Zhu Youxiao laughed and said: "Yes, the factory minister has also learned to use idioms now." You and I, the monarch and the minister, if you don't live up to me, I will never fail you. ”

Wei Zhongxian kowtowed again and again: "If the slave and maid have two hearts for the saint, they will be hit with five thunderbolts that day, and they will not be able to have all the corpses." ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "Get up, I hope our monarchs and ministers can start and finish well, how is the cement matter?" ”

"Li Zhen has made great progress there, and now they can make the cement that the saint said, and they are now trying to find a way to increase the output."

"Go to Sun Yuanhua, the machine he uses there should be used for cement manufacturing with a slight change, then build a cement factory near the glass factory, but the firing can't be put there, so as not to pollute the environment, oh, polluting the environment means to make the water dirty, the air dirty, ah, the air, I'll tell you next time." To make the cement, they first had to build a road that connected the firing and grinding places. By the way, make some nice mirrors and send them to me. ”

After he finished speaking, he took the mirror to Kunning Palace, and Zhang Yan and the three were embroidering female red. Zhu Youxiao said with a smile: "I'm tired today, let's take a break and play a few mahjong." ”

The three girls had little interest in mahjong, a low-IQ game, so none of them responded to his suggestions. Zhu Youxiao took out the mirror, shook it in front of the three of them, and said: "This time there is a colorful head in mahjong, a new mirror." ”

The reflection of the mirror immediately attracted the three girls, and the three of them jumped up, Duan Ying rushed to the front, and Zhu Youxiao stretched out his hand and handed the mirror into her hand. Duan Ying looked at his clear face in the mirror and couldn't help but be stunned. Zhang Yan and Wang Wan followed, with the same expressions.

Zhu Youxiao smiled proudly: "How about it, whoever wins gets this mirror, how?" Soon the sound of mahjong sounded in Kunning Palace.

A few days later, in the most lively chessboard street, next to the Daming Royal Bank, a new store was opened, the name is very vulgar, it is called the first mirror store of Daming Jingshi Branch, there are two women standing at the door, as soon as someone comes in, they bow down and say: "Welcome!" ”

As the name suggests, there is only one thing that is sold, and that is mirrors. Mirrors of different sizes and shapes, as soon as the female customer entered the store, she straightened her eyes and then ordered, "I bought this." Immediately, a female clerk came out and said, "Thank you for 630 yuan." ”

"Huh? Yes! I didn't bring that much money with me today. ”

"It doesn't matter, our store can deliver the goods to your door and recover the payment, but it costs ten yuan to pay for the freight."

"My house is only one street away from here, and it costs ten yuan for shipping?"

"I'm sorry, the mirror is a fragile item, so the ten dollars also have money to ensure that the mirror is not broken."

"Okay, send me to ......"

The conversation went on and on, and by noon the mirrors were all sold out, so the clerk politely asked the customer to leave, then closed the door and hung up a sign: sold out today, hurry up tomorrow.

The palace maid in the store was nervously settling the accounts, and after a while, the palace maid trembled and said to the store manager: "Aunt Chunmei, a total of 75,600 yuan." I couldn't believe it, and began to take the paper to review it again.

Chunmei smiled and said: "It's not wrong, I already calculated it when I got the goods yesterday, and this is the number when all the goods are sold." Chunfang, wait for you to go to the bank and ask someone to deposit the money, and at the same time open the receipt, and then make the account. Ah Hua, you will go to the glass factory tomorrow according to this amount plus 10% of the delivery, and send a dressing mirror. “

After speaking, she clapped her hands, everyone quieted down, and she spoke again: "The emperor is merciful, let us palace maids who no one wants to manage this shop, everyone has worked hard today, I thank you here, and please remember the emperor's kindness." "Say goodbye and bow to everyone.

Everyone bowed down together and said, "The emperor is healthy, we don't work hard, Aunt Chunmei has worked hard." "Most of them are old palace maids who can't find their families or their families don't want to take them back, and they should have a miserable fate, but now the emperor has let them be clerks here, and they are free to come and go, not only have monthly money, but also get one-ten-thousandth of sales at the end of the year as a dividend reward. Judging from the sales on the first day, at least more than 2,000 yuan can be obtained in a year, and each of the 20 people can get more than 100 yuan. In such a day, no matter how hard it is, it will not be hard.

More than 600 yuan to buy a small mirror, which is certainly not something that ordinary families can afford. But there are too many rich people in Beijing, and this mirror is really clear and flexible, so for a while, the mirror quickly became popular in the upper class society of the capital. The introduction of the large dressing mirror has pushed the women's love for beauty to the top, you can clearly see your whole body, and you can easily see which clothes look good with them. Although the price of a dressing mirror is as high as 9,000 yuan, the quota for one side per day has been booked for three months, and of course, there are more tyrants who directly pay 1,000 yuan for free and return home with the dressing mirror all the way home.

And the Nanjing branch of the first mirror store of the Ming Dynasty also opened soon, this branch is larger than that of Jingshi, and the quota of goods is more, such as dressing mirrors are stipulated to sell three per day, but the reservation has reached next year, and after the free fee is increased to two thousand yuan, there are still a large number of women who do not hesitate to pay this fee, maybe just to get it ten days earlier.

After Zhu Youxiao got the ten-day transaction data of the two branches, he could only be said to be dumbfounded: the ten-day transaction volume of Jingshi was 1 million yuan, and that of Nanjing was 1.5 million yuan, and both places still had a backlog of orders for dressing mirrors, and it would take at least five months to complete the orders at the current sales rate.

He took out a pen and calculated, as long as such sales could be two months, it would be fifteen million yuan, or seven and a half million taels of silver, which was more than the annual income of the imperial court in a year. God, the people are too rich, if they continue like this for a year, their net worth will become more than 40 million taels of silver. Of course, he also knew that it was impossible for a luxury item like a mirror to continue to have such a large sales, and those who could afford it would basically buy it in a few months, and those who couldn't afford it would not buy it, but he was already very satisfied with getting 10 million taels of silver a year, so that he would not have to worry about the money for opening a school and carrying out weapons reform for at least three years.

He instructed Wei Zhongxian, first, to strengthen financial supervision, clear accounts every day, to prevent corruption, second, to open branches in relatively large cities, such as Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, Songjiang and other southern cities, as well as Linqing in the north, and third, to take a part of the mirror to Zhang Qianfang, let him try to sell to Japan, or trade with the Portuguese to see, in addition to accelerate the research and manufacture of clocks and pocket watches, which can also be sold as luxury goods together with mirrors.