sinovels Chapter 223 Lin Family Cooperation
Chapter 223 Lin Family Cooperation
The city guards in Jiangning County benefited from the Lin family, and spread the good news about the Lin family everywhere, almost boasting that the Lin family is the most benevolent family in Jiangning County.
The Lin family made a big splash in Jiangning County, and even the county magistrate issued a letter praising the Lin family's actions.
Li Xiu and the others didn't expect that their actions would win the praise of the county magistrate, so they quickly followed Lin Xiazhi's arrangement and made this matter more careful, so that no one else could make a mistake and not cause trouble for the Lin family.
The other wealthy households saw the actions of the Lin family caught the eyes of the county magistrate, and their hearts were reddened, thinking that they could afford a mouthful of hot soup.
As a result, many people followed the example of the Lin family, went to the pork shop to buy bones to make soup, set up sheds in various corners of the county, and distributed them free of charge to the poor wanderers and beggars in Jiangning County.
Those vagrants and beggars have no discipline at all, and they beat their heads from time to time to fight for a bowl of hot soup.
After the county magistrate found out about the situation, he was so angry that he called all the rich households who were making hot soup to the county government to criticize them and asked them to pay a fine before giving up.
Such an anticlimactic behavior, not only did not improve their reputation, but it dropped a lot. These families were so angry that they sulked at home, and their husbands were unwilling to go out, for fear of being ridiculed by their opponents.
This action brought the Lin family into everyone's sight again. After learning that the stewed meat sent by the Lin family was leftover from making sausage and bacon, everyone began to look forward to the Lin family's sausage and bacon.
The day before the Laba Festival, the first batch of sausages and bacon were dried. The Lin family offered to send two hundred catties to the sheriff, and two hundred catties to the county magistrate. Sell it to some families and businessmen who have paid a deposit in the Lin family.
Because other businesses that make sausage and bacon started a few days earlier than Lin's, their sausage and bacon came into everyone's field of vision this year.
Their business was good when there was no comparison from the Lin family before. Now that they have the Lin family’s sausage and bacon for comparison, everyone can taste it differently. It is also made of pork, and the price is not much different. Naturally, they give priority to buying the Lin family’s.
Although fewer people bought the sausage and bacon from those families, they were not so unsalable. Vendors from other places could not wait for the sausage and bacon from the Lin family, so they could only buy the sausage and bacon from those companies first, and transport them to other places to make money Besides.
This year, the Lin family will make a total of more than 7 catties of sausage and bacon. When the first batch of sausage and bacon began to be sold, they only made more than 4 catties. There are still more than 3 catties that will be made before the Chinese New Year until the Linjia Village. The pigs and the pigs prepared by the Li family for the Lin family were all killed.
Every day, a large number of businessmen come to the Lin family to buy these cured meats. They will transport the preserved meats and other foods from the Lin family or Jiangning County to all parts of the country for sale, and earn the difference from the price.
Jufulou in Jiangning County did not display Lin’s preserved meat this year. Their restaurant’s business has been booming this year. The back kitchen, waiter, and shopkeeper are all busy every day. If they want to add Lin’s preserved meat, it is easy to be overwhelmed.
So Cheng Wenliu suggested to Lin Xiazhi that the Lin family sign contracts with several grocery stores, and the grocery stores would sell the Lin family's cured meat.
Before that, Lin Xiazhi always wanted to open a store in the county, and sell all kinds of food produced in the village that can be preserved for a long time. Now Cheng Wenliu's suggestion gave Lin Xiazhi new inspiration.
Instead of wasting time and effort opening a store at home, it is better to choose a few grocery stores with a good reputation. Anyway, there were many stores buying vermicelli and dried tofu from Lin's before.
With the help of Cheng Wenliu, Lin Xiazhi quickly selected a few grocery stores with good reputation and locations in Jiangning County and nearby towns, and brought Lin Xiaodong back to Linjiacun.
After listening to Lin Xiazhi's words and reading the materials brought by Lin Xiazhi, Lin Chengzu also felt that it was feasible: "Our tofu can't be sold to outsiders, it should be sold by the villagers. As for other food, you can eat it directly as you said. Sell it to grocery stores, so that people in Jiangning County can't find a place to buy our Lin family's food."
"That's the reason, but if this is the case, the price in Jiangning County has to be negotiated with the grocery store. It can't be messed up. Every store must be the same."
"Indeed, we don't care about the ones taken outside. The local ones in Jiangning County can't be uneven. This time we can unify them."
Determined to sign a contract with the grocery store, Lin Xiazhi and Lin Chengzu discussed the details of this matter in the tofu room.
Afterwards, Lin Chengzu sent invitations to these grocery stores in the name of the Lin family, asking their storekeepers to come to the Lin family to discuss matters.
They not only have to sign contracts with these grocery stores for sausage and bacon, but also for other food from the Lin family, and new food from the Lin family in the future. As partners, they have the opportunity to take the lead in purchasing from the Lin family.
Although these grocery stores were big or small, after their bosses or shopkeepers understood Lin Chengzu's meaning, their eyes shone in unison, and they nodded and agreed without hesitation.
Therefore, these grocery store owners who signed a contract with the Lin family immediately got the expected amount of cured meat from the Lin family and placed them in their stores.
With the addition of sausage and bacon, their store's competitiveness far surpassed that of other grocery stores, and the owners of these stores were so happy that they couldn't hold their tongues from ear to ear every day.
At the same time, the Lin family issued a logo of the Lin family cooperative store to these shops. This logo is a pattern on the food packaging produced by the Lin family. When they saw this logo, the customers who came to buy things asked what it meant. It wasn't that their grocery store was bought by the Lin family.
The buddies or shopkeepers in the store will be very proud to say at this time that they are not bought by the Lin family, but have a cooperation contract with the Lin family. In the future, they will be able to buy the new food from the Lin family in the first place, and the price will be higher. discount.
The news was spread one after another, and soon everyone in Jiangning County knew that the Lin family had signed contracts with many grocery stores, and that the latest products of the Lin family could be bought at the stores that cooperated with the Lin family. cheaper.
Before the new year is the time for everyone to stock up on new year's goods. The shopping desire and purchasing power accumulated for a year exploded at this time, and the sales volume of the Lin family reached the peak of the year in December.
The Lin family's approach has led a new trend, bringing thinking to the wholesale and retail industry in Jiangning County and even Lishui County.
At this time, Lin Xiazhi, who had already married into Cheng's family, was preparing with Cheng Fulang to send out the annual gifts of each household.
These gift lists and gifts were all prepared before, because the Cheng family had to go back to Liaotai County for the New Year this year, and after other families received the Cheng family's annual gifts, they also sent their prepared annual gifts to the Cheng family.
A lot of them were sent out, and a lot of them were received back. All these returned New Year gifts need to be sorted out and put in the warehouse, and they need to be registered in the ledger to facilitate future search.
It took less than half a month to visit Cheng's relatives and friends in Jiangning County every day. During this time, Lin Xiazhi re-acquainted many people who did not remember their faces and names at the wedding banquet.
The Liang family was the last family apart from the Lin family before departure this year. Cheng Fulang and Lin Xiazhi set off with their prepared New Year gifts.
"Brother Xia, it's hard for you these days, you have to take care of so many chores when you first came home." Cheng Fulang sighed while holding Lin Xiazhi's hand.
"These are all what I should do, there is no luck or misfortune." Lin Xiazhi smiled and did not take credit.
The most he does every day is to help Cheng Fulang organize things and memorize some scattered things. Speaking of which, he feels that he has not done much.
Lin Xiazhi didn't think he was so good, but Cheng Fulang didn't think so. In his opinion, having Lin Xiazhi around this year made him a lot easier.
On the other hand, Lin Xiazhi's face has lost a lot of flesh and his chin is pointed. He must be tired.
On the carriage, Cheng Fulang roughly explained the situation of the Liang family to Lin Xiazhi again.
Although there is not much cooperation between the Liang family and the Cheng family, their master knows how to study and has a good relationship with Cheng's father. Cheng Fulang still visits Liang's house every year to send New Year's gifts in person.
The Liang family is in the jewelry and makeup business. Apart from Jiangning County, their family has two shops, and there are many more in the town.
Women's money is easy to earn, and brother's money is also the same. Husbands whose families are a little rich, they are in charge of the family's financial power, and they can't help but buy themselves some makeup and jewelry to make themselves more glamorous.
The Liang family has been in business for decades. Although the family has no power, they have accumulated a lot of money.
In Cheng Fulang's description, Liang's house is bigger than Cheng's, richly decorated, and the servants inside are also well-dressed.Therefore, Cheng Fulang didn't like to come to Liang's house very much.
From the Cheng family, it can be seen that Cheng Fulang prefers a low-key and elegant decoration style, rather than the nouveau riche style of the Liang family, so even if the masters of the two families have a good relationship, there is not much interaction between the two back houses.
Cheng Fulang and Lin Xiazhi rode in the carriage together. Cheng Fulang got out of the carriage first, and Lin Xiazhi was behind. Today was no exception.
"Cheng Fulang, you are here. Our husband has been waiting for you in the lobby, please come inside." Seeing the Cheng family's carriage, the concierge of the Liang family ran to the Cheng family's carriage and helped him with a smile on his face. The servants of the Cheng family help Cheng Fulang get off the car.
Cheng Fulang ignored the porter of the Cheng family and helped his servants get off the carriage, ignoring the porter's embarrassing gesture at all.
Lin Xiazhi also came down from behind, and the concierge of the Liang family retracted his hand when he saw Lin Xiazhi, and the enthusiastic smile on his face became colder. Lang, please come inside too."
Lin Xiazhi glanced at him and saw that he had restrained the flattering smile he had shown Cheng Fulang just now, and felt a little displeased in his heart. It was not just because of the different treatment by the concierge, but mainly because he felt that the Liang family was indeed as snobbish as Cheng Fulang said.