"What can I do? In one year, I won't be able to earn ten thousand taels even if I go out to do business without sleep every day!"
"After much thought, I can only come to you."
"Your maocai is delicious, and you can make money quickly by recruiting franchisees. We can definitely make money by joining forces!"
Shen Shuangshuang glanced at Cheng Lei.
Cheng Lei quickly felt guilty.
"Just help me."
"Also, I have real connections. And you should rest assured when I do things."
Shen Shuangshuang pondered slightly.
"Except for your connections, tell me, what other abilities do you have?" Chong Cheng Lei asked.
Cheng Lei was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes lit up.
"I'm sociable, good at arithmetic, and good at using people."
"By the way... my maternal grandfather's family ran a dental shop, so I can buy and hire good slaves!"
After recruiting franchisees, you will need a lot of manpower to serve the franchisees, and you will have to deal with dental stores.
There are many good and bad people in Yaxing, so his ability to choose useful people is naturally one of his abilities.
When Shen Shuangshuang heard this, he glanced at Cheng Lei.
Buying and hiring people is indeed important. In ancient times, slave trading was allowed.
For some important positions, you will naturally feel more at ease if you use your own people.
For example, in some wealthy families, the servants they use are trained since childhood.
Select the best among the slaves' children, train them to grow up, and arrange them into some important positions.
Such people are loyal and useful.
But she has no foundation and no such reserve talent.
From the time she opened her workshop to now, she has bought and hired many people one after another.
It has been discovered that those who hire are not as useful as those who buy.
But there are good and bad people who buy them.
When I picked the person, I thought he was pretty good, but when I bought it, I found some problems.
This situation has happened more than once.
The price of a slave, even a woman, is not low.
If the person who buys it is not satisfied, although it can be sold, the time lost in the process cannot be made up.
Furthermore, the selling price is much cheaper than the purchase price, which may also result in losses.
Being able to buy useful slaves directly would indeed save a lot of worry.
Shen Shuangshuang narrowed his eyes.
"Open a hot pot restaurant." Cheng Lei raised his head after a while and said.
Cheng Lei frowned.
"Hot pot restaurant?"
"Yeah. Let's open a standard restaurant."
Cheng Lei's frown deepened.
"No, I'm discussing opening a chain store with you. Why did it involve opening a hotpot restaurant?" He was anxious.
Shen Shuangshuang raised his hand and motioned for Cheng Lei to sit down.
Cheng Lei glanced at Shen Shuangshuang before sitting back on the chair.
"Maocai is currently well-known in Shangyang Town. If he goes to other places, he may not be well-received."
"The franchise fee of five hundred taels is just a few of you who think it's not expensive and are willing to give it a try. If you leave it to others, you may not be willing to join."
"In Shangyang Town, there were so many students from Nanshan Academy who helped with publicity, so Maocai became popular so quickly. If I go to other places, without this advantage, the aroma of the wine is also afraid of the deep alleys, how can there be so many people buying it? ?”
Cheng Lei was silent, finally not as anxious as before.
"Opening a hot pot restaurant requires a relatively large initial investment."
"But we have good reputation and connections in Shangyang Town. When the time comes, the hotpot restaurant will have Shenji's sign on it. When it opens, we will invite the Su family and some well-known people in the town to come to the platform. We won't worry about no customers coming."
"As long as there are customers and the food tastes good, we can keep the customers, and everything will fall into place from now on."
"Can't a reliable hot pot restaurant allow me to earn tens of thousands taels a year?" Cheng Lei still disagreed.
Shen Shuangshuang glanced at Cheng Lei.
"Only maocai restaurants can join, but not hot pot restaurants?" he asked.
Cheng Lei was startled, and then his eyes lit up.
Shen Shuangshuang continued: "Hot pot is different from the dishes in restaurants. It requires a chef to cook it."
"Just put the base ingredients in the pot, add the soup and let it boil, then put the vegetables in and cook it."
"At that time, it will be easier to provide services to the franchise stores."
"They just need to help with the decoration, train the waiters, and sell hot pot ingredients. They can prepare the dishes by themselves."
Shen Shuangshuang paused.
"If you want business to be good, you can open a few more hotpot restaurants, even if you don't recruit franchisees."
"After all, the profit of a hot pot restaurant is much greater than that of a Maocai restaurant."
"I - actually prefer to open my own store. After all, you can control your own store and it's not easy to destroy the sign."
Cheng Lei hesitated and wanted to refute, but couldn't.
"But I don't have that much time." Cheng Lei choked out something after a long while.
Shen Shuangshuang looked at Cheng Lei.
"Ten thousand taels a year, indeed..."
"Let's do this. Each of us will contribute five hundred taels of silver to open a hotpot restaurant together. Then I will provide the technology and you will manage it. I will give you 30% of the shares."
Cheng Lei had a toothache on his face.
"At the end of the year, if you can't collect ten thousand taels of silver, I'll lend you some." Shen Shuangshuang added.
If the matter of buying a luxury house is postponed, by the end of the year, apart from the money to buy Zhuangzi, she and her mother-in-law should be able to save some money together.
If someone asked her to borrow money, it would be impossible for her to borrow it.
But if she lends money to Cheng Lei, she can help. After all, this man will help her manage the hot pot restaurant in the future.
If he refuses to pay back the money, it will be deducted directly from the monthly payment and dividends.
When Cheng Lei, who was originally resisting, heard this, the resistance on his face disappeared instantly.
"How much can you lend me?" Chong Shen Shuangshuang asked.
Shen Shuangshuang thought for a while.
"It depends on how much difference you have by then. Two or three thousand taels shouldn't be a big problem."
Her soy products business is getting better and better, and the tofu shop and maocai restaurant are also very profitable.
Coupled with the two new tofu shops planned next, she will make money faster and faster.
Oh, by the way, she can also open two more maocai restaurants.
Anyway, Shangyang Town is a big place, so there are many places to choose from if you avoid the four existing stores.
Cheng Lei's eyes moved.
Then he stretched out a hand.
"Five thousand taels," he said.
Shen Shuangshuang looked at Cheng Lei.
"You promise to lend me five thousand taels when the time comes, and I will agree to your terms."
"What I mean is that I can borrow up to five thousand taels from you." Cheng Lei added, fearing that Shen Shuangshuang would not agree.
If Mrs. Shen can guarantee herself five thousand taels, his betrothal gift of ten thousand taels will be basically guaranteed.
If the hot pot restaurant doesn't make money, he can sell his shares in the grocery store and paper mill.
After selling these two properties, plus the money he can earn from these two properties by the end of the year, he will have to have two thousand taels no matter what.
With three thousand taels left, the worst he could do was go back and make trouble with his parents.
Mom loves him the most and will definitely support him.
Dad will make up for the rest, and the bride price of 10,000 taels will be enough.
Shen Shuangshuang glared at Cheng Lei with an expression like "You're a lion!"
"There's nothing I can do..."
"Ms. Shen, we are old friends, and Yuyan is still the girl you recognize. For the sake of our happiness, please help." Cheng Lei said with a pleading look on his face.
