Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 121

Although Hainan Women's Cooperative Co., Ltd. has a famous name, it is essentially a thrift store, and the source of goods is naturally copied from Goujiazhuang.There is no local market for antique ornaments, calligraphy, paintings, and porcelain, but there are a lot of ordinary household items, especially clothes, shoes and hats. Dozens of bundles of clothes have been packed in carts.These things are very attractive to ordinary people.

However, as Wen Desi said, the capital of all parties involved is to use the internal bookkeeping currency coupons of the traverser as the principal. How much silver and copper coins should be added up to a coupon has become a big problem.According to the past instructions of the Executive Committee, one coupon is equivalent to one RMB.

"Since one RMB is used as the benchmark for coupon counting, RMB can be used as a reference when calculating the value—" Li Mei said.

"Well, although I don't study economics, time and space are different, and the value of RMB can't be applied in this way." Wen Desi was a little worried, "For example, a rosewood table is worth old money in the 21st century. If you want to set it in RMB , this table will have a sky-high price."

"It can be converted by grain prices," Cheng Dong suggested, "the purchasing power shown in this way is more real."

He uses rice as a basis for conversion.

The price of rice in Lingao is one or two or three silver coins per stone (94.4KG).

The average price of rice in modern Chinese cities is about 3.2 yuan per KG, and then converted into stones, the price of rice per stone is 302.08 yuan

Taking this as a unit, the actual purchasing power of RMB in Lingao in 1628 was 302.08 yuan, equivalent to one, two or three coins of silver.They basically know the price of Lingao, so they can convert it into RMB more conveniently.

After some complicated cost calculations and understanding of the market situation, Hainan Women’s Cooperative Co., Ltd.—referred to as the Women’s Cooperative for short—finally opened, because it opened later than Yandian. The scene is much bigger than the salt shop.Although it is only a few rows of brick pillars, a simple greenhouse with scaffolding and rain cloth is built on it.But it occupies a large piece of land on Dongmen Street—Li Mei originally wanted to buy this land in the name of the company, but the land system is a sensitive topic, and the executive committee dared not make decisions. Under the campaign, a three-year land use certificate was issued - glorious No. 001.

Compared with the silent opening of the salt shop, the opening of the women's cooperative is particularly "problem".When it opened, it not only set off [-] firecrackers specially bought from the county, but also hung a wooden plaque with five characters inscribed "Hainan Women's Cooperative" by Xi Yazhou on the simple brick gatehouse, and there were a lot of beautiful things on the brick pillars along the street. The shop is covered with signs congratulating the opening. Although it is very simple, it seems to be the case.Of course, various departments signed: the first piece on the left is the executive committee, and then the Dongmen City Industrial and Commercial Administration Office, the Military Department, the Public Security Department, the South China Sea Experimental Demonstration Farm... Lianma Niu's Salt Field Village and the University The village committee of Meicun sent congratulatory signs.The cheerful "Happy Meeting" is constantly playing from a pair of speakers at the door.

This deja vu scene still made many time travelers feel kind, even if they didn't want to buy anything, they still wanted to go in for a stroll.There are more than a dozen booths inside, and there is no counter. Fortunately, there are a lot of furniture looted from Gou's house, so we use various square tables to replace them.There are a variety of goods piled up on it--the first batch of goods that came in. Li Mei also had a calculation in her heart. The purchasing power in the countryside is limited, and the cost is nothing more than food and clothing.Porcelain, decorations, and furniture are not necessities, and ordinary people can't afford to buy anything they don't need. Only clothes and daily necessities must be bought.So the main commodity is clothes, shoes and hats.Sorting and separating clothes according to texture, old and new, and use, matching and finding all the shoes, sorting and sorting thousands of pieces of various clothes is a huge project. The Ming family of four went to battle together, and it took two days and two nights to finish it. .Damaged clothes are no longer sold, they are directly loaded into cars and taken to the paper mill site to be used as raw materials.

The entrance of the cooperative was bustling with noise for a while. The local aborigines had never seen such a scene before, and they gathered here one after another. Li Mei took this opportunity to direct the staff to attract customers.

The assistants are selected from the villagers who have moved from Damei Village. They are all middle-aged women with good faces and good words.After bathing and changing clothes, all indigo cloth skirts and jackets, with the words "women's cooperative" embroidered on the chest, looked tidy and energetic.She herself is also wearing a green cloth skirt and jacket, and she doesn't feel like she is wearing a monkey crown in a bright dress. Her face is clean, her hair is neatly combed, and she has a clean and neat smell all over her body.Standing alone at the door and greeting guests from all walks of life, she would greet the aborigines who didn't dare to get too close even when she saw them, and she would greet them in Lingao dialect, which is not very fluent—after all, the main purpose is to make money from them!The customer is the Tathagata Buddha.

She knew that farmers in the past were often afraid to enter unfamiliar places because of their lack of knowledge, for fear of being deceived.So put old clothes, shoes and hats, small combs, hairpins and other things that are more attractive to them on the shops along the street for sale.The vast majority of ordinary people have never seen so many goods in their lives, silk and satin clothes, colorful, and there are daughters and daughter-in-laws who are going to marry at home, and they are planning to pick a few to take home.If money is tight, I feel that the poor are not blessed to wear this. It doesn't matter. There are many new and half-new common clothes here, and there are all kinds of hemp and cotton. What's the price?It is cheaper than weaving the cloth yourself and asking a tailor to do it.No matter how shrewd and cautious people are, their hearts will become active.

Less than an hour after the door opened, the five bays at the door of the shop were full of people who were busy picking things and bargaining prices.Li Mei looked at this lively scene with a smile on her face, and suddenly felt that it would be okay to be so inexplicable in 1628—she had already dreamed of a future business empire. The unreachable peak!When I got excited, my head became a little dizzy, and then I realized that I was almost sixty—I don’t know if I can see that day—I need to find a Chinese medicine doctor to diagnose the pulse, and autumn is the day for tonic. Isn't it autumn now...

Just as he was thinking, he suddenly saw a man and a woman coming out of the east gate, the woman was blonde and blue-eyed.Seeing the new diorama, the people who were watching the excitement at the door rushed over to look at the barbarian girl.

Li Mei hurriedly left the crowd to greet her: "Hello, Editor-in-Chief Ding, are you here to visit the shop?"

The person who came was Ding Ding, the self-proclaimed president and editor-in-chief of "Lingao Times", and naturally his girlfriend Pan Lin was beside him.The two men came back from Damei Village a few days ago, and finished the special long-form report "The History of Crimes of the Gou Family" overnight, and the proofs just came out yesterday.Hearing that the first joint-stock company was opened, his sensitive news nerves became excited again, and the two rushed to Dongmen City immediately.

"Sister Li, you are opening a new store. We are not the first to come to support you. We are already rude." Ding Ding was also a character on the scene, and he spoke more politely.He looked around, "Ah, I didn't even give you a congratulatory card—"

"Where is it, just help me to promote more in the future!" Ding Ding is still an editor-in-chief without a newspaper, but Li Mei has no doubt that "Lingao Times" will one day become a big newspaper like "New York Times" In the group, it is much easier to build a relationship now than to do it later.

"Success, I'm here to edit and edit today, and I'll give you an account tomorrow!"

"Hey, thank you so much! It is said that when the company opened, everyone should have a few drinks, but now there is no such condition. In a few days, Mrs. and Mrs. Xian will come to my house for a few drinks, and I will cook by myself—— There are also a few bottles of Pixian bean paste, and I will cook Sichuan food for you!"

"Then we must come, I want to boil fish in dead water. I can't even find a red pepper in this place." Ding Ding said with a smile, "Sister Li, please show us around."

Of course, Li Mei couldn't wish for it, and took them around for a tour. The material conditions were still very simple, but the whole set of business management had been formalized: there were records of purchase, requisition, inventory, and sales.The guy couldn't read, so Li Mei was responsible for keeping the accounts.The remuneration of the buddies is based on the commission of sales, in other words, there is no fixed salary, and the commission is based on a percentage of sales.The commission rate of each product is different, the commission rate is low for easy-to-buy items, and high for hard-to-buy items.Manage three meals a day, and the working hours adapt to the ancient habit of getting up early and going to bed early, from 5:18 am to [-]:[-] pm.There are no rest days.However, you can ask for leave if you have something to do at home or if you are sick. Of course, taking leave means that you will have no income.

According to the standards of another time and space, this system is a serious violation of labor law, but in this time and space it is not too harsh.Ding Ding still remembers a time when he went to Shandong to interview time-honored brands: Until the early 20th century, many shop assistants still didn’t have a penny salary.

(Note: In the past, it was quite common for commercial enterprises not to pay a basic salary. The income of the staff mainly depends on two parts. One is the daily income from small accounts, and the other is that the boss at the end of the year will distribute dividends based on human shares.)

He saw several porcelain jars in the corner of the shop, filled with Artemisia annua tea, a bamboo ladle, and many wooden bowls beside it.

"This is free tea." Li Mei explained that in the past, some merchants served tea at the entrance of the store every season of the year to facilitate the passing pedestrians. This is a traditional business virtue.It is very popular, and it is also conducive to increasing the source of customers-many people just come here for a cup of tea at first, and then they are attracted by the things.

"You really have a way." Ding Ding couldn't help admiring, "It's really not easy to become the number one scholar in your career! I think you are the first one to get rich here."

"That's not necessarily true." Li Mei said with a smile, "Don't think this business is so popular. This is only the first day, and the days to come will be long. We are a joint-stock company, and we lease land use rights, materials and labor for building houses. All the money for the guys to eat every day is spent by the cooperative in cash. Except for the goods given by the executive committee as investment, the cooperative does not ask for a penny from the executive committee. This is a typical example of self-reliance in developing the economy. Right? You have to give me a good publicity, maybe I will fight for some preferential policies in the future, right?"

"Okay!" Ding Ding looked excited, and suddenly said in a low voice, "Does our women's cooperative allow men to buy shares?"

Li Mei understood: "Isn't Xiao Pan a woman?"

The two laughed knowingly together.

(End of this chapter)