Ye An has done nothing else these days and is busy planning. Because many families have signed contracts with the Hou Mansion, the burden on him has obviously increased. The reason is very simple. The signing of the contract not only brings benefits to the Hou Mansion, but also brings benefits to the Hou Mansion.
It brought a heavy burden.
This is not investment, but construction and development. If Hou Fuyun's business does not make money, those families will suffer losses, and Hou Fuyun will also suffer losses.
Therefore, Ye An not only needs to be an investor, but also a builder.
Qin Mumu is not opposed to his plan, but she doesn't agree with it. In her opinion, she should first complete her family's business and then let others take over. This is the safest development plan.
But Ye An still rejected her idea. The reason was very simple. In this way, it would be impossible to cultivate usable talents. It was entirely a business cultivated by his own husband and wife, and it did not give full play to the "subjective initiative" of the people in Xinlingfang.
The business that has been started is of course good and profitable, but there is no opportunity for trial and error, and there is no sense of sharing risks.
Only by allowing them to take risks will they be able to run their own businesses and think about how to make their own businesses better and bigger.
In the end, Qin Mumu was persuaded by him and understood Ye An's intentions. The Hou Mansion wanted to continue to develop its own interest groups or business forces with Xinlingfang as the center.
This is an invisible and intangible existence, but it is also the power that can form mountains when gathered together and sand when scattered!
She suddenly understood that Ye An actually wanted to create a business empire and have his own power in the city of Tokyo. Once this power was built, it was likely to directly control the entire city of Tokyo and even the economy of the entire Song Dynasty. It was very scary.
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So she quickly joined Ye An's plan. As a couple, the work was not tiring! With Qin Mumu's help, Ye An significantly accelerated the construction of Xinlingfang.
The most important thing these days is to teach people how to do business. If Xinlingfang is to become the first commercial street in Tokyo, the most important thing is to have its own unique business and take advantage of the concentrated location.
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No matter what era, children and women earn the most money, there is no doubt about this, and Qin Mumu's clothing store mainly sells women's and children's clothing.
The materials are almost the same. Because there is no cotton, the cotton is just Kapok batting. The cotton clothes are mostly linen filled with catkins or Kapok batting from last spring.
The rest are brocade, damask, silk, satin, coarse linen, and fine linen. But who is not a person who loves beauty? The cutting and style of clothes have become the first choice for women today.
Of course, Qin Mumu will not let go of the production of intimate underwear. Let alone women, in this era, men all hope to have a piece of close-fitting and comfortable underwear!
So she mainly focused on clothing stores, and had already planned to open several ready-to-wear stores in Xinlingfang, and they should be divided according to different price points and functions to avoid taking away each other's business.
At this point, none of the ladies in Xinlingfang objected, and they were even happy because of this healthy competition. After all, once the flow of people is increased, it is not necessarily a store that benefits.
As for Ye An, he is responsible for other stores, because Xinlingfang is in an excellent location, facing the street to the west of Nanmen Street and the Daxiangguo Temple to the east, where many traders named Wan come and go every month.
Why is this kind of traffic not popular?!
Catering is the simplest, with small investment, quick to get started, and high return rate. Especially in this era, Song people are famous for their delicious food and good food. As long as your shop is clean and tidy, and the food tastes good, even
If it is unique, people will definitely come to visit it.
How can a commercial street be without snacks?
For Ye An, a foodie, developing a regular beverage business in Xinlingfang is really easy. Roast duck, hot pot, wok stir-fries, pastry snacks, soup stock wontons, tofu pudding, etc. will all become the specialties here.
His teaching method is also simple. He gathers all the families who have signed a contract and want to start a catering business, and conducts individual teaching according to the situation of each family and even the size of the labor force.
Almost all the families in Xinlingfang have signed a contract with the Hou Mansion. Excluding Widow Zhang's family, Cui Changfa's family, and those who learned clothing making from Qin Mumu, half of the remaining families came.
In fact, these dishes are very simple, and you can even cook them once and for all, but if you want to make them taste good, you have to put in the effort yourself.
As for the blacksmith shop in the deepest part of the north of Xinlingfang, Yan Laoshuan's blacksmith skills are known as the best in Tokyo. Although it is his self-proclaimed name, his ironware is indeed good, but his family has also established a contract with the Marquis Mansion.
Nothing but because Ye An can give him a higher fire temperature!
In the eyes of Yan Laoshuan, this is almost the ability of a blacksmith to make a living. His skillful blacksmithing experience has already made him fully aware of the importance of furnace fire. Not only does it get twice the result with half the effort, but also because high-temperature furnace fire can remove more impurities from iron tools.
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Yan Laoshuan, who has been dealing with iron tools all his life, agreed to establish a contract with the Hou Mansion without hesitation, even if his old woman disagreed.
He was laughed at by his neighbors, but he didn't care.
So Ye An told him a simple secret: use the blower he invented instead of the ancestral blower. The blower is a small leather blower. The principle is very simple. It uses the lever principle to blow the air in the leather into the fire.
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But not to mention the low efficiency, people are still half tired, and it is not easy to step on it with their feet. However, the hand-crank blower made by Ye An is different. It does not need to inject air into the leather first, but directly passes the air through a small wooden fan.
Blow into the furnace, and then sprinkle crushed coal powder in the furnace, and the raging fire turned Yan Laoshuan's eyes red. He hugged Ye An's legs and wanted to call "Master"...
Almost all the blacksmiths regarded Lao Tzu riding the green ox as their ancestor. Although Ye An didn't know why, in Yan Laoshuan's eyes, this furnace fire could even be used to make elixirs. Ye An was a Taoist priest, not
Who is the Patriarch?!
The blacksmith is actually of great help to Xinlingfang. Iron pots, shovels, and iron spoons are all needed by every family, and iron tools are more efficient than wooden tools as production tools.
Ye An also has selfish motives. He wants to see if ordinary blacksmiths can create high-quality ironware, which is very important for the future development of his own industry.
While the training was still going on, the renovation of Xinlingfang was also going on. The place had been almost abandoned before. The open drainage channels in the place were terrible and the streets and alleys were full of potholes. It was obvious at a glance that it was a waste caused by no one paying attention to it all year round.
Garbage piled up like a mountain, carbon ash could be seen everywhere, and there were not many leftovers, but the filth in the toilet was stained on the edge of the open channel.
The combination of dead wood, broken walls, and gravel makes one not want to enter it at all.
Such an environment is impossible. To become a commercial street, how can it not have an environment that is eye-catching, even comfortable, and high-end?
So Ye An took Ge Shanshu and the strong laborers from Xinlingfang to start a "general cleaning". Cleanliness and tidiness were the most basic requirements. Not only the streets and alleys had to be clean, but the shops had to be clean, and there should also be a place for passers-by to rest.
Ye An, wearing a short jacket, took the lead in carrying the rubble in front of the broken wall, and tried to use the rubble to repair the broken wall, and then used his own ox cart to haul away all the rubbish.
Even Ye An, the dignified founding prince of the country, has done this, who can say no? Ge Shanshu is the fastest to respond. He is alone, without the burden of his family, and now all he thinks about is to
Xinlingfang has become an excellent market in Tokyo.
The masons from Xundong Market brought over the slates of measured sizes, and everyone worked together to lay the slates on the open channels. They only left a place for dumping wastewater and filth on the edge of each courtyard wall, and then used stone piers to
Surround them.
The withered trees were dug out and thrown away. It was still winter and there were no green trees except pine trees. However, the tree pits had to be left, waiting to be transplanted with trees that could bear fruit when the flowers bloomed next spring.
Cui Changfa spent a few days to build long wooden strips according to Ye An's drawings. He didn't know what they were used for. Yan Laoshuan also built the iron frame with a special curvature that Ye An needed.
So with only simple operations, Ye An assembled the wood and two iron frames like a magic trick. A very good-looking bench appeared on the side of the street, and the long chair legs were inserted.
The underground plays a stabilizing role.
Looking back at the streets and alleys at this time, the people of Xinlingfang no longer recognized this as the streets they walked every day. The roads were still bumpy but so clean that people couldn't bear to destroy them.
The roadside is a tidy door, and there are exquisite benches every few steps along the street. The bad smell in the past is gone. There is only the fresh air brought by the cold wind in winter, and a few snacks are ready to open.
The scent wafts from the shop.
Sun's shop, which sells puppets, has opened a shop on the wall. The wooden boards are full of cute puppets and exquisite sepak takraw balls, which looks very interesting.
Not to mention Ye An, everyone present felt that such streets and alleys would definitely become a unique place in Tokyo! It would even surpass the East Market and West Market!