Chapter 135: Diligence Can Make Up for Clumsiness
The grand occasion of Yan Ruyu and the golden house was beyond everyone's expectations.
Especially Gu Lang and Wang from the Gu family, they have not yet recovered from Gu Feixue's decision to buy the family house for hundreds of taels.
I witnessed the bustling scene in the two shops that lasted for half a month before it calmed down a little.
What’s amazing is that there are only less than ten items in Golden House, and when Yan Ruyu opened the store, she had only developed five types of essential oil perfumes.
However, it was these ten kinds of bread and five kinds of essential oils that made the people of Jiangzhou excited.
Even when Jinxiu Yuyi was first launched in Liangcheng, some people did not approve of it. It was only after Gu Feixue recruited many models to walk the runway three times a day, morning, noon and evening, that the business began to take off.
"Jiangzhou is such a great place. People there are very open to new things!"
Gu Feixue sighed as she counted the silver.
The revenue from this half month alone has already paid for the Gu family’s house.
It is estimated that the cost of the two shops will be recovered in less than half a month.
"Xue'er, Dad still thinks that what you are selling is a little too expensive."
After all, Gu Lang was born into a family of honest officials. Seeing that Gu Feixue sold a small bottle of essential oil for one or two taels of silver and a bag of bread for five hundred coins, he felt a little uneasy.
Upon hearing this, Gu Feixue raised her hand and picked up a bottle of narcissus essential oil, saying with a smile:
"Father and mother, this bottle of essential oil is enough for a month's use. For the ladies of those wealthy families, one or two taels of silver a month is really not expensive."
"And this bread, half a jin (approximately 1500 wen) for a portion, is made with real eggs, sugar, and milk, so our costs are quite high. Rong Bao Zhai's chestnut cake, which is two liang (approximately 1000 liang) per portion, costs one liang (approximately 1000 wen) of silver, and I still think it's too cheap."
After Gu Feixue said this, Gu Lang and Wang finally had a clear understanding of the price tags of their own shop.
"Does the shop only sell bread and essential oils?"
Gu Erya, the new girl that Gu Feixue had found, asked curiously.
Gu Feixue shook her finger, a hint of mystery on her face:
"Of course not. This is called hunger marketing. Once these bread and essential oils become popular, we will develop new products."
Even if she has more pastry recipes and essential oil recipes, she won't release them immediately, otherwise there will be no gimmick and popularity in the future.
Only by taking it step by step can you achieve long-term success.
Besides, she hasn't recruited enough people yet.
Even though the Gu family now has a lot of workers, there are few people they can trust.
After closing the two shops, the Gu family returned to the Gu family house under the cover of night.
"Master, Madam, and Miss Xue'er are back!"
As soon as the carriage arrived at the door, Luo Li, the steward of the Gu family, walked out and shouted towards the inside.
Then three or two people came out and pulled the carriage into the house.
Gu Feixue jumped off the carriage and looked at Luo Li and asked:
"How's the workshop going today?"
Naroli smiled happily:
"Ms. Xue'er! The essential oil department has developed a new style today. Fang'er and the others are waiting for you to come and see it!"
Gu Feixue's eyes lit up, and she said that Luo Li's voice was much lighter today, it turned out that he had new products.
Half a month ago, after she gathered the first batch of people, she set up the processing workshop of Gu's shop in the courtyard south of Gu's house.
The houses in this courtyard are relatively scattered and are adjacent to a lotus pond, making it a perfect place to serve as a workshop.
The rest of the Gu family lived in the largest main courtyard on the east side.
As for the workers, they all lived in the courtyard on the west side. Not only did each of them have a good room, but they also had a large kitchen and three small kitchens.
There are only a few families in Jiangzhou that offer such treatment. Who can let their workers live in the main house?
However, the Gu family did so. Not only that, Gu Feixue also set a rule at that time.
Every time a workshop successfully develops a new product, the monthly silver of all management and people in a single workshop will be increased.
For each new product, the monthly salary of each person will be increased by half a tael of silver, and so on.
The longer the qualifications, the faster the R&D speed, and the better the production quality of the workshop, the better the treatment will naturally be.
Gu Feixue also provided the production process and methods for this new product. Each essential oil and pastry workshop conducted their own research and development.
If you can make it according to the recipe with your own ability and the daily production quantity meets the sales needs, you can be considered to have successfully developed a new product.
When this rule was established, all the workers in the five essential oil workshops and five Western pastry workshops were excited.
Among them, people from five Western pastry workshops had the fastest R&D speed, and almost every workshop developed a new type of Western pastry within half a month.
Because essential oils are relatively difficult to produce, the five research and development formulas provided by Gu Feixue have not made any progress.
However, today a new style has been developed by someone in one of the essential oil workshops.
With the new product, Luo Li, the housekeeper, will get a raise, so naturally his tone of voice will become a lot lighter.
"Take me to see it."
Gu Feixue's heart was also burning with excitement, even though she could make the recipes she provided by herself.
But she came up with such a rule of promotion and salary increase in order to promote talents.
If someone has special potential and talent in Western pastries and essential oils, such a person should naturally be promoted.
Otherwise, every worker would be able to make it according to her own demonstration, but the result would be more rigid.
Luo Liren was in high spirits because of the good news, and his steps were faster than usual. He took Gu Feixue to the Muzihao essential oil workshop. Before he even entered the house, he heard lively discussions coming from inside.
"Stop for a moment, Miss Xue'er is here."
Gu Feixue walked into the workshop and looked around. Well, the hygiene work was pretty good.
Then she looked at Fang'er, the person in charge of the Muzihao store, and said:
"Fang'er, has your workshop developed a new product?"
The person called Fang'er nodded to Gu Feixue and said excitedly:
"Yes, Miss Xue'er, this is what we developed, take a look."
After saying that, the other party handed a small jade bottle to Gu Feixue.
Gu Feixue took it, opened the wooden stopper, fanned the bottle mouth with her hand, and then gently moved her nose to sniff carefully.
Yes, it is tuberose essential oil, the fragrance is quite authentic. It seems that people at Muzihao are better at the research and development of essential oils.
Gu Feixue's satisfied expression also made Fang'er and the others very happy.
It is not as easy for an essential oil workshop to develop new products as a Western pastry workshop. It took them half a month to develop them. Naturally, the results they reaped made them excited and proud.
Back then, among the five essential oil workshops of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, the people in the wood workshop had the weakest foundation.
Some people with the gold and water brands used to make rouge, while some people with the fire and earth brands used to make spices.
As for the people in the Mu brand, they used to do other jobs, such as serving dishes in a restaurant or weeding in the yard, and they had never been involved in the essential oil industry.
But they were not discouraged by their weak foundation. They spent more time than other workshops every day and failed in distillation again and again before achieving their current success.
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