As people dispersed in the evening, Zhou Heng and his team still had many things to handle and clean up afterward.
Li Mai and Zhou Quan also stayed with everyone until late at night, cleaning up the venue and packing everyone's belongings back.
As it grew late and everyone was getting hungry, Li Mai gathered everyone together at the workshop. Using Zhou Heng's kitchen, Li Mai and Zhou Quan personally cooked a pot of fish soup and made scallion pancakes for everyone.
After everyone had rested and prepared a meal, they ate together, and it was already past midnight.
More than twenty people left the workshop to go home. Li Mai also told everyone to take a good rest tomorrow and start doing business the day after tomorrow.
Everyone thanked Li Mai and went home to get some sleep.
As for the models, they were all decent-looking young men from ordinary families in town. They came today to make a living, and each of them earned two taels of silver, so they were all willing to come.
After the fashion show, they took off their beautiful clothes, washed off their makeup, received their money, and went home.
They were very happy to earn two taels of silver in half a day.
If they wash off their makeup and stop wearing those pretty clothes, no one will recognize them when they walk down the street.
That's why they were willing to come and walk the runway for them.
The makeup that Li Mai had Zhou Heng find for them, done by the women from the cosmetics shops, was heavy makeup.
Heavy makeup is perfect for this kind of formal attire.
The following afternoon, Zhou Hengyue, Pei Jing, and two others came to report to Li Mai. They had lunch together and finished compiling the data after lunch.
Seeing the results, Li Mai smiled and praised them again, "Very good. It was your first time organizing this, and you did a great job. With this start, it will only get better and better in the future."
"When you get back this afternoon, write down your experiences from the moment you received my planning assignment, including what you did, in a journal. Once you've finished writing, bring it to me and we'll discuss it. I'll then provide you with further guidance based on your individual circumstances."
"Yes, thank you, Master." Pei Jing and Yue Xiu happily replied.
Zhou Heng quickly thanked his sister-in-law.
"Okay, let's go back. Get some rest early tonight; the shop will be busy tomorrow."
“You all remember, we went to the fashion show yesterday, but those who didn’t place an order there and want to place one in the shop tomorrow will have to pay full price, no discounts. We must strictly enforce this rule. This way, next year’s fashion show will be even more successful, and each shop will get more orders. Do you understand? Once you set the rules, you must not break them yourself, otherwise it will be difficult to establish rules in the future.”
"Yes, Master, don't worry, we've got it." Pei Jing said.
After they left, Li Mai and Zhou Quan carefully reviewed the data summary they had compiled.
They invited more than fifty wealthy households in the town, and each family sent representatives; some families even sent their entire families.
Some families only had young people come.
However, to everyone's credit, all fifty families ordered clothes, some ordering multiple items and others ordering just one.
The good news is that today's total expenses amounted to 500 taels, but the deposit received was 1,300 taels.
That's quite a lot of data.
338 pieces of clothing were ordered, 139 pieces were ordered from Hongshiliu, 96 pieces were ordered from Caiyige, and 103 pieces were ordered from Yueji.
Among these, men's clothing, children's clothing, and women's clothing were roughly equal, with women's clothing still accounting for the majority of orders.
After all, it is mostly women who love to wear pretty clothes, and there are many styles of women's clothing.
That's pretty good; the percentage is much better than I expected.
She thought it would be good if she could sell a hundred pieces.
She also thought those two companies wouldn't even make up half; it seems human potential is truly limitless.
Look, in just two months, the sales of the Pei and Yue families have already increased, haven't they? Moreover, through learning, Pei Jing and Yue Xiu have also learned how to cultivate their own talents.
Pei Rui, the half-brother of Pei Jing, had always helped manage a small shop for the family and learned business skills to help Pei Jing. However, Pei Jing discovered his sensitivity to clothing styles and his talent for painting.
Pei Jing intentionally took him to see Zhou Heng a few times. When Pei Rui saw the clothing designs drawn by Zhou Heng, he tried to draw them, which immediately excited Pei Jing.
Is this what Master meant by being born with talent?
So, Pei Jing asked his father for Pei Rui and focused on training him to become a fashion designer.
The same goes for the Yue family. After discussing it with his father, Yue Xiu discovered the talent of his cousin Yue Lan. Yue Lan was the son of his second uncle. He was neither good at literature nor martial arts, and he didn't want to study. His family was worried about him. Then Yue Xiu discovered that he loved to draw. Wasn't that a talent?
Talent development naturally means cultivating our own people.
After listening to Li Mai finish reading, Zhou Quan nodded, "Your two apprentices were not taken in vain. With some teaching, they can still be useful."
Li Mai nodded with a smile, "Yes, I thought I could see the day when the clothing industry in Qing Shi Town would become a trendsetter in the Song Kingdom!"
Looking at her confident face, Zhou Quan smiled indulgently and said, "I will."
"By the way, I plan to change Li Dong's job after he comes back from celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival at home. He has been driving the carriage for us for three years. I want him to learn how to manage the shop from Zhou Heng, mainly to learn how to manage the accounts. After he learns, he can work by your side to manage the accounts for you. In the future, when we have more business outside, you will be the one going out to run the business, so you will need to bring a few people who know business with you."
Li Mai discussed it with Zhou Quan.
Zhou Quan nodded, "Sure, I ran into Manager Bai today. He said there are a few two-courtyard houses that have become available. If we want to buy them, we can go and take a look tomorrow."
“Then let’s go take a look, buy it, give Zhou Heng a place to live, and leave one for Li Dong,” Li Mai said.
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