As soon as he came out of Zheng's house, Li Yanqing hired an ox cart and rushed to Xinqiao, and saw his father talking to several young people at the door of the store. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Li Daqi also just came back from Tangyin County two days ago, and brought out eight young boys and girls from Li Wen Village, all about ten years old, four men and four women, half of whom were from the Li clan, and also brought out three experienced flower farmers, who had already been sent to the manor first.

These eight young men and women are needed by Li Daqi to set up a rouge workshop, before Bao Yan Zhai's rouge, foundation, incense ink and other items are purchased, the quality can only be regarded as medium, since they exchanged perfume from Zhang Gu's hand to the rouge formula, the quality of the purchased rouge has been unable to carry the brand of Bao Yan Zhai, and they can't leak the formula, only their own production.

It is for this reason that Li Daqi finally made up his mind to buy the Baihua Manor on a thousand acres of land, and bought a rouge workshop outside the city, a medium-sized rouge workshop requires at least 30 people, and someone must make every kind of cosmetics, like Zhang Gugu's own workshop has more than 40 people.

There were more than 20 people in the rouge workshop that Li Daqi bought, but the number was still not enough, so he took out eight young people from Li Wen Village and hired them at a price of six yuan a month.

So when Li Daqi offered a salary of six yuan, the threshold of his family was almost broken, and Li Daqi picked eight smart and clever children to come to the capital.

This group of children currently lives outside the city, and today Li Daqi specially took them into the city for dinner and visited the capital by the way.

The eight children were still dressed in a rustic manner, the girls wore coarse cloth dresses, the boys wore short clothes and cloth shoes, and tied their legs with white cloth, and a group of children were more shy and followed Li Daqi closely.

Li Yanqing walked forward quickly, and he recognized several at once, Aunt Gu's youngest son Tiesuo and daughter Xiaocui, the two of them pulled the arm of their eldest brother Tiezhu left and right.

Li Yanqing saw Li Yu'er again, the daughter of the patriarch Li Zhen, who was the most iconic among them, she and Tie Zhu's sister Xiao Cui held hands, it seemed that Tie Zhu was a little interesting to her, and always secretly aimed at her.

There are also Uncle Zhang Jiu's eldest granddaughter Orchid, Li Zhonger's son Li Xiaoyong, and two are Li Dongdong's nephews and nieces, and one is Zhang Cripple's son.

The eight children recognized Li Yanqing and hurriedly bowed to him, Li Yanqing was Xie Yuan, and his status in Li Wen Village was extremely high, even their parents had to salute Li Yanqing respectfully, not to mention them.

Li Yanqing was in a hurry, waved his hand at them with a smile, and asked his father urgently: "How much jade fat do we have now?" ”

"About a hundred and fifty dollars!"

"It's only one hundred and fifty dollars!" Li Yanqing screamed out in a lost voice.

"Didn't you say don't rush it, just see the effect? So didn't do much. ”

Li Yanqing was so anxious that he stomped his feet, "It's too bad now, a business of five thousand yuan!" ”

Li Daqi's eyes lit up, "Where is the business of 5,000 guan?" ”

Li Yanqing told his father about the Zheng family's order of 500 sets of makeup brocade boxes from him today, and Li Daqi also stomped his feet and beat his chest, what a good opportunity, not only a business of 5,000 yuan, but more importantly, the reputation of Baoyan Zhai and the sales of jade fat have been completely opened, but they are out of stock now.

"There are other boxes, it's jade grease, I don't know if it's too late to do it now?"

Li Yanqing shook his head, it will take at least a month to dry in the shade, and the day after tomorrow will be his seventieth birthday, and he will have to deliver it tomorrow.

"What then?" Li Daqi was also anxious.

At this moment, the iron pillar next to him snorted: "Third uncle, I still have the jade grease you asked me to throw away!" ”

"What's going on?" Li Yanqing asked anxiously.

Li Daqi sighed and said: "This stinky boy took advantage of my absence in the capital, and he desperately tinkered with jade grease alone, he wasted three large jars of fish oil, and the jade grease was made in a strange shape, all colors, I scolded him fiercely yesterday and told him to throw them all away." ”

Li Yanqing calculated in his heart that the three cans of fish oil could make at least 2,000 pieces of soap, and it was very likely that he could make up 500 yuan, so he hurriedly asked, "Have they all been dried?" ”

Tie Zhu scratched his head, "It's done, but the appearance is too ugly, and a few of them are made like cow dung." ”

"It doesn't matter, just cut it into shape with a planer."

Li Yanqing pointed to the eight children and said, "There are just a lot of people, everyone will work hard tonight, gather enough five hundred yuan, and I will teach you how to do it." ”

In the room, Tie Zhu shook out a bunch of soap from several hemp bags, mostly small squares, it seems that Tie Zhu wanted to make a new mold without success, and there was uneven dyeing, half red and half white, or half green and half white, it can be seen that he put more algae ash, making the soap translucent.

This is a defective product in the soap factory in later generations, but it can be slowly repaired into a balanced shape with a sharpening knife, the only defect is that the size is different, but since they are all given to guests for free, I believe that guests will not care too much about these details, the key is that the soap itself has a strong sense of jade, which is extremely important.

"Oops, there's not enough jade grease in the box!" Li Daqi suddenly found a serious problem.

"How much is missing?" Li Yanqing asked.

"There are about two hundred left."

"Father, hurry up and find a carpenter's shop to order it! Double the wages so that they must make them by noon tomorrow at the latest, and if a carpenter's shop can't do it, find a few more. ”

"Alright! I'll go now. ”

Li Daqi hurried with Tie Zhu and Li Yanbiao.

Li Yanqing asked the magpie to teach everyone how to cut and polish, and the eight children were all smarter and more receptive to new things, and they quickly mastered the trick.

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"If it's a real jade, I don't know how valuable it is!"

Li Daqi took a piece of jade grease that failed to be dyed and approached through the window under a touch of morning light, this is a piece of half-green and half-white jade grease, like a piece of superb Qingtian jade, crystal clear, warm and delicate, which makes him breathtaking.

Next to the shopkeeper Wu smiled: "The key is that the texture of the jade is good, no matter what color it is dyed, there will be a charm, like this piece of semi-red rouge jade, just like the sunset, but fortunately it is not a real jade, otherwise fifty wen a piece, we will not lose a lot." ”

"The shopkeeper is right, fortunately the iron pillar was not thrown away."

"What I said!"

Tie Zhu muttered in a low voice on the side: "You scolded me so much that you spurred blood, and now you are praising it again." ”

"What are you talking about, you stinky boy?" Li Daqi patted him on the head and scolded with a smile: "No matter how much grievances you have, bear with me, and don't complain!" ”

"Shh Li Yanqing sighed softly beside him, and Li Daqi remembered that the eight teenagers were sleeping on the table! After staying up all night, everyone was sleepy and exhausted.

"Yanqing, how many?"

Li Daqi saw that his son had already counted the jade fat, so he asked in a low voice.

"It's a total of 1,344 pieces, plus the 150 pieces in the warehouse, it's almost 1,500 pieces."

Li Daqi frowned, "So much jade fat is only sold for seventy-five taels of silver, isn't it too cheap?" ”

"Daddy finally feels like he's losing money?"

The price of 50 wen a piece was insisted on by Li Daqi, he thought that a ball of balsam only sold for 20 wen, and they could already make a net profit of 30 wen by selling 50 wen, so Li Daqi resolutely opposed Li Yanqing's high-price suggestion.

At this time, he suddenly felt that it was a strange commodity to live in, and it was too much of a loss to sell for fifty yuan, and this unique technology alone was more than this price.

Li Daqi regretted it a little, originally the poor people couldn't afford to use the balsam, at least the middle and above families, and they were not sensitive to the price of this low-value luxury goods.

The shopkeeper next to him asked with a smile: "Then how much does the proprietor think is more appropriate?" ”

Li Daqi thought for a while and said, "At least ten times more, sell it for five hundred wen a piece." ”

At this time, Shopkeeper Wu suddenly remembered something and hurriedly said: "What if the jade fat suddenly becomes hot and we don't have inventory?" ”

This is indeed a big problem, Li Daqi was also anxious, and asked Li Yanqing: "Yanqing, is there any quick way, must it be in the shade for a month?" ”

Li Yanqing thought for a while and said: "Last time, Aunt Yang rented an ice warehouse to put grease, and the same is true for jade fat, rent an ice storehouse, and put the soft fat in the bamboo tube into the freezer, it will harden in two days at most, but it is not as good as drying in the shade." ”

"Don't worry about it so much for now, let's increase the inventory!"

Li Daqi immediately said: "I'll go to rent the ice storage today, and Yanqing will work hard to guide them, and continue to stock up in large quantities today and tomorrow." ”