If Cheng Huanian is unwilling to invest an additional five hundred taels, Jia Yun will invest more himself. He has a lot of money now, and he can get it even if he invests an additional five hundred taels.
But Jia Yun is unwilling to do this. Cheng Huanian is responsible for production and sales. This is very important. If Cheng Huanian gets less profit, he will be less productive.
Jia Yun is indeed confident in this transaction and believes that products such as pencils, colored pencils, pencil sharpeners, and pencil erasers are easy to sell.
Although the Qing Dynasty of this era mainly wrote with brushes, there were also a few people who could write with ancient pencils.
The modern version of the pencil developed by Jia Yun is much better than the ancient pencil in terms of appearance and ease of use.
Jia Yun also developed colored pencils, pencil sharpeners, and pencil erasers.
Jia Yun believed that as long as the production was increased and the products were spread throughout the Qing Dynasty, these products would sell well in a short time.
Because pencils are more convenient and cheaper than brushes.
There are also many people in this world who are literate but not very good at writing calligraphy. It is convenient to have a modern pencil. People like shopkeepers and other people also need to use pencils conveniently. Even powerful and wealthy businessmen sometimes
For convenience, I will also choose to use a modern version of pencil...
Colored pencils are just like watercolor pens. They are easy to like for many people who like painting in this world, and they are also magical for women...
However, this era is still dominated by calligraphy, and even the imperial examinations pay attention to calligraphy. This habit cannot be changed in the short term, and will only change with the overall progress of society.
Therefore, in Jia Yun's view, products such as pencils are best-sellers, but it is impossible to exceed the market size of pens, inks and inkstones in today's Qing Dynasty.
Jia Yun predicts that in the next ten years in the Qing Dynasty, the total market profit of pencils and other products will not exceed 500,000 taels of silver at most.
Jia Yun's goal is that she and Cheng Huanian can each earn tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of taels.
No way, Qing Dynasty didn't pay much attention to things like invention patents.
Once products like pencils become popular, other businessmen will definitely seek out craftsmen for research and development. Many of these businessmen will be backed by dignitaries, relatives of the emperor, and even the emperor's internal affairs office may be involved.
Jia Yun should not be able to fight against so many high-ranking people by then. Even if she was capable, she would not easily offend so many high-ranking people all at once for money.
There are only a few people in this world who can stop this kind of thing, including the Supreme Emperor and the Emperor Tianzhi.
Jia Yun can't stop this kind of thing, all he can do is to make his industry the only one in the early stage, and become a very big and powerful one in the middle and later stages.
Jia Yun would be satisfied if she could earn tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of taels through this business in the next ten years.
He has many other ways to make money. In comparison, this pencil business is not a very big one.
This time, Jia Yun and Cheng Huanian invested in the business of pencils and other products. Jia Yun also asked Cheng Huanian to keep it a secret for him and not tell anyone.
Even several craftsmen didn't know that he participated in the investment, they only knew that he developed it.
Moreover, due to his and Cheng Huanian's deliberate concealment, several craftsmen did not even know that he was Jia Yun.
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Jia Yun did not ride a horse today, but came in a carriage.
His dealings with Cheng Huanian were something he needed to be careful about. Now that he had a carriage at home, it would be better to take a carriage when he came to see Cheng Huanian.
In the afternoon, Jia Yun left the factory with a lot of pencils, colored pencils, pencil sharpeners, and pencil erasers, and bought seven exquisite wooden boxes on the way.
While riding the carriage back to Xiaohuazhi Hu, Jia Yun sat in the carriage and personally placed pencils, colored pencils, pencil sharpeners, and pencil erasers in seven exquisite wooden boxes.
One of the wooden boxes is reserved for myself, and the other six are for the golden hairpins.
After returning home to Xiaohuazhi Hutong, Jia Yun gave Xiren and Zijuan each a wooden box and explained the uses of the four products in the wooden box.
Xiren and Zijuan were not very interested at first, but after they tried it under Jia Yun's guidance, they were all very happy.
Xiren praised: "Second Master, this pencil is really good. With this, I can write more often. And with these colored pencils, the written words are colorful and beautiful. These pencils can also be sharpened with pencils."
Yes, it’s really convenient. You can erase the written words with a pencil, which is really convenient.”
Zijuan echoed.
Both of them knew some simple words, but neither knew how to use a writing brush. Now that they have modern pencils, they both feel that they can write more often in the future.
However, their favorite thing is colored pencils. They can write colorful words, which is great!
The reactions of the two of them were as expected by Jia Yun, but Jia Yun was still a little proud at this time, thinking: It is not that difficult to pick up a gold hairpin. In this era, some pencils, colored pencils, pencil sharpeners, and pencil erasers
You can pick them up, especially colored pencils, which are very magical for the golden hairpins!
Jia Yun took out four more exquisite wooden boxes and said to the attacker: "There are four more boxes here. You can send them to Xifu for me and give one to each of Grandma Lian and Aunt Sanchun."
Xiren said: "Second Master, do you have more?"
Jia Yun smiled and asked: "Do you want to give it to your friend in Xifu?"
Xiren said "hmm".
Jia Yun smiled and said: "There is not much left today. I will go to my friend in a few days to get some more, and then I will let you send them to your friend in Xifu."
What Jia Yun told Xiren and Zijuan was that these products were made by a friend of his.
Xiren said happily: "Thank you, Second Master."
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Yu Zhu took another soldier and drove the attacker to Rongguo Mansion in a carriage.
After the attackers arrived at Rongguo Mansion, they went directly to Jia Mu's Courtyard, where they stayed to greet the spring, visit the spring, and celebrate the spring.
When Xiren came to Jia Mu's courtyard, he found that Yingchun, Tanchun, and Xichun were gathering together to talk and laugh. Shi Xiangyun was also sitting there.
When Shi Xiangyun saw the attacker coming, he immediately ran forward and greeted happily: "Sister Pearl, weren't you rewarded by the old lady to nephew Yun? Why are you back at home today?"
Jia Mu is Shi Xiangyun's aunt, and Shi Xiangyun is Jia Mu's grandniece.
When Shi Xiangyun was still in his infancy, his parents died, and he lived with his uncle and aunt.
Jia's mother felt that Shi Xiangyun was pitiful and liked Shi Xiangyun, so she often took Shi Xiangyun to Rongguo Mansion and lived in her Nuange in Rongqing Hall, sometimes for a long time.
In the past, whenever Shi Xiangyun came to live in Rongguo Mansion, he would be served by Xiren. The two had a very good relationship, not like a master and servant, but like sisters.
Now that he saw Shi Xiangyun, Xiren was also very happy. He smiled and shouted, "Miss, it's such a joy to see you again today."