With all the preparations completed, the battle-like soap making activity began. With the experience of the last soap making, everyone cooperated more tacitly this time and the division of labor became more reasonable. With the improvement of proficiency, everyone
They are also very familiar with it, the chance of making mistakes is greatly reduced, and the efficiency is greatly improved.
Of course, this kind of high-intensity and long-term soap making work cannot be accomplished by relying on orders and consciousness alone. Of course, Li Hui must give tangible rewards. There will be enough food and water every day, and red envelopes will be given out at the end of each day. Although it is only a few hundred
It’s a red envelope of money, but it’s very important to boost morale.
There is actually a shortage of manpower, but Li Hui does not intend to hire too many people. This is not due to cost considerations, but because one more person means more danger of leaking the production process. Although Li Hui believes that leaking secrets is inevitable
, but it is naturally necessary to take precautions. If it is leaked one day later, you will make more money one day.
A few days later, the results were remarkable. A piece of soap was successfully produced. The soap with the seal was wrapped in colored paper, packed in boxes, and the quantity was written on it.
After the first batch of two hundred soaps was delivered by Li Hui personally to the Xie Mansion, the soap making business did not stop, but continued in full swing. Most of the 800,000 yuan paid by the Xie family was turned into raw materials.
The purchase of oil, fuel, quicklime and other materials is endless. Li Hui knows that speeding up the circulation of limited funds and selling them faster and in larger quantities can quickly accumulate wealth.
As Li Hui expected, in late April, Xie Daoyun attended a party and accidentally revealed the secret of soap at the party. He also used soap to wash the ink-soaked handkerchief in front of everyone.
Since that day, after some trials, new orders have been rolling in. The Langya Wang family, Taiyuan Wang family, Yingchuan Yu family, Gaoyang Liu family, Luchuan Song family and other wealthy families in the capital have made purchases. From dozens of yuan to several dollars
The price ranges from 100 yuan. By the end of April, Li Huigong received an order for Shanggan soap.
Li Hui knew that this was the real beginning, and that it would soon become popular and reach its climax. Because once the rich people use it, it will bring more markets to the middle and large gentry. A large wave of orders is on the way, and it will soon trigger a craze. So.
The opportunity to really make big money has arrived.
Everyone started spinning, including Li Hui himself, who was already in an extremely excited state. Li Hui no longer cared about keeping secrets. He decided to hire people, speed up production, and harvest this product as quickly as possible and at the highest price.
Wave craze.
By the beginning of May, the workshop had more than 30 employees and had actually become a large-scale soap making workshop. With the increase in banquets around the Dragon Boat Festival, the secret of soap has spread rapidly in the capital.
, there is no need to publicize it anymore, the whole city knows it.
Li Hui timely launched his mint soap, sulfur soap, rose soap and celebrity soap and a series of powerful harvest varieties. Unsurprisingly, good results were obtained.
In mid-May, after a month of extremely busy hard work, Li Hui's soap money-making plan was a great success. As a large number of soaps were sold, a large amount of money accumulated at an incredible speed. People say that the wealth is rolling in, and here
In just one month, Li Hui truly realized what it means to make money and what it means to be unstoppable when opportunities come.
The total number of soaps sold is as high as two dry pieces. Just a dozen wealthy families are enough to reach this volume every month. A rough estimate shows that making soaps in large quantities reduces costs. Originally, even manual addition of materials was required.
It requires nearly 700 yuan, and the current large-scale production cost is about 700 yuan per piece. However, the average sales price has reached an astonishing 700 yuan.
The previous price was eighty cents, but since a wealthy customer was willing to purchase, they naturally had to give away a batch of trial soaps first. In fact, more than a hundred pieces of trial soap were given away. These are naturally included in the loss range.
Of course, Xie Daoyun had to leave a rebate of 2 qian qian, so the price of each soap Li Hui sold was around 5 qian qian. Even so, it was a huge profit that doubled eight or nine times.
From the sale of two bars of soap, the profit earned from each bar was as high as four dollars, making a total net profit of eight million dollars. This figure was unbelievable to Li Hui and Azhu.
But the fact is that there is a special room in the residence for money. Boxes of loose money are piled up in layers all over the house. Strings of copper coins are hung all over the wooden shelves, like wind chimes under the eaves shaking and clanking.
It's like the sorghum ears hanging low in the sorghum field in autumn. They are so densely packed that they cause panic attacks.
Not to mention Ah Zhu, Li Hui has never seen so much money in his life. Ah Zhu feels dizzy every day and tells Li Hui that she seems to be dreaming, fearing that she will wake up from the dream. Li Hui understands her feelings.
But in fact, although Li Hui was also shocked by the speed of making money, he also knew that eight million dollars seemed like a huge amount, but in fact, his purchasing power was meager.
The most commonly used copper coin in the Jin Dynasty was the five-baht coin cast by Shen Chong, a wealthy family in the south of the Yangtze River. It was called Shen's money. This kind of money was cut corners and was as thin as elm money. It had large holes and thin circles, and was as thin as a sheet.
A piece of paper is just like a piece of paper. Therefore, when such five-baht coins were circulated, prices skyrocketed. In the Jin Dynasty, it was a well-known fact that five-baht coins were worthless. Folks would even rather barter than circulate copper coins.
Baht money only becomes a daily currency in cities, and its value has depreciated extremely.
Eight million dollars is a large amount, but Li Hui asked that in the area where ordinary citizens gather in Changganli, south of Zhuquehang on the Qinhuai River, the price of a two-story house is as high as eight hundred thousand to one million dollars. From
This shows that the prices are outrageous.
If you enter the inner city, the price of an ordinary house within the Qinhuai River and Qingxi River will double or triple. Two to three million can only buy an ordinary yard. A luxury house like Xie's house will not even have the same price inside.
I can't even afford a yard.
One of the most basic measurement standards is the price of rice. The price of rice is about 10,000 yuan, and 8 million yuan can only buy 800 shi of rice. The sixth-grade official salary of Li Hui, a city gatekeeper, is six millimeters.
One hundred stones, from this we can see that eight million dollars is actually not as exaggerated as imagined.
Therefore, Li Hui believes that he must work harder, take advantage of the fact that the soap making formula has not been leaked, and still monopolize the high-end market in Beijing, and make a lot of money while collecting the IQ tax. After all, it is not easy to find a way to make money.
, there may not be such a good way in the future, so it is better to make more money.
However, things quickly went wrong.
After mid-May, unidentified people began to appear around the workshop, snooping around. On the night of May 17, Jiang Sheng, who was on night watch, caught a man trying to steal a booklet containing detailed data on Li Hui's soap-making process.
A hired worker. The man was so bold that he pried open the door of the room where Li Hui kept the pamphlets in the middle of the night. As a result, he was caught by Jiang Sheng.
After interrogation, the man readily confessed, saying that someone paid him a high price to steal the detailed process and useful data of soap making. He was attracted by the high price of 200,000 yuan offered by the man, so he took action.
thought.
After further questioning, the worker didn't know much. He didn't know who the other person was or where he came from. He only knew that the other person seemed to be from a wealthy family, a middle-aged, fat, and wealthy man.
appearance.
Li Hui immediately decided to question all the workers hired individually. Because his servants, except for the few left by Xie Xuan, were all brought from Juchao County, there was no problem with them. The number of hired workers was
People in Jiankang City who go home from casual labor every day and come to work in the morning are likely to be targeted and bribed.
Sure enough, in addition to the arrested employee, there were two other employees who confessed the truth under Li Hui's persuasion and the threat of Dachun's strong iron rod. The situation was similar to that of the arrested employee, and some people also told him the truth.
Buy them at a high price and let them figure out the soap making process. It is best to get the data on making soap.
At this point, Li Hui finally realized that someone was already eyeing the soap making business. This was not unusual. With such a huge source of money, it would be strange if others would not be jealous.
As for how those people learned the location of the pharmaceutical workshop here, it is actually very simple. This matter is not a secret in the first place. The Xie family members had already told it last month. They did not ask Xie Daoyun to keep it secret.
, Xie Daoyun may also tell it. The Jin Dynasty did not restrict officials from doing business and buying property, otherwise the rich and powerful people would not be able to be officials. So this is not something that Li Hui cannot tell.
As long as others are interested, they will definitely find out about themselves and the location of the workshop.
Although he had expected that something like this would happen, Li Hui was a little surprised that someone was eyeing this business so quickly. Sure enough, the benefits would make people react quickly and flock to him.
Azhu and others were very nervous and suggested reporting to the officials. Li Hui did not want to do this. This kind of thing happened to be expected. Others tried every means to find out the soap making process and process. That was
It's something Li Hui has thought about for a long time. Li Hui doesn't want to make a fuss. He just wants to seize the time to make money and doesn't have to focus on entangled with these people.
Moreover, even if you report to the official, there will be no results, because you don't know who the real owner is, and there is no need to bother.
So Li Hui only fired those three people. At the same time, he strictly guarded other employees. They were only responsible for the transportation of crude benzene and were not allowed to go near the soap making site. Li Hui even carried the soap making pamphlet close to his body.
, I also took Ah Zhu back to live in Tianshui Lane in the evening, and let Jiang Sheng take the people to guard the workshop at night.
But one evening a few days later, when Li Hui and others rushed back to Tianshui Lane from the workshop, they were blocked by several men at the south entrance of Zhuque Hang.