Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

Although the Citroen CX20 sedan is definitely one of the most attractive sedans in this year, comparable to the Ferrari of the later generations, which is enough to arouse the envy of most girls, but Xiang Dongfang is obviously not among them.

What she cares more about is actually the mysterious "big happy event" that Cao Zhiqiang mentioned earlier.

Fortunately, she didn't make her wait too long, and soon she saw the "big happy event" that Cao Zhiqiang said.

"This, what is this thing?"

Looking at the small prefabricated house in front of him, which was painted red, square in shape, and equipped with large glass windows on three sides, Xiang Dongfang frowned. What are they used for.

"This, this is called Little Red House." Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile.

"Little red house?" Xiang Dongfang blinked, "It's really popular."

Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly: "Well, Little Red House is actually just a nickname. The real name of this thing is Convenience Kiosk!"

"Convenience kiosk?" Xiang Dongfang repeated.

"That's right, the convenience kiosk!" Cao Zhiqiang nodded.

Immediately afterwards, Cao Zhiqiang began to briefly explain the situation of the convenience kiosk.

In fact, the convenience kiosk built by Cao Zhiqiang is a newsstand.

As early as the beginning, Cao Zhiqiang discovered that there were already many self-employed book stalls in various parts of the capital, but they were all open-air stalls, and most of them were on the ground with their burdens on their backs. Set up a rollaway bed.

This kind of open-air vendor is the mainstream. As for the kind of newsstands where you can buy magazines, snacks, and make phone calls that were common in previous lives, it cannot be said that there is no one, and there are almost none.

Not to mention the newsstands, there are not many stalls with sun umbrellas, so the self-employed stalls in this period are really hard money.

Not all self-employed businesses set up stalls, and some have houses, such as telephone booths.

But the so-called telephone booths at this time are mostly some houses facing the street with a wall or a window opened up, similar to the situation of street shops.

This kind of canteen is basically located in residential areas, but in some commercial areas that need more canteens with a lot of traffic, such as railway stations, hospital entrances, school entrances, factory entrances, etc., there are usually few such fixed canteens, and even more Most of them are mobile vendors.

The prices of individual mobile vendors are cheap, and they are usually relatively close to their own residential areas, so it is convenient to buy things. In terms of credibility, it is far worse than Xinhua Bookstore and regular department stores.

It is very likely that you can buy it here today, and when you come the next day, the vendor will be empty.

For street vendors, this kind of open-air stall is also to eat according to the weather. It is fine on a sunny day, but once it is windy and rainy, it will be very difficult, and they usually do not leave the stall.

Not to mention the wind and rain, but the scorching heat in summer and the biting cold wind in winter are all uncomfortable.

It is precisely because of this that the self-employed who set up stalls during this period are earning hard money in earnest.

Perhaps it should be said that those individual hawkers with front doors are quite good.

It’s good, but for hawkers who have front rooms, you have to have front rooms first.

How many people have door-to-door houses, and how many people have the conditions to be door-to-door houses, but don't bother to open door houses?

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That's right, in the capital during this period, there were actually very few small shops on both sides of the streets and alleys.

It's not that there are few houses along the street, but that there are few front houses willing to open up the walls along the street to do business.

First of all, many houses along the streets and alleys, such as courtyard houses, are mostly large courtyards where many people live together. The property rights of such large courtyards are collectively owned, and you cannot just spend money to open a store.

Only when the house is along the street, and the whole house is yours, can you apply to the local neighborhood committee, and if the application is approved, you can break open the wall along the street to do business and open a store.

The approval of this application is generally based on your specific circumstances.

Generally speaking, if your family has employees of state-owned enterprises and has a normal income, you will generally not agree. Only if your family is really difficult, no one has a formal job, and no stable income, you will agree to it at your discretion.

If anyone can smash the wall and open a store at will, wouldn't it be a mess?
Of course, in the later period of the era of business for all, the application in this area has been relaxed for a while, but no matter what, it is not so easy to turn houses along the street into a sales office.

If it was really that easy, with the shrewdness of the third master of the courtyard, Yan Bugui, he would have smashed down a wall along the street of the courtyard and opened a small shop at the door.

It is true that the management in this area is relatively strict.

The current real estate in the capital is already tight, and the restrictions on the front house are relatively large. After all, there are hidden dangers in the house, etc., and they cannot be remodeled casually.

But the capital is so big, there are so many people, and there are many rich and educated people, so there is a great demand for convenience stores.

At present, the number of canteens in the capital is far from meeting the actual needs of the people in the capital.

Cao Zhiqiang had spotted this business opportunity at that time, and planned to build a chain of convenience kiosks with fixed stalls that could provide shelter from wind and rain, filling the gap in newsstands, or convenience stores.

Buying houses, renting houses and setting up convenience stores everywhere is not realistic now. It requires a huge amount of funds, and you also need to deal with neighborhood committees and sub-district offices in various regions, which is quite troublesome.

Not only that, Cao Zhiqiang still remembers that in a few years, some places in the capital will start major construction, and many houses will be demolished at that time, and the compensation for the early demolition is just a hehe.

So Cao Zhiqiang thought of the kind of movable prefabricated house that can be moved at any time.

Originally, he wanted to call it a newsstand, but he thought that this kiosk not only sells magazines, newspapers, and tapes, but also sells snacks, drinks, and even phone calls, so he simply called it a convenience kiosk, which is a way to bring out the concept of a convenience store in advance.

The size of the convenience kiosk is mainly divided into two specifications.

They are Type I rooms with a width of two meters, a length of four meters, and a height of two and a half meters.

And a Type II room with a width of three meters, a length of five meters, and a height of [-] meters.

The reason why two specifications are set is mainly to deal with different scenarios.

Like some small residential areas with little street space, use a type I house that is one size smaller.

For places with a lot of traffic and a lot of space, such as train stations, schools, etc., use a slightly larger Type II room.

No matter what type of convenience kiosk, it is a prefabricated room with light steel as the skeleton, sandwich panels as the enclosure material, and glass windows on three sides.

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This kind of prefabricated house has a certain heat preservation ability because it uses sandwich panels with thermal insulation properties, and the ceiling is also double-layer hollowed out. The glass is also made of double-layer hollow glass, and there are curtains inside. .

With such a prefabricated house, at least the wind and rain won't keep it out, so you don't have to worry about the wind and the sun.

In winter, living in this kind of board room with thermal insulation, the temperature is still acceptable, much better than the open air.

As for summer, you can open all the windows, and then use the brackets outside the convenience kiosk to set up an additional large awning, instantly turning it into a cool booth.

The whole prefabricated house is boxy and square. Although it is simple and a bit like a container, it is easy to manufacture and cheap.

This boxy design can be disassembled into parts and transported away in batches, or it can be directly installed with wheels underneath and pulled away by a tricycle. It is very convenient for moving or installing.

There is also a chimney vent in the ceiling. If you want to have a small heater inside in winter, you don’t have to worry about poisoning if you don’t have a chimney.

In addition, the light sockets on the ceiling and the ceiling fan hooks are also prepared in advance, and the lights and ceiling fans can be installed inside.

Of course, the ceiling fan is optional, and you have to pay more to install it.

Even, Cao Zhiqiang asked someone to cut an additional round hole in the wall, which was used for the air-conditioning duct.

Even if you don't need it for the time being, it's better than nothing. If it takes a long time, you can use it in the future.

No matter what hole is opened, what kind of chimney hole, the pipe is empty, etc., there is a cover plate, which can be blocked when not in use

In addition, the ceiling and the floor are also reserved for wiring access. If you want to turn on the electricity or make a phone call, you can easily access the wires and telephone lines through these dedicated access ports, and you don’t have to worry about random wiring. safe question.

On the north side without windows, the door is wide open, and it is two merged swing doors.

This kind of two combined swing doors is not only convenient for entering and exiting, but also convenient for cargo transportation, and it is even more convenient to escape in case of accident.

In terms of space, because they are all square, the space is still very large.

The smallest Type [-] room has an interior space of nearly eight square meters, more than enough for a bed, not to mention a chair.

And this kind of convenience kiosk, outside all the glass windows are iron sheds with brackets.

The iron shed outside the glass window can be put away to protect the glass window when not in use, and opened when in use, that is, the shed on three sides can be opened, not only for sunshade, but also for expanding the space outside.

Take the smallest Type I house as an example. Although the internal space is only eight square meters, once all the sheds are erected, the space for expansion will be larger.

For example, taking out the folding bed in the convenience kiosk and putting books and magazines on it is equivalent to expanding the product display window.

It is large enough to be loaded, and it can sell books, magazines, newspapers, snacks, drinks, and cigarettes, and it can also cooperate with the post office and directly connect to the phone.

Normally, two or three people are more than enough to operate a phone booth like this. In extreme cases, it is actually no problem for one person to operate it.

Because it is convenient and movable, in addition to being used as a fixed point in some places, it can also be temporarily built in some places such as zoos, capital exhibition halls, and parks.

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Anyway, these materials are lightweight materials. After testing, no matter whether it is a Type I or Type II room, as long as it is equipped with wheels, a manpower tricycle can pull it away. Of course, the premise is that the things inside are not too heavy.

"How is it? Isn't it good?" Cao Zhiqiang asked Xiang Dongfang with a smile after explaining briefly.

Xiang Dongfang nodded: "It looks pretty good, but why did you ask the machinery factory to make this kind of thing? You don't plan to hire people to open a small shop yourself, no, a convenience kiosk?"

"That's right!" Cao Zhiqiang smiled, "I really mean that, but I'm not recruiting, but transferring."

"Transfer?" Xiang Dongfang blinked suspiciously, "What do you mean?"

Just as Cao Zhiqiang was about to speak, he suddenly looked at the middle-aged man in worker's uniform next to him.

After a slight smile, Cao Zhiqiang walked up to the middle-aged man, took out a pack of unopened Xiangshan brand cigarettes, and handed it directly to the man: "Director Xiao, you have worked hard, I have something to talk to my secretary, look... ..."

"Understood." Director Xiao chuckled, and put away the pack of cigarettes, "Well, I'm going to smoke a cigarette, you guys chat slowly, and call me when you're done."

After finishing speaking, Director Xiao walked out of the workshop with a cigarette, squatted at the door of the workshop, smoked a cigarette and began to puff.

Obviously, the other party didn't just walk away, but also guarded the door, preventing anyone from entering.

But the other party came to send, as if Cao Zhiqiang wanted to do something ulterior with Xiang Dongfang inside, which made Cao Zhiqiang a little embarrassed.

After coughing, Cao Zhiqiang turned to Xiang Dongfang and said, "To be honest, I ordered these convenience kiosks in the name of Hongguang Publishing House with Hongguang Machinery Factory, and Director Li made the decision.

The purpose of making these convenience kiosks is not only to make money, but also to integrate human resources.

Well, to put it simply, I will put these convenience kiosks in places with a lot of traffic in the capital, and then the people who host these convenience kiosks will be transferred from the machinery factory, mainly the employees of the third industry.

As for Hongguang Machinery Factory, the production department is actually good, but the tertiary industry is too large.

At present, there are more than 8000 people in the entire Hongguang Machinery Factory, and the actual number of workshop workers is less than 5000. The remaining more than [-] people are almost all service workers in the third industry.

Except for the more useful personnel such as security guards and transportation, most of the other tertiary industry personnel usually come to the factory to dawdle, and many people even get paid for nothing. Children of the Eight Banners.

In this situation, it's not that the factory doesn't want to change it, but the number of personnel in the third industry is too large, but most of them have nothing to do.

If these people come to work, they just drink tea, chat and read newspapers, not to mention electricity, water and tea, and also put pressure on the cafeteria, and have to take care of a meal at noon, so it is better to let them not come to work, and just work at home to get paid. The consumption is even smaller.

But this will not work for a long time, so I plan to carry out a reform to mobilize these tertiary industry personnel and create some value. "

Xiang Dongfang understood as soon as he heard it: "You mean, you plan to put these convenience kiosks on the market, and then transfer people from the third industry to host them?"

"That's right." Cao Zhiqiang nodded.

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Xiang Dongfang frowned: "But are they willing?
Going to this kind of convenience kiosk to sell things is not as comfortable as being at home, although the wind does not blow or rain.

You can't force them to go, can you?

If apportionment is mandatory, these people are not motivated, and they are separated from the collective and have no supervision, so accidents are more likely to happen. "

Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly: "Don't worry, I have thought of all these situations, so my solution is to first find some relatively reliable people to do a pilot, and let them run this kind of convenience kiosk in a good location.

You listen to me, in today's society, operating a convenience kiosk earns much more than ordinary workers.

As long as a good policy is formulated, such as the contracted operation system of convenience kiosks, each convenience kiosk is a contracted operation system that is bound by the general factory, and after making money, you pay enough money, and the rest is your own, then the operation is convenient The income of the people in the kiosk is definitely much higher than that of normal work.

As long as they find out that contracting convenience kiosks is more profitable, they themselves will be overwhelmed with enthusiasm, and you will not be happy to drive them away at that time.

Nowadays, people don't have much awareness of confidentiality. Once someone contracts a convenience kiosk and makes a lot of money, he will immediately become a role model.

We don't need to publicize this kind of thing, they will spread it to ten, ten to hundreds.

When everyone understands the benefits of convenience kiosks, they will naturally rush to contract and operate convenience kiosks.

In this case, we will release the convenience kiosks in batches. By the way, in the future, contracted convenience kiosks will have to undergo various audits, such as paying deposits, or conducting qualification examinations and service training, etc.

In a word, as long as everyone realizes that it is more profitable to do this, they will cry and beg for a contract.

As for those real lazy people who don't want to make money or endure hardships, once they are discovered, there will be no good fruit in the end. If you want to deal with such people, there is always a way.

After all, we are the ones who make the rules. As long as we make a rule that most people can accept and are happy to accept, and then use this rule of the majority to deal with the thorns of the very few lazy people, is it still a problem? "

Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s