"Yes." Qin Yexian nodded and said helplessly, "Our Qin family is quite influential in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but the sales channels are limited to Shanghai and the areas around Yinjiang. After Shanghai and Jiangsu fell, there were only a few counties in Yinjiang, and even several other cities in Zhejiang Province could not directly distribute goods."

After a pause, Qin Yexian said again: "Not to mention other small businesses."

Zhong Yi said: "There are problems with this kind of sales method. Due to road restrictions, poor logistics and information blockage, buyers sometimes don't come for a long time, or come in a group as soon as they come. This will have a great impact on the production of the factory. It will not work if you produce too much, nor if you don't."

"No." Qin Yexian said, "If there is too much production, if the buyer does not come for a long time and the product is backlogged, if the capital chain breaks or causes the product to expire and deteriorate, it will lose money. But if the production is too little, if the buyer comes in a lot of it and your products cannot be supplied, you can only watch the business opportunities disappear, and you feel sorry for it."

Zhong Yi said: "But this cannot be blamed on the buyers, they actually don't want this."

Hearing this, Qin Yexian suddenly became alert and asked: "Mayor, are you trying to persuade us to agree to Minister Kong's unified purchase and sales? I tell you, this is really not good. The unified purchase and sales that Minister Qin did, on the surface, can indeed help us solve the problem of sales channels, but in fact..."

Before Qin Yexian could finish speaking, she was interrupted by Zhong Yi's wave of his hand.

Zhong Yi waved his hand and said, "Mr. Qin, you misunderstood. I don't have this idea at all! In fact, even if you want to agree to the unified purchase and sale proposed by Minister Kong, I will not allow it."

"Then I'll be relieved." Qin Yexian said, "As long as you don't engage in unified purchase and sales, everything is easy to say."

As a businessman, Qin Yexian knew very well what Minister Kong planned. He wanted to monopolize the supply channels, then put all his strength in reducing the price of upstream suppliers, and then raised the price of downstream sales terminals. In this way, as an intermediary, he did not pay any real cost, but could make a fortune.

Zhong Yi said: "We will never engage in unified purchase and sales, but centralized wholesale is OK."

"Concentrated wholesale?" Qin Yexian was a little confused. As a businessman in the Republic of China period, he obviously lacked a basic understanding of the "Yiwu model" in later generations.

As a time traveler, Zhong Yi is well aware of the power of the Yiwu model.

To put it bluntly, the Yiwu model is actually to create industrial clusters and avoid disorderly competition.

Zhong Yi said: "Mr. Qin, I plan to build a commodity wholesale center on the west bank of Yuehu. As long as it is a merchant in Yinjiang, it is not limited to merchants in Yinjiang City, Yuyao, Fenghua and other districts and counties. The products they produce can also be sold in Yuehu commodity wholesale center. In this way, a huge comprehensive wholesale center can be formed."

After a pause, Zhong Yi said: "Then, buyers from other cities and even provinces do not need to buy at home. They only need to come to Yuehu Wholesale Center to buy all the daily necessities they want, as well as large-scale machinery and equipment. Both the suppliers and buyers have greatly improved their efficiency."

Qin Yexian understood as soon as he heard it, and his eyes immediately lit up: "Mayor Zhong, this is a good idea! This move is even more powerful than a department store!"

But when he suddenly stopped, Qin Yexian frowned and said, "But there is still a problem."

Zhong Yi smiled slightly and said, "Are Mr. Qin worried about the product transportation problem?"

"That's right, that's it." Qin Yexian frowned and said, "The merchants from neighboring counties and even cities are fine. Because the distance to Yinjiang is not far, and the road is still peaceful, so they dare to come, but no matter how far away the merchants may not dare to come. First, because the journey is too far, and second, the road is not peaceful and the risk is too great."

Zhong Yi said: "I have also considered this. Our Yinjiang will set up a cargo consignment company. This is a company that purely undertakes the consignment of materials. It charges according to the quantity, weight and distance of the consignment. If there are unstable factors along the way, armed escort can also be provided."

Qin Yexian immediately smelled a huge business opportunity.

At this moment, Qin Yexian said: "Mayor Zhong, can Sinochem join this cargo consignment company?"

"Of course." Zhong Yi smiled slightly and said, "It's not just Mr. Qin, you who have any intention, you can participate in the soon-to-be-consigned goods consignment company. The more merchants you invest in, the stronger the strength of this soon-to-be-consigned goods consignment company and the more businesses you can undertake."

In Zhong Yi's plan, in addition to having an industrial park, wholesale center, freight logistics is also an important part.

The above three elements are the three aspects of the entire industrial system. Even if there are large industrial parks, if they cannot be integrated into industrial clusters and the park enterprises cannot compete in disorder, they will eventually not be able to form a climate; if there is an industrial cluster, if there is no strong logistics, the products cannot be exported, and they will still be blind.

Only by gathering the above three elements can you produce them, attract enough merchants, and transporting products, can the industrial system be considered to be truly formed. Otherwise, you can only build dozens or hundreds of factories, even if the products have complete categories, it cannot be called an industrial system.

Of course, one thing must be explained. Due to the scale of Yinjiang Industrial Park and the road conditions leading to the outside world of Yinjiang, Yinjiang's industrial system is actually very weak and very fragile.

Qin Yexian was very interested in this cargo consignment company and asked again: "Mayor Zhong, who should I go to this matter? Are you looking for Mayor Zhang?"

"Yes." Zhong Yi nodded and said, "Just find Mayor Zhang."

"Okay, I understand." Qin Yexian nodded and said, "Mayor Zhong, you see that it's almost time to eat, otherwise you'll have to deal with it in our Zhonghua Society cafeteria?"

If it is changed to someone else, such as Yu Fangqing, no matter how far the distance is, he will definitely invite Zhong Yi to Lao Ningbo.

But Qin Yexian is a person with a temperament. What he thought in his heart immediately said it.

Similarly, if it were another mayor, he would definitely be angry, but Zhong Yi would agree happily.

At that moment, Zhong Yi followed Qin Yexian to the canteen of Zhonghua Society. He saw that there were already many workers in the lobby. Zhong Yi glanced at the workers' mental outlook, which was quite good. Obviously, these workers had gradually emerged from the previous experience of exile in Shanghai and began to look forward to a better life in the future.
Chapter completed!