Chapter 359: Training Ship
Xia Nan nodded and said, "I understand! Lao Lin, what Lao Song said makes sense. If there is a market for perfumes www.biquge.info we can guide some people to give up growing food and switch to cash crops, and use economic levers to support the supply market of raw materials. β
"Yes, that's good. As long as it is profitable, the people will naturally vote with their feet and make choices that are beneficial to them. However, will we see that everyone can make money, everyone flocks to plant flowers, and no one grows food? Lin Weiye was slightly worried.
"You can rest assured of this. The balance of supply and demand has its own market regulation, when there are too many people who grow flowers, the supply exceeds demand, and the price falls, it will squeeze out the surplus people, and these people can only grow back food in order to make a living. β
Xia He couldn't help but interject: "Master, since this ambergris is a tribute to the emperor, it must be a good thing, why don't you use it yourself?" It's okay to sell it, why take it to make perfume, what a waste? β
Xia Nan laughed: "Haha, you stupid girl! No matter how precious ambergris is, even if it is sold for gold, you can find a few pieces a year. Dissolve it and use it to make perfume, a small piece can make a hundred and eighty bottles of perfume, so it doesn't make a lot of money? Even for personal use, the prepared perfume is better than a lump of whale dung! β
Xia He blushed and asked curtly, "Is perfume very profitable?" More expensive than rouge? β
"You're going to use a penny of to compare it to perfume?" Xia Nan's eyes widened, "The perfume is really successful, why do you have to pay a bottle of ten or twenty taels of silver?" β
Everyone was stunned, Xia He and Chunlan exclaimed, "So expensive? β
Song Xiaobao couldn't close his mouth, he was really shocked, he never thought that the things he made could be sold at such an expensive price.
Even Lin Weiye asked unconfidently: "Ten or twenty taels?" Isn't that a bit outrageous? β
Xia Nan replied confidently: "The specific price depends on the finished product you make, but the selling price must not be less than ten taels." β
"But will the market accept such an outrageous price?"
"Not outrageous at all. As long as you make a perfume that is close to a modern perfume and can maintain its fragrance for a long time, I am sure. Xia Nan replied firmly. The pricing of a commodity depends on several factors, one is cost, the second is market demand, and the third is the degree of scarcity. First of all, the cost, according to the amount of raw materials you said, dozens or hundreds of catties of petals can make a bottle of perfume, and the cost is not low; Then talking about market demand, ordinary people will definitely not be able to afford it, but the female dependents of large families will definitely like it and can afford it. Perfume can enhance the charm of women, and those women who want to stand out in a family with a group of wives and concubines have enough desire to buy; The third is the degree of scarcity, there is no other branch in the world, I want to buy, hehe, increase the price! β
Lin Weiye thought thoughtfully: "Are you going to make perfume into a luxury product and launch it to the market?" β
"Or else? Do you want to sell it as toilet water? Do you know why a bag of A is sold for tens of thousands of dollars at every turn, and an ordinary bag that looks almost the same can only be a few hundred yuan? This is the sense of superiority that comes with luxury. A woman dressed in ordinary clothes, as long as she carries a limited-edition HermΓ¨s bag, is more compelling than a woman wearing jewelry. A woman's consumption is irrational, as long as she feels that a luxury item can make her feel happy, she will save money to buy it by eating chaff vegetables. β
Lin Weiye clapped his hands and shouted: "I understand! In fact, men are the same. There isn't much difference in hardware between a 500,000,000 car and a 5,000,000,000 car, but as long as the logo is changed to a Bentley or Rolls-Royce, it's worth the price! The price threshold of ten taels of silver is enough to stop most civilians, but the rich man doesn't care whether the price is one tael of silver or ten taels of silver, he only cares if he can show off his superiority! β
"You can teach." Xia Nan nodded with satisfaction.
Song Xiaobao, Chunlan, and Xia He looked at the two masters blankly, not understanding what they were talking about, what forced Ge, Gucci, and Bentley, like listening to the book of heaven.
"I'll give you a suggestion, since ambergris can't be found for a while, you can use other emergency first, such as musk, although this thing is produced in the southwest, but Guangzhou must be sold, first drum out the preparation method of perfume." Xia Nan reminded.
"It's okay, figure out the preparation ratio, and replace the fixative with ambergris in the future."
After sunbathing on the beach, he returned to the entrance of the South Park, and William greeted him, who had been waiting here for a while.
"General, I have an idea, Charles said that I must get your consent, so I came to you."
Xia Nan motioned for him to come into the garden and sit down to talk in detail, and the two chatted as they walked.
"Our existing 500-ton warships have strong firepower and defense, at least at present, there is no opponent, but they have to undertake the task of fighting and guarding the port, and they also have to rotate into the port for maintenance in peacetime." William said.
"What do you mean?"
"I would like to ask you to order the construction of ships of smaller tonnage, not for firepower, but to be flexible enough, and to operate the ships with fewer sailors to make up for the gap between the tonnage, and to serve as a training ship during non-combat periods."
The two came to the council hall and sat down, Xia Nan frowned: "But what's the point of such a ship?" β
"Of course it makes sense. Because of the lower cost of cruising, it could be used to guard the waters between the island and the mainland, and on the other hand, it could train my sailors to adapt more quickly to warships of a completely different type than the Chinese ones, which I could not have sent out to train seafarers without hesitation, given the combat duty of 500-ton ships. β
Xia Nan thought about it, it sounded a little reasonable, but at this moment, he was preparing to start a war with Liu Xiang and squeezed the shipyard's production capacity to build such a small ship, he was not sure yet.
"Come on, ask Master Lin and Steward Charles to come here."
The two came to the South Park one after another. Charles expressed his neutrality: "Now that I have enough manpower, and two new dockyards are about to be built, there is no difficulty in building such a smaller ship, it will ultimately depend on the adequacy of the funds, and whether you are willing to do so, Your Excellency the General." β
"Will it affect the progress of large warships?"
Charles shrugged: "Theoretically." However, the construction of a new 1,000-ton warship requires experienced craftsmen who have been personally trained by me, and there is not enough energy and manpower to start building two or three 1,000-ton warships at the same time, so in fact, the impact is not great, and at most it will slow down the construction progress of the 500-ton warship, but it is also very limited. (To be continued.) )
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