Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 1550 Great success

  When the auspicious time comes, the firecrackers will sound.

  Thousands of people poured into this shop.

  The shop has already opened, because it occupies a huge area, the inside is extremely spacious, and there are countless shelves, it seems that there is no end in sight.

  Many people filed in curiously, while on the other side, Chen Tong led a group of merchants to shuttle among them.

"Everyone, everyone, follow closely... If you don't understand anything, you can ask the old man, hey... Don't get lost. This is called a department store. Let's see, such a big place employs no more than six people. Seventy people. Come, come, come, this product is placed on the shelf, with a label on the bottom, indicating the price, and all the products are free to pick up. When you come out, from here... look at the cash register counter? You can pay there. "

   "The advantage of this is that it can reduce labor, and the most important thing is... to provide convenience to the guests."

  Actually... Even if Chen Tong doesn't explain, these shrewd merchants can still see some clues.

  A large number of people shuttle on the shelves, looking at the dazzling array of goods, even if it is only one kind of goods, there are several sources of goods, and the prices are different, which gives many people room to choose.

   And keen merchants soon discovered that the prices of the goods here are obviously lower than those outside.

  This must be the result of large-scale procurement.

  Businessmen feel the most about this point. The larger the business scale, the lower the cost of purchase and transportation.

  Of course...they didn't just look at this. One of the merchants had already left the team and quietly followed behind the other. This was a middle-aged man.

But when he saw the dazzling array of shelves, his eyes were full of curiosity. He picked up something to look at, and then looked at the price. He seemed to feel reluctant, so he put it down again, but during the selection process, he still chose I picked up two or three things and put them on my hands.

  After the merchant saw it, he suddenly... shook his body.

  Although he didn't know what this man's psychology was, he understood that in this bustling and convenient shopping environment, consumption could be stimulated.

Many people who come here have never thought about buying things at all, but once they see so many commodities, the most important thing is that everything is clearly marked and you can choose what you want, and when you choose the goods, you can check them at any time without standing Behind the high counter, ask the guys to take a look at them one by one.

   This is a great convenience for customers.

  This kind of convenience means that the cost of shopping for customers has been reduced to a minimum. This is by no means a simple benefit such as the reduction of employees in the mall, but because it can increase people's desire to shop.

  I didn’t want to buy something before, but I bought it when I was uncertain.

  I only planned to buy one item at first, but when I was uncertain, I bought two items.

  In the past shopping, people thought of what to buy, so they went to the corresponding shop to buy. But now... now I just came here for shopping, maybe I just wanted to buy something, but in the end... I brought back a bunch of things.

  This merchant is such a shrewd person, he suddenly felt enlightened.

  His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Qi Guogong are really amazing.

For the countless customers who come in, they feel that everything is novel, look here, look there, enter here, shop around, find it cheap and interesting, and no one will return empty-handed, and the cashier for settlement, It's been a long queue.

  As for businessmen, their eyes light up, and all of a sudden...it seems to have found a brand new model.

  A large amount of goods can be directly allocated from Xingguo stores, purchased from them, and then directly shipped on a large scale in the mode of a department store.

  In this way, if one of these is built in the cities of various provinces and prefectures, the competitiveness will be far beyond what other people imagined.

In addition, the previous business model has brought about a huge problem, that is, in many places, because of the distance from the capital, many novel commodities are simply out of reach, and what the common people can buy is only daily necessities. .

  Now, if there is such a department store, all the goods can be mixed and arranged... Wouldn't this open up the market?

  Those workshop owners saw their products appearing on the shelves, all of them were flushed, staring at the back of their products, just wanting to see how many customers choose them.

  As for those distributors, looking all the way, thoughtful, they seemed to be inspired all of a sudden.

  In a provincial city, it is absolutely possible to build a department store of this scale. If it is a prefectural city, the scale can be reduced and the types of goods can be reduced. If it is a county town, the scale can be even smaller...

  The only problem now is how much goods can be shipped in such a shopping mall in a day, how much turnover can be generated, and how much profit can be made.

   How much profit the Xingguo firm can make can only be added and subtracted to roughly calculate whether it is profitable.

As a result, many merchants, like pug dogs, or little Teddy, took off their sunglasses. Although the big gold chains were hanging around their waists, and their temples were shiny with pomade, they were either Roll up your sleeves, or squat aside, watching the cashier's settlement.

  Although I know it clearly, such a calculation is nothing at all.

   But seeing copper coins and precious banknotes entering the cash box one by one, they felt that this was the supreme enjoyment, and they were about to flow out.

  The goods sold out very fast.

   Soon, Chen Tong realized that he seemed to have underestimated the huge purchasing power of Daming people.

Before this model came out, Chen Tong had made calculations. He had roughly calculated how many guests would come, and how much their needs would be. But now...he understands that the previous calculation model will not work at all, because... This department store has stimulated more new purchasing power, and such buying enthusiasm has far exceeded everyone's expectations.

  He no longer cared about those merchants, and let them take care of themselves, while he hurried to the warehouse behind, sweating profusely and commanding the merchants to replenish their goods.

  Sometimes, I have to go to the shopping mall to watch. There are so many people here, sometimes it is difficult to walk, and I accidentally bumped into someone.

   "Chen Zhengde!"

  Suddenly, someone shouted.

  Chen Tong raised his head subconsciously.

  Zhengde is his name, but it has been a long time since he came to the mall, no one has called him by his name. In the mall, people like to use a certain owner, Mr. X first.

  Hearing this familiar yet unfamiliar address, Chen Tong raised his head, but saw an acquaintance.

  This person is my own age, and he is named Liu Kaizhi, who is among the rites.

  Liu Kaizhi now looked at him sadly: "So it's really you, look at you, what you look like now, the appearance of oily hair and pink face, your gentleman's clothes, are you still the original Chen Zhengde?"

  Chen Tong's face instantly turned red.

  The memory of the past is not far away.

  Suddenly here now, he met his old colleague, which made him realize his original identity all of a sudden.

  He actually felt a little ashamed.

  It seems... I have unknowingly become the person I hated before.

  Although this kind of life is not bad, not only is it not bad, it is quite delicious, but...

   "Don't go away, you are now constantly haggling with these merchants, where have you read your sage books?"

   "Brother Ziwen, I still have some things to deal with..." Chen Tong's words were obviously suspected of escaping. In fact, he wanted to get into the cracks in the ground immediately.

   It seems that Liu Kaizhi does not intend to let Chen Tong go, and sneered: "Shameful! Are you still the second-ranked concubine, the stalwart giver, or my Daming servant?"

   "I..." Chen Tong's face was already blood red, and he lowered his head silently. Even though he was usually with merchants and had a flexible tongue, at this moment, he seemed to be unable to find a word to defend himself.

   "These... are all made by you?"

Chen Tong didn't speak for a long time, and his heart was in the battle between heaven and man. After staying in this place for a few days, he seemed to be gradually assimilated. Until now, he suddenly began to reflect on whether he had done something wrong and what he was doing now. , What I am doing now, does it deviate from the original intention of a scholar... What is the point of doing this by myself?

  These countless thoughts came one after another, decades of education and standards of conduct, and what he had seen and heard in the past few months were like contradictory two-sided bodies, which suddenly made him feel like a knife cut his heart.

   "So, you have your part in instigating the prince to play monkey games?"

   "What?" Chen Tong, who was in a low mood, couldn't react when he heard this sentence, and was immediately stunned.

  In fact, these days, he is so busy that he doesn't care about other things.

  But... His Royal Highness is playing a monkey show, what's going on?

   "I'm only in charge of the department store." Chen Tong said bluntly.

"This is what happened in the department store." Liu Kaizhi didn't believe Chen Tong, and continued righteously: "It seems that it is you, I didn't expect you to be such a person, you... you... are really shameful, you are really a gentle scum, a gentle scum what!"

  Chen Tong became more and more dazed, and suddenly, he completely entered a dead state.

Liu Kaizhi seemed to be unbearably distressed, his eyes were red, and he said angrily: "Today, I cut off my robes with you. From then on, you and I will have no life relationship, and... I will impeach you after I go back, you wait Let's go."

  The implication of these words is that if I can't deal with the prince and Qi Guogong, can I still not deal with you?

Traitors like Chen Tong are the most hateful, even more hateful than Duke Qi. After all, Duke Qi has always been that kind of person. That look, but you Chen Tong... is not like that. A good person has fallen like this now. If you don't kill him, it's simply not enough to be outraged by the people!

  (end of this chapter)