Chapter 258: Sesame and Watermelon

When the village chiefs heard that the land could produce two crops a year, they all asked.

Su Qing'an shook her head.

"We don't know yet, but in theory it is possible. We have to wait until the rice is harvested in autumn to see. Please go back and appease the people in the village, do a good job of explaining, and arrange people to patrol the grain in the fields from time to time to prevent birds and beasts from destroying it."

"Okay, okay."

"I'll arrange it when I get back."

"How can we let birds and beasts eat what we have worked so hard to grow? No."

After talking about the grain, the next thing to talk about is the store.

Each village has a two-story building, which can be bought out for 100 taels, or rented for 1 tael per month, or of course not bought or rented.

Not bought or rented? How can that be possible.

Everyone looked at each other.

Of course it has to be bought out. It belongs to our village today, and we don't know who will own it tomorrow. It's just 100 taels, we have money, buy it!

The opinions were surprisingly consistent.

Now, every village is not short of money. They sell tea leaves with money. Every household has at least a few taels of silver, and some have several times more.

Su Qingmei didn't want them to buy on credit. Since they wanted to buy, she would take cash.

If they didn't pay today, they must pay before the next opening.

Then they drew lots to choose the shop.

They drew it themselves, so it was fair. There was no need to say that she favored anyone.

She didn't want to set a tiered price according to the location. They were all the same price. The one they drew was the one they got.

How much money a shop made was closely related to the location of the shop. If one was at the entrance of the alley and the other was in the deep alley, the operating income would certainly be different.

Of course, if your goods were good and your service was good, that would be another matter.

Everyone drew lots happily, just like a fun game.

After choosing the shop, everyone gathered together to see their location...

"Our two families are together? Great."

"We are so far away?" No, no.

The twenty-eight village chiefs naturally had their own friends.

For example, Bai Zhong and Bai Kun are good friends, but their shops are far away from each other.

Su Qingmei saw that everyone was still happy, as if they didn't realize the impact of the location of the shop on the business income.

She didn't say much.

It seems that everyone has never run a shop before. It's the first time for them. It's normal that they don't realize this problem. Just don't fight in the future.

Next, they discussed the opening of each shop, the operation of the market town and the arrangement of personnel.

The personnel arrangement is still the same as when the market town was built before, with 28 village owners, four people in a group, and it will be done according to the previous decision.

Su Qingmei wants this market town to be open every day like a town, instead of the market in the village, every five or ten days, or small and large markets on odd and even days.

As a fixed town, it is open every day to facilitate the villages that are farther away.

Then someone needs to manage and maintain the village.

The 28 village owners will have to work harder and go to work. She will also arrange people to come to the new village.

As for business, since each shop has paid the money, the shop belongs to each village.

The decoration style is unified inside, and the doors, windows and shelves are ready. Su Qing'an doesn't care how each village lays out the goods, how to operate, and how to arrange the staff.

The opening time is set for five days later. After all, each village still needs to arrange personnel and goods.

Just as she arranged things, the people sent by Manager Li came to the market town. Three people came and brought a lot of goods. They immediately opened the shop next to Su Qing'an.

Various daily groceries were immediately put on the shelves.

This action immediately attracted the heads of various villages to watch and learn.

The shopkeeper under Manager Li, surnamed Ding, was about 35 years old and looked very capable and experienced.

Naturally, he knew that he would do business with the heads of various villages next, and he had to get his goods from the heads of various villages. Naturally, he was also talking and laughing, and went forward to make friends with the heads of various villages warmly.

Su Qingmei greeted them and went straight to Ma Xin without paying attention to their pleasantries.

"Uncle Xin, how is it?"

"Miss." Ma Xin came to greet her, "There are many people, and the construction is fast. In a few days, we can move in."

Su Qingmei followed him in and took a look. Seeing that the houses, training rooms, kitchens, warehouses, and firewood rooms were all in place, she felt relieved.

"How long can these grains last?"

When they came, they all carried grain into the mountains, and Su Qingmei also sent a lot.

But the food and supplies for fifty people are also very expensive.

"It can last for half a month."

Su Qing'an nodded: "Okay, I'll send someone to deliver it."

"Thank you, Miss. When the house is built, we will also open up some land on the slope to grow some vegetables and grains. We will let everyone go into the mountains to hunt meat, so that Miss and Mingwen can save some money. He has a lot of expenses now."

"Uncle Xin, I will arrange these later, so I won't bother my godfather."

Ma Xin thought about it and agreed.

But he still insisted on reclaiming land to grow vegetables and grains.

"Well, it's okay. I took a look. I'm afraid there is nothing important at ordinary times. The personnel are divided into two groups and come alternately. They can grow some small vegetables and grains in their free time. They can also handle it. In the past, we were in the military camp, and we also trained for half a day and planted vegetables and grains for half a day."

"If there is something, I will ask Miss."

"Okay, if you can't handle it, Uncle Xin can ask."

With the opening of the business imminent, Su Qing'an did not return to Baijiazhai, but stayed in the market town.

Returned to his own yard.

Su Qingmei not only left a shop for herself, but also a small courtyard with two entrances, which was used as a place for her and her people to rest, and also for entertaining guests like Pei Nian, Godfather and Manager Li.

The people from Xin Geng Village brought the things in the courtyard and laid them out these days. It was still empty a few days ago.

There were fire beds in the main room and the wing rooms.

The kitchen was fully equipped and ready to cook at any time.

She didn't care, and sat down to think about the personnel and management of the market town.

There were 28 village chiefs on duty, so she had to send her own people over. Who should she send? Xiang Shang? Wei Fuchang?

Did Wei Fuchang run a shop before? And since they wanted to test his character, it would be bad to let him be too far away from Su Qingliu.

Or should Xiang Zhen go?

Xiang Zhen was older, experienced, and experienced. He stayed in the market town, so he should be able to chat with the village chiefs and should be able to control the situation there.

Xiang Shang asked him to run errands for her.

But the village chiefs can't be allowed to work for free when they are so old.

It's a bit unreasonable not to pay them.

Where does the money come from?

The money from the sale of the shop was 2,800 taels, which only offset half of the money she spent on building the town.

There are also inns, bathhouses, and restaurants that need people to run.

Where does the manpower come from?

And there is another important problem. She let Li Guanshi's people in, and Ding, the shopkeeper, directly collected tea and mountain products from the villages in the market town.

As a middleman, she didn't make any profit from the price difference!

How much loss this year!

Vomiting blood!

How much income can the market town bring her? Can it bring her tens of thousands of taels a year?

She is going crazy!

Did she do something stupid? For her convenience and everyone's convenience, she finally gave away the money she got?