Daming Military Empire

Chapter 495 Business Development
Zhu Cijiong is also quite satisfied with the prosperity of Chang'an Street, but he always feels that something is missing. What is the most common thing in the prosperous streets of later generations?

Soon, he fell into deep thought, and the scenes of the later generations flashed through his mind. Seeing him like this, everyone stopped even picking up vegetables, for fear of disturbing him.

Why can't I remember it?Just at this time, someone opened the heavy curtain and walked in. Zhu Cijiong looked at the dark street outside, and then at the day-like lobby, and finally remembered that what Chang'an Avenue lacks is streetlights!

It was pitch black at night, except for the brightly lit area of ​​the Four Major Headquarters and Chang'an Restaurant, at most other places would only light a few wind lanterns, the light was very dim, who would be in the mood to stroll on the street.

During the day, most people have to work, and there is no such concept as Saturday and Sunday. Only during the holidays do people have time to go shopping, which is not conducive to consumption. If you can use the time at night, The consumption of ordinary people will at least double. In this case, Ming's economy will usher in another round of explosive growth!
Thinking of this, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help being very excited. Just in time, the first minister of the Ministry of Commerce is here, and he decided to give some advice to the helm of the Ming economy.

He first greeted him kindly: "Come on, come on, everyone, don't be dazed, eat vegetables, eat vegetables, by the way, why is there no wine, here is a bottle of wine."

When Luo Yangxing heard the words, he immediately recruited a mistress and said a few words in his ear.

Soon, the mistress ran over with a bottle of wine and six glasses.

It was also Cao Huachun who poured a little and tried it first, and felt that there was no problem, so he poured it for everyone one by one.

Zhu Cijiong seldom drinks alcohol, but he is happy today, so he raised his glass without hesitation and said, "Come on, let me toast everyone."

After finishing speaking, he lifted the wine glass to the middle, and everyone quickly stood up and touched him lightly. After everyone finished touching, he raised his head and drank it without hesitation.

Everyone quickly raised their wine glasses and finished it in one gulp before sitting down carefully.

As the saying goes, wine is strong and cowardly, and most people talk too much after drinking. Zhu Cijiong felt that these people were too dull, so he toasted three times!

Now someone's hair is dizzy, even though this is a small glass of half a tael, three cups of wine is more than one tael, and what Luo Yangxing brought back is a high-quality aged tribute wine, which is really difficult for those who can't drink normally live.

Zhu Cijiong, Cao Huachun, and Wang Zhengnan are all martial arts practitioners, so this wine is naturally not a problem;

Luo Yangxing is also a generation in the alcoholic battlefield, one or two more just to rinse his mouth;
Chen Zilong and Zhang Cai can't do it. Although literati often sing about wine, it's usually low-alcohol wine. It's no wonder they don't get dizzy if they drink such a high-alcohol wine.

Chen Zilong first couldn't help but praised: "Good wine, this Chang'an restaurant really lives up to its reputation, I have never had such a mellow wine!"

As soon as he said this, Luo Yangxing began to break out in a cold sweat again, because this is the tribute wine given to him by the emperor, you can get it after drinking it, what are you talking about Chang'an restaurant.

Seeing his terrified expression, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help comforting him: "Is the tribute wine also used for drinking? You can't make money by putting it there. You have a good idea. How much does a bottle of this wine cost?"

Luo Yangxing heard the words and replied honestly: "100 taels!"

As soon as these words came out, the others were shocked. It turned out that they drank more than ten taels in just a few sips. What is this wine, it is simply golden juice!

Zhu Cijiong shook his head and said, "It's too little, do you know? In Europe, at least a thousand taels of this kind of wine is needed, and it has to be auctioned to grab it."

When everyone heard this, their eyeballs almost popped out, 1000 taels, a bottle, this is simply worse than stealing money!
Zhu Cijiong looked at Zhang Cai and asked with a smile, "Shouxian, you will be in charge of Daming's business in the next year. What do you think?"

When Zhang Cai heard this, he thought about it for a while, and then replied with Jiu Jin: "The business here is to buy low and sell high. I think that we must first establish household registrations for merchants in various places to see what is abundant in each place and what is lacking. , to guide merchants from all over the country to do business in the right place, so as to benefit their development."

Zhu Cijiong nodded in appreciation and said: "Well, this idea is very good, but it needs to be considered separately."

In fact, it would be nice for officials at the moment to think about doing business. It is really difficult for them to think further.

Zhang Cai also only saw through the superficial buying low and selling high. He really doesn't have many ways to promote business development. He sincerely asked: "I also ask Mr. Huang for advice."

Although Zhu Cijiong is not a business genius, he has seen a lot in later generations. If he can develop Ming's economy to the level of later generations, it will be incredible.

He pointed out casually: "For example, in this production area, you can't just understand what they are rich in, but also consider how to help them improve their quality, increase their output, and increase their popularity."

Zhang Cai can barely understand the output and popularity, but what does the quality mean?

He couldn't help but asked awkwardly: "Mr. Huang, please forgive me for being dull. What does the word quality mean?"

Zhu Cijiong thought for a while, and gave an example: "The quality is actually how to make others feel that your products are good. For example, wine, some people brew rice wine, grain wine, and miscellaneous grain wine. The taste is not good, and the taste is also bad. The appearance is not good, and it is not bad if you can make a small profit; some people brew tribute wine, which has a strong aroma and a mellow taste, and a beautiful packaging can be sold at a high price. This is the difference in quality Well, the quality of those miscellaneous wines is not good, but the quality of tribute wine is good, you have to find a way to make those who make miscellaneous wines move closer to tribute wine, this is called improving the quality."

After he explained in this way, Zhang Cai finally understood. Seeing that Zhang Cai nodded thoughtfully, he continued: "For example, there are many ways to sell. It is only the most basic way to organize merchants to sell according to a fixed business route." , You can also establish large markets in various places to attract merchants, and you can also organize merchants to exhibit in various places, allowing merchants to display their goods for everyone to understand."

This kind of thinking can be said to be the simplest in later generations, but no one has done it at the moment, so Zhang Cai was fascinated by hearing it, the emperor is really wise and powerful!
Seeing everyone's admiring eyes, Zhu Cijiong became more and more interested, and he continued to instruct: "It's not enough to guide people to do business, you also have to cooperate with other departments to develop new things. The profit of new products is the most astonishing." of."

Everyone can't understand these words again. What is the development of new products? Are there any products that people don't know that can be sold in this world?

Seeing everyone's puzzled expressions, Zhu Cijiong gave another example: "For example, in this Chang'an restaurant, it's pitch black outside, but it's like daylight inside. What's the matter again?"

Everyone knows that it is like daytime inside because of the electric lights, but why is it warm like spring inside?There is not a single brazier in this lobby!

When everyone was puzzled, Luo Yangxing coughed in embarrassment, and said weakly: "Because there is a steam radiator newly researched by the Ministry of Industry, everyone can see it by looking at the surrounding walls."

Everyone looked around, and there were indeed many strange-shaped things on the wall, which were all strung together with pipes, and railings were added to protect the outside.

Zhu Cijiong said proudly: "Who doesn't want the night to be like the day, who doesn't want the cold winter to be as warm as spring, these are the two new products I'm going to promote next, think about it, this thing, you can sell as much as you want Money, if sold at ten or even a hundred times the cost price, there will be a lot of people asking for it.”

With this example, everyone suddenly realized.

Zhang Cai nodded thoughtfully. With the emperor's teaching, he has more confidence in Daming's business development.

(End of this chapter)