Chapter 402: Those who do not plan for the future will have immediate worries
Chen Dabao looked confident, "Don't worry, Sister Qingqing, I will work hard and will never let you down."
After that, he added in a negotiating tone, "The shipment of brown sugar has been pitifully low these days. I think starting tomorrow I won't be making brown sugar anymore, and will focus on making white sugar."
"No, even though white sugar is popular, we have to make brown sugar."
Dabao looked puzzled. "Since the shipment volume is so small, why bother running the business? It's time-consuming and laborious, and sales are slow. Why not just focus on white sugar? Judging from the current situation, white sugar is more popular and is already in short supply."
Chen Qingqing frowned slightly and explained patiently, "Dabao, you can't be too eager for quick success and instant benefits. You only see the immediate benefits and ignore the long-term development. As the saying goes, 'If you don't think about the future, you will have immediate worries.' You can't just focus on the immediate benefits, but you have to think about the problem comprehensively.
Although brown sugar is selling slowly now, its nourishing and blood-tonifying effects cannot be replaced by white sugar.
If you give up the production of brown sugar, you will give up this market.
Giving up this market is equivalent to providing Liang Fugui with a good opportunity.
If he were to take over the market, even with only 10% of the share, calculate how much money we would lose.
Also, if he can gain a foothold in the market by selling brown sugar.
It is impossible for him not to study how to boil sugar. If one day he discovered the method of boiling sugar,
Given his market share, shop owners who have connections with him will naturally give him priority in purchasing his goods. In that case, you'll be cultivating a formidable rival for yourself."
After hearing this, Chen Dabao suddenly understood and nodded repeatedly, "Sister Qingqing, I understand. Don't worry, I will never give Liang Fugui this opportunity."
"I understand. Remember, if you have any problems that you can't solve, come find me."
"I understand, Sister Qingqing. I'll go back first."
"Okay, go slowly on the road."
Chen Qingqing looked at Dabao's departing back and thought to herself,
If you seize the opportunity to make sugar famous, you will make a fortune in the future.
She may become the richest person in the Daning Dynasty, but the difficulty can be imagined.
If her guess was correct, the Liang family's troubles would not disappear, and she was looking forward to how Dabao would solve them.
Nanshan Village.
Looking at the piles of beets in the yard, Liang was worried.
What to do with so many beets? Even if we make brown sugar, who can we sell it to?
Although the investment has been recovered, what should I do next time Zheng Xi comes to deliver the goods?
No, I have already signed the contract and I will go to jail if I break it.
If I stay, what will I give him to pay for the goods?
It's all that damn Chen Qingqing's fault. If she hadn't invented white sugar, brown sugar wouldn't be unsaleable.
If I had known this, I should have stayed at the Chen family for a few months. Maybe I could have learned how to make sugar...
Seeing his wife's sad face and sighing, Liang Fugui hurriedly spoke to comfort her.
"Don't worry, wife. Even though Li Jiang doesn't want our goods anymore, brown sugar is a good thing. If it doesn't work out, we can just take it to the town and sell it ourselves. They sell it for a hundred coins a pound, so we can sell it cheaper. I don't believe we can't sell it."
Liang frowned, "Will this work?"
"Why not? I've already calculated it. Last time we made 500 kilograms of sugar, we used 2,500 kilograms of beets. Now we still have more than 7,000 kilograms left, so we can at least make 1,400 kilograms of sugar.
Even if we sell it for fifty coins per catty, we can still get seventy taels of silver. Even if Zheng Xi comes to deliver the goods, we can still stay, so don't worry."
Liang pondered his words carefully and felt that there was some truth in them, but she was still worried. "You're right, but what if no one buys them?"
"How could no one buy it? As the old saying goes, there's no oil and salt shop that's not open. What's more, our prices are low. Who would buy the expensive one instead of the cheap one? That's stupid!"
After hearing what Liang Fugui said, Liang's eyes immediately lit up, and her heart was relieved. "Yes, if it were me, I would also buy the cheaper one."
After saying this, he lost his previous sense of loss and waved his hand towards Liang Fugui, "Let's go and work. Let's try to make more sugar."
The Liang family was working in full swing, and the Chen family's sugar factory was also in full swing.
Chen Dabao recruited more than a dozen workers in the village, and the number of donkeys pulling the mill increased to ten.
The big pot for boiling sugar is burning all day and night, and the amount of sugar produced increases day by day.
At the same time, more and more merchants came here to buy sugar, and they all wanted to sign the exclusive contract to sell sugar in their area.
Dabao was worried because the raw materials were not available and the sugar he made was not enough.
He wished he could go to the field right now and pick the unripe beets to make sugar.
But he couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry, so he had no choice but to put on a smile, say nice things, and send those merchants away one by one, and promised that they would not return empty-handed in the autumn...
Seeing the long queue of customers going to Chen's house to buy sugar, Liang Fugui could not help but feel jealous and envious.
I thought to myself, these people are all big merchants who came from far away. If they can't buy white sugar, they will definitely not return empty-handed. They will more or less bring back some brown sugar.
If the brown sugar he sells is cheaper than Chen's, someone will definitely buy it...
Thinking of this, Liang Fugui carried 200 kilograms of brown sugar made at home to the big willow tree at the entrance of the village.
When he saw merchants coming, he started shouting at the top of his voice.
"Don't miss it if you pass by. My brown sugar is pure and free of impurities, and the price is low. Others sell it for 85 coins, but my high-quality brown sugar is only 70 coins per pound.
"Seventy cents won't buy you a loss, nor will you be cheated. Those who need it, young and old, please stop by and take a look. If you miss this opportunity, you'll miss it forever..."
Liang Fugui shouted for a long time, and finally a carriage stopped, the curtain opened, and a middle-aged man wearing blue satin and with a thin face walked out of the carriage.
The man's name was Hou Da Kui. He opened a shop in Anyang, not far from the shop of Jiang, the owner of the Anyang Grocery Store.
He saw that Anyang Grocery Store was doing a booming business these days, and he was jealous and mad.
After some inquiries, I found out that the sugar they sold was purchased from Nanshan Village.
So he rushed over without stopping, but he made a wasted trip and didn't order a pound of sugar.
Just when I was feeling disappointed, I heard hawking outside the car...
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