However, seasonal restrictions are quite pressing - you can't just open a store and have to wait a year to have new goods.
So Aunt Zhang promised Su Qingluan that she would "think of a way" and turned around to write a letter to Old Lady Xie, telling her about the matter and asking her to use the special letter delivery channel.
Of course, at this moment Su Qingluan knew nothing about this matter.
Su Qingluan then made demands, including detailed requirements on the design of the outer packaging, the name of the shop must be "Su Ji", and even the contract period.
"I can't guarantee that I can always produce new jams with guaranteed quality and quantity. So, in order to avoid ruining the reputation of 'Su Ji' jam, this contract will have to be renewed every few years. Of course, the specific number of years needs to be mutually agreed upon..."
Naturally, these clauses cover a wide range of categories, and it takes more than one day to finalize them. Even if the first ten trial units don't receive a good response, the rest of the contract will likely be scrapped.
Therefore, today both parties have only roughly put forward the issues they have thought of in the cooperation. As for the specific terms of the contract, they still need to be broken down and discussed slowly.
However, there are two points that need to be finalized first - "Su Ji" as the store's overall trademark, and the proportion of the "deposit" that needs to be returned if the trial sale fails.
The former was easy to negotiate. Before Zhang Ma came to Lefeng County, she was instructed by Old Lady Xie: The Xie family now has both honor and power, and they also have a daughter who is a concubine in the palace, and her status is already one-fourth of the "Rong Fei".
The current emperor is suspicious and very wary of foreign relatives interfering in politics, so he has not appointed a queen. Therefore, the fourth concubine has a high status.
Even in the capital, where the rich and powerful gathered, the Xie Mansion was still quite conspicuous. So, at least for the sake of appearances, this jam shop couldn't attract too much attention—and it definitely couldn't use the name "Xie Mansion."
It was also because of this that Su Qingluan's attempt to use "Su Ji" as a "trademark" unexpectedly coincided with the other party's decision.
As for the deposit, Aunt Zhang wrote a guarantee that even if the "trial product" did not win the favor of the noble person, there was still the "Four Seasons" series as a foundation, so half of the deposit could be guaranteed as "hardship fee".
Su Qingluan thought, the silver note for the deposit was five hundred taels, so wouldn’t half of it be two hundred and fifty?
The key point is that the expression "idiot" has no special meaning in this era. It is just an ordinary number, which makes Su Qingluan feel powerless even if she wants to complain about it.
Then she came to her senses: since no one thought that the number 250 had any special meaning, she would just pretend that the other meanings didn't exist for the time being - after all, she wasn't the kind of person who was so hypocritical as to avoid money just to avoid a certain number.
Now that the most pressing matter had been resolved, Su Qingluan felt a lot more relaxed. Afterwards, Su Qingluan and Zhang Ma thought about other directions and details that could be added. They wrote down everything they could think of on paper, a mess without much organization.
However, sorting out these terms one by one is the job that Xie Mansion's clerk needs to worry about.
Su Qingluan was very happy to receive a large deposit, and at least more than two hundred taels of silver could be deposited into her account.
She began to think about how to create as many jobs as possible so that more villagers from Huaxi Village could come to "work part-time", and then naturally distribute the money in her hands to these villagers so that they could buy winter vegetables, winter clothes, salt for pickling and storing vegetables, and repair their leaky houses.
When she thought that everyone in Huaxi Village would have a much better life this year than usual, she couldn't help feeling happy. It was a different kind of happiness from making money.
In fact, if they really wanted to help the villagers survive the winter, the money the Su family had stored was more than enough. Moreover, the Su family's current business and the dividends from "Hongfu Building" were more than enough for the Su family's expenses.
But Su Qingluan also understood that if benefits came too easily, people would become increasingly dissatisfied, and their originally grateful faces would gradually turn into dissatisfaction and jealousy.
This was human nature, and she never intended to test human nature.
So no matter how much she wants to help the people around her, Su Qingluan's principle is that their rewards must be earned through their own labor. Only in this way can the money given out be more "reasonable" and more "safe."
This is true for both the villagers and the Su family.
After all, if money comes too easily, who would want to work hard?
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