The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 200 Banner Guard
Of course, they will be treated differently in the process of law enforcement. If it is found that there are some small people who have encountered difficulties, they are unable to work and can only choose to do small business that does not require much effort to survive.

When a family expects to survive by selling roasted sweet potatoes, the "Red Banner Army" can recruit them to join the legal roasted sweet potato camp for unified management.

Zheng Guochang nodded and said: "Good, it's really not too much to do this, I agree, I will write it tomorrow and post a notice in the prefectures of Beizhili.

The general of the 'Red Banner Army' took the lead in selling roasted sweet potatoes. The purpose was to sell the output for the ordinary people in the promotion, and to raise military salaries for his subordinates. It would be good for the reputation to operate well. "

The father-in-law is indeed a political player, with a keen eye, and reminded Huang Han to use this to make a name for himself. This time, it is not a murderous name, but a good name for doing good deeds.

Huang Han actually didn't care about making a name for himself, he wanted to make a profit from it, to solve the problem of employment, and to increase a large number of jobs for women who had difficulty finding jobs.

As long as he obtains the approval of the government, he will naturally have a way to monopolize the roasted sweet potato business, because he has the army as a violent machine, and as long as he finds that someone is also setting up a roasted sweet potato stall, he will strike.

In fact, the raw materials for processing roasted sweet potatoes and potato chips are basically owned by Huang Han exclusively, and there is no possibility of others participating in the competition. This is to prevent problems before they happen.

Huang Han considered that this is a labor-intensive business with small profits, and it will be unprofitable if it is subject to disorderly competition.

Too many people selling roasted sweet potatoes will lead to a diversion of business. Everyone has no profit and can only stay hungry and have to hold on. In this way, precious human resources are wasted in internal friction.

According to Huang Han's business philosophy of modern people, the reasonable allocation of booths in the market will make the best efficiency of human resources, so that sustainable and healthy development can be achieved.

Now eight hundred mu of sweet potatoes and potatoes have been harvested. It can be deduced that planting one mu of sweet potatoes yields six times the harvest of wheat. Therefore, Huang Han regards ten to fifteen percent of the value of a catty of white flour as a catty Pricing for sweet potatoes.

Wheat needs to be ground into flour before it can be made into white flour steamed buns. Loss and labor are not small numbers. Sweet potatoes can be eaten raw. As long as they are preserved properly, the loss rate is basically ignored.

The raw material cost of roasted sweet potatoes is calculated on the basis of one and a half pennies per catty, and the sales at four pennies per catty is converted to water loss during processing, which means that buying a catty of roasted sweet potatoes will get 14 taels in kind.

Throwing away the cost of raw materials, labor, coal, carts, oven depreciation, etc., selling a pound of roasted sweet potatoes can make a net profit of one penny.

A business that is open to the public without huge profits will last for a long time.

In Gyeonggi, a place with a population of several million, it is cheaper to sell than miscellaneous grain cakes, and the price of roasted sweet potatoes is only a quarter of that of white noodle cakes. It can be sold from 100 to [-] million catties a day.

Don't look at the fact that a catty of roasted sweet potatoes is only worth a penny, but it is not easy to accumulate a small amount. If the sales of 100 million catties a day means earning a net profit of 1000 taels of silver, 30 days a year The budget is [-] taels of snowflake silver.

It is true that a small product can make a big market. Moreover, the entire Ming Dynasty lacks cheap and high-quality food to relieve the common people from hunger. Selling sweet potatoes not only makes profits but also saves the ration money of Shengdou people. Of course, the market will not be limited to The land of Gyeonggi.

The fried potato chips are not pulled by a two-wheeled cart like the roasted sweet potato stalls, but processed in a store in front of Yongping City God Temple Street. Gu Zhen brought two women and her eldest daughter who was less than ten years old to serve them on plates. The potato chips that are no longer hot to the touch let passers-by take a few to taste.

Such a delicacy suitable for all ages quickly attracted customers. Potato chips cost four yuan, but instead of buying one catty, they bought one or two, which is 52 yuan per catty, and the cost was about ten yuan.

Modern potato chips cannot be classified as a food for the masses in this era. They are just a snack. The people of Ming Dynasty can hardly even satisfy their food and clothing. Where can they have spare money to buy snacks?

Therefore, Huang Han defines potato chips as a luxury product, and selling them to high-end people can make huge profits.To earn money from high-ranking officials, nobles, wealthy businessmen and merchants, one must be ruthless.

The small shop of fried potato chips opened successfully, and the turnover of the day reached more than ten taels of silver. It is estimated that the net profit will not be less than ten taels of silver.

In the future, Gu Zhen, who is in charge of the potato chip business, will take people to brothels, restaurants, teahouses, and gambling houses to seek cooperation and give up part of the profits to these restaurants. It will definitely not be a problem to increase sales with such a win-win model.

The roasted sweet potato stalls and fried potato chips shops in Yong Peng province are showing samples. During this period, women who have been selected to sell roasted sweet potatoes or fried potato chips have come to learn.

In a few days, businesses in Kaiping Town and Luanzhou also opened up one after another, and Zhenzi Town and Fengrun County will be developed next.

After the sweet potatoes and potatoes are harvested, there will be [-] small potato chip shops in full bloom in Beizhili, and a thousand baked sweet potato stalls will appear in various state capitals and towns.

Doing so not only provided more than 2000 women with good-paying job opportunities, but also made the two crops of sweet potatoes and potatoes household names. Another big benefit was that the tentacles of the "Flag Guard" were everywhere.

Because Sifang Express leads all the migrant workers abroad and provides them with accommodation and three meals a day. If someone is bullied, Sifang Express will promptly organize force to retaliate.

Huang Sifang started working the same day after he was appointed as the chief general of the "Red Banner Guard". In three days, 67 veterans rejoined the team and became the first batch of "Red Banner Guards."

Many of them have disabilities. Some of them were injured and fell off their horses when they were riding in battle.

But as long as someone helped them mount their horses, the combat effectiveness of these former cavalrymen would not be affected at all. Now Huang Sifang has more than [-] such "flag guards" under his command.

Soldiers with missing arms will directly affect the value of force, but the main job of the "Banner Guard" is not to fight but to collect intelligence. The most important thing is loyalty. These soldiers have shed blood for the "Red Banner Army" and share weal and woe with the "Red Banner Army" Of course the disabled soldiers will be loyal.

The business of "Sifang Express" has been opened in a grand way, and as expected, the business is booming.

Huang Sifang has arranged for more than a dozen disabled "flag guards" to buy large houses with frontages in several state capitals as a foothold to undertake business.

Three hundred horse-drawn carriages can no longer meet the needs, and now 4000% of the seized horse-drawn carriages have been assigned to "Sifang Express". Huang Sifang directly manages more than 200 coachmen, assistants, and handymen, and the "Banner Guard" has developed more than [-] people .

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