To be honest, the tobacco business is really not feasible for the time being.
Mainly because the current audience is full, and there are only two people, Xiao Han and Liu Hongji.
Therefore, if he really wants to start this business, Xiao Han must first think of how to sell this tobacco and how to get more people to join the ranks of smokers!
It just so happened that during this period, so many idle scoundrels were sent out to sea, and the smoky atmosphere in Guangzhou was completely reversed. Now it has almost reached the point where people do not pick up lost things on the road and do not close their homes at night.
No matter whether it was the local government or the municipal shipping department, nothing happened, which was enough for Xiao Han to devote his energy to this emerging industry.
First find Yang Kailue and ask him to quickly find some good paper from other places and bring it back.
Xiao Han didn’t forget to ask for clean paper! Definitely not the paper with urine, blood, or weird things added to it!
After the purchased paper arrived, the Gupu tribesmen were hired to bake the collected tobacco with wood from the mountains and roll it into the shape of later cigarettes. As for the cigarette holder, a natural sponge salvaged by nearby fishermen was used.
Fortunately, Guangzhou is close to the sea, and there are a lot of things like sponges. In the past, they were pushed to the beach by the waves, and they were worthless! Otherwise, it would be difficult to even make a filter, and it would take a lot of hard work to modify it.
, I have to go back to the days of smoking dry cigarettes.
At noon that day, on the top floor of Jufu Tower
Xiao Han, who was wearing a green gown, sat at the table, skillfully opened the wooden box placed on the table, took out a cigarette from it, put it under his nose and smelled it, and then threw it aside to the patient who had been waiting for a long time.
Patient Liu Hongji: "Look, it's freshly baked, what do you think?"
Liu Hongji stretched out his hand and fished it up in the air, took the cigarette steadily, then pinched it with his carrot-thick fingers and looked up and down. His brows suddenly frowned: "Isn't this little thing too thin? It will be gone in two puffs.
?How can it be as enjoyable as those rough ones?!"
"Is it so thick?" Xiao Han, who was still stiffing his neck and waiting to be praised, heard this and his straight back collapsed immediately.
Cigarettes made by Liu Hongji?
Good guys, each one of them is thicker than his thumb! Longer than a writing brush! If you use three of them, you'll probably get lung cancer if you don't choke to death!
Please, he did this to make money, not to kill anyone!
"You know what the heck! How long do you have to smoke such a thick cigarette? Make it finer and make people buy more? Can't we charge more?"
He didn't want to explain to Liu Hongji that this thing was actually poisonous, because with his brain, he couldn't understand what kind of poison there was in the world, and that it could be eaten for decades without killing anyone! So in order to avoid wasting more words, Xiao Han could only
Refute it with the reason of doing business to make money.
"That's right! Why didn't I think of it? You're the treacherous one when it comes to doing business!" Liu Hongji had no doubts about Xiao Han's words, and his eyes lit up when he heard this! He slapped his forehead hard, grinned, and asked excitedly
Xiao Han: "Then how much do you think we should sell this pack of cigarettes? I think it should be twenty cents anyway!"
"What? Twenty cents?"
At this time, Xiao Han had just lit a newly drawn cigarette with a huozhezi. Suddenly he heard him shout out the price of twenty cents, and he almost hit the huozhuzi on his head! He was so frightened that he quickly put out the huozhuzi.
He looked at Liu Hongji angrily as if he were a prodigal: "The wooden box in my hand cost five or six cents. You told me that it only cost twenty cents in total?"
"Ahem, twenty cents is not cheap..." Liu Hongji was glared at by Xiao Han, and couldn't help but whispered: "Even if you buy food, twenty cents can buy several kilograms of rice! No matter how expensive it is,
Which common people would buy this thing? It doesn’t resist hunger or fill you up. At best, it just makes you feel more comfortable when smoking."
"Who told you that I was going to sell it to the people?" Xiao Han pointed to the wooden box on the table, glared at Liu Hongji angrily and said, "Do you think ordinary people need this kind of thing? Ordinary people will
A whole bag of rice in exchange for a box of small things like this?"
"Oh, I understand! If you don't plan to sell to ordinary people, then who are you going to sell to? Is it possible that you want to sell to those rich people?" After being scolded by Xiao Han, Liu Hongji's elm-headed mind finally came to his senses.
!In an instant, a pair of eyes as big as copper bells stared brightly: "If you sell it to that mood, it will definitely sell more! Thirty, no! Forty coins! If it's less, I won't sell it!"
"Bang..."
The next second, Xiao Han knocked his head down on the table, and then jumped on the table several times rhythmically, making the dishes rustle.
Brother, you are a general after all, and after gritting your teeth for a long time, you shout out the price of forty coppers? How will the village chiefs and village party secretaries in future generations think of you?
“Always a box of money!”
He couldn't discuss the business with Liu Hongji. Xiao Han was afraid that he would make him angry and die young! So after raising his head from the table with difficulty, he simply told the man in front of him the price he had already decided.
A tough guy.
"What! Always money?"
There was a high-pitched scream, and the second brother who was about to go upstairs to deliver food was so frightened that he almost slipped and fell down the stairs.
"What are the two grown men in the room doing? Could it be... Amitabha, it's better not to go up and disturb..."
Looking at the door above his head in confusion, the waiter hesitated for a while and then retreated angrily.
If he sends this up and accidentally sees something he shouldn't see, will his life be lost?
Outside the house, the second brother was holding a tray and slipped away.
Inside the room, Liu Hongji was completely shocked, staring straight at Xiao Han without blinking!
A lot of money, a box?
At his current speed, he can get a box a day! Doesn’t that mean he needs a lot of money in a day? A cow can be eaten in more than ten days? In one year, all the houses in Chang’an have been taken away?
"Isn't it a bit cruel!" After swallowing hard, Liu Hongji asked Xiao Han cautiously.
"Is this really cruel?" Xiao Han had already lit a cigarette at this time, leaned back comfortably on the chair and began to smoke: "I'm not afraid to tell you, the usual price is just the lowest price! When more people smoke, we will launch more
Okay, more high-quality ones! More gimmicks, when the time comes, I will order him ten dollars a box! Hum hum..."
Xiao Han squinted his eyes in comfort while talking rhetorically, but he didn't realize that Liu Hongji was completely petrified on the spot!
Ten coins?
This is a year's expense for ordinary people, so just buy a box of cigarettes that can only be used for fire?
"Ahem, Xiao Han, I think we should stop doing this business!"
After a while, Liu Hongji finally seemed to have decided something, slowly put down the cigarette that had been brought to his mouth, and then controlled himself to say these words with great will.
He has never doubted Xiao Han's ability to make money! Even if Xiao Han said that he could sell the tobacco in his hand for thousands of dollars, he would believe it!
But the problem is, if just to smoke such a pack of cigarettes, his family will be ruined and his children and land will be sold! Then he would rather not make this money!
