Summary of the previous chapter: Competitors saw that they had plundered Ma Xiaoquan's Yeshanshui market share and began to attack and suppress each other. The market fell into chaos, and at this time, buyers gradually woke up...
The buyers poured different brands of water into cups of the same size and tasted them one by one. When drinking each cup of low-priced water, the buyer’s representative frowned deeper and deeper. When drinking wild mountain water, the buyer’s representative frowned.
It means the eyes are bright and the drink is delicious.
Facts have proved...the so-called low-priced water does not taste as good as wild mountain water.
The buyers were very angry and cursed the profiteers as unscrupulous.
Time passed bit by bit, and the originally hot and red water store gradually became deserted. Those merchants who were noisy and engaged in price wars hurt each other because they criticized each other too much. On the other hand, Ma Xiaoquan
, because the price of the wild landscape water he sold was too high, it was not affected, and instead escaped this brutal price war.
Quietly, the price of wild landscape rose again by one tael, and the current price is a jar of six taels of silver.
What is the concept of six taels of silver? For example, one tael of silver can make a family of three in Beijing live a very good life. That six taels is enough to make a family of three live like gods.
The common people still couldn't afford it, but the corrupt officials and the high-rollers didn't think so. It was just six taels. Since the price of wild landscape water continued to rise and was extremely strong, it must be high-quality water.
What are rich people? They are the kind of people who only buy expensive ones without choosing the right ones. Now Yeshanshui has just created a platform for them to show that they are rich. However, rich people are not fools. They are waiting and watching.
, waiting and watching...
At this critical moment, Ma Xiaoquan ordered his confidants who had already arranged to pretend to be high-rollers, went to a certain trading point, bought five cans in one go, and opened one can in public for the surrounding onlookers to taste.
This "nursing care" technique was used just right. After a few days, Beijing and its surrounding counties began to spread rumors about the various benefits of wild mountains and rivers.
Some people say that drinking wild mountain water is good for the skin. Others say that drinking wild mountain water is good for the body. Some even say that drinking wild mountain water can prolong life. And the most exaggerated one is that as long as you drink wild mountain water, you can give birth to a son immediately.
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All these public opinions were secretly created by Ma Xiaoquan.
Finally, this wave of public opinion reached the ears of Emperor Tianqi Zhu Youxiao...
Zhu Youxiao has also drank Yeshanshui. In his opinion, although the water quality of Yeshanshui is good and soft in the mouth, it is not worth six taels of silver to buy a bottle.
Of course, this is just Zhu Youxiao's wishful thinking. You must know that he is the emperor, and what he eats and drinks is basically the best, so looking at the problem from his perspective cannot see the whole picture.
Zhu Youxiao summoned Ma Xiaoquan. After listening to Ma Xiaoquan's explanation, he stopped asking any more questions. He cared more about finishing the carpentry work at hand than the wild landscape...
Another ten days have passed.
On the eleventh day, the water market, which had been disrupted by unscrupulous businessmen, became popular again, but this time low-priced water was no longer the protagonist. There was only one protagonist in the entire water market, and that was wild mountains water.
At this time, the price of wild mountains and rivers increased again, and it had been sold to the point where a can of seven taels of silver was sold. Not only that, because of the limited sales at each buying and selling point, the price of wild mountains and rivers on the black market was even more outrageous. According to reports from Ma Xiaoquan’s spies,
, the current black market price of Yeshanshui has reached fifteen taels per can.
Hearing this price, Ma Xiaoquan was also speechless.
But that's fine, the more aggressive the speculation is on the black market, the quicker he can sell it.
The water cannot be stored for too long, otherwise it will smell bad. The water detection device that Ma Xiaoquan brought back from the modern society last time was used to measure the number of minerals in the water, and secondly, it was used to measure the approximate shelf life of the water.
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Counting from the time when Ye Shanshui "appears", it can be stored for about four months. In other words, Ma Xiaoquan's earliest batch of water is close to the shelf life. If it is not sold, this batch of water will definitely become odorless and unsaleable.
For this reason, Ma Xiaoquan ordered the earliest batch of water to be released for sale, and told people who came to buy water not to store it. It is best to drink it as soon as possible, because water has a certain shelf life. If you drink it after the shelf life, you will not drink it.
Ma Xiaoquan does not bear any responsibility.
Ma Xiaoquan has done everything he should do. As for those who bought water and went back to drink it or not, Ma Xiaoquan has no control over it.
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Ever since the Zhang family received the news that the price of wild mountains and rivers was extremely high, they couldn't bear it any longer and frequently came to Ma Xiaoquan to ask for an increase in the purchase price of wild mountains and rivers.
But... at this moment, the amount of wild mountain water that the Zhang family can produce is no longer what it used to be, and the quality is getting worse and worse. There were many times that Ma Xiaoquan immediately refused to purchase the product after tasting the samples.
This time, Zhang Tianhao was extremely anxious. Not only was he anxious, Zhang Tianhao simply regretted it.
A dozen days ago, he was secretly proud that his low water production cost gave Ma Xiaoquan a high purchase price. Now the price of wild landscape water has skyrocketed, far exceeding his expectations. If it continues to develop at this rate,
Not only was Ma Xiaoquan able to recover his capital quickly, the amount of money he earned far exceeded the amount of money earned by his Zhang family.
Zhang Tianhao approached Ma Xiaoquan and asked for a share of the bonus, but Ma Xiaoquan was vague and pretended to be deaf and stupid, and just put the matter on hold.
Zhang Tianhao was of course unwilling to give up. After returning home, he discussed with senior members of the clan and decided to play dirty tricks on Ma Xiaoquan.
Zhang Tianhao's dirty trick has three steps. The first step is to "repay the other in the same way." Although his Zhang family can still produce some wild landscapes, the quality is not as good as before. So, why don't his Zhang family follow Ma Xiaoquan's example?
Buy back the wild landscape water and resell it for the price difference; the second step is to "pass it off as good", that is, after buying the real wild landscape water, blend it with other water. Although it is somewhat lacking in taste, the shelf life can be extended by one
In the coming months, in order to achieve the ultimate goal of expanding sales; in the third step, Zhang Tianhao named it "Relax and Wait for Work". To put it simply, it is to secretly disclose the cost price of water production of Yeshanshui and let Ma Xiaoquan hold back all the Yeshanshui in his hand.
, until it expires, thereby causing Ma Xiaoquan to lose money.
It has to be said that these three steps of the Zhang family are more vicious than the last. If they are really carried out, Ma Xiaoquan will indeed be in great danger.
It's just... Zhang Tianhao is too confident. It should be said that everyone in his Zhang family is too confident.
Ma Xiaoquan had already analyzed what the Zhang family might do when he raised the price of wild landscapes. Although Zhang Tianhao was full of integrity and morality, the Zhang family was always a wealthy business family and would always put interests first. This