One hundred and fifty one trip to Foshan (seventeen)
Chapter 151: Trip to Foshan (Seventeen)
"In fact, the business can't be done. It's just a matter of whether you want to do it or not." Liu San was in a good mood after finishing the acquisition. "Not to mention, how much medicine will be used for the industries under our executive committee?" No wait.
He replied, minding his own business, "Now there are more than a thousand people in the security corps alone, and there are also many long-term workers, all kinds of people, totaling tens of thousands of people. Are these people not allowed to see a doctor or take medicine?"
"You have to rely on your virtuous brother for this."
"I'm half the boss, how can I not do my best?" Liu San smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will arrange all the affairs for the Australians."
Liu San continued: "For the second way, I have to rely on your cousin. Do you know what Qiongzhou is rich in medicinal materials?"
"Of course it's betel nut and puzzle." Yang Shixiang is very familiar with the local medicinal materials.
"Abi Ji, let's not worry about these two drugs, betel nut. There are big players in Qiongzhou who specialize in purchasing. We can't compete with them for this business for the time being. We have ruined the harmony between us." Liu Sandao, "But no one has bothered about Yizhi at the moment.
There are wild ones in Lingao and Danzhou, we can also grow some ourselves, concoct them ourselves and sell them - your brother also does wholesale of medicinal materials, right?"
"It's done." Yang Shixiang said, "He will go to Qizhou's medicine market in two or three years, both selling and buying."
"That's it, our puzzles will be sold by him. This is another income."
"The other thing is tonics." Liu San said, "I see that Yang Runkaitang's patent medicines seem to be good at tonics, right?"
"Speaking of which, my ancestors made their fortune from various tonics." Yang Shixiang said, "It's a pity that by my father's generation, they couldn't use their skills in Lingao, so they were all abandoned."
"Since the prescriptions are still there, is it not easy to recover? Although there are not many people in Lingao who take tonics, there are quite a few in Guangdong."
"Then we can't let Yang Run open the shop on behalf of others - there's a conflict. I have these recipes and he has them too."
"We don't need to ask him to do the sales on our behalf. We can just find someone else to do the sales in Guangzhou, or we can just open a branch in Guangzhou - but that's a story for another day."
Yang Shixiang hesitated for a moment: "Dear brother! I have something I don't know whether to say or not?"
"What's up?"
"Brother Xian, don't you think that the Ming Dynasty has been in chaos in the past few years..." His voice was very low, almost as low as a mosquito's cry, "Tonics can only be taken in the peaceful and prosperous times..."
Liu San thought to himself, I knew this: starting from this year, the Ming Dynasty fell into a cycle of alternating rebellion between the peasant army and the Hou Jin Dynasty, and the state affairs became more and more corrupt day by day. It embarked on the road of destruction. But this Yang Shixiang is not a time traveler, he
It is impossible to grasp the overall situation in a small place like Lingao.
"How can I see it?"
Yang Shixiang sighed: "In the past few days, I have visited many places and met many relatives, colleagues and elders. When talking about the situation in various places, everyone shakes their head: floods, droughts and famines continue. I heard that there is a big famine in Shaanxi this spring. Everyone is eating."
We are dead! The hungry people made a terrible fuss and besieged states and counties everywhere. The army suffered a huge defeat and even a general named Gao died... Someone has already claimed to be a false king..."
"Shaanxi is far away from here -"
"That's what I say, but other places are not peaceful either." Yang Shixiang said, "I also heard that soldiers in the capital were demanding pay. They actually cut down trees and set up a stronghold at the gate of the capital city, demanding full pay. Is this okay? I'll wait.
I have been in Lingao, and I am still a little unaware. Although Guangdong is still peaceful, the refugees all over the place are really unprecedented..."
Liu San secretly laughed in his heart, what Yang Shixiang said is actually right. But if you think about it carefully, these "thieves" who came from the sea were building cities and villages in Lingao, collecting food and soldiers, and the local government had nothing to do. Isn't it a big deal?
"Chaos"? It's just that Yang Shixiang was in it, and he even felt that Lingao looked like a peaceful scene, so he didn't realize it. It can be seen that the rule of the Cross-Travel Group in Lingao has been initially recognized.
"It doesn't matter," Liu San comforted, "At least the situation in Guangdong is not so corrupt. Besides, even in troubled times, there are still businesses to be done in troubled times."
"How to do it?" Yang Shixiang said.
Liu San said: "Don't worry about business. Any local commotion will be settled as long as the government is still there. Once the situation is settled, there will be things to deal with. It is said that there will be a great epidemic after a military chaos, and those who flee will
We are hungry in the morning and cold at night, and we are not acclimated to the climate. We must buy medicine when we get sick. If the trouble really gets out of hand, we will retreat to Lingao."
"Yes, yes, Lingao can always ensure peace." Yang Shixiang seems to have regarded Lingao County under the rule of the Chuan Group as a paradise.
Now that the calculation was settled, Yang Shixiang went to visit his cousin to discuss the specific consignment matters. Yang Shiyi's attitude towards his cousin changed drastically after Lin Ming's banquet. When he saw his arrival, he greeted him with greetings and was extremely attentive. The consignment matter was very complicated.
It was quickly finalized: the batch and zero prices are designated by Runshitang, and Yang Runkaitang is responsible for wholesale and retail sales. The "no two-price" system is implemented, that is, no pricing, no discounts, and no price increases. Yang Runkaitang draws a fixed amount from the sales of each dose.
Commission is used as the "handling money" for consignment sales. Runshitang also pays commission to sales associates to encourage them to sell more. Sales income is settled in three quarters, and no debts or payments are allowed. Runshitang has an office in Foshan and assigns people to be responsible for it.
Runshitang will bear all expenses related to this sale and purchase by itself. The two parties have also agreed to three other clauses. Personnel from both parties are not allowed to meet in private, entertain each other, or borrow money from each other. Traditional commercial enterprises maintain a very high level of concern for store employees being corrupted by others.
vigilance.
Because of Lin Ming's reputation, the sales commission that Yang Shiyi asked for was extremely modest and did not go as far as Yang Shixiang expected. Although Yang Shiyi felt a little unwilling to accept it, when he saw that his fifth brother ordered a large amount of medicinal materials from him in cash, he felt that it was not much.
The two parties had a pleasant conversation after they had made up for it. They also discussed the matter of Runshitang entrusting them with selling puzzles in the future. Yang Shiyi was secretly surprised - he didn't expect that the fifth brother who had always been mediocre would become so capable!
It seems that the famous doctor "Liu San" from Lingao is not an ordinary person.
Liu San asked someone to guide him, and he took a tour of various pharmacies in Foshan. Everywhere he went, wherever there were ointments and pills for sale, regardless of whether he had heard of them or not, he bought a few doses and prepared to take them back for human body treatment.
For experimental purposes. In the name of expanding production, through Yang Shiyi's introduction, he recruited many unemployed drugstore clerks who were willing to go to Lingao, and purchased a lot of traditional Chinese medicine equipment: slicing knives, various pots and cauldrons for preparing medicines.
Huang Tianyu's campaign to recruit workers also made progress. He took Gao Di and Chen Tong to several teahouses where kiln worker Hou Huo lived to recruit a few people, and then went around to find unemployed kiln workers through these people.
Because there have been a lot of unemployed people at the kiln entrance recently, the recruitment work went very smoothly. Fifty or sixty kiln workers of various types of work were quickly recruited who were willing to work in Lingao. Huang Tianyu refused to reject anyone who came, even some that he didn't want at the kiln entrance.
All are old kiln workers - these people have rich experience and are actually no more than fifty years old. It's just that long-term malnutrition and overloaded work have damaged their health. If they come to Lingao to give them a little more nutrition, they will be very useful skilled workers.
Foundry workers are not so easy to recruit. Now there is a lot of work here, and skilled workers are not willing to go to Lingao, which sounds unfamiliar. Although Huang Ande works very hard, most of the craftsmen he recruits are ordinary craftsmen. That's it,
He was reluctant to go. After running around for a few days, he only recruited about ten people. Huang Tianyu was a little disappointed. It was raining, so he simply drank tea in the teahouse. Huang Ande ignored the rain and went out to look for people again.
This teahouse is extremely simple. It is called a teahouse, but it is actually just a hut with a large bamboo shed and a mud floor. The tea sold is coarse tea and lower-grade stalk tea powder. The advantage is that the price is extremely cheap, and the income of a peddler is
It is not difficult to make a pot of tea here and spend half a day. The consumption is low and the teahouse is well-informed. This place has become a place where unemployed workers gather to wait for work.
Huang Tianyu was bored with tea, so he had to follow the example of others and buy a bag of betel nut. The small bags were wrapped in leaves, and the inside was dark. When he threw it into his mouth and chewed it, a rush of energy went straight to his forehead, and his head suddenly felt dizzy.
I woke up, feeling a little drunk, and it took me a while to calm down.
"What's so delicious about this thing?" Huang Tianyu muttered.
"This is for digestion and water vapor." Gao Di said from the side, his mouth was red and he was chewing betel nut.
Huang Tianyu was about to say something when he suddenly saw Huang Ande walking in. He took off his wet raincoat and said, "Master -" he bowed respectfully.
"Talk at the table."
"Yes." Huang Ande leaned his umbrella against the table and sat down, "I just went to a teahouse and couldn't find a suitable casting master. I found something else. I just don't know if I need it."
"What craftsman?"
"He is a wheel maker..."
"What?!" Huang Tianyu shouted unconsciously, causing the people around him to look at him. He quickly lowered his voice:
"A wheel maker?"
"Yes," Huang Ande didn't know why he was so excited, "exactly."
Of course Huang Tianyu was excited. Because the problem of wheels has always been a concern of the Works and Energy Commission. In addition to rail cars, the wheel manufacturing problems of ordinary trolleys, carriages and other self-made vehicles have not been well solved. Making wheels
It was a specialized craft, and there were many skilled people in the Engineering and Energy Commission, but they managed to make it, but the efficiency was extremely poor, and the technicians were occupied. So we could only use the various rubber wheels we brought to build the vehicles.
Seeing that spare wheels were being used less and less, the demand for cars was increasing, and it was expected that rubber would not be produced within ten years. Therefore, it was on the agenda to find a wheelmaker as soon as possible and make qualified wooden wheels.
Unfortunately, in the south, people are mainly engaged in boating and carrying loads, so there are very few vehicles and wheelmakers are almost unheard of. None of the expatriates have been found anywhere.