Chapter 1224: Industry Leader

In the afternoon, many well-informed people in the market and Quyuan Miscellaneous House were discussing one thing, a group of Dawan merchants got three boxes of soap and a box of alabaster given by Qinghe Hou, but the Dawan people quickly replaced it with porcelain glass and other things, as soon as the news came out, the people who were still coveting these Dawan people instantly lost interest.

Nowadays, soap alabaster is easy to sell in Daqin, and the price is high, and it is easy to sell, but porcelain glass is different, although it is expensive but the supply is sufficient, it is not easy to sell, and even if you go to grab it halfway, it is easy to break in the chaos, and finally end up with a thankless ending.

When these news reached the ears of the Dawan people, the Dawan envoys and a group of merchants also breathed a long sigh of relief, and generously gave Hu Shang, who was his guide, half a box of soap and ten bottles of alabaster to express their gratitude.

When the news reached Chen Xu's ears, he didn't react at all, Xianyang was bustling with millions of people at the moment, all the sons of the hundred schools, three sects and nine streams were everywhere, it was too normal for business bastards such as scalpers and brokers to appear, he could even judge through these news that someone must have given these Dawan people a trick to resolve this crisis, and the Dawan people went back all the way to the mountains and roads, if they took these four boxes of soap and alabaster with them, maybe they would be robbed just out of the border of Daqin, and finally end up in a situation where they were empty of money and property.

It is not easy to do business in this era, from Xianyang to the Western Regions, the road is really wild and chaotic, there is not even a real road, although Chen Xu does not go out often, and he has never been to the Western Regions and the border land, but he can roughly guess the danger and difficulty.

But no matter how dangerous and difficult it is, businessmen dare to go even if it is a ghost door in order to make money, and they will always weigh the pros and cons to make the most advantageous choice, such as giving up their wealth to avoid disasters, such as abandoning goods to save their lives, etc., which almost no one needs to worry about.

And the Dawan people in Xianyang is just a small news, just a few hours will be drowned by more news, the waves have not splashed up a flower disappeared without a trace, and with the progress of the commodity fair, to the end of the evening day of the trade fair, today's largest single transaction also came out, Xianyang Women's College belongs to the Lishang Garment Factory and a cloth merchant in Nanjun signed a total value of 1.5 million yuan of dyed fabric order contract, and this order, has also become the finale of today's transaction, It caused a stir throughout the business world.

The women's college was originally established by Chen Xu as a sole proprietorship, and then by raising tuition fees from the children of wealthy businessmen to fill the deficit and pay the salaries of faculty and staff, and later Ying Shiyan and Fan Caiwei and others opened a Lishang clothing house and jewelry store at the entrance of the college.

The designers of the women's clothing of the Lishang brand are all teachers and students of the women's college.

Each set of clothes is designed and produced, and the model must be arranged to walk the catwalk for display, and then the jury organized by the school will vote for the qualification to be officially listed.

Because adhering to Chen Xu's original advocacy of natural, fitted, beautiful, open design concept, so these clothes are very trendy in appearance and color, some are also very bold, while inheriting the characteristics of the current skirt, but also a large number of absorption and carry forward the style of some clothes and skirts designed by Chen Xu before, the materials are exquisite, the colors are rich, the design is novel, the cut fits, plus a large number of palace maids and weavers who are dismissed from the palace, so the production process is also the royal level, very exquisite and careful, Therefore, it has won the recognition of the majority of the wealthy class.

Nowadays, the women's clothing of the Lishang brand is sold in the Qinghe stores all over the country, and has become a well-known high-end brand, and the price is also close to the people, two or three hundred dollars can also buy a set of trendy models with excellent workmanship, so the sales volume is increasing year by year, in order to meet the growing market needs, Chen Xu let people set up the Lishang Garment Factory, which is a school-run enterprise, and the school's faculty and staff have shares, and they can pay dividends every year. Therefore, a group of faculty and staff who founded the women's college with Chen Xu will share a large amount of money every year, and the clothing designers who have obtained marketing permission will also get a lot of bonuses, so they also continue to stimulate the students in the cutting and art design classes.

After the establishment of the garment factory, the focus of the professors of the women's college completely shifted to clothing design and art painting, and the female students who graduated from the school would arrange to go to the garment factory for internships, and some could also go to the Qinghe store in various places to become a supervisor or even set up their own clothing design studio, and then sell these new clothes to some ready-to-wear stores to get paid.

After having the brand of Lishang, Chen Xu merged all the women's clothing of the previous Qinghe brand into the Lishang Clothing House, and the Qinghe brand only retained men's clothing, with windbreakers, sunglasses, T-shirts, shirts, leather boots, shoulder bags, daggers, belts and other trendy styles that were completely common in later generations, and basically no longer produced and sold traditional clothing.

There are not many men's clothing sales, and the recognition is not particularly high, mainly because it is too trendy, but at present, the people of Daqin are open-minded and dare to wear any clothes, so the items in the men's counter have slowly cultivated a group of loyal fans, which can be regarded as an extremely high-end clothing, and other ready-to-wear stores can't learn it if they want to.

In Chen Xu's view, with the take-off of Daqin's economy and the rapid development of industry, no matter how food, clothing and housing will be solved by commercial means in the future, and clothes are the biggest impact, as long as the workmanship and price are appropriate, the people are willing to spend money to buy clothes, so Chen Xu is still more concerned about the Lishang clothing house and garment factory, and at the same time, he also wants to use this model of factories and brand stores to drive the garment industry to keep up with the development of the economy, and provide enough and good clothes for the people of Daqin.

And the huge order of Lishang Garment Factory was actually finalized by Chen Xu himself.

He took his family to play in the Keju commercial building for most of the day today, and went to several high-end commodity exhibition halls in the Keju field to observe and inspect, and exchanged and talked with some merchants who came to trade, and finally met a cloth merchant from the south.

This cloth merchant's name is Shangguan Mou, a native of Jiangling, and his ancestors have complex dyeing skills, which can dye more than ten different colors of cloth such as indigo, blue, blue, red, and purple.

Chu and the Central Plains advocating blue and black and other heavy colors are different, Chu people like flowing and colorful clothing, so in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the clothes of Chu are the most rich and diverse, and Chu is also good at poetry, songs, music and dance, whether it is a scholar or a nobleman, they all like to enjoy all kinds of beautiful and romantic things.

However, there are pros and cons to everything, and the prosperity of the culture of the Chu State has also allowed the nobles to develop a tradition of luxury and pleasure, with a large land area and a population that exceeds that of the Great Qin, and there is hardly much counterattack power when facing the reckless Qin State.

Although the state of Chu is no longer there, the colorful and light and elegant style of Chu's clothing is still retained, and now walking in the southeastern counties, you will find that the clothes of the local people are much more beautiful and beautiful than those in the northwest.

And this Shangguan family, once the cloth supplier of the royal garment workshop of the Chu Palace, Shangguan Mou is now in his forties, inherited the ancestral dyeing workshop, and once visited the king of Chu when he was young, and many local nobles and gentry of the Chu State are inextricably linked.

When Chen Xu met Shangguan Mou, he was looking at the fabric of the Lishang Yishe in detail, and after seeing Chen Xu, Shangguan Mou also behaved very calmly, and the questions and answers were also polite and not humble or arrogant, which impressed Chen Xu, so he asked a few more questions, and then he figured out his identity.

At present, with the rapid economic development of Daqin, the degree of openness of the people is getting higher and higher, the people's demand for all kinds of beautiful things is increasing, and the pursuit of clothing is naturally becoming more and more colorful.

Lishang Clothing House represents the pioneer and leader of this trend.

As a supplier of colored fabrics, Shangguan Mou has long been concerned about the colorful dresses of the Lishang Clothing House, this time he came to Xianyang, he not only brought a large number of high-quality colored fabrics, but also wanted to find a garment merchant to cooperate, to see if he could make the color printing and dyeing fabric business bigger.

After a simple conversation, Chen Xu asked Shangguan Mu to send some fabric samples to Qinghe Shopping Mall, and the two discussed while drinking tea in the tea restaurant on the third floor, and finally reached this purchase and sale contract of 1.5 million yuan.

This business is not too big for Chen Xu.

But for Shangguan Mou, it is an absolute big order, you must know that his usual ten and twenty pieces of cloth are regular business, and hundreds of horses are big orders, and Chen Xu's order is as high as 25,000 pieces of dyed cloth of various colors, although the average price is reduced to sixty yuan, which is nearly thirty percent lower than the usual sales price, but the time span of this business is two years, and it is also in cooperation with Qinghe Hou, which will provide a huge development space and broader prospects for Shangguan's dyeing workshop.

Relying on the reputation of the Marquis of Qinghe and the cloth provider of Lishang Yishe, the Shangguan clan will soon become a leader in the dyeing industry in Daqin, and there is no doubt that he will firmly sit on the top spot in a few years.

Therefore, for Shangguan Mu, this business is worth doing even if it is a loss, and not everyone has the opportunity to rely on Shangqing Hehou.

And he has a wide range of friends, and many famous businessmen in the southeast counties have dealings, several shareholders of Wuzhong Wuhu Park is a precedent, since a few years ago on the Qinghe Hou, now has long been mixed with the wind and water, tea and red wine can be directly supplied to Qinghe stores and Qinghe restaurants around the country, and relying on the huge scale of Qinghe Group, the two brands have become high-end brands in just two years, occupying a large share in the tea and wine market.

Any shrewd businessman will not let go of the opportunity to rely on the powerful, and if he catches the Marquis of Qinghe, he will not be far from soaring.

Accompanying his wife to go shopping, by the way, doing a big business that is staggering in the eyes of the world, for Chen Xu, it is completely similar to playing, but shopping is indeed too tiring, and this is not his favorite project.

Therefore, he did not go to the exhibition for the next few days, but hid at home eating snacks, drinking hot tea, enjoying the treatment of the maid beating his legs and back, massaging and rubbing his shoulders, and sat in the study and began to plan his great voyage.