Chapter 870 Pastime
"…Bababababa..." Lin Mo gently clapped He Changwen. This analysis was indeed brilliant and also pointed out the point. Of course, there were also some encouragement to avoid his confidence being frustrated. Although it is not a bad thing to suffer a little setback, the total score was scored.
"Is there anything I need to add now?" After wandering around the others, no one spoke before looking at Shi Baocun.
Seeing this, Shi Baocun pondered for a moment, organized the language and said, "The business of this store should have had problems recently. You see, the clothes he put on were all very good-quality clothes. At first, he even regarded them as stock clothes.
There may be a lot of dirty clothes sold, but such quality is definitely the best among them, and the most profitable goods. They must be sold slowly in clothing stores rather than selling at a low price.
This can also prove it from the fact that sweaters, jackets, tweed coats, fur hats, etc. that are not suitable for this season. I guess this business is probably not going to be able to continue, and it is actually not wrong to say that it is clearance.
As for the reason why I can't continue to operate, I have seen several newly opened clothing stores near the dock with booming businesses. The clothing styles are novel and diverse, the quality is not bad, and the prices are relatively cheap. In addition, there are many clothing stores that are being renovated and ready to open. It is estimated that these have seriously impacted the business of this store."
When everyone heard this, many people looked around and found that many people on the street were wearing ready-made clothes, and the type of ready-made clothes that were mass-produced should be the products sold by Shi Baocun's new garment store.
Preparatory clothing, especially mass-produced clothing, has obvious characteristics, mainly because of its rich colors, and may be printed, sewn, and needled some patterns. The clothes may use a variety of fabrics. Sometimes you can see many people wearing the same style of clothing. Although the style of ready-to-wear is richer, there are actually not many hawking styles.
Of course, it does not mean that the clothes sewn by tailor shops do not have these characteristics, but these characteristics usually appear on more high-end clothes, batch ready-made clothes, which only makes these more popular and allows ordinary people to use them, resulting in changes in the clothing of ordinary people. It is manifested as a glance at the street and you will see many people wearing the same style of clothes on the street.
"Belly navel, you will find someone to dress up as a purchaser with you and go to that store to get a batch of old clothes. I guess the clothing store also does a wholesale business for old clothes, and wholesales old clothes of the pawn shop with the lowest quality collected to the vendor for retail.
You don’t have to be picky and choose, just pack in batches at low prices. If you can negotiate low prices and good quality, you can also wholesale a few packs. It also means you don’t have to be picky, and the reason can be used to sell it to remote areas as a rhetoric."
After Lin Mo had arranged the arrangement, the store started serving the dishes. Everyone stopped talking, a few fried, a few cold stir-fry, and a few soup dishes. It quickly made everyone wipe out.
After the meal, everyone stopped delaying and acted separately. He Changwen took Zhang Guangjia to the place where Lin Mo ordered. Du Qihong led Zhu Sanbao and another team member to circle the street next to him before coming to the store from the other side. Following Lin Mo's instructions, he came to the boss to make a request.
As for Lin Mo, he led Shi Baocun and others to cross the commercial port all the way south. The city and Zhenjiang were still quite prosperous. After all, it is located in the center of north and south of Jiangsu, and it is also the intersection of north and south canals, rivers and rivers, and it is still the capital of JS., so it is definitely not that bad.
Of course, it is definitely incomparable to Shanghai and Nanjing. The urban population is only more than 200,000, and it is not ranked first in Jiangsu. However, its prosperity is not comparable to other cities with this population. There are many large villages and towns around and there are many ships berthed. This can be seen from the large number of foreign populations in Zhenjiang. However, most ships only stay for a temporary stay and docked, and have not been converted into populations. It can only be said that there are many prosperous cities in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is really inconspicuous among them.
As Shi Baocun said, there are many workshops and small factories, one of which brings together many iron shops and iron tool processing workshops. Small factories, but they mainly focus on agricultural tools, kitchen utensils and iron tools used in daily life, and are mostly hand-processed, without much technical content.
After a simple walk, Lin Mo chose a larger workshop. There were some old manual machines in the workshop, such as flattening, bending, rolling, etc., as well as a power hammer driven by a small old steam engine.
The workshop has the ability to cut, press, rivet, drill, etc., and mainly processes some iron furnace boring, iron bucket, iron rack, rickshaw shell and tent brackets. The store is open to the same store, and receives some scattered small orders, and sells a small amount of retail and wholesales some ordinary goods.
Lin Mo found a strong boss and ordered several barbecue stoves, iron stoves of different sizes, large iron square plates, square iron pots and other ironware of different styles.
Because of the large style and small quantity, the boss was in a difficult situation. Lin Mo took the initiative to raise the labor fee, and the boss responded. However, Lin Mo also asked to deliver the goods tomorrow afternoon and pay half as a deposit. The boss agreed after the plan.
"By the way, boss, tomorrow you will bring us five hundred kilograms of good charcoal. The shipping fee will not be reduced to you. I will send it to the agreed delivery location to facilitate settlement of all the payments. I don't want to have another trouble."
The boss hesitated for a moment and responded. It is not common for such a generous customer to take action. He doesn't want to lose this business for this. Anyway, this is not a big trouble. Although most shops use coal, many of them use charcoal. Just buy a cart nearby and send it to them.
After the negotiations, everyone took yellow bags to the east at the intersection. After crossing the canal, they arrived at the county town. However, before entering the city, they first walked along the canal bank. This place was a bustling dock and shops. Merchant ships berthed from east to west, south and north, bringing a wide variety of goods, which was so dazzling.
After walking around, I couldn't take care of all kinds of things, so I ordered a cart to load half a cart, including all kinds of pastries, dried fruits, nuts, etc., as well as fans, umbrellas, cloth curtains, and even cool mats. There were even a few kites of different sizes. The most important thing was that these things were not cheap.
"You take the goods to the dockyard and wait. We will go into the city and take a look at things. You can find some food and drink by yourself and wait for us to come back to meet up."
Lin Mo assigned the coachman and team members to wait at the nearby wharf. He brought the empty Shi Baocun and his men into the county town and continued to wander and buy. There were fewer people in the city at this time, but there were also many shops of all sizes.
"Team Lin, these are of limited use for us. Is the purchase too much?" Seeing that there were fewer people, Shi Baocun finally asked.
Lin Mo said, and explained: "These entertainment items must be prepared. Not to mention whether those who stay on the boat will feel panic. Just a bunch of people are lying on the boat and docking in a certain area. As a result, you don't spend time on the boat or play, and others may not doubt that there is something wrong with it.
As for whether there are too many things, one is that you don’t know how long it takes to last. It is definitely not a bad thing to prepare more. Another thing, more can also allow everyone to experience and experience. Some things are not enough by just building behind closed doors. You have to see and play and use them before you can speak. There are not many opportunities, and it can be considered a combination of war and learning."
After saying that, Lin Mo saw a shop selling fishing rods and other fishing gear at a relatively remote intersection not far away. He immediately took people to kill him. He walked into the city and was mainly looking for this place.
On the boat! Can there be more suitable entertainment than fishing? (except for flower boats) He also encountered several shops selling fishing gear before, but unfortunately he was not satisfied.
When you enter the store, it is indeed a shop that specializes in fishing gear, mainly engaged in fishing rods, and it is a front shop and back shop model. There are several masters and apprentices in the store to make fishing rods, and they also sell them for some masters with superb skills.
On the whole side of the store, there are fishing rods of different lengths, thicknesses, materials and shapes, and there are many types. On the other side are fishing lines, fishing wheels, hooks, floats, pendants and other supplies, including foreign goods, but compared with the fishing rods placed on the other side, these are the small blacks and big blacks.
Fishing is not a money-saving pastime in any era. Fortunately, there are not so many fishermen who are leisurely. Fishing gear is a little expensive, but it is not so expensive. As long as there are no masters or some precious materials for decoration, it is actually just a little expensive among ordinary citizens.
Lin Mo bought a bunch of fishing rods of various styles, and a bundle of them were tied to hold them for them, a bundle of them were tied to hold them for them, and other fishing gear supplies were packed with a few small sacks, which made people carry them, and everyone looked like they were purchasing goods.
Back at the dock, I found a boat, loaded all the items I bought, and then slowly drove along the canal to the agreed location. When I was unloading the things, it was already past five o'clock.
Du Mingsheng and the infirmary staff had already returned, guarding the things at the agreed place, while Sha Lihai sent back two large carts. I don’t know where the people are now?
Du Qihong was the first to come back and also brought back two large cart items, one by one, wrapped in cloth into square bags, and tied them with cloth strips. Some of them could smell strange smells when they got close to them. Now they are going to eat in turn.
He Changwen sent back the gas tanks and gas stoves he ordered, and went to purchase other things but had not returned yet. The gas was made from coal-to-gas or water gas, which landed in China very early.
There is a gas factory in Shanghai, which was originally used to supply gas lamps. However, with the mature electric lamps and power generation technologies, the sales of gas factories were affected, so canned gas was launched. However, in recent years, gas has been popularized in Shanghai, and gas has begun to be in short supply, so gas tanks are also rare.
There are also some here, which may be compared with the British Concession before. Although they were forced to give up, they still supply all kinds of scarce commodities and maintain some influence. There are also many local foreign-owned industries. The main consumer groups are themselves or those who are close to them, so they will naturally not easily cut off their supply.
The gas tank here is not the same as the gas tanks in later generations. It should be called a liquefied gas cylinder, and some are called gas tanks. The ones filled with coal-to-gas, while the ones later generations filled with liquefied petroleum gas. The pressure of the oil and gas is more than twice that of coal gas, so the process requirements of this thing are not very high. Although it is also imported from abroad, it is not an expensive and high-end thing, it is just rare in China.
Chapter completed!