Daming: My boss Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 52 Lao Zhu is a good person

Li Wei's business was booming, but Wu Qi's business was bleak.

The situation in Huangdian was in sharp contrast to Li Wei's. Wu Qi was anxious in his eyes, but he was helpless.

How could he, a eunuch who had lived in a deep palace for a long time, know anything about business? When he encountered such a novel business model as Li Wei's, he was completely confused. To this day, he still doesn't know where he lost.

However, he is not a fool. He not only lowered the price to the same as Li Wei, but also followed Li Wei's pace in other aspects. He copied all the discounts, small stories and small brands, but he still couldn't reverse the situation.

In fact, he only saw the surface and did not learn the essence. Li Wei mainly moved his products to other people's platforms. The store made a profit, and he also saved money on renting and buying a store, although he gave up a small part of the profit. , but the effect of win-win cooperation is achieved, so the market can be opened quickly.

Wu Qi naturally didn't understand this. In his mind, others should come to the bigger and better imperial stores to buy things, but the fact was exactly the opposite.

As the saying goes, shops bully customers. In the eyes of ordinary people in this era, officials have always used their power to bully others. If they can buy in small shops, they will not go to big shops to find trouble.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang was very strict with officials after he took over the world, and the atmosphere in the officialdom was much better, after so many years of oppression and corruption in the late Yuan Dynasty, the people had long lost confidence in the court. This new dynasty still had many problems if it wanted to rebuild the official prestige. A long way to go.

Time flew by, and it was February in the blink of an eye. Li Wei was so busy that he even skipped the Lantern Festival.

But compared to the excitement of the Lantern Festival, he prefers counting money at home until his hands cramp.

Today is the day to summarize the operation for a month. Li Wei cleaned up the accounts and found out that the profit for this month was close to [-] yuan!

This is much more than what you can earn by setting up your own stall. Although it is a bit harder, it is still worth it.

"Lao Zhu is a good man, thank you Lao Zhu! If he hadn't taken away the secret recipe and forced me to use my brain a little bit, I wouldn't have made so much! Hahaha..."

Li Wei looked at the amount on the account, laughed heartily, and thanked an old man surnamed Zhu who pushed him onto the bright road of entrepreneurship.

"Laifu, call everyone for a meeting. Today I will pay everyone's wages. In addition to the remuneration they deserve, everyone will receive a regular bonus!"

Li Wei ordered with a smile on his face.

"Thank you, Master, you are such a kind man!"

Laifu thanked him while flattering him. Li Wei told him at the beginning that he could also get a salary. In addition to the same basic salary as the helpers, there was also a commission based on the total sales, although the commission ratio was higher than that of the salesman. is low, but as there are more and more salesmen, he will only get more than the salesmen based on the total amount.

Li Wei called everyone together, first said some words to encourage everyone to keep up their efforts, and then happily started to distribute money to everyone.

Hearing Li Wei said that he wanted to receive more money, the helpers and salesmen all screamed excitedly. Li Wei looked at these people working with him with a smile, and suddenly felt that he had an extra responsibility.

While Li Wei was celebrating the harvest, Wu Qi also went to the palace to report to Zhu Yuanzhang.

"How much have you earned this month? Tell us quickly." Zhu Yuanzhang asked expectantly.

"A total of...a total of 150 yuan was sold this month." Wu Qi hesitated to tell the results of this month, and his heart was full of worry.

Upon hearing this number, Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned at first, and then asked again in disbelief:
"How much did you sell?"

"150 rounds."

Wu Qi repeated it again, this time he heard clearly, there were only 150 strings.

"Bastard! How dare you fool us? Do you really think we don't understand anything?" Zhu Yuanzhang stared at this dog slave with wide eyes. Although he didn't know much about business, he knew that Li Wei used to do what he sold. At that time, he could still earn more than ten guan a day. Now that he has arranged so many craftsmen and sells in so many royal shops, there is no way he can only make this little!
He was still counting on getting 10,000+ dollars a year to ease the pressure on military expenses for the Northern Expedition!
"I don't dare. Your Majesty, what I said is true. It really only cost 150 coins. It's all the fault of the Minghuang Chamber of Commerce. Many people have gone to buy his soap. In our imperial store You can’t sell much at all, Your Majesty!”

Wu Qi cried in panic.

"Nonsense, he sells to you too, why do you sell so little? He doesn't even have a shop, but we gave you so many royal shops!"

"Your Majesty, although the Minghuang Chamber of Commerce does not have a store, he sells his goods in other people's stores. All the stores around the Imperial Store have his goods. Although our Imperial Store has many, we can't compete with so many stores. ah."

"He sells the goods in other people's shops? Can people agree to that?"

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned when he heard this. He couldn't figure out what was going on with all this mess.

"Yes, Your Majesty, those shops are full of his goods. He sells the goods on credit to others. At first, several shops wanted to lend us goods on credit, but I didn't dare to agree."

Zhu Yuanzhang was a little confused when he heard this. If that bitch gives goods to others on credit, isn't he afraid that others will refuse to pay?

Li Wei has done a lot of complicated things recently. Although the pro-jun army records them for him every day, he doesn't have time to stare at Li Wei's nonsense every day.

He thought for a moment and couldn't figure out the way, so he had to say to Wu Qi first:
"You go down first. If it is true as you said, we won't blame you. If we find out that you are fooling us, we will chop off your head!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes looked fierce, and Wu Qi was so frightened that he just kept kowtowing.

Zhu Yuanzhang drove away the minion angrily, then took out Li Wei's monitoring records (a pile of notes) during this period, placed them on the table and studied them carefully.

After half an hour, he carefully sorted out Li Wei's actions, but still couldn't find the answer. After all, business cannot be understood by listening to just a few words, even if he got all the accounts of Li Wei these days. , I’m afraid we have to do some research to figure it out.

"Come here, call Song Zhong over here!"

Zhu Yuanzhang ordered.

Soon, Song Zhong rushed over: "See your Majesty."

"Get up, do you know what Li Wei has done recently?"

"My subordinates know that Mr. Li has been doing business in recent days and has hired a lot of helpers. It seems that the business is getting bigger and bigger and is very prosperous."

"Oh? Then how did he do it?"

"Ah this..."

Song Zhong only saw that Li Wei's business was getting hotter day by day, but he couldn't figure out why it was so hot.

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him disappointedly, and then said: "You can find a way to copy his account books for us."

"Subordinates obey!"

Song Zhong agreed. Although this matter was difficult, it was not impossible.

(End of this chapter)