“This dish is too expensive!”
After someone asked about the price, they couldn't help but be a little stunned. Winter is coming soon and the Chinese New Year is approaching. In the market, the prices of firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and tea have all increased, and the prices of pork at the butcher stalls have also risen to 20 cents per catty.
I didn’t expect these dishes to be more expensive than meat!
But things are rare and expensive. If Xu Ling really makes these vegetables cheaper than meat, where can he have so many vegetables?
To do business, you must behave like a business.
Most people were impressed by the price and stayed away. Some people felt that there was a discount at the moment, and you could get a hundred cents for free if you spent more than three hundred cents. It didn't cost much to buy a few taels per kilogram of vegetables, so they could bite the bullet and buy some.
In the vegetable section, lotus roots were the best seller. Xu Ling transported the lotus roots from Lianhuawanzi, cleaned the mud on the outside, and arranged them neatly. The most important thing was that they were cheap.
Compared with off-season vegetables, lotus roots cost eight cents per catty and are really approachable.
However, when weighing lotus roots, two kilograms of lotus roots are not much. If placed in a house with many people, two kilograms of lotus roots would probably not be enough to eat.
Not only in the vegetable area, the porcelain that Xu Ling brought from Lingbao Town was placed on the second floor, but it was also robbed because the price was cheaper than elsewhere. The wholesale price of porcelain bowls was three cents, and he shipped them over and sold them for seven cents. It was almost the Chinese New Year, so it was normal for the family to buy some bowls and basins.
Xu Ling went to ask elsewhere and found that many people sold porcelain at a higher price than he did. A bowl was at least a penny more expensive.
Although the wholesale price of porcelain is cheap, due to transportation difficulties, it is difficult to transport by land and water. The damage rate is high, and it is normal for the price to double.
Xu Ling has space at his disposal, and he doesn't have to worry about the problems that others worry about. Even though it is cheaper than others, the profit has doubled.
In addition to these relatively large items, Xu Ling also set aside a special space to place the "leak-picking area" that is not too large and messy.
Find a waiter on the side and shout, "No stock sale, the lowest price of goods in this area is three cents! Once sold out, they will be gone!"
These people who have never experienced the bombing of 365-day clearance and processing all year round went crazy when they heard "three articles" and "it's gone when sold out".
When there were more people, the store seemed very crowded. Fortunately, Xu Ling had foreseen this situation and asked Lu Chun to hire seven or eight day laborers to watch and try to prevent thieves from sneaking in.
Xu Ling was also busy moving things and replenishing supplies. By noon, there were fewer people in the shop.
Xu Ling was finally free to count the results of today's battle.
All the 300 kilograms of lotus roots released in the vegetable area were sold out, and the off-season vegetables were sold sporadically, but they were also sold out.
A lot of high-quality and cheap porcelain was sold upstairs, and not even a pair of straw sandals was left in the sale area.
Hey, why are you buying straw sandals in the winter?
Xu Ling didn't know either, but he thought he was going to get the upper hand. Even if he couldn't get anything, he could just grab a pair of straw sandals.
While the guys cleaned up the shop, Xu Ling and Lu Chun went to the back room to settle accounts.
"831 pieces of porcelain were sold, 393 pieces of porcelain bowls, 178 pieces of porcelain plates..."
Lu Chun did the abacus and recorded it in the account book. Xu Ling squatted next to a wooden box full of copper coins and counted the money with a funnel.
My legs were numb from squatting, so I went outside to find a horse and came in, sat down and continued counting.
Finally, the two of them reconciled their accounts. Today, more than half of the day has passed. Not counting the two of them counting their money, the company was still making money, with a total income of 47 taels of silver.
After Lu Chun finished talking about the accounts, he remained silent.
Xu Ling walked around the room, thinking that it was indeed feasible to open a shop, but it would be a bit troublesome for him.
From these goods today, after deducting the cost, Xu Ling earned at least thirty taels of silver.
After subtracting the rent, labor, and unexpected losses, and including the large flow of people attracted by the promotions at the newly opened event, if you calculate carefully, after the store is operating normally, it can make at least a hundred taels of silver a month, right?
It's just that Xu Ling is the only person behind the operation of the shop.
If he wants to grow vegetables, he has to go back and forth between Lingbao Town and Xuzhou.
Xu Ling sighed, "When will we be able to live a life where we can lie at home and count money without leaving home!"
Lu Chun thought, the new owner is really greedy.
After earning so much in one day, he could marry two or three concubines in a year just from this shop. This is not satisfactory.
In the second half of the day, Xu Ling asked the waiter to close the shop and continue to replenish the goods and open the shop again tomorrow.
In the evening, Xu Ling invited Lu Chun and the workers in the shop to a restaurant for dinner. The group of ten people ordered five or six hot dishes and a large bamboo basket of steamed buns, and they were satisfied.
However, this was because the new store was too busy to open, so it was looking for some part-time workers. After the store was operating normally, Xu Ling planned to hire only three clerks.
In this way, if there is a shopkeeper and three assistants in the store, there will definitely be no problem in maintaining the operation of the store.
The monthly salary of these clerks is not as good as that of the shopkeepers, and they also do menial work. Each of them earns one tael of silver per month according to the market price, and they are given some red envelopes at the end of the year as usual, as a sign of loyalty from the boss.
The store provides food and accommodation, and there are several rooms in the courtyard at the back, as well as a kitchen. Xu Ling plans to find a man who can cook to take care of the cooking, and give him some extra money every month.
If you can't find anyone, ask for more women to do the work. There will be too many people talking in the store, and you're afraid of causing trouble.
At the dinner table, Xu Ling imitated the boss in his previous life and painted pie for them, and the host and guest enjoyed the meal.
After having had enough wine and food, Xu Ling returned to the backyard of the grocery store. Now he finally had a place to stay in Quanzhou, and he no longer had to stay in an inn when he came again.
The newly replaced mattress still had an unfamiliar smell. Xu Ling collapsed on the bed. It had been half a month since he came out. How many days left for the Chinese New Year?
"Thirteen, fourteen...the New Year will be celebrated in fifteen days."
He originally thought he would not go out in the winter, but he was pushed forward all the time. However, before going out this time, accepting fifty taels from Yang Tao's master and apprentice could be considered as helping him to collect enough start-up capital.
After hoarding a large amount of porcelain, Xu Ling didn't have enough money to open another shop. Fortunately, with the fifty taels, he took over the shop and the shopkeeper directly.
However, if he wanted to recover the capital as soon as possible, it was still too early to go back and give money to Yang Tao and the others. Xu Ling planned to make another trip, but this time he did not want to go to Lingbao Town, but wanted to take a look further south.
Going south from Quanzhou, Xu Ling also wanted to go to the coastal areas, take a sea ship, and then take a detour to Yazhou. He asked someone to find out that it took less than four days to reach Yazhou from Quanzhou, and it turned out to be Biling. Baozhen is even closer.
Xu Ling handed Lu Chun the access voucher for the dock warehouse. If something was missing in the shop, he just went to get it himself.
When Lu Chun learned that Xu Ling was going to Yazhou, he suddenly realized. He heard that Yazhou was like spring all year round, so he thought that the off-season vegetables coming to his employer were shipped from Yazhou, right?
Xu Ling didn't explain much. He said he would leave as soon as possible and go to the seaside dock to find a merchant ship that could take him to Yazhou.
"Quanzhou is densely populated and the valleys are barren. Even if you want to farm, there is no land."
Those Quanzhou people who couldn't get enough from farming started businesses on their own initiative and traveled all over the country. The southern part of Xuzhou is close to the sea. Every year, countless ships are built from shipyards and travel to foreign countries overseas in pursuit of profit-seeking businessmen's dreams of getting rich.
Quanzhou Port is actually more lively than the inner port!
