Take the mall to Datang

"Master, according to the current situation, we have to build the road ahead of time, so that the construction progress will be improved at the same time, and the work can be completed before the autumn harvest." Zhou Butler said.

"Well, we can't occupy the time of the autumn harvest. We have a large number of people here. At this time, we can do what you want and ask for anything we need." Yuan Shan said.

Not missing the farming season, Yuan Shan knew that during the autumn harvest, construction like this must not continue. The thousands of people here are all from peasant households, and their families all have land. Those who give up the crops, even if they want to give up, the Tang court will not allow it.

Yuan Shan found a lot of problems after checking around. There are many people but the work is not efficient from Yuan Shan's point of view, so he said to Steward Zhou: "The current construction team is still lacking in equipment, and a small number of trucks can't do it at all. To meet such a large project, it is too low-end to simply rely on manpower to solve it. I will ask someone to make a batch of tools as soon as possible, and the progress of the project can be improved a lot by then."

Then Yuan Shan went back to the workshop, and he didn't go to the medical center. He didn't intend for you to give up on the engineering team. It was not easy to train such a professional technical talent. He took a carriage back to Yuan's workshop.

Now it is producing glass with all its strength, and there is still a bit too much glass in the workshop, which is the efficiency of mechanical manufacturing.

As soon as Yuan Shan walked in, he heard the sound of the cylinder driven by the steam engine, and then felt a warm wind blowing in his face. Looking at the place where the wind came from, there was a big iron windmill next to the steam engine. The shape looks a bit nondescript, but it still has some similarities with the fan.

"Teacher, you look like the steam windmill we only make." Li Dejian introduced excitedly.

"It's not bad, the wind is a little weaker, and we can use more gears to provide transmission power, and your fan looks like an oar on a water boat." Yuan Shan said casually.

"Teacher, what is a water boat?" Li Dejian asked curiously.

"It is to install two waterwheels on the boat to provide power, so that the boat can drive by itself even when there is no wind and waves." Yuan Shan said.

"Teacher, you are really amazing. If you install this steam fan on the boat, wouldn't it be possible for the boat to drive automatically?" Li Dejian said excitedly.

"En? Your idea is very interesting, of course it can be realized." Yuan Shan said.

"Looking at Dejian, I said that this fan will definitely be of great use. If this thing is installed on the boat according to the teacher's intention, the boat will be able to drive automatically." Li Dejian began to talk to his younger brother.

Yuan Shanxin said that these two people really have the potential to be inventors, and they can think of so many things just by saying a word, but it is a good idea to install this kind of fan on the boat. I didn't think of it at the beginning, presumably land and sea transportation is very cost-effective, and the cargo volume is still large, if it is the first choice to transport grain from the south to the north.

Afterwards, Yuan Shan asked the two brothers of the Li family to study urgently, and went to Tiejiang Lu and said, "Tiejiang Lu, I need to provide a large number of four-wheeled vehicles with bearings for the engineering team, all made of iron..."

Find blacksmith Lu Yuanshan and tell them all the needs. These are the equipment provided for the engineering team, and in addition to these, there are also iron scaffolding, which can be built very high, according to the size and specifications provided by Yuanshan. Production of iron pipes.

In addition, it also provided a variety of tools for the engineering team. As a result, after Blacksmith Lu calculated the budget, it would cost at least tens of thousands of dollars to equip the engineering team with thousands of people with these vehicles and tools.

So Yuanshan’s problem lies in money again. In the early stage of construction, it is all investment, and blind investment like Yuanshan without market research and other data may not be able to make money, so so far the investment is greater than the return. , This is the situation Yuanshan is facing.

"Don't worry about the budget, let's build the bearing first." Yuan Shan said.

Not to mention that Yuanjia's bearings are very profitable. A pair costs 130 guan. If you sell [-] of them, you won't be short of money.

As a result, the stamping equipment in the Yuanjia workshop began to operate at full capacity, and Yuanshan planned to sell some glass plates first.

Returning to the manor, Yuanshan has some categories. He is thinking about how much the glass plate should be sold for, one thousand guan, one hundred guan, or one guan.

Datang’s glazed ornaments are very expensive, but the glass panels he made are considered building materials, and they don’t seem to have much use at present except for windows and counters. There is no glass glue to connect with wooden strips. So it is not difficult to make a glass counter.

Yuan Shan thought a lot that night, glass plate is now a monopoly of his family, so why not ship it at a slightly higher price than the palace order.

Chapter 357

As the saying goes, a penny stumps a hero, Yuan Shan has a deep understanding, but it is not just a penny that stumps him.

The bigger the industry, he found that the faster the savings are spent, the key lies in the continuous investment in expanding the business. This also makes people understand why so many rich bigwigs go bankrupt so easily, and a large part of the money is not in his hands. In terms of investment, either fixed investment or borrowing, there are many annoying things, and the pressure will naturally increase.

This guy Yuan Shan is not a business material, otherwise he would not be so short of money, he would like to be a system porter but he has no money.

The next day, Yuan Shan came to Hepingfang shop. Now the popsicle and shaved ice business is very hot. After Yunxi’s cooking skills and Yuan Shan’s knowledge, he knew that red bean ice, a cold drink, appeared. The price is very expensive, but the taste is definitely amazing. Excellent value for money.

It's a pity that I came to Chang'an today not to sell popsicles, but to bring a lot of glass. These glasses are all to be sent to Xue's shop, in order to create a transparent glass counter, in order to show the importance of this business Even the craftsman Yang Wu was brought over by Yuan Shan.

Who in the circle doesn't know that Yang Wu is the chief carpenter of the Yuan family, his craftsmanship is nothing to say anyway, anyway, people in this era believe in this, but Yang Wu's craftsmanship is really good.

"It's really troublesome that President Yuan personally delivered it." Xue Kai said politely.

How could a businessman be unsavvy? Even if Xue Kai didn’t ask him to deliver Yuan Shan, he wouldn’t agree. What would happen if something fragile like glass was damaged during transportation? Something happened.

After all, this thing is worthless in the eyes of Yuanshan, but it is different in the eyes of Datang people. A piece of glass plate is one hundred guan, which is the price Yuanshan offered, and he is also responsible for building the glass display counter, but the labor cost will be calculated separately.

Xue Kai is also very generous and directly ordered [-] pieces, worth [-] yuan.

The money is not too much, but this is not a small business, and Yuanshan also promised to sell the shaped counters. If the glass breaks in the middle, Yuanjia will be responsible for the compensation.

Yang Wu is very experienced in cutting glass, and he is also very experienced in cutting glass every day.

A large piece of glass is enough for one window, and more than half of the sixty pieces are used in the windows of the lobby on the first floor, so Yuanshan's [-] guan money will be credited to the account on the same day.

Although the money is not much, he can do a lot of things with the [-] guan in cash, and he can build more equipment for the engineering team.

One hundred windows per window is considered the cheapest price among colored glazes, but using glass as a window has a great impact. After a few days, everyone in Yonghefang will know that the store has installed glass windows. You can always see the inside of the mall.

Because of this, the glass business of Xue’s shopping mall became a hot topic. Xue Kai used the [-] pieces of glass he bought to build ten counters. For one counter, [-] pieces of glass were used for the other [-] pieces of glass. They all became the windows outside Xue's shop.

Glass windows have been installed in the Heping Store long ago, but there are still many people who have not seen them, so the glass windows of Xuejia Mall have become the focus of attention of the people, which has also brought a lot of traffic to Xuejia Mall.

Having made money, Xue Kai is naturally happy. At the same time, he is also satisfied with the decision to install glass windows. Although the price is expensive, the investment will not be a loss in the long run.

But then came the problem, Yuan Shan didn't think much of glass, but Xue Kai was different from Xue's family members who had to guard outside the mall all day, fearing that someone would sabotage or steal it.

Yuan Shan didn't know about the following things. All the money he earned was now invested in production. The production of bearings went smoothly and the auxiliary output of steam stamping equipment was increasing, but this was far from meeting Yuan Shan's requirements. So the new steam engine began to be made.

Some accessories are made by the Armory Supervision and blacksmith shops. The boiler part is the cooperation with the Military Supervision, and the core technology is still in the hands of the Yuan family. Although the principle of the steam engine is simple, the technical requirements for the cylinder part are still very high. High.

The order with the Armed Forces Supervision this time is to build [-] boiler embryos. It is very expensive to build medium-sized boilers, and some connecting parts are outsourced. Thousands of dollars are spent as a deposit. up.

In the end, Yuanshan put the money-making method on the mall. Next, the mall will carry out a big reward activity to reward new and old customers. The products in the mall will have a [-]% discount for all purchases within a week. In addition, the mall points system is also launched at this time. As long as the highest level of discount for redeeming points in the mall can reach a [-]% discount.

This undoubtedly excited the rich girls who used Yuanjia cosmetics. You must know that the cosmetics they use every day are very expensive, and these have become the main industry of the mall.

And with the opening of the Xuejia Mall, Yuan Shan also had to start enriching his own products. Various new jewelry, pendants, and ornaments appeared in the luxury area on the first floor, and the materials were different, such as gold, silver, jade, etc.

The newly opened shop is a tea shop, which is different from the teas made in the Tang Dynasty now. The tea leaves from the Yuan family are all roasted, and can be drunk directly with hot water. The quantity is not large and the price is expensive, and some of them are sold now. There is no shortage of buyers.

After some actions, the sales volume of the mall has also increased, but most customers only apply for point accounts when they buy things and pay. successful.

The biggest point customer is none other than Changsun Wuji. He doesn’t buy anything else but kerosene lamps. There are unlimited rules for kerosene lamps sold in the mall under the points system.

I don’t know what happened to Changsun Wuji, this time he directly bought 72 kerosene lamps and directly consumed [-] sticks. If he didn’t know that the Changsun’s family took the kerosene lamps to other state capitals for sale, he would have even thought that this Changsun Wuji Don't be crazy, why buy so many kerosene lamps.

But this matter has not been played yet, Chen Changshun from Pingkangfang also came to join in the fun, as well as the Xue family, the Zheng family, and the Yuchi family, the Cheng family, and the Qin family all came, but in the end the transaction amount was completed by Changsun Wuji , there was no such thing as Yuan Shan at all, and only after looking back did I realize that this eldest grandson Wuji had paid a lot of money this time.

Because such a large amount of point card consumption is [-]% off the minimum discount, and people from several other companies can't reach the [-]% discount even if they buy a hundred kerosene lamps, so they simply buy the goods directly from Zhang Sanwuji. It is cheaper, thinking that they bought less than two hundred lamps at most, and dozens of lamps at least.

As soon as the eldest grandson's family changed hands, more than half of the cost would be returned. This is the return of betting on the capital.

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Yuan Shan didn't even think that the kerosene lamp instead of glass was the one who gave him money in the end. Earn more.