Meishan Su family, Su Yun is the most virtuous

Chapter 121 Taoyuan Egg Pancake!

Su Yun let them try to make the stuffed pancakes on their own while he was thinking about what to do next.

Although this business looks small, once it grows bigger, there are actually many issues that need to be considered.

So when Uncle Baldy came over, Su Yun was not afraid to tell him how much money he could make from this business, because even if other people knew about it, they wouldn't be able to do well.

Egg-filled pancakes are a business with a low threshold. It is actually not difficult for others to make filled pancakes. How difficult can filled pancakes be to make? Once others eat it, they will roughly understand how it is made.

Therefore, for something with a low threshold like this, if you want to create a threshold, the most important thing is scale.

After discovering that this thing is popular in the early stage, we will immediately start to quickly and massively cover the entire market. When others react and want to re-enter, we find that the market is basically saturated and there is actually not much point in entering again.

However, when it reaches this scale, all kinds of people who covet this piece of fat meat will come in succession, including government clerks, gang leaders, southern tyrants, and local tyrants, all of whom can't get enough of the blood sucked.

This is also why Su Yun wants to use people like Ah Hu to do this business.

One Ah Hu can probably only scare some small business vendors, but if hundreds or thousands of Ah Hu bald heads gather together, even the Yahang gang, the Nantianba, and the Zuodihu gang will have to think carefully before provoking them.

Hehe, if an official comes, don’t I, Su Yun, have any official here?
Zhang Dun may not pay attention to these things, but with Zhang Dun as his banner, can't I, Jiangyou Su Lang, borrow some strength?
These things are not difficult for Su Yun. What is difficult is that after the scale reaches a certain level, it is necessary to ensure the smooth operation of the entire supply chain. That is the real challenge.

But this is also where Su Yun really makes profits.

Once the egg-filled pancakes were spread throughout the city of Bianjing, the daily demand for flour, oil, seasonings, charcoal, eggs, etc. would be huge.

For example, take eggs. If there are 300 stalls in Bianjing City, and each stall uses 1,000 eggs every day, how many eggs are needed?

Three hundred thousand!

If they were all spread across Kaifeng Prefecture, even if there were 200 stalls, that would add up to 500,000!

Of course, with a population of over one million, the material supply capacity of Bianjing City is extremely terrifying, and it can supply about this number of eggs.

But if we buy 500,000 eggs every day, all our egg stocks might be used up in an instant.

When your purchasing volume reaches a certain level, you may be able to negotiate the price, but there is another possibility, which is being strangled.

So it is with eggs, so it is with spices, so it is with flour, oil, charcoal, and so on.

So, when your business reaches such a large scale, if your supply chain still relies on others, you may become someone else's meal.

Gangs such as Yahang, Nantianba and Zuodihu are mostly rooted in logistics, canals, and market material supply. They may not dare to deal with you openly, but they will attack you secretly when you need them, which may take your life in an instant.

So, Su Yun was thinking about how to build his own supply chain.

This is a big problem, but if done well, it is a real money-maker.

If this supply chain is established, it will be possible to purchase cheaper materials. With such a large-scale purchase volume, if one penny is saved on an egg, the money saved each year may be in the hundreds of thousands of strings of cash.

The same goes for the rest of the materials.

Secondly, it ensures the security of the supply chain. The above is to ensure profits, but this is a matter of life and death.

But…there is another but.

If Su Yunruo wanted to make money, there were so many ways to do it. He had read a lot of time-travel novels, such as making glass, soap and so on.

If done well, it would be easy to make tens of millions of coins every year. It is much easier than making egg-filled pancakes.

But Su Yun still chose the egg-filled pancake. The reason was that the egg-filled pancake was just a means for Su Yun, not an end.

Su Yun’s real purpose is the supply chain.

Su Yun wanted to control part of the supply chain in Bianjing City, including river transportation, rice shops, vegetable market supplies, etc.

These industries are basically monopolized by a few people, and it is impossible to enter from the outside.

But what if you need it?

Therefore, Su Yun had to start a business that required a large amount of supplies every day, such as egg-filled pancakes.

In order to meet the needs of his own business, he purchased ships, established various purchasing personnel, contacted various material purchasing channels, and then slowly infiltrated...

Well, one day, those giants in the material supply of Bianjing City will find out: Hey, when did this huge guy with such a huge body sneak in?

As for why you want to ask Su Yun why he wants to do such a thankless task, Su Yun will tell you that it is a bit difficult, but actually quite pleasing.

How can you not please me?
There are more than one million people in Bianjing City, and how much supplies are consumed every day. The purchase, transportation, and sale of these supplies... every link is generating tens of millions of strings of cash in profit. If you can grab a bite, it will at least be a huge piece of fat meat. Tell me whether it's a good idea or not, right?
As for why Su Yun, who doesn't care about money and has some mental illness, does this? Hehe, he's just having fun. His main mission in Bianjing City is to meet the emperor, but no one knows when Zhao Xu will summon him, or whether he will forget about him. So, it's not a good idea to just lie down every day. It's better to do something to have fun.

As for the matter of returning to Huangzhou, Su Yun actually knew in his heart that Su Shi had probably entrusted himself to Zhang Dun.

Moreover, Su Yun had already begun to consider leaving Jiujiang Tower when he learned that Hongdu Cao was targeting him.

This time, by chance, he came to Bianliang and stayed in Bianliang for some time. After another one or two years, it would be time for Su Shi to be reinstated and return to Bianliang. It didn't matter whether he returned to Huangzhou or not.

Su Yun wrote and drew for a long time, then rubbed his temples.

There are some challenges.

Generally speaking, it is actually a problem of talent.

But it doesn't matter. This is not something that can be accomplished in ten days or half a month. Just take it slow. There is plenty of time.

I didn't expect that the bald-headed uncle was actually a man of action. He pushed a stall cart over near dusk the next day.

Then I tried to fix the charcoal stove, flat pan, etc., and put eggs, flour, and oil in each grid. I made small grids on top to put prepared sauces and the like, and it turned out to be very suitable.

Su Yun looked at it and nodded with satisfaction. Baldy said that his uncle was a good carpenter, and it turned out to be quite good.

The bald uncle saw that everything was suitable, so he applied wood wax oil and other things to the car. After that, it looked very pleasing to the eye.

The bald man came over to offer his treasure and said, "Sir, you are a cultured person, can you give it a name?"

Ah Hu glanced at the bald-headed guy and thought: How come this guy has become so lively? He used to be dull, now he has finally wised up.

Su Yun smiled and said, "We met because of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. We all admire Guan Erye's loyalty. Why don't we call it Taoyuan? Taoyuan Egg-filled Pancakes is catchy, nice to the ear and easy to remember."

Ah Hui was stunned and said, "Liu, Guan, and Zhang became sworn brothers in Taoyuan. Instead of caring about their country, they cared about pancakes?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone burst into laughter.

The stall cart arrived and all the equipment was ready. Before dawn the next day, everyone gathered in Su Yun's courtyard. The things had been prepared the night before, and they set off for Daxiangguo Temple with the cart.

This day happened to be the eighth of the month, the day when Daxiangguo Temple was open to the public. Some people were towing the cart, while others were pushing it from behind. Soon they arrived at the Daxiangguo Temple Bridge, where one had to queue up to cross the bridge as well.

Everyone here is doing business now, and it's such a grand occasion. One can imagine how prosperous it will be when tourists come.

The temple gate was opened early, and everyone pushed their carts in and found a good spot. A vendor came over to fight for the spot, saying that this was the spot he had been using before. Ah Hu glared at him and he ran away in shame.

Ah Hu and Su Yun explained: "The stalls here are not fixed. Whoever occupies the stall first gets it. At noon, people from Daxiangguo Temple will come to collect the stall fee. They don't recognize who owns the stall.

This guy is probably a bit arrogant, and others don't dare to argue with him, so he really treats this place as his own."

Su Yun smiled and nodded, still feeling very satisfied.

As expected, to do this kind of business, you have to find people like Ah Hu. In these places, sometimes you can't reason with others. It all depends on who is more arrogant and better at fighting.

Even in some local vegetable markets in later generations, most of the people who controlled the stalls in the markets were involved in gangs.

After the stall was settled, Ah Hu and others started to get busy. However, one car could only accommodate two people to work. Although the others looked busy, it was actually the case that: I look very busy, but my absence does not affect the work.

Su Yun felt uncomfortable and drove everyone else away, leaving Ah Hu and another friendly-looking young man busy at the stall.

Baldy felt a little aggrieved, but he had a bad image and a bald head was disgusting to look at, so how could he be allowed to stand in there and make pancakes?
Su Yun patted the bald man's shoulder and said, "Everyone is useful. We will need you later."

The bald man suddenly became happy and asked, "What can I do?"

Su Yun smiled and said, "You'll know when you get there."

They retreated to another place and waited until Ah Hu started to make pancakes. The aroma filled the air.

Su Yun nodded and said, "Okay, let's go buy some pancakes now."

The bald-headed man was surprised and asked, "Ah?"

Su Yun smiled and said, "This is called marketing. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it. Anyway, you can all go and line up, and then buy something to eat.

You must exaggerate when eating, exclaim from time to time, and then immediately queue up again after eating, and then order three or four egg-filled pancakes, eat and drink as much as you can, and queue up again, understand?"

The bald-headed men were dumbfounded.

　Hey!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)