Chapter 1952： Saleswoman, logistics and manpower 3 wheeler

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

The profession of salesman looks unremarkable in later generations, but in this era, it is a technical job! Why? Because the salesperson needs a certain amount of computing power, at least, the account cannot be miscalculated.

This ability is basically competent as long as the intelligence is not too bad in the era of nine-year compulsory education popularized in later generations. But in this era of extremely low literacy, it is a job with a certain level of technical content. Because most people are illiterate and do not count.

Fortunately, the European economy is lagging behind, the level of commercial circulation is very low, and there are few sales staff. But because of the various measures taken by Marin, ordinary people in Beihai have not only enough food, but also some spare money. Therefore, commercial circulation is more developed than other countries. Although it is not the kind of extremely prosperous circulation of the later generations, it can at least reach the level of unified marketing and purchasing before the later generations of China opened. That is, there are official shops in various towns that sell necessary goods such as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar and sewing cloth to the people.

Because the store opened in the town, it greatly facilitated people's lives. In the past, there were often many necessities that needed to be bought in the city. However, Europe has a large population and a sparse population, 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 in tens of miles. Therefore, for the common people, life is very inconvenient. After all, if you walk, hundreds of miles may take more than a day.

Now, Marin has opened the "Beihai Chamber of Commerce" stores under his own name to various towns, and he has uniformly transferred goods and has a complete variety, which greatly facilitates people's lives. This kind of shop is very similar to the style of the state-owned store that was reopened in the future. Of course, Marin made three requests for five orders, requiring the salesperson to correct the service attitude and not to annoy customers.

But now, a thing that makes Marin very depressed is in front of me, that is, the store is in desperate need of a salesperson!

A salesperson who can understand words and can calculate accounts, in this era, is generally cultivated through the "seven-year apprenticeship". Like other artisans, illiterate teenagers first sign an apprenticeship contract with a veteran salesperson or store, and then, for seven years, work for the store without pay. And the veteran salesman or store who brought him is obliged to teach him to distinguish the goods and to keep accounts within seven years.

In fact, this kind of simple accounting is enough for mathematics in the second and third grades of elementary school. However, in order to learn this skill, the apprentice needs to work for Master Bai for seven years ... And in seven years, elementary school culture will have been able to learn mastery, and one more year ...

But in this age, knowledge is so valuable! If you want to learn a simple bookkeeping, you have to work for 7 years in vain! Moreover, there are not many opportunities like this, you need to grab it!

Is like Koller, who was the first one of Marin's accountants. He was entangled with Jewish merchants who often went to the countryside to do business. Otherwise, with Kohler ’s thin body, Marin does not necessarily want him to be a follower.

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

As for the original male salesperson, Marin will transfer them to warehousing, logistics and handling departments. Although it is harder, Marin has no choice. There is too little labor in the Beihai country. It is absolutely a waste of men to work as idle salesmen. Therefore, men either farmed as soldiers or became craftsmen. Want to be a relaxed salesperson behind the counter? Sorry, Master Ma doesn't agree ...

Such a relaxed career as a salesperson should be done by women. In this way, a lot of male labor can be freed up to do heavy work that many women can't do ...

It is conceivable that if there are dozens of salesmen in a town, if hundreds of towns in the whole North Sea are replaced by women, tens of thousands or more of male labor can be liberated. Whether they are working as craftsmen or logistics handling, it is better to spend time behind the counter. After all, the entire Beihai Kingdom now has 300,000 to 400,000 males, and one or two thousand males are vacated at once. There are too many capable things.

Marin intends to train all vacant male salespersons into logistics and distribution personnel. They are all "professionals" who can calculate and keep accounts, and they are suitable for forming a logistics and distribution group.

Plus, Marin is now vigorously building cement slab roads in Beihai. Once the traffic is fully spread out, these accountable former male salesmen can quickly use the developed road system to easily transport goods to various towns and villages, and to facilitate people's lives.

Don't underestimate the logistics and distribution. In the later generations, because of the large number of express companies such as SF Express, it is not too convenient for people to shop. Don't look at Ma Yun's comparison, there is no strong logistics system support, so-called online shopping is just a joke.

Of course, Marin did not expect the ordinary 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 convenient means of communication such as telegraph and telephone in the twentieth century, the native land of the North Sea is not large, and it does not require such advanced means of communication. Moreover, Beihai has a well-developed post system that can quickly deliver messages. When the scale of the post system comes up, Marin also plans to open a postal system and open it to civilians.

In this way, with all-round cement slab road, it is easy and fast to transport all kinds of goods to various towns.

In fact, Marin feels that the express delivery system that is so developed in future generations, the credit for electric tricycles is definitely very large. Don't see that express shipments are concentrated in cars. However, the specific distribution is absolutely inseparable from the electric tricycle. The take-out system is also inseparable from the support of electric bicycles. If the takeaway brother has no electric bike ... Although you can ride a motorcycle, it is not cost-effective. After all, oil prices are so high ...

Therefore, in the later generations, the developed logistics system is absolutely important in the distribution and home delivery of electric tricycles and electric bicycles.

Of course, with current technology, electric vehicles are impossible. However, two-wheeled bicycles and three-wheeled bicycles with human pedalling can be obtained.

Need not talk about bicycles ~ www.novelhall.com ~ It is convenient for people to travel. Once cement slab roads are popularized across the country, it is very convenient to cycle between places by bike.

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 carriage. After all, as soon as the carriage moves, it is necessary to add food to the horse. The food consumed by horses a day is for four or five people, and the cost is very high.

If you have a human tricycle, it will play a huge role in the transportation of a small amount of goods at short and medium distances. Moreover, the consumption is also low. After all, even if you pedal three rounds, you can eat up to one or two bowls of rice, which is more cost-effective than raising a horse-drawn carriage. Of course, if it is a long-distance transportation, it still needs a carriage. For the transportation of a small amount of goods within and between townships and towns in short distances, human tricycles will have unparalleled huge advantages.

Marlin clearly remembered that before the advent of electric tricycles, those small vendors who set up stalls and rallied were basically manpowered a human tricycle. Moreover, before the taxi became popular, there were also a lot of human tricycles in the county seat.

Therefore, Marin issued an order to develop a human tricycle. As long as the research and development is successful, it will greatly promote the circulation of social commodities. And it is not the mechanical department that solves this task, but the watchmakers ...