Chapter 2488 Meeting
Xiao Qian said, "Third Head doesn't count. He may not settle in the capital in the future. But as for Big Head, his wife is an imperial physician, so it would be better for him to buy a house in the capital in the future."
But houses in Beijing are too expensive, and their family will have to save for many years to buy one.
Xiao Qian asked again, "How much does it cost to buy a shop? How about two thousand taels?"
The price of their restaurant now was about the same when they bought it.
Manbao said, "It's more than that. Counting all the costs, it's about 10,000 taels."
Xiao Qian opened her mouth wide. This was not just buying a shop, it was buying a mountain of gold.
Manbao comforted her and said, “It’s a lot of money, I trust Lijun’s vision.
Xiao Qian also believed it, but her family didn't have that much money.
She whispered, "Can you buy less? How much can I buy for eight hundred taels?"
Manbao smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, this share is hard to come by. I've seen Lijun's calculations. If they are as she calculated, then we can earn back the investment in the first year. After that, the shop will be in net profit after deducting the cost of making the ointment."
Mrs. Qian was unconvinced. "I know the ointment we make. I occasionally help out. I heard from Lijun that you only make two or three hundred coins from a bottle of whitening cream. How many bottles do you have to sell a day to make ten thousand taels a year?"
Manbao said, "Lijun and Fourth Brother have both found merchants. As long as our shop can open, they will immediately come up with money to buy goods."
This is also the reason why Zhou Lijun asked for a cost of 10,000 taels. Apart from the 8,670 taels needed to buy the shop, the remaining decoration and shelves and other things did not cost much. She had seen the list calculated by Lijun. She only spent 18 taels on decoration, and the rest was all used to buy raw materials.
The purpose of large-scale production of ointments and white creams is to sell them to merchants who come to purchase goods. In other words, their shop is not only for retail, but also for wholesale to traveling merchants, just like those cloth shops.
It was obvious that Zhou Lijun did not come up with this idea on impulse. She had been planning it for a long time. She was different from Zhou Silang. Zhou Silang was the kind of person who would do what he said, but she was different. From the time she had the idea to the time she put it forward, she had been preparing for three full years.
When she was going door to door with the whitening cream to recommend it to the ladies and young ladies, she wanted to buy or rent a shop. However, because there were not many people buying it at that time, one can of whitening cream could be used by some people for two or three months, while some people did not use it frequently and one can last a year.
So she didn't dare to take the risk.
She kept waiting, and during this period, whenever she had time, she would recommend their whitening cream and various ointments to the customers she knew, and she also brought Zhou Silang along. With the recommendations of the two of them, and Zhou Man's reputation, many people now know about Zhou Ji's creams and ointments.
Coupled with the light marks produced by the smallpox vaccination, Zhou Lijun knew that her chance had come, and at the same time, their family's chance had also come.
She wanted to open a shop, a shop specializing in selling these ointments and creams.
As long as she can make money and allow her niece to realize her ambitions, Manbao will naturally not object. She is very confident about this.
She whispered to Xiao Qian, "These ointments and creams will definitely sell well. Lijun and Fourth Brother have been planning for this for two years. If you don't buy enough, you'll be at a huge loss."
She said, "Believe it or not, if you said you didn't have enough money, Fourth Brother would have snapped up the remaining share."
Xiao Qianshi said, "I won't give it to him, I'll give it to you. Manbao, don't you have money? You can pay for it when the time comes."
Manbao smiled and said, "No need. I will lend the money to you and Big Brother. You can pay me back when you make money."
When Xiao Qianshi was about to speak, Manbao whispered, "I've calculated that if you, big brother and sister-in-law, don't have enough money, then third brother's money will definitely not be enough either. I will make up for the part you are short of when the time comes."
Xiao Qian stopped talking.
Manbao whispered, "You and Big Brother are the eldest sons, so you can't be less important than others in this regard. Otherwise, the brothers may have a good relationship now, but in the future, they will be inferior to each other. How can you and Big Brother manage your younger brothers and sisters?"
Xiao Qian sighed and said, "Your third brother is honest. He is in charge of the family land now. Normally, your eldest brother and I should stay at home..."
Manbao smiled and said, "So, I'll make up for Third Brother's share of the money as well. You can pay me back when you make some money."
As for the other rooms, the money is definitely enough.
Because each person only pays 40% of the money they earn to the public, like Zhou Erlang, Si Silang, Wu Wulang and Zhou Liulang and his wife, they all have their own abilities, so they earn a lot every year, and the rest is the money they share from the public.
In contrast, Zhou Dalang and Zhou Sanlang, who were both from honest families, basically worked on the fields, and the fields were all public property, so they earned very little private money.
Old Zhou and Qian also knew that the first and third wives suffered losses when the money was divided, so they would occasionally secretly give them some subsidies. However, they still had a daughter who was not married yet, so the subsidies were limited.
Just give him a few pieces of silver occasionally, or ask Zhou Silang to bring back more meat when he returns home.
Manbao found out the private money of his eldest brother and his wife, and had a rough estimate of his third brother's family wealth. Well, the third brother was even worse at making money than the eldest brother.
The main reason is that my eldest brother has a sister-in-law, and she also gets paid to make steamed meat in the restaurant, so she has saved some money over time.
The third brother really has almost no private income.
After Manbao made up his mind, he called a meeting of his family. Of course, Zhou Erlang and Zhou Sanlang, who were far away in Qili Village, and Si Silang, who was on the grassland, were unable to attend the meeting.
But they all have their own sons as representatives.
Zhou Liwei had no objection, and Zhou Ligu had even less. Before his parents left, they told him to take good care of his younger brother and listen to his grandmother and aunt for the rest.
Everyone was stunned by the ten thousand taels.
Zhou Lijun used an abacus to calculate the accounts for them and showed them the channels she had already negotiated, meaning that as long as the product was made, there would be people who would buy it.
Old Zhou was the first to raise the question, "Since we've found a market, why don't we just make the ointment and sell it to them? Why spend over 8,000 taels to buy a shop?"
Fang and the others were also puzzled by this. Zhou Wulang and the others all knew about this and said to Old Zhou, "Dad, if you didn't have a shop, merchants outside wouldn't dare to buy this kind of facial stuff in large quantities."
Zhou Li nodded and explained in more detail, "Now, most of our ointments are sold to people in the capital. These people were my aunt's patients at first, and they bought them because they trusted me. Later, they found them useful and recommended them to others. That's why we have such high sales volume. But if we didn't have a shop, people outside who we didn't know wouldn't dare to buy from us."
At the beginning, Zhou Lijun followed Manbao in and out of those wealthy families, selling them bottle by bottle.
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