One of the crystal beads in the box is as big as a grape.
With this appearance and color, the shopkeeper thinks that if he buys five hundred taels a piece, he will definitely make a profit.
The only worry is that Wang Xu's output is only thirty or fifty, and it may not be considered a big business.
"Master Wang, I wonder how many such crystal beads you can provide?" Shopkeeper Tong asked cautiously.
Wang Xu stretched out a finger and shook it slightly: "One month, one hundred!"
He planned to release 10,000 crystal beads a month and 120,000 a year, with a turnover of around 60 million silver.
But these crystal beads cannot be left to shopkeeper Tong to make, because there are thirty-six prefectures in Yangzhou and countless counties and towns. In addition to each prefecture's quota of 300 crystal beads, the county can only supply a hundred crystal beads at most.
Only in this way can the interests be shared equally, and the glass bead business can be run like pearls for a long time.
In every county and every prefecture, he will look for an agent.
The time is not ripe yet. When the time comes, Wang Xu will increase the monthly output from 10,000 to 100,000. It is not impossible that the business scope covers Kyushu, even southern Xinjiang and the extreme north.
At that time, in one year, the Wang family's net income was hundreds of millions of taels of silver. Looking around the world, they were also well-known wealthy businessmen.
By that time, not only glass beads, but also glass cups, glass pots, glass lamps, and glass mirrors can also be introduced one after another.
Wang Xu can accumulate as many big businesses as his reputation is. The two complement each other and become his leverage to move the world.
Now, it's just a small step in a journey of thousands of miles, and he hasn't put in the effort yet.
"One hundred!"
Shopkeeper Tong was pleasantly surprised, but also a little reluctant.
The items are good, but the quantity is too small. A string of crystal bracelets requires twelve crystal beads, or a hundred crystal beads. Even if the number is full, there are only eight strings and four crystal beads left over.
Six thousand taels of crystal bracelet, even if it sells for 10,000 taels, there are still many people in Liyang County who can afford it, which is not enough.
Yes, shopkeeper Tong has decided to price the crystal bracelet with a cost of 6,000 taels at 10,000 taels.
If Wang Xu wants to make money, he can't just complain at a loss, not to mention that the crystal bracelet itself is a good thing.
"Master Wang, I wonder where this crystal bead came from?" After thinking about the price, shopkeeper Tong thought about the origin again.
Zhejiang's pearls are said to come from centuries-old shellfish. Whether used externally or internally, they have the effect of prolonging life, so the price is naturally high.
If the origin of the crystal bead is ordinary and hard to explain, you have to add some spices to make the origin of the crystal bead more vivid.
"These crystal beads are dug out from the mines. They are a kind of natural gemstone. It takes a lot of effort to polish them like this. Therefore, due to production constraints, the monthly finished products are very few.
There are even fewer that can appear on the market.”
Wang Xu did not say that the glass was manufactured, but rendered it into a natural gem to highlight its value.
In order to deal with this statement, he even had people dig deep into the mountains to the north of Fengxi Village. As for what to dig, it was certainly not enough for outsiders to understand.
"So that's it!" Upon hearing Wang Xu's explanation, shopkeeper Tong looked envious and jealous.
As for whether it was true or not, he didn't think too deeply about it, because he was more willing to believe that the glass beads were made of natural ores than that they were manufactured.
Didn’t you see that jadeite, white jade, and precious stones are all mined from mines.
The appearance of glass beads is the same as that of gemstones. Who would think that these beads come from factories instead of mines?
If in the future, there is a day when the paper can't stop the fire, he can completely evade it and say, I never said such a thing, it was an unscrupulous businessman who said it to promote himself, just like promoting pearls for beauty.
Leaving behind a string of crystal bracelets as a model and promising to deliver eighty-eight more crystal beads in the afternoon, Wang Xu took away fifty thousand taels of silver notes from Liao Ji's pawn shop.
Fifty thousand taels of silver is not much, but it is the first step in gathering sand into a tower.
Similarly, behind Liao Ji's pawn shop stood Liao Wenlong, a sharp-edged official, and even the Liao family, who had been officials for generations, which also helped the Wang family gain a foothold in the county.
After all, there is an old saying that the yamen is made of iron, the county magistrate is made of water, and the clerks are immovable.
The petty officials are not considered officials, but they are responsible for the normal operation of the county government. Whether the county magistrate's decree can be issued through the government office depends entirely on whether the petty officials below will cater to it.
If the petty officials unite to resist the county magistrate, even the county magistrate will be unable to do anything.
Among the merchants in Liyang County, few are outstanding. Among the short men, the Liao family is the one who can make things happen.
As for Magistrate Song, Wang Xu knew what he wanted. Cooperating with him and giving him money would be better than giving him an official position and political achievements.
Not all officials love money. Song Jue wants to climb higher. If you give him real money, you will offend him.
Along with the appearance of the crystal beads, a gust of wind blew out from Liyang County.
This gust of wind was not caused by Wang Xu, but by the Liao family.
After getting the crystal bead from Wang Xu, the Liao family reacted within a few days. Taking advantage of the old man's birthday, the crystal bead made a big splash.
The Liao family is a family of officials and the local snakes of Liyang County. As the saying goes, the king of hell is easy to deal with, but the devil is difficult to deal with. No businessman who makes a living in Liyang County dares not to give this face.
The Liao family celebrated the old man's birthday with great splendor. All the prominent people in the county went and those who couldn't went also gave birthday gifts.
Eighty-eight tables were served at the birthday banquet. The most talked about thing was not the scale, but the plate of pearls that Liao Wenlong presented to the old man as a filial son.
No one among the thousands of people present here can tell the origin of the pearl.
I saw that each of these pearls was crystal clear and unheard of, just like rare treasures.
In just one day, wealthy families in Liyang County knew about this thing called crystal beads.
Although there are no crystal beads and no crystal cups, the crystal pot still attracts people’s attention.
Many people have seen colorless gemstones that are so transparent and almost free of impurities, but they have never even heard of them.
When I asked about the price, I found that the same beads were only slightly more expensive than Zhejiang pearls, and the people present were not short of money, so why not buy them?
The crystal beads were in the hands of the Liao family, and they were able to play tricks.
In addition to crystal bracelets, the Liao family also made crystal beads into earrings, rings, hairpins, and even buttons on purses.
Rich people like to wear money bags on their belts. The money bags are made of gold or silk. The two ends of the rope to tie the bag are also lined with jade, so that the rope of the money bag can naturally go down and along the way.
The money bag goes both ways.
In addition to holding money, money bags also serve as a decoration.
As the saying goes, a gentleman wears jade, and jade is associated with being a gentleman. People without fame cannot wear it. If you have money but no fame, you cannot wear jade pendants. You can only wear gold medal-shaped peace blessings or money bags as decorations.
A gold medal is too vulgar, but it is easy to understand without a money bag. If you hang a money bag on your body, others will know that you are a rich person. The effect is the same as the gold chain around the neck of modern people.
Gradually, there are more varieties of crystal beads, and their uses naturally become more numerous.
Wang Xu also heard someone say that a scholar who planned to join the army in the north spent a lot of money to buy a crystal bead from someone else, which was said to be embedded in the hilt of his sword.
In just two days, the crystal beads in the hands of the Liao family were snapped up by people who flocked to the store for a price of one thousand taels.
That’s not all. Many people who couldn’t buy crystal beads even blocked the door of Liao’s house, asking where they could still buy crystal beads.
The Liao family couldn't stop it, so they could only tell everyone that these crystal beads came from the Wang family.
Facing the crowd of people vying to buy, Wang Xu did not sell any crystal beads. Instead, he spread the word that in the future, only the Liao family could sell crystal beads in Liyang County, at a rate of one hundred crystal beads per month.
The Liao family was so grateful that they wished they could enshrine Wang Xu as their ancestor.
Similarly, Wang Xu also took advantage of this trend and began to choose powerful and powerful local wealthy families in other prefectures and counties to cooperate.
The government chooses an agent to supply 300 crystal beads every month.
A county chooses an agent to supply one hundred crystal beads every month.
In the Thirty-sixth Mansion of Yangzhou, Wang Xu endured it, but couldn't help but release 20,000 pills.
It's not that he couldn't control himself, but that everyone was rushing to give away money and started fighting in order to get more shares. He really couldn't refuse everyone's enthusiasm.
After looking back and regaining consciousness, Wang Xu fell into distress.
There is too much money. There are 500 taels of crystal beads each, and 20,000 taels are shipped a month, which adds up to 10 million taels.
After one year, it will be 120 million taels, which is a lot of money.
Just when Wang Xu was wondering whether he would make money even if he had money, and would rather make less than to have a big tree to shelter him from the wind, Xue Mushan came back from Jiangnan and brought back good news.