National Tide 1980.

Chapter 881
After paying the money and completing all the formalities, I walked out of the post office.

Ning Weimin looked at the watch on his wrist, it was already eleven o'clock.

As the owner of the restaurant, he actually doesn't like the lively scene when the customers are overcrowded, and prefers a relatively quiet dining environment.

He thought about it, and although he wasn't particularly hungry, he decided to eat first, so as to avoid the rush hour for office workers to eat.

Because he still had to go to Nishi Azabu later, Ning Weimin walked south along the road in front of the Akasaka post office.

If you don't find a place to eat, you can simply take the bus to Nishi Azabu where there are various restaurants and bars.

As a result, as soon as he walked more than 100 meters, he was attracted by the Japanese classical music coming from the roadside from time to time.

When I turned my head, I found that the music was played by a Marushin store.

Next to the store is a ramen restaurant that displays a variety of noodles in the window.

Some noodles are decorated with egg slices and bamboo shoots, some with pieces of cartilage meat and vegetable leaves, and some with fried Japanese dumplings, all of which are made of wax models.

Colorful, very realistic, like a work of art, emitting an attractive brilliance.

This time, Ning Weimin's appetite was not only seduced, he also wanted to ask the boss about the source of these food wax sculptures.

In this regard, he also needs to open a restaurant.

It is completely instinctive for business people to look for things that are beneficial to business everywhere.

So he licked his lips, Ning Weimin lifted the cloth curtain at the door and walked in.

Sure enough, there were no customers in the ramen restaurant at this time, and the owner of the noodle restaurant was quite free, and he received Ning Weimin very politely and thoughtfully.

Nodding and bowing, he poured water and passed the chopsticks, and was also very enthusiastic about Ning Weimin's inquiry about the wax sculpture. The boss wrote down the address and contact number of the wax sculpture production company in his own handwriting.

Since others are so polite, Ning Weimin is also ashamed to be stingy.

He ordered the more expensive pork cheek ramen, and also ordered Tang Yang chicken nuggets to accompany the meal.

The reason why he didn't ask for the fried gyoza, which is generally considered by the Japanese to be friends with ramen, was because he really didn't have much interest.

The dumplings made by himself are much more delicious.

What's more, six of these junks cost 390 yen, which is enough for him to buy a piece of clothing at the flea market.

He is not the rich second generation who relies on his father to be an Internet celebrity and starts a company. He never asks the price when he pays for meals, and just throws out a whole number.

His money was hard earned and had many serious uses.

And to be honest, the level of this ramen shop is quite average.

The broth was mediocre, the noodles were so-so, and the char siu was hard.

To put it bluntly, the soft-boiled eggs are okay, and a pickled red plum in the noodle bowl is quite special, and it is very greasy.

Although Ning Weimin also felt hot from eating, his scalp itched, and he felt a little sweaty, but he regretted entering the wrong door in his heart.

He thought it was a bit worthless for a meal that cost [-] yen.

The price is purely because the store is in the city center, otherwise, if it is placed in the outer suburbs, the meal will cost [-] yen at most.

If the chef from their altar palace comes, just boil a pot of soup and cook noodles, which can instantly kill this restaurant.

Come on, let's even pay the consulting fee.

After the unsatisfactory meal, Ning Weimin came out of the noodle shop again. At this time, his mood turned a little bit dark again, and the joy of sending the parcel to Master just now was gone.

You know, a person's stomach is right in the middle of a person, so of course he is not happy if he has not eaten well.

What's more, he has to face another problem that needs to be solved urgently.

That is, what should he do with the bookstore he bought?
Speaking of the location of this bookstore is absolutely no problem.

In his previous life, when Ning Weimin traveled to Japan, a domestic tour guide made a general evaluation of the most commercially prosperous places in Tokyo.

It is said that Shibuya, which is full of popular culture, is called "high school student's street", Shinjuku, where there are many nightclubs, is called "young people's street", and Ginza, where rich and famous people come and go, is called "adults' street". Roppongi, full of foreign culture, is called "Western Style Street".

In fact, the location of the bookstore is [-]-chome, Nishi Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo, which is similar to Roppongi.

You know, the Azabu area and Roppongi are connected to each other.

Near Ning Weimin's bookstore, there are also many embassies and international schools.

As a result, there are many high-end restaurants and nightclubs here, and it is also a place where film and television dramas are often filmed, and every inch of land is precious.

If you have to talk about the difference between Nishi Azabu and Roppongi, it is that although Roppongi is the most famous and prosperous, its main customers are young people.

At night, Roppongi is full of drunk foreigners, loud college students, unscrupulous company employees urinating everywhere, young people arguing about trivial matters, young girls vomiting in the middle of the road, defiant and arrogant. Lovers kissing passionately and so on.

Not only noisy, but also dirty, there are always cigarette butts all over the place, and it needs to be cleaned overnight.

Nishi Azabu is more suitable for the older age groups.

It is relatively quiet, there are not too many noisy places, and the environment will be much cleaner.

Especially because there are many "terraces" suitable for building, and there are many high-end residential areas, which are more livable.

So on the street of Nishi Azabu, it would be great if there are high-end restaurants, bars, coffee shops, and luxury stores.

It is also good to open a pet store and a video store. Even if you open a lounge and gallery, your business will continue.

However, opening a bookstore is far from satisfactory, because almost all the people wandering on this street come for parties and consumption. Who would wander around in a bookstore if they have nothing to do?
There are quite a few students, but most of them are foreigners and children from wealthy Japanese families.

Basically, the car picks up and drops off at home, and most of them belong to the class that starts with a Mercedes-Benz, and you are ashamed to say hello to others when you drive an Audi.

Of course, students with such a family environment cannot come here to read comic books or buy exam materials.

Ning Weimin didn't even need to enter the door, just standing at the door of his bookstore, he could feel how embarrassing it was for this "Huiwentang Bookstore" founded in 1891 to be on this street.

It has an Italian restaurant on the left and a high-end rotisserie on the right.

Because it is the meal time, no matter which one, the business is booming and overcrowded.

Only in Huiwentang, there is not a single guest.

This even made Ning Weimin feel absurd, thinking that this bookstore is like the enchanted Order of the Phoenix in "Harry Potter", which exists but is ignored by people.

Looking at the opposite side, a traditional Japanese confectionary shop as old as Huiwentang is actually full of customers, and boxes of souvenirs are sold out.

The degree of popularity is similar to that of the "Daoxiang Village" that was just reopened in the capital.

Standing here, Ning Weimin felt more and more speechless, because it was an old shop, look at Huiwentang's mess.

However, compared to Ning Weimin, there are people who are more embarrassed, and that is the two clerks in the bookstore.

Because Ning Weimin at least understands one truth, if the business condition of the bookstore is not so bad.

If it wasn't for the fact that the owner of the bookstore was old and didn't want to spend any more effort to switch careers and open a fashionable shop.

If he was not willing to accept a premium purchase and promised the bookstore owner, he would have to continue to hire two part-time college students in the store until they finished their studies before ending the assistance to them.

It is impossible for a shop in such a good location to fall into his hands.

But the clerks in the bookstore didn't know this. They only thought that Ning Weimin had been taken advantage of and bought a loss-making product at a high price on impulse.

Moreover, this new boss is a Chinese from the third world, and has no experience in running a bookstore. It has been half a month since he bought the store, and he has not seen any ideas to change the business situation.

If the loss continues like this, who knows how long the new boss can last?

If they are not sure, they will renege on their promises and change hands of the bookstore, and their jobs will be ruined.

So when Ning Weimin opened the door and walked in, the two clerks who were in charge of watching the store, Oda and Yoshii, immediately put down what they were doing and bowed to Ning Weimin in trepidation.

Almost in unison, "Hello boss! You have worked hard!"

Ning Weimin bowed slightly to return the salute, "You have worked hard too. How is the situation in the store these two days?"

Oda is older and has just been admitted to graduate school. He immediately reported the income of the past two days, "I sold two books in two days on the weekend. But it rained yesterday. At noon and afternoon, several customers came to the store to take shelter from the rain. So I sold some more books, a total of [-] yen. Do you need it? I'll give it to you."

"What kind of books are they selling? Are they study books and comic books?"

"Ah... no. They sell travel, lifestyle, and magazines."

"As expected, then... just give me the 'Yukichi' (the character on the [-]-yen banknote is Fukuzawa Yukichi), and leave the rest in the store. In case someone buys a book, You always need change, right?"

Ning Weimin sighed, and secretly smiled bitterly.

Although Japanese books are more expensive, the profit is only about [-]%, in other words, the income is [-] yen in three days.

If you do this, even if the house is your own, it will be a loss.

You must know that these two part-time college students are paid [-] yen per hour each.

Each of them counts as five hours a day, and three days is [-] yen, and the compensation for life is [-].

If water and electricity are included in the calculation, Ning Weimin will have to pay 40 million in one month, which is the salary of two full-time employees who have just started working.

Compared with the store next to it, how is it different inside and out?
Not to mention that there is a backlog of books upstairs that the former owner of the bookstore valued at [-] million and sold to him. Most of them are study books, reference books, novels, and comics.

"Boss, do you have anything else to do? If not, I'll go back. Yoshii will be in charge of watching the store until five o'clock in the afternoon..."

Oda said a little shyly, after all, people who can work in bookstores are a little shy.

The future development will be Japan's well-known specialty - otaku.

However, Ning Weimin stopped him, "Wait, I have something important to discuss with the two of you. Can you leave a little later? I plan to take some necessary measures on the way of operation. I just want to listen to you at the same time. We only came here at this time because of the opinions of the two of you."

As soon as these words were said, Oda and Yoshii immediately became tense, looked at each other, and showed nervous expressions in silence.

Ning Weimin immediately saw that they had misunderstood, and quickly explained.

"Relax, I'm not going to fire you or give you a salary cut. After all, I promised your past boss that I won't break my promise. And on the contrary, I want you to make more money. Are you interested?"

"Ah?"

"Nani?"

The two Japanese college students who had originally looked sad were immediately relieved from their malaise.

But they still looked at each other in blank dismay, in disbelief and disbelief.

"It's like this. I'm going to find a way to deal with the backlog of books. Both of you should be able to understand. When your former boss, Mr. Tomita, was running Huiwentang, there was no liquidity. And Mr. Tomita still He is a very emotional person, and he always has no ability to refuse the old friends of the book wholesaler. This caused the funds in the store to gradually become unsalable books and put them upstairs. These books are calculated according to the market price, according to Mr. Tomita The list given to me is at least [-] million yen. We must completely change this situation now, and the top priority is to raise funds, so I plan to dispose of the inventory as soon as possible at a price of [-]% off the market price. With this money, we will can do something..."

"Boss, I'm sorry."

Yoshii didn't wait for Ning Weimin to finish, and suddenly interjected, "We are aware of the difficulties in the store. But we seem to have discussed the issue of discount clearance before. Have you overlooked the existence of 'reprints'? If you forgot, I have to remind you again. In order to protect bookstore operations and reduce competition in the industry, books in Japan are not allowed to be sold at a discount. So if we do this, it will be illegal..."

However, Ning Weimin didn't show any sign of hitting a wall, instead he thanked him very gracefully.

"Yoshii, thank you very much. As expected of a college student studying law, he is very professional. But please rest assured that this problem is no longer a problem. I have consulted my lawyer in detail, and according to his suggestion, We can completely avoid legal problems. Because we don’t want to give discounts to customers who buy books, but to recommend these books to our colleagues. I hope that other bookstore owners can eat these goods.”

Seeing that both Oda and Yoshii had realized expressions, Ning Weimin simply spoke up completely.

"You are all college students, so you should be familiar with many bookstores in Tokyo, right? So you must know which bookstores are more suitable for selling the books we have in stock. Is this good? You go to classify and try to talk to those bookstore owners , to see if they are willing to buy some books in our store at a low price? The [-]% off market price should be attractive to them."

"Also, you have been working in Huiwentang for a while. Do you know the wholesale booksellers? I hope you can ask those booksellers if they are willing to buy back some at a low price. After all, our store still has If you want to continue to add new books, it will only reduce some categories. Even if the bookstore is not Mr. Tomita's, but whether it is for the sake of past friendship or future contacts, it will be a face, right?"

"In short, we need to sell these books as soon as possible. This is a major issue related to whether the bookstore can improve its operations in the future. It is best to finish it within a month. As for taking up your extra time, I will also give you extra rewards .If you can really sell some books, then I will pay you a bounty of 5.00% of the final amount we got. I will pay you as soon as you get the money, without delay. Theoretically, the books that are overstocked upstairs are sold Go, there will be about 250 million yen to share with you. If you count the ones still on the shelves in the store, there may be 300 million yen to you. This is not a small help to you, right?"

To be honest, there is no need for Ning Weimin to analyze so thoroughly.

I thought your arithmetic problem was no problem for two college students.

If they can earn 100 million in a month, it is enough for their living expenses for a year.

Can this still be without work enthusiasm?

So the saying that money can make ghosts grind the millstones also began to play a miraculous effect on the land of the East.

The two originally introverted Japanese youths became excited at the same time after finding out that Ning Weimin was really not joking.

Yoshii's work immediately became active, and he took the initiative to run upstairs to sort out the books.

And Oda, who got off work, didn't go back to school in time, but completely abandoned the cheap lunch in the cafeteria.

I bought a piece of bread, took some book samples, and rode a bicycle to run my business.

As for Ning Weimin, although he was bleeding in his heart because of the shortfall of 5000 million yen, he vomited so much blood that he could ask for his "box of money".But I have to force myself to smile and face all this cruelly.

This is not only because he knows that this is the necessary premium he paid to buy this good store.

It is also because he knows better that the most important thing in business is the uninterrupted flow of capital, and capital is the life of a businessman.

No matter how much you lose, if you try to make money back, it will be over.

I'm afraid that if I have something in my hand that I can't sell, if I don't have anything else, that's called dying.

It's better that he can quickly collect 5000 million yuan, invest in the stock market to make money, and double the leverage.

It's better than watching your own goods depreciate and cutting your flesh with a slow knife.

In addition, he also brought a little something, and wanted to use the place of Huiwentang to see the market acceptance.

This can be regarded as an attempt in multiple directions.

"Hey, Yoshii, I have one more thing to tell you. We have to sell some special things in the future. Lennon, put these things in the window, want the best place, and remove the original books. If there are customers If you see it, like it, and come into the store to inquire, you will say that it is a brooch from Huaxia, a handmade work. Do you understand? If anyone wants to buy it, it will be [-] yen each."

"Wow, it's so beautiful! Is the box so high-end? Okay, boss! I'll make it right away. But... what kind of material is this? Is it a gemstone? Is it too clear? Is it fragile?"

"Glass products, you don't have to be so careful when handling them, they won't break easily in normal use. Do you think this price is expensive?"

"It's okay, Japanese girls now often receive jewelry gifts. For the ladies in our school, a very ordinary silver bracelet costs [-] yen. Is this something that both men and women can wear?"

"You're right, so it's [-] yen."

(End of this chapter)