of Xinghe Supermarket’s designated purchases.
He found Zhu Zhu who was responsible for the previous purchase. Fortunately, Zhu Zhu had just graduated from the special training class at this time. Also in the capital. Talk about your difficulties. After all, it was this young man who made the decision to hand over the leather shoes to his family shoe factory.
Zhuzi went to the master again to talk about this matter. Yang Fan directly gave him one hundred foot-operated sewing machines and two hundred hand-operated leather shoe repair machines. These machines are worth three thousand taels of silver. He simply couldn't afford it. Yang Fan had no choice but to ask Xinghe Bank to give him a loan and pay it off in three years. Yang Fan personally guaranteed it.
With these equipment, he also received a loan of five thousand taels of silver. Zheng Sanfazi took action immediately, recruiting cobblers in the city with high salaries and five hundred apprentices. Purchase raw materials. Under the guidance of Zhu Zhu, we adopted assembly line division of labor and finally completed the order on schedule.
However, after this emergency expansion of production, the Zhengjia Shoe Factory has officially become a large factory with thousands of employees. Nowadays, long leather boots have become popular among the Ming Dynasty’s army. Not only the Beijing camp came to buy, but also the border troops came to buy. The Ministry of War also came to purchase. Many civil servants also found that these leather boots with left and right feet were very comfortable to wear.
However, Zheng Sanfazi did not dare to take the order himself. He knew very well the conduct of officials in the Ming Dynasty, and he was afraid that he would not be able to pay the balance by then. He pushed them all to Xinghe Supermarket. The supermarket picks it up, give him the order and he will make it. If the supermarket didn't answer the call, he wouldn't even dare to pick it up.
Today, the person in charge of the supermarket came to him and told Uncle Yuan that he had placed an order. Two hundred thousand pairs of leather boots. One hundred thousand pairs will be delivered in the spring of next year, and will be transported by train to the Guihua City warehouse. One hundred thousand pairs were shipped to Xincheng for delivery.
Zheng Sanfazi was a little confused. Isn't the war in the northwest over? Why are you purchasing so many military boots? Moreover, if Xincheng purchases so many military boots, is there going to be a war near the capital?
