Eight hundred handbags are shared by two hundred people, and if each person gets an average of four, it will make up a thousand, and the remaining two hundred can be retailed in Yulong Cloth Village. There are more than 50 girls and grandmothers in the front and back courtyards, and each of them shares the processing task of 20 handbags. Twenty are to be completed in six days, and there is only three or four jobs per day, even if the handbag is much more complicated than the sachet, completing twenty in six days is the same as playing. And the brocade itself has a pattern, no embroidery, no need to add too many embellishments, and there are not many needles and threads on it. It's a bit troublesome to sew a zipper, hanging lining = extra small pendant and backpack straps. It's too small to sew. Like small pumpkins, small red fruits, kittens, and puppies, there are also ready-made ornaments sewn directly on them or hung on them. For example, feather lace, cartoon wooden buttons, hand-stitched beads, embroidered cloth stickers, chiffon flowers, etc., are all meticulous work. Fortunately, all the girls and grandmothers have a strong foundation of needlework, and according to the requirements of the cloud master, they are meticulous in the processing process and complete the task one day in advance.

The news that Guo Luoluo's mansion ordered goods in Yulong Buzhuang was known to other mansions and followed suit. Carefully calculate or order cost-effective, which house has to reward the next person when the festival, can not just give him a tael of silver in the palm of the hand, can not show how much, because the reward is not the same, in the purse only you know. The purse of Yulong Buzhuang is very novel, not at all the old traditional patterns of the past few decades, and there are beads as decoration. There are also sparkling discs, cat's eye sized diamonds. The store repeatedly stated that it was not a diamond, and that diamonds were sold so cheaply that they would have to pay for not being able to wear pants. This is very true, which merchant sewed a diamond into a purse and gave it to a descendant? The master can't afford to use diamonds.

The matter of calculating the honorarium is up to the gentleman. The method of sharing is: half of the capital is left, and the remaining half is used as profit, which is divided into ten parts, five shares to the emperor, one share to the operator, that is, the seller, and four shares to the processor. If you don't keep the capital, people won't understand, and if these things are used up in the future, you have to buy them in Daqing. The brocade and cloth of the Great Qing Dynasty were higher than the prices of exotic ones, and it was not easy to do at that time. It's not okay to keep too little capital, just compromise and leave half. In this way, the emperor, the operator, and the processor did not suffer a loss, and the prince himself did not suffer a loss, so it was decided. But Ma Ping felt that the prince was too disadvantaged, how could he have only half of the capital? Said to the prince: "You really have no experience in business, how can you keep a book like this?" ”

The prince smiled and said, "Don't worry, I know it in my heart." ”

Ma Ping stopped shouting.

Don't look at the processing fee of dozens of yuan, it has brought great hope and happiness to the girls and grandmothers in the front and back courtyards. In general, the price of goods in the Qing Dynasty was relatively low, and 50 wen could buy more than 30 catties of rice, which was enough for a family of five to eat for four or five days. And everyone didn't forget to sleep and eat because of these fifty articles, but it was as easy as playing. On average, I earn more than ten yuan a day, and if I hurry up, two days will be enough. There are also a few girls and grandmothers who came from other palaces, and the princes of other mansions gave them to Lord Rui as gifts. In other houses, doing private work must be done secretly, and you can't let the master know. How can it take two days to get a pair of soles, and the processing fee is five or six Wen, how can it be compared with the house here? You can earn more than ten dollars a day.

They also know that the teaching fee of Teaching Mama is very high, and it is useless to be greedy and jealous, and this fee is not taken out of everyone's processing fee, but from the capital. Besides, teaching is also very worrying, you have to be ready to talk about what and how to talk about it, and you have to worry about teaching everyone. Besides, people are literate, have very smart brains, and dare to speak in front of people. When you encounter that kind of stupidity, you have to be patient and nag five or eight times, which is enough to bother.

Yun'er told everyone that if there are more people ordering in the future, the processing quota allocated to each person will definitely increase, which means that the processing fee will be correspondingly more. It's just a little harder.

The girls and grandmothers are not afraid of hard work, they are originally born in hardship, they can endure hardship the most, and they can get income after hardship, who will push three or four?

The second batch of 800 sachets, the order amount totaled 80 taels. There are still forty taels of half of the capital, and the remaining forty taels of profits are divided into ten shares, twenty taels for the emperor, three taels for selling goods, and the remaining seventeen taels are for the girl who participated in the processing. The average processing fee per person is 340 Wen. Much more than the last processing.

The girls and grandmothers were rejoicing. Especially Peaches, in her most difficult years, she washed clothes and did needlework, and sometimes she only earned three or five yuan a day, barely making ends meet, and she was tired enough. Now to say that it is processing fabric, it is simply playing. Everything is ready-made, even the fabric of the sachet is cut, and I don't need a penny of my own capital. So everyone is looking forward to more fabric work to do, which is an additional input.

In the evening, Mama Lin convened a meeting of the girls and grandmothers in the courtyard and told everyone that Manager Tian had signed an order contract for a thousand handbags with a certain official's mansion, and this time it was all the girls and grandmothers from all over the house who went into battle, and they didn't make as much money as before. But you can't help but take care of the other girls in the house, they should also be qualified to participate in the processing of fabrics, and everyone can make money.

The girls have no opinion on this, and they can do as much work as the master gives. What they think is that if the processing orders continue, they will have a steady stream of remuneration, but the processing quantity is not enough. Mama Lin told everyone: "Master Yun said, we have just contracted the task of mass processing, and there will be more customers to order in the future." And we will not only contract the two commodities of sachets and handbags, but also clothing processing and weaving, beads, artificial flowers and other projects in the future. There is no task of batch processing, we still have three consignment stores for us to retail, this is perennial processing, so you don't have to worry about not working, on the contrary, it may be more and more difficult. However, the harder you work, the more you get paid. Of course, the prince will not let everyone be so tired that he can't straighten his waist, and always have to be under the premise that his body can bear it. What we have to do is not only what women can do, but also other projects, and men can also make money, such as cold drinks. In the future, we will open a restaurant and restaurant, in short, when you come to the house, the prince will not treat you badly. ”

Mama Lin conveyed Yun'er's meaning and gave these girls a great reassurance. Therefore, all the processors are no longer afraid that the order quantity is small and they are not satisfied, as long as the task is sent by the manager, it will be completed seriously. And if there is no rework, all are qualified!

Regarding the issue of capital, the eldest sister emphasized that the prince said that although it is money exchanged for antiques, the capital must be deducted. If you don't deduct it, the goods brought back from the foreign land will be sold out in the future, and the capital will be needed for processing with the goods of the Qing Dynasty, and you will know what a loss is at that time. Nor will it be understood. At that time, the emperor will be accustomed to taking ready-made profits, and he will not care whether you live or die. These funds should be used when natural disasters strike, and it is a person who can save a person. Usually you can also do some charitable things, Buddhist disciples are good, and it is their duty to help the elderly and the poor. This kind of thing is also indispensable to Emperor Kangxi. It's just that you can't do such things on a large scale, or you can't do it in a conspicuous way, otherwise your kindness will be regarded as buying people's hearts by the emperor and the minister of civil and military affairs.

Tian Liang came out of the way to sign the order contract with the official eunuchs who ordered the goods, and Mr. Ruiqian and Mr. Rui gave the staff. Be cautious and never take a wrong step.

On this day, Ruiqian was selling cloth in the store, and two Westerners with high noses and blue eyes came in, followed by a Qing Dynasty person with long braids and a suit, and it is estimated that this person is the translator.

One of the tall foreigners spoke a lot of Western, and his long pigtails gave the translator: "May I ask the owner of your shop, can you sell us the round flowers on your little pocket individually?" We want to order in large quantities. ”

Rui Qian's brain reacted quickly, and he immediately understood that this foreigner was going to buy a hook out and sew a single flower on a woman's clothes. He heard Yun'er say that hooking flowers is very time-consuming, very tiring, and uses a lot of thread. Therefore, the crochet flower sachets and handbags sold in the store are very expensive. But that elegance and beauty could not be replaced by any fabric, so he said to the interpreter: "Sir, I can't agree to your request for a large order, because the goods are not mine, but belong to my relatives, and must be approved by him." Second, such handicrafts are not made of fabric, they are hooked out of a needle and stitch, which is very tiring, time-consuming, and thread-consuming, and the processing fee is also higher. Mr. may wish to order a small amount and take it back to try, if the effect is good, let's discuss? ”

The translator whirled for a while, and the two Westerners said that they were not afraid of high prices, as long as the things were good. It is a gift to be presented to Her Majesty the Queen. The first order is going to ask for 10,000 white flowers.

It's not bad, these two don't seem to be able to play with their hearts, and they even tell the merchant who they use. Then there was a whirl, and the interpreter said, "These two are royal merchants from Great Britain, who have come to the Qing Dynasty in search of beautiful decorations that will catch the eye at the Queen's wedding." They took a fancy to the round flowers on the small bag, and if they were sewn on the side of the queen's skirt or collar, they would be incredibly beautiful. The Queen's dress was the fashion that all the women of Great Britain followed. It is hoped that there will be more representative flowers as samples for them to choose from. ”

Ruiqian said that he would ask the owner for instructions and ask them to come tomorrow to hear the reply. The two British gentlemen agreed and left. Ruiqian hurriedly came to the palace to report the situation to his uncle and cousin. Mr. said that Yun'er had to make up her mind about this matter, and only she understood the production of handicrafts, so Yun'er was invited to her father's upstairs.

Yun'er said that 10,000 medium-sized crochet flowers can be ordered, but the bulk order line will be used up quickly, and the thread bought back is not all used for crochet flowers, but also used on rod needles. This order can be signed, 10,000 crochet flowers and 200 people share, all the girls and grandmothers in the house are in battle, and everyone shares fifty equally. The time should be a little more relaxed, eight days to complete, an average of a little more than six flowers a day, it will not be very hard. The processing fee and the cost of the white line together are 100 wen per flower, and the cost of processing is 100 wen, 10,000 1,000 taels, leaving 500 taels as the capital, and the remaining 500 taels are divided into 10 parts, 250 taels to the emperor, and 25 taels to Ruiqian (this time he gave him a profit of 10%, because he did not need to operate, but the processing order was contacted by him).

The remaining 225 200 maids and wives in the two mansions have an average of one or two dollars per person, and more than 150 wen per day!

The next day, when he talked with Tian Liang and the two imperial merchants of Great Britain, they didn't have a word to refute. All conditions are mentioned by Yun'er, including price, time, and quantity. Because they were so happy with the five samples they got! They are businessmen, they are the kind of businessmen who sell goods and order goods in large quantities, and when negotiating prices, they often push the bull to the neck and blush and even fight each other with old fists, who knows that the other party's decision-making figure is a young woman, and it will be negotiated in a few words, and both sides will make money without suffering. They also said that if the time was not enough, they could give a grace period of a few days, but they were afraid that the time would be tight and the quality could not be guaranteed, so Tian Liang, who came to sign the contract, also agreed.

The royal merchant of Great Britain was very happy, and in less than half a month, so many beautiful flowers could be loaded back to the queen to show off.

When looking at the sample, Ruiqian had just taken out the sample and placed it on the table, when he heard a strange cry of "ahhhhh Mr. Translator hastened to say: "This Mr. William is happy and liked, and said that the flowers are very beautiful, and there are five kinds of flowers. I hope you will get into the process immediately. "This one is also an anxious person.

"Then please ask the gentleman to pay half of the payment as a deposit." Tian Liang is the signatory, and he talked about the deposit very directly. At that time, the imperial merchant took out a silver ticket of 1,000 taels of silver and slapped it on the table: "This is the full payment, we can trust Mr. Tian." ”

Tian Liang wrote "one-time payment of the goods" on the signing contract, and signed his name very seriously. The other party also signed his name, and the two shook hands. This is the etiquette of Westerners, and Tian Liang is not awkward at all, because he has seen a lot in foreign lands. But in the eyes of Ruiqian and the guys in the store, only foreign devils are like this.

In fact, crochet flowers are still transmitted from Europe and are not the patent of the Chinese. It's just that it's much later than it is now.

At the same time that Tian Liang signed the contract, the government was already ready, and 200 girls and grandmothers went into battle together, each of whom was given a small basket of plastic strips to load the thread, and a cloth bag to pack the finished product.

Then the threads are found and sent, and then they are divided into five weaving groups, each group of forty people hooking a pattern. Tian Liang found a few spacious venues in the Xiaoyao Palace, Yun'er's hall, and the hall in the Fujin Building, so that these girls and grandmothers could engage in processing. One place in the Xiaoyao Hall can accommodate three work groups. Twenty carpentry boards were taken from the "Xingwulu", each group of four was used as a workbench, and ten people were seated on each workbench, and the crochet flowers that needed to be processed were taught by the teaching mother. Everyone has a foundation and learns quickly. It only took half a day to familiarize myself with the pattern that needs to be hooked and enter the formal processing.

Few people spoke, everyone concentrated on hooking flowers, and on the first day someone hooked out the number of ten. After inspection, all of them are qualified. The original plan was to complete it in seven days, check the quality in one day, and get it done in six days.

Tian Liang did not go to deliver the goods immediately, but on the ninth day, he packed 10,000 crochet flowers of five kinds in cardboard boxes and pulled them to Yulong Cloth Village. The two royal merchants of Great Britain were very satisfied, and received the goods without being picky at all.