Daming: My boss Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 78
Sun Jianbao quickly brought the people here, including a steward who was also involved in building the generator with Li Wei. However, Li Wei did not let the steward follow him. The Ambassador of the Arms Bureau was only in the ninth rank, and this steward was from the seventh rank. , get him to the Ordnance Bureau, even if he is made an ambassador, it will be a downgrade.

It can also be seen from the level that the status of the Military Affairs Bureau is much higher than that of the Arms Bureau. After all, this is within the Imperial City, and the confidentiality and security are much higher than those of the Arms Bureau outside.

Li Wei took these craftsmen out of the war bureau and went straight to the weapons bureau. He handed the craftsmen to Lu Ti and asked them to build a new generator according to his previous method, and at the same time make another adjustment machine. Pressure regulator.

The voltage regulator is very simple. The principle is the same as that of the transformer. The difference is that the voltage regulator adds a sliding and adjustable copper piece at the outlet end, while the transformer is fixed.

The purpose of doing this is to make magnets later. Magnetic steel has strong magnetism and can be used to make more powerful generators and motors.

Now that the work has been arranged, we are waiting for the coke oven and steelmaking furnace to be completed and steel production to begin.

After making arrangements with the Arms Bureau, Li Wei hurriedly left and went to the headquarters of the Minghuang Chamber of Commerce.

He hasn't been here for many days. This time he came to make arrangements to deliver the liquor and perfume that Zhu Yuanzhang requested as soon as possible. If he didn't deliver it, he might be in trouble again.

The other one also called everyone over for a meeting to learn about the specific situation of the Chamber of Commerce. Recently, he was only busy with the Ministry of Industry. Although Laifu and Abu would briefly report to him every night when they went back to Laifu and the situation under their control, but Shen Jing couldn't relax on matters here either.

Li Wei asked Shen Jing and Wu Qi to be summoned, as well as Laifu, Abu, and the stewards of several workshops under Shen Jing, and they all held a meeting together.

Li Wei is the president and sits at the top. Wu Qi and Shen Jing are on the left and right. The managers and Abu don't have to sit down and can only report standing.

Li Wei looked at the group of people standing and thought that he would have to prepare a conference room and a large conference table in the future to make meetings more convenient.

Everyone took their seats and bowed to Li Wei and the others before starting the formal work report.

Laifu first said: "President, our chamber of commerce has been going very smoothly recently. It has basically covered more than half of the shops in the city. The product categories include firewood, rice, oil and salt, daily necessities, cloth, rouge, gouache, etc."

Our self-produced soaps, perfumes, liquor, honeycomb briquettes, etc. are very popular. Many shops come to us for these products. At the same time, these are also our main profit parts.

Other furniture, fruits and vegetables and other items have not been covered yet. Furniture is large and difficult to distribute, and most furniture stores produce and sell it themselves. We do not need us, so we can consider supplying them with wood.

As for the fruits and vegetables, the people outside the city pick them up and bring them to the city to sell, so there is no need for us..."

As the general manager of the external cabinet, Laifu is equivalent to the marketing director, and he is the most knowledgeable about the sales situation of the chamber of commerce. At this time, the report was eloquent, and he felt that the chamber of commerce was in good shape.

"Stop, stop, stop. If there is any bad news or problems that need to be solved, let us discuss it. Don't just pick out the nice things."

Li Wei frowned and interrupted, "I have the ability to bring blessings, but I'm a little slick, reporting good things but not bad things."

The report was interrupted, Laifu smiled awkwardly: "Some, some, first, the sales of our own products seem to have reached a bottleneck, and the growth has been slow these days.

"There is also the problem of shops in arrears, which still costs us a lot of money. However, according to your wise guidance, President, I strictly control the payment cycle and the distribution volume of each shop, and we have our own The profit of the goods is holding up, and there have been no problems for the time being.”

"In addition, I also found that some businesses imitating ours have appeared in the city, but they are not popular for the time being."

Li Wei nodded after listening and said: "Well, you should pay close attention to the repayment matter. You must strictly control it according to the rules I set. This is very important! In addition, you can talk to the supplier. In addition to lowering the price in the future, The price of goods must also suppress their payment, and we try not to bear the cost.”

Li Wei emphasized the issue of repayment. As a dealer, it is common to be overwhelmed by outstanding debts. This matter must be taken seriously.

However, as the Chamber of Commerce expands in scale and monopolizes shops in the city, it can reversely pressurize suppliers for payment. At that time, the Minghuang Chamber of Commerce will become a middleman, only making the difference in price without taking any risks.

As for the sales of his own products, he has no choice. Even the cheapest briquettes and soap are much higher in price than other similar products. Only slightly richer people will use them. The real poor are still Only firewood and soap locust can be used.

It's not that Li Wei is evil, it's just the cost. There are only so many raw materials, and the output won't be too high. If he really takes the civilian route, he won't be able to supply them.

Now the main profit of the Chamber of Commerce is these self-owned products, accounting for more than half.

However, as the scale of the chamber of commerce becomes larger and larger in the future, and it controls both the suppliers and the stores, and deceives the superiors and deceives the inferiors, profits will be made!
When the time comes, it doesn’t matter if you hand over your own products to others. Anyway, they have to be sold from him, so he has to take a bite.

All major platforms in later generations did this.

"What's going on with those trading houses?" Li Wei asked again.

Laifu did not answer directly when he heard this, but looked at Shen Jing. Li Wei followed his gaze and looked at Shen Jing doubtfully.

Shen Jing smiled awkwardly and said: "There are three or four of these commercial banks. Some of them are big commercial banks that don't want us to take advantage, so they sell their own goods. Some of them follow us after seeing how well we do, but most of them are not good enough." Yes...well, only my uncle Shen Bin took away some stores from us by means of higher commissions, longer payment periods and debt amounts. However, because of our own products, most of the stores We still chose to continue cooperating with us.”

Li Wei listened for a moment and understood that the second uncle of Shen Jing's family wanted to use his wealth to steal business!

But it doesn't matter. Li Wei has already expected this kind of thing. It will happen sooner or later. He also has plans. The payment cycle and distribution volume are all big pitfalls. If you are not careful, you will lose everything. Wait for your As the Chamber of Commerce grew, they looked for opportunities to dig a hole for him to bury.

As for other businesses that sell their own goods, unless the profit of a single product is very high like what he makes, otherwise the profit cannot cover the arrears, that is, it is courting death, and many stores do not only sell a single product.

Without the blessing of the Internet and high-speed logistics, direct sales would not be successful.

In fact, before the rise of the Internet in later generations, every major dealer could be regarded as a platform. However, these people had fixed ideas and failed to keep pace with the times, allowing new "Internet dealers" to replace them.

What Li Wei is doing now is actually a B2B model of logistics plus platform. This thing sounds high-end, but in fact it is just a replacement of the human model by the technology model, and there is no business innovation.

Now Li Wei is going in the opposite direction, replacing technology with manpower and returning to the traditional distribution model. The cargo men led by Lifu pass information back and forth to form a platform to complete the transaction intention, and the delivery workers led by Abu complete the logistics link and complete the transaction.

Of course, Li Wei added a lot of labor costs to do this, but in the early stage it was supported by his high-profit products, and it would be no problem in the later stage when it became large-scale.

And in the future, he also plans to directly operate a large-scale comprehensive supermarket, that is, B2C. At that time, he will not need to go to stores to deliver goods, but will directly steal the jobs of these stores.

Damn it, is it too dark?

While listening to Shen Jing's report, Li Wei thought about future development ideas, and couldn't help but feel a little guilty when he thought about it.

But this can’t be blamed on him. This is all learned from the platforms of later generations. Shopping malls are like battlefields, and he can only follow the dark side.

Well, blame them, Li Wei kept comforting his conscience.

"Don't worry about these people now. I will make my own arrangements from now on." Li Wei waited for Shen Jing to finish speaking.

"Well, Abu, how are you doing there?"

"To tell you the truth, our delivery volume has increased significantly recently. The people below have worked a lot and are a bit overwhelmed."

Abu said truthfully.

Li Wei had told him and Laifu that there was no need to call him master when he was called president outside, let alone call himself a slave. After all, they were both general managers now, and their status as slaves was very detrimental to their management work.

But Abu insisted on calling him master. Fortunately, he didn't call himself a slave or anything, so Li Wei didn't care about him anymore.

"Well, from now on, don't use handcarts anymore. Use carts instead. Calculate the orders of each store in advance, use carts to collect goods together, and deliver them uniformly. This can save a lot of manpower."

Li Wei thought for a while and said.

In the early stage, because the stores and supply workshops were relatively scattered and the goods were relatively small, we could only let small vehicles run more. But later, when there were more goods, the centralized use of large vehicles was a necessary adjustment.

The current sources of goods are not only various workshops near the capital, but also merchants from other places. The goods of merchants are stored in official stores and collapsed houses. A collapsed house does not refer to a collapsed house, but a house specially designed for merchants to collapse.

These two places not only provided accommodation and warehouses for merchants, but also collected taxes and were managed by the Ministry of Household Affairs. The one in the capital was called the Propaganda Department, and the one in other places was called the Tongke Department.

Abu and Laifu are the main backbone of the Chamber of Commerce. They are in charge of the platform and logistics of the Chamber of Commerce. This is the main body of the Chamber of Commerce. As for the product workshops handed over to Shen Jing, the profits are high now, but they will gradually What was abandoned was not the main business.

Not to mention Wu Qi, a soy sauce guy is actually one of the cameras arranged by Lao Zhu.

After Li Wei finished asking Alibaba and the two of them, he turned his attention to the others.

The workshop managers under Shen Jing reported on the situation of the workshops one by one. Generally speaking, it was very stable, and the output could keep up with the current sales. The Shen family was wealthy, and even though Shen Jing only received a small half of the property, it was difficult to run these workshops It is also easy, and even many of the raw materials used in the workshop are produced by him.

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(End of this chapter)