The Red Mansions Across the Four Seas

Chapter 53 The Zombie Industry
The business Jia Min mentioned was the few long-distance routes he had originally planned.That is, the route from the imperial capital to Wanping County, Daxing County, Changping Prefecture, and Tongzhou.

Among them, the line from Tongzhou to Chongwenmen is the most important.

Tongzhou is the starting point of the Grand Canal. Nine times out of ten, goods from all over the world will disembark in Tongzhou.Then he went to Chongwenmen and went to various tooth shops.

The tooth shop at this time is not just an intermediary agency for houses and livestock transactions.Its main business scope and business volume are actually goods.

Because the goods from all over the world are in bulk.Merchants from other places are not familiar with the local conditions, coupled with time and payment constraints, so they basically do not directly deal with small traders who undertake distribution tasks.Instead, the goods are directly handed over to the tooth shop, which then distributes them to small vendors in the streets and alleys, and finally enters thousands of households.

Therefore, many dental firms are wholesalers.This is the main business of the Dental Bank.

This route, whether it is the flow of people or goods, is very large.

In the past, transportation was undertaken by some individual retail investors, similar to the temporary taxi market, and the uncertainty of transactions was very strong.

What Jia Min wants to open is a shuttle bus with a fixed route and a fixed time, which is similar to the long-distance passenger shuttle bus and long-distance logistics shuttle bus in his previous life.

That alone makes the competition strong.

The reason why this matter was handed over to Feng Ziying and the others was that their characters were not bad, and that they still needed to have certain abilities to run such a relatively large business.They are all well-educated and have certain business experience, so they are relatively easy to get started.

The last point, and the most important thing, is to use their connections.

After the business is started, if you don’t make money, no one will talk to you.When you make money, there will be more jealous people.At this time, if there is no certain background, people from the government, gangs, and all kinds of people will come to fight the autumn wind.

This is the reason why many promising businesses failed in the end.

Using Feng Ziying and others to do this later, the negative impact of this drawback can be minimized.

Although the noble family has declined, it depends on who it is for.

For civil servants and some upstarts, it has indeed declined.However, for ordinary petty officials, gangs and even local hooligans, he is still a colossus and cannot be easily provoked.

In addition to the flow of people and goods, the dissemination of information flow is also included in Jia Min's plan.In this era, there is no specialized non-governmental information transmission agency. In fact, there is a huge market demand in this regard.Two of the more prominent ones are the transmission of business information and general interpersonal information.

As long as personnel and vehicles are slightly integrated, this function can be undertaken. This kind of value-added service has considerable profits.Even if it cannot bring direct income, it will bring huge advantages in attracting people and logistics.

Niu Jizong and the others could not understand these things.

Therefore, in doing this matter without Jia Min, what they showed was not ordinary short-sightedness.

As far as urban bus carriages are concerned, it is doomed to be impossible for them to make profits from passengers' fare money in a short period of time.

In Jia Min’s previous life, there are cities of all sizes in the world, how many cities can make money by public transport?Almost all rely on government subsidies to maintain operations. The purpose is not to make money, but to provide a public service.

To give a very specific small example, the matter of car owners embezzling passengers' car money is very tricky.

No matter how many managers you have, you can’t follow every car. If you add another conductor, it will not only increase the expenses, but also occupy an extra parking space. Besides, how can you ensure that the conductor will not be greedy?
Jia Min believed that Niu Jizong and the others had never foreseen many specific problems like this, let alone have any solutions.

That's why he predicted that Niu Jizong and the others would support it for at most three months, and once the cash flow was cut off, they would go bankrupt.At that time, it was time for him to take over.

However, can he make a profit if he takes over the order?Of course, who will lose money?

Now to start long-distance line operation, one is to make money, and the other is to use this successful case to create momentum for the future.

The third purpose, which is more obscure, is to divide Niu Jizong's small circle.

Jia Min wants to establish his own hilltop and sphere of influence in the noble circle.

Of course, this purpose cannot be stated on the surface.

After hearing Jia Min's general idea, Feng Ziying agreed to Jia Min's proposal almost without thinking.

Jia Min holds [-]% of the shares, and the remaining [-]% is divided equally between the three of them.Investments are also apportioned in proportion to shareholding.Major decisions must be approved by [-]% of the shares, and Jia Min still has a veto right.

It was finally determined that the total share capital was 3 taels, Jia Min contributed 9000 taels of silver, and everyone else contributed proportionally.

After the general arrangement was made, Feng Ziying left with Chen Yejun and Wei Ruolan. They were going to investigate the situation of various routes, discuss the purchase of houses, customize vehicles and other matters.After coming up with a plan, it will be handed over to Jia Min for a decision.

For a large number of specific things, Jia Min no longer needs to run them himself, he only needs to check the final checks.

Now, it is already July, and in the middle and late August, that is, after the [-]th of August, the agricultural production in the north will enter the harvest season, and the annual harvest will basically be determined.An agricultural production cycle is over.

At that time, it is time for Jia Min to seize control of the entire agricultural industry of the Jia Mansion.

The entire industry of the Jia Mansion is actually quite large.From this point alone, it proves the glory of Jia's ancestors.

Regionally, it is mainly distributed in two parts.

One is in my hometown Jinling.

There are still old houses, some land and shops there.However, there is now an increasing trend of differentiation.In recent years, Jinling has rarely handed in property to the mansion.

The reason is said to be poor harvest and poor business conditions.The profits are used for the maintenance of the house and personnel expenses.

In fact, if you think about it with your toes, you will know that money is mainly greedy for people.Under the noses of the masters, Lai Da, Lai Sheng and others dared to fill their own pockets, let alone Jinling Mountain, where the emperor was far away.

The industry in the north is mainly concentrated in the city and the surrounding countryside.

Among them, Rongguo Mansion has more than a dozen Zhuangzi in the countryside, with a land of [-] to [-] mu.It is basically based on planting.The products handed over to the mansion are basically food, vegetables and a small number of special products, such as roe deer, mushrooms and other mountain delicacies.Mainly in kind, plus a small amount of silver.

The remaining industries are some shops and houses in the city.There are two pawn shops, one medicine shop, one car shop and one warehouse.Adding up several shops, the annual profit is around [-] taels of silver. ,

The industry of Ningguo Mansion is basically the same as that of Rongguo Mansion.The combined annual profits of the two companies are about 4 to [-] taels of silver.

This income refers to the official income of the two prefectures, that is, the income that enters the official treasury of the Fuzhong.

As for the masters in the mansion, except for the underage girls and Baoyu, Jia Huan and Jia Lan, the adults, such as Jia Lian, Wang Xifeng, Jia She, Jia Zhen, Jia Rong, etc., all have their own private properties. The income also went into his own small coffers.

Later, when they ransacked the house, 8 to [-] taels of silver were confiscated from Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian alone, which is enough to show that the personal coffers are rich.

Later, during the funeral of Jiamu's death, there was a shortage of money everywhere and borrowed money everywhere. When Jia Zheng sent Jiamu's coffin back to the south, he even had to borrow 500 taels of silver from his servant Lai Shangrong on the way.It can be seen that the financial situation is distressed.

In fact, even at that time, it was not necessarily that the Jia family could not afford the money.According to Jia Min's analysis, the so-called lack of money means that the officials in the Jia family have no money, no public funds.However, there is still some private money from each master, and the amount is quite large.It's just that no one wants to take it out.

Why is no one willing to pay?As soon as Jia Mu died, the banner that maintained the Rongning Second Mansion fell, and the hearts of the people were completely scattered, and everyone cared about each other.

When Jia Mu was there, she could also rely on her seniority and prestige to unify the two mansions under her banner to a limited extent.Once she died, even the Rongguo Mansion fell apart.

Mrs. Xing, who has always kept a low profile, dared to confront Mrs. Wang.The most typical example is the marriage of Wang Xifeng's daughter Qiaojie to the vassal king.

Mrs. Wang can be regarded as a master in house fighting, but she only engages in some conspiracies and tricks.This is different from Jia Mu's kingly means.Without the prestige and status of Jiamu, and without the legitimacy of Jiamu's strategy, it is naturally difficult to run the family and convince the public.

The entire Jia family is currently in such a state, from top to bottom, with the monthly regulations of the public, everyone is harming the public and private.There are even Jia Amnesty, Jia Lian and his like, who take the salary of the public house and do their own private work.Wang Xifeng embezzled public funds and lent usury.

The same is true of the housekeepers and some people in charge.A large amount of land that was supposed to generate profits has not produced the due benefits at all.It has become a tool for a small number of people to seek self-interest.

Those assets such as land and shops can't afford to die, and they can't live. They have become an out-and-out zombie industry.It sucked the blood of the Jia family bit by bit, until there was only a skeleton left, with a huge shell, but the inside was already rotten.As long as there is a gust of wind, it will crash down.

Therefore, if the problems of the Jia family's zombie industry are not solved, no matter how much money Jia Min earns, it is for those greedy people.They have countless ways to transfer money to their own small coffers in the shortest possible time, and then there are countless ways to squander it.

This group of people is purely a fun-to-die game.

It is undoubtedly unrealistic to expect them to change in a short period of time.Because their values ​​are deeply ingrained.The inertia of their habits is enormous.

Only by controlling the lifeline of the economy, completely cutting off their black hands extending to the wealth of the Jia family, and then transforming the power structure and ecology of the Jia family, can the problem of the decline of the Jia family be resolved.

This problem is the real challenge Jia Min faces.As for working on a few projects to make money, for him, it's just for fun.

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