Chapter 52: The Butterfly Effect
"Your Highness, is this soap?"
Wang Shijie's eyes lit up, and he reached out to get one of the pieces of soap, he had seen pancreas, but this pancreas was black and not slippery, which was as clean and beautiful as soap, pleasing to the eye. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Wait, you can't move yet." Xiao Ming reminded: "The soap has not completely condensed, and we have to wait for a day or two." ”
This time, Xiao Ming's method of making soap is basically a method of making handmade soap, and the technology of industrial soap making is not completely adopted, because in order to accelerate the condensation rate of soap, the method of salting out is also needed.
It's just that this method requires more precise control of the amount of salt, rather than this, it is better to cool it for two days, after all, the Wang family only needs two days to prepare the caravan and ships, but it will not delay the time.
The pothos also looked obsessed at this time, holding her hands in her heart, and her eyes seemed to have little stars twinkling.
Ordered Chen Longwen to take care of the soap, and two days later, Xiao Ming came over in person and took away some of the soap.
This part is going to be sent to Chang'an, and when this new thing comes out, it will naturally be given to Concubine Zhen for use, and at the same time, it can also allow the concubines in the harem to promote themselves.
He knew very well that at this time, the folk fashion was driven by these concubines.
"Your Highness, how many taels of silver are you going to sell this soap to us?"
Two days later, Wang Shijie came to the Qi Wangfu to ask about the price of soap, and the soap was produced, and the problem of pricing also came out.
This pancreas itself can only be used by the powerful and rich, and the target of this sale of soap is naturally them.
"What does Brother Wang think?" Xiao Ming is not stupid, in this kind of pricing, whoever opens his mouth first will suffer first.
Wang Shijie muttered: "The pancreas in Chang'an City are only enough for the ladies in the palace to use, it belongs to the tribute, there is almost no sale among the people, in order to sell soap, the foolish brother specially asked people to inquire, the purchase price in the palace is twenty-five taels of pancreas, our soap is much stronger than the pancreas, and the size is also big, a soap is enough to use for a month, so I think fifty taels of soap is not expensive." ”
Fifty-two pieces of soap in modern times is absolutely sky-high, but the times are different, the price of goods is naturally not the same, at this time the soap in the country of Chongqing is basically equivalent to the modern Chanel, or even higher, so in comparison, the price of this soap is not expensive.
After all, what he sold to was the most powerful and wealthy group of people in the Great Yu Kingdom.
"What Brother Wang said is reasonable, in this case, how about this piece of soap for the king to give five taels?" Xiao Ming said.
"Three-two?" Wang Shijie showed a painful look, "Your Highness, the Qin family's drunken Qingzhou, you have made a profit of ten taels." ”
"Then can the Qin family's drunken Qingzhou ship reach fifteen hundred altars at one time?" Xiao Ming said that this time he produced 1,500 pieces of soap at one time, and Xiao Ming would be stupid if he made a profit of more than three taels.
Wang Shijie was speechless, there were only a few hundred jars in Zuiqingzhou at one time, and because of the problem of food, Xiao Ming also strictly controlled the output.
Unlike how much soap you want, even if the Wang family makes a profit, it is still a profit of little and a lot of money, Wang Chengchou and Wang Shijie are bright in their hearts.
"In that case, I'll go back and discuss it with my father, and then come back to report to His Highness." Wang Shijie didn't dare to give Xiao Ming an answer now.
Sending Wang Shijie away, Xiao Ming called Li Kaiyuan over, "The business of our palace can't be monopolized by the Wang family and the Qin family, otherwise it will take a long time, I'm afraid there will be a lot of dirty things in the middle. “
"Your Highness, why don't you take the business of the two families, in this way, won't the profits be all from our palace." Li Kaiyuan asked, since he became the shopkeeper of the trading house, his psychology changed very quickly, and he quickly entered the role of a businessman.
Xiao Ming said: "Now the power of the four wealthy clans in Qingzhou is still very large, whether it is the smooth flow of the government decree or the implementation of the Tuntian order, they need to cooperate, otherwise if they make a stumbling block in it, the development of the fief will be difficult step by step, and it seems that they will suffer a loss if they give up a little benefit, but they will give benefits to the king everywhere for this benefit." “
Li Kaiyuan said, "Xia Guan understands, so he will go and prepare a merchant ship to go to the south." ”
Xiao Ming nodded, and watched Li Kaiyuan leave, the purpose of his establishment of the firm was to further take back the business rights, and it was also to prevent the Wang family and the Qin family from setting prices privately.
The pricing power of Zuiqingzhou and soap is in his hands, but no one can guarantee that the Wang family and the Qin family will not pursue the highest profit and raise the price privately.
Now let his firm participate, and the two will inevitably be more restrained.
Wang Shijie came back not long after leaving, and to his surprise, the Wang family agreed, and the fool could see that he made no less money in this business than Qin Chuanyun.
First there was drunken Qingzhou, then perfume, soap, and now Xiao Ming is ready to focus on creating these three products, especially soap, which will continue to expand its scale and maximize profits.
So this winter, he is ready to devote himself to the workshop area, and set up a series of workshops such as a special brewing workshop, a soap factory, a perfume factory, a steelmaking workshop, and a hydraulic lathe workshop, which will become the heart of Qingzhou's industry in the future.
At the same time, Li Kaiyuan's caravan, the Wang family's caravan, and the Qin family's caravan went in all directions, went out with these goods, and also brought back a huge amount of silver......
Chang'an City, in the Imperial Palace.
"Queen, did you use this soap last night? Oops, you don't know, I used this soap when I took a shower last night, not to mention how comfortable it was, like I washed it in vain when I took a shower before. A concubine said.
"Isn't it? After using this, I feel that my skin is much smoother and fragrant. ”
"And the most important thing is that this soap can remove oil when taking a bath, and my skin can be oiled the most."
"Compared to this soap, the pancreas is really embarrassing, I asked the palace maid to take it and throw it away, and I will never use it again." Another concubine gave her opinion.
Empress Zhao smiled and watched the concubines' discussion of soap, this soap was just sent by King Qi from Qingzhou, with the experience of the last perfume, the concubines quickly snatched up the soap, and the next day they got together to talk about the soap.
Concubine De said at this time: "But there seem to be people in Chang'an City who are selling soap, but how can those people outside the imperial city understand the magic of this soap." ”
"That's right, Sister Zhen also said that the soap in our palace is specially provided by King Qi, and the materials used in this soap are all of the highest quality, and the outside is not as good as ours." A concubine was triumphant.
Concubine Zhen and Queen Zhao glanced at each other, Queen Zhao understood in her heart, and said: "The soap outside here is also King Qi's, King Qi is so obedient, we should also help King Qi more." ”
One of the concubines said: "Niangniang is right, I will summon my sister into the palace and tell her that the concubines in the palace are all using soap." “
Concubine Zhen smiled and nodded, this time Xiao Ming bribed the right person and gained the favor of these concubines, so he didn't have to worry about no one talking to him.