"It's snowing! It's snowing!" The children woke up early in the morning and found snow falling outside. They cheered and ran happily.
At this time, there is still half a month before the twelfth lunar month, but the snow falls not too early, because this year there is a leap month, a leap month.
Children ran around in the snow, leaving footprints, while guards stood by with brooms and watched.
The snow fell in the middle of the night and was about an inch thick by early morning. For people in Nanjing, it was not considered light snow.
'Boom-boom-boom', "Buy coal, open the door, buy coal." 'Boom-boom-boom'
There was a knock on the door of Jubiqi diagonally opposite, and the children who were playing immediately stopped and ran to wash their faces, regardless of what was diagonally opposite.
Ju Biqi's door has been opened, and the Qin Prince's Mansion has sent someone to guard the store.
"I want a load of coal. Pick it up and deliver it to my home." The coal buyer gave his address, dropped the twelve cents and hurried away.
"Okay! You have to wait a moment, the worker is not at work yet!" The people from Prince Qin's Mansion responded, with a particularly good service attitude.
After the children had tidied up, breakfast had been prepared in the kitchen, and Jubiqi, who was diagonally opposite, lined up, most of them buying coal.
A load of coal costs twelve cents, which is actually one hundred kilograms. A load refers to two baskets and a shoulder pole. There can be about fifty kilograms in one basket.
At first, coal was sold based on the pound, but eventually some people wanted to buy ten pounds. How many meals would this be enough to cook? Later, I simply changed it to a load, and bought at least one load at a time.
Zhu Ping also came from the mansion at this time. He found that no one was waiting for him while sleeping outside, so he simply went back every night.
"Ju Biqi earned more than 1,100 yuan last month. The weather is getting colder. This month will definitely exceed last month."
He sat next to the village chief. When talking about income, beer was not included. The beer money was used to sell goods. Including Xiaqiu Village, each of the 22 villages in Xuancheng County had an extra department store.
Village sites in other counties of Ningguo Prefecture have been selected, and houses are being built. The goods are temporarily placed in Xiaqiu Village. When the houses are built and the sellers are staffed, the goods will be sent there.
"Your Highness, we need to recruit more delivery personnel. The fifty people are too busy. We are still waiting for the fifty people who are being trained to come out. There is still a shortage."
The head of the village knew why Jubiqi made so much money. The store delivered goods to his home, even if he bought five kilograms of rice or half a kilogram of oil.
In the beginning, the shop paid delivery fees to errand runners. Depending on the distance, the errand fee was fixed.
Now there is no need to pay. Many people in an area buy, and one family buys a portion. An errand boy can deliver goods to dozens or dozens of houses in one delivery.
Jubiqi has a constant flow of customers almost from morning to night, and under such circumstances, some people who run errands and deliver goods really make twice a month.
Zhu Wentian never expected that it would be like this. The profit would be more than 1,100 yuan, and the sales would reach 3,300 yuan, a profit of more than 30%.
One hundred and ten guan are sold in a day, which is 110,000 yuan. The shop is small and there is no room for people to queue up to buy things.
The original cloth shop opposite was used as a temporary warehouse for other things besides firewood and coal. There were also workshops and warehouses outside the city.
They hired people to make things and purchased goods in large quantities from other places. After paying the wages, the money that Gongli, Zhujiang and Xiaqiu Village could get was less than 600 guan.
Looking at a bunch of warehouses and workshops, the sales of two shops plus six hundred guan is not much, but it feeds a lot of people.
These six hundred strings still take advantage of not paying taxes to the court. In addition, the purchase volume is large and the price is cheap. The salt supply can be opened directly without having to send things to the border troops in exchange.
Otherwise, ten to fifteen percent of the profit will have to be given up.
"Recruit another hundred people. My business has helped many people. From this point of view, as long as the initial money is enough, it will take less than two years to recover the capital."
Zhu Xi calculated the cost of the warehouse, pottery jars, jars and shops outside, and then calculated the profits. He could make it all back in two years.
Firewood and coal are best sold in winter, but when spring comes, the price will be much lower.
"Yeah!" The store manager just nodded and didn't refute. Let's find someone else to open a store and see if he can still make money like this?
"Did you write a letter?" Zhu Xi thought of someone again and sent him to Xiaqiu Village, where he lived with the villagers and looked at the situation in Xiaqiu Village.
"No, I guess he is very busy. Just raising livestock is not that easy to learn. Local officials must understand the specific conditions of the people."
The head of the village waved his hand. He could think of the shock Hui Wu had received in Xiaqiu Village when he came to contact people under a pseudonym.
"No need to worry, neither he nor the others are in a hurry! How can they be willing to accept an official who has no use for his role and just lives like an ordinary citizen?"
Zhu Feng knew something about officials, and he finally became an official. After learning so much knowledge, he could only live on farming, which was guaranteed to be uncomfortable.
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"Look, Hanhan, other people's stores are not as good as ours. The queue reaches the other side of the road, thanks to our warehouse opposite."
After finishing his meal, Zhu Pang pulled Hanhan out. He was willing to talk to a fool about his inner feelings without any burden.
"Yeah! Platoon, hey hey hey!" Zhu Wentian had no choice but to accompany Zhu Ping around and observe people's livelihood.
The snow is still falling, and there are many people buying coal and firewood. Jubiqi collects firewood from the woodcutter, and the price is two cents cheaper than if the woodcutter sells it himself.
The woodcutter is willing to sell it to the store and deliver it to a place where he can collect firewood immediately. The store's firewood warehouse is outside the city.
Just surround a place, put the firewood in categories, tie it with ropes, pile it high, and use straw mats to cover it when it rains.
After the woodcutter finished cutting the firewood and unloaded it at the warehouse, he didn't even settle the bill. He immediately went up the mountain again and counted the money together in the evening when he came back.
The profit from selling firewood in the shop is very low, 10%, but the profit from coal is high.
Shiploads of coal lumps were brought over and piled up like a hill. Shop workers at the coal yard packed them in sacks and waited for the deliveryman to pick them up and dump them out at the place where they were delivered. The sacks were not given.
"Hanhan, how many people do we have?" Zhu Xi asked with a smile, looking at the dozen or so people who were quickly memorizing their addresses, product names, and money amounts.
Zhu Wentian: "..."
He raised his hands and looked at the ten fingers.
"Hanhan, don't count. There should be more than 400 people. Each person can get from 800 to 100 yuan a month. Those who are literate and numerate in my house earn more. We will give it to them. We can't bully others."
Zhu Feng stopped Hanhan from counting his fingers and said it himself.
"Yeah!" Zhu Wentian nodded.
But I think that in history, you were poisoned to death by your own people because you went too far. Dad said it was a good death, please thank me!
Be nice to the people in the house. Everyone has to live well and their income will increase, so they will treat you sincerely.
"Let's go and have a look at the library. It's open to the public in the twelfth lunar month. The books are almost finished printing. Let's see how many scholars we can help."
Zhu Fang pulled Hanhan around and went to the library opposite Fuhua Building.
"Hanhan, we have dug out copper from our copper mines. After the New Year, a batch of copper movable type should be made, and the remaining copper will be used to make money for the court."
Standing at the door of the library, looking in from the door, there are craftsmen printing sheets of paper, and occasionally there are scholars standing outside the door and watching.
(End of chapter)
