"Haha, you're right!"
Yu Tao laughed and then said, "I heard that your family's clothing business on the main street has been doing quite well recently. However, the weather is getting colder and colder. If you'd like, you can bring your ready-made clothes to my Fengchenfang to sell. I won't charge you rent."
Yu Tao also wanted to help out, since the weather was getting colder and colder, and going to the street to sell things every morning was no easy feat.
Upon hearing this, He Jiuniang's eyes flickered.
"Mr. Yu, would you like to cooperate with me and make some money too?"
It's impossible for her to take advantage of others for no reason. After all, Yu Tao has already gone to a lot of trouble by helping to find embroiderers. It would be unreasonable for her to borrow someone else's shop as well.
As businessmen, Yu Tao immediately became interested when the topic of making money came up: "How would you like to cooperate?"
"I can wholesale it to you at 60% of the original price. You can put it in your shop and sell it. What price you sell it at and how many you sell it for is up to you."
This is easy to understand. Lu Family Workshop is a manufacturer, and it makes perfect sense for Yu Tao to get goods from her to sell.
"sure!"
Yu Tao agreed without hesitation, after all, it was indeed a good thing. He had thought about it before, but he felt that He Jiuniang was his son's benefactor, and he couldn't bring himself to take away his benefactor's business, so he had to give up.
Now that she's brought it up herself, how can I refuse?
"I also have a shop in the prefectural city, so I can deliver the goods there to sell. There are a lot of people in the prefectural city, and if it sells well, they'll want a lot of them. You'd better be prepared!"
Yu Tao's family is in the business of fabrics and clothing. It's an ancestral business with a certain reputation. Once these clothes are put on the market, the promotional effect will definitely be much better than the Lu family's current scattered sales.
"Things are valued for their scarcity. There aren't many people in the workshop right now; we're just selling whatever we can make. How much stock do you plan to buy, Mr. Yu?"
He Jiuniang took out her small notebook to write something down.
Yu Tao thought for a moment and said, "We won't sell those linen clothes in the shop anymore. We need all good quality fabrics. Give me three hundred pieces in each size. I'll try selling them first, and if they sell well, I'll increase the quantity!"
"OK!"
He Jiuniang readily agreed, and had the twenty embroiderers sit in two separate carriages. She and Boss Lu then escorted them back.
Lu Laoda had just overheard He Jiuniang talking to Yu Tao and felt a pang of heartache. He waited until they were quite a distance from Fengchenfang before saying, "Third sister-in-law, if we sell it for 60% of the original price, will our family suffer a loss?"
"No, don't worry, brother. We'll be able to get even lower prices when we buy fabric from Boss Yu in the future."
The clothing industry is quite profitable. As long as you manage it well, you're bound to make money. Especially for someone like Boss Yu who orders a lot, the Lu family can still make a lot of money even if they only operate on a low-profit, high-volume model.
Moreover, they now need to further expand their market, and their home workshop is probably far from enough...
The family had already prepared accommodations for the embroiderers in advance. Several large bungalows were built next to the workshop to serve as their dormitories. They were built at the same time as the workshop.
Luo Xiuniang and the others moved in early. The large house was spacious enough to house twenty-two people. In addition, the Lu family hired someone from the village to cook for them.
Coincidentally, that person was the village chief's wife.
With her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law both working at the Lu family workshop, she couldn't stay idle. When she heard that Mrs. Sun was looking for a cook, she immediately snatched the job.
Since the village chief's family had many things to do, Mrs. Sun couldn't refuse immediately, so she agreed.
Anping Village has been bustling with activity lately. The men are busy with the autumn harvest, and many women have come to the workshops to help with the work in the fields. The men are exhausted, but they feel it's all worth it when they think about the good harvest they can have.
Fortunately, the Lu family was not the kind of people who exploited labor. During the busy farming season, they would specially allow each family to send a woman back half an hour early to cook for the men, so that the men wouldn't come back hungry after a whole day of work.
As soon as the embroiderers arrived, they began to rush to make custom-made clothes for the girls in the brothel. Faced with those delicate and breathtaking clothes, the embroiderers finally understood why they had made the girls sign confidentiality agreements.
The Lu family is an upright family. If someone with ulterior motives were to deliberately spread rumors that they had dealings with prostitutes, it would naturally damage their reputation.
Fortunately, these embroiderers had seen their share of ups and downs and had made quite a few strange and unusual clothes over the years, so they were relatively stable. Moreover, the Lu family paid them a lot of money, which made them feel more at ease working.
After seven or eight busy days, He Jiuniang still felt that there were not enough people. In this era, making clothes relied entirely on hand sewing stitch by stitch. Each person could only produce a very small number of items per day, which could not keep up with the speed of sales.
He Jiuniang thought, "If only I had a sewing machine!"
Logically speaking, the principle of a sewing machine is not very difficult, and with careful study, it seems that it is not impossible to make one!
He Jiuniang made a mental note of this and then continued with her work.
With a surge in orders, Sun hired about twenty more people, all skilled workers selected from surrounding villages.
As things piled up, Lu Guilan and Shen Shi's record-keeping work also encountered difficulties. He Jiuniang was right; their method of using special symbols to record information was only suitable for a small amount of data.
It was at this time that they realized the importance of studying. Every night, the two of them studied the hardest. Seeing this, Yu and Qin felt that they had been dragged down and also studied desperately in order not to fall behind others.
During the day, He Jiuniang helped Lu Guilan and Shen Shi with record-keeping and filled in any gaps in their knowledge. At night, she would take out a sewing machine from her spatial storage and disassemble it to study it.
"Mother, what is this?"
The puppy groggily opened its eyes and saw that the oil lamp in the room was still on. It sat on the bed and looked at it curiously.
He Jiuniang didn't expect him to wake up suddenly, and since she couldn't put it away right away, she generously said, "Mother is studying something good."
"What good stuff is it? What's it used for?"
Upon hearing this, the dog was no longer sleepy. It threw off the covers, jumped out of bed, and went barefoot to join in the fun.
He Jiuniang raised an eyebrow, her face bearing a warning expression. Gou'er looked down at his fair, tender feet and rubbed them awkwardly: "Hehe, I'll put my shoes on right now!"
After putting on her shoes, she ran over and brought a small stool to sit next to He Jiuniang. Looking at the sewing machine that had been dismantled on the ground, her big eyes shone with excitement.
He had grown tired of the building blocks and other toys his mother had given him before, and now, looking at these disassembled things, he suddenly wanted to try putting them back together.
"Mom, is this a new toy for me?"
He asked, a little excited.
He Jiuniang was studying the various structures when she heard him ask this. She didn't react for a moment and asked in confusion, "Huh?"
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