Chapter 192 Vicious Competition

In order to ensure Pyongyang's security and resist the possible attacks of the Japanese army, Zhou Charter left a few troops to stay in Anzhou and Yizhou. The main force of Zhang's army, including four regiments and a direct battalion, most of them are stationed in Pyongyang, and each regiment battalion has its own defense zone in Pyongyang.

The first regiment developed the service industry and made a lot of money. Other groups were jealous and followed suit to set up a service industry in their own defense zone. They have no business talents, so they don't know how to start, so they set up business training courses in the group, invited Shannian to teach the way of business at a high price, and even directly hired Shannian as a business consultant to guide business work. Zhang Xun's third group was more generous and gave 10% of the shares of Shannian.

As a business expert, Shannian was busy to tour the groups to guide the business, and the red envelopes were collected. Of course, this is a reasonable and legal labor fee, and Wu Peifu can't say anything about him. However, Shan Nianguang was busy guiding the business for others, but he couldn't take care of his own business, which made Wu Peifu very dissatisfied. This mother's job is not a decent job! However, all regiments are brother units. If they have difficulties, it is reasonable for the first regiment to help. Wu Peifu is not easy to tear his face.

It is also a small matter to go to lecture as a consultant to receive red envelopes in the grand year. However, with the development of various groups and industries, the competition is increasingly fierce, and the business volume of serving a street under the Peony stage has been sharply reduced, which is a big deal!

In fact, the North Korean people are not rich. Pyongyang is an important town in northern North Korea, and its economic level is slightly better than that of other regions, but the number of people willing to consume is also limited. Wu Peifu built a service street under the Peony stage, which basically caught all the consumer groups in Pyongyang City. Nowadays, groups have developed service industries in their own defense areas, and consumer groups have been diverted, and the number of people who come to one street will naturally decrease.

What's more, Wu Peifu's first group was the first to eat crabs. The project was launched in a hurry, the facilities were simple, the service project was old, and the layout was unreasonable. If there are no competitors, that's fine. Under the guidance of the grand year, other regiments learned the lessons of the first regiment. Later, the new facilities adopted high specifications and strict requirements. Not only the facilities were better than the first regiment, but the service quality and soft power were also better than the first regiment. In this way, customers were more willing to go to those newly built leisure and entertainment places, and the business of the street was increasing. Leng.

In order to attract customers, Wu Peifu offered the ultimate magic weapon of commercial competition - price reduction promotion!

Wu Peifu's move is actually a bad move. You can reduce the price, and others can also reduce the price. Sure enough, as soon as Wu Peifu launched the signboard of price reduction and promotion, other groups followed up and followed the price reduction. The four groups, together with Feng Guozhang's direct camp, opened a total of five commercial centers and started a price war. In this fight, they fell into vicious competition. Everyone was unlucky and the price was getting lower and lower. In the end, they all fell below the cost price. The service industry in Pyongyang is all at a loss.

It didn't take long for Wu Peifu to lose all the money earned by the first group. Other regiments are even worse. They lose money before they can make money.

The only winner is the people of Pyongyang, who bought five-star high-quality service at a low price that they couldn't even think of themselves. The people's feelings for Zhangjun are getting deeper and deeper. In their opinion, Zhangjun is really the army of the people. They not only beat away the Japanese, but also brought all kinds of leisure and entertainment to the people of Pyongyang. The price is so low that the begren can afford it. This kind of army can't be found with lanterns.

In Pyongyang, the military and civilian fish are really affectionate. Many people took the initiative to deliver water and food to the Zhangjun soldiers on guard, and various banners of praise flew to the prime minister's office on the peony stage like snowflakes. Zhou Charter was very gratified when he saw it.

However, within Zhang Jun, the contradictions are becoming more and more prominent. In order to compete for the source of customers, the regiments first fought a price war, and later, they simply robbed people directly!

Zhang Xun, the commander of the 3rd Regiment, took his guard to the streets to promote in person. A group of soldiers held high the banner of the grand opening of the leisure and entertainment flagship store of the Third Regiment, paraded on the street, beat gongs and drums, and distributed promotional leaflets.

This Xun was also fierce enough to run to the ground of the first regiment under the peony stage for promotion. He happened to meet several North Koreans who walked into the door of the restaurant run by the first regiment and prepared to go in for dinner. Zhang Xun waved, and more than a dozen of his own soldiers rushed up and lifted these North Koreas to Jinghaimen. Jinghaimen was Zhang Xun's defense. District, the third regiment opened a star restaurant there.

Zhang Xun dared to rob customers in the defense area of the first regiment. How could the officers and soldiers of the first regiment tolerate it? Wu Peifu immediately chased them with a company of people and live ammunition, surrounded Zhang Xun's men and those North Koreans, and ordered Zhang Xun to leave them behind.

How can you spit out the fat meat you eat in your mouth! This is not Zhang Xun's style! Zhang Xun's style is to resist stubbornly and never bow his head. He immediately invited a company to confront Wu Peifu's people on the street!

If there is a fight, the people on both sides of the street will also be unlucky, and the North Koreans who eat will complain even more. They are sandwiched between the two troops for a meal. Once the two sides fire, they will also be doomed.

Seeing that the situation was wrong, the people hurriedly invited Zheng Suo to mediate. Zheng Suo came to the scene and proposed a solution: these North Koreans divided their meals into two meals, the first half of the meal at Wu Peifu's place and the second half at Zhang Xun's place.

Wu Peifu is Zhang Xun, who is the owner of eating alone. He disdains this plan. After this shock, those North Koreans don't want to eat a mouthful of food. The two sides are tense, and a fight is inevitable.

Fortunately, Zhou Charter arrived in time and stopped both sides.

Only then did Zhou Charter realize the seriousness of the problem.

The army started a service industry and earned some extra money to supplement the team. Originally, it was to solve the urgent need, but in fact, it can't make much money. However, Zhang Jun had many internal contradictions. Originally, he was a good brother who shared life and death, because a few taels of silver fought, which was not worth it.

However, if there is no way to make money, the logistics of the team will be a problem. Qian Yougui has been out with Goryeo for more than a month. Until now, there is still no message. When he comes back, the troops will starve to death.

Money is expensive and can't be relied on. Zhang Jun has to find a way to solve the salary on the spot. Although the service industry earns less, it is also a way.

Zhou Charter hurriedly called Shannian to discuss countermeasures. Grand Year is worthy of being an eke, and he immediately pointed out the key point of the problem.

Grand Year told Zhou Charter two points.

First, the general direction of the service industry is correct. Zhang Jun has no capital, no industry and no technology. He can't do industry, only the service industry has a low threshold and is easy to do. The problem is that the vicious competition within Zhang Jun is wrong.

In this regard, Shannian proposed a solution. Zhang Jun established a leisure and entertainment headquarters. All the service businesses launched by all regiments are under the unified management of the head office, with unified pricing of service items and unified quality standards for service content. In this way, it can be avoided. The vicious competition of the ministry can stabilize the quality of service. The most important thing is that the prime minister directly under the head office is independent of the regiments. In this way, the regiments do not participate in the operation, concentrate on the military, and no longer worry about revenue and expenditure.

Zhou Charter was deeply convinced of this proposal of the Grand Year and immediately instructed the company to prepare for the Grand Year. Shannian did not live up to its mission. Within three days, it launched the signboard of "Pyongyang Jucai Co., Ltd." The company is a collectively owned enterprise, Zhou Charter is the general manager of the company, and Shannian is the executive deputy general manager. The company is returned to the unified operation of the industries set up by various regiments. All the benefits of the company are handed over to the Zhangjun Quartermaster Department, which is allocated to each regiment according to needs.

The problem of vicious competition within Zhang Jun has been solved. The grand year raised a second question, which is more serious than vicious competition.

If Zhang Jun wants to raise his own funds to gain a foothold in North Korea, it is not feasible to start a service industry alone. If the service industry wants to prosper, the basic premise is to have a relatively rich socio-economic foundation. North Korea is already poor and weak, and the people have low willingness to consume. After all, there are only a few people with spare money. The vast majority of North Koreans have no money or are unwilling to wash their feet. The service industry can make a little money to help Zhangjun brothers drink porridge, but it is necessary to ensure that the equipment, food and medicine of a large army is tantamount to a drop in the bucket.

The only way is to start an industry, vigorously develop industry and commerce, do business, and produce with one hand. You need to have real products.

Grand Year saw this problem, but could not come up with a practical solution. The reason is very simple. If you want to start a business, the first thing is money. If you don't have money, you can't make money. This is a dead end.

Zhang Jun is very embarrassed, and Zhou Charter is very helpless.

In a blink of an eye, December has entered the middle of winter. Winter seems to freeze the smoke of war. Both the Qing Dynasty and Japan can't withstand the severe cold of winter, and the war has entered a brief dormancy.

After capturing the Liaodong Peninsula, the Japanese base camp plans to immediately transfer to the Shandong Campaign. The Second Army and the joint fleet will work together to capture the Weihaiwei Fortress, annihilate the Beiyang Marine Division in one fell swoop, and then capture the entire Shandong Peninsula, and then launch a decisive battle to conquer Beijing in one fell swoop.

At this time, Japan's combat intentions have no secrets and there is no need to keep them secret. The court of the Qing Dynasty, from the empress dowager emperor to Beiyang minister Li Hongzhang, understood the combat intention of the Japanese army, and they never made any mistakes in judgment.

The Qing Dynasty immediately pulled out all kinds of troops and entered Shandong to strengthen Shandong's defense. 100,000 troops of the Qing army gathered in Shandong and relied on various fortresses to wait for their work. The Japanese army was a guest army, exposed to the cold wind and snow in the field, with logistical difficulties and frostbite soldiers increasing day by day. In this case, the Japanese army had to delay the offensive.

In this way, there was a short dormancy on the battlefield of the Qing Dynasty.

In North Korea, Zhou Charter's troops are also plagued by the severe cold.