I want to be emperor

Chapter 1166 Jiao Tiancheng Opens a New Store

In Xicheng District of Songjiang Prefecture, Jiao Tiancheng was in a good mood as he looked at the 49 Dongjiang brand sedan that had been repaired, tested and washed.

Repairing this car with a faulty engine would earn him another twenty Chu Yuan.

The most important thing is that the car was not repaired by him personally, but by several apprentices who had learned well. Jiao Tiancheng just pointed out some general directions on the side.

The repair fee of more than twenty Chu Yuan was nothing. The point was that after many years of teaching and training, some of the apprentices had finally become masters. Moreover, according to the training work agreement signed between him and these apprentices, they would need to work for him for at least ten years before they could resign and start their own business. Otherwise, they would need to pay a large sum of training fees.

Otherwise, why would Jiao Tiancheng take so much trouble to train these apprentices... You know, the auto repair industry is still very popular nowadays... Cars these days are not as durable as those in later generations. There are many kinds of faults, especially some minor problems are endless.

And the automobile repair technology is not something that is widely available. Even though some technical secondary schools and colleges have opened automobile repair majors, what you learn in school is at most just the basics. It's okay to be a helper, but it's impossible to directly repair big things like engines and gearboxes!

This requires a long period of experience accumulation, as well as a certain amount of talent and hard work, so that one can become familiar with the various problems of various cars on the market and perform various fault repairs.

And it is very difficult to learn much of these things in school... At most you learn a lot of theories in school, and then you are asked to disassemble and assemble the car engine a few times, and it is good enough for you to be familiar with the structure of the car engine. How can you really learn any technology?

Contemporary automobile repair technology is still relatively cutting-edge and highly dependent on personal experience.

This also leads to the fact that auto repair talents are very popular and their income is relatively high.

In this case, it is not easy for an ordinary person with no connections to learn car repair technology. Except for family members and relatives, others who want to learn basically have to sign a commissioned training work contract.

This kind of contract often means that the boss pays money and time to give you the opportunity to learn, and after you have learned something, you work for a number of years according to the contract... If you resign before the working years are up, you will need to pay a relatively large amount of training fees.

Of course, even if the working period is long, the salary will not be too bad... After all, apprentices are not really here to be slaves. It is okay for them to work for you for many years after learning. However, the salary must be adequate. Otherwise, if there is a mistake during the work... For example, the customer's vehicle is obviously just a minor engine problem, and then a "mistake" causes a major problem for you, and the boss will have to pay a lot of money...

But don't expect to ask employees for compensation... According to the labor laws of the Great Chu Empire, there is no need to bear any compensation liability for production losses caused by unintentional sabotage during the work process. This is the risk cost of hiring employees.

As for whether it was intentional...he was repairing the engine, and during the process of putting the engine back together, a small screw slipped out of the cylinder, and then he started the test and directly scrapped the engine. Do you think he did it on purpose or was it an accident?

There is no evidence what else can you, a small owner of a car repair shop, do except consider yourself unlucky?

In order to avoid this situation, even if it is a long-term entrusted training labor contract, the boss generally will not be too stingy. As long as you have learned something and can create profits for the boss, the boss will give you a decent salary.

Of course, it is not ruled out that some unscrupulous bosses treat these commissioned training employees as slaves and exploit them, but the probability of problems occurring is also high.

In short, there are all kinds of people.

Jiao Tiancheng also did not want to exploit the employees he commissioned for training. His purpose in recruiting apprentices was simple: business was too good and there was a serious shortage of manpower. There was no one who could solve complex problems on his behalf, so he recruited so many apprentices.

At the same time, he was also afraid that the apprentices he had trained with great difficulty would run away after achieving success and become a help to others. Therefore, he selected five young people who learned quickly and had good character from among the apprentices, signed labor contracts for entrusted training with them, and only then began to teach them hand in hand.

As for other apprentices, they naturally don't have this treatment. If you have the understanding and a flexible mind to learn from others, then that's your ability. If you can't steal, then that's all you can do.

  Anyway, among the apprentices that Jiao Tiancheng taught personally, there were only five apprentices who had signed labor contracts for entrusted training, and the treatment they received was not low. Their salaries during the apprenticeship period were higher than those of ordinary apprentices, and their salaries also increased as they made some progress in their studies. Now that this apprentice of A Bing has almost reached the level of being a master, Jiao Tiancheng has increased his salary to 13 yuan per month!

This salary is not low... Most ordinary assembly line workers in Songjiang City only earn between eight and ten yuan, and low-level technical or low-level management workers earn between ten and fifteen yuan.

And A Bing, an apprentice who has not yet fully mastered his craft, has already seen his monthly salary rise to 11 yuan... and he will also receive additional bonuses.

Jiao Tiancheng also promised that once he had fully mastered the skills, not only would his salary be raised to 15 yuan, but a branch would also be opened. A Bing could then work as a chef in the branch and receive a share of the branch's profits.

With salary and dividends, the monthly income can conservatively reach more than 30 yuan!

The labor contract for entrusted training is a constraint, and Jiao Tiancheng intends to use a two-pronged approach to keep this young man, A Bing, by offering good salary and profit sharing as a lure...

A Bing was also very satisfied with this... After all, A Bing was just an eighteen-year-old young man. He had just graduated from junior high school and had never thought that he would be an apprentice in a car repair shop just a few years after entering the society. In just a few years, he earned a salary of more than ten yuan, and there was even a hope that he would become a master chef in a branch store.

When thinking about the future, young faces are full of learning, which makes them more motivated to study.

Seeing A Bing like this, Jiao Tiancheng was slightly relieved... To be honest, he was quite worried that A Bing would run away after completing his apprenticeship.

Although running away requires paying more than 100 yuan in training fees, for a newly-appointed mechanic, it is only a few months' salary. Many people grit their teeth and choose to pay the training fee and run away, and then open their own repair shop.

The car repair business is so prosperous nowadays that many masters with good car repair skills will choose to open their own car repair shop, just like Jiao Tiancheng did back then... They are more free, can be a boss no matter what, and earn more.

Of course, if you don’t have the skills or the brain isn’t flexible enough, or you don’t have much capital, you won’t be able to do it.

To be honest, it is not easy to keep this well-educated mechanic. Jiao Tiancheng can only hope that A Bing does not have much capital to open a repair shop now, and he needs to save for a few more years.

I don't ask for the job to last too long, just three to five years to set up the branch, and then help train a few commissioned apprentices.

After instructing A Bing to deal with a light truck nearby that was suspected to have a gearbox problem, Jiao Tiancheng walked into his small office.

It was called an office, but in fact it was just a small compartment separated by wooden boards in the store, which contained some simple office work. After sitting down, Jiao Tiancheng took out another document, which was a purchase list for the equipment and tools to be prepared for the opening of a new branch.

What he said to A Bing about opening a branch and letting him be the chef was not just empty talk, but what he had always thought about.

  Why?

Why else? Of course, it’s because of making money!

The modern auto repair business is very profitable because of the large market and little competition... To outsiders, these repair shops are not very big and are usually opened in the suburbs or in ordinary locations beside main roads. The mechanics are covered in oil and dirt, so they think this is a very low-end business.

But in fact, the car repair business is very profitable nowadays.

However, there are limitations. The coverage area of ​​the repair shop is also limited, and it only affects customers in the surrounding areas. Customers from far away will not come from far away to get their cars repaired, which is inconvenient.

The number of cars owned is not at the level where every household has a car. Although there are many mid- to high-end communities in the northern suburbs of Xicheng, the number of cars owned in nearby communities is still relatively limited.

Furthermore, his is not the only repair shop in the surrounding area. There are several others... So there is a limit to business. After all, you can't treat other repair shop owners as fools, and don't think that you can win all customers just because you have good skills and a good attitude. That is impossible.

In this case, if you want to expand your business, you naturally need to think of other ways, such as opening new stores in other places with a higher number of cars, and relying on some promotions, technology and other means to attract new customers.

Jiao Tiancheng’s solution was to open a new store.

In recent years, Jiao Tiancheng has made a lot of money by running a car repair shop. After deducting family expenses, he bought a townhouse in the northern suburbs, a second-hand Tangshan car, and saved up a few thousand yuan.

This is certainly not as good as those big bosses, but it is not too bad. At least it is much better than the so-called workplace elites who work for others.

Of course, this can only be said about money. It is naturally difficult to say about social status.

This was a lot of money saved, and Jiao Tiancheng was a man with a strong sense of career and even ambition, so he naturally thought about expanding the scale of his business.

After some consideration, he chose to open a branch between expanding the original store and opening a branch elsewhere.

  He has probably already chosen the place, which is in the northern suburbs of Xicheng District... After all, this place is a gathering place for middle- and high-income communities in Xicheng District, where a large number of middle- and high-income groups live, and these people are also the main force in purchasing cars... As for the rich people you mentioned, no matter how rich they are, how many cars can they buy?

A community that is home to many wealthy people and has a large number of single-family houses has far fewer cars than a large, mid- to high-end community that is dominated by townhouses.

As for the car repair business, no matter whether you are rich or middle-income, what matters is the number of cars you own.

The number of cars owned in the northern suburbs of Xicheng is undoubtedly quite good.

The northern suburbs of Xicheng are also very large. It is not as simple as one or two blocks, but consists of many communities divided by towns and villages. These communities are mainly mid- to high-end communities, which means that there are a large number of people with high commercial value in the area, and their consumption capacity is very considerable.

This is also the reason why some seemingly inconspicuous towns and even village streets in the northern suburbs are often home to large department stores, mid- to high-end restaurants, luxury goods, and even car dealerships.

People come here for the money.

The auto repair industry that Jiao Tiancheng works in can actually be considered a mid- to high-end service industry to some extent...because apart from commercially operated trucks, buses, and taxis, the group of people who buy and use cars privately are often middle- to high-income groups.

Therefore, it is impossible to open a car repair shop in a city... Because most urban areas seem to have a large population and prosperous business, but the per capita private car ownership is extremely low...

Of course, the area around Linjiang North Road is an exception. It is close to the river, has a very good environment, and has a large riverside park. Therefore, this place is not only a financial and commercial center, but also has a large number of high-rise office buildings and luxury hotels, as well as many high-end luxury apartments.

But there are not many places like this on Linjiang North Road!

After much consideration, Jiao Tiancheng finally decided to continue opening a branch in the northern suburbs, planning to open a branch on a street five blocks away.

He had already visited that area. There were no repair shops nearby, and the nearest one was two blocks away. There were not many high-end communities in the surrounding area, but there were quite a few mid-range and upper-end communities. Now, as car prices continue to fall, and buying and using cars has gradually become a trend, many families with an annual income of several hundred Chu Yuan have chosen to buy an ordinary car of two or three hundred Chu Yuan for transportation.

The newspapers say every day that car sales are increasing year by year.

Jiao Tiancheng also thought so... Because in the past, when he first opened the auto repair shop, he didn't have many customers, but apart from corporate customers, private customers were basically all rich people.

Now, a considerable number of his private clients are small business owners, high-income professional managers and other groups.

In the future, it is estimated that many people with an annual income of several hundred Chu Yuan will also buy a large number of cars.

  This is a historical trend!

Because Jiao Tiancheng also believes that opening a car repair shop near a densely populated mid-end community where the market size is still small, and then slowly building up word of mouth is an option worth trying.

As for going directly to the blocks where high-end communities are more densely populated...it's not that we don't want to, but these places often already have auto repair shops.

It would be too stressful to just run over and compete face to face.

It would be better to directly explore new potential markets.