Chapter 174: When did the young master become so childish?
Su Wan didn't take this matter to heart. In the next half month, she ran to the remaining five counties in Xiangzhou Prefecture and delivered 3,000 bars of soap.
After she came back, she bought three more men and two female slaves and let them live in the workshop.
Among the five of them, Dashu is the main one, and from now on they will specialize in delivering goods in the eight counties of Xiangzhou.
We will have to continue to add people to the work in the future, but now, Su Wan has opened up the entire market in Xiangzhou. Goat milk soap is quickly circulating in Xiangzhou and becoming famous. The people on hand are completely sufficient to manage the supply in Xiangzhou.
There is no profit from this first order. All the money was spent on staffing. The first order is considered to break even, and only subsequent orders will start to make money.
Su Wan planned to open stores in neighboring Yanzhou and Suzhou one after another once the business in Xiangzhou was completely stabilized.
Select the best and most capable people to manage the store and be the shopkeeper.
In Xiangzhou Prefecture, plus the eight counties, the workshop had to deliver at least 5,000 bars of soap every month, and the monthly net profit was conservatively estimated to be around 1,500 taels.
According to this standard, if we finish this year, the net profit by the end of the year will be at least 10,000 taels of silver.
In the second half of the year, we will open markets in Yanzhou and Suzhou, and directly open stores in Yanzhou and Suzhou to sell our products.
As for the small counties within their territory, they can just set up small shops to sell the products without looking for agents. The monthly rent of small shops in the county is very cheap.
Dashu and his friends did hard work and had to run back and forth, so Su Wan increased their monthly salary to five taels.
During the Grain in Ear season, their salary was increased to 4 taels per month. A salary increase can really make people more motivated.
Everyone worked very hard and Su Wan didn't have to worry about anything.
Fortunately, Xiangzhou is relatively peaceful, so Dashu and his men are not afraid of encountering bandits or highway robbers when delivering goods. In the future, when Su Wan becomes capable, she will set up a strong delivery team of her own, composed entirely of young and strong men. She will also ask a master to train them and teach them some self-defense skills, so that they can be more secure when delivering goods between states in the future.
The main workshop was established in Xiangzhou. In the future, the workshop will expand and more and more people will work there.
Su Wan's goal is to set up branch workshops in the most prosperous Kyoto and Zhongzhou, control the entire market in the north, south and center of Jin State, and make goat milk soap spread all over the country and even go abroad.
Xiangzhou governs the south of the Yangtze River, the capital is in the north, and Zhongzhou is undoubtedly the central region of Jin State.
After finishing the business in Xiangzhou, Su Wan finally had some free time and could have a good sleep at home.
In early May, she will be celebrating her fourteenth birthday. After turning fourteen, she will be fifteen years old, and she will be of marriageable age next year.
The second day of May is her birthday, and also Gu Yue’s birthday.
But Su Wan herself didn't know that her soul came from the afterlife and her birthday was not on this day, so she didn't remember it.
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The scene shifts to half a month ago, Zhongzhou, Fengyue Villa:
Jiang Yu received a letter from Xiangzhou, which was written by Fengying himself.
He carefully preserved each letter. The two pages of letter paper talked about the recent events in Xiangzhou. He smiled as he read the first page, muttering to himself:
"Like money?" He frowned tightly.
Isn't this embarrassing for him?
If he likes something, he knows which direction to look for it, but he said he likes silver. Does that mean he will really give money?
But according to his understanding of the little girl, she likes money, but only likes the money she earns herself. If others give her money directly, she will not accept it.
First, I feel embarrassed that I should not accept the reward without doing anything. Second, I feel it is boring because it is not earned by myself and it is like a hot potato in my hands.
Then she continued reading, and on the second page, it mentioned what she had encountered in Qingyuan County, and the son of the county magistrate who had been cut off from having children.
Although he had been treated badly, the sinister Jiang Yu still felt unhappy.
As expected, the little girl’s face is easy to attract attention. She’s already like this now even though she hasn’t fully grown up yet. What will happen in two years?
So he called in his men.
"Send a letter to Kyoto and ask the old man to find a reason to dismiss the magistrate of Qingyuan County in Xiangzhou, saying that he has offended me."
Jiang Yu said it calmly, but his subordinates were in trouble:
"Young Master, the county magistrate is only an eighth-rank official. Are you sure you still want to ask that person for help?"
"I'm not in the officialdom anymore, so who else can I turn to if not him? Besides, the Qingyuan County Magistrate has committed many evil deeds, and it's not that he was wronged. The Xiangzhou Chief Clerk is his brother-in-law. With this relationship, isn't it enough for him to take action?
Just go when I tell you to. Why are you talking so much nonsense? "
Jiang Yu glanced at his subordinates calmly, his authority evident without any anger, and his subordinates shrugged.
Looking at the familiar handwriting on the paper, he knew it was a letter from Xiangzhou.
I don't know when the young master became so childish that he even used his connections to suppress an eighth-rank official.
Not to mention that the Qingyuan County Magistrate was full of evil, even if someone killed someone in front of him in the past, he might not have cared.
The subordinate complained in his heart and was about to turn around and leave when Jiang Yu called him again.
"Wait, if someone likes silver, what would be a suitable gift?"
These brothers in Xiangzhou were not very clear about what was happening to their young master in Xiangzhou, so they did not know that their young master was suffering from lovesickness.
The subordinate laughed unkindly:
"Young Master, you said that people like silver, so of course you should give them silver."
Asking was the same as not asking at all. Jiang Yu held his forehead and told him to get lost.
Not long after his men left, guests came to his Zhaixing Pavilion.
When Sun Beidou arrived in Zhongzhou, he first visited the owner of Fengyue Villa, and then went to find Jiang Yunhe to reminisce about the past. He brought his granddaughter and beloved disciple, and the four of them came to find Jiang Yu.
Sun Beidou said he would take Su Mu to meet an old friend of his, but Su Mu didn't know that this person was Jiang Yu.
Without notifying anyone, the four entered the Zhaixing Pavilion and found Jiang Yu's men moving things into the carriage.
"Oh, you're going on a long journey."
Jiang Yu was frowning and flipping through a book in the room when he heard Sun Beidou's loud voice.
Jiang Yunhe raised his eyebrows with an expression that showed he understood everything.
Jiang Yu heard the voice, walked out, and clasped his fists as soon as he appeared.
"Mr. Sun, long time no see!"
"Where are you going, kid? Your uncle He has already found you. Are you going back to Kyoto at this time of year?"
Apart from Kyoto, Sun Beidou couldn't think of where he would go. He had been running around before, all looking for Jiang Yunhe.
"How can we go back to Kyoto? How can Kyoto's magic be as strong as Xiangzhou's?"
Jiang Yunhe said something in a sarcastic tone, and every word he said was a big news. Sun Beidou and his grandson looked at him with gossip on their faces.
"Xiangzhou? What do you mean, old man?"
But Jiang Yunhe kept Sun Bei in suspense and refused to speak, which made Sun Bei very angry.
Su Mu saw Jiang Yu, and then looked at Old Sun, who was familiar with him. With his intelligence, it was not difficult for him to figure out the whole story.
It was no coincidence that Mr. Sun suddenly took a liking to him. It was Jiang Yu who was acting as a matchmaker.
I still remember he said before that he didn't want the pearl to be covered in dust.
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