Chapter 1178 Take a few more, it's not worth a lot of money anyway
Of course, business cannot be done without benevolence. He still has a good impression of Yang Cheng, a gentry boy. Being able to put down his dignity and run the business himself is not something that ordinary gentry boys can do.
So he symbolically purchased ten mirrors and shipped them back to Suzhou to see how the market responded.
Of course, the ten mirrors were only small-sized flip-top ladies' mirrors. As for table mirrors and dressing mirrors, they were really too expensive, and he didn't have the guts to take them over to test the market.
Yang Cheng didn't show any disappointment at his reaction. On the contrary, this was what he expected!
He never thought that the full-length mirror he spent a lot of money to build could be sold. It was a luxury accessory worth several thousand taels of silver. Ordinary trading companies would not take this risk at all. Even those table mirrors were not his flagship product.
His real target is actually those flip-top ladies' mirrors. Although he only took ten mirrors, they are not bad. In business, you have to do it step by step. If they sell well, this shipment will
The quantity will definitely be large.
After making a good start in the first trading company, Yang Cheng went to more than ten trading companies non-stop. Not surprisingly, most of them purchased a small amount of flip-top ladies' mirrors as a token. As for table mirrors,
Not a single one of them was sold, and no one even asked about the price of the full-length mirror, because everyone knew without asking that it must cost several thousand taels of silver.
After running around for three days, Yang Cheng successfully made business with sixteen trading companies. In this process, his identity as a direct descendant of the Yang family and the brand name of Jiujiang Glass Company played a big role. Those trading companies
Although I am not optimistic about these luxury accessories in the mirror industry, I am still happy to spend hundreds of taels of silver to buy Yang Cheng a face.
After three days of running, he had already sold out all the flip-top women's mirrors that had been trial-produced before, and successfully collected more than a thousand taels of funds, more than half of which were profits.
But this is only a few hundred taels of profit, which is far from enough for a glass factory with huge investment!
In order to further open up sales, he once again set his sights on the local market in Shanghai. This time he did not mean to find a local mirror trading company in Shanghai, because he had already been there.
Now, he has set his sights directly on several large shops in the city that specialize in selling gold, silver, jade and jewelry, as well as high-end clothing shops. These shops all have one characteristic, that is, they specialize in high-end customers, and most of these customers are women.
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Although limited by social customs, most of the time those wealthy ladies would not show up to go shopping, but they could just take a carriage and go straight to the shops, and then the shops would be closed directly for reception, or these shops would directly
Bring the goods to the homes of rich ladies.
These shops are Yang Cheng’s next goal!
So after studying a little for a day, he took the products he had finished and started running business one by one!
It has to be said that Yang Cheng is a very tenacious person. With his status, he can visit brothels and teahouses every day, just like other unlearned and unskilled gentry children, wandering around all day long.
But he leaves early and comes home late every day, putting down his personal life to run business at home.
It didn't take long for the entire mirror industry in Shanghai and even practitioners in the high-end luxury jewelry industry to know that a very hard-working direct descendant of the gentry had emerged in Shanghai and opened a glass factory to engage in high-end mirror business.
But they are not laughing at Yang Cheng!
On the contrary, I admire Yang Cheng!
Despite living a good life, he still has to work hard to do business himself, and he still puts down his own business and runs the business himself. This attitude alone surpasses many people.
After all, people in real society are not stupid. They will not laugh at others for no reason. Even other gentry children who look down on Yang Cheng for doing business have to admire this Yang Cheng. As a direct descendant of the gentry,
But he is able to put aside his own worries and do such an unseemly thing. I can’t help but admire him!
Yang Cheng naturally didn't care what the outside world said about him. This period of time can be said to be the most fulfilling period of his life!
He has never felt so fulfilled since he was a child!
If we talk about busy, he was even busier when he was studying. He would read and study with books all day long, and he would force himself to read when he couldn't read. If his reading talent was a little bit better, he would rely on his
With this diligence in studying, it is very possible to pass the Jinshi examination.
It's a pity that he doesn't have this talent!
Now that he is in business, he feels that this business is really suitable for him. Every time he negotiates a deal, it can bring him a great sense of satisfaction, and this kind of satisfaction is something he didn't feel when he was studying in the past.
He couldn't feel it when he was studying, because he used to be at the bottom every time he took an exam...
With a sense of satisfaction, he would go out early and come back late every day. He would go to this store today and which store he would go to tomorrow. He was even busier than the workers under him.
However, all these efforts have paid off for him. He has successfully put his flip-top women's mirrors in more than 20 high-end stores in Shanghai.
However, he didn't know the specific sales, because it was just in the distribution stage, and many people didn't know that such a high-end ladies' mirror was now available.
So on this day, Yang Cheng shamelessly went to a high-end jewelry store opened by a family that was related to him by marriage, and prepared to personally observe the sales of this batch of ladies' glasses.
This store is also the store that purchases the most goods from him, with more than thirty ladies' mirrors in stock!
However, he is a man and an outsider. In order to avoid embarrassment, he naturally cannot go outside to entertain guests. Instead, he stays in the lounge next door and listens to the female clerk outside entertaining the rich ladies.
At this time, the store has begun to close as usual. Needless to say, everyone knows that the women of a certain powerful family must have come. For such people to go shopping, closing the store to entertain is the most basic, and the person entertaining must also
It has to be a woman. If a grown man like Yang Cheng dares to go out to entertain people, it would be quite rude. After all, men and women are not intimate with each other.
Although Yang Cheng couldn't see it, he could hear the words and conversations outside. The person coming was called Mrs. Chen. The clerk was obviously very familiar with this Mrs. Chen, and the words he shouted out were quite familiar. Of course.
, this kind of familiarity is not the familiarity between acquaintances, but the familiarity with compliments in every sentence.
The clerk didn't say anything to promote her at first. Instead, she praised Mrs. Chen's clothes, her vitality, etc., which made Mrs. Chen laugh frequently. Then she heard Mrs. Chen say: "Sweet-tongued, that's it.
Do you have any new styles in your store recently? Just pick a few!"
From the very opening of his mouth, he knew that he was either rich or noble, otherwise he would be able to say a few words at random!
In this shop, even Yang Cheng himself didn't dare to say anything about just picking a few things, because although the things in this shop are gold, silver and jewelry, they pay attention to the latest styles and master-level ones.
The exquisite craftsmanship, the cheapest jewelry here starts with a few dozen taels of silver, while the more expensive ones range from hundreds of taels to several thousand taels.
Ordinary silver jewelry can be sold for dozens of taels of silver, which shows that the items in this store are not ordinary expensive!
Then Yang Chengcheng heard that the clerk started to recommend it. The recommendation was very high, which made Mrs. Chen quite satisfied. She said "pack it up" several times on the spot.
When people say this, they don’t even ask about the price!
At the end, Mrs. Chen suddenly said: "I heard that your store has a new ladies' mirror, right?"
Upon hearing this, Yang Chengcheng, who was sitting in the back, immediately pricked up his ears for fear of missing any word.
Immediately, I heard the clerk say: "Mrs. Chen is really well-informed. Our flip-top lady's mirror has just arrived three days ago. I didn't expect that Mrs. Chen already knew about it. Even if you didn't tell me this, I was still prepared to give it to you."
Take a look!"
"This thing is produced by the glass company run by the second son of the Yang family in Jiujiang. It is worthy of being a gentry family. Their taste is beyond words. This lady's mirror is just like a work of art!"
"Come on, Mrs. Chen, please take a look, this is it!" At this time, the clerk obviously took out the lady's mirror and showed it to Mrs. Chen.
At this time, I heard Mrs. Chen say: "Sure enough, this is it!"
"Yesterday when my husband and I went to Master Fu Zun's residence, we saw Mrs. Fu Zun holding this kind of lady's mirror!"
"Mrs. Fu Zun has such a noble status. The mirror she usually carries in her handbag naturally needs this latest model of flip-top ladies mirror to match her status!"
Then the clerk changed his words and said: "Mrs. Chen, you are Mrs. Tongzhi. In Shanghai, you are as noble as Mrs. Fu Zun. Naturally, you need this kind of flip-top lady mirror to match your look."
Identity!"
Mrs. Chen didn't answer. Yang Cheng was probably looking carefully at his own flip-up lady's mirror. After a while, Mrs. Chen said: "This little thing is really good, the photo is very clear!"
"Isn't that right? This lady's mirror is the clearest mirror currently on the market. It is more than a little bit better than those ordinary ones. Looking at it with this mirror makes me look much younger!"
Mrs. Chen chuckled: "You are good at talking. If you don't buy a few of these, you're afraid you'll say I'm old..."
"How dare you do this when you're young!" the clerk said, "I'll wrap it up for you right now?"
At this time, Yang Cheng quickly heard Mrs. Chen's answer: "Wrap it up. It's just a gadget and not worth much anyway. Take a few more and you'll need them when you reward others later!"