Chapter 70: The Outer Room, and ......
"Erlang, do you think we want to provide 500,000 pieces of soap to the Cao family every month?" Li Sanniang is obviously in a good mood, even if she is asking about business, the corners of her mouth are full of spring.
Cao Yuting's letter, she has also read it. For Cao Yuting did not take out the outfit of an eldest woman to pressure herself, she took the initiative to recognize herself as Zhu Zilong's outer room. Based on her current situation, Li Sanniang is very satisfied.
Even if she was still a virgin before, she had the reputation of being married eight times after all. Even if Da Song has been remarried and remarried in recent years, the number of her marriages is too much.
Therefore, no matter how beautiful Li Sanniang is, after gaining the prestige of Kefu, it is difficult to find a man who is not afraid of death for ordinary people to marry.
Now, although it can only be used as an outer room for a prince, its status and influence are different. Not to mention anything else, just a man and a woman are true to each other, and they can help Zhu Zilong manage such a big family business.
is enough to show how important her status in Zhu Zilong's mind is.
In ancient times, women took their husbands as the key to the sky, and it was an honor to make their husbands' families value them so much. Marrying an ordinary person, the official name may be there, but what is the use of this?
That kind of combination is purely a task-completing transaction, and it is better to be an outer room for Zhu Zilong.
"Let's not say that it is impossible for us to provide the Cao family with 500,000 pieces of soap every month. Even if you can do it, you can't do it. Zhu Zilong frowned and replied: "Obviously, the Cao family knows that they have missed the best opportunity to cooperate with me, and even if they can cooperate in the future, they can only stand in an extremely passive situation." But the relationship between the two sides is destined to be impossible to really make trouble, so they changed to another strategy! ”
"Oh? What strategy? Li Sanniang asked with some curiosity.
"Supply monopoly!" Zhu Zilong opened his mouth and replied.
"It's just that the fame of soap has gradually opened, even if you cooperate with me in the future, I will definitely not sign the previous proportional contract. In this case, the Cao family changed the method, apparently it seemed to give a higher price, and bought a large amount of soap wholesale from us and sold it elsewhere. The two parties are in a reciprocal trading relationship! ”
"But, when you think about it, you can't just look at the surface. If we really provide the Cao family with 500,000 pieces of soap every month. Is it really a reciprocal trading relationship? The corners of Zhu Zilong's mouth twitched slightly.
"That's right, in terms of short-term income and expenditure. Our earnings will rise directly to a few new levels! However, with our production capacity, this also means that we have lost the market pricing power, the right to speak. completely disappeared from the front line of customers, and became a senior worker behind the Cao family. The Cao family only used a wholesale price that monopolized all of our production capacity and quantity, and easily became our proprietor, which is really a good wishful thinking. Hum! ”
As soon as Zhu Zilong's explanation came out, Li Sanniang also suddenly realized.
She is naturally a smart woman, but she lacks the dazzling business experience of later generations. In the past, I only opened a small shop, and the business experience I was exposed to was only at the level of the middle and lower classes, and it was impossible to understand everything.
"Erlang, in this way, we categorically can't agree to the Cao family's request?" Li Sanniang asked again.
"Yes, yes, of course. Hehe, but the quantity will be halved, and the wholesale quantity of 200,000 bars of soap will be given to them at most every month. And the price is 38 yuan a piece, and the penny of love will not be reduced. If you want to calculate Lao Tzu, oh no, calculate the king, and do their spring and autumn dreams! A sly look flashed at the corner of Zhu Zilong's mouth, and he replied very undisciplinedly.
The number of 200,000 pieces of soap per month, not to mention that Zhu Zilong is ready to recruit a few henchmen to cooperate in the division of labor and speed up the production capacity. Even if it's just him, he can do it by working overtime.
As a result, the Cao family's careful thinking was self-defeating and could not monopolize the market. At the same time, both sides have money to make, and they both look better on their faces.
"Sanniang, don't you really mind being a nameless and powerless outer room?" solved a big trouble, Zhu Zilong was in a good mood. turned to look at Li Sanniang, but a trace of guilt flashed in her heart.
If you look at his three views as a modern person, he and Cao Yuting are like baby kisses, and it is a foregone conclusion as soon as they cross over.
And Li Sanniang is played in the Mary Sue TV series, his true love plan for a domineering president and a folk beauty. According to the concept of later generations, it must be the doll who finally broke up peacefully, and the process may be full of twists and turns, but in the end he will definitely remarry Sanniang, and live happily together with the marriage certificate in hand.
However, obviously, this kind of TV plot made up by a third-rate director would not have happened in the Song Dynasty.
For him personally, this is called the red flag at home and the colorful flags fluttering outside. It's a man who feels very yellow, very violent, and very cool. But it's not so fair to a woman!
The outer room is said to be a lady if it sounds good, but when you dig deeper, it is actually the same status as the second X (milk) in the 21st century, the third child, the underground lover, etc., and the woman who can't see the light.
The 'outer room' is a woman who lives as husband and wife with a married man without legal marriage procedures, and is called the 'outer room' of a certain man.
Originally, this unspoken rule began in ancient times, during this period, men were inferior to women, women were men's accessories, and women in men's extramarital homes were named 'outer rooms', which was actually a disguised legalization and acquiescence to men's practices.
However, as a woman in the 'outer room', her status is very low, especially in a big family, she is absolutely not allowed to be on the stage.
Their status is similar to that of a concubine, sometimes higher than a concubine, and sometimes not as good as a concubine. Its positioning depends on how much the man likes it!
Of course, because it is not a concubine, there is another layer of benefits.
That is, it will not be like a concubine, not subject to the maintenance of the "three no-goes". As the owner's private property, concubines can be bought and sold, and can also be given as gifts.
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"Erlang doesn't have to feel guilty, as long as he can be with Erlang for a long time, being an outer room may be a good thing for slaves." Li Sanniang stepped forward and hugged Zhu Zilong, and said affectionately.
A man and a woman hugged each other with wet eyes, just a gust of music I am the wind, and you are the sand floating in the musical background.
If there is a choice, no man will want his beloved woman to follow without a name or share. If there is a choice, no woman will be willing to do it, so she can only be an outer room.
However, the situation is stronger than the people. When you can only save the country, you can only have to accept your fate, and only the people you love are still together. This is more important than anything else!
I didn't see Zhu Zilong's cheap emperor father, but he really liked Master Li. However, he is much worse than Zhu Zilong.
is only a little, Li Sanniang still belongs to Zhu Zilong alone. It's exclusive to him, and it can also help him take care of his business. On the other hand, the current emperor of the Great Song Dynasty can only sit and listen to the rumors of the people, but he can't bring Master Li into the palace. I can only wonder every day if Master Li has brought a green hat to himself, but he can't let people make a big move, and arrange guards to guard outside to help him check the gates.
In other words, the emperor is really bitter. It's like sharing a woman with countless men. Even if you want to help Master Li get out of the sea of suffering, if you want to give the other party a name, maybe the next day, a group of civil officials will spit on him at the court meeting every minute.
Then, after spitting up, he may be removed from the throne and taken down.
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