Chapter 176 Popularity
With the increase of residents, Dongerfang and Nansanfang have become crowded. Although it is claimed that they will no longer recruit personnel, the management of the outside world is not strict, and they cannot control the resignation of relatives and friends, and they cannot control the family's voluntary relocation. There are even people who say hello to each other, and people come here one after another. To be honest, Qin Bai can no longer calculate how many people he has now, but at least more than 5,000 people who rely on Yongsheng to make a living.
And popularity, when people are present, they will naturally become popular. Being attached to such a small group will give birth to many job opportunities. With income, you will definitely consume. Food, clothing, housing and transportation are indispensable. Just daily necessities such as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar have added 20 more customers to Yongsheng Business, which sells matches. This makes the shopkeeper Tang Qing become ambitious, wanting to build several new wineries and sauce shops, and produce and sell them in Yongsheng.
However, when reporting to Qin Bai, he disagreed and did not object. Qin Bai did not want to control all the industries by Yongsheng. After all, it would be relocated sooner or later, and Jingjiazhuang would give up sooner or later.
On the contrary, Qin Bai is more supportive of those "self-employment". He has successively opened seven or eight small workshops, with various products, basically relying on Yongsheng's consumption. Moreover, eleven new shops have been opened in Dongerfang and Nansanfang. These workshops and shops have very favorable rents, and those that are not very cost-effective can also get low-interest loans. Anyway, the "extortion" of Fenglong Money Store has reached the interest-free 4,000 taels of silver, which is just used here, and is considered a kind of benefit to those "entrepreneurs".
Regarding these workshops and shops, Qin Bai and Yongsheng did not hold any shares, and even ordered their leaders not to reach out and only charged 10% of the protection fee. In fact, except for paying this protection fee to Jingjiazhuang Chamber of Commerce, the rest were only enough to see the wages of the brothers. Qin Bai himself could not afford any benefits at all.
However, in such a relaxed environment, a group of hard-working people stood out. These workshops and shops have basically developed well, and the total number of employees has reached hundreds of them. In fact, it has reduced a lot of Qin Bai's burden. As the number of workers has increased, Qin Bai greatly reduced his expenses in this regard.
In fact, in addition to Yongsheng, Jingjiazhuang's popularity has also increased. It was originally a small town with thousands of households, 10,000 or 20,000 fixed residents, and the number of migrant people coming to do business every month is already quite large. But now the number of fixed residents has increased by hundreds, and the number of migrant people coming to do business has increased by at least thousands, and it has become much more prosperous in an instant.
In particular, it has spawned a large number of consumers. To be honest, although Jingjiazhuang had iron furnaces and blacksmith workshops and many gray industries in the world, its wealth was basically concentrated in the hands of those leaders, and the majority of the people at the bottom were squeezed out. Apart from food and clothing, they had no spare money to spend.
Until the match workshop appeared, there were subcontracting matches and matchboxes, as well as the benefits of selling matches, which gave each household in Jingjiazhuang some more or less surplus. This made the entire market gradually active. Businessmen were the most sensitive group. They discovered business opportunities, and there was a gathering effect.
It has to be said that no labor is rich, and the effect of industry driving the local economy is very obvious. In particular, match workshops are labor-intensive industries that can absorb a large number of working people. What's more important is that if they were in modern times, matches might be an inconspicuous sunset industry. But in this era, it was definitely high-tech and had extremely high added value. A large amount of money poured in, which almost immediately affected Jingjiazhuang's economic stimulus. There were even many affiliated industries.
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However, in this era, there were almost no people who knew the economy. Moreover, Jingjiazhuang was the master of martial arts, and the brain-written people were not very popular. Even a few smart people with a heart, they just vaguely felt that Jingjiazhuang seemed to have more people and business was easier to do. As for the reason? Almost no one could tell the reason. Even most people were still dark under the light and did not feel the daily changes at all.
However, it became crowded, and this problem always needs to be solved. So during the annual event of the Chamber of Commerce, someone proposed to use these two open spaces in the mule and horse market in the village and the people market outside the village. The mule and horse market and the people market were moved to a new site in the distance.
The chamber of commerce in Jingjiazhuang is actually somewhat similar to the functions of the government. Therefore, no one objected to the infrastructure that was conducive to the development of Jingjiazhuang. Then he began to discuss how to use these two vacant lands? The vacant land in the village is always a scarce item, and the competition between the parties was quite fierce, and in the end it was nothing more than the division of interests and finally compromised. However, as soon as he arrived at the vacant land in the original market outside the village, his opinions became different.
As mentioned in the previous article, there are two completely different ecological environments inside and outside Jingjiazhuang. The jungle law is completely implemented outside the village. To put it simply, whoever grabs it will be considered whoever gets it.
If the benefits are large enough, maybe this open land can be attractive, after all, it covers an area of nearly two yards. However, several problems arise here: first, whoever acquires the land needs to take out a sum of money as the money for buying land; secondly, there are also additional money to build the house; the last point is the most critical. Since we don’t know the reason for the sudden liveliness, we all have great concerns. What if the prosperity is just a gust of wind, it just happens by chance, and when it is built in the future, it will suddenly return to its previous state? Then don’t cry to death? Let’s wait for others to rush to the thunder first!
Anyway, you need to use land outside the village, and there are some remote wastelands. And even if others successfully rush to the thunder, there is still the law of the jungle. Maybe you can grab it if you have the chance!
Of course, Qin Bai was just playing with such a debate. He knew it himself, but the benefits were not his own, and he was not interested.
However, the wind direction suddenly changed, and the topic gradually involved Qin Bai. Someone gave the reason: the place in the Rencheng market is located next to Dongerfang and Dongsanfang. Of course, the most suitable candidate for taking over is Qin Bai and the Salt Gang.
But the Salt Gang is just a foothold and has never been interested in Jingjiazhuang's territory. Therefore, only Qin Bai is left, so it is best for him to manage it.
Chapter completed!