Chapter 170: The Need for Mirrors
After giving thirty well-dressed mirrors to the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven gave some of them to the ministers, which attracted the attention of many people, and the demand for glass mirrors gradually appeared. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info Li Zhi can sell more than a dozen mirrors every day in the shops in the capital and Tian0jin, although he can't sell all the mirrors produced by Li Zhi, but it also brings Li Zhi a lot of profits.
In March, Li Zhi sold 324 small mirrors, 137 medium-sized mirrors with huge faces, and 28 large clothes mirrors.
The best-selling mirror is still the small mirror, although it is only the size of a palm, but it is cheaper, and it can barely meet the needs of women to dress up. There are many fewer people who buy medium-sized mirrors, and thirty taels of silver can buy half a small yard in the first three years, and there are still not many people who are willing to spend thirty taels for a medium-sized mirror, after all, the rich are still limited. And those who spend hundreds of dollars to buy clothes and mirrors are all powerful and wealthy businessmen. When the 28 customers who bought the mirrors came to buy the mirrors, they all sent their families to buy them, and the family members who sent them all hugged each other.
In March, the mirror brought Li Zhi a profit of 11,000 taels, which was worth the profit of the textile factory, which was very considerable.
However, Li Zhi felt that the profit of this mirror should still grow, and on this day, he was thinking about how to increase the sales of mirrors in the store of Tianjin Acropolis, when he saw Cha Yunke, the nephew of Governor Cha Dengbei, riding over with two servants.
When Cha Yunke saw Li Zhi, he jumped off his horse and said loudly: "I didn't find a guerrilla general in Fanjiazhuang, it turns out that the general is here!" ”
Now that Chaden is preparing to be the governor, his relatives and family members have also ascended to heaven with the chicken dog and become a pivotal figure in Tian0jin. Although the governor's nephew did not have an official title, the business he ran was actually the business of the governor Cha Dengbei, which had more influence than ordinary officials. Li Zhi didn't dare to slack off, and arched his hand and said: "Li Zhi came to the Acropolis to see the store, but he didn't expect to let Gongzi Cha run around!" ”
Cha Yunke smiled, walked to Li Zhi's shop and looked at the cloak mirror again, looked in front of the mirror, and said, "The guerrilla general's cloak mirror is really a rare and good thing. ”
Li Zhi smiled: "Do you want to buy one side of Gongzi Cha?" ”
Chayunk said: "Buy one side, buy one side, and I often look at myself!" ”
Li Zhi was overjoyed that business came to the door, and was about to ask someone to help Cha Yunke pack the mirror, but heard Cha Yunke say: "Guerrilla general, I came to discuss business with you!" ”
Li Zhi smiled and asked, "What kind of business are you talking about?" ”
Chayunke said: "I will buy 1,000 medium-sized mirrors with you this year and sell them to the Japanese country. ”
The mirrors sold by Li Zhi are cheaper than those of Westerners, and the products are competitive in the Japanese country. Moreover, the country is rich in silver, and the price is quite high, and Chayunke used to make a profit selling mirrors.
Li Zhi was happy when he saw that a big deal had come to the door, but he said calmly on his face: "Gongzi Cha wants so many mirrors?" ”
Chayunk said: "The guerrilla general will make a price!" ”
"Twenty-eight taels on one side, it can't be less."
"The guerrilla general scolded me, I entered a thousand faces at a time, and you only gave me two taels of silver?"
Li Zhi smiled and said: "My mirror business is getting hotter and hotter, and it is estimated that the price will increase in two months, and twenty-eight taels will not be high for you!" ”
Cha Yunke chirped: "The guerrilla general regards the future prediction as the current harvest!" Take the expected things and negotiate the price with me. ”
"And how much do you say?"
"Twenty-five taels, can't be more!"
"Is Mr. Cha joking?"
Li Zhi smiled, bargained with Na Chayunke, talked for a long time, and finally decided to sell him a thousand medium mirrors at a price of twenty-seven taels. The business was settled, but Li Zhi did not have so much inventory. Cha Yunke was not in a hurry, saying that he would only go to sea in June, and let Li Zhi prepare all the goods for him before June.
The next day, Chayunke shipped 20% of the price of 5,400 taels as a deposit. Li Zhi asked the five workers of the mirror workshop to stop the production of coat mirrors and go all out to produce medium mirrors.
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The demand for glass mirrors is still fermenting little by little.
Huan'er, the maid of the Chen family in the pottery workshop, sat in the young lady's room that day, eating cucumber slices while chatting with the young lady without a word.
"Miss, do you know that the third lady of the Liu family next door bought a large glass mirror and spent thirty taels of silver."
Miss Chen asked, "Such an expensive mirror?" Is it better than a bronze mirror? ”
Huan'er swallowed a slice of cucumber and said, "There are three kinds of glass mirrors, the small one is the size of a palm, ten taels; The big man has a big face, thirty taels; The largest one hundred and fifty taels. Listening to the Liu family's Cui'er, the mirror is much better than the bronze mirror, not only can you see the face clearly, but even the eyebrows and eyelashes can be seen clearly. Huan'er pinched another piece of cucumber and stuffed it into her mouth, and said: "The mirror was made by the Li family in the east of the city, and it is the Li family in the east of the city that sells soap." ”
"The things made by the Li family in the east of the city must be not bad if you think about it." Miss Chen thought for a while and said, "Huan'er, you go to Liu's house and borrow the mirror for me, if it's good, we'll also buy one." ”
Huan'er was stunned and said, "What if the Liu family doesn't lend me such an expensive thing?" ”
Miss Chen said: "No, the third sister of the Liu family likes to show off the most, and she is definitely willing to lend you good things to show off." ”
When Huan'er heard this, she thought about it, so she abandoned the cucumber slices and went to Liu's house to borrow a mirror. She found the third sister of the Liu family and explained her intention, and heard the third sister say proudly: "Since I bought this mirror, the people who come to borrow the mirror to watch are about to step through my threshold, and I really can't stop it." Come on, Miss Huang just returned the mirror, so I'll lend it to you. ”
The third sister asked the maid Cui'er to bring the mirror, covered it with a piece of red silk and handed it to Huan'er, and said: "This is a mirror of thirty taels of silver, you can take it, don't fall on the ground and break it!" ”
Huan'er agreed, and happily took the mirror and walked back to Chen's house.
Halfway to Huan'er, he couldn't help it, and secretly opened the red silk to take a look. She looked into the glass mirror and saw that her eyebrows were clearly imprinted on the mirror. Huan'er had never seen herself so clearly, and she screamed in surprise and almost dropped the mirror on the ground.
It turns out that after looking carefully, I look pretty good.
Huan'er walked back to the lady's boudoir beautifully, handed the mirror to the miss, and said, "Miss, it's really like what you said, the third sister of the Liu family lent me the mirror." ”
Miss Chen smiled, put the mirror on the table, and uncovered the red silk.
After glancing at the mirror, Miss Chen screamed.
"So if I look closely, it's like this!"
Huan'er leaned over and looked at the small mirror and said, "Miss, you are beautiful, look better than me if you look closely!" ”
Miss Chen's eyes rolled and she said, "Look better than you if you look closely?" How do you know what you're looking at? You peeked on the road? ”
Huan'er was stunned for a moment, only to realize that she had leaked her mouth, and said, "I just took a sneak look." ”
Miss Chen snorted and stopped teaching Huan'er. She looked left and right in the mirror, looked at it for a long time and said: "With this mirror, I can only know how to apply the rouge on my eyebrows, and it will not be as blurry as when I was facing the bronze mirror." ”
After thinking about it, Miss Chen said: "This is really a good thing, but we don't need such a big one, just a palm-sized one." Huan'er, you go to the box and take ten taels of silver, and go buy a small mirror of ten taels! ”
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