Chapter 335: The Business Opportunities Brought by the Flintstones
"Anyway, when it comes to business matters, it's better to make plans sooner rather than later! We have all gained some wealth over the years. If we end up like the Fan family or the Cao family, we won't have time to cry."
The inner hall was always filled with smoke. Apart from a half-lit oil lamp and the looming cigarette butts, the faces of these people could not be seen in the deep house. They seemed to be born to exist in this dark environment.
Ma Tianming was also a businessman who came from Jin, but he did not make a fortune like these people in Zhangjiakou. He was not even born when these people were reported to be Manren.
Due to the tradition of doing business in Shanxi, Ma Tianming worked as an apprentice in a shop in his hometown from a very young age. Apprenticeship is the only way for children from poor families to make progress if they don't want to work in the soil. He started at the age of eight or nine.
Help with the work in the shop, and then learn some so-called skills. When you reach the age of ten, you will start to do the big work formally. The better ones will become the second shopkeeper in the shop when they are older. The situation is not the same.
You will spend your whole life working as a servant in a shop. Of course, if you are lucky, you can also make a career by relying on the skills you have learned, but the possibility is very small.
In fact, the mobility of the ancient merchant class was very poor. Most merchants have been doing business for generations. Some merchant families can even be passed down for hundreds of years, which is longer than most scholarly families. It can be seen that in ancient times, people relied on doing business.
How difficult is it to change your destiny.
According to his original growth path, the grown-up Ma Tianming should still be working hard in his employer's shop at this time. But everything changed, and before he could work hard, Ma Tianming lost his job because the army invaded Shanxi.
On the ground, his shopkeeper's shop was robbed.
The unemployed Ma Tianming was almost the first batch of refugees to come out of Shanxi. When he begged for food and fled to North Zhili, there was no Refugee Agency in Shanxi. In major social changes, farmers are always the last wave.
A group that cannot resist, and store clerks are often the first group to be affected.
After escaping to Beizhili, he heard someone said that there were many living opportunities in Miyun, so he fled all the way to Miyun. Originally, he wanted to work in the factory area, but the only people who could work there were locals or people from the capital.
As a result, he had no choice but to make a living by working as a horse gang for the factory area.
It was also his luck. When the caravan went to Gubeikou to bring goods to people, Ma Tianming discovered a small business opportunity. The Mongolian people who came here were not very good at settling accounts. When it came to trading occasions, they often turned around and looked for money.
He couldn't find what he wanted to buy. So he quit his job as a caravan and went to the Gubei trading place to work as a trading agent for the Mongols. After working for more than half a year, he saved a little capital, and he was restless and prepared to buy goods by himself.
Doing business outside the mouth.
After buying a mule and carrying the defective products from the factory area, the courageous Ma Tianming went to the Mongolian tribe to do business alone. The first transaction went smoothly and he made money. From then on
For more than a year, he lived in the open air, traveling between Gubei and Mongolian tribes, and his business became better and better. In just one year, he accumulated four mules, and his credit points were getting higher and higher. Now he
You can get goods worth two hundred taels of silver from the supply and marketing cooperative at a time.
In the past few days, Ma Tianming felt that he might have caught up with another opportunity to make a fortune. A few days ago, people from the supply and marketing cooperative said that when they were doing business with the Mongolian tribe, they were asked to bring some flints used by the locals. If
If the quality is good, he will get it from them at a high price. Ma Tianming is very concerned about this matter. When he goes to the Meng tribe, every time he passes by a place, he will ask for a few flint stones and mark the place where they came from.
It was his attentiveness and carefulness that allowed him to catch the opportunity. When he went to purchase goods yesterday, the manager of the supply and marketing cooperative specifically talked to him, took out a flint and asked him if he knew exactly where it was. Got it
After replying in the affirmative, the manager said that he could get the goods on credit for 400 taels of silver this time, provided that when he came back, he must bring flints from somewhere worth more than 400 taels of silver. If he came back for inspection and was suitable, he would be designated by the supply and marketing society in the future.
He specializes in helping the supply and marketing cooperative purchase this kind of stone.
Ma Tianming, who is good at accounting, knew that transporting this kind of stone would be more cost-effective than making wool and sheepskin business. First, the purchase price of flint from the supply and marketing cooperative was high. Second, the supply and marketing said that if the quality of the stone transported was the same as
Just like this time, they will provide a guarantee to help him borrow a capital of one thousand taels of silver, and at the same time increase his points on credit to two thousand taels of silver. This is just the beginning of the treatment.
Ma Tianming knew that if this thing happened, he would become a serious businessman and no longer just a peddler like he is now.
"Third brother, the officials of the supply and marketing cooperative are kind to us this time. The goods they give us on credit are much better than the previous times." Ma Tianming's cousin said happily to his cousin while putting goods on the mules and horses.
, of course he doesn’t know the inside story!
"Er Niu, let's work hard this time. When we come back, I will buy you a mule. Then your mule will also follow us for export business." Ma Tianming couldn't help feeling proud when he saw his cousin's happy expression.
, promising him a future.
"Brother, you are buying a mule for Erniu, can you buy it for me?" The speaker was Ma Tianming's younger brother.
Ma Tianming looked at his younger brother who came over and his cousin who didn't dare to speak. He knew in his heart that these two guys must have a mule of their own so that they can do their own private business. "I'm going on the road this time."
For snacks, Third Brother will buy a mule for each of you when you get back."
"Third brother, can we make so much money on this trip? Three mules are worth a lot of money!"
"As long as I come back smoothly, I will definitely buy mules for you all."
With Ma Tianming's promise, the small caravan set off from Gubei with great hope. As the saying goes, brothers fighting tigers are the father and son soldiers. This Ma family caravan is all real relatives of Ma Tianming himself. In
After he had the capital, he quickly called relatives from his hometown through fellow villagers. Now he has two relatives and his younger brother doing business with Ma Tianming. In their view, their elder brother is already successful.
If a businessman can be like him now, he will be considered very promising.
Working as an apprentice with relatives and fellow villagers to learn skills and make a living is a tradition that the Chinese people have had for thousands of years. This kind of inheritance exists in many industries in later generations. Of course, there is a disadvantage to this thing. If the fellow villagers do it unethically
Business can often bring a large group of people into this group. Also, fellow villagers who engage in pyramid schemes can also trick a large group of people.
Inviting relatives and fellow villagers to come over to do business together can save labor costs and make people feel reassured. Of course, it also has the purpose of making everyone rich together. Many Chinese people call doing business a way to make a living. From this meaning, we can see that people attach great importance to doing business.
The demands are not that high. You have to make a fortune. In places with real business traditions, they actually treat doing business and working part-time as the same thing, just to solve their own employment and survival problems. chapter