"Second, the prince is a smart man!" Lu Cheng said with a straight face. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Zhu Muzhen couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and after a while, he suddenly burst out laughing.

He really didn't expect that Lu Cheng would say a word of flattery seriously.

What is the reason for this?

It's clearly a sycophant in disguise!

The point is, it's just right, and it's not hypocritical at all. It's just such a simple sentence, but after listening to it, people feel very comfortable.

Isn't it a smart man who doesn't do stupid things and send someone to invite him to the house?

This is actually a reason, but that flattering sentence made him take it out and use it as a separate reason.

It's a shame that I still think that he can say one, two, three, four with reasonable evidence.

Even if there aren't so many reasons, there should be two, isn't it?

Unexpectedly, his "second" turned out to be like this.

This Lu Cheng is a bit interesting!

After laughing, Zhu Muxian waved his hand and said, "It's done, get up quickly." This king is just playing a little joke with you, and I hope you don't mind. ”

When Lu Cheng heard this, he couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, and hurriedly got up and replied: "There are many offends in the next words, and I hope that the prince has a lot, don't worry about me." ”

"Hehe, sit down."

Zhu Muxian smiled, then raised his voice and said, "Come on, serve tea, serve good tea!" ”

Lu Cheng didn't expect that King Zhou's attitude towards himself would be so different, and he suddenly felt flattered.

Could it be that the other party was just testing himself before?

But what did he want to test?

Soon, a maid served Lu Cheng a cup of tea.

As soon as Lu Cheng opened the lid of the cup, a fresh and elegant tea fragrance overflowed into his nose, and even a person like him, who was not very proficient in tea ceremony, could smell that this tea should be a first-class tea.

Gently blew a few tea leaves floating on the water, put them to his lips and took a sip, let the tea stay in his mouth, and after closing his eyes and tasting it, Lu Cheng praised it loudly: "Good tea!" ”

Instead, he asked, "I don't know what the prince has to tell me to come over today?" ”

"It doesn't matter."

Zhu Mu took a sip of tea before continuing: "This king came to you today, in fact, he wants to talk to you about something. ”

"Lord Wang, please speak?"

"It's about soap."

Zhu Muzhen didn't go around in circles anymore, and said his intentions directly: "You don't mind, this king is here to share a piece of the pie with you, right?" ”

Don't mind?

Who wouldn't mind that?

But in front of King Zhou, Lu Cheng really couldn't say what he minded. My heart said that my business was just a small fight, why did I let you target it?

Seeing that he didn't answer, Zhu Mu said again with a smile: "What? You don't want to? ”

"This ...... What does the prince mean? ”

"I want to buy the recipe for your soap, you can make a price."

When Lu Cheng heard it, it was exactly the same as he had guessed in his heart, what this prince wanted to buy was his own soap formula.

In fact, the recipe is only a few things, which is not that complicated. But in this era, it's not easy to figure it out.

Otherwise, why is it that no one has been able to work out something so simple at this time?

Selling formulas is tantamount to killing chickens and taking eggs, drying up and fishing.

Just by selling more than 100 pieces of soap, Lu Cheng earned more than 200 taels of silver, and when the second batch of soap is sold out, he can earn another 1,000 taels.

Five hundred boxes of soap are sold out, and it should only take three or four months.

After doing so, not to mention the lot, he can earn at least three thousand taels a year.

That's three thousand taels of silver!

Who would be stupid enough to give up a soap recipe to someone else?

Although the Han people are very wise, soon after they come out, they will be copied as quickly as possible, and then flood the market.

But Lu Cheng is confident that the confidentiality of the formula is in place. At this time, people who want to pirate their own soap will have to do it after three or two years.

In other words, he can at least earn tens of thousands of taels of silver through the soap business.

Soap is a consumable, a piece can be used for a year at most, and the annual sales are guaranteed.

King Zhou wanted to do this business, naturally to make money, and it was impossible to spend tens of thousands of taels of silver to buy his own formula.

Therefore, if Lu Cheng sells the formula now, he will definitely suffer a big loss.

After thinking for a moment, Lu Cheng resolutely shook his head and said, "Lord Wang, this is a bit difficult for a strong man, and I won't sell this formula." ”

When Zhu Mushen heard this, his face did not change in the slightest. He had long expected that the other party would reject his proposal, so he was naturally not surprised by this.

He stretched out a hand, spread his five fingers and shook it towards Lu Cheng, and said, "Five thousand taels of silver, buying your formula shouldn't be too little, right?" ”

For Lu Cheng at this time, five thousand taels was indeed a lot, but he still shook his head and said, "Lord Wang, no matter how much silver you are willing to pay, I will not sell the formula." ”

"Six thousand, how?" Zhu Mushen began to increase the price.

Lu Cheng didn't answer out loud, just shook his head slightly.

"Seven thousand!"

Lu Cheng still shook his head.

"Eight thousand!"

Lu Cheng didn't dare to shake his head anymore. He could see that Zhu Muzhen was already a little annoyed at the moment, and even his voice contained a bit of anger.

"Lord Wang, I know that the price is already very high, but I really can't sell the formula."

"You ......"

Zhu Muzhen really didn't expect that he had received a high price of 8,000 taels of silver, but he was still rejected by Lu Cheng, which was very unreasonable.

You must know that the Lu family is not a rich family, three generations are poor scholars, and he, Lu Cheng, can refuse such a temptation?

However, Zhu Muxian was still a little mentally prepared, and seeing that Lu Cheng resolutely refused to sell the formula, he changed his words and said: "Since you are unwilling, this king will not force you." Well, how about this king and you cooperate? ”

"How does the prince plan to cooperate?" Lu Cheng asked.

Zhu Muxun found Lu Cheng today, in fact, he prepared two sets of plans, either to buy the formula, or to buy from Lu Cheng's workshop, and then resell it to earn the difference in price.

After he told Lu Cheng his idea, Lu Cheng didn't dare to refuse again.

In fact, for Lu Cheng, as long as the formula is in his own hands, other things are easy to talk about.

Again, doing business in partnership with the royal government is not harmful to yourself, on the contrary, you can get a lot of benefits.

The Zuo family is just a local gentleman in Fucheng, and it is very difficult for his soap business to expand further.

Because no matter where you do business, you need to deal with local heroes and make good friends with official figures.

I can't do this at the moment, but the palace can easily do it.

The imperial court did not allow officials to do business with the children of the clan, because it was afraid that these elites would use the power in their hands to make a lot of money, but how could this phenomenon be stopped?

On the surface, you can not do business, but in private, arrange for others to come forward?

However, cooperation is cooperation, and Lu Cheng has also set a principle - a unified price!

Although his business is in Fucheng, and the palace intends to expand its business to the surrounding areas, there will not be much conflict. However, if the price is not uniform, it is inevitable that low-priced goods will flow to high-priced areas for sale, and eventually form a situation of vicious competition.

Zhu Muxian didn't have much of an opinion on this.

As a vassal king, he could not leave the fiefdom of the feudal mansion without permission, but his business could expand to the surrounding areas at will.

The stalls in the palace are not small, and there are several businessmen under them, if the price is not set uniformly, it will indeed be difficult to manage in the future.

For the second batch of soap, Lu Cheng has improved it, adding several different fragrances, and the price has also increased from the original ten taels of silver per box to twelve taels.

Different scents are actually very simple, just use different vegetable oils to make them. But it's all a natural scent, and of course it's not too strong.

The price of twelve taels cost less than four taels of silver, and the purchase price that Lu Cheng gave to Zhu Mushen was eight taels, which was equivalent to five or five cents.

"Eight taels of silver is too high, how about seven taels?"

"Eight taels, no less."

Zhu Mu's trial took a long time, but the other party still refused to back down half a step. He really couldn't figure out whether the person in front of him was a scholar or a shrewd businessman.

One tael of silver is not too little, five hundred boxes of soap is the difference of five hundred taels, who would think that too much money is too much?

Zhu Muxian frowned and thought for a moment, then raised his head and said, "In this way, as long as you can lose one or two pieces of silver, this king will grant you a benefit." ”