Chapter 881 Vomiting Blood
After paying the money, completing all the procedures, I walked out of the post office.
Ning Weimin looked at the watch on his wrist, and it was already eleven o'clock.
As a restaurant owner, he actually doesn’t like the bustling scene when there are overcrowded customers, and prefers a relatively quiet dining environment.
He thought for a while, and although he wasn't particularly hungry, he decided to eat first so as to avoid the peak meal period for office workers.
Because he had to go to Nishi-Azabu later, Ning Weimin walked south along the road in front of the Akasaka Post Office.
I plan to take the bus to Nishi-Azabu where there are various restaurants and bars if I don’t find a place to eat.
As soon as he walked more than a hundred meters, he was attracted by the Japanese classical music that came from time to time on the roadside.
I turned around and saw that the music playing was from a Marunobu store.
Beside the store is a ramen restaurant with a variety of noodles displayed in the window.
Some noodles are topped with egg slices and bamboo shoots, some are topped with pieces of gristle meat and vegetable leaves, and some are topped with fried Japanese dumplings, all made of wax sculptures.
Colorful, very lifelike, like a work of art, emitting an alluring brilliance.
Not only was Ning Weimin's appetite aroused by this, he also had the intention to ask the boss about the origin of these food wax sculptures.
In this regard, he also needs to open a restaurant.
It is completely instinct for business people to look for things that are beneficial to their business everywhere.
So licking his lips, Ning Weimin opened the curtain at the door and walked in.
As expected, there were no customers in the ramen restaurant at this time. The owner of the noodle restaurant was quite free and received Ning Weimin very politely and thoughtfully.
He nodded and bowed, poured water and handed chopsticks. He was also very enthusiastic about Ning Weimin's inquiries about wax sculptures. The boss wrote down the address and contact number of the wax sculpture production company in his own hand.
Since others are so polite, Ning Weimin is embarrassed to be stingy.
He ordered the more expensive pork cheek ramen and the Tang Yang chicken nuggets to go with it.
The reason why he didn't ask for fried dumplings, which is generally regarded as the best friend of ramen in Japan, was because he really didn't have much interest.
The dumplings he made himself were much more delicious.
Besides, six of these junks cost 390 yen, which was enough for him to buy a piece of clothing at the flea market.
He is not the rich second generation who relies on his father to become an Internet celebrity and start a company. He never asks the price when paying for meals, and just throws out an integer.
His money is hard-earned, and it has many serious uses.
And to be honest, the standard of this ramen shop is quite average.
The broth was mediocre, the noodles were cooked so-so, and the barbecued pork was a little tough.
To put it bluntly, the soft-boiled eggs are okay, and the pickled red plum in the noodle bowl is quite special and very refreshing.
Although Ning Weimin also felt hot in the ears and itchy in the scalp, and felt a little sweaty, he felt a little regretful that he had entered the wrong door.
He thought that the meal that cost 1,300 yen was really not worth it.
This price is purely because the store is located in the city center. Otherwise, if it were located in the outer suburbs, the meal would only cost 900 yen at most.
If their Tan Palace chef comes, he can just boil a pot of soup and cook noodles and he can kill this restaurant instantly.
Come on, let’s just consider paying the consulting fee.
After finishing an unsatisfactory meal, Ning Weimin walked out of the noodle shop again. At this time, his mood turned a little gloomy again. The joy of sending the package to his master just now was gone.
You know, a person’s stomach is in his right center, and he will certainly not be happy if he doesn’t eat well.
What's more, he has to face another problem that needs to be solved urgently.
What should I do with the bookstore he bought?
Speaking of which, the location of this bookstore is absolutely no problem.
Ning Weimin traveled to Japan in his last life, and a domestic tour guide once made a general evaluation of some of the most prosperous commercial places in Tokyo.
It is said that Shibuya, full of popular culture, is called the "town for high school students," Shinjuku, with its many nightclubs, is called the "town for young people," and Ginza, where the rich and famous come and go, is called the "town for adults." , and adjacent to the embassy district, Roppongi is full of foreign culture and is called the "Western Street".
In fact, the bookstore is located in Nishi-Azabu 2-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo, which is similar to Roppongi.
You know, the Azabu area and Roppongi are connected to each other.
Near Ning Weimin’s bookstore, there are also many embassies and international schools.
As a result, there are many high-end restaurants and nightclubs here. It is also a place where movies and TV dramas are often filmed, and every inch of land is precious.
If we have to talk about the difference between Nishi-Azabu and Roppongi, it is that although Roppongi is the most famous and prosperous, the main customer base is young people.
At night, Roppongi is filled with drunken foreigners, noisy college students, company employees who urinate unscrupulously, young people arguing over trivial matters, young girls vomiting in the middle of the street, and defiant people. Lovers kissing passionately and so on.
Not only is it noisy, but it is also dirty. There are always cigarette butts on the floor and it needs to be cleaned overnight.
Nishi Azabu is more suitable for older age groups.
It is relatively quiet, not too noisy, and the environment will be much cleaner.
Especially because there are many "platforms" suitable for construction and there are many high-end residential areas, it is more livable.
Therefore, it would be great to open high-end restaurants, bars, coffee shops, and luxury stores on Nishi-Azabu Street.
It is also good to open a pet shop or a video store. Even if you open a lounge or gallery, you will have continuous business.
However, opening a bookstore is not satisfactory, because almost all the people wandering on this street come for parties and consumption. Who would go to a bookstore to wander around?
There are quite a few students, but most of them are foreigners and children of wealthy Japanese families.
Basically, cars are picked up and dropped off at home, and they belong to the class where most of them started out with a Mercedes-Benz. Even if you drive an Audi, you would be embarrassed to say hello to others.
Of course, students with such a family environment cannot come here to read comic books or buy exam textbooks.
Ning Weimin doesn’t even have to go in. Just standing at the door of his bookstore, he can feel that the "Huiwentang Bookstore" founded in 1891 is on this street. How embarrassing.
On the left is an Italian restaurant and on the right is a high-end barbecue restaurant.
Because it was meal time, every restaurant was busy and crowded.
Only in Huiwen Hall, there was not a single customer.
This even gave Ning Weimin an absurd feeling, feeling that this bookstore was like the enchanted Order of the Phoenix in Harry Potter, which existed but was ignored.
Looking at the opposite side, a traditional Japanese confectionery shop with a facade as old as Huiwen Tang was actually packed with customers, and boxes of souvenirs were sold.
The popularity is similar to the newly relaunched "Daoxiang Village" in Beijing.
Standing here, Ning Weimin felt even more speechless, because they are all old shops, look at how miserable Huiwentang is.
However, there are people who are more embarrassed than Ning Weimin, and that is the two clerks in the bookstore.
Because Ning Weimin at least understands one thing, if the business situation of the bookstore is not so bad.
If it weren’t for the fact that the bookstore owner is getting older and doesn’t want to waste time switching careers to open a fashionable store.
If he had not been willing to accept a premium purchase and promised to the bookstore owner, he would have continued to hire two college students who worked part-time in the store until they completed their studies. There is no chance that a shop in such a good location would fall into his hands.
But the bookstore clerks didn't know this. They just thought that Ning Weimin had been taken advantage of and impulsively bought a money-losing product at a high price.
Moreover, the new boss is a third-world Chinese with no experience in opening a bookstore. It has been half a month since he bought the store, but he has not come up with any ideas to change the business situation.
If the losses continue like this, God knows how long this new boss can last?
Maybe they will break their promise and change hands of the bookstore, and their jobs will be ruined.
So as soon as Ning Weimin opened the door and walked in, the two store clerks who were taking over the shift, Oda and Yoshii, immediately put down what they were doing and faced Ning Weimin with fear. bow.
Almost in unison, "Hello, boss! Thank you for your hard work!"
Ning Weimin bowed slightly and returned the greeting, "You have worked hard too. How is the situation in the store these two days?"
Oda is older and has just been admitted to graduate school. He immediately reported his income in the past two days. "I sold two books in two days over the weekend. But it rained yesterday, and several customers came to the store to take shelter from the rain at noon and afternoon, so I sold some more books, totaling 21,200 yen. Do you need it? ? I'll give it to you."
"What kind of books are they selling? Are they study books and comic books?"
"No. Travel and lifestyle categories, as well as magazines and so on.”
“As expected, then... let’s call the character on the ‘Yuyoshi’ (10,000 yen note) Yuki Fukuzawa. Kat) Give it to me and leave the rest in the store first. If someone buys a book, you’ll have to change it, right?”
Ning Weimin sighed and smiled secretly in his heart.
Although Japanese books are more expensive, the profit is only about 20%. In other words, the income is 4,000 yen in three days.
If you do this, even if the house is yours, it will be a loss.
You must know that these two part-time college students are each paid 800 yen per hour.
They calculate each person as having five hours a day, so three days is 24,000 yen, and the living compensation is 20,000 yen.
If water and electricity were included, Ning Weimin would have to pay three to four hundred thousand yuan in compensation in one month, which was the full salary of two formal employees who had just started working.
Compared with the store next to it, how is it different inside and outside?
Not to mention that there is a backlog of books upstairs that the old owner of the bookstore valued at 100 million and sold to himself. Most of them are study books, reference books, novels, and comics.
"Boss, do you have anything else? If not, I will go back. Yoshii will be responsible for looking after the store until five o'clock in the afternoon..."
Oda said a little shyly, after all, he can People who work in bookstores are a bit introverted.
In the future, it will develop into Japan's well-known specialty - otaku.
However, Ning Weimin stopped him, "Wait a minute, I have something important to talk to you two about. Can you leave a little later? I plan to take some necessary measures on the way I do business. I I came here at this time just to listen to your opinions at the same time."
As soon as Oda and Yoshii said this, they both looked at each other in silence. , all showed nervous expressions.
Ning Weimin immediately saw that they had misunderstood and quickly explained.
"Relax, I don't want to fire you, nor do I want to cut your salary. After all, I promised your past boss, and I will not break my promise. And on the contrary, I want you to earn more money. . Interested? ”
"Huh?"
"Nani?"
The two Japanese college students, who were originally looking sad, were immediately freed from their depression.
But they still looked at each other in disbelief and disbelief.
“That’s right, I plan to find a way to deal with the backlog of books. You two should be able to understand that when your former boss, Mr. Tomita, was running Huiwen Hall, there was no liquidity. And Mr. Tomita is still a very emotional person, and he never has the ability to refuse his old friends who are book wholesalers. This leads to the fact that the money in the store gradually turns into unsalable books and they are placed upstairs according to the market price. Come to think of it, according to the list Mr. Tomita gave me, it is at least 100 million yen. We must completely change this situation now, and the top priority is to raise funds, so I plan to get rid of the inventory as soon as possible at a price of 50% off the market price. With this money, we can do something..."
"Boss, I'm sorry."
Yoshii suddenly interrupted before Ning Weimin finished speaking, "We are aware of the difficulties in the store. However, we seem to have discussed the issue of discount clearance before. Have you ignored it? The existence of 'reprinting'? If you forgot, I have to remind you again. In order to protect bookstore operations and reduce competition in the industry, discounts are not allowed for books in Japan, so if we do this, it will be illegal..."
However, Ning Weimin did not show any sign of being hit by a wall, but instead thanked him very gracefully.
"Yoshii, thank you very much. As expected of a college student studying law, he is very professional. But please relax, in fact, this problem is no longer a problem. I have consulted my lawyer in detail , according to his suggestion, we can completely avoid legal problems, because we are not offering discounts to customers who buy books, but we are recommending these books to our peers. I hope that other bookstore owners can buy these products. "
Seeing that both Oda and Yoshii showed enlightened expressions, Ning Weimin simply spoke out.
"You are all college students, so you should be familiar with many bookstores in Tokyo, right? So you must know which bookstores are more suitable for selling the books we stock. Is this good? You go and classify them and try to talk to those bookstore owners. , see if they are willing to buy some books from our store at a low price? The 50% discount on the market price should be attractive to them."
"Also, you are all in Huiwen Hall. I have been working for a while. You all know the wholesale booksellers, right? I hope you can ask those booksellers if they are willing to buy back some of them at a low price. After all, our store will continue to buy new books, but there will be fewer. Classification. Even if the bookstore no longer belongs to Mr. Tomita, for the sake of our past friendship, we will still give him face if we continue to deal with him in the future, right?"
"In short, we need to sell these books as soon as possible. This is a major matter related to whether the bookstore can improve its operations in the future. It is best to complete it within a month. As for the extra time it will take up, I will also give you extra compensation. If you can really sell some books, then I will. We will pay you the reward based on 5% of the final amount. We will pay you as soon as we get the money without any delay. Theoretically, if the books in the backlog upstairs are sold, there will be about 2.5 million. I can give it to you. If you include the ones on the bookshelf in the store, I might have three million yen for you, right?”
To be honest, Ning. There is no need for Weimin to analyze it so thoroughly.
I thought your arithmetic problems would be no problem for two college students.
If they can earn one million a month, it will be enough for their living expenses for a year.
Is this possible without enthusiasm for work?
So the saying that money can make the world go round began to work wonders in the lands of the East.
The two Japanese youths, who were originally a little introverted, became excited at the same time after finding out that Ning Weimin was really not joking.
Yoshii immediately became active in his work and took the initiative to run upstairs to sort out the books.
Oda didn't return to school in time after work, but completely gave up on the cheap lunch in the cafeteria.
I bought some bread, took some book samples, and rode my bicycle to do business.
As for Ning Weimin, although his heart was bleeding over the loss of 50 million yen, the blood he vomited was enough to cost him his "box of money." But you still have to force a smile and face it all cruelly.
This is not only because he knows that this is the necessary premium he pays to buy this good store.
It is also because he knows better that the most important thing in doing business is that the flow of funds cannot be interrupted, and funds are the life of a businessman.
Don’t be afraid of how much you lose, as long as you try to make it back with money.
I am afraid that if I have something in my hand that I cannot sell, and if I have nothing to do with it, I will lose my chance of survival.
It would be better if he could quickly collect 50 million, invest it in the stock market to make money, and double the leverage.
It is better than watching your goods depreciate and cutting your flesh with a slow knife.
In addition, he also brought some small things, and wanted to use Huiwentang's place to see the market acceptance.
This can be regarded as an attempt in multiple directions.
“Hey, Yoshii, there is one more thing to tell you. We have to sell something special in the future. Let’s put these things in the window. Get the best position and put the books that were originally placed. Take it down. If a customer sees it, likes it, and asks about it, just say it’s a handmade brooch from China. If anyone wants to buy it, it’s three thousand yen.”
< br>"Wow, it's so beautiful! Is the box even so high-end? Okay, boss! I'll do it right away. But... what kind of material is this? Is it a gem? Is it too clear? Is it fragile?"
“Don’t be so careful when handling glass products. They won’t break easily during normal use. Do you think the price is expensive?”
“It’s okay, Japanese girls nowadays often collect For jewelry gifts. For the ladies in our school, a very ordinary silver bracelet costs 5,000 yen. Is this suitable for both men and women?”
"What you said makes sense, then four thousand yen."
(End of Chapter)