"Dad! This time the Wang family also opened a fragrant rice shop in Fucheng. Our family has to make more. If we continue like before, I'm afraid it won't be enough." Gu Chengyu said to Father Gu after finishing the meal.
In the past two years, his family has set up a workshop in the yard to make Xiangzizi. The people who make Xiangzizi are just a few people in the family. They just added more molds and can make hundreds of pieces at a time.
The year before last, he approached Wang Qikai and proposed to cooperate with the Wang family to share the profits. Mr. Wang gave the Gu family 40% because he was Wang Qikai's classmate. Don't underestimate the 40%. The Gu family did not participate in the business and was only responsible for making soap.
However, the Wang family wanted to provide a shop, rely on connections, and give some of their share to those high-ranking officials.
So it’s not bad if the Gu family can be divided into 40%. Who said his family is just an ordinary farmer?
Although Mr. Wang saw the profits in it, he did not dare to sell more. He was sent by the family in Beijing to take care of the business. If this matter was known to the family, he was afraid that his share would have to be handed over, and the Gu family
There was no profit to be gained, so the Wang family only opened the store in Fucheng this year.
Of course, the Gu family did not dare to make more soap, so Gu Chengyu could only engage in hunger marketing. In this way, the Wang family still prevented them from a lot of trouble. Since the output was not high, it could only be sold to wealthy people, so the selling price of the soap was not high.
Cheap.
The soaps made by Gujia are divided into three grades. The third grade is cheaper, which is pure soap without any additives. The outer packaging is made of rough porcelain, with only the name Gujia and a rose painted on it. It sells for 500 cents.
The second step was to add some petals and essential oil. The essential oil was made by Gu Chengyu later according to the books in the space. Of course, there was not much essential oil put into the soap. This was packed in a white porcelain box and sold for one or two and a half coins.
In the first class, some medicinal materials are added, such as Hoshou multiflorum, aloe vera, etc. These have skin care and hair care functions, so they are more expensive. The selling price is at least three taels of silver. If the added medicinal materials are expensive, the price will naturally be more expensive.
Some, this kind is packed in carefully carved wooden boxes, and the outside is painted, making it look more delicate.
The porcelain and wooden boxes for packaging were found by the Wang family. The Gu family didn't care about this. After all, these were costs. Gu Chengyu's requirement was that the box must have the Gu family's name and a rose.
The Gu family's soaps are not large in size, but the expensive ones are made in different shapes, including plum blossom shape, cylindrical shape, etc. Because of the addition of medicinal herbs and essential oils, they look exquisite, smell fragrant, and are effective, so they are always in short supply.
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But neither the Wang family nor the Gu family dared to produce on a large scale. It was okay to produce a small amount, but if they made too much, they would definitely attract the covetousness of those big shots.
Gu Chengyu sighed when he thought of this! Isn't it because his family has no status? He is bound to participate in the imperial examination in February next year. Even if Master Wen disapproves, he will not look back.
"What? Didn't you say we can't do more? Why do we have to open it in Fucheng again?" Father Gu was a little surprised.
Previously, Gu Jiaguang's net profit from the soap business was more than a thousand taels a year, and Father Gu was already very satisfied. He didn't want to make a lot of money. His family had no power, and even a small official with sesame seeds and mung beans could make him.
His family couldn't eat and had to walk around.
"Since Mr. Wang said this, he must have thought of a way. Don't worry, dad. Since we need to make more soap, we need to plant more flowers in the field at the foot of the mountain, as well as medicine fields. Next year, we will plant all five acres of soap.
For planting, it’s best to set aside a few more acres.”
The Gu family bought a piece of land at the foot of the mountain, surrounded it with a wall, made a flower field, and an orchard. These were used for picking peach or pear flowers, not all for bearing fruit. They also bought another ten acres of land for planting.
Medicinal materials, but currently, only three acres have been used. That's it. There is still a lot of stock at home, and the rest is used to grow food.
"Hey! As long as you and Mr. Wang are on the same page." Seeing that his son had an idea, Father Gu stopped worrying.
When the two of them were talking, everyone in the Gu family listened carefully. The Gu family made a fixed amount of soap every year and never made more, so everyone in the family knew how much money they earned. Now, they can make more.
Wouldn’t that give me more money?
In fact, Gu Chengyu guessed that Mr. Wang suddenly decided to open a shop in Fucheng because he might have hooked up with another official. Recalling that Wang Qikai said that his father took him to Fucheng to attend the birthday of the prefect's wife last time, Gu Chengyu was a little worried about the four things his family had.
If it works, I don’t know whether it can be saved or not.
It seems that I have to ask Paralyzed Yu to find a way to check it out.
"Dad! Our family only gets 40%, isn't it a little less? This soap recipe comes from our family, why can't our family get 70%?" He just listened to the conversation between Gu Chengyu and his son, and thought of his family.
If you give out 60% for free, how much money is that?
"What do you know about a woman? You ask others to contribute, and you ask them to go everywhere to support others. How can you justify only giving them 30%? What's more, not all of the 60% given out is given to the Wang family."
Father Gu was a little displeased when he saw He interrupting. No one wants to give money to others in vain, but who in his family can take it? He is not confused about such a big matter.
"Then our family shouldn't have done business with the Wang family in the first place. Look, we let others take the lion's share. If we sold it by ourselves, wouldn't all the money belong to us?" He said that whenever he thought about the money, he was worried.
When it gets into someone else's pocket, it makes me feel terrible.
"Lao Er's family, didn't I tell you before? If we don't rely on others, do you think we can sell so much soap a year? No one has come up with our idea yet? Do you think I am a fool? If we don't do it,
If you rely on the Wang family, there will be no bones left to eat. You are such a stupid woman!"
Listening to Mrs. He's nagging, Mrs. Lu became even more angry after she was already in a bad mood! This second daughter-in-law, I have told her so many times, but she just doesn't understand and thinks about it all day long that it is not her own money.
Gu Chengyi ate in silence. Although he knew that what Gu and the others said were right, he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. It was Gu and Gu Chengyu who went to discuss things with the Wang family. Who knows if the Wang family was
Asked for 60%? Isn’t this what the two of them said? So He made a lot of noise, but he didn’t care.
"Second sister-in-law! Doing business is not as easy as you think. Our family is just a farmer. If we take over this business and do it ourselves, even those local gangsters will be enough for us."
Gu Chengyu was also speechless towards this second sister-in-law, who had a hard-headed mind. Could it be that the Wang family had settled all the troubles in his family before, didn't she know?
Gu Chengyu glanced at Gu Chengyi. Today, Gu Chengyi was quiet and unusual. Logically speaking, he had analyzed it before at home, so the second brother should know. However, he found that he was just immersed in eating and did not dissuade Mr. He.
Mrs. Zhang had been listening carefully to what Gu Chengyu and the others said. She had been married into the family for more than a year, almost two years, and she naturally had some understanding of the Gu family. She also knew that the Gu family relied on her brother-in-law to live a good life.
The Gu family must have a lot of money. Even if Gu Chenglian didn't tell her, she still had some money. Listening to what Mrs. He said now, she felt that Mrs. He was really stupid. She curled her lips. She had always looked down upon this second sister-in-law.
Not on.
"Okay! Don't talk about this again in the future. If it reaches the ears of the Wang family, why don't we say that our family is arrogant? We still have to rely on others to make money." Father Gu could only give one last instruction, He family
If the Wang family knew about it, would the two families still be able to continue their partnership?
"Uncle! After dinner, I still don't understand something in the book, and I want to go to the study to ask you for advice." After the dinner table became quiet, Dalang's voice suddenly sounded.