Chapter 9 The frustrated Xiao Guangwei
Seeing the long queue of purchases at the door of Li Zhi's store, Xiao Guangwei was even more angry. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info Li Zhi doesn't know what **** luck he has taken, he doesn't know where to sell this soap from Jiangnan, and it sells so well. If this continues, won't Li Zhi have to pay off the debt he owes to his family? If this continues, won't the Li family want to get rich? Then Cui He, will he have a better relationship with Li Zhi?
A few days ago, Li Zhi said that he wanted to be a servant, but Cui He actually said that he would let Li Zhi go to Cui's house. Cui He takes care of Li Zhi so much, then Li Zhi has made a fortune, doesn't Cui He want to be better with her?
Impossible, Cui He is my Xiao Guangwei's dream, and I must not be good with others.
Xiao Guangwei asked his subordinates to go to the Li family's store to line up, and also bought two pieces of soap, and rushed home to try it. He wanted to find out the problem with the soap so that he could get the word out and get people to boycott it.
First of all, try the effect of washing your hands: the next person brought a basin of well water, and Xiao Guangwei wiped a piece of fat on his hand, making his hand stained. This kind of oil stain is the most difficult to clean, and it can't be washed off just by soaking it in water for a few minutes. Xiao Guangwei did not believe that soap could deal with this kind of oil.
He took out the soap he had bought and rubbed it on his hands a dozen times.
A hand of foam bubbled up. Xiao Guangwei put his hand into the water, rubbed it, and the oil stain in his hand suddenly melted into the water with the foam. Xiao Guangwei raised his hand and found that the oil stain on his hands had been washed clean, where was there a little leftover?
The effect of this soap is so good? Xiao Guangwei was a little stunned.
Try dirty laundry again! Xiao Guangwei found an old garment, rubbed soap on the dirt that he couldn't wash by hand in the past, and then rubbed it vigorously dozens of times. When Xiao Guangwei put the old clothes into the water and rubbed them a few times, he was surprised to find that the dirt had been washed clean by soap!
The power of this soap is a bit exaggerated! Is this still the ninth year of Chongzhen, this chaotic year? Where did Li Zhi get this thing, how could this effect be so good?
In the end, Xiao Guangwei decided to try to take a bath, he asked his subordinates to bring hot water from a bathtub, took off his clothes and began to scoop water on his head and body, and then wiped his hair and body with soap to make a foam all over his body. Finally, when he washed off the foam on his head and body in the bathtub, he found that his body was clean. Even the long greasy hair on the head, which can never be washed, is refreshing at this time, and there is no oil stain.
That long hair, always oily, but never washed so clean!
This has greatly improved the sanitary conditions at the end of the Ming Dynasty! Such a good thing, Li Zhi only sells it for 20 yuan. It's so cheap! Does Li Zhi want everyone in the Ming Dynasty to use this soap?
It's a cheap baby, what's wrong with that?
Xiao Guangwei has given up the idea of looking for problems. Li Zhi relied on this soap to make money to pay off his debts, which seems to be a sure thing. Li Zhi will no longer be a lowly subordinate. And Li Zhi, who succeeded with soap, is likely to have a better relationship with Cui He.
Xiao Guangwei was so angry that he threw the soap on the ground and couldn't say a word.
Xiao Guangwei's evil thoughts and frustrations, Li Zhi didn't know, he was still busy with business in the store.
After being busy for an hour and a half, Li Zhi sold all the soap he made yesterday. Although a large number of people still rushed to buy soap, Li Zhi was out of stock. Li Zhi asked his mother Zheng to come out again, and asked her to sit in the store and explain to the customers, so that the guests would come back tomorrow.
Selling 300 pieces of soap, Li Zhi earned 300 yuan of copper coins a day, which was more than 3 taels of silver. In this way, Li Zhi will be able to repay the Xiao family's loan in less than a month. Li Zhi was so happy that he went to the vegetable market and cut three catties of mutton, accompanied by two catties of white radish, and cooked a mutton pot for lunch at home.
The people of the Ming Dynasty only ate two meals a day, one in the morning and one in the evening. Li Zhi was very uncomfortable with this, and his stomach growled with hunger at noon every day. Eating only two meals a day, the portion of each meal is heavier, and the burden on the stomach is very heavy. In modern times, Chinese people have changed to three meals a day. Now that he has made money, of course Li Zhi has to change the backward eating habits of the late Ming Dynasty. First of all, let your family have lunch.
Seeing that the soap business can make a few times a day, Zheng and Li Xing are also very happy. A family of three usually saves money, and all of them are skinny and skinny, and when they eat mutton at this time, they naturally feel very delicious.
Zheng was reluctant to eat alone, so according to this Ming tradition, he filled a few small bowls of mutton and sent them to the neighbors on both sides.
After eating a few bites of mutton, Li Zhi took a mouthful of oil and said: "Li Xing and I are making soap and have to sit in the store to sell soap, but we are too busy, and the guests are not happy if they can't buy soap." I think we want to expand the business, and ask two helpers to sell goods in the store. Li Xing and I make soap every day so that we can increase the yield. ”
Li Xing chewed the mutton in his mouth and said vaguely: "Big brother is reasonable, the two of us can't be busy. ”
Li Zhi said: "Then we will post a notice at the door, recruit two helpers, give two taels of silver every month, and also include three meals a day." ”
Li Xing was stunned when he heard this, and said, "Give such a high salary? ”
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen was affected by the inflow of overseas silver, inflation, and the northern commodity economy was damaged by the war, and the price of goods was very high, and the price of commodities was twice that of the Wanli period. However, the cost of labor has not increased much. During the Wanli period, a medium-labor intensity monthly silver was one tael, and during the Chongzhen period, such a laborer's monthly silver was about one tael and five cents. Wages have not increased much, but the price of rice has doubled, and the people are living in poverty.
Li Zhi gave two taels of silver a month, and also included three meals a day, which was much higher than the ordinary wage level.
Li Zhi said refreshingly: "When the salary is high, the hired workers will be loyal." Our method of making soap is a secret ingredient, and if a hired worker covets it and steals our formula, it will be a big loss. We pay more wages, and the employees are afraid of losing their jobs, so it is much easier to do confidential work! ”
With a wave of his hand, Li Zhi said again: "Our soap trade is a profiteering business, and it is not bad for half a tael of silver." ”
Li Xing took a bite of mutton, nodded and said, "That's the same!" ”
Hearing the two sons talk about recruitment, Zheng thought for a while and said, "Zhi'er, you hire a person for two taels of silver and take care of three meals a day, which is a good shortage." The so-called fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders, you might as well go to your second grandfather and ask him to find two reliable relatives in the clan to help. ”
Hearing this, Li Zhi frowned and said, "I asked him to raise money a few days ago, but he ignored me. Now if there is something good, look for him? ”