Jiang Zhihan carefully considered his mother's expansion proposal. From a cost perspective, the monthly increase was just an additional rent and the salary of one or two more salespeople. Even if the business was not good, the extra shops could be sublet, and the extra salespeople could be fired at any time because the salespeople hired at this time did not have a long-term contract and were basically settled once a month. From the perspective of potential revenue growth, the original narrow storefront obviously limited revenue growth. If he added another shop, even if he didn't break through the wall between the two shops, he could still consider selling books and cultural goods. Li Rongrong mentioned that the stationery and entertainment products for children were selling very well recently, and the profit margin was higher than most books. Li Rongrong mentioned that the best-selling toys were the Transformers series. Not only were they sold in large quantities, but the profit margin was also very high. The stock that Li Rongrong had bought for two weeks in a row was quickly sold out.
After Jiang Zhihan had made up his mind, he discussed with Li Rongrong. Li Rongrong decided to start expanding immediately. The grocery store owner and his wife had been left out for a few days. When Li Rongrong came to talk to them, the price they offered was actually not very high. Li Rongrong pretended to negotiate with them for a long time. After cutting the price a little, she decided to take the remaining three-and-a-half-year lease. Next, Li Rongrong and Jiang Zhihan discussed the design of the two shops. Although the maintenance of the grocery store was not bad, it still needed to be repainted, new furniture bought, and the layout changed into a bookstore. Li Rongrong was ambitious enough to get everything done in two weeks.
After careful discussion, Li Rongrong and Jiang Zhihan decided to turn the newly rented shop into a pure bookstore, while the original shop would be used to sell toys, cultural goods, student reference books, and entertainment books. They would focus on serving children and students.
The renovation of the store, the re-inventory of the inventory, and the adjustment of the purchase focus made the daily operations particularly busy. On the one hand, she had to maintain the normal operation of the existing store, and on the other hand, she had to renovate the new store. Li Rongrong wished she could grow eight hands.
Li Rongrong trusted Shen Pengfei more and more now. He was in charge of the renovation materials and the bookstore's stock purchase. After all, young people were more energetic. It was not a problem for them to run outside for a few hours a day.
After careful consideration, Jiang Zhihan felt that the bookstore's business was an excellent opportunity for practical training. Therefore, he ignored his mother's obstruction and invested more into the daily management. The first thing he took over was accounting. Because the shop was small, there were not many complicated classifications of income and expenditure. Even taxes in this era were based on a fixed tax system, completely unrelated to the business situation. Jiang Zhihan had taken over the accounting department because he wanted to try to change the simple way of managing income and expenditure.
The financial management of large international companies played the most important role. Not only did they have to control the cost of daily operations, but they also had to analyze the profits of all corporate decisions and provide feasible reference. His mother's small bookstore obviously did not need these complicated things. However, Jiang Zhihan tried to find out how to adjust the products to high-profit products through detailed purchase and shipment tracking, classification and analysis of operating income and profits, and how to find breakthroughs in cost control and profit improvement from the entire operating chain.
Another thing on the agenda was to hire one or two salespeople. The bookstore was open seven days a week. Every day, it would be more than twelve hours. Adding on the stock restocking, stock clearing, and even cleaning, it was too much of a burden to rely on Shen Pengfei and Li Rongrong, as well as Jiang Zhihan and his help during Father's Day. In the past month, before the bookstore had expanded, the two of them had been exhausted from day to night.
Li Rongrong put up an advertisement and went to the simple job market that had just been set up. After she came back, she interviewed six girls in a few days. Most of them were working or unemployed after graduating from high school or junior high school. Jiang Zhihan didn't have time to attend his mother's interview, so he came home to ask her about the situation. Li Rongrong said that there were only two of them, and she felt that they were more brilliant. In the dialect of Zhongzhou, being brilliant meant being smart and sensible. However, Li Rongrong felt that one of them was a little frivolous and was afraid that she would take advantage of him.
Li Rongrong had the same problem as many people who had just started a small business. She could only feel at ease if she did everything by herself. For someone like Shen Pengfei, she trusted him after months of hard work and knew his family well. She felt that he was someone who knew her well, so she could use him without worry.
Li Rongrong was hesitant about hiring someone. Jiang Zhihan always urged her to set up a probation period. If she was not satisfied after a month, she could fire and find a new person. Now that he had to do renovation and management, two people were not enough. He had to recruit one first. Under Jiang Zhihan's urging, Li Rongrong finally made up her mind to accept a girl from the interview. It had been more than a week since the interview.
Li Rongrong found the girl's address, but the phone number she left was only the public phone of the small shop outside her house. Li Rongrong left a message and only got a reply two days later. The girl came to the bookstore to apologize. She said that because there had been no news from her, she had gone to work as a salesperson in another Ministores.
As soon as Jiang Zhihan arrived at the bookstore in the evening, he heard Li Rongrong nagging at him for an hour. Jiang Zhihan felt dizzy from the nagging, so he found an excuse to go outside to get some fresh air. Walking on the crowded street, Jiang Zhihan suddenly slapped his head. Why didn't he think of a good candidate he knew?
Jiang Zhihan was thinking of Xiao Qian. Although she had regained her freedom these days, there was still some time before the final official judgment. Xiao Qian basically stayed at Wu Tao's house to help with the housework, and her work was temporarily suspended. When he was chatting with Wu Tao at school, he heard that Xiaoqian was considering returning to her hometown to farm once the case was decided. No matter how strong a girl was, after witnessing the dark side of the city and the hardships of working, she would more or less feel fear or annoyance. Although he had not had much direct contact with Xiaoqian, based on his own observations and Wu Tao's mother's introduction, Jiang Zhihan believed that he had a deep understanding of Xiaoqian. This girl was upright, hardworking, and not tempted by material benefits. Moreover, she could remain calm in times of danger. She was not a simple girl.
Jiang Zhihan's current style was to do whatever he wanted. He turned around and greeted Li Rongrong, then ran to Wu Tao's house to ask Xiaoqian if she was willing to work. When they arrived at Wu Tao's house, only Wu Tao's mother and Xiaoqian were at home. When Jiang Zhihan told them why he was here, the two of them were very happy. These days, although the people around her had repeatedly told Xiaoqian that the outcome of the trial was not a problem, she still felt uneasy. Because she had been detained for many days, Xiaoqian not only lost her job at the entertainment city at night, but she also lost her chance to work during the day. In the past few days, she began to consider whether she should return to her hometown after everything was settled. When Jiang Zhihan mentioned working in the bookstore, Xiaoqian immediately agreed. Firstly, she really needed a job. Secondly, she trusted and was grateful to Jiang Zhihan.
Jiang Zhihan said," Regarding the salary, the salary we can offer now is not high. It's basically the salary of another employee in the first month. However, I'm considering taking out a portion of my monthly net profit as a bonus. Therefore, your income is directly linked to the bookstore's business situation. If the bookstore's profits were good, the dividends might be a large part of the income.”
When Xiaoqian heard Jiang Zhihan's salary, she quickly said,""This is too much.”Jiang Zhihan waved his hand and said,"You used to have two jobs, but now you only have one." This salary is not for charity. It's earned through your labor.”After chatting with Xiaoqian and Wu Tao's mother for a while, Jiang Zhihan asked when he could start work. Xiaoqian said that she could start tomorrow. Therefore, Jiang Zhihan and Xiaoqian made an appointment to have Xiaoqian go to his house to contact his mother at eight o'clock the next morning.
After dealing with all this, Jiang Zhihan felt relieved. He could leave the rest to his mother. After all, he still had to deal with the final exams. Ni Shang had warned him a few times that he could not let his guard down, and Jiang Zhihan did not want to disappoint her too much.
On the way home, Jiang Zhihan couldn't help but think of a sentence: If you don't clean a house, how can you clean the world? As for his mother's bookstore, perhaps...。。。It was probably the shabby room where he had set off.
(This chapter is relatively short, and there will be another update at around three in the afternoon. During the National Day holidays, he would try to do it a few more times.
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