"Sister-in-law, this room is so nice, are you just letting me stay here all by myself?" Wang Tiemei asked.

“Currently, you live alone in the entire house, but other employees will likely move in soon. Of course, you'll still have your own room. However, I might arrange for other female employees to live in the front courtyard. Male employees will live in the front courtyard or somewhere else. We'll have to see how things are arranged in a while,” Zhao Zhenzhu said uncertainly.

Zhao Zhenzhu felt that if the electronics business went well, she would open a clothing factory in Beijing.

For the next decade or so, the clothing business was also quite profitable.

Zhao Zhenzhu decorated the second and third floors of the shopping mall according to the model of a clothing mall.

Once the electronics store on the ground floor opens, some of the stalls upstairs can be rented out to collect rent.

Qian Rukun still complained that the rent was too high.

In Zhao Zhenzhu's plan, she wouldn't have to pay the rent herself; in fact, she would make a profit.

Once the electronics mall is established and foot traffic increases, small business owners will definitely flock to rent their stalls.

Zhao Zhenzhu just hadn't decided whether or not to let Qian Rukun get involved in the clothing business.

After all, the cooperation has just begun, and Zhao Zhenzhu is not yet sure whether Qian Rukun is trustworthy.

Therefore, Zhao Zhenzhu is still undecided about whether the clothing factory's employee dormitories should be arranged together with those of the electronics store.

After Zhao Zhenzhu found schools for Zhou Jiakai and Zhou Yunyun respectively, at the age of thirteen, she and Wang Tiemei boarded a train to Guangzhou.

Qian Rukun acted quickly. He had already found a shop before the Lunar New Year; it was an old commercial building, three stories high, near Wangfujing.

Zhao Zhenzhu rented the entire building, with each floor measuring approximately 7,000 square meters. She signed a ten-year contract.

If the shopping mall weren't state-owned and not for sale, Zhao Zhenzhu would have actually wanted to buy it directly.

This area will definitely be demolished and redeveloped in the future.

Qian Rukun was dumbfounded, gaining a new understanding of Zhao Zhenzhu's boldness.

The rent for a commercial building is six thousand a month!

It costs 72,000 a year.

Of course, with money like Kun around, Zhao Zhenzhu didn't have to pay ten years' rent upfront; instead, she paid monthly and didn't even need to pay a deposit.

Zhao Zhenzhu gave Qian Rukun five thousand yuan and asked him to find someone to renovate according to her requirements.

The renovation workers that Qian Rukun found were very reliable; they worked quickly and well.

The workers only rested for two or three days during the Spring Festival before starting work again.

It looks like the shop will be fully renovated before the Lantern Festival.

Zhao Zhenzhu couldn't sit still, so she went to Guangshi ahead of schedule.

It takes more than two days to travel from Beijing to Guangzhou. By the time Zhao Zhenzhu and the others arrive in Guangzhou, the factories there will definitely have already started operating.

Like Qian Rukun, Zhao Zhenzhu was eager to open her business and start making money as soon as possible. After all, the rent was six thousand yuan a month! Every day she delayed opening meant wasting two hundred yuan.

This trip to Guangzhou broadened Zhao Zhenzhu's horizons.

Guangzhou is on a completely different level compared to the North.

Guangzhou has many private factories and is an old port city, making its economy much more developed than that of northern cities.

Zhao Zhenzhu not only bought electrical appliances, but also fabrics and electronic watches.

Back then, a domestically produced mechanical watch cost around 170 or 180 yuan, and you also needed a watch ration coupon. Buying one watch required saving up for one or two years' salary.

The wholesale price of electronic watches is only three yuan and fifty cents, and there are discounts for bulk orders.

Zhao Zhenzhu ordered 100,000 pieces, and the wholesale price was reduced to 2.5 yuan each.

Zhao Zhenzhu remembers that in her previous life, an electronic watch of this quality could sell for fifteen or sixteen yuan in the late 1980s.

When electronic watches first came to market in the north, they were priced at 35 or 38 yuan each.

The profit margins on electronic watches were so high, even higher than those on electrical appliances, that Zhao Zhenzhu couldn't resist making a purchase.

Originally, Zhao Zhenzhu didn't have that much money to buy goods.

However, Zhao Zhenzhu was just lucky!

That day, Zhao Zhenzhu and Wang Tiemei were a little hungry in the evening, so they went out for a late-night snack and rescued a wealthy businessman from Hong Kong.

At that time, the wealthy businessman was being chased by several burly men.

Zhao Zhenzhu couldn't bear to see a living person being hacked to death in front of her, so she and Wang Tiemei stepped in to save the wealthy merchant.

The wealthy businessman's surname was Zhou, and his name was Zhou Yang.

To express his gratitude, Zhou Yang insisted on treating Zhao Zhenzhu and the others to a late-night snack.

Eating and drinking are the easiest ways to bring strangers closer together.

Zhou Yang, still shaken, complained to Zhao Zhenzhu.

Zhou Yang is in the jewelry business. He got himself into trouble today because he was going to compete with a rival for a piece of top-quality jadeite tomorrow.

Zhao Zhenzhu was delighted.

She has top-quality jade in her space!

In her previous life, before Zhao Zhenzhu transmigrated, she liquidated all her assets. She donated half of her billions and converted most of the other half into supplies stored in her spatial dimension.

Zhao Zhenzhu had too much money; if she bought all of it for daily necessities, her storage space wouldn't be able to hold it all.

Therefore, in addition to stockpiling supplies suitable for this era, Zhao Zhenzhu also stockpiled gold and jewelry.

Zhao Zhenzhu has more than a dozen pieces of top-quality jadeite, such as Imperial Green Jade with Colorful Yellow Jade.

The emperor was reluctant to sell the green pearl and planned to keep it as a family heirloom.

Zhao Zhenzhu knew that with the over-mining of jadeite in Myanmar, top-quality jadeite like imperial green would become increasingly rare and expensive.

If you sell now, it will be difficult to buy it back later.

Zhao Zhenzhu gave Zhou Yang a piece of spring-colored jade weighing about three kilograms, telling him that it was her family's heirloom.

Zhou Yang was extremely grateful and offered a price of 1.6 million.

With this money, plus the tens of thousands she already had, Zhao Zhenzhu went on a shopping spree.

More than a week later, after Zhao Zhenzhu finished shipping several train cars of goods, she and Wang Tiemei boarded the train back to Beijing.

On the day Zhao Zhenzhu returned to Beijing, Qian Rukun borrowed a car and picked her up at the train station.

After Qian Rukun escorted Zhao Zhenzhu and Wang Tiemei to the courtyard, he couldn't help but ask, "Sister-in-law, are we opening tomorrow? I had someone look it up, and tomorrow is an auspicious day."

"You took all the goods I sent?" Zhao Zhenzhu asked in surprise.

“Yes, yes, sister-in-law. I not only moved all the goods to our warehouse, but I also had samples set up in the store. By the way, sister-in-law, these are the prices I set for those products, please take a look.” Qian Rukun handed a price list to Zhao Zhenzhu.

Qian Rukun was incredibly impressed.

Zhao Zhenzhu went on a long trip and brought back several train cars full of in-demand goods.

Qian Rukun assumed Zhao Zhenzhu was paying a deposit when she picked up the goods, unaware that Zhao Zhenzhu had already paid the full amount. Otherwise, Qian Rukun would have been even more surprised.

These goods have a lot of initial capital.

Zhao Zhenzhu looked at the prices on the price list and silently calculated them in her mind.

Qian Rukun priced the electronic watches at thirty-eight each, which yielded a profit of more than ten times the initial price.

Other electrical appliances, even those with the lowest profit margins, are still around 40%.