The Rise of the European Emperor

In addition to wanting to train some elite women to become gynecologists, nurses, fashion designers, artists and scientific researchers, Marin also has an arrangement for those non-elite women, that is, let them become salespersons!

The profession of a salesperson may seem inconspicuous in later generations, but in this era, it is a skilled job! why? Because the salesperson needs a certain amount of calculation ability, at least, the account cannot be miscalculated.

This ability, in the era when the nine-year compulsory education was popularized in later generations, as long as the intelligence is not too bad, they can basically be competent. But in this era when the literacy rate is extremely low, it is a job with a certain technical content. Because the vast majority of people are illiterate and cannot count.

Fortunately, the European economy is backward, the level of commercial circulation is very low, and there are few salesmen needed. But because of Marin's various measures in Beihai, ordinary people can not only eat enough, but also have some spare money. Therefore, commercial circulation is more developed than other countries. Although it is not the extremely prosperous circulation of the later generations, at least it can reach the level of unified sales and purchases of the later Huaxia before the reform. That is to say, in every town, there are some official stores that sell necessary commodities such as oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and needlework to the common people.

Because the store opened to the town, it greatly facilitated people's life. In the past, many necessities often needed to be bought in the city. But Europe is sparsely populated, and the density of cities is very low. It often takes hundreds of miles to have a city. Unlike the Ming Dynasty, there was a prosperous town within a few dozen miles. Therefore, it is very inconvenient for ordinary people to live. After all, if you walk, it may take more than a day to walk hundreds of miles.

But now, Marin has opened the stores of the "Beihai Chamber of Commerce" under his name in various towns, and uniformly adjusts the goods, with a complete range, which greatly facilitates people's lives. This kind of store has the style of the state-owned store before Huaxia re-opened in later generations. Of course, Marin made repeated requests and five orders, requiring the salesperson to have a correct service attitude and not to annoy customers.

But now, there is a very depressing thing in front of Marin, that is, there is an urgent shortage of salespersons in the store!

A salesperson who can read and calculate accounts is usually trained through the "seven-year apprenticeship system" in this era. Just like other craftsmen, those illiterate teenagers first signed an apprenticeship contract with an established salesperson or shopkeeper, and then, for seven years, worked for the shopkeeper without pay. And the veteran salesman or shopkeeper who took him is obliged to teach him to distinguish products and do accounting within seven years.

In fact, for this simple calculation and bookkeeping, the mathematics level of the second and third grades of elementary school is enough. However, in order to learn this skill, the apprentice needs to work for the master Bai for seven years... and in seven years, the elementary school culture has already been able to learn well, and there is one more year...

But in this day and age, knowledge is so valuable! If you want to learn simple accounting and bookkeeping, you have to work for 7 years for nothing! Moreover, there are not many such opportunities, so we need to grab them!

Just like Marin's first Kohler who can settle accounts,

At the beginning, he pestered Jewish businessmen who often went to the countryside to do business, and secretly learned to calculate accounts, becoming a "talent" of this era. Otherwise, with Kohler's thin figure, Marin would not necessarily want him to be a follower.

In this "sweater knitting training class" held by Marin, the little girls will be taught by the assigned nuns to memorize words, the Bible, and simple calculations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. If the performance is good, but not enough to be selected to go to a girls' school for further training, then you can consider sending it to Beihai Store as a salesperson.

As for the original male salespersons, Marin will transfer them to warehousing, logistics and handling departments. Although it is harder, Marin can't help it. There are too few labor forces in Beihai, and it is definitely a huge waste for men to be idle salesmen. Therefore, men either farmed as soldiers or became artisans. Want to sit behind the counter and be a relaxed salesperson? I'm sorry, Master Ma didn't agree...

An easy job like a salesperson should be done by women. In this way, many male laborers can be freed to do heavy work that many women cannot do...

It can be imagined that if there are dozens of salespersons in a town, if all the hundreds of towns in Beihai are replaced by women, tens of thousands or even more male laborers will be released. Whether they are craftsmen or logistics, it is better than dawdling behind the counter. After all, the entire Beihai country now only has 300,000 to 400,000 males, and there are too many things that can be done by freeing up 10,000 to 20,000 males at once.

Marin plans to train all the vacant male salespersons to become logistics and distribution personnel. They are all "professionals" who can do accounting and bookkeeping, and they are perfect for forming a logistics distribution group.

In addition, Marin is now vigorously building cement slab roads in Beihai State. Once the traffic is fully rolled out, these former male salesmen who can calculate accounts can quickly use the developed road system to easily transport goods to various towns and towns, which is convenient for people's lives.

Don't underestimate logistics and distribution. In later generations, because of the large number of express companies such as SF Express, people should not be too convenient for shopping. Even though Ma Yun is so awesome, without the support of a strong logistics system, the so-called online shopping is just a joke.

Of course, Marin did not expect the people of Beihai to enjoy the fast logistics system of online shopping in later generations. After all, the social economy has not yet developed to that extent. Moreover, the technical conditions cannot be achieved.

However, it is still possible to develop the logistics system to the state-owned store system before the reform. Although there is no such convenient means of communication as the telegraph and telephone in the twentieth century, the mainland of Beihai is not big and does not need such advanced means of communication. Moreover, Beihai State has a well-developed station system, which can quickly deliver messages. When the scale of the station system comes up, Marin also plans to open a postal system and open it to civilians.

In this way, with the cement board road extending in all directions, it is simple and fast to transport various commodities to various towns.

In fact, Marin felt that the electric tricycles would definitely contribute a lot to such a developed express delivery system in later generations. Regardless of the fact that the express mail is transported by car. However, the specific distribution is absolutely inseparable from electric tricycles. The takeaway system is also inseparable from the support of electric bicycles. If the takeaway guy doesn't have an electric bicycle... Although he can ride a motorcycle, it's not worth it. After all, oil prices are so high...

Therefore, the developed logistics system of later generations, the popularity of electric tricycles and electric bicycles is absolutely very important in the distribution and door-to-door links.

Of course, with current technology, electric vehicles are impossible. However, two-wheeled bicycles and human-powered tricycles pedaled by human power can be produced.

Needless to say, bicycles are convenient for people to travel. Once cement slab roads are popularized across the country, it will be very convenient to travel between places by bicycle.

The human tricycle is also very important for the transportation of a small amount of goods. For example, if you want to send a few boxes of goods to a small town dozens of miles away, it is not cost-effective to use a four-wheeled carriage. After all, as soon as the carriage moves, the horse will have to add food. The food consumed by horses in a day is for four or five people, and the cost is very high.

If there is a human tricycle, it will play a huge role in the transportation of a small amount of goods in short and medium distances. Moreover, the consumption is also low. After all, even if a person rides three wheels, he can eat at most one or two more bowls of rice, which is much more cost-effective than raising a horse-drawn cart. Of course, for long-distance and large-scale transportation, a four-wheeled carriage is still required. For the transportation of a small amount of goods within and between towns and towns, manpower tricycles have an incomparably huge advantage.

Marin clearly remembered that before the electric tricycles appeared, those small vendors who set up stalls to go to the market basically had a rickshaw. Moreover, before the popularization of taxis, there were also a lot of rickshaws in the county to solicit customers.

Therefore, Marin issued an order to develop a human-powered tricycle. As long as the research and development is successful, it can greatly promote the circulation of social commodities. And it wasn't the mechanical department that took over this task, but those watchmakers...