Iron Dynasty

It has been seven or eight days since Wang Shijie went to Chang'an City with Soap.

It's just that when it first arrived, the novelty of soap did not attract the attention of the ladies. The situation has not changed until today. Long queues formed overnight outside the Wang's store in Chang'an City.

The people waiting at the door are the housekeepers and servants of the various prefectures, with only one purpose to buy soap.

At the same time, news spread in Chang'an City that all the concubines and concubines in the palace were using soap, which made the ladies who went to Jane out on weekdays unable to calm down immediately. The things that the empress were using was like a spell to drive them out. Buy soap.

After the first batch of soap was purchased and used, more people bought soap the next day, and there were also many rich boys.

Oh, isn't this Brother Li?

Brother Zhao, long time no see, are you here too?

Brother Li too?

Oh, since we are all like-minded people, there is no need to hide it. My sister bought a soap yesterday and went back to it. After trying it out, she seemed to be stunned. She took the soap and watched it all night. Come over and use it, and immediately become a fetish, and today I am going to buy Miss Liu who will give it to Rouge House.

Brother Li actually stole it for use? Zhao Gongzi said in surprise, I haven't tried it yet, but it's a pity, it's a pity.

Hey, how can this scholar use stealing words, take it, take it! Li Gongzi said dissatisfied.

At this moment, the shopkeepers suddenly opened, and Young Master Li was quick-witted, pulled Young Master Zhao over, and ran in like a fly.

Wang Shijie, who was standing at the door, looked dazed. He really didn't expect soap to become so popular, and he didn't expect that one of the main buyers of soap was not only those famous ladies, but also a lot of girls from Qinglou.

At the same time, Li Kaiyuan also gained a lot in the south. Although the dignitaries of the Great Yu Kingdom are mostly concentrated in Chang'an City, the wealthy merchants are mostly concentrated in the south, especially in Jinling City.

Comparatively speaking, the prosperity of Jinling City is no longer lost to Chang'an.

Because of drunk Qingzhou, perfume has long spread. These two products are especially popular in Jinling City, and neither the Wang family nor the Qin family have perfumes, only he is the only one here.

And the soap didn't make him wait long. After the news of the concubines using the soap spread here, the soap in stock was sold out in just a few days.

Now all over Jinling City are discussing these three magical commodities. Even if he eats in a restaurant, he can't avoid it. As soon as he sat down today, the person at the next table who looks like a son-in-law started to brag about it.

One of them stood up with the perfume, showed it aside in a circle in front of everyone, and said, Do you know what this is?

A group of young masters never came out, not knowing the news in Jinling City, and shook their heads at the same time.

The son-in-law was triumphant. He pulled the cork off and turned around in front of everyone. A kind of son-in-law exclaimed at the same time, It's really fragrant!

Fragrance is right, this is called perfume, do you know our Lady Shuang from Wanhualou in Jinling City?

The national beauty and heavenly fragrance that my brother said, but the frost girl with body odor?

That's right, Miss Shuang is not elected as the oiran of Wanhualou every year because of body odor, but since she used this perfume, the body odor has disappeared. Now many rich young men are rushing to her.

This perfume is so amazing, doesn't it cover all the odors? I don't believe it.

That is.

Also ask my brother to lend me a look. A young man said.

The son who was holding the perfume proudly gave him the perfume, but the man took the perfume and smeared it on his body, saying, I also have body odor, and it is my duty to test the medicine for my brother.

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Qingzhou, different from the liveliness of Prince Qi's Mansion in previous years, this year's Mansion of Qi Prince can be described as very lively.

In just two months, soaps, perfumes, and drunk Qingzhou became famous in both the north and the south, and merchants with a sensitive sense of smell flooded into Qingzhou like cats smelling fishy odors.

When they got here, they naturally wanted to visit Xiao Ming.

These days, Ziwan's hands are almost weak when she receives gifts every day. Xiao Ming wakes up every day to receive these merchants, but for several days, the enthusiasm of these merchants has not diminished, and there is a great momentum that they will not give up until they achieve their goals.

The Wang family and the Qin family were naturally very nervous about this matter. They were naturally unwilling to grab so many meals from them. For this reason, in addition to making money to please Xiao Ming, they also took various measures to prevent the influx of businessmen from other places. Methods, sap, threats, intimidation, but little effect.

These businessmen still came one after another, and the saying that people die for wealth and birds die for food is vividly displayed in these businessmen.

His Royal Highness, there is no room for these gifts in the palace's treasury. These days, the entire palace is in pain and happiness.

While enjoying the specialties brought by the merchants from all over the Great Yu Kingdom, the servants of the palace were busy welcoming a merchant.

Xiao Ming said cheerfully: If it can't fit in, make the other room first.

Luluo's mouth is full of maltose, and now this girl no longer has to worry about not being able to eat maltose.

Almost every businessman who comes to visit will bring some pastries, sweets.

Nine-four, nine-four. Luluo echoed inarticulately.

This is the dignified Prince Qi's mansion. It's really disrespectful and disrespectful. Pang Yukun shook his head. In order to deal with these merchants, he also called Pang Yukun to deal with him together, only to see that the servants in the palace were in a mess. Pang Yukun preached again.

Luluo shrank her head, and ran away with Aster's collar, for fear that Pang Yukun would scold her.

Xiao Ming comforted: Pang Changshi, the people in the palace are also happy, so there is no need to stick to the details.

Pang Yukun's face was serious, His Royal Highness, it's not that the officials are talking too much, it's just that Your Highness has received so many gifts. How should those merchants reply? If Your Highness agrees, not only the Wang family and the Qin family, but also your own business will be damaged.

Changshi Pang has been thinking too much. We have to look a little farther. Xiao Ming said. For Pang Yukun, who read only the book of sages since childhood, he despised businessmen very much.

Because the merchants do not engage in production, they only take profits from the flow, and they are only profit-seeking. From the bottom of their hearts, he believes that the status of merchants and moths is the same.

However, in the past two days, Xiao Ming insisted on arguing with him several times through the huge knowledge in the technology library, which made him reluctantly accept that businessmen also have an advantage.

Since Xiao Ming received the gift from the merchant this time, he naturally has his own ideas.

Just relying on the Wang family, the Qin family or his own firm seems to have monopolized the trade of three commodities and made a lot of money. In fact, this kind of thinking is very short-sighted.

Because the combined strength of the three companies is limited, it is impossible to sell soap in the whole of Da Yu in a short period of time, which causes Xiao Ming to only sell a limited amount of silver taels with a limited amount of soap in a limited area.

Instead, it is better to open up soap technology and let these merchants build workshops in Qingzhou to produce soap, so that the production of soap will be greatly improved.

And Xiao Ming doesn't have to waste limited resources on the production of low-end industries such as soap, liquor and perfume. After all, he is a man who wants to conquer the sea of ​​stars.

However, there are conditions for this kind of technology to be open. First, Xiao Ming's technology for this alkali is not open. He provides it exclusively, and the merchants are only responsible for the production of soap.

Second, merchants can only set up workshops in Qingzhou and other states in his fief.

The purpose of these two conditions is very simple. Just by selling alkali, Xiao Ming can get a higher profit than soap production, and there is no need to spend labor to produce soap by himself. Instead, these people are used in the basic chemistry of three acids and two alkalis. Industrially.

The second is similar to attracting investment, because the businessmen of Dayu Kingdom are on their own territory, and he does not provide alkali for soap workshops built anywhere else.

With these two measures, Xiao Ming can not only gather the strength of businessmen to develop the soap industry, but also make a lot of money himself. At the same time, the gathering of businessmen is also the beginning of Qingzhou's prosperity.

As for the worried reactions of the Wang family and the Qin family, he was expecting them, because they still didn't understand some business models.

When they talk to them by themselves, they will understand that this time it is a win, not a loss.