"Don't be in a hurry to leave!" As soon as Li Jing shouted, Zhang Hong, who was going back to expand the brewing workshop and recruit workers. "Just now we only talked about the liquor workshop, and then we have to talk about how to deal with our batch of things."

"That's right, after talking for a long time, the general hasn't told me how to process this batch of goods deeply." Zhang Hong finally remembered this stubble and turned back. "Could it be that the general has any other good ideas that can turn stones into gold like this winemaking workshop?"

Li Jing smiled a little proudly, he was still very willing to teach some new concepts to Zhang Hong, the big housekeeper. The so-called commodities are the same in any era, the more raw materials he has, the less valuable he is, and the more processing order, the higher his added value. Like winemaking, a bucket of rice is only 200 yuan, if it is just brewed into ordinary rice wine, a bucket is only 3500 yuan, if it is a famous wine, it is worth a thousand dollars for a bucket of wine.

Now Li Jing has so many million-dollar worth of goods in his hands, since he is unwilling to hand him over to Li Wei to sell, he really has no suitable shipping channel. It is better to simply add these commodities to work, as long as they are as unique as Wang Liangye, then he does not need to find a way to transport them to the foreign countries through the waves, and then there will be a large number of people to buy his goods.

The most valuable of this batch of goods in Li Jing's hands is textiles, including a large number of silk and cloth, as well as high-value textiles such as silk and mirror silk. These things are the most numerous, but also the least difficult to reprocess.

The only way to increase the added value of fabric is to make clothes.

The costumes of both men and women in the late Tang Dynasty became more and more gorgeous, and they reversed the Hu style in the early Tang Dynasty and the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and repeated the Han style. Pay attention to wide robes and large sleeves. The skirt width is increased. The pattern is complicated. Li Jing thought about it, he could open a printing and dyeing workshop to print and dye those cloths with some bright colors and add some beautiful patterns. After the last, I gave Li Hui'er and their quilt workshop some design drawings of many beautiful dresses in the two Song Dynasty, and asked them to make some ready-to-wear clothes to sell. You can even sell boxer shorts, women's briefs, bandeau and other more intimate and comfortable underwear.

After discussing with Zhang Hong for a while, this time he was not too optimistic about Li Jing's idea of the added output value of silk fabrics. Although there are ready-to-wear shops at this time. But in most cases, ordinary people may not go to the ready-to-wear store to buy a piece of clothing, and a pair of shoes and socks in their lifetime, and more often they are sewn by their wives and mothers at home. Ready-to-wear is mainly bought by the middle class and even wealthy families. This market is not big, and it is unlikely that there will be much profit.

"Let's try it first, anyway, it's okay to keep these silk cloths and not sell them, even if you keep them, you can use them directly for money." Li Jing doesn't care too much, he can earn it, and it doesn't matter if he can't earn it, anyway, there will be a great demand for the clothes and covers of the soldiers and civilians on the island in the future.

"Don't be discouraged. In fact, I have already thought of a few very profitable deals. Li Jing said with a smile.

"It's as profitable as selling alcohol?"

"Selling alcohol is ten times more profitable at most, I think of these things. But it's possible to break that number. ”

"Is that really the case?" Zhang Hong now looks at Li Jing like a fairy, and he completely understands him. At the beginning, he went to Wang Li Village to recruit unity soldiers, and it was he who personally took the hillbilly Li Jing out of the mountain village. Who would have thought that in a short period of time, Li Jing now has a territory that completely belongs to him. Not only that, but he always had those strange ideas in his head, such as the crown fortress that was now built on the island, and even the hand-pressed water wells that the city's craftsmen had dug according to his request. There is no need to reel at all, a closed well platform, even the wellhead can not be seen, as long as you pour a little water into the pipe, and then press the handle hard, the hand will suddenly come out of the way, that is, you don't have to worry about having children play in the well.

With a random idea, grain brewing, he can make ten times or twenty times the profit. Now that there are more profitable deals, he feels that he is a little less excited. It seems that no matter how many magical things come out of Li Jing's mouth, they will be normal.

"Is it pepper or tea?" Zhang Hong asked. In his mind, among the remaining goods, there were quite a few quantities of pepper and tea, and the price of both things was not cheap.

Li Jing shook his head, took out a small cloth bag from his arms, and slowly opened it. It contained a small porcelain vase and a few small stones as white as ice cubes.

"What are these?"

Li Jing smiled and handed over the few small pieces as transparent as ice cubes to him, "You lick it!" Zhang Hong stretched out his tongue and licked it in disbelief, and then his face changed color all of a sudden, and his eyes were full of incredulity. He stuck out his tongue and licked it a few more times, and then he simply stuffed it into his mouth and bit it with his teeth. With a click, the small stone shattered, and Zhang Hongga chewed it, and after a while, it was all gone. At the end, he was still a little interested, and stretched out his tongue and licked his lips.

"What is this, why is it so sweet? It tastes like frosting, but no matter how good the frosting sugar is, it is like fine sand, why is this as pure and clear as a jewel? ”

"The one you eat is indeed made from frosted sugar, which I call rock sugar. It looks whiter and clearer than brown sugar sand and frosted sugar, and the longer it can be stored, it will not change color for a long time. How, do you think this rock candy has a future for sales? ”

"Is this rock candy still sold elsewhere?" Zhang Hong keenly grasped the crux of the problem.

Li Jing shook his head: "No, this is the only one for this thing, and there should be no one else in the world who has this rock candy." ”

Zhang Hong let out a long breath, stretched out two fingers and pinched a rock candy in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully, as if he was appreciating a beautiful crystal gem. "Well, it really deserves the name of rock candy, it's really the same as ice. Compared to frosting, it is more perfect. Frosting sugar is actually just a little more beautiful than brown sugar, and it has become a favorite thing of the upper class. You look at many wealthy families in the Tang Dynasty, and even the royal family, they only use frosting sugar instead of brown sugar. In fact, there is not much difference between brown sugar and frosted sugar, but in the eyes of the upper class, brown sugar is eaten by ordinary people, and frosted sugar has become a special thing for rich families because of the trouble of refining and high price. ”

"But if that frosted sugar were compared to rock sugar, it would be too far away. I'm going to make a penny bet with the general, if this rock candy is born, it will definitely become a hot commodity in high society immediately. ”

"Of course, brown sugar is refined from sugar cane, frosting sugar is refined from brown sugar, and my rock sugar is refined from frosting sugar. If you think about it, you will know the value of this rock candy. I've written down the secret recipe for the process of refining rock sugar, and when you go back, you'll set up a rock candy workshop. We now have a few hundred stones of frosting candy, which can be refined directly according to the secret recipe. At that time, we will just sit at home and wait for other merchants to come to buy our rock candy, and we don't have to bother to sell the frosting candy to Bohai and Silla. ”

Zhang Hong's eyes were now full of strings of copper coins, and his face was red with excitement. With two successful commodities in front of him, liquor and rock candy, he is now curious about the gadgets in another small bottle in Li Jing's hand.

"This is a perfume, a perfume with a strange fragrance made from the spices of our shipment plus alcohol and distilled water. Depending on the recipe, there are a variety of different scents that can be used not only by women, but also by men. The effect is stronger than ordinary incense and spices. Li Jing opened the small porcelain bottle of perfume, and suddenly a strange fragrance spread.

As soon as Zhang Hong heard that the ingredients of this perfume actually included spices and alcohol, two extremely expensive things, he had already guessed that this thing must be a more profitable commodity. Even the ingredients are so extravagant, can they be sold cheaply?

"Wow, what a smell, it's so fragrant." Li Jing and Zhang Hong were discussing the sales routine and price of perfume, and Li Huier suddenly smelled the fragrance from nowhere. Especially Li Hui'er was like a puppy, with half-closed eyes and a straight nose that moved, and directly sniffed Li Jing's hand.

"What is this?" Li Hui'er snatched the perfume bottle and stared at the small bottle curiously, at first he thought that Li Jing was burning incense in the small bottle. When I saw that the bottle was actually an aromatic liquid, I was immediately surprised. Zhang Hong proudly presented treasures to several nobles on the side, explaining the magic of this perfume.

"I saw perfume when I was in the capital, and the Hu people from the Western Regions brought it into Middle-earth. But their perfumes don't have such a fragrance at all, it's completely different. As she spoke, Li Huier had already blackened the bottle of perfume into her purse.

Seeing Yu Youniang and Xiao Yulou looking at him with a pitiful look, Li Jing had to endure the pain and took two more bottles from his arms and handed them to one person. Fortunately, when he prepared it, he prepared a few bottles of various spices and studied the proportion, otherwise, if he didn't have Gui Niang and Wan'er and the fifth sister's sister-in-law, Li Jing estimated that it would be difficult to make a difference.

While several women were giggling and trying several different flavors of perfume on the side, Zhang Hong smiled very obscenely and said: "The general will also give me a bottle, and I will use it for my yellow-faced woman when I go back." "Take the porcelain vase that Li Jing threw to him, and hide it in his arms like a treasure." What else does the general have to make money, don't you have to say it all at once. ”

Li Jing glared at him angrily, "Your idea of making money is like rain in the sky, you are really not satisfied." Let's start with these few now, if you can get it right, then you will make a lot of money, and in the future, it can even become the expenditure for our Shamen Town's food, clothing, equipment, soldiers and horses to buy grain and grass. When you go back now, you will immediately draw up a plan, immediately expand the liquor workshop, and build another rock sugar workshop and a perfume workshop. I remember that the most important thing about these two workshops is to keep the formula secret, and I think that the workshop workers should first use the slaves brought back from Liaohai. Let Lin Wei send some people to guard it strictly, and he must not leak secrets. As soon as the recipe is revealed, we will have no money to make in this transaction. ”

Zhang Hong's face was straight, and he said seriously: "I will definitely handle this matter well, and I will never let the formula leak." If something goes wrong, the general will cut off my head. ”

Li Jing patted his arm, "Can't I believe you?" Let's get it well, if we don't do it well, we will all count on these few deals with the money in the future. (To be continued.) )