Chapter Seventy-Six: Large-scale Production

The next morning, Shang Tao went to the tooth shop and entrusted the tooth man to select more than 100 slaves.

The law of the cottage Datang does not recognize slaves, that is to say, even if the contract of sale is signed when the deed of sale is signed, these slaves also have certain human rights, the simplest thing is that it is illegal for the master to kill the slave, and the other is that the master needs to pay wages and benefits to the slave according to the contract, such as food and shelter and marriage at the right age are the basic benefits of slaves.

Of course, the people that Ye Maoyan bought and sent to the grassland outside the Guanxi last time don't count, those are all black households transported from the Western Regions, and they don't even have slave status.

It is illegal to hire black households without slave nationality in the territory of Shanzhai Datang, since Shang Tao wants to produce condoms in Diezhang City, he naturally can't buy slaves in the real sense, otherwise if he is found by the government, it is not a matter that can be solved by a fine.

The slaves purchased by Shang Tao are all death deeds, that is, they will serve in Shangfu until they die, including if they have children in the future, they will still continue to serve in Shangfu, and they will be slaves of the Shang family for the rest of their lives, unless Shang Tao or Shang Tao's descendants agree, they will never be allowed to leave their nationality.

In order to buy these slaves, Shang Tao spent seventy-seven eighty-eight of the silver on Kangjia, Li Ling'er and Su Chan'er, and the remaining silver was barely enough to order the raw materials needed for the production of a one-month acacia set and the maintenance of Shangfu for about a month.

As for the monthly salaries of these slaves, they can only be distributed when the condoms are sold and the funds are returned.

Of the more than 100 slaves, women accounted for more than half, and on the one hand, producing condoms was not a heavy job, and on the other hand, female slaves were much cheaper than male slaves.

However, these two points are not the most important, the most important thing is that Shang Tao is not at ease with the men in this world, even if he is a slave, he is not at ease.

To put it bluntly, he is a somewhat suspicious person, in addition to Shang Tao's lustful and easy to get into the brain, suspiciousness is probably his biggest shortcoming.

There is a way that no one is perfect, and there were not many suspicious celebrities in the ancient times of the earth? For example, Cao Cao is a suspicious hero.

There are many such examples, such as Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che, Sima Yi of the Three Kingdoms, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen, etc., there are too many suspicious people.

Shang Tao is much better than these people, and he is only more suspicious of men and women, which is why he is frightened by the close 80% post-marriage cheating rate of Huaxia Kingdom in the future generations of the earth.

In fact, as long as you are in your right mind, you will be more or less suspicious, but most people are not so obvious.

Therefore, thinking about it this way, Shang Tao feels that his little shortcomings are not a big deal.

However, this world is a man's world after all, so although Shang Tao was reluctant, he still selected more than thirty male servants, such as housekeepers, porters, sedan chair men, grooms, buyers, housekeepers, etc., and all other slaves who had to deal with outsiders, all of them were male servants.

In addition, Shang Tao also specially selected a maid for Li Linger and Wang Xiaoying, of course, he didn't leave himself behind, and even picked two.

As for Duo'er, Shang Tao really didn't want to position her, so he simply let her manage all the maids and other maids in the backyard of Shangfu.

As for the male slaves, the slaves that Shang Tao just bought, except for a housekeeper and a tent housekeeper, the abilities of the others are not very clear, so they have to wait for a period of familiarity before they can select the talents and talents, and select one or two leaders from among them.

After Shang Tao brought these slaves back to Shangfu, the first thing he explained was that men other than himself were absolutely not allowed to enter the back house, whether it was these slaves or visiting guests.

In the afternoon, Shang Tao sent out more than thirty male servants, each in groups of two, and asked each group to bring some "happy sets" and visit all the pharmacies in Diezhang City separately.

To this end, Shang Tao specially asked Su Chan'er and Li Ling'er to draft dozens of consignment contracts, which stipulated the supply price and the maximum retail price of the pharmacy should not exceed a threshold.

Of course, the consignment sales adopt the model of selling first and then checkout, and there is no need for the pharmacy to pay even one or two silver in advance.

At the end of each month, Shang Tao will send someone to settle the bill with the pharmacy, in short, the terms of the contract are beneficial to the pharmacy.

The product itself is hard, Shang Tao is also very confident in the acacia set he has made, and he doesn't need to invest any cost, Shang Tao doesn't believe that these pharmacies will not be moved.

Because the price is a bit high, Shang Tao gave each pharmacy an additional five acacia sets, three of which are ultra-thin and two are convex, just the five gifts are worth twenty-five taels of silver, so this trick is sacrificed, Shang Tao believes that even if it is perfunctory, no pharmacy will directly refuse to sell it.

And those acacia sets that are given to them, as long as they try it, they will definitely spare no effort to sell it to customers.

In the evening, more than 30 people sent out all returned to Shangfu, Shang Tao inquired about the situation, there were really a few pharmacies refused to sell, but they were all small pharmacies, it is estimated that the shopkeepers of those pharmacies are also suspicious people, they must think that this is some kind of trap, cautious did not dare to try, so they simply refused.

In the evening, Shang Tao asked the back kitchen to prepare a sumptuous dinner, which was regarded as welcoming these servants to join the big family of Shangfu.

Beginning the next day, more than 80 maids were divided into three shifts, each shift of four hours, and began to produce acacia sets day and night.

From the post, each shift is divided into three groups, one group is responsible for condom dipping, the second group is responsible for drying, and the third group is responsible for packaging.

The most difficult part of the production of the acacia set is the preparation of the liquid rubber, but this part of the work is done by Shang Tao himself, and the rest of the work is left to these maids.

In just three days, the maids have mastered all the links, and the daily output of the acacia set has reached 2,000.

However, Shang Tao is not in a hurry to put these acacia sets on the market. Because Stacked Peak City is a small border city after all, it can't digest such a large amount at all.

Shang Tao is waiting, waiting for market feedback, and also waiting for Tongjitang or Tongrentang to take the initiative to talk to themselves about the agency, only by cooperating with this kind of copycat Datang national chain pharmacy, can the acacia set be sold all over the country.

On the fourth day, Shang Tao didn't wait for people from Tongjitang or Tongrentang, but waited for Ye Maoyan.

"Nephew Shang Xian, did you make up this acacia set?" As soon as Ye Maoyan entered the door, the sound arrived before the person arrived.

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