History of Cannon Fodder Struggle [Qing]

Sometimes with good packaging, you can get twice the result with half the effort.

After moving all the soap to the borrowed carriage, Minning also got into the carriage. When Minyi found out that they were going out, she hurriedly climbed onto the carriage, and he also wanted to go with her.

Minning coaxed him with Minxing, and finally Minxing agreed to ring the calabash for him before coaxing him out of the car.

Instructing Minyi to close the door, the two set off.

This time the destination is the inner city, especially near the gate of the inner city, where many shops have opened.

No matter which era women earn the most money, Min Ning asked Min Xing to find a shop to buy rouge and gouache.

In this era, few banner people are willing to lower their status to do business, so most of the shopkeepers in the city gate are Han Chinese.

However, most of the service targets of these stores are Banner people, and women from Banner families in this era are not like the Han people, so when Minning looked out the car window, he could see some Girls are shopping.

Rouge gouache shop is one of the most indispensable part.

Minxing drove his car and stopped in front of a shop named Dai Chunlin on Dong'anmenwai Street. Minning took a box of soap, oh no, added a powder, and now it's called soap.

After getting out of the carriage and being helped down by Min Xing, Min Ning waved his hand and walked towards the door of the shop.The name of Dai Chunlin is very familiar to Minning, and there is no woman in Yangzhou City who can escape the temptation of Dai Chunlin.As a thin horse serving Israel, they naturally have lessons in makeup, and they couldn't get around the name Dai Chunlin.

However, Minning was not qualified to contact Dai Chunlin's products at that time, but it does not mean that she had never heard of this name.

The incense powder and incense pieces from the store in Yangzhou were listed as offerings during the Ming Dynasty, and they were already well-known in Yangzhou. I didn’t expect that they were all sold in the capital now.

She only told Minxing to find a shop at random, but he brought her to Dai Chunlin.

A well-known store is naturally good, but I'm afraid that this store is too famous and they don't like their soap at all.

Sure enough, as soon as he opened his mouth, Minning encountered a setback. They said that Dai Chunlin only sold his own products and did not accept consignments from outsiders at all.

Minning was not disappointed either, because she had never had any hope at all.It would be a rare thing if Dai Chunlin really agreed to her.

This time Minning directly asked Minxing to drive a carriage to Chongwenmen, not to mention, although there are many wine shops here, there are also other shops mixed in, and the Zhifen shop is one of them.

The shop I found this time was much smaller than Dai Chunlin's, with only one frontage. Although there were not many people coming in and out, there was no shortage of customers.

Minning was very satisfied this time, and hoped that this family would not be as arrogant as Dai Chunlin.But then again, Dai Chunlin has the right to be arrogant, because he doesn't care about this little gadget in her hand.

After entering the store, Minning asked Minxing to lead the carriage to the side of the road first, and she went in alone.

The clerk in the store came over to greet her, "Miss, we have good face powder here, which one do you want, choose one and bring it for you to try."

Minning didn't continue the conversation, but said, "I'm looking for your shopkeeper, are you there?"

The clerk glanced at Minning, shook his head and said, "The shopkeeper isn't here, so I can tell you anything." As a clerk, helping the shopkeeper intercept some irrelevant people is also within the scope of his duties.

Of course, Minning knew that the shopkeeper could not be absent, and that a shop cannot do without a shopkeeper, so he said, "I can't explain this matter to you, so just tell your shopkeeper that I have a big deal to discuss with him."

The clerk looked Minning up and down, and really couldn't imagine that a little girl who was at most ten years old had any business to discuss with the shopkeeper.However, this is beyond his jurisdiction, and it is not something he can solve, so he no longer shirks it, and directly invites Minning to sit inside, "Please wait a moment, I will invite our shopkeeper."

Minning nodded, and didn't care about the man's prevarication just now.

Let Minxing go out to look at the carriage, and she followed the man into the inner room.

This room is arranged like a girl's boudoir. There is a large bronze mirror on the dressing table, and various rouge powders and other related items are placed on the shelves around it.

It can be seen that this is a room for female customers to try on makeup. Minning stood and looked at it for a while, and found that although there were not as many kinds of cosmetics in this era as in modern times, there were still a lot.

After standing for a long time, the door curtain was lifted, and a slim and graceful woman walked in. As soon as she came in, she asked, "Little sister, are you looking for business?"

Minning did not expect that the shopkeeper of this shop was a woman, so she hesitated and said, "Yes."

The female shopkeeper came over and asked her to sit down.

After sitting down, Minning put the porcelain box in his hand on the table, introduced himself first, and then sold the soap, "My mother is Han, and there is an ancient recipe in her dowry that can make a facial cleansing beauty product , I call it soap. This box is the soap that I made according to the recipe.” It is also a kind of packaging to label the product with a high-end origin.

The female shopkeeper covered her mouth and smiled. Instead of looking at the porcelain box, she teased Minning, "I thought you really wanted to do big business with me, little sister."

Minning tilted his head and defended, "I didn't lie to you, I can guarantee that this business is more profitable than you selling rouge and gouache."

"Oh?" The shopkeeper became interested. She reached out and brought the porcelain box over, and lifted the lid to reveal the creamy yellow soap inside.

"How do you use this?" The female shopkeeper took out the palm-sized soap to play with, and sniffed it again between her nose.

Minning didn't answer, but asked her for a basin of clean water.

The female shopkeeper called the buddy and came in with a basin of water.

Minning looked at the shelf next to it, and then picked out some brightly colored rouge and dabbed it on the back of his hand.

The female shopkeeper didn't know why, so she saw that Minning soaked her hands first, took the soap and wiped it on her hands, quickly rubbed some foam, then soaked her hands in the basin, and when she took them out, the backs of her hands were clean .

The female shopkeeper understood the function of this soap, which can clean the makeup on her face, but she was unmoved, "Isn't this just soap?"

Minning shook his head, "This is a hundred times better than soap. Feel it, is it smooth after washing?"

After the female shopkeeper touched it, she continued, "The soap smells bad, and the effect is not good when used. The experience brought by the plant ash in it is definitely not good, and the skin has a fragrance after washing with soap, not only It can moisturize the skin and make the skin fair after using it for a long time. I promise that as long as I use my soap, no one will look down on the pancreas.” The main reason is that she didn’t extract the glycerin in the soap. Isn’t the role of glycerin just Emollient?As for the whitening effect, huh, huh, it's up to the beholder.

The female shopkeeper did not speak, but imitated Minning's behavior just now and tried it herself.

She nodded in agreement. "I admit it works well, but I don't see any money in it."

Minning smiled, and asked in a low voice, "How much does the shopkeeper think my cost is?"

The female shopkeeper calculated the cost of the pancreas, reduced it a little, and opened her hand, "At least two taels, right?" Used by the royal family.

Minning shook his head and said in a low voice, "It doesn't take fifty pennies."

The female shopkeeper was taken aback. She didn't expect the cost to be so low. No wonder the little girl had the confidence to do business with her.

"Actually, it's only thirty cents." She added that the price was still including the soap box.

The real cost plus the soap box is only five pennies, two of which are the cost of the box, excluding the labor and mold and the money for buying a large vat of wood and coal, the soap itself is worth less than one penny.

The main reason is that the cost of plant ash is basically zero, and the value of waste oil has not yet been discovered, and you can receive several catties for two cents.

Thirty Wen and Two Liang are not 01:30 points away, but a gap of nearly 70 times. These benefits are enough to make people crazy.

The female shopkeeper finally understood why the little girl in front of her said it was a big deal.

Big business indeed!

It's just that she didn't know whether the little girl in front of her could decide what to do.

"I admit that this business is so big that I can't refuse it. It's just my little sister. No one has ever used this soap. How can you guarantee that people will buy it?"

"It's very easy. Soap can be used not only for washing your hands, but also for washing your face, hair, and bathing. It not only moisturizes your skin, but also has a whitening effect. As long as you use it for a period of time, your skin will improve. If you publicize this, I believe that even You don’t take the initiative to sell, and you rush to the door.” Isn’t it just advertising, which is not easy?

After solving the problem of no one caring, the female shopkeeper was immediately moved. This is simply a door-to-door delivery of money.

She looked at Minning softly, "I'll eat as much soap as you bring."

Minning said, "This time I brought a total of more than 2000 yuan, and there are several batches at home. Your shop can't afford it."

The female shopkeeper smiled proudly, "You don't have to worry about that. I have a shop in the east, west, and north cities, and the 2000 yuan soap can be digested quickly. It's just your price, can you lower it?" The city is divided into five parts, namely East City, West City, South City, North City and Mid City. The part where An's family lives belongs to South City.

Min Ning bit her lip, her face showed embarrassment.

"My soap contains pollen. I hired someone to pick flowers and dry them in the shade before adding them to the soap. Thirty yuan is already the lowest price."

"Twenty Wen!" The female shopkeeper chopped off ten Wen at once, "I will eat as much as you give me."

Absolutely impossible!

The most taboo of doing business is too single, especially if the sales channel is in the hands of others, it will inevitably be controlled by others in the future.

Everyone knows that all eggs cannot be put in one basket.

However, she never thought of relying on soap for a lifetime, but she just wanted to borrow someone else's hand as a breakthrough to break the upper class. After soap became popular in the upper class, the formula should be almost cracked. After arriving at the recipe, do it yourself. After all, you can add your favorite spices at will.

They call it an elegant thing, just like making their own perfume.

At that time, she should be able to give up this part of the customers and go directly to the middle and low-level customers.

You can even open a soap factory to make soaps and soaps with lower prices and more audiences.

At that time, the price of soap soap will be reduced on a large scale before it can become an indispensable daily necessities for ordinary people.

"Bathing with soap regularly can prevent diseases."

The female shopkeeper's complexion changed. In this era, just hearing the name of the epidemic disease can make people's complexion change drastically.

"Okay, just thirty cents!"