When the two ships docked at Yaluo Bay, Li Xian instructed the sailors to dock, unload the things, and take them to Yaluo Temple. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When Li Xian came back, he brought a lot of cloth, porcelain and other rare things from Guangzhou, on the one hand, to give gifts to people, and on the other hand, to cover the transportation of firearms.

Yaluo Bay is actually very deserted, and it is not inhabited by rich people, and when the soap business of Mixed Yuan Guan is started, he immediately becomes the richest person here, and employs dozens of workers, which is regarded as the head snake here.

Bringing dozens of boxes of things to the Mixed Yuan Temple, placing them, and settling those dart masters, this is the only way to stabilize the moment.

Speaking of which, Li Xian has not returned to the Mixed Yuan View for seven or eight months, looking at the scenery, but he has a lot of money, and he is also a little emotional.

When Li Xian had some leisure, the three housekeepers in charge of the soap business came over with some men to report to him about the business during this time.

Li Xian looked at these people but was a little distracted for a while, it turned out that two of the three shopkeepers had a first-order cultivation, and the remaining one had at least refined internal strength, and among the other guys and workers, there were also people who had cultivated well.

At the beginning, Li Xian's eyesight was not good, and he had never cultivated, so he couldn't see these abnormalities at all, but now his eye perception was even comparable to that of a fourth-order Dacheng master, so he naturally observed clues from the movements and behaviors of these people, and judged these things.

"Chen Qian, Chen Qian, you play the mallet from the beginning. Li Xian sighed secretly.

Speaking of which, the Mixed Yuan Sect is a great sect that has been inherited for hundreds of years, no matter how bad Chen Qian is, it will not make it impossible to even have an advanced disciple in the door, even the original Feng Nanhai, who doesn't understand anything, and there are several advanced disciples around.

There is nothing to say about business matters, anyway, the account books are very clean, and Li Xian has almost monopolized all the soap business during this time, so he naturally understands that there will be no problems in this regard.

Li Xian simply talked to them about the account books and distributed gifts such as cloth and ornaments brought back from Foshan, but it was too much of the addiction of the young owner.

Fortunately, these people all know that Li Xian has a great reputation in the Guangzhou realm, and none of them came out to slap his face, and quietly accepted the gift, Xie Dong's reward.

This soap workshop is nominally hung under Chen Qian's name, Li Xian previously lied to the people in the martial arts in Sanyuanguan that Chen Qian was dead, and only wrote to the shopkeepers in the workshop that Chen Qian was handling other things in Guangzhou, and did not change his words at this time, saying that Chen Qian was still visiting friends in Sanyuanguan.

Whether it was the three shopkeepers or a few higher-level guys, they all nodded, agreeing with this statement, without the slightest question, Li Xian nodded secretly, Chen Qian has been missing since he left the blessed land, and he has not contacted him, and now it seems that he has already returned to Yaluowan and secretly presided over the affairs here.

Li Xian himself also has a ghost in his heart, so he will not mention it after revealing this matter.

The big shopkeeper among the three shopkeepers is surnamed Zhao, called Zhao Hujiang, his name is very bold, but he is actually a white and pure middle-aged man, wearing a long robe, if it weren't for Li Xian to see that this person has opened up the Jing Yuan Sea and is a first-order master, I am afraid that he will think that he is an ordinary steward.

"Steward Zhao, you have been in charge of presiding over the workshop during this time, is there anything you have not?" asked Li Xian.

"Back to the young owner's house, everything is fine in the workshop.

In the past, there was a backlog of soap, but since the Shaodong cooperated with the Fuwei Dart Bureau to sell soap together, this thing is produced and sold as a piece, and the price is much higher than before, which is really happy.

It's just that the money from selling soap is in the hands of the young owner, saying that there are a lot of things that need to be turned, and we have to expand production here, recruiting people, buying land, building factories and buying machines, all of which cost money.

In addition, during this period of time, the fishermen went out to sea to hunt whales, and there were some problems, and now there is no problem, but those fishermen have been thinking about raising the price of whale oil, but they have been pressed by us, and please make a decision. General Zhao Hu was very capable, and immediately picked up the most important things to say.

Li Xian has been holding on to the sales money of the soap, knowing that the money will be tighter here, and after listening to the words of the first half, he just nodded, but later said that there was a problem with whaling, which was a miracle.

"What else can go wrong with whaling, can Shopkeeper Zhao tell me?" Li Xian asked curiously.

"Some time ago, there was a monster in the sea, that is, a very large whale, but whenever he saw a fisherman going out to sea to hunt whales, he went up and hit it with his body, destroying the fishing boat, so that many people did not dare to go into the sea to hunt whales.

The number of whals here has dropped, and some people have no source of income, so they hit us with the idea of taking the opportunity to increase the price of whale oil.

In fact, this is also easy to do, we make soap here, looking at the production of more than 100,000 a year, a lot of quantity, in fact, it is less than 20,000 catties of whale oil, which is the amount of oil produced by a fish dragon.

And there is enough stock in the workshop, they want to take this card for us, but they miscalculated.

I guess the whale attack will stop in a few months, and then we can take care of it, and maybe we can bring down the price of oil. Shopkeeper Zhao got up and said.

The price of this soap is one penny of silver, and a hundred thousand is 13,400 taels of silver, but this is the retail price, and the wholesale price is of course lower.

In the past, Chen Qian and Li Xian ran a soap workshop, and they could earn about 3,000 taels of silver every year, and they also became the richest people in Yaluo Bay.

A piece of soap weighs about 120 grams, and if you calculate the annual production of 150,000 pieces of soap, the total weight is 18,000 kilograms, or 9 tons.

However, of course, the soap will not be produced entirely from whale oil, and the whale oil content is at most 60%, plus the loss, which is only six tons of whale oil a year.

The average weight of an adult whale is 25 tons, and according to the oil yield rate of 60%, a whale can produce 15 tons of oil, far more than the soap workshop needs.

In the past, the soap workshop mainly bought whale spleen, and whale oil was to buy whale bones that fishermen did not want to boil by themselves, to reduce costs to the greatest extent, until the sales channels gradually opened, and then directly purchased whale oil, using soda ash and caustic soda purchased from Macao and other places, supplemented by other spices and herb ingredients, to produce beautiful and high-quality soap products, which are exported to Leizhou and Guangzhou.

And the fishermen of Yaluo Bay also catch dozens of whales a year, which is purely the level of supply and demand, and they want to use the excuse to raise the price, but they don't want to think about it.

This also shows very well that Li Xian is now a complete capitalist class, obviously making a lot of money, but also exploiting innocent fishermen and desperately squeezing surplus value to achieve his ulterior purpose.

"The price of whale oil can only go down, not up, and Shopkeeper Zhao helps keep an eye on it.

And in my opinion, the price of this whale oil will soon drop dramatically, and there is only a share of going down, and there is no possibility of going up. Li Xian nodded, not caring at all.

After a while, he suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked Shopkeeper Zhao: "Shopkeeper Zhao just said that there are powerful whales in the sea and scourge fishermen, can you tell me what it is?"

"Oh, this whale is said to be particularly vicious, three times larger than ordinary whales, infinitely powerful, and it is said that there are some magic tricks.

I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but I heard from the fishermen that whenever this whale saw someone hunting, it immediately chased after it and hit the boat with its body, and then spewed out a column of water to overturn the boat, and it was very clever, and those fishermen tried to hunt it several times, but they were all dodged, but they themselves were destroyed.

This whale is snow-white, and the color of ordinary whales is very different, some old fishermen say that this is a whale has lived for thousands of years to become a spirit, become the king of whales, and see someone hunting their own people, so they take action to stop it.

Now all families are cautious when they go out to sea to hunt, for fear of being unlucky enough to run into this whale king. ”

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