As soon as the notice came out, there was a rush to get enough.
The Xinghe Supermarket main store on Di'anmen Street in Beicheng and the Nancheng branch on the north side of the railway community and south of Liangguang Road were suddenly crowded with poor people who came to buy corn.
Now, they have money and rumors are flying.
They all say that although Uncle Dingyuan has a big business, he can't bear it when millions of people in Beizhili buy grain like this. They all say that if the sale is stopped this time, he will not continue to sell it.
This rumor was so outrageous that it immediately caused a wave of panic.
They not only grabbed enough food, but also grabbed all supplies that were lower than the market price. For example, the fat pork was quickly sold out within ten days. This was based on the sales of meat tickets. It turned out that many people were reluctant to eat meat and were saving their meat tickets.
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In this era, the fatter the pork, the more expensive it is. Because of the lack of fat, suet can sell for the highest price, because when it is cooked, 60% of the meat oil and 30% of the oil residue are left. The fat pork in Xinghe Supermarket is all from beautiful countries.
It's long-term frozen goods. So the price is super cheap.
Yang Fan has no intention of making money from this. People in this era are really too thin and seriously lack fat. Yang Fan must first ensure that his soldiers, workers, teachers, and domestic slaves have enough calories and fat intake. The rest is in
Beijing sales.
The poor people in the capital can buy a pound of fat pork a month, and the price is only twenty cents per pound. The price has not increased for two years. Now the fat pork on the market has risen to one gold per pound.
A family of five earns five kilograms of meat coupons a month and sixty kilograms a year.
After the meat was boiled in oil, the meat oil remained in the jar for several years without spoiling. In panic, they spent all the meat tickets they had accumulated in the past two years.
Yang Fan just considered that he would have to face the upcoming Jiannu invasion. In this invasion, the Jiannu will not completely withdraw until next year. During this period, Zunhua is occupied and the northern part of Beizhili will definitely be cut off. Yang Fan hopes that these poor people
Prepare supplies early.
By then, Xinghe Supermarket in the capital may not be able to supply supplies. After all, there is a battlefield under the capital, and road transportation has been cut off. Business can only be suspended.
But Yang Fan didn't expect it to cause such a big panic. Even the Queen sent people to inquire.
During this period, all the cheap food in Xinghe Supermarket was sold out. Corn, white flour, rice, fat meat, salt, soybean oil... The transportation team was exhausted. They moved to the city in three shifts around the clock.
Shipping goods.
Naturally, Yang Fan couldn't talk about the issue of building slaves. He could only say that he wanted to expand the supermarket for one year, expand the building, increase the business area, and renovate it. Install heating in the supermarket to facilitate heating in winter. Next to the supermarket
We are also planning to build a shopping mall.
Therefore, let everyone prepare supplies in advance, then partially close the business and start expansion.
Xinghe Supermarket needs to be expanded due to too many customers. It has long been agreed by shareholders. The Queen also knows it. The land that can be expanded at present is mainly the land where cheap food is sold. Because the people who buy cheap food are poor people.
Too many, this land is huge.
After all, closing this area will not affect the sales of other products in the building, so the Queen also agrees. The main consumers of Xinghe Supermarket and the soon-to-open shopping mall are rich people. It is not profitable to trade cheap food for these poor people.
, in fact, it was a loss of money. Uncle Dingyuan was filling in the money.
In fact, according to the Queen's wishes, it is better to simply stop the business of selling cheap food and supplies. It occupies a large area and requires more than 300 employees to maintain sales. It is not profitable and the cost is high. In addition to security and
There are more than a thousand personnel in transportation teams, loading and unloading teams, warehouses, etc. serving these poor people. These wages and transportation fees are all lost money.
However, she also knew that this was what Uncle Dingyuan promised to His Majesty before he opened the business. She did not dare to let it stop. If His Majesty got angry, she would lose more than she gained.
In the past two years, Concubine Tian and Concubine Yuan have become increasingly difficult to suppress. The friction in the harem is increasing day by day. Empress Zhou's first priority is the emperor's favor, and making money is the second.
Zheng Sanfazi's family started a family shoemaking factory a year and a half ago. It specializes in supplying leather shoes and boots to Xinghe Supermarket. Within half a year, it has grown to a scale of fifty shoemakers. Now Zheng Sanfazi is a famous shoemaking king in Beicheng.
Before they left for the northwest, they received an order for 80,000 pairs of leather boots. This led to another great development of their shoe factory. However, when he first received the order, he was almost too worried to sleep because his shoe factory only had
Fifty workers.
The Beijing camp stationed at the Nanyuan Military Camp and placed an order. It required 80,000 pairs of leather boots to be made in three months. These leather boots were measured and given data, and they were basically made according to personal measurements. At the same time, the capital's
More than 20 quilt factories that supply Xinghe Supermarket have also received orders for singles and cotton pants.
However, there was only one leather shoe factory, Zhengjia Leather Shoes Factory. After all, leather shoes were not popular in this era. Even Zheng Sanfazi and his family decided to become a leather shoe factory because of Xinghe Supermarket’s designated purchase.
He found Zhu Zhu, who was responsible for the previous purchase. Fortunately, Zhu Zhu had just graduated from the special training class and was in the capital at this time, telling him about his difficulties. After all, it was this young man who made the decision to hand over the leather shoes to his family shoe factory.
Zhuzi went to the master again to talk about this matter. Yang Fan directly gave him one hundred foot-operated sewing machines and two hundred hand-operated leather shoe repair machines. These machines were worth three thousand taels of silver. He couldn't afford them at all. Yang Fan had no choice but to
He asked Xinghe Bank to give him a loan and pay it off in three years. Yang Fan personally provided a guarantee.
With these equipment and a loan of 5,000 taels of silver, Zheng Sanfazi immediately took action. He recruited cobblers in the city with high salaries and hired 500 apprentices. He purchased raw materials. Under the guidance of Zhuzi, he took
The assembly line was divided into tasks, and the order was finally completed on schedule.
However, after this emergency expansion of production, the Zhengjia Shoe Factory has officially become a large factory with thousands of employees. Now long leather boots have become popular among the Ming Dynasty’s army. Not only the Beijing camp came to buy, but also the border troops came to buy. The Ministry of War
Also come to purchase. Many civil servants have also found that these leather boots for the left and right feet are very comfortable to wear.
However, Zheng Sanfazi didn't dare to take the order by himself. He knew the behavior of officials in the Ming Dynasty very well, and he was afraid that he would not be able to pay the balance by then. He pushed it to Xinghe Supermarket. The supermarket took it and placed the order for him, and he would make it.
If the supermarket didn't answer the call, he wouldn't even dare to pick it up.
Today, the person in charge of the supermarket came to him and told him that Uncle Yuan had placed an order for two hundred thousand pairs of leather boots. One hundred thousand pairs would be delivered in the spring of next year and shipped to the Guihua City warehouse by train. One hundred thousand pairs would be shipped to Xincheng.
delivery.
Zheng Sanfazi was a little confused. Isn't the war in the northwest over? Why are we still purchasing so many military boots? Moreover, Xincheng has purchased so many military boots. Is there going to be a war near the capital?