1928: The rise of giant merchants

March 25th.

The first condoms and sanitary napkins were finally released.

Shanghai Tang, Fengtian and Tianjin City are the three areas where pilot sales started.

Among them, Shanghai Tang, as the base camp of Yip's investment, was designated as the sales center by Ye Luo, and a small target of selling 10,000 copies a month was set for Yip's department store.

In order to let customers get familiar with these two new products as soon as possible, Ye Luo also specially gave many to people around him, and everyone who used them said they liked them.

Ye Luo, who gradually disappeared behind the scenes, left all these businesses to his confidants, while his focus was entirely on the construction of the tax police headquarters in the suburbs of Jiaxing.

Guns and tanks are the ultimate romance for men, and Ye Luo is no exception. As soon as he heard that the tank was ready, he hurriedly took Shi Jianqiao and others to watch and play.

The new business in Shanghai will be put in charge of new subordinates trained by the talent plan, while in Tianjin City, Chen Youde will be the sole agent.

Meng Xiaodong lived in Ye's house for a while, and then moved to Hu Die's villa to help take care of Ye Hao and Ye He's brother and sister. After the production line in Fengtian was officially launched a few days ago, as the proprietress of Ye's Department Store, she had to take the train Rush back to take charge of the overall situation.

The Japanese invaders' deliberate assassination failed. By the time they rushed to the coffee shop, all the Leftist League writers were already gone. Lu Yucai got on the train to Peiping without looking back, for fear of being late. He got shot.

In this way, the Central Plains is filled with smoke, the north seems peaceful, but in fact there are undercurrents, and only the south seems to have entered a stable period.

One month later.

A military jeep was driving fast on the rugged and muddy road. Several soldiers were standing guard with submachine guns in their hands. The license plate had a special logo of "Tax Police Corps", and the road was smooth.

"I'm sorry. Could you please, Commander Sun, drive me personally?" Ye Luo, who was sitting in the passenger seat, looked at the scenery receding at high speed outside and clasped his fist slightly at Sun Liren.

Sun Liren smiled and said: "It's an honor for me to drive for the second young master. I just don't know what happened to make you rush back in such a hurry?"

"Some small business matters are not worth mentioning." Ye Luo waved his hand.

"If there is anything Sun can do to help, please ask the second young master to speak up." Sun Liren said.

Today Ye Luo was happily watching Wen Yingxing and Sun Liren training at the tax police headquarters. Liu Fangwu accompanied him around, shooting guns and playing with cars. Then a telegram from Shanghai Beach ruined his good mood.

Most of the Yip's condoms launched a month ago are unsaleable.

The sanitary napkins that were launched at the same time sold well. With the increase in word-of-mouth and popularity, sales increased steadily. In less than a month, he completed the sales target of 10,000 yuan.

It is normal for such new gadgets to be sold at first, but they are daily necessities. There is no need to worry about being iteratively eliminated over time. As long as they hit the market, they will always be a sure money tree.

Moreover, the production lines of this kind of daily necessities are fixed, the products are small, and a large box can fit a lot. Exporting is also convenient, and it is even easy to expand factories and bases overseas.

Therefore, Ye Luo attaches great importance to the initial marketing situation.

But the condoms were unsaleable.

This situation not only happens in Shanghai, but also in Tianjin and Fengtian. Fengtian is slightly better because Zhang Hanqing is helping to promote it, but even so, the total sales volume in the three big cities in a month still does not exceed 1,000.

That’s right, the three cities combined did not exceed a thousand.

Ye Luo doesn't care about data. Things that have been verified by history will definitely produce the greatest benefits in the end. If it is unsaleable now, there must be a problem in some link, or someone has messed with it.

As long as the source is solved, the problem will be solved naturally.

He was angry that it took a month for this matter to reach his ears.

Goods are not unsalable for a day or two. For a whole month, the three cities combined did not sell more than 1,000 sales. No one informed me of such a big problem.

The telegram sent was written by Xiao Aqiao, and she only found out about this problem when she was summarizing before the end of the month.

This shows that today’s huge Ye’s investment has become a situation where “county officials are not as good as current managers”!

The Yip's Department Store branch in Shanghai is full of newcomers and new management. Some of the senior management are elites transferred from Yip's Investment and its various companies, some are the backbone of the talent training program, and some are close confidants of the Ye family for many years.

But it was such a group of people who, seeing that the new products were not selling well and could not solve the problem, even chose to lie and conceal the data. In the end, Xiao Aqiao discovered the problem when she checked the accounts, and then she pulled out a large group of people.

Because the situation was serious, she sent a telegram directly, hoping that Ye Luo could rush back to Shanghai as soon as possible.

After all, she is just a woman. Three years ago, she was still the eldest sister of Fengming Tower. She has bumped into things along the way. Many of them are self-taught. She does not have enough experience in many things. Now, under the eyes of her, the real boss lady. There was such a big basket coming out of the bottom, and little Aqiao was worried and angry.

She was a little at a loss. She hadn't eaten well or slept well these past few days. The little boy Ye Zhuohua was also sent to Hu Die's place.

Ye Mansion, restaurant.

The atmosphere of this meal was obviously very heavy.

Even Zhang Anyi and Jiang Meiying, who came over to eat, noticed something was wrong. After eating a few mouthfuls, they said they didn't feel well and ran upstairs.

"How many people are involved in this matter?" Bai Xiuzhu asked first while drinking milk.

Little Aqiao lowered her head and became even more frustrated: "Roughly estimated, there are more than thirty senior executives, fifty middle managers, and bottom managers. We are still investigating."

"They dare to do this in the condom business, but what about other businesses? Let me tell you, I went to the United States for a while, and I felt that the atmosphere at the top and bottom of Yip's Film Company was not right." Lin Ruxian scooped up a bowl of chicken soup with a spoon and pushed it to In front of little Ah Qiao, "The matter has come to an end. Don't be so angry that you'll be so angry. Let's wait until A Luo comes back and take a look. I think I need to do a thorough investigation over there."

Yip's Film Company was later given full authority to Zhang Shichuan and others, but Zhang Shichuan and Li Minwei were already high-level executives. Most of the time they were away from the company and were always busy outside, let alone Lin Ruxian.

Last quarter's financial report was mediocre, and Lin Ruxian was still wondering why Ah Ruan had successfully taken up the banner after Hu Die left, and the talkie film market was growing more and more, so why had there been no growth in profits?

When hundreds or tens of millions of money always flow through their hands easily, accounts worth tens of millions indeed become less sensitive.

"I" little Aqiao didn't dare to look up at Bai Xiuzhu.

After all, in this family, there are only two and a half women whose words can have real weight.

Li Shuzhen, Bai Xiuzhu and half of Ye Qingqing.

The other women were just concubines at best. In the era of the Republic of China, Bai Xiuzhu was determined to sweep them out, but they really had no choice.

"It's okay. Sister Shu has been worrying a lot about taking care of Zhuohua these days. This kind of thing will always happen. How can we blame her?" Bai Xiuzhu fed Li Siye some chicken soup and smiled.

This sentence can be regarded as a complete characterization of the incident.

It also shows that Qing Xiuzhu really has no intention of killing someone with a knife or waiting for an opportunity to deal with Xiao Aqiao.

Several women present were more or less related to Ye Luo, and their worries and fears were similar to those of little Aqiao. After hearing this, all of them felt much relieved.

"When Brother Luo comes back, I will help him get the matter settled as soon as possible." Xiao Aqiao finally looked up and saw Bai Xiuzhu's indifferent cheeks and slight smile.

At this moment, she finally realized that the once eldest and temperamental sister Xiuzhu had completely grown up and matured. (End of chapter)