Seeing that everyone was speechless, Ruan Jialin laughed in his heart. He was stunned upstairs. He counted it three times over and over again, but it still felt like a dream. He couldn't be the only one who was so useless.
It is said that businessmen in Jiangnan make a lot of money, but even for the shops in Jiangnan that are said to make a fortune every day, it is rare for them to have a turnover of over ten thousand taels. All of them are shops from big families.
Qianjinlou had just opened, and Ruan Jialin finally understood why the Zhang family called Awan the God of Wealth.
As if afraid of scaring someone, he softly said the answer, "Today's turnover is a full 11,088 taels!"
Even Su Rina was surprised, "How could there be so many?"
She had five grain and oil shops, two two-story rouge and powder shops, and several grocery stores selling felt carpets. Her most profitable business was only twice that of Qianjinlou. When business was slow, her daily turnover could reach an incredible 5,000 taels.
Bayin could understand how profitable this thing was.
He could sell the scented soap and bar worth four cents in northern Mongolia for eight cents. As for the scented soap and toothbrush and toothpaste, which were only affordable for the nobles, he would sell them for five times the price and people would rush to buy them.
Last year, he took nearly a thousand taels of silver worth of goods and more than five hundred taels of silver worth of snacks from the Qiao family. The next year, he bought two thousand taels of silver worth of essential oils from Qin Mao, all of which he sold to the nobles of Northern Mongolia.
The money earned is no less than the turnover of Qianjinlou.
Although he didn't know the recipes of those goods, Bayin could vaguely feel that, just by looking at the milk tofu, he could tell that the Qiao family was good at making cheap things expensive, and their profits were so high that it seemed like silver was falling from the sky.
Ruan Jialin immediately explained to everyone, "Because Awan insisted on giving away gold dew worth over five hundred taels of silver for free today, many people placed orders for half price. The largest order was over a thousand taels, and the smallest was a hundred taels. We will have to slowly produce these goods later. We won't have this much every day, and we will be busy for at least half a month."
As for the fifty people who should normally be entertained, there are basically no traveling merchants.
Most of them are wealthy people from Xining Town. They heard the noise and came to join in the fun. Once they came in, they couldn't leave.
They don't sell them to others and can't wait to place an order, so they buy the ready-made goods at full price, which accounts for a very small part of the total turnover. That's how they make the extra money.
Su Rina nodded. This made sense. After all, her shop had a monthly turnover of over 100,000 taels, while Qianjinlou only had a monthly turnover of 20,000 taels... what a joke.
She has nearly ten shops, while Qianjinlou only has one. If they were separated... her face really started to hurt.
Yu and Madam Zhang, who had been making tea for everyone in the back, hugged each other excitedly.
Madam Zhang murmured, "Even if we earn this much in a month, our ancestors' graves will still be filled with smoke. No, we still have to have more daughters in the future. Cuiya and Qiaoya must learn to read and write. Daughters are more promising than sons."
Zhang Sanzhuang: “…”
Qiao Ruichen smiled and nodded at Bayin and Su Rina, his tone humble and gentle, but his words made Su Rina's face hurt and her heart annoyed.
"When we settle the accounts at the end of the month, Wuliangha can bring an extra accountant with him. Otherwise, we may not be able to finish the accounts in one day. Whether Wuliangha wants goods as collateral or the anti-counterfeiting secret recipe, the Qiao family can accept both.
I have discussed this with my family. Wuliangha clan does not need to use gold as a token of trust. The goods can be sold at 10% lower than theirs, or 40% of the selling price."
Bayin looked at his sister-in-law whose face turned pale, knowing that she was embarrassed to say it, but after all, the money she earned went into the pockets of Wuliangha. He shamelessly hit Qiao Ruichen on the shoulder to express his apology.
"Brother Muren is generous! I, your elder brother, cannot be stingy. We were wrong about Ganli in the beginning. The Qiao family can do whatever they want with it, but we really can't wait for this thing. Can we make a deal now? Brother Muren, don't worry, we will pay for the goods and there will be no delay."
Anyway, they still get 40% of the profit, which is cheaper than exchanging goods for dry profit later.
Bayin thought of this and immediately said, "No need to use 40%, just use the price of Huang Jinlu, 50% would be great."
Qiao Ruichen looked at Ruan Jialin. Whether he could produce the goods depended on whether Qianjinlou could produce the goods.
Ruan Jialin smiled secretly in his heart. Nowadays, products can be made in the backyard of Qianjin Building. There are eighteen women from the four families who can come out to work, including Madam Zhang.
There is no need to hire female workers from outside. Nine people work in two shifts. Awan sets the process in front, and Master Gu and the Yu family work overtime in the back.
He can deliver another three thousand taels of goods within a month.
After figuring it out, he asked, "I wonder how much goods Wuliangha wants?"
Su Rina perked up, raised her eyebrows, crossed her arms, and raised her chin slightly. "I have a rouge shop in the north and south of the county town. I need a lot of goods. Please give me 5,000 taels of goods first."
Ruan Jialin froze for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I'll definitely deliver it before the end of the month."
Su Rina smiled. "The end of the month? But others are ahead of Wuliangha in the queue? Then Wuliangha's rouge shop will be affected. Since we are a partner, shouldn't you sell the goods to me first?"
Bayin also felt that it was a bit late to wait until the end of the month, and looked at Qiao Ruichen with embarrassment, "Brother Muren, do you think you can make some concessions?"
"It's not impossible!" Miao Wan's voice came from behind.
Everyone turned their heads immediately. She had quietly come in from the back door and was now lying on the door next to the middle door, tilting her head to look over here.
Qiao Ruichen walked over calmly, pulled her over and didn't let go, "Why are you here?"
Miao Wan laughed, not shy at all, and shook Qiao Ruichen's hand like a child, which made everyone want to laugh.
"I couldn't stay at home, so Mom asked Uncle Geng to bring me here. I guess Mom and Dad also want to know how business is going today."
Putting the gossip aside, Miao Wan turned around with a smile and greeted Bayin, then looked at Su Rina.
"You only want goods worth five thousand taels? We can make double that. If we ship at the end of the month, it will be the same goods as today.
If you are in a hurry and want to send it within half a month, you will have to pay for the expedited service, which is just a 20% increase on the price. Then you will also get the 40% profit from the Wuliangha family, which is the same as half price."
Ruan Jialin slapped his forehead. He was only thinking about making money and didn't realize the subtle difference between offsetting goods and placing orders.
He felt a little uneasy. He must have been overwhelmed by the current. He must not make the same mistake again.
Su Rina and Bayin looked at each other and agreed, "Then half a month, I'll send someone to pick up the goods."
After leaving the house, Su Rina laughed, "This way, we can get ahead of others. Qianjinlou can forget about interfering with the business in the county city. By the end of the month, find a way to send a message to the Qiao family. As long as they pay silver, it will be more cost-effective to place orders directly with cash on delivery."
It was agreed that the Qiao family could choose for themselves. Bayin couldn't bear to see his sister-in-law being so calculating, so he smiled and pointed at the teahouse.
"Auntie, have you forgotten the bet we made this morning?"
Su Rina: “…”
She had been favored by Abu since she was a child because of her intelligence, and later married Wuliangha and became the mistress. She had never felt as miserable as she did today.
But she always had a vague feeling of frustration towards the Qiao family, and even if she cooperated, she didn't feel happy.
On the way back, Su Rina became more energetic and ordered the guards, "Call all the rouge shop owners to me when you get back."
She had to carefully consider how to launch these good things and never give other merchants the opportunity to steal her business.
As for Qianjinlou, just take her orders in Xining Town and don't even think about interfering in the county town.
Miao Wan didn't know that she had aroused Su Rina's fighting spirit. Even if she knew, she would just laugh.
If nothing else, she has too much experience in competing with strong women like Sister Chenxi and Su Rina.
I just hope Su Rina doesn’t get mad at her to death.
After returning home and informing both families, Qiao Shengwen couldn't help but ask a few more questions when he learned that there was a turnover of over ten thousand taels today.
"Since we've ordered so much goods, and there's also the 5,000 taels of goods from the Wuliangha family, can Qianjinlou handle it with the current staff?"
Miao Wan smiled and nodded, "I can definitely handle it. I've already converted Qianjinlou's kitchen into three workshops, so I only need to hire six female workers.
The eldest and third sisters-in-law led the other three families, and everyone divided the work and cooperated. Each person was responsible for only one part of the work, and the female workers worked in pairs to pack the products. It was no problem to produce thousands of bottles a day.
This not only avoids the problem of multiple families talking and the recipe being leaked, but also increases production speed. Miao Wan had thought of this when designing the workshop.
When she was carefully studying what new products to use for the opening of Qianjinlou, the first thing she thought of was a product that could be shipped quickly and was stunning enough.
Except for the slightly more complicated Baiyulong paste, the other toothpastes made by the Lin family are cooked.
Each female member of their family was responsible for a part of the work, and finally the female workers would bottle the liquor, just like the assembly line in the Republic of China period.
Although it is not as fast as the mechanical age, it is much stronger than the productivity inherent in this era.
As for the shower gel, Miao Wan also saw it on a live streaming app. It requires three things: baking soda, essential oil, and fruit peel.
Because the baking soda sold on the market is too alkaline and may damage the skin, the anchor made the baking soda himself using alkaline water filtered after boiling plant ash.
Then soak the limestone and vinegar together, use pig urine to collect carbon dioxide gas, mix it with alkaline water, and dry and crush the precipitated white solid, which is a weakened version of baking soda.
Put baking soda and fruit peel together and seal them to react, and you will get a transparent foaming liquid like dishwashing liquid.
Then add a little essential oil and goat milk, or cow milk. The milky white foaming liquid that comes out will not hurt the skin, but has a similar effect to soap, and can also make the skin more moisturized.
But there is also a drawback. Although it has strong moisturizing ability, just like soap, its cleaning ability is not that good.
So Miao Wan neutralized it and used it as soap, but she didn't let the soap liquid solidify. Instead, she directly added aromatic water and essential oil to dilute it, and then put it into a jar mixed with carbon dioxide collected from fruit peels and pig bladders and sealed it for reaction.
The shower gel produced in this way has excellent cleaning and moisturizing abilities.
No one is more familiar with the job of making soap than Aunt Geng. When the time comes, just separate the parts of boiling soap liquid, collecting carbon dioxide, collecting essential oils and aromatic water, boiling goat milk, and peeling fruit. Everyone will be responsible for a part. Practice makes perfect, and the speed will also be improved.
Mrs. Zhang brought her two daughters-in-law with her, and Ruan Jialin was also present. They were all family members, so Miao Wan carefully explained the entire process.
If anyone didn't understand, she would explain it carefully and the work would start quickly tomorrow.
As for the packaging, in addition to the white porcelain bottles used for the Baiyulong ointment, many red pottery, black pottery and light gold glass bottles were made for backup.
Master Gu and the men of the Yu family will work overtime for half a month to produce enough cans.
Qiao Shengwen and Qiao Ruichen understood. The father and son looked at each other. After the others had asked questions and left, Qiao Shengwen called the young couple.
"Awan, as for the essential oil part, why don't we hire two maids to make it at home? Don't let people know that we can make it so easily." Qiao Shengwen was afraid that his daughter-in-law would be unwilling, so he spoke carefully.
"As for the essential oils we use publicly, buy them from Guard Qin. After all, we gave the recipe to him. Do you understand what Dad means?"
Miao Wan's eyes widened, and after figuring it out, she nodded timidly. "Thanks to Dad for reminding me, otherwise I would have forgotten all about this. I even made him spend a lot of money making the copper cauldron, and he doesn't know about the aromatic water. If this gets out..."
She touched her neck and said, "Dad, husband, if anything happens in the future, you must tell me as soon as possible. I'm scared."
Qiao Shengwen was amused. He also knew that his daughter-in-law was timid. "It's not that serious. It's just related to when we can return to the capital. Ruichen went to the county capital. After all, Xining Town is under the jurisdiction of the garrison. We can't let it get lost."
Rather than being afraid that Qin Mao would find out, it would be more accurate to say that they were offering money proactively to let Qin Mao know that the Qiao family was not ungrateful.
They're not stupid, how could they not know that they can produce it themselves? It's enough to save face.
"Oh, that's fine. Anyway, my father and husband should explain it to me clearly in the future. Otherwise, I will always feel that my neck is not so stable." Miao Wan muttered softly.
Her current goal has become to make a few hundred million, but the threat from the grave still makes her feel uneasy.
After the couple finished their work at night, Miao Wan lay on top of Qiao Bailao and couldn't help but mutter, "Can you tell me what you are going to do in the future as soon as possible? You can't wait until I make a mistake before telling me. What if I make a mess? Are you thinking of changing your wife?"
Qiao Ruichen: “…” It’s not that serious, right?
He didn't know where the unprovoked misfortune of the last sentence came from. He turned over with his wife in his arms and said, "I will definitely not change my wife. When you are here, you are the only one on my kang. When you are gone, I will raise the child by myself."
"Huh, huh, huh?" Miao Wan felt a bit like a heart attack after hearing this. She bit him out of hatred, "You've even prepared for my death?!"
Qiao Ruichen felt uncomfortable all over after being bitten, but he was also frightened by his wife's red eyes and was at a loss. He felt that his wife was scaring herself and didn't know what to say for a moment.
He learned some sweet talk, but he never hit the point. After thinking about it, he decided to just block out his wife's moans and make her too tired to think about anything else.
The next day, Qiao Ruichen was afraid that his wife was too frightened and in a bad mood, so he told Geng about it, hoping that Geng, the mother-in-law, could persuade her, as she was more talkative than his own son.
Unexpectedly, Miao Wan's emotions came and went quickly. She was not the kind of person who would cause trouble for herself, so Geng's persuasion was of no use at all.
As for last night's emotional fluctuations, Qianjinlou's turnover was five figures last night, which was considered a good start.
And her period, which had not come since she traveled through time, also came to visit after a long absence to join in the fun.
She lay on the kang, groaning in frustration, and was served by Geng and Qiao Ruichen, giving her sweet soup and braised pork. After a satisfying meal and a good sleep, all her emotions disappeared, and she began to continue researching new products with full energy.
A beauty shop cannot be like Ju Fu Restaurant, which only releases new products every two or three months.
To win over customers and the constant flow of merchants, we have to rely on an endless stream of new products to make people remember the Qianjinlou brand.
After the basic toiletries and perfume are online, the next thing is the woman’s favorite makeup powder and rouge. She plans to use both together in the second half of the month.
Makeup powder can be made into different styles according to its texture, and rouge also comes in different colors.
In order to save up the color of lipstick, women in later generations would eat instant noodles for a month. At this time, women could do as little as possible to save up the color of rouge.
As she carefully experimented with various plant dyeing effects at home, ideas for promotional activities kept popping up in her mind.
However, before the new products were available, Uncle Zhang and Uncle Wu came back. The two old masters had mud on their trouser legs and looked a little tired, but their faces could not hide their joy.
The two of them said it directly without anyone asking.
Uncle Zhang: "Boss, we can harvest the grain and vegetables now. If we keep them any longer, they will become old."
Uncle Wu: "The manure fermented by the landlord is really effective. Not only has the land become more fertile, but the crops and vegetables grow better and ripen earlier than in other people's fields. It's a bumper harvest! Someone even stole the manure a while ago, and we almost got into a fight."
Geng was curious, "So how are you doing? Did you hurt anyone?"
Uncle Wu waved his hands and laughed as he spoke, "There was no fight. The fat thieves came in the middle of the night and started a fight because they couldn't divide the loot evenly. Adun went out to see, and several of them fell into the pond out of fright and ran out. It took us a while to deal with them, hahaha..."
Geng turned to look at her daughter-in-law. Is this why Awan insisted on having a Kunlun slave?
Miao Wan: "..." No, no, no, that was insulting. She wanted Adun to be a guard at home, not by the cesspool!
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