"Wu Xian, on a hot day, why are you running so fast, you're sweating." Wu Xian hurriedly ran over, still holding a stack of things in his hand, as if he wanted to report something to Ye Chen.

Ye Chen asked someone to bring him a towel and wipe his sweat first.

"Young family master, I've been tired to death these days, these are the results of cooperation with those families." Wu said as he separated the stack of papers he brought.

Some of them are contracts, and the other is statistical reports.

"What's more, can the Ye family afford it?" Ye Chen didn't expect that there would be so many, dozens of small and medium-sized families reached an agreement with the Ye family.

You must know that most of these are new, those who have cooperated before, and those who continue to cooperate now, there is no need for this.

"The young master, I didn't control it for a while, there were more orders or something, and when I found out, there were already so many, and I pushed off a lot of them later." Wu Xian is also very embarrassed, he has been talking about cooperation for the past few days, and he will sign the contract after the negotiation.

Originally, the order was not very large, and some of them were contracts for the Ye family to purchase materials, but this order could not withstand much, although each order was not large, it added up to a very amazing amount.

Ye Chen was also a little helpless, he had just talked about some big orders, plus this bunch of small orders, the Ye family was estimated to be producing at full capacity next.

"Wu Xian, I'm going to work hard for you next." Ye Chen also smiled bitterly, with so many orders, Wu Xian was certainly not easy, and he was not much better.

Wu Xian was also very helpless, the Ye family was developing rapidly, and he was not lightly tired, Ye Chen dug pits one after another, and many business things were thrown to him by Ye Chen.

Watching Wu oblique wipe his sweat while walking, Ye Chen also felt a little hot, and was about to find something to fan the wind, only to remember that there was no paper fan at this time, and the fan was there, but it was made of plant leaves.

"Yes, I can send a paper fan to the people of Liaodong to express their hearts." Of course, Ye Chen's return gift can't be too valuable, otherwise there are so many people, and he really can't afford to give it.

The manufacture of the fan is very simple, there is no technical content, of course, if it is processed into handicrafts, it is different, the calligraphy and painting of the fan must be very particular.

But Ye Chen's return gift is not so complicated, the fan surface can be manufactured in several versions, and then a few versions can be manufactured in large quantities.

Just do it, Ye Chen found a craftsman, explained the general manufacturing method and drew a style for them.

The next day, the first folding fan of the Eastern Han Dynasty was manufactured, because of the rush, it was a little rough, but it was already a folding fan that could be used and had a certain ornamentality.

Ye Chen ordered someone to write more than a dozen versions of the message, and then began to prepare for mass production.

A fan is only a few big bucks, and the return gift is just right, in fact, it is cheaper here in Liaodong, because the cost of paper made by the Ye family itself is not so expensive, and the paper in other places is expensive In addition to the Ye family's huge profits, it is the freight of long-distance transportation.

In Liaodong, after deducting profits and other unnecessary costs, paper is much cheaper, so folding fans are also much cheaper.

Ye Chen didn't even know that he himself was troubled by how to return the gift, and later led the trend of a generation.

When the folding fan was launched, it was very popular, and the people liked Ye Chen's return gift very much.

The Ye family found a business opportunity and immediately shipped a batch to a place outside Liaodong to sell, but it was sold out immediately as soon as it was launched.

A folding fan sells for more than a dozen dollars, and most people can afford it.

Ye Chen also sighed after knowing that he just wanted to give a gift to the people of Liaodong in return.

However, after thinking about it carefully, Ye Chen felt that there was also a lot to be done on the folding fan.

So Ye Chen called Wu Xian.

"Wu Xian, how is the production volume of folding fans now?"

Wu Xian was confused by Ye Chen's question.

"Folding fan?" Wu Xian did know about this, and he had personally asked about it, but he had already forgotten about it.

The reason is very simple, the other businesses of the Ye family are all broken up with folding fans, no matter how high the profit of folding fans is, they are limited, and the folding fan business does not occupy any place in the overall business of the Ye family.

Wu Xian, who was busy all day, how could he pay attention to the matter of folding fans, so when Ye Chen asked, he really didn't know anything.

"Young family master, you are really, the other businesses of the Ye family are so important, as soon as you come, you will ask me about the folding fan that can't make a few dollars a month." Wu Xian complained about Ye Chen with a resentful face.

Ye Chen understood as soon as he thought about it, Ye Chen almost didn't ask much about the Ye family's business, and this time he specially called Wu Xian over, and he still asked about the insignificant folding fan.

"Wu Xian, is this folding fan business really so bad?"

"It's not bad, but it's very good, but the folding fan is not technical at all, and no one competes around Liaodong, but once it is far away, the price is expensive, and others produce it locally, and the price is much cheaper, so how can it compete."

Ye Chen thought about it, this folding fan really has no technical content, if it is imitated, it can be manufactured soon, so the folding fan is generally sold locally, and it is not cost-effective to sell it elsewhere.

But Ye Chen didn't call Wu Xian over for the money of the folding fan, unless the entire folding fan of the Han Dynasty was monopolized by him, but obviously, the folding fan couldn't be monopolized at all, it was too untechnical.

And what Ye Chen saw was the huge propaganda role in this fan, you must know that the fan surface of the fan has a lot to do.

Ye Chen thought of an important means of publicity, if he wrote something on the fan and then sold it at a very low price, then it would be very useful.

"Wu Xian, you go and let the workshop make a batch of high-end folding fans, and the high-end folding fans are exquisite materials, fine workmanship, and exquisite and beautiful."

"Young master, what do you do with this folding fan is just like that, you still want to make a fortune through the folding fan." Wu Xian was speechless, he had a lot of things to do, but Ye Chen asked him to pay attention to the folding fan.

"Haha, not really. It is true that folding fans can't make too much money, but it can't be said that they don't make money, and money can still be made. The low-grade ones can't be earned, the high-end ones can, and I have a lot of use for these folding fans. ”

Ye Chen laughed, patted Wu Xian's shoulder, and asked him to do as he was told.

What Ye Chen can make a fuss about is nothing more than fans, and his folding fans don't want to sell to ordinary people at all, but to the Shi clan.

Most of the scholars in the group are well-read and educated, so Ye Chen can make articles, he really wants to make articles, but he just plagiarized some articles from later generations.

You can write articles and draw on the fan surface, this is Ye Chen's plan, get a batch of high-end folding fans, write the content that Ye Chen needs, and then sell them to all parts of the Han Dynasty.

Yes, that's it, this is what Ye Chen thought of quickly promoting himself, improving his reputation, and preparing for the future.

This method is much more useful than having the intelligence agencies spread gossip.

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