thefictionvixens Chapter 1989 Expansion Plan
Chapter 1989 Expansion Plan
Li Shen watched Li Shimin's receding back until he disappeared through the palace gate, then he turned around and got on the carriage.
"Go home."
At Li Shen's command, the team slowly turned around and headed towards Chang'an City.
When they arrived at the south city gate, the royal guards were already waiting there. Li Shen told Xue Rengui to lead the team back to the guard camp, and then followed the royal guards back to Prince Ji's Mansion.
Wang Hongfu was already waiting again at this moment, and when he saw Li Shen coming back, he immediately greeted him:
"I greet the prince. I am here to report the profits from the betting."
“Go to the study and wait. I will come after I change my clothes.
Oh, come on, ask Mr. Wang to come to the study."
Li Shen gave an order and returned to the back house.
"My dear, why is His Majesty here?" Lu Dingniang asked curiously while changing clothes.
"I have nothing to do." Li Shen almost said that he was bored.
"Your Majesty, leaving the palace incognito with more than a dozen guards is indeed a bit dangerous. If others find out, it will be bad for Your Majesty."
Lu Dingniang was afraid and said that although he was the emperor, he was also her father, and filial piety was the most important virtue.
"Don't worry, my lady. Not many people have seen His Majesty, and the dozen or so guards around His Majesty are not ordinary people. They are all excellent fighters selected from thousands of people.
Even my personal guards are no match for him." Li Shen consoled him.
As a young daughter-in-law, I am quite worried about my father-in-law.
After changing clothes, Li Shen came to the study. At this moment Wang Xuance, Pei Mingli and Wang Hongfu were already waiting there and he saluted again.
Li Shen asked everyone to sit down.
"Would you like tea or juice?"
Li Shen asked while lying in the rocking chair. The weather had started to get hot, so Li Shen liked to drink some ice juice.
"Thank you, Your Highness. Just have some tea." Several people replied.
"Old Wang, you speak first. Let me be happy first." Li Shen was very angry and wanted to hear good news.
Wang Hongfu quickly stood up and took out his notebook to report:
"Your Highness, yesterday we sold a total of 7,326 bills, totaling more than 12,760 strings of cash.
Among them, those who bet on the Tongzhou team to win totaled more than 7,400 strings of cash, and those who bet on the Laizhou team to win totaled more than 5,300 strings of cash.
After deducting the compensation, we made a net profit of about 2,000 guan, which is a huge profit.”
"Two thousand strings of cash?" Pei Mingli was dumbfounded. Two thousand strings of cash a day, more than seven million strings a year, how could this be possible?
Prince Ji is indeed the reincarnation of the God of Wealth. He can make clouds and rain with a flip of his hand and turn stones into gold.
"Two thousand strings of cash? Well, that's not bad. That means more than 7,000 people in the industrial park bought the bet, a little more than one string of cash per person. That's not bad. For businessmen like them, one string of cash is nothing. It's just for fun."
Li Shen was quite satisfied when he heard this number. This was just the beginning, and there were so many merchants in the industrial park. Seven thousand people were far from the goal.
"Congratulations, Your Highness, for making a fortune again. Two thousand strings of cash a day, that's more than seven million strings of cash a year." Pei Mingli bowed and congratulated him.
"Haha, sit down. It is definitely a big profit, but it is not as you think. Football cannot be played at any time.
We can’t play football in the winter, so we only have half a year.
There are four groups of teams, eight teams in each group. Each group plays 28 games in the round-robin tournament. Four groups means four months, and this is just the preliminary round.
I plan to have a round-robin tournament in the second round as well, so that the game can be played longer and we can earn more from our guessing.
I’m afraid the finals won’t be held this year, but will be held next year.”
Li Shen chuckled. He started playing relatively late this year, so the time was longer. His plan was to hold a competition every year and take a few months off each year to make adjustments.
It can’t always be the same team, as that would allow participants to see patterns.
"Your Highness is right. I also think that the second round of the round-robin tournament is best, so that we can have more games to compete in." Wang Hongfu agreed.
Now they don't care who will win the game, it doesn't matter.
"That's right. We can also add some exhibition matches in the middle, such as letting the Guards Camp team play a few games against them to make it more interesting."
Li Shen came up with another idea, he even thought of the All-Star Game, but it was too early now.
"I appreciate your advice." Pei Mingli bowed.
"Haha, you're well-mannered. You'd better learn from me." Li Shen smiled happily.
Wang Hongfu then said:
"Your Highness, although our betting is profitable, if we want to make more money, we need to expand and add more staff, otherwise the guys will be too busy to handle it."
"Expansion? Is there a shortage of manpower?" Li Shen asked after hearing this.
"Your Highness, yes, in fact, we should have sold more tickets for the auction, but we were short-handed, and the thirty men were a bit overwhelmed yesterday.
Our store is also very crowded, and many people find it difficult to leave after coming in.
I am afraid that if this continues, my friends will make mistakes and cause unnecessary losses."
"Is the store not big enough?" After listening to Wang Hongfu's story, Li Shen touched his chin. His shop was very big, but it was not big enough.
However, more than 7,000 people purchased it, which is indeed a bit too many. If tens of thousands of people buy it in the future, there will not be enough space.
"Do you have any suggestions?" Li Shen looked at Wang Hongfu and asked. Sometimes you have to give people below you some opportunities to perform, although Li Shen came up with the solution himself.
“Your Highness, I think it would be better to open a few more stores, for example, we could also open some sales points of our Tang Dynasty Football Betting in the East and West Markets of Chang’an City.
Also, the industrial park is too large. I estimate that the industrial park will need at least 30 sales points, which will increase sales significantly."
Wang Hongfu's idea was the same as Li Shen's, which was to open branches. The industrial park had 220 industries and more than 200,000 shops, which was a complete replica of the East Market.
There are many residences of officials and dignitaries around the East Market, so there are many luxury goods in the market, which is its commercial feature that is different from the West Market.
In the beginning, West Market was mainly for foreign trade, and merchants from the Western Regions also traded in West Market.
Today, the industrial park has monopolized Chang'an City's external wholesale market and has switched to retail. The East Market is an aristocratic area, while the West Market is more for the common people.
The Hu merchants in Chang'an City were also attracted to the industrial park, and the population in the industrial park reached hundreds of thousands every day.
Li Shen was determined to collect city taxes.
With such a large population, it would be too much for just one shop to sell tickets for football betting.
In fact, Li Shen felt that thirty sales outlets were too few, and there should be hundreds of sales outlets, but it was better to be cautious in the early stages.
"The old king's suggestion is good, and it's the same as what I think. Then I'll leave this matter to you.
There are still many children studying in Zhuangzi. They have all grown up now. Only a few of them pass the imperial examination every year, and the rest also need a place to make a living.
We need to let them know that taking the imperial examination is not necessarily the only way out for scholars.
Even if they are just servants, those who can read and write can earn more than others, and it will not affect their annual imperial examinations. "
(The 220 lines mentioned here should refer to the industry, in my opinion.
According to current archaeological data, Chang'an East Market occupied an area of two blocks and was very large, with more than 70,000 shops.
So the number of 200,000 shops I wrote is reasonable. As commerce developed, the number of merchants increased threefold.
This does not include the West City.)