Chapter 80: The Partition of Soap
"Daddy! This time, the Wang family also opened a shop of fragrant pancreas in Fucheng, and our family has to do more, and then as before, I am afraid it will not be enough. Gu Chengyu said to Daddy Gu after eating.
In the past two years, his family has separated a workshop in the yard to make fragrant pancreas, and it is the few people in the family who make fragrant pancreas, but they have increased the mold, and they can make hundreds of pieces at a time.
The year before last, he looked for Wang Qikai and proposed to cooperate with the Wang family to share, and Master Wang saw that he was Wang Qikai's classmate, so he gave the Gu family forty percent. Don't underestimate these forty percent, the Gu family does not participate in the operation, and is only responsible for making soap, while the Wang family wants to provide shops, entrust connections, and give some dividends to those dignitaries.
So it's not bad that the Gu family can be divided into forty percent, who called his family just an ordinary farmer?
Although Master Wang saw the profits inside, but he didn't dare to sell more, he was sent by the capital to take care of the business, if this matter was known by the family, I was afraid that his share would be handed over, and the Gu family would not be able to get benefits, so the Wang family only opened the store in Fucheng this year.
Of course, the Gu family didn't dare to make more soap, so Gu Chengyu could only engage in hunger marketing. In this way, the Wang family still blocked them from a lot of trouble. Since the production is not high, it can only be sold to rich and noble families, so the selling price of soap is not cheap.
The soap made by the Gu family is divided into three grades, the third class is cheaper, that is, pure soap, without any additives, the outer packaging is a coarse porcelain, only the name of the Gu family and a rose are painted on it, and the selling price is 500 Wen; The second class added some petals and essential oils, the essential oils were made by Gu Chengyu according to the books in the space, of course, there were not many essential oils put into the soap, this one was packed in a white porcelain box, and the selling price was one or two halves of silver; The first class adds some medicinal materials, such as how to Shou Wu, aloe vera, etc., these are skin care, hair care function, so it is more expensive, the selling price is at least three taels of silver, if the added medicinal materials are expensive, the price is naturally more expensive, this is packed in a finely carved wooden box, and the outside is also lacquered, which looks more exquisite.
The porcelain box and wooden box packaged are all found by the Wang family, the Gu family doesn't care about this, after all, these are also costs, Gu Chengyu's requirement is that the box must have the Gu family's name and roses.
The soap of the Gu family is not big, and the expensive ones are made into different shapes, such as plum blossom shape, cylindrical shape, etc., because of the addition of medicinal herbs and essential oils, it looks exquisite, smells fragrant, and has good effect, so it is always in short supply.
But neither the Wang family nor the Gu family dared to produce on a large scale, and it was better to say that the output was less, if they did more, it would definitely attract the covetousness of those big people.
Gu Chengyu sighed when he thought of this! Isn't it because his family has no status? He is bound to participate in the imperial examination in February next year, and even if Wen Fuzi does not approve, he will not hesitate.
"What's the matter? Doesn't that mean you can't do more? Why do you want to open it in Fucheng again? Father Gu was a little surprised.
Before, Gu Jiaguang's net profit in soap last year was more than 1,000 taels, and Daddy Gu was already very satisfied. He doesn't want to make those big fortunes, his family has no power, even a petty official with sesame mung beans can make his family unable to eat and walk around.
"Since Master Wang said so, he must have thought of a way, Dad don't worry. Since there should be more soap, the flower field at the foot of the mountain should be more varied, and there will be a medicine field, and the five acres will be planted next year, and it is best to set aside a few more acres. ”
The Gu family bought a piece of land at the foot of the mountain, fenced it off, made a flower field, and an orchard, which were all used for picking peach or pear blossoms, and not all of them were used to bear fruit. I also bought another ten acres of land to grow medicinal herbs, but at present, only three acres are used, and in this way, there is still a lot of stock at home, and the rest is planted with grain.
"Hey! You and Master Wang can count it. Father Gu saw that his son had an idea, so he no longer worried.
When the two talked, the people of the Gu family pricked up their ears and listened, the Gu family made a fixed amount of soap every year, and never made more, so how much money they earned, everyone in the family had a number in their hearts. Now, if you can do more, wouldn't you have more silver?
In fact, Gu Chengyu guessed that Master Wang suddenly decided to open a shop in Fucheng, maybe he had caught up with another official. Thinking of Wang Qikai saying that his father took him to Fucheng to attend the prefect's wife's birthday last time, Gu Chengyu was a little worried about the forty percent in his family's hands, and he didn't know if he could keep it.
It seems that Yu Paralytic still has to find a way to investigate.
"Daddy! Is it less for our family to only take forty percent? This soap recipe is from our family, why can our family get seventy percent? "He listened to the conversation between Gu Chengyu and his son just now, and thought that his family had divided sixty percent for nothing, how much silver was that?
"What do you know about a woman? You let people contribute, and let people go everywhere to entrust people, can it be justified to only give 30% to others? What's more, the sixty percent that was distributed was not all given to the Wang family. ”
Father Gu was a little displeased when he saw He interject. No one wants to give money to others for nothing, but what can he do with this silver? He is not confused when it comes to such a big thing.
"Then our family shouldn't have done business with the Wang family in the first place, you see, and let the family take the lion's share, if we sell it ourselves, isn't the silver all our own?" As long as He thought that all the white silver had gone into other people's pockets, he was distressed.
"Didn't the second family tell you before? If you don't rely on others, do you think we can sell so much soap in a year? No one has come to our idea yet? Are you stupid to be someone else? If we hadn't backed the Wang family, there would have been no bones left for the family to eat. You're a mother-in-law, you're such a fool! ”
Listening to He's nagging, Lu Shi was already in a bad mood, and he was even more angry! This second daughter-in-law, how many times has she told her, but she just doesn't understand, and she thinks about it all day long and it's not her own money.
Gu Chengyi ate silently, although he knew that what Father Gu said was right, but he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, the matter he went to talk about with the Wang family was Father Gu and Gu Chengyu, who knows if the Wang family asked for sixty percent? Aren't all these things the two of them said? Therefore, He shouted, and he didn't care.
"Second sister-in-law! Doing business is not as easy as you think, our family is just a farmer, if we take over this business and do it ourselves, even those ruffians and hooligans will be enough for us. ”
Gu Chengyu was also speechless for this second sister-in-law, that brain was not turning, could it be that the troubles of his family before were settled by the Wang family, didn't she know?
Gu Chengyu glanced at Gu Chengyi, today Gu Chengyi was quietly a little abnormal, it stands to reason that he had analyzed it for the family before, and the second brother should know. found that he only cared about eating and did not dissuade He.
The Zhang family has long listened carefully to what Gu Chengyu said, she has been married to the family for more than a year, almost two years, and naturally has some understanding of the Gu family, and also knows that the Gu family is now relying on her brother-in-law to live a good life, the Gu family must have a lot of silver, even if Gu Chenglian doesn't tell her, she also has points. Listening to what He said at this time, she felt that this He was really stupid, and pursed her lips, she had always looked down on this second sister-in-law.
"That's it! Don't talk about this matter in the future, when it reaches the ears of the Wang family, don't you say that our family is big? We still have to rely on others to earn money. "Daddy Gu can only say one last thing, the He family didn't have a door on his mouth, if the Wang family knows, can the two families continue to cooperate?
"Uncle! After dinner, I still don't understand something in the book, and I want to go to the study to ask you for advice. After the dinner table was quiet, Da Lang's voice suddenly sounded.