Seeing the long shopping queue at the door of Li Zhi's shop, Xiao Guangwei was even more angry. Li Zhi didn't know what kind of luck he had. He didn't know where he got this soap from Jiangnan and sold it so well. Like this
If this continues, won't Li Zhi have to pay off the debt owed to his family? If this continues, won't the Li family be able to get rich? Then, will Cui He have a better relationship with Li Zhi?
A few days ago, Li Zhi said that he wanted to be a servant, but Cui He actually said that Li Zhi should go to Cui's house. If Cui He takes care of Li Zhi like this, then if Li Zhi gets rich, wouldn't Cui He want to get closer to her?
Impossible, Cui He is my dream, Xiao Guangwei, and I can never be intimate with other people.
Xiao Guangwei asked his servants to queue up at Li's store and bought two bars of soap, then hurried home to try it out. He wanted to find out the problem with the soap so that he could publicize it and get everyone to boycott this product.
First, try the effect of hand washing: A servant brought a basin of well water, and Xiao Guangwei rubbed a piece of fat on his hands, leaving oil on his hands. Such oil is the most difficult to clean, so just soak it in water.
It couldn't be washed clean in a few minutes. Xiao Guangwei didn't believe that soap could deal with this kind of oil stain.
He took out the soap he bought and rubbed it on his hands a dozen times.
Foam appeared on one hand. Xiao Guangwei put his hand into the water and rubbed it. The oil on his hand immediately melted into the water along with the foam. Xiao Guangwei raised his hand and found that the oil on his hands had been washed away. Where was there any residue?
The effect of this soap is so good? Xiao Guangwei was a little stunned.
Try dirty clothes again! Xiao Guangwei found an old piece of clothes, rubbed soap on the stains that could not be cleaned by hand washing, and then rubbed it vigorously for dozens of times. Wait for Xiao Guangwei to put the old clothes into the water and rub it for a few times.
Next, he was surprised to find that the stain was actually washed away by soap!
The power of this soap is a bit exaggerated! Is this something from the ninth year of Chongzhen, a time of war and chaos? Where did Li Zhi get this thing? How can it be so effective?
Finally, Xiao Guangwei decided to try taking a bath. He asked his servants to bring a tub of hot water. He took off his clothes and started to pour water on his head and body. Then he wiped his hair and body with soap, and rubbed his head and body into foam. Finally, when he was waiting
After washing the foam off his head and body in the bathtub, he found that his body was clean. Even the greasy long hair on his head that had never been washed clean was now refreshed and there was no oil stain at all.
That long hair has always been greasy, but it has never been washed so clean!
This suddenly improved the sanitary conditions in the late Ming Dynasty by a big margin! Li Zhi only sold such a good thing for twenty cents a piece. It was so cheap! Did Li Zhi want everyone in the Ming Dynasty to use this soap?
This is simply a cheap product. What’s wrong with it?
Xiao Guangwei has given up the idea of finding problems. It seems to be a certainty that Li Zhi will make money and pay off his debts through this soap. It is impossible for Li Zhi to become a lowly servant anymore. And Li Zhi, who succeeded by relying on soap, and Cui He's
The relationship is also likely to get better and better.
Xiao Guangwei was so angry that he threw the soap on the ground and could not say a word.
Li Zhi didn't even know about Xiao Guangwei's evil thoughts and frustrations. He was still busy in the store to promote business.
After working for an hour and a half, Li Zhi sold all the soap he made yesterday. Although there were still a lot of people coming to buy soap, Li Zhi had no more soap. Li Zhi asked his mother Zheng to come out and let her
Sit in the shop and explain to the customers, asking them to come back tomorrow.
By selling three hundred pieces of soap, Li Zhi earned three 500 copper coins in one day, which is more than three taels of silver. Calculating this, Li Zhi can repay the Xiao family's loan in less than a month. Li Zhi was happy and went
I cut three kilograms of mutton from the vegetable market, paired it with two kilograms of white radish, and cooked a mutton stew at home for lunch.
People in the Ming Dynasty only ate two meals a day, one in the morning and one in the evening. Li Zhi was very uncomfortable with this. He was so hungry every day at noon that his stomach growled. He only ate two meals a day, and the weight of each meal increased, which was harmful to the stomach.
The burden is very heavy. In modern times, people in the country have changed to eating three meals a day. Now that they are making money, Li Zhi of course has to change the backward eating habits of the late Ming Dynasty. First of all, he must let his family have lunch.
Zheng and Li Xing were also very happy to see how much money they could make from the soap business every day. The family of three usually lived frugally and were all skinny and skinny. When they ate mutton, they naturally found it very delicious.
Mrs. Zheng didn't want to eat alone, so according to the Ming Dynasty tradition, she served several small bowls of mutton to her neighbors on both sides.
After eating a few mouthfuls of mutton, Li Zhi took a mouthful of oil and said: "Li Xing and I both make soap and sell soap in the shop. We are too busy. When customers come, we are not happy if we can't buy soap."
I think I need to expand my business and hire two helpers to specialize in selling goods in the store. Li Xing and I specialize in making soap every day, so as to increase production."
Li Xing chewed the mutton in his mouth and said vaguely: "Brother makes sense, the two of us alone can't handle it."
Li Zhi said: "Then we will post a notice at the door and recruit two helpers. They will be given two taels of silver every month and three meals a day will be included."
Li Xing was stunned when he heard this and said: "Give such a high salary?"
During the Chongzhen period of the late Ming Dynasty, affected by the inflow of overseas silver and inflation, and the northern commodity economy was damaged by war, prices were very high. Commodity prices were twice as high as those during the Wanli period. However, the cost of labor did not increase much. During the Wanli period,
The monthly silver for a helper with medium labor intensity was one tael, and during the Chongzhen period, such a laborer's monthly silver was about one tael and five taels. The wages did not increase much, but the price of rice doubled, and the people's lives were very poor.
Li Zhi gave him two taels of silver a month and three meals a day, which was much higher than the ordinary wage level.
Li Zhi said angrily: "The higher the wages, the more loyal the employees will be. Our method of making soap is a secret recipe. If the employees covet it and steal our formula, it will be a small loss but a big loss. We pay the wages."
If it is higher, the employees will be afraid of losing their jobs, and the confidentiality work will be much easier to do!"
After waving his hand, Li Zhi added: "Our soap business is a hugely profitable business, and we don't need this half a tael of silver."
Li Xing took a bite of the mutton, nodded and said, "That's true!"
Hearing her two sons talk about recruiting workers, Ms. Zheng thought for a while and said: "Zhi'er, you hire a person for two taels of silver and he also takes care of three meals a day. This is a big shortage. As the saying goes, the wealth does not flow to other people's fields, so you might as well go
Find your second grandfather and ask him to find two reliable relatives in the clan to help."
Hearing this, Li Zhi frowned and said: "I went to him to raise money a few days ago, but he ignored me. Now I go to him when I have something good to do?"
