Chapter 641 If you want to get rich, build roads first
What is most needed to build roads? Of course it is money. With money, you can buy materials, but money is not a problem at all for Puhui Company. Although it has only been a short year, Puhui Company has become
The hottest business in Tokyo.
Making money every day is not enough to describe Puhui's business. Under the continuous annexation, many retail industries have shown a monopoly trend, and this is still under the control of Ye An and Qin Mumu. If this huge company is allowed to
If it operates with capital, no one knows what kind of existence it will become.
Puhui Store is no longer a simple store. Ye An does not reject the entry of external capital. The "head office meeting" composed of shopkeepers of various stores has urged Qin Mumu and Ye An to quickly implement the plans they had previously formulated more than once.
The "big department store" plan was launched.
However, Ye An refused the shopkeepers' urging on the grounds that the time was not yet ripe. What needed to be done now was to purchase a large number of shops in Tokyo, and the decoration, personnel, goods storage and placement of these shops all required detailed planning.
planning.
What's more important is that these are all left to these experienced shopkeepers to discuss and decide on their own. How can I agree to their requests without seeing the plan myself?
There is also the problem of transportation. Thanks to the stability of Liu E's rule, the Song Dynasty was stable after the Huanzhou Rebellion was quelled. Economic development is inevitable, and the hedonism of the Song people is very strong. Not only the people like to consume and enjoy, but also the Song Dynasty
The same was true for the officials and scholar-bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty.
Of course, what is more important is the high salaries of officials. With high salaries supporting integrity, extravagance will grow unconsciously.
Ye An believes that when all the "big department store" chain stores open, the goods on the shelves will be quickly snapped up by the people who come to consume, because this kind of chain department store sales situation similar to supermarkets appears for the first time in this era.
, the huge number of products and types have made the curious Song people unable to help but buy everything.
Moreover, Ye An requires that the price of these goods should not be higher than the market price, and some even have to be lower than the local price. Even if it is a loss, the price must be low, but the loss of one goods can be fully recovered from other goods.
ah!
Large department stores need to increase volume, and increase volume. Only in this way can they drive consumption, form a virtuous cycle, and promote industrial upgrading of factories.
What is the prerequisite for volume? This returns to the previous topic, transportation!
Only when transportation is guaranteed, large department stores will not worry about not being able to keep up with the goods. If the shelves are empty for a day, a day's worth of wealth will be lost. This is a loss that Ye An and even the entire Puhui store cannot afford.
Fast-moving consumer goods come at a price, and they require daily replenishment. Prior to this, Ye An and Qin Mumu personally inspected a large number of stores in Tokyo and made detailed plans for the operation of department stores.
This is the reason why Ye An and Qin Mumu took over the renovation of the official roads of Kaifeng Prefecture!
It is a loss-making business for others, but for Puhui Company, this is something that must be done. The construction of cement roads has begun, starting from Zhuangzi and continuing to Guandao. This section of the road belongs to Zhuangzi.
, Ye An is not worried, but once the official road starts to be repaired, it will inevitably affect the passage of the people.
And cement roads are different from other roads. It takes time for the cement to cool and solidify.
But Ye An underestimated the wisdom of the ancients, and Ye An himself had forgotten the method of staged cooling, but the craftsman who built the road was the first to propose it, and it was adopted by Qin Mumu, and by the way, he also received fifty strings.
tips.
When Ye An heard the news after returning from classes at Sinong Temple, he smacked his mouth in dissatisfaction: "These fifty strings should be mine. I thought of it when I was at Sinong Temple today, but someone else got there first!"
Qin Mumu smiled and said: "Isn't this a good thing? Even if you thought of it first, the money should be given to Master Li. He is a well-known construction expert among the supervisors, but he resigned from the supervisor because of his old age.
, I spent a lot of money to invite you here."
Ye An smiled. He just complained. He proposed this reward system, so how could he reward himself?
"That's very good. I'll leave the road construction to you. I've been packing up my things to live in Sinong Temple in the past few days. You... don't look at me like this. It's true that Sinong Temple is too busy with errands."
Now, it’s time for spring plowing, isn’t it time to promote potatoes and sweet potatoes? This is a big deal and no one can afford to delay it!”
Qin Mumu nodded slightly, but then glared at Ye An and said: "You and Fan Ziyuan, be careful! If I know that you dare to go to a brothel, even the government office of Sinong Temple will be punished by you!"
"No, no!"
Ye An waved his hands repeatedly. For ordinary people, it is a serious crime to rebel against a county government office. But if this girl Qin Mumu really attacks the government office of Sinong Temple, especially with a group of women, she is afraid that she will be the patrolling Yuhou and the Xiang Patrol Envoy.
Nothing can be done to her.
Ye An smiled slightly awkwardly, but Ye An felt very reluctant. The two of them had worked hard for eugenics and upbringing. So far, they had nothing to do, for fear of accidentally having a child.
It is not unprecedented to move to Sinong Temple. Due to complicated matters, Ye An had to move there with Fan Ziyuan. More importantly, the court was pressing for it!
Both Liu E and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were very much looking forward to the yield of potatoes and sweet potatoes. How to distribute those improved seeds to the people, how to keep them properly, how to teach farmers to cultivate, how to dispel their doubts and plant these brand-new crops, etc.
These are all problems.
Agriculture is still the basic industry of the feudal dynasty. It is no wonder that the imperial court does not pay attention to it. This time it is only promoted near Tokyo City and the entire Gyeonggi Road. The scope is not large. Only when the promotion effect is good enough, will it continue to other states.
Carry out promotion.
What's more, this is not the case with Sinong Temple. There are still a lot of complicated and trivial matters that Shaoqing needs to handle personally, which means that Ye An and Fan Ziyuan need to spend a lot of time on the government affairs of Sinong Temple this spring.
The plan for the year lies in spring, and spring is the beginning of the year. How can he not be busy? Even with Ye An's work efficiency, he still has to worry about not being able to handle these things before Xia Yun.
Qin Mumu naturally knew this. A threat was a threat. Many people, young and old, had been prepared to install things for Ye An. The cart was packed to the brim. She also specially prepared wormwood for Ye An so that he could soak his feet when he was tired at night.
, this is what she heard from Xia Song's mother-in-law, saying that soaking feet with mugwort can relax muscles, relieve fatigue, and remove moisture.
Ye An sat in the car and looked at Qin Mumu with a smile. After waving goodbye, he stared at the strong-smelling mugwort leaves above his head and was speechless. What kind of folk remedies were these, but he felt warm in his heart. These were all from Qin Mumu.
Mu cares about himself!
If two lonely souls can't keep each other warm in this world, what kind of life will they be like!
But this time Ye An moved to Sinong Temple, the more important reason is that he is worried about the degradation of potatoes. When potatoes are planted in one place for a long time, problems will inevitably arise in repeated planting. There are also different types of potatoes.
Growing potatoes will change due to geological reasons. This is not a bad thing, on the contrary, it is a good thing that is conducive to diversity. If degradation occurs, you only need to exchange potato seeds in the two places to solve the problem.
This is also the reason why Ye An planted a large number of potatoes and sweet potatoes in Yangcheng County. He wanted to lay the foundation early just in case.