Datang: My apprentice is Princess Changle

Chapter 293 Imagination and Ambition

Chapter 293 Imagination and Ambition

"My lord, I just launched another batch of goods, and they are all sold out. Last month's net income was 53 taels. This month should exceed last month's income."

The person in charge of Youzhou Supermarket reported to Qin Yanghui on the second floor.

Qin Yang looked at the ledger in his hand and nodded with satisfaction.

The Datang Supermarket branch in Youzhou alone has a monthly net income of almost 50 taels of silver.

Don't underestimate the 50 taels of silver, this refers to the income of this store.

For example, the woolen trade in other shops, the potato and sweet potato trade, and the factory direct sales are not included in the business super account.

In the entire Youzhou, the government's business projects have at least a few million taels of income and a turnover of tens of millions of taels a month.

Although it is for the entire county, it doesn't seem to be a lot.

But we also need to look at the economic level of Datang at this time.

During the Zhenguan period, the annual income of the Tang Central Committee was only about 3000 million yuan.

Yiguan, that is, a penny, a thousand copper coins, or almost one tael of silver.

3000 million guan, that is, 3000 million taels of silver.

Datang Central's fiscal revenue is only 3000 million taels a year.

Due to the previous war, countless people were killed and injured.

In addition, many people were hidden in the aristocratic family, so the number of recorded good people during this period was only 300 million.

After Qin Yang arrived in Youzhou, he learned that the total population of Youzhou, recorded in the register, did not exceed 8.

Because at this time, there are usually a few or even a dozen people in a household.

8 people, or about [-] households.

One can imagine how depressed this Youzhou is.

After more than a year of hard work, the local people in Youzhou have earned money and their granaries are full.

Therefore, under such circumstances, Qin Yang estimated that the number of good people was already over 8.

No, it must have exceeded it. He almost forgot about the more than 1 prairie people from the new district who had defected.

Those grassland people have been recorded and become the people of Youzhou.

The number of people registered in Youzhou today is estimated to be around 10.

"It's still far from enough."

Qin Yang rubbed his chin and said with a sigh.

"Your Majesty?" The person in charge of the supermarket, who was reporting to Qin Yang, looked at the King in a daze.

The king suddenly fell into thinking, which made him a little puzzled.

Qin Yang came back to his senses and said, "Oh, it's nothing, you can continue talking."

"Yes." The person in charge continued to report the matter.

After he finished speaking, Qin Yang said: "Continue to maintain the current new volume of toffee. You can increase the new volume before the New Year, but you don't have to do this at other times."

"As for personnel training, we must also pay close attention to it. A few years ago, I would ask people to give all the supermarkets
Some employees are issued new work clothes, and the service training that goes with the work clothes must be seized. I will go to check next month to see the effect of the training. "

"Please don't worry, my lord, the little one must pay close attention to staff training."

The person in charge said hurriedly.

Qin Yang waved his hand to ask him to retreat.

He himself walked to the fence on the second floor and looked down.

The decoration style of the supermarket in Youzhou is similar to that of the main store in Chang’an. The second floor also has a large piece of glass, but the glass is only 1.5 meters high, and it is inlaid with the iron hollow fence.

Both aesthetics and safety.

Qin Yang was lying on the fence at this moment, looking down.

From here, you can see a small half of the first floor.

I saw the daily necessities area on the first floor, and there were still many people coming and going.

The vegetable area is adjacent to the fruit area. As winter is approaching, the products in these two areas have significantly reduced.

New vegetables can be served, mostly Chinese cabbage.

Since Chinese cabbage is grown in the first year, the price is not very favorable.

This is also true for many other fruits, so there are currently fewer people in this area.

The canned food area not far away is much more numerous than in summer.

The canning section now has not only canned fruit, canned meat, and even canned fish.

Of these three canned foods, canned meat and canned fish are currently the best sellers.

Because these two kinds of canned food are pickled.

The shelf life is a few months. If you buy it now, it will be very honorable to serve it to distinguished guests during the Chinese New Year.

And these two kinds of canned food are the most popular in the days when winter is about to fatten up.

The sales volume of canned fruit is so-so.

After all, autumn has just passed, and a large amount of food and fruits were harvested.

Wherever there are fruits, there are almost endless fruits.

Even now, every household has some fruits in storage.

When winter comes and roads are blocked by heavy snow, canned fruits are expected to become a hot-selling item.

So after autumn, a large number of caravans came to Youzhou to buy canned fruits and shipped them to various parts of Datang.

Even the official caravan to Chang'an transported a large amount of canned fruit.

Most of these canned fruits are stored in warehouses, and when late winter arrives, they can be put on the shelves in large quantities.

"It's a pity that transportation is inconvenient in winter. Otherwise, a large amount of goods can be transported to all parts of the country with one train."

Qin Yang thought to himself.

"But now the transportation basically relies on horse-drawn carriages, ox-carts, and merchant ships."

"Merchant ships are all rowing, and they don't even have a power system. You can't just run fast if you can't even walk fast."

"If I have nothing to do in winter, I can think about how to improve transportation."

"I hope that in the spring of next year, merchant ships can go faster."

At this time in Datang, shipbuilding technology was at the forefront of the entire world.

Shipbuilding bases and workshops spread across the vast areas along the coast, near rivers, and near lakes.

Here in the North, Dengzhou and Laizhou are both shipbuilding bases.

The shipbuilding technology is already ahead of other countries in the world.

Sea-going ships can even have nine watertight compartments, four stories high and twelve feet high.

Although ordinary river ships are not as big as sea ships, they can still carry a lot of things.

Each ship can carry at least one thousand stones, which is the carrying capacity of ordinary water transport ships.

But even so, compared with the power system of later generations, it still relies more on human power and wind power.

Qin Yang wants to improve, but it is not just about improving ships.

He wants to build motor boats.

The earliest motor boats that did not rely on natural wind or human navigation used steam engines to drive paddle wheels.

Therefore, if you want to build a motorized ship, the focus is not on the ship, but on the steam engine.

Qin Yang is not from a technical background. He has only heard of steam engines but has never seen one.

After all, in his time, the steam engine had been eliminated for many years.

"System, system, you have the ability to pretend to be dead, but you have the ability to give me a blueprint of a steam engine!"

Qin Yang thought about this, but he didn't see any reaction from the system, so he couldn't help but slander the system.

But the system still didn't respond.

Seeing this, Qin Yang knew that it was probably not the time to build a steam engine.

"I don't believe it anymore. Without you, I can't develop advanced technology!"

"When talents from all over the world come to Youzhou, and when I set up the Youzhou Research Institute, give me a direction for what I want, and those talents will definitely be able to help me research something!"

(End of this chapter)